Storm Front

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Unrevealed

Occupation: TV Weatherman, formerly publicity seeking super "hero"

Affiliations: Defenders of Decency

Enemies: Tommy Dawkins

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Stormy

Base of Operations: Pleasantville

First Appearance: "Stormy Weather" Big Wolf on Campus (November 17th 2001)

Powers/Abilities: Able to channel the "devastating fury of an electrical storm," generating winds, lightning and ice. Able to travel as electricity, effectively teleporting through electrical sockets from one spot to another. Contact with water shorts him out, depriving him of his powers.

History: After somehow gaining the powers of a lightning storm, the self-titled Storm Front answered an ad placed by high school student Merton Dingle, asking for superheroes to join Merton's new team, the Defenders of Decency. Merton's friend Tommy Dawkins had been fighting evil since becoming a werewolf a few years earlier, inspiring SF fan Merton to assemble a hero team with himself as it's leader, despite his own lack of powers. Alongside the somewhat reluctant and sceptical Tommy and Tommy's girlfriend Lori Baxter (whom Merton codenamed Ladybug), Storm Front was inducted into Merton's "Defenders of Decency." Unfortunately his ego and patronising ways contributed to Tommy and Lori soon quitting; even more unfortunately, the media hungry Storm Front committed arson so that he could be caught on TV (having phoned the news station ahead of time) putting out the fire.When Lori and Tommy made it clear they suspected the truth behind the fire, Storm Front first made Tommy's werewolf alter ego appear to have menaced an infant, and then publicly proclaimed he would hunt the creature down. He took Merton hostage, imprisoning him in a block of ice, to force Tommy to fight him, but Lori tricked Storm Front into melting the ice with a lightning bolt, and Tommy knocked Storm Front into the resulting puddle, short circuiting him. Without his power, the normally overbearing Storm Front proved to be a coward, but despite no longer being superhuman he managed to keep in the public eye, becoming a weatherman for the local TV station.

Comments: Played by Paul Hopkins. The only superhuman to answer the ad, other than Storm Front, was "the Amazing Paul" Fishbine, who could bend small metal objects with his mind; Merton initally rejected Paul, but changed his mind when Tommy and Lori quit.

CLARIFICATIONS: None.

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