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Real Name: Alton Vibreaux
Occupation: Former geologist, criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen declared legally insane
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Southern California
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Seismic Waves: Vibro can somehow direct the pressures along fault lines into vibrating pulses through his arms. These attacks are considered to be Amazing rank Force blasts at a range of 15 areas. As an established Power Stunt, he can affect a living body, delivering Good Force damage and compelling the target to shake uncontrollably until a successful Endurance FEAT roll is made against Excellent intensity. Each round the shaking continues, the victim takes Typical damage.
Force Screens: Vibro can cause vibrational defense screens to protect himself with Good resistance against Energy attacks, and Remarkable protection against physical attacks. He can combine this power with his Seismic Waves, reducing his chance to hit by - 1CS but requiring the target to make a Power FEAT against Amazing intensity resistance to close on Vibro.
Weakness:
Vibro is dependent upon fault lines for his powers. If he is more than 50 miles from a powerful geological fault, his powers are reduced one rank. If he is isolated from the Earth, Vibro has no powers whatsoever.
Talents:
None. Previous to his transformation, Professor Vibereaux was well versed on seismology.
Contacts:
None
Role-Playing Notes:
Since his transformation, Vibro has been reduced to monomania, wishing vengeance on Franklin Fortney and Iron Man, and only dimly aware of anything else. He has shown himself clever enough to hold a town as hostage for Iron Man's arrival, and to surrender when Iron Man was holding him a quarter-mile above the ground, but his mind is no longer capable of any thoughts more complicated than these.
History:
Alton Vibereaux was a professor of geology. He had taken a sabbatical by working in the field, developing a magnetic harness which would allow him to measure pressures in fault lines from the inside. Vibereaux hired his work out to an unethical surveyor named Franklin Fortey, who instantly to a dislike to Vibereaux, resenting the professor's academic qualifications. Fortney threatened Vibereaux with violence unless the geologist would use his harness at a time when an imminent earthquake was likel, a real danger in the Southern California region where Fortney was surveying. Vibereaux timidly agreed and seemingly perished when the expected tremor opened up a crevace under him and the magnetic harness could no longer support him. Although it is unclear as to what happened after that, apparently Vibereaux was shunted into an alternate universe. He returned to the surface, his mind impaired, his body horribly disfigured, and with the capability to draw power from the fault lines.
He attacked Fortney when the surveyor was on an oil rig. James Rhodes, wearing the Iron Man armor, rescued Fortney, and Vibro then swore to destroy Iron Man as well. Vibro almost succeeded, except that Iron Man managed to lure Vibro far enough away from the San Andreas fault to allow Iron Man to capture the criminal.
Vibro was next seen in a massive prison break-out by a number of supervillains. Steve Rogers, as The Captain, and his teammates D-Man, The Falcon, and Nomad attempted to round up the escaping criminals. After Vibro attacked Nomad, Nomad decided to allow the criminal to fall from a height to his death. No trace of Vibro was found, and his whereabouts remain a mystery.