MAHLER

• REAL NAME: Gustav Mahler
  
  

• CONCEPT: Superintelligent Simian Gadgeteer
  
  

• CURRENT CONCEPT INFO: Brilliant scientist from an alternate Earth in which apes rule the planet, cast into a horrifying 'Planet of the Humans' by a botched teleportation experiment, nearly killed by human heroes and reborn as a machine-controlling cyborg monstrosity.
  
  

• BIOGRAPHY: For years, Mahler repeatedly threatened the East Coast of the United States with annihilation as the Silverback, claiming huge ransoms of money and technology in an attempt to return to his home dimension, until he was defeated and sent crashing to his apparent demise in an offshore volcano of his own creation. Swearing revenge, the badly maimed but still living super-ape spent the next twelve years entombed beneath a thousand tons of cooled lava, constructing himself a newer, stronger body in which to take his vengeance. Finally, his work complete, he emerged from his watery grave to engage his foes, only to discover that they had been slain by the Star Khan's forces just a few scant weeks before.
  
  

What is your villainous /heroic motivation?

There was a time when Mahler's motivation was a simple one: to escape this world of filthy, grasping humans and return to his own, where apes reigned supreme and humans were confined to zoos and medical testing centers. That changed dramatically when he was nearly killed by human heroes and forced to reconstruct over 80% of his own body. It changed again when he emerged triumphant, only to find that his vengeance had been stolen from him. In the short term, his new goals involve wreaking terrible, bloody revenge on whatever foes are unfortunate enough to first present themselves. In the long term? That remains to be seen.

Character Flags

Master plans. Technology-heavy minions, devices and strongholds. These things are Mahler's bread and butter, and any plan he concocts will necessarily incorporate a lot of them.

Your greatest defeat

Twelve years ago, the mayors of four coastal cities all received the same message: They were each to wire $100 million to the same Swiss bank account within 72 hours, or their seaside metropoli would be devastated by a tsunami the likes of which had never before been seen. A band of Freedom City's finest, led by the Bowman, sprang into action, traced the message to the nefarious Silverback, and quickly tracked the perfidious primate to an enormous hovercraft located 100 miles offshore, just above a long-forgotten undersea volcano in which the ape had rigged enough nuclear explosive to trigger a massive eruption. A fierce battle ensued and the hovercraft was sent careening into the mouth of the volcano, where the subsequent explosion buried it under tons of rock ... not to mention nearly a qusrter-mile of water. The heroes left, believing themselves to be victorious, unaware that the ape still lived, and would return...

Mahler in "animated" style

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OPTIONAL - For loads of fun, consider tying your backgroun information in with Freedom City's official timeline and characters!

• Friends (list 3 people that would help you for free; list name, your relationship, their concept in 1-2 sentences, where are they now)

• Contacts (list 3 people that would help you for a price; list name, your relationship, their concept in 1-2 sentences, where are they now)

• Enemies (list 3 people that are your adversaries; list name, your relationship, their concept in 1-2 sentences, where are they now)

• Locations (list 3 locations in the game setting that are important to your character, important can be "good" or "bad"; list name, your relationship, the concept in 1-2 sentences, when last you were there)

• Organizations (list 3 groups in the game setting that are important to your character, important can be "good" or "bad"; list name, your relationship, the concept in 1-2 sentences, what they may be up to now)

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