The Condor/YMMV
- Better Than It Sounds/Film
- Complete Monster: Nigel Harrington is a partner in a company that develops nanotech implants. while Taipan is a costumed mercenary he keeps in his employ. Harrington decides to use the company's implants to make profits illegally and has Taipan kidnap homeless people. Harrington and Taipan use the nanotech to mentally enslave the homeless people (as well as giving them enhanced speed and strength), and plan to test this tech by having them commit crimes. All of the homeless people die while committing these crimes, their hearts unable to take the stress this tech puts on them. Both Harrington and Taipan decide to kidnap younger, stronger, more athletic people instead, so Taipan begins to kidnap skateboard enthusiasts and mentally enslaves them. After the other partners in the company, George and Maria Valdez, discover Harrington's scheme, Harrington orders Taipan to murder them, using some of their mind controlled pawns to kill them and make it look an accident. Taipan then lures their son Tony to the scene and has two of the mind-controlled pawns to viciously beat him, crippling him. Taipan later tries to lure Tony to his death again (after he recovered some of his mobility due to a nanotech implant) and tries to have her mind-controlled pawns finish him off. Later, Taipan, in her civilian identity, Valeria, invites Tony to her beach house, where she plans to kill him after seducing him. Tony escapes, but Valeria comes on to Tony's estranged cousin and convinces him to set Tony's house on fire, attempting to kill Tony's friends at the house. Later, Harrington sets up a meeting with some terrorists, attempting to sell the tech and the mind-controlled pawns to them. Things seem to be going well for him, until Taipan kills him and takes over the operation herself.