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Player Name: Northstar

Character Name: Doctor Gregory Bruce

Power Level: 10 (150/154PP)

Trade-Offs: -2 Attack / +2 Damage, -2 Defense / +2 Toughness

Unspent PP: 4

Progress to Bronze Status: 4/30

In Brief:A doctor uses super medicine to fight crime.

Alternate Identities: Doctor Titan

Identity:Secret

Birthplace: Freedom City

Occupation: Doctor

Affiliations: Freedom Medical Center

Family: His parents are dead, and he is estranged from his brother and sister

Age: 36 (March 1974)

Apparent Age: 36

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Height: 5'9†as Doctor Greg Bruce, 8'5" as Doctor Titan

Weight: 125 pounds as Doc Bruce, 525 pounds as Doctor Titan

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Description:

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Dr. Bruce is an average looking fellow. He wears his hair rather short, and keeps himself clean shaven. Personal hygene is very important to him, making sure his clothes are clean, and ironed every day. He usually wears simple button down, short sleeved shirts, a lab coat, and loose fitting slacks.

When he's in the Doctor Titan form, he's well over eight feet tall, and looks much more athletic than normal. His skin becomes much harder, almost like an armor.

Power Descriptions: Doctor Bruce's transformation comes from the use of a drug called Triptocycline. Created by Doctor Bruce, and originally intended to keep a badly wounded patient stable while waiting for treatment in high volume situations, when tested on animals, the metabolic boast it gave ended with the test animals severely weakened due to the metabolic boast.

After a particularly bad day, and losing several patients back to back, Dr. Bruce was determined to do something productive. He took an old test drug he'd been working on, hoping to prove it effective through self use. The dose he took that day was a 10 milligram injection. He was astounded to discover he had regained the ability to walk. He left his wheelchair, and walked under his own power for the first time in 5 years. However, with the small dosage, it only lasted a few minutes.

Since that time, he has developed it into the Titan Spray, taken nasally, not wanting to use injections too readily. He's still unsure why it has this effect on him, and not the animals he's tested it on.

History: Primum non nocere “First, Do No Harm.†That's the part of the Hippocratic oath that people remember. They're not solid on the rest of it, like “I'll call in help when I need it,†and “Remember you're treating a human being.†But Do No harm, people have that part down. That's also the part Gregory Bruce is struggling to uphold at the moment.

He went through his scholastic carrier with ease. An eidetic memory helped make sure of that. For a while, teachers though he was cheating, but after he quoted entire book passages verbatim, they reconsidered. It all came very easily to him. And left him with free time, which he spent working on little side projects.

After finishing High school, straight As of course, he went on to Freedom City University, working on his medical degree. He had no trouble acing courses. Patient has this problem, treat this way. Bad heart? Cut here, or transplant. It came very easily. He spent more time selling little study tools he'd built to the other students. He tried tutoring, but “it's this way, why don't you get it†didn't turn out to be the best way to teach.

He graduated Valedictorian two years ahead of schedule. When he needed to chose a specialty, it was no trouble for him. The others could handle neurology, or oncology. His head could handle enough to take on Superhuman physiology. He was hired by Freedom Medical Center, and put on the surgical staff. Only so many superhumans come by, and he needed to be useful the rest of the time.

He started losing patients after that. Not all at once, or with more frequency than any other doctor. But patients did die on the table, despite his best efforts. At first he couldn't understand. He'd done things they way they needed to be done, but people still died.

He started getting a tad angry after that. He saw the aftermath of gunshot wounds, of beatings, car wrecks. It was painful, sometimes, just to be floundering in someone's insides, trying to put out enough fires to keep them alive. There were days that Do No Harm got to be really tough to keep to.

About 5 years ago, he was in a car wreck. Damage was done to his spine, and he lost control of his lower half. The parts themselves work fine, but they stopped getting signals from his brain. He had around 70 pounts of dead meat dragging after him, now.

He was distant for a while, after the crash. He worked on his pet projects, a scalpel that could cut into the tougher skinned supers. He worked on new medicine that responded better to superhuman physiology, with all it's variation. He converted a great deal of his home into a make shit lab. He filled a lot of time with those projects.

When he did regularly return to the hospital, the others had no trouble using the more specialized equipment, but the drugs were another problem. They were untested, untried. It didn't really surprize him, but it was a bit of a blow. All that time, spent doing nothing.

About 6 months ago, he'd had a rather hard day. A mother and her fetal twins had died after getting hit by a bus. They spend hours trying to save the kids, and then hours trying to keep Mom alive. All three went to the morgue. Greg returned home, determined to do some good that day. He took some of his shelved side projects, and worked on them.

About 14 hours later, after a lot of trail, error, and anger, Greg found himself walking for the first time in 5 years. He'd taken a small dose of Triptocycline, a drug that was originally designed to boast a patients system while they waited in extreme situations.

He had no idea why it restored his ability to walk. He wasn't sure why, after it had worn off, there was only a little nausia. But he was going to find out.

Since then he has come up with the Titan Spray, a refined version of Tripto taken nasally. A simple 100 milligram dose is enough to get him more than walking. He can run, faster than any normal man. He becomes about 8 feet tall, strong enough to bend steel, and lift his car.

This is his chance, in his own mind, to stop putting out fires, and start getting rid of the matches. He still loved treating patients, and he loved being a doctor, but sometimes Do No Harm just didn't work for him.

Personality & Motivation:Greg Bruce has been given gifts, and he has a need to do something with them. As long as he's able to do something, make progress with something, he's happy. For him, there's nothing worse than a lack of things to do.

He becomes very invested in his side projects, and with the patients he treats. When he loses someone on the table, or when he can't seem to figure out how to overcome a problem, he takes it as a personal failure.

Even though he's been through a lot, he remains at his core an idealist. He may not believe there will be peace in our times, but he knows that people are good, and that the good far outweighs the bad.

Powers & Tactics: As Doctor Titan, he doesn't have too much experience, so he uses only very simple tactics. His main focus is hitting the other guy, usually very hard. If that doesn't work, hitting it a second time will hopefully bring the desired results. And so on.

He is getting better at the fighting thing, however. He often replays the fights in his head, remembering each little detail from each fight, and using these memories as a sort of instructional video.

Complications:

Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor!: Greg began as a doctor, and he won't let something like a fight distract him from that. If there's a choice between fighting a villain, and treating the wounded, he'll usually go with the latter.

Paraplegic: Greg has in a car wreck several years ago, and has lost the ability to walk under his own power. His wheelchair helps him get around, but there's still a lot he can't do.

Ego: Greg is rather smart, and he knows it. He often lets this little fact set himself above even his colleagues. The word 'insufferable' has been thrown around more than once in reference to him.

Abilities: 0 + 2 + 0 + 10 + 4 + 0 = 16PP

Strength: 10/34 (+0/+12)

Dexterity: 12 (+1)

Constitution: 10/34 (+0/+12)

Intelligence: 20 (+5)

Wisdom: 14 (+2)

Charisma: 10 (+0)

Combat: 8 + 16 = 24PP

Initiative: +5

Attack: +4 base, +8 melee, -1 size

Grapple: +28

Defense: +7 (+8 Base, -1 size), +4 Flat-Footed

Knockback: -15

Saving Throws: 0 + 6 + 5 = 11PP

Toughness: +12 (+12 Con, +0 [Other])

Fortitude: +12 (+12 Con, +0)

Reflex: +7 (+1 Dex, +6)

Will: +7 (+2 Wis, +5)

Skills: 52R = 13PP

Craft(Chemical)4 (+9)

Craft(Electronic)4 (+9)

Craft(Mechanical)4 (+9)

Knowledge(Life Sciences)10 (+15)

Knowledge(Physical Sciences)10 (+15)

Knowledge(Technology)4 (+9)

Language 2 (English[Native], Latin, Spanish)

Medicine 10 (+12)

Notice 4 (+6)

Feats: 11PP

Attack Focus(melee) 4

Eidetic Memory

Improved Grab

Improved Grapple

Improved Initiative

Improved Pin

Interpose

Inventor

Powers: 20 + 16 + 12 + 5 + 10 + 2 + 3 + 11 = 79PP

Enhanced Constitustion 20 [20pp]

Enhanced Strength 16 [16pp]

Growth 4(+8 Str, +4 Con, +1 size, Flaws: permanent) [12pp]

Imunity 5(disease, poison, sleep, suffocation) [5pp]

Impervious Toughness 10 [10pp]

Leaping 2(Running Jump: 110ft, Standing long jump: 55 ft, high jump: 27 feet) [2pp]

Speed 3(50 mph) [3pp]

Super-Strength 4(Power Feats:Groundstrike, Shockwave, Tunderclap) [11pp]

Effective Lifting Strength 59 (Light: 15 tons, Medium: 30 tons, Heavy: 44.8 tons, Maximum: 89.6 tons, Push/Drag: 224 tons)

Drawbacks: (-4) = -4PP

Normal Identity(Must take drug to transform as a full round action, Frequency:Common, Intensity:Major) [-4pp]

DC Block:

ATTACK      RANGE     SAVE                        EFFECT

Unarmed     Touch     DC27 Toughness (Staged)     Damage (Physical)

Abilities (16) + Combat (24) + Saving Throws (11) + Skills (13) + Feats (11) + Powers (79) - Drawbacks (4) = 150/154 Power Points

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Avenger Assembled Advanced Member

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Northstar, as I mentioned, lots of good thoughts here. This is a character I fully intend to approve, I just want to suggest some more things:

Fatigue effects are not likely to come up. In your shoes, I'd get Immunity 5 (disease, poison, sleep, suffocation) and get more utility out of it.

Don't forget to put in his height/weight with Growth (up where you have his regular size), and you should specify his lifting Strength and leaping distances under those powers.

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