Heroes and Villains

  Code-name: Ace of Wraiths Full Name: unknown Faction: Blood Watch, Four Aces Even over one hundred years later, they still talk in Pulp City about that night of poker. That was the night a dazzling card-sharp became the Ace of Wraiths....

  Code-name: Anansi Full name: Edina Todd Faction: none Suspended one hundred feet above the city streets swinging slowly in the ocean breeze, she finally felt at ease. The sounds of gun fire and explosions were carried clear to her...

  Code-name: Androida Full Name: N/A Faction: Heavy Metal Today she is one of the most respected and powerful women in Pulp City - Androida has come a very long way in her personal journey, and her path has seen her face danger...

Code-names: Apebot & Virus Full Names: Apebot & Subject 046 Faction: Ape Revolution Committee If a person was able check the research logs detailing Professor Andryshnikov’s primate experiments, and if they looked for any entries a...

Code-name: Arquero Full Name: Rowan “Row” Fletcher Faction: none When she adopted the costumed persona of Riposte, Naomi Kingsley knew that she alone would not be able to topple her father’s criminal empire, or his allies in the Coven. She r...

  Code-name: Aurelius Full Name: Eric Goulding Faction: none For Eric Goulding, business was business and the most serious matter in the world. Money was power and he had plenty of both. He felt he was unstoppable, then he was diagnosed...

Code-name: Avatar of the Jaguar Full Name: Johann Sonnenbrandt Faction: none In the early hours after a glorious victory over the Dark Round Table, Johann Sonnenbrandt woke up in a dark, grimy alley behind the Metro Cinema. Just hours earlier...

  Code-name: Bigfoot Full Name: Doug Behr Faction: None   A twist of the throttle and the big old bike roared even faster along a deserted back road. Its powerful, muscular rider ignored the wind that whipped against his exposed...

Code-name: Blood Rose Full Name: Blood Rose Faction: Blood Watch Just as the Necroplane is a parallel realm to Earth, so is the Astral Plane. After the Big Bang, the Astral Plane took a wholly different path to the creation of life than...

Code-name: Boreas Full Name: Boreas Faction: The Forgotten The volunteer team was ready to face metaphorical demons that day, but none of them bargained for the demon they found. The flowing lava on Etna’s slopes turned the night into t...

Code-name: C.O.R.E. (Conscious Omnipotent Replicated Entity) Full Name: C.O.R.E. (formerly O.R.B.C.) Faction: Heavy Metal Although the words ‘Heavy Metal’ bring to the minds of every Pulp City resident images of cutting edge technologies and...

Full Name:  Captain Hadron/Dr. Rick Parker Allegiance:  Heavy Metal (AKA: Giant Hadron, Mini Hadron) Captain Hadron is one of the admired heroes of the world’s greatest Supreme Team, Heavy Metal. Yet that reputation sheds little light onto his...

Code-name: Chimp Chi Full Name: Chimp Chi Faction: Ape Revolution Committee, The Way Mishka: a name you don’t want to mention around Chimp Chi. Well before his consciousness was developed the way it is today, Chimp Chi was a regular l...

Code-name: Chronin Full Name: Yuriko Kobayashi Faction: Heavy Metal Yuriko Kobayashi was the first student to benefit from the prestigious scholarships provided by Heavy Metal, as she conducted research alongside famous celebrity Supremes...

  Code-name: Cro Mag Full Name: None Faction: None A nerve-shaking roar chased Trail down a deserted street. He knew he had to keep moving. If that prehistoric animal caught up with him he knew he was done for. The screams had pretty...

  Code-name: Dead Eye Full Name: Dan Peyton Faction: N/A Dan Peyton was a born leader. Growing up in suburban Pulp City, he found that other children were drawn to him and did the things he suggested. Tall and lanky, blond and blue-eyed,...

Code-name: Doom Train Full Name: Warlock Faustibal Faction: Necroplane Under shroud of darkness, several cautious figures crept through a yard full of wreckage. Flanked by hand-picked body-guards and two Necro-Servitors, Sanguine picked carefully...

Full Name:  “Dr. Mercury”/Dr. Andrew Merritt Allegiance:  Heavy Metal Dr. Mercury, Heavy Metal’s liquid-metal Supreme. To most of those whom he protects he appears as some super-advanced artificial life-form, but the truth is far more tragic. The machine...

Code-name: Dr. Red Full Name: Dr. Red/Red Alpha Faction: Ape Revolution Committee Some beings are born to lead. The problem for the Ape Revolution Committee is that they have a few too many alpha-primates in their ranks. When Channel...

Full Name: Dr. Tenebrous Allegiance: Necroplane Arguably, the creature known to the citizens of Earth as Dr. Tenebrous is one of the most powerful beings in the world. Lord Tenebrous was born a mortal long before the cursed land of Necroplane took...

Code-names: Father Oak & Acorn Full Name: William Oakland & Acorn Faction: Settler’s Green William Oakland spent his childhood in and around Pulp City’s Settlers Park. It was the only place in the whole city he felt at home. His day...

  Code-name: Feartigo Full Name: Unknown Faction: Coven/Necroplane Feartigo stepped through the back-alley detritus. His raggedy presence was unsettling enough to an unwary onlooker, but it was his psychic broadcast of raw dread which...

Code-name: Foxxy Blade Full Name: Gloria “Foxxy” Blade Faction: The Way Gloria ‘Foxxy’ Blade strode with calm purpose into a rain-slicked alleyway in New Port. Her wedges splashed into small puddles. She was heading into trouble, and she...

Code-name: Francis Gator Full Name: Francis Gagnon Faction: The Coven Little Francis was a sickly child. When he was born, his wet nurse, Sister Mary, informed his mother the child was stillborn. Francine, whose face was marked with every experience...

  Code-names: Gemini X & Gemini Y Full Name: None that exists outside of the twins’ own mental connection Faction: Ulthar Ulthar twins are extremely rare among the egg laying species. When they are born there is always a male a...

Code-name: Gentleman Full Name: Danny Ortega Faction: none If Danny Ortega is to be called ever a victim of anything, he is a victim of fashion and trends. Blame it on a childhood of misery in the poorest and most dangerous district...

  Code-name: Gorgoroth Full Name: Gorgoroth Faction: Ulthar The Ulthar Empire’s conquest of Taurus V was swift and brutal. The most advanced indigenous species on the planet was a peaceful and primitive people, bovine bipeds easily d...

Code-name: Green Emperor Full Name: Green Emperor Faction: Jade Cult The first memory of each incarnation was always of being reborn after incineration by terrible supernatural flame. The last memory of every incarnation was always the...

Code-name: Green Serpent Full Name: Chiyoko Faction: Jade Cult, The Way Twenty Years Ago “Again,” barked the Ninja Sensei. At his command a young Japanese girl of five years of age slapped her hand against water sitting in a large simple woo...

  Code-name: Grimm Lee Chan Full Name: Grimm Lee Chan Faction: Grimm, The Way June panned her camera around taking in the spectacle – it looked like everyone in Little Asia was kung fu fighting! And in the heart of it all, was a p...

  Code-name: Grimmsham Full Name: John Grimmsham Faction: Ulthar More than a decade ago in the mid-seventies, John Grimmsham was a loner shunned by most people. Ambitions unfulfilled, he took a job as a guard in Pulp City Studios....

Code-name: Guerilla Full Name: Guerilla Faction: Ape Revolution Committee The year is 1973. The place is the Soviet Union. The man is Prof. Yuri Andryshnikov. The first meeting had not gone well, he must succeed in this one. It was...

  Code-name: Harrier Full Name: Harriet Henderson Allegiance: Unknown Harriet Henderson never understood all of that “power comes with price” thing. Great family, great schools, great job and a great mutant power to boot. And tha...

Code-name: Hellsmith Full Name: Hellsmith Faction: The Forgotten Stygian, the leader of the awakened ancient dark gods known as the Forgotten, describes Hellsmith with one word: inhuman. From the mouth of a being who plots with and against ...

Full Name: Herald Allegiance: Infinite Hourglass Beyond time and space, a mysterious organization called Infinite Hourglass trains the most skilled assassin - the Heralds. Whenever the time-stream is breached, whenever a civilization is leaning...

  Code-name: Howler Full Name: Howler Faction: Ape Revolution Committee Howler – the poster-boy gun-ape of the Ape Revolutionary Committee. Many would probably call him an ‘early adopter’ since while his Team-mates have more recen...

    Code-name: Iron Train Full Name: Tony Miragliano Faction: Heavy Metal Tony Miragliano is the first generation of his family born as an American. His parents came to Pulp City from Sicily more than sixty years ago. Brought...

Code-name: Jade Hawk Full Name: unknown Faction: The Way “Car 54, we have a code 1025 in progress at 827 east 32nd street at the U-Hock-It pawn shop.” “Ten-four dispatch. This is car 54, we’re en route.” A voice whispers in the darkn...

  Code-name: Kitty Cheshire Full Name: unknown Faction: Otherside Mad, mad Kitty; the demonic-looking woman with the twisted ever-present smile. The first reported sighting of the woman who would become known as Kitty Cheshire...

    Code-name: Lady Cyburn Full Name: Cindy Burns Faction: Heavy Metal Not all of Heavy Metal’s members are there because they want to be a part of the most recognizable Supreme trademark. One of them is on the roster because o...

Full Name:  Le Murtiple Allegiance:  Ape Revolution Committee “¡Viva la Revolución!” shouted the little lemur wearing a purple top hat. His dress uniform was immaculate, crisp and clean, for the little lemur was nothing if not attentive to detail....

Full Name:  Loup Garou II Allegiance:  The Coven, ally to Moonchild Years Ago Shondra Vey ended the threat of Loup Garou, the most recent of the Coven’s wolf-men, but unlike his predecessors, this one was bound to a supernatural focus, a bro...

  Code-name: M.O.D. Full Name: Modular Operations Droid Faction: Heavy Metal M.O.D. quietly wheeled through the otherwise deserted workshop, dust-pan in hand, sweeping up the remnants of a small explosion from Captain Hadron’s latest e...

Code-name: Moonchild/Moon Coyote Full Name: Maria Moonchild Faction: Blood Watch The story of Moonchild begins with the Arrajo tribe; a small Native American tribe that had suffered for more than a century and half, and which came to reside...

Code-name: Mourn Full Name: Unknown Faction: Necroplane Blacksmith’s voice was gruff as ever as he continued the education of Youngblood, Blood Watch’s newest recruit. Youngblood was absent-mindedly playing with the warding charm around his...

    Code-name: Mysterious Man, sometimes known as ‘the Hooded Man’ Full Name: unknown Faction: none When the sun is up over Pulp City, bearing down its radiant heat and shining light, there is not much to talk about. At ...

Faction: Necroplane   File # Nec/5678 (briefing) CODENAME: NECRO G.I. The salvaged being identified as a ‘Necro G.I.’ is one of the rank-and-file troopers terminated during the last Necroplane assault on the Twilight Hills (02.06.1987). It ...

  Code-names: Night Fright & Leech Full names: unknown Faction: Necroplane Fragments of fears frantically bolted across the desolate Plain of Nightmares, splintered echoes of tormented dreams from worlds beyond the Necroplane. As...

    Faction: varies In one the remotest parts of Japan, nestled in mountains untouched by modern influence, is a forbidding fortress of dark stone. Local folklore has long held that demonic and evil creatures inhabit the treacherous...

  Code-name: Nuclear Jones Full Name: Mark Jones Faction: Heavy Metal There is one man that knows much more than almost anyone else about Mysterious Man and who is very high on the evil mastermind’s list of targets. Once upon a t...

Code-name: Nuke Full Name: unknown Faction: none <From the Channel 4 archives> June Summers began her report, talking straight to camera, discussing yet another Supreme rampage as smoke drifted up off ruins behind her. Nuke’s o...

  Code-name: Papa Zombie Full Name: Josiah Hudlin Faction: Coven Deep among the bayous in a lost parish of Louisiana sat an overgrown plantation. Dark, foreboding, and utterly uninviting it seemed only barely to be resisting the encroachment...

Code-name: Perun Full Name: Stanislaw Starzynski Faction: Supreme Alliance In every generation there is one brave Polish man chosen to wield the power of the storm in mankind’s darkest hour. He lifts up his runic axe, older than the p...

  Code-name: Professor Hammer Full Name: Professor Maksimilian Mikhailovich Zolotov Faction: Red Republik Maksimilian was no stranger to sacrifice, it was the foundation upon which he had built his life. The youngest of seven children...

Full Name:  Ra'Leigh Allegiance:  Ulthar Empire The Ulthar crèche is the first of many proving grounds for Ulthar young. Once screened for genetic imperfections, newborn Ulthar are placed in small groups where for the next phase of the orbital cy...

  Code-name: Red Bella Full Name: Red Bella Faction: Ape Revolution Committee (A.R.C.) Red Bella’s journey to Pulp City was long and strange. One of five primates who survived the crash of Module 2, Red Bella awoke alone amid wreckage i...

Code-name: Red Riding Hoodoo Full Name: Shondra Vey Faction: Blood Watch Blood Watch Supreme Red Riding Hoodoo, born Shondra Vey in the murky swamps of south Louisiana, did not have many years to enjoy as a child. Marie, her mother, moved them...

  Code-name: Riposte Full Name: Naomi Kingsley Faction: none Naomi Kingsley is the daughter of ruthless Pulp City billionaire Miles Kingsley. Her mother, Miles’ second wife Justine, died a year after Naomi’s birth in a tragic boa...

Code-name: Rook Full Name: Jason King Faction: The Coven Jason King was adopted by a progressive couple who grew up on hippie movement ideals. Few facts are publicly-known about his apparently happy childhood, and even fewer about how he...

Code-name: Rosie ‘Baby’ Rude Full Name: Rosalind Beatrice Rude Faction: None The city felt like hell on Earth. Everywhere Rosie looked there was destruction, the skyline ruined. Pillars of smoke filled the air with ash. Fires still burned acr...

Full Name: Seabolt, real name unknown Allegiance: Unknown For some Supremes their legend obscures fact, and supposition surrounds their origins. Seabolt is one such Supreme and there are numerous tales of his rise. There may be some truth in all or...

Faction: none (Sentry Bots) Faction: Heavy Metal (Advanced Sentry Bots) After the first failed Ulthar invasion in the early 1970′s, some inquisitive scientific minds in Pulp City embarked on a project of fighting metaphorical Ulthar fire with f...

Code-name: Sgt. Bale Full Name: Richard ‘Rich’ Bale Faction: Blood Watch, The Way Sergeant Richard Bale died on an unrecorded mission, earing a burial place in Arlington as well as the star-spangled flag draping his coffin, his interment mar...

Code-name: Shadow Mask Full Name: Unknown Allegiance: Jade Cult A secret high-tech lab in Japan, years ago; a young girl watched as a killer wiped blood from his sword-blade, the blood of her brave father who had vainly tried to protect h...

  Code-name: Silverager Full Name: Silverager Faction: Ape Revolution Committee Dr. Red and Guerilla were angry once more, engaged in one of their frequent battles of will. Spittle flew as both alpha males leaned towards one another,...

  Code-name: Sister Bedlam Full Name: Bethany Bates Faction: none The world first learned of Bethany Bates when the Pulp City Planet printed a front page story ‘Miss Frankenstein’ accompanied by a gruesome picture of a basement ful...

Code-name: Six Feet Under Full Name: Ken Meyers Faction: Blood Watch On one parallel version of Earth, extinction came unexpectedly on a Monday morning in 1982. Without warning, skies opened and huge hoverships cast shadows over the biggest...

  Code-name: Skyline Full Name: Peter Stoltz Faction: none For some Heroes their new lives are shaped by the pain of tragedy, while others are called to the fight against evil by their own personal crusades. A very rare few can say...

  Code-name: Slug Muldoon Full Name: Sluhgg M’ldoon Faction: Star Marshals Slug loved Earth. With its Monsters, Supremes and sheer diversity of challenge, he was as happy as a Quarethian hog in mud. But best of all? Cigars. Earth's c...

    Code-name: Solar/Dark Solar Full Name: Johann Sonnenbrandt Faction: none When he came of age, Johann Sonnenbrandt inherited much more wealth than any mortal could ever spend in his life. But he tried really hard nonetheless....

  Code-name: Soul Golem Full Name: unknown Faction: Necroplane Pulp City, three years ago. A small band of terrified citizens ran through the night-shrouded streets of Twilight Hills. Behind them the relentless clank-clud of heavy...

Full Name: Sovereign Allegiance: Unknown 1989 New threats have arisen. Beyond the confines of the United Kingdom, in Pulp City, Supremes soar through skies that have witnessed the spearhead of invasions, from the dark of space and from places...

  Code-name: Spybreaker Full Name: Col. John Schneider Faction: Supreme Alliance “We need more!” demanded Professor Llusk. A thin, older man with receding hair framing a shrewd face, he did not easily accept dissent to his demands. His you...

Code-name: Stalker Full Name: Stalker Faction: none When the sun blazes in the sky over Pulp City, and Solar is hunting evil-doers, the big black cat identified as Stalker is often to be found by his side. When the sun goes down and darkness...

  Code-Name: Stinger Full Name: Known only to Scorpio Caste Faction: Ulthar Stinger leaned casually against the burnt and crumbling walls of a primitive human structure, confident that the deep shadows and limited lighting would conceal...

Code-Name: Stone Hawk (formerly Stoner Hawk) Full Name: James Proudhawk Faction: none Not many of the stories of Pulp City’s Supremes contribute to clichés as easily as the story of James Proudhawk, the mighty Native American hero. But th...

Full Name:  Stormblades Allegiance:  Ulthar Empire It was a duel years in the making. Two peerless warriors from across the galaxy had chased each other across the globe, and ended their journey here. Pulp City was as perfect a stage for their c...

  Code-name: Supreme Grimm Full Name: Supreme Grimm Faction: Grimm Jonesy looked up to the roof of the crumbling tenement, rain tumbling onto his reptilian face. Up there, he was sure he could see a squat figure, its cape whipping...

Code-name: Supreme Zed Full Name: previously known as Mr. Supreme Faction: Necroplane From Dr. Tenebrous’ Research Log: Day 3: Finally! The patient, Subject Z, is recovering from his death. After my agent Wonder Wight (disguised i...

Full name: "Tangent" Karen Tomovs Allegiance: N/A One year ago, Karen Tomovs decided to finally drop the remaining pretenses of her normal life and started down her current path of blood money and revenge. Yes, it is true that blaming Androida for...

Code-name: Tanuki Full Name: Tanuki Allegiance: Jade Cult Outside of the closed ranks of the Jade Cult, Tanuki’s origin is veiled in secrecy, and even within that terrible society few know the truth. One of the Jade Cult’s mysterious spi...

  Code-Name: Taurus Shock Trooper Full Name: Varies Faction: Ulthar It was a two or three day run to the arena, maybe longer if there was trouble on his path. There would always be those who thought they could gain an edge by eliminating...

  Code-name: Tekkna Full Name: Erika Mitros Faction: none Beneath a purpose-built university building in Greece, Erika Mitros blew on her coffee cup to cool it down as she sat waiting outside a climate-controlled vault full of antiquities....

  Code-name: Terror Cotta Warriors Full Name: unknown Faction: Jade Cult In a labyrinthine lab complex hidden far from prying eyes far beneath the streets of Tokyo, Dr. Hideo Takahashi trembled inwardly. Trying hard to focus and c...

Code-name: Tomcat Full Name: Lieutenant Aaron Marks USN (Retired) Faction: Heavy Metal / Freelancer The small robot rolled forward on its single wheel leading Aaron Marks further into the heart of Wilson’s Tower. Aaron was impressed with t...

  Code-name: Toxic Grimmvenger Full name: Toxic Grimmvenger Faction: Grimm Dusk was giving way to night in the outskirts of the Industrial Zone. Nestled on the outer edges of the area, Zenith Chemicals was a plant that had seen far...

Code-name: Trail Full Name: John Mesmer Allegiance: none September, five years ago: Tank Red, one of the founders of Trinity Inc., was institutionalized with symptoms of acute paranoia. For two weeks he claimed he was frequently visited...

Full Name:  Tritonious/Jonathan Allegiance:  Allied with Virgo "When the stars and planets align themselves to form a giant glowing trident in the sky, peel your eyes for a silver shape that descends from orbit. Once every twenty five years, t...

Code-name: Twilight Full Name: unknown Faction: The Coven Less is known about the origins of Twilight than almost any other Pulp City Supreme, and not much more is publicly known about the truth of the group she represents. Hidden beneath...

Code-name: V.H.  Full Name: Victoria van Helsing Faction: Blood Watch Dear Quincey, I am glad that I managed to finally catch up with you. I am sorry for the London mansion. You know it had to burn. I hope the insurance covers it, ...

  Code-name: Vector Full Name: Gerald 'Gerry' Rose Allegiance: none Vector - the code-entity that had once been a man - navigated the architecture of the digital superflow. The structures were interpreted in his mind as pixelated r...

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Full Name:  Virgo/Alana Allegiance:   Allied with Tritonious and other resistance members Growing up as a female in Neptune's biggest city, Neoatlantis, you had to be either ready to spend the rest of your life as a cook, slave trainer or a cleaner OR...

  Codename: Wildman Full Name: unknown Faction: none   PROJECT CHIMERA. Twelve months ago, a secret private laboratory housed beneath a decommissioned military base in the north-east of Scotland. A chill wind blew outside...

Code-name: Xenobi Full Name: Xenobi Faction: none 08:42 Zulu Time The little mutant with the turquoise skin tugged gently at the hem of his master’s coat. Xenobi wanted his boss’ attention, but even himself as one of his master’s great...

  Code-name: Master Sagittarius Full Name: Xyllian Faction: Ulthar The fog was thick and heavy along the docks. What little light from lamp or moon was muted and distorted by the heavy mist. Somewhere in the harbor a bell was ringing...

  Codename: Youngblood Full Name: Eddy Patrick Faction: Blood Watch Aroostook County, Maine, a rotting farmhouse. The giant rambling building was overgrown with ivy and lit up by flashes of lightning splitting the purple-black sky....