Paris Hilton-Supervillainess! [Archive] - HERO Games Discussion Boards

Hermit

Jun 11th, '07, 09:42 AM

In reality, Paris is going to jail ... if you don't know the details, a quick web search should bury you with a number of articles, news pieces, and headlines at a level that medical research break thru stories WISH they got.

However, in a superheroic setting...
Well, she's just begging to join the side of EEEEEEVVVVVILLLLL as a supervillainess!

But what type of supervillainess? Oh yes, what indeed. MULTIPLE Choice Poll is now up with some ideas, but feel free to post your own.

Note: This is meant to be fun :)

Jared Rann

Jun 11th, '07, 09:48 AM

Hah!!! This is a great idea. Is she going to go solo, or have some minions to go along with her?

Whitewings

Jun 11th, '07, 09:50 AM

She needs minions. At the least she needs an advisor to tell her what she wants to do.

nexus

Jun 11th, '07, 09:58 AM

I see her as being a Gravitar or White Rabbit type. Possibly insanely powerful but with the attitude of a spoiled child. Her crimes are petty and mostly high profile attention getting things, no real drive to do anything "big" because that would take effort and cut into her "fun" time. Defintely some kind of accidental origin but she feel entirely justified in posessing her abilities and lords it over others. Possibly a good unwitting minion for much less powerful "advisor" that manipulates by catering to her ego but woe to that person if she ever figures out what's going on.. or she might be so helpless in the face of actually having to bear some responsiblity that she goes along with it or even deliberately draws together cohorts that competent to help her fullfill her goals as long she's firmly in the spotlight.

Bloodstone

Jun 11th, '07, 10:04 AM

Radiation Accident induced super genius and mentalist.

No one would ever see it comin' ;)

nexus

Jun 11th, '07, 10:07 AM

Radiation Accident induced super genius and mentalist.

No one would ever see it comin' ;)

This is for a superhero comic, not a horror comic. ;)

Hermit

Jun 11th, '07, 10:08 AM

Poll is up, and Multiple Choice since it in corporates both powers and goals

nexus

Jun 11th, '07, 10:09 AM

Her dog could become sentient and telepathic and fill the role as the long suffering "brains" of the operation.

Comic

Jun 11th, '07, 10:14 AM

.. I'm just worried that this will set the precedent for other supervillains.

Do players really want to cope with a Eurostar drunk driving cross-country car rally?

Or Dr. Destroyer discovering porn videos of himself and going berserk until every last copy is tracked down?

Grond commando in a too-short skirt?

Foxbat starring in a wax-museum horror movie, where the wax images infringe the heroes' images and liknesses?

A second round of Dr. Destroyer porn?

Dr. Photon and La Pulga having a spat because they both wore the same outfit, and going on a bulemia-themed murder spree of designers who won't work exclusively for one of them or the other?

OddHat

Jun 11th, '07, 10:24 AM

Power Armor and other gadgets, all purchased rather than invented, most "crimes" are mainly publicity stunts designed to get her attention and piss off her family. Family continues to fund her despite her constant trouble-making because she is the rightful heir and, in the end, one of them. All plots are dim witted, impractical, deadly to innocent bystanders about whom she cares nothing, and filmed for distribution on her web site and PPV.

Sidekicks include Nicole (another heiress criminal), a cyborg dog, and pretty boy thugs with cybernetic and drug enhanced strength and other abilities.

Gravitar in particular hates her, as the two are often compared and (falsely) linked in the press.

jkwleisemann

Jun 11th, '07, 10:27 AM

Dude... Destroyer wouldn't be the *only* person going berserk until every last copy was found and destroyed....

As for Villainess Hilton... that'll take some thought. I'm tempted to say debuffer/drainer... if there's anything you could get out of somebody that vacuous, it's the ability to drag others down to her level, kicking and screaming all the way.

Jared Rann

Jun 11th, '07, 11:04 AM

As much as I liked the lowering of IQ to her levels, I had to go with the gadget bag. Of course, maybe this could match her custom armor that she uses to bring the world to her intelligence level and then she could have the the cutest guys she wanted because they would be to stupid to know any better.

Come up with a name for her yet?

Twilight

Jun 11th, '07, 11:12 AM

Paris buys her gadgets of course, because its really the only thing she knows how to do. Shopping is her only real skill so any method of empowering herself would naturally involve that in some manner. Of course it would go down as the only logical and intelligent course she's ever taken in her life, ever. :D

CourtFool

Jun 11th, '07, 11:20 AM

2x Mirror Effects

Brandi

Jun 11th, '07, 11:30 AM

Judging from her effect on the media and the public, 10D INT Drain, 1", Megascale.

Clonus

Jun 11th, '07, 12:02 PM

On the cartoon Totally Spies, the fifth richest person in the world is Milan Stilton, who is armed with a robot Chihuahua that's really rather formidable. She tries to kidnap everyone who came ahead of her on the list.. Supervillain Wednesday Kertsfield from Delilah and Julius isn't particularly like Paris Hilton apart from being young, rich and famous but she masterminds a scheme to kidnap pretty-boy models and actors in order to have them fight in gladiatorial games.

OddHat

Jun 11th, '07, 12:15 PM

And don't forget Project A-Ko, a near perfect Teen Champions campaign if ever there was one. Paris Hilton would work well as a dumber, sleazier B-ko, so long as she purchased the power armor rather than inventing it.

Bloodstone

Jun 11th, '07, 12:17 PM

Some how this story will not be complete without an anthropomorphic kinkajuo...

Log-Man

Jun 11th, '07, 12:38 PM

I voted for the gadgets, though the supersuit is an obvious alternative. Princess Morbucks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Morbucks) wasn't directly based upon Paris, but the similarities are frightening.

pinecone

Jun 11th, '07, 01:08 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

Gawain

Jun 11th, '07, 01:17 PM

Her dog could become sentient and telepathic and fill the role as the long suffering "brains" of the operation.

You mean Inspector Gadget? :confused: :idjit:

Enforcer84

Jun 11th, '07, 01:19 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

:jawdrop:

:weep:

Jared Rann

Jun 11th, '07, 01:26 PM

Would that be the same concept as transparent aluminum?

Log-Man

Jun 11th, '07, 01:32 PM

Would that be the same concept as transparent aluminum?
How do we know she didn't invent it?

Superskrull

Jun 11th, '07, 04:41 PM

How do we know she didn't invent it?

Now I want you to think about what you just said. Can you really see her inventing anything?

On another note, it would seem to make plenty of sense for Pulsar to become infatuated with her and by the time the debris was cleared and the fires put out, we've got an empowered Paris ala the old Starburst character from previous editions. Now she's all set to try to steal the spotlight from Sapphire.

dustytomes

Jun 11th, '07, 05:26 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

...eerrr ahhh.... a S.T.D. V.P.P :sick:

Dusty

Clonus

Jun 11th, '07, 06:46 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

The bare-midriff power armour from the second half of Bubblegum Crisis 2040... I believe Priss commented that she never thought she'd have to shave down there for a hard suit.

Certified

Jun 11th, '07, 08:19 PM

Going to have to go with 1 and 2... Using Daddies money to buy power armor with fire powers.

Rapier

Jun 12th, '07, 03:41 AM

OddHat

Jun 12th, '07, 04:00 AM

I'd say that she'd be a pretty effective villain in terms of body count. The real PH seems to have the self centered arrogance common among the young and privileged, along with a fondness for substance abuse. Finding out that the actual woman had been involved in a hit and run would surprise no one; add in power armor and explosives and a lot of innocent bystanders are going to be killed.

Pariah

Jun 13th, '07, 06:13 AM

I see PH-S being a little less effective than Foxbat. I mean, after all, we are talking about a girl that put a frying pan into a microwave.

I could see many "plans" to take over the world, but they would be so horribly executed the even Foxbat would look askance.
When I first read this thread, Foxbat was the name that leapt immediately to my mind, too.

How about this: Paris, having used her substantial inherited fortune to buy all kinds of gadgets, cozies up to Foxbat and suggests an alliance/partnership. Then, with timely flirting and showing a little leg once in a while, Paris completely befuddles the fantastic Foxbat and takes over his organization within just a few months.

Of course, then she gets pulled over for driving the Centipedemobile on a suspended license, gets sent to jail, and the whole cycle repeats itself....

Pariah

Jun 13th, '07, 06:14 AM

Paris somehow loses all her hair, gains a big forehead and super intelligence!
An old quote about the difference between suspending disbelief and hanging it by the neck until dead comes to mind here.

OddHat

Jun 13th, '07, 06:18 AM

Paris decides to become a Superhero as a way to land some publicity and a new reality show, using the family money to finance an armored suit and some themed gadgets, many of them jokes. On her first outing, drunk, she plows her armored suit into a crowd, injuring dozens, and then flies off. The suit jet backwash kills a sixteen year old girl and maims three people. Paris' family sets up a desperate legal defense while Paris herself flees to the Riviera. Your heroes must track her down and bring her back to face manslaughter charges, without any more innocent people being hurt. And she still has the suit.

Vestnik

Jun 13th, '07, 06:20 AM

Her dog could become sentient and telepathic and fill the role as the long suffering "brains" of the operation.

I think her dog could do that even without acquiring sentience and telepathy.

The Watcher

Jun 13th, '07, 08:56 AM

I'm going to shock people and say that Paris Hilton in a super campaign could actually be an uber-competent dark avenger of the night.

Think about it. Batman as Bruce acts in such a way that he is seen as a shallow, hard partying playboy who doesn't really put much effort into thinking beyond the next starlet or social event. He portrays himself in such a way that no one would ever believe he was Batman.

A good example of this was the stuff he pulled in Batman Begins.

For a female version of Batman, "Paris Hilton" would be the ultimate secret identity.

Certified

Jun 13th, '07, 10:14 AM

nexus

Jun 13th, '07, 10:21 AM

I think her dog could do that even without acquiring sentience and telepathy.

True but someone has to provide a moderate degree of tactical challenge :D

assault

Jun 13th, '07, 01:22 PM

For a female version of Batman, "Paris Hilton" would be the ultimate secret identity.

Sadly, this is absolutely correct, and it puts Bruce Wayne into context too. (Repped!)

Less scarily, Pulsar would obviously get involved in her career at some point or other.

Dog Soldier

Jun 13th, '07, 01:50 PM

Actually Paris Hilton has the PERFECT cover to be a great Power Armored Superhero :D

assault

Jun 13th, '07, 01:54 PM

Actually Paris Hilton has the PERFECT cover to be a great Power Armored Superhero :D

Defender. :thumbup:

OddHat

Jun 13th, '07, 02:40 PM

Ok ... you got me, when I get home it's time to fire up the old Hero Designer. Can we start a Offshoot thread of Paris Hilton Builds?

OddHat, I want to steal your background on this one ...

Sure. :)

Gemphyre

Jun 13th, '07, 03:11 PM

When I first read this thread, Foxbat was the name that leapt immediately to my mind, too.

How about this: Paris, having used her substantial inherited fortune to buy all kinds of gadgets, cozies up to Foxbat and suggests an alliance/partnership. Then, with timely flirting and showing a little leg once in a while, Paris completely befuddles the fantastic Foxbat and takes over his organization within just a few months.

Of course, then she gets pulled over for driving the Centipedemobile on a suspended license, gets sent to jail, and the whole cycle repeats itself....

Actually, I think that she could take over Foxbat's "organization" in just a few days with that kind of technique, if not a few hours. After all, he is from the same background as she is, and she still has her money.

Gemphyre

assault

Jun 13th, '07, 03:32 PM

I've been thinking for a while about building a Batman-type character, to go with the various 350 point Superman homages that are floating around. I'm beginning to think a female version might be a good idea.

Hmm... Flying Fox?

Writing up a background should be easy - just crunch together Foxbat, Nighthawk, Defender and Sapphire...

Pariah

Jun 14th, '07, 06:20 AM

Writing up a background should be easy - just crunch together Foxbat, Nighthawk, Defender and Sapphire...

That's your idea of easy? :D

Vestnik

Jun 14th, '07, 06:21 AM

That's your idea of easy? :D

Think of it as the CU version of the Composite Superman.

assault

Jun 15th, '07, 06:07 AM

That's your idea of easy? :D

It changes it from being an exercise in writing into an exercise in editing. Deleting sentences is easier than writing them. ;)

The chances are I won't use much or anything from at least one or two of the sources, but I will pinch bits from a couple at least.

FenrisUlf

Jun 15th, '07, 11:48 AM

Hey, Hermit, Stan Lee thinks that Paris Hilton would make a good supervillainess too. In fact, he's making a cartoon about her for MTV!

Go and check out the NGD for more.

Lucius

Jun 16th, '07, 11:32 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

Been done.

It's in the game Super Munchkin

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary wears powered barding

TheRavenIs

Jun 17th, '07, 05:56 PM

Power Armor and gadgets......a real twisted team villianess. I also have to say, she'd do things that get her on TV, even more than she is now.....anything to get that atention she craves.

Great Beyond

Jun 18th, '07, 03:16 PM

A possable first...see through Power armor...:)

Naw - the Dirty Pair did it 25 years ago!

Cold Steel

Jun 18th, '07, 03:24 PM

I pick all of the above.

The Dirty Who???

Gemphyre

Jun 18th, '07, 04:37 PM

Naw - the Dirty Pair did it 25 years ago!

Actually, I think that they had something closer to subdermal armor. Did not interfere with their sense of touch, or what others (cute guys) felt when they touched the Lovely Angels, but it protected against weapons of all sorts. And they could wear those skimpy "uniforms" and combat armor as needed.

But then, I could be referencing a different set of sources than you.

Gemphyre
(I would take either one, but would prefer Kei. ;) )

Superskrull

Jun 19th, '07, 07:23 AM

The Dirty Who???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Pair

nexus

Jun 19th, '07, 02:07 PM

Catnappe from Xiao Lin Shodown wouldn't be a bad model for Paris Hilton as a supervillainess. :)

Matt the Bruins

Jun 19th, '07, 02:48 PM

For a female version of Batman, "Paris Hilton" would be the ultimate secret identity.

Brilliant!

Great Beyond

Jun 19th, '07, 03:40 PM

Actually, I think that they had something closer to subdermal armor. Did not interfere with their sense of touch, or what others (cute guys) felt when they touched the Lovely Angels, but it protected against weapons of all sorts. And they could wear those skimpy "uniforms" and combat armor as needed.

But then, I could be referencing a different set of sources than you.

Gemphyre
(I would take either one, but would prefer Kei. ;) )

I seem to recall - and granted this was years and years ago when I read this - that their uniforms were clear, flexable lightweight armor that was perfect for a battle bikini! But then I think this little nugget was from one of the fan subbed episodes, so who knows if it was even close to being correct!