Newt

No one loves the criminal lifestyle quite as much as Kyle Morton. Life offers so few opportunities for a short, ob­noxious young man—devoid of charisma or athletic prowess—to truly shine, but the tendency of the general public to leave second-story doors and windows un­locked has provided Kyle an income and a purpose ever since his “mutant jumping factor” first manifested in high school. With his powers stalled out at jumping vast dis­tances—no claws or laser eyes or ability to stop bullets with his mind—Morton contented himself with life as a small-time burglar and second-story man. A decade of slow progress brought him to the attention of SHADOW, who outfitted the talented burglar with a stealth suit to help penetrate a secure AEGIS facility.
Kyle Morton fell in love with gadgets that day, and in the interceding years he has bought, traded, or stolen just enough high-tech hardware to push him over the line from burglar to supervillain. Now calling himself Newt, he sells himself as a specialty thief who can go anywhere and steal anything. When he can’t find work, Newt sets his sights on firmly mediocre targets—robbing jewelry stores and posh homes—but under the direction of a client with all the details on a big score, he truly shines in providing the legwork for others’ schemes.

Physical Description

Apparel & Accessories

Newt’s only inherent talent is a superhuman leaping ability that developed in his adolescence, allowing him to kick like a mule or cover a hundred feet in a single jump. While a talented enough crook with just those abilities, he also owns an arsenal of superhuman gadgets to augment his skills, including his eponymous “newt suit,” which allows him to blend into the background, newt-vision goggles that let him see all around him at once in every spectrum of light, a sticky-tongue grapple, and his gecko gloves—wall-clinging accessories that he depressingly has not been able to find a suitably newt-like name for.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Newt likes other people, but they rarely like him back. He was an isolated and unpopular child, and never grew out of his awkward, selfish teenage years, tending to creep into others’ personal space—especially women’s—as easily as he creeps into banks and secret labs. Newt is a coward on his own and runs from a fair fight, but he becomes overconfident when working with other villains, and happily makes threats his allies have to back up.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Newt loves teaming up with anyone bigger and stronger than he is, and has worked with a variety of solo villains and criminal organizations. He especially loves working with heavy hitters like Anvil and Tribal, or tech-geniuses like Toy Boy who can keep his equipment in good repair.
Newt’s previous work for SHADOW earned him AEGIS as an enemy, though his relatively minor powers prevent him from being actively pursued.