One of the classic Street Fighter video games baddies. Super-acrobatic Spanish sociopath with claw weapons.

As of January of 2021, this embarrassingly old text has received extensive edits and a small update.

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This is the original, 1940s version of this enemy of Captain Marvel in Fawcett Comics.

As of January of 2021, this profile has had its style/clarity/readability edits, and received its Mutants und Masterminds game stats.

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A guide/disambiguation page to help readers navigate the different versions of this Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) villain. And other World War Two baddies who resemble him.

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As with every year, we’re skipping one of our thrice-monthly updates. The one that would have straddled late December and early January.

So if you’re on the Gregorian, y’all have a happy (or at least not too grossly damaging) new year in the meantime.

That’s it, that’s the post.

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A strange ally of the Black Panther, dating back from the early days with Jack Kirby at the helm.

Collector of the strange, eccentric billionaire, ruthless mastermind.

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The Silver Age Atom (Ray Palmer) from the very beginning up to Blackest Night inclusive.

As of December of 2020, this entry was split in two parts. This may seem like a small thing, but it helps slower readers not shrink away from long texts.

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Second half of our big character profile for this classic DC Comics super-hero.

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A young but remarkably proficient kid sister type, from the Art of Fighting and King of Fighters brawling video games.

As of December of 2020, thus profile was entirely overhauled – but still has but a brown belt.

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The second half of our profile for Black Canary during the 1970s, with links toward everything else.

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The very first take on Spider-Woman (not yet called Jessica Drew), by Goodwin.

It’s rather different from what she later become, as the retcons start by her very next appearance.

As of December of 2020, this profile has received polishing. Plus icky crawly too many legs Mutants & Masterminds TTRPG stats.

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As a side effect of research for Borderlands characters and setting writeups, here’s a video game guide/strategy/advice thing.

Mostly useful if you’re not possessed of a deep intuitive understanding of looter-shooters through alien-encoded genetic memories.

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A guide/disambiguation page to help readers navigate our different Black Canary DC Comics character profiles.

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Our chronological series about Black Canary continues.

Now we cover her appearances during the 1970s !

Lotsa notes about things, so this is presented as a two-parter.

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An example of a fully-fleshed out necromancer in the Guild Wars 2 setting.

If you need an atypical, benign necro who likes rabbits (and magical action princess outfits), well it’s just the occasion you’ve been waiting for.

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Minor enemy of Shade the Changing Man during the 1977/78 Ditko run. Gaseous form and mind probes.

As of December of 2020, this profile has received nebulous M&M stats.

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A rather big and muscled profile for a barbarian warrior of the same ilk, who’s appeared in his own series and beyond over the decades.

This is one of our DC Implosion writeups.

As of December of 2020, this enormous entry was split into manageable parts. And received a round of rewriting, since it was rather old.

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Second third of our comprehensive character profile for DC Comics’ Claw the Unconquered, with links to the other parts.

This chronicles his biography, and travels through strange worlds.

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This is the last third for our big profile for DC Comics’ Claw the Unconquered. With links to the other parts.

Mighty-thewed fantasy barbarian with a demon hand.

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An expy of Street Fighter’s Ryu who appears in a number of SNK brawling games.

As of Decembre of 2020, this old entry was entirely redone.

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The mandatory Russian guy who turns into a giant bear. Former member of the Soviet Super-Soldiers.

As of Novembear of 2020, this profile was entirely redone.

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One of the minor heroic fighters in the 1980s Masters of the Universe cartoons – the Filmation ones.

Mostly comic relief, but actually capable.

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A sort of golem that once fought the Black Panther in King Solomon’s tomb.

It was pretty tough.

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A sample field agent of The Division, as a window into the setting of the first Tom Clancy’s The Division shooter video game by Ubisoft.

This is the second half of the profile, with a link to part 1.

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An obscure robot who nearly beat the Avengers in 1965. Strong fighter.

As of November of 2020, this entry was revisited. It also now includes M&M stats and a summary of the “fictional Sin Cong as a stand-in for the Việt Nam invasion” continuity bit.

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A young and redoubtable Amazon and Gorgon officer. She’s cool, in more ways than one.

Delphyne primarily appeared in Marvel’s Hercules and Amadeus Cho stories.

This is the second half of her profile. The one with the death scrunchie.

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One of the main Russian (and formerly Soviet) Marvel Comics superhumans.

This is his second profile – follow the reading order within.

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First version of a review of the tools we’ve used to create character portraits on writeups.org (for original characters, or those without usable visuals). Mostly it’s stuff from video games, though most of it is free or real cheap.

Since creating portraits or full-body models of original characters isn’t a rare need among various sorts of role-players.

This article is updated from time to time. See its table of content.

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This is a Humble Bundle offer to download the books for the TABLETOP RPG version. The old stuff from Mike Pondsmith, which I quite liked.

Starts at $1 as usual.

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A big, heavily illustrated article about rifles, shotguns, submachineguns, etc. in fiction. So that’s useful to have.

This content used to be presented in the same article as Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #2 – Small Arms, part 1. But the article was getting too big and with too many photos for slow connections and less powerful devices, so it’s better to cleave it in two.

Recent additions:
— Large-bore air rifle
— Drum-fed shotgun
— Badass tommy gun
— Badass Mosin-Nagant
— All-Inclusive Assault Carbine
— Integrally Suppressed Assault Carbine
— Four-barrelled combination gun
— Microwave gun
— Rimfire submachinegun

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A Weapons Locker about small melee weapon (knives, tonfa, batons, hatchets, etc.). Lots of photos and videos. Dual-statted for DC Heroes and Mutants & Masterminds.

As of September of 2017, this has been upgraded to include new style DCH stats as well as the old style.

Recent additions :
– Additional picture of period cesti, plus video showing cestus boxing.

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