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Real Name: Terrance “Terry” Sorenson
Occupation: Criminal
Legal Status: U.S. Citizen
Identity: Known to police
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Dr. David Sorenson (father, deceased), Dr. Margay Sorenson (mother)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Body Armor: Equinox’s altered and condensed body tissue grants him Excellent (20) resistance to physical damage, and Good (10) resistance to energy damage.
Thermodynamic Flux: Equinox’s body is in a constant state of thermodynamic flux. Theoretically, his body is constantly absorbing and expelling heat in massive amounts, resulting in coruscating flame and ice over his body. While his torso is covered with flames, Equinox fires bolts of ice from his hands; the flames show that he is absorbing the heat around him to reflexively create ice. When covered in ice, he fires bolts of fire; he is expelling all the heat within his body through his flame blasts. The thermal changes grant him the following powers:
- Flame/Ice Corona: The rippling fire and ice coverings that appear during Equinox’s thermal changes grant him CL1000 resistance to fire/heat and ice/cold attacks. He is not resistant to the physical effects of solid ice (such as loss of traction), but normal temperatures and hot and cold energy attacks have little effect on him. However, if attacked by Excellent or greater Intensity fire or ice simultaneously, Equinox’s thermodynamic energy erupts in a Remarkable force explosion that affects everything in Equinox’s area. The flame corona melts any material in contact with it of less than Excellent Material Strength.
- Fire & Ice Generation: Equinox generates Remarkable Intensity fire and ice with a range of two areas. The only power stunts Equinox has are to use ice to create slides and entangle foes.
Equipment:
Shielding Suit: Equinox formerly wore a “protective shielding suit” made of an unknown metal. Presumably, this full-body suit contained and controlled Equinox’s temperature fluxes and thus kept him mentally stable. The only times Equinox is capable of firing both fire and ice at once is while wearing this suit. The suit is made of Good rank material but does not grant more protection from attacks.
Talents:
None known.
Contacts:
Though Terry has attacked his mother on numerous occasions, she is still working on a cure for his condition and he could count on her for help if he were willing to accept it.
Role-Playing Notes:
Equinox generally acts like a typical, megalomaniacal supervillain, lashing out forcefully at anything in his path. He is in his late teens or early twenties, and he is becoming insane. His speech patterns frequently switch from a sophisticated adult to a slang-using teenager. Early in his career as Equinox, Terry simply wanted to be cured of his condition. His constant changes affected his mind, and he became cruel, vindictive, and generally hostile. Any frustrations are attacked with ferocity, including his mother’s attempts to cure him.
History:
Equinox was born Terrance “Terry” Sorenson, the son of Drs. David and Margay Sorenson. While Terry grew up, his mother became a famous figure in the natural science division at Brad College in New York. His father, however, did not gain the same fame his wife did, due to his unconventional theories on thermodynamics. He began taking out his frustrations on his wife, physically abusing her. Margay soon left her husband and son to escape the abuse.
David began drinking in his basement lab, its confines filled with makeshift computers and jury-rigged systems to test his theories. Margay returned in time to see an entire wall of the house shatter from an explosion. Making their way to the basement, Terry and Margay found the lab engulfed in flames and David pinned under fallen equipment, his leg broken. Terry rushed to help his father when unidentified energy beams erupted from damaged equipment. The energy killed David and transformed Terry into Equinox.
Dr. Sorenson took a leave of absence to care for her son and to search for a cure for his condition. She had to reconstruct David’s notes and taught herself a new physical science from the ground up. One of her early attempts to cure Terry was the creation of his “protective shielding suit.” But soon her money reserves ran out, and Terry began to steal the equipment they needed for his cure.
The Human Torch was inspecting Faversham’s Jewelry Store when he found a patch of ice that hadn’t melted in the heat of the day. The Torch was blind-sided by an ice bolt, and his assailant escaped.
Acting on the evidence he’d gathered, the Torch confronted Iceman, convinced he’d been the one who robbed Faversham’s store. After a minor battle between the Torch and Iceman was broken up by the original X-Men, the pair teamed up to solve the mystery.
Returning to the jewelry store, they arrived to see a blast demolish one wall of the store. Entering the hole, they found its edges were hot and smooth, as if someone had melted through the wall. In the darkened store, the two heroes were simultaneously hit by bolts of fire and ice fired by Equinox.
As Equinox attempted to flee with a package of stolen goods, Iceman felled him with an ice blast that tore his protective suit. Apparently, the suit regulated Terry’s temperature changes and the tear canceled this property of the suit. As his temperature changes returned, the changes caused him to become more aggressive and hostile.
Equinox managed to escape with his package, but the two heroes caught up with him later. Simultaneously firing blasts of ice and fire, Iceman and Torch hit Equinox “at the precise moment of his molecular change.” This temporarily halted Equinox’s internal fluctuations, and his stored excess energy caused an explosion. All that remained was a crater in the street leading to the sewers. Equinox was presumed dead, but he had actually escaped through the sewers to safety.
Months later, Spider-Man was attacked over the Queensborough Bridge by a blast of fire that changed to ice as it traveled toward him. The blast of fire/ice was spotted from a nearby apartment by Hank and Janet Pym, a.k.a. Yellowjacket and the Wasp. Yellowjacket rescued the unconscious Spider-Man from the East River, and brought him home.
Equinox soon attacked the trio at the apartment. The battle destroyed much of the Pym’s penthouse, and the resulting rubble and commotion caused a traffic jam on the streets below. Yelowjacket used his disrupter stings to blast Equinox out the window. The Thermodynamic Man created an ice slide to break his fall and brought the fight down to the street.
As the heroes pursued Equinox and continued the battle, Dr. Sorenson arrived with her latest invention, intending to stop Terry’s rampage. Equinox responded by throwing a car at her in an attempt to kill her. She was pulled from its path by Spider-Man, but its gas tank exploded and the Wasp was knocked unconscious from the blast.
Fighting Equinox alone, Yellowjacket moved the fight away from the traffic and his injured wife. Equinox blasted a fuel truck with a fire blast, and the truck exploded. Equinox survived, but it appeared that Yellowjacket had died in the explosion.
Dr. Sorenson used her thermic stabilizer gun in an attempt to cure Equinox, but the gun had no effect on him. The heroes and the doctor went to the Baxter Building to use the Fantastic Four’s laboratory to attempt to discover a better cure for Equinox.
Spider-Man managed to jury-rig Dr. Sorenson’s gun with a harness to increase the effectiveness of the thermic stabilizing energy. Equinox attacked the lab (with no resistance from the disabled security systems) and was on the verge of defeating Spider-Man when Yellowjacket appeared.
Yellowjacket’s “death” and reappearance caused the Wasp to produce adrenalin, the final ingredient needed to complete some adaptations Yellowjacket had made to her powers. These events triggered her increased powers, a birthday present from her husband, and she used her more powerful “wasp’s sting” to nearly knock out Equinox. Yellowjacket placed the stabilizer harness on the stunned Equinox, which temporarily neutralized his powers.
Equinox was last seen being taken to police headquarters by the Pyms and his mother. It has been a number of years in Marvel time since he has been seen, cured or not. Equinox’s current condition and whereabouts are unknown.