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Real Name: Norton G. Fester
Occupation: Crackpot inventor, thief
Identity: Public
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with criminal record
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Leaping: Meteor Man can make jumps of Excellent distance. Dazzle Gun: Remarkable Intensity light generation. Victim’s must make an Endurance FEAT roll or be stunned for one round. Helium Balloon: Typical Flight speed and lift, with Poor direction control. Spider-man’s webs cannot stick to the surface of the balloon for longer than one round, due to its smooth surface.
Invulnerability: If Meteor Man’s Health is dropped to 0 by physical at tacks, he will not die, but he will fall unconscious for 1-10 hours.
Growth: When he started absorbing microwave energy from his meteors, he started growing in height. Every 2 rounds he would grow one foot in height. For each one foot in height he grew, his Strength and Endurance were raised by +1cs.
Talents:
Fester had the Repair/Tinkering talent.
Contacts:
Fester apparently had no friends.
Role-Playing Notes:
Fester believed himself to be a scientific genius destined for great things. He was very arrogant, believing that no one had the right or abilities to interfere with his schemes. Fester wasn’t very original, and a lot of his ideas came from someone else’s plans.
History:
Norton Fester was a crackpot scientist who believed that he was a genius, even though he had failed science courses in high school. One day he found a meteor fragment that he had seen landing. He took the meteor to various places, trying to get money for his research. He believed that meteors contained microscopic living matter, and he wanted the funding so that he could prove it. All his attempts to raise money failed, so he started working on the meteor at home.
Fester chipped away a part of the meteor, which released a pocket of gas from its interior. Fester breathed the gas, which clung to him, and passed out. He awoke later to discover that he now had amazing strength and leaping abilities. Fester made a special suit and committed a series of bank robberies under the name of the Looter. Worried that his powers might go away, and hoping to increase them, Fester decided to get hold of more meteors.
The Looter tried to take a meteor at a local Space Exhibit, but he was stopped by Spider-man. Spider-man, as Peter Parker, happened to be at the exhibit when the Looter made his move. The Looter escaped, but without the meteor. A week later, the Looter tried to take the meteor again, but Spider-man was waiting for him. This time Spider-man caught him and turned him over to the police.
Years later, Fester was still serving a jail sentence, and had been a model prisoner. Then, a fellow prisoner asked Fester why he hadn’t used his super powers to escape from jail. Fester really hadn’t thought of it, so he promptly used his powers to escape.
Since Fester’s arrest, Kyle Richmond (Nighthawk) had bought the meteor from the Space Exhibit. Fester discovered this, and immediately stole it from him. Fester had a brief run in with Kyle in his Nighthawk costume, but he escaped with the meteor. Nighthawk teamed up with Spider-man to capture him, but Nighthawk felt that Spider-man was a little to blood thirsty so he left Spider-man to locate Fester on his own.
Nighthawk told Valkyrie, his fellow Defender, about the encounter with Spider-man and Meteor Man (Fester’s new name). Valkyrie berated Nighthawk for his foolishness and then left to find Spider-man and help him capture Meteor Man. Valkyrie and Spider-man tried to stop Fester from taking a small figurine sculpted from a meteor, but he escaped using his helium balloon. They caught up with him, and Valkyrie punctured the balloon. Valkyrie caught Spider-man, but Fester fell to the ground. Fester’s super powers allowed him to survive the great fall.
Years later, Fester escaped prison again, and went to the Eastern State University Coliseum, where a microwave energy exhibit was taking place. Fester encountered Spider-Man and Giant-Man Ill (Bill Foster) at the exhibit. Fester defeated both of them and got away with an experimental microwave generator. Spider-man was able to tag Fester with one of his Spider Tracers before he got away.
While Spider-man and Giant-Man were tracking him, Fester was busy building his latest invention (which he had modified from a basic design he had seen in an old issue of Popular Mechanics). This invention somehow drew raw energy from Fester’s meteor collection and transformed it into microwave energy. The microwave energy was then routed to a backpack Fester was wearing. The backpack then transmitted the energy directly into Fester’s nervous system.
Spider-man and Giant-Man arrived just after Fester had activated the invention. Surprisingly enough, the invention actually worked. The glowing Fester began growing, as his strength increased steadily. Fester was having no trouble beating Spider-man and Giant-Man, and he soon reached the height of a tall building.
The microwave transmitter on Fester’s back suddenly exploded due to an energy overload. The energy feedback rocketed Fester into the air, where he suddenly exploded and apparently died.