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Real Name: Robert Hunter
Occupation: Electrical engineer turned professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Scranton, Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Mary (wife, deceased), Virginia (daughter)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Lunatic Legion
Known Powers:
Explosive: Nitro can transform any and all portions of his body into an Amazing explosion. Everything with in his area suffers Amazing damage, while targets in the surrounding area suffer Remarkable damage. He can reform his body within two rounds. If he limits his explosive power to his hands, he can punch with Remarkable damage and Slam or Stun opponents of up to Monstrous Endurance.
Weakness:
If, while he is in his gaseous state, any fraction of his body is separated from the rest, he cannot reform.
Talents:
Nitro has Excellent Reason in the fields of electrical engineering and ham radio operation.
Contacts:
Nitro was once a member of the now-defunct Lunatic Legion.
Role-Playing Notes:
Nitro began as a mere eccentric but has since graduated into being a full blown psychotic. His explosive power matches his current personal ity perfectly. He has a monomaniacal hatred of the Kree Captain Mar-Vell and will attack anyone who remotely looks or acts like him.
History:
Robert Hunter was an eccentric retired electrical engineer who operated a ham radio as a hobby. The Lunatic Legion, a band of renegade scientists of the extraterrestrial Kree, monitored Hunter’s broadcasts and chose him to become their agent. They took him to a hidden genetics laboratory and genetically reengineered Hunter’s body to endow him with the power to explode his body’s molecules and reassemble them at will. Dubbing him Nitro, they sent him to acquire Compound Thirteen, a dangerous nerve gas being developed by the U. S. Army. He was opposed by the Kree warrior Captain Mar-Vell, however, and Mar-Vell defeated him by adding the transformational energy of his body exchanging atoms with those of Rock Jones to Nitro’s own concussive energy. This caused Nitro’s particles to become dispersed farther apart than he could readily recall them.
After months of effort, Nitro reintegrated himself and went searching for Mar-Vell. Mistaking the alien Omega the Unknown for Mar-Veil, Nitro attacked him and was finally defeated when Omega placed a titanium steel cylinder around him as he exploded and shot him into the stratosphere.
When Nitro again reintegrated, he lured Mar-Vell into bathe. Mar-Vell subdued him by capturing half of Nitro’s gaseous substance in a reinforced container, which prevented him from physically reintegrating. This container, and a second one filled with the other part of his gaseous substance, was taken to the government energy facility Project: Pegasus for study. He was released when his daughter Virginia got a court order to permit him to stand trial. Once his substance was recombined, he easily escaped and wreaked havoc in Manhattan for an afternoon until Spider-Man trapped his gaseous substance in a container partly filled with a nausea gas. Kept in a constant state of stupor, Nitro is unable to escape. He has yet to stand trial for any of his deeds.