Alex Rogan is the hero of The Last Starfighter.
This sci-fi 1984 movie was an important precursor in using a lot of CGI to depict out-of-this-world action. Such as, in this case, space battles.
6233 in-depth character profiles from comics, games, movies
6233 in-depth character profiles from comics, games, movies
Alex Rogan is the hero of The Last Starfighter.
This sci-fi 1984 movie was an important precursor in using a lot of CGI to depict out-of-this-world action. Such as, in this case, space battles.
One of the core companions from the canon adventuring party in the original Baldur’s Gate D&D video game.
Neutral Good Half-Elf fighter from Calimshan.
Full notes about this important — and ominous — location in the He-man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons of the 1980s.
Second profile for Psylocke of the X-Men, covering the era from the Siege Perilous until the year 2000.
As of August of 2019, our contributor Pawsplay used the focused psychic totality of his powers to append M&M stats to this article.
From the old Tales of the Green Lanterns pre-Crisis back-of-the-book features.
An obscure but interesting Green Lantern Corps officer, albeit one with travel limitations.
The last third for our profile of the Doomsday Man and Kerwin Korman, who form an Avengers-class Marvel Comics villain. With links to the two previous bits, of course.
He’s obscure, but he’s powerful. And he has an interesting history that is intertwined with Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)’s and has quite a few hooks.
Not the Nova one or the Power Pack one. Obscure Marvel Comics mutant created by Erik Larsen, mostly seen in Spider-Man stories.
Absorbs ambient life force to power herself.
A short-ish profile of the Oberon warframe from, well, the Warframe video game, for use in tabletop/pen-and-paper RPGs.
A versatile fighter, curiously themed after a sort of magic-casting priest of earth and fire.
And he looks great -half the reason we have warframe profiles is because I love how they look weird and cool.
An obscure Russian mutant in the Marvel Universe. He blasts.
As of august of 2019, our contributor Pawsplay added Мутанты и Masterminds stats, under the “heh why not” clause.
A minor enemy of Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) at the end of the Bronze Age.
Rapists-killing vigilante with a shedload of knives.
One of the earliest enemies of He-Man in those 1980s Masters of the Universe cartoons.
A minor ally of Hellcat circa 2016/2017.
She has the power of having a purse. But it’s a really big one.
This is part #4 of a series showing a playthrough of the classic, landmark Baldur’s Gate D&D video games.
It comes with an ever-so-useful table of content so you can read everything in the right order and at your leisure.
Minor lightning power. Obscure X-Men enemy, was with the Alliance of Evil for years.
As of August of 2019, this profile had its voltage increased and received live M&M stats.
That’s the Marvel Comics one, specifically the one with the Darkforce powers. He’s oddly cool, if underused.
As of August of 2019, this profile received grimdark M&M stats, plus text and illustrations improvements. Excelsior!
An ex-military, proficient hitman.
Cormorant played an important role in Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)’s 1980s career.
A short-ish profile of the Titania warframe from, well, the Warframe video game, for use in tabletop/pen-and-paper RPGs.
The one and only gun fairy can also deploy stranger glammer-like abilities on the battlefield. And she’s tied to the mysterious Silver Grove on what’s left of Earth, and one of the oddest rebellions during the Old War.
A Brooklyn lad with minor telekinetic powers. Good friend of Patsy Walker a.k.a. Hellcat!
Ian is mostly supporting cast though.
Everything known about Skeletor’s ominous base of Snake Mountain. Pictures, facilities, weapons, vehicles, geography, RPG stats for everything, etc..
Skeletor was the evil bad antagonist in the notable 1980s animated series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
Old people fondly reminisce about him. Who can figure these guys out, heh. How do you do, fellow kids ?
Two demon-like, shape-shifting sisters who organise death duels between great warriors from any universes. They’re, like, a crossover engine.
The Corvidae appeared in Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti’s Wonder Woman vs. Conan mini-series.
The half-human mobster Raccoon is also an ally of the Nocturnals, as seen in Dan Brereton’s painted comics.
And thus our Nocturnals writeups arc ends. It’s a bit sad.
This is part #3 of a series showing a playthrough of the classic, landmark Baldur’s Gate D&D video games.
The chapters remain concise, since these playthrough also includes many additional encounters from selected mods.
The “classic” (well, if you’re in your 40s I guess) part of Spider-Man foe the Shocker’s career – 1967-1989, before Marvel started fleshing out his simple characterisation. A good stock jobber, I think.
As of July of 2019, this profile received yet another editing pass, plus M&M stats that are trying not to make a vibrator joke.
Everybody’s favourite cranky frog mermaid with paired .45s, from Dan Brereton’s neat The Nocturnals series of painted comics.
The second half of our Gil Jourdan character profile, to avoid overlong articles.
Classic — if B-list — investigation and adventure hero in 1950s/1960s European graphic novels.
There’s a link to part #1, of course.
The inventor and ordnance expert in the 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons.
A short-ish profile of the Nyx warframe from, well, the Warframe video game, for use in tabletop/pen-and-paper RPGs.
Chaos, confusion, mind control, illusions… Nyx makes a mess.
A superbly competent and resourceful military intelligence operative from the XIII espionage/adventure graphic novels.
As of July of 2019, this profile received M&M stats, but nobody knows what the “Ms” stand for.
The founder and leader of the monsters-hunting Nocturnals. From Dan Brereton’s cool painted comics.
Doc is a very pulps-ish two-fisted scientist.