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  2 
  JULY 
  2017 
   
  By Stephen Jolly 
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  Divorced, and loving it… 
    In the past, The Marvel-Phile was one of 
  the best resources for new and updated 
  information pertaining to the Marvel Super 
  Heroes Role-Playing Game. We are hoping 
  to continue that fine tradition with the "New 
  Marvel-Phile". While we are certain that each 
  edition will bring something new and exciting 
  for those that still enjoy this great game. We 
  are still not 100% on the format that we will be 
  using. What is coming down the line in the 
  future is still up in the air. Let us know if you 
  like what we are doing here, or if you want to 
  see something different. Requests are also 
  welcome, but please bear in mind, that we 
  cannot possibly accommodate all requests. 
  However we are hoping that this new format 
  will be for the better, as in our opinion 
  provides more options to our gamers.  
  This issue is about a couple with a 
  complicated past.  The subjects of Patsy’s 
  mother’s writing, Patsy Walker and “Buzz” 
  Baxter were childhood friends that seemed 
  destined to be together.  However, Baxter 
  grew to be a jealous and controlling husband, 
  and the marriage ended in divorce.  Over the 
  years, the couple have fought against each 
  other; many times initiated by Baxter as he 
  tries to seek revenge against Walker. 
  Please enjoy and feel free to give us 
  feedback. 
   
   
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  STATISTICS: 
   
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  EX (20) 
  A 
  EX (20) 
  S 
  EX (20) 
  E 
  EX (20) 
  R 
  GD (10) 
  I 
  GD (10) 
  P 
  EX (20) 
   
  Health: 80 
  Karma: 40 
  Resources: GD (10) 
  Popularity: 10 (Patsy Walker)/ 
       5 (Hellcat) 
   
  BACKGROUND 
  Real Name: Patricia “Patsy” Walker 
  Occupation: Adventurer and small 
  business owner; formerly paralegal, 
  supernatural investigator, government 
  agent, homemaker, model, actress, 
  newspaper columnist  
  Legal Status: US citizen 
  Identity: Secret 
  Other Known Aliases:  Patricia 
  Baxter, 
  Patricia 
  Hellstrom, 
  Cat, 
  Penelope Lovelight 
  Place of Birth: Centerville, California 
  Marital Status: Divorced 
  Known Relatives: Joshua Walker 
  (father); Dorothy Walker (mother, 
  deceased); Sophia McConnell (maternal 
  aunt); 
  Bea 
  (step-mother); 
  Mickey 
  Walker (brother); Robert "Buzz" Baxter 
  (ex-husband); 
  Daimon 
  Hellstrom 
  (ex-husband); 
  Percy 
  Walker 
  and 
  Birdseye Walker (cousins); Jim Walker 
  and Joe Walker (paternal uncles); 
  Martha Walker (paternal aunt); Barry 
  (step-brother); Ted Trent (ex-fiancé); 
  Mike Herald (ex-fiancé) 
  Base of Operations: 68 Jay Street, 
  Brooklyn, New York City, New York; 
  formerly San Francisco, California; 
  Alaska; 
  Titan; 
  Avengers 
  Mansion, 
  Manhattan, New York City, New York; 
  Montclair, New Jersey; Centerville, 
  California 
  Past 
  Group 
  Affiliations: 
  Patsy 
  Walker Temp Agency, Law Offices of 
  Jennifer Walters, PLLC ; formerly 
  Alaskan-based Initiative agent, Lady 
  Liberators, 
  Avengers, 
  Defenders, 
  Legion of the Unliving, Centerville 
  Globe, Patsy Walker Enterprises 
  Present Group Affiliation:  
   
  KNOWN POWERS: 
  Psionic Detection: Good Rank 
  Infrared vision: Good rank. 
  Magic detection:  Typical rank. 
   
  Telekinesis: Good rank. 
  Iron Will: Incredible resistance to mind 
  control 
  Mind Blast: Good rank 
   
  COSTUME:  
  Although the Cat costume was needed 
  to enhance Patsy’s physical attributes, 
  she has discovered that she retains her 
  heightened 
  physical 
  abilities 
  even 
  without the costume. 
  Costume Summoning:  Since returning 
  from the dead, she has gained the 
  ability to summon her costume on 
  command, magically exchanging it for 
  whatever clothing she was wearing at 
  the time. 
  Claws: retractable claws do Excellent 
  damage. 
  Cable-Claw: self-firing grappling hook 
  with 30-foot cable. 
   
  Shadow-Cloak (lost): The Shadow- 
  Cloak provided her with the following 
  abilities: 
  Extra-dimensional 
  transport: 
   
  She 
  could transport herself and others to 
  other dimensions, acting as instant 
  teleportation.  Additionally, she could 
  retrieve 
  weaponry 
  from 
  extra- 
  dimensional armories. 
   
   
  HELLCAT 
  
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  WEAKNESS: 
  Patsy’s mental abilities are not reliable.  
  If under stress, make a Red Psyche 
  FEAT roll, and if successful, she is able 
  to use her Telekinesis or Mind Blast until 
  the danger has passed.  If her Psyche 
  FEAT roll is successful, her Iron Will is 
  also active. 
   
  Talents:  She is an expert in Occult 
  Lore and Martial Arts A and C. 
   
  Contacts:  Patsy is a former member 
  of both the Avengers and Defenders 
  and could call on them for aid if need 
  be. 
   
  ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES 
  Patsy wants to be a superheroine. It's 
  her dream and her way of coping with 
  her abused past. Although she initially 
  begged her way into the field, she is 
  determined 
  to 
  stay 
  there 
  as 
  a 
  worthwhile member of the elite club.  
  The survivor of two failed marriages to 
  troubled men, she seems to be leery of 
  further 
  relationships, 
  and 
  instead 
  focuses more on her friendships with 
  She-Hulk and some of the other female 
  heroes. 
   
   
  HISTORY:  
  Patricia" Patsy" Walker was the 
  only daughter of Joshua Walker, an 
  aeronautical engineer, and Dorothy 
  Walker, a comic book writer. While she 
  was still a child her mother acted as her 
  agent, helping her at modeling and 
  commercial work. Dorothy Walker's 
  greatest success was the creation of a 
  comic book named after her young 
  daughter, 
  featuring 
  romantic 
  adventures of Patsy and her real-life 
  friends as teenagers. The Patsy Walker 
  comic book was very popular and 
  continued for over a decade, as Patsy 
  grew into and out of her teens.  
  Patsy Walker felt very strange 
  about 
  her 
  mother's 
  fictionalized 
  exploitation of her, and was relieved 
  when the series ceased publication. 
  Constantly exposed to comic books, 
  Walker grew to idolize the heroes her 
  mother's 
  colleagues 
  wrote 
  about. 
  However, she ceased daydreaming 
  soon after high school and married her 
  childhood friend, Robert Baxter (who 
  had appeared in the Patsy Walker comic 
  as her romantic interest). Baxter was in 
  the officer’s training program of the Air 
  Force, and Walker spent the next 
  several years of her life on numerous Air 
  Force bases. While her husband was 
  assigned to a security post at the 
  heavily government-subsidized Brand 
  Corporation in New Jersey, Patsy 
  Walker met the Beast and learned his 
  secret identity. Walker had long idolized 
  "super heroes", and she solicited the 
  promise from him that, in exchange for 
  keeping his secret, he would help her 
  become a "super heroine". 
  When her marriage came to a bitter 
  end, she sought out the Beast, who was 
  a member of the Avengers, to remind 
  him of his promise. Tagging along with 
  the Avengers to investigate criminal 
  activities at the Brand Corporation, 
  Walker discovered the costume worn by 
  Greer Nelson in her identity as the Cat. 
  (The man who financed the creation of 
  the Cat, Mal Donalbain, was a former 
  employee at Brand. His property, 
  including the prototype Cat-suits was 
  later 
  confiscated 
  by 
  the 
  Brand 
  Corporation.) Putting the costume on, 
  Walker dubbed herself Hellcat and used 
  her natural athletic abilities to help the 
  Avengers. Walker believed that the 
  costume had somehow enhanced her 
  agility and speed, and by the power of 
  suggestion more than anything else, it 
  had.  
  Although she hoped to join the 
  Avengers, Hellcat was persuaded by the 
  Titanian 
  priestess 
  Moondragon 
  to 
  accompany her to Titan to undergo a 
  period of training. During her stay on 
  Titan, Hellcat's minor psionic potential 
  was artificially enhanced by various 
  electronic/organic devices and was 
  given extensive martial arts training. 
  Upon her return to Earth, she met 
  the Defenders and decided to accept 
  their offer of membership rather than 
  that of the Avengers. Hellcat remained 
  a core member of the loosely-organized 
  Defenders for several years, becoming 
  particularly close to the Valkyrie and 
  Nighthawk.  
  Eventually 
  she 
  met 
  Daimon 
  Hellstrom, who in his costume guise of 
  the Son of Satan, joined the Defenders 
  for a short time. After he was cured of 
  his demonic aspect she found that she 
  was in love with him. Renouncing her 
  costumed 
  identity, 
  Patsy 
  Walker 
  decided to wed Hellstrom. The couple 
  was married in Greentown, Ohio, where 
  her father currently resided. The 
  wedding, attended by several of her 
  Defenders colleagues, was interrupted 
  by her ex-husband "Buzz" Baxter who 
  had assumed the costumed guise of 
  Mad-Dog, and the Mutant Force. The 
  Defenders repulsed the attack and 
  Hellstrom himself subdued Mad-Dog. 
  The Hellstroms then moved to San 
  Francisco and established themselves 
  as occult investigators. 
  Sometime 
  later, 
  however, 
  Hellstrom's dark soul reasserted itself 
  and Patsy was driven mad at the sight 
  of it. She languished in a near- 
  vegetable state for months afterward 
  until the mercy-killing entity Deathurge 
  sensed her despair and, at her request, 
  freed her spirit from her body, 
  effectively killing herself. 
  Patsy had ended up in the realm of 
  the demon Mephisto, fighting an eternal 
  battle in the so-called Arena of Tainted 
  Souls, 
  alongside 
  fallen 
  Avenger 
  Mockingbird. Months later, the Avenger 
  villain Grim Reaper resurrected Patsy 
  and 
  Mockingbird, 
  among 
  others. 
  Mockingbird was able to send a warning 
  to her husband Hawkeye about a plan 
  Hellstrom was developing. Hawkeye 
  and 
  the 
  Thunderbolts 
  confronted 
  Hellstrom and then used their sorcerous 
  connections to go to Hell in order to 
  restore Mockingbird. They were tricked, 
  however, 
  by 
  Hellstrom, 
  and 
  the 
  Thunderbolts rescued Patsy instead, 
  restoring her bodily to Earth. 
  Patsy again was pitted against her 
  childhood rival, Hedy Wolfe, who was 
  reprinting issues of the old Patsy 
  comics.  Hedy sought revenge, duping 
  both of Patsy’s ex-husbands into 
  attacking her.   
  Later, Patsy and her agency fought 
  against her old friend, the Black Cat and 
  her gang who was seeking to rule the 
  New York underworld. 
  
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  MAD-DOG 
  STATISTICS: 
   
  F 
  RM (30) 
  A 
  IN (40) 
  S 
  IN (40) 
  E 
  IN (40) 
  R 
  TY (6) 
  I 
  EX (20) 
  P 
  TY (6) 
   
  Health: 150 
  Karma: 32 
  Resources: TY (6) 
  Popularity: -10 
   
  BACKGROUND 
  Real Name: Robert "Buzz" Baxter 
  Occupation: Colonel in the United 
  States Air Force (retired); former 
  security 
  consultant 
  to 
  the 
  Brand 
  Corporation; subversive 
  Legal Status: U.S. Citizen with a 
  criminal record 
  Identity: Known to the authorities but 
  not to the public 
  Other Known Aliases:  None 
  Place of Birth: Centerville, California 
  Marital Status: Divorced 
  Known 
  Relatives: 
  Patsy 
  Walker 
  (ex-wife); Rachel Ford (estranged 
  wife); 
  Dorothy 
  Walker 
  (ex-mother-in-law); 
  Joshua 
  Walker 
  (ex-father-in-law); Kenny Baxter, Betty 
  Baxter, and Sheree Baxter (cousins) 
  Base of Operations: Mobile; formerly 
  North 
  Carolina; 
  Camp 
  Carlson, 
  California; Centerville, California 
  Past Group Affiliations: Former 
  agent of Roxxon Oil/Brand Corporation; 
  agent of Professor Power's Secret 
  Empire; ally of Mutant Force; United 
  States Air Force, Assault and Battery 
  Present Group Affiliation:  
   
  KNOWN POWERS: 
  Claws: Mad-Dog's claws do Remarkable 
  Hack and Slash damage. 
  Bite: Mad-Dog's bite does Remarkable 
  Hack and Slash damage and unleashes 
  a toxin that causes the victim to make a 
  yellow Endurance FEAT Roll or be 
  paralyzed for 1-10 rounds. If Mad-Dog 
  paralyzes his victim, they must make an 
  Endurance FEAT roll each round; failure 
  indicates loss of an Endurance rank, 
  and if the victim drops below Feeble, 
  death occurs. 
  Resistance to Psychic Attacks: Baxter 
  has Excellent resistance to psionic 
  attack forms. 
  Armor Skin:  Excellent 
  Heightened Sense of Smell:  Baxter’s 
  sense of smell has been heightened, 
  and he can detect, remember, and track 
  a person by his or her scent.  Excellent. 
  Heightened Sense of Hearing:  Baxter 
  is able to detect sounds beyond the 
  natural range of hearing for an ordinary 
  human, and can also detect normal 
  sounds at greater distances.  Good 
  rank. 
   
  Talents:  Baxter has Acrobatics and 
  Martial Arts C, and E. He also has 
  Military and Piloting skills. 
   
  Contacts:  Mad-Dog had connections 
  with the Mutant Force and Roxxon Oil. 
  He may also have maintained some of 
  his military contacts. 
   
  ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ROLE-PLAYING NOTES 
  Mad-Dog's major goal in life was to get 
  revenge against his ex-wife, Patsy 
  Walker. He is an angry man who loves 
  to hurt people. With his military 
  background, Mad-Dog loves to give 
  orders and take charge (especially if it 
  gives him a chance to belittle people). 
  Mad-Dog is very confident in his abilities 
  (over confident) and enjoys a fight, 
  
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  especially if he gets to hurt someone he 
  once loved. Unfortunately, Baxter often 
  loses control and goes berserk in 
  combat. 
   
   
   
  HISTORY:  
  Robert Baxter was the childhood 
  friend of Patsy Walker, who would one 
  day become the costumed crimefighter 
  Hellcat. While he and Walker were still 
  in early adolescence, Patsy's mother 
  Dorothy began writing fictionalized 
  romantic adventures of her daughter as 
  a teenager in a series of comic books. At 
  Patsy's request, Dorothy based a 
  character in the comic book on the 
  neighbor boy Patsy admired, Robert 
  "Buzz" Baxter. As Baxter grew to the 
  age of the character based on him, 
  Dorothy Walker began to increasingly 
  dislike him, but as a popular supporting 
  character in the Patsy Walker comic, 
  she could not write his fictional 
  counterpart out of the series. To the 
  elder Walker's dismay, Patsy married 
  Baxter shortly after the two graduated 
  from high school. Baxter joined the U.S. 
  Air Force and after serving a tour of 
  duty overseas, the newlywed couple 
  moved onto an airbase in North 
  Carolina. Disturbed by certain incidents 
  that occurred to him in Vietnam, Baxter 
  was tense and irritable as they tried to 
  adjust to married life. When Baxter was 
  promoted to captain, he was sent to the 
  civilian-owned Brand Corporation to 
  supervise the security surrounding 
  certain 
  projects 
  for 
  which 
  the 
  government had contracted Brand. 
  Baxter was vexed by the presence of 
  the mutant Beast on the premises, 
  unaware 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  secretly 
  newly-hired genetics expert Henry 
  McCoy. At one point, Baxter's wife 
  sheltered the wounded Beast from her 
  husband and provided an alibi for him in 
  exchange for the Beast's promise to 
  help 
  her 
  become 
  a 
  costumed 
  crimefighter. 
  Soon after the Beast fled Brand, 
  Patsy Walker divorced Baxter. Baxter 
  remained at Brand, eventually being 
  promoted to colonel. Walker returned to 
  Brand some months later in the 
  company of the Avengers to investigate 
  the illegal activities of a private army 
  quartered there. It was at Brand that 
  Walker assumed the identity of Hellcat, 
  and journeyed with the Avengers to the 
  Squadron Supreme's dimension. Upon 
  their 
  return, 
  the 
  Avengers 
  were 
  captured by Brand operatives, but 
  Walker 
  managed 
  to 
  escape 
  and 
  threatened to use her Hellcat claws to 
  scratch Baxter's eyes out if he did not 
  release the Avengers. After she raked 
  his face to show she meant business, 
  Baxter 
  complied. 
  The 
  Brand 
  Corporation was shut down by its 
  parent company Roxxon Oil after an 
  official investigation revealed Brand's 
  illicit activities. Enraged at the way he 
  was humiliated by his ex-wife, Baxter 
  vowed vengeance. After resigning from 
  the Air Force, he began treatment at 
  Roxxon's Mutagenic Department in 
  order to acquire superhuman abilities. 
  The treatment augmented his strength, 
  speed, and agility, and gave him certain 
  canine-like characteristics. He dubbed 
  himself Mad-Dog. 
  Leaving the employ of Roxxon, 
  Mad-Dog was recruited by agents of the 
  Secret Empire, and allied with the 
  Mutant Force, attacked his ex-wife 
  Patsy during her wedding ceremony to 
  Daimon Hellstrom. Vanquished by his 
  ex-wife's friends in the Defenders, 
  Mad-Dog was placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. 
  custody, but was later freed by the 
  Secret 
  Empire. 
  Mad-Dog 
  aided 
  Professor Power in his attempt to 
  launch a satellite that would trigger a 
  major nuclear war, but the Defenders 
  managed to thwart the scheme with the 
  aid of S.H.I.E.L.D.  
  Much later, Mad-Dog abducted and 
  intended to kill Hellcat, but was 
  defeated by her. Following that, he has 
  worked with Crossfire, and continued in 
  the on-again, off-again employment of 
  Roxxon Oil. 
  Mad-Dog eventually went through 
  further mutation and married a woman 
  named Rachel. He was involved in a 
  Secret Empire scheme to take over a 
  High School run by Professor Power; 
  however, the new Nomad stopped their 
  scheme and the pair ran from the 
  Empire but Professor Power was 
  captured. Mad-Dog went on the run 
  from them because they wanted to 
  punish him for his previous failures. 
  Nomad went after him, seeking how to 
  find the Secret Empire. Mad-Dog is 
  eventually reached with the help of 
  Araña. However, before Baxter could 
  say 
  anything, 
  he 
  was 
  blasted 
  unconscious. He was later strapped by 
  Professor Power to an operating table 
  to receive his punishment. 
  The next time Mad-Dog appeared it 
  was 
  summoned 
  by 
  high 
  school 
  classmate Hedy Wolfe, Patsy's rival. 
  Hedy told Mad-Dog that Patsy had a 
  cure for his mutation, prompting Buzz 
  to seek his ex-wife. He attacked a 
  karaoke bar where Patsy headed with 
  her friends and had a fight with her new 
  assistant Jubilee. Outside the club, he 
  found Hellcat being tortured by her 
  other ex, Daimon (who Mad-Dog 
  mockingly called "Hell-boy"). Mad-Dog 
  proceeded to go after Patsy, who tried 
  to convince him Hedy was lying. The 
  struggle only ended as Daimon used his 
  powers to send Hellcat to another 
  dimension, but was later able to return. 
  His current whereabouts are unknown. 
   
   
  
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