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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Leet is one of a pair of videogame-themed supervillains with Über

Appearance:

Leet is scrawny. <ref name=":0">"Worm" Web Serial, Shell 4.5</ref>

Abilities and Powers:

Leet is a Tinker whose power lets him create inventions decades ahead of their time - he has access to all Tinker technology trees - but the closer a project is to something he's made before, the higher the chances of a spectacular misfire or failure. While his power's weakness absolutely makes him a laughingstock, when the things he makes work, they can do incredible things.

His passenger is actually working against him due to his tendency to play it safe putting him completely out of tune with it, purposely trying to mess him up and get him killed.<ref>BobTheNinja reacts to Worm - The Final Countdown (Interlude 26) >> NO FREAKING SPOILERS!! (Wildbow, SpaceBattles.com, 11 April 2014)</ref>

History

Background

Formed a partnership with Leet over a shared love of video games.^{[citation needed]}

Story Start

Once Tattletale figured out that the people responsible for stealing the Undersiders' money were still around, Leet clapped, drawing the Undersiders attention where he and Uber were standing. After Skitter covered their snitch with her insects, he asked her if that was necessary. He glared at Regent for insulting his Bomberman costume before hopping down to stand besides Uber. He told Grue that Bitch had led them to the money though didn't say how they had found her. <ref name=":0" />

Leet talked with Uber about how they would proceed before the battle began. As Uber the Undersiders, Leet pulled out a bomb. Regent made him drop it and he bolted, glaring at the other team after Uber was blasted back by it. He defended his actions by saying their mission was worth it only to take a step forward as Tattletale continued to provoke him. He told her that he could make anything and threatened to demonstrate before he started to introduce their 'guest'. He was cut off when Grue blasted him in the face with a cloud of darkness. <ref>"Worm" Web Serial, Shell 4.6</ref>

Post-Echidna

Took a trip to South America.^{[citation needed]} Would later be reported dead.

Trivia

Copies of Leet by Echidna are given the name 'Pwn', mirroring leet in coming form internet slang.

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 == Trivia ==
 *Copies of Leet by [[Echidna]] are given the name 'Pwn', mirroring leet in coming form internet slang.
+<!--Brief overview of their powers: Uber can master anything he tries and Leet can build anything
+Cast Page (In-Depth) said:
+Über and Leet (Missing) – A thinker with the ability to be a master at anything he tries, and a tinker with the ability to build anything, the two only barely managed to be b-list supervillains with a video game theme.
+Leet buuilt a device that copied and over-ran Taylor's power
+Monarch 16.13 said:
+"When you went to convince the Mayor of our way of thinking, Trickster carried the devices Leet designed to record the particular signals you use to command your bugs.”
+“Which is how you built the swarm box.”
+“The Famine Engine,” Leet said.
+Leet's power sabotaged him, preventing Coil from teleporting Taylor on top of a bomb
+Monarch 16.13 said:
+“Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb?”
+“An unfortunate side effect of Leet’s power. Leet believes it was the proximity to the bomb or the particular signature of the vat of acid that made it so likely to occur, but with my power I observed that it wasn’t merely a chance that the teleportation would fail and your well-trained body double would be caught instead, but a surety. No less than twelve tries with the variables changed slightly. Leet’s power sabotages him, it seems.”
+“Is that Leet’s passenger at work?”
+“Passenger? Ah, that’s what Bonesaw calls the agents. Yes, I suppose that might be the case. In any event, we nearly ran out of time before verifying that guns, fire and alcohol wouldn’t skew his power. Whatever the cause of the errors was.”
+Using a ray-gun, a U.I. that tracks the heroes, built Uber a metal suit that could tank Kid Win's hard-electricity and concussion blasts, worked with Chariot to sabotage Kid Win's flight pack.
+Monarch 16.8 said:
+The doors banged open. Coil, Circus and… Über was with him, in a heavy metal suit, Leet stood off to one side, holding what looked like a ray gun.
+*****
+“Someone contacted the heroes,” Leet spoke. “My U.I. says they’re on the way.
+*****
+Über led the way, followed by Coil, Leet, Circus and a squadron of soldiers. His metal frame took the brunt of the incoming fire, and he used his arms to shield his exposed upper body from the blasts of electricity and the concussion shots from Kid Win’s guns and turrets.
+*****
+A small handful on Coil served to let me follow his movements. He’d dropped to one knee behind Über, and Leet handed him a small remote control. He wasted no time in pressing the button.
+The noise of gunfire changed. My head wasn’t the only one that turned to see what had happened.
+Kid Win had stopped shooting, and a shrill whine was filling the air. He turned to Weld, who began tearing at his armor.
+Leet stepped out from behind Über and shot Vista. She was thrown down the length of the aisle, slamming against the base of the stage. He took another shot at Clockblocker, who froze himself. Kid Win drew another gun from a side holster and shot Leet.
+*****
+I could barely make out the words, but someone in the crowd did. A woman screamed the words, “He said it’s a bomb! Sabotage! Run!”
+Summons a a cast-iron bomb with a small blast range, but powerful enough to send Uber flying
+Shell 4.6 said:
+Leet stepped in as Über circled around us. Reaching behind his back, Leet retrieved what looked like an old school bomb; Round black iron casing with a lit fuse sticking out of it. The way the light bounced off it made it look wrong, though. Like it was a picture of a bomb instead of a real one.
+Regent waved his hand, and the bomb slipped from Leet’s grip, rolling a few feet. Leet’s mouth opened into a round ‘o’, and he bolted. Über wasn’t far behind.
+As he joined the rest of us in running for cover, Regent half turned to thrust out one hand. Über stumbled and fell just ten feet from the armed explosive.
+The blast radius was thankfully small. The shockwave that rippled past us didn’t even make me lose my footing. Über, though, went flying.
+Can make anything, but closer it is to something he made before and the more likely it'd explode
+Shell 4.6 said:
+"A Tinker who can only make stuff that breaks comically.”
+“I can make anything,” Leet boasted.
+“Once. You can make anything once. But the closer something you invent is to something you’ve made before, the more likely it is to blow up in your face or misfire. Real impressive.”
+Solid Hologram explosions, feeling similar to being punched by a big hand
+Shell 4.6 said:
+As I scrambled for cover, I directed my bugs to attack Leet. He’d done something different this time, because the bomb didn’t take half the time the first bomb had before it detonated. It caught me off guard, and I didn’t get a chance throw myself to the ground as a result. The blast caught me full in the back.
+The air and the fire that rolled over me wasn’t hot. That was the most surprising thing. That wasn’t to say it didn’t hurt, but it felt more like getting punched by a really big hand than what I would have thought an explosion would feel like. I could remember Lung’s blasts of fire, Kid Win shattering the wall with his cannon. This felt… false.
+“The bombs are fake?” I asked aloud, as I picked myself off the ground. I ached, but I wasn’t burned.
+“They’re solid holograms,” Tattletale said, “Actually pretty neat, if you ignore how ineffective they are. I guess he couldn’t make real bombs without fucking up.”
+Showing the bombs tossing Leet through the air
+Shell 4.6 said:
+He whipped out two more bombs and Regent was quicker this time, snapping his hands out. Leet recovered before he dropped the bombs, and pulled his arms back to throw them. Regent was ready, though, and one of Leet’s legs jerked out from under him. He fell to the ground, the bombs rolling only a few feet from him before going off.
+He slammed into a door hard enough I thought he might have managed to kill himself. Before I could approach and check his pulse, though, he began struggling to get to his feet.
+Summoning Links sword and the sword vanishing
+Shell 4.6 said:
+Glaring at us, he reached behind his back again and withdrew a sword.
+“Link’s sword?” Regent taunted him, “That’s not even from the right game. You’re breaking theme.”
+“I think I speak for everyone when I say we just lost what little respect we had for you,” Tattletale quipped.
+Leet lunged for the two of them. He didn’t get three steps before Regent made him stumble and fall to his hands and knees. The sword slipped from his grasp and slid over the pavement before flickering out of existence.
+Golden Snitch that broadcasts their videos
+Shell 4.5 said:
+I looked around for what I thought of as the snitch. I finally spotted it as a small round shadow against the backdrop of the sunset-red sky, just above the glaring sliver of sun. It was a camera, mounted in a golden sphere the size of a tennis ball. It was capable of moving like a hummingbird, staying safe, always recording. Über and Leet streamed all of their costumed activity online, so people could tune in whenever to see what they were up to. I was pretty sure they had a time delay, so events that the camera recorded would play out online in a half hour to an hour.
+Once built something that let him lob fireballs
+One day it would be Leet in a Mario costume throwing fireballs while Über was dressed up as Bowser, the two of them breaking into a mint to collect ‘coins’
+The problem with Leet's powers: He has to cross-check everything he's made to make sure they haven't been used before, be it power-sources, components, mechanisms, designs, etc. He was noted to have come across it sooner than most would. He also has all the Tech-Trees, but his cowardice puts him at odds with his Shard, which wants to kill him to move on.
+Wildbow said:
+Leet's biggest problem is that it took him time to figure out the 'rule' to his power. He tried a variety of things in attempts to work out what his specialty was, and he burned a lot of bridges. That's not a 'Leet' problem so much as a trap that a lot of people (including many here) would fall into. Word of God - he caught on faster than your average geek might.
+Now, any time he sits down for a project, he has to cross-check against all the other things he ever made. This isn't end-product related, but works out to components. Example? Power source. He either uses something mundane, or he uses something tinker derived. But if he uses something tinker derived to power his newest project, then he has to think of all the other power sources he's used, make sure that this one is sufficiently different, gauge the risk, and then move forward. Same goes for the mechanisms, the overall design & goal, and so on.
+Defiant has the 'tinker up efficiency hybrid/minimized technology' skill tree. Stinger has the 'missile' skill tree. Tecton has the 'Seismic and Architecture' skill trees. Leet has all of them, but all throughout those trees are entire sections with 'Use of this technology has a X% chance to fail'. You get further away from one design, that chance drops, but it's still there.
+The video game thing was partially personal passion and partially a means of 'categorizing' what he did. On top of a wealth of notes and reference documents, he can think back through the various games he's been inspired by and use that as a mnemonic device to recall what he did for each project.
+So by the time you/he figure(s) out the 'catch' to the power, the list of options is riddled with fail chances. You know there are a few trees you've not explored yet, but you have to progress carefully. How? You weigh the odds, estimate your chances of failure, trust your one really reliable buddy/sidekick to cover your ass if something blows up, and you do lots of little jobs you can afford to fail until you have the resources to do one big job well with something you're ninety-five percent sure won't blow up in your face.
+Except he can't really seem to catch a break. He doesn't know it, but he's basically doing the opposite of Jack Slash and Taylor. He's explicitly out of tune with his power, he doesn't nurture it the way others do, even by general conflict - he's a little too cowardly, a little too safe, in large part, because he's hedging bets as often as not, and it's an unsatisfied shard, more prone to cause chaos for him rather than set him up to pursue it. It's trying to actively disrupt or kill its host so it can move on to greener pastures.
+To top it all off, yeah, he's annoying, generally unpleasant, and people don't tend to like him. Except for Über.
+Such is the life of Leet.
+Burned himself out on bio-tech, robotics, and hard light
+Wildbow said:
+Leet did come up when I was figuring out how tinkers worked, but I think he was an antagonist in the snippets more than a protagonist. Probably a reason why he didn't get an interlude at any point - a lot of the time I went to write interludes, I tapped snippets for details and ideas.
+Keep in mind that Leet is a video game theme tinker. Video games have lots of enemies. So he burned himself out on biotinkering, robotics, and hard light holograms fairly early on. He wanted to do them, he found it easy (and not a thing a lot of other tinkers do well) and it made sense to him, then it all started going wrong.
+More confirmation on Leet's weak connection to his Shard
+Wildbow said:
+Some people have very little connection to their shards. Look at Leet - his shard actively sabotages him.
+ -->
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