AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES
THE WASP
Val Char Cost Roll Notes 10 STR 0 11- Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH Damage [1] 23 DEX 26 14- 14 CON 4 12- 10 INT 0 11- PER Roll 11- 16 EGO 6 12- 15 PRE 5 12- PRE Attack: 3d6 6 OCV 15 3 DCV 0 3 OMCV 0 3 DMCV 0 5 SPD 30 Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 18 PD 10 Total: 18 PD (6 rPD) 18 ED 10 Total: 18 ED (6 rED) 10 REC 6 20 END 0 10 BODY 0 40 STUN 10 Total Characteristic Cost: 122 Movement: Running: 12m/24m Flight: 15m/60m Leaping: 4m/8m Swimming: 4m/8m Cost Powers Altered Biology 42 1) Size Control: Shrinking (0.1094 m tall, 0.0134 kg mass, -8 PER Rolls to perceive character, +8 DCV, takes +24m KB), Persistent (+¼), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +½) 11 2) Wasp Wings: Flight 15m, x4 Noncombat; Restrainable (Wasp Wings; -½), Only When Using Size Control (-¼), END 2 40 Bio-Electric "Wasp Sting": Multipower, 40-point reserve 4f 1) Wasp Sting: Blast 4d6, Attack Versus Alternate Defense (Non-Living Being; All Or Nothing; +½), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +½) 4f 2) Flurry of Blasts: Blast 2d6, Attack Versus Alternate Defense (Non-Living Being; All Or Nothing; +½), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1), Autofire (5 shots; +½), Non-Standard Attack Power (+1) 7 Radio Antenna: Radio Perception/Transmission (Radio Group); OIF (Headgear; -½) Perks 3 Avengers Membership: Access to SHIELD & other restricted organizations 6 You Know I'm The One That Makes This All Possible Right?: Money: Wealthy Talents 3 +1/+1d6 Striking Appearance (vs. all characters) 12 Combat Luck (6 PD/6 ED) Skills 6 +3 with Flight 6 +2 with Bio-Energy Attacks 3 All I Do Is Get Your Grants Approved: Bureaucratics 12- 3 Concealment 11- 3 Conversation 12- 3 Deduction 11- 3 High Society 12- 2 Don't You Know This Is Where I Shop!?: KS: The Fashion World 11- 4 I Can Do More Than Take Meetings And Make Money: KS: Finance 12- 0 Language: English (Idiomatic; Everyman, Literate) 0 Ps: Heiress 11- 3 You Don't Know Everything About Me!: Power: Size Control Manipulation 11- 1 TF: Quinjet Total Powers & Skill Cost: 169 Total Cost: 291 300+ Matching Complications 15 Hunted: Enemies of the Avengers Frequently (As Pow; Harshly Punish) 5 Hunted: SHIELD Frequently (Less Pow; NCI; Watching) 10 Psychological Complication: Craves Excitement (Common; Moderate) 5 Psychological Complication: In Love With Ant Man (Uncommon; Moderate) 15 Psychological Complication: Wants To Do More With Her Life Than Be Rich And Pretty (Common; Strong) Total Complications Points: 291
Background/History: A wealthy and socially well-connected heiress, Janet Van Dyne has long been Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym's connection to the day to day world. Making sure his academic responsibilities are met on time and that his funding isn't cut off while he keeps his nose buried in a microscope. When Dr. Pym discovered a method of controlling his size, for currently unrevealed reasons Janet was also given powers.
Personality/Motivation: Janet spent much of her time enjoying life when not watching out for Hank. Now that she has gained her powers Janet increasingly feels thank Hank is wasting their potential by focusing only on his work. They have superpowers! They should be superheroes! What Dr. Pym sees as foolish adventure-seeking Janet sees as a chance to finally do something with her life other than make money and take meetings for Dr. Pym. She can help people and have fun doing it. When the Avengers were founded Janet all but forced Ant Man to join. She is currently one of the most active and enthusiastic of its members, well-liked by all of her teammates. Janet finally feels like she is making a difference. Between super-battles, she is also hoping to finally get Dr. Pym to notice her as something other than a patron or an assistant, her current tactic is to try to make him jealous by pointing out Tony Stark's positive qualities.
Quote: "That's it Hank! I try and try but it's not enough. I'm just not as interesting to you as aliens."
Powers/Tactics: When the Wasp activates her size control powers she also grows a pair of yellow insect wings. With these wings she is able to fly with great maneuverability, easily dodging projectiles and weaving between energy bolts. These are reabsorbed into her body when she returns to full size.
The Wasp is capable of projecting Bio-Electric attacks at a rapid rate of fire. These bolts are bright yellow in color and are apparently painful when they strike her targets. Although she is rarely able to bring down targets on her own with these bolts they are distracting to her opponents and in large numbers seem to slow them down. (In game terms they are a AVAD attack that only affect living targets, and as such do no knockback.)
The Wasp is the least powerful of the truly Superhuman members of the Avengers, but always throws herself into the center of any fight. She typically shrinks down to her smallest size and rapidly fires off Bio-Electric blasts at her enemies, relying on her small size to make her hard to find and hard to hit. She rarely wins fight on her own, but makes sure she is always where she is needed the most.
Appearance: The Wasp is a petite blue-eyed brown haired woman in her twenties. As the Wasp she wears a yellow and black mini-dress with black tights and bare shoulders and a matching radio headset.
Designer's Notes: It is notable that in mainstream comics continuity The Wasp's blasts as well as her wings are only accessible while shrunk, but in the Avengers: EMH continuity she is able to project her blasts at full size. She still apparently needs to shrink in order to fly, but does not need to go all the way down to her smallest size.
The Wasp's Hero Designer FileCharacter by Marvel Comics. Character Writeup by Matthew B.
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