Some Help for WWII Icons

[fbdaury]

Okay, using any source you have available to you, what woudl you set as the "Icon" character for all the following countries during WWII:
USA
USSR
Germany
Italy
Japan
UK/Britain
France (possibly in exile or resistance)
And what other national heroes would you add in other than these?

[TheQuestionMan]

Do you mean the Golden Age of Comic Books or the Golden Age of the Champions Universe???

Allies of World War II or Axis Powers?


Thanks, Cheers...


QM

[fbdaury]

Do you mean the Golden Age of Comic Books or the Golden Age of the Champions Universe???

Allies of World War II or Axis Powers?


Thanks, Cheers...


QM

Any source- comics, and rpg game, etc. and both axis and allies. I'm creating a mishmash campaign world and am curious on who others consider THE Hero for each country involved- man think Cap America but some may also consider Uncle Sam, etc. I am curious about this.

[Barton]

Okay, using any source you have available to you, what woudl you set as the "Icon" character for all the following countries during WWII:
USA
USSR
Germany
Italy
Japan
UK/Britain
France (possibly in exile or resistance)
And what other national heroes would you add in other than these?
USSR:
General Winter
Japan:
Divine Wind
Many others are possible.

[Supreme Serpent]

Okay, using any source you have available to you, what woudl you set as the "Icon" character for all the following countries during WWII:
USA
USSR
Germany
Italy
Japan
UK/Britain
France (possibly in exile or resistance)
And what other national heroes would you add in other than these?

Assuming ones not from our games:

USA: Captain America
USSR: none; all previously fled or liquidated.
Germany: Red Skull
Italy: no one comes to mind
Japan: Dragon King
UK: Union Jack
France: no one comes to mind

[BNakagawa]

http://tangerinetango.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/koto_hetalia.jpg

clockwise from upper left" France, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, America, Italy, Britain.

[bubba smith]

i think you my have the locations wrong btw where are those figures from nice workmanship

[BNakagawa]

i think you my have the locations wrong btw where are those figures from nice workmanship

Pretty sure the list is correct as long as you note the clockwise part.

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

[assault]

Any source- comics, and rpg game, etc. and both axis and allies. I'm creating a mishmash campaign world and am curious on who others consider THE Hero for each country involved- man think Cap America but some may also consider Uncle Sam, etc. I am curious about this.

Part of the problem is that the superhero genre is very American. Flagsuits are even more so.

Let's face it, "THE Hero" for the US was Superman. Or Captain Marvel, who outsold him for a while. Or maybe even Batman.

And then there is the obvious point that "THE Hero" for Nazi Germany was... Hitler. Similar logic applies to a bunch of other places. Even the Soviet Union.

[Clonus]

Assuming ones not from our games:

USA: Captain America
USSR: none; all previously fled or liquidated.
Germany: Red Skull
Italy: no one comes to mind
Japan: Dragon King
UK: Union Jack
France: no one comes to mind

Having watched Enemy at the Gates, I'm confident that if the USA and Germany had costumed heroes, the Russians would have found some poor sucker and slapped him into a costume just to prove they were just as good. In some ways a costumed hero would be better since they could always kill him quietly when he showed signs of unreliability and put someone else in the costume with nobody the wiser. That being said for an iconic selection I would in fact go with General Winter.

For France, well the actual superhero France had going into World War II was the Nyctalope.

[Haven Walkur]

France -- Esprit de Corps, a heroine with the strength of all the French fallen.

[Yansuf]

http://tangerinetango.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/koto_hetalia.jpg

clockwise from upper left" France, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, America, Italy, Britain.

GR8 figures, but why is the Italian eating a hamburger?

[Twilight]

GR8 figures, but why is the Italian eating a hamburger?

He's not, it's clockwise from the upper left. The guy eating the hamburger is America, Italy is standing to his left and eating a slice of pizza.

[Haven Walkur]

From a WWII Champions game that ultimately never went anywhere, despite extensive planning and prep.

Axis Supermen (Übermenschen)

Germany
Witwemacher (Widow Maker)
Schiffbrucher (Ship Breaker)
Feindjäeger (Enemy Hunter)
Kriegsfalke (Warhawk)
Blitzkrieger (Lightning Warrior)
Jagdgauner (Hunting Shark) - menace of the English Channel, huge shark with a man's brain
Totenseemann (Death Sailor)
Augenblick (Eyeblink) - speedster
Blut Hexe (Bloodwitch)
Panzer Grenadier (Armored Infantryman)
Der Mauer (The Wall)
Turm (Tower)
Unheilvoll Drache (Unholy/Unnatural Dragon)
Frau Fledermaus (Mrs. Bat)
Verteidigerin (Defender)
Donnerteufel (Thunder Devil)
Feuersturm (Firestorm)
Sturmführer (Stormlord)
Der Geist (The Ghost)
Schwarzeis (Black Ice)
Dunkelschrek (Dark Terror)
Kriegsmariner (Sea Warrior)
Condor Legionnaires - living buzz bombs, all quite insane
Vampir
Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan
Germania
Herr Doktor Ungleheuermeister (Dr. Monster-Master)

Finland
Väinämöinen [VI-na-MER-nen] (magician and sage)
Ilmarinen [EEL-ma-RIN-en] (inventor and gadgeteer)
Kaleva (giant)
Louhi [LO-hee] (magician and shapechanger)

Greece
Marathon
Nike

Italy
Decurian
Gladiator
Veltro (Greyhound) - speedster
Il Sole (The Sun) - energy projector
Innominato (invisibility and general stealth)

Japan
Kamakaze (Divine Wind)
Shinyu (Magnificent Dragon)
Shinryu (Radiant Dragon)
Mr. Bonsai - plant controller
Origami Girl - flattens herself into 2D
Bishamon (war god; armor and spear)
Kintaro (immense strength, animal communication)
Raiden/Raijin (storm god)
Issun-Boshi ['One-Inch Boy'] - shrinking
Yuki-Onna ['The Lady of the Snow'] - cold powers
Tanuki [trickster badger-dog] - illusionist
Kitsune [shapeshifting fox] - werefox mentalist, clairvoyance, clairaudience
Tsuru Hime [Princess Tsuru] - female martial artist skilled with naginata
Konaki Jiji ['old man crying like a baby'] - manipulates personal weight
Kamaitachi ['sickle-weasel'] - martial artist/speedster skilled with tonfa
Nurikabe ['invisible wall'] - brick with Invisibility
Ittan-momen ['length of cotton cloth'] - flier with HTH attacks and Entangle
Shachihoko (sea monster; tiger’s head, fish body, stingers) - water powers and poisons
Oni-san ['noble ogre'] - strong, very tough, instant regeneration (limbs reattach), uses a huge spiked iron bar (kanabo) and wears a costume of red, blue or black

[Trebuchet]

He's not, it's clockwise from the upper left. The guy eating the hamburger is America, Italy is standing to his left and eating a slice of pizza.And, I can't help noticing, waving a white flag.

Shouldn't that be France? :D

[Haven Walkur]

Some of these, especially the Americans and the British, were lifted from a Champions WWII gaming supplement.

The Allies referred to their superheroes as "Hypermen" and -"women", because the term "Super" was felt to be too German-sounding. Axis metanormals were called Supermen (and -women).

Allied Hypermen

Australia
Ned Kelly
Waltzing Matilda
Tasmanian Devil

Belgium
Tervuren (Belgian sheepdog)

Canada
Moose
Borealis
Lumberjack
Alberta

Denmark
Beowulf
Bothvar Bjarki (the Battle Bear)

France
Esprit de Corp
Loup Garou - shapeshifter; classic wolfman
Gammadion (radioactive hero and grandson of Marie and Pierre Curie) - energy blaster
Déjà Vu - low-power precognitive

Holland
Windjammer - weather control, especially wind
Floodgate - water powers
Saint Nicholas (tall and thin, bishop’s long red cloak and high cap) - Presence and Ego attacks (guilt, shame)

India
Kaa - Stretching, limbs only
Savitri - Mental Defense, high Ego, Aid to Ego

Mexico
El Diablo Rojo (The Red Devil) - Zorro-type hero

New Zealand
Rimu - tough, durable, some Growth
Triple Star

Norway
Hoarfrost
Midnight Sun
Ragnarok

Poland
Jadwiga (with her rose-embroidered apron) - HTH fighter who uses her apron like a bullfighter’s cape
Szybko (“fast”)
Hejnal (from “Hejnal Mariacki”, the warning bugle call) - brick with sonic powers
Rusalka - water-powers or mind control, illusions
Skarbnik (“Treasurer”- ghostly guardian of miners)

South Africa
Adamantine -armoured skin
Adamastor (monstrous giant who was turned into a mountain) - growth
Pretoria
Springbok - speedster
Jock of the Bushveld (heroic dog in classic South African children’s book) - scruffy HTH brawler with extra running and keen senses
Oom Lokomotief (“Uncle Locomotive”) - brick with extra running, skill levels in move-through
King Protea - (South Africa’s national flower. Fire-resistant. Enormous flowerheads vary in colour from pale greenish cream to a soft pink) - HTH fighter with colorful costume and extra armor versus fire
Koekoekwesp (Cuckoo Wasp) - very tough armored skin, bright metallic hue, rolls up into a ball for extra armor
Kaapse Spookpadda (Ghost Frog) - leaping, clinging, stealth/invisibility

Soviet Union
Ursa Major
General Mayhem
Battlesuit Potempkin
Comrade Winter
Captain Comintern and the Bolshevik Boys (Hammer, Sickle, Red Streak)
Tovarisch (“friend”) - illusionist who appears as other people
Grandmother Russia (originally “Baba Yaga”) - magical powers

Sweden
Vist (the giant who created the island of Visingo) - growth
Gruvrå (Lord of the Mine) - tunneling
Sølvmora (Silver Mother) - animates/transforms silver
Grim (graveyard-walker) - classic Batman-type, possibly unpowered

United Kingdom
Union Jack - British flagsuit
Big Ben - growth
Dr. Goldwing - "Doc Savage"-type
Silver Shadow - becomes a figure of living quicksilver; flight, gobs of damage reduction
Sea Change
Blazon, the Knight Unconquerable
Repulse
Mole - tunneling, darkness generating
Starline
Imperial Lion
Ironside
Britannia
Screaming Lord Such - sonic projector
Bow Street Runner - speedster

United States of America (home front heroes)
CRIMEBUSTERS
Shadowcat
Fletcher
Saladin the Great
Leaping Lizard
Knight Owl
Captain Future
INDEPENDENTS
Madame Moonlight
The Boogieman

United States of America (home front villains)
THE EXPATRIATES
Privateer
Second-Hand Rose
Long John Silver
Blond Beard the Pirate
INDEPENDENTS
King Bee
Mud Pie
The Postmaster
Radiostar
Doberman
Little Arson Annie

United States of America American (European front)
American Eagle
Blond Bombshell
Patriot
Old Glory
Captain Atlas
Hyperion

GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF HYPERHEROES (European front)
Major Victory
Minute Man
Vanguard
Vanguard Jr.
G.I.A.N.T.

[bigbywolfe]

and, i can't help noticing, waving a white flag.

Shouldn't that be france? :d
lol.

[Black Ops]

From a WWII Champions game that ultimately never went anywhere, despite extensive planning and prep.

Axis Supermen (Übermenschen)

Germany
Witwemacher (Widow Maker)
Schiffbrucher (Ship Breaker)
Feindjäeger (Enemy Hunter)
Kriegsfalke (Warhawk)
Blitzkrieger (Lightning Warrior)
Jagdgauner (Hunting Shark) - menace of the English Channel, huge shark with a man's brain
Totenseemann (Death Sailor)
Augenblick (Eyeblink) - speedster
Blut Hexe (Bloodwitch)
Panzer Grenadier (Armored Infantryman)
Der Mauer (The Wall)
Turm (Tower)
Unheilvoll Drache (Unholy/Unnatural Dragon)
Frau Fledermaus (Mrs. Bat)
Verteidigerin (Defender)
Donnerteufel (Thunder Devil)
Feuersturm (Firestorm)
Sturmführer (Stormlord)
Der Geist (The Ghost)
Schwarzeis (Black Ice)
Dunkelschrek (Dark Terror)
Kriegsmariner (Sea Warrior)
Condor Legionnaires - living buzz bombs, all quite insane
Vampir
Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan
Germania
Herr Doktor Ungleheuermeister (Dr. Monster-Master)



Just because I hate it when the translations do not make sense:

Jagdgauner would mean in german Hunting Goon, a Shark is a Hai.
Is Doktor Ungleheuermeister a Family name ?

[SKJAM!]

For France, well the actual superhero France had going into World War II was the Nyctalope.

Too bad he sold out to the Vichy.


Ah, Axis Powers Hetalia. So silly. But it has great fun with the stereotypes--like the time America and the Allies are discussing their attack plans. "Okay, France, you'll be support. And England, you're back up. China is rear echelon, and Russia, you'll be making a feint as a distraction."

"And what will you be doing?"

"Why, I'll be the Hero, of course!"

[CoreBrute]

I have actually created a villain who is the 'hero' of Nazi Germany, see this page for background: http://www.rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=38208&ti=5&date=1251441729

Die Starke (The Strong)

http://www.herogames.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=176&pictureid=1379

[BNakagawa]

And, I can't help noticing, waving a white flag.

Shouldn't that be France? :D

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ajTs2JeE.r4s

Evidently not.

[Trebuchet]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ajTs2JeE.r4s

Evidently not.What was your point? It's Italian soldiers dying, not French ones.

And why bring politics into a quasi-humorous thread?

[BNakagawa]

What was your point? It's Italian soldiers dying, not French ones.

And why bring politics into a quasi-humorous thread?

The part about the majority of italians wanting to pull out of Afghanistan.

[fbdaury]

Wanted to thank everyone that provided names of characters, and BNakagawa for the cool visual, much appreciated.:thumbup: