RIGGER

Real Name: Ramone Webber

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-91588) human cyborg

Occupation: Resistance fighter

Group Membership: City Scouts (Fiona Dunbar, others)

Affiliations: Fantastic Four (Human Torch/Johnny Storm, Invisible Woman/Susan Richards, Mister Fantastic/Reed Richards, Thing/Ben Grimm)

Enemies: Stygorr, Stygorr's Cyborgs

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: City Scouts hideout, ventilation system above Stygorr's Cybernetics Factory, Ryker's Island;
   formerly Lower East Side of Manhattan

First Appearance: Marvel Super Heroes MSL4 Adventure: "Stygian Knight" (1991)

Powers/Abilities: Half of Rigger's face was replaced with cybernetics, including his left eye, and his brain was computer enhanced. He was equipped with electronic countermeasures to hide him and those around him from various sensors, including radar, sonar and electronic detection devices. Inversely, he was equipped with radar, sonar and electronics detection devices of his own, as well as being able to tap into radio waves and trace communications and signals. He could project a forcefield, and his intellect had been enhanced; already above average for a child of his age, he became a genius, especially in the realms of technology, making him an expert in comprehending, designing, building and repairing advanced tech. He built rifles designed to swiftly incapacitate other cyborgs, and more lethal weapons that could fry their circuits permanently.

Height: 4'7" (by estimation)
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: (cybernetic) red; (human) unrevealed
Hair: Black

History:
(Marvel Super Heroes MSL4 Adventure: "Stygian Knight" (fb) - BTS) - Just about to enter his teens, Ramone Webber was a member of the Lower East Side of Manhattan's branch of the City Scouts, an organization similar to the Boy Scouts but specifically targeted at appealing to inner city youths and teaching them to appreciate the cities they lived in via visits to zoos, museums, parks, sporting events, hospitals, cathedrals, police, fire stations and other places of interest. In this vein Ramone was one of thirty scouts who was invited to visit a fund-raising ceremony arranged by the mayor that was being held at Ryker's Island prison, which for the youths was intended to give them insight about life inside prison. Unfortunately the extradimensional villain Stygorr had made his way to Earth with Annihilus' stolen Cosmic Control Rod, and was now intent on transporting the entire planet Earth into the Negative Zone; as a first step in this plan, Stygorr raised a forcefield around the prison, inside of which time was accelerated so that a minute outside was a month within, and began capturing those inside and converting them into cyborg soldiers under his command. Though many of the City Scouts evaded capture, Ramone was not so lucky, and underwent partial cybernization before the other Scouts managed to rescue him. Though much of his original personality had been wiped or suppressed, he retained enough to join the Scout's newly formed resistance movement, using his ability to tap into Cyborg communications to keep tabs on enemy movements and forewarn the resistance of Cyborg attack squads trying to capture them. He also proved capable of constructing weapons from stolen technology, outfitting the resistance with "Cybo-Stunner" rifles, earning himself the nickname Rigger. He secretly worked on a device to seize control of the Cyborgs from Stygorr, keeping the information from the other Scouts as he believed it would probably fail to work. 

(Marvel Super Heroes MSL4 Adventure: "Stygian Knight") - Alerted to the crisis the Fantastic Four were on the scene within minutes, but when they breached Stygorr's dome they learned months had passed within. Encountering Rigger and the Scout's leader Fiona Dunbar the heroes learned what had happened and confronted Stygorr just as he had finished his device to transport Earth into the Negative Zone. While the Fantastic Four battled the villain, Rigger used his Cyborg control device; despite his past doubts, it worked, and Rigger had the Cyborgs aid the heroes against their former master. Stygorr was defeated and Reed Richards managed to deactivate Stygorr's device, which had the unexpected side effect of not only transporting Stygorr and his captive Annihilus back to the Negative Zone, but also rewound time within Rykers, restoring all the Cyborgs, presumably including Rigger, back to humanity, with no more memory of events than a vague sense of deja vu (and so presumably splitting the timeline where Ramone became Rigger off into a new reality, Earth-91588).

Comments: Created by Anthony Herring and Jeff Butler.

   The text states that Rigger wears a black jumpsuit like the other cyborgs, with a number of pockets for equipment, but the art depicts him in fairly normal clothing (and shows the other cyborgs to look like jumpsuit-less Robocops with even less human flesh visible than said cyborg policeman.

   This profile was completed on 08/13/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent TSR's Marvel Super Heroes RPG.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Rigger has no known connections to:

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Marvel Super Heroes MSL4 Adventure: "Stygian Knight", p23, pan1 (main image)

Appearances:
Marvel Super Heroes MSL4 Adventure: "Stygian Knight" (1991) - Anthony Herring (writer), Jeff Butler (art), Caroline Spector (editor)

First Posted: 09/27/2026
Last updated: 08/13/2026

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