[Online Game]New 'Marvel: Next Generation' game

[Snake Gandhi]

Continuing from the Avengers Next Generation game (thread here), I'm looking to start up another game set in the same universe.

Basiclly, the Marvel universe started in the 60's, and it ran in real time since then. The heroes we know are retired, and now it is their kids and grandkids who are called to step up.

I'm still working on which legacy to continue and I'd love to here what would interest folks. Some ideas are the X-men, with a new generation of mutants taking up the fight. The Fantastic 4, a new breed of explorers saving the world. The Thunderbolts, decendants of villians making up for their parents mistakes. The new New Warriors, teenagers with superpowers. The West Coast Avengers, LA's answer to the Earth Mightiest Heroes. The Defenders, when you absolutely positively need to whup some bad guy ***.

As I said, I'm open to any of those ideas, or anything else you might think sounds like fun.

Edit- It seems like the Thunderbolt idea is the more popular, so that the one we're gonna go with. Character building info in post #34.

[GoldenAge]

I think any would be good. As I mentioned in the Avengers Next Generation thread I lean slightly towards the Defenders.

Have you thought about a new generation of Inhumans? Perhaps the next generation of royalty has seen a void as the FF get older. Tired of living for generations in seclusion and having seen the good new teams of younger legacy heroes have accomplished they break the silence and usher the Inhumans out of obscurity?

Nah, too many characters without a nod to existing MU legends. It sounds fun but lacks the legacy effect.

Yup... The Defenders... How about The Golden Grom (a Silver Surfer legacy - Grom or Grommet means young surfer in Surfer lingo)

Although access to an “Old Uncle Benjy” would be awesome!

Oh, what about the Invaders. There's some GREAT British history tied up in there. There's also links to modern heroes like Captain America, Union Jack, Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver (through The Whizzer) and Namor... even the Vision could loosely linked through The Human Torch, Toro and Professor Phineas T. Horton

Wouldn't it be fun to battle the descendants of The Red Skull, Vampires and the immortal Barron Blood lineage? And what about the Son of Doom!?!

[Enforcer84]

I'd go with The Thunderbolts. Mostly so I can play the guy I applied to the Avengers game with I like him. If you're interested he can be found here.

[Agent 13]

Oh, what about the Invaders. There's some GREAT British history tied up in there.

Indeed. I'd be all about a legacy team based around Golden Age characters.

[teh bunneh]

One of the nice things about the Avengers is that you don't have to range very far to come up with legacy heroes. Everyone who is anyone in the Marvel Universe has been an Avenger at some point in their career -- even non-joiners like Spider-Man and Moon Knight were Avengers briefly. So you don't need much of an excuse to have a character with a link to the old Avengers.

Invaders or Alpha Flight could be cool too though. Heck, any of them -- T-Bolts, Fantastic Four, New Warriors -- would be worth playing.

[Korvar]

Maybe the teams have merged over the years. The Defantastic Thundavengers?

[Haven Walkur]

Maybe the teams have merged over the years. The Defantastic Thundavengers?

Back off, Fox-Man! You make this kitty scared.

[Haven Walkur]

The idea of a legacy Alpha Flight team is very appealing. Before the Great Marvel Stupidity Epidemic of the late 1980s, they were my favorite hero team, edging out even the X-Men. They have mysticism and magic, gods, monsters and aliens, hi-tech and um, even more hi-tech -- and a spiritual mainline to the living heart of their nation. Great stuff!

<Reminder to self: let Northstar know about this thread.>

Of course, playing in a legacy team descended from the baddest of Marvel's bad, who are fighting to make up for the malfeasance of their forebears, would be an insanely good time! The angst, the struggle for atonement clashing with the temptations of power, the questions of good and evil -- oh, and did I mention the angst? This is Marvel, after all.

The Thunderbolts are an atonement-style team? I knew that the former villain Screaming Mimi of the Grapplers (she's now Songbird) and Hawkeye were members, but I didn't know it was a villains-making-good team. Interesting.

[Snake Gandhi]

The Thunderbolts idea is growing on me a lot as well, if only because it's the easiest one to fit characters into. Any Marvel villian is fair game for use, and Marvel has a lot of intersting villians.

[Enforcer84]

Agreed. And redemption is fun to play.

[Supreme Serpent]

Especially fun when they face the Legion of the Unliving with all their dead villainous parents...

Even the ones they didn't think were dead...

[Supreme Serpent]

The Thunderbolts are an atonement-style team? I knew that the former villain Screaming Mimi of the Grapplers (she's now Songbird) and Hawkeye were members, but I didn't know it was a villains-making-good team. Interesting.

THUNDERBOLTS SPOILER WARNING


(though the big surprises are almost ten years old now)



(which makes me feel old...)


Anyways...

One day way back when the FF and Avengers disappeared, presumably killed fighting the plot device monster of the day, "Onslaught", and entered a time of crappiness. Meanwhile, a new team of supers took up the fight, trying to hold the line in the place of the missing icons. Thus, the Thunderbolts were born. They gained the respect and trust of the city and world, and were granted Avengers-level access. Then (dum dum dum) it was revealed this was all a plot by Baron Zemo to take over the world! He and other disguised supervillains (all members of various Masters of Evil incarnations) had formed the T-bolts specifically to achieve this end. Zemo almost won, and was only defeated when some T-bolts decided to truly be heroic. (insert several big fights between good and evil T-bolts, Avengers, FF, etc)

Deciding to try to truly repent, the T-bolts keep up the heroics, but nobody trusts them after the Zemo revelation, trying to mind control the world, and all that. Hawkeye comes along to help guide them (a reformed villain himself after all). Several more good years of comics follow, before they spiral down into suckitude.

[Agent 13]

Time to bust out those Son of Stilt-Man notes I was working on a while back...

[Log-Man]

Time to bust out those Son of Stilt-Man notes I was working on a while back...

It shames me to know that i didn't come up with this

[GoldenAge]

Time to bust out those Son of Stilt-Man notes I was working on a while back...

Hmm....

Wilbur "Long Shanks" Day Jr. Or maybe "Elevator Shoes" Day

Could be a girl... call her Mighty Gams!

I jest, of course.