Sample Characters

This is a concise listing of the sample characters provided in the core T&J rulebook for reference; along with the characters from the free PDF supplement, "Dial S for Superhuman".

Core T&J Rulebook

• American Ranger / Jack Peretti - p30
  A super-soldier created by an evil scientist.
• Manticore / Rick Caan - p31
  A intensely trained vigilante out for revenge for his mother's murder by the mob.
• Snow Owl / Christopher Hyerdahl - p54
  An ordinary camper who was trapped in the snow, releasing latent mystic talents and memories.
• Catastrophe / Veronica Marks - p79
  A spoiled debutante who now has the power to destroy things after a chemical accident.
• Doctor Widget / Ellen Widgeon - p80
  A child super-prodigy at 13, turned gadgeteer superhero.
• Jolly Roger / Michael Roger Rackham - p80
  A troubled youth who gained luck control in juvenile hall, taking his pirate obsession to new heights.
• Reflex - p81
  A mysterious mercenary-assassin with danger-sense, magic bullets, and super-agility.
• Ultrawoman / Christine Post - p81
  A kindergarten teacher turned superhero whose super-strength, invulnerability, flight, and precognition appeared mysteriously during college.
• Zipzoom - p81
  A speedster hero with sound control.
• The Dragon Knight / Abner Jones - p86
  An archeology professor who discovered a suit of mystic armor, which he now uses to defend his home city of Drakesville.
• Ratburglar / Julius Alameda - p87
  A burglar turned wererat when raiding an eccentric's menagerie.
• The Orange Ogre / Isaac Leonard - p87
  A delusional professional wrestler who now believes he must beat superheroes with his manifested superpowers.
• Doctor Vrobotnik / Arthur Vrobo - p87
  A super-gadgeteer betrayed by his corporate employers, now out for revenge.
• Professor Hypnos / Marvin Hypnos - p89
  A minor supervillain now working on rehabilitation to use his hypnotic powers for good.
• The Philatelist / Gwendolyn Price - p89
  A loony stamp-collecting thief, given to pre-bragging about her crimes and stamp-themed master plans.
• Red X - p 89
  A super-speedster for hire.
• Octopopolis / Theodore Papadopulos - p103
  A troubled youth straightened out into a corporate hero, with octopus-themed powers.
• Teflon / William Ferrol - p104
  An attorney and corporate hero with super-strength, invulnerability, and friction control.
• Sequoia / Sequoia Jones - p104
  A super-linguist with the power of growth.

A few are given only thumbnail descriptions, with a note that they may be expanded in future T&J supplements.

• Fantom - p96
  Leader of the Sacred Ghosts terrorist group, with phasing technology given to his minions.
• Laser Ray Lassiter - p97
  Light-based corporate super working for the CommSix multicorp.
• The Neutronic Man - p97
  Shrinking corporate super working for the Koando Microtech multicorp.
• Sundiata - p97
  A powerful superman-like figure who protects Western Africa, romantically involved with Ultrawoman.
• Turtlezilla - p97
  Gigantic, rampaging mutated turtle; human-level or higher intellect; atomic laser eyes.
• White Monkey - p97
  Mysterious vigilante waging a one-person war against the SR Weiss multicorp in India.

Dial S for Superhuman

• Biomechanic / Dr. Arthur Despair - p1
  A biological gadgeteer villain who has enhanced his own reflexes and senses.
• Black Cat / Helena Gregorakis - p2
  A sorceress with a long family line turned superhero.
• Captain Security / Chuck Jones - p3
  A security guard turned superhero after a mysterious explosion in the mall where he worked.
• The Challenger / Chelsea Gonzales - p4
  A competitive athlete and stockbroker who discovered her powers after a skiing accident.
• Commander Cyclops - p5
  An alien techno-organic lifeform bent on conquest.
• Dark Ghost / Alexandra Ivanovna Smirnova - p6
  A failed Soviet gymnast who discovered her superpowers after being locked away, and seeks revenge.
• Decibelle / Siobhan MacLachlan - p7
  A musician turned superhero with sound control powers.
• Edgewise / Anna Gonzales - p8
  An activist lawyer able to turn herself into living 2D pictures.
• Eye Robot - p9
  A prototype ninja robot turned superhero after being given free will by its creator.
• Furbolt / Elizabeth Turner - p10
  A teenage superhero able to transform into a superdense ferret.
• The Gerbil - p11
  An extradimensional villain seeking to return and conquer its native dimension.
• Glider / Dr. Jean Petaurus - p12
  A genetics researcher turned into a living bat-like creature.
• Goblynn / Lynn Doxen - p13
  A brilliant physicist from a poor black neighborhood who was merged with several extradimensional beings when her Transdimensional Scanner exploded.
• Kid Caffeine / Casey Johnson - p14
  An irresponsible premed student turned speedster superhero after he drank an irradiated cup of coffee.
• Lectrix / Dr. Adelaide Rogers - p15
  A bookish professor turned electrical superhero after reading a volume of forgotten lore under a faulty electric lamp.
• Mantra / Kate Johnson - p16
  A supervillain con artist who uses her trained mystic talents to relieve the gullible of their money.
• Mystic Blue / Newton Judge - p17
  A janitor turned superhero by the Great Eye of the Blue Dimension to help achieve cosmic balance.
• Nemesis / Peter Badger - p18
  A failed criminal shot dead by the police, and brought back by an evil force to absorb energy and take lives.
• Ochre / Kade Archer - p19
  A vigilante turned shamanic superhero after helping a sick old aboriginal man.
• Omnis / Michael Mason - p20
  A Big Man on Campus turned superhero when he was at just the right place to receive a blast of occult energy. Now he always has just the right power or trait.
• Overseer / Jason Cranston - p21
  An abandoned child turned into evil psionic lieutenant by a supervillain.
• Private Eye (Light) / William Drake, Jr - p22
  A military policeman turned vigilante with the aid of three pieces of super-technology.
• Private Eye (Dark) / Joseph Lambs - p23
  A super-soldier with enhanced agility and senses, turned into a superhuman-for-hire.
• Pulse / Geena 5X5 - p24
  A nano-warrior from the far future, sent back by robots to protect the breeding population of the Creator Race.
• Red Rodrii / Rodrii Evans - p25
  A Welsh miner and activist turned superhero after exposure to a strange underground gas.
• The Sight / Harvey Seitz - p26
  A teenage robotics prodigy blinded by cybernetic feedback from a superhuman fight, now devoted to revenge against all superhumans.
• Silverjolt / Jaqua Krell-Bopp - p27
  An alien tourist from Altos IV playing supervillainess for the fun of it.
• Sun Daughter / Janice White - p28
  A refugee of East-Central Africa whose super-strength activated when she was almost raped at age 12.
• Visor / Oliver O'Reilly - p29
  A child born with no senses except sight due to a terrorist gas attack, who grew up to be a super-gadgeteer hero.
• Will o' the Wisp - p30
  A psionic tempter from another dimension, devoted to mischief and suffering.