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Real Name: Unrevealed
Alias: Maximus the Mad
Occupation: Would-be usurper of Attilan
Legal Status: Citizen of Attilan
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Island of Attilan, Atlantic Ocean
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Agon (father, deceased), Rynda (mother, deceased), Black Bolt (brother), Gorgon, Triton, Karnak, Crystal, Medusa (cousins)
Base of Operations: Attilan, Blue Area of Earth’s moon
Past Group Affiliations: Royal family of the Inhumans, leader of “Evil Inhumans,” ally of Shatterstar, ally of the Enclave
Known Powers:
Mind Control: Maximus has Incredible ability to control actions of others by overriding their minds. Although he can affect everyone within his range, he can only induce a single effect at a time, lasting until the victim is freed from his influence. He has developed these stunts:
- Possession: The target obeys Maximus’s every thought.
- Induced Amnesia: By concentrating on a single victim, he can induce amnesia with a Red FEAT.
- Mind Transferral: He may switch his mind with another person’s who is then trapped in Maximus’s (usually comatose) body. It is unknown if Maximus could use this power to survive the death of his own body.
- Invisibility (Telepathic): Maximus can alter the minds of people in the area so they immediately for get his presence, even though they can see him.
Weapons: Maximus has created a wide variety of weapons, including the Atmo-Gun, which created a Shift-X Force Field around Attilan, and the Hypno-Gun, which projected an Amazing strength Mind Control,
allegedly on a planetary scale. With his knowledge and sufficient resources, he should be able to create a device that performs any feat possible through Inhuman science, with at least Incredible rank (Amazing or better, depending on how long he works on it).
Talents:
Maximus is a genius in the fields of genetics, engineering, and physics. He has created a number of nasty inventions and beings.
Contacts:
Maximus has had contact with the Kree and the Enclave. It is unlikely the latter will trust him.
Role-Playing Notes:
Maximus usually seems to be just another power-mad, revenge-crazed megalomaniac. Yet much of what Maxim us has done has benefited the lnhumans. His creation of Omega forced the Inhumans to examine their own prejudices toward the Alpha Primitives. His alliance with the Enclave resulted in moving AttiIan to a place where they would not be endangered by atmospheric poi sons. Perhaps it is fitting that the ignoble brother of noble Black Bolt, who has accidentally inflicted destruction on Attilan, should accidentally bring about good. Yet Maximus’s title, the Mad, is well earned; his goal is to rule Attilan, and he will sell his people into slavery or ally with any group to reach this goal.
History:
Maximus, an Inhuman, was the second son of two of Attilan’s top geneticists, Agon, the head of the ruling Council of Geneticists, and Rynbda, director of the Prenatal Care Center. Subjected to the DNA-altering Terrigen Mist when he was an infant, Maximus peculiarly showed no outward sign of any mutagenic change. As he matured, he hid his developing psionic powers from the community but was less successful at disguising his antisocial tendencies. When he was about sixteen, his elder brother, Black Bolt, was released from the protective chamber in which he had been confined since birth so that he could learn to control his potentially destructive mutagenic abilities. Black Bolt witnessed Maximus making a treacherous pact with an emissary of the Kree. In an attempt to stop the
fleeing emissary, Black Bolt used his forbidden power of the quasi-sonic scream and blasted the alien ship out of the sky. When the ship crashed to the ground, it landed on the parliament building, killing several key members of the Genetics Council, including the boys’ parents. The reverberations also affected Maximus, addling his sanity and suppressing his nascent mental powers. When Black Bolt assumed the throne shortly thereafter, Maximus vowed to usurp his rule.
Maximus staged his first successful coup a few years later by creating energy beings that drove the Royal Family out of the city in search of Medusa, Black Bolt’s cousin and betrothed. In the several-year interval before they located her in America, Maximus ruled Attilan in Black Bolt’s stead. Feeling secure in his position, Maximus bade his servant, the Seeker, to locate the Royal Family and bring them back to Attilan. Immediately upon arriving, however, Black Bolt seized the crown back. Maximus activated the Atmo-Gun device to erect a dark force sphere around Attilan, imprisoning the entire race inside. Black Bolt liberated his people by using his quasi-sonic voice to destroy the barrier, at the price of devastating Attilan’s ancient architecture. Maximum’s first coup lasted several years.
Maximus succeeded in his second coup some months later. Drugging the Royal Family with will-deadening “hypno-potions,” Maximus wrested the crown from Black Bolt and had the Royal Family imprisoned. Before he could activate his Hypno-Gun, which he believed would make all mankind surrender to his will, however, the Royal family escaped and subdued him. His second coup lasted brief days.
After some time in exile, Maximus was invited back to Attilan. Detecting that Maximus’s psionic powers were beginning to return, Black Bolt had Maximus placed in a suspended animation capsule, inside which he could not use his powers. Black Bolt’s cousin Gorgon, however, objected to Black Bolt’s inhumane treatment of Maximus and freed him. Maximus found himself using his mental powers to subjugate the minds of the Inhuman populace and to give his brother Black Bolt amnesia. Maximus then restored the dark force barrier around Attilan and began negotiations with the alien Kree to sell certain Inhumans to the Kree to be used as soldiers. Eventually Black Bolt’s memory returned, and with the Avengers, he returned to Attilan and once again destroyed the barrier. Maximus’s third takeover of Attilan lasted several weeks.
Maximus staged his fourth successful coup when he kidnapped two members of the Royal Family and forced Black Bolt to give him the crown in order to spare their lives. Black Bolt did so and allowed himself to be placed in captivity. Maximus had negotiated a deal in which the Kree would take all of the Inhumans with extraordinary abilities, leaving him the other half of the population to rule. Triton and Karnak managed to rescue most of Maximus’s captives and outwit the Kree agent Shatterstar. Unaware of the victory, Black Bolt let loose with his quasi-sonic scream in agony, once again leveling the city.
Maximus then allied himself with the Enclave, a band of human scientists who wanted to conquer Attilan. They managed to capture Medusa. When the Enclave threatened to execute her, however, Maximus admitted his passion for her and turned on them. A weapon Maximus was manning overloaded, leaving him in a death-like coma. Black Bolt had his brother’s body placed in a special crypt, and when Attilan was transported from the Earth to the moon, Maximus accompanied it. On the moon, Maximus’s mind made contact with an alien power crystal located there, and it reawakened his dormant mental powers. When Black Bolt next came to pay his respects to his brother, Maximus was able to use his power to affect a transfer of consciousness between them. For several months, Maximus ruled Attilan in Black Bolt’s body as Black Bolt lay imprisoned in a tube. With the aid of the Avengers, Maximus’s switch with Black Bolt was discovered. Maximus was forced to return to his rightful body and was once again placed in solitary confinement. Maximus is currently plotting his next takeover of Attilan.