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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 1673273" data-attributes="member: 11437">The Shield’s Rogues GalleryBelow are the four main villains The Shield has fought throughout his heroic career.  There are others, of course, but these are the main recurring villains he has faced time and time again.Poltergeist: The Shield’s longest-running and most hated adversary, Poltergeist has seemingly disappeared from Freedom City – for now, at least.  During its height, the rivalry between Poltergeist and The Shield was the stuff of legend.  The two were constantly at each others’ throats, and this rivalry lasted a good 20 years until The Shield retired from the superheroing life.    Poltergeist’s clone, Lucas Cooley, was created some 15 years ago when the villain came across an alien cloning lab.  Fearing that his legacy would end with his demise, Poltergeist created a clone and rapidly grew it to the age of 10.  He had also implanted alien devices within the clone that would one day imbue the clone with super-powers, though Poltergeist did not expect that these powers would not be his own.    The villain lost track of this clone for many years, and the boy grew up in an array of orphanages.  Poltergeist and Lucas were reunited just a few years ago, but, despite Poltergeist’s best efforts to turn the boy into his minion, Lucas refused to follow in his father’s footsteps and remained faithful to his new friends, the family of The Shield.  Poltergeist has not been seen since, causing many to wonder what he might be planning.Rapture: This villainess has not been seen of late, but caused a lot of trouble during her most recent reign of terror.  Rapture uses the power of pheromones to control people, specifically males, into doing her bidding.  She even has enslaved The Shield in the past, and he had to be saved by female heroes, who are immune to Rapture’s powers.      Rapture fashions herself as Geoffrey Van Dyne’s love interest, though the hero denies having any romantic interest in the villainess.  She has even offered to give up her life of crime in order to marry Van Dyne, but he has so far resisted.Kid Unknown: This precocious ‘child’ has caused a lot of problems for The Shield and many of the other heroes of Freedom City.  His main power is that he can cloud the minds of his targets, causing them to forget things, including how to use their super-powers, who their friends are, and so on.  Kid Unknown doesn’t seem to have any normal motives for his attacks on the city – its entirely possible that he’s just crazy.  His only aim seems to be to cause as much chaos and unrest as possible, and Kid Unknown has been quite successful at this in the past.    Kid Unknown, while appearing as a young boy between 6 and 8 years old, is far older, and has been plaguing Freedom City and The Shield for at least a decade.  He preys on civic events such as parades and festivals, and finds ways for heroes to show up and cause trouble.  This gets other heroes involved, and sometimes villains as well, and causes a lot of property damage and even injuries to the innocents who get caught in the middle.    Before he retired, The Shield managed to capture the villain, and get Kid Unknown incarcerated in Blackstone, but the villain has since escaped, and could be anywhere.Supernova: This alien villain is an altered Grue whose ship was engulfed in the destruction of a star.  As a result, the Grue was transformed into Supernova, a villainess with the power to literally cause a small supernova around her.  This causes massive property damage and imperils everyone around her.  Supernova only has malice in her heart, and seeks to destroy Earthlings, whom she blames for her transformation.    The Shield has dealt with Supernova on several occasions, most recently about 5 years ago, just before he retired.  Supernova had captured an oil tanker off the coast of Freedom City, and threatened to destroy it within the downtown area, potentially setting the entire city ablaze.  Fortunately, The Shield defeated Supernova and the villainess retreated into space, to perhaps devise a new plan of revenge.</blockquote>

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