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Jabroniville Mutants & Masterminds - Marvel- The Letter "Q”
Marvel: The Letter "Q":

"Q" is probably the most-unusual, probably-unnecessary letter in the English alphabet. It's generally
used to make "kw" and "k" sounds (like in "plaque"), and is the second-least-used letter next to "Z".
Also in cursive it looks like a "2" for no apparent reason other than to be weird (also, cursive sucks).
No other letter is less-used in comics to start the names of characters- even "Z" gets used more
often. There's only a couple of semi-decent names, but Quasar and Quicksilver ain't too shabby-
both are Avengers who were prominent at one point or another. The rest are mostly-losers and
forgotten types- the next most-prominent are characters like Queen, Quagmire (from Squadron
Supreme, not Family Guy's sexual predator), and Quasimodo (the computer with the ugly face).
Q7 Strike Force
Post by Jabroniville » Sun Apr 09, 2017 1:50 am
Q7 STRIKE FORCE:
-Man, you thought I'd statted some piece of shit characters before? These guys ASPIRE to be
pieces of shit. These guys would look at literal human feces the way the nerdy kid looks at
the High School Quarterback in a John Hughes movie. These guys are TERRRRIBLE.
They're just some highly-armored goons appearing in the Gene Dogs book, acting as their
recurring nemeses for four issues. I refuse to even make most of them PL 7s.
Giggity giggity giggity
Post by Jabroniville » Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:32 pm
QUAGMIRE (Jerome Meyers)

Created By: Mark Gruenwald & Bob Hall
First Appearance: Squadron Supreme #4 (Dec. 1985)
Role: The Hedonist, Punker
Alternate Company Equivalent Of: Nobody Specific
Fate: Suffocated by Quagmire's otherworldly black-goo when it started gushing from his
comatose body
Group Affiliations: The Alliance of Evil, The Squadron Supreme
PL 10 (170)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Acrobatics 2 (+5)
Athletics 3 (+6)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+10)
Deception 3 (+5)
Expertise (Criminal) 6 (+6)
Insight 2 (+2)
Intimidation 6 (+8)
Perception 2 (+2)
Ranged Combat (Tar) 2 (+10)
Stealth 3 (+6)
Vehicles 3 (+3)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Chokehold, Daze (Intimidation), Diehard, Improved Critical (Snare), Power
Attack, Ranged Attack 8, Startle
Powers:
"Otherworldly Tar-Like Darkforce"
"Tar Snare" Affliction 10 (Strength or Sleight of Hand; Hindered, Vulnerable, Visual
Impaired & Dazed/Immobile, Prone, Visual Disabled & Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras:
Ranged, Extra Condition +3, Cumulative, Progressive +2, Contagious) (Flaws: Limited to
One Sense) (80) -- [85]
 AE: "Tar Storm" Affliction 10 (Strength or Sleight of Hand; Hindered, Vulnerable &
Dazed, Visual Impaired /Immobile, Prone, Visual Disabled & Stunned/Incapacitated)
(Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable, Extra Condition +3, Cumulative, Progressive +2,
Contagious) (Flaws: Limited to One Sense) (80)
 AE: "Tar Whips" Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (20)
 AE: "Tar Blast" Blast 10 (20)
 AE: "Sticky Fingers" Movement (Wall-Crawling) (2)
 AE: "Multiple Tendrils" Extra Limbs 4 (4)
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Snare +10 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Tar Storm +10 Area (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Tar Whips +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Tar Blast +10 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +3
Complications:
Vulnerable (Mind Control)- The Squadron Supreme have proven themselves very easy to
take over mentally for some reason, as it has happened several times. This may be random
chance, or an actual weakness.
Responsibility (B-Modded Villain)- Having been Behavior Modified by the Squadron, the
ex-Institute of Evil members are unable to break the law for any reason, betray any Squadron
member for ANY reason, etc. Their minds are no longer truly their own..
Responsibility (The Utopia Program)- The Squadron has founded a program designed to cure
all the world's ills- Crime, Poverty, Disease, War... even Death itself. Some members are
more dedicated than others, but they all strive to help.
Total: Abilities: 40 / Skills: 34--17 / Advantages: 15 / Powers: 85 / Defenses: 13 (170)
-Alongside Foxfire, Quagmire is the most recognizably "80s" character in Squadron

Supreme. A big hairy guy with punker ("I hate punkers" as the mighty Casey Jones once said)
makeup and hair, it's pretty hard to imagine him outside his element without an image
change. Humorously, his name at one time was conceivably cool and fitting, but of course
now would draw immediate comparisons to the most popular side-character of Family Guy-
the vulgar, sex-obsessed rapist Glen Quagmire, and thus he'll probably never be used again
except as a joke.
-Quagmire's lot in the series was to be B-Modded into servitude, but lack the social graces
anyways, so he still acted like a horn-dog punk, drawing the ire of Blue Eagle (Dr. Spectrum
confessed he was starting to like the guy, though). However, he was shown to be truly heroic
anyways, as he nearly suffocated on the nerve-gas agents used on the Pacifier Pellets in a
factory explosion, as he pulled dozens of men to safety by himself. Trapped in a coma, he
began leaking the same goo-energy he wielded from his NOSE, creating a massive problem
for the team, and killing Dr. Decibel. With his life support plug removed, he vanished,
alongside all his goo, where he reappeared in the Marvel Universe proper to harrass Quasar
(in another Gruenwald book) a couple of times, but has not appeared since the mid-1990s.
-Quagmire is fairly one-sided, but that is one REMARKABLE Snare. It's literally FOUR
different Affliction effects, all hitting simultaneously- he goes across the Snare-type ones
(Vulnerable & Hindered lines), Dazzles visuals by obscuring people's sight, AND it
Suffocates people, leaving them Incapacitated at the end. And that's NOT ALL! He uses it at
Range, makes in Cumulative (building up over time), THEN makes it Progressive (the Snare
gets worse as you struggle with it, as well as the Suffocation), and THEN it's Contagious
(anyone touching you will also get stuck). High physical Abilities to go along with the best
Snare effect I've ever seen in comics to make Quagmire a FEARSOME opponent. He's still
only PL 7.5 on defense, though, so you've got a better chance of stopping him than most guys
with incredibly-expensive powers.
Quantum
Post by Jabroniville » Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:56 pm

QUANTUM (Lomen)
Created By: Steve Englehart & Al Milgrom
First Appearance: West Coast Avengers #12 (Sept. 1986)
Role: Forgotten Alien Villain
Group Affiliations: The Elect, The Unified Field Theory
PL 10 (302)
Skills:
Expertise (Alien Soldier) 6 (+7)
Intimidation 7 (+8)
Investigation 3 (+5)
Perception 4 (+6)
Stealth 2 (+4)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 8
Powers:
"Dakkamite Physiology"
Flight 12 (8,000 mph) [24]
Movement 2 (Space Travel 2) [4]
Impervious Toughness 9 [9]

Immunity 20 (Life Support, Solar-Based Effects) [20]
Senses 4 (Detect Gravity- Ranged 3) [4]
"Ultra-Fast Teleportation" Teleport 1 (Feats: Change Direction) [3]
Duplication 11 (Extras: Active, Horde, 16 Minions +8) (132) -- [133]
 AE: "Sheath of Flames" Flame Aura 6 (24)
Offense:
Flame Aura +9 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +10 (+3 Impervious), Fortitude +10, Will
+4
Complications:
Weakness (Lack of Solar Radiation)- If Quantum is left without sunlight upon which to draw
his powers, he will be rendered unconscious- such a thing happened when Hawkeye used a
Smoke Arrow to block out the sun.
QUANTUM DUPLICATES
Role: Summoned Minions
PL 9 (165)
Skills:
Expertise (Alien Soldier) 6 (+7)
Intimidation 7 (+8)
Perception 4 (+6)
Stealth 2 (+4)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Power Attack, Ranged Attack 8
Powers:
"Dakkamite Physiology"
Flight 12 (8,000 mph) [24]
Impervious Toughness 9 [9]

Immunity 20 (Life Support, Solar-Based Effects) [20]
Senses 4 (Detect Gravity- Ranged 3) [4]
Offense:
Flame Aura
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +10 (+3 Impervious), Fortitude +10, Will
+4
Complications:
Weakness (Lack of Solar Radiation)- If Quantum is left without sunlight upon which to draw
his powers, he will be rendered unconscious- such a thing happened when Hawkeye used a
Smoke Arrow to block out the sun.
-This guy's so obscure that after his debut, only MARK GRUENWALD really used him- He's
a Dakkamite who gained his powers from his proximity to Earth's sun... wait, what? Yeah,
he's a parody/pastiche of DC's Superman & Daxamite concept, but as a villain who we only
saw a couple times before he vanished. And like most obscure alien characters, he appears in
The Stranger's lab in an issue of Gru's Quasar. There, it turns out that he was given powers
deliberately, placed in a power capsule years ago by the Dakkamites, hoping to see what
super-powers he and nine others would gain- the others were abducted earlier and gained
lesser powers, calling themselves the Power Platoon. Quantum mind-controlled Wundarr the
Aquarian (himself a Dakkamite, and the reason why Quantum & his allies had been
empowered in the first place; he was the first one who went to Earth and gained powers) and
faced the Avengers West Coast again, but fled when the Platoon abandoned him.
-Quantum's got super-strength and a few other weird powers as well, and I have no idea how
strong he's supposed to have been. Thankfully, I actually have read issues with this guy in
them now, so I have a better idea as to what he's supposed to be like.
-So he's PL 10 (214), being very expensive and having a few odd powers- he's a Flying Brick
with an Aura.. and Duplication? Yeah, they made a Class whatever (strong enough to hurt
'80s Wonder Man & Iron Man) guy who could DUPLICATE himself.
Quasar (Wendell Vaughn)
Post by Jabroniville » Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:39 am

QUASAR II (Wendell Vaughn, aka Marvel Boy IV, Marvel Man)
Created By: Don Glut, Roy Thomas & John Buscema
First Appearance: Captain America #217 (Jan. 1978)
Role: Plucky Young Hero, Green Lantern Rip-Off, Cosmic Hero
Group Affiliations: The Avengers, Project: Pegasus, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Star Masters
Avengers Grade: C-Level (B-Level during his big '90s run)
PL 14 (223)
Skills:
Deception 4 (+7)
Expertise (Cosmic Lore) 11 (+13)
Expertise (Space Traveller) 5 (+7)
Expertise (S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent) 3 (+5)
Insight 3 (+6)
Perception 5 (+8)
Persuasion 4 (+7)
Ranged Combat (Cosmic Attacks) 3 (+12)
Technology 4 (+5)
Vehicles 3 (+7)
Advantages:
Benefit (Protector of the Universe- Chosen of Eon), Defensive Attack, Improved Smash,
Ranged Attack 5, Power Attack, Teamwork
Powers:
"Quantum Bands"
Snare 15 (Feats: Reversible, Dynamic, Extended Range) (48) -- [63]
 Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Energy Control" Blast 16 (Feats: Split, Dynamic, Improved
Critical, Penetrating 8) (43)
 Dynamic AE: Damage 14 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 120ft. Cone +2) (43)
 Dynamic AE: Damage 14 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Line +2) (43)
 Dynamic AE: Create 14 (Feats: Precise, Innate, Dynamic, Selective, Stationary,
Tether) (Extras: Movable) (48)
 Dynamic AE: Absorption 14 (Energy to Blasts) (Feats: Dynamic) (29)
 Dynamic AE: "Quantum Melee Weapons" Strength-Damage +6 (Feats: Dynamic) (7)
 Dynamic AE: "Enhanced Field" Force Field 4 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Impervious
15, Affects Others 13) & Immunity 10 (Life Support) (Extras: Affects Others +0) &
Space Travel 1 (Extras: Affects Others +0) (44)
 AE: "Quantum Jump" Teleport 15 (Feats: Increased Mass) (Extras: Extended Only
+0) (Flaws: Tiring) (17)
Force Field 8 [8]

Senses 7 (Detect Energy- Ranged 3, Acute & Analytical, Communication Link- Eon/Epoch)
[7]
Flight 10 (2,000 mph) [20]

Immunity 10 (Life Support) [10]
"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Check 6 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Attacks) [3]
Offense:
Cosmic Blast +12 (+16 Ranged Damage, DC 31)
Cosmic Area Blasts +14 Area (+14 Damage, DC 29)
Quantum Weapons +8 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4 (+12-16 Force Field), Fortitude +6,
Will +8 (+14 vs. Mental Attacks)
Complications:
Power Loss (Absorption)- Quasar's Absorbing powers do not work against effects created by
Magic, or conisisting of Darkforce.
Responsibility (Protector of the Universe)- As the chosen of Eon, Wendell has been charged
with a great number of tasks, many of which interfere with his daily life.
Quasar- Forgotten Cosmic Hero:

-Quasar is kind of Mark Gruenwald's baby in the Marvel Universe, being one of his biggest
opuses (the others being Squadron Supreme & his Captain America run), though he was
actually created by other guys. He debuted as regular ol' Wendell Vaughn, a S.H.I.E.L.D.
Academy wash-out who was believed to lack the "killer instinct" to succeed and thus given a
generic security detail, but he gained super-powers when the Quantum Bands wielded by the
dead "Crusader" come into possession of his research facility. The test pilot given them first
is killed, but Wendell successfully uses them when A.I.M. attacks the facility- it turns out his
calmness and lack of aggression are benefits in controlling the tremendous power. He
becomes a superhero, codenamed "Marvel Boy", and given a very similar costume to the
1950s hero (now called "The Uranian").
-First as Marvel Boy, then Marvel Man, Wendell joins the S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-Agents, but
like half of them turned out to be villains. He then became the security chief of Project:
Pegasus, a very boring, generic "Science Facility" that just ends up being the place where evil
super-tech ends up. Helping against countless super-villain attacks, he shows up in the
backgrounds of some Marvel Two-In-One and hangs out with the Thing. Eventually, he just
takes the name "Quasar" and it sticks.
Mark Gruenwald's Quasar:

-Mark Gruenwald ended up taking over the character, making Quasar his own personal book
to explore the Marvel Universe as a whole- he created more Cosmic Beings, established the
origins of others, and used all the forgotten characters he could- during the course of my
builds, I've read the phrase "_____ ended up on the Stranger's Laboratory World" something
like fifty times, because all these one-off aliens that only Mark remembered got used in a
Quasar arc. In the book, Wendell discovers Eon, who makes him the new "Protector of the
Universe", and a mega-arc is established around the forgotten villain Maelstrom and his
master Oblivion (who wishes to destroy the universe), the evil Deathurge, and more. In this
time, he joins the Avengers, forming the squad I most remember from my childhood. Quasar
& Eon are killed by Maelstrom, but Wendell is regenerated by new cosmic being Infinity (a
forgotten counterpart to Eternity), and Eon's daughter Epoch replaces him.
-Having read the first Trade Paperback collecting his series, and flipped through another
couple issues I own, I came to some observations. The book is fundamentally good, and full
of information (Quasar does a lot of "finding the history of this character"-type stuff-
Continuity Porn for the continuity-obsessed Gru)... but it is also REALLY, REALLY
BORING. It reads more like an "Encyclopedia of Marvel's Cosmic Scene" than an actual
narrative book- on issue is the most eyelid-dropping thing I've possibly ever read: an endless
dissertation of the nature of Cosmic Beings and why they appear the way they do- because
there's a dimension where they keep "M-Bodies" that they inhabit to talk to mortals, of
course! Like... we would have accepted "just because". Wendell himself is hilariously-
uninteresting, and Mark makes him a bit too Genre Savvy (avoiding all of the standard "Hero
(vs) Hero" fights, and even some VILLAINOUS fights, by talking his way out before
anything can happen and being boringly rational with his defensive-oriented powers)- the
result is basically a big, dry bore. More scholarly than good.
-Overall, it was like Gru just kinda wanted to outline all his stuff (he was a stat-junky even
more than *I* am), at the expense of characterization. The art is usually quite good- Greg
Capullo (who went on to do X-Force, then Spawn, altering his style HEAVILY in the
process) was just starting out, and made a lot of cutesy, big-eyed characters (Wendell's big
eyes and baby-lips make him look like a 17-year old boy, and the fights actually make Quasar
look a HECK of a lot more powerful than I anticipated- it features a scene where Quasar
nearly effortlessly defeats Venom. Venom at the time was the hottest new Spidey villain in
decades, and had JUST debuted- so a win like that seemed almost completely bizarre.
Quasar Disappears:
-In the end, the comic faded away after Wendell stopped the villains in the mega-arc, and said
villains disappeared (I haven't seen Maelstrom in an eternity). Gru's unfortunate death was
pretty much his last gasp. He fakes his death and leaves Earth when his family is threatened
by The Presence, and also controls the New Universe's Star Brand for a time, but largely
fades away. He's briefly in Avengers Infinity with some other un-used Avengers, does little in
the "Kang War" in Busiek's Avengers, and it's really a "thing" again for ten or so years until
he is killed in the final moments of the mega-event Annihilation, dying fighting Annihilus
alongside Nova. A furious Nova then kills the villain. This gave some more human stakes to
the event (which was mostly wiping out faceless alien hordes), and was more or less
Wendell's last bit of relevance.
-Wendell returns within a few years, as a being made of Quantum Energy- Captain Mar-
Vell's daughter Phyla ended up becoming the new "Quasar" for a time. Wendell joins The
Annihilators, a squad of "All Powerhouse" characters in a spin-off to the Cosmic Stuff of the
time, fighting the Dire Wraiths, the Magus, and more- this book doesn't last long. In an odd
bit, he's willingly manipulated by the Cosmic Cube "Kobik" in the Pleasant Hill story, as his
Quantum Bands were acting up- at the end of the story, he gives the Quantum Bands to a
young S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent named Avril Kincaid, training her to be the next "Quasar" (Phyla
was already dead by this point).
Quasar Overall:
-Wendell Vaughn is a tricky character to assess- I've met people who LOVE him, like my old
friend/cowriter Azrael/Lightbend (Ares & Kreuzritter remember him), who considered
Quasar his favorite book- looking at Azrael's stuff, I definitely see why. His favorite thing
was cosmic beings and the origins of the universe... and powerful characters. Really, really
powerful characters. But Quasar's fanbase was rather small, and the character was forgotten
BEFORE Gru's book, and forgotten AFTER it, with only a tiny handful of writers even
bothering with him. I mean, there's plenty of decent under-utilized characters, but we're
talking about a guy who spent maybe five years of a 42-year career being relevant to
anything. It's actually a little sad. Personally, I never found the character interesting, and his
powers were so obviously a rip-off of the Green Lantern Ring that I never took him that
seriously, but I can see why a lot of people adored him for cutting through the "usual comic
book stuff" like Mandatory Super-Hero Fights (he tries to avoid this in the Avengers arc with
Alpha Flight & the People's Protectorate), choosing to talk his way out of things. The trouble
is... those are the FUN parts of comics, and were tropes for a reason. The boring, scholarly
nature of Quasar really wasn't for me, either.
Quasar's Cosmic Power:

-Quasar ends up much more powerful than he used to- in The Annihilators, he's considered in
the same class as Beta-Ray Bill, The Silver Surfer and Gladiator, and a bit above Ronan The
Accuser (PL 13), so PL 14 seems like a good bet. He's little more than an upgraded version of
what came before, with few new abilities- he's a GL with fewer options, but still a wide
variety of powers- Create, Move Object, Blast, Flight, and more.
QUASAR II (Wendell Vaughn, aka Marvel Boy IV, Marvel Man)
Created By: Don Glut, Roy Thomas & John Buscema
First Appearance: Captain America #217 (Jan. 1978)
Role: Plucky Young Hero, Green Lantern Rip-Off, Cosmic Hero
Group Affiliations: The Avengers, Project: Pegasus, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Star Masters
Avengers Grade: C-Level (B-Level during his big '90s run)
PL 11 (200)
Skills:
Deception 4 (+5)
Expertise (Cosmic Lore) 9 (+10)
Expertise (Alien Lore) 4 (+5)
Expertise (SHIELD Agent) 2 (+3)
Insight 2 (+4)
Perception 5 (+7)
Persuasion 4 (+5)
Ranged Combat (Cosmic Attacks) 3 (+10)
Technology 4 (+5)
Vehicles 3 (+7)
Advantages:
Benefit (Protector of the Universe- Chosen of Eon), Defensive Attack, Improved Smash,
Ranged Attack 4, Power Attack, Teamwork
Powers:
"Quantum Bands"
Snare 14 (Feats: Reversible, Dynamic) (Inaccurate -1) (43) -- [61]
 Dynamic AE: "Power Blast" Blast 14 (Feats: Dynamic, Penetrating 4) (Inaccurate -1)
(32)
 Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Energy Control" Blast 12 (Feats: Split, Dynamic, Improved
Critical, Penetrating 6) (33)
 Dynamic AE: Damage 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (23)
 Dynamic AE: Damage 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Line) (23)
 Dynamic AE: Create 10 (Feats: Precise, Innate, Dynamic, Selective, Stationary,
Tether) (Extras: Movable) (36)
 Dynamic AE: "Quantum Jump" Teleport 15 (Feats: (Feats: Dynamic, Increased Mass)
(Extras: Extended Only +0) (Flaws: Tiring) (17)
 Dynamic AE: "Quantum Melee Weapons" Strength-Damage +3 (3)
 Dynamic AE: "Enhanced Field" Force Field 4 (Extras: Impervious 9, Affects Others
9) (22) & Immunity 10 (Life Support) (Extras: Affects Others +0) (10)
Force Field 7 [7]

Senses 4 (Detect Energy- Ranged & Acute, Communication Link- Eon/Epoch) [4]
Flight 10 (2,000 mph) [20]

"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Check 6 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Attacks) [3]
Offense:
Power Blast +8 (+14 Ranged Damage, DC 29)
Cosmic Area Blasts +11 (+11 Damage, DC 26)
Quantum Weapons +8 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3 (+10-14 Force Field), Fortitude +6,
Will +8 (+14 vs. Mental Attacks)
Complications:
Power Loss (Absorption)- Quasar's Absorbing powers do not work against effects created by
Magic, or conisisting of Darkforce
Responsibility (Protector of the Universe)- As the chosen of Eon, Wendell has been charged
with a great number of tasks, many of which interfere with his daily life.
Reputation (Rookie Hero)- Quasar was considered the "baby" of The Avengers for several
years of our-time.
-Quasar, like alot of Avengers, comes in over-pointed, even in his "old" format. Quasar was
generally always more powerful than he was talented or skilled, though he was QUITE a bit
more powerful than I first imagined- I figured him for a basic Plucky Rookie PL 10 with a
ton of power, but then in his book he's kicking the ass of Venom, amongst others. Those
bands are hella-powerful, allowing for +11 Damage Area Effects, a +12-14 Cosmic Blast, a
Snare, Teleportation, Flight, etc., all while being protected with a Force Field (which he can
further enhanced as part of his Dynamic Array). And you can probably Power Stunt more.
Phyla-Vell
Post by Jabroniville » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:09 pm

The "She'll be a big character if we can just GET THAT DESIGN RIGHT..." is strong with
her.
PHYLA-VELL (aka Quasar III, Captain Marvel IV, Martyr)

Created By: Peter David & Paul Azaceta
First Appearance: Captain Marvel #16 (Dec. 2003)
Role: Protector of the Universe, FanFic-Like Character
PL 11 (281)
Skills:
Deception 3 (+3)
Insight 2 (+2)
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Perception 6 (+6)
Technology 4 (+4)
Vehicles 4 (+6)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Diehard, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Quantum Blade), Power
Attack, Ranged Attack 8, Takedown 2
Powers:
"Quantum Bands"
Snare 12 (Feats: Dynamic, Tether, Reversible) (39) -- [57]
 Dynamic AE: Cosmic Energy Blast 12 (Feats: Improved Critical, Split, Penetrating 6,
Dynamic) (33)
 Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Wave" Damage 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 60ft.
Cone) (23)
 Dynamic AE: "Cosmic Stream" Damage 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 30ft.
Line) (23)
 Dynamic AE: Create Energy Objects 10 (Feats: Dynamic, Stationary, Tether) (23)
 Dynamic AE: "Quantum Jump" Teleport 15 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Portal) (Flaws:
Tiring, Long-Range Only) (16)
 Dynamic AE: Senses 5 (Detect Energy- Ranged 3, Acute) (Feats: Dynamic) (6)
 Dynamic AE: "Quantum Blade" Strike +7 (Feats: Dynamic, Penetrating 10) (18)
 Dynamic AE: Force Field 7 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Impervious 11) (19)
Flight 11 (4,000 mph) [22]

"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Save +6 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Attacks) [3]
Offense:
Quantum Blade +10 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Cosmic Snare +10 (+12 Ranged Affliction, DC 22)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +5 (+12 Force Field, +6 Impervious),
Fortitude +7, Will +7 (+13 Mind Shield)
Complications:
Responsibility (Protector of the Universe)
Relationship (Moondragon)
Phyla-Vell- This History Is Dumb:

-Phyla's a little curiosity in Marvel Comics. One of my least favourite Comic Book Tropes-
The Super-Aged Kid (she's Mar-Vell's SECOND kid via his Eternal girlfriend who was
super-aged- Christ woman, just remarry or something), she was kinda bitter and grumpy,
hung around, and actually managed to save the day a bit in the first Annihilation. She then
joined the new incarnation of the Guardians the Galaxy as a recurring character, forming a
relationship with Moondragon... but eventually the "Cosmic Scene" faded and the GOTG
movies came out without either character being featured, and so they were heavily de-
emphasized.
-In Phyla's debut, she is reborn with a "Rebooted" universe in the pages of Peter David's
Captain Marvel, calming down her brother Genis, who had gone insane. She also attempts to
take the "Captain Marvel" name, but is rebuffed. David establishes that the character is likely
a lesbian just as she & Moondragon enter through a portal, at which point he leaves her story
and she's now in Annihilation. She was a pretty minor character in that story, but accidentally
stole the Quantum Bands from Annihilus, who'd consumed poor Quasar, their previous
owner. This left him weakened for Nova's awesome "Pull His Heart Out Through His Face"
stunt. At story's end, she instead decides to become the new "Quasar", honoring Wendell
Vaughn.
Phyla Becomes Less Annoying:

-The sequel story, called Annihilation: Conquest, gave her a miniseries as she dealt with
honoring TWO legacies. She found Adam Warlock, hooked up with Moondragon (which
reasonably humanized the most unpleasant comic book character possibly EVER), and was
actually the FINAL attacker on Ultron's uber-giant-form, cutting through him with the
Quantum Blade. Yeah, Phyla-Vell saved the universe. She was still a grump, but her
relationship with Moondragon actually softened BOTH characters, and they both turned kind
of cute by the end of it. I still didn't really like the character, as she was all "Ooh, I love
Moondragon, but am grumpy otherwise!" until the great Paul Pelletier started drawing her in
the Guardians of the Galaxy books. Suddenly the "short-haired angry lesbian" archetype gave
way to a MUCH cuter, cheerier-looking character (she was downright ADORABLE in some
pictures), and amazingly, I liked her now! Just goes to show you how important art is to
comic books (sometimes even more important than the writing).
-Last I saw, she got her head chopped off, but since the whole Guardians squad got res'd
shortly thereafter, she was okay, gaining a skull-covered costume- it turns out that to save
Moondragon's life from Maelstrom, she agreed to become the new avatar of Oblivion, cosmic
destroyer. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut then she was killed handily by the Magus in the "Cancerverse"
storyline, failing to succeed in her goal. But then she was resurrected in a cocoon, like Adam
Warlock was... but was killed OFF-PANEL by Thanos! Yeah, there's a reason why most fans
stopped caring about the Cosmic stuff around that time. She is later revealed to have been
trappepd inside the Soul Gem along with Warlock, but she has not reappeared in years,
seemingly been buried thanks in part to the movies and a new set of writers who weren't
David, Abnett or Lanning (who wrote the vast majority of her other stuff).
Phyla-Vell As a Whole:
-So Phyla ends up being a very weird character- I hated her at first- she was the wrong kind
of "That Guy" teammate, just scowling and yelling about everything, and a bit stereotypical
as far as the "hateful lesbian" thing went. But they ended up kind of making her likable in the
end... only to kill her THREE FRIGGIN' TIMES over the course of a 4-year timespan,
messing about with her nature and powers too much, and then killing her offhand because the
wheels were coming off Abnett & Lanning's run and they seemed to want to just get rid of
some characters. Ironically, just in time for when "Superpowered Lesbian Couple" would
have been a thing Marvel would have LOVED to promote as part of their diversity agenda.
But the Guardians book had a whole host of characters jettisoned pretty much the second the
movies came out with an abridged five-pesron cast, and I've a feeling we won't be seeing her
again until she pops up in those.
-One thing that's definitely noticeable when you check images of her is that THEY. JUST.
KEEP. REDESIGNING HER! Like, they have this "attractive sneering lesbian with short
hair" design, but they can't decide where any of that shit on her goes, so you get Christian
imagery, Cosmic logos, big hoods, no hoods, skintight clothes, armor, swords, cosmic power,
etc., as they keep making her look alterately like a comic book superheroine or a video game
character, and it just makes it clear there was no central design process behind her. Like the
character is so ill-defined that the next creative team just revamps her look and tries to go
with what's cool, in some kind of hope that THIS time, their Diversity Hire will take.
Phyla's Powers:
-Phyla mixes some minor-league Super-Strength with a high-powered Blast and a really
dangerous Sword attack (she's PL 11 in melee and at range), basically copying parts of my
Quasar build and adding some extra stuff. She can keep a few things going at once, can either
redirect or take a powerful energy blast, fly, shield her mind, snare people, etc. She's not at
Wendell Vaughn's level of versatility yet (she basically just likes to hit stuff and complain a
lot), but she's a bit more costly, and a bit more dangerous because she likes to go All-Out.
Oh, and her "Martyr" run is not on here, as she expressed almost zero new powers, and was
only around for a maximum of like seven issues before 'dying'. We'll see with that one.
Quasimodo
Post by Jabroniville » Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:55 am

QUASIMODO (Quasi-Motivational Destruct Organism)
Created By: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
First Appearance: The Fantastic Four Annual #4 (Nov. 1966)
Role: Evil Computer
Group Affiliations: The Solons
PL 10 (149)
Skills:
Deception 4 (+4)
Expertise (Science) 2 (+9)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+4)
Technology 6 (+13)
Advantages:
Ranged Attack 8
Powers:
"Computer Link" Communication (Technology) 3 [12]
Eye Blast 12 (24) -- [25]
 AE: "Tech Control" Affliction 8 (Tech Skill of Creator;

Entranced/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Cumulative, Perception-Ranged +2,
Affects Objects Only +0) (Flaws: Limited to Technology) (24)
Regeneration 4 (Feats: Regrows Limbs) [5]
Offense:
Eye Beam +8 (+12 Ranged Damage, DC 27)
Tech Control -- (+8 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +0
Defenses:
Complications:
Motivation (Jerk)- Quasimodo tends to just act negatively and aggressively for no particular
reason.
-Quasimodo is one of those minor-league, forgotten Silver Age characters that just kind of
got left behind. I mean, Super-Skrull gets taken seriously TO THIS DAY, Mister freakin'
HYDE shows up in stories every few years, and they still dust off the Impossible Man every
once in a while. But Quasimodo? Quasimodo almost NEVER shows up. I chalk it up to him
being kind of a "filler" design- he's just an ugly face on a robot body, lacking iconic elements
like the "Computer-Image Face" Arnim Zola or the "Floating Head" M.O.D.O.K. and other
goofball Kirby designs.
-Quasimodo is a sentient computer invented by the Mad Thinker, but abandoned as a failed
idea. The Silver Sufer, now trapped on Earth by his former master Galactus, feels pity for the
poor creature and creates a humanoid body for him. However, Quasi immediately becomes
psychotically jealous of his still hideous body compared to the Surfer's perfect one, and
attacks. He is promptly rendered immobile once more, and the Surfer takes his leave.
-Quasimodo thus became one of those "Journeyman Villains" traded around- he fought
Captain Mar-Vell, The Beast, Spider-Man & Hawkeye, the Fantastic Four and Rom all in
various "filler" issues as a one-off threat, until the Vision cast his consciousness into space.
The character thus disappears for DECADES, turning up only in Dark Reign, where Norman
Osborn gains access to him, and uses his services as an analyst, compiling dossiers on various
superhumans so Marvel can sell Bio-Books on them (but I mean, who wants to read BIOS of
COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS?). He has turned up very recently in a story involving Arno
"Iron Man 2020" Stark.
-Quasimodo is Just Another Kill-O-Bot for the most part, though is a cyborg in this instance.
Many times he's literally just an "immobile computer" and not a guy you actually punch to
death, though.
Queen
Post by Jabroniville » Fri Jun 09, 2017 7:22 am
QUEEN (Adriana Soria)

Created By: Paul Jenkins & Michael Ryan
First Appearance: The Spectacular Spider-Man #15 (Aug. 2004)
Role: Femme Fatale, Insect Queen
Group Affiliations: None
PL 10 (295), PL 12 (295) to those with "Insect Genes"
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+8)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Marine Corps.) 3 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+5)
Perception 5 (+8)
Advantages:
Daze (Deception), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Insect Control" Mind Control 12 (Extras: Area- 16 miles +13, Progressive +2) (Flaws:
Touch Range -2, Limited to Arthropods & People With "Insect Genes") [144]
Communication (Mental) 4 (Extras: Area) (Flaws: Limited to Thralls) [16]
"Sonic Scream" Damage 10 (Extras: Area- Hearing Perception, Penetrating) (30) -- [31]
 AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 8 (16)
Offense:
Sonic Scream +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Mind Control +12 Area (+12 Affliction, DC 22)
Initiative +5
Defenses:
Complications:
Motivation (Power)- Queen wishes to take over as much as possible.
-Queen is a modern character from the Spidey books- she was the first female marine in
combat during World War II (apparently there WERE women in the Corps by that point, but
I'm unsure how many ever actually saw combat), but was subjected to radiation on Bikini
Atoll so that the government could make more Captain Americas- she was the only survivor,
and still carried a ton of mental problems that resulted in her being left in a military asylum.
Eventually, she shifted into an Insect/Human Hybrid that was able to take over several New
Yorkers with "insect genes" (??), which brought her into conflict with Spider-Man. She uses
her powers to mutate Spidey on different occasions, always so that he would hump her and
make arthropod babies- this is the means by which he temporarily gained his "Organic
Webbing" and other powers that were soon written out.
-She returned in the Spider Island story, changing Pete again, as well as threatening all of
New York. Finally, after a protracted battle that involves all of the Avengers, she is killed by
Kaine, who broke out of her thrall.
-Queen is the classic kind of annoying "Mind Control Over Wide Areas" sort of character,
albeit she could only affect those with "atavistic" genes related to insects (bios only mention
insects, despite people like Peter Parker clearly having SPIDER-Genes instead). She's also
super-strong, has a nasty Sonic Scream (enough to basically stun Spider-Man and make his
ears bleed- more of an "Internal Damage" kind of thing), and is a pretty good fighter. But her
army of thralls is the REAL threat- apparently "Insect Genes" applies to 1/3rd of all
humanity.
Queen Veranke
Post by Jabroniville » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:07 am

QUEEN VERANKE
Created By: Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch
First Appearance: The New Avengers #1 (Jan. 2005)
Role: The Infiltrator, Alien Queen
Group Affiliations: The Skrull Empire,
The Avengers
PL 10 (197)
Skills:
Deception 7 (+12)
Expertise (Space Ruler) 9 (+12)
Insight 8 (+12)
Intimidation 2 (+7)
Perception 4 (+8)
Stealth 2 (+8)
Technology 4 (+7)
Vehicles 2 (+6)
Advantages:
Benefit 5 (Ruler of the Skull Empire), Equipment 5 (Blasters +6 Multiattack, Rebreathers,
Space Armour), Improved Initiative, Ranged Attack 6
Powers:
"Skrull Physiology"
Morph 4 (Any Form) [20]
Concealment 1 (Detect True Shape) [2]
Shapeshift 1 [8]
"Spider-Movement"
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling 2) [4]
Flight 4 (30 mph) (Flaws: Limited to Gliding, Requires Winged Costume) [1]
"Radiation-Based Immunities" Immunity 7 (Poison, Radiation, Radiation Damage) [7]

Senses 2 (Extended Hearing, Acute Scent) [2]
"Venom Blasts" Blast 10 (20) -- [21]
 AE: "Stun Blasts" Affliction 10 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras: Ranged)

(20)
"Pheromones" Affliction 2 (Fort; Dazed/Compelled) (Feats: Subtle 2) (Extras: Area- Scent

Perception, Cumulative, Reaction +3) (Flaws: Limited Degree, Limited Emotions- Hate/Fear
in Women & Lust in Men) [8]
Offense:
Venom Blasts +10 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Stun Blasts +10 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Pheromones +2 Area (+2 Affliction, DC 12)
Initiative +10
Defenses:
Complications:
Responsibility (Skrull Empire)
Prejudice (The Kree, Shi'ar, Earth)
-Queen Veranke showed up as the new ruler of the Skrull Empire, but more dramatically, was
revealed to have been SPIDER-WOMAN for the entire duration of Bendis's run on The New
Avengers! Thus, the big reinvention of Jessica Drew (said to be a fave of Bendis) was all a
lie, and she was actually this evil Queen. Drew was chosen because she'd been allied with
S.H.I.E.LD., HYDRA and various superheroes. Her backstory states that she was a prophet of
sorts, regrouping her people after Emperor Dorrek VII ignored her warnings that Galactus
was coming for Throneworld. However, when they took over the world's governments, they
were lured into an open battle in Central Park, where she was easily killed by Earth's
defenders- Norman Obsorn fired the final shot. Ultimately, for all her importance, she's been
rather forgotten.
-Queen Veranke effectively combines Jessica Drew's power-set with that of a Skrull, and
adds some stuff that intergalactic leaders would have, like high charisma.
Quentin Quire
Post by Jabroniville » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:59 am

QUENTIN QUIRE (aka Kid Omega)
Created By: Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
First Appearance: The New X-Men #134 (Jan. 2003)
Group Affiliations: The Omega Gang, X-Students
Status: Alive
Role: Nihilistic Hellraiser
PL 11 (176)
Skills:
Deception 6 (+8)
Expertise (Science) 3 (+8)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 3 (+8)
Insight 4 (+6)
Intimidation 4 (+6)
Perception 5 (+7)
Technology 5 (+10)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Defensive Roll, Daze (Deception), Equipment (X-Student Uniform-
Communications, Protection +1), Fascination (Deception), Ranged Attack 3, Taunt, Well-
Informed
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Omega-Level Telepathy"
"Subtle Manipulation" Mind Control 10 (Feats: Subtle, Dynamic) (Extras: Progressive +2)
(62) -- [76]
 Dynamic AE: "Telepathy" Communication (Mental) 4 (Extras: Area, Selective)

Linked to Mind-Reading 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (47)
 Dynamic AE: Mind Control 7 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Area- 120ft. Burst +3)
(Flaws: Touch Range) (42)
 Dynamic AE: "Psychic Shotgun" Blast 8 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Will Save) (25)
 Dynamic AE: "Mental Blast" Blast 10 (Feats: Dynamic, Subtle) (Extras: Perception
Range) (32)
 Dynamic AE: Nullify Psionic Powers 11 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Perception
Ranged, Broad) (45)
 Dynamic AE: "Telelocation" Senses 9 (Mental Awareness- Acute, Analytical, Ranged
5) (Feats: Dynamic) (10)
 Dynamic AE: "Mental Stun" Affliction 11 (Will; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated)
(Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Perception Range +2, Cumulative) (45)
"Mind Shield" Enhanced Will Save 6 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Attacks) [3]
Quickness 10 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Activities) [5]
Offense:
Mind Control -- (+10 Affliction, DC 20)
Mind-Reading -- (+11 Mind-Reading, DC 21)
Area Mind Control +7 (+7 Affliction, DC 17)
Psychic Shotgun +10 (+8 Ranged Will Damage, DC 23)
Mental Blast -- (+11 Perception-Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Nullify Psionics -- (+11 Nullify, DC 21)
Mental Stun -- (+11 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 21)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3 (+4 Uniform), Fortitude +5, Will +6
(+12 vs. Mental Attacks)
Complications:
Responsibility (Nihilistic Sociopath)- Quentin is basically a hellraiser who rejects all
authority. He has repeatedly caused problems just for the sake of humiliating or troubling
others.
Responsibility (Ego)- Quentin believes he is the greatest thing going, and actively disrespects
others. He once got offended that Utopia was formed, because that was HIS idea first.
Relationship (Sophie Cuckoo)- Quentin loved Sophie, and was basically broken by the
revelation that she despised him.
-Quentine Quire is the leader of the Omega Gang, a "student rebellion" arc in Grant
Morrison's X-Men run. Your everday boring-ass "Omega Level Telepath" (seriously, how
many of these guys have there been?), he led a small group of students to revolt, wearing
costumes inspired by the "Mutant Overlord" drawings anti-mutant bigots had created as a
possible nightmare future, though the X-Men beat most of them pretty easily, and the
Stepford Cuckoos did some "Kick" (a mutant power-enhancing drug) to increase their Hive-
Mind's power to break him. He ended up "evolving" a new mutant power and disappearing
thanks to some Xorn-related nonsense, and showed up a couple more times doing weird
vague villainous things. He's a threatening character, but kind of prone to Morrison-esque
weird stories.
-In recent years, Jason Aaron has taken a liking to him, and kind of portrayed him as a more
Enfante Terrible kind of hell-raising youth, and actually succeeds in making him kind of fun
to read about. I mean, think of how WRONG this kind of character could turn out- he could
have easily come across like a stupid Mary Sue or like those characters that are popular on
TV who basically live out the nerdy writers' fantasies of saying and doing whatever they want
without ever getting their comeuppance (think Roger from American Dad, possibly my least-
favourite TV character in history). He could have basically stolen the spotlight from every
single other character and ruined Wolverine and the X-Men. But he's actually a pretty fun
character DESPITE basically taking over the book at times (it's equal parts Wolverine, Quire,
Kitty & The Hellfire Kids), in that his nihilism is directed at the right targets (Wolverine
acting as a Headmaster, villains, or that time he Mind Controlled all the world leaders into
humiliating themselves with confessions of their darkest secrets). Plus they're basically sort-
of redeeming him, in that he acts like a giant tool, but ALSO tries to save the lives of some
people.
-Unfortunately, they kinda bungled it, as post-Aaron he got a run in a REALLY short-lived
"Sequel Series" that... just plain didn't need to exist (it lasted a handful of issues until
Wolverine died, ending the book- I had a subscription at the local shop and received a few
before reading any, and it was too late to cancel it by the time the book ended- maybe one
issue was good). It dealt with Quentin being rebellious AGAIN, becoming a member of the
new Hellfire Club, and it kind of farted along and got the axe. Quentin hasn't reappeared for
some time. And reading online shows that a few fans DID think he was way-overdone in
Wolvie & The X-Men, so he's got a bad rep on him.
-This is Quire as a student- he eventually develops Telekinetic powers in some alternate

timelines. He's horrifically powerful mentally, with a devastating Mental Blast or Mind
Control power-set, but needs a bit more closeness than most Psyker-types. His mind moves at
a million thoughts a minute, he's a super-genius with a ton of Skills, and he's really hard to
shut down with psionic attacks (Mind Shield plus Will Save plus Nullify Psionics), and in
recent years he's gained a few other tricks (like his Psychic Shotgun, working like a teenage
boy's ideal version of Psylocke's Psychic Knife). He's pretty easily the highest-level of all the
X-Students, even without the power-boosting drug Kick behind him.
Quick Kick
Post by Jabroniville » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:00 am

QUICK KICK (Karl Moore)
Created By: Fabian Nicieza & Jose Delbo
First Appearance: NFL Superpro #2 (Nov. 1991)
Role: Ex-Partner Turned Villain
Group Affiliations: The National Football League
PL 7 (91)
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 6 (+8)
Deception 3 (+3)
Insight 4 (+7)
Intimidation 6 (+6)
Perception 3 (+5)
Expertise (Football Player) 5 (+9) -- (Uses Agility)
Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Chokehold, Equipment 2 (Katana, Nunchaku, etc.), Improved Critical
(Sword), Improved Trip, Ranged Attack 4, Startle
Powers:
"Martial Arts Strike" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
Equipment:
"Katana" Strength-Damage +3 (Feats: Improved Critical) (4)
"Nunchaku" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Fast Grab, Improved Disarm) (3)
Offense:
Katana +9 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Nunchaku +9 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Complications:
Motivation (Self-Improvement)- Karl is obsessed with becoming greater- he used to wach the
entire football game on replay just so he could figure out his own mistakes.
-Quick Kick was a short-lived personal nemesis of SuperPro- an old football teammate, Karl
Moore was obsessed with being the best, and had a personal rivalry with Phil "SuperPro"
Grayfield from their playing days- this being a parallel universe where black athletes aspire to
be as good as their white teammates. Like most failed athletes, Karl soon became a ninja
enforcer, and he recognized Phil in-costume because he never forgets the way people move
and stuff. Of course, considering that Phil DOESN'T COVER HIS FACE when he wears his
costume would probably be an important factor here, but Karl's all like "HAHAH I NEVER
FORGET A FACE, GUY WHOSE FACE ANYONE WHO'S EVER PLAYED WITH HIM
SHOULD RECOGNIZE!". He was presumed dead after falling from an airplane, and we
never saw him again, though I, for one, plan on including him in tons of background scenes
should I ever become a real comic book artist.
-Curiously, Phil (pre-SuperPro) called him "Stu" twice during the flashback part of the issue-
by the time we see him in modern times, Phil identifies him as "Karl? KARL MOORE?!"
Methinks neither the writer nor the editor gave a rat's ass, even by issue 2 of this book.
-Quick Kick is basically a PL 7 Ninja-type dude, quite strong but not exactly well-rounded.
Quicksand
Post by Jabroniville » Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:32 pm

oh, the places I'd end up with sand...
QUICKSAND (Real Name Unknown)

Created By: Tom DeFalco & Ron Frenz
First Appearance: Thor #392 (June 1988)
Role: Forgotten Villain, C-League Sandman, Journeyman Villain
Group Affiliations: The Masters of Evil, The Thunderbolts, The Femizons, The Woman
Warriors
PL 9 (155)
Skills:
Intimidation 4 (+6)
Perception 4 (+4)
Ranged Combat (Sand) 2 (+8)
Advantages:
Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Ranged Attack 6
Powers:
"Sand Form Traits"
Immunity 1 (Drowning) [1]
Elongation 4 (120 feet) [4]
Movement 2 (Permeate 2) (Flaws: Limited to Earth) [2]
"Dense Skin" Protection 7 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Impervious 9) (17) -- [19]
 Dynamic AE: "Particulate Form" Insubstantial 1 (Extras: Reaction) (11)
Immunity 30 (Bludgeoning & Slashing Damage) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [15]
"Sand-Based Attacks"
"Sand Snare" Snare 9 (27) -- [35]
 AE: "Sand Weapon" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Split) (2)

 AE: "Sand Burst" Damage 9 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (18)
 AE: "Sand Blast" Damage 9 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (18)
 AE: "Standard Blast" Blast 10 (20)
 AE: "Sandstorm" Environment 2 (60 feet) (Impede Movement 2 & Visibility 2) (6)
 AE: "Sand Particles" Flight 2 (8 mph) (Flaws: Gliding) (2)
 AE: "Sand In The Eyes" Dazzle (Visuals) 8 (16)
 AE: Burrowing 8 (16 mph) (8)
"Sand Movement" Movement 1 (Slithering) (2) -- [3]

AE: "Cement-Like Body" Enhanced Strength 2 (Flaws: Limited to Resisting Movement) (2)
Offense:
Sand Weapon +7 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Standard Blast +8 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Sand Blasts +9 Area (+9 Damage, DC 24)
Sand Snare +8 (+9 Ranged Affliction, DC 19)
Sand In The Eyes +8 (+8 Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +2
Defenses:
Complications:
Weakness (Sand)- Being made of sand & earth has it's flaws. Quicksand is vulnerable to
extreme heat (turning into glass, where it is much harder to move), powerful air currents
(they will blow her away or spread her particles far too wide), and water (she will become a
sluggish "Mud Woman" and unable to use many attacks).
-Quicksand is basically a one-note female rip-off of the Sandman, brawling with Thor once,
and then falling straight into the ranks of "Uneffective D-League Villains". She was a
scientist working at a nuclear facility who gained powers in an accident of some kind,
basically turning into a Sandwoman. With great difficulty adjusting to her new form, she
lashes out at the nuclear reactor in a rage, eventually causing a meltdown, despite the
intervention of Thor- he has to teleport it to another dimension to save the day. She later
allies with Mongoose & Count Tagar against Thor, in promise of being cured, but it fails. She
has since become a minor background super-criminal, appearing in The Superia Stratagem
storyline, where she actually got to beat up on Anaconda from the Serpent Society for a bit,
but otherwise didn't do anything.
-She later works for the Egyptian God Seth, who allies her with Bison & Mongoose (other
minor Thor foes) against Thunderstrike, Luke Cage, and a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Alex DePaul.
Bison has a crisis of conscience and turns on his allies, thus buying himself freedom. She's
later seen as part of the Crimson Cowl's huge Masters of Evil team in Thunderbolts, and
fighting Spider-Man and The Sandman at once. In modern times, she appeared as an
involuntary-Thunderbolt post-Civil War, as part of Delaware's Women Warriors "Initiative"
team, and as part of Siege's Assault on Asgard. She is later imprisoned on The Raft and
broken out, but is beaten by Thor Girl & Cloud 9. Later, she escapes again, but is beaten by
Rogue & Mimic.
-Basically Sandman-Lite, but much less general power- she's a half-decent PL 9, but falls
well short of William Baker. She has a pretty decent Burst Area Sand-Blast power, can sorta-
fly, and she can grow real big (but gains none of the benefits regarding strength or toughness-
it's just her dispersed to be larger, so I just declare that to be Elongation, really).
Quicksilver
Post by Jabroniville » Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:53 am

Have you ever stood in the post office behind a woman with 20 packages who wants to know
every single way she can send them to Africa? It drives you nuts! You think to yourself, "Why
do I have to put up with this? These people are so slow, they're costing me time, and it's so
damned irritating. I wish I didn't have to put up with this." Now—imagine that the entire
world was like that... except for you. ... to Quicksilver, as he said in an issue of Amazing
Spider-Man many, many moons ago, the rest of the world is moving in slow motion. That
must really, really get on your nerves. Quicksilver lives in a world filled with people who
don't know how to use cash machines, and want to know all the ways to send packages to
Africa, and can never get your order right in a Burger King unless you repeat it several
times. That would tend to make you feel very superior to everyone and very impatient with
everyone.
-Peter David, expaining me-- I mean, Quicksilver
QUICKSILVER (Pietro Maximoff)

First Appearance: The X-Men #4 (March 1964)
Role: The Speedster, The Jerkass
Group Affiliations: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, The Avengers, X-Factor, The
Avengers Academy
Avengers Grade: C-Level
PL 11 (160)
FIGHTING 10/16 DEXTERITY 0
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 3 (+5)
Deception 8 (+8)
Expertise (Current Events) 3 (+4)
Insight 3 (+5)
Intimidation 6 (+6)
Perception 5 (+7)
Stealth 3 (+7)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Improved Disarm, Set-Up, Teamwork
Powers:
"Super-Speed"
Enhanced Fighting 7 [14]
Enhanced Advantages 18: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion 2,
Follow-Up Strike, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Defense,
Improved Initiative 4, Power Attack, Takedown 2, Uncanny Dodge [18]
Enhanced Dodge 7 [7]
Enhanced Parry 1 [1]
"Mach 5-ish" Speed 11 (4,000 mph) [11]
Quickness 7 [7]
"Super-Speed Feats"
"Wall & Water Run" Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling, Water-Walking) (Flaws: Limited to
While Running) [2]
Immunity 1 (Friction Heat) [1]
"Cyclone Suffocation" Affliction 8 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras: Area- 30ft.
Burst) (16) -- [20]
 AE: "Jetstream" Move Object 6 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (Flaws: Touch Range) (12)
 AE: "Rapid-Punches" Strength-Damage +3 (Extras: Multiattack 5) (8)
 AE: "Strike Everyone in Range" Strength-Damage +3 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst 5,
Selective 5) (13)
 AE: "Catch Projectiles" Deflect 12 (12)
Offense:
Super-Speed +17 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Rapid-Punches +17 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Suffocation +8 Area (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Whirlwind Attack +5 Area (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +20
Defenses:
Dodge +8/+15 (DC 18-25), Parry +10/+17 (DC 20-27), Toughness +3 (+5 D.Roll), Fortitude
+6, Will +7
Complications:
Reputation (Enormous Tool)- Pietro is a very unpleasant person to be around, even when he's
a super-hero. He also does some very evil things- it was he who set of The House of M, by
manipulating his sister.
Relationship (The Scarlet Witch)- Pietro is extremely overprotective of his sister, and doesn't
like her hanging around with guys he doesn't approve of. It... can get creepy.
Relationship (Crystal- Ex-Wife)- Pietro married a member of the Inhuman Royal Family, but
he neglected her for some Inhuman Militia because he's a tool, and so she cheated on him
with A NORMAL HUMAN (the guy who sold Vision & The Scarlet Witch their house).
Relationship (Luna- Daughter)- Pietro rarely sees his human little girl, who usually stays with
her mom.
Responsibility (Trapped in a Slow World)- Quicksilver is frequently annoyed by how slow
everyone else around him moves. He says it's like constantly being stuck in line behind
somebody who doesn't know how to use an ATM.
Secret (It Wasn't a Skrull)- Quicksilver used The Secret Invasion to blame a Skrull imposter
for various illegal and immoral actions of his- only a few others know that this is a lie.
Relationship (Magneto- Father)- Quicksilver's father is the most infamous Mutant who has
ever lived, and a notorious villain. Pietro was once beholden to him, but eventually rejected
his father, only to fall victim to villainy's embrace himself.
Quicksilver- Among the FIRST Asshole Heroes:

-Pietro's a weird thing in comics, representing Marvel's only full-fledged attempt at a super-
speedster, yet he's at something like 1/200th of The Flash's capabilities, and has always been
a second-stringer hero, the only one of the "New Avengers" line-up that DIDN'T go on to be
a classic (Vision, Wanda & Hawkeye all made the grade from the late '60s era to become
beloved long-running characters). Even his "I'm the son of Magneto" push never really
amounts to much, leading to a few solo runs here and there (mostly lame or forgotten, like his
post M-Day stuff), but ultimately, he's always too much of a dick to be likeable, and gets
shunted to a team story here or there instead- runs in Avengers Academy and whatever the
hell, arguably peaking with Peter David's X-Factor. Quicksilver's been through the ringer as a
character, about half as much as his sister... which is about 20 times the amount almost any
other character has been. Like Wanda, the Scarlet Witch, he was on the early Brotherhood of
Evil Mutants, depicted as a somewhat unwilling villain (though much more fight-y than
Wanda was), and then joined the Avengers and reformed. However, he's been all over the
place since, bouncing around to whichever place he needed to be, as he was far less valuable
to the Avengers overall.
-Quicksilver was only on the Brotherhood for a short while, wearing that ugly green shirt
with the lightning bolt on it, and joined the "Cap's Kooky Quartet" fairly quickly, but his
impatient, angry-young-man act made him a poor team player at times, often figuring HE
should be the leader. As Hawkeye also specialized in being "That Guy", his role was a bit
taken. Both he and his sister leave the book after Wanda is shot during a fight with Magneto,
however, and they are taken by him back to one of his bases, finally realizing he's completely
evil after a fight with the X-Men. The team later rejoined the Avengers when Wanda was
kidnapped by Arkon, and underwent their next major stories- Roy Thomas had Wanda fall
for the Vision, and Quicksilver ended up falling for Crystal of the Inhumans after she nursed
him back to health following an injury against the Sentinels. This stole her away from the
Human Torch (though to be fair, their coupling was ideally a "star-crossed lovers" situation),
and would eventually result in the birth of a daughter. Finally, writer Bill Mantlo undid the
"obvious", that the Maximoffs were the children of Magneto, and said that their parents were
the Golden Age Whizzer & Miss America, with Robert "Whizzer" Frank having refused them
at birth when his wife died in labor. Around this time, Pietro picks up his signature powder-
blue uniform, making him one of the only heroes to dress like that.
Quicksilver Goes Crazy:

-Steve Englehart, of course, corrected this, and created the additional story that Robert's wife
had died in labor, and so the cow midwife Bova (god I love comics) offered him the
"orphaned" twins instead, but he rejected them. Instead, they were the children of Magda,
who had fled her powerful mutant husband Magneto while pregnant, and gave birth by
Mount Wundagore, soon dying to the elements. Vision and Wanda are soon engaged, with
Pietro furiously disapproving, comparing the artificial man to a "toaster" and pitching a fit.
This REALLY ramps up the "Pietro is an Asshole" thing which reverberates over the years.
His relationship with Crystal proves a bit strained- she gives birth to their 100% human
daughter Luna (OFF-PANEL, oddly- it's just revealed as having already happened), and he
moves to Attilan to be with her (largely leaving the Avengers books for good as a result) and
sometimes showing up in The Fantastic Four, especially when she joins to cover for a
pregnant Susan Richards. However, Englehart writes Pietro as weirdly obsessed with leading
some Atillan Royal Guard, and Crystal, alone and needy, hooks up with a NORMAL
HUMAN- the neighbor of Vision & Wanda. Yes, Quicksilver is one of the few heroes
cheated on for a John Everyman.
-Quicksilver later befuddles the Avengers when Maximus the Mad controls his mind and
makes him go nuts. The Avengers are framed for treason while he beats the hell out of them
(proving impossible to hold down), then arrested by Freedom Force. Only being shown
images of his newborn nephews make him settle down, but he reappears in West Coast
Avengers and fights the team again before finally being cured by the Inhumans. At some
point in all this, he and Crystal divorce, never reconciling after her affair.
Quicksilver in X-Factor:
-Quicksilver was then one of many "Island of Misfit Toy" mutants chosen for Peter David's
popular (but lower-selling X-book) X-Factor- as probably the least-used important mutant (I
mean, he's the SON OF MAGNETO and by this point he'd been off a major team book for
more than ten years). Here, David actually details just WHY Pietro is such a dick- in a
brilliant issue where Doc Samson is sitting down with the team and investigating their mental
health, Pietro bluntly confesses that he's a short-tempered asshole who has an issue with
patience. And in an amazing bit of dialogue, points out that all of the "little things" that annoy
regular people about each other- like idiot clerks who can't understand "Whopper. No
Pickles" or can't work a cash machine- are exacerbated a hundred-fold with him, and asks
him to imagine "A world where everyone you work with everywhere you go... your entire
WORLD... is filled with people who can't work cash machines". This went a long way to
improve the character in the minds of the fans... so of course once David was gone,
Quicksilver got f'd around with again.
-During the BloodTies crossover in which Luna is threatened by Fabian Cortez for being the
human granddaughter of mutant icon Magneto, Quicksilver quits the X-books as well as the
Avengers- learning that Crystal is now seeing the Black Knight helps that decision. He takes
Luna and actually stars in his OWN BOOK, which even in 1997 I thought was completely
insane. Here, the entire thing centers around the High Evolutionary and his Knights of
Wundagore, and involve fights against Magneto-worshipping Exodus and the Man-Beast.
Yes, an ENTIRE BOOK centered around the Evolutionary- wonder why it only lasted 13
issues? I think half of my Wundagore builds involved characters from this series, too. Pietro
is briefly powered-up with "Isotope E" and then rejoins the Avengers for Kurt Busiek's run
on the book, but only as a side character in a roster that hit a peak during the "Kang War" that
ended Busiek's run. However, he appears in Avengers (vs) Justice League, the huge
Marvel/DC crossover, almost entirely because he's the only guy at Marvel who can really
match up with The Flash. Busiek shows the obvious- that their levels are MILES apart- yet
also has Flash lose power on Marvel Earth, and Pietro access the Speed Force on DC Earth.
Quicksilver As Recurring Weirdo:

-This marks the end of Pietro as a big-time hero and more as a selfish, possibly dangerous,
loon, especially as Wanda goes crazy in repeated arcs, breaking up the Avengers and more.
His words convince her to create the House of M reality where mutants rule. When Magneto,
who rules this reality, realizes what's happened, he actually KILLS Quicksilver to prevent
this "abuse" of his dream, but Wanda restores him and wipes out the powers of 98% of all
mutants... including her two surviving family members. In the Limited Series Son of M,
Quicksilver becomes desperate to regain his powers, using the Inhumans' Terrigen Mists to
gain greater ones, and finally gets arrested. Finally, he "inexplicably" (Wikipedia's words)
regains his real powers and escapes, deciding to be a hero again. He moves on to Avengers
Academy as a side-character- an instructor at the school- where he gets this funny bit where it
turns out that he's gotten out of jail by lying and saying a Skrull did all his evil stuff, blaming
the Secret Invasion story-arc. Disbelieving this, the sociopathic Academy student Finesse
blackmails him into teaching her the ways of great villains like Magneto. He later captures
and tortures Loki when he discovers the God is impersonating Wanda, earning the ire of
Thor, but teams with Hercules and the Mighty Avengers against the Olympus Group, where
he and Kid Zeus make quick friends owing to mutual arrogance (hee). He later beats the hell
out of Mister X of the Thunderbolts, as he moves too fast for X's telepathic-martial-arts
powers to learn what he's about to do. He appears as a background guy in The Children's
Crusade where the real Wanda is finally found. Later, the public finds out about his "Skrull
lie", and he then he joins the privately-run X-Factor team for the quickly-cancelled Peter
David-written series.
-Later, it's revealed that the twins are NOT Magneto's children, and instead the experiments
of the High Evolutionary, and Quicksilver joins the Avengers Unity Squad. And immediately
after this, and Pietro's attempts at redemption, another writer decides to have Wanda reject
him during Civil War II and say his constant inability to learn from his mistakes marks him as
a sociopath- the twins fight and Wanda sends him away, but they reconcile when they defeat
an embodiment of Chaos and meet their birth mother before she dies. He was himself thought
dead in a big Avengers arc that crossed all three books, but was quickly found trapped in
another dimension.
Quicksilver Overall:
-Like his sister, Quicksilver has largely been pigeonholed as "That hero who always goes
evil", but in this case, it's his general douchebag behavior (which often went so spiteful and
whiny that even in the MARVEL UNIVERSE he stood out as a guy who didn't fit in with a
group) that made it so easy for people to write in a "Quicksilver does something awful" arc.
These ended up dogpiling very quickly, with every new writer simply ignoring the last story's
"Pietro decides to do good from now on" moment and Scrubsing him back into his prior
characterization. I mean, it's tough, I suppose, when the guy hasn't been an active Avenger for
more than a couple of years since the 1960s- Wanda surpassed him as a character SO badly,
and he just got screwed around after that point. It's odd, because I wrote him off as a "rarely
used" guy, but if you see it... he was in The Avengers twice, then supported on the FF book,
then a few other runs here and there, then a SOLO BOOK, then Avengers again, then played
a role in several big events like House of M... it's just too bad he's always shown up by his
sister, and undergoes the same stories over and over again. The nature of the medium if
you're a side character who's too important to just ignore, I guess- most heroes are lucky and
just go into limbo... as the son of MAGNETO, Quicksilver almost HAD to be used. And
you'll note that he's been a minor nobody since THAT was written out.
-In the end, the character has fairly few fans- his appearance and powers aren't cool enough to
make up for his shitty attitude (again, even by Marvel standards), which left most people cold
on him- none of the kids I know liked Quicksilver, and he was always seen as annoying,
dumb-looking and a jerk. And not the FUN kind, either- guys like Wildfire or Wolverine
were jerks, but were at least FUNNY and flat-out aggressive bad-asses to make up for it...
Quicksilver was a WHINER.
Quicksilver's Powers:
-Power-wise, Pietro's pretty easy to stat, and his powers are pretty explicitly given in the
comics (Supersonic speed, but much less than the near-Light Speed Force users of DC), so
he's easy there. I gave him a handful of the Alt-Effects there too, including a Cyclone
Suffocation, Multiattack punches, a pushing stream, a Whirlwind Attack that hits everyone,
and the ability to Deflect projectile attacks. He's not entirely efficient for his PL (Defensive
Roll is much worse than Protection, and he makes PL 10.5 on offense), but he's still not
someone to screw around with in combat. He's harder to hit than fricking SPIDER-MAN,
who is one of the defining "hard to hit" guys in all of comics, and he gains a metric ton of
Combat Advantages as a result of his Super-Speed, nearly all defensive. I actually upgraded
him since 2014, figuring that I've read issues where he houses entire Avengers squads-
Marvel was more clear than even DC as to what would happen if a Speedster came at you
with everything he had- nobody can lay a finger on him, and he can hammer anybody.
-For some reason, DCA's Flash has crappy hand-to-hand accuracy. Well, not CRAPPY, but
only +10, and this is a guy who's so fast, he can hit you before you even see him. So I gave
Quicksilver some really good hand-to-hand accuracy.
---
QUICKSILVER (Pietro Maximoff)- Younger Version

First Appearance: The X-Men #4 (March 1964)
Role: The Speedster, The Jerkass
Group Affiliations: The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, The Avengers, X-Factor, The
Avengers Academy
Avengers Grade: C-Level
PL 10 (156)
FIGHTING 10/14 DEXTERITY 0
Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 3 (+5)
Deception 8 (+8)
Expertise (Current Events) 3 (+4)
Insight 3 (+5)
Intimidation 6 (+6)
Perception 5 (+7)
Stealth 3 (+7)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Improved Disarm, Set-Up, Teamwork
Powers:
"Super-Speed"
Enhanced Fighting 5 [10]
Enhanced Advantages 18: Agile Feint, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion 2,
Follow-Up Strike, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Defense,
Improved Initiative 4, Power Attack, Takedown 2, Uncanny Dodge [18]
Enhanced Dodge 7 [7]
Enhanced Parry 1 [1]
"Mach 5-ish" Speed 11 (4,000 mph) [11]
Quickness 7 [7]
"Super-Speed Feats"
"Wall & Water Run" Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling, Water-Walking) (Flaws: Limited to
While Running) [2]
Immunity 1 (Friction Heat) [1]
"Cyclone Suffocation" Affliction 8 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras: Area- 30ft.
Burst) (16) -- [20]
 AE: "Jetstream" Move Object 6 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Cone) (Flaws: Touch Range) (12)
 AE: "Rapid-Punches" Strength-Damage +3 (Extras: Multiattack 5) (8)
 AE: "Strike Everyone in Range" Strength-Damage +3 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst 5,
Selective 5) (13)
 AE: "Catch Projectiles" Deflect 12 (12)
Offense:
Super-Speed +15 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Rapid-Punches +15 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Suffocation +8 Area (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Whirlwind Attack +5 Area (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +20
Defenses:
Dodge +8/+15 (DC 18-25), Parry +10/+15 (DC 20-25), Toughness +3 (+5 D.Roll), Fortitude
+6, Will +7
Complications:
Reputation (Enormous Tool)- Pietro is a very unpleasant person to be around, even when he's
a super-hero. He also does some very evil things- it was he who set of The House of M, by
manipulating his sister.
Relationship (The Scarlet Witch)- Pietro is extremely overprotective of his sister, and doesn't
like her hanging around with guys he doesn't approve of. It... can get creepy.
Relationship (Crystal- Ex-Wife)- Pietro married a member of the Inhuman Royal Family, but
he neglected her for some Inhuman Militia because he's a tool, and so she cheated on him
with A NORMAL HUMAN (the guy who sold Vision & The Scarlet Witch their house).
Relationship (Luna- Daughter)- Pietro rarely sees his human little girl, who usually stays with
her mom.
Responsibility (Trapped in a Slow World)- Quicksilver is frequently annoyed by how slow
everyone else around him moves. He says it's like constantly being stuck in line behind
somebody who doesn't know how to use an ATM.
Secret (It Wasn't a Skrull)- Quicksilver used The Secret Invasion to blame a Skrull imposter
for various illegal and immoral actions of his- only a few others know that this is a lie.
Relationship (Magneto- Father)- Quicksilver's father is the most infamous Mutant who has
ever lived, and a notorious villain. Pietro was once beholden to him, but eventually rejected
his father, only to fall victim to villainy's embrace himself.
-Here's the original, PL 10 build, probably suiting the character up until the 1980s.
Quill (Resistants)

Post by Jabroniville » Sun Feb 05, 2017 1:48 am
QUILL II (Real Name Unknown)

Created By: Mark Gruenwald & Kieron Dwyer
First Appearance: Captain America #343 (July 1988)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: The Resistants
PL 6 (70)
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Intimidation 3 (+3)
Ranged Combat (Quills) 2 (+7)
Advantages:
Ranged Attack 5
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Quills"
"Quills" Blast 5 (Feats: Accurate) (Extras: Multiattack) [16]
"Painful To The Touch" Affliction 3 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned) (Extras: Reaction +3) (Flaws:
Limited Degree) [9]
Offense:
Quills +7 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Painful to the Touch +5 (+3 Affliction, DC 13)
Initiative +2
Defenses:
Complications:
Motivation (Greed)
-Quill, one of many to share that name (the first was one of the Warpies in Captain Britain,
the third an arena fighter one-off in Wolverine, and the fourth a Backgrounder in The Young
X-Men), has pretty similar powers to the others- shooting quills. I figure he'd be quite painful
to the touch, but isn't nearly as quill-covered as, say, the X-Student by the same name. Quill,
thanks to a unique appearance, got to show up in an Acts of Vengeance issue featuring tons of
villains fighting the Fantastic Four, under Doctor Doom's Mind Control. He was last seen
being led to The Vault following that storyline's end. He can either throw the Quills, or just
make people feel pain when they grab him.
Quill (X-Student)
Post by Jabroniville » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:45 am

QUILL IV (Max Jordan)
Created By: Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir
First Appearance: New X-Men: Academy X #1 (2004)
Group Affiliations: X-Students
Status: De-Powered & Killed
Role: Background Character
PL 5 (68)
Skills:
Deception 4 (+5)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 2 (+2)
Sleight of Hand 2 (+4)
Stealth 4 (+6)
Advantages:
Equipment (X-Student Uniform- Communications, Protection +1), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Quills"
Damage 2 (Extras: Reaction +3) [8]
"Quill Shot" Blast 6 (Extras: Multiattack) [18]
Offense:
Quills +4 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Quill Shot +4 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +2
Defenses:
Dodge +5 (DC 15), Parry +5 (DC 15), Toughness +2 (+3 Uniform), Fortitude +4, Will +3
Complications:
Prejudice (Obvious Mutant)
-Quill, for such a bad name, is a REALLY common one in Marvel Comics, showing up on
FOUR characters so far, including this one, a minor background guy in the X-Students roster.
Oddly, almost all of them are mutants. He was a Corsair (Cyclops' students), but then got
caught stealing some test paper answers by Kitty Pryde, who sent him to be punished by
Gambit (who, of course, being Gambit, taught them some REAL thieving techniques). That
was about it for him, as he was De-Powered, then killed via Busplosion. Well, it wasn't like
"Quill Guy" was a necessary power-set to show up in comics, and he likely never would've
amounted to anything, but the fact that twenty named characters died in one casual moment
of killing still seems amazing, even for comics.
-And for the record, Quill I was one of the "Warpies" created by the Jasper's Warp in Captain
Britain, and was frequently used by various evil people and government agencies (but I'm
being reduntant), before being depowered by the Captain. Quill II was a member of the
Resistants, added after most of the others (who were former minions of Magneto in the
Captain America book- this was during the time when X-Men had been cancelled). Quill III
was a combatant in "The Arena" during Claremont's X-Treme X-Men series. Pretty much
every one of them has identical powers to Quill IV here.
-A bit tougher than the usual run-of-the-mill student, Quill has a Multi-Blast (a rarity for this
team) and a minor Aura effect, and is a bit better at fighting than some, but is still a pretty
minor character. Note that there's a red-skinned uglier kid named Spike who was ALSO an
X-Student, and had identical powers minus the "Shooting" part, but made no reappearances
and is presumed dead.
Quincy Harker
Post by Jabroniville » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:12 am
QUINCY HARKER
Created By: Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan
First Appearance: Tomb of Dracula #7 (March 1973)
Group Affiliations: X-Students
Status: De-Powered & Killed
Role: Background Character
PL 6 (54)
STRENGTH -1 STAMINA 0 AGILITY -4
Skills:
Deception 4 (+7)
Expertise (Mystical Lore) 8 (+12)
Expertise (Mystical Lore) 4 (+16) -- Flaws: Limited to Vampires
Insight 3 (+7)
Perception 2 (+6)
Persuasion 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Equipment 7 (Specialized Wheelchair), Minion 3 (Saint- German Shepherd), Ranged Attack
4, Ultimate Vampire Lore
Equipment:
"Wheelchair"
"Wooden Darts" Blast 4 (Extras: Multiattack) Linked to Weaken Strength 4 (Extras:
Multiattack, Ranged, Progressive +2) (32)
"Net Lined With Garlic" Snare 4 (12)
Offense:
Unarmed +2 (-1 Damage, DC 14)
Wooden Darts +8 (+4 Ranged Damage & Weaken, DC 19 & 14)
Net +8 (+4 Ranged Affliction, DC 14)
Initiative -4
Defenses:
Complications:
Hatred (Vampires)
Enemy (Dracula)- The Lord of Vampires has killed Quincy's wife, crippled him, then slew
the family of his mentor, Abraham Van Helsing. So it's kinda personal.
Disabled (Crippled)- Quincy is elderly, cannot move without the use of his wheelchair, and
has already suffered one heart attack.
-Quincy Harker is the protege of Abraham Van Helsing (of Dracula fame), and became a
recurring nemesis for the villainous Dracula in Tomb of Dracula. However, he'd been
crippled and left wheelchair-bound, and his wife killed. With some Comic-Booky touches,
he'd made his wheelchair into a moving Anti-Vampire Arsenal and left deathtraps all over the
family mansion. He also took in Abraham's orphaned grandchild Rachel, turning her into a
vampire hunter as well. And of course all of these deaths and maimings were the result of
Dracula. Knowing his own death awaited, he plunged a silver stake into Drac's heart, then his
time bomb went off, demolishing the castle and killing Harker. Dracula ultimately resurfaced,
but Quincy's bones acted as a lethal deterrent to vampires attempting to enter the British
Isles- they all had to be invited in. Important to MI-13's plans to protect Britain was Dracula
destroying a fake set of bones, thus resulting in the immolation of his army.
Quoi
Post by Jabroniville » Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:55 pm

QUOI (Sequoia, aka "Q")
Created By: Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers
First Appearance: The Silver Surfer #4 (Oct. 1987)
Role: Celestial Messiah
Group Affiliations: None
PL 11 (122)
Skills:
Expertise (Space Hero) 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+2)
Ranged Combat (Blasts) 4 (+8)
Advantages:
Power Attack, Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Human/Cotati Physiology"
Comprehend 3 (Languages) [6]
"Channel Life Forces"

Immunity 20 (Energy Damage) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [10]
Cosmic Blast 10 (20) -- [21]
 AE: Healing 10 (20)
"Boost Power" Enhanced Blast 4 (Flaws: Limited to After Being Struck) [4]
Offense:
Cosmic Blasts +8 (+10-14 Ranged Damage, DC 25-29)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Complications:
Responsibility (Rebellious Teen)- Quoi rejects his mother's teachings, and acts out because
she left him to be raised by the boring Cotati.
Relationship (Raptra)- Quoi falls for the freebooting Space Pirate's adventurous ways.
-Peculiarly, despite the fame of the Celestial Madonna storyline in Steve Englehart's
Avengers run, and the somewhat-notoriety of his beloved Mantis, the entire POINT of the
thing (ie. her being the mother of the supposed messiah) is largely-glossed-over as a mere
plot point and excuse for people to start fighting. Mantis is revealed as the Celestial
Madonna, and runs off to marry a tree possessed by the original Swordsman... but you never
really hear about the kid, do you?
-I think a great deal of that is Englehart's somewhat-salty relationship with Marvel, and the
fact that he rarely gained traction on many books. That and the fact that even he seemed to
barely care about the kid. These two things together meant that Mantis's appearances were
few and far between, especially since Englehart was notably the ONLY WRITER WHO
USED HER. And I don't think he called "dibs"- he was just the only one who cared. I mean,
in his Silver Surfer run, Mantis dumps "Sequoia" off on his father's people (the Cotati, not
Jobber Villains) and runs off with the Surfer on an interstellar adventure... like, this kid is SO
IMPORTANT she doesn't even bother to raise him? Or did Englehart just write himself into a
corner and realized too late he made a story to feature his big Pet Character and ended it in a
way that ties her down with a kid?
-Soon taking the nickname "Quoi", the boy was raised largely by the Cotati, and appeared
going through a rebellious teenage phase, sorta like Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (he's
a plant, so his aging is all F'd up. Also, it's Comic Book Aging). His nature as the Messiah
leads to him being targeted by Thanos, who captures Quoi and his mother. The Avengers get
involved (this story is called The Celestial Quest), and soon they have to team up WITH
Thanos because some creature called "The Rot" has attacked them. Quoi, having fallen in
love with a woman named Raptra, decides to run off with her in order to help the people of
the part of space The Rot affected. He has never been seen since, as only Englehart seems to
care. This is, remember, the CELESTIAL MESSIAH- a character so important that the Kree,
Thanos, and Kang the Conqueror are all obsessed with him... and he's just this side-character
even Englehart barely cared about, and was written out as soon as possible.
-I can't really determine his level that well, though it seems clear he can be rather powerful-
he's apparently absorbed and redirected a Blast from Thanos. His "Channel Life Forces"
power is a bit vague, but makes him a Blaster/Healer who can also use Comprehend- he's PL
9 normally, and PL 11 when he fully-absorbs power. Not bad, all in all, but a bit limited in
terms of skills thanks to youthful immaturity.
Q'Wake
Post by Jabroniville » Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:01 pm

Q'WAKE (Real Name Unknown)
Created By: Len Kaminski & Tom Morgan, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning & Dave Taylor
First Appearance: Iron Man #309 (Oct. 1994- glimpsed), Force Works #6 (Dec. 1994- seen)
Role: Jobber Villain
Group Affiliations: The Avatars of the Mandarin
PL 7 (78)
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Soldier) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 3 (+4)
Perception 3 (+3)
Advantages:
Ranged Attack 3
Powers:
"Seismic Shock" Affliction 7 (Athletics; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras: Area- 30ft.
Burst) (Flaws: Limited to Grounded Subjects) Linked to Damage 6 (Extras: Area- 30ft.
Burst) (Flaws: Limited to Grounded Subjects) [13]
Offense:
Seismic Shock +7 Area (+6 Damage & +7 Affliction, DC 21 & 17)
Initiative +2
Defenses:
Complications:
Motivation (The Mandarin's Will)
Responsibility (Arrogant)- Q'Wake loves to insult adversaries, and often runs in half-cocked.
-Sporting the most ridiculous name of the Avatars (why does a Chinese villain use "Xtreme
Kool Letterz"?), Q'Wake was huge and had seismic shock powers. He was the most arrogant
of the Avatars, often talking smack, but he never succeeded in anything. In Heroes For Hire,
he was easily defeated by Tarantula (Maria Vasquez).

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Post by Jabroniville » Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:32 pm

QUAGMIRE (Jerome Meyers)

Total: Abilities: 40 / Skills: 34--17 / Advantages: 15 / Powers: 85 / Defenses: 13 (170)

-Alongside Foxfire, Quagmire is the most recognizably "80s" character in Squadron

Post by Jabroniville » Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:56 pm

Impervious Toughness 9 [9]

Duplication 11 (Extras: Active, Horde, 16 Minions +8) (132) -- [133]

 AE: "Sheath of Flames" Flame Aura 6 (24)

Total: Abilities: 72 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 197 / Defenses: 10 (302)

Impervious Toughness 9 [9]

Total: Abilities: 72 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 61 / Defenses: 10 (165)

Post by Jabroniville » Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:39 am

Force Field 8 [8]

Flight 10 (2,000 mph) [20]

Total: Abilities: 56 / Skills: 44--22 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 117 / Defenses: 18 (223)

Quasar- Forgotten Cosmic Hero:

Mark Gruenwald's Quasar:

Quasar's Cosmic Power:

Force Field 7 [7]

Flight 10 (2,000 mph) [20]

Total: Abilities: 46 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 9 / Powers: 111 / Defenses: 14 (200)

Post by Jabroniville » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:09 pm

PHYLA-VELL (aka Quasar III, Captain Marvel IV, Martyr)

Flight 11 (4,000 mph) [22]

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 15 / Powers: 96 / Defenses: 9 (281)

Phyla-Vell- This History Is Dumb:

Phyla Becomes Less Annoying:

Post by Jabroniville » Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:55 am

 AE: "Tech Control" Affliction 8 (Tech Skill of Creator;

Regeneration 4 (Feats: Regrows Limbs) [5]

Total: Abilities: 78 / Skills: 18--9 / Advantages: 8 / Powers: 42 / Defenses: 12 (149)

Post by Jabroniville » Fri Jun 09, 2017 7:22 am

QUEEN (Adriana Soria)

 AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 8 (16)

Total: Abilities: 82 / Skills: 14--7 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 191 / Defenses: 12 (295)

Post by Jabroniville » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:07 am

"Radiation-Based Immunities" Immunity 7 (Poison, Radiation, Radiation Damage) [7]

"Venom Blasts" Blast 10 (20) -- [21]

 AE: "Stun Blasts" Affliction 10 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Incapacitated) (Extras: Ranged)

"Pheromones" Affliction 2 (Fort; Dazed/Compelled) (Feats: Subtle 2) (Extras: Area- Scent

Total: Abilities: 96 / Skills: 44--22 / Advantages: 17 / Powers: 75 / Defenses: 14 (114)

Post by Jabroniville » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:59 am

 Dynamic AE: "Telepathy" Communication (Mental) 4 (Extras: Area, Selective)

Total: Abilities: 50 / Skills: 34--17 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 84 / Defenses: 15 (176)

-This is Quire as a student- he eventually develops Telekinetic powers in some alternate

Post by Jabroniville » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:00 am

Total: Abilities: 56 / Skills: 36--18 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 1 / Defenses: 5 (91)

Post by Jabroniville » Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:32 pm

QUICKSAND (Real Name Unknown)

"Dense Skin" Protection 7 (Feats: Dynamic) (Extras: Impervious 9) (17) -- [19]

 Dynamic AE: "Particulate Form" Insubstantial 1 (Extras: Reaction) (11)

Immunity 30 (Bludgeoning & Slashing Damage) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [15]