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Real Name: “Buck” Mitty
Occupation: Out-of-work entomologist and professor, criminal
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with a criminal record
Identity: The general public doesn’t care who Humbug is.
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base Of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: None
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Insect Noises: Humbug has a collection of cassette tapes, each of which holds the call of a particular insect. Properly amplified through Hum bug’s gloves, these insects’ noises have a variety of effects. To date, the Humbug has demonstrated the following effects:
- Eye-spotted Budmoth: A hypersonic pitch that delivers Good Throwing Blunt damage and requiring onlookers to make a Red Intuition FEAT roll (Green if the character in question can hear hyper-sonic calls) to determine the direction of the attack.
- Imbricated Snout Beetle: A powerful attack, magnetically charging all metal objects in the target area with the same polarity at Incredible intensity, so that they repel each other. Humbug can use this power with a three area range.
- Oblique-banded Leaf Roller: A vibrating hum that requires its victims to make an Endurance FEAT roll against Amazing intensity to avoid chortling uncontrollably. The blast has a three area range, and can affect all targets in the same area. A victim can attempt to break free of the effects once every three rounds.
- Wheat-stem Sawfly: An Excellent Throwing Edged attack with a two area range.
- Salt-marsh Mosquito: This shrieking attack shatters all glass for four areas in all areas in a general line-of-sight. In the Humbug’s target area, this attack shorts out all electronic equipment.
- Meadow Spittle-bug: Good Force damage to all objects in the target area, up to two areas away.
- Saw-toothed Grain Beetle: A delicate wheezing that melts electronic equipment in the same area as the Humbug while not interfering with any charges passing through that equipment. The Humbug uses this sound to evade alarm systems.
- Buffalo Tree-hopper: Incredible intensity Force damage with a two area range.
- Bloodsucking Cone Nose: The Cone Nose has a roar which can set small fires. Amplified, the sound gives the Humbug the Amazing ability to ignite combustibles within a four-area range.
Humbug is a trained entomologist, receiving +1cs to any research done in that area.
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Mitty is obsessive about his little friends. He is first and foremost concerned that insects are studied and appreciated. His crime spree originated when he desperately needed money to continue his research. He would never intentionally endanger anyone unless insect lives were in danger.
Buck Mitty was the victim of a tightened academic budget at Empire State University, as his Entomology department was the subject of severe cut-backs. Rather than accept a transfer to another area in the Biological Sciences, Mitty quit. He regretted his decision soon enough, for he was now without the funds necessary to continue his research into our six-legged friends.
And so began a life of crime.
His first outing, an attempt to steal several million dollars worth of black pearls, was abortive, as an armed gang of thugs had beaten Humbug to the waterfront. Humbug would have confronted the thieves and taken the pearls if not for the intervention of Spider-Man, whose entrance discouraged Humbug.
The next afternoon, Humbug attempted to steal millions of dollars from an armored car, only to be put down by Spider-Man after an unsurprisingly brief fight.
Released by a sympathetic judge, Humbug returned to crime, now in tending to rob Empire State University. Again, he encountered Spider-Man, and surrendered when Spidey threatened to kill a jar of roaches. Humbug is currently in prison awaiting trial.