Super Hero's

Professor X

(Charles Francis Xavier)Charles was born in New York City to the wealthy Brian Xavier, a well-respected nuclear scientist, and Sharon Xavier. After his father dies in an accident, his fathers science partner Kurt Marko comforts and marries his mother. When Charles telepathic mutant powers emerge, he discovers Kurt cares only about his mother's money. They soon get married and Kurt moves in with them, bringing with him his son Cain. Kurt quickly grows neglectful of Charles mother, driving her to alcoholism, and starts abusing both Sharon and Cain. Cain takes out his frustrations and insecurities on Charles. Soon Charles mother dies and Cain and Charles get in a fight in a lab that causes lab equipment to explode. Mortally wounding, Kurt who drags the two children out before dying. Charles then graduates with honors at the age of 16 from Harvard University. After fighting in the Korean war he returns to begin traveling around the world as an adventurer. In Cairo he meets a young girl name Ororo Munroe (Storm). He gets in a battle with the Shadow King, the crime lord of Egypt at the time and barely escapes with his life. Though the encounter inspires him to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and safeguarding innocent mutants from human oppression. Charles then visit’s a friend, Daniel Shomrom, who is working in a clinic for traumatized Holocaust victims in Israel. At the clinic he meets Erik Lehnsherr (who later become Magento). While at the clinic Charles helps a women to recover from a comma and soon the two fall in love. Charles and Magneto become friends, though neither reveals to the other that they have superpowers. The two engage in many debates and hypothesize about what would happen if the humanity is faced with a new super-powered race of humans. Magento’s experiences in the Holocaust lead him to believe that humanity will ultimately oppress the new race of humans as they have done with many minority groups before. The two friends reveal their powers when they are involved in a fight with former Nazi Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his agents. Magneto attempts to kill Strucker but Xavier stops him. Relizing that his and Xavier’s views on mutant-human relations are incompatible, the two part. In a peculiar town near Himalayas, Xavier encounters an alien calling himself Lucifer. Lucifer, Charles discovers, is a scout for an alien invasion. Charles foils his plans and in retaliation Lucifer drops a huge stone block on Charles braking his legs. In a hospital in India an American nurse called Amelia Voght nurses Charles back to health. They fall in love and move back to the United States and live in Charles’s mansion estate. Amelia is a mutant as well and believes that mutants should maintain a low profile. She later leaves to become a disciple of Magneto. Charles becomes a highly recommended geneticist and psychologist apparently renowned enough that the Greys were referred to him to help their catatonic daughter, Jean. Professor X trains her to use her telekinesis while inhibiting her telepathic abilities until she matures. He then starts to assemble his own personal strike force know as the X-Men. He passes over many potential team members though recruits Storm and Cyclops. He then founds the school for Gifted Youngsters. That provides a safe haven for mutants and teaches them to master their abilities. In addition he builds a training room known as danger room. That is designed to enhanced mutants combative abilities. Throughout most of the time with his team, Professor X uses his telepathic abilities to stay in constant contact with his students and task force. In addition he uses a machine called Cerebro that enhances his abilities to detect mutants and allows him to find new students. Among the difficulties that Xavier faces is his old friend, Magneto, who has grown into an advocate of mutant superiority since their last encounter and who believes the only solution to mutant persecution is domination over humanity. His story is long and interesting I’ll leave the rest to you.

Abilities: Vast telepathic powers. He can learn a foreign language by reading the language centers of the brain. He can train mutants in minutes as if they have just learned months of training. He can warp perceptions to make himself invisible, project illusions, cause lose of memories, induce pain or temporary physical paralysis in others. He can also take full control of one person. He can communicate with animals. He can perceive the distinct mental presence of superhuman mutants within a small radius. To detect further he must use Cerebro. He also has the ability to access the dreams of others with the help of a Gem (infinity gem). He also has some expertise in martial arts and an extensive knowledge of pressure points.

Beast

Beast is a mutant that underwent progressive changes that eventually lead to blue fur, increased agility and strength. Henry Philip McCoy was born in Dunfee, Illinois, in the United States, to Norton and Edna McCoy. His father, Norton McCoy, was working for a nuclear power plant before Henry's birth and was once exposed to powerful nuclear radiation, that caused him to father a mutant. Hank was born with an advanced intellect, unusually long arms and legs, and unusually large hands and feet for a human; in fact, his body's dimensions are comparable to those of a gorilla and later stories reveal his nickname in school was "Magilla Gorilla". During his childhood because of his abilities and strange appearance he was constantly picked on by his fellow students. Thus he sought refuge in Professor Charles Xavier school. He eventually leaves the x-men and becomes a research scientist for Brand Corporation, a genetics lab. He quickly fell in love with a fellow researcher Linda Donaldson. Hank develops a serum that allows anyone to become a mutant for a short period of time. He uses the serum on him self and becomes more human like in order to foil an attempt to steel his research. The Transformation leaves him with the abilities to run on walls and ceilings like a spider, enhanced senses and an enhanced healing factor. For a time he works for the Brotherbood a group of unscrupulous mutants. The leader Master Mind, wipes his memory, though he quickly recovers. He soon leaves the Brotherhood and gets back together with his old girl friend Linda Donaldson. He soon becomes aware that his girlfriend Linda Donaldson is a communist spy and breaks up with her. He eventually joins the Avengers and moon lights with X-Factor. He later leaves the Avengers and joins the Defenders. After the Defenders are decimated by the Moondragon he and the other survivor are contacted by Jean Grey and join the X-Factor. The X-Factor is a group that is hired to hunt good mutants, though instead of killing them they save them. Hank is soon infected with a virus that causes his intelligence to lessen every time he uses his super abilities. As he approaches a child like intelligence he is kissed by a mutant called Infectide, a mutatnat that has the ability to create mutants, through touch. Soon after he reverts back to his former self, stronger then before. X-Factor teams up with X-Men to close a portal to a dimension known as Hell.
The world experiences a mutant baby boom. Hank experiences a metamorphism brought on by a fellow teammate Sage. He takes on more feline characteristics, that he has trouble adapting to at first. Because of his transformation his girlfriend Trish Tilby brakes up with him because the media accuses them of engaging in bestiality. He later falls in love with a mutant that looks similar. Though instead of being human that looks cat like she is a feline cat that became humanoid. Though because she is at the limit of her life span she leaves the X-Mansion to pass away. After this he spends most of his time helping professor X building, creating and repairing equipment and on occassion assisting on missions.

Abilities: Despite is savage appearances he is a brilliant man of the arts and the sciences. He has a Ph.D in biophysics. He usually takes care of the medic duties for the X-Men despite not having an MD. His intelligence is close to that of Professor X. He can speak multiple languages. He has advanced healing, the ability to stick to most surfaces like a spider. He has a unique combat style that combines a lot of wall running and acrobatic movements.

Batman

Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a youngster, the event changes him and he decides to fight evil in its many forms. Wayne trains himself both physically and intellectually and when dealing with criminals or on missions he wears a bat costume. He became a popular super hero in 1940. When he first started out, he wasn’t above using violence to obtain information or using guns. At one time he teamed up with super man and they both discovered each others secret identity. He soon takes on a side kick known as Robin and they engage many different kinds of criminals. (Knightfall) At the age of 50 Batman comes out of retirement to do battle with the Joker once again. Later on Batman does battle with a new villain known as Bane, who critically injures Bruce. Jean-Paul Valle, known as Azrael is called upon to wear the Batsuit. After the stand in, Azrael makes a few mistakes Bruce decides to become Batman once again. Azrael not wanting to relinquish his identity as Batman soon finds himself in a fight with Bruce. Azrael defeated, gives up the suite. Wayne lets Dick Grayson (Nightwing) to stand in. Bruce soon decides to get more advanced training from assassin’s in order to get himself back into shape and inprove his fighting abilities. Though one of the assassin’s Shiva framed him for the murder of their master and he is forced to fight and win. In 2005 Batman, had his memories changed by Zatanna leading to his deep loss of trust in the rest of the superhero community. He later creates the Brother 1 satellite surveillance system to watch over other heroes. The satellite is later destroyed by Bruce himself. He later rejoins the Justice League with Super Man and Wonder Women. Batman is later befallen with a virus that sends him into an unconscious sleep.

Abilities: Unlike most superheroes he doesn’t posses any superpowers. Though because of his advanced intellect, detective skills, wealth, physical prowess and his love of science and technology he is still formidable.

Wolverine

In May 2008, Wolverine was ranked #1 out of "Wizard Magazine's Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time" and was ranked #4 of "The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters" by Empire Magazine in July 2008. Was born to Canadian rich plantation owners. He grows into manhood in Northern Alberta and adopts the name Logan. Logan leaves the colony and lives for a time in the wilderness among wolves. He returns to society and joins a Black foot tribe. After a time with the Indians he is ushered into the Canadian military. After the military he settled in Japan where he marries and has a son. During WW2 Logan teams up with Captain America and continues a career as a soldier of fortune and adventure. He then takes up work with the Canadian Parachute Battalion and CIA before being recruited by Team X (black ops). As a team member of Team X they implant false memories. He continues with the team until he is able to brake free of the mental control. Logan is subsequently abducted by Weapon X, where he remains a captive and experimented on, Because of his healing abilities he was used in the Weapons X program. Following his recovery, Logan works for the Canadian Intelligence agency and takes the code name Wolverine. He soon becomes un impressed with his Canadian work and joins Professor X. It is later revealed that he was sent on a mission to assassinated Professor X, but because of Professor X’s psychic abilities he had his memory erased. A Canadian super hero team known as Alpha Flight try to recapture him, due to the fact that the Canadian government invested huge amounts of money training him. The rest your going to have to find out for your self due to a lack of info at my end.

Abilities: He has advanced healing abilities of a high level. His skeleton has been reinforced with nearly indestructible metal adamantium. His healing abilities have been shown to heal either in hours or in minutes some times seconds. He was once caught in an atomic explosion and totally regenerated his soft body tissue within a matter of minutes after having a large percentage of his flesh burned from his bones. His healing factor also slows his aging process. Despite being born in the late 1800’s he has the appearance and vitality of a man in his thirty’s. He is extraordinarily resistant to disease, drugs and toxins. Because he is a mutant he also has some animal characteristics including canines and three retractable claws situated within his forearms, that cut through his flesh every time they protrude. He also has enhanced stamina, increased reflexes, some degree of super human strength. At times he goes into a berserker mode, making him an even more dangerous opponent. His sense of sight, smell, and hearing are all superhumanly acute. He also has a psionic shield implanted in his mind making him highly resistant to telepathic assault and probing. Due to his military training, he is an expert in nearly all forms of fighting styles. He is proficient with most weaponry though he has a nack and liking for bladed weapons. An accomplish pilot and highly skilled in covert operations. He is often rebellious towards authority figures, though he is a reliable ally and capable leader.

Nightcrawler

Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge until puberty. Margali Szardos, a sorceress and gypsy queen, allegedly found Wagner an hour after his birth, in a small roadside shelter in the Bavarian Alps. Margali claimed to have found his Kurts father, Eric Wagner, dead of a heart attack on the side of the road, and Kurt's mother lying next to him dying. However, these claims was later called into question, and it was subsequently proven that Kurt's mother is the terrorist known as Mystique. He was raised by a circus were Margali worked as a fortuneteller. He became a star acrobat in the circus. Audiences assumed that he was a normal-looking human, wearing a devil-like costume. He was latter drugged by a Texan millionaire and brought to America to be placed in a freak show. He later escaped and made his way back to Germany where his brother Stefan was. Kurt discovers his brother Stefan went mad and has turned into a psychotic murderer. Kurt finds his brother and fights him. In the course of the fight Kurt accidentally brakes Stefan’s neck. Because of Kurt’s appearance. Soon after he becomes a member of the X-Men. He soon loses his teleportion ability and is almost killed several times. After recovering from a comma he starts to dedicate more of his time to the priesthood. Though his work as a priest is later revealed to have been an illusion. He in fact never attained priesthood. During the invasion of the Skrulls (shapshifter aliens) Nightcrawler manages to get his hands on the Skrull bible, after studying it, he gives it to Beast who figures out how to deal with the Skrulls.

Abilities: Nightcrawlers primary ability is teleportation, his clothing and a certain amount of additional mass from one location to another. He can teleport himself to a maximum 3 km under optimal conditions. In a few cases he has teleported but to 50 miles. He only teleports to areas that he is familiar with due to the fact that getting stuck in matter causes injury or death. When teleporting with passengers they become weak. This is a fact that he has used to subdue many opponents without killing. He also has gymnastic abilities that surpasses Olympic level gymnast, his bone structure allows him great flexibility. He is also a contortionist. He has super human balance and reflexes. He can cling to surfaces with his hands and feet in a manner similar to Spider Man. He can also use his feet to handle weapons. He also has the ability to blend with shadows. His tail is strong enough to lift and throw a man and agile enough to handle a sword or blunt weapon. Nightcrawler’s eyes grant him a degree of night vision and the ability to see infra-red. He has taken his hand-to-hand abilities to such a level that he managed to stalemate Captain Britain. As well as being a mechanic he also fills as a medic when the need arises.

Hulk

The Hulk is cast as the emotional and impulsive alter ego of the withdrawn and reserved physicist Dr. Bruce Banner. The Hulk appears shortly after Banner is accidentally exposed to the blast of a test detonation of a gamma bomb he invented. The consequences Banner will involuntarily transform into the Hulk, depicted as a giant, raging, humanoid monster, leading to extreme complications in Banner's life. Through most of Hulks life he is either hunted by the government or super heroes. Many consider him a threat to public safety because of his fits of rage. He eventually finds him self helping to create several organization and joining several.

Abilities: Hulk has near limitless physical strength depending directly upon his emotional state, particular his anger. “The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets”. His durability, healing, and endurance also increase in proportion to his temper. He has endured nuclear explosions, and extreme impacts. He can breath underwater. Surviving unprotected in space for extended periods of time yet eventually needing to breath. He also Heals almost instantaneously. Grows stronger from radiation and can resist psychic control. As Bruce Banner, he is considered one of the greatest minds on Earth. He has developed expertise in the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, and physiology, and holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. He possesses "a mind so brilliant that it messures in the top 1% on intelligence test".

Superman

Seeing how everyone knows Super mans beginnings I shall leave his history to the reader.

Abilities: "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"
For most of his existence, Superman's famous arsenal of powers has included flight, super-strength, invulnerability to non-magical attacks, super-speed, vision powers (including x-ray, heat-emitting, telescopic, infra-red, and microscopic vision), super-hearing, and super-breath, which enables him to blow out air at freezing temperatures, as well as exert the propulsive force of high-speed winds. He can leap one-eith of a mile, as well as extremely tough skin that can stop almost everything including an artillery shell, nuclear explosions. Kryptonite is the only substance that has proven to be able to kill superman

Blade

Blade was born in a whorehouse in the Soho neighborhood of London, England at some time in the late nineteenth century. Blade's mother, Tara Brooks, was a prostitute at Madame Vanity's Brothel. When his mother experienced labor pains, a doctor was summoned who was in actuality Deacon Frost, a vampire who sucks on her during Blade's birth. However, this inadvertently passed along certain enzymes in his own blood to the infant. Brooks fellow prostitutes attacked frost driving him away. In his adolecents Blade see’s a bunch of Vampires attacking an old man, he comes to the old man’s rescue and kills one of the vampires. He matures, and him and a freind Drake then formed the private detective agency Borderline Investigations Inc. To combat supernatural threats. While experimenting with different enzymes he cures his sensitivity to sunlight thus receives the title “Daywalker” The United Nations-sanctioned espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. sought to use Blade's blood for Project: Silvereye, an attempt at cloning vampire operatives. Blade and the vampire-hunting twins Mosha and Mikado shut down the project. During the events of the "Civil War" over the registration of super-powered individuals, Blade joins and begins cooperating with S.H.I.E.L.D.

Abilities: He is immune to vampire bites, he is also immune to vampire mind control. Blade didn’t have super human abilities until he was bit by a scientifically created Vampire known as Morbius. After the bite blade possessed superhuman strength, stamina, speed, agility, increased senses, and a rapid healing factor. He also ages very slowly and can preternaturally sense supernatural activity. He has extraordinary martial artist abilities, swordsman, and marksmanship. He is knowledgeable about vampire lore and myths and a skillful trumpeter.

Cyclops

When Scott was a boy growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, his father, USAF Major Christopher Summers. Scotts father takes the family for a flight in their Havilland Masquito. It comes under attack by an alien spaceship. As the plane goes down in flames, Scott’s parents fasten him and his younger brother Alex into a parachute and push them to safety. The parachute catches fire however and Scott strikes his head upon landing. This causes some brain damage that is supposedly the reason why he is unable to control his optic blasts without the assitance of glasses. He spends most of his childhood in an orphanage in Omaha and is subjected to multiple tests and experiments by Mr. Milbury an alias for geneticist Mister Sinister. When he is sixteen he escapes from the orphanage and wanders the streets. He accidentally cuts a construction crane down with his powers and in doing so incurs the wrath of a lynch mob. Scott is found by Charles Xavier, who erases the crowd’s memories. He soon joins the X-Men as the first official member. Scott is the constant love interest of Jean Grey though he questions his love for her after she becomes the Phoenix due to the fact that he feels she isn’t the same person he fell in love with.

Abilities: Cyclops seems posses the ability of trigonometry he can sense the objects around him and how to use them to reflect his beam off of in order to hit his designated target. Commonly called “banked shot”. He has been know to bounce his beam off of many surfaces while still striking the target. He is an expert pilot and a master strategist and tactician. He has spend the majority as leader of the X-Men thus acquiring exceptional skills.
He is a master of martial arts. In the past he has held his own against Wolverine.

Ghost Rider

Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stunt man in a traveling circus, sold his soul to who he believes was Satan but actually is the demon Mephisto (a retcon), in order to save his stepfather, "Crash" Simpson, from cancer. The deal is broken when Blazes daughter uses a counter spell of selfless love. The demon in order to seek revenge binding blaze with a demonic force. He then finds that ever night fall he turns into a demonic entity. He is soon called Ghost Rider. After many battles Blaze finds himself in Hell, desperately trying to escape. He is later manipulated into returning to Earth, bringing Lucifer with him. He then finds in self in a fight with Lucifer and his demonic forces. The series ends with Blaze finally dying and being condemned to hell due to his original deal with the Devil.

Abilities: The Ghost Rider is a human who can transform into a being with a flaming skull and supernatural powers. The motorcycles he rides can travel faster than conventional motorcycles and can perform such seemingly impossible feats such as riding up a vertical surface, across the surface of water and leaping across great distances that normal motorcycles could not match. The Ghost Riders are notoriously hard to injure by any conventional means, as bullets and knives usually pass through them without causing pain.
He has the ability to kill with Hellfire, that burns the soul leaving the body unharmed. The Chain that he uses usually changes length and responds to thoughts.

Hellboy

Anung Un Rama is a demon who was brought to Earth by a Nazi occultists. He was discovered by allied forces. After being found he is taken to the United States armed forces base in New Mexico where he is raised. As an adult be becomes the main agent of the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) dedicated to combating occult threats. Hellboy was granted “honorary human” status by the United Nations in 1952 and is known as the “World’s greatest paranormal investigator”

Abilities: He has a strong resistance to physical injury. Though he is far form invulnerable, he can be injured by conventional weapons. Like Wolverine he heals rapidly however. He is consider to have superhuman strength, at times using entire trees as weapons or hurling cars through the air.

Weapons: He carries holy relics, various herbs and grenades. He commonly carries an oversized revolver.

The Shadow

The Shadows secret identity was Kent Allard. During WW1, Allard was both a flying ace and a spy who fought for the French. He was known by the code name Black Eagle. After the war he decided to start a new war upon the criminal underworld. He faked his death in the jungles of South America and returned to America. Arriving in New York City, he adopted numerous identities to conceal his true identity. He recruited a young man that looked exactly like him as a stand in when he was away on a job. He adopts many disguises including one as a janitor working at Police Headquarters in order to listen in on conversations.

Abilities: He has the ability to make him self invisible with a telepathic technique and to make people forget. The ability to change the appearance of his face so he looks completely different. The ability to blend with shadows and highly proficient with hand guns and a formidable hand-to-hand expert.

Silver Surfer

The Silver Surfer was born Norrin Radd on the idyllic planet Zenn-La (in the Deneb System in the Milky Way galaxy). His father is Jartan Radd, his mother Elmar Radd, and his half-brother Fennan Radd. All four are part of an ancient race that has lost the desire to strive or explore, leaving the young scholar Norrin Radd restless and yearning for something more than the idle pleasure pursued by his fellows, adventure. Faced suddenly with the total destruction of his world by planet-consuming Galactus, Radd strikes a deal with the seemingly omnipotent space entity. In return for the safety of Zenn-La and his lover, Shalla-Bal, Radd pledges himself to serve as Galactus' herald and to seek out other planets for the world devourer to feed on. Excepting the young Norrin’s request he gives him cosmic power in order to fulfill his bidding. Norrin does his best to keep Galactus from consuming worlds until Galactus alters Norrin’s mind making him a more will servant. The Surfer soon finds Earth and decides that it will make a tasty treat for his master and summons him. Here the Surfer meets the Fantastic four. Touched by there good nature he chooses to rebel against Galactus and battle him in an attempt to prevent his master from consuming the planet. Galactus is driven off and decided to put an invisible barrier around the planet that effects only him. The Surfer is portrayed as having semi-divine abilities, he is powerful yet lacks basic understanding of good and evil. He eventually develops a sense of compassion. Angry with humanity, after battles with Dr Doom the Surfer attempts to bring about world peace by making himself into an enemy of the people of Earth.

Abilities: Superhuman strength and stamina that makes him virtually indestructible. He can also create a force field, and create bolts strong enough to destroy. He can heal other living beings though he is unable to being the dead back to life. He can alter the size of himself, cast illusions and pass through solid matter. He has some perception of past and future events. The Silver Surfer has some telepathic abilities. He has some knowledge of technology of planets.

Daredevil

Daredevil is interesting due to being one of few superheroes with a disability, having been blinded as a youth in a radioactive accident that also drastically increased his remaining senses and gave him a "radar-sense" allowing him to perceive his surroundings. His civilian identity is lawyer Matt Murdock. After his father is killed by a gangster for not throwing a professional fight Matt decides to become a crime fighter. Later in his career Daredevil's secret identity becomes public knowledge. Forced to fake his own death and change his uniform to an armored "razor costume", Murdock undergoes one of his numerous breakdowns. Soon though he changes back to his original costume and convinces the world that he isn’t Daredevil. He later gets imprisoned by the FBI due to the Kingpin. He later escapes with the Punisher.

Abilities: Although blind his other four senses have been heightened. Daredevil has a kind of radar sense that allows him to see what’s going on around him. Because of the bouncing of sound vibrations around him. Extremely loud sounds and powerful odors have been used to incapacitate him or temporarily weaken his abilities. Though he doesn’t have superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility and reflexes they are still much better then your average human. He has acrobat abilities that are far superior to those of a Olympic-level sighted gymnast. He uses an interesting blend of martial arts Ninjutsu, Jujutsu, Judo and American style Boxing.
Weapons: A spring loaded grapple. A cane that doubles as a bow staff or twin clubs. His suit is made of metal mesh and well insulated.

Flash

Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, this Flash was Jay Garrick, a college student who got his super speed through the inhalation of hard water vapors (later retconned into heavy water vapors), and who wore a helmet with wings on it similar to the mythological Greek god Hermes. He is notable as the first super-speedster in comics, and one of the first to have a single super-power as opposed to many powers, like heroes such as Superman.

Abilities: All incarnations of the Flash move, think and react at superhuman levels. They have a strange aura around them that prevents their clothing from catching fire due to friction.
Superman and the Flash have raced on a few occasions though each time because of outside circumstances they result in a tie. Though in a later race the Flash wins do to the fact that Superman is more used to flying over long distances rather then running. He has the ability to speed read allowing him to process vast amounts of information.

Iron Man

The creator Lee said, "I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military ... So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist ... I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular
Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark, he is abducted after stepping on a mine, while observing the war effort then he is forced to build a destructive weapon. His injuries are dire though because a piece of shrapnel is close to his heart. A Nobel Prize winner in physics is also imprisoned with Stark and help him to construct a chest device to keep him alive. Instead of creating their weapon he creates a power armor suite to save his life and help him escape. He later decides to use similar suites to protect the world as the superhero, Iron Man. He is usually depicted as a crime fighter or an entity that fights for his corporations. After reaching a decision to stop selling to the military he instead starts manufacturing weapons and equipment for the S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men. Stark eventually gets an artificial heart transplant. At one point Starks business rival Justin Hammer, hires a team of super villains uses the suite to murder a diplomat. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor who created military weapons and whose power armor suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime. Eventually the situation is resolved and Stark tracks down Justin Hammer and makes him pay. Some time later, a ruthless rival, Obadiah Stane, manipulates Stark emotionally into relapsing into becoming an alcoholic. As a result, Stark loses control of Stark International, becomes a homeless alcoholic vagrant and gives up his power armor to Rhodes, who becomes the new Iron Man for a long period of time. Eventually the stand in goes crazy engages in a rampage. Stark is forced to dawn his own newly designed armor and confront the rampaging Rhodes. He regains his fortune and creates Stark Enterprises. In an attempt to stop other people from misusing his designs, Stark goes about disabling other armored heroes and villains who are using suits based on the Iron Man technology, the technology was stolen by his enemy Spymaster. He comes under much criticism due to that fact that he is destroying all stolen technology. At one point the accidentally defeats a government operative known as Stigray that isn’t using any of his technology. Stark relishing he made a mistake publicly fires Iron Man. He then goes out and disables two other armored suites of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives this in turn causes the government to declare Iron Man a danger to the public and an outlaw. Stark then fakes his demise and intends on retiring the suite forever. Though he ends up getting back into the superhero game after many adventures.

Armor
Stark possesses powered armor that gives him superhuman strength and durability, flight, and an array of weapons. The weapons systems of the suit have changed over the years, but Iron Man's standard offensive weapons have always been the repulsor rays that are fired from the palms of his hands. Other weapons built into various incarnations of the armor include: the uni-beam projector in its chest; pulse bolts (that pick up on kinetic energy along the way; so the farther they travel, the harder they hit); an electromagnetic pulse generator; and a defensive energy shield that can be extended up to 360 degrees. Other capabilities include: generating ultra-freon (i.e., a freeze-beam); creating and manipulating magnetic fields; emitting sonic blasts; and projecting 3-dimensional holograms (to create decoys). He also has several suits that have been developed by space travel, deep sea diving, stealth. He eventually develops an armor that can immerge from his skin.

The Thing

Ben grew up in poverty in New York City’s Lower East Side in a Jewish family. When he was young his brother was killed in a street fight, just making him into a streetwise bad mouth. He later becomes an excellent football player and receives a full scholarship to Empire University. Where he meets Reed Richards and promises to fly a space ship that he is working on. After graduation he joins the Air Force and is finally contacted by Reed to fly the space ship. After some reluctance he finally agrees to fly, though during the flight he fly’s the space ship through a cosmic ray storm. After returning to Earth the four passengers learn that they have superhuman abilities. Ben’s skin is transformed into thick lumpy rocky plates. Richard proposes that they use their new found abilities for the betterment of humanity, The Thing experiencing a moment of self pity and chooses the name “Thing”. Trapped in his monstrous form Ben is unhappy though reliable. He believes that Reed Richards will develop a cure for his condition.

Abilities: He possesses super human strength, endurance, resistance to physical injury. His strength has gotten stronger over the years due to additional mutations and special exercise equipment designed by Richards. His tough skin makes him bullet proof. He can hold is breath for tremendous amounts of time. His reflexes and agility are the same level as before the transformation. He is a skillful Hand-to-Hand fighter

Punisher (Frank Castle)

After the killing of his family at the hands of gangsters Frank Castle became a vigilantly of the most deadly variety. The Punisher wages a one-man war on the mob and all criminals in general by using all manner of weaponry. Over the next decade the punisher would be shown fighting virtually every known criminal organization including the Italian Mafia, the Russian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies, the Irish Mob, biker gangs, street gangs, gunrunning militias, muggers, killers, rapists, psychopaths, violent racists, sadists, pedophiles, and corrupt city officials. He also assaults criminal business enterprises such as drugs, weapons smuggling, money laundering and human trafficking. Because of the Punishers kill or be killed nature few of his foes return to become antagonists. He is not only long time foes with Jigsaw and the Kingpin but also Spider-Man and Daredevil.

Abilities: Military training, and an advanced knowledge of weaponry and their proper use. Clever and cunning that has little to no remorse. A hand-to-hand expert, constantly training and refining is knowledge and abilities.

Spider-Man

Due to the fact that Spider-Mans beginnings are so well known I shall omit the information.

Abilities: Spider-Man has the ability to stick and climb walls, superhuman strength, a sixth sense ("spider-sense") that notifies him of danger, perfect balance and equilibrium, as well as superhuman speed and agility. He also excels at the sciences particular chemistry and physics.
Equipment: He has a mechanized spider shooter that allows him to shoot a web onto a variety of different surfaces. He has also been know to use the web as a shield, as a sling shot to shoot him over long distances and at times it has been used to create a wing allowing him to glide. Other equipment include spider-tracers (spider-shaped adhesive homing beacons keyed to his own spider-sense), a light beacon that can either be used as a flashlight or to project "Spider-Signal" design, and a specially modified camera that can take pictures automatically.

The Tick

A square-jawed, muscular, bright blue-costumed figure with antennae sticking up from his head. He is high-spirited, frequently obtuse, and funny. Dim remarks and "inspirational" speeches filled with bizarre metaphors. In the comic book, the Tick works at the Weekly World Planet newspaper. Like most superheroes the Tick has a side kick called Arthur who wears a white moth suit that allows him to fly (the suite is often confused with a bunny suite due to that large antennae) his battle cry is “Not in the face! Not in the face!”

Abilities: His superpowers are nigh-invulnerability, that allows him to collide with objects without injury (though not necessarily without pain); superhuman strength (he can pick up cars with ease). He also has "drama power," a tendency when the situation becomes more dramatic his powers increase accordingly. He can also survive in outer space without a suit, under ware or oxygen. Despite his nigh-invulnerability, the Tick is portrayed as being vulnerable to blows to the head, that often cause temporary stunning. He is known for his strange battle cry’s like “Spooooon”

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