NRGVerse Villain: Shake (Patreon)

Alright now we get into the individual members of NRG's newest shared villain team. This here is Shake, the leader of trio with a pair of powerful, seismic-wave generating gauntlets!

ORIGIN

The de facto leader of the Think Tank’s primary strike team against superheroes was Trevor Sherman. Armed with a pair of weaponized gauntlets that could generate powerful seismic waves for mass destruction, Trevor - who’s signature gauntlets dubbed him “Shake” in the Think Tank’s criminal underworld - had longed used these gauntlets as an enforcer for the Think Tank, usually by stealing top secrets from other scientific organization who refused to join the Think Tank’s efforts, and then laying waste to the very research clinics they stole from to cover their tracks.

Trevor had been on the Think Tank’s payroll as an enforcer for a while, and even before joining the organization as an enforcer he had almost a lifetime of criminal history to his name. Often in and out of correctional institutes for multiple offenses in grand theft, this made finding honest work extremely difficult for Trevor. Even on the rare times he had tried to go straight and find some level of employment, he always found himself taken advantage of by scrupulous employers who threatened him with his own criminal history. This, in addition to his fellow criminal cohorts being the only ones ever to care about Trevor in some way, meant walking the straight and narrow path was never going to work for Trevor. And if he wanted to set up some form of retirement for himself in his old age, than he would keep doing whatever the Think Tank asked of him so long as they paid him.

Powers/Abilities:

Shake’s gauntlets generate powerful seismic waves capable of mass destruction and fighting powerful superheroes.

So, there's not much to the individual members' origins since they are jobbers and villain-of-the-week characters, but I believe every characters deserves to be rounded so I tried to build them up somewhat. The biggest things to their designs and origins I focused on was how their name-sake power would be utilized through Think Tank technology and then why they were working for the Think Tank with no other options. In Shake's case, I went with a classic pair of gauntlets that generate seismic waves that would really allow him to "shake things up", it's a classic supervillain gadget type. As for his origins, I felt he worked best if he was a life-long career criminal who by this point in this life would never be able to go straight, despite the few times he's tried. He's just built up too much of a criminal record for honest work to come by, so he's working for the Think Tank for no other reason than to earn a paycheck the only way he is able to at this point. I like to imagine he's the de facto leader of the group due to his years of criminal history would give the team the now-how to operate to the best that they can. Like he's been part of and pulled so many jobs in his day he's somewhat of a trained expert. I feel like that makes him stand out well compared to the other two as you will soon see.

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Design by David Velasquez

Art by Danilo Cassonato