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Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Supercriminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Identity: Known to police
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Prison and mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Ex-ally of Egghead, Wizard, and Puppet Master
Known Powers:
Total Memory: He has Monstrous recall. This enables him to simulate some mental powers as Power Stunts:
- Hyper-Invention: Monstrous Reason when creating robots and androids.
- Weapons Tinkering: Monstrous Reason when building any weapon he has previously read plans for. These weapons can be incorporated into robots and androids as powers.
Equipment:
Hypnolens: Incredible Hypnotic Control over anyone looking at it.
Talents:
The Thinker is a superb organizer of previously discovered facts. He has Monstrous computer programming and Engineering skills.
Contacts:
None (he’s alienated them all).
Role-Playing Notes:
The Thinker has three goals. First, the accumulation of as much new knowledge as possible. Second, the accumulation of great wealth. Third, revenge on the Fantastic Four for the frequent defeats they have dealt him. He prefers to work behind the scenes rather than to battle foes directly. In fact, since he is currently serving a prison term in upstate New York, any Thinker who is encountered is probably a replica.
History:
The origin of the Mad Thinker is unknown. He led an extraordinarily successful criminal career without the police ever learning he was a criminal, thanks to the brilliance of his strategies. Aided by his advanced computers, the Thinker could predict the probable course of events virtually down to the smallest detail, and used this knowledge in planning his crimes. (He calls himself the Thinker; however, once he became publicly known as a criminal, his superhuman opponents and the news media labeled him “the Mad Thinker,” much to his continued exasperation.)
Eventually the Thinker met with many of the country’s leading crime bosses to tell them of his plan to seize control of New York City and turn it into an independent nation with himself as its ruler. The crime bosses would serve to enforce his rule. To rid himself of the probable opposition of the Fantastic Four, who were then the only New York City-based team of superhuman crime-fighters, the Thinker arranged for each of the team members to be offered a highly attractive job. The four teammates accepted the offers, but while they were gone from their Baxter Building headquarters, the Thinker and his allies took over. The Thinker thus gained access to the knowledge and equipment of the Fantastic Four’s leader Reed Richards, a scientific genius. Using this information the Thinker constructed the first of his superhuman androids. When the Fantastic Four returned, the Thinker used the android and Reed Richards’ own weaponry to battle them. But Richards defeated the Thinker by arranging to have a circuit-breaker activated that rendered all of Richards’ electronic equipment and weaponry useless. Thus the Thinker was sent to prison apparently for the first time.
Since then the Thinker has clashed unsuccessfully many times with the Fantastic Four and other superhuman adventurers, including the Avengers, Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Sub-Mariner, and the X-Men. He once attempted to conquer the world in league with his occasional partner the Puppet Master and the criminal scientist Egghead. However, usually the Thinker directs his crimes toward three other goals: the accumulation of further knowledge (as in his continued attempts to steal Reed Richards’ scientific secrets), the amassing of great wealth, and vengeance on the Fantastic Four. The Thinker once found and revived the original android Human Torch to use him as a weapon against the Fantastic Four. After the original Torch was apparently destroyed, the Thinker turned him over to the robotic Ultron, who recreated the Torch as the Vision. The Thinker also brainwashed the original Torch’s partner, Toro, into serving him.