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Count Dearborn

August 17th, 2008, 04:34 AM

Names: Proteus & Valentine (Their names are unpronouncible to the human palate.)
Age: Both are virtually immortal, Proteus via thaumaturgy, and Valentine via superscience.

Proteus looks like an evolved droemaosaur, and Valentine looks like an evolved tyrannosaur. They come from a section of the Multiverse called the Dinosaur Union. Due an emtional breakdown on Valentine's part, and an overactive libedo on Proteus' part they were exiled to a dimensional backwater called Earth. This was in 1899. (They remaine a half-step sideways via a device of Valetine's invention.)

They were told watch this world, which was going to undergo a major shift during the next couple to centuries. The Seers of Proteus' world, and the Quantum Minds of Valentine's foresaw potential trouble was going to arise in this version of Earth. They were tasked with guiding this potential on a benfical path, or destroying it if was going down a desctructive path. They were give a large amount in leaway in their instuctions. In otherwords, they could interfer if they wanted.

For thirty-seven years, they watched, only interfering on a very small scale. A hit of inspiration here, a unfortunate accident there, to nudge things on their merry way. This all changed in the 1930's, with the rise of Superheroes. They both decided that they had to interfer more, Proteus with is magic, and Valentine with his science. If anyone suddenly develops super powers, they are probably the cause.

drrockso20

August 17th, 2008, 05:39 AM

my thumbing my nose against non-important foreign heroes

The Proletariat

Born-October 25,1917
Died-NA
Powers-super-strength invulnerability low level super-speed(below speed of sound) which can be used with his strength to do large leaps
Career-1938(publicly 1940)to today

the proletariat was one of the first heroes and Russia's first hero and the first known hero to access the patriot force followed not far behind by Admiral Glory of the US and Britannia of the UK he served with honor during ww2 along with the rest of his team the Workers Heroes and alongside the pan-allies team The Super Alliance after the war he married fellow patriot force wielder Finnish Maiden and tried to stay neutral during the cold war though he would come to the aid of the common man whenever possible after the soviet union broke up he was able to start being an international hero as well as continuing to be mother Russia's mightiest son and has recently helped with the search for Al-Queda because an old war friend of his was in the world trade center when it collapsed besides that though he tries to stay on the sidelines to allow the new generation of heroes to get the spotlight including his grandson Kid Russia

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 05:50 AM

Uhhh thats nice... but comics are America centered. So he can be a hero but in the 50's and 60's he is a villian plus why does he need to live so long? Have the guy start slowing down in his forties and call it a day. As for the aliens I see no reason why people getting powers have to be justified in any way. I mean it just happensm thats the fun in it.

The Sicilian

August 17th, 2008, 05:52 AM

the proletariat was one of the first heroes and Russia's first hero and the first known hero to access the patriot force followed not far behind by Admiral Glory of the US and Britannia of the UK he served with honor during ww2 along with the rest of his team the Workers Heroes and alongside the pan-allies team The Super Alliance after the war he married fellow patriot force wielder Finnish Maiden and tried to stay neutral during the cold war though he would come to the aid of the common man whenever possible after the soviet union broke up he was able to start being an international hero as well as continuing to be mother Russia's mightiest son and has recently helped with the search for Al-Queda because an old war friend of his was in the world trade center when it collapsed besides that though he tries to stay on the sidelines to allow the new generation of heroes to get the spotlight including his grandson Kid Russia
For the love of God, USE PERIODS.

Redem

August 17th, 2008, 05:56 AM

yay another Super heroes round up

(if one can do a drawing of it would be appreciate, think of him as a bit rat-tag guy with a trench-coat and with Chain)
This one a bit high tech
Chain
age : 27
Superpower:Super endurance
-Super agility
-Better memory
-Enchance reflexe
-Higher Regeneration (note: he heal faster than a noraml person but it shall take him quite a lot of heal from a wound)
Know wearpon: A pair of Chain
Status: Active since 2005
Location: New York
Usual target: Non-powered criminal, however he will attack superpowered one if he find some but he don't usually openly hunt them down

Adam Kasenski was a young outcast from the very first day, for some reason he never seemed to get along with other, but he was genuinely good guy. In elementary school he befriend a girl, Claudia who unlike him was scare of bully and such and actually protected him from aggression. He was quick to admire her and to be very graceful for her protection, making her his first love. What he didn’t know is that Claudia had been injected with experimental nanomachine as she was suffering from a rare kind of cerebral disease that affected her memory, Adam knew nothing of it as the nanomachine made her act normal.

One day a bully attacked violently Claudia and Adam was quite powerless to help her, the bully punched her so hard that it cause her brain to go in a state of shock and the nanomachine inside her body started to dysfunction destroying most of them. Earlier that day Adam had made himself a little wound on his finger from a paper cut. As he grabbed Claudia after the bullied leaved her alone a bit of the blood on her head went into a his finger and very small percentage of the machine went into his body.

Little did he knew but the Nanomachine started to establish himself themselves and to reproduce around his body as Adam body was normal the Nanomachine adapted their programming and started to slowly enhance. Still it would take many years before he would feel the effect.

Claudia didn’t die that day but the lost of her nanomachine had scrap her brain and she lost any memory of Adam she ever had and he never really succeed into establishing the same kind of connection they used to have. He felt alone and depress but eventually got better, however he always felt the scar from the experience. The Nanomachine program was abandoned by the company deemed to expansive to make another.

The years went on and it seemed that Adam would be a pretty average guy, but by the time of his majority, The Nanomachine had reach his brain and now they would give him access to the improvement they made to his body. He soon proved himself to memorize entire book in several reading. He could on kilometres without feeling tire, it was quite surprising after being so mediocre at sport for years.

He found himself a small time job as the janitor at a prison and one day a prisonier with some low level super power tried to assault him in order to kill him for insulting him earlier. With his nanomachine he was able to overtake the prionnier, but rushed home scared of what he did. He had his blood analyse by a doctor specialize in superhuman medicine he told them he had nothing to fear from the Nano-machine and anyway it would be hazardous to try to remove them.

He wondered asking himself what he would do with his ability, he saw a female superhero fly above him and then remembered Claudia would fought proctecitng him when he was weak. He decided it was time for him to protect the weak and became Chain. He not really famous in media and such (although he was mention in several news paper article), but his know in super hero circle as a lone wolf who usually get the job done his quite supportive and friendly with other.

comment are welcome

drrockso20

August 17th, 2008, 06:25 AM

For the love of God, USE PERIODS.
it was a copy-paste from another thread before I fixed my grammar but I won't get mad at you since I love your magic returns thread

drrockso20

August 17th, 2008, 06:35 AM

Uhhh thats nice... but comics are America centered. So he can be a hero but in the 50's and 60's he is a villian plus why does he need to live so long? Have the guy start slowing down in his forties and call it a day.
well I say other heroes are needed internationally otherwise you end up with a watchmen scenario and during the cold war he left soviet work and moved to Finland though he would gladly help anyone who needed help and his powers retarded his aging it isn't until the mid-80's that his hair starts graying and by the mid-90's he's semi-retired from heroics and helping to train the new generation of heroes and he started to slow down his heroics by the mid-70's to focus on raising his family

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 06:45 AM

Enigmajones

August 17th, 2008, 07:03 AM

A Nazi scientist during the war he studied Mechanics and created many machines to help combat the Allied Super Leigon. As the War came to an end he decided to try to prove that a brain kept living after seperated from the body. So he underwent the procedure and had his brain transferred to a jar that sent brainwaves to a Robotic body with the ability to see with X-Ray technology. However the base was captured before the body could be outfitted. Both Raemakers Brain and Mechanical Body were transferred to several Storage Centers and eventually to the Mojave Base for the Bureau for Super Human Affairs storage. There in the year 2000 he awakens and orders his mechanical body to make his escape. And he ventures out to take revenge onthose that defeated the Nazis in the Second World War.

Enigmajones

August 17th, 2008, 07:12 AM

Son of the infamous Dr. Raemaker he was a rising member of the Kriegsmarine until he was offered the Chance to enter the Super Human Program. So he began to rigourously train to become an Amphibious Super Man. However he couldn't break through to superhuman levels and underwent surgery to splice his genes with that of a Great White Shark. This turned Heinrich into a Superhuman Aryan Killing Machine with no sentient thought. He became disformed when his skin became not unlike that of a shark and hesprouted a fin and grew teeth of a Shark. Initially frozen by the Nazi Government for being uncontrolable he remained in this state until a Re-vamped X-Ray liberated him from the Bureau for Superhuman Affairs main detention Center on San Juan Island. Now he serves as a willing servant to his father.

drrockso20

August 17th, 2008, 07:12 AM

Well first the tl is status quo like in comic books so even if Superman shows up he is not going to knock the USSR out. Plus an American villian can be a Soviet Hero. Its just he is a Soviet who fights in WWII yet he suddenly decides to leave around the time Stalin dies and things start to get liberel? He'd stay and be Kruschev's poster boy.

the only reason he worked for stalin was because of the fact that hitler was worse though it wasn't till the missile crisis that he was able to leave completely sever ties to the soviet government though they never tried to label him as a traitor since he was still the most beloved hero in the warsaw pact and even people in america love the guy especially after he saved new york city from that falling satellite back in '53 when he was acting as the bodyguard for a soviet diplomat

Enigmajones

August 17th, 2008, 07:18 AM

The sole survivor of the Japanese Imperial Super Soldier Project, Hayato Kurosawa was noted for being almost Impervious to harm. Not much is known about the General accept that he leads a Japanese Imperial Revival Army(much like the Japanese Red Army of OTL) and has been known to cohort with the Notorious villain DR. X-Ray.

oscarzoalaster

August 17th, 2008, 07:28 AM

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Years of Public Activity: 1927-1959.
Actual Years of Superheroic Activity: 1917-1979 (assumed, his death has not been verified.)

Superpowers: teleportation (seemingly unlimited), detailed kinesthetic awareness of his surroundings to at least several hundred meters, very very fast reaction time and thought processes. (and very good with languages, but that probably was not a superpower.)

William Hobbs first adventures were in the rural North Carolina countryside that he grew up in. In the year before he was drafted into WWI he used his burgeoning talent to travel around much of the United States. Being sent to Europe literally opened the world to him. It was during his first crossing of 'no man's land' that he first realized how valuable his kinesthetic sense was. Being able to feel the vector and velocity of the bullets 'long' before they reached him enabled him to avoid them with small, almost immediately reflexive, teleports.

William survived when many of his fellow soldiers did not. He was glad to survive, but as disheartened as anyone, and maybe more so, at the loss of his comrades. He tried several things to help them - teleporting them that crucial inch, carrying a heavy steel sheild and coincidentally stumbling in front of a comrade at a crucial moment, and using his teleportation to subtlely allow him to survive rifle-volley attracting behavior, and so on. A lot of his tricks worked, but not enough of them did.

Eventually, before dawn on November 10th, 1918*, 20 minutes before his platoon is supposed to 'go over the top' again, he puts on a mask, a greatcoat, and teleports across 'no man's land' and invades the German trenches by himself. He teleports at least 1,000 times in the next 16 minutes and 7 seconds as he grabs German weapon after German weapon and drops them in the old barn on his grandfather's property in North Carolina. Once the Germans are completely disarmed for a couple of miles in each direction he takes a short break and then rejoins his platoon. They take that section of german treanches with no casualties. Hobbs is not wearing the distinctive mask and greatcoat when he crosses into the German trenches.

Over the next several decades the Will-o'-the-Wisp was seen around the world, appearing and disappearing unpredictably. The largest object he is known to have teleported is the White Star Liner Titanic after it hit an iceberg. It is not know how he managed to be aware of the tragedy in time to save the ship - it sank in the Charleston harbor minutes after he brought it there - other than that a Pinkerton investigation established that no one on the passenger manifests was 'The Will-o'-the-Wisp'. (Nor were they ever able to establish that the Will-o'-the-Wisp was involved with bootleggers, despite persistent rumors.)

During WWII the Will-o'-the-Wisp is rumored to have served with the OSI and British Intelligence. It is certain that he rescued over 200,000 Jews and other people marked for death by the Nazi regime. Among the rumors of his exploits during WWII is one that he refused to involve himself in acts of violence, although nearly 1,000 soldiers definately survived thier wounds because of his suddenly appearing in a hospital in Cincinnati, Raleigh, Minneapolis, or many other cities, with them in his arms.

After WWII he is rumored to have spirited people out of Soviet Europe and China, as well as South African and Rhodesian prisons. Sometimes desert villages would find several hundred tons of ice in a vacent field, other times a flood of water would refill a water tank. And so on.

The Will-o'-the-Wisp did not regularly 'fight crime', but on at least three occasions on-going 'gangland wars' stopped when he - initially - intervened, or - later - threatened to intervene.

The Will-o'-the-Wisp's last publically known exploit was the justifibly legandary rescue of the daughter of the Soviet Premier from the (reactionary elements?/KGB?/CIA?) that had kidnapped her. The efforts of the 'American Superhero' - and unofficial enemy of the Soviet Union - laid a framework of trust that historians consider to have been essential in avoiding military clashes in the next few years.

Blue Max

August 17th, 2008, 08:36 AM

I like the Superheroes gritty and highly real.

The Transcendent Order
Perhaps the most basic question in terms of Superheroes is what makes them more than man. Something enables them to play beyond the limits of human capacity--they are genetic mutants, bizarre R&D efforts, or outright victims of insane ideas. In any case, despite their incredible potential, their humanity has been traded for something more--and this makes them need a safe haven. In the seventy year lifespan of the Order, a total of some 400 members, active, retired, or deceased, would have been apart of the organization. All of the members are capable of extraordinary ability--and all are aware that for their organization to survive, it must forever remain a secret. Although located in the United States, the DoHS is entirely unaware of its existance.

Notable members:

Todsengel. b. 1921, d 1964. One of the sickest crimes committed in the Third Reich were medical experiments--depraved violations of the human condition. Despite the obvious inhumanity of this procedures, at least one was far stronger for the procedure. A German Jew, last survivor of a murdered family-was subject to hideous and depraved experiments to artificially increase his strength, his metabolism, and his ability to withstand abuse. The results of the experiment are not known today, for Todsengel killed those doctors during an Allied Bombing raid.

Todsengel would claim over a thousand kills-- and although Todsengel's advantages were considerable--he could heal injuries that would have required months in hours. And bullets and shrapnel that would kill a normal person instead left bruises and small cuts. Todsengel was at first driven by a need for revenge, killing first the administrators of the Nazi Regime, later expanding this vendetta to the Soviet NKVD. The NKVD would eventually kill Todsengel--with a rocket launcher to the head. Results of strange purges in the Soviet Union and odd reprisials in Post War Europe might be attributable to him.

Todsengel lived a miserable life. Disfigured by overlarge muscles and requiring a diet of pure fat to survive, Todsengel's only joy was to kill those who had inflicted this nightmare on him, or on others.

Psia: b. 1957. The average American is told not to do drugs. There are good reasons for this advice, such as drugs can permanently destroy or distort your mental abilities. Psia, who disregarded this advice, instead tried a defective batch of LSD. Three of her friends who used the chemical died, but she, forever after, began to experience the world in ways it was never supposed to work. Psia hears sound, smells colors, and feels light, and she is completely synthesizetic. One can not hide from Psia--but Psia suffers as well. She needs LSD in order to survive--and therefore needs the money to pay for this act. She therefore serves as the perfect surveyor, although her sanity has begun to fade as well.

Lambda: b 1986. The Current leader of the Transcendent Order, Lambda replaced her predecessor, Kappa, after he was IDed by the Israeli Mossad. Lambda is the first human to have a quantum computer augment, essentially increasing her intelligence to stratospheric levels. Furthermore, Lambda is able to interface with any computer, anywhere, through the powerful interface provided by the machine. This belies the fact that Lambda's personality is a dim echo, nearly emotionless as her humanity has been largely outpowered by the powerful AI that now controls her.

These are but three of hundreds, and their enemies: Civilian, villain and supervillain are also to be reckoned with.

Mr_ Bondoc

August 17th, 2008, 08:57 AM

Jonathan Washington (a.k.a. "The Man of Flint")- The African-American community of Harlem, New York had a "science hero" in the form of Jonathan Washington. Taught by the likes of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey, Washington was a self-made inventor, mercenary, scholar, and adventurer who was known throughout the African Diaspora.

Unfortunately, while his adventures took place between 1936-1946, his adventures were often ignored by the white mainstream press. It wasn't until the book Jonathan Washington: Yesterday's Tomorrow (1979) by Alex Hailey was published did the mainstream press pay attention to his story. Currently film director Spike Lee has optioned the rights to the book for development with Denzel Washington starring as the title character.

Starting in 1936, Washington helped prevent an assassination attempt by Nazi agents against American Jesse Owens in Berlin. In 1937, Washington helped Ethiopian forces against Italy, earning a medal from Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1941, he worked with A. Philip Randolph to organize a possible march in Washington D.C. for Civil Rights. In 1942, he helped protect the NAACP in Sikesville, Missouri during a series of lynchings against African-American military recruits. In 1945, he helped liberate Buchenwald and Dachau with the U.S. Army. But his work wasn't simply with regards to the issues of race.

In 1936, Washington battled the demon Shugoran in Kinshahsa, despite the interference of Belgian military forces. In 1937, he obtained possible immortality obtaining the "Elixir of Kavuru". In 1938, he fell in love and secretly married Princess M'nja Fo'ateema of Opar. In 1942, Washington launched a crackdown on the Cult of Dagon in the Louisiana bayous. In 1944, with the British SAS, battled against the Tcho-Tcho in Thailand. In 1946, he disappeared after apparently locating the lost city of Opar. According to OSS reports, Washington and the entire city of Opar disappeared after an attack by the dreaded Doctor Malignali. According to local legend, Washington will return, "when the stars are properly aligned".....

Romulus Augustulus

August 17th, 2008, 09:51 AM

Jack Randolph

Date of birth: April 29th, 1918
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

(Note on background: fairly realistic. The superheroes here don't have things like flight...their advantages are more subtle: high intelligence, a truly bizarre and uncanny knack for combat, incredible toughness and resistance to pain, preternatural marksmanship, etc.)

College-educated, a medical doctor; he was bored and rather hated people, though. He ended up as an infantry officer in the US Army during the Second World War; he somehow managed to avoid service as a medical officer. He served in Europe. (He was clever enough that he received scholarships and the like.) After the war, well...he liked violence, and he was damn good at it. He served as a mercenary and then as an assassin; he was active into the 1960s, until around the age of fifty. He was very good at what he did and accumulated a great deal of wealth; he effectively retired at the age of fifty, in 1968, cleverly disguising his past. He'd had enough by then, and disguised himself and heavily falsified records; he switched identities with someone he disappeared, although admittedly they just got in an accident and he acted very quickly. He managed to work as a medical doctor for some time after that; he's still alive today and living comfortably somewhere. He's working on his memoirs.

The man had a variety of aliases, and often different acts he'd commit weren't even connected to each other. There were rumors circulating about him, mostly inaccurate, though; for some reason, he ended up known as "The Quail," a nickname he profoundly despised.

Snake Featherston

August 17th, 2008, 02:41 PM

Masque:

Date of "birth": June 22, 1971.
Place of "birth": Tel Aviv, Israel.
Real Name: Deborah Bat Omri.

(Note: This character is intended to be a homage to the DC Character Raven, so any similiarities are indeed intentional).

Deborah Bat Omri's appearance in the arms of her mother, a young Sephardi Jew in the state of Israel, was quite a shock. Her father, Omri Ben Jehu had known their baby was stillborn, but this baby seemed physically identical, but had a curious birthmark, a sign of four eyes. Omri became much more devout than he had previously been, and kept his child out of the Kibbutzim of the era, in order to educate her in the ways of Judaism.

Deborah began to display unusual abilities as she grew older, including a strange Black Smoke that upon contact with anything else, would either burn the flesh off of its bones or other, much less pleasant things. Deborah showed much more kindness to her family than towards other children in Tel Aviv, and when the Intifada began and her mother was killed by a car bomb, Deborah went and under the influence of something...else...

built a suit of armor and a cloak. She then traveled into the midst of a rioting crowd of Palestinians, and unleashed her Black Smoke upon them, leaving a large jumble of smoking bones, and as the Palestinians fired bullets upon her, the cloak she had constructed out of her infant clothes absorbed the bullets.

Calling herself "Masque," this Charedi vigilante rapidly attracted the attention of the Israeli government, which, while uncomfortable with Deborah's intensity and racist attitudes towards Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular, began to use her as a bulwark against Arab "aggression".

Deborah looks mostly like the early NTT Raven, with a large red birthmark on her cheek of four eyes, one that glows when her powers are active. She utilizes a suit of armor that has a bright Magen David on it, to draw the attention of her enemies and to keep her powers targeted upon them.

Deborah bat Omri, though, along with the state of Israel, is unaware of her origin, and Jahweh himself help the state of Israel if Daddy comes calling...

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 04:43 PM

Name: Black Vulture
Years active: 1938-1946

It is difficult to really say when the Black Vulture began his career as a masked avenger. He had no superpowers to speak of, he was just a man in good shape who carried twin .45's and shot well. To more modern people he was overtly cruel in his war on the gangs of Chicago, and eventually New York. Shooting gangsters in their homes, executing them when it was obvious they had given up. He served in WWII like many other heroes, but on his return to New York after the war police issued a warrant for his arrest after he began gunning down dirty cops. He was not heard of after 1946.

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 05:34 PM

Name: Adam Umberton, aka Flash
Lifespan: 1931-1970
Active period: 1946-1958
Superpower: Telepathic blast

Flash was born and lived near Washington, D.C., and was the only confirmed surviving eyewitness to its disappearance in 1946. His family and friends were all enveloped in the event, and he could never forget the flash of light and the emotional chaos resulting. Bedridden for weeks, he discovered that, when angry, he could channel that trauma to those in his vicinity. This had the effect of stunning them, or, in some cases, killing them. With this weighing on him, he joined the Transcendent Order, where he remained for the next twelve years. Here he became even more distant from humanity, growing closer to his pain. After several violent outbursts, he left the Order, dying in an avalanche in Tibet twelve years later.

Read the rules. No serious TL changes. Washington DC doesn't disappear, unless you make it come right back with nothing wrong inside of it.

Codae

August 17th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Read the rules. No serious TL changes. Washington DC doesn't disappear, unless you make it come right back with nothing wrong inside of it.
Oops...

According to OSS reports, Washington and the entire city of Opar disappeared after an attack by the dreaded Doctor Malignali. According to local legend, Washington will return, "when the stars are properly aligned".....

I thought he meant Washington, DC, rather than Jonathan Washington.

I'll just delete that post, then.

Count Dearborn

August 17th, 2008, 05:50 PM

The Nightingale

Name: Edith Parker
Years Active: 1989 to present
Superpowers: All manner of Sonic related powers, some of which are:
Fight
Teleportation
Force Fields
Sonic Blasts that can destroy all manner of materials
Brown Noise
Equililbrum Disruption

All Edith ever wanted to do was sing, and the style didn't matter, but she had always been a big fan of opera. From a young age she trained her voice. She also took up all manner of sports to train her breathing, and extend her endurance. After years of training, she got her big break, a chance audition to the New York Opera company. Midway through audition, she hit a rather high note, and blew out all of the windows in the building, along with damaging the eardrums of those listening. Needless to say, this put an end to her singing career. Nobody wants to higher a sing who can destory all of the windows in a three mile radius. This all drove poor Edith over the edge, she decided that if she couldn't follow her dream, then no one would even enjoy music again. Soon, the Nightingale was on scene, wrecking all manner of music venues, from rock concerts to piano recitals. (Some in the know think that she might be a "recipient" of the attentions of Proteus and Valentine.:D)

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 06:15 PM

Oops...

I thought he meant Washington, DC, rather than Jonathan Washington.

I'll just delete that post, then.

Just rewrite. Washington DC disappeared for... uh 38 seconds.

Codae

August 17th, 2008, 06:32 PM

Just rewrite. Washington DC disappeared for... uh 38 seconds.
All right.

Flash

Born Adam Umberton in 1931, Flash grew up in Washington, D.C. However, in 1946, a strange, unearthly light engulfed a large section of the District of Columbia; of those inside the light, 53 were confirmed to have simply vanished. Many others fell unconscious, while the majority suffered no ill effects. Adam, otherwise falling into the second group, was on the edge of the lit area when it happened; as his mind tried to be locked away and simultaneously unaffected, he spent 38 seconds in intense agony. After the event was over, he discovered that his immediate family, and all of his close friends, had been spirited away. He collapsed and was bedridden for weeks.

Once he awoke, he discovered he could transfer the mental and emotional pain he had felt to others; this had the effect of stunning them, or, if he was particularly stimulated, killing them. With this strange and frightening power, he joined the Order of Transcendence under the name of Flash. He, however, was slowly overwhelmed by the pain, culminating in a violent outburst against several other Transcendents. He left his home of twelve years and isolated himself from humanity; he was killed in a Tibetan avalanche in 1970.

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 06:46 PM

Name: Dr. Solomon Wild
Activity: 1936-1960
A man of the highest moral fiber. A doctor at the age of twenty, an explorer of world fame, and as men began to take up masks and cosutmes to fight crime the great Dr. Solomon Wild began his own crusade to defend America and the common man. Traveling from the heart of the Amazon to the skyscrappers of New York Dr. Wild fought strange cults, Nazi masterminds, and underworld bosses.

He continued on his path through world war two, and onto the Cold War. While outspoken in his beliefs caused him to be blacklisted for a time in the 50's he redeemed himself in the eyes of the world after fighting the Talushi aliens.

Name: Mister E. Nigma
Activity: 1937-1953
For quite some time he was considered one of the most beloved heroes in America, Mister E. Nigma had very little raw power. He was little more than a simple stage magician who fought crime with some minor occult abilities and an array of theatrical tricks.

Sentinels of Justice
Formed in 1939
Disbanded in 1956
The group formed after a meeting organized by Dr. Solomon Wild and chaired by the Mister E. Nigma. Wild paraphrased Thomas Jefferson, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and so my fellow mysterymen we must act as Sentinels of Liberty... for Justice." The original roster had various heroes of the day and was active for years.

LordInsane

August 17th, 2008, 07:58 PM

Name: Reichsbanner/The German
Years active: 1923-1941

Johann Müller, later James Miller, began his carrier as a masked detective (clad in a black-gold suit with red details) in Weimar Germany, concentrating on criminals whose goals lay in the destruction of the Republic's fragile democracy. Altough his extensive intellect, and the various tricks and gadgets he came up with helped him for a while, he found himself more and more pressed, with public support for his actions dwindling as the Great Depression hit Germany. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Müller fled to the USA, anglicising his name to James Miller, but harbouring hope of one day return to a democratic Germany.
While mistrusted, even prosecuted, at first, his tireless work in rooting out Nazist and Communist spies earned him the respect of the American public, even if they gave him the somewhat derigating moniker 'the German'.
When World War II started, Miller volunteered for espionage service against the Nazis (first for the British, then later for the Americans, after Pearl Harbour), using his talents, his heritage, and his remaining German contacts to infiltrate German society and doing whatever needed to be done.
Sadly, in 1943, he was betrayed, and while on a sabotage mission in German-occupied Poland was ambushed and, it is presumed, killed, altough his body was never recovered.

Could that work?

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 11:42 PM

LordInsane

August 17th, 2008, 11:50 PM

Get rid of the stuff before 1936 and you're fine.
Ah... well, the background wouldn't work so well, then, would it?
Actually, from a comics perspective, the pre-1936 thingies would be 'background': these things happened before the comic begins.
Obviously, the writers could finish that in one or two squares (;)), and then have the rest of it be 'Evol Nazis against Good German-American!'

Fenwick

August 17th, 2008, 11:54 PM

Ah... well, the background wouldn't work so well, then, would it?
Actually, from a comics perspective, the pre-1936 thingies would be 'background': these things happened before the comic begins.
Obviously, the writers could finish that in one or two squares (;)), and then have the rest of it be 'Evol Nazis against Good German-American!'

True but my rules are that no superheroes before 1936. Which is a full two years before the Golden Age really begins. :D

LordInsane

August 17th, 2008, 11:59 PM

True but my rules are that no superheroes before 1936. Which is a full two years before the Golden Age really begins. :D
Almost, actually, but here's an idea: he spent three years settling in in the USA, and so his German-American Defender of Democracy period begins in 1936- which, obviously, would be all Americans would care about:D!

Redem

August 18th, 2008, 12:31 AM

So why do you need all those vilain and heroes Fun or some writting thing?

Flay
age : 62 (as of 2008)
Superpower: Hyper regeneration
- His organs is one of the hardest to destroy ever know, they can't be burn and are very hard to pierce
- Pain doesn’t bother him at al
Know wearpon: Steel claw put on his finger, which are fuse to his bones and also a razor blade
Status: 1969-1978
Location: Los Angeles
Usual target: Whatever might prove itself an interesting kill, he seem to take certain enjoying flaying alive fat people because of all there left over skin. He as been know to praticse cannibalism even onto part of his own body.

James Headey was living quite a normal babyboomer childhood, albeit he was know to have some interest in pain and such practicing self-mutilation at an early age, one day while driving a razor blade through his wrist his parent found out and thought it was a suicide attempt, he was sent anyway to a mental hospital at the age of 15 and was put under medication, sending him into a great state of numbness that actually made him crazier as he got back into consciousness, however he learned to hide his insanity learning to cultivate his love to give and get pain in order to relaease them into explosion of violence and how to hide them so he would keep a cover.

James actually grew quite dependant on drug during his stay at the mental hospital and quickly became a buyer and a seller of drug particularly to hippie, he started to experiment doing his own designer drugs. That found themselves quite popular with the counter-culture adepts himself found that drug were among the only thing with pain that gave him some sensation to life. He quickly got a circle of follower and sometime experimented wounding them while they were high in order in his words “enchance the sensation” one day one hippie girl bleed to death on floor of his home, most people around too drug up to even notice or to care, but James was very aware and let her die, he later wortes in his diary that the way all of her blood was going down his arm was one of the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

James one day stole chemical from a industrial plant hoping to make the wonder drug that would make him famous, however he stole several highly rare chemical and made an mix of his invention and then absorb it to the very last drop the drug sent him in a state of shock and when he ended he felt he had no longer any sensation, that made him feel so mad he arched for sensation so he ripped his own skin off down to the very last inch, the drug made Pain the only thing that he could feel.

His little cult of follower found him in his skinless state and they were horrified so he killed them all with his very hand and soon it was the start of his reign of terror over his coast. He mixed every crime as giving pain and getting it was the only that made him feel alive. Often he needed the protection of gangster to cover himself so he ended up doing various job for them. He became famous for his elaborate pain-trap making people goes through hours of agony before death. He is to tear off any kind of skin that grow back on him.

He was finally captured in 1978 by the Super-heroine Boudica he was put in an isolate cell at an undiscose location. There is a lot of speculation as to his final fate a lot of people say he was condemn to death other think the gouverment might be looking for way to replicate his amazing regeneration ability.

hope people like what I write feel free to comment

Fenwick

August 18th, 2008, 03:39 AM

Redem

August 18th, 2008, 03:54 AM

Okay looking good...

Who was the hero to symbolize the Golden Age? Silver Age? 70's? 80's? Today?
What was the first hero to really be considered a powerhouse? Flight, super strength, speed, etc.
Which hero is credited as being the dark spot on the entire culture? Who killed ruthlessly, yet still tried to save the day?
What major teams where out there? Who fought those teams?
Which hero became a villian? What villian became a hero?
Other then Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union which nations had supervillians coming from them?

Well a hero that would symbolize the golden age would I think something akin to reformer, I think maybe Golden age might actually be the opposite of what we had in OTL because they might be very raw and tackling crime in a totally unoppose one that made good publicity to the hero and somehow help them acquire a good reputation through controlling them might a good symbol.

Maybe performance would be first determine through sideshow going around the country and soon publicity would settle in.

Well I think a hero becoming a vilain should come around the same pattern as a honest cop getting corrupt and well depend how much intensity you are a vilain or a hero.

I think you are likely to see vilain team first and then Hero team to counter and the later lasting longer overall

Communist Wizard

August 18th, 2008, 04:02 AM

Vietnam's Jungle Fighter. Hero for N. Vietnam (Warsaw Pact as well), evil for NATO block. He was a regular village boy in N.Vietnam who got bit by a strange rainbow monkey. Later, he could easily climb and do things in the jungle, after his wounds recovered. A good organiser and excellent guerrilla fighter, after his family was killed by French forces he fought them through out the 50s. Later, he fought American forces and uncovered massacres of various sorts.
Hmm?

Fenwick

August 18th, 2008, 04:20 AM

Not bad... take him from the jungle and we are good to go. In comics no one fights in Vietnam unless its a backstory. So Jungle Fighter can try terrorism in America, or get ahold of better weapons as a West Coast villian, but no jungle hiding. Cause I mean keeping the TL status quo is a rule and to do that no superheroes can be in Vietnam unless its a backstory.

Fenwick

August 18th, 2008, 05:08 AM

Sentinels of Justice
Roster: 1939

Chairman: Mister E. Nigma (magic, stage craft)
Second: Mister Protector (Super-human stamina, enhanced agility)
Ms. Bolt (electric manipulation, flight)
Dr. Solomon Wild (smart, athletic, science)
Mind Master (escape artist, mind reading)
The German aka All-American (smart, athletic)

Roster: 1945
Chairman: Mister E. Nigma
Second: Dr. Solomon Wild
Ms. Bolt
The German aka All American
Mister Protector
Detective Dusk (night vision)
Scarlet Girl (martial arts master)
Z-american (Radar sense, super strength)
Shadow Specter (Illusion casting)
Blue Justice (sharp shooter)

Roster:1956
Chairman: Mister Protector
Second: Mind Master
Detective Dusk
Scarlet Girl
Z-american
Wonder Platypus (Photographic memory)

Count Dearborn

August 18th, 2008, 05:52 AM

I have one for the 1960's.

Major Liberty:
Superhuman Strength, Endurance, and Toughness
Extremely high pain tolerance
Slow Regeneration along with Longevity.
Armored Skin, Nails, and Eyes
Wears a unique armored costume

Perhaps he is an outgrowth of one of Dr. Wild's experiments.

Mr_ Bondoc

August 18th, 2008, 08:31 AM

George Yamashita a.k.a. Kagemusha (a.k.a. "Shadow Warrior")-
Before the appearence of Bruce Lee in the 1960s, the Asian-American community of San Francisco, California had a defender in the form of "Kagemusha" in 1936. After barely surviving encountering the white supremacist Black Legion , who attacked him for dating a white woman in Oakland, California, Local Asian-American journalist George Yamashita. It was during this attack, he discovered that he had tapped into a metahuman ability to blend into the shaows and to "fog the minds" of men. From this encounter, Yamashita began an active defense of the Asian-American community. Yamashita even worked with Jonathan Washington a.k.a. "Man of Flint in 1936, in an effort to prevent the Black Legion from backing a anti-Semitic coup planned by Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, and Charles Coughlin. In 1937, Yamashita fought against Japanese atrocities in China by smuggling intellectuals out of Nanjing. In 1941, when Japanese-Americans were rounded up for internment camps, Yamashita launched several lawsuits, wherein he unsuccessfully tried to get members of the Sentinels of Justice to aid. The perceived racist abandonment of the hero, served to anger the vigilante who had defended America on several major occasions, including a Japanese attempt to bomb the Panama Canal in 1942. While he was released in 1943, to serve with the OSS, the 2 years that Yamashita served in an internment camp hardened the man. It was only through the letters from Jonathan Washington that the hero continued fighting for the American forces. In 1944, Yamashita assassinated Admiral Tanaka Moritsu, preventing the Japanese invasion of Anchorage, Alaska. When the war ended in 1945, Yamashita set up a small law firm in Berkeley, California specifically dedicated to fighting for Asian-American rights. He would die in relative peace in 1954, with his live-in companion Alicia Marshall.

The story would have ended there, if it hadn't been for a Chinese-American child named Bruce Lee, who found inspiration in Oakland, California from local legends of the vigilante. In fact, in 1971, Bruce Lee purchased the biography rights to the story of George Yamashita, and had planned to make a film based on his life. Recently, as of 2002, Jet Li and Donny Yen have expressed an interest to adapt the story into film.

drrockso20

August 18th, 2008, 08:42 AM

heres my ww2 era team think a cross between the invaders and the all-star squadron

The Super-Alliance
founding members January 17,1942
chairman: Vermilion Seeker(athleticism,weapon skills,detective skills)

second: The Harrier(winged flight,archaic weapon skills,enhanced strength)

Night Master(supernatural abilities,enchanted dagger,crow familiar)

Albion Lion(wields King Arthur's sword from the stone,mystic insight,hippogryph mount)

The Bronze Chevalier(powered armor,various weapons in suit,D'Artagnan's sword)

Johnny and The Golem(golem[supernatural strength,mystical durability,regenerative properties based on faith]johnny[control of golem,access to the Words of God,limited access to the power of God's true name])

Finnish Maiden(Patriot Force powers,weather control,Glacieskinetic[ice manipulation])

hope you like them there are other members these are just the founders and the members shall be dealt with individually at a later time:D

Catty Nebulart

August 18th, 2008, 09:42 AM

Well here is a supervillan/superhero or you. Not sure what you want them for, which would help making a more appropriate character. Orginially made for an RPG, some of those elements might still bleed over, but I belive I have sanatized it. After reading her description without the charactersheet attached she seems more powerful than she really is.

!!!!!!!!!! WARNING: Disturbing/Dark. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excerpt from her interpol file;
Name: NLN, Yohkoh
Age: 16
Height: 4'3"
Weight: 75lb
Gender: Female
Hair: Blond, Straight, Short
Eyes: Blue
Distingishing Marks: None.

Description:
Chronic malnurishment has made her underdeveloped and she looks only around ten years old, this seems to have been deliberate for her to appeal to the clients that she ussualy serviced.

History:
It is unsure at what point she became a slave for the Yakuza, however it is known that she has been used as a prostitute since at least age 9.

At age 14 just before she was going to bed the Kumicho she snapped and killed him, It was at this point that her psychic powers awakened.

Picking up one of the Kumicho's swords she prepared to sell her life dearly to the guards. Instead she slaughtered everyone in the compound.

Since then she has killed an at least threethousand people and is suspected to be responsible for 50 cases of arson.
Before the UN Warriror division arrived the Tokyo metropolitan police suffered nearly 80% causualities, most of them fatal. Also during this time crime was virtually eliminated as vigelante related muders reached a record high.

Tactical:
Recomended Procedure: Kill on Sight.

She is considered armed and extremly dangerous, anti-tank weaponry is recomended in any engament with her. She has a finly tuned danger sense and is probably a full precognitive.

She is known to be a master martial artist, and knows several techniques considered lost by modern martial arts schools.

Her skin has been known to make .50cal browning bullets bounce of, it's suspected to be a psionically enhanced version of the legendary iron skin technique.

The sword is a Muramasa blade, and as such is very powerful but cursed. It is believed at least part of her bloodlust is induced by the blade. As a word of caution this is a genuine Muramasa blade, wounds made by it don't seem to heal, even potent regenerators often take weeks to heal from just a minor scratch from the blade and they are supernaturally vulnerable to infection.

She is known to be a potent regenerator so even severe trauma is unlikely to stop her for long. However she doesn't seem to bel able to regrow limbs as fast as

By far her most powerful psionic ability is her unique form of psychometry, she knows the history of any object she touches or place she visits, however her ability goes into far more depth than most psychics, and her knowledge is startelingly clear unlike the vague impression most psychometrist get. this ability has been dubed as Skill Echos, due to the way she often uses this ability.

Skill Echos involve the use of psychometry to draw on the object in question and attain the skills that previous users has. If the item has been used for real it is far more effective, forinstance a M-16 that has only been used on the practice range would leave her with an unfamiliarity for real combat, whereas an M-16 used in the vietnam war would have a much stronger impressions of the skills and she would react like a hardened combat veteran. She also often displays the quirks and unconscious mannerisms from the people whose skill echo's she uses. It is believed that all her knowledge of martial arts and ki-techniques was aquiered through this ability which explains how she knows techniques previosly belived to be lost or even legendary but seems to lack many of the common modern ki-techniques.

She is also a known telekinetic and pyrokinetic, though she does not seem to obviously use these abilities in combat while she has her sword which seems to be her favored weapon. Her supernatural strength seems to come from her augmenting her natural strenght with her telekenisis and chi. Smiliarly her great speed and negative reaction time are attributed to her precognition and an aspect of her pyrokinesis. However she does love fire and is a pyromanic.

She is also confiremed to have at least minor telepathic abilities, but even the outdated Freyland-Bey defensive techniques are good enough to keep her out.

*********

Notes:
* It porbably should list her birthdate instead of age, but I'm trying to make her time agnostic since I don't know what you need these heros/villans for.
* NLN means No Last Name.
* Japan is one of the centers for white slavery, it's estimated that 50'000 young women are forced into sex slavery each year. Good primer, even if it is almost a decade out of date: http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/japan_slave_trade/
* Kumicho is the yakuza equivalent of a mafia Don.
* Muramasa was a legendary sword-smith, identifying his sowrds is difficult these days because the goverment used to ban them, so people that had a muramasa blade tried to disguise it, while rebels often made their swords look like muramasa blades. the Wiki has a decent primer for those wishing more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muramasa

Fenwick

August 18th, 2008, 06:29 PM

Random list of superhero teams... add to them if you like.

Starr Atomic Squad
Active years: 1954-1959
A group of scientists, adventurers, and whatever else Hiram Starr could gather together. Based in the headquarters of the Starr Atomic Labs, the team goes about the world fighting monsters, and whatever other marvel of the Atomic Age has gotten out of hand.

Liberty Sentinels aka New York Liberty Sentinels/ San Francisco Liberty Sentinels aka American Liberty Sentinels aka ALS
Active years: 1964-now
The Liberty Sentinels formed in the mid-sixties around a group of heroes lead by Major Liberty at the spur of the moment to defeat the villain Commander Tyrant. When the battle was over and the day was saved, the heroes decided the world needed a group such as they to defend it. Over time the roster changed often, some grew old, some died, others merely disappeared. Mostly the Liberty Sentinels represented the prime example of what heroes could be.

Underground Six
Active years: 1969-1975
As more and more of American seemed to be in turmoil a group of young masked vigilantes, shunned by the more mainstream heroes, and society alike gathered together to fight crime in their own more confrontational manner. Instead of waiting for crime to happen these heroes went after the source directly, and did not shy from killing. The leader was Revolver Johnson a gung toting Black Panther turned superhero who fought the man, and protected the people.

Omega Family
Active years: 1966-now
The Omega family was simply a last of a long line of wealthy elites in New York city. Simone Omega and her brother Trevor simply grew up in the family business of philanthropy, and altruism. Using her athletic skills, and Trevor’s mental abilities the two back superheroes defending New York from crime. As time went on the two siblings both married fellow adventurers and had children. The Omega family now as almost twelve members all sharing the same last name as popular public superheroes.

All-star Patrol
Active years: 1974-1986
A team of young superheroes that formed when refused membership in the Liberty Sentinels. Lead by Red Speedster the team lasted for years and tended to act as a spring board for younger heroes to join the larger more “adult” teams. It fell apart as the lure of such a team wore off when the Liberteens appeared on scene.

Liberteens
Active years: 1985-now
When the children, side kicks, or relatives of the Liberty Sentinels got old enough to go out on their own many wanted to keep an eye on them none the less. So a plan was formed to make a smaller version of the group to train, and protect young heroes till they could become full members. The Liberteens was soon formed.

Millennium Works
Active years: 1995-2000
A secret group of occultists around Nick E. Romancer who seek to defeat a strange demon and various cults before the millennium ends and destroying the universe. Of course they succeeded, but only after many hardships.

Fenwick

August 18th, 2008, 11:53 PM

Count Dearborn

August 19th, 2008, 12:29 AM

I'm seeing a lot of guys with superpowers, and thats fine but why just that? A guy cannot put himself in the best shape possible and save the day? Some intellegent wallflower cannot craft a suit of armor to battle crime in?

I have on, but he isn't a wallflower, and he does have some superpowers.

Cybermancer

Real Name: Julian Persifal March
Occupation: Head of March Industries R&D Division (He also happens to be the biggest stock holder.)
Superpowers:
Total Polymath
Muscle mimic
Computer like-mind
Inuitive Genius when it comes to all manner of mechanical, eletronic and computer systems.
Total recall of everything he hears, sees, or reads.

He was born into the March family, which, unbeknowest to the world at large, has produced many superheroes since 1936. Julian was considered an odd duck by many of his relatives, as he didn't have any so called active powers. He was the butt of many pranks played in him by his older brother, Augustus, who was in contempt of him. (Julian would get even years later.)

For a time, in the late 80's, Julian operated under the guise of the Dandy, until his brother, Augustus, in a public display, caused the Dandy to branded a criminal in the media. With the help of his family's company, he was kept out of prison. Julian retreated into his lab, and his hobbies; during this time, he created the Sybil, an AI. He also came across an ancient manuscript that was considered undicipherable by most academics. With the help of Sybil, he translated. It turned out to be the diary of a student of Archimedes of Syracuse. It lead Julian to discover that magic and science were very close. He used his genius to constuct another suit of armor, and start an new career as the Cybermancer.

Communist Wizard

August 19th, 2008, 12:35 AM

B.O.R.: Blasting Operations Robot
A scientist who was far ahead of his time but insane made this robot in the 70s after receiving funding from certain countries. He can litterally shoot electricity and create lightning (though on a much smaller scale). He is operated by a computer. He can shoot all sorts of rockets, from lots of cluster rockets to a few heat-seeking missiles. He can fly by jet-pack. And, he can scavenge materials to heal wounds and even one hand can recreate his body again over a peruiod of time. He also continiously modifies his design, as the scientist put his knowledge into it. After being tested, it went loose and now tries to gain control of the world. It's pitfall is that it is too logical by human standards and will often lose to irrational actions. It slowly learns, however... Most horrifying is however, it can make nuclear weapons and thus often tries to make them and use them to conquer the world.
Active period: 76-Present.
Supervillain of the robot kind....

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 01:16 AM

The Quail (ii)
Years active: 1974-1985
Real name: Howard Zeck
A young man who decided to avenge the death of his brother and sister from gang violence, The Quail was hardly a instant success. After attempting to fight "fair" with batons, and bolas, The Quail switched to feather shaped knives, with talons in his gloves. He was hardly the first to go down the violent route, but he cleared out a good section of New York's drug dealers. In 1985 he seemingly disappeared along with twenty other heroes of various backgrounds. Of those twenty seven returned speaking of some far off Galactic War needing champions and The Quail dying a hero.

The Quail (iii)
Years active: 2003
A new comer to the scene, but doing very well in New York, and her new stomping grounds of Los Angeles. She fights with his fists mostly showing a level of physcal skill, but with glading wings, and her much prided, given by how much she talks to the press about them, Trang darts the newest person to call themseleves the Quail has a possible science background.

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 01:23 AM

I'm seeing a lot of guys with superpowers, and thats fine but why just that? A guy cannot put himself in the best shape possible and save the day? Some intellegent wallflower cannot craft a suit of armor to battle crime in?
well take a look at my ww2 team member The Bronze Chevalier he uses what is probably one of the first powered armors that was actually practical for combat:D

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 01:31 AM

well take a look at my ww2 team member The Bronze Chevalier he uses what is probably one of the first powered armors that was actually practical for combat:D

Yeah but your team pretty much is outside of my America centered heroes rules.

Redem

August 19th, 2008, 01:35 AM

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 01:52 AM

Yeah but your team pretty much is outside of my America centered heroes rules.
So what your saying is that other countries can't get hero representation and besides only three of the founding members are nonamerican and the team is supposed to be a cross between the all-star squadron and the invaders. From the all-star squadron I took the idea that most of America's supers would join this team after pearl harbor occurred to better coordinate the supers involvement in the defense of America, while from the invaders I took the idea that while most of the team is made up of Americans there are some nonamerican members at the most any country besides the us would have like three members max with the exception of Britain and France.:D

Communist Wizard

August 19th, 2008, 02:03 AM

So, Fenwick, how's BOR?

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 02:12 AM

So what your saying is that other countries can't get hero representation and besides only three of the founding members are nonamerican and the team is supposed to be a cross between the all-star squadron and the invaders. From the all-star squadron I took the idea that most of America's supers would join this team after pearl harbor occurred to better coordinate the supers involvement in the defense of America, while from the invaders I took the idea that while most of the team is made up of Americans there are some nonamerican members at the most any country besides the us would have like three members max with the exception of Britain and France.:D

The Invaders and The All-Star Sqaudron doesn't count as proper Golden Age for it was made in 1969 and 1981 respectfully. If you meant the All-Winners Squad only Namor was not American. Same with the Justice Society.

So, Fenwick, how's BOR?
If I don't say anything I think its awsome. The guy is strong and coldly logical making good villain banter a given. He adapts so he can be a recurring enemy, and most importantly its got the makings of a global supervillain which is all the better.

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 02:25 AM

The Invaders and The All-Star Sqaudron doesn't count as proper Golden Age for it was made in 1969 and 1981 respectfully. If you meant the All-Winners Squad only Namor was not American. Same with the Justice Society.
So what if it was made more recently most true golden age stuff is pretty shallow and comics like The Invaders and The All-Star Squadron along with mini-series like The Golden Age helped give proper depth to these characters.

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 02:48 AM

So what if it was made more recently most true golden age stuff is pretty shallow and comics like The Invaders and The All-Star Squadron along with mini-series like The Golden Age helped give proper depth to these characters.

I disagree for it plays into conceptions of the period more then the time frame itself itself. In the Golden Age heroes killed, and killed often revamps of the period have no one dying for it was a more "wholesome" time with the Invaders having Captain America never using a gun, and in Golden Age heroes only try to kill when it is utterly needed to save the day. What you are refering to in the Golden Age comics as shallow is simply from having almost 80 years of material to compare it to.

The Golden Age has a flavor to it which I think should be respected. Heroes don't all have powers, most of the time its magic not science which grant super powers, world travellers, and noir dectectives protect the people. You can have a side kick named Darkie wandering about going "Yes 'em boss!" while speaking in favor of Hitler, Stalin, or denouncing them both.

Just as the Silver Age has its own conventions which are to be upheld with a more science approach to heroes, more depth to characters, and more larger grander heroes and villians.

The more modern times have those big over reaching all encompassing hero events, and anti-heroes around every corner, followed by a more traditional outlook with heroes having ideals and values which they try to protect more then the status quo.

That is comics to me, its not seeing things written decades later and saying they are on equal terms but recognizing the value in the story telling and art at the time it was written. Batman is shallow for today, in 1939 it was ground breaking, amazing, and the best thing in the entire world. Just as my children will glimpse at Civil War, Infinate Crisis, and the Ultimates and laugh that I ever found such things interesting, so I have done that to what my father read. Yet I have to respect the norm for the period.

That is what I want. I want us to look at things not from the PC everything is happy world but really try to be true to comics themselves.

Snake Featherston

August 19th, 2008, 02:54 AM

I disagree for it plays into conceptions of the period more then the time frame itself itself. In the Golden Age heroes killed, and killed often revamps of the period have no one dying for it was a more "wholesome" time with the Invaders having Captain America never using a gun, and in Golden Age heroes only try to kill when it is utterly needed to save the day. What you are refering to in the Golden Age comics as shallow is simply from having almost 80 years of material to compare it to.

The Golden Age has a flavor to it which I think should be respected. Heroes don't all have powers, most of the time its magic not science which grant super powers, world travellers, and noir dectectives protect the people. You can have a side kick named Darkie wandering about going "Yes 'em boss!" while speaking in favor of Hitler, Stalin, or denouncing them both.

Just as the Silver Age has its own conventions which are to be upheld with a more science approach to heroes, more depth to characters, and more larger grander heroes and villians.

The more modern times have those big over reaching all encompassing hero events, and anti-heroes around every corner, followed by a more traditional outlook with heroes having ideals and values which they try to protect more then the status quo.

That is comics to me, its not seeing things written decades later and saying they are on equal terms but recognizing the value in the story telling and art at the time it was written. Batman is shallow for today, in 1939 it was ground breaking, amazing, and the best thing in the entire world. Just as my children will glimpse at Civil War, Infinate Crisis, and the Ultimates and laugh that I ever found such things interesting, so I have done that to what my father read. Yet I have to respect the norm for the period.

That is what I want. I want us to look at things not from the PC everything is happy world but really try to be true to comics themselves.

So what do you think of my character Masque, then?

Redem

August 19th, 2008, 02:55 AM

The Invaders and The All-Star Sqaudron doesn't count as proper Golden Age for it was made in 1969 and 1981 respectfully. If you meant the All-Winners Squad only Namor was not American. Same with the Justice Society.

If I don't say anything I think its awsome. The guy is strong and coldly logical making good villain banter a given. He adapts so he can be a recurring enemy, and most importantly its got the makings of a global supervillain which is all the better.

Feel like a sucker for asking but what are your opinions of mines?

Midgard

August 19th, 2008, 03:27 AM

(yes, that's a villain)

Name: Chaos

Years active: 1998 - present

Power: Reality Alteration. To be exact, Chaos is able to momentarily twist the laws of physics and tap into many of the possible "alternate" universes to essentially teleport objects to where he wants them to be, in his near proximity. The power is limited by his exact knowledge of the location, and cannot be used blindly. In addition, the power allows him limited teleportation on short distances, as he "walks" through an alternate world to change his physical position in the real world. The exact kind of objects he can materialize are mainly limited by his imagination, and his awareness.

History: Born in Russia just prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the man that would later become Chaos grew up in the middle of economic, social, and demographic turmoil. His powers first manifested at the age of 14, when he and his friends were attacked by an armed gang; Chaos thought up a gun into his hand, and chased off the gang members. When the gang members returned the following day, not realizing what has happened, he imagined a line of rotating blades; not a single gang member escaped alive.

In the turmoil of the times, the incidents went unnoticed by the local law enforcement; however, the young man kept on working on extending his powers and learning how to use them. Inheriting a cynical view of the world, he did not believe that he owed anything to the universe, and instead should use it to further his own desires and plans.

While not bloodthirsty in a traditional sense, Chaos thinks little about destroying those in his way. No longer content with merely acquiring wealth, he has been seeking to make the world fit to his views, and is suspected to be involved in a number of clandestine activities. Whether world domination is his end goal remains to be seen.

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 03:48 AM

Communist Wizard

August 19th, 2008, 03:54 AM

So, Fenwick, what exactly are you planning to do? Juust to see it? Or perhaps create your own comic series (on AH.com or not...)?

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 03:58 AM

So, Fenwick, what exactly are you planning to do? Juust to see it? Or perhaps create your own comic series (on AH.com or not...)?

I have an eleven page TL right now. I shall expand it more, and use it as an AH guideline of sorts. You know like an overview of history, that I can look at to make smaller versions of certain regions of history to go along.

At first I was going to just use peoples names, but I decided that was not as fun as coming up with an entire history. Plus as other people are making heroes I get that delightful division in thinking cause I'd make a bunch of masked heroes and nothing more.

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 04:30 AM

Ya'll are doing just fine, cause the heroes shown are in period for the most part. Thats cause much of them are closer to modern then Golden Age but some are good, some accepted. As stated before your heroes or villians are fine if I do not talk about them.

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 04:37 AM

so any problems with mine besides the fact that some of them are foreign:confused:

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 04:41 AM

so any problems with mine besides the fact that some of them are foreign:confused:

Your one hero explained in detail was not very consistant to me. He fights to save Russia from the Nazi's but is born during communism and has a distrust for them as well? Instead of going to the US or the West to actually do some good he goes to Finland? If that the route fin, but I see more knife to the throat in his sleep over being a long term hero. The Soviets did not take kindly to traitors in any era.

The other ones you do not really list off characters just names with powers you think are cool. I mean you do not say they are overtly violent, peaceful, if the team is full of commies or young republicans. Also why does a winged hero in 1942 get called the Harrier?

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 05:12 AM

Your one hero explained in detail was not very consistant to me. He fights to save Russia from the Nazi's but is born during communism and has a distrust for them as well? Instead of going to the US or the West to actually do some good he goes to Finland? If that the route fin, but I see more knife to the throat in his sleep over being a long term hero. The Soviets did not take kindly to traitors in any era.

The other ones you do not really list off characters just names with powers you think are cool. I mean you do not say they are overtly violent, peaceful, if the team is full of commies or young republicans. Also why does a winged hero in 1942 get called the Harrier?

First off The Harrier is named after a kind of bird-of-prey, secondly The Proletariat while a communist through and through recognizes how corrupt and vile the soviet government is and how contradictory it can be towards what communism is supposed to be and he moved to finland so he can stay near eastern Europe and Russia since they have almost no heroes and he never betrayed the soviets he just retired from their service to raise his family and he was still being used for soviet propaganda right up to the fall of the berlin wall and lastly for him it would take the equivalent of a MOAB to kill him easily that or being pummeled to death by another super or some incredibly powerful magic.

As for the others I intend on profiling them one at a time soon and I believe they give some needed international flavor after all if america has heroes than other countries have to have them too or it just becomes ridiculous though other countries heroes can be quite different from american heroes.

p.s. sorry for the wall of text:D:o

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 05:27 AM

First off The Harrier is named after a kind of bird-of-prey, secondly The Proletariat while a communist through and through recognizes how corrupt and vile the soviet government is and how contradictory it can be towards what communism is supposed to be and he moved to finland so he can stay near eastern Europe and Russia since they have almost no heroes and he never betrayed the soviets he just retired from their service to raise his family and he was still being used for soviet propaganda right up to the fall of the berlin wall and lastly for him it would take the equivalent of a MOAB to kill him easily that or being pummeled to death by another super or some incredibly powerful magic.

As for the others I intend on profiling them one at a time soon and I believe they give some needed international flavor after all if america has heroes than other countries have to have them too or it just becomes ridiculous though other countries heroes can be quite different from american heroes.

p.s. sorry for the wall of text:D:o

Dude look I just do not like the guy. He is too powerful for my tastes, he hates communism is alive causes he is good Propaganda yet lives outside of Russia which makes no sense, and he hates the system yet instead of trying to fix it given his position he bails across the border?

Plus Harrier was a reference to you saying you only had three international heroes. Unless the guy is British its an odd name for the 1940's. Also I am fine with international heroes but your very first post you say you are against non-influential foriegn heroes so I assume a bias on your part going in. So just have one team of forieners or for every ten American heroes there is one British or French one. Comics are American, i want to have the feel of an American book. As such that means people from Germany, Japan, China and Russia are the bad guys and are going to be for awhile and the bulk of heroes salute the stars and stripes.

It's like we can read about the Black Panther, the Crimson Dynamo, and the Silver Samurai, but at the end of the day they are international heroes they will never save the day. They may help, but Luke Cage, Spider-Man, or the Hulk will save the day long before any of them get close.

drrockso20

August 19th, 2008, 06:05 AM

sorry its just I spent a lot of time developing the character and I'm kinda protective towards him and other characters I create and as for Harrier he is a first generation american his father is british and the harrier was on their family crest which is why he adopted that as his hero name which was a detail I was going to include once I get to his biography.

Redem

August 19th, 2008, 04:04 PM

War Paladin
age : 47 at the time of death
Superpower: - Peak Human perfromance
Know wearpon: -
Status: 1953-1961
Location: United States
Usual target: Various, mostly involved into defusing elaborate supervilains plot

History: Born in 1925, Helmert Paxton was a farm boy and a star athlete during all his life he quickly joined the army as getting several medals for his heroic actions. He fought in the pacific war during a disastrous assault and was able to lead his unit back to safety and making massive Japanese casualties and destroying several casualties on his way out. He grew somehow desponded after that battle thinking it was unnecessarily savage and then decided to focus his mind on devising strategy that would maximize the neutralisation and the enemy capture most of its industrial capacity and made prisoners. He spent most of the war in a special unit and his work on it is highly classified.

In 1946, the army tried to see how much much training a man could get from the military Paxton was selected for the program going through various intense physical and mental training program, nearly dying of exhaustion several time but only becoming stronger. He quickly became a war hero of the Korean war and was much publicise as a propanganda tool. He somehow became disfranchise with his military background and decided to retire. The army discovered his body was getting severely damage each time he was using his ability to the top and they gave him honorable discharge.
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After his end of his tour of duty he quickly became a successful superhero fighting crime all over the United States. Some part of the hero community didn’t particularly appreciate him as they felt he was a poster boy rather than a fighter. However he did have successful run imprisoning many high-profile supervilains.

He soon discovered that his body simply couldn’t take the strain from the physical effort and after a fight with a major villain he was left paralyse waist down. He decided to reveal publicly his identity and became spokeman and a activist for Heroes all over the world. He died at 47 from an hearth attack.

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 08:23 PM

Templar
Years active: 1942-1945
The original Templar was Tim Perkins, an American who assisted the resistance in Nazi-occupied France from his base in an old church. He led a group of freedom fighters and eventually joined the The Super-Alliance. He was killed in action by Baron Iron in the final days of the European front.

Templar (ii)
Years active: 1963-1969
TJ (Tim Jr.) Perkins was told by his mother he was the son of Tim Perkins. While this seems to be an utter lie made by an ex-girlfriend, as the boy was born in 1940 when Perkins was in France, TJ took the tales of his father to heart. In the 60's he took up the mantle of the Templar and fought crime using high tech equipment.

Templar (iii) aka Boris Raemaker
Years active: 1986-1991
When heroes began turning to violence, corruption in some of the more well known teams, and scandals from the lowest to the mightiest heroes came about the next man to becoem the Templar seemed a throw back to a more humble time. He saved the day, and di not wait for reporters to arrive. When he spoke he was commanding yet never took credit when other heroes helped. He seemed like what America needed. Of course this was all a plot by the bastard son of a Nazi scientist and a Soviet assassin. In a plot to take over America which eventually failed Templar was to save the President of the United States then announce his own plans to "Save America" and then once he had nuclear missiles he would bring the world down and create the Fourth Riech.

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 08:24 PM

Capt. Astro
Years Active: 1938
Powers:Heat vision, flight, super strength
A super-humanly strong and seemingly invulnerable mystery man who claimed he had been sent from another planet to protect Earth. During his first few months as an adventurer, he demonstrated a wide array of abilities far beyond the realm of mortal man. Here was a hero of truly super proportions; a man who could shoot beams of light from his eyes and swoop down from the sky, descending on criminals like of bird of prey toward a worm. The age of the super-hero had begun in earnest.

In late 1938, less than six months after his initial appearance, Capt. Astro died defending the citizens of Grover's Mill, New Jersey against unearthly "battle machines" that seemed to prove true his extraterrestrial claims. This apparent invasion was stemmed by the heroic combined efforts of Capt. Astro, Dr. Solomon Wild, and Mister E. Nigma. Despite the tragedy of Vanguard's death, this epic battle, much of which was broadcast on live radio, would set the stage for the glory years of the 1940s.

The Guardsman
Active years: 1968-1975
Powers: Force field generation
A man claiming to have the powers of an ancient race of warriors The Guardsman can create any number of force fields in any shape he wishes. He fights to defend the planet from alien influences, and any large scale problem commenting that the problems of earth itself, "is outside of my duties."

Caretaker
Active years: 1939-1945, spotted 1964, 1979, and 1992
Powers: Can call upon the spirits of 1,000 dead soldiers
The seemingly undead spirit of a former American Major in WWI, whose entire battalion was killed on the western front. He fights calling upon the dead who served with him in a never ending curse to atone for the sins of murdering an entire town. He appeared for WWII, during the Munich Olympics, and various other times all to save those in need from the evil in man's heart.

Delta Blur
Active years: 1963-1978
Powers: Super-speed
An Atlanta based superhero who started off simply saving the day, and went on to become a national sensation. Qouted as being the fastest man alive, something challeneged by the Los Angeles based Human Bolt, Russia's Desna, and many more.

Fenwick

August 19th, 2008, 09:06 PM

Ozamrdx
Home World: Ozaa
Leader: Empress Tan'quil
Invasions attempted: 10 (three Imperial invasions in 1966, 1984, 1991 and dozens of covert actions by various factions)
Powers: Every Ozamrdx is twice as strong as a human, with red skin showing those able to use small mental powers which enable them to hide their true form, to the purple skinned which seem to be the footsoldiers, of those with green skin.
History: An alien race whose Empire stretches over much of the galaxy the Ozamrdx are a militant, religous race of aliens which seek to control earth which is the cloest planet to a interstellar nexus. With billions of possible soldiers, advanced technology, and eager to expand their control of the Universe.

The Galatic Council
Leader: The Supreme Ones
Members: Creatures from over seventy worlds, including earth all protecting the galaxy as Nexian Brigade. Earth has had two members John Starvos, and Brandon Hill who earned the title of Nexian.
Equipment: Every one in the Nexian Brigade are granted a suit which enables flight, the ability to withstand the vacuum of space, and take great damage. Gauntlets are enfused with energy letting every Nexian to send forth powerful blasts to stun enemies. Finally each Nexian has their own space ship to allow interstellar travel.
History: For thousands of years the Galactic Council has been offering worlds the chance to have protection by its Nexian Brigade. Many have taken up the offer, earth being one of the few who turned it down due to fighting amongst the various world powers. One day a Nexian was tracking down a criminal who destroyed entire cities for the fun of it arrived on earth. Instead of a warm welcome the Nexian was shot down, and imprisoned after the alien criminal spreading lies of a great invasion fleet. In prison the Nexian was dying, and told his prison guard what he stood for. When the guard walked away a lone prisoner asked if it was true, that prisoner John Starvos was granted the powers of the Nexian Brigade and went on to save earth.

He-Who-Judges
Age: Old as the universe itself
Appearence: The earth he looks like a hooded thirty story man, with glowing red eyes, and blackness beneath his robes. Yet its appearence changes depending on who watches, for just what He-Who-Judges is seems impossible to even comprehend.
History: He-Who-Judges have never spoken anything beyond the words "Guilty." Just what Earth is guilty of has yet to be discovered, nor has anyone taken the time to figure it all out. He-Who-Judges merely arrived on earth, observed for a month and set down a judgement. The heroes of the earth fought back and forced the entity to leave earth with his minions.

Redem

August 19th, 2008, 10:06 PM

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8369/chainpr3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
By Redem (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Redem)

Here my attempt at doing Chain (the weapon not right of course)

drrockso20

August 20th, 2008, 04:22 AM

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8369/chainpr3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
By Redem (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Redem)

Here my attempt at doing Chain (the weapon not right of course)

how'd you make that?

Redem

August 20th, 2008, 04:34 AM

how'd you make that?

This little baby

http://fabricadeherois.blogspot.com/

if you want some translation

http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=492684&sid=addaa42e795f237c1688d867986c5e56

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1690/paladinwo1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
By Redem (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Redem)

Fenwick

August 20th, 2008, 04:55 AM

What do you call that green guy? I like him.

Redem

August 20th, 2008, 05:00 AM

What do you call that green guy? I like him.

Suppose to be War Paladin glad you enjoy the design

Fenwick

August 20th, 2008, 05:05 AM

Suppose to be War Paladin glad you enjoy the design

Looks too evil. Tone down the colors a little, or use a different helmet.

Redem

August 20th, 2008, 05:08 AM

Looks too evil. Tone down the colors a little, or use a different helmet.

It was meant to be golden but whatever (I had him green with millitary camo in earlier version) might change it, anyway you can use that design for a vilain if you want to

for Flay just imagin this little fellow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Warrenseason8.JPG

with some dirty hippies clothes

drrockso20

August 20th, 2008, 07:30 AM

I tried to upload a pic I made of harrier using fabrica de herois but the upload failed so I'll try again later:D:o:mad:

e350tb

August 20th, 2008, 10:18 AM

Okay I need superheroes, supervillians, and whatever else you got. The rules are simple make a hero, villian, or group from their first arrival in 1936 until today.

You cannot make serious changes to history (Hitler dies by his own hand, Cuban Missile Crisis occurs, Cold War, and Iraqi war go on).
You can have global incidents that some how don;t effect anything (alien invasions, cosmic monsters, interdimensional shifts negating reality), only if everything turns back to normal when its done.
Think Spider-man for the most part. You can try for a Superman level guy, but make him or her disappear for a few years.
Try to keep it American heroes for the most part, with Soviets, Chinese, Japanese, or Germans as villians.
If you must have a non-US hero keep them small and not the savior of the planet.
Heroes and villians die, and should die often. They get old, they retire, or they go down fighting its up to you but almost no one is going to be active from 1936 to 2008.

What about American Allies (ie. Britain, France. In fact, it'd probably be just as intersting to have British and French ones at the time you're thinking of.)

Fenwick

August 20th, 2008, 04:06 PM

Read the rules.

AirshipArmada

August 20th, 2008, 08:21 PM

The Gatling Ghost originated as a villain from the horror comic books. In the premier issue some small-time gangsters used a ghost town in Washington State as a hideout, only to be killed off one at a time by a yellow-green ghost carrying a gatling gun. The deaths were ironically appropriate, in the style of the horror comics of the time.

Issue four introduced two minor characters and revealed the true nature of the Gatling Ghost. The two new villains were Trenchbroom Hilda and Tommy Two Guns, each of which used tommy guns and were clearly based upon Bonny and Clyde. It tuned out that there was nothing supernatural about the Gatling Ghost. He was just a strong gangster looking for the "lost ton of gold" and who painted himself with phosphorescent paint. He had a special harness that allowed him to carry the gatling gun he had found in his search for the gold. The issues which featured all three villains had the basic premiss of "bad things happen to bad people".

A gang of Chinese mafia operating in Seattle had information about the gold's location but were unwilling to go get it. The Gatling Ghost and Tommy Two Guns sold their partner (Trenchbroom Hilda) into white slavery to get the info. The mafia took Hilda but lied about where the gold was. They lead GG and Tommy into an abandoned mine and a fight ensued. GG and Two Guns won but then Two Guns became spooked by his own shadow and shot at a pile of T&T. The resulting explosion and cave in buried and killed Two Guns but the Gatling Ghost was able to dig himself free. He then returned to the hideout of the Chinese mafia and proceeded to shoot the place up. After much slaughter and bloodshed he got the real info on where the gold is hidden and killed everyone else in the hideout.

The mafia were afraid to get the gold because it was hidden in sacred Indian territory. When the Gatling Ghost tried to retrieve the loot he was countered by the true hero of the series: Chuck Raven. Chuck was an Indian with petrinatural abilities in tracking, the bow, and the war-club. Chuck Raven usually bests the Gatling Ghost even though the Ghost out guns and out powers Raven. The Ghost, however, does eventually find the gold. But as he carries a large pallet full of gold across a bridge, the bridge breaks and the Ghost drowns - weighted down by the very prize he worked so hard to achieve.

The publisher tried to make Chuck Raven a success on his own, but America was not ready for an Indian superhero. So they brought back the Gatilng Ghost. One of Chuck Raven's friends was a white man named Robert Chess who was "brought up by Indians". Robert retrieves the gear of from the dead Gatling Ghost and assumes that persona; only this time he acts only for the forces of good. The New Gatling Ghost and Chuck Raven form a very successful partnership.

During WWII they spy and fight against the Japanese and are instrumental in protecting the West Coast from eminent invasion. After the second atomic bomb fails to detonate in Nagasaki, the duo are sent to try and retrieve the weapon. Raven is captured Cyborg Samurai and, by the time Gatling Ghost gets to the bomb, he is completely surrounded by the Japanese Army. Rather than surrender, the Ghost detonates the bomb killing himself, but also destroying many Japanese forces and causing the Emperor to surrender the war.

In the 1970's Chuck Raven's son, Robert Raven, assumed the role of Superhero. The new Raven was much more magical and could travel to the Spirit Lands. He spent his time defending the world from supernatural dangers which normal people didn't even know about. This changed in 1981 when the daughter of then president Ronald Reagan (Patti Davis) was kidnapped by demons as she filmed a guest appearance in the TV series Fantasy Island. Robert Raven pursued the demons to the Spirit Lands but was not able to defeat them. Ultimately he negotiated a trade: Patti Davis was released and the demons took The Raven for 20 years in exchange. In 2001 he was released, he has many scars from his ordeal but is still handsome, and he has not aged a day during his 20 years of agony. Raven is much wiser and resolves conflicts through intellect rather than force.

Count Dearborn

August 20th, 2008, 09:09 PM

I have a group, but I never gave them a name, that are a homage to all of those cartoons of the 1980's who use gimmicked vehicles to fight crime.

Redem

August 20th, 2008, 09:16 PM

I have a group, but I never gave them a name, that are a homage to all of those cartoons of the 1980's who use gimmicked vehicles to fight crime.

How bout the Reagan Raiders :D

I don't know the Thunder Avenger sound like the name a 80's cartoon would have

Count Dearborn

August 21st, 2008, 01:52 AM

How bout the Reagan Raiders :D

I don't know the Thunder Avenger sound like the name a 80's cartoon would have

They kond of grew out of an idea of a bunch of working class joes who take on a crooked transportation company by using gimmicked semi-tractor/trucks. I also had an idea of a special group, made up from agents of various law enforcement agencies who use gimmicked cars to fight crime. Their enemies also used gimmicked cars.

Redem

August 21st, 2008, 02:02 AM

They kond of grew out of an idea of a bunch of working class joes who take on a crooked transportation company by using gimmicked semi-tractor/trucks. I also had an idea of a special group, made up from agents of various law enforcement agencies who use gimmicked cars to fight crime. Their enemies also used gimmicked cars.

Something with Rider in the title I guess

cow defender

August 21st, 2008, 04:26 AM

THE BOND DIVISION a division of the Office of Strategic Affairs THE WHO’S WHO

THE KNIGHTS and their associates

The Watchman
Richard Leroux- Leroux began his career as a vigilant superhero on a muggy night in 1936. A rookie cop on the beat, Officer Leroux was witness to a horrid scene of devilry and witchcraft. The ravage beast of a Voodoo Sorceror responsible was the infamous Houngan Dutti Boukman. The young Leroux was found on the scene days later, hysterical, bloodsoaked, screaming and blind. A testament to his inner strength and willpower Leroux confronted his tormentor. With the help of the mysterious Mama Tess Leroux caged the sorcerer in an eyepatch, freeing the trapped soul of an ancient adventuring privateer. The pirate’s spirit possessed Leroux’s body but could not sufficiently control the willful young man. A ‘melting’ was performed of their souls, “like mixing milk and flower to make pancakes,” and the Watchman was formed.
Leroux was recruited into the fledgling OSS by Mama Tess in its early days quickly becoming the top agent in matters of the Occult. Transferred to the Bond Division Leroux formed part of a crack team fighting the German exploration of the occult across Africa and into Europe. Leroux was killed by friendly fire on the day before Nazi surrender. It is said the spirit of the Watchmen continued to haunt the OSS, especially the members of the Bond division until their deaths.

The Ace
Damien Sevens- Some say the Ace flew out of his mother’s womb in the cockpit of a P-51D Mustang; Others that the womb was the cockpit, his mother the sky. He was called Lucky Sevens, the Gremlin King but mostly the Ace. The real story is, of course, far less far fetched. Raised on an Iowa farm, Damien found an aptitude for flight by flying his father’s crop-dusting biplane. At 14 he volunteered for the British Army, Air division. His training in the air was the Battle of Britain. By the time he was 18 he had more confirmed enemy kills than any pilot in history, his record only challenged by his greatest rival, The Red Baron. After a hellish dogfight the young but veteran Ace was shot down by the Red Baron. Crashing into London in a fiery blaze the Ace somehow stumbled out of the wreckage. Though no injuries were received he instantly went into a coma. Due to the strange circumstances he was Transferred back to America and proclaimed dead. the Ace eventually awoke, craving the air and looking for action. He was allowed into the OSS as the top pilot and air specialist eventually being transferred to the Bond Division as the official pilot. Serving with pride until the dissolution of the OSS, the Ace retired to California to lead a normal family life with the famous Dr. Emilie Hurt. Their youngest daughter Alicia would form the MacroSoft Corporation, still one of the leading names in Defensive and Computing technologies. Their grandchildren would eventually form the Fighting Seventh the so called ‘Death Squad’ of the Vietnam Conflict.

mmore to come...

Fenwick

August 21st, 2008, 04:36 AM

Hmmm needs to be cheesy, and slightly offensive.

Oh.... The Freedom Riders!

Count Dearborn

August 21st, 2008, 04:39 AM

Could you see a bunch of blue collar joes fighting crime on the roads of the US?

Fenwick

August 21st, 2008, 04:43 AM

Could you see a bunch of blue collar joes fighting crime on the roads of the US?

Well you need Rick the leader, that all American Joe who just happens to be a mechanical, and tactical genius. Then you have Ratchet the glasses wearing smart guy whose vehicle is more "fancy" and with not as much firepower. You need the token girl who gets captured and have the pink car. Chains will be the muscle bound, gatling gun using rather gay looking one.

Maybe a talking car, or a dog that can work the final car and you have the perfect 80's team.

Count Dearborn

August 21st, 2008, 04:45 AM

Well you need Rick the leader, that all American Joe who just happens to be a mechanical, and tactical genius. Then you have Ratchet the glasses wearing smart guy whose vehicle is more "fancy" and with not as much firepower. You need the token girl who gets captured and have the pink car. Chains will be the muscle bound, gatling gun using rather gay looking one.

Maybe a talking car, or a dog that can work the final car and you have the perfect 80's team.

How about a 16 year-old kid who has a gimmicked scooter?

Fenwick

August 21st, 2008, 04:46 AM

How about a 16 year-old kid who has a gimmicked scooter?

That wouldn't work. Remeber kids get big pointless guns same as the adults. Maybe the scooter turns into a big freaking motorcycle.

Count Dearborn

August 21st, 2008, 05:43 AM

That wouldn't work. Remeber kids get big pointless guns same as the adults. Maybe the scooter turns into a big freaking motorcycle.

No, it has an anti-gravity option.

perfectgeneral

August 21st, 2008, 05:52 AM

Fulcrum - no powers except insight into the weak points in others and the perfect way to exploit them (bit of a challenge for the writer this one).

Stirling - uses the vast resources of his mining, refining and casting empire to influence politics and buy up innovative industrial companies. When corrupt directors in one of his companies cause industrial pollution that kills thousands in India, Stirling vows to clean house. Using a secret alloy and advanced patents he imbues himself with seeming super powers of invulnerability, cyber-communication and personal fire-power. He has more money than he will ever need.

Wasteland - She has super rapid regeneration powers, that keep her alive in spite of the highly radioactive metals and deadly diseases in her system. Since her cells are replaced frequently, she often forgets things. Only radiation resistant diseases like anthrax survive in her system. Anyone exposed to her for long or in close proximity receives a deadly dose of radiation (beta and gamma). Since she replicates her cells very often there is a high chance that she will mutate further.

Fenwick

August 21st, 2008, 05:53 AM

Fulcrum - no powers except incite into the weak points in others and the perfect way to exploit them (bit of a challenge for the writer this one).

Stirling - uses the vast resources of his mining, refining and casting empire to influence politics and buy up innovative industrial companies. When corrupt directors in one of his companies cause industrial pollution that kills thousands in India, Stirling vows to clean house. Using a secret alloy and advanced patents he imbues himself with seeming super powers of invulnerability, cyber-communication and personal fire-power. He has more money than he will ever need.

Wasteland - She has super rapid regeneration powers, that keep her alive in spite of the highly radioactive metals and deadly diseases in her system. Since her cells are replaced frequently, she often forgets things. Only radiation resistant diseases like anthrax survive in her system. Anyone exposed to her for long or in close proximity receives a deadly dose of radiation (beta and gamma). Since she replicates her cells very often there is a high chance that she will mutate further.

Dates when they were active? Heroes? Villians?

drrockso20

August 22nd, 2008, 09:27 PM

I present The Harrier and I couldn't get the colors to work right:D:o

drrockso20

August 22nd, 2008, 09:30 PM

heres how the colors look made this with another editor though the first one is closer to how he looks this is closer to how the second harrier's costume looked

drrockso20

August 22nd, 2008, 10:28 PM

now heres The Vermilion Seeker made with hero machine 2.5:D

drrockso20

August 22nd, 2008, 11:49 PM

heres the Albion Lion

Redem

August 22nd, 2008, 11:55 PM

now heres The Vermilion Seeker made with hero machine 2.5:D

Remind me the Scarlet Boomerang

drrockso20

August 23rd, 2008, 12:11 AM

he's sort of a mix of various pulp heroes but most especially The Shadow, The Spider, and The Spirit think of him as a more lethal and serious version of the spirit in terms of attitude:D

drrockso20

August 23rd, 2008, 04:39 AM

heres Johnny and The Golem:D

drrockso20

August 23rd, 2008, 05:23 AM

heres Night Master

The Sicilian

August 23rd, 2008, 05:57 AM

Name: The Sicilian a.k.a. Mateo Messiniano
Years Active: 1936 - 1956
Abilities: Enhanced strength, endurance, senses, extremely skilled in weapons, tactics and hand-to-hand combat, polymath
Allies: Gustavus Maximus, Mikey Angel
Female rivals/romantic interests: The Inquisitrix, Dublina, Lady Fatima
Enemies: The Austrian, Imperial Flame, Ktholob
Bio: Mateo Messiniano was born in an Italian immigrant community in New York in 1916. The murder of his beloved in 1936 spurred his decision to put his considerable talents to use as a superhero. He cleaned up the Eastern Seaboard of the Mafia during the 30's, fought in Europe and the Pacific during WWII, and helped several struggling nations achieve independence in the early fifties. He died in 1956 in the explosion that took out his old rival Imperial Flame's Pacific island base and his army of robo-samurai.

The Sicilian
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The Sicilian

August 23rd, 2008, 05:59 AM

His alter ago, vagrant Mateo Messiniano

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The Sicilian

August 23rd, 2008, 06:00 AM

His rival, Japanese supervillain Imperial Flame

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drrockso20

August 23rd, 2008, 06:10 AM

nice ones Sicilian how do you like mine:D

G.Bone

August 23rd, 2008, 11:34 AM

Duster

The hero known as Duster stems as far back as the early 1920's in the turmoil of US administered Philippines. At first the story concentrated on a Marine gone native, pulled into the bush in the offer of hidden Spanish gold. When he came back, he was changed, putting him as a bandit, always trying to find a balance between the US and the Filipinos. The only problem was the local 'sheriff' who was posted to counteract such activities, under the title of Sgt. Dan Forth (US Army). These difficulties soon led to acrimonious disputes. The last note of the conflict emerged with a lost island involving cursed Spanish gold and rumored elements of superstitious things.

These new traits did come in handy when WW2 came about. Sifting through the rumors of this turbulent time, most of what can be attributed to his new abilities are these; quick healing, arrested aging, a Winchester that never ran out of bullets, and acute hearing that admonished even those around him. These attributes pulled the Japanese into an endless battle against him with the result being of their own furtive 'super-hero' program. However, for those that did get a good look at him, something in his face had changed to the point that his bandanna was permanently on his face, the eyes looking out from a face worn down to the skull, and the inability to look at him without fear turning them away.

The myth of Duster did linger on from WW2, with rival stories appearing in Burma, Singapore, and even Indonesia. He would always strive for freedom. It was with the complexities of the post-WW2 era that slowly decreased his stature as a hero. The last recorded mention of "Duster" sets him in the late 1967, where he helped several villages from a flood, and ultimately disappeared in the jungle once the government troops came in.