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Written by Alexis Hope
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Monday, 17 August 2009 21:27 |
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Powers:
Enhanced Abilities: The Glob has super human strength, agility and endurance.
Origins
Joe Timms was once a petty villain criminal who loved his wife. After being arrested and jailed, he learned that she was dying. Desperate to be reunited with her, he sought early release. When this was denied, he escaped. Joe fled into the Florida Everglades to elude his pursuers. Lost and alone, he stumbled into a treacherous bog and was sucked under. A few decades later, the Hulk accidentally dumped radioactive waste into the Everglades. The toxic chemicals mixed with the ageless swamp and the restless ghost of Joe Timms to form a marsh like monster called the Glob.
History: (Incredible Hulk II#121 (fb)) - Timms was a convict serving time in prison until he received a letter from the love of his life telling of how she was dying. He escaped from prison to see her, but drowned in the swamp. His body lay there for years.
(Incredible Hulk II#121) - The Hulk passed by the swamp in which Timms had drowned and threw a barrel of radioactive waste into it. The radioactive waste merged Timms with the swamp, creating a powerful behemoth: The Glob.
The Glob wandered to a military base on which dwelled Betty Ross. Confused, the Glob mistook Betty for his lost love and kidnapped her. Luckily for Betty, the Hulk came upon them and fought the Glob only to discover that his fists couldn’t hurt the Glob. As Glob took Betty into the radioactive swamp that created him, the water dissolved him into nothingness. Not so lucky now are ya Betty? 
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Written by Alexis Hope
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 22:56 |
 In the game Final Fantasy:
Scion of darkness and guardian of the Holy Realm, made by the gods in opposition to the Transcendent Loghrif, scion of light. Called the Gigas for his appearance: man and monster fused as one. Considered a mistake upon his making, and receiving not his intended role, the Gogas challenged the gods and lost. Scorned by his masters, he found another: the Dynast-King, whose tomb he swore to protect for eternity.
Belias is discovered within the normal storyline. The first Esper discovered in the game, he's weaker than most. He's still very useful when facing enemies with a weakness to fire magick and comes in handy when challenging the first few hunt marks.
In Jewish History:
Envoy from Morocco in 1608. He delivered to Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Netherlands, credentials from Muley Zaidan, sherif of Morocco, testifying Belias to be "ministrum Regiæ nostræ sublimis, qui negotiis ejus diligenter incumbit, resque ejus curat." It was possibly a descendant of his, G. Belias, who published at Constantinople, in 1855, a Spanish-Hebrew dictionary under the title ("Diccionario de la Lengua Santa con la Declaracion en Lengua Sephardi"). |
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Written by Alexis Hope
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 22:23 |
Enhanced Abilities: The Gremlin has vastly increased intelligence thanks to his mutant abilities.
Titanium Man: The Gremlin later in his career modified the Titanium Man armour and wore that.
The man known only as the Gremlin is the son of a deceased Soviet scientist known as the Gargoyle. The Gremlin, as a result of his father's altered genetic structure, was a mutant inherited his father's grotesque appearance and genius-level intelligence. The Gremlin donned a modified version of the armour once worn by the villain the Titanium Man when he was stalked by the alien Dire Wraiths. Accounts vary as to the exact age of the Gremlin, but it is known that he was not yet an adult at the time of his death. He was born in a secret Soviet hospital, and Soviet scientists, realizing he was a mutant, studied him for years. However, the Gremlin's intelligence was so great and he achieved emotional maturity at such an extraordinarily young age, that the Gremlin eventually achieved a position of great authority.
Among the Gremlin's many scientific achievements were the design of the armour worn by the Soviet Super-Troopers and the armour worn by the men called the Devastators, which drew tremendous power from an orbiting satellite, which they could then fire at their targets.
The Gremlin had an enormous secret base named Bitterfrost built beneath the arctic where he was testing the Soviet Super-Trooper armour when the wandering monster Hulk was pursued into the area by the United States Air Force. Believing that the Hulk had killed his father, the Gremlin sought revenge. |
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Written by Alexis Hope
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 09:37 |
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Not much is known about the early history of Jack Smith, a.k.a. the villain Goldbug. Presumably a long time criminal focusing on robberies of gold, he sought employment at Shank's Armoured Couriers so that he would have the opportunity to known the details of every gold shipment made in the United States.
As the Goldbug, he made a public challenge that he would steal a two million dollar shipment of gold bricks being driven from New York City to Washington. Shank's president, Mr. Coyne, was concerned about the threat and ordered Smith to arrange for Luke Cage, at that time working privately as Power Man, Hero for Hire, to guard the shipment. Smith boldly made the arrangement and still attempted to steal the gold as Goldbug.
Gold Gun: Goldbug carries a gun which fires quick-hardening "gold dust," which when exposed to air, quickly yields a metallic material of nearly indestructible strength. This metal, not truly gold, coats the target in an airtight cocoon, preventing any movement and sensation. He has also designed a liquid version of his gold dust, packed into small grenades.
Body Armour: Goldbug wears a padded costume for some degree of protection against injury and is coated with an enzyme that immediately breaks down the hardened gold from his gold-gun, safeguarding himself from accidental suffocation. The costume also contains a wafer-thin parachute, a strength-enhancing exoskeleton, and perhaps other safeguards/gadgets.
Gold Ship: Goldbug has used a variety of very sophisticated vehicles, and certain of his "Gold-ships" contain such devices as tractor beams that collect only gold and gold alloys, remote control capabilities, and power cables which draw energies from gamma-irradiated creatures.
The term gold bug is a (sometimes pejorative) term used to describe investors who are very bullish on buying the commodity gold (XAU - ISO 4217).
The term was popularized in the 1896 US Presidential Election, when William McKinley supporters took to wearing gold lapel pins, gold neckties, and gold headbands in a demonstration of support for gold against the "silver menace", though the term's original use may have been in Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story "The Gold-Bug," about a cryptographic treasure map. |
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Written by Alexis Hope
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Monday, 03 August 2009 00:41 |
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General John Ryker is a military strategist. His villainous nature manipulates people and situations to achieve what he wants. Ryker always takes care to stay in the shadows and very few people know about his existence.
John Ryker joined the military at a young age and wanted to help determine future history from his shadows. One of his most prominent actions was manipulating the creation of the conspiracy around the assassination of John F. Kennedy; apparently Kennedy was really killed by two Austrian mercenaries, but at the time it was deemed too expensive to wage World War Three so the idea of a conspiracy was created. When his wife Lucy developed cancer, Ryker used the military to hunt down Bruce Banner, who turned into the Hulk after exposure from gamma radiation during a nuclear test that Ryker supervised. Initially, Ryker irradiated various subjects to try and duplicate the accident that created the Hulk, thus allowing him to isolate the Hulk's ability to cope with the radiation and use it to heal his wife. His closest success was Private Benjamin Tibbits, who mutated into the Hulk-like Flux, but his transformation was imperfect, leading to Ryker simply breaking him to use as a near-mindless soldier against the Hulk.
However, his brutal treatment of the Hulk, having finally captured the Green Goliath, not only broke down the mental barriers keeping the Hulk's other personalities from taking control- including the Devil Hulk, but also convinced General Thunderbolt Ross to turn against Ryker and free his long-time enemy. Taking Lucy Ryker hostage, Ross told her the truth, prompting Ryker to depart as she coldly told him that she didn't ask to be healed at the cost of innocent people.
He is responsible for the creation of the Gamma Corps, a special military unit created specifically to deal with the Hulk. He was spurred into action after his wife, who seemed to have been cured by a transfusion of Hulk blood, died from a sudden revival of her cancer. The Corps were unable to stop the Hulk, who went after Ryker, and caused Gamma Corps member Grey, who had Hulk DNA in him, to lose his temper, resulting in a Hulk-like rage that tore down Ryker's base, with the General still inside. 
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