WILDSIDE (Richard Gill)
Role in Team: Psychopath, Scrapper
PL 8 (115)ST 20 (+5) DEX 20 (+5) CON 20 (+5) INT 10 WIS 10 CHA 9 (-1)
Skills:
Acrobatics 3 (+8)
Bluff 2 (+1)
Climb 4 (+8)
Escape Artist 1 (+6)
Intimidate 7 (+6)
Knowledge (Streetwise) 4 (+4)
Notice 5 (+5)
Search 4 (+4)
Stealth 2 (+7)
Survival 4 (+4)
Feats:
All-Out Attack, Attack Focus (Melee) 4, Chokehold, Distract (Intimidate), Defensive Roll, Dodge Focus 3, Endurance, Fast Overrun, Improved Critical (Claws), Improved Grab, Power Attack, Rage, Startle
Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Perception-Warping"
Stun 8 (Feats: Reversible) (Extras: Alternate Save- Will +0, Ranged) [25]
AP: Invisibility (Extras: Affects Others, Area-Burst) (Flaws: Phantasms- Limited to Non-Machines)
"Claws" Strike +2 (Feats: Mighty, Split Attack) [4]
Leaping 1 [1]
Saves:
Toughness +5 (+6 D.Roll), Fortitude +6, Reflex +7, Will +3
Combat:
Attack +5 (+9 Melee), Damage +5 (+7 Claws), Defense +7 (+10 Dodge), Initiative +5
Complications:
Reputation (Completely Bonkers)
Obsession (Causing Pain)
Abilities: 29 / Skills: 36--9 / Feats: 18 / Powers: 29 / Saves: 6 / Combat: 24 (115)
-Wildside is bizarre because he seems to be a colour-swap of Rob Liefeld's version of Wolfsbane (who was also the template for later X-Force member Feral). He's got the big triangle-shaped frizzy anti-grav haircut, the claws, the same skinny physique, etc. He's even a violent, murdering psychopath like Feral, but more in the Bullseye "enjoys murder and causing pain" sense than Feral's defensive "get them before they get you" mentality- pretty much a total 1990s-style villain. Constantly chatting, mouthing off, and trying to hurt people, Wildside was distinctive enough to take part in pretty much every MLF incarnation, though his teammates eventually started getting sick of him. He finally got mind-wiped by Cable and depowered after M-Day, like most of his team.
-Even more 90s: He's one of those guys whose mutant powers are essentially an afterthought to being a melee fighter. Like Cable (minor TK powers, mostly a Gun Guy and Cyborg), Shatterstar (Tiring Energy Blast via Swords, mostly a Sword Guy), Domino (Luck Powers, mainly a Gun Girl)- this happened a LOT with Liefeld characters, though other 90s writers were as guilty of it. In their rush to create newer and more bad-ass martial artists & Punisher-types, creators started glossing over the very thing that made most mutants... MUTANTS. So Wildside here was a Claw Guy like Feral, Wolverine, etc., but also had a major mutant power- he could warp the perceptions of others' reality, leaving them stunned and out of the fight. He only ever did it a couple times (to Siryn to hold her down, to some cyborg guy), and in his first appearance he made his team invisible to a large group of soldiers, but that aspect of his powers was never seen again. It's unsure how his claws and teeth came about- maybe he's one of the first incarnations of Secondary Mutations (a silly retcon to explain White Queen being a Powerhouse- but handy to figure out guys like Nightcrawler and his dozens of powers)?
-Wildside is a PL 8 who ALMOST makes the full 120 points, but falls just a bit short. Like most of the MLF, he's a scrub, designed to go a few rounds with the more powerful X-Force or other X-Characters, but ultimately won't drop them. Feral for example EASILY defeated him in their first battle (she just grabbed him by the mouth and snapped his jaw), and she's a PL 9 at-best, being one of the lowest-calibre members of X-Force. Shatterstar later one-punched him. Despite that, he's proved dangerous a few times, having a standard Claw Guy/Scrapper build that makes him quick and able to modify a few caps (he HAS taken out Gambit with a straight-on attack one time- giving him a concussion for the duration of The X-Cutioner's Song- but then, Gambit's got pretty low toughness compared to most male X-Men), and his Perception Warping power has held down Siryn before. I chose to mark that up (it's usually called "Reality Warping" but it obviously only affects others' perceptions of it- it's stated as much) as a Mental Stun because of how it slows and dazes people, with an AP for his one-time "Invisibilty" trick.