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Real Name: William Cross
Occupation: ex-CIA agent, mercenary
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with criminal record
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Darren (cousin)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
None
Equipment:
All of Crossfire’s powers are the result of his equipment and bionic implants.
Infrared Vision: a bionic left eye gives him Excellent vision in light or dark.
Hyper-hearing: The audio sensor that replaced his left ear gives him Incredible hearing. It can also be used to provide Incredible resistance to sound-based attacks.
Uniform: His costume’s special fabric gives him Good protection from physical attacks and Excellent protection from heat or cold-based at tacks.
Mind Control Equipment: His sonic inventions give him Monstrous Mind Control. Subjects are filled with intense hatred and violence. Victims failing a Psyche FEAT will attack everyone in range until the machine is shut off or the victim removed from its effect. This equipment has a range of 2 areas.
Miscellaneous Equipment: Pouches in his costume conceal a variety of items like gas masks, surveillance bugs, and single-shot weapons (treat as cheap handguns).
Protected Senses: Incredible resistance to sound-based mind-control.
Talents:
Crossfire has Martial Arts B and E, Marksmanship, Detective/Espionage, Computers, and theoretical and applied Ultrasonics.
Contacts:
Various criminal groups, mercenaries, CIA contacts, and scientists who specialize in mind-control.
Role-Playing Notes:
Crossfire is a mercenary villain who opposes superheroes because of their potential interference with his plans. His overall plans are to regain his equipment and resources; destroy Earth’s superheroes; and conquer the world for profit. He is an able long-range planner but he often stumbles over immediate difficulties.
He is currently nearly penniless, hence, his plots are extremely low budget affairs.
History:
William Cross joined the Central Intelligence Agency with the intention to learn the secrets of the trade and to make contacts that might some day prove useful. Specializing in in formation gathering and extraction, Cross worked with scientists within the organization to develop an extremely effective means of brain washing people with ultrasonics. Quitting the CIA soon after, Cross used his skills and resources to be gin a number of highly profitable criminal operations including drug trafficking, extortion, and assassinations. Assuming the codename Crossfire, he diverted a portion of his profits to hire a small army of mercenaries. Crossfire’s goal was to ferment disorder and subversion within society in order to make a profit.
At one point in his career, certain of his enemies booby-trapped his headquarters. The ensuing explosion robbed him of an eye and an ear. Crossfire eventually located the men who had injured him and eliminated them personally. He then used his wealth to finance a cybernetic eye and ear for himself.
Crossfire eventually decided the existence of superhumanly powerful crimefighters posed a threat to his operations. He poured his monetary resources into the refinement of his ultrasonic brainwashing device with which he hoped to brainwash all superhumans into battling one another to the death. To test the effective ness of his machine, he arranged to kidnap the Thing. Coincidentally, the Thing’s plight was witnessed by Moon Knight, who in his guise as Marc Spector, had known Crossfire during his CIA days. Together, Moon Knight and the Thing managed to destroy the prototype of Crossfire’s machine and defeat his private army. Crossfire escaped.
Despite the setback, Crossfire began work on the construction of a new, advanced model of his ultra sonic brainwashing device. He arranged to have certain components constructed at Cross Technological Enterprises, a firm founded by his cousin, Darren Cross. Learning that the Avenger Hawkeye was employed as a security guard at GTE, Crossfire devised a plan to use Hawkeye, whom he believed to be the weakest of the crimefighters, as bait to lure other superhumans into his brain washing machine. To capture Hawk- eye, Crossfire hired a trio of costumed criminals: the Silencer, Oddball, and Bombshell. Although they managed to take Hawkeye and his companion Mockingbird captive, Hawkeye escaped and brought Crossfire and his henchmen to justice. Crossfire’s equipment was confiscated and his ties to GTE severed.
Crossfire was freed from prison by the Death-Throws, a group of criminal jugglers including his former henchmen Oddball and Bombshell. The Death-Throws had been promised a sizable fee for their efforts and were angered to discover that Cross fire had no money. Crossfire found himself being used as bait in the Death-Throws’ own plot against Hawkeye and Captain America. The trap failed, and Crossfire found him self in prison once again.