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Real Name: Phillip Wallace Sterling
Alias: Exterminator
Occupation: Professional criminal
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no known criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Riverdale, the Bronx, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Elizabeth Dawes Sterling (mother)
Base of Operations: An interdimensional realm
Past Group Affiliations: Former leader of the Unholy Three (as the Exterminator)
Known Powers:
Intangibility: Death-Stalker ordinarily exists in an interdimensional realm lying close to Earth’s dimension. From this dimension he can observe Earth without being seen. He can also temporarily materialize n Earth, either as an intangible “phantom” or as a solid figure. He can materialize on Earth for up to five hours but must rest in his interdimensional realm for at least that much time before returning.
As an intangible phantom, Death-Stalker is totally immune to physical and psionic harm. Each round he must decide whether he wishes to be solid or intangible. He cannot be both in a single round.
Death-Stalker can also “teleport” by moving quickly through his
interdimensional realm, then reappearing on Earth an equal distant away. This
allows him to teleport at Good Rank.
Cybernetic Death grip: Death-Stalker has designed a pair of
cybernetic deathgrip devices which he wears underneath his gloves. He must be in
solid form and must touch his victim with a Fighting FEAT roll. The victim must
make an Endurance FEAT roll against Monstrous intensity or die. Resistance vs.
Radiation rank numbers add to Endurance numbers, as the deathgrip device
bombards the victim with micro-waves.
Talents:
Death-Stalker has the Electronics and Repair/Tinkering talents.
Contacts:
Death-Stalker has had several unnamed criminal contacts in the New York underworld.
Role-Playing Notes:
Death-Stalker is a terrifying figure, and he knows it. As the Exterminator, Sterling was a typical scheming mastermind, but as Death-Stalker, he was obsessed with destroying Daredevil and draining off the energies that prevented him from existing on Earth.
History:
The criminal known as Death-Stalker was Phillip Wallace Sterling, the last member of an old, wealthy, and prestigious family that had lived in America for centuries. It is not known why Sterling turned to crime. He conducted his first known criminal activities under the alias of the Exterminator. In this role Sterling was the costumed mastermind behind a series of crimes committed by the original criminals known as Ape-Man, Bird-Man, and Cat-Man, who were otherwise known as the Unholy Three. The Exterminator developed a “time displacer ray” or “T-ray” with which he could banish a person or object from his own dimension for a period of his choosing. The Exterminator claimed that the ray projected its target into another “time continuum,” but actually, the T ray projected its victim into a limbo-like interdimensional void lying close to normal reality. If the Exterminator banished a victim for 30 minutes, then he or she would automatically return to Earth once the half hour was up. However, an intense enough amount of “displacement” radiation could exile a victim to the interdimensional void permanently. The Exterminator wished to create the impression that he and the Unholy Three might have actually disintegrated their victims with their portable “time-displacement guns”; hence, he chose the nom du crime “Exterminator.”
During a clash with the costumed crimefighter Daredevil, Ape-Man succeeded in exiling Daredevil to the void with his displacement gun. Daredevil was able to use his powers and skills to escape through a dimension warp, and tracked the Exterminator and the Unholy Three to their lair. After defeating the four, Daredevil intentionally triggered the explosion of the Exterminator’s main displacement machine. At that time, Daredevil had temporarily grown tired of his superhero career, and was hoping to end it by feigning his own demise. What Daredevil did not realize was that the explosion caused the nearby Exterminator to be irradiated with an extraordinary amount of the dimensional- displacement radiation. The result was that the Exterminator found him self in an interdimensional realm so close to Earth that he could see into it without being detected from Earth. He also learned that he could rematerialize on Earth simply by willing himself to do so, and then mentally will himself back into the interdimensional realm. However, he found it impossible to remain on Earth for more than several hours at a time, because the T-radiation in his body inevitably drew him back into the interdimensional realm.
The Exterminator realized that his power had great potential for crime even as he longed for a means to control it so that he could stay on Earth as long as he wished. There fore, he adopted the new name and costume of the Death-Stalker. He stole blueprints for a “cybernetic death-grip” from AIM and used them to create mechanisms in his gloves to give him a “touch of death.” He stole the secret inventions, documents, and so forth from supposedly inaccessible placed with his powers, and also attempted to obtain the materials necessary to build a T-ray machine that could enable him to stay on Earth as long as he wanted.
Yet Death-Stalker found himself continually thwarted in both these areas by Daredevil, whom he blamed for his inability to remain on Earth, and for the ravaging of his body due to the radiation. (Death Stalker now had a chalk-white skin which his costume concealed.) After many clashes with Daredevil, the Death-Stalker, who had learned Daredevil’s secret identity of Matt Murdock, hired and outfitted a new Unholy Three and sent them to capture Murdock. (The original Unholy Three had been killed only recently.) Ape-Man II and Cat-Man II succeed ed in their mission, although the Black Widow managed to stop Bird Man II. With Murdock his prisoner in a cemetery, the Death-Stalker killed Ape-Man II and Cat-Man II and revealed he was the Exterminator to Murdock. The Death-Stalker demanded that Murdock change costume and become Daredevil for one final battle. As the battle went on, Daredevil kept getting the best of him, and finally Death-Stalker, who had shifted into the interdimensional void but was still visible on Earth, leapt at Daredevil in an irrational rage. Death-Stalker had to fully materialize on Earth in order to use his “death-grip” but in fury he materialized too soon, and solidified while passing in part through a tombstone. As a result, Death-Stalker was immediately killed.
Seeking to avenge her son’s death, the Death-Stalker’s mother, Elizabeth Dawes Sterling, used her fortune to construct a series of death-traps within her enormous mansion. She had a large number of identical robots, all in the form of a little girl, built to lure Daredevil into the house. However, Mrs. Sterling died before Daredevil was induced to enter the mansion.