Real name: Jack Monroe. Other known aliases: Scourge of the Underworld, Nomad III, Bucky III, he has impersonated Captain America and Samuel Higgins. Occupation: Former adventurer and assassin Current group affiliation: None. Past group affiliations: Former ally to the Thunderbolts, partner to Captain America IV and ally to Captain America, former pawn of Henry Peter Gyrich. Major enemies: Thunderbolts First appearance: Captain America #153 (as Bucky III), Captain America #282 as Nomad III), Thunderbolts #35 (as Scourge IX) Origin: Thunderbolts #49 (as Scourge IX) Description: Jack is 5'11'' tall and weighs 200 lbs. He has brown hair and eyes.
Characteristics
15 STR 5
18 DEX 24
18 CON 16
13 BODY 6
13 INT 3
13 EGO 6
18 PRE 8
14 COM 2
8 PD 5
8 ED 4
4 SPD 12
8 REC 2
36 END 0
31 STUN 1
Characteristics Cost: 94
Skills and Equipment
3 Acrobatics 13-
3 Breakfall 13-
9 Computer Programming 15-
3 Deduction 12-
3 Demolitions 11-
7 Electronics 13-
4 Fast Strike
6 2 Levels: With suit weapons.,tight group
4 Martial Disarm
4 Martial Dodge
3 Navigation 11-
3 Security Systems 12-
3 Shadowing 11-
3 Stealth 13-
3 Streetwise 13-
3 Systems Operation 12-
3 Tactics 12-
4 WF,Common Melee,Small Arms
7 4/4 Armor,"Costume",OIF(-1/2),Only In Hero ID(-1/4)
5 4/4 Armor,"Shield",OIF(-1/2),12- Activation(-3/4),Only In
Hero ID(-1/4)
3 5 Flash Defense,Sight Group,OIF(-1/2),Only In Hero ID(-1/4)
4 Instant Change,"Matrix card.",IIF(-1/4)
6 Life Support,doesn't breathe,OIF(-1/2),Only In Hero ID(-1/4)
53 MP (120),"Armor powers.",OIF(-1/2),Extra Time(-1/2),Only In
Hero ID(-1/4)
2u 20" Flight,"Flying platform.",OAF(-1/2),0 END(+1/2) 0
4u Invisibility,"Camouflage mode.",Radar,Sight Group,no fringe,
0 END Persistent(+1) 0
5u 6 LVLS Shrinking(32mm,400mg,+12 DCV,+18 KB),0 END
Persistent(+1) 0
35 MP (61),"Armor weapon systems.",OIF(-1/2),Only In Hero ID
(-1/4)
3u 7D6 EB,Var FX(+1/4),0 END(+1/2) 0
2u 3D6 Entangle,"Vine grower.",Target must be near plants.
(-1/2),0 END(+1/2) 0
2u 2D6 Flash,Sight,0 END(+1/2) 0
2u 2D6 HKA,"Sword",vs physical defense,No Knockback(-1/4),0
END(+1/2) 0
2u 1D6 Transform,"Shrinking Pym Particles.",major,cumulative,
limited class of objects,0 END(+1/2) 0
2u 2D6 RKA,"Sniper rifle.",vs physical defense,use D6-1,13-16
Charges(0),x1 Armor Piercing(+1/2) 0
3 Radio XMIT/REC,OIF(-1/2)
20 Shape Shift,"Holo-disguise.",limited group of shapes,IAF
(-1/2),Extra Time(-1/2),0 END Persistent(+1) 0
16 5" Stretching,"Stilts.",OIF(-1/2),Legs only.(-1/2),Only In
Hero ID(-1/4),0 END(+1/2) 0
9 +10" Superleap,"Coil springs.",OIF(-1/2),Only In Hero ID
(-1/4),0 END(+1/2) 0
Powers Cost: 256
Disadvantages
Base Points: 100
20 Hunted,"By authorities and various enemies.",as powerful,
non-combat influence,harsh,appear 11-
20 Normal Stats
15 Rep,"Assassin.",occur 11-,extreme reputation
15 Secret ID,"Jack Monroe"
10 Unluck,2D6
15 Watched,"by his employers",more powerful,non-combat
influence,harsh,appear 14-
Disadvantages Total: 95
Experience Spent: 155
Total Points: 350
Explanation of the conversion:
History: Jack Monroe's story starts in a small town in Clutier, Iowa, born December
7th, 1941 on Pearl Harbor Day. Jack's father was a Nazi sympathizer along
with many others in the community. In order to assure that Jack and his
older sister kept the secret, his father beat them both mercilessly
whenever they entered the basement full of Nazi paraphernalia.
Unfortunately simply beating a small child is not going to secure his
silence. One day at school little Jack brought in a swastika armband for
show and tell, and obviously the entire town was under some kind of
investigation and he was confronted by F.B.I. agents. After some soda and
ice cream to win his confidence, the FBI eventually busted Jack's parents,
along with many other co-conspirators throughout the town.
As a result of the beatings and the trial afterwards, Jack buried most of
his past in his subconscious and never revealed it to to anyone, even to
himself.
As a teenager Jack was enrolled in the Lee School for Boys in Connecticut,
where he met a history teacher named "Steve Rogers" who shared his worship
of the WW II hero Captain America. The meeting was not coincidental but
planned in an effort to rekindle the Captain America legend.
When "Steve" found the notes for the Super-Soldier formula in the notebooks
of a Nazi spy and used it to become the fourth Captain America to combat an
impostor Red Skull, Jack became the third person to adopt the "Bucky" role.
Side effects from the incomplete Super-Soldier treatment drove both him and
Captain America IV into a hyper-paranoid state. Captured by FBI agents,
both of them were placed in suspended animation.
In the 1970s they were released by a disgruntled government worker, and
went on a rampage until captured by Captain America, the Falcon, and
Sharon Carter. They were again placed in suspended animation, until Dr.
Faustus gained custody of them. He brainwashed Captain America IV, and
used him in a plot against Captain America. Later the newest Captain
America tried to kill Jack due to Faustus' mental tamperings, then
committed suicide. When Dr. Faustus' plan failed, Jack underwent years of
psychiatric therapy, mixed with cerebral stimulants, and depressants while
undergoing mental conditioning to fit the government's idea of new American
values including the Vietnam police action. Later he was put into
S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, and finally after being released sought
apprenticeship under his idol, the original Captain America. Donning the
Nomad identity, he teamed up with the Falcon, Demolition Man along with
Captain America.
A while later he struck out as a total independent, using the name Nomad,
fighting Ulysses Lugman alias the Slug, a crimelord dealing in drugs,
guns, and prostitution. After a prostitute informant was killed, Nomad
investigated and found out her parents were old southern millionaires, and
that the her pimp was in on the murder while at the same time being a
friend of theirs due to fathering their grandchild. Later he found out the
pimp killed her due to information she had on him regarding the government,
drugs, and a really big gun. In the process he rescued a another
prostitute's daughter from the same pimp. Seeing the mother as a teenage
prostitute, addicted to numerous drugs including crack cocaine, he adopted
the daughter himself, and since the child had no name, he named her Bucky.
Traveling the country with Bucky, Nomad ran into the Punisher, DeadPool,
Gambit, and of course Captain America, but most important other than Bucky
throughout the series is Giscard Epurer, who plays a pivotal part in the
entire series pushing Jack into different situations. Along the way Jack
makes somewhat normal friends called the Undergrounders consisting of
prostitutes, con artists, and small time thieves, which continue to get
him into trouble, while at the same time giving his life a little more
meaning.
Eventually he ran back into Dr. Faust who brainwashed him again but
after he, and Captain America stop him he was sent to a minimum security
prison where Jack broke in, and killed him. After recovering his memory,
due to Faustus's manipulations along with Epurer he returned to his home
town, and saved the country from a neo-nazi organization outside of his
hometown, he killed almost the entire camp with a weapon they meant to use
against him and later killed their leader who is a United States
congressman who tried to blow up congress leading to Nomad's apparent
death, but instead lead him to being put back in suspended animation
again. Bucky was put in in Giscard's custody.
Jack was then remade into Scourge IX by Henry Peter Gyrich in his plan to destroy superhumans. Using implants that were able to control him Jack was sent to kill the members on the Thunderbolts in particular order, starting with Jolt II, who was considered the heart of the Thunderbolts. He killed her by shooting her with a hard air bullet while she was at a coffee shop with teammate Charcoal and some friends from school (Thunderbolts #35).
Scourge IX then killed news reporter Gayle Rogers, who had been investigating the Thunderbolts and was getting too close his how he killed Jolt II. He then impersonated Roxxon corrodinator Samuel Higgins and stole information on their Omega-32 research, killing an employee named Bobbie Haggert with a quill weapon (Thunderbolts #36).
Scourge IX then traveled to Central America to find Baron Zemo II. He spent days casing out his secret hideout. He then challenged Zemo to a fight and was able to defeat him by stabbing him with his sword and cutting his head off (Thunderbolts #37-39).
Scourge IX then turned his attention to Techno II, following him from a bar in Burton Canyon to the Thunderbolts Headquarters, where Techno II had rejoined the Thunderbolts while impersonating Ogre (Thunderbolts #40-41).
Scourge IX learned that the headquarters, including three bio-chambers containing a revitalized Jolt II, Ogre and another person were hooked up to Techno II's system and if he killed Techno II the people in the chambers would die too (Thunderbolts #42).
Scourge IX spent days trying to figure out how to kill Techno II without endangering the chambers. He attacked Techno II and took his arm for study, then disappeared by shrinking inside Techno II's body. Once he figured out how to bypass his systems Scourge IX attacked Techno II by enlarging inside his body (Thunderbolts #44-45).
Scourge IX then encased Techno II inside a hard air cocoon. As Scourge IX worked to sever Techno II's link to the chambers, Techno II made the decision to release Jolt II, who had been transformed into a creature of living energy, despite it taking the last of his energy and killing him. Meanwhile Atlas's powers started to run amok, causing him to grow to great size and possibly explode. While Atlas was Scourge IX's next target, he had no desire to kill the people who might be killed in the explosion, so he helped Jolt II contain Altas. He used the Pym particles in his gauntlets to shrink Atlas down and place them inside one of his gauntlets and threw the gauntlet into a canyon where no one except Atlas died in the explosion (Thunderbolts #46-47).
After the death of Atlas Scourge IX escaped and made his way to a Denver airport, where the Thunderbolts tracked him down. They attacked the jet he was on and captured him. They removed his mask only to discover the face of Captain America (Thunderbolts #48).
The face of Captain America was a hologram, and when removed revealed Jack. MACH-2 discovered the implants which controlled Jack and disabled them, then Jack was able to tell his story of how Gyrich controlled him to the Thunderbolts (Thunderbolts #49).
Note: The first Nomad was an identity of the original Captain America which he used in Captain America #180-183. The second was a man named Edward Ferbel, who used the name in Captain America #261-262.
Note: The relation between Scourge IX and the previous assassins who went by the name Scourge is unknown.
Powers: Because of the Super Soldier Serum in Jack his physical abilities are near peak human and he is able to lift/press 500 lbs. He probably is immune to most diseases and ages slower then normal like Captain America. He formerly developed low level superhuman strength because the serum was unstable in his blood, but it has now stabilized.
Scourge IX wears an advanced suit of armor which protects him from harm, projects holograms allowing him to appear invisible or as someone else and has a number of weapon systems stored using a Pym particle projector to shrink them. He can also use the projector to shrink himself or other objects. The suit itself is held in storage on a matrix card (similar to the one used by the Titanium Man). He activates the weapons by either vocal or cybernetic command. The weapons are numbered for quick release. 6 is a flying platform (much like the one used by the Hobgoblin). 9 is a concussive blast. 11 are boot springs (like those used by the Leapfrog). 14 is a blinding flash. 19 is a vine growth ray (like that used by the Plantman). 23 are his leg stilts (like those used by the Stiltman). 25 is a head mounted power beam (like that used by the Unicorn). 30 is a cascade of ice schrapnel (like that used by Blizzard). 34 is a flame jet. 39 is a sword (similar to the one used by Baron Zemo). 42 is a shield (looking much
like that used by Captain America).
Links to other Scourge IX pages:
Character created by Marvel Comics.
Champions rules conversion by Mathew R. Ignash - mathewignash@comcast.net.
Last Updated - April, 2003
A while later he struck out as a total independent, using the name Nomad,
fighting Ulysses Lugman alias the Slug, a crimelord dealing in drugs,
guns, and prostitution. After a prostitute informant was killed, Nomad
investigated and found out her parents were old southern millionaires, and
that the her pimp was in on the murder while at the same time being a
friend of theirs due to fathering their grandchild. Later he found out the
pimp killed her due to information she had on him regarding the government,
drugs, and a really big gun. In the process he rescued a another
prostitute's daughter from the same pimp. Seeing the mother as a teenage
prostitute, addicted to numerous drugs including crack cocaine, he adopted
the daughter himself, and since the child had no name, he named her Bucky.
