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Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Ex-nuclear engineer, ruler of Subterranea
Identity: Unknown
Legal Status: Citizen of Subterranea
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Kala, Queen of Atlantean Netherworlders (consort)
Base of Operations: Subterranea
Past Group Affiliations: Subterraneans
Known Powers:
Abnormal Sensitivity: Although Mole Man has adequate vision in dark places, he is blinded by normal light.
Hypersensitive Hearing: This Typical power enables Mole Man to clearly hear almost any sound at a distance of up to 2 areas.
Hypersensitive Touch: Mole Man can identify substances and items by touch if he is able to make a Green Reason FEAT.
Radar: This Typical power functions similarly to Daredevil’s Radar Sense but is not as acute.
Equipment:
Visor: This device protects Mole Man’s vision in normal lighting by reducing its intensity.
Costume: The Mole Man’s costume provides him with Amazing protec tion against heat, fire, and lava.
Staves: Each of these six-foot-long staves contains Good Radar and one of the following powers:
- Incredible electrical discharge
- Remarkable flame generation
- Incredible light emission
- Incredible vibratory shockwave
Talents:
Mole Man has Incredible Reason in the fields of Subterranean geography and geology, spelunking, Deviant weapons systems, and monster training.
Contacts:
In the past, Mole Man has been an ally of Kala and Red Ghost, as well as leader of the Outcasts.
Role-Playing Notes:
The Mole Man is an example of a person who acts as a supervillain to deal with his bitterness. He originally wanted to destroy the surface world as revenge for its rejection of him. As time passed, he mellowed and became more concerned with protecting his realm. He is sympathetic toward others who were also reject ed by the world.
History:
Very little is known about the origin of the Mole Man. According to the Mole Man himself, his bizarre physical appearance had caused him to be shunned and ridiculed since child hood. Believing that total loneliness would be better than the cruelty shown to him by other people, the Mole Man decided to exile himself from humanity. He began searching for the legendary land at the center of the Earth.
Finally, when he was about to abandon hope, his skiff washed ashore on a deserted island, which he named Monster Isle, located within the Bermuda Triangle. There the Mole Man discovered a cavern leading deep underground. His enthusiastic shouts triggered an avalanche, which he survived, but at the cost of most of his eyesight.
Nevertheless, the Mole Man made himself ruler of a wide empire in the underground realm he called Subterranea. (Subterranea does not actually lie at the center of the Earth, but instead consists of a seemingly planetwide network of caverns lying miles beneath Earth’s surface.) In this underground world he discovered a race of semi-humanoid creatures called Subterraneans. The Mole Man controls the race known as the Moloids, which are distinguished from other Subterranean races by their pale yellow skin color. The Mole Man also found and mastered highly advanced technological devices which had been created and abandoned by the race of Deviants. Furthermore, the Mole Man discovered and learned to control a large number of non-humanoid monsters, which either may be descendants of beings created through genetic manipulation by the Deviants, or may be uncivilized, in some cases nearly mindless, highly mutated Deviants themselves. The Mole Man also developed a natural “radar sense” that enabled him to sense things in the subterranean darkness.
The Mole Man first intended to take his revenge on the surface world’s population by destroying Earth’s power plants and unleashing his monsters. He was thwarted by the Fantastic Four in their first mission after gaining their superhuman powers. The Mole Man next attempted to trigger a nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union, intending to rule what remained of Earth’s population with ray devices, and then have his Subterranean armies conquer the planet. The Fantastic Four foiled both these schemes.
Apart from attempting to conquer the surface world, the Mole Man has also tried repeatedly to make himself sole master of Subterranea. His greatest rival has been Tyrannus, another man from the surface world. The Hulk and the X-Men have both served as pawns in the wars between the Mole Man and Tyrannus. Eventually the Mole Man captured Tyrannus and used drugs to turn him into a mindless slave.
The Mole Man formed an alliance with Kala, queen of the Netherworlders, descendants of surface Atlanteans who now live underground. The Mole Man fell in love with the beautiful Kala, and together they conspired to destroy the surface world’s civilizations with magma from deep underground. However, Kala betrayed the Mole Man by releasing Tyrannus from his control, and the two new allies made the Mole Man their prisoner. Tyrannus, intending to rule alone, turned against Kala, but soon was nearly killed in an explosion. Kala and the heartbroken Mole Man parted, each to rule his or her own kingdom.
The Mole Man’s lust for vengeance on the surface world eventually receded. He gathered many physically deformed or ugly people from the surface world who had been spurned as he had, and created a peaceful utopia for them in his underground kingdom. He endowed some of them, known as the Outcasts, with superhuman powers.
The Mole Man’s forces clashed with Kala’s on the surface world, and during the battle, Kala lost her protection against the air’s effects and swiftly became an elderly woman. Still in love with her, the Mole Man offered the distraught queen companionship, and she accepted. It is not known whether Kala is still living with the Mole Man.
Recently, underground drilling that was part of billionaire Alden Maas’s Project Worldcore unleashed magma in the Mole Man’s realm, killing many of the people and Subterraneans living there. Believing his dreams of utopia ruined, the Mole Man has once again become a dangerously embittered man.
Recently the Mole Man left his Moloid followers to explore the inner caves. Chaos ensued when the Tyrranoids took over the Moloids and formed an army to defend themselves from the Lava Men. The Mole Man was himself kidnapped by the Lava Men.
The Fantastic Four discovered that the caverns of Subterranea are all linked by space warps. These discretely teleport travelers across great distances or even into other dimensions. It’s clear that anything can happen.