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Mirage

(Desmond Charne)

Obscure Spider-Man foe with tricky invisibility/illusion powers. As of October of 2021, this profile has been entirely redone and updated.

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Megatak

A cheesy 1983 character who can summon stuff from arcade video games. Like, Pac Man or Space Invaders. Yes, really. As of October of 2021, this profile was entirely redone and thoroughly updated. Basically, it ate all the ghosts.

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Cyclone

(André Gérard)

Minor 1970s/1980s spider-foe with air powers. As of September of 2021, this entry was entirely blown away and rebuilt.

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Death Adder

(Roland Burrough)

One of the proto-Serpent Society guys, who were pretty cool. Bio-engineered into a a venomous killer. As of September of 2021, this entry received extensive cyber-surgery and is now far deadlier.

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Letha

(Hellen Feliciano)

Super-strong, skilled wrestler from Marvel's 1980s Grapplers. As of August of 2021, this profile was thoroughly upgraded, updated and suplexed.

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Titania a.k.a. Lascivious

(Davida DeVito)

A criminal super-wrestler chiefly seen in 1980s Marvel comics. As of August of 2021, this was entirely redone from the top rope.

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Pharaoh Tut-Ak-Mun

An obscure 1948 Egyptian enemy of Namora. Undead mummy soldiers. As of June of 2021, added Mutants & Pharaohs game stats for everybody.

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Le Bedeau (the Sexton)

Part of our series presenting original, complex French super-heroes to help super-populate super-Europe. As of April of 2021, added receding hairline portraits to this profile.

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Ultima Ratio

Homemade character. Undead terrorist and fallen doctor, with zombie henchmen and an all-destroying flame. As of April of 2021, this profile received illustrations, under the "the dead start to walk in their masquerade" clause.

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Necroscope

(Harry Keogh) (Early)

A super-medium in a series of horror novels by Brian Lumley. As of April of 2021, this old old profile has received some illustrations.

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Jack Crow

Big tough modern-day vampires hunter. One of the main characters in John Steakley's 1990 novel Vampire$. As of April of 2021, added some photorealistic portraits of the big guy.

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Rayya Manticora

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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Anabasis-5

(Destiny video games)

A window into the Destiny "epic sci-fi" video game universe, using a sample character. Though in this article the emphasis is on the universe. So if you want to learn about stuff such as the Worm Gods, the Sword Logic, the Traveller's Ghosts, the Last City, the European Dead Zone, the Rasputin Warmind, the Infinite Forest, etc. it's all in...

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Halo

(Gabrielle Doe) (The 1980s, part #1)

This is Halo of DC Comics' Outsiders, during the 1980s. Wowie zowie ! As of August of 2020, this profile is being entirely redone. And it's now a two-parter.

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Bird-Man

(Achille DiBacco)

Originally one of those goofy, minor Ani-Men thugs from Marvel Comics. Later became an animalistic demonic undead no-goodnik, because it was a Tuesday.

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Deadgirl

A DC Heroes RPG Player Character, with strong undead powers.

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Spitfire

(Profile #5 - 2008-2011)

Profile #5 (yeah, I know) in our chronological coverage of Marvel's Spitfire. This one covers her appearances during the late 2000s and early 2010s, when something about her nature has become much more apparent. As of September of 2019 this entry received clarifications courtesy of a Marvel researcher, plus an umpteenth editing pass and having the pictures redone in HD.

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Polychrome

(Pollyanna Shale)

The benign angel/ghost in Dan Brereton's Nocturnals comic books. A healer and psychopomp. As of June of 2019, this profile arose from the dead in a new, shiny, much improved form.

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Gunwitch

A good guy (more or less) zombie gunman who never misses. From the atmospheric Nocturnals comics. As of June of 2019, this profile was entirely redone and sewed back together.

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Emmanuelle Chekhov, the Imperial Slayer

A vampire commando who hunts vampires, in the Russian Resurgence future depicted in Nikolai Dante comics published in 2000AD. She's so vein, she prolly thinks this writeup is about her. As of March of 2019, this profile has had its ichor reinvigorated, and received befanged M&M stats.

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Generic Fury aetherial corruption

(Grim Dawn)

These are enhanced, fast zombies from the Grim Dawn video game. They can drain life force to repair themselves as they kill, so that's nice.

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Nemesis

(Ms. St. Ives)

This the first of Nemesis avengers seen in the pages of Alpha Flight - the 1984 one. Mysterious undead "angel of vengeance" with a monomolecular magic sword. As of June of 2018, this profile and its illustration have been improved through necromancy, then we added atom-thick M&M stats.

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Zombie with a crate of explosives

(Shadow Warrior) ("Coolie" zombie)

Undead monsters seen in the 1990s video game Shadow Warrior. Suicidal zombies with a crates of explosives, who might rise as an evil ghost after they detonate themselves.

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Generic Kleer skeleton

(Serious Sam)

Galloping, clawed, bola-hurling alien skeletons from spaaaace. And from the Serious Sam video games as well.

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Generic zombies

(How To Survive video game)

Fairly generic zombies from a fairly generic zombie survival game, so that's useful if you need zombie stats. This is a video game, so there are various variant zombies with "powers". And zombie emus (I think). And that dang zombie deer everybody hates. So many zombies.

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Phantom Rider

(Carter Slade) (Hamilton Slade, too) (Doug's take)

The Ghost Rider a.k.a. the Phantom Rider a.k.a. the Night Rider. Marvel Comics' Old West vigilante who convincingly pretended to be an avenging ghost. This profile also includes material about his descendant, who did get the power to turn into an avenging ghost.

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Sean Knight

The ghost attorney in Matt Wagner's Mage: the Hero Discovered landmark comic books. So he gets the power of attorney, and ghost powers too.

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Arco

(The super-scientist of long ago)

A mummy super-scientist from long ago - with a blinding ray, of course. He clashed with the great Fantomah, with predictable results.

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Madam Delamorte

(World of Warcraft sample Player Character)

Our main sample World of Warcraft Player Character. Includes a primer about the Forsaken, the modelling of Shadow Priest abilities, and an extensive RPG discussion about playing in the WoW setting.

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Avernum adventuring party – the N’Guyen siblings

A made-up 4-person adventuring party for the Avernum heroic-fantasy computer role-playing game statted up in DC Heroes. This also presents the underground setting of the video game.

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