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Real Name: Jerome Beechman
Occupation: Professional criminal
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Marital Status: Illegally polygamous
Known Relatives: Frederic (father), Emily (mother)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former leader of the Black Spectre, Mutant Force, and Fern-Force
Known Powers:
Speed Bursts: Mandrill can run on all fours for short periods of time with Excellent land speed. This burst lasts a maximum of 3 rounds, and a 10-round rest period is required between bursts.
Pheromones: Mandrill can control all women in an adjacent area (2-area radius) or target one woman in line- of-sight with a 5-area range. A Psyche FEAT vs. Monstrous ability is required to resist the hormonal reaction. If she fails, she becomes extremely attracted to Mandrill, sub missive, and open to his manipulation. If she has the hormonal reaction reinforced over a few months, she becomes addicted to his pheromones and will be in his power almost permanently (a Good intensity electric shock to the brain can break the effect).
Talents:
Mandrill has a Remarkable ability to forage and survive in the wilds.
Contacts:
Mandrill is a long-time partner of Nekra. He formed Black Spectre, an organization of black women dedicated to the overthrow of the American government, and Fern Force, a women’s army composed of radicals and dissidents dedicated to world conquest. He also led Mutant Force, a group of mutants who had been abandoned by Magneto.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mandrill seems to be a minor-league version of the original Magneto, a would-be mutant conqueror. Mandrill appeals to those who are politically radical, not because of any particular political philosophy, but because they are more easily manipulated into opposing the government. Man drill, a male chauvinist, is absolutely ruthless and unscrupulous. He had a grudge against the Defenders, and may try to avenge his defeats against its surviving members.
History:
Jerome Beechman was the mutant son of Frederic Beechman, an atomic research scientist at Los Alamos Atomic Proving Grounds, New Mexico, and his wife Emily. Prior to his conception, Beechman’s father, a Caucasian scientist, as well as Gemma Sinclair, a black cleaning woman, were exposed to a massive dose of radiation when faulty electrical wiring caused an explosion that breached the facility’s small experimental nuclear pile. A year later, the scientist’s son was born with black skin and tufts of body hair. Equally distressing to Gemma Sinclair and her husband was the birth of their daughter, who was born with chalk-white skin and fangs. The boy grew up hated by his peers and parents for his freakish appearance. When Beechman was ten, his father drove him out to the middle of the American desert and abandoned him. The boy swore to find his way back and exact revenge on his parents.
While in the desert, he encountered the mutant girl, Nekra Sinclair, who had been similarly mistreated and was running away from home. The two became partners and wandered the Southwest, protecting one another and shunning all other human companionship, surviving by stealth and cunning. For six years, the two educated themselves by listening outside of school-room windows and reading stolen books. One night, angry New Mexican townspeople discovered them, having heard rumors about “monsters” invading their hometown, and attacked them with pitchforks and guns. That night, Beechman and Sinclair discovered that sheer hate released latent mutant powers within them, powers they used to slay their tormentors.
As his mutant powers surfaced, Beechman’s appearance became more apelike, prompting him to take the alias “Mandrill.” With Nekra’s aid, he developed plans for the overthrow of three small West African nations with the intent of creating a utopian society, free from the American values which caused the two of them to be treated as outcasts. Their plan failed, however, when they were thwarted by the jungle adventurer Shanna the She-Devil. Mandrill and Nekra regrouped and formed Black Spectre, an organization of black women dedicated to the overthrow of the American government. This conspiracy, which culminated on the White House lawn, was thwarted by Daredevil with the help of Shanna and the Black Widow.
Nekra was taken into custody by SHIELD, while Mandrill escaped. Forsaking his long-time ally, Mandrill, still dedicated to world conquest, organized the Fern-Force, another women’s army composed of American radicals and dissidents. Aiding them was the third team of evil mutants Magneto had organized and abandoned, a group he called the Mutant Force. When his mutant allies were taken captive by the Defenders, Mandrill sent the Fern-Force to the Indian Point Nuclear Power Generating Facility, where his father and mother were now employed, to seek revenge upon them. Once again opposed by the Defenders, Mandrill was stopped when his own mother shot him. Mandrill escaped capture, however, and was rescued by members of his army.