Maddie Collins

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Maddie Collins: 1990 - 2001

Maddie is the youngest child of Marvin and Anne Collins, members of the rough and rowdy Collins clan of Granville, Kansas. Though not everyone in the large family that lived on the impressive ancestral farm fit the stereotype, Maddie was the epitome of a Collins girl. Early on she was her grandfather's co-pilot as he sped down old farm roads. A bit later she was seated in her dad's crop duster screaming for him to do more tricks as he sprayed the local farms.

### Maddie Collins: 2001 - 2009

As a preteen, Maddie got her own dirt bike to roar through the fields and dirt, making her own stunt tracks with surplus crops and junked farming equipment. A few years later, she was known as quite the local racer, regularly schooling the kids from richer families that were foolish enough to think that they stood a chance in their expensive muscle cars against Maddie behind the wheel of her family station wagon.

With aggression issues to work out, Maddie also competed in local demolition derbies - winning three years in a row. When she graduated, Maddie dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot but was dismissed from such a possibility on account of her hay fever. Looking to satisfy her adrenal gland some other way, Maddie decided to pack her bags and headed out to Star City, looking to become a stunt driver.

### Maddie Collins: 2009 - 2013

After getting settled in Star City, Maddie worked briefly as a pizza delivery driver until she got in with a stunt crew. Maddie did well at the work. She particularly enjoyed wearing costumes and makeup as it gave her a chance to send interesting selfies to her family and they always seemed to enjoy those. In fact, Maddie's family life remained important to her and she always saved up enough money to take two months off during the winter to drive home, visit her family, and take in some sights on mini-road trips.

Maddie became a big fan of those absurd roadside attractions, such as the World's Largest Ball of Twine or the World's Tallest Butter Sculpture. She began putting those on her Cybergram account alongside her silly costumed selfies and videos of her stuntwork. Before Maddie knew it, she was a small scale social media influencer.

But that little dose of celebrity didn't interest Maddie. She just kept living life like she had always done. She drove fast cars, went to work, risked her life, went clubbing and drinking with friends, and stayed the frisky country girl in the big city for three years. Then disaster struck.

When testing out a stunt for the upcoming third Justice League movie where Maddie was going to be doing most of the motorcycle stuntwork for Sharon Scott (as Black Canary), Maddie crashed her bike while dodging a trespasser that wandered onto the closed set to get photos for his movie blog. Maddie shattered her left wrist and would be unable to film the stunt, requiring her to sit out of the production.

Maddie's insurance wouldn't pay her wages while she recovered. With an aversion to other kinds of work, Maddie opted out of her yearly road trip, dipped into her savings, and looked for a new job.

### Maddie Collins: 2013

But Maddie didn't quit. No. That would have been way too easy for this daredevil. The same week she got the cast off she was applying with the Ghostbusters for the position of their Fleet Operations Technician.

The top heavy and gear-laden vehicles of the Ghostbusters' earlier years was not the main draw (though Maddie did have an unsettlingly intimate reaction to seeing a classic combination ambulance/hearse in such great condition), but the ability to operate those vehicles as though they were first responder vehicles through the city streets was what intrigued Maddie. The icing on the cake for her was the idea of seeing real-life ghosts (well, real-death ghosts, I guess... but that sounds weird).

Maddie was actually almost not hired due to fears she would be too difficult to insure. However, when a faulty trap sprung a Class III apparition loose en route to the containment unit, Maddie was the only one still in her seat with dry pants for interviews. She was hired and her first task as the first Fleet Operations Technician was to help the other rookie get the Class III spook back in its trap.

For the next five months, Maddie's daily duties were pretty chill. She had a crash course in learning to use the equipment but she did very little actual busting. Her job mainly was to keep the Ecto-1 and other vehicles in working condition so that there was always at least one vehicle response-ready for any given high-priority job. So when she wasn't topping off the tank or replacing parts for the Ecto-1, Maddie's only job was to drive the Ghostbusters from Point A to Point B, drop them off, help them gear up, and then go find somewhere to park and wait until the job was done (the Ghostbusters had apparently racked up quite the amount of parking violations in their first three years of operation).

On the rare job she did throw on a proton pack, it was to fill in when someone else had called off or when Janine would dispatch the rookies for a quick "zap and trap job" to let the others get a decent night's sleep. It was through these jobs that the rookies got to bond, transforming them from bunkmates to BFFs (Bustin' Friends Forever).

Their bonding would soon reach a whole new level though. When the Firehouse blew up, Maddie was out on a simple job with Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore. Fearing that the Ghostbusters were out of business, Ray told Maddie to call it a night and set her up with a hotel room for the night. Maddie had not slept on a real bed in months and had supposedly slept right through the first fifteen hours of Hell on Earth.

She was awaken by the hotel staff who heard a Ghostbuster had checked in the night before and needed her special talents in dealing with a demon who had claimed the lobby as his new domain, taking the entire hotel hostage in the process. With a trap smuggled in her bag but without a proton pack, Maddie called in her fellow rookies to help save the day. When the demon was dealt with, Maddie got back to work.

### Maddie Collins: 2013 - Present

Maddie still works for the Ghostbusters. She's in charge of a larger fleet. When she takes on small jobs, she loves nothing more then tearing through the city on an Ecto-Bike with a screaming partner in her sidecar. But her favorite moments hands-down? Driving a 300 ft tall statue.

### Supplemental Reports

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* (*Submitted by Operator*) Maddie has a scorpion tattoo on her left shoulder and breast. The tattoo is probably a reference to the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog. In that tale, a scorpion has a frog take him across a river on its back. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog who asks "Why did you do that? Now we'll both drown!" to which the scorpion replies "I can't help it. It's my nature." Maddie got the tattoo shortly after her breakup with Bryan Welsh. Perhaps as a warning to other lovers about her inability to resist her dangerous urges? Or maybe she just got it because she's a Scorpio?
* (*Submitted by GothGurl*) Maddie is an adrenaline junkie through and through. Not only does she like to literally go fast, but she also tends toward living fast as well. She is not only unafraid of risk-taking, but actively seeks out risk. But that is not to say she is reckless. Maddie does not play dangerously with any life except her own. She will not engage in high-risk behavior if innocent lives would be in serious jeopardy from her actions. In fact, if Maddie is afraid of anything, it's hurting others - whether physically or emotionally. She is still bothered by her former relationship with Bryan Welsh. The two are still good friends, but Maddie feels bad about breaking his heart.
* (*Submitted by TurtleGurl84*) Here are some fun facts I have collected about Maddie:
	+ Maddie's favorite food is sushi. Strangely, she prefers the cheap stuff.
	+ Gives every vehicle she operates a name before she turns the key.
	+ Loves "World's Largest/Tallest/Longest/Etc Landmarks" and curates a Cybergram account documenting all those she's visited: MadsMilestones.

### Key Affiliations

* **Ghostbusters:** Maddie was hired along with several other technical apprentices during the Ghostbusters' third year of operation. She's remained on as she's found no other company in town willing to give her as much regular excitement as she gets from busting.
* **Bryan Welsh & Chad Fuller:** Maddie is very close with these two as all three were hired around the same time and were bunked together in the basement. Even today, the three continue to bunk in close proximity and work out their schedules so they usually work as a trio.
* **Slimer:** Maddie and Slimer have an odd relationship as he's known to take joy rides and its usually Maddie's job to bring the cars back safely. You'd think she'd be mad at him, but she insists she's not mad... just disappointed.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Vehicle Operator Extraordinaire:** The Collins clan are a wild bunch. Maddie is no exception. From a young age, she was sitting on her grandfather's lap while he drove his pickup truck at unsafe speeds on rural dirt roads or was riding along in her dad's crop duster while he did barrel rolls and ailerons while high above the fields of the surrounding farms. As a preteen, Maddie was blasting her dirt bike through fields. A few years later, she was drag racing in her parents' station wagon and competing in local demolition derbies. She dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot but was dismissed from such a possibility. Looking to satisfy her adrenal gland, Maddie packed her bags and went to Star City, looking to become a stunt driver.
	+ ***Master Driver:*** Maddie has the ability to operate most ground or water vehicles (car, truck, boat, motorcycle, etc). She can do more than get from one place to another and has an intuitive understanding of vehicle handling. Even vehicles that she has never operated can be handled with expert ability after just moments behind the controls.
	+ ***Expert Pilot:*** Maddie is an all-around skilled aviator. Her ability to pilot aircraft, includes but is not limited to the operation of single-engine airplanes, lightweight fixed-wings, helicopters, and hovercrafts, and (theoretically) commercial jet-liners and spacecraft. It is true that Maddie has not logged much timed behind the flight controls of aircraft, beyond the requirements to get her piloting certification, but almost all of her instructors had given her glowing remarks, claiming that she is a natural. It is worth mentioning that one instructor did not praise her ability, but cited her as a dangerous liability and prone to taking all sorts of unnecessary risks. Yeah, okay, but what does someone who calls themselves "Hop" possibly know about aviation?
	+ ***Mechanical Expert:*** A long time ago Maddie decided if she was going to trust her life to a hunk of metal and gears, she better learn how they were made. Ever since then, Maddie has put almost as much time under the hood of a car as she has inside one. If Maddie's not passed out on a couch in the Firehouse or tearing up the streets of Star City, you'll probably find her elbow deep in an engine block in the garage bay singing along to some classic rock or bubble pop song on the radio. She's not the best mechanic in the Ghostbusters' company, but she's definitely the most passionate - at least when it comes to their signature vehicles.
	+ ***Automotive Expert:*** Maddie has an encyclopedic knowledge when it comes to cars. She loves to go to car shows just so she can say she was in the presence of a car that, until then, she had only read about. If she gets a chance to drive a car she's never driven before, you can bet Maddie will jump at the chance.
* **Star City Expert:** Maddie might not be a native to Star City but she still knows it like back of her hand (or better even, seeing as her hand is usually covered in engine grease). This extends to more than just its road and waterways. Maddie usually has an interesting fun fact for just about any city block.
* **Ceaseless Courage**

### Weaknesses

* **Adrenaline Addiction:** Maddie loves taking risks. She is addicted to danger and high speeds.
* **Fearless to a Fault:** She is fearless to a fault.
* **Allergy:** She also suffers from hay fever.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
	+ **TOTAL:** 37
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She and Bryan Welsh casually dated for a month shortly after they first met. Maddie was his first real girlfriend. Maddie didn't want anything really serious at the time so she ended up breaking off the relationship when it began to complicate their working relationship as it was clear that Bryan was becoming romantically attached.

### Notes

* The Female Rookie is a character from the stylized ports of *Ghostbusters: The Video Game*. Her name as Maddie Collins is from the *Ghostbusters* comic books by IDW.
* In the game she was the Experimental Equipment Technician.
* Her alias Maddie Andretti is a nod to racing driver Mario Andretti.
* Hop is a nod to the hero Hop Harrigan.
* Cybergram is a pastiche of Instagram.
* Maddie's family has nods to other characters from various media:
	+ Theresa "Trixie" Collins was Booster Gold's sidekick, Goldstar.
	+ Samantha Collins is a character from *Weird Worlds Vol 2*.
	+ Ellen and Jimmy Collins are the parents of the mysterious Enigma.
	+ Joyce Collins is a zombie of Fillmore Graves from *iZombie* TV series.
	+ Charles, Bonnie, and Kenneth Collins are from *Batman The Animated Series* episode "Joker's Favor".
	+ Joseph "Joe" Collins is the Batman from *Batman: I, Joker* one-shot.
	+ James Collins is the terrorist Judgement, an enemy of Justice League International.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

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## Appears In

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Maddie Collins

1. ↑ Network Files: Maddie Collins 1
2. ↑ Network Files: Maddie Collins 2
3. ↑ Network Files: Bryan Welsh 1