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Real Name: Guido, last name unrevealed
Occupation: Former investor and bodyguard, now adventurer
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Father and mother, deceased
Base of Operations: X-Factor, New York
Past Group Affiliations: Muir Islanders, X-Factor
Known Powers:
Guido enjoys the mutant abilities of superhuman strength and endurance, making him strong enough to knock a man out by flicking his finger! He also has one special power:
Kinetic Energy Absorption: Guido can absorb kinetic energy from punches and other Blunt physical attacks and use that energy to increase his Strength. He can absorb such attacks of up to Unearthly Intensity. The rank of the attack determines Guido's enhanced Strength rank (his Health does not increase). Physical attacks of less than Amazing (50) Intensity do not affect his Strength, it simply remains at his natural Strength rank of Amazing. Because he absorbs the blow, Guido takes no damage from Blunt physical attacks of less than Shift X Intensity. However, Guido must expend the absorbed kinetic energy on the following turn by striking a target (whether it is the ground, a building, or a foe) or he suffers blunt damage equal to the energy he absorbed.
Talents:
Guido has some experience with high finance, and extensive knowledge of the music and entertainment business, including its seedier sides.
Contacts:
Guido was the former doorman and bodyguard of Lila Cheney. He's a friend of Dazzler and is acquainted with the X-Men and X-Force.
Role-Playing Notes:
Guido is new to the hero business, but as Lila Cheney's doorman, he has had long experience with mutants and weird happenings. A lot more intelligent than he looks, Guido considers himself a "nineties guy"--sensitive with the ladies but macho when he needs to be. He doesn't take superheroing very seriously, but it pays well and since it lets him associate with various fab babes in scanty outfits, hey, why not try it?
Guido has an Epicurean philosophy: Have fun, live the good life now, and let tomorrow take care of itself. But he has a good heart, and is willing to help people (especially attractive women) who are in trouble. He has a warm, bantering relationship with his fellow teammate Polaris.
Recently, Guido has developed an easy manner with the news media and has proven very quotable: he coined the new term "Genetically Challenged" (Geecee) as a politically-correct alternative to "mutie."
History:
Guido has never told X-Factor his last name (they're afraid to ask), but he has revealed his life story.
Guido lived a life of ups and downs. He was a nerdy-looking kid, bullied by the other children. Until he reached puberty. Then he started growing, and no one bullied him again.
But he had other problems. Guido's parents were skinflints who saved all their money for the future and insulted him because of his size and his spend-thrift attitude, until a falling satellite crushed them. Guido settled out of court with the owners for a vast amount of dough. For a while, he lived a life of luxury. Then he was wiped out by bad investments. To make ends meet, he took a job as a bodyguard for the singing thief Lila Cheney, but that dried up when Lila vanished into space. He was minding her house and worrying about cash when Dazzler dropped in to visit. The X-Men's enemies weren't far behind, and before he knew it, Guido had became one of the Shadow King's slaves on Muir Isle.
After the fall of the Shadow King freed him, he and several other Muir Islanders became founding members of the new X-Factor team with Guido serving as the team's muscle. Since joining X-Factor, Guido has taken the name "Strong Guy" and become X-Factor's defacto press spokesman.
On his first mission, he fought Slab (one of Mister Sinister's Nasty Boys) who had taken the Washington monument hostage. Guido defeated Slab, but in the process destroyed the Washington Monument. Guido felt bad enough to think about quitting the team, but X-Factor's lawyers got him off the hook, and it was later discovered that he had been set up for a public relations disaster by Senator Steven Shaftram, a pawn of Mister Sinister. At present, Guido remains a media darling.