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My name is Max Dillon. Some of you know me, some of you don't -- but I broke you losers out!! Have fun, enjoy your lives... but from here on in, now and forever... you guys owe me huge!! All of you. - Electro
ELECTRO
PL10
OPL: 10;
SPL: -;
DPL: 8;
FWPL: 5;
HP: 1
Real Name: Maxwell Dillon
Age: 39
Height: 5-11
Weight: 165
Eyes: Blue
Hair: None
Skin: Fair
Race: Human Mutate
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Villain
Status: Deceased
Occupation: Criminal
Base of Operations: New York, New York, USA
Team Affiliations: The Sinister Six
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 4, STAMINA 4, AGILITY 2, DEXTERITY 3, FIGHTING 5, INTELLECT 0, AWARENESS 1, PRESENCE 1
SKILLS: Athletics 1 (+5), Deception 4 (+5), Expertise [Criminal] 5 (+5), Expertise [Electrician] 4 (+4), Insight (+1), Intimidation 6 (+7), Perception (+1), Persuasion (+1), Ranged Combat [Electrical Control] 5 (+8), Stealth 3 (+5)
ADVANTAGES: Defensive Roll (3), Improved Initiative (1), Power Attack (3) (Chain Lightning, Electrical Blast, Taser Blast)
POWERS:
Static Electricity: Features 1 (You can generate enough static electricity to move small objects within arm’s reach, weighing no more than a pound [weight rank –5] or so); 1 pt
Human Spot Welder: Features 1 (You can do spot-welding by touch, like an arc-welder. This may also be a capability of Precise Electrical Damage effects); 1 pt
Human Defibrillator: Features 1 (You can act like a defibrillator to treat heart attack victims, automatically stabilizing their condition); 1 pt
Hot Wire: Features 1 (Similarly, you may be able to jump start or reset an incapacitated construct with an electrical system); 1 pt
Electric Body: Immunity 10 (Electrical Effects); 10 pts
Electric Aura: Reaction Electrical Damage 5 (Extra: Reaction [to being touched]); 20 pts
Electrical Senses: Senses 3 (Detect Electricity [Mental, Ranged]); 3 pts
Electrical Control: 32 pt Array; 38 pts
Electrical Blast: Ranged Electrical Damage 12 (Extra: Penetrating 10); 32 pts
Chain Lightning: Multiattack Ranged Electrical Damage 10; 1 pts
Taser Blast: Ranged Affliction 12 (Electrical; Resisted by Fortitude; 1st: Dazed, 2nd: Stunned, Incapacitated); 1 pt
Electrical Drain: Weaken 12 (Extra: Affects Objects, Flaw: Limited [Electrical Devices]); 1 pt
Riding the Current: Speed 10 (2,000 mph/4 mpr; Flaw: Requires electrical wires); 1 pt
Enhanced Electrical Aura: Enhanced Reaction Electrical Damage 7 (Extra: Reaction [to being touched); 1 pt
Electronics Contol: Ranged Affliction 12 (Electrical; Resisted/Overcome by Technology skill or Will; 3rd: Controlled, Flaw: Limited Degree [third degree only], Affects Objects Only, Limited [to electronics]); 1 pt
EQUIPMENT:
NONE
OFFENSE:
Initiative +6
Close Attack +6 [Unarmed +4; Electrical Aura +5,
Reaction; Boosted Electrical Aura +12,
Reaction]
Ranged Attack +5
Electrical Control +8 [Electrical Blast +12; Chain Lightning +10,
Multiattack]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +9 [DC19] Parry +9 [DC19]
Toughness +7 (+4 without Defensive Roll), Fortitude +6, Will +4
COMPLICATIONS:
Enemy: Spider-Man, Daredevil.
Motivation: Max wants money, power and recognition.
Power Loss: He needs electricity to draw from to keep his power reserves full. Sustained denial of it can greatly weaken, or eliminate his powers.
Weakness: Non-conductive substances such as rubber, stone or Spider-Man's webs, are relatively immune to his powers. Water will also "short him out" if he's charged, causing his powers to fail and rendering him disabled or incapacitated in short order.
Abilities 42 + Skills 14 (28 ranks) + Advantages 7 + Powers 75 + Defenses 15 = 153 / 153
Build Comments: I always thought Electro was a neat villain, at least back when I was a kid before I truly realized what a mook he was. Now that I know that, I like him even more.
From time to time, he gets a significant power up for some reason or another, but I like him as more of a street level threat. I tried to go with a stripped down version, leaving more of his other tricks for power stunts. He's still a tough out for my Spidey and DD, for sure. In my setting, he is still generally a free agent, but mainly works for the Kingpin.
Secret Origins: Maxwell Dillon was born in Endicott, New York, the son of Jonathan and Anita Dillon. His father was often fired from jobs making them move a lot. One day his father walked out on them and his mother became overprotective. When he wanted to leave home to go to college, his mother was against the idea and told him if he was interested in learning about electricity that he should work for the local electric company. His mother died when Dillon was twenty-four while he was working at the electric company. There he became one of the best linemen. He also met and married a fellow co-worker Norma Lynn, but she left him when she realized he wasn't ambitious enough to become an engineer and he stayed a lineman.
One day another lineman got in trouble and Dillon agreed to save him, for a fee. In the process he gained super powers when he was struck by lightning while in contact with power lines still connected to their spool. The unusually configured magnetic field generated by the wound spool of cable and live, high-tension wires induced a body-wide mutagenic change to his nervous system. Dillon found himself transformed into a living electrical capacitor, powered by the micro-fine rhythmic muscle contractions that normally regulate body temperature.
The Story so Far: Generally, Dillon's criminal actions were governed by his selfish love of money. Adopting the gaudy garb of a so-called super-villain, the deranged Dillon sought to use his newfound power for personal gain. Electro's first and most frequent nemesis was the wisecracking, web-slinging super hero known as Spider-Man. The Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson was convinced that Spider-Man and Electro were the same man, until Spidey defeated Electro by wearing rubber gloves and shoes. He next battled Daredevil when he attempted to break in the Baxter Building, headquarters of the Fantastic Four.
Unable to best the wall-crawler on his own, Electro often sought strength in numbers. Early in his career, he and five other members of Spider-Man's rogues’ gallery united under the leadership of Doctor Octopus -- brilliant, respected scientist turned tentacled terror. The inaugural incarnation of the Sinister Six also included the shifty Sandman; the illusion-casting Mysterio; the high-flying, lowdown Vulture; and Kraven the Hunter. The villains' master plan: Pummel the wall-crawler one by one until one of them would manage to defeat him. The outcome: Spidey 6, bad guys 0.
After the events of The Six, Electro was hired by Doctor Doom amongst others to disrupt the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm. Later he was defeated by Daredevil and sought the help of other super-villains when he created his own Emissaries of Evil.
Hoping to energize his campaign to smear Spider-Man's reputation, J. Jonah Jameson surreptitiously secured Electro's supercharged services to battle the web-slinger on national television. Before an audience of millions, Spider-Man stood triumphant once more. Electro's extended string of ignominious defeats nearly came to an end when the world-weary villain, hungry for respect, attempted to deprive the entire city of power by drawing it into his body. Dillon almost killed himself as a result, again meeting defeat at the hands of Spider-Man.
Electro was also a member of Mysterio's Sinister Seven, created to combat Spider-Man's insane, homicidal clone, Kaine. However, Kaine disappeared and with no further need to keep the group together, it was disbanded and Dillon returned to his self-imposed exile.
Electro was once again brought out of retirement by the Rose, who offered Dillon the chance at an experimental procedure to greatly enhance his abilities in exchange for his services as an underworld enforcer. Dillon agreed, sensing the opportunity to rise above his past failures. After undergoing the procedure and dispatching several members of the True Believers, an offshoot of the Hand at the request of the Rose, Dillon returned to his original plan of taking over the New York City power supply. Once again defeated by Spider-Man, who had donned an insulated suit, a frustrated Dillon threw himself into the Hudson River, apparently killing himself.
However, Dillon survived as he reappeared as part of the next series of subsequent incarnations of the Sinister Six, each of which were either defeated or disbanded due to internal conflicts. The most recent incarnation, the Sinister Twelve, gathered by the Green Goblin as part of a larger plan to enable his escape from prison and destroy Spider-Man. They were defeated with the help of the combined efforts of Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Yellowjacket and the Fantastic Four.
Electro was hired by Brainchild to free Karl Lykos (Sauron) from the Raft, a maximum-security prison designed to hold supervillians. Electro initiated a prison break the likes of which had never been seen, releasing scores of criminals. However, his actions also brought together a number of the world's most powerful heroes to contain the disaster including: Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, Daredevil, the Sentry and Spider-Man, many of whom were trapped in the Raft when the power was shut off. With the exception of Daredevil (and Sentry at first), this impromptu gathering of heroes reunited shortly after the prison break to form a new Avengers team. Dillon tried to escape with his girlfriend, a waitress in Boston, but was captured by the New Avengers, the very team he inadvertently helped create.
As Electro aged, his power became unstable and he began working for the Mad Thinker, who could help him control his powers. Blackmailing Dexter Bennett, he gained money and his powers were upgraded. He attacked the Daily Bugle and destroyed it before being beaten once again by Spider-Man.
Electro joined Doc Ock's new Sinister Six and helped him to rob technology from the Baxter Building as well as robbing the Zero Cannon from the Intelligencia. Sometime later, Doctor Octopus, in his plan to be remembered as the man who saved Earth, offered the chance to stop the Greenhouse Effect, as well as speed it up, using a special device connected with different satellites on the orbit.
Disguised as Al Gore, Chameleon tried to accelerate the decision of world's leaders about the matter, but was uncovered by Spider-Man, who interrupted the scene along with the Avengers. When the Chameleon was freed, he arrived in the Mediterranean on a meeting with the rest of the team. The Avengers followed them and arrived, fighting the Sinister Six, but they were all defeated by the villains, the price of the battle was Electro, whose electrical form was absorbed by Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and sent into space.
Electro has returned to Earth somehow, though, and is looking for payback on Thor and his usual nemesis, Spider-Man.
Characterization: Electro’s a pretty simple man. He wants to get money and get respect and he doesn’t really care about how it’s done. He just wants it.
Friends and Foes: He has been enemies with Spider-Man and Daredevil for years and has an obsession with taking each of them out.