I should write this up with Mutants and Masterminds, 1st edition - which is the version that I've got.

Even metahumans are afraid of something.

Bodybag made its appearance during Maenad's rampage up the West Coast, although nobody realized it at the time. Maenad, maddened by her own power, was brought down only a specialized SWAT team and a trio of metahumans who'd joined together in order to stop her. By the time that she was brought down - near a lonely truck stop near Salt Lake City - she'd killed eleven metahumans and fifty-eight humans. Her rampage ended, the metahuman communiy relaxed.

When she showed up a week later in downtown Salt Lake City, the response was immediate. The city shut down as four seperate metahuman groups - all of them spoiling to avenge the deaths of their comrades - combed the area for any sign of her presence. The Spoilers found her - and lost two members to her power - but they were able to bring her down once again.

The next day, she was strolling through the technology district, the concrete of the district bubbling like butter in a microwave in the wake of her passing. A SWAT team took her down with a focused laser, her corpse instantly atomized. Maenad was definitively dead.

Bodybag, who had been puppeting the corpse ever since Maenad's death, was not. The body of Organ Thief disappeared from the morgue a day later, reappearing in Dallas - this time surrounded by a blue, lambent glow visible in the dark from a block away.

His compatriots greeted him with delight, presuming that he'd been resurrected, and were greeted with muttered, disordered ranting. When they pushed him too hard on where he'd been, he attacked them, eventually immobilizing Water Baby and shifting the blue glow to her. When Water Baby was destroyed, the blue glow - later identified as Bodybag - grabbed another corpse and ran.

Since then, Bodybag has been identified as a sort of parahuman vampire - able to possess the bodies of metahumans and use their powers, meanwhile draining their life force or the remaning energy left within the corpse. Its natural form is an intangible lambent blue glow, rendering it invulnerable to physical attack. The bodies of those that it possesses now float a foot or two above the ground, borne aloft by Bodybag's tainted powers; attacking Bodybag damages the person being held, but does little damage to Bodybag himself. Watching one of your former compatriots slowly being digested by an inhuman force, one that you can't hurt with physical power, doesn't do much to aid the sanity of the average metahuman.

Recently, Bodybag was able to ambush and slay Kid Slick, a neophyte metahuman who'd taken on the role of unofficial sidekick to various superhuman groups. Now, his rotting corpse roams the back streets of Maletica, using Kid Slick's powers to defend itself while slowly developing its own.

-Darren MacLennan