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The most recent expansion of the FBS recruited two more heroes, rounding out the 32-hero lineup we know.
The new heroes were:
Spectrum (Jordyn Allen) - Earth's assigned member of the Spectrum Guild per the Orion Alliance
Steel Magnolia (John Dixon) - A reformed neo-Confederate who's actually in his second superhero incarnation
Pictured left to right: Spectrum, Steel Magnolia
Following The Ten Plagues Incident, an attack on Gothamopolis, Indiana by the Crowns of Hell, the FBS decided to recruit another six heroes. They ended up going with the members of The Amazings, a team for superheroes in need of a second chance at heroism due to Patriot sorting the options alphabetically.
The new members were:
Bandage (Nefertiti) - A mummy from Memphis, Tennessee who uses her enchanted linens to tie up criminals
Fluoridated Man (Frederick Alexander) - A former conspiracy theorist who was fluoridated by an evil scientist, giving him Teflon skin, hydrofluoric acid sweat, and fluorine breath
Folder (Chitose Furukawa) - An origamimancer with a near-endless supply of paper to animate
Halloween Man (Bert Timothy) - A Halloween store owner who used fear to scare criminals out of his neighborhood
Shatter (Leona Masters) - A scientist who wields a liquid nitrogen gun to stop criminals
Stormer (Rodney Ritter) - A charming Southern gentleman with weather control powers
Pictured left to right: Bandage, Fluoridated Man, Folder, Halloween Man, Shatter, Stormer
The FBS grew over time, with four new heroes joining the team in a single year.
The new heroes were:
Demoness (Kendra Johnson) - A former soldier who turns into a demon-looking creature whenever she has a PTSD attack
Grandmaster (Tucker Scheving) - A former FBS agent who took down the villain Checkmate and now uses his gadgets for good
Miss Methane (Cassandra Crawford) - A woman who can use the farts a specific berry gives her to make criminals pass out
Multiplier (Mark Song) - A streamer with the ability to duplicate anything, including people
Pictured left to right: Demoness, Grandmaster, Miss Methane, Multiplier
When the FBS recruited yet another male hero in the form of Vwurmp, the media decried the overwhelming maleness of the team. To rectify this, the FBS hired five female heroes as part of the Gender Parity Initiative.
The heroes added were:
Bird of Paradise (Sabrina Castilho) - A Brazilian-American beauty who can turn into a macaw
Bombshell (TN-20) - A gynoid built to replace a scientist's dead fiancé, and eventually with miniature bomb factories for hair
Fallout (Bonnie Barnes) - A scientist who was turned into a sentient mass of radioactive ash by an experiment
Fauna (Amelie Thibodeaux) - A Haitian immigrant who can turn into and control animals
Medusa (Medusa) - A gorgon with a love of history and petrification blasts
Vwurmp (Joel McGill) - A guy from Iowa who can create portals to anywhere on Earth (and possibly beyond it)
Pictured left to right: Bird of Paradise, Bombshell, Fallout, Fauna, Medusa, Vwurmp
Following the death of original member Crimson Cloak, the FBS recruited two new heroes with arcane knowhow to join their side.
They were:
Crusader (Steve Bird) - An archaeologist who found a divinely blessed sword that summons armor, lightning bolts, and fissures
Grail (Maria Bird) - Crusader's wife, who can make force fields and heal others
Pictured left to right: Crusader, Grail
The Federal Bureau of Superheroics is America’s national superhero team. It was founded in 2013 with 15 heroes who fought at The Battle of Tacoma. As of today, 12 of the original members are still with the team, as are 18 other heroes who have joined the team over the years.
The 12 original members who are still here are as follows:
Burning Man (Bruce Tent) - A former soldier who was turned into a flaming skeleton by experimental chemical weapons
Captain Cactus (Tom Crow Foot) - A Navajo man who drank radioactive cactus juice so he could get superpowers
Cobalt (Veronica Steele) - A power armor user who has sworn to bring her father’s killer to justice
Dr. Night (David Ross) - A former DA who turned to superheroics to bring more criminals to justice
Eclipse (Renee Watson) - An amateur astronomer who can control light and darkness, as well as fly
Ketuwong (Ro Sul) - A Hzeel prisoner-of-war who fights with her laser eyes, super strength, flight, intangibility, and material mimicry
Patriot (G. I. Joe Parker) - An armed-to-the-teeth America-lover known for going into fights guns a-blazing
Queen Bee (Heather Schmidt) - A model who turns into a humanoid bee whenever she's stung by a bee
SigmaX (Project Sigma X) - A robot who didn't want to be evil, and reported his creator to the FBS
Super Duper Man (Harley Cahill) - A former wrestler for the Circuit Maximus who stepped up to stop a criminal in his hometown
T-Wreck (Terrance Kingsley) - An MIT researcher who was injected with T-Rex DNA, but luckily kept his intelligence and proportionate arm length
Timelapse (Tim Altman) - A time controller who mostly controls time in relation to aging
Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Burning Man, Captain Cactcus, Cobalt, Dr. Night, Eclipse, Ketuwong, Patriot, Queen Bee, SigmaX, Super Duper Man, T-Wreck, Timelapse
