Many characters make up the strange and exciting world of Ranaman. As the adventures unfold, more will be revealed.
E.I. Scale Threat Levels (Enhanced Individuals):
Alpha- Enhanced/Non-Enhanced individuals working alone; smaller scale threats.
Beta- Enhanced individuals that can threaten a district.
Omega- City level threats.
Ultima- World level threats.
- Valerio "Val" Vargas/Ranaman: The hero of the story. Champion of all that is good and just.
Birthday: July 20th
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 163 lbs
Sign: Cancer
Age: 27
Threat Level: Beta (unverified)
- Amy "Doc" Cross: A slightly mad genius who works freelance tech support for various corporations. She has allied herself with Ranaman, building his gadgets. She constructed his Power Gauntlets, Goggles, and Body Armor. Unbeknownst to the world, she operates out of her secret laboratory that was once a "Happy Pals" pet store. Only Ranaman knows the truth.
Birthday: June 15th
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 106 lbs
Bra Size: 32F
Sign: Gemini
Age: 26 - Perrita: An American Eskimo Dog. She was a stray that Val discovered almost dead outside his building. He rescued her and now she lives with him, the only living soul to know that Val Vargas and Ranaman are one and the same. Being a dog, she can't tell anyone so it seems to work out fine.
Birthday: Unknown (found on July 1st)
Height: 21"
Weight: 20 lbs
Sign: N/A
Age: 19 Months
Allies
- Elida "Ellie" Amaru: Val's Peruvian neighbor and friend. She lives with her older sister and works as a bartender at a nearby Mexican restaurant. She often looks after Perrita when Val's off at his "other job". Wishes their friendship would develop into something more.
Birthday: July 21st
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 117 lbs
Bra Size: 30B
Sign: Cancer
Age: 27
- Isabel Amaru: Ellie's older sister. Works as a model and has recently moved in with her sister to find higher profile (and better paying) gigs in New Pandem. She's very spirited and outgoing.
Birthday: October 9th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 137 lbs
Bra Size: 34G
Sign: Libra
Age: 29
- Mr. Stevens: Val's boss and landlord. An angry, unpleasant man, he hired Val as his "off the books" superintendent, offering him a rent discount on his apartment. Val's room was the one with the exposed dumbwaiter shaft, but he neglected to mention that when the arrangement was made. Luckily for Val, that suited him just fine.
Birthday: November 11th
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 196 lbs
Sign: Scorpio
Age: 58 - Bracaman: Héctor Diego Gonzales Payaso Ruiz. A retired superhero and luchador. He's a hairy chain-smoking beast of a man, who's empowered with superhuman strength and nigh-invulnerability. He seems to be only in it for the bounties these days, never bothering to do any super heroics unless properly rewarded.
Birthday: November 28th
Height: 7'3"
Weight: 535 lbs
Sign: Sagittarius
Age: 49
Threat Level: Beta
- Ava Nathair: Irish host of Channel 7's most popular talk show: Hero Chat. She is the first to get the inside scoop on the world's greatest superheroes.
Birthday: April 12th
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 126 lbs
Bra Size: 32C
Sign: Aries
Age: 30 - Fanboy: Dylan Reid, the mysterious fan of Ranaman. He created and runs the fansite, theranaman.com using his avatar of ChibiRana. Extremely dedicated to his hero and idol, though that may not be such a good thing.
Birthday: February 14th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 188 lbs
Sign: Aquarius
Age: 24 - The Flying Fox: ???
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Threat Level: Alpha - 同志 The Comrade : ???
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- Ultima: Helga Hellstrom is the world's foremost superhero and defender. Formerly just a small girl in Sweden, she became empowered by an unknown alien radiation from a meteorite which transformed her into a nigh-invulnerable super being. With incalculable physical strength, supersonic flight, and the ability to channel that radiation into projected energy beams, Ultima is widely known as the most powerful being on the planet.
Birthday: December 12th
Height (after transformation): 6'0"
Weight (after transformation): 160 lbs
Bra Size: 34D
Sign: Sagittarius
Age: 14
Threat Level: Ultima
- Busy Bee: Britta Hellstrom is Ultima's sidekick and older sister. Formerly a brilliant toymaker, Britta now relies on gadgets to keep up with her little sister in their incredible adventures. She created a wingsuit to fly and uses a needle gun, known as the "Stinger," to temporarily paralyze criminals.
Birthday: March 20th
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 90 lbs
Bra Size: 34A
Sign: Pisces
Age: 19
Threat Level: Alpha - Mister Eye: ???
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Threat Level: Ultima
Rogues Gallery
- Nathaniel Bass: A career criminal and a notorious killer, Nathaniel Bass became infamous in the underworld after what became known as the Gren Hall Massacre, in which he executed every policeman he blamed for his previous incarceration. He was arrested again after Ranaman thwarted his kidnapping of Sarah Furler.
Birthday: June 27th
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 161 lbs
Sign: Cancer
Age: 39
Threat Level: Alpha
Bounty: $2,000 - Legion: Carter Mason. Convicted killer and robber. His belt generates innumerable clones made of "hard light" energy. Each one is an extension of his mind, allowing him to be each clone simultaneously.
Birthday: May 23rd
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 220 lbs
Sign: Gemini
Age: 42
Threat Level: Beta
Bounty: $7,500
- Showman: William Henry Baxter, a psychotic performer. Makes his killings and acts of terrorism into theater and public performances. Many die.
Birthday: January 10th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 146 lbs
Sign: Capricorn
Age: 33
Threat Level: Alpha
Bounty: $5,000
- Mistress Cobra: Master thief and assassin-for-hire, Mistress Cobra is an illusive thrill seeking killer known in the underworld as the "Duchess of Scales." She employs a variety of weapons and poisons to eliminate her foes. Caring little for money, she's known to accept jobs based on how much fun she thinks they'll offer.
Birthday: April 12th
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 126 lbs
Bra Size: 32C
Sign: Aries
Age: 30
Threat Level: Alpha
- Mythmaker: A notorious career criminal, infamous across the world for his acts of terror and destruction. Little is known of his true identity, some thinking he possesses dark knowledge of alchemy or even sorcery. Empowered with advanced and impossible technology, Mythmaker has tangled with many heroes over the decades, even killing a few. Driven almost entirely by greed, he has little feeling for his fellow man other than disgust.
Birthday: December 9th
Height: 7'2"
Weight: 382 lbs
Sign: Sagittarius
Age: 40
Threat Level: Beta
Bounty: $20,000
- Black Kat: A mysterious killer and master of kenjutsu. He wields a titanium Ōdachi Norimitsu. His flesh was grafted to a high-powered metallic armored shell created by Professor Arma, providing him with superhuman speed and durability. The trauma of the grafting process left him nameless, voiceless, and without an identity to call his own. In the employ of the IRC, he's defined by his skill in combat and the fact that he is entirely without mercy.
Birthday: February 18th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 188 lbs
Sign: Aquarius
Age: 27
Threat Level: Alpha
Bounty: $10,000 - Rex Echidna: ???
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Bounty: $6,000 - The Headsman: ???
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Threat Level: Omega - Nobel: ???
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The I.R.C.
- The Crying Man: The undisputed Master of all he surveys. The Crying Man is the enigmatic president and CEO of the International Renewal Corporation (IRC). A telepath of incalculable power, he can read thoughts, dominate the wills of others, and obliterate minds.
Birthday: December 15th
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 154 lbs
Sign: Sagittarius
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Threat Level: Ultima
- Hitomi Kon: The Crying Man's Executive Assistant and the human face that handles many of the daily operations of the IRC. Highly intelligent and coldly calculating, she is one of the few people capable of working closely with the Crying Man and not having her mind utterly destroyed.
Birthday: May 28th
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 126 lbs
Bra Size: 32G
Sign: Gemini
Age: 27
- Doctor Frosch: The Chief Bioengineer at the IRC. A depraved mind who delights in experimentation of living subjects. He was directly responsible for the creation of Vampyr, an early failure, and dreams of perfecting a slave race of human/beast hybrids.
Birthday: March 16th
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 302 lbs
Sign: Pisces
Age: 63
- Professor Arma: The Chief Engineer and Head of R&D at the IRC. A mechanical genius who is responsible for the duplicator belt Legion uses, among other nefarious devices.
Birthday: December 18th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 181 lbs
Sign: Sagittarius
Age: 62 - Doctor Pleasant: Head psychiatrist and neurosurgeon at the Umbra Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Deeply concerned about appearances. He also serves the IRC and is responsible for developing psychic powers for exploitation in his experiments. Birthday: August 24th
- Governor Alexander Holden: The Republican Governor of the State. He ran on an Anti-Immigrant campaign and has utilized ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to detain and deport hundreds of families since his election. Widespread rumors of corruption and abuse of power, coupled with several illicit scandals in the press, did little to prevent his taking office. Fully backed by the IRC, he is comfortably in the pocket of the Crying Man and will do anything to please him and keep his political power.
Birthday: September 10th
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 231lbs
Sign: Virgo
Age: 56
- Demon Lord Tenebris: The Master of Darkness and the Commander of the Psycho Division at the IRC. His is the psychic mastery over shadows and darkness, able to wield it and manipulate it to his will. He has long forsaken his humanity and bows only to the will of the Crying Man, the only being on earth to defeat him.
Birthday: September 26th
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 310lbs
Sign: Libra
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Threat Level: Omega
- R. Gogol: The cybernetically enhanced head of the IRC's Programs and Spyware Division. R. Gogol was recruited early for her genius and skill in compromising digital devices and networks to raid information, goods, and technology. She has an innate grasp of electronics and no remorse for the lives she destroys.
Birthday: April 23rd
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 117lbs
Bra Size: 32B
Sign: Taurus
Age: 27
Threat Level: Omega - Savage Condor: The Commander of the Aerial Assassination Division (AAD) at the IRC. He and his squadron of Vultures are responsible for high profile deaths the world over. An ace pilot, master marksman, and deadly practitioner of Okinawan karate, judo, taekwondo, boxing, and jujutsu. He lives only for the thrill of combat.
Birthday: May 2nd
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 245 lbs
Sign: Taurus
Age: 40
Threat Level: Beta - The Vultures: The team of assassins that make up the AAD. They work directly under Savage Condor and all utilize flight packs and advanced weaponry designed by Professor Arma.
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Threat Level: Beta - Vampyr: ???
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Threat Level: Beta - The Beast Brigade: ???
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Threat Level: Omega
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 150 lbs
Sign: Virgo
Age: 59
