Roger Ratnick

**Roger Ratnick,** also known as **Roger the Rat,** is a noted international burglar and occasional associate of Organization ORKO often performing tasks for its Supreme Leader, Lucien Petty. Ratnick while a wanted criminal, operates according to a personal code which often clashes with the sensibilities of the COUNCIL of ORKO which often jealously work against him due to the attention and favor Lucien Petty pays him.

Ratnick is a returning character in various stories and is referenced as a hostile agent by LION SQUAD.

## Background

Roger Ratnick was born on March 11, 1969 in Newark, New Jersey. As a child he showed a high degree of intelligence and, while at school, he discovered he could mimic most people's voice, including those of female teachers. As he entered the higher grades he learned more and more skills in imitating people as well as developed an interest in psychology and sociology.

After gradating with honors from City College of New York, in 1992, he discovered that he could use his skills to commit basic robberies many times getting away with them because most of these capers were either never discovered or victims attributed their loss of their property to other factors.

In 1997, Ratnick became associated with Lucien Petty when Ratnick had set up a scheme within an ORGANIZATION ORKO cover company. So impressed with this was Lucien Petty, that he began tp hire Ratnick for his skills. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s Ratnick committed many successful heists personally for Lucien Petty. Petty only revealed his knowledge of Ratnick's embezzlement upon the theft of a Russian computer chip.

## Association with Organization ORKO

While doing heist commissions for Lucien Petty, Ratnick never fully joined him in his ORGANIZATION ORKO endeavors until around 2006. Ratnick refused to officially join the organization mostly due to his dislike of The Council of ORKO, the group of advisors which govern ORKO's daily operations. This group of SUPERVILLIANS and SUPERSCIENTISTS resented Ratnick's close association with Lucien Petty and often worked against nay of Ratnick's missions many times severely thwarting his activities. Sometimes this jealousy and envy even worked against the goals of ORGANIZATION ORKO.

Despite this, Ratnick is considered an associate of ORGANIZATION ORKO and his highly successful provided he reports directly to Lucien Petty.

## Dealings with Mari Solinski and Zandra Niko

In August of 2009 Ratnick was tasked by Lucien Petty to steal various Bronze Age artifacts for reasons unknown. This included stealing a small stone tablet known as The Idrissa Stone from the Kingsville Museum of Science and History. Ratnick cased the museum and various local ORGANIZATION ORKO safehouses prior to the heist. From his intelligence he discovered that the museum curator was going out of town on that Friday and took advantage of the situation to impersonate him sending all the employees home early leaving the stone vulnerable.

Mari Solinski and Zandra Niko has been given a journalistic opportunity to view the stone early when Dr. Lola Alotta passed the story on to them. Mari and Niko, however, arrived late on due to some training activities which ran long. This affected Ratnik's plans, however, Ratnick improvised and stunned the two with an UNTRSONIC IMMOBILIZER which knocked the young reporters out. Ratnik then sent an anonymous tip to the Military authorities about the two "suspects" which were in US Air Force uniforms. This provided Lt. General Morelli with an excuse to "sideline" Mari and Niko by arresting them and sending them, potentially to jail.

Ratnick made his way to his safehouse near Premont, Texas where he hoped to be extracted. However, his call was intercepted by Dr. Tara Daffida who relished in tormenting and foiling his scheme.