REAL NAME: Carlos Toledo Verdugo
AGE: 39
OCCUPATION: Professional Plumber, Super Hero
AFFILIATIONS: High Justice
BACKGROUND: Carlos was a normal man who worked an honorable trade, trying to stay alive and keep his wife and baby daughter fed in the capital of Colombia, Bogata.  One day he was working on an old woman's pipes beneath the sink when a shoot out took place in the apartment above.  Parts of the ceiling had grown weak from water rot due to the untended pipes in the apartments above, and a pair of men fell through into the old woman's kitchen.  One of them held a brief case full of a synthesized drug that was being presented as an alternative to cocaine, the dealers' plan was to use the numerous small operations in Colombia as portable processing plants, creating a partnership with the local drug lords.  The drug lords were traditionalists, however, and viewed any drug as competition against the "marching powder".

So Carlos was to fall victim to a drug deal gone bad.  The synthetic drunk exploded from the bullet-ridden briefcase, coating the old woman and him both.  The woman died almost instantly from inhaling the strange blue powder as her heart accelerated.  Carlos almost died as well, he could feel the rush, see everything slow down to a virtual crawl.  He thought he was going to die.

When he did not he began to realize something was wrong; things were still moving slowly.  When men looked down the hole into the kitchen and fired at him he easily dodged their bullets, in fact he could almost see their paths through the air!  It was as if he had all the time in the world.  Carlos rushed from the apartment and ran upstairs, along the way he saw people almost as living statues as he raced by.  He burst into the drug dealers' apartment, they turned so slowly to face him it was almost comical!  His fists flew among them, he was like some wrathful spirit among these men that they could not touch, could not shoot, could not defend themselves against...

In the end the men did not die, but they were beaten nearly unto death.  Carlos had realized what he had done in his haste and what it meant for his family.  These men would discover who he was, his wife and child would die if he did not kill these men.  But Carlos did not have the heart of a killer.  So instead he hid his family while he decided what to do with his abilities.

Ultimately, he decided to kick some ass...

Carlos had a good run as a hero, nine years.  But during the London Horror of '97 he engaged in a fight with three other speedsters, and while he won that battle his knee was shattered beyond all hope of repair.  His career as a hero was ended.

Today Carlos is a skilled computer technician, he makes a profitable living repairing and assembling custom made computers in record time.

PERSONALITY: Carlos is proud of his country and weeps at what it has become, a haven for drug dealers, dependant upon the white powder for income.  The mob rules here, honest politicians and law enforcement officials are given a choice; lead or gold.

Carlos became a super hero both to battle these Colombian drug lords and to show the world not all Colombians are criminals.  As an ambassador of his people he has fought evil all across the world and his message has been heard.

Carlos is not a violent man, although threats to his family can produce the coldest of rages.  The Colombians have almost caught his family several times, who now live in the states.  Carlos' responses have always been...dramatic.  After Carlos destroyed his knee during the London Horror of July '97 he was forced to retire.  the drug lords have not attempted to retaliate, however; the sheer carnage performed by High Justice members, both active and inactive, during the London Horror, finally made them realize you can push a hero too far.  They now fear reprisals from the likes of Lionheart if something were to happen to Accelerator or his family.

POWERS/SKILLS: Acelerador is a speedster, capable of moving at rates so quick that his motions become a blur.  He is capable of breaking the sound barrier on land, of seeing bullets in flight and dodging them.  His body has become designed to withstand the rigors of super speed; his muscles, bones and ligaments are all both stronger and more flexible than a normal human's, allowing him to withstand the incredible shock of acceleration and deceleration.  Consequently this makes him stronger than normal humans, allowing him to lift-bench about eight hundred pounds.

Acelerador seems to also produce an anti-friction field that protected his clothes and people he carried.  The exact nature of this field was never fully explained.

Acelerador's entire respitory system is more efficient, allowing him to breath even at high speeds.  His lungs are also heavily filtered and remove the worst of impurity.  Consequently airborne toxins and drugs have little effect upon him.

Carlos was always good with his hands.  He was and still is a good plumber, and over the years he picked up electrician and carpentry skills as a host of others.  He became the unofficial High Justice handy man, keeping the base in working order with the aid of Grimoire's "anit-gremlins".

APPEARANCE: Carlos is a devlishly handsome man with thinning close cropped black hair and an easy smile.  He sometimes grows a goatee or a mustache.  His build is slight and wirey but judging from the well defined muscles he has nary an ounce of fat on his body.  His Acelerador costume consisted of skin tight spandex cast in the yellow, blue and red of his native country.  He wore heavy duty boots he frequently had to replace despite his anti-friction field.