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Real Name: Jeff Wilde
Occupation: Cyborg super-agent of the Secret Empire
Identity: Secret, though known to the Secret Empire and several heroes
Legal Status: deceased
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Wilde, the Original Midnight (father)
Base of Operations: Various Secret Empire hideaways in New York
Past Group Affiliations: Side-kick of Moon Knight, Secret Empire
Known Powers:
Cyborg Construction: Much of Midnight’s original body has been replaced with bionic components. These parts are immune to disease and have Amazing Material Strength. As these components are often interlaced with human tissue and connected to his central nervous system, he can still feel pain. This half-robot construction affords Midnight a unique form of body armor. Against attacks of Remarkable or less, Midnight’s body armor is Excellent. Against attacks in excess of Remarkable, his body armor is Remarkable. This reflects the fact that attacks of varying Intensity will do about the same amount of damage to his human tissue. Throughout his existence as a cyborg, his components have been modified several times to allow him to produce the following effects:
Claws: Midnight’s fingers are tipped with claws. They inflict Remarkable Edged Damage.
Energized Claw: By channeling energy to his claws, Midnight can increase his claw attack by +2CS.
Jets: Midnight’s boot jets allow him to fly at Typical air speeds (6 areas/round). Used offensively they inflict Excellent flame damage.
Laser: Midnight can fire laser blasts which do Incredible damage at a range of 11 areas.
Electro-Bolt: Midnight can fire bolts of electricity up to one area away doing Excellent damage and Stun with Incredible Intensity. If he grapples his opponent this Intensity is increased to Amazing.
Vertigo Projector: Midnight’s left forearm houses a Vertigo projector. This device distorts a target’s sense of balance, rendering them virtually helpless. Against a single targets its Intensity is Remarkable. To a group of targets in the same area, its Intensity drops to Good. Targets make a Psyche FEAT versus this Intensity or be knocked to the ground, unable to move or attack. A second failed Psyche FEAT means the victim is unconscious for 1-10 rounds. Its range is three areas.
Elongation of Arms: Midnight can attack non-adjacent opponents up to 1/2 area away. The target of these attacks can only attack Midnight’s arms, and won’t produce a Kill, Stun, or Slam results. Elongation does, however, make Midnight’s arms more susceptible to damage, lowering their Material Strength by
-1cs.
Cryo-Genic Beam: This beam entraps opponents in Incredible Strength ice up to two areas away.
Limitation:
The Secret Empire has a special pain-inducing device wired to Midnight’s spinal cord. This device causes Midnight to experience Monstrous Intensity pain, but with no effect on his Health. When experiencing this pain, Midnight is unable to take any action. This device, which can be activated by remote control, was used as a means of controlling Midnight. Destruction of the remote might activate the device, though this has never been tested.
Talents:
Midnight was trained in Martial Arts A and E.
Contacts:
For a brief period, Midnight served as Moon Knight’s side-kick. During his service as a cyborg solider of the Secret Empire, he hated Moon Knight.
Role-Playing Notes:
Midnight hates his former partner Moon Knight because he believes he left him for dead and at the mercies of the Secret Empire. Midnight also holds Moon Knight responsible for the death of his father (whose death was from cancer caused by some chemicals he came in contact with).
History:
Jeff Wilde was the son of the original Midnight and took that code-name when he went to work for his father’s old adversary, Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon Knight. Despite Moon Knight’s warning, Wilde got involved in his investigation into the would-be world-dominating organization the Secret Empire. During a battle with the Empire, Jeff took a force blast from a Secret Empire power dagger which destroyed much of his body and nearly killed him. Moon Knight went after Jeff and tried to rescue him. Eventually he captured the Empire’s head man, code-named Number One, who insisted Midnight had died as a result of his injuries. Moon Knight stopped his search for his friend. In fact, Wilde had not died, but was made the subject of a cruel experiment. The Empire wanted to construct an army of cyborg super agents and Wilde was to be the prototype. He was used as a guinea pig to see how much he could endure both physically and mentally as his system was fitted with more and more powerful weaponry. A pain-inducing device was wired to Wilde’s spinal cord to insure his cooperation and modify his behavior should the need arise. Wilde did not wish to serve the Empire at first, but eventually, seeing their open aggression as more honest than what he had come to view as Moon Knight’s false professions, he relented. His first assignment for the Empire was breaking physicist Elliot Franklin out of jail.
Franklin’s services had been retained by the Empire to provide them with more advanced weaponry and to better enhance cyborgs like Midnight. It was while freeing Franklin that Midnight first encountered the super hero, Darkhawk. During a battle which also involved Spider-Man, Midnight was temporarily captured and unmasked. Spider-Man had known Midnight briefly before his conversion, but believed he had been killed. Distracted by both Wilde’s story and a sneak attack by Franklin, the heroes allowed Midnight and the doctor to escape. Spider-Man contacted his fellow Avenger Moon Knight and informed him that his former partner was still alive.
Midnight’s second assignment was to recruit for the Empire the superhuman adventurer called Nova. When an attempt at conning Nova failed, Midnight took him captive. This abduction brought Nova’s New Warrior teammate Night Thrasher onto the case. Spider-Man, Moon Knight, and Night Thrasher tracked Midnight to an Empire outpost. Here they met up with the Punisher and together the four battled upwards of fifteen standard Empire soldiers, three armored hired-guns called the Seekers, and Midnight. After a brief exchange, the Empire’s forces pulled out.
Eventually, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Night Thrasher, and Punisher were able to track Nova’s helmet transceiver signal to the Secret Empire’s main headquarters located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Lynn Church had shut down the headquarter’s transmission security device in order to create a diversion which would give her enough time to effect some changes to Midnight’s pain-inducing device. Spider-Man, Moon Knight and Night Thrasher fought their way through the Empire’s front line troops, while Midnight, now free from the pain-inducing device, was staging a coup on the Council of Ten, in which Number Seven was killed. The council was finally forced to flee, but not before the Punisher had overpowered Number Three and hidden on-board their escape rocket. Disguised as Number Three, Punisher found Nova and sabotaged the power shackles which were holding him. Once free, Nova permanently shut down the headquarter’s radio jammer and got a signal off to Night Thrasher. This brought Night Thrasher along with Spider-Man, Moon Knight, and Darkhawk.
When Lynn Church revealed that she was actually the first of the Empire’s cyborg soldiers, the stage was set for the Empire’s last stand. Church, Midnight, the Seekers, Eliot Franklin in his new Thunderball armor, and a slew of heavily-armed Empire thugs faced off against a team of heroes, including Spider-Man, Darkhawk, Nova, Night Thrasher, Punisher, and Moon Knight. When Midnight learned that Church allowed herself to be turned into a cyborg voluntarily, he became disillusioned and quit the fight. Church then revealed that she had not removed Midnight’s pain-inducer, but had merely changed the frequency. Seeing a chance to grab some power for himself, Thunderball tried to get the pain-inducer away from Church. Midnight decided he would rather die than continue being a slave to pain, or to anyone who could control that pain, and started smashing the building’s support columns. Church attempted to stop him while the heroes gathered up their fallen allies and enemies alike and head for safety. Thunderball and the two cyborgs appeared to have been crushed to death under tons of debris.
However, Thunderball had been spared by a support column and managed to hammer his way out of the wreckage using Midnight’s and Lynn Church’s robotic arms, still locked in their death grip. Spider-Man delivered Midnight’s epitaph, but as his body was never recovered, Midnight may not be gone for good.