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Real Name: Dr. Chen Lu
Occupation: Former nuclear physicist, now professional criminal
Legal Status: Expatriate citizen of the People’s Republic of China, with an international criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former member of the original, second, and third Masters of Evil, former member of the Titanic Three, ally and lackey of the Mandarin
Known Powers:
Radioactivity Manipulation: The Radioactive Man’s body is a living nuclear reactor. He always gives off Feeble radiation except when wearing his special harness, which allows him to control his power. Lu has developed the following Power Stunts:
- CL1000 Invulnerability to radiation
- Radiation/Heat Bolts (Energy attack) of Amazing power and range
- Light-flash of Amazing intensity to temporarily blind opponents, range 1 area
- Controlled light-effect that allows him to Hypnotize a target at Remarkable rank, range of 1 area.
- Force-Field of Monstrous protection against physical and energy attacks. If he makes a successful Amazing rank FEAT roll, he can redirect any projectile over one pound thrown at him at a target of his choice. Damage is —1 CS.
Talents:
Chen Lu is one of the foremost experts on Radiation and Nuclear Physics.
Contacts:
The Radioactive Man was a member of the first three Masters of Evil. He has worked with the Mandarin both as an ally and, later, as an unwilling servant. He was a member of the Titanic Three, champions of Eastern Communism. He was on good terms with fellow members Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo, but the group disbanded under unknown circumstances.
Role-Playing Notes:
Although Chen Lu is a scientist, his primary concern now is using his powers for criminal gain. Despite a brief stint as a “hero” of the Titanic Three, he has always returned to the criminal life.
History:
Dr. Chen Lu was a respected nuclear physicist for the People’s Republic of China. After the thunder god Thor thwarted a Chinese military incursion into India, the Chinese government called upon its scientists and military strategists for a way to retaliate against Thor. Chen Lu had already been experimenting for several years with a way of harnessing nuclear radioactivity to induce superhuman powers in human beings. Chen Lu, concealing his own aspirations of world conquest, volunteered to become China’s human weapon against Thor.
Having already spent months immunizing himself against the harmful effects of radiation, Chen Lu exposed himself to massive doses of specific-particle radiation, thereby mutating his body. After impressing his superiors with a demonstration of the new superhuman powers he had gained, Chen Lu, calling himself the Radioactive Man, traveled to New York City to challenge Thor. After Thor defeated him, the Radioactive Man was reported to have been destroyed.
In fact, however, the Radioactive Man went into hiding until Baron Heinrich Zemo located him and enlisted him in his criminal organization, the original Masters of Evil. By this time, the Radioactive Man was no longer serving China’s Communist leaders. The Avengers defeated the Masters of Evil, but years later the Radioactive Man joined a new Masters of Evil organized by the robot Ultron. This second Masters of Evil was also defeated by the Avengers, and the Radioactive Man was imprisoned in a cell designed especially to restrain ‘a being with his powers.
After breaking out of prison, the Radioactive Man fled to Communist controlled Vietnam, where he briefly teamed up with the Titanium Man and the third Crimson Dynamo as the Titanic Three, champions of Eastern Communism. These three former Communist agents had decided to serve their former masters no longer and wanted no longer to be considered criminals. In Communist controlled Vietnam, the Titanic Three instead acted to punish criminals.
However, the Titanic Three later broke up, under circumstances that have yet to be revealed. Eventually, the Radioactive Man was contacted by criminal scientist Elihas Starr, otherwise known as Egghead, and agreed to join yet another incarnation of the Masters of Evil. But after Dr. Henry Pym defeated the group single handedly, the Radioactive Man was deported by the United States government. It is reported that he later entered the service of the Mandarin, but the Radioactive Man’s current whereabouts and activities are unknown.