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Real Name: Martin Preston
Occupation: Former actor, head of Anvil Pictures, and Demon Commander
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Anvil Studios, Los Angeles, California
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Demonic Limbs: At will, Master Pandemonium can detach his arms and legs, which are actually demons. Pandemonium has Unearthly control over his demons, whose stats are:
| F | A | S | E | R | I | P |
| Rm | Gd | Rm | Gd | Ty | Gd | Ty |
| Heaalth: 80 | ||||||
| Body Armor: Good Flight: Excellent Claws: Excellent |
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Demon-Horde: Master Pandemonium can summon 1-10 demons per
round through the star-shaped hole in his chest. They have the same stats and
powers as his limb-demons.
Invulnerability: Master Pandemoni um has a Class-1000 resistance
to fire.
Eldritch Attacks: Master Pandemonium can exhale a flame blast and
shoot force bolts of Monstrous intensity and range from his hands. His fire,
which is magical in nature, affects those who have protection against, or who
absorb, normal fire (such as the Human Torch).
Power Absorption—Demonic: Master Pandemonium has the same body
armor and flight as his demons.
Familiar—Asmodeus: This demonic bird has the same statistics and
powers as the limb-demons, and Amazing magic detection and Excellent growth
powers as well.
Amulet of Asmodeus: This device allows Master Pandemonium to
teleport with Amazing ability; it has covered several miles in one trip. In the
hands of an enemy, it prevents Pandemonium from releasing demons.
Talents:
Master Pandemonium has Acting and Business/Finance talents, and knowledge of Occult Lore.
Contacts:
Master Pandemonium is an unwilling servant of Mephisto.
Role-Playing Notes:
As a former actor, Martin Preston seems to be viewing himself as someone playing the role of a villain, rather than as a real person involved in villainous activity. His goal is very real, however: to find “the Five,” pieces of his soul that were scattered by Mephisto, acquisition of which will allegedly restore him to his normal self. Master Pandemonium will do anything to regain his soul, despite the fact that he is dealing with one of the least reliable beings in existence.
History:
Martin Preston was a rich and successful Hollywood actor who ran his car off a cliff while drinking and driving one night. Preston lost his right arm in the fall and was hanging upside down by his seatbelt when the demon Mephisto appeared in answer to his screams of agony. Preston offered Mephisto his soul in exchange for having his arm restored to him. Mephisto, agreeing, summoned a lesser demon, wrenched off its arm, and magically attached it to Preston’s shoulder stump. Preston lost consciousness in the process and was insensate when Mephisto severed his uninjured left arm and replaced it with a demon-arm, as well. When Preston awoke, he found a star-shaped hole in his stomach. Mephisto appeared and told him that he had broken the actor’s soul into five pieces and scattered it across reality. Each piece of his soul would fit into a place in the star-hole, and that it was up to Preston to discover the whereabouts of “the Five.”
There are as yet no accounts of Preston’s activities between his acquisition of demonic arms and his first encounter with the West Coast Avengers. It is known that he adopt ed the name Master Pandemonium (pandemonium meaning “abode of all demons”) and purchased the Anvil Pictures movie studio where he once worked.
Master Pandemonium’s chief preoccupation is finding “The Five,” five demons who have special significance to him. He believed the fledgling superhuman champion Firebird was one of the Five and attacked her. Determining she was not, he ordered his demon-arms to defeat her, and then left. Firebird went to the West Coast Avengers for aid in finding him. When Master Pandemonium and his demon hordes attacked the Thing, in an attempt to determine if he was one of the Five, the West Coast Avengers arrived to combat him. He managed to hold them off by summoning his horde of demons and escaped.
Later, the other-dimensional Cat People, who regarded Pandemonium as a threat to their existence, gave Tigra of the West Coast Avengers the task of slaying the actor. Tigra, who is the mythic warrior-woman of the Cat People, got her chance some time later when the West Coast Avengers tracked Master Pandemonium to his motion picture studio, but he managed to elude her. Shortly afterward, Pandemonium invaded the land of the Cat People, where he found one of the Five. Pursued by the West Coast Avengers, he fell into a gateway and ended up on a planet orbiting Arcturus, but returned to Earth with the help of the Fantastic Four. Master Pandemonium is currently at large, still searching for the Five.