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Flaming Carrot, v1

Source: Flaming Carrot Comics (currently published by Dark Horse)

Flaming Carrot

"Ut!"

 Dex:  6  Str:  3  Bod:  4	   Motivation: Thrill of Adventure
 Int:  2  Wil: 12  Min:  8	   Occupation: Crimefighter
 Inf:  8  Aur:  8  Spi: 10	   Wealth:  2
 Init: 20          HP:  50

Powers:

Dumb Luck 12

Skills:

Acrobatics (Climbing, Dodging) 6*, Charisma 8* (see below), Detective 1, Martial Artist 6*, Weaponry 6*

Advantages:

Area Knowledge (Iron City), Attractive, Buddy (Dr. Heller), Gift of Gab (see below), Iron Nerves, Leadership, Lightning Reflexes, Luck

Connections:

Inspector Keene (High), Mystery Men (High), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Low)

Drawbacks:

CIA (Saying goofy things), SIA (Attractive women), MIA (Entering killing combat against villains), SIF (Not wearing pants!), Serious Rage, Secret Identity (Unknown)

Equipment:

FLAMING CARROT MASK [Body: 4, Flame Project: 6, R#: 2, Limitations: Flame Project has No Range]: Flaming Carrot never appears without his distinctive mask -- it's like a giant carrot (the tip of the carrot hits FC about mid-thigh, and contains the secret compartment for Super Pogo) with flames shooting out the top instead of leaves. Actually using the Flame Project power in combat is a Trick Shot, which FC almost never does. Still, "Secrets of the Carrot" says "It can also be used as a weapon and burn you to a cinder", so there it is.
Super Pogo [Body: 4, Str: 4, Jumping 4, R#: 2]: Super Pogo is FC's nuclear-powered pogo stick. Like his mask, it was built for him by his good friend Dr. Heller. He keeps it hidden in a secret compartment of his mask when not in use.
FLIPPERS [Body: 2, Swimming 4]: FC always wears flippers, in case he has to swim.
SPEAKER [Body: 2, Danger Sense 6, Radio Communication 10, R#: 3, Limitations: Radio Communication is Receive Only, Always On, and can only receive messages from the aliens who placed it there.]: For reasons unknown, aliens once implanted a mysterious speaker in Flaming Carrot's chest. It (very) occassionally speaks to him, usually to warn him of imminent danger.
Pistols [Body: 4, EV: 4, Range: 5, Ammo: 7, R#: 2]: Flaming Carrot carries a pair of 9mm Parabellum Radom automatics.
Toilet Plungers [Body: 2, Str: 2, Cling 2]: These are ordinary plungers, which FC uses to climb walls.
Utility Belt, with the following gadgets:
Laughing Gas [Body: 1, Broadcast Empath 5, R#: 3, Limitations: Broadcast Empath has No Range, can only cause happiness, and doesn't work against Sealed Systems]: FC carries an airline-style breathing mask attached to a canister of laughing gas.
Sneeze Powder [Body: 1, Poison Touch: 2, R#: 3, Limitations: Poison Touch causes no damage, only uncontrollable sneezing.]
Magnet [Body: 1, Magnetic Control 1]
Super Glue [Body: 1, Glue: 2]
Stink Bombs [Body: 1, Fog: 2, Poison Touch: 2, R#: 3, Bonuses: Poison Touch has Area Effect]
Magnifying Glass [Body: 1, Microscopic Vision: 4]
Silly Putty [Body: 1, Recall: 1, R#: 3, Limitations: Recall only works on newsprint]
Yo-Yo [Body: 4, EV: 4]: The Yo-Yo can be used to bonk villains on the head. The string is -1 AP long.

. . . and a number of other, even less-useful, items, including Dinosaur Trading Cards, a Bubble Pipe, Pez, a Lucky Rabbit's Foot, Band-Aids, Single-Serving Boxes of Breakfast Cereal, and so on. You could make these 3 AP Omni-Gadgets, I suppose.

Background:

Flaming Carrot is a man of mystery! The strangest man alive! No one knows who he is or where he comes from (except possibly his good friend, the eccentric scientist and inventor Dr. Heller, but Dr. Heller isn't telling), but we do know this about him, "Once a mild-mannered existential poet employed by the phone company, he read over 5,000 comic books in a single sitting to win a bet. He won, but his mind could not take the strain, and he became simple. Now as the superhero Flaming Carrot he battles evil in the modern world!". Flaming Carrot lives in the less-than-fashionable Palookaville section of Iron City, a midwestern steel town that has seen better days. He fights gangsters, aliens, and strange supernatural beings, either alone or alongside the Mystery Men, a team of very eccentric superheroes and vigilante crime fighters. He is a close friend of Inspector Keene of the Iron City Police, and often overhears crime reports on the Inspector's Radio Watch. When not involved in fighting crime, he is often seen carousing with beautiful young women.

One of the most memorable things about Flaming Carrot is his bizarre pattern of speech. He often bursts out with strange off-the-wall comments. While he can and often does speak in normal idiomatic English, when he is excited or angry he has a tendency to drop pronouns and articles and slip into a sort of tabloid-headline patois ("Go fast with Super-Pogo." "Is bad to report! Hand sick! Hand #2 sick as well!"). The Carrot's "character interaction" skills (Charisma, Gift of Gab) are based on the idea that the listener is boggled by Carrot's odd speech and unable to react. When confronted by a really baffling mystery, FC may burst out with a long, rambling, stream-of-consciousness rant, at the end of which he draws a conclusion only tangentally related to the content of his speech. If this turns out to be correct (generally because FC has used his Dumb Luck to augment his Detective skill), the Carrot will exclaim "What great detectiveness I am!"

History:

Flaming Carrot has fought many strange villains and invaders in his long career. Some of these include the Artless Dodger, the Poser, Aunt Klau, the Man in the Moon, and Dead Dog (immune to bullets, because it was already dead, but not immune to being whacked apart with a two-by-four). He also thwarted no less than three alien invasions of the Earth and met Death himself. Among the Carrot's more memorable exploits was the time he and the Mystery Men teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to stop a gang of evil umpires who had recovered the living head of Frankenstein's monster.

Description:

Flaming Carrot, as mentioned above, is never seen without his distinctive carrot mask. He appears to be a well-built adult white male. In addition to his trademark mask and flippers, Carrot usually wears a white dress shirt and red slacks.

DC Universe History:

DC characters could journey to Iron City, or the Carrot's adventures could take him to Metropolis or Gotham City. FC's two team-ups with the Turtles demonstrate his willingness to ignore such trivial boundaries.

Genre Notes:

Flaming Carrot resides in a subgenre of "humor" which includes killing combat. Actually, it includes a LOT of killing combat. On a good day, Flaming Carrot kills almost as many people as the Punisher.