Callum Starr

"I don't know why people hate mutants?? If you don't want mutants to form these organisations, maybe don't treat them like shit on the bottom of your shoes?!"

## Personal Information

### Status

Alive

Callum Starr has been many things in his life, a soldier for the Australian army, a man who changed the way that people looked at robotics to be a tool to save lives and, most recently, New York's most captivating and controversial radio host. But Callum is not content with just talking about inequality, he actively seeks to end inequality in America and he doesn't really care who gets in his way.

## Appearance

Callum Starr is an extremely well built and muscled middle aged man, despite his age, Callum is in extremely good shape and prides himself on his fitness regime, even plugging it on his radio show to get some extra money that he donates to charity and seedier operations.

He wears glasses and, whenever you see him without his shirt, you'll see a horrific burn mark on his chest due to an injury he suffered while in a conflict in the Middle East. When Callum reveals his cybernetic nature, his skin goes an unsettling silver and his veins become red thanks to the heat of his metallic body.

Callum is also always immaculately dressed, wearing smart suits andkeeping his hair slicked back and without flaw; his hair is also starting to go grey, but considering his cyborg nature; that doesn't bother him too much.

## Powers / Abilities

**Robotic Body:** Callum, after saving one of his fellow soldiers by shoving him out of the way of an IED in the Middle East; Callum now has an almost entirely robotic body, which gives him super-strength, super durability and the ability to register threat levels of his opponents.

**Super Strength:** Callum is extremely strong, being able to effortlessly overturn cars, punch holes in people's chests and bring a speeding bus to a stop by slamming his shoulder into it.

**Super Durability:** Callum's robotic body means that he is extremely hard to hurt, the metal that was used to rebuild him is immune to bullets from rifles and regular guns, he is also shown as being able to survive getting hit by a Subway train during one particularly gruelling fight.

**Threat Recognition:** An upgrade that Callum got was that his eyes acted as a threat level, when Callum makes eye contact with the target, it registers the threat level that it poses to Callum, the reader also let's Callum know the damage that his body has taken, giving him a notice of when to flee from battle.

## Skills

**Skilled Mechanic:** Callum has shown the ability to repair his own body after a particularly tough fight; he also has helped other wounded soldiers with replacing limbs with highly advanced metallic ones.

**Expert Engineer:** Callum, after his near fatal injury in combat and after his body was replaced by a robotic one, he decided to help other soldiers who were wounded in combat, specialising in those who had lost limbs, with Callum working to give each soldier custom made replacement body-parts, to replace any that they had lost in war.

## Weaknesses

**Overheating:** Callum's metal body can overheat and creating a burning sensation if Callum uses it in a high intensity situation for too long, if he is in a fight that he's having trouble with, his robotic body could become damaged, leading to Callum having to flee to give it a cool-down period.

**Mechanical Failure:** If Callum is badly damaged during a fight, the technology that makes up his body could fail, such as his threat detector breaking, leaving him confused and open for an attack. When Callum's body is weakened, more can hurt him, but that still doesn't make it easy.

**Limited Focus:** When Callum is in a fight against more than one person, his threat detector can only really analyse one opponent, leaving Callum to put all his focus on that particular opponent and leaving him open to be blindsided by another foe.

**Weakness To Explosives:** Callum's body might be able to shrug off small arms fire, but if he is hit with a grenade or an explosive, it will do damage and leave his body weakened, which means that more can hurt him.

## Personality

Callum Starr is a genuinely very respectful and friendly individual on his radio show; with a genuine belief in equality for all and regularly donating money to charity; he is also a keen supporter of equal rights for mutants and superheroes, encourging people that they are no different to regular humans, there is good and bad. However, underneath that, Callum has a darker side, he has a desire to make things equal and he has no qualms about how he does that. He is rumoured to have been sending large amounts of money from his radio show to finance various left-wing terrorist groups; Callum has even, on-air, encouraged his followers to attack an anti-mutant rally and has said that **"Anyone who doesn't accept equality and socialism needs to learn, by force, if required."** but despite all of this, Callum has genuine loyalty and respect for people, people who have worked for him on his radio show have said that, behind the scenes, he is like a father figure of sorts.

## History

Callum Starr was viewed as a hero to the whole country of Australia, born in Sydney, Callum joined the military when he was only 17 and had spent a lot of his life fighting wars for the rich, which started to give him a borderline fanatical devotion to left-wing poltics, even flat out bringing up the theory that the world needs to be equal for it to survive.

However, things took a turn when Callum and his unit where busy doing a routine patrol when one of Callum's new recruits stepped on a land mind, without thinking, Callum shoved the man out of the way and took the blast for him. But, in a miraculous turn of events, Callum managed to barely survive, although horribly burned and disfigured.

The Australian medical team on the base, however, had an idea for him, they were working on a new type of metal that they hoped would create super-soldiers out of badly injured servicemen and Callum was their first test subject. To say he was a success would be an understatement as they placed Callum's brain in the robotic body, retaining all memories and emotions and free will.

As a way to repay them, Callum returned to Australia and started to work on developing technology for wounded soldiers that had lost limbs and such in the war. As a result, Callum was able to make millions on patents and the technology, which allowed him to give away the new robotic enhancements for hardly anything.

However, now that he was out of the armed forces, the Australian decided to try his hand at media, he made his first appearance in the media for Australian TV as a straight-talking talk show host who would dismantle right-wing politics and bigoted statements. His show was so successful that he was paid a vast sum of money to go to America and host his radio show from New York City.

Callum jumped at the chance and, what he also jumped at, were chances to force equality on people, regardless if they liked it or not. Callum never hid his robotic nature and would always question why he got a free pass from hate and fear, but mutants didn't. Callum then started to fund various violent organisations, all banded together for their desire for total equality and punishment of anyone who dares disagree.