History Characters / InfinityInc

->''"Accept the fear, and you'll begin to resolve your guilt feeling toward your father. That’s what's keeping you from becoming Hourman again — not the fact that you killed a murderous madman like the Wizard in self-defense."''

Dr. Elizabeth Chapel, alias Doctor Midnight was the successor to Charles [=McNider=] (Doctor Mid-Nite). During the onset of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Beth was blinded by an oxygen explosion, only to be rescued by Hourman's son Rick Tyler, who had taken his father's Miraclo to enhance his strength. Dr. [=McNider=] performed emergency surgery on Beth, and while he couldn't restore her day vision, he did give her his ability to see in the dark. Beth and Rick assume the mantles of their predecessors as Doctor Midnight and Hourman, with her mother crafting a super hero costume from a choir robe. Along with a new Wildcat, Chapel and Tyler applied for membership in Infinity, Inc, eventually gaining admission; however, the association was short-lived, as Infinity, Inc. disbanded shortly thereafter, though Chapel and Tyler began a romantic relationship during their tenure.

* TrickBomb: Doctor Midnight uses Doctor Mid-Nite’s "blackout bombs". These release clouds of pitch black gas in which she can see clearly – but in which adversaries with normal vision cannot.

->''"The name is Fury — and like the man said, even Hell hath nothing like me!"''

->''" Courts of Law or sticks and stones, nothing on Earth stops Mr. Bones!"''

->''"My mom brought me up not to fight with females — but this time, I guess I'll have to make an exception."

->''"I'm really Hector Hall, the Hawkman's real son. And if you had a name like 'Hector', you’d want a new one, too!"''

Hector went to UCLA and there he began building the armored suit he would eventually wear as the Silver Scarab. Meeting up with his childhood friend, Lyta Trevor, at UCLA the two began dating, and one night Hector showed her his Silver Scarab costume. The armor was made of Nth metal, the element which allows the various Hawks to fly. Coincidentally, Lyta, daughter of the Golden-Age Fury, longed to become the new Amazon Princess. That night, they asked their parents to sponsor them for membership into the Justice Society. Along with Northwind and Nuklon, they were turned down due to their inexperience. Unperturbed, they formed a new heroic group - Infinity Inc.

* PowerArmor: As Silver Scarab he used a solar powered Nth Metal costume to fly and project solar-powered ray blasts.
* TheUnfavorite: Hector always felt like this compared to Norda (Northwind), Carter and Shiera's godson, because he could not fly with his parents as Norda could.

* GratuitousSpanish: She interjects a lot of Spanish in her English (though it’s not really Spanglish either)."por Dios!" is her favourite exclamation. Most of what she says in Spanish are dated folk sayings.
* SpicyLatina: Yolanda is on the proud, self-reliant side and has a bit of a temper. She also is rather jealous, and was possessive of Nuklon and cranky toward Lyta Trevor Hall – even though Nuklon and Montez weren’t really dating.

->"''¡Dongase, gatita!'' Besides filling the coastline with fear, they also just happened to deliver me the other thing I had come for... ''¡tu!''"

Carcharo was a mutant, a human born with shark like characteristics after his mother was experimented on during pregnancy by the insane Dr. Love, who was also responsible for the creation of both the supervillain team Helix and the second Wildcat (in reality Carcharo's cousin, Yolanda Montez). Carcharo's mother tried to drown both herself and her baby when she first saw what she had given birth to, but he survived thanks to his gills and grew up in the ocean, where he learned he could mentally control a group of 40 foot long sharks. As an adult, Carcharo, driven by hatred and power lust, caused chaos on the coast of California.

* AlbinosAreFreaks: Cacharo is a albino SharkMan who is a confident, brutal criminal and power seeker with many shark-like traits. For instance, he eats raw, unprepared fishes.

* PrehistoricMonster: Carcharo has access to packs of prehistoric sharks – ''carcharodon megalodon''. Those colossal white sharks are described approx. 20 meters long. A pack of sharks normally has 8-10 such monsters. Those creatures can easily sink a sizeable boat, and have been known to jump out of the water and destroy low-flying aircraft.

* ThreateningShark: Carcharo has access to packs of prehistoric sharks – ''carcharodon megalodon''. Those colossal white sharks are described approx. 20 meters long. A pack of sharks normally has 8-10 such monsters. Those creatures can easily sink a sizeable boat, and have been known to jump out of the water and destroy low-flying aircraft.

Helix were a group of six mutated children experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr. Benjamin Love, who ran a crooked fertility clinic. As each child was born, he spirited them away, telling their parents they were stillborn, and raised them in secret before disappearing, leaving them with no experience of the wider world and no moral sense. Calling themselves Helix, the now teenage kids -- Mr. Bones, Penny Dreadful, Kritter, Baby Boom, Tao Jones and Arak the Wind-Walker -- embarked on a career as supervillains, repeatedly clashing with Infinity Inc.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: It's implied that their mutual father (as well as that of Wildcat II and Charcaro) was Doctor Love himself. It's ''also'' somewhat implied that rather than conventional IVF treatments, the bad doctor conceived them via a...[[ChildByRape much older and less complicated method]]...while their mothers were under sedation.

* TragicVillain: They're a group of babies who were experimented on in the womb without their parents' consent who were kidnapped from their unwitting parents and raised in isolation by Doctor Love who told them as they grew that their parents didn't want them and that they should never so much as set one foot outside of the house they were raised in because the world hated and feared them and would destroy them. The closest thing the children had for an education besides Love's indoctrination was a random collection of movies, tv shows, comics and books which were all they knew of the world outside their home. And then, after about sixteen years of isolation, Kritter [[AwfulTruth found Dr. Love's diary, in which everything he had done was explained in detail]]. After sending Love out into the desert with Mr. Bones (who couldn't bring himself to kill the only father he had ever known and set the old man free), they found their supplies running out and decided to become a supervillain team just like in the comics in order to survive.

Robert Todd was born with invisible skin, the young mutated child joined Helix, which was a group of other children who, like him, had parents who took part in a science experiment. Mister Bones was the ''de facto'' leader of Helix. after Helix was captured, most of the team accepted being placed in a low-security psychiatric hospital for therapy and socialization. Bones, who was considered to wield too much influence over the group, was ordered to join Infinity, Inc. instead, as a form of community service. He later joined the DEO (Department of Extranormal Operations) as its Director, and has henceforth been known as Director Bones.\\

* BadassDriver: Bones is an excellent driver. He's the sort of guy who can drive an ambulance a top speed in the middle of LA traffic during a riot without issues.

* InvisibilityWithDrawbacks: Mr. Bones' skin and organs are invisible, but his skeleton is not.

* SkullForAHead: Mr. Bones possesses invisible skin and organs, giving him the terrifying appearance of a skeleton.

The young woman known only by the names Babe or Baby Boom is one of the six genetically mutated children that formed the villain group Helix. In the case of Baby Boom, Love's genetic tinkering resulted in the young girl gaining the paranormal ability to cause explosions with the power of her mind, a form of telekinesis. Unfortunately, the meddling also caused her to physically stop aging at the point when she became five years old; thus, even though she is chronologically a young woman, she still looks like a five-year-old child.

->(Through the [[TranslatorCollar Bark Enhancer]]) ''"Frankly, your Honour, I never allotted my actions any ethical considerations whatsoever. You see, Dr. Love provided us with ample food and shelter--but he was hardly the ideal person to teach us right from wrong."''

* TranslatorCollar: Kritter built a small machine, his 'bark enhancer'. It allows him to speak with an obviously artificial voice. He doesn’t seem to routinely carry it, though.

* WolverineClaws: Sometimes his fingernails are drawn to resemble doglike claws.

Penny Dreadful was a member of Helix, a group of mutant teenagers created as a result of illegal experiments performed on them while still in the womb by the insane Dr. Amos Love. Penny turned up again years later working as secretary to her former teammate Mr. Bones in his new role as Director of the DEO. She eventually returned to villainy, though, briefly working for the sorceress Circe, and later clashed with Congorilla and Mikaal Tomas while working for Prometheus.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Villain turned D.E.O. agent turned ally of Circe.

->''"You haven’t heard much about Tao, have you? In my version you get back what you give--only more so!"''

Tao Jones was one of a group of six children born with super powers after being experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr. Love. Tao behaves like one of the youngest of Helix. She's rowdy, immature and tends to feud with Arak.

* AttackReflector: Tao Jones has the ability to reflect any energy that is directed to her back to its original source with equal energy and strength that it was dispersed with.

* NotQuiteFlight: Tao Jones can also levitate, though it is unclear whether she can move around while she's aloft. It's useful when she's doing her toenails, though.

Artemis Crock is the daughter of Paula Brooks - The First Tigress/Huntress - and Lawrence Crock a.k.a Sportsmaster. She was taught her skills by both of her parents so she could continue their legacy. When she first appeared she simply went by Artemis, but she would go on to take on the Tigress name.

* The Mole: Infiltrated Infinty, Inc. on behalf of the Manhunters.

Helix were a group of six mutated children experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr. Benjamin Love, who ran a crooked fertility clinic. As each child was born, he spirited them away, telling their parents they were stillborn, and raised them in secret before disappearing, leaving them with no experience of the wider world and no moral sense. Calling themselves Helix, the now teenage kids-Mr. Bones, Penny Dreadful, Kritter, Baby Boom, Tao Jones and Arak Wind-Walker-embarked on a career as super villains, repeatedly clashing with Infinity Inc.

* PsychopathicWomanchild: Baby Boom often seems to be a case of arrested development. She enjoys kiddie shows on the TV, sweets and playing kid games, especially the cruel ones. She generally speaks like a child, but occasionally weirdly veers into something closer to her age.

* AttackReflector: Tao Jones has the ability to reflect any energy that is directed to her back to it's original source with equal energy and strength that it was dispersed with.
* BackForTheDead: Returned in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad Annual'' Vol. 5 #1 in 2018, to dies on a Squad mission.

* DragonLady: Tao Jones’ costume is a 'generic Asian' slit gown.
* FemmeFatalons: She tends to paint or file her nails--while levitating--whenever she’s bored. Meaning she's taking care of her nails almost all the time.
* NotQuiteFlight: Tao Jones can also levitate, though it is unclear whether she can move around while she’s aloft. It's useful when she’s doing her toenails, though.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Given the Helix were TaughtByTelevision, it's possible she saw a lot of DragonLady-types and Asian manicurists growing up.

Note: Since Infinity Inc is a comic about {{Legacy Character}}s, many entries here will have links leading back to pages dedicated to their forebears with more details about said forebears and the lives and continued adventures of the Infinitors.

Helix were a group of six mutated children experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr Benjamin Love, who ran a crooked fertility clinic. As each child was born, he spirited them away, telling their parents they were stillborn, and raised them in secret before disappearing, leaving them with no experience of the wider world and no moral sense. Calling themselves Helix, the now teenage kids-Mr. Bones, Penny Dreadful, Kritter, Baby Boom, Tao Jones and Arak Wind-Walker-embarked on a career as super villains, repeatedly clashing with Infinity Inc.

Penny Dreadful was a member of Helix, a group of mutant teenagers created as a result of illegal experiments performed on them while still in the womb by the insane Dr Amos Love. Penny turned up again years later working as secretary to her former teammate Mr. Bones in his new role as Director of the DEO. She eventually returned to villainy, though, briefly working for the sorceress Circe, and later clashed with Congorilla and Mikaal Tomas while working for Prometheus.

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* TaughtByTelevision: Growing up, the children knew of the outside only what they learned from books and movies.

->''" And now, as dies the one betrayed us- I go to slay the one who made us!"''

Robert Todd was born with invisible skin, the young mutated child joined Helix, which was a group of other children who, like him, had parents who took part in a science experiment. Mister Bones was the ''de facto'' leader of Helix. after Helix was captured, most of the team accepted being placed in a low-security psychiatric hospital for therapy and socialization. Bones, who was considered to wield too much influence over the group, was ordered to join Infinity, Inc. instead, as a form of community service.

* TheBusCameBack: After years and years of inactivity, he suddenly turned up as the head of the DEO in a story and that's pretty much how it's been since.

* InternalReveal: Until Beth Chapel had to make his organs and skin visible for an operation only he and possibly his siblings knew he was black.

* NotAZombie: At first glance he looks like a walking skeleton, but he's a normal guy (besides the lethal touch) whose bones are the only visible thing about him.

* PoisonousPerson: Possesses cyanide sweat which is lethal to humans who touch it.
* RhymesOnADime: Bones insisted on speaking in rhymes. However, if he cannot come up with something or is surprised, he would just say a normal sentence. He also usually spoke normally when addressing Helix. His rhymes were chiefly intended to intimidate outsiders. After his first appearance, he started renouncing this schtick, in part because Penny Dreadful nagged him about how corny it sounded. However, he later resumed rhyming. It eventually became even more habitual, even with no outsiders present, though he eventually stops as an adult.
* SkullForAHead: Mr. Bones possesses invisible skin and organs giving him the terrifying appearance of a skeleton.
* TeamDad: Although he’s no older than the rest of Helix, he’s functionally the big brother with a fatherly role. Bones tells them not to talk back to him and the like.

->''"Come, panther wind--violent, whining, tearing! Let these mortals feel your power if they dare to step within its deadly province, and let them bear witness with their eyes if they dare not!"''

* GreaseMonkey: Arak is an excellent self-taught metallurgist and a professional-level mechanic. He is the one who fixed the various 1940s cars left around the ghost town they lived in though their driver is usually Mister Bones.

* CowardlyLion: Kritter seems to be easily scared of violence. He will run away to hide under something even if it's just a routine brawl between Helix members. However he will fearlessly attack if he sees an Helix member being threatened.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Unclear. While his appearance has many doglike traits via genetic manipulation and he communicated via doglike sounds it's possible that this is due to alterations to his human genome to make it more dog-like rather than the presence of introduced canine DNA.

->''"The name's Penny Dreadful, shades...and like any good copper penny, I make a damn good electrical conductor!"''

Penny Dreadful was a member of Helix, a group of mutant teenagers created as a result of illegal experiments performed on them while still in the womb by the insane Dr Amos Love. Penny turned up again years later working as secretary to her former teammate Mr Bones in his new role as Director of the DEO. She eventually returned to villainy though, briefly working for the sorceress Circe, and later clashed with Congorilla and Mikaal Tomas while working for Prometheus.

For more information see Characters/JusticeSocietyOfAmericaVillains.

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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He was basically this all along for Helix.

For more details look [[Characters/Hawkman here]]

!!Hazard
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!!!'''AKA:''' Rebecca "Becky" Sharpe
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Infinity Inc.'' #34 (January, 1987)

Hazard is the granddaughter of Green Lantern foe the Gambler. She joined Injustice Unlimited in order to seek revenge on Infinity, Inc. for his death after a lifetime of defeats at the hands of the Justice Society of America. Unfortunately, Hazard's conscience was troubled when Injustice Unlimited threatened an innocent; Mike Dugan, the young son of Infinity, Inc's mechanic, Stripesey. She refused to become a murderer and turned against her own team.

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For more information, see ComicBook/TheShadeDCComics.

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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A Hispanic woman adopts the identity formerly held by a Caucasian male.

* GadgeteerGenius: Kritter is a scientific genius, and eventually designed a device to convert his doglike barks into human speech.

* TheSpeechless: Without the TranslatorCollar built by Kritter himself, he can only emit unintelligible sounds.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: It's implied that their mutual father (as well as that of Wildcat II and Charcaro) was Doctor Love himself. It's ''also'' implied that rather than conventional IVF treatments, the bad doctor conceived them via a...[[ChildByRape much older and less complicated method]] while their mothers were under sedation.

* TragicVillain: They're a group of babies who were experimented on in the womb without their parents' consent who were kidnapped from their unwitting parents and raised in isolation by Doctor Love who told them as they grew that their parents didn't want them and that they should never so much as set one foot outside of the house they were raised in because the world hated and feared them and would destroy them. The closest thing they had for an education besides Love's indoctrination was a random collection of movies, tv shows, comics and books which were all they knew of the world outside their home. And then, after about sixteen years of isolation, Kritter [[AwfulTruth found Dr. Loves diary, in which everything he had done was explained in detail]]. After sending Love out into the desert with Mr. Bones (who couldn't bring himself to kill the only father he had ever known and set the old man free), they found their supplies running out and decided to become a supervillain team just like in the comics in order to survive.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: He was basically this all along for Helix

* NotAZombie: At first glance he looks like a walking skeleton, but he's a normal guy whose bones are the only visible thing about him.

* WholeCostumeReference: To the Golden Age character [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Terror Black Terror]], which not only looked absolutely awesome but was also an early clue as to his ethnicity.

* PhenotypeStereotype: Since they were TaughtByTelevision, they're trying to mimic the dress and behavior they grew up believing people really did, to varying degrees.

Robert Todd was born with invisible skin, the young mutated child joined Helix, which was a group of other children who, like him, had parents who took part in a science experiment. Mister Bones was the ''de facto'' leader of Helix. after Helix was captured, most of the team accepted being placed in a low-security psychiatric hospital for therapy and socialisation. Bones, who was considered to wield too much influence over the group, was ordered to join Infinity, Inc. instead, as a form of community service.

* BadassDriver: Bones is an excellent drive. He's the sort of guy who can drive an ambulance a top speed in the middle of LA traffic during a riot without issues.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Despite his powers derviving from mutation, Arak treats his ability to sumoon winds like a magical power.

* GirlishPigtails: As Baby Boom, she wore Creator/ShirleyTemple-style ringlets to emphasise her apparent youth.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Her mutation caused her to physically stop aging at the point when she became five years old; thus, even though she is chronologically a young woman, she still looks like a five-year-old child. Aside from her powers, her physical prowess is that of a child, and her emotional development has also been stunted.

* PsychopathicWomanchild: Baby Boom often seems to be a case of arrested development. She enjoys kiddie shows on the TV, sweets and playing kid games, especially the cruel ones. She generally speaks like a child, but occasionally weirdly veers.

Helix were a group of six mutated children experimented on in the womb by the deranged Dr Benjamin Love. As each child was born, he spirited them away, telling their parents they were stillborn, and raised them in secret before disappearing, leaving them with no experience of the wider world and no moral sense. Calling themselves Helix, the now teenage kids-Mr. Bones, Penny Dreadful, Kritter, Baby Boom, Tao Jones and Arak Wind-Walker-embarked on a career as super villains, repeatedly clashing with Infinity Inc.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Chroma's physical form has red eyes and they seek to test their apocalypse song on populated worrlds.

* RhymesOnADime: Bones insisted on speaking in rhymes. However, if he cannot come up with something or is surprised, he would just say a normal sentence. He also usually spoke normally when addressing Helix. His rhymes were chiefly intended to intimidate outsiders. After his first appearance, he started renouncing this schtick, in part because Penny Dreadful nagged him about how corny it sounded. However, he later resumed rhyming. It eventually became even more habitual, even with no outsiders present.

For more details, look [[Characters/Hawkman here]].

Note: Since Infinity Inc is a comic about {{Legacy Character}}s, many entries here will links leading back to pages dedicated to their forebears which will have more details about their forebears and continued adventures.

Note: Since Infinity Inc is a comic about LegacyCharacters, many entries here will links leading back to pages dedicated to their forebears which will have more details about their forebears and continued adventures.

* CListFodder: One of many lesser-known heroes who were slaughtered by Eclipso in DC's big summer blockbuster fish kill in 1993. She, along with many of those characters for got brought back recently in another big event, due to the fact that many of those heroes were AffirmativeActionLegacy heroes and having wiped them out solely for cheap drama not being the best look these days.

See ComicBook/Hourman for more details.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Originally Lyta was a Human/Amazonian hybrid.

* DepravedDwarf: If he is not an actual DemonicDummy, then hhe is a criminal mastermind and inventor whose diminutive size and somewhat grotesque features make him resemble a ventriloquist's dummy.

* NobosyHereButUsStatues: Originally his hired thugs thought he was only a lifeless dummy through which their unseen employer spoke.

* CleavageWidow: Her Artemis costume incorporated a cleavage window showing a generous amount of {{Underboobs}}.

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Arak behaves like one of the youngest of Helix. He's rowdy, immature and tends to feud with Tao Jones.

* BlowYouAway: Arak the Wind-Walker can summon and control spirit winds. These seem to have characteristics that vary depending on the spirit. So, the panther winds are faster, the bear winds are colder and carry snow, and the moose wind is heavy with fog.

->''"Don't get mad, pretty lady, Baby Boom got a riddle for you: 'What's furry and bouncey and got a long tail and flies?' Time's up! A dead kanga!"''