Dyna: the Damsel Dynamo! suggestion box

Though I’m not as much into villainous femmes fatales as other folk are, how about a muscular female villain? DCM doesn’t have any of those…!

Idea and character needs a little more fleshing out (drum rimshot), but that’s an idea.

I’d also been thinking of this… Mr. H4X0R.

Roger, a college technogeek in New Vista University was once infatuated with a fellow hacker cutie Sonja. He tried catching her attention various ways, but she kept giving him the cold shoulder. When he declared his affection for her by sending her a wallpaper with her face in "The Birth of Venus," Sonja reacted by posting HIS in… well, a less than flattering one involving goats and physical and genetic impossibilities. Use your imagination.

Didn’t help him that she posted copies of it all over the Net, and across the University.

Having received plenty of hazing and ridicule BEFORE he met her, the abuse Roger got then was totally unendurable. Locking himself away in NVU’s science building, he quickly zeroed out all records of himself on any database he could think of (birth certificate, Social Security Number, driver’s license, bank acccount, credit rating, you name it, he baleeted it). Then after wracking as much damage as he could against his ex-infatuation’s credit cards, credit rating, bank account, and bills, he went to an experimental matter transporter device, set it for random coordinates, and leaped in, expecting to either be dumped in a volcano, sent to the bottom of the sea, or scattered into component atoms in transit.

Naturally, this being a comic book, something went haywire.

The experimetnal transporter completely did a hexadecimal number on his body. It mutated it so he could convert it into pure digital information. He then realized he could transport himself into anywhere the Internet went: satellite, fiber optic cable, analog phone lines… it was all good.

Also, he learned that his clothes, pencils, and glasses went with him for his joyride, meaning he could carry almost anything… or anyone… with him.

His despairing humiliation was instantly reformatted into a thirst for revenge.

The very next day… Sonja got 24 hours of identity theft and fraud, stalking and terrorizing anywhere a computer entered her life. The police couldn’t help because they couldn’t find Roger anywhere… online or off.

The day after, Sonja disappeared. She’s now stored in a hard drive in a PC somewhere in… well, you ask Roger. I’m not.

Roger then dumped his old meatspace name, and now goes exclusively by Mr. H4X0R.

In supervillain mode, his body looks like it’s been covered head to toe by a coating of pure ones and zeroes, sorta like the Matrix. His color of the digits reflects his mood: green means he’s in a decent mood, blue means he needs space, and red… don’t ask.

He can manipulate any digital information with a thought, and he hasn’t seen a password request that can keep him out. He can transport himself instantaneously across the world via the Internet, and has a habit of kidnapping whomever he doesn’t like and downloading them in his "torture chamber."

He’s especially misogynistic, but is now above and beyond any attraction the female form ever had. Megabytes are what turn him on (drum rimshot).

He’s going to have a party with Dyna, especially with hijacking military vehicles, bases, airlines, trains, and nuclear reactors.

Quote: "Dy||4! 1 P|-|34r ||0+ j00r p3c5! J00 c4||||0+ pU||c|-| //|-|4+ j00 c4||||0+ +0uc|-|! Pr3p4r3 4 +0+4L p//||493!"

(Translated from 1337: "Dyna! Your muscles don’t scare me! You can’t hit what you can’t touch! Prepare for total ownage!")

I’d also been thinking of this… Mr. H4X0R.

How do you pronounce that? (I know next to nothing of that strange code/lingo/whatever.)

But the character and concept are very intriguing! My only criticism (at first glance) is that the set-up looks to be rather involved, and (IF the story is told linearly) threatens to take up a lot of space at the beginning of the story. (Although a flashback later in the story, after Mr. H4X0R has gone on a couple of capers, could be a good place for this exposition.)

I can see Sonja* as a key element in the defeat of Mr. H4X0R, providing Dyna with the cyber-expertise necessary. Dyna is no dummy, but she can’t be expected to be a Doc Savage-like expert in everything, and isn’t at all too proud to call on any help she needs. (And Sonja will certainly have the motivation to help Dyna bring down Roger/H4X0R.)

Let’s keep incubating this concept and see where it leads.

* I think I want to change this character’s name… there’s already a brainy-girl type named Sonya (with a "y") in the Tetsuko series, and I fear there’ll be confusion between the two characters.

Mr. Matthews, I like your trying to change the prevailing attitude towards muscular women (not all of them turn into raving psychopaths). Unfortunatly women are just like men in this respect, there are men of conscience and there are men of ego (i.e. do whatever you want, whenever you want). Women of the second type have been seen most recently in Iraq, although the worst may have been in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. All in all I applaud your depiction of women of conscience, IMO, the impact would be stronger if you occasionally have them defeating a muscular female villain.