Nah, he's a Mind Control/Psi Assault Dominator. (Mass Confusion = a riot!)

This is my planned Thugs/Traps Mastermind:

A former gentleman bandit whose MO involved posing as domestic staff in wealthy homes, then sticking the place up and shooting it out with the cops to escape, Jim Corcoran found he was getting too old for that action after his last stretch in the Zig. Now he employs angry young urban men to do the heavy lifting, and tries to elevate their situation by his suave and debonair example. Thanks to his old MO, he's known to the authorities as the dastardly... Gunbutler!

--G.
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Oooh. I see. And sometimes he puts you to sleep and sometimes he just makes your head hurt, just like punk music. Or am I reading too much into it...?

IPaR is wearing the villain-only (for now) "Blast Goggles", but I do tend to use the "Techno" model as something of a signature item on many of my heroes. Captain Photon and the Silver Spectre both wear them, Gen. Rossum's cyber-eye is essentially one lens from a pair of Techno goggles... heck, even Doc Cyclone, my fledgling Storm/Electric Defender, wears them, and he's some kind of freakin' wizard. ("Scientific Thaumaturgist", if you please.)

Mind you, they do different things. Spectre's are night-vision goggles, while Cap's are just the opposite - they're "holy CRAP, my powers cause a hell of a lot of glare" goggles. :)

--G.
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D'oh! Some niggling detail was poking me, but I could'a sworn...

>Mind you, they do different things.

They just look "all-purpose" in the design editor. For Utilitarian they're an exo-cortex, for Dragonflyer (and Aviatress's old costume) they look like pilot goggles. My compliments to whoever designed them, because for such a simple, small graphic, they are amazingly adaptable.

On an unrelated note... Doc Cyclone sounds familiar. Has he shown up in any EPU stories, or are the only "Cyclones" those Robotech-based cycles from the CORE stories?

Doc is, as far as I know, original as of a couple-three weeks ago. Nobody like him has appeared in UF that I can think of, and he certainly bears no relation to the Cyclone series of Veritech motorcycles.

Here's what the hero information terminals in Paragon City have to say about him, if you have a Security Level of at least 1:

Doc Cyclone
Security Level 6

Cornelius R. Cyclone
77 Grenville Drive
Salamanca, RI 02999
(401) 555-7274

Captain, U.S. Army (retired)
Born May 23, 1925, Salamanca, Rhode Island

U.S. Army/Royal Army Joint Counter-Paranormal Company ("Company 13") 1941-1945
Initiate, Hermetic Order of Britannic Knights 1942
Bronze Star 1944 (Sword Beach, Normandy)
Silver Star 1944 (Bastogne, Belgium)

Bachelor of Arts in Medieval Metaphysics, Salamanca State Teachers' College 1947
Master of Magic, Paragon University 1949
Doctor of Thaumaturgy, Miskatonic University 1951
Doctor of Alchemy, Miskatonic University 1952
Professor of Sorcerous Sciences, Salamanca College 1954-1994
Professor Emeritus, Salamanca College 1994-
MAGI Board of Governors 1985-1994

Rhode Island State Fair Champion Pumpkin Grower 1997, 1999, 2001

Licensed Hero 1945-1994
Hero license reactivated May 24, 2002
Hero license deactivated December 31, 2002
Hero license reactivated May 24, 2006

Hero Classification Defender
Origin Magic
Currently known powers include Weather control, Electrical projection
Formerly known powers no longer observed include Flight, Super speed

License home zone Galaxy City
Residence zone Croatoa

(Can you work out from the information provided what he won his Silver Star for in WWII? :)

--G.
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Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

McAuliffe, but you must be more specific; just showing up wasn't enough to win the Silver Star, you know.

--G.
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Polychrome

You win!

In fact, he fought and won a long-range, sight-unseen sorcerers' duel with the SS weather mage team who were responsible for Bastogne being socked in in the first place.

--G.
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Duh... Roit, weather control. For some reason with the school names involved I thought the Reich had one of the really squicky's around to help with the carnage in the bulge

Oh, Company 13 saw a lot of seriously hairy action against the various SS mage units and Hitler's various mystic-oriented black projects. It wasn't all just futzing with the weather, though matters meteorological were that particular Company 13 member's specialty.

--G.
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Doc today:

And as a lad of not-quite-20:

--G.
(with thanks to Captain Photon for standing in for young Cyclone)
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