A specialist villain today, this one quite deliberately built to be a fearsome threat but prone to overloading himself so badly he practically defeats himself with self-inflicted damage. If your heroes can hold out long enough he becomes a pushover to finish off, but he hits mighty hard until then.
Omegavolt
Ramon DaSilva was an unremarkable lab assistant in the OmegaCorp High-Energy Testing Facility until the accident that left him supercharged. Possibly unhinged by the incident, or perhaps just greedy and amoral, he was quick to adopt the villainous persona of Omegavolt and go on a spree of robberies until confronted by a team of heroes who tricked him into overloading himself. He's proven to be difficult to contain long-term, and has repeatedly broken out of prison to repeat his crimes, often with more tactically-minded allies.
As Omegavolt he displays remarkably potent control over electricity, which he can also leverage to create stunning blasts of thunder or propel himself through the sky by "riding" lightning bolts. He's surprisingly vulnerable to the same kind of energies, although he can (and usually will) simply power his way through such hindrances with a costly display of his own might. His impulsive personality and hot temper are even more of a drawback, and many of his defeats have effectively been self-inflicted.
Description: Muscular man of Hispanic descent, wearing a matte-black bodysuit with only his hands and head exposed. His costume is covered in metallic cabling that helps him direct his powers, and he sports a short black half-cape with an omega symbol on it. Has a powerful baritone voice and likes to use it to deride anyone who gets on his bad side.
Gender: Male Age: 27 Height: 5'11" Eyes: Brown, Full of Sparks
Hair: Black Skin: Dark Hispanic Tone, Crawling With Lightning Build: Burly
Approach: Overpowered
Archetype: Formidable (Weakness: Electrical or Sonic penalties, including his own)
Health: 60 + (5 x H)
Powers: Electricity d12, Flight d10, Sonic d10
Qualities: Arrogant Powerhouse d8, Imposing d8, Science d6
Status: No Weakness Penalties - d12 / Both Penalties & Bonuses - d8 / Only Weakness Penalties - d4
Abilities:
Beyond All Hindrances (R) Ignore all penalties on you for your action. Take irreducible damage equal to the total of those penalties.
Crashing Thunder (A) Attack multiple targets using Sonic. Use your Max die. Hinder each target using your Mid die.
There Is Nothing Beyond My Power! (A) Take any basic action using your Max die.
UNLIMITED POWER! (A) Attack using Electricity. Use your Max + Mid + Min dice. Hinder yourself using your Max die. Take damage equal to your Mid + Min dice.
Upgrades & Masteries (optional):
Quality Upgrade (I) +20 Health. Increase all Quality dice sizes except Arrogant Powerhouse by one (max d12).
Master of Annihilation (I) If you can cause massive collateral damage without regard for casualties, automatically succeed at an Overcome in a situation where a show of overwhelming force would help.
Tactics
Omegavolt is tremendously powerful, but he's held back by his own overconfidence, impatience and lack of restraint. He always intends to fight intelligently, taking some time Boost himself with There Is Nothing Beyond My Power! and then softening up multiple foes with repeated uses of Crashing Thunder before finishing them off one by one but that never happens. Someone will Attack him, put a penalty on him, or just make him angry by being disrespectful (possibly by not bothering to Attack or Hinder him) and BAM!, he'll immediately use Beyond All Hindrances and UNLIMITED POWER! to teach them a lesson, and then continue to use his reaction over and over rather than letting his accumulating penalties bleed off naturally. This results in a death spiral of mounting damage exacerbated by his own hardest-hitting ability.
He just doesn't have the self-control to play smart, and will wind up draining himself to the point of collapse far quicker than he ought to. Doesn't mean he won't take a hero or three down with him, but he does tend to underperform for his Approach/Archetype combination.
Omegavolt's upgrade isn't much help (it won't improve Arrogant Powerhouse any, which he uses for most offensive abilities) either, although the added Health might buy him another round or two in action. His mastery reflects his hot-headedness, and rarely gets used for anything really productive unless his allies can get him to stick to some kind of plan.
Trivia
For unknown reasons, Ramon deeply objects to being called "Sparky" and tends to fly off the handle if taunted with that nickname, This has led to several "incidents" with fellow supervillains.
