Stormchild's Rogues Gallery

Stormchild had an extensive rogues gallery, and with precious few exceptions (Greer and Override 120), they were strangely civil; for criminals obsessed with defeating Stormchild, they never really accomplished much otherwise. Many of his rogues are retired, but here are a smattering of those that remain.

Dr. Christopher Winterbourne
A gentleman thief of the old school, Winterbourne had developed chemicals that, when ingested, gave him the power to control heat and cold. He became a true endotherm; as he put it, drawing heat from the air to create cold, and then releasing it for explosive bursts or in laser-like beams. He was a jewel thief and occasional con man, and insisted in trying to outwit the Lad of Lightning, sending clues designed to both aid and misdirect. He was also a gifted scientist, but his notes vanished after his death. Winterbourne eventually died in prison, from a heart attack brought on by the physical stress of his artificial powers. He was survived by his daughter Emily, whose mutant transmutation powers have made her a member of the Whirlwind—not what her father would have wanted.

Feedback
A common bank robber, he was captured by the police when the teller triggered a silent alarm. While in jail, he became obsessed with the nature of sound. Using the machine shop to fashion his first sonic weapon, Feedback escaped, using his strange genius for sonic technology to build now and ever more impressive weapons for use against Stormchild. When not plotting the defeat of the Lad of Lightning, Feedback would rob banks and places of high technology to get the equipment his inventions required. He's still around, still thinking that he'll prove himself by beating he local heroes, this time the Danger Squad. Feedback is a bit of a buffoon, but his technology is nothing to laugh at. His sonic weapons can shatter stone, overturn buses and create walls of sound or sonic traps to deafen the unwary.

Dr. Lorenzo Longfellow Lazarus
Born in 1900, he was dedicated to the idea of the power of electricity, but Edison and Tesla got all the credit! Well, he'd show them! He'd show them all!!! Dr. Lazarus is cruising on a century of showing them all and still going strong, albeit more seldom these days. He's has been in and out of jail so often they might as well have installed a revolving door, and he often doesn't bother to change out of his prison grays—the jail was just a place where he didn't have to pay rent, was all. It couldn't hold him a minute longer than he wanted to stay. Lorenzo knows he's not much in a fight, and once the heroes have wrecked his current master machine he'll either run or surrender—and what self respecting hero would punch out an infirm 5 tall 90 year old scientist?
    Dr. Lazarus is a master of electromagnetic energy, building huge outlandish devices that have incredible effects. These devices are seldom the same twice—his only reused gizmo is an electro-gun that can stun or kill at long ranges—but each is highly potent and perfect for his current scheme to SHOW THEM ALL!

Prospero
Claiming to be the Duke of Epsilon 7, Prospero would have us believe that he was a member of a vast intergalactic empire, ruled by beings like himself who used celestial energy. He has been banished to Earth until he rescinds his use of artificial technology to boost his powers beyond his appointed level and rival the royal family. He spoke of an interstellar war that he should be fighting, but those fools had imprisoned him here. Whatever his claims of origin, or how much Stormchild believed him, Prospero was phenomenally powerful—personally he was a Gamma level energy manipulator, and with his staff he was mid-Epsilon. It seemed there was nothing he could not do; from personal teleportation to matter tramsmutation. Prospero vanished in 1978, and his weapon is now used by Tempest of the Whirlwind.

Ultra, the Electrical Man
Ultra is a creation of Dr. Lazarus, a synthetic replica of Stormchild. He dubbed it Ultra and used it to terrorize the city until Stormchild disrupted the synthetic body, reducing it to powder. Little did they suspect that Ultra's electrical form survived, returning time after time to bedevil the Lad of Lightning! Ultra occasionally abandoned the sparring match with his "brother" only to be tracked down by Stormchild. In 1976 Stormchild imprisoned Ultra in a subterranean force field, where Ultra remained until a drilling accident released him in 1985. Somewhat at a loss now that his brother is dead, Ultra keeps himself busy battling new variant heroes. Ultra has a love/hate relationship with his creator. To Dr. Lazarus, Ultra is an occasionally useful tool, but to Ultra Lazarus is an abusive parent. Go figure.

VISOR
It stands for Visual Interface Stimulating Output of Radiation, and its the prime weapon of Andrew Sidney. Sidney was born an albino with extreme photo-sensitivity and a festering hatred of those who did not need to fear the sun. Well, he would make them fear the light! He would make them shade themselves from it, fear its burns! If he must life in shadows, so must the world! A gifted scientist, in his teenage years he perfected the first VISOR and used it to blind and extort photographers and others who relied on light. Stormchild stopped him and found a way to reverse the blindness. That set the two of them into a circle of attack and defense that would last the length of Stormchild's career. The VISOR is quite potent, but, as with Feedback, it was Sidney's flair for new applications that made him a persistent threat.

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