Name: Neil Dominic Reetz
Gender: 28
Age: Male
Powers: Simply put, his size. Neil was born with a unique variation of gigantism, which while leading to the increased size, also seemed to be free of the usual health complications. Unlike meta-humans of comparable build his strength is due to a serious fitness routine.
Appearance: He stands 9'2" tall, and pins the scales at 804 lbs of bone and muscle looking like an oversized professional weightlifter. Other than his size he's your basic all-American farm boy, with a slightly ruddy complexion. A wide angular head is covered with close cropped black hair, framing slate grey eyes.
Off-duty he normally wears a basic S.H.I.E.L.D. jumpsuit large enough to fit him. His combat armour is a massive slab sided unit with armour usually reserved for mechanized cavalry vehicles. The left forearm of the suit contains a collapsible ballistic shield that covers him from head to toe when in a crouch. The shield is capable of deflecting or stopping most small arms fire and shrapnel but concentrated fire, heavy calibre, or anti-armour weapons are still a serious threat. The shield also features a cut-out by his left hand, allowing him to fire while behind cover. The armour also mounts three 25mm smoke grenade launchers on each shoulder for optical cover, turning Neil into essentially a bipedal L.A.V.
Neil carries a M320 25mm Heavy Support Weapons System, (S.H.I.E.L.D. offshoot of the XM307 ACSW project.) Between his naturals strength, and the suits augmentation he can carry the machine gun like a combat rifle, with the weapon feeding from a 500 round box on his back. The 25mm smart rounds allow him to engage both soft and light armoured targets at ranges out to 1400 yards, firing a mixture of standard slugs, AP rounds, HE, and air-burst fragmentation shot. As a sidearm Neil carries a modified S.H.I.E.L.D. issue submachine gun, with a much larger trigger and grip for his larger hands.
Bio: Born and raised in a small town in Kansas, Neil's mutation was evident from birth as a 10 pound baby (much to his mother's dismay). Despite his rapid growth life was relatively normal for him, helping around his parent?s farm, high school football, you know the usual. Like so many small town youth, he dreamed of going out into the wider world when he grew up, and getting away from the dull routine of rural life.
On his eighteenth birthday (at 8'4" and nearly 500 lbs), he headed for the nearest U.S.M.C. recruiter. Unfortunately the recruiter rejected his application, because of his immense size, on the grounds that he'd have too difficult a time trying to fit into most vehicles used by the Marines. Seeing that Neil was so crest-fallen at not being able to serve the recruiter told him, he'd pass his application along to a group who could better use his unique nature.
Over the past ten years, Neil has made a name for himself as both a member, and later as commander, of a S.H.I.E.L.D. Incident Response Team. The I.R.T.'s are usually used for containment and suppression of Hydra, or A.I.M. ground forces while 'specialists' deal with the nucleus of the incident.
Role in unit: Heavy Fire Support
Gender: 28
Age: Male
Powers: Simply put, his size. Neil was born with a unique variation of gigantism, which while leading to the increased size, also seemed to be free of the usual health complications. Unlike meta-humans of comparable build his strength is due to a serious fitness routine.
Appearance: He stands 9'2" tall, and pins the scales at 804 lbs of bone and muscle looking like an oversized professional weightlifter. Other than his size he's your basic all-American farm boy, with a slightly ruddy complexion. A wide angular head is covered with close cropped black hair, framing slate grey eyes.
Off-duty he normally wears a basic S.H.I.E.L.D. jumpsuit large enough to fit him. His combat armour is a massive slab sided unit with armour usually reserved for mechanized cavalry vehicles. The left forearm of the suit contains a collapsible ballistic shield that covers him from head to toe when in a crouch. The shield is capable of deflecting or stopping most small arms fire and shrapnel but concentrated fire, heavy calibre, or anti-armour weapons are still a serious threat. The shield also features a cut-out by his left hand, allowing him to fire while behind cover. The armour also mounts three 25mm smoke grenade launchers on each shoulder for optical cover, turning Neil into essentially a bipedal L.A.V.
Neil carries a M320 25mm Heavy Support Weapons System, (S.H.I.E.L.D. offshoot of the XM307 ACSW project.) Between his naturals strength, and the suits augmentation he can carry the machine gun like a combat rifle, with the weapon feeding from a 500 round box on his back. The 25mm smart rounds allow him to engage both soft and light armoured targets at ranges out to 1400 yards, firing a mixture of standard slugs, AP rounds, HE, and air-burst fragmentation shot. As a sidearm Neil carries a modified S.H.I.E.L.D. issue submachine gun, with a much larger trigger and grip for his larger hands.
Bio: Born and raised in a small town in Kansas, Neil's mutation was evident from birth as a 10 pound baby (much to his mother's dismay). Despite his rapid growth life was relatively normal for him, helping around his parent?s farm, high school football, you know the usual. Like so many small town youth, he dreamed of going out into the wider world when he grew up, and getting away from the dull routine of rural life.
On his eighteenth birthday (at 8'4" and nearly 500 lbs), he headed for the nearest U.S.M.C. recruiter. Unfortunately the recruiter rejected his application, because of his immense size, on the grounds that he'd have too difficult a time trying to fit into most vehicles used by the Marines. Seeing that Neil was so crest-fallen at not being able to serve the recruiter told him, he'd pass his application along to a group who could better use his unique nature.
Over the past ten years, Neil has made a name for himself as both a member, and later as commander, of a S.H.I.E.L.D. Incident Response Team. The I.R.T.'s are usually used for containment and suppression of Hydra, or A.I.M. ground forces while 'specialists' deal with the nucleus of the incident.
Role in unit: Heavy Fire Support
2. Tweaked the shield, but he's still a cast-iron sonuvabitch to bring dow
3. Tweaked