Kid Bang (Champion)
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| Kid Bang (Billy Pennington) | |
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Level 50 .  . 
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| Sonic Attack / Thermal Radiation | |
History:
Billy Pennington has always been fascinated by super villains. When all the other kids wanted to be Statesmen or Back Alley Brawler, he always wanted to be the bad guy. When he was 13, he went so far as to make himself a cheap Hamidon costume by wrapping himself in colored cellophane. This required a trip to the Emergency Room. His parents kept hoping he would grow out of it, but that just never happened.
When Billy was 16, he saw footage of Really Big Bang’s getting arrested after a botched King’s Row bank robbery. Billy really liked the sonic powers and black and green costume. He decided to start his own career of villainy, modeling himself after Really Big Bang. Unfortunately, Billy did not have the scientific know-how to build sonic energy devices like Really Big Bang could.
In an attempt to gain these powers, Billy ended up making a deal with the Circle of Thorns. They would help him gain super powers, and he would work for them. Billy would start calling himself Kid Bang. As a part of the mystical generation of his powers, Kid Bang also has a low level ability to manipulate hellfire. This power is unpredictable and tends to manifest in strange and unexpected ways, like invisibility or the ability to heal others.
Kid Bang served the Circle of Thorns’ will for about a year, but he soon decided that soul snatching and demonic rituals were definitely not the fun life of a super villain he had hoped for. Kid Bang escaped from the Circle of Thorns, but their mystical ways allowed them to track him down and recaptured him. The Kid would have been destroyed, if not for the timely intervention of the Bone Snappers.
Kral-Raiden, Kingpin of Crime, and Really Big Bang were raiding a Circle of Thorns base at the time and “rescued” Kid Bang. Actually, they had planned to take him and ransom him back to the Thorns or his family. But, when he told them his story, they decided to let him stick around. If nothing else, at least they would have a fall guy in case a job went bad.
Really Big Bang mentored Kid Bang for a few months before deciding to go into semi-retirement. Kral-Raiden and Kingpin of Crime were ready to just kick the Kid loose, but soon discovered that the Kid was especially useful at building and furbishing their headquarters. Kid also managed to save Kral’s life during the second Rikti invasion. Kid tends to leave out the fact that the only reason Kral’s life was in danger was because he had to charge into a cluster of Rikti to pull Kid out.
The Kid is pretty much the team mascot and biggest cheerleader. In return for his loyalty, the other Bone Snappers help keep him safe from the Circle of Thorns’ revenge.
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