NRGVerse Villain: Rattle (Patreon)

Alright, moving one with our new villain team is the best fighter of the group with the worst temper, Rattle!

ORIGIN

The best fighter of the group was a man named Ryu Chung. Armed with a technologically empowered weaponized “rattle” and a mech suit to wield it, these allowed Ryu to both generate and absorb kinetic energy to enhance his blows and even unleashed it from his rattle in powerful bursts. Ryu himself had once been an aspiring MMA fighter, and his training armed with his weaponized made him the strike team’s best soldier against the superheroes that were assigned to distract or take down for the Think Tank. And while Ryu enjoyed taking his frustrations out on the superheroes they fought more than anyone else on the team, he suffered from a deep temper that most superheroes took advantage of that often led to the trio’s defeat and arrest.

Ryu’s temper had always been his downfall. He had never made it to the professional leagues of MMA due to being banned from the sport for attacking one of his fellow fighters outside the ring. Forced to fight in underground fighting clubs to support himself, Ryu soon quickly turned to gambling with his winnings to try to financially get ahead, and soon found himself owing large sums of money to various loan sharks. This was how he found himself employed under the Think Tank, who offered to pay off Ryu’s ever increasing debts so long as he continued acting as their enforcer. 

Powers/Abilities:

Rattle is armed with a weaponized, technological “rattle mace” and mechsuit that allows him to absorb kinetic energy to enhance his blows and unleash powerful bursts of energy.

So when it came to Rattle, I knew I wanted his main source of power to be a giant "rattle" of some kind. I mean, how could I not? :D But when it came to designing Rattle beyond that I ultimately decided to let David have free reigns with this design. I mean, he did with all of them, but with Rattle I told him to really cut lose and have fun with it. And that's how he ended up making this awesome mechsuit design with oversized rattle that was very reminiscent of the action figures we grew up with as kids. As for Rattle's origins, I decided I wanted to make him the least likable member of the group, so his reasons for staying under the Think Tank are largely due to his own temper losing his dream career and a developed gambling addiction as a result. He's the guy who hates being constantly in debt to the Think Tank and other criminal syndicates and takes every opportunity to take it out on the heroes he fights, but ultimately he's the weak chain in the link who's often the cause of their defeat and arrest.

Big shout out again to our artist David for his incredible design work! Send him a request for a commission if you get the chance and have your characters designed or drawn by our Toonman artist!

Hope you guys like this new villain! Let us know what you think with a comment below!

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Design by David Velasquez

Art by Danilo Cassonato