Name: Marvin Steele Codename: Marvel Date of Birth: December 21 / Twenty-five Place of Birth: London, England Race / Nationality: Caucasian / British Sexual Orientation: Straight. Marital Status: Single. Occupation: --
Physically, he is just as strong as any other male in his height, weight and age bracket who works out regularly. He is rather agile and has good endurance, suggestion that he could have made a good gymanist.
[[ POWERS / ABILITIES ]]
Duplication / Self-replication Ability to create physical duplicates of oneself.
The ability to create duplicates of himself (at will) through an unknown process whenever he absorbs kinetic energy such as when he is struck, when he snaps his fingers, or stamps his foot. Each of the duplicates (dupes) is completely capable of independent thought and can create duplicates of himself. Marvin's duplications also creates copies of the clothing he is wearing and his uncle, Dr. Fiennes, has speculated that he could duplicate any matter he is holding, a power surpassing simple self-duplication.
He can absorb them back into himself at will, at the same time absorbing the memories, knowledge, skills and experiences of the dupe. The dupe usually appears to his side or often near a focused area, such as a finger. As a last ditch effort, Marvin's abilities can be used to deadly effect. Duplicates can perish without long term physical harm to himself. Also can merge with duplicates as a form of healing. Originally, uninjured dupes "shared" the damage when they merged, e.g., if an injured Marvin merged with an uninjured copy, the resulting Marvin had an injury half as severe as the original injury.
Teleportation
Marvin has the ability to teleport himself and some additional mass from one location to another. He does this by means of entering an alternate dimension briefly and reappearing in a desired location. He is able to teleport distances of up to two miles, although it is at his extreme limit, and he can become severely fatigued if he tries to teleport that distance. In one case, however, he teleports somewhere over 50 miles. He possesses a limited "spatial awareness" which stops him from teleporting into solid objects within his immediate vicinity, but this ability diminishes the farther the distance he teleports. Because teleporting into other solid matter would cause severe injury or death, he will only teleport to an area he is familiar with or that he can clearly see. His power automatically displaces liquids and gases when he "arrives".
The process of teleportation places a tremendous strain on his endurance and that of any passengers. Extensive training has raised his tolerance for teleportation, but most of his passengers lack this tolerance. Therefore, one of his tactics is to grab opponents and make several quick teleportations with them. They usually are weakened or even pass out from the strain.
After Marvin teleports, he leaves behind smoke and a faint scent of brimstone; this is a small portion of the atmosphere of the dimension he goes through when he teleports. His teleportation power is due to a biophysical/biochemical reaction he consciously triggers within himself. A loud "bamf" noise is always present whenever he teleports (it being the sound of air rushing to fill the space he was just occupying).
Marvin has physical abilities that surpass those of an Olympic level gymnast, and his bone structure allows him great flexibility. He can remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist-type feats without causing any damage to his spine. His agility, balance, bodily coordination and flexibility are all enhanced to superhuman levels. He has an ability to cling to surfaces with his hands and feet in a manner similar to and on levels nearly equivalent with a spider or frog. He also possesses superhuman dexterity, being able to manipulate items and fence with either hand.
Elasticity Ability to stretch, deform, expand and contract one's body into any form they can imagine.
Marvin has been observed as being able to utilize his stretching form in a variety of offensive and defensive manners, such as compressing himself into a ball and ricocheting into enemies or flattening himself into a trampoline or a parachute to rescue a friend. He can squeeze through openings sometimes even as small as one molecule's breath. He can twist or reshape his body or stretch roughly three miles fully extended before physical pain. He can flatten himself to the thickness of a sheet of vellum. Due to Marvin's distaste for violence, he will usually wrap an opponent up in his body to attempt to control and compromise with them. To trap an opponent, he can also flatten his body and smother his opponent until they give in. Other applications of his powers include expanding his lungs allowing him to hold his breath longer, adjusting the distance between his cornea and retina to allow for natural ocular magnification, and in at least one case shortening the distance between the synapses in his brain allowing him to process thought at impossible speeds.
Because of his elastic nature, Marvin cannot be harmed by traditional bullets or most other projectile weapons, including knives, missiles, darts, etc. He can often cause projectiles to rebound back towards the attacker. Despite this, Marvin is not completely invulnerable. He can still fall victim to illness or poison, and on occasion if he suffers a large head trauma he'll lose consciousness. He has also shown to have all the weaknesses of rubber, as he melts and weakens when exposed to extreme heat and will freeze and crack when exposed to super cool temperatures.
Marvin's elasticity makes it extremely difficult for attackers to hold or pin him, as his body can become slippery or so thin that he can slip out of a grasping fist. However, Marvin is vulnerable to types of energy weapons, and even to taffy-puller-style machines that forcibly stretch him to the limits of his tensile durability eventually causing physical pain, as well as the temporary loss of his solid state due to the mental stress.
Marvin can alter his physical makeup as well. He can, for instance, disguise his appearance to mimic another person, an inanimate object, or even, in one case, mimic the physical form of an extra-terrestrial. He can also concentrate his mass into a single body part, such as when he enlarges a fist into a solid hammer or mace-style weapon. All of these feats require extreme concentration but thanks to his training, and mental discipline, they can be performed rather quickly.
Aside from the abilities granted by his mutation, Marvin is a superb fencer and skilled hand to hand combatant. Specific special skills accumulated through his vast experience include picking locks, some proficiency in Shaolin kung fu, handgun training, multiple languages including Russian and Japanese, and playing-card throwing. Along the way, he and/or his duplicates participated in an Olympic gymnastics team and apparently became a pilot.
[[ PERSONALITY ]]
(Coming soon..)
[[ HISTORY ]]
(Coming soon.. )
[[ RELATIONSHIPS ]]
Dr. Edward Fiennes - uncle.
Nora Sutton - love interest.
Sikander Rushdie - friend.
Cyrus Delmont - arch nemesis.
Madison Caplan - tormentor.
Molly Hart - friend.
[[ EXTRA ]]
Possessions: coming soon.
Vehicle: coming soon.
Quote: coming soon.
Theme(s): FischerSpooner - the 15th Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes, I Walk the Line Kill Hannah - the Collapse, Under the Milky Way, Love You to Death Muse - Our Time Is Running Out, Starlight