Episode 141 of the Letter’s Page: Writer’s Room: RevoCorp Presents #23

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
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Benchmark ready for deployment 
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Gee, Adam, why does your mom let you have two self-insert characters in the card game universe you created with your best friend <.<

Funnily, a little casual digging shows that this isn't even the second time they've mentioned that old RPG. And yet if you asked me which Sentinels character began as an RPG character played by Adam, I'd have said Proletariat. c.c

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you mean Red Star?

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I do. :)

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No, Benchmark! Don't hurt Lobstercules!

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Terrorform v.1.0 - The Importance of Being Beanchmark

So Revenant was Adam in that early comic, and Pete was Setback, and Apostate was Christopher. I wonder which of Adam’s childhood friends had a train obsession and became Fright Train. (Also, back when OblivAeon wasn’t out yet and we were talking about villains turned hero, I came up with heroic Apostate, and I did NOT think at all of him as Christopher.)

The inferno missiles could be largely concussive heat blasts that might ignite tinder but is unlikely to burn flesh. I think of them like the chest missiles of Stryker Eureka in Pacific Rim, where it was a plot point that you had to kill the Kaiju without spilling a lot of their toxic indigo blood. Put that on a human size scale, and reduce the blast intensity so it isn’t causing proportionate levels of tissue damage against targets that don’t have foot-thick armored skin, and what you have is basically firecrackers. You shoot someone in the chest, they’re gonna get knocked down and blow the air out of their lungs, but you’re probably not setting them on fire and you’re definitely not incinerating them with one fusillade.

I like the idea that RevoCorp mostly makes Gene-mod injections that will grant powers, as with Ambuscade, but they specifically hired a guy who was already nearly super-human, and built him a high-tech armor suit that’s way more expensive and powerful than anything they could ever sell. After all, when you inject someone with super-science serum, you never quite know what’s going to happen; they aren’t going to get a great PR face out of that.