ARGO, the almighty      Identity: Argo
Side: Good            Sex: Male
Experience: 8000            Level: 3
Age: teenager            Training: Combat Accuracy (unarmed HTH)
Powers:
1.      Heightened Expertise: martial arts (unarmed hand to hand) and battle staves
2.      Heightened Strength (B): +17
3.      Heightened Endurance (B): +16
4.      Mutant Power (Mighty Strength): Carry Capacity is x5
5.      Mutant Power (Herculean Strength): Add an additional 1/10 of Strength to the formula to determine Carry Capacity which does not affect basic HTH damage; PR cost = 2 and uses up half of Argo’s movement inches for the benefit to last one Turn at no Action cost. 
Weight: 200 lbs.            Basic Hits: 4
Agility Mod.: -            Strength: 30
Endurance: 28            Agility: 12
Intelligence: 10            Charisma: 12
Reactions From: Good: +1, Evil: -1
Hit Mod. (2.4) (3.4) (1.3) (1) = 43 Hit Points: (x 10.608)
Damage Mod.: +1      Healing Rate: x / day
Accuracy: +1            Power: 80
Carrying Capacity: 14,000 lbs./41,900 lbs.      
Basic HTH Damage: 2d10
Movement Rates: 60” a turn
Det. Hidden: 8%            Det. Danger: 12%
Inventing Points: 3.0      Inventing: (30%)
Origin and Background: high school sports
Legal Status: US citizen with no criminal record
Previous Training (added in): Strength, Agility

History:
Argo (the Almighty) is the son of Hercules and Argo’s unnamed mother. When Hercules left Argo and his mother to fight a battle with the Avengers and never returned, it broke Argo's mother's heart. Argo dedicated himself to becoming a trained superhero so that he could one day find Hercules in order to face him.

Argo heard about the re-birth of the Avengers, a.k.a A-Next, and breaking into their mansion he faced them in battle – which he did to gain their help in finding his father. It was quickly apparent that Argo tried to take advantage of the 'fight then team up' cliché common among superheroes. After the Avengers defeated him, but only after working together against him, Argo explained that he was looking for his missing father, the former Avenger known as Hercules.

The collected heroes followed a lead from their SHIELD contacts to Mount Athena where they discovered Hercules, driven mad with grief. Argo attacked Hercules, enraged over his feelings of abandonment. Thunderstrike managed to bring Argo to his senses, and once Hercules explained how heavy his heart was over the past/. Seeing his father overcome by emotion Argo was able to comfort him. Sometime later Argo accepted membership in A-Next.

Origin:
Argo is the son of Hercules and a mortal woman, and it is his Olympian heritage which provides his tremendous strength and resilience.

Personality:
Boisterous and seemingly light-hearted, this hides the sadness he felt about his mother’s passing and his apparent abandonment by his father.

John wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2012 at 2:34pm:


I know what you mean. That said, I love re-reading these comics (just finishing up my 3rd or 4th re-read of both last Hero Standing and Last Planet Standing!). 

seriously! i have a bunch of old txt conversions of the characters to hero system rules (mostly by DeeJay and Sam Bell, if i recall). I may grind thru the hero-to-v&v conversion process to pitch in here.

I liked some of the characters (Stinger Spidergirl), but never really got into any of the books. I may give them a second look though.

I'd only read A-Next, but I got the biggest old school kick out of it. The MC2 books were probably the last gasp of that kind of superhero comic.