THE BRUTE

F- EX (20)
A- GD (10)
S- AM (50)
E- MN (75)
R- FB (2)
I- TY (6)
P- PR (4)
H- 155
K- 12
R- none
P- -30 (He's a monster! What do you expect...a fan club?)

Powers: Body Armor

Though tougher than the average persons skin, the Brute can still be harmed by bullets. Thus, I'm giving him POOR resistance to physical attacks.

Resistance to cold: He doesn't seem to be bothered by extreme cold, so assume that he has INCREDIBLE resistance to cold. If he's actually encased in ice, he most make a Yellow Endurance FEAT or slip into suspended animation until unthawed.

Limitations: Brute lacks any understanding of the modern world or even the intellect to learn. Or at least it seemed so at first. In his last appearance he spoke his first words - "Ball -- My Ball!"

Talents: Eating people, Being frozen, Chasing balls into traffic.
Contacts: The only person dumb enough to be called one of Brutes "Contacts" would be the bimbo anthropologist "Dr. Ann Foster."

History: The Brute is the last surviving member of a race of similarly mutated Neanderthals who were all killed off by other, unmutated tribes of Neanderthals.

Flash to the future, where the Brute awakens and devours some climbers and their father. The Police show up and capture him, and a vaguely defined anthropologist named Ann Foster adopts him and tries to communicate with him. Eventually, the Brute gets free, is shot by the Police (the Brute is NOT bullet proof!) and then defeated by the cyborg "Doomstalker". That's the last issue.

Oh, and he apparently fought some Lizard Men in his second appearance.

The Brute was very poorly thought out. When he first appears he towers over the humans he eats, but only two issues later he's shown to be perhaps 8 or 9 feet tall. Also, Gary Friedrich (the writer) seems to actually hate woman, as many of the females in his Atlas comic stories seem to be vapid toys or simply unforgivably stupid. Perhaps in your campaign you could choose to make Ann Foster a little less dense, and think of a reasonable explanation for the Brutes variable height. I've decided that the reason for his random height is connected to mutant powers he can't control. And his Blue skin? In my campaign he's a primitive Kree whose people were seeded here by the Stranger for reasons of his own.

Description: When he first awoke from his long slumber, the Brute was between 18 and 15 feet tall. By his last appearance he was about 8 feet tall. In any case, the Brute is shaggy, ape-like, bright blue and usually shown with a necklace of teeth. If anyone out there doesn't agree with me that he was nothing but a Hulk rip-off...I should also point out that in his third issue he's depicted wearing torn purple pants!

Personality: When unthawed, the Brute's first action was to eat people. Later (thanks to the care of Doctor Ann Foster) he evolved into a man-eater with a fetish for balls. Like many Atlas Heroes, his first reaction to all stimuli is violence. Only Dr. Foster has been able to handle him for any length of time. As a character in the Marvel Superheroes Universe, he's got more in common with creatures like "GROGG" and "The GLOP" than he does with the Hulk or Man-Thing. Perhaps Ann Fosters care will eventually expose a more docile (or at the very least...less violent) side of the Brute.