Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Hippo
Alias: Eddie Wagner
Gender: Male
Age: Late-40s
Height: 7’2”
Eyes: White
Hair: Brown
Skin: White
Build: Extremely muscular
Costume/Equipment: Eddie wears a full body
suit that resembles an actual hippo, with the head
of the hippo covering his own. The suit covers
everything except his face, which can be seen
between the upper and lower jaws of the hippo,
framed by the teeth of the suit.
Approach: Bully
Archetype: Bruiser
Biography
Eddie liked to hit things, he liked to be bigger than
the things he was hitting, and he liked money. On
the Rook City Renegades baseball team, he got
all of those things. The team was sponsored by
Pike Industries, and they liked their players on the
thuggish side. With the wide variety of pharmaceutical
enhancements available, Eddie decided his favorite
type of muscle growth pill was “all of them.” Kicked off
the team for being too flagrantly juiced, he became
a crime syndicate hired muscle, a career path all too
common in Rook City. After hearing that hippos were
surprisingly dangerous animals, he decided that he
needed a costume to enhance his tough guy image,
and Hippo was born. He’s not the brightest, but
there’s always a place for a tough guy who doesn’t
question orders and likes a good fight.
Capabilities and Motivations
In addition to his own substantial strength, the “skin”
of Hippo’s suit is actually a type of liquid armor
sandwiched between layers of polymer, able to turn
aside nearly anything with minimal impact to the
user. Eddie stole it from a military depot on an odd
job boosting prototype weapons. After the heist,
he found a seedy lab that was more than happy to
make him a suit out of the ultra-durable material
(after a full analysis and sample so that they could
replicate it, of course). It’s made him an even more
effective thug, which Glamour noticed when she
started looking for muscle for her group. He’s the
Slaughterhouse Six’s blunt instrument, and content
in that role.
Upgrades
While pharmacology has taken Hippo’s strength
above and beyond the human norm, he’s hit the
limit when it comes to conventional steroids. With
enough funding and a little technologic genius from
Ray Manta, the Hippo suit could be upgraded with
cybernetic enhancements and interfacing. In addition
to increasing his strength tenfold, he’d be able to
move in it as if it truly was his skin. Sure, there would
probably be a few downsides, but Eddie isn’t the
type to worry too much about that sort of thing.
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