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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 4925143" data-attributes="member: 16760">Freedom SquadThe Freedom Squad was a superhero team of long standing based in Tacoma, Washington.  All had second-degree crimefighter registration, except Black Phantom who had first-degree.  Their roster at the beginning of the campaign was:American Eagle IIHardhatJo-TanBlack Phantom IIVictrixAmerican Eagle II, the leader of the Squad, was the successor of a beloved Golden Age hero who was active during World War II.  American Eagle had a set of artificial wings, a suit that enhanced his strength and protected him from harm, and a few gadgets.  He was a noble man, a true hero who didn't wholly approve of Shadow-Force's methods, but regarded them as colleagues and treated them always with professional courtesy and friendly respect.He was murdered, along with two of his teammates, by the psychotic mentalist known as the Doctor.  His wings were broken in a final display of contempt.  He is greatly missed.Hardhat was the gadgeteer of the team.  A bulky man always chomping a cigar and wearing his trademark hardhat, he was a jokester with a dry sense of humor.  Sadly, Shadow-Force never really got to know him well, because he was killed by the criminal organization VOICE early in their career.  Le Maistre, the leader of the VOICE squad that killed Hardhat, was himself accidentally killed by the Phantom shortly after.  The Phantom was forever changed by this event, becoming very jittery about using his Mind Control.  (He misjudged the power and hatred of one of Le Maistre's teammates, and mind-controlled her into attacking him.)Jo-Tan was a quiet Asian man with powers of Growth and Density Control.  He was Freedom Squad's brick.  Nobody in Shadow-Force really got through his reserve before he was murdered by the Doctor.Black Phantom II was the successor of a hero from the civil rights struggle of the 60's.  A rather grim, driven man who relied on gadgets and his own formidable combat prowess (and a superhuman degree of luck, whether knowingly or not), he wasn't above bantering with the Phantom about the similarity of their codenames.  "Copyright violation, man.  Why you gotta keep a brother down?"  "Hey, I'm a ghost.  We can't even *vote*, you know - except in Chicago.  ...You wouldn't hit a ghost, would you?" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (The Phantom wasn't really a ghost, of course, just an astral-projecting telepath, but he didn't mind muddying the waters now and then.)  Like American Eagle and Jo-Tan, he was killed by the Doctor.Victrix is the sole survivor of Freedom Squad.  A wide-spectrum telekinetic, the Doctor spared her because she was psionic.  (A eugenicist, he believed that non-psionic superhumans - and probably normal humans eventually - needed to be wiped out for the sake of the evolution of the human race.)  He mentally enslaved her and used her as a pawn until Shadow-Force hunted him down through several extradimensional boltholes and killed him.Broken by this experience and the loss of her teammates, Victrix has retired as a hero and left the Seattle area.The Freedom Squad and Shadow-Force often shared information and intel, and would join forces against major threats.  Their most notable partnership was against the international crime syndicate VOICE and its formidable leader, Red Dragon.The two groups tangled twice with Red Dragon herself, the second time ambushing her with overwhelming force and only barely managing to subdue her.  (She's one of the most powerful superhumans on the planet - in Champions terms, she was 1200 points back in the day when starting heroes had 250.)  Red Dragon is currently at large, though many of VOICE's superhuman agents have been put away by the two Seattle groups.</blockquote>

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