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Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Professional criminal, ivory trader
Legal Status: Unknown
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of Kraven the Hunter
Known Powers and Equipment:
Imitation: He has the Incredible ability to assume the appearance of any one he chooses, including pigmentation, hair, and body shape. He requires his Computer Belt to trigger this power. If he loses the belt, he reverts to his normal, dead-white form. Any change takes 2 turns. It is unknown whether this procedure can change his apparent gender.
Computer Belt: This serves three functions. A video scanner records a person’s overall appearance and feeds that information into a visual synthesizer that interpolates the rest of the person’s appearance. Its memory banks can store hundreds of such images. When an image is called up via a code tapped on the belt’s keypad, subtle electrical signals trigger changes in the Chameleon’s body and pigmentation. A secondary signal alters the appearance of his clothing.
Memory Material: Chameleon’s clothing is made of a special fabric that can reshape and recolor itself in 2 turns. The change is triggered by his computer belt.
Knockout darts: He carries a small air pistol that fires darts up to 40’. The darts contain an Excellent potency anesthetic that knocks a victim Unconscious for 1-10 hours.
Knockout gas: A small aerosol can emits a cloud of Excellent potency. The cloud is potent up to 10’ away. Victims fall asleep for 1-10 hours.
Smoke Bomb: Remarkable intensity opaque mist fills 40’ radius.
In his early career, he depended on these devices:
Mask: Chameleon originally used masks that could be formed into a
life-like copy of a chosen person’s face. When Chameleon sprayed it with a
special gas, it dissolved and reverted to another shape, such as a different
likeness or his normal white mask. This change took 2 turns.
Colorshift clothing: His original clothing was made of a special
fabric that changed to another color when sprayed with a special gas. The change
took 2 turns.
Talents:
Master of Disguise, Espionage, Politics, and Business Administration. He is an Explosives expert and a good Marksman with his air-pistol.
Contacts:
Chameleon was Kraven’s agent for selling ivory and animal skins. While in disguise, he has access to the contacts of whoever he is impersonating.
Role-Playing Notes:
Chameleon is dedicated to seeking revenge against the entire United States for his earlier defeats. He intends to trigger its economical and political collapse. He was impetuous in his early career, but he has outgrown this. Now he is patient; if a plot fails, he will walk away from it. In his words, “if at first you don’t succeed, find the nearest airport.”
The Chameleon is not normally a killer. He usually kidnaps a person he wants to impersonate, then makes sure his subject is safely stashed away but otherwise unharmed. If circumstances prevent this, he kills with a bomb that renders the victim’s corpse unrecognizable.
History:
The Chameleon is one of Spider-Man’s earliest foes. He originally used his skills at espionage and disguise to obtain secret plans and government documents. Despite the basic soundness of his plots, he was defeated by Spider-Man. Chameleon retaliated with more plots against Spider-Man: plans that eventually dissolved into simple criminality, but even these were thwarted. Chameleon varied his tactics by enticing the obsessive big-game hunter Kraven into traveling to New York in search of the biggest game of all, Spider-Man.
In the following years, Chameleon retreated into the shadows. He continued to
sell the skins and ivory that Kraven collected from the animals he slaughtered.
Recently, Chameleon became active again. After months of contemplation, he
regained his personal focus and dedicated himself anew to his long-neglected
dream of destroying the United States. He used his wealth to finance the
development of a unique serum. This drug transformed his body into featureless,
colorless, but completely malleable flesh. By means of controlled electrical
impulses, this new flesh could reshape and recolor itself into any likeness he
chose. He also developed his computer control belt and a video scanner that
would enable his equipment to work.
He developed a long-range plan composed of a series of seemingly unrelated acts. The first stage was gaining financial power during which he assumed the identities of a series of millionaire investors and industrialists. While in their identities, he transferred their assets into the new organization he was building. Next, he assumed the identity of notable scientists and plundered their labs for industrial secrets he could sell to foreign competitors and thus dull U.S. technological advantages. He also built connections with organized crime, in order to gain the assistance he needed. During these stages, he assumed the identities of Roland Carson and William Dukane, two business rivals, and Dr. Edmund Debevic, a leader in superconductivity research. It was during his attempt to impersonate and kill Dr. Debevic that Spider-Man discovered the Chameleon was active again.
Spider-Man’s interference prompted the next phase, in which Chameleon kidnapped and replaced J. Jonah Jameson. His intention was to manipulate public opinion, undermine confidence in political institutions, promote apathy and cynicism, and especially discredit Spider-Man. To this last goal, he has promoted Nick Katzenberg’s photos that only show Spider-Man in questionable acts. As Jameson, he spreads accusations about Spider-Man while, suppressing complimentary or explanatory stories.