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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — super-hero comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
Obscure 1970s Harlem mobster. Clashed with the Falcon, Captain America, Spider-Man and others.
A bunch of setting notes about the Borderlands video games.
Essentially post-apocalyptic sci-fi with some alien tech, megacorporations and ultraviolence.
The ultra-patriotic leader of the original Force of July (the 1980s Batman & the Outsiders villains).
Strength-enhancing and flight-capable costume.
As of February of 2021, this entry has received star-spangled Mutants & Masterminds stats.
A French private investigator, noble, fashionista and fencing instructor. It’s a living.
A “cursed” Central American artefact seen in a 1973 Batman story by Archie Goodwin.
A zombie apocalypse professional motorbike courier. It’s a tough, usually fatal job but somebody gotta do it.
From a 2017 Zenescope comics mini-series.
The “Killer Bee” from the Street Fighters video games.
Amnesiac super-soldier.
As of February of 2021, this old profile was rewritten and updated.
“The most incredible man on Earth !”, according to Jack “the King” Kirby during the 1970s.
Japanese super-hero and minor part of the Fourth World mythology.
As of February of 2021, this profile had its texts and illustrations refreshed, and received M&M game stats.
This is the Earth-15513 version of Marvel’s Red Wolf. Originally from the 1872 pocket reality, and mostly seen during the 2010s.
Near-peak-human fighter, adventurer and sheriff.
An obscure evil time traveller from the early days of Marvel Comics. By Steve Ditko and Stan Lee.
This profile concludes the thunderous, cosmic saga of the Mad Thinker’s Most Powerful Android.
At this point, he has become a bearded Negative Zone space kaiju. He didn’t get to fight Gojira, though.
The fourth version of Captain Marvel (Billy Batson)’s foe Captain Nazi, chronologically speaking. This profile covers the 1995-2010 material.
As of January of 2021, this profile was refreshed – and split into two parts since it was too long for some to read in one go. It also received Mutants & Masterminds stats.
The fourth version of Captain Marvel (Billy Batson)’s foe Captain Nazi, chronologically speaking.
This is the second half of this article, but there are links to all the related content.
From Street Fighter, a parody of a parody of Ryu.
He’s way less impressive that he thinks, though that’s mostly because he thinks he’s the best fighter in the world.
As of January of 2020, this profile has had the MOST POWERFUL UPDATING AND EDITING PASS IN THE WORLD (not really).
Nighthawk (Raymond Kane, formerly Kyle Richmond), the Batman-like sole survivor from a destroyed alternate reality.
This profile focuses on the material written by David Walker, who made this Nighthawk more than “Batman, but Black”.
Remember that time when the Mad Thinker’s Most Powerful Android was rebuilt as an alien Scavenger of the Negative Zone by Annihilus ? ANNIHILUS ! The Living Death That Walks !
Good times, yeah.
An enemy of Steel (John Henry Irons), mostly seen during the 1990s.
An ER doctor who moonlights as an assassin.
Captain Marvel’s enemy Captain Nazi as he appeared in the 1970s stories on DC’s Earth-S.
As of January of 2021, this profile received goose-stepping M&M TTRPG stats.
Tom’s more modern take about the lead character in the Street Fighter brawling video games.
As of January of 2021, this had been revised and updated. That means additional material, so it’s now a two-parter so everyone can read it.
Tom’s more modern take about the lead character in the Street Fighter brawling video games.
This is the second half of the profile, with a link to the first half.
A guide/disambiguation page to help readers navigate our different Catwoman character profiles.
A potent creation of the Mad Thinker, designed to solo the Fantastic Four.
He’s tough, and he went on to have a strange history.
A strange secret town of immortal underground samurai.
Samurai City appeared during Jack Kirby’s run on Black Panther.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.