I I am the shadow on the wall
I'll be the one to save us all
Penelope Johnstone
Superhero Name: Siphon
Appearance:
Age: 16
Bio: The sole hero of Armington city. Penelope has had a miserable life. Abused by her parents at home and tormented by her her peers at school for years with no one ever helping her. The only thing that kept her going was her constant study of metahuman's and watching the Chase Siblings Adventures. Penelope always dreamed of having power and constantly tested herself to see if she had one and hoped and prayed she would receive powers so she could fight back against her tormentors. She got her wish when she was cornered by a superhuman thug and nearly killed. She absorbed his power and then that of his friend. Delighted with her new power, she used it to fight back against the people who had hurt her and met Vindalee. The two briefly became friends and then Penlope was introduced to Vindalee's friends who worked for Atomix and wanted to take over the city. Penelope chose to stand against them. However this lead to a series of events with Psyche's group going to war with the Armington Powerhouse's with the city caught in the middle and Penelope trying to stop it all.
Powers:
Power Theft: The ability to steal other people's superpowers.
Stolen Powers: Electric Blasts, Arm Stretching, Claws, Mouth Energy Blasts, Flight, Superhuman Strength/Durability, Enhanced Jump, Energy Sword, Ice, Shockwave, Fire, Sonic Scream, Energy Shield.
Tropes
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassAdorable
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteBruiser
-See that girl in the above picture? She's a walking arsenal of superpowers who along with four others is currently fighting off a small army of metahuman's to save her city.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionGirl
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyGirl
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator
-Thus far she's been through the following: Woken up in the middle of the night to find her house being attacked, blasted down by Burst, threatened by Psyche and his group, shot, got up at the crack of dawn with barley any sleep, got super kicked, blasted, shot some more, blasted through walls, frozen, slashed with energy swords, fought off a mob of people, got blasted by a giant fireball, fell from the sky onto a car which was soon blown up, got set on fire, got hit with a sonic scream....the list goes on. She's still fighting. Granted having superpowers helps, but she still has the wounds that she gets in the fights, even if she's bandaged herself up. This is all on her first day on the job.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BewareTheNiceOnes
-Penelope is a nice girl once you get to know her, but she clearly has a dark side and a lot of pent up aggression stemming from her horrible life. Piss her off and she will destroy you.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IronWoobie
-Abused by her parents, tormented by her peers, forced to choose between her city and the first friend she ever gets, and now in the middle of a warzone with people dying left and right and lunatics with superpowers running around. She's fighting for the city anyway.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatYouAreInTheDark
-When Vindalee, the first friend Penelope ever made, offers her the chance to join up with her team and take over the city for Atomix, Penelope, crying her eyes out as she does, turns her down. She later reveals the reason for this when battling Torch: She realized that, in a city this bad, somebody had to be the one to stand up against evil.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCape
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuileHero
-While Penelope has a lot of raw power to throw around, she also uses her brain on several occassions. When cornered by Psyche's team and three of the Powerhouse Gang, she talks Psyche into reading her mind, leading him to finding out what the gang tried to do to her before she first got her powers, counting on the fact that Psyche and his team had standards, leading to them taking out the three Powerhouse Gang members for her and then leaving. The first thing Penelope does after checking on her mom? Swipe the powers from the two members who are unconscious and have them.
Later when fighting Slice, who she can't seem to hit, she uses her new ice power to freeze the ground beneath her when Slice is jumping around, causing her to slip and fall, giving Penelope a chance to take her down.
When struggling against Torch, who up to this point has been owning her, she realizes that her higher strength means her shockwave clap is that much stronger and that she can combine it with the ice power, leading to a massive ice blast that takes the guy out in one shot.
When fighting the team of Shield and Scream, Siphon uses a brief moment where the screamer is quiet to bring up a strategy: Vindalee makes the screamer hallucinate, distracting her from screaming so Siphon and Bruiser can tear down the forcefield, taking out Shield and allowing Siphon to take out Scream by stretching her arm out, covering her mouth, swiping her power and throwing her into a table, taking her out.
Bad.Ass.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BatmanGambit
The above meeting with Psyche and the gang, all relied on Psyche and his friends having more standards then the gang did. Worked like a charm.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DangerouslyGenreSavvy
-The moment that the two powered criminals, Stretch and Claw, are down and Psyche's team leaves, Siphon swipes their powers. Having taken them out without lifting a finger.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyMine
-Sure Psyche and his team want to take over the city, but they hate Apex and her gang too and are by far the lesser of two evils, so Penelope joins forces with them to take them out. Helps that she and Vin are still friends.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome
-SEVERAL.
The aforementioned Batman Gambit above.
Owning Volt in her first real fight by using the area to her advantage and flinging stuff at him with her super strength.
Fighting back against her abusive dad and the bullies who tormented her.
In her fight with Flyer, Belch and Leap, she gets beaten up, sure and struggles just to get her footing against their combined teamwork. However the moment Flyer gets sloppy, Siphon grabs him and flings him into a car window, taking him out, then beats Belch by zapping him after avoiding his mouth beam, then proceeds to slap down Leap. The girl with no combat training just beat down three meta's one after another.
After getting blasted through walls by Shockwave and trapped in a block of ice by Blizzard, she surprises them with the mouth beam to buy herself time and then angles it downward to break the ice, followed by bringing the fight to them. Almost immediately after, she is attacked by Slice. Siphon still wins. Hell her entrance into that battle counts: Bursting through the window and slamming into one of the gang members and kicking another across the apartment and out of a door is just badass.
Fighting her way through a massive riot, easily defeating the normal human rioters.
The battle with Torch, where despite getting blasted with fire and nearly burned alive, she not only keeps fighting, she WINS by combining her powers.
Coming up with a strategy against Shield and Scream in seconds, leading her team to victory over them.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/FunnyMoments?from=Main.FunnyMoments
-After clearing the apartment, she takes a moment to get a soda and a snack for herself before continuing on her way.
-After her defeat of Torch, she picks him up, flings him over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes, carries him into a pharmacy and drops him down on the counter, grabs some medicine and bandages and drink, walks out casually, walks into a clothing store, pimpslaps a loony with a gun without breaking stride, and gets some new clothes for herself like it's the most casual thing in the world.
Doubles as a moment of awesome.
After the fight with Scream and Shield, she takes a moment to swipe some ear medicine for herself and her team.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BondOneLiner
-While grabbing Scream by the mouth, silencing her and preventing usage of her scream power: "Don't you know that silence is golden?"
Powers
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerCopying?from=Main.MegaManning
Her primary superpower, the ability to steal powers from others.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PersonalityPowers
-See above, she always wanted power in her life, to take it from those who hurt her so they couldn't do it anymore and dreamed of having superpowers. Thus, the power to steal superpowers.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllYourPowersCombined
In no particular order...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithFire
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnIcePerson
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockAndAwe
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreathWeapon
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flight
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperStrength
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InASingleBound
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperToughness
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BarrierWarrior
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MakeMeWannaShout
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockwaveClap
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaserBlade
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WolverineClaws
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtendableArms