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Real Name: Marvin Flumm
Occupation: Professional criminal
Legal Status: United States citizen with criminal record
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Watford City, North Dakota
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Watford City, North Dakota
Past Group Affiliations: Former SHIELD agent, former HYDRA agent
Known Powers:
Telepathy: Mentallo has the Amazing power to psionically reach up to three people once. He has a maxi mum range of 5 miles.
Hallucination: This Amazing power can generate images directly in the minds of up to three people. Each is entitled to make a Psyche FEAT to sense the deception; failure indicates that they believe the illusion to be real.
Radar Sense: Using his psionic energies, he has the Feeble ability to detect the presence and shape of intangible or out-of-reach objects.
Anti-Psionic Helmet: The device enables him to employ the following powers:
- Excellent resistance to all psionic attacks.
- Excellent mental Invisibility.
Weaknesses:
He is at —1 CS to attack any and all moving targets. In addition, if his helmet is disabled or missing, Mentallo takes twice the damage from psionic attacks.
Talents:
Mentallo has Remarkable Reason when dealing with Electron ics or Firearms.
Contacts:
In the past, Mentallo has been an ally of the Fixer and has served as a HYDRA mercenary.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mentallo is a second-string villain, who is more successful as a lackey than as a leader. He is a ne’er-do well who is out to get rich via the easiest possible means but not a fast or original thinker. Eventually, he comprehends the situation well enough to see ways to modify it to his advantage.
History:
Marvin Flumm was born with telepathic powers that first began to manifest themselves during adolescence. Flumm, content to work as a shoe salesman, tended to ignore his powers. But his telepathic abilities were detected by Niles Nardstrom, the director of SHIELD’s newly organized ESP Division, and Flumm was invited to join. As Nordstrom helped him develop his talent, Flumm’s ambitions began to grow.
Flumm conceived the notion of secretly taking control of SHIELD and using its resources to gain political power. But his plan was discovered by Nordstrom before it could be put into effect, and Flumm was forced to flee. He did manage to steal a special SHIELD battle-suit and certain telepathy-enhancing equipment, items which he used to create a new identity as “Mentallo.”
Allying himself with Norbert Ebersol, alias the Fixer, whom he located by telepathy, Mentallo staged a raid on SHIELD’s Manhattan headquarters which came close to succeeding. The pair were taken into SHIELD custody but escaped some months later, thanks to the Fixer’s genius. They took advantage of the Fixer’s connections to become involved in the East Coast HYDRA, then being built by Silvermane. After Silvermane’s HYDRA operations were fragmented, Mentallo and the Fixer laid low for a while, then surfaced in an attempt to use the cyborg Deathlok to assassinate the President of the United States. The two ended up in SHIELD custody again, until they were freed by HYDRA and again employed as operatives.
HYDRA wanted the two to debug Computrex, a computer system designed to steal data from other systems. HYDRA was interested in tapping into SHIELD’s computer to learn what SHIELD knew of the Microverse because the Microversian tyrant Baron Karza had seized control of a certain faction of HYDRA. When Computrex was destroyed by the Micronauts, freedom fighters from the Microverse, Mentallo and the Fixer pursued them, intending to turn them over to HYDRA. At the end of a long skirmish with the Micronauts, Mentallo was attacked by the Micronauts’ Commander Rann, who wrested off Mentallo’s thought-screening helmet. Rann and his robotic ally Biotron then bombarded Mentallo telepathically for information, eventually causing his mind to overload and shut down.
SHIELD took custody of Mentallo, but agents of Professor Anthony Power managed to get him transfer red to the Professor’s custody. Power hoped to use Professor Charles Xavier’s telepathic power to revive Mentallo’s comatose mind, so that Mentallo could use his power to restore Power’s son’s mind, which was in a severe state of shock. Linked by a process created by the Fixer, Mentallo battled Professor X on a psychic plane and was overpowered. Mentallo’s current whereabouts and mental condition remain unknown.