Heatwave
Heatwave

Mick Rory (Secret Identity) FC
Non-player Character


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

HEIGHT:

 

6'

WEIGHT:

 

192 lbs.

EYE COLOR:

 

Brown

HAIR COLOR:

 

Brown

ETHNICITY:

 

Caucasian

GENDER:

 

Male


LEGAL INFO

CITIZENSHIP: United States of America, Adult; Criminal Record
MARITAL STATUS: Single; Divorced x2
AFFILIATION: Rogues Gallery (formerly American League of Justice, Secret Society of Super Villains)
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Central City, Kansas


PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE

ORIENTATION:

 

Straight

DEMEANOR:

 

Villain

NATURE:

 

Thrill-Seeker


CHARACTER STATS

DEX: | STR: | BOD: | IQ: | WILL: | MIND: | INF: | AURA: | INIT +:

CLASSIFICATION:

 

HUMAN - Class H: Homosapien Sapien

POWER RANK:

 

0

SKILL LEVEL:

 

Regular, intensive training

APTITUDE:

 

Repair, install and troubleshoot current technology

WEALTH:

 

Small ineritance or business, upper middle class


SPECIAL ABILITIES

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

 

Assessment: Heatwave can tell the difficulty of many tasks and judge the abilities of others. If he take a full exchange to analyze a person or task, he can learn the difficulty of a task or one ability or intensity score about an individual. (+1R to Int)

Athletics: Playing a sport(s), including, but not limited to, baseball, basketball, cricket, football, jai alai, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, tennis, various track and field events, and volleyball. he also have knowledge of injuries and first aid and may make a challenging Agility action to restore a card or the value of a random card in Health to a combatant who fell unconscious during the previous exchange. (+1R to Dex)

Chemistry: The science of chemicals. Heatwave can develop new formulas, develop antidotes for inorganic poisons, and identify chemicals by their smell, touch, and taste. (+1R to Int)

Combat Style (Brawling): This skill lets Heatwave inflict damage when using fists, claws, teeth, or any other natural attack. If he reduce a foe to 0 body this way, the foe goes comatose. These actions (bites, eye gouges, kidney punches, and so on) are generally frowned upon in heroic circles. (+1R to Dex, Str +2R dam)

Computers (Usage): The skill of being efficient when using a computer. he can operate apple computers, write scripts, and effectively waste hours a day on the internet. (+1R to Int + Computers General, Hacking and Usage scores if possessed) Note: On Earth23, the dominant computer system is Apple/Mac, not Windows.

Demolitions: Blowing things up with volatile explosives, generally smaller than a cruise missile. (+1R to Dex)

Driving: Piloting any landbound vehicle, from a motorcycle to an eighteen-wheeler. (+1R to Dex)

Escape Artistry: Getting out of dangerous places. he can reduce the difficulty to squeeze through ultra-narrow corridors, squirm out of ropes, and undo handcuffs from behind. (+1R to Dex)

Intimidation: Terrifying someone into doing or saying what he want. Make an average Willpower (Willpower) action against an individual, and if successful, the individual does what he want, at least temporarily. ( +1R Will)

Lockpicking: Opening locks of all sorts. Heatwave can also reduce the difficulty in securing locks and making locks and keys. (+1R to Dex)

Repair: Repair and modification of items, but not the building of new items. (+1R to Dex)

Streetwise: The art of living and surviving on the mean streets. Heatwave knows how to handle themselves on the streets and when dealing with low lifes and undesirables. he knows who to or not to approach, how to identify gang signs, etc.

Weapon Style (Guns): Modern personal firearms of all types-handguns, rifles, shotguns, submachine guns, including laser, stun, and concussion varieties. (+1R to Dex)

Weapon Systems: The science of complex weaponry. Heatwave can build and dismantle high-powered guns and guidance systems. (+1R to Int)

DISADVANTAGES:

 

Insanity (Cyrophobia): Heat Wave has an intense fear of cold, called cryophobia. This was due to a school field trip (noted above) to a slaughterhouse, during which one of his friends locked him in a walk in freezer.


EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT:

 

Flame Thrower: Heat Wave carries a hand held flamethrower that allows him to project a concentrated stream of liquid naplam at opponents doing Rank Damage (10). Although the flames' fuel comes out of the proverbial nowhere, free oxygen must be present for the Power to function.

Rank 10/Range 3

Asbestos Suit: Heat Wave wears an asbestos suit with a breathing mask that affords him protection against fire and heat.

Resist 5

Fire Retardant: Heat Wave has a pipe attached to his left arm that can project a fire retardant which allows him to put out fires.

Rank 10/Range 3


CONTACTS

CONTACTS:

 

American League of Justice:

Rogues Gallery:

ENEMIES:

 

Justice League of America:

Titans:

Kid Flash:


HISTORY

On a school field trip to a meat-packing plant, young Rory Calhoun sneaked off and accidentally locked himself in a walk-in freezer. He nearly froze to death before he escaped, and the trauma left him cryophobic - with an intense fear of cold. In response, he went to the opposite extreme, working for a time as a fire-eater.

In Central City, Calhoun invented a handgun-sized flamethrower, put on an asbestos suit, and began committing crimes as Heat Wave.

As a child, Mick Rory recognized at an early age that he suffered from cryophobia (fear of cold) and pyromania (love of fire), a dual obsession that indirectly led to the death of his family when he burned down their home as a child. Sent to live with his uncle, his condition worsened, and he was constantly teased for wearing winter clothes all year. This cruelty continued until one day when, during a tour of a local meatpacking plant, a classmate locked him in an industrial freezer. Trapped inside for almost an hour until he could free himself, Rory paid him back by trapping the boy's family in their house that night and setting it ablaze.

Not wanting to hurt anyone else, Rory ran away and joined a traveling circus, where he worked into adulthood doing odd jobs and, eventually, as a professional fire eater. However, his demons eventually returned, and one night he torched the circus. Ashamed by his actions, Rory looked for a way—any way—that he could control his passions. In the end he found one—after watching reports on the Rogues of Central City. Intrigued by what he saw, Rory designed himself a costume and a handheld heat-gun, and joined the Central City criminal scene as Heat Wave, where he fit right in...aside for his ongoing rivalry with Captain Cold.

Heatwave first met the Titans as a member of the 'American League of Justice', whom he along with the other members of the 'League' sought their 'pound of flesh' for what the members of the original Justice League of America had done to them. the 'League' attacked the Titans because the JLA themselves had fallen to Superboy Prime's rage when he found out what the JLA had been doing. Ultimately, Heatwaves bones were broken by Golden Eagle during when the ALJ and the Titans came to blows (#10007)