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Real name: Cassandra Sandsmark
Occupation: High school student, super-hero
Base of Operations: Gateway City
Marital Status: Single
Height: 5'5
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
First Apperance: Wonder Woman #105 (new series)

Only daughter to professor Helena Sandsmark, curator at the Museum of Cultural Antiquities of Gateway City and overprotective mother, Cassie happened to be at the museum when Diana applied for a job. In a desperate attempt to talk her mother into letting her out until midnight, she decided to finish the cleaning of a giant warrior statue that have been found in the bottom of the ocean. Obviously, the statue came to life and started pursuing the girl, for legends said that it was unstoppable until it destroyed the person who had awakened it. Despite Diana's desperate tries to stop it, the statue made its way after Cassie to the quay. Although it seemed that Cassie was lost, she had realized that the wood would not stand for the weigth of the giant, and when the warrior stepped on the boardwalk, it crushed and the thing sunk to the bottom of the bay.
Cassie kept helping Diana from time to time until she earned the rol of the new Wonder Girl, against her reluctant mother will. The gods gave her part of Diana's powers so she could fit the rol and Artemis herself trained her for almost one year. Even after Donna Troy returned to the superhuman league, Cassie kept her brand new hero identity with Donna's blessings. Eventually, she joined Young Justice, after joining forces with them to fight a menace. Cassie's best friend was Arrowette, another member of the team.
Eventually, her secret identity became public after the Silver Swan attacked her high school and she had to save people fast. This version of the Swan was incarnated by Nessie Kapatelis, who, under Dr Psycho's mental control, blamed Diana for not turning her into Wonder Girl and for leaving her when she needed her. Cassie did not care for Nessie, but Diana did and forbade her to hurt the girl.
After those events, she was contacted by the father she had never known. She knew nothing about him, for he just left her mother pregnant and vanished and Helena did not talk about him. Cassie has the feeling, though, that she already knows him.
Recently, Donna Troy was killed by a Superman robot and Cassie has not proven to be able to deal with the pain yet.
Since then Cassie has joined the Teen Titans and has been given a magic lasso that controls lighting.. it was a gift from Ares the god of war.

Just a bump in the hopes that some of the newer members will contribute...and a few older ones, too...

Real name: Anthony "Tony" Stark
Occupation: Inventor, Industrialist
Identity: Secret
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of birth: Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Howard (father, deceased), Maria (mother, deceased), Morgan (cousin)
Group affiliation: Avengers
Base of operations: Seattle, Washington
First appearance: TALES OF SUSPENSE #39

History: Anthony Stark, son of industrialist Howard Stark, demonstrated his mechanical aptitude and inventive genius at a very early age, enrolling in college electrical engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 15. When he was 21, he inherited his father's business, Stark Industries, and within a few years turned it into a multimillion-dollar industry complex whose chief contracts were for weaponry and munitions for the U.S. government.

Stark was sent to Vietnam to supervise a field test for one of his tranistorized weapons. While he was there Stark trip on a booby trap and a piece of shrapnel was lodged in his chest. The gravely injured Stark was taken captive by the Communist leader Wong-Chu, and was informed that within a week the shrapnel would penetrate his heart and kill them. Wong-Chu offered Stark at deal: if he built the Communist a powerful weapon, want to allow Stark to undergo an operation to save his life. Stark agreed, hoping to gain time and access to tools.

Stark was given access to a small laboratory in communist territory with another captive, the renowned Oriental physicist Professor Ho Yinsen. With the incense help Stark designed and built an electrically powered suit of armor and equipped with heavy offensive weaponry. The armor also contained pacemaker like device which enables Stark's heart to keep beating after the shrapnel entered it. Donning the suit, Stark connected it to its power source, an electrical generator. Lying on a table Stark was helpless until the suit was fully charged. His captor, Wong-Chu, sensed something was amiss and came to investigate with armed men. Realizing he was sacrificing his life, Professor Ho Yinsen went out to confront Wong-Chu, to give Stark the extra time he needed to charge the armored suit fully. As the Iron Man Stark avenged Yinsens death and scattered Wong Chu's guerilla troops. Then, still clad in his armor, which was necessary to keep his heart beating, stark made his way to the jungle, trying to escape communist territory.

James Rhodes, a pilot in the United States Marines who was stationed in South East Asia, had been shot down in the jungle nearby Communist rockets while he was on a reconnaissance mission. Rhodes managed to land safely and was attempting to get his helicopter air worthy when he encountered Iron Man. After Iron Man help Rhodes fight off an attack by communist forces, Rhodes allowed him to drain helicopters batteries to recharge his armor. The to attract to the jungle together, finally discovering a hidden Communist rocket base. Stealing an enemy helicopter, they destroyed the base and flew to the nearest American base.

Back in the United States, Stark redesigned his chest plate, which contained a pacemaker like device, reducing the chest plates size and wait so he could wear it under his normal clothing. Required to wear the armor is just played at all times to keep his heart beating, Stark decided to put to rest of the armor to regular use as well. After redesigning the entire armored suit to match the letter chest plate, Starks made the existence of the suit public. He concealed the suits true origin, as well as the fact that he himself had to wear the chest plate to live. Stark made it known that he would soon manufacture the arts suit, which he called "the human machine," for sale for the public.

Soon afterward, Stark donned one of his battle suits in order to prevent thieves from stealing parts of the other copies of it. This experience made him realize that the suit was too dangerous to me made available to the public. The next day Stark revealed what had happened to him in Southeast Asia to Joanna Nivena, who was then his fiancée. Together they attended a tennis match in Forest Hills, N.Y. that afternoon. Stark brought along his armor, which he was taken to nearby laboratory for tests. The match was invaded by terrorists who threaten to kill everyone present with a bomb. Joanna urge Stark to don the armor to stop terrorist. Stark did sell, captured the terrorist, and save the spectators when the bomb went off by throwing himself atop the bomb. Iron Man thus publicly became a hero, and Stark had a new sense of purpose, having decided to combat evildoers as Iron Man.

Wishing to retain some degree of anonymity, Stark established the fiction that Iron Man was is paid bodyguard wearing a suit of armor that he had invented. Only his most trusted aides learned Stark and Iron Man were one and the same.

At first Stark used his Iron Man identity only to combat spies and criminals who threaten Stark industries. Later, he expanded the scope of his alter egos activities to battle any force or person who friend the security of America or the world. Stark was instrumental in the organization and are meant of the original World intelligence and law-enforcement agency known as SHIELD, and as Iron Man he became a founding member of the team of super human champions known as the avengers. Stark donated his Manhattan mansion to the avengers for their exclusive use.

Over the years Stark constantly refined and modified the design of his armor. From all balky, transistorized Iron suit, Iron man eventually bald are relatively lightweight, integrated circuit, magnetically polarized suit with more human looking articulated musculature. Stark's natural genius at theoretical mechanics has enabled him keep his suit of armor at the state of the art. Stark eventually underwent heart transplant so that he was no longer obligated to wear his metallic chest plate.

Stark eventually decided for moral reasons no longer to manufacture are meant and devote his company to other areas of technology.

In recent years Tony Stark's greatest nemesis has been alcoholism. As a wealthy socialite, alcohol had been a constant part of his life. When his company, which had changed its name from Stark Industries to Stark international, was threatened with the takeover at the same time he was experiencing oppressive personal problems, Stark began to abuse out all. Although he managed to recover quickly from his first serious bout, the compulsion to drink remained a constant temptation. The second time he succumbed to alcoholism, the to even more devastating personal problems than the first time, Tony Stark went out on a several month binge during which he was cheated out of Stark international, he lost all the armor except one suit (the rest for destroyed), lost the leases on his various departments, and had his personal assets frozen so that he could not touch his fortune. All these results of the machinations of the mysterious European entrepreneur Obadisiah Stane, who took over Stark's company, renaming it stained international.

During this time Starks friends, James Rhodes, who had gone to work for Stark after leaving the military, assumed custody of the Iron Man are and operated as Iron Man in his stead.

When Stark finally regained his sobriety, he joined with Rhodes and two of his friends, Worley Irwin (late of Stark international) and his sister Clytemnestra Erwin of Richmond enterprises to set up a new electronics firm in Californian named Circuits Maximus in its brief existence Circuits Maximus became a prestigious and successful firm.

While the armor was in his custody, James Rhodes became increasingly enamored of being Iron Man, and, upon Stark return to sobriety, fear that stark would ask for it back. However, the severe headaches caused by the fact that the cybernetic helmet had never been properly adjusted to roads brain patterns, began to store roads thinking. As result roads began to manifest hostility toward Stark. As work therapy Stark constructed a simple suit of armor based on his original design with no intention of donning it until he felt in control of his alcoholism when roads began acting rationally, however, Stark felt obligated to put on this crude suit of armor to prevent roads from doing harm. Stark managed to subdue roads and made unnecessary recalibrate shins on the cybernetics. For a brief time Stark inroads use their respective suits of armor as Iron Men, although Stark did so reluctantly. At the suggestion of the West Coast avengers chairman Hawkeye, Stark designed and built his most sophisticated armor to date, presumably so that the avengers could find someone to where and bolster the team's strength.

However, soon after completion, Obadiah Stane, alarmed at Starks steps toward recovery, bombed Circuits Maxus injuring roads and killing Morley Erwin. Design vengeance, Stark dawned the untested new armor and sought out Stane. Stane himself put on a suitor farmer his engineers had built using Starks plans, and met Iron Man in battle as the Iron Monger. Losing the battle against Stark, Stane committed suicide.

Stark decided that although one is never truly cured of alcoholism, he could also not the nine response abilities of being Iron Man. He resumed his career as Iron Man and joined the New West Coast division of the avengers.

Stark also managed to reclaim control of his fortune, although he decided not to claim ownership of the company formally known as Stark international. Rather, he founded a new technological design and manufacturing company, Stark enterprises, based in Silicon Valley in Southern California. Stark enterprises quickly became a highly successful and innovative company.

Stark learned that before his death the industrials by calling self Spymaster had stolen the plans for the many secret technological innovations Stark to devise annualized in his Iron Man are. Spymaster's had then turn these plants over to Stark most powerful and antagonistic business rival, Justin Hammer, in turn, had made available to many criminals. These criminals had then incorporated the stolen technological innovations into their own armored battle suits. Oh raged that his inventions were being used for criminal activity, and even for killing, Stark determined to deprive these criminals of his secrets. He planted a computer virus in Hammer's computer system that would wipe out all traces of the plans for Starks Iron Man technology. As Iron Man Stark sought out and caught many criminals and others (such as the United States government's Guardsmen) who wore battle suits utilizing his technology, implanted devices on their armor that to use the circuits, rendering the suit useless. With the computer records of the plans for his technology gone, presumably it could not be used in reconstructing the suits. Iron Man accidentally killed the second titanium man (also known as the gremlin) in the course of these "Armor Wars." United States government branded Iron Man as an outlaw as a result of these and vigilante actions, and Stark publicly claimed that he had fired Iron Man in displeasure over his illegal activity. Shortly afterward, Iron Man was apparently destroyed in combat with government forces.

In fact, however, Stark had survived. He created an even more sophisticated armored battle suit to wear as Iron Man, using technology far in advance over that which spymaster had stolen from him. Star continued to go into action as Iron Man, but he publicly claimed that the previous Iron Man was dead and that another employee of his whose identity is being kept secret was now wearing the armored suit.

Later, Stark was shots by Kathleen Dare, a former lover of his with an unstable mind. The gunfire severely injured Starks spying, and it appeared here be crippled the rest of his life, and able to walk. He could, however, still function normally within his Iron Man armor. The microchip device was later implanted in Stark spine that enables him to walk a move normally once again.

Height: 6 ft. 1 in.
Weight: 185 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black

Strength level: Without his armor Tony Stark possesses the normal strength of a normal human man his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. His armor magnifies Stark strength to superhuman levels, enabling him to lift (press) roughly 85 times.

Known superhuman powers: none

Other abilities: Tony Stark is a genius who is a responsible for numerous major discoveries, inventions, and other achievements in various areas of technology.

Weapons and paraphernalia: Iron Man wears a sophisticated suit a body armor containing various offensive weaponry.

I'll post specifics on armors later. . .

Name: Hunter Rose
Occupation: Novelist, Assassin, Criminal Mastermind
Identity: Secret
Base of Operations: New York City
Confidants: Larry Stohler

In a midwestern town, a boy, who's true name is identified only as "eddie" was born. A gifted child from birth, he was reading by the age of 3. He could quote lines from Shakespeare at 5. By the time he was 7, he was drafting, simultaneously, several different novels at once. Sadly, his accomplishements went widely unnoticed.

Turning his insatiable desire to accomplish to the physical realms, Eddie began to fence. Here, too, he excelled beyond the norm. Here, as well, his skills were unnoticed by those around him.

When he was 15, his team, by chance, won an opportunity to fence in London's championships. Eddie performed spectacularly, winning his way to the fiunals. However, as the last match began, the ennui set in. The fact that it had all been so easy, so effortless, made him realize that though he could crush his opponent, it would be an empty victory. He threw the match.

It was afterwards, as he was showering, that the British team's captain, Jocasta Rose approached him. The only person who realized that Eddie had lost on purpose. At last someone who could see the worth he possessed. For a year, they were lovers. They did everything together. Shortly thereafter she died. She'd known she was dying from the moment they'd met, and left everything to him.

Returning to America and discovering his parents dead, he took the name Hunter Rose, evincing the true influence on his life. He moved to New York, initiating a plan to dominate everyone around him.

Name: Aspen Matthews
Occupation: Marine Biologist
Marital Status: Single
First Appearence: Fathom Preview (I think, will have to go and check to be sure)

History: Aspen's first memory is walking off a cruise ship. The ship was supposedly lost at sea for many years, and then just appeared one day. There was no record of her being on the ship when it went missing, and they could find no family for her. The ships captain adopted her and gave her his last name.

As Aspen grew up she found a great fascination with the water, and ocean in particular. This lead her to becoming a marine biologist. One of the best marine biologists the world has ever known. She was recruited by a government agency to do research on a strange ship they found under the ocean. While she is at the research facility there is an accident and the building is blown up. Aspen survives, but no one can explain why. Then again, how do you explain a women turning into water?

Subject: Jason Peter Todd

Hero Identity: Robin

First Appearance: Detective Comics #524 (March 1983)

Origin File:

Pre-Crisis history:
Trina and Joseph Todd, along with their son Jason, were acrobats who performed as 'the Flying Todds'. d**k Grayson, who was at this point still Robin, befriended them and invited them to a party at Wayne Manor. There, Trina chanced to see Bruce in the Batman uniform. She promised to keep the secret.

The circus which the Flying Todds appeared in was being extorted by Killer Croc and the couple did their best to aid the Dynamic Duo on the case, but both Trina and Joe were murdered as a result of their involvement.

Meanwhile, Jason had discovered the Batcave, and dressed up in one of the child-sized costumes he'd found there. Hiding in the trunk of the Batmobile, he used his considerable acrobatic skills to follow Batman and Batman's allies on a case. Overhearing news of his parent's deaths, Jason launched into the fray and helped the heroes to triumph.

d**k felt an affinity for the boy, because of their similar life stories, and a huge amount of guilt over Joe and Trina's deaths. He wanted to adopt Jason, but Bruce stepped in and offered to become the boy's guardian instead. Jason chafed against the fact that Bruce wouldn't let him become the Batman's new partner, but eventually he proved himself worthy of the role.

Soon afterwards, d**k graduated from being Robin into becoming Nightwing, and handed on his former title to Jason, who had been having trouble finding a name for his own crime-fighting identity. The two remained close, despite d**k's mild jealousy over the fact that Jason had been adopted by Bruce where he himself had not.

Jason, though happy with Bruce as a father figure, lacked a maternal influence in his life - that is, until Natalia Knight, also known as Nocturna, took an interest in him. When Bruce lost custody of Jason, Natalia managed to legally adopt him. Jason went along with the proceedings, despite Bruce's grief at losing the boy, because Jason intended to uncover Nocturna's criminal activities while in her care. The three of them - Jason, Natalia and Bruce - became steadily more entangled with one another, and Jason's feelings towards his adoptive mother became less clear-cut than they had been. Following Natalia's apparent death, Jason felt a renewed sorrow over Trina.

Though extremely proficient athlectically and in combat, Jason's confidence at his ability to live up to his role as Robin was at times unsteady, a situation not helped by the fact that the weight of d**k's legacy proved more than Jason had expected.

Jason showed much promise, though, and his detective work and logic skills were coming along nicely. Then came the Crisis.

Post-Crisis history:
Willis and Catherine Todd came, it seems, from a relatively stable world. A photograph taken when their son, Jason Peter Todd, was very young shows the family as being at least moderately well-off. Though Willis was born an raised in Crime Alley, the couple owned a bit of property in Virginia. Then things fell apart, and Willis had at least one stay in jail. Catherine fell deeply ill. Willis dropped out of the picture. Jason, assuming his father had been arrested again, did his best to take care of his ailing mother the only way he knew how: stealing tires and selling them.

When Jason's mother died of a drug overdose, juvenile authorities tried to put him in a state home. He ran away and ended up living in an abandoned building, supporting himself through petty theft. Then, one night, Jason stole the tires off the Batmobile. He was caught in the act by the car's owner and, after an attempted escape and a brief scuffle, agreed to give the tires back. He wouldn't, however, allow himself to be put into the social services system. Jason and Batman reached a compromise: Jason would attend Ma Gunn's school for boys, recently opened on Crime Alley.

The school turned out to be a training ground for criminals, so Jason ran away and went back to boosting tires. Batman tracked him down again and, after Jason ended up helping him take care of the crooked school, took the boy on as the new Robin.

Six months of intensive training later, Batman presented Jason with a Robin costume. Not the original - this one had slight improvements and modifications - but in the same style as the one which had been worn by d**k Grayson. A short time later, Jason discovered that his father had been murdered by Two-Face and, perhaps more upsettingly, Bruce had known this all along. Jason stayed in bed for a day and acted petulantly towards his guardian that night, acting out violently towards Two-Face when the duo were faced with him that night.

Batman and the new Robin argued over how Jason had handled himself, the conversation ending with Batman warning him that unchecked rage can end up costing a battle. When Jason found himself up against Two-Face once again not much later, he overcame his personal fury and desire for revenge and allowed the police to take Two-Face away.

Jason continued to help on various cases. A serial killer was preying on women and even Batman seemed at a loss as to how to catch the attacker. Sometimes Jason's impulsiveness and propensity towards violence caused him to slip up; on one occasion d**k had to extricate him from trouble. d**k did his best to offer Jason support in the difficult task of being Robin, but the still-tense atmosphere between d**k and Bruce seemed to severely hamper the possibility of closeness between d**k and Jason.

Despite his young age, Jason was already a smoker when he first met Batman. He did not give up the habit entirely once he entered his new life, nor did he relinquish his fondness for chili dogs despite their poor nutritional value. Before becoming Robin his education had ended in the fifth grade but, upon returning to school, Jason showed an enthusiasm for learning.

Batman managed to discover the identity of the serial killer terrorizing Gotham. However, as a vigilante, his involvement in the case rendered key evidence inadmissable. The killer walked free. Furious with the outcome of the trial, Jason beat up a bullying pimp; his rage at violence towards women was a wellspring of violence itself.

Meanwhile, the serial killer was killed himself, by the sister of one of his victims. Judy Koslosky, whose sister Linda had been brutally murdered, felt no remorse for taking a life, saying "I put down a mad dog. It might not have been legal, but it was right." Batman explained Jason that Judy was wrong and that the law must be upheld, but then admitted that some small part of him wished that this was no the case.

When Felipe Garzonas, a diplomat's son, avoided punishment for assaulting a young woman, Jason was horrified. When he and Batman caught Garzonas in the middle of a drug deal, Jason tried to goad Garzonas into resisting arrest so that Jason had an excuse to hit him. Garzonas didn't, and when they took him back to the station Garzonas took the opportunity to make a threatening, taunting call to the same young woman he brutalized. She committed suicide, and Jason was the one who discovered the body.

Jason went to Garzonas' high-rise apartment. Batman followed, arriving just in time to see Garzonas fall to his death from the balcony. When asked what had happened, Jason answered "I guess I spooked him. He slipped." It has never been established conclusively whether this version of events is true or not.

Felipe Garzonas' father, however, had no doubt as to where the blame lay for his son's death. He kidnapped Jim Gordon in an attempt to draw Batman and Robin out. Garzonas' father, along with several other men, died in the resulting fracas. Batman explained to Jason that there's never a way to escape consequences. Jason walked off without a word.

Jason's behavior became more erratic and careless. When Batman accused him of treating dangerous situations like a game, Jason retorted "all life's a game". Batman decided to take Jason off active duty. Infuriated and upset, Jason went walking through his old neighbourhood, Crime Alley. There, he was recognised by a friend of his parents. She gave him a box full of papers and photographs which had belonged to them before their deaths.

Amongst the mementoes, Jason made a surprising discovery: the woman he had thought to be his mother, Catherine, was in fact his stepmother. His real mother's name began with an 'S', the rest of her name obscured by water damage on his birth certificate.

Using his father's address book and the computer in the Batcave, Jason narrowed the list of women who might have been his mother down to three. Taking several credit cards, Jason ran away to search for them. Batman, who was pursuing the Joker, ended up in Beirut at the same time as Jason. Together, they checked out the first two women on Jason's list. Neither were his mother.

The third and final candidate, Sheila Haywood, was working in Ethiopia, her medical career in the States having been cut short by a botched operation she had assisted on. Bruce knew as soon as he saw her that she was Jason's mother; they had the same eyes. The Joker was blackmailing Sheila, however, and she herself was stealing from the medical funds. She betrayed Jason to the Joker, who broke half the bones in Jason's body with a crowbar before locking him, and Sheila, in a warehouse with a bomb.

By the time Batman got to the scene of the explosion, Jason's body was already cold. Bruce Wayne took his ward back to the United States, where Jason was buried in an out-of-the-way cemetary. The grave has since been desecrated, Jason's remains stolen.

Jason's Robin suit hangs in a glass case in the backcave with a plaque bearing the inscription 'Jason Todd - a good soldier'. Jason's death has been, in many ways, as much a defining event in Batman's history as the deaths of Martha and Thomas Wayne were.

Bump.