Monday, August 31, 2020

CRIMINAL DOSSIER: THE ABSORBER

NAME:  Joseph Bennett


ALIAS: The Absorber

HEIGHT:

KNOWN MEDICAL CONDITIONS:  None

SUSPECTED META-HUMAN ABILITIES:


KNOWN ASSOCIATES

The Absorber is the co-leader, along with the energy being know as Microwave, of the organization known as the Terrorist Hierarchy of Evil & Malevolence or T.H.E.M.

Members currently include:

  • The Absorber
  • Microwave
  • Ice Crystal
  • Donner
  • Geomorph

BACKSTORY

Joseph Bennett is the son of Reginald Bennett a career bureaucrat in the British government working for the Office of the Lord High Chancellor. Joseph has always been a rebellious individual. In his late teens he became involved with an anarchist group know as the "World Anarchist Revolution" and assisted in their "disruptive" actions against the British government. Over the years he truly began to believe that all forms of government were corrupt and served to exploit and fleece the sheep who allowed themselves to believe their lies. He also came to the conclusion the only true way to be a free person was to act in one own "enlightened self interest". The world was not a fair place and and individual was only entitled to whatever thy could take and hold for themselves. 

As a result Joseph began a rather successful "criminal" career and avoided being caught or identified by authorities, it was during a trip to the United States, where he and some other Anarchists was going to sabotage a series of power stations in New York state in order to create wide spread chaos that would act as cover for a local groups attacks on banks, as well as other targets, that several badly place explosives cause a high tension power line to fall on him electrocuting him. Another pylon also collapsed causing the power line to be jerked off him just before death claimed him. 

While he was recovering, and  reeling, from his near electrocution a relative new Super Hero responded to his groups activities at the Power Station. As the Hero began rounding up the members of his terrorist cell he began to panic. He felt his mind reach out and latch on to the hero that had been putting out the various fires with ice powers, suddenly he felt a cold power roar through his system, and he some how knew how to use that same power the hero had been using. In desperation he turned the new power against the hero and managed to defeat him. He freed his compatriots and they went on the run. They all went their separate ways. Over time Joseph hunted them down as they were the only people who knew Joseph Bennett now had super powers. As far as he was concerned they couldn't be allowed to tell anybody else of his new abilities or he would never be able to properly exploit his new abilities to their fullest.