Independent Marvel Heroes

GHOST RIDER
Affiliations: SOLO D10, BUDDY D8, TEAM D6
Distinctions:
Spirit of Vengeance
Cursed Bloodline
Reluctant Rider
Power Sets:
Skilled Rider
ENHANCED REFLEXES D8, ENHANCED STAMINA D8
SFX: Second Chance. Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any SKILLED RIDER power.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any SKILLED RIDER power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit: Mutually Exclusive. Shutdown SKILLED RIDER to activate GHOST RIDER. Shutdown GHOST RIDER, RIDER WEAPONS and MENACE MASTER to recover SKILLED RIDER.

Ghost Rider
ENHANCED REFLEXES D8, GODLIKE STAMINA D12, HELLFIRE BLAST D10, HELLFIRE MASTERY D10, MYSTIC SENSES D8, SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY D10, SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH D10
SFX: Area Attack. For each additional target, add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Hellfire Constructs. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when using HELLFIRE MASTERY to create assets.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from disease, poisons, psychic attack, electricity or radiation.
SFX: Invulnerability. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or physical trauma, unless caused by mystical attacks.
SFX: Penance Stare. Step up HELLFIRE MASTERY or double it, or spend 1 PP to do both, then shutdown the power. Inflict emotional stress on an opponent. Recover power during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.
SFX: Regeneration. Spend 1 PP to recover your physical stress or step back your physical trauma by -1 step.
Limit: Growing Dread. Both 1 and 2 on your dice count as opportunities when using a GHOST RIDER power.
Limit: Hellish Being. Step up complications or stress inflicted by divine attacks by +1.
Limit: Mutually Exclusive. Shutdown GHOST RIDER, RIDER WEAPONS and MENACE MASTER to activate SKILLED RIDER. Shutdown SKILLED RIDER to recover GHOST RIDER, RIDER WEAPONS and MENACE MASTER.
Limit: Only the Wicked. When using the Penance Stare SFX, the effect die is limited in proportion to the harm the targets has caused others. A shoplifter only suffers a D8 effect die maximum, while a murderer or politician suffers the full effect.

Rider Weapons
STRETCHING D8, SUPERHUMAN SPEED D10, WALL-CRAWLING D8, WEAPON D8
SFX: Burst. Step up or double a RIDER WEAPONS die against a single target. Remove the highest rolling die and add 3 dice for your total.
SFX: Dangerous. Add a D6 to your dice pool for an attack action and step back highest die in pool by -1. Step up physical stress inflicted by +1.
SFX: Mystic Chain. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when inflicting bound complication on a target.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown STRETCHING and WEAPON or SUPERHUMAN SPEED and WALL-CRAWLING to gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. Doom Pool to recover.
Limit: Mutually Exclusive. Shutdown GHOST RIDER, RIDER WEAPONS and MENACE MASTER to activate SKILLED RIDER. Shutdown SKILLED RIDER to recover GHOST RIDER, RIDER WEAPONS and MENACE MASTER.

Specialties:
COMBAT EXPERT D8, MENACE MASTER D10 (in Rider form), MYSTIC EXPERT D8, VEHICLE EXPERT D8
Milestones:

ID: Daniel Ketch (Secret)
History:
Daniel Ketch has lived a life cursed to be plagued with demons, monsters and living nightmares. Brother to Johnny Blaze and inheritor of an ancient curse linked to the Spirits of Vengeance, he took up the mantle of Ghost Rider after Deathwatch attacked Daniel and his sister. Hiding in a junkyard to escape their attackers, Daniel touched the gas cap of a mysterious old motorcycle and the power within transformed him into Ghost Rider. Though it was too late to spare Barbara, the new Ghost Rider delivered righteous vengeance upon those who harmed innocents like Barbara.

Believed at first to be the demon Zarathos once more possessing a mortal host, Ghost Rider discovered that his powers seemed to stem from Noble Kale, accursed ancestor transformed into immortal Spirit of Vengeance. However, with the involvement of the likes of Mephisto and Blackheart, neither Danny, Kale nor even Johnny Blaze could be sure of the truth. Eventually they discovered that the four Spirits of Vengeance bonded to Ketch and the other keepers of a mystical Medallion of Power were not demonic in origin, but rather angelic destroyers, vestiges of an ancient power. Though others lay claim to the title, Daniel fought their masters many times, opposing Mephisto and other demonic threats to mankind.

Daniel died more than once, had the Spirit of Vengeance exorcised from him and even unwittingly assisted an angel in gathering enough power to war upon the highest realms. In the end, he willingly rejoined with a Spirit of Vengeance to become the Ghost Rider once more and save New York. Resigning himself to his fate as a Ghost Rider, Daniel Ketch rode off into the night to deliver hellfire and vengeance to the wicked.
Personality:
Daniel was once a kind if naive young man, but that all changed when he became the Ghost Rider. Now possessed of a hard edge born of a life of death and damnation, Daniel Ketch tries to look forward to a better future. He is willing to help those in need and certainly has no love of evil making the innocent suffer. While he can be dark in mood due to his burden, Danny struggles to not let the fact of being Ghost Rider consume his fiery spirit.
Powers & Abilities:
Daniel Ketch is a skilled rider and knowledgeable through firsthand experience about many supernatural forces. Brother to Johnny Blaze, he can call upon Johnny's help and knowledge and has a network of allies with their own mystical gifts. Daniel himself can transform into the Ghost Rider, a powerful Spirit of Vengeance taking the form of a flaming skeleton riding a demonic motorcycle. As the Ghost Rider, he possesses superhuman strength and durability, tireless in his pursuit of the wicked. Even when a force injures him, the Rider can recover from the most grievous wounds. He can manipulate hellfire to burn the minds and spirits of the unholy or create objects from will alone. He can also channel his power into the devastating Penance Stare, with which he forces victims to relive all the pain they have inflicted upon others.

Ghost Rider's bike can perform feats no earthly bike can, like riding straight up walls or over water. He also has a mystical chain that can grow to great lengths, shoot bladed links like shurikens and grapple others like tentacles.

SPIDER-MAN 2099
Affiliations: SOLO D10, BUDDY D8, TEAM D6
Distinctions:
GENIUS GENETICIST
A LITTLE LESS FRIENDLY
CHAMPION OF THE OPPRESSED
Power Sets:
HUMAN-ARACHNID HYBRID
ENHANCED SENSES D8, SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES D10, SUPERHUMAN STAMINA D10, SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH D10
SFX: Focus. If a pool includes a HUMAN-ARACHNID HYBRID power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one die +1 step larger.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a HUMAN-ARACHNID HYBRID power, you may move your physical stress die to the Doom pool and step up the HUMAN-ARACHNID HYBRID power by +1 for this action.
SFX: Venom Glands. When inflicting a paralyzed complication on a target, add a D6 and step up your effect die.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any HUMAN-ARACHNID HYBRID power to gain 1 PP. Recover power during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.

SPIDER-POWERS
DURABILITY D6, GLIDING D6, SWINGLINE D8, WALL-CRAWLING D6, WEAPON D6
SFX: Grapple. When inflicting a web-related complication on a target, add a D6 and step up your effect die.
SFX: Talons. Add a D6 to your dice pool for a physical attack action and step back the highest die in the pool by -1 to step up stress inflicted by +1.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown DURABILITY and GLIDING to gain 1 PP. Recover powers during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.

Specialties:
ACROBATIC EXPERT D8, COMBAT EXPERT D8, SCIENCE EXPERT D8, TECH EXPERT D8
Milestones:
FOR THE PEOPLE
Like it or not, the oppressed people of 2099 see you as a harbinger of great things: the return of Thor, the return of a Heroic Age, a chance to strike back at the ruthless megacorporations.
1 XP when you swing into the public eye to openly oppose a megacorporation.
3 XP when you take trauma from an enemy sent by the megacorps.
10 XP when you when you take down a megacorporation or save one of their victims at great cost to yourself.

SPIDER-MAN OF TOMORROW
Yours is a storied legacy, and with that great power comes great responsibility ... or so they say. Some days, it seems like it just comes with a lot of enemies.
1 XP when a villain declares himself an old foe of Spider-Man.
3 XP when you gain a new villain molded in the image of one of Spider-Man's old foes.
10 XP when you forgive your foe, or when you set aside your differences and work together for a common cause.

ID: Miguel O'Hara (Secret)
History:
Son of a Latino woman and Irish father, Miguel O'Hara grew up with a hot temper and a gift of genius. That intelligence eventually earned him the head position at Alchemax Corporation's genetics division. Miguel led the program to create "corporate raiders," super-soldiers owned and controlled by corporations such as Alchemax. Miguel's work focused on the hybridization of human and animal species, inspired by records of the 21st-century Spider-Man. After a human test subject died a gruesome death as a result of his work, Miguel lost his desire to continue and resigned from Alchemax.

Tricked by Alchemax R&D VP Tyler Stone into becoming addicted to Rapture, a drug that genetically bonds itself with the user, Miguel faced a terrible choice: remain with Alchemax or risk death and imprisonment for black market drug deals. With only Alchemax legally licensed to distribute the drug, Stone had Miguel caught between a rock and a hard place. Miguel sought to escape another way: by using the data of his own genetic code stored in Alchemax's database, he planned to overwrite his Rapture-modified DNA with that of his Rapture-free data. His attempt was sabotaged by a rival within Alchemax, Aaron Delgado, whose interference instead caused the machines to hybridize Miguel's genetic code with that of a spider.

Emerging from the process with spider-powers, Miguel found himself fighting the oppression of the very corporation he once supported. Regarded by Thorite worshipers of Thor as a harbinger of the god's return, and by the struggling people of 2099 as a beacon of freedom, Spider-Man learned to embrace his role as a hero. He went on to meet many living legacies of the Heroic Age and help bring about a modern return to such heroics alongside heroes and villains both new and old.
Personality:
In 2099, the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is a little less friendly. So is the neighborhood. The Mexican and Irish heritage that flows hot in Miguel's veins gives him an equally hot temper, as did growing up with an abusive father. As a scientific genius, Miguel knows how smart he is and isn't afraid to let others know it. His wisecracking and arrogant personality rub others the wrong way, but deep inside Miguel has a good heart. When his new powers open his eyes to the plight of his fellow people, he chooses to embrace responsibility and fight against the powerful corporations of 2099. While Miguel never loses his biting wit as Spider-Man, he also comes to know what it means to be a hero.
Abilities and Resources:
Miguel O'Hara is a scientific prodigy. He excelled in academia so much so that at a young age Alchemax placed him at the head of one of their important genetics division. Both a geneticist and a technological wizard, Miguel helped program things such as AIs and advanced electronic systems. After having his genetic code rewritten to incorporate spider DNA, Miguel gained the proportionate speed and strength of a spider. The results were reflexes well beyond any human athlete's and a natural agility that let him perform impossible athletic feats. He also possesses enhanced senses that allow him to see in the dark or focus binocular vision on distant objects, and hear things at a greater range than normal humans. The hybridization gave him non-retractable talons on his fingers and toes that he could only cause to fold down with great concentration or by touching his own skin. Spider-Man also gained spinnerets — fortunately, the spider-powers adapted themselves to his human form, rather than the other way around, and they were located in his forearms, allowing him to swing on weblines or bind opponents in webbing.

When he became Spider-Man, in order to conceal his identity he donned a vaguely spider-esque costume he had worn for Dio de la Muerta. Made of Unstable Molecule Fabric, the costume proved durable enough to survive his many rough adventures as Spider-Man, and he also added a small airfoil cape that allowed him to glide and control his freefalls.