HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

The Exploding Man
As a young man, this wanderer was an optimistic hero. With a little concentration he could expel concussive blasts of energy from his body to battle villains or launch himself. However as he matured, as did his abilities, which grew harder and harder to control, until he was the center of a tragedy, which saw him taking himself away from the hero scene, spending his time travelling to stay away from civilisation, and thus, away from potential tragedy. However, more recently he has been approached by shadowy forces, who seek to use him to their gains. Has his darkness made him susceptible to their control, or is the young hero inside of him still alive and well?

Fauna
Champion of the ecosystem, Fauna adapts to her environment, granting her abilities that mimic the surrounding ecosystem. Most often she stalks the wilderness, preventing poachers and shady environment-damaging business practice. While in less ‘natural’ environments such as cities, the she uses the pouches on her belt to provide her with the abilities she may need to mimic, dog hair to grant her enhanced smell, a birds feather to allow flight and herbs to help her alchemise cures and remedies.

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Tantiao
Hailing from China, this young hero’s powers are as bouncy as his personality. With codename derived from the Chinese phrase for bouncing, Tantiao can ricochet from surfaces with great speed, picking up concussive force that he can harness as extra force upon impact with his target.

Alias: Hydro-Boy
Real Name: Shane Westley
Genre: Supervillain
Powers/Special Skills: hydrogenesis, hydrokinesis
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: Deluge; The Gauntlet
Other Aliases: Fathom
Status: at large
Bio:
Shane is the son of world-famous superhero Aquarius. Because Shane’s mother has no superpowers, Shane inherited only some of his father’s water-based powers, namely the ability to create water out of thin air, and to control the movement of all water in his vicinity. Shane played sidekick to his father’s heroing as a boy, posing as the kiddie hero Hydro-Boy while his dad masqueraded as rookie hero Deluge. But Shane had bigger plans for himself.
When his father became the leader of the Celestials and changed his name to Aquarius, Shane seemed to be tossed aside for his father’s own plans of grandeur. So Shane, then a young man, changed his name to Fathom and became a supervillain, vowing to never become an egotistical, vain hero like his father. In his misadventures he met and fell in love with a woman who after a year of their marriage died giving birth to his twin daughters.

Aquarius had learned of his son’s misdeeds and of the babies and quickly managed to sneak one of them away from Shane. This baby grew up to be the superheroine River.

The other twin Shane raised himself, and taught her that the world was cruel and that the only way to survive it was to be just as cruel. This twin was named Brook. Neither knows the other exists.

Shane, as Fathom, eventually joined the ranks of the villainous team known as the Gauntlet, and let his daughter be free to wreak havoc on the world. Because Shane’s wife was also a non-super, the twins each only acquired his ability to control water, but neither can create it from thin air.

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Alias: Hyde
Real Name: Jefferson Hyde
Genre: Supervillain
Powers/Special Skills: immense size, strength, stamina, and durability; super-thick rhino skin and horn
Special Weapons/Tools/Armor: none
Affiliations: The Order of the Sphinx
Other Aliases: “Knuckles”
Status: at large
Bio:
Jefferson was a mindless goon for mob boss Mario Cantori. He was known as “Knuckles” Hyde for his ability to knock out just about anyone with a single punch to the head. But on one of his missions handed down from the boss, his criminal life changed completely. He was supposed to break into the laboratories of the Sphinx Foundation and rough up some poor bastard with a gambling problem. But instead he was captured by Sphinx security guards. Instead of taking him to the authorities, however, the guards turned Jefferson over to the president of the company, Carson Westwood. Westwood gave Hyde a simple choice: to allow himself to be the subject in an experimental new genetic surgery, or be killed by Westwood’s guards. Hyde, never much of a faithful servant, opted for the first choice. His body was pumped with rhinoceros DNA and he became a huge pachyderm-man with gargantuan strength and an extremely thick hide that most firearms couldn’t even penetrate. His skin also became wrinkled and gray. He was placed on the Sphinx Foundation’s secret organization of supervillains, called the Order of the Sphinx, in preparation of a hostile takeover of Caligo. In the meantime, Hyde helps the organization by committing small-time crimes to held fund their research and procedures.

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Anna Mauro is one of the newest students at the Claremont Academy and the younger sister of the Watchguard’s Reaper with whom she shares a life draining touch.

Grim, as she prefers to be known, may be new at the academy but she has already developed a reputation as a bully as she likes to use the threat of her powers to intimidate others. In reality though, Grim uses the threat of her powers to keep people at a distance as the thought of hurting or even killing someone fills her with dread.

She may not endear herself to many people but Grim has found at least one friend in the relentlessly optimistic Salamander whose healing factor seems to counteract Grim’s touch. Grim may get annoyed by how positive and cheery Salamander is but she appreciates having at least one friend who she doesn’t have to always be on edge around, for feat of hurting them.