MEET OUR CHARACTERS
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Acid Jack
While working as a guard in the same E-Waste dump that spawned Exabyte, Acid Jack falls into a toxic pool of corrosive battery acid. Now, with his body infused with electrical components, Acid Jack can control any wireless system and shoot acid blood from his robotic arm.
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Agro
After an accident in a genemod laboratory, Agro becomes a plant/human hybrid with grasping tendrils and the ability to generate her own poisons while being immune to those against her.
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Deathmetal
As an expert operator of the warbots for the U.S. military, Jeremy Denton’s intentions are to reprogram the bots for his own nefarious purposes. During a confrontation with a guard, however, both are bathed in molten metal, fusing with robotic skeletons and becoming something neither wholly human nor fully robot. Deathmetal is born, while the guard becomes the the Green Anvil.
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Dr. Ooze
A living horror born of medical waste and disease, Doctor Ooze lays dormant within talk show host Doctor Jackie. Any slip could result in the release of this creature that pokes used needles from her liquid skin.
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Frakk
While volunteering to test an experimental exoskeleton, Frakk is thrilled by the power it gives him and decides to steal the suit and go freelance, hiring out to the highest bidder. As long as he has a source of water, he can blast it into the earth, creating quakes, or hit enemies with his powerful chemically-infused hydraulic jets.
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Geo-Monger
Trafficking in a new generation of WMDs, Geo-Monger taps into the geothermal energy within the Earth’s crust through his arsenal of exotic weaponry capable of defoliating small countries, altering weather patterns, and tapping undersea magma as a naval weapon.
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Korrupt
A captured Cold War spy is used as an unwilling test subject for an experimental preservative, which seemingly kills him, his heart bursting from his chest. Years later, he rises again, seeking the flesh of those changed by the Vortex formula to counteract his body’s ongoing decay.
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Litter Beetle
Dr. Harry Danville, a roboticist working for DARPA, is given access to the Y-formula and uses it to bond tiny robotics to beetles, with the aim of using an army of such beetles to easily clean up litter. Unfortunately, he was secretly using the same nanobots on himself, and lost control the experiment, becoming a melding of a man, beetle, and robot. Driven insane by the experience, he now lives to spread trash everywhere.
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Lt. Filterberg
A Nazi spy in postwar London, Lt. Filterberg hides out in the sewers only emerging at night for food and cigarettes. One night he comes across a “Fatberg”–a huge mass of grease and oil mixed with pieces of plastic. When it suddenly bursts, Lt. Filterberg is engulfed in viscous yellow fluid. When he wakes he is no longer human
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Mercu
Trapped in a pool of mercury deep beneath a collapsed Egyptian tomb, archaeologist Hassan Taleb is transformed into a being of liquid metal. More dense than lead yet able to flow like water, he demolishes all he strikes with his liquid fists.
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Methane Menace
The only survivor of Project Green, Lieutenant Carla Green is a creature of composed methane gas. With effort she can take solid form, move silently (and often invisibly), and is able to release violent explosions. She lurks in landfills, mad, feeding off the methane gas, waiting for revenge.
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Mr. Gray
Head of a secretive multinational, his associates include a powerful U.S. Senator, a 4-star General, and several industrialists, all working behind the scenes to transform the Earth for their own mysterious ends.
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Mr. Gum
Two of Mr. Gray’s minor operatives, Man and Wife, are fatally wounded in battle, and have their minds implanted into bodies grown from a mixture of genetically modified gum and living plastics extracted from the captured Vortex Man.
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Mrs. Gum
One of Mr. Gray’s minor operatives is fatally wounded in battle, and has her consciousness implanted in a body grown from a mixture of genetically modified gum and living plastic extracted from the captured Vortex Man. She lures the unwary into her cool embrace, where they become stuck and completely incapacitated.
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Oil Slick
Born with autism, his parents enrolled him in a medical trial that ultimately was a cover for experiments with the Vortex formula. The result? A sensitivity to oil and an obsession with fire. Now he is capable of pulling oil from the depths of the Earth, setting it aflame, and hurling it at any enemy.
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Red Tide
A Vampiric creature who cheerfully absorbs the lives of her victims, leaving behind a glowing husk, feels regret after taking each life and hides from the public, feeding only enough to keep herself alive.
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Smolder
A mountain of garbage comes to life, burning within, seeking anything it can consume to feed its continual growth.
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Soot
Able to transform his body into any form that carbon can take, from a cloud of gas to a hard diamond, and everything in between.
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Styro
A living mass of styrofoam, he can dissipate into tiny particles, drifting away on the wind, or mass together into a gargantuan, able to smash and smother his small human prey.
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The Glow
As a cosmetics researcher, she develops a skin creme using fluorescent polyethylene microspheres to give skin a youthful glow. After her mysterious boss adds a final ingredient, her body is consumed by a swarm of microbeads, which she can mostly control. She has the power to dissipate into a glowing mist and engulf her enemies.
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The Smothering Shroud
A living mass of old shredded plastic bags inhabited by a vengeful spirit, or is there a more rationale explanation? Either way, what seems like a ghostly apparition is all to real, descending on their victims and suffocating them where they stand.
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The Ultimate Baler
This villain, an ex-military contractor, creates an exoskeleton of expandable metal straps with which he can trap his enemies and then goes on a crime rampage.
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Toxina Bloom
After diving into a red tide of toxic algae to save her cousin, Toxina Bloom is swept out to sea, where she is trapped in a bed of kelp exposed to the Vortex formula which causes her to transform into a human/seaweed hybrid able to use her rope-like appendages as whips.
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Waste
Waste, an ex-Navy Seal, is caught in the same explosion as Vortex Man, but with more raw power and less control, making him a very dangerous foe. Waste consumes the plastics and metals around him, feeding on their energy and releasing it in explosive bursts.
“I started to think of cartoon or comic book characters that could be part of a universe that would educate children on how to properly recycle all the products we use in our daily lives.”
Isaac Shweky, Founder/President