Astonishing Adventures: Mini-Profiles 2

Well, I thought I'd post another one of these mini-profiles to get myself energized to work on AA some more. As usual, the pictures below are NOT the characters, but representations I've managed to find through copious amounts of internet scouring.

Colonel Britton

When the Nazi's began bombing London, the British military recruited their most accomplished soldier into their special operations program... a precursor to a superhuman military force. The officer was also given the codename: Colonel Britton and an appropriate costume to encourage troop morale.

Although he is, in many ways, an Anglicized version of Captain America, the name comes from a popular radio broadcaster in Britain at the time.

Dr. Nefarious

Doctor Nefarious is an amoral eugenicist and experimenter who secretly works for the US government. His villainous identity was created as a smoke screen when the government began enlisting the Mechanist to clean up his mistakes. He is a strict Darwinist who believes that science is an extension of the natural process. Everything he does it justified by the natural order of things.

The Fairy Queen

My most recent creation. She possesses the ability to summon brightly colored fairies that do her bidding as well as reflect her mood. They may be real or they may be figments of her imagination, but either way, they can swarm an enemy like giant wasps.

G-Man

In a way, G-Man is ahead of his time because his name is completely ironic. He is J. Edgar Hoover's number one agent and he has been assigned to oversee the mystery man phenomenon. His real name is Dex Corrigan, but he took the name G-Man as a dig at the ridiculous names that the others take. He lacks the true adventurous spirit of a mystery men and will undermine their work if Hoover gives the order.

Lilith

Lilith is the assistant to Dietrich von Frankenstein, descendant of the original Victor von Frankenstein. She is hauntingly beautiful and brings a chill whenever she enters a room. One cannot help but feel close to death when she is around. If she has any special abilities, she does not show it. Most people think she is the creation of Dietrich, but the opposite is closer to the truth.

Miss Mercury

Another recent creation, Miss Mercury is a teenage super-heroine with some minor power or trinket that enables her to play with the big boys. As a junior member of the Allied Hero Brigade, she is kept from the worst of the action and assigned to one of the others at all times. She often travels to the states to promote war bonds, working women, rationing, and is involved with projects to reduce juvenile delinquency.

Pendragon

Hidden behind a full face mask marked with the royal lion crest (not seen because this isn't really him, natch), few people know who he really is, but like his name suggests, he is the returned Arthur Pendragon who was awakened in Avalon after England was threatened by the Nazi forces. His dialect is extremely old fashioned and he often does not understand "modern" ideas, but he is every bit the warrior you would imagine... with or without Excalibur.

Spitfire

This blonde tomboy is possibly the most talented officer in the RAF. She was there when the Nazis first attacked. Most of her friends are dead, but she is still shooting down Gerries over London. When the Allied Hero Brigade is formed, she is assigned as their senior pilot. Her name comes both from her personality and her plane.

The Templar

An old world aristocrat from Eastern Europe, the Templar is, as his name suggests, one of the Knights Templar who gained immortality from drinking from the Holy Grail... however not all of his mystic endeavors has been as successful. He is a practiced magician whose face was horribly scarred and hidden behind an iron mask.

Tigress

One of my favorite creations, Tigress is a high society socialite and daughter of a big game hunter. After her philandering husband donates a female tiger to a local zoo (supposedly in her honor), she starts to obsess over it. One day, it breaks out of the zoo and attacks her, but her husband shoots it. This is the moment of her breakdown. She sees herself in the noble, captured animal. She kills her husband and becomes a jewel thief.

Titan

One of the first to join the official US supersoldier program, Titan uses a special growth formula to exponentially increase his mass. Unfortunately, the drug is highly addictive and unstable. He is a good man who is a bit naive and completely unprepared for the demon he invited into his body.

Vesper

The daughter of a four-star general, Mary Jane was accidentally exposed to a chemical which made her invisible. Using this new power and the fighting abilities she learned from being in a military family, she took the identity of Vesper to fight criminals and spies. In her day job, she is a rising, young New York model. After joining the Allied Hero Brigade, she and the Enigma fall deeply in love.

There are more characters yet to be revealed, but for them, I don't have any pictures that are even halfway decent.

UPDATE: I have one more to add to this list.

Clara

The Mechanist created a Mechanical assistant by using his experimental "electronic brain." Unlike a computer, this system functions via complex electrical impulses that build their own pathways. As a result, their mental faculties are somewhat limited and they can exhibit seemingly random behavior. Whether this is a glitch or an evolutionary property is up to debate.