NRGVerse Villain: Roll (Patreon)

Alright guys, we've come to the final member of NRG's newest supervillain team- Roll, the little man with the heavy ammunition who acts as the Brians of the trio!

Origin

While Trevor Sherman was the nominal leader of the strike team and Ryu Chung the arguably best fighter, the true brains of the trio was Roland Rodriguez. Despite being a part of the strike team, Roland wasn’t a criminal thug in origin like the other two. He had actually been one of the Think Tank’s numerous, on-hand assistant engineers to aid them with their various experiments and maintaining their equipment. Roland himself had contributed designs and innovations to his own weapon used against various superheroes- a gyroscopic “tank wheel” that made the diminutive engineer a speedful powerhouse against the Think Tank’s enemies.

Roland’s own motives for being a part of the strike team were arguably a bit more altruistic than his cohorts. A natural ladies man, Roland had fathered numerous children with various women he had flings with. And while he was fine that his exes didn’t want anything to do with his criminal career, he cared for his various children very much and would send whatever sums of money he could make from the Think Tank to his children in an attempt to give them a better future. This was how he found himself part of the strike team, as the Think Tank was aware of his numerous children and knew he’d be willing to do more in-field work for them if it meant a large pay increase.

Powers/Abilities:

Roll is armed with a gyroscopic “Tank Wheel” that offers superhuman speed across multiple terrains and heavy firepower capable of matching the powers of various superheroes.

Roll was the hardest of the trio to conceptualize for. In the early development stages of the team I went through a lot of ideas about how to adapt his namesake into a supervillain persona, ranging from technology to actual superpowers. Eventually I was inspired to have his weapon be a gyroscopic-styled tank that he rides around in and is armed with intense weaponry to fight heroes. I wanted to vary with body types for the trio too, so I had David design Roll as a man with Dwarfism. His origins were actually the funnest to come up with for the trio, as I wanted one of the trio's reasons for working for the Think Tank permanently to be altruistic. So here he's one of the hands-on engineers who works for the main scientists who opts to take on field work so that he can provide a better future for his many, many children. Sort of inspired by Deadshot from the first Suicide Squad movie. So he's not just the Brians, but the heart of the trio who keeps them from going to far as villains (and probably fails at it).

Big shout out to our artist David for his incredible design work both on Roll and his gyroscopic tank! Go shoot him a message for a commission if you guys like to get your characters designed by David!

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Design by David Velasquez

Art by Danilo Cassonato