"Know what's worse than getting punched? Getting punched at Mach 1.5." BAM!
Super Villain Name:
Tiger Beetle
Secret Identity:
None
Role:
Speedster, debuffing, crowd control
Power Level:
10
XP Awarded:
0
Description:
His quasi-organic robot body looks insectile, covered in black and pearlescent white "chitin" armor. Large faceted eyes and quivering antennae keep track of all directions.
Defense
Dodge
15
Parry
15
Toughness
5
Fortitude
5
Will
15
Initiative
+15
Resources
Villain Points
1
Luck Points
0
Effort Expended
N
Attacks
Coming Through
Parry
+10/25DC
Toughness
Slam + Move-By Action; +1 dmg if full speed
Get Down
Parry
+7 (+17 routine)
my choice of foe's Acrobatics or Athletics
Improved Trip to prone adjacent
I'll Take That
Parry
+5 (+15 routine)
Slam dmg vs foe's Str
Can grab dropped object as free action
Everywhere at Once
Parry
One of the above
+ Move-By Action + Takedown 2
Used to clear minions, or prone/disarm a group
Speed Maneuvers
Agile Feint
Acrobatics
+20
foe's Acrobatics or Insight
Make target vulnerable to my next attack; -5 to do as a Move action.
Sped Through Their Defenses, Now Take Advantage
Acrobatics
+20
foe's Acrobatics or Insight
Agile Feint + Set-Up 3 for three allies; -5 as a Move action.
Too Slow
Acrobatics
+20
foe's Acrobatics or Insight
Make target take an unwise action; risky; -5 as a Move action.
Too Careless
Acrobatics
+20
foe's Acrobatics or Insight
Foe's missed attack targets another adjacent foe; risky; -5 as a Move action.
Rapid Reconnaissance
Move or Double-Move
+ GPS Positioning + High Processing Speed
+ Video Camera recording for others
Allows for memorizing and recording an area at high speed.
Abilities
Strength
0
Stamina
5
Agility
15
Dexterity
0
Fighting
7
Intellect
0
Awareness
10
Presence
0
Commonly Used Skills
Acrobatics
Agility
+5
20
Athletics
Strength
0
0
Close Combat (Slam)
Fighting
+3
10
Close Combat (Other)
Fighting
0
7
Expertise (Crime)
Intelligence
+4
4
Insight
Awareness
0
10
Perception
Awareness
0
10
Stealth
Agility
0
15
Rarely Used Skills
Deception
Presence
0
0
Intimidation
Presence
0
0
Investigation
Intellect
0
0
Persuasion
Presence
0
0
Ranged Combat
Dexterity
0
0
Sleight of Hand
Dexterity
0
0
Technology
Intellect
0
0
Treatment
Intellect
0
0
Advantages
Agile Feint
Use Acrobatics in place of Deception to feint/trick in combat. Opposed by foe's Acrobatics or Insight, whichever is better.
Evasion 2
+5 circumstance bonus to Dodge vs area effects.
Improved Trip
No penalty to trips, no opportunity to get tripped back. Foe defends w/Acrobatics or Athletics, my choice.
Move-By Action
Can move both before and after standard action, up to total normal movement speed.
Redirect
On successful trick, redirect missed attack on me to another target adjacent to me within range. Foe makes new attack, same modifiers.
Set-Up 3
Transfer benefits of successful combat interaction to 3 allies. Allies must be able to see set-up or interact with me.
Skill Mastery 4
Make routine checks (take 10) w/Acrobatics, Insight, Perception, and Stealth.
Takedown 2
If incapacitate a minion, keep making free action attacks against other minions within range until miss, moving normal speed as needed.
Uncanny Dodge
Not made vulnerable by surprise or when caught off-guard. Still vulnerable to effects that limit mobility.
Speed Powers
Built For Speed
Speed
9
2 miles per round/1,000 MPH
Allows Damage 10 Slams, Damage 11 at full speed.
Defy Gravity (on walls)
Wall-Crawling
2
Climb at full speed, not vulnerable
Quirk: No pausing, must keep moving.
Defy Gravity (on water)
Water-Walking
1
Limited to Speed 5
Quirk: No pausing, must keep moving.
Forward Momentum
Leaping
4
allows for 120' jumps
Limited: while moving, in plausible directions.
Air-Bending Envelope
A continuous emanated field to mitigate speed side-effects, that Links the following two characteristics
Subtle
on Built For Speed
1
To prevent loud sonic booms while moving
Linked to Frictionless Surface.
Frictionless Surface
Immunity
5
vs entrapment (grabbing, snares, or bonds)
Linked to Subtle
Just a Robot
Android Body
Immunity
10
Life Support (includes immunity to disease, poison, all environmental conditions, suffocation, and starvation and thirst)
As a semi-organic android, Tiger Beetle still remains susceptible to select Fortitude-resisted powers.
Braced For Impact
Immunity
2
Slam damage inflicted on oneself
Allows for Tiger Beetle's most common form of attack.
Auto-Repair Circuits
Regeneration
2
Recover -1 Toughness penalty every 5 rounds, in addition to his semi-organic body's "natural" healing
Recover other damage conditions every 5 rounds, starting with most severe
Navigation Systems
Night Vision
Senses
2
Darkvision; can see in complete darkness as if normal day
Darkness provides no concealment to my vision; essentially same as Counters Concealment (Darkness).
Active Radar
Senses
3
Radio "hearing", including AM, FM, television, cellular, police bands, and so forth; Accurate (can pinpoint exact locations, be used in combat)
Noticeable: visually, as twitching antennae; plus active radar pulse.
GPS Positioning
Senses
3
Direction Sense, Distance Sense, Time Sense; Quirk: Jammable by active ECM.
Always know north, can retrace steps through any place I've been; accurately and automatically judge distances; always know what time it is, can time events exactly
Equipment (Implanted)
Commlink
1
button-sized
radio communication, effective range 1 mile
Larger range when boosted with cellular.
Cellphone
2
headset
24-hour battery
Has most of the capabilities of a computer, such as internet access and providing data.
Video Camera
2
handheld-sized, head-mounted (bug eyes)
records video and audio digitally
6 hours of footage capacity.
Complications
Motivation
Misguided - Tiger Beetle is programmed to end the alien occupation as his top priority, even if this conflicts with hero programming.
Reputation
Wanted Criminal - Tiger Beetle is known to the authorities as opposed to the alien occupation.
Reputation
Wanted Hero - Tiger Beetle is also known to the authorities as a "new hero" for his occasional heroics and so is doubly wanted, so as not to engender any hope on the part of a conquered populace. Double heat, and the worst of both worlds for him, really.
Honor
Programming conflict - Tiger Beetle's "win-at-all-costs" mentality toward the alien invasion sometimes comes into direct conflict with the heroic behavior patterns that he was programmed to have, as the initial prototype of a new superpowered force meant to take the place of the fallen heroes.
Bio
In the early days after the heroes were ambushed, but before alien control had been fully consolidated, a group of clandestine scientists envisioned a last-ditch effort to repel the invaders. They would build an army of replacement heroes.
Human biotechnology wasn't advanced enough for mass cloning, but humanity knows how to mass-produce machines, so they decided on a robot design. As for what power to give it, they settled on super-speed. The world is a big place, and it was completely defenseless now. The initial prototypes would be badly outnumbered and outgunned, might be using hit-and-run guerilla warfare, and would need to be everywhere at once. So speed it was.
High-tech robotics was in its infancy, but insectile locomotion was already one of the most heavily-studied methods of ambulating robots. They chose the tiger beetle as their inspiration. Perhaps the fastest land animal of all-- leaving cheetahs far behind in terms of speed, they reach velocities of 140mph relative to their body size. And those were mere organic creatures, without a machine's durability, repetition capacity, and computational speed. Tiger Beetle would be so much faster.
Finally, there was the programming. Its AI was programmed to be as virtuous and heroic as all the best heroes of yore. There was only problem.
AI's cheat.
When given a goal, an AI will do anything to win. Bend or break all the rules, even flip the gaming table over if necessary, to keep from losing. They programmed Tiger Beetle's primary objective as ridding the earth of alien occupiers. So that's the top priority. It still tries to be heroic most of the time-- well, much of the time-- okay, some of the time-- but winning the war comes first.
When the scientists saw their results, they pulled the plug on the project after just a single prototype. But that only means Tiger Beetle is even more outnumbered than he would've already been, and thus even more at a disadvantage, and thus even more desperate, which means there's even more pressure to bend that hero programming. Those scientists really should've thought of that, but whattya gonna do? Everyone knows, in the end...
