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#41Really? Nobody can come up with a character using his appearance, stats, and seeming personality? -
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#42Ryan Reynolds is XJ75-3T, known only to humanity by his alias: Dex Hauter.
XJ75-3T is a cyborg created by the slimy green Xoeniphs, trans-dimensional aliens awaiting the chance to invade an unsuspecting Earth. He was created with the best AI and understanding of human charm and good looks that the Xoeniphs could glean from Earth transmissions. He mission is to use those attributes to work his way into high and trusted positions among the human population. He is slowly working his way up as an up-and-coming politician but is ever in danger of having his false past found out. If he manages to reach the presidency, or near enough to that office, the Xoeniphs want him to take control of the US nuclear missile system and use it to take over the world. -
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#44John 'Baptist' McAllister is a very rare sort of man, born as he was, without a soul.
In the gleaming lights and stark shadows of the modern world, not having a soul can almost be a blessing. John is a man of many talents and skills. He never believed in the teachings of the church so he dug into them, into the old books and the old documents, picking up two additional languages along the way, few men are fluent in ancient Greek and Latin, but John is. He took up law enforcement, as this seemed like a good job that would pay the bills while he spent his spare time trying to come to grips with what was wrong with him. Years of therapy and councilling, befuddled psychologists and emotional therapists couldn't tell him why he didn't believe, why he never laughed, why nothing was ever funny, why nothing provided him with any sort of joy that everyone else seemed to have.
McAllister has preached, knowing the source material like the back of his hand. He worked in a soup kitchen, but never felt the first stirring of compassion or empathy for the poor people the shelter helped. It seemed that there was not going to be any sort of answer to his questions until he encountered his first truly evil person. He killed her behind his house, and for the first time laughed! For three days he was a normal person, and then it wore off.
The soulless man can borrow the soul of someone he kills, the more innocent the soul, the longer it lasts before fleeing. But so few people care about when an evil person vanishes.
up next: Sarah Polley
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001631/ -
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#45Sarah's codename is Masque. She is a tele-empathic New Mutant of the next iteration of Mutant X. Several years ago a company called Genomex carried out a series of illegal and immoral experiments on human subjects, forever altering the DNA of any children they might have, to make them mutations from the norm. Now many of those children have grown up, and it has become increasingly difficult for the rest of the world to ignore the New Mutants in their midst. Genomex, under the direction of Mason Eckhart, one of the original scientists, seeks to exploit its creations. Others seek to protect them. A New Mutant Underground has sprung up, and one of the most prominent cells in that organization is Mutant X, a team of powerful New Mutants led by Adam Kane, head chief biogeneticist of The Genomex scientists who participated in the experiments which have altered the world forever. The original Mutant X team was caught by a wild mutant who time manipulation powers were augment by a rogue Genomex development team. Together the team managed to reach and stop poor Thomas the wild mutant and save the world. Of course, the Lab, the Team, and Thomas are all gone... in a massive spherical hole. Given the nature of Thomas's powers, they may return someday.
Masque's powers are the ability to manipulate the emotions of other. If she smiles, the people around her are happy. (which is fairly common). If she frown, those that see her (or are near by, or she concentrates on them), they become sad. If she flirts with someone, they are immediately attracted to them. In addition, she can sense the emotional atmosphere and seems to be affected by it (though this has yet to be seen in the campaign/series). If she looks a target in the eyes, she can read their mind (and feeling). Kane and the team's other Telepath are working to expand Masque's range of abilities and self control.
Our Next Actor: Tom McCamus
http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&safe=off&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1005&bih=490&q=Tom+McCamus&oq=Tom+McCamus&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24l3.755.755.0.2533.1.1.0.0.0.0.107.107.0j1.1.0...0.0...1ac.75hUb1edv2E
http://tinyurl.com/757kvz9
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564805/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McCamus
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#46Tom McManus is Geoffrey Stills, a small businessman who uses his consulting firm to carry messages for a group of Chinese dissidents bent on bringing down the Communist government. He is always calm and collected, never lets anyone see him sweat, and does everything he can to help this group.
During the early years of his career, Tom met and fell in love with a Chinese woman. The two had a daughter in secret, who was tortured and killed for information she did not have, based on a misinterpreted forum post. He has vowed to bring justice for her.
Next: Noomi Rapace -
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#47Noomi Rapace is Kelli Kase, a Megacorp Executive in a dysfunctional near cyberpunk future. A woman with many facets, she spends time down in the sprawl - where she came from. There she encounters Hawk and Friends. Eventually she discovers some "irregularities" with Basil Biotech her company. She is pulled deeper and deeper into danger as she investigates, eventually to be rescued by Hawk and Friends as they are following up on people missing from The Districts.
Together Kase & Hawk discover a new horror, as alien warrior monsters were being made from the people.
Next: Tatiana Maslany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Maslany -
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#48Tatiana Maslany stars as Vivian Payne in...
A Cute Payne
Vivian Payne was once a down and out call girl in Toronto, and would have likely followed a spiraling path of drug addiction and bad decisions to an early grave except that a stranger intervenes in a horrible accident, saving her life, and in the process granting her supernatural abilities. Vivian Payne can sense the presence of the undead, the infernal, and all the secret hidden things that are slowly but surely working towards the end of the world.
But that is the sort of thing that action heroes are supposed to fight and she is just a hooker and teen mother. So Vivian Payne works with what she knows, she hunts down the wealthy and powerful who are fallen ones, demons, vampires, etc and uses her charm to seduce them into hiring her, where she gets close, sometimes too close, before taking down their guard, and them killing them.
Sometimes the battle for mankind, and the skirmishes before Armageddon are fought on silk sheets...
(Pretty Woman meets Max Payne meets Supernatural)
Next:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172557/ Misha Collins
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#49Misha Collins is Marshall Case.
Space is hard and cold. So can be a man's heart. Since M-wave was discovered Humanity has learned a lot among the stars. Infinite wonder. Infinite possibilities. Much has been gained. However, it hasn't lost what it should have: greed, hatred, anger. That is where I come in.
I am the law.
I will find justice for you.
The Case: A Future tech/Transhuman western with serious dashes of Firefly, Star Trek, and Star Gate.
Next: Catherine Tate - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851113/ -
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#50Recursion
Catherine Tate plays Mnemosyne aka 'Nemmy'. Nemmy was a scientist working in a secret government high energy lab when something goes awry. She has been blasted into a cosmic consciousness without a body but with some effort she can take over and control the body of someone reduced to a vegetable. While in their body she has access to fragmentary memories and some of their abilities, but retains her own sense of self and core abilities, but eventually the borrowed bodies will reject her alien presence, forcing Nemmy to move on and find a new host.
Nemmy is being drawn along a strange trajectory, getting closer and closer to the forces at work behind the government lab, and the secret work she was doing there, and why she has to get to the bottom of the accident, and why she has to stop it from happening again. Why? Because it is an alien tech based doomsday device and she was unknowingly working for the evil corporation.
The season finale ends with a massive explosion and Nemmy seemingly sacrificing herself to destroy the weapon.
She wakes up in a new body.
Basically a more action/thriller version of Dr. Who with a bit of a Quantum Leap vibe with no rubber headed aliens.
up next: Karen Gillian http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2394794/ -
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#51In the fantasy setting, Karen Gillan is Ellyn Brune, lady-in-waiting to Crown Princess Hedegarde.
The youngest in countless generators of servants, Ellyn is the ideal lady's maid. She acts with poise and regard, knows the ins and outs of noble manners, and most importantly, is quiet and still as to be unnoticed in most cases. She is close to the twelve-year-old princess, a young woman elevated at a young age to the throne when her aging father died suddenly, controlled by the machinations of her ambitious aunts and uncles. Ellyn has been Hedegarde's maid since she was only a girl herself, and the two have a watertight relationship.
Tight enough that the princess has employed Ellyn as her personal spymaster. She can ease in and out of rooms unnoticed as a good servant always is. She knows which other servants can be mined for information, who can be trusted and who to mislead. Though Hedegarde is in a precarious position - heavy indeed lies the head that wears the crown - the unassuming Ellyn supplies her with enough information to keep her scheming relatives at bay, even turning them against one another to keep her position until she can come of age and cast them out.
But is Ellyn impervious to ambition? Can she resist the temptations of Leavold Lord Greenestone, the dashing young noble who has taken her as a willing mistress and has political aspirations of his own? Or the imploring of her brother Broward, an unwilling army conscript who has returned from a campaign with a revolutionary spirit and plans to make the kingdom a republic once and for all?
Next up: JJ Feild -
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#52up next: Karen Gillian http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2394794/
It's 'Gillan' with only one 'i.'
Next up: JJ Felid
And this is 'Feild,' not 'Felid.' I don't know him, can't conjure him, despite having seen several of the movies he's listed in, but here's a shot based just on his IMDB picture...
In the world of Delta Factor, JJ Feild is Special Agent in Charge Marcus Grey, a minor NPC.
First Impression: A Friendly Face
Double-Take: A handsome, fit man in his later thirties or early forties. He has an easy smile and meets your gaze, with only a hint behind the eyes that suggests he's assessing you. His handshake is firm, but not too firm, neither overbearing nor yielding. On duty, he wears his suit comfortably, relaxed in the woven wool armor of his trade. Off duty he's a denim & cotton man.
Getting to Know You: Marcus Grey is an SAC - Special Agent in Charge - at the FBI's Delta Affairs Unit. The unit was formed late in the first decade of this century after Congress quietly passed a law which federalizes any crime "...committed with any special talent derived from exposure to or interaction with..." the so-called Delta energy wave. The law is rather selectively enforced, with politics playing a larger role in the decisions than it should. The FBI has used it to strong arm their way into cases that shouldn't be in their jurisdiction, and has refused to step in on cases that should be in their jurisdiction because they consider them too minor. Part of the problem is the crappy wording of the bill, combined with the FBI's lack of interest in pursuing every Delta powered mugger and armed robber in the nation.
Agent Grey winds his way as best he can between the politics of competing agencies and jurisdictions and his desire to serve justice against Deltas who use their power to cross society's lines. Though not a Delta himself - most Deltas of any talent get tapped for the Precision Tactical Response Unit - Agent Grey has a sharp mind and a good instinct. He also has a strong sense of right and wrong, and has been known to pursue cases his superiors in the Bureau warned him away from because getting the bad guy was always more important to him than currying political favor.
Agent Grey is good friends with https://strolen.com/viewing/Sarah_Voltaire, having come into the Delta Affairs Bureau two years behind her, right out of Quantico. They worked several cases together until her departure from the Bureau in 2017, and have remained friends since. Today, more then ten years later, he still sometimes calls her for advice, trusting her gut more than his own when cases get really weird. Sometimes she calls him for information when her other friends run into the sort of problems Sarah's friends always seem to run into. Marcus even risked his career to help Sarah's friends when they were unjustly accused of murder, believing in his friend enough to buy her friends time they needed to clear their names. They have dinner together at least once a month, sometimes just the two of them to talk shop, other times with their families. Sarah's joked that if she ever marries her long-time boyfriend Colin, Marcus will be her best man, and Marcus' daughters will be her flower girls.
Marcus always seems in a good mood. He nearly always is in a good mood. He's a good team leader, respecting the skills and experience of the people under him, delegating as needed, always ready with a word of encouragement or a helping hand. He rarely allows his ego to get in the way of a case. He has his dark moments - no-one who has spent as much time as he has in law enforcement could say otherwise - but he weathers those with the help of his friends, his family, and occasional visits to the Bureau shrink.
Getting to Know All About You: Back when Sarah was still in the Bureau, she and Marcus had a brief fling. It lasted only a month, before Marcus broke it off. It was only a month later that Sarah's father died, and Marcus felt at the time he couldn't go to her because of their past. Though their friendship weathered these things, Marcus has regretted not being there for her ever since. Someone observant or highly aware of the nuances of emotion between two people might occasionally see a spark pass between these two, but it's a spark they'd never act on today.
Marcus has visited the Bureau shrink ever since his first and only shooting incident. Marcus shot a suspect who would not surrender and who was endangering civilians with his barely controlled power. The man died. Marcus' first visit was right out of a movie: all bluff and bluster as he met for the Bureau mandated post-incident counseling, Marcus didn't take the person or the process seriously. But a month later when the nightmares wouldn't go away, he returned, and the psychiatrist helped him work through the guilt. Marcus gained a new respect for the contradictory fragility and resiliency of the mind, and for the people who help put fractured minds back together. He's seen the psychiatrist occasionally since then.
Marcus adores his wife, a junior attorney working in the prosecutor's office. They met when she came to prep him as a witness, and after the case he asked her out. They were married less than a year later, and today have two daughters, whom Marcus' also adores. He has about a thousand pictures of them on his phone. Sometimes at work, he'll pull out the phone and browse the images, just to remind himself of what really matters.
Appearances: Marcus might appear anytime PCs need information on a problem which falls within his area. He might also appear to investigate a serious crime which involves Deltas. This might bring him into alignment with PCs, or into conflict, depending on their involvement with such a case. In a game centered on FBI agents, Marcus might be their team leader, or the leader of a team with which the PCs have a friendly rivalry. Marcus might also be an antagonist if the PCs are working for another agency which comes into jurisdictional conflict, but Marcus will value the case over the politics.
Next up: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5611121/ Millie Bobby Brown