Just doing a bit of a revamp of my submission for the Exiles version of Mimic, after carefully rereading every Exiles issue containing him and trying to incorporate every bit possible. This should cover pretty much everything, although if I’ve missed something do let me know. Super-Hero ID: Mimic Name: Calvin Rankin Power Category-Random Mutant Fighting: Excellent (20) Agility: Excellent (20) Strength: Good (10)/Amazing (50) Endurance: Excellent (20)/Amazing (50) Reason: Typical (6) Intuition: Typical (6) Psyche: Typical (6) Note: Physical stats already incorporate mimicked enhancements; reduce fighting, strength, and endurance to Typical if Wolverine’s abilities are replaced/lost, reduce Agility to Typical if Northstar’s powers are replaced/lost. Health 70/140 Karma 18 Resources Pr (4) Popularity 15 Powers Power Duplication: Mimic has the Unearthly ability to copy up to 5 people’s power sets at once. This allows him to use their powers at will and at the same time, but at half efficiency. Should he wish to duplicate another’s powers he must choose an existing set to abandon. When copying powers Mimic does not copy limitations at the same time, as such the most obvious benefit of this is he does not require a ruby quartz visor in order to control the optic blasts he’s mimicked off of Cyclops. This process requires roughly an hour to be fully complete although he may copy powers ‘on the fly’ if a situation is desperate enough, but they will fade within minutes and leave him with an empty slot. Current Powers Include: -From Colossus: Armored Form, granting remarkable Body Armor and strength and endurance boost to Amazing while transformed. While not a part of Colossus’s power template for some unexplained reason while in armored form Mimic enjoys an Unearthly strength Psi-screen against all forms of contact whether baneful or beneficial. -From Northstar: Excellent Agility and Shift Z flight speed (although cannot fly while in armored form). -From Cyclops: Remarkable strength optic blasts. -From Wolverine: Enhanced Senses (hearing, smell) Remarkable. Resistance to toxins, disease, aging Amazing. Retractable Bone Claws Excellent material strength and edged attack damage, raised to Remarkable when in armored form. Tracking: Remarkable. Regeneration and Recovery: Good. Fighting: Excellent. Strength: Good. Endurance: Excellent. -From Deadpool: Regeneration and Recovery: Unearthly. Fighting: Excellent. Strength: Good. Endurance: Good. On a power feat he can regain an area of lost tissue the size of his hand with two rounds of concentration. Due to the unique nature of Deadpool’s power it is currently impossible for Mimic to cleanse it from his power templates, as it resists his efforts to remove it. Also much like Deadpool it has a physical manifestation of long ropey scars covering him from head to toe. -Telepathy: Typical. Mimic has residual telepathy from when he mimicked the Jean Grey of his own timeline. It appears unaffected by swapping out power templates and lingers indefinitely. Power Detection: As a component of his ability to copy powers Mimic may analyze anyone he’s attempting to copy with Unearthly ability at a range of up to ten feet. This allows him to automatically know what powers he’s getting from a target, how powerful they are and gives him insights into how durable whoever he copies might be. This power will also alert him when he’s in the presence of someone with a powerful superhuman ability (he once made such a comment to Deadpool that he’d been able to sense his power the moment he walked into the room). Note: Because both the Wolverine and Deadpool power templates carry regenerative abilities he effectively has Unearthly (110) rank Regeneration and Recovery. Considering both Wolverine and Deadpool have survived levels of physical damage thought to be lethal even to them and recovered it’s possible his apparent death due to being burned out by the parasite Proteus is not permanent and he may eventually regenerate and revive. LIMITATIONS Mimic is unable to copy power templates of individuals with similar or identical powers to a template he already possesses as his body sees it as redundant. In the most obvious example of this he was unable to swap out the Beast’s agility to copy that of Sabertooth in order to benefit from his regenerative powers due to his already having similar powers in Wolverine’s power template. As listed previously he may copy the powers of only 5 beings at a time and at half power/effectiveness. TALENTS Leadership; History (Superhero/villain-related); Martial Arts A, B; CONTACTS Exiles (Thunderbird, Nocturne, Magnus, Blink, Sunfire, Beak); X-men (those of his reality only or those confusing him with their reality's Mimic); ENEMIES Anyone he’s forced to oppose to set a timeline right. PERSONALITY Having overcome a harsh life and a brief stint into villainy early on in his life Mimic has fully embraced the ideals of Professor X’s dreams of human and mutant co-existence and the heroic ideal and proven one of the greatest forces in guiding his world to one of the best when it comes to human/mutant relations. He seems to have a preference for powers that are simple in nature, either always operating (Wolverine’s healing factor and enhanced senses) or simply on/off in nature (Colossus’s armored form) rather than those requiring practice like Magneto’s magnetic powers, Blink’s teleportation powers, or Sunfire’s fire-related abilities. After having been forced to kill several alternate-reality versions of heroes he’s known (including a version of Prince Namor) he swore off killing which eventually lead to his apparent death when he hesitated in battle with Proteus when killing him was the only solution and became just another host instead until he was burned out. https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,318#msg-318 Sat, 18 May 2024 05:05:04 -0600 Phorum 5.2.22 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,52731#msg-52731 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,52731#msg-52731 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:32:46 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,52003#msg-52003 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,52003#msg-52003 -------------------------------------------------------
> this has been a most informative read mask and
> blade, the only issue i see is should not his
> speed flight be unearthly as that is his limit not
> shift Z. over all you hit his half power to a tee.

No Mimic's speed should be Shift Z, his power was not shown to have any such cap on it. The power rank is for things like testing against someone's ability (if any) to resist Power Copying, such as when he went against Dark Phoenix and she shut him off while he was in the middle of copying her power.

> did blade ever finish his version of mimic.

No idea, ever since he cut all ties with here after some spat he had and went off to set up an exclusive 'we're better than you' game site there's been no contact with him at all.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:39:11 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,51996#msg-51996 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,51996#msg-51996
did blade ever finish his version of mimic.]]> GILGAMESH Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:46:30 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,4896#msg-4896 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,4896#msg-4896 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:33:33 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,4863#msg-4863 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,4863#msg-4863
In your opinion:

If Mimic was to duplicate the powers of Superman...would he also duplicate his weakness to Kryptonite?]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:33:48 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3187#msg-3187 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3187#msg-3187
They never explored too much of the background on the Evil Hyperion but I doubt he was of Eternal heritage, while he had similar powers and appearance to the ones we first met (identical until they decided to have him inexplicably be bald perhaps to make it easier to differentiate between him and the good ones to come along but it had no sense to it otherwise) it didn't happen to require him to be an Eternal. Similar to how we see the recent version of Wolverine introduced in New Exiles, while he's clearly Wolverine's counterpart he's also obviously of very different origin (similar to The Beast With No Name from the Kitty's Fairy Tale reality).

Ahhhh, okay, will be interesting to see the full write-up on him as you see his counterpart becoming, since there are so many good mix-and-match options for Mimic. My Energy master version (with some padding to better adapt to all problems) is just one of many powerful combinations one could put together.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:16:35 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3182#msg-3182 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3182#msg-3182 -------------------------------------------------------
> Why are any of us the way we are? Mimic stated he
> didn't consider things like teleportation or fire
> generation as areas to play in (even though the
> people BORN with those powers had to learn how to
> control and safely use them as well) so presumably
> he either had an accident early on that left him
> phobic of such powers or saw it happen with
> someone else and was left afraid of trying powers
> that required practice. Given he could select
> whatever powers he wanted instead of being stuck
> with a particular set of powers he likely said to
> himself that he could easily find other powers
> that'd work for what he wanted and wouldn't
> require risky practice (like Angel's wings and
> later Northstar's flight) and went that route.

I suspect that there must have been something dramatic happen to him in the early use of his powers that made him the way he is about copying powers that require more detailed practice. Hopefully someday the Marvel staff will give us some kind of explanation for that.

> The only reason (other than writer plot hole) I
> can see for Mimic not trying to copy Hyperion
> would be that he couldn't, that something about
> him was incompatible with Mimic's power. Since
> Hyperion was in fact able to regenerate from
> scraps it's not unreasonable to think him close
> enough to an energy being to reject being copied.

It's definitely possible, and a more reasonable explanation than that he just didn't think of it. Was the Hyperion he came across the version that is Eternal in heritage? For some reason I can't remember if they covered that in the story.

> Hmmmm, so why haven't you posted your idea of what
> would make for Ultimate Mimic? Been revising it
> after seeing the various ideas provided by others
> and seeing someone you'd forgotten about and just
> having trouble settling on a particular set? The
> conversations do get quite good though and reveal
> some interesting thoughts on the topics and
> perspectives one might have missed originally.

Originally I wanted to do a full write-up for my Mimic, but I just have not had the time. So I'll post something short soon.]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:24:35 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3165#msg-3165 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3165#msg-3165
The only reason (other than writer plot hole) I can see for Mimic not trying to copy Hyperion would be that he couldn't, that something about him was incompatible with Mimic's power. Since Hyperion was in fact able to regenerate from scraps it's not unreasonable to think him close enough to an energy being to reject being copied.

Hmmmm, so why haven't you posted your idea of what would make for Ultimate Mimic? Been revising it after seeing the various ideas provided by others and seeing someone you'd forgotten about and just having trouble settling on a particular set? The conversations do get quite good though and reveal some interesting thoughts on the topics and perspectives one might have missed originally.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:49 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3148#msg-3148 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3148#msg-3148 -------------------------------------------------------
> Except the Exiles Mimic was practically phobic
> about powers that required effort to master so
> would avoid anything that required power stunts
> (ironically his evil counterpart who rejected
> Xavier's offer had no problems taking power-stunt
> heavy mutant powers like Magneto's, Xavier's, and
> quickly copied and used Blink's powers even when
> the Exiles version refused to even try copying it
> after he lost his wings because he didn't want to
> make the effort to practice using it). He went
> for always active (Wolverine, Beast, Angel,
> Deadpool) or easy on-off powers (Cyclops,
> Colossus). If he'd ever copied an Eternal he'd
> have likely never made any attempt to learn more
> power stunts and stuck with the basics it offered
> (although that would have made him quite a bit
> more powerful in general), but he had the
> opportunity to mimic any of the Hyperions that
> they met and didn't even try. So basically the
> writers didn't play him as a very intelligent man
> or one willing to really stretch himself but more
> a lazy one taking the easy route to being a hero.

I'm familiar with that aspect of his personality, but did they ever say why he was that way? It seems that over time he would eventually want to play a bit with his powers. While I agree that during the Exiles was not a great time, it could happen during some kind of down time or something. Curious.

> As we've seen in the other thread you started
> there are a variety of combinations that would
> have made him vastly more capable, particularly if
> he were to take the challenge of power sets that
> required practice and effort. There are even a
> number of possibilities that he could have gained
> great power without even taking practice powers
> but going his lazy route but seems never to have
> done so. His opportunity to copy Spider-man
> during their time on the Skrull-conquered earth
> for example would have been a better swap for
> Beast's agility and brought a number of back-up
> powers and enhanced strength and durability even
> without being in armored form. That was one of
> his biggest weaknesses, his normal unarmored form
> wasn't that much better than a normal human and
> only Wolverine's template really boosted it and
> that half-level power wasn't that great a break
> overall. Holding onto Beast's agility instead of
> taking Spider-man's entire template was a very bad
> tactical error all around.

Agreed, on all accounts. I'm a fan of his for sure, but sometimes I did wonder what the heck he was thinking not copying Hyperion. Even half of that guy is pretty sweet, plus the fact that you get four other templates with it to round out your overall power set. Man, that would have been sweet.

I'm really enjoying that other thread, even though I have not posted my Mimic yet. Sometimes the conversations that are sparked in such subjects are as interesting or more so than the actual topic.]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:18:21 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3139#msg-3139 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3139#msg-3139
As we've seen in the other thread you started there are a variety of combinations that would have made him vastly more capable, particularly if he were to take the challenge of power sets that required practice and effort. There are even a number of possibilities that he could have gained great power without even taking practice powers but going his lazy route but seems never to have done so. His opportunity to copy Spider-man during their time on the Skrull-conquered earth for example would have been a better swap for Beast's agility and brought a number of back-up powers and enhanced strength and durability even without being in armored form. That was one of his biggest weaknesses, his normal unarmored form wasn't that much better than a normal human and only Wolverine's template really boosted it and that half-level power wasn't that great a break overall. Holding onto Beast's agility instead of taking Spider-man's entire template was a very bad tactical error all around.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:24:22 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3125#msg-3125 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3125#msg-3125
Oh and dude, I really did wonder why he was not trading up a little more effectively, now that you mention it. The power set of an Eternal would have tied any other powers he had together beautifully. Not to mention, in game terms, the endless amount of power stunting he could do with that power set and his knowledge of powers in general. With all that experience in using a wide array of powers, he'd be like the power stunt master.]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:32:06 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3124#msg-3124 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3124#msg-3124 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:08:46 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3122#msg-3122 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3122#msg-3122
Okay so you definitely disagree with the whole thing that he has a danger of holding on to none mutant powers then. See thats good man, because I was not so sure about that. Also, I wasn't putting together that it was Deadpool's Regeneration that he had trouble getting rid of, also I don't know much about Deadpool. A couple things:

1) Has he ever been shown having trouble getting rid of anyone else's power set?

2) What is special so about Dealpool's Regeneration, that it will hold on and resist being booted, but Wolverines would not? Just the rank being so much higher?]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:41:04 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3121#msg-3121 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3121#msg-3121 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:30:44 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3120#msg-3120 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3120#msg-3120
Here's an interesting thing:

[classicmarvelrpg.com]

This write-up has two things different from yours:

1) Stats: Calvin’s original stats are all rated at Ty/6 with a health of 24. Should Calvin duplicate a stat that is better than one he possesses it will take the originals place, with an increase in Health but not Karma.

2) Limitation: May only Duplicate another mutants powers, runs the risk of permanent duplication if duplicating non-mutants.

Thoughts?]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:00:12 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3096#msg-3096 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3096#msg-3096 Joe Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:19:39 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3093#msg-3093 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3093#msg-3093
During the Brood Egg moment he was copying the following: Colossus, Wolverine, Cyclops, Northstar, Beast, Sunfire, Morph, Thing, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Sasquatch, Nocturne, and the Human Torch. If more had shown up he'd have copied them as well and kept on going.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:49:53 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3089#msg-3089 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3089#msg-3089
In any case, I'm glad I brought up the Hulk thing, if for no other reason for my own education.]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:15:30 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3088#msg-3088 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3088#msg-3088 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:05:36 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3086#msg-3086 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3086#msg-3086
So we are saying that duplicating the Hulk's power set would injure him badly, and maybe kill him?]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:18:58 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3078#msg-3078 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3078#msg-3078 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:47:53 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3047#msg-3047 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,3047#msg-3047
While I don't remember the exact details of it, I do recall there being some issue about that he could not copy the Hulk (and the like), and I think even be around him. Like he has some kind of Energy Allergy, or just general Weakness to, Gamma type radiation. I'm certain about Mimic (Earth-616) having an issue like this, but was pretty sure the Mimic (Earth - 12) had the same kind of issue.

In any case I've mentioned it to help you with your write-up, which I obviously I dig enough to keep looking at. :D]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:23:15 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2749#msg-2749 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2749#msg-2749 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:03:21 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2748#msg-2748 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2748#msg-2748
Here's the link: [www.angelfire.com]]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:56:03 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2743#msg-2743 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2743#msg-2743 The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:28:03 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2742#msg-2742 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2742#msg-2742 Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:03:53 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2739#msg-2739 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,2739#msg-2739 > Unearthly. Fighting: Excellent. Strength: Good.
> Endurance: Good. On a power feat he can regain an
> area of lost tissue the size of his hand with two
> rounds of concentration. Due to the unique nature
> of Deadpool’s power it is currently impossible
> for Mimic to cleanse it from his power templates,
> as it resists his efforts to remove it. Also much
> like Deadpool it has a physical manifestation of
> long ropey scars covering him from head to toe.

Is there a version of Deadpool that has Shift-Y Regeneration and Recovery? The one on this site is listed as Unearthly, which is how I remembered it. So shouldn't Mimic have Amazing rank in those powers? Half of Deadpool's Unearthly rank.]]> The Last Duskblade Canon Character Write-ups Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:44:44 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,1257#msg-1257 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,1257#msg-1257 Dr Archeville Canon Character Write-ups Sat, 10 May 2008 07:37:21 -0600 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,318#msg-318 https://classicmarvelforever.com/phorum/read.php?4,318,318#msg-318
Super-Hero ID: Mimic

Name: Calvin Rankin

Power Category-Random Mutant

Fighting: Excellent (20)
Agility: Excellent (20)
Strength: Good (10)/Amazing (50)
Endurance: Excellent (20)/Amazing (50)
Reason: Typical (6)
Intuition: Typical (6)
Psyche: Typical (6)

Note: Physical stats already incorporate mimicked enhancements; reduce fighting, strength, and endurance to Typical if Wolverine’s abilities are replaced/lost, reduce Agility to Typical if Northstar’s powers are replaced/lost.

Health 70/140
Karma 18
Resources Pr (4)
Popularity 15

Powers

Power Duplication: Mimic has the Unearthly ability to copy up to 5 people’s power sets at once. This allows him to use their powers at will and at the same time, but at half efficiency. Should he wish to duplicate another’s powers he must choose an existing set to abandon. When copying powers Mimic does not copy limitations at the same time, as such the most obvious benefit of this is he does not require a ruby quartz visor in order to control the optic blasts he’s mimicked off of Cyclops. This process requires roughly an hour to be fully complete although he may copy powers ‘on the fly’ if a situation is desperate enough, but they will fade within minutes and leave him with an empty slot.

Current Powers Include:

-From Colossus: Armored Form, granting remarkable Body Armor and strength and endurance boost to Amazing while transformed. While not a part of Colossus’s power template for some unexplained reason while in armored form Mimic enjoys an Unearthly strength Psi-screen against all forms of contact whether baneful or beneficial.

-From Northstar: Excellent Agility and Shift Z flight speed (although cannot fly while in armored form).

-From Cyclops: Remarkable strength optic blasts.

-From Wolverine: Enhanced Senses (hearing, smell) Remarkable. Resistance to toxins, disease, aging Amazing. Retractable Bone Claws Excellent material strength and edged attack damage, raised to Remarkable when in armored form. Tracking: Remarkable. Regeneration and Recovery: Good. Fighting: Excellent. Strength: Good. Endurance: Excellent.

-From Deadpool: Regeneration and Recovery: Unearthly. Fighting: Excellent. Strength: Good. Endurance: Good. On a power feat he can regain an area of lost tissue the size of his hand with two rounds of concentration. Due to the unique nature of Deadpool’s power it is currently impossible for Mimic to cleanse it from his power templates, as it resists his efforts to remove it. Also much like Deadpool it has a physical manifestation of long ropey scars covering him from head to toe.

-Telepathy: Typical. Mimic has residual telepathy from when he mimicked the Jean Grey of his own timeline. It appears unaffected by swapping out power templates and lingers indefinitely.

Power Detection: As a component of his ability to copy powers Mimic may analyze anyone he’s attempting to copy with Unearthly ability at a range of up to ten feet. This allows him to automatically know what powers he’s getting from a target, how powerful they are and gives him insights into how durable whoever he copies might be. This power will also alert him when he’s in the presence of someone with a powerful superhuman ability (he once made such a comment to Deadpool that he’d been able to sense his power the moment he walked into the room).

Note: Because both the Wolverine and Deadpool power templates carry regenerative abilities he effectively has Unearthly (110) rank Regeneration and Recovery. Considering both Wolverine and Deadpool have survived levels of physical damage thought to be lethal even to them and recovered it’s possible his apparent death due to being burned out by the parasite Proteus is not permanent and he may eventually regenerate and revive.

LIMITATIONS

Mimic is unable to copy power templates of individuals with similar or identical powers to a template he already possesses as his body sees it as redundant. In the most obvious example of this he was unable to swap out the Beast’s agility to copy that of Sabertooth in order to benefit from his regenerative powers due to his already having similar powers in Wolverine’s power template. As listed previously he may copy the powers of only 5 beings at a time and at half power/effectiveness.

TALENTS

Leadership; History (Superhero/villain-related); Martial Arts A, B;

CONTACTS

Exiles (Thunderbird, Nocturne, Magnus, Blink, Sunfire, Beak); X-men (those of his reality only or those confusing him with their reality's Mimic);

ENEMIES

Anyone he’s forced to oppose to set a timeline right.

PERSONALITY

Having overcome a harsh life and a brief stint into villainy early on in his life Mimic has fully embraced the ideals of Professor X’s dreams of human and mutant co-existence and the heroic ideal and proven one of the greatest forces in guiding his world to one of the best when it comes to human/mutant relations. He seems to have a preference for powers that are simple in nature, either always operating (Wolverine’s healing factor and enhanced senses) or simply on/off in nature (Colossus’s armored form) rather than those requiring practice like Magneto’s magnetic powers, Blink’s teleportation powers, or Sunfire’s fire-related abilities. After having been forced to kill several alternate-reality versions of heroes he’s known (including a version of Prince Namor) he swore off killing which eventually lead to his apparent death when he hesitated in battle with Proteus when killing him was the only solution and became just another host instead until he was burned out.]]> Nightmask Canon Character Write-ups Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:51:12 -0600