Tom Spondo Martel

height 6ft 5,weight 210lbs

Attitude:face with heel leanings

3 super powers

1. Super strength

2. Slippery, oily slime secretion over body makes him hard to hold down. Ability to isolate secretion to certain areas of body( to some degree) does not limit own grappling ability.

3.Super-Tough- The slime also protects body. Can survive vacuum of space and extreme cold. To a lesser degree, can survive high temperatures, but not nuclear blasts. Also adds some very minor protection against blunt or stabbing attacks.

two styles of grappling

1)Shootfighting ( likes to end fight by submission)

2)martial arts

Appearance: Humanoid. black hair ,hawaiian leigh around neck .He has a friendly demeanor that belies his no nonsense shoot fighting. Wears red and sometimes blue and ometimes black wrestling tights.Though he is not from Earth he looks identical to the late fan favorite superstar Jim Hadey.

Entrance:Iron Fist by Motorhead plays and a smiling Tom Spondo walks out to the ring the fans cheer .


History: In the corner of the universe there is planet with two dim red suns. The people live in twilight, constantly. Deep craters speckle the sphere, and crevices in the desert separate great cities. Or atleast they were great cities once; the smoldering ruins of buildings tell a viewer that the planet is in war.

Artillery is constantly being heard above the heads of any civilians who were lucky enough to escape to an underground, armored furtrace. Bombs who's power the likes of which an earth human could not fathom are being used regularly on the battlefield; the battlefield which takes up almost the entire planet. The government of this planet has never been stable, it seems, for many years. The death total that the fight between the two opposing sides have caused are in the billions.

In the war, there is a soldier labeled 745. Although just a regular soldier, a blank-faced opponent to the enemy side, he fights with a ferocity that would make any general proud. His ferocity also shows when he fights in cages at army camps, entertaining soldiers during off time.

The war stretches on. Soldiers are destroyed, completely. Not even a piece of the body to bury. Weapons level mountains and cities. The odd, terrible weapons they use can have weird effects. The radiation from some bombs actually brought corpses back to life. The undead tend to be violent. However, off course, there weren't many whole corpses lying around, so that radiation side effect wasn't a real big deal.

The war grew grimmer. There seemed to be no end to it. However, hope came springing to life. The army that 745 was in pulled of a sudden victory, destroying the opposing sides food sources and camps. Joy crept through the world, and the politicians and reformers came out of their cells. They wanted to build up the planet and make it great again. The war was over.

Soon after the war, 745 left his position as a soldier. He was now called by his real name, Tom Martel. Tom started to explore the new opportunities the world had for him. He decided to join the military science branch; he would receive some education and would still be apart of the military.

The science branch builds weapons. The planet, of course, still needed new weapons in case the war was restarted by revolt. They also needed to handle possible threat of interplanetary war, being that they feared that some alien races might take advantage of the planet's weakened state. The scientists concentrated on enhancing the physical abilities of their soldiers by use of chemicals. Tom Martel was made a guinea pig, being fed and tested with the enhancers.

It was an interesting process. He never experienced any serious side effects, and the ones he did get were easily vanished by the scientists counter-toxin formula, but it was a tough living. He often vomited immediately after being fed the pills. Despite the slow process, the scientists found a breakthrough in Martel when juice they fed him enhanced his strength greatly and permanently. Martel was made their primary test subject.

The scientists moved on to new projects other than strength enhancers. They wanted to create enhancements that could enable a person to take on millions of people, maybe even destroy a planet. They had to keep these projects secret in order for them not to fall into the wrong hands. They had a trucks full of possible formulas, which they loaded into a carrier space ship. The scientists, along with sole test subject Martel, were going to travel to a far away planet in order to get rare materials for the formulas. Before the flight, Martel was given an enhancer that the scientists thought had some potential. It was supposed to protect a soldier from some bombs and to give a person the ability to fight in the cold vacuum of space without a breathing apparatus. It didn't seem to have an immediate effect when the flight started. Half-way through the flight, though, Martel started secreting a clear oily substance. Some scientists had no clue what it was, but the head scientists knew that that was a sign that the formula was working.

The scientists wanted to perform some in-flight tests on him, but something interrupted them. It is unclear whether an engine blew or whether they were hit by a meteor, but that ship exploded at the middle. The ship was split in two. The scientists that didn't die in the explosion were killed by the vacuum. Martel too, thought he had died. But once his body was floating out of the debris, he knew he had survived. "Floating out of the debris in space? How did I survive?" , he thought. Then he realized that the formula hadf taken effect and that he was immune to the airlessness of space. The slime he was sweating and that covered his whole body was feeding him with air. It also protected him from the cold. It was a miracle yes, but now he was drifting aimlessly in space without any means to find shelter.

He drifted far for weeks. Although he did not have to breath like normal, he did have to eat. Luckily, after drifting for so long he saw a planet. It wasn't an ordinary planet though. It was a minuscule wonder, a planet that Martel was bigger than. It had a small sun and it could sustain life. And it had big seas. Martel tried to position himself so he would drift right into. He went to it, literally pushing the sun aside, and he hit the planet hard. Straddling it, he pounded on it to get the water; he drank it ruthlessly, destroying a civilization's water supply. Then he slipped of and ended up drifting again.

A few days later, a shuttle ship found him and started to beam him in with their tractor beam. For some reason, they could not beam him in completely, and they ended dragging him to a new planet. When they got near the planet, the ship had to accelerate to get past the atmosphere. This ended screwing up their engines, and they ended up plummeting to the ground, still dragging Martel. When they hit the ground, the beam actually pushed Martel away from the danger. Martel could handle the light impact, but the pilots got the full impact and nothing was left.

Martel was left on a hot planet. He could handle the heat, but was left to wander the planet as he drifted in space. After walking for a while, he saw a city. When he tried to enter the city, a strange being accosted him. Martel could not understand the hostile plant-alien's language, and it attacked him. Martel murdered what was probably a city guard. After that, he slipped into alien-diverse city. The only thing Martel had on him was a pair of blue shorts, so he tried to find a shop to get clothing. He found a shopperson that knew some of his language. After talking with him, he found out this planet was used as a carrier pit stop and he could get off it by bus-ship. Martel didn't have any money, but the shop keeper found him so difficult to talk too and his slime so offensive, that he gave him a shirt and a candy bar just to leave.

Martel soon realized that his slime stains clothes, but that was no matter to him now. He sold the candy bar for bus fare. When talking with a person to get a bus schedule, he found out that he could not get a ride to his home planet. Apparently, the war had rekindled, and no carrier ship will go near it. Devastated, Martel just asked to be taken wherever the bus was going.

The bus was going to Xenophilia's largest moon. Martel just got off and wandered. He had no idea how to live on a foreign planet, knowing that his home planet was in shambles. But then he heard something about Slobberknocker City, a place for professional grapplers. Martel realized that he could use his new superpowers and combat skills for wrestling; this way he could make his living until the war was over. He found new hope on this foreign planet. 9. Tom Martel is a planet orphaned. He cannot return to his home-planet. He is an alone, mutated, ( and as you will later read) and a hunted man. He is joining the ETWF to survive until the war is over. As a fighter he is aggressive and has a high threshold for pain. His slippery body and grappling ability make him like a boa constrictor. 10. Roleplay: * On the edge of a city, two men stare down at a corpse* " Who would have guessed a minimum wage guard could have run into this kind of trouble?" " The Plant Man was a good worker. I guess he was caught off-guard having to fight a man who came out of a barren desert. We'll do him justice by finding the killer. Any idea who did this?" " Some guy said he saw a shirt-less guy running around here, but the lead ends there. We'll find, don't worry." * Men come and put dead body in bag. Men proceed to walk off* " Any other news on the scanner?' " I heard a report that said we should watch out for a military carrier. A planet in war is looking for some possible draft-dodgers and military laborers who escaped their planet without disclosing their purpose"