AMADEUS CH

Created By   Greg Pak & Takeshi Miyazaw

First Appearance   Amazing Fantasy (vol. 2) #15 (Jan. 2006
Role   The Self-Insert Mary Sue, Teen Genius, Everyman Hero, Smart-Ass Hero, Glass Canno
Group Affiliations   The Avengers, The Olympus Group, The God Squa
Avengers Grade   C-Leve
PL 9 (170
STRENGT      STAMIN      AGILIT   
FIGHTIN   2/   DEXTERIT   4/
INTELLIGENC      AWARENES      PRESENC   

Skills
Acrobatics 2 (+4, +8 Math
Deception 4 (+6
Expertise (Science) 6 (+14
Expertise (Current Events) 4 (+12
Expertise (History) 3 (+11
Expertise (Pop Culture) 4 (+12
Expertise (Science) 8 (+16
Expertise (Theology & Philosophy) 4 (+12
Insight 5 (+8, +12 Math
Investigation 5 (+8
Perception 11 (+14
Persuasion 4 (+6
Sleight of Hand 2 (+6, +8 Math
Stealth 4 (+6
Technology 10 (+18
Vehicles 4 (+8, +12 Math

Advantages  
Equipment (Vespa Scooter

Powers
"Super-Math
Enhanced Fighting 6 [12
Enhanced Dexterity 2 [4
Enhanced Skills 8: Acrobatics 4, Insight 4 [4
Enhanced Advantages 35  
Accurate Attack, Assessment, Beginner's Luck, Defensive Roll 3, Elusive Target, Evasion, Improved Aim, Improved
Defense, Improved Initiative 2, Improved Smash, Jack-of-All-Trades, Luck, Ranged Attack 6, Redirect, Set-Up, Skill
Mastery (Sleight of Hand, Computers, Technology, Science), Teamwork, Throwing Mastery 4, Uncanny Dodge (Sight),
Ultimate Perception Skill, Well-Informed [35

Enhanced Dodge 8 [8
Enhanced Parry 4 [4
Super-Senses 6 (Danger & Distance Sense, Analytical Vision, Detect Weakness- Ranged, Acute & Analytical) [6
Quickness 6 (Flaws: Limited to Mental Tasks) [3

Offense
Unarmed +2 (+1 Damage, DC 16
Math Unarmed +8 (+1 Damage, DC 16
Thrown Objects +12 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19
Initiative +1

Defenses
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +4 (DC 14), Toughness +1, Fortitude +4, Will +
"With Math" Dodge +14 (DC 24), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +1 (+4 D.Roll), Fortitude +4, Will +

Complications
Reputation (Fugitive
Relationship (Loves Delphyne Gorgon
Responsibility (Athena's Champion)- Cho must often do Athena's bidding, but he's beginning to realize what this means
Responsibility (Buddy Comedy Relationship with Hercules)- But he is NOT Herc's Eronomous!
Responsibility (Searching for Sister
Power Loss (Math)- Amadeus requires a steady supply of sugar, or he will begin to lose his intelligence

Total   Abilities: 46 / Skills: 70--35 / Advantages: 1 / Powers: 76 / Defenses: 12 (170

-Amadeus Cho is a great new character, despite having some astonishingly Mary-Sue-ish qualities to him (his creator i
ALSO Korean-American; Amadeus pwned Reed Richards in one of his first appearances; he's a super-genius; he made
out with a hot monster chick) which have mostly calmed down in recent storylines. He's a conflicted character, being
greatly opposed to S.H.I.E.L.D., The Superhuman Registration Act, and even rebels against Athena's mentoring of him,
and he's often forced to just follow along in the big lug Hercules' antics, but he's ultimately loyal to Herc. As the
"Seventh Smartest Person Alive", he's searching for his sister; having since uncovered the truth behind his parents'
death, and thrown away his chance at revenge (because "Revenge is a childish emotion, and it's time to put away
childish things)- which caused their killer, the Sixth Smartest Person Alive, to kill himself, despondent that he could no
longer pit his mind against Cho's.

-Cho is basically Hercules' Hetero Life Partner during most of The Incredible Hercules, going on many adventures,
arguing whenever Herc's libido gets involved, chafing under Athena's stern orders (mmmm... Athena...), and fighting
their way out of all kinds of scrapes. When they split up after a particularly nasty argument, they soon find themselves
willing to sacrifice their own lives for each other (foiling Hephaestus's trap, which was set up to force one ot kill the
other to escape- upon BOTH of them attempting the sacrifice, he just goes "Frickin' HEROES"). When Herc gains full
Godhood and then gives it up, they split apart for no adequately explained reason, and Herc goes off on his own for a
lower-powered, short-lived book, and Cho basically vanished off the face of the Earth. An older-looking Cho appeared in
Frank Cho's Savage Wolverine short-story (wonder why Cho used Cho, huh?), and again in a more modern story, but
he seems to have primarily vanished from comics without his creator actively attempting to push him.

-Cho is a truly bizarre and unique character to stat up. It's quite clear early on that he sees the world differently from
other people- he can correctly calculate the position, nature and pathways of things, giving him a kind of superhuman
accuracy and dodging ability unknown to most other 'genius' characters, who are just able to build things. Cho ALSO
has plenty of those skills, however, being vastly intelligent- he's hacked REED RICHARDS of all people, and knocked
down a Helicarrier once. I threw almost all of his abilities under his "Super-Math" power, which requires a supply of
food to constantly work, but is otherwise pretty much always there.

-Among his feats & capabilities that I've read, and are shown here, are: deflecting a powerful laser weapon armed at
his back with a Vespa scooter's mirror, figuring out Ares was going to come crashing through a room he was being
interrogated in- and the exact pathway he'd take, redirecting Thena's attack into the Dreaming Celestial, who then KO'd
her, and more. This means he's got a swack of Super-Senses (especially Analytical Vision & Danger Sense), high Attack
& Defense scores, some Math-given boosts to some skills (like Acrobatics, since he can 'see' where he needs to go),
Throwing Mastery (just tossing a fork can have some weird effects for him), and general Mental Quickness.

-Cho doesn't even invent stuff, really- his fighting consists of running away (which is why he's PL 9 only Defensively,
he's PL 8 on offense at-best, and that's just with thrown stuff- he's quite the weakling physically). He picks up pretty
much every bit of the slack Hercules gives him as a team (ie. the intellectual and Wisdom-based Skills compared to
Mister Follow His Wiener), which is why they make up such a great duo. Cho is brutally expensive by contrast to his
lower-PL, a virtue of being a Skillmonkey and highly-efficient with his other abilities.