WARWOLVES

 

WARWOLVES

First Appearance: Excalibur Special Edition (Vol. 1) #1, April 1988

Traits: The Warwolves are a race of sentient lupine/humanoid hybrid servants created through genetic engineering by Mojoworld scientists under the supervision of Mojo, Mojoworld’s ruler.

They can stand erect on their hind legs or walk and run on all fours. They have slick, smooth skin and sharp claws on each paw, the front of which have four fingers and an opposable thumb and can be used as hands or feet, while their hind paws have three toes with no thumb. They are immune to direct psychic attacks (like telepathy and telekinesis), can track prey by scent, have great leaping abilities, and can withstand great injury even when their malleable bodies have been damaged. The Warwolves can drain the life force of their victims, causing their skeletons and internal organs to dissolve, leaving behind their intact skin, which the Warwolves can then wear, changing their shape to match that of the victims. They can also mimic the voices of their victims, and those of others.

The Warwolves are ruthless hunters with a strong sense of humor who constantly bicker with one another. Each has a great fondness for televised entertainment and movies. Working together, multiple Warwolves can psionically create interdimensional portals and merge into a single being while retaining individual heads and psyches.

SPIRAL

 

SPIRAL

Real Name: Rita Wayword

First Appearance: Longshot (Vol. 1) #1, September 1985

Powers: Spiral is the future self of "Ricochet Rita" Wayword, a Hollywood stuntwoman who was attacked by Spiral and then followed the dimensionally-displaced Longshot into Mojoworld. Rita was left there, captured and tortured until insane. At some point in the future, she is physically modified by Longshot's creator Arize and Mojo until she became Spiral. Mojo then sent Spiral back in time to set into motion the events that led to her transformation in the first place.

Rita was bio-cybernetically altered, giving her transformed physical abilities and the capacity for magic. As Spiral, she possesses enhanced levels of strength, stamina, and reflexes, and has a total of six arms, two of which are partially bionic. Her magical powers are called upon and directed through an elaborate series of gestures and gyrations that resemble dancing. Her most common ability is the power to navigate dimensional pathways in order to travel through time and space, or between dimensional planes. Spiral can assault her opponents with spells that create concussive force, shatter solid materials, trigger temporary or permanent loss of superhuman powers, immobilize her victims or instantly renders them unconscious. She can also create solid force fields as domes or disks for protection. Spiral has mystical senses allowing her to detect a wide variety of things such as energy signatures, familiar psi-patterns, mystical occurrences, etc. She frequently employs a set of razor sharp swords or dagger in battle.

Spiral's mind has been shattered and rebuilt many times, and her memories come and go as she travels through dimensions. She frequently has limited knowledge of the future to come, but her knowledge of the past may be just as limited. At some point in time, she will create the inter-dimensional Body Shoppe that her earlier self has managed, and through it she can physically and mentally transform beings into whatever she desires.

MOJO

 

MOJO

Real Name: Mojo

First Appearance: Longshot (Vol. 1) #3, November 1985

Powers: Hailing from a dimension later known as the Mojoverse, Mojo is a member of the Spineless Ones, a race of dominant life forms lacking spines and driven mad by television transmissions received from Earth. A native scientist named Arize developed a process to graft spines to the Spineless Ones, giving them mobility though most refused. He also created a race of synthetic humanoids based on the humans seen in the broadcasts.

Mojo eventually rose to power to become ruler of this dimension and constructed a society based on the television projections. Discovering that controlling the broadcasts to his race’s minds and getting high ratings meant more control of the government, Mojo enslaved the humanoid race and began featuring them in various productions.

Mojo has mystical powers apparently native to his race. He produces an anti-life force, a decaying effect that radiates from his body to damage organic tissue and living beings who come into contact with him and, on Earth, has an exponentially growing effect on the environment. Mojo's presence on Earth can cause any and all living things in his area to wither and die, and the potency and range of this anti-life force increases the longer he is on Earth. He possesses considerable physical strength in his arms, and can fire concussive blasts from his hands.

Mojo possesses technology capable of controlling minds, forcing others to carry out his commands and act according to his "scripts." It can amplify his mind control to a planetary scale, create artificial life-forms, as well as vast complex sets for the productions he films.

Non-ambulatory due to being a vastly overweight invertebrate, Mojo uses a platform with spider-like legs, and a mechanical tail that can fire powerful blasts. Though dangerously cunning, Mojo is also highly irrational.

SHATTERSTAR

 

SHATTERSTAR

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: The New Mutants (Vol. 1) #99, March 1991

Powers: Shatterstar possesses a hollow bone structure and strengthened muscle mass, giving him heightened strength, speed, agility, endurance, reaction time, vision, and hearing. He also has highly impressive regenerative abilities, allowing him to recover from severe gut wounds in a matter of minutes. Shatterstar has an intuitive learning capacity, enabling him to quickly assimilate various forms of information. He will master any weapon or strategic game within a short time of being first introduced to it. He also has a remarkable ability for learning new languages. In addition, Shatterstar can build up a surge of sonic waves within his body, creating a humming noise that emanates from his position. He then channels it outwards as a vibratory shockwave conducted through the metallurgic properties of his sword. His swords seem specially designed to focus Shatterstar's "force of will" as he calls it, since he can make the blades discharge the blast even when he is not in physical contact with them. Presumably, his swords are especially sensitive to the vibratory frequencies he emits, naturally gathering and channeling the energy.

Shatterstar's original swords were forged from science and magic, making them particularly dangerous. Not only could they cut through most forms of Earth materials, they were also highly effective against mystical beings or barriers. Thus, Shatterstar was able to stab out the eyes of the otherwise magically-impervious Juggernaut. These swords also generated a mild electrical current through the hilt. Shatterstar was immune to the effect, but anyone else attempting to use his blades would find them totally unwieldly, as the blade would jerk and spasm out of their control.

Shatterstar has also demonstrated a newfound ability to teleport. How he developed this ability is unknown but, like his "force of will", it appears to be accomplished through an internal power channeled by his blades. Using another person as a psychic anchor, Shatterstar can focus energy through his swords, causing a portal ("slashway") to appear in mid-air. These slashways can cross continental distances, transporting Shatterstar and others anywhere his anchor is capable of visualizing. He apparently cannot utilize his power alone, and needs the image of his destination to come from another person. Furthermore, the person who acts as his anchor must be someone he has "connected with", although what that means hasn't been fully explained. It requires concentration for Shatterstar to maintain the slashways, and he requires several hours of rest before he can create a second one. Shatterstar's blades have also been redesigned for covert usage, stored on retractable mounts in his sleeves so that they shoot out from his forearm.

*Shatterstar is the biologically conceived son of Longshot and the Dazzler. From his mother's side, this means Shatterstar is half-mutant. From his father, he is also one of the synthetic Wildways Bipeds. But due to a time loop, Shatterstar was studied by Arize, his unique genetic profile mapped and extrapolated in Arize's work. Based on samples taken from Shatterstar, Arize created the Biped known as Longshot. So Shatterstar was naturally fathered by a man who was created based on Shatterstar's genetic material, making Shatterstar his own grandfather.*

LONGSHOT

 

 

LONGSHOT

Real Name: Longshot

First Appearance: Longshot (Vol. 1) #1, September 1985

Powers: Longshot is an artificially engineered humanoid designed by Mojoverse scientist Arize to have a strong sense of self along with certain superhuman powers. He possesses only three fingers and a thumb on each hand, a hollow bone structure like a bird, leathery skin, and strengthened muscle mass like an Earth human, giving him heightened agility and reflexes. He possesses excellent accuracy and hand-eye coordination, making him an excellent shot with his grappling lines and supply of throwing knives.

Longshot has psychometric powers enabling him to read the psychic imprints left on physical objects by sentient beings. By touching an object, Longshot can recreate in his mind any scene that has taken place around the object in the past. This allows him to view past events so long as they were in the immediate vicinity of the object. He can also read whatever thoughts and emotions other people were experiencing while they were touching the object in the past. This acts like mind-reading by proxy, allowing him to know anything a person was thinking about while they were in contact with the object. Longshot is also capable of picking up on future thoughts and emotions if someone is destined to touch the same object again at a later date. This only works if there is a previously-established imprint, meaning he can't pick up on future thoughts from people who will not touch the item for the first time until sometime later. Longshot's power also allows him to read surface level thoughts and some future impressions directly from other people when he touches them. He can also read the objects history, as well.

Longshot's "luck" ability is a powerful psionic probability-altering effect that actually gathers "luck" around him like a quantifiable factor -- somehow it "absorbs" favorable probability from the environment, making Longshot extraordinarily lucky while rendering everyone else around him less lucky than before. This can even cause others to experience negative probability events, or "bad luck", as long as he's around. Longshot's luck guides him in whatever he does, allowing him to take phenomenal risks and come out on top, miraculously avoid injury, and foul up whatever opponent or force comes against him. The nebulous nature of this ability originally had a limitation: It used to be that only when he is pure of heart and motive can his luck function. However, Longshot's "luck" leaves him whenever he acts out of selfish desires. He seems to have broken that limit in recent years.

Longshot is also sensitive to hearing “voices” of the dead and when he employs one of his powers, his left eye glows with a bright light.