Ubermann
Written by Clint Werner
Art Design by Bob Hall
Name: Reinhardt Krohn
Location: Germany
Group Affiliation: SS
Powers: Ubermann is incredibly strong, far beyond anything even the most physically fit human being should be capable of. He is able to smash armoured plate with his fists, able to tear steel as though it were paper. Ubermann is able to throw anything up to the weight of a small tank as though it were little more than a medicine ball. His body is incredibly tough, resilient to damage and able to regenerate any damage that is inflicted upon him. The Protein Zero in his body has completely eliminated any need for oxygen in his system, rendering Ubermann immune to gas attacks and even allowing him to operate underwater (although immune to the effects of pressure, as well, Ubermann does need to retain body heat, and so cannot operate at extreme depths). In addition to his enhanced abilities, Ubermann is a highly trained soldier, easily the equal of any nations elite forces.
History: With the Nazi party gaining control of the Reichstag and the Chancellery, the full resources of Germany were put at their command, along with the finest scientific minds in all of Europe. Unlike the petty, squabbling Weimar democracy, the Nazis had both vision and purpose – and would stop at nothing to see their vision made reality. Among the precepts of Nazi philosophy and dogma was the belief in the ancient Aryan civilization of Thule and the genetic superiority the descendents of the ancient Aryans had coursing through their veins. None of Hitler’s lieutenants was quite so obsessed with the ‘theology of the blood’ as Heinrich Himmler. Himmler created numerous programs within the SS to prove the ancient legacy of the Aryans and the birthright which was that of the German people. The Ahnenerbe was one such project, scouring the oldest ruins in Europe and beyond for evidence of Thule and the primordial Aryans. Anything that would substantiate the supremacy of the German heritage of blood was supported by the SS, no matter how eccentric or dubious.
While Himmler searched for evidence of Germany’s genetic superiority through archaeology and the occult, his chief rival within the SS, der Eisernteufel, took a different path toward proving the Fuehrer’s claim of Aryan supremacy. The Iron Devil looked to science to prove Germany’s right to rule over lesser men. Not through eugenics and the other phisiological studies supported by Himmler, programs Eisernteufel dismissed as ‘passive’ sciences, but through what he termed ‘proactive’ sciences. Eisernteufel looked to chemistry, physics and the new science of bio-genetics to achieve his ambition. He would not simply find evidence of the greatness that had once been the birthright of every Aryan. He would find a way of recreating it, of restoring to the German people the physical might that had once been theirs.
As head of the science division of the SS, Eisernteufel funded many projects to augment and improve the human body, supporting several radical and outlandish programs encompassing everything from robotics to genetic manipulation. The research provided differing levels of success, but only one project seemed to deliver what Eisernteufel was looking for. An Austrian chemist named Frederick Neumann had been working upon an artificial blood supplement he had named ‘Protein O’, ‘O’ for ‘oxygen’, the component in blood which his chemical replaced. Due to a mis-transcription of Neumann’s research notes for his SS superiors, the additive was soon known by the more enigmatic code-name of ‘Protein Zero’.
Neumann’s research with Protein Zero provided a mixed bag of results. Most of his test animals died when the additive was introduced into their systems, their bodies shutting down as the alien chemical was injected. Other animals, however, would become energized by Protein Zero, exhibiting enhanced strength, endurance and stamina. Their respiration was also found to be far lower than normal, their bodies far less dependent on oxygen than they should have been. It was the results encountered with one dog, however, that interested Eisernteufel the most. Given an excessive dose of Protein Zero, instead of dying, the dog in question had grown so strong that it had actually gnawed through the steel bars of its cage. Bullets fired at the dog had failed to pierce its skin, glancing off as though striking solid stone. Attempts to subdue the dog with gas had also proven ineffective – the dog’s system had absorbed so much Protein Zero it no longer used oxygen at all. Only when its body had depleted the stores of Protein Zero coursing through it had the super powered canine finally been subdued. While the chemical had been active within it, the dog had been unstoppable.
Eisernteufel ordered that the dog experiment be replicated with a human subject. Against Neumann’s objections, twenty SS soldiers were injected with massive amounts of Protein Zero. When all of the subjects died, Eisernteufel was unfazed, he simply arranged for a second test group, this time of a hundred pure-blooded SS men. Only one man from the second group survived the experiment. He was Reinhardt Krohn and after Neumann filled his body with Protein Zero, Krohn was no longer human. He was much more. He was the living embodiment of Aryan superiority. He was the physical incarnation of Nazi racial theory. He was the golden child of the Third Reich. He was now Ubermann.
Since his creation, Ubermann has served as the primary hero of Hitler’s Third Reich. Goebbels has executed a propaganda campaign that has exemplified Ubermann as a representation of Germany’s glorious future and a physical testament to Nazi dogma about racial purity and superiority. Newsreels represent Ubermann and his superhuman abilities in every cinema in Germany and accounts of his deeds fill front pages of newspapers and nightly radio broadcasts. The Party’s first superhuman also serves another function, allowing them to slowly faze out public interest and support of older, pre-Nazi heroes such as von Thun.
Ubermann is considered one of Germany’s greatest weapons and he is deployed only by approval of Hitler himself. When not employed upon missions or engaged in some moral-boosting stunt for the Ministry of Propoganda, Ubermann is never far from his Fuehrer, acting as bodyguard to Hitler. It is a role that makes the dictator’s inner circle extremely nervous. Hitler can only see the enormous power of Ubermann, he seems oblivious to the danger the superhuman might also present.
Before undergoing the process which made him Ubermann, Krohn was a disciplined, stalwart soldier of the Fatherland. Now, however, he is being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the power coursing through his body. Ubermann enjoys showing off his abilities, exhibiting little restraint when using his enormous strength. He enjoys knowing that those around him are weaker, enjoys seeing their awe in his presence. Ubermann also displays little restraint with his emotions, and is not very particular about how or to whom he expresses himself. Around Hitler, however, Ubermann reverts to the subdued, disciplined soldier. In all the Reich, only Hitler and Eisernteufel are able to fully control Germany’s champion.
Ubermann is dependent upon regular transfusions of Protein Zero to maintain his body. Every twenty days, the Nazi reports to a physician at the Iron Devil’s fortified research facility in Thuringia, there to receive the next dose to keep him going. However, it was soon discovered that extreme physical exertion caused Ubermann to burn through his Protein Zero reserves at a much higher rate. This was displayed quite prominently during the Polish campaign when a Wehrmacht general, employing Ubermann as a one man offensive against a Polish armour battalion, caused the super human to almost completely exhaust his reserves of Protein Zero. The nearly comatose Ubermann had to be dragged back to German lines and more Protein Zero hastily flown to the battlefield to revive him. For his poor tactics and nearly losing a vital military asset, Hitler personally ordered the offending general shot. Since this incident, Ubermann has been employed more cautiously. If he is sent into a situation where it is expected that he will burn a great deal of Protein Zero, special agents are sent along with him, each equipped with emergency supplies of the chemical.
Eisernteufel has spent the lives of nearly a thousand SS men since Ubermann’s creation but has, to date, been unable to successfully replicate the results Neumann achieved with Krohn.
Description: Ubermann is a massive, broad-shouldered man. Like all men of the SS, he is blonde-haired and blue-eyed and in the peak of physical health. His features are classically handsome, what Goebbels describes as ‘heroic’ in his propaganda. He wears his blonde hair cropped short in military fashion. Ubermann wears a tailor-made black SS uniform trimmed in white. On his breast he displays the numerous medals that have been awarded to him. At his hip he wears a pistol, not as a weapon but as simply another award. The luger was a gift presented to him by no less a personage than Adolf Hitler himself.
Location: Germany
Group Affiliation: SS
Powers: Ubermann is incredibly strong, far beyond anything even the most physically fit human being should be capable of. He is able to smash armoured plate with his fists, able to tear steel as though it were paper. Ubermann is able to throw anything up to the weight of a small tank as though it were little more than a medicine ball. His body is incredibly tough, resilient to damage and able to regenerate any damage that is inflicted upon him. The Protein Zero in his body has completely eliminated any need for oxygen in his system, rendering Ubermann immune to gas attacks and even allowing him to operate underwater (although immune to the effects of pressure, as well, Ubermann does need to retain body heat, and so cannot operate at extreme depths). In addition to his enhanced abilities, Ubermann is a highly trained soldier, easily the equal of any nations elite forces.
History: With the Nazi party gaining control of the Reichstag and the Chancellery, the full resources of Germany were put at their command, along with the finest scientific minds in all of Europe. Unlike the petty, squabbling Weimar democracy, the Nazis had both vision and purpose – and would stop at nothing to see their vision made reality. Among the precepts of Nazi philosophy and dogma was the belief in the ancient Aryan civilization of Thule and the genetic superiority the descendents of the ancient Aryans had coursing through their veins. None of Hitler’s lieutenants was quite so obsessed with the ‘theology of the blood’ as Heinrich Himmler. Himmler created numerous programs within the SS to prove the ancient legacy of the Aryans and the birthright which was that of the German people. The Ahnenerbe was one such project, scouring the oldest ruins in Europe and beyond for evidence of Thule and the primordial Aryans. Anything that would substantiate the supremacy of the German heritage of blood was supported by the SS, no matter how eccentric or dubious.
While Himmler searched for evidence of Germany’s genetic superiority through archaeology and the occult, his chief rival within the SS, der Eisernteufel, took a different path toward proving the Fuehrer’s claim of Aryan supremacy. The Iron Devil looked to science to prove Germany’s right to rule over lesser men. Not through eugenics and the other phisiological studies supported by Himmler, programs Eisernteufel dismissed as ‘passive’ sciences, but through what he termed ‘proactive’ sciences. Eisernteufel looked to chemistry, physics and the new science of bio-genetics to achieve his ambition. He would not simply find evidence of the greatness that had once been the birthright of every Aryan. He would find a way of recreating it, of restoring to the German people the physical might that had once been theirs.
As head of the science division of the SS, Eisernteufel funded many projects to augment and improve the human body, supporting several radical and outlandish programs encompassing everything from robotics to genetic manipulation. The research provided differing levels of success, but only one project seemed to deliver what Eisernteufel was looking for. An Austrian chemist named Frederick Neumann had been working upon an artificial blood supplement he had named ‘Protein O’, ‘O’ for ‘oxygen’, the component in blood which his chemical replaced. Due to a mis-transcription of Neumann’s research notes for his SS superiors, the additive was soon known by the more enigmatic code-name of ‘Protein Zero’.
Neumann’s research with Protein Zero provided a mixed bag of results. Most of his test animals died when the additive was introduced into their systems, their bodies shutting down as the alien chemical was injected. Other animals, however, would become energized by Protein Zero, exhibiting enhanced strength, endurance and stamina. Their respiration was also found to be far lower than normal, their bodies far less dependent on oxygen than they should have been. It was the results encountered with one dog, however, that interested Eisernteufel the most. Given an excessive dose of Protein Zero, instead of dying, the dog in question had grown so strong that it had actually gnawed through the steel bars of its cage. Bullets fired at the dog had failed to pierce its skin, glancing off as though striking solid stone. Attempts to subdue the dog with gas had also proven ineffective – the dog’s system had absorbed so much Protein Zero it no longer used oxygen at all. Only when its body had depleted the stores of Protein Zero coursing through it had the super powered canine finally been subdued. While the chemical had been active within it, the dog had been unstoppable.
Eisernteufel ordered that the dog experiment be replicated with a human subject. Against Neumann’s objections, twenty SS soldiers were injected with massive amounts of Protein Zero. When all of the subjects died, Eisernteufel was unfazed, he simply arranged for a second test group, this time of a hundred pure-blooded SS men. Only one man from the second group survived the experiment. He was Reinhardt Krohn and after Neumann filled his body with Protein Zero, Krohn was no longer human. He was much more. He was the living embodiment of Aryan superiority. He was the physical incarnation of Nazi racial theory. He was the golden child of the Third Reich. He was now Ubermann.
Since his creation, Ubermann has served as the primary hero of Hitler’s Third Reich. Goebbels has executed a propaganda campaign that has exemplified Ubermann as a representation of Germany’s glorious future and a physical testament to Nazi dogma about racial purity and superiority. Newsreels represent Ubermann and his superhuman abilities in every cinema in Germany and accounts of his deeds fill front pages of newspapers and nightly radio broadcasts. The Party’s first superhuman also serves another function, allowing them to slowly faze out public interest and support of older, pre-Nazi heroes such as von Thun.
Ubermann is considered one of Germany’s greatest weapons and he is deployed only by approval of Hitler himself. When not employed upon missions or engaged in some moral-boosting stunt for the Ministry of Propoganda, Ubermann is never far from his Fuehrer, acting as bodyguard to Hitler. It is a role that makes the dictator’s inner circle extremely nervous. Hitler can only see the enormous power of Ubermann, he seems oblivious to the danger the superhuman might also present.
Before undergoing the process which made him Ubermann, Krohn was a disciplined, stalwart soldier of the Fatherland. Now, however, he is being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the power coursing through his body. Ubermann enjoys showing off his abilities, exhibiting little restraint when using his enormous strength. He enjoys knowing that those around him are weaker, enjoys seeing their awe in his presence. Ubermann also displays little restraint with his emotions, and is not very particular about how or to whom he expresses himself. Around Hitler, however, Ubermann reverts to the subdued, disciplined soldier. In all the Reich, only Hitler and Eisernteufel are able to fully control Germany’s champion.
Ubermann is dependent upon regular transfusions of Protein Zero to maintain his body. Every twenty days, the Nazi reports to a physician at the Iron Devil’s fortified research facility in Thuringia, there to receive the next dose to keep him going. However, it was soon discovered that extreme physical exertion caused Ubermann to burn through his Protein Zero reserves at a much higher rate. This was displayed quite prominently during the Polish campaign when a Wehrmacht general, employing Ubermann as a one man offensive against a Polish armour battalion, caused the super human to almost completely exhaust his reserves of Protein Zero. The nearly comatose Ubermann had to be dragged back to German lines and more Protein Zero hastily flown to the battlefield to revive him. For his poor tactics and nearly losing a vital military asset, Hitler personally ordered the offending general shot. Since this incident, Ubermann has been employed more cautiously. If he is sent into a situation where it is expected that he will burn a great deal of Protein Zero, special agents are sent along with him, each equipped with emergency supplies of the chemical.
Eisernteufel has spent the lives of nearly a thousand SS men since Ubermann’s creation but has, to date, been unable to successfully replicate the results Neumann achieved with Krohn.
Description: Ubermann is a massive, broad-shouldered man. Like all men of the SS, he is blonde-haired and blue-eyed and in the peak of physical health. His features are classically handsome, what Goebbels describes as ‘heroic’ in his propaganda. He wears his blonde hair cropped short in military fashion. Ubermann wears a tailor-made black SS uniform trimmed in white. On his breast he displays the numerous medals that have been awarded to him. At his hip he wears a pistol, not as a weapon but as simply another award. The luger was a gift presented to him by no less a personage than Adolf Hitler himself.
