dark champions from each of the 50 states

[bubba smith]

while reading egyptoid's thread on heroes from the 50 states i wondered what each states DARK champion would look like any ideas?

thanks for the idea egyptoid

[lemming]

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Well, just to pick on Oregon some more, I'm thinking someone who whacks criminals in the kneecaps with a lead pipe.

[Chris-M]

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I suppose for Texas you could do some sort of "Texan," "Lone Star," or "Outlaw" character -- a Harbinger-type with a duster, cowboy hat, bandanna mask, and a pair of six-shooters (classic or hi-tech) that he is expert with.

 

Or you could go with "The Oil Man" -- he wears a $6,000 suit and uses his Wealth and insane Non-Combat Influence to just have the police or state troopers go after whomever he wants.

 

I think either approach would work.

[SSgt Baloo]

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Disclaimer:

Of course, no State would condone such a "hero" operating with official sanction.

Having said that, I'm sure there would be at least a few working with plausibly-deniable sanction.

 

How about this guy? He's a martial-artist who can emit (or become) an unpleasant brown cloud of smoke (flash vs sight/smell, change environment, desolid, etc.), Called Smog.

 

[Egyptoid]

Re: dark champions from each of the 50 states

 

while reading egyptoid's thread on heroes from the 50 states i wondered what each states DARK champion would look like any ideas?

thanks for the idea egyptoid

 

here I am, putting 50 worms back inna can,

and you open up another canna worms....

[bubba smith]

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sorry egyptoid

[Basil]

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Washington State? Well, maybe a guy with a chainsaw.

 

Or, if minor superpowers are OK, it could be a guy who can make a few hundred gallons of water appear where he wants.

 

Edit: I just realized the name of the second guy: Ish.

A lot of the rivers in Washington have "...ish" as the last syllable and the joke is that it's an old Amerind word meaning "don't build here, it floods."

[Edsel]

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Oklahoma would have to be the Sooner. The historical Sooners got that name by sneaking across the border into the land run areas and staking early claims in violation of law. The Dark Champions Sooner would be the fellow who bumps off potential criminals before they can commit a crime. Very proactive.

 

Though technically I guess that would make him a serial killer...

[Drhoz]

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Something that crawled out of the Hudson and eats muggers?

 

And if we don't have something Lovecraftian for Rhode Island we're not trying

[bubba smith]

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Washington State? Well, maybe a guy with a chainsaw.

 

Or, if minor superpowers are OK, it could be a guy who can make a few hundred gallons of water appear where he wants.

 

Edit: I just realized the name of the second guy: Ish.

A lot of the rivers in Washington have "...ish" as the last syllable and the joke is that it's an old Amerind word meaning "don't build here, it floods."

low powered supers are okay with me

[Remjin]

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Huh... can I even name 50 states?

 

1. Alaska - eskimo theme, hates fish, spears people. Not liking fish causes angst.
   
2. California - surfing bikini babe martial artist, defending vegetables from the flesh-eaters. And dolphins. And anything cute.
   
3. Nevada - umm... thirsty. And angry. Wields a baseball bat made to look like a cactus with nails.
   
4. Oregon - the TrailRider, who.. uh... shoots people in cowboy gear, and is angry about a lack of a horse or comfortable shoes.
   
5. New Mexico - a cabalero (not even sure this is a the right word, but the cowboy) who doesn't speak spanish, has a bit of shame about it, and has cultural identity issues.
   
6. Idaho - dunno, but now I'm hungry for french fries and potatoes au graten.
   
7. Wisconsin - sheesh, can this is not going well. Its progressed to cheese fries with a hamburger...
   
8. North and South Dakota - dunno, falling into cowboy stuff again. I really am ignorant, now that I think about it...
   
9. Texas - someone already covered it. But big... cuz everything is bigger in texas. Except, give him insecurities about masculine size.
   
10. Michigan - wolverine clone? More likely a detroit gangster turned hero via illegal drug experimentation ala Venom.
    

 

Okay, stopping there... its just making me look stupid... er.

[SSgt Baloo]

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@Remjin: Dude! It's hard as heck to quote bulleted statements and keep the numbers in order. So I didn't!

 

Huh... can I even name 50 states?9

 

1. Alaska - eskimo theme, hates fish, spears people. Not liking fish causes angst.
   

Name: EmEskimo

1. California - surfing bikini babe martial artist, defending vegetables from the flesh-eaters. And dolphins. And anything cute.
   

 

Name: Who cares?

1. Nevada - umm... thirsty. And angry. Wields a baseball bat made to look like a cactus with nails.
   

 

What? You couldn't just call him Casino-man or something?

1. Oregon - the TrailRider, who.. uh... shoots people in cowboy gear, and is angry about a lack of a horse or comfortable shoes.
   

 

(This guy must really hate cowboys.)

1. New Mexico - a cabalero (not even sure this is a the right word, but the cowboy) who doesn't speak spanish, has a bit of shame about it, and has cultural identity issues.
   

 

It's Caballero (two "l's), but that's okay, he doesn't speak Spanish anyway.

1. Idaho - dunno, but now I'm hungry for french fries and potatoes au graten.
   

 

It's Spudman! He'll keep an eye on things!

1. Wisconsin - sheesh, can this is not going well. Its progressed to cheese fries with a hamburger...
   

 

The Cheesinator?

1. North and South Dakota - dunno, falling into cowboy stuff again. I really am ignorant, now that I think about it...
   

 

What part of the Dakotas are the Black Hills in? You could have a character based on Wild Bill Hickock's ghost or maybe a mysterious avenger calling himself Dead Man's Hand?

1. Texas - someone already covered it. But big... cuz everything is bigger in texas. Except, give him insecurities about masculine size.
   

 

How about if the giant Texan statue came to life?

(I could find no pics -- Texans please help!)

1. Michigan - wolverine clone? More likely a detroit gangster turned hero via illegal drug experimentation ala Venom.
   

 

I googled 'Michigan "state symbol"' and got the following image:

 

 

I offer condolences to Michiganders everywhere (or apologies, depending on whether this turns out to be an appropriate symbol or not.)

[bubba smith]

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1. New Mexico - a cabalero (not even sure this is a the right word, but the cowboy) who doesn't speak spanish, has a bit of shame about it, and has cultural identity issues.
   

1. Texas - someone already covered it. But big... cuz everything is bigger in texas. Except, give him insecurities about masculine size.
   

cabellero might work as a codename

as for texas i think CORDELL WALKER[aka walker texas ranger] would be there dark champion

[Basil]

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Not many lumbermen come from big cities. Even in western Washington, dominated as it is by Seattle in most respects, most lumbermen come from small towns. Jack was the exception; born and raised in Seattle, he somehow managed to land up in the lumber business.

 

His fellow lumbermen kidded him about being a "city kid," but they knew if they needed to go into Seattle that Jack would give them good advice and pointers. He'd even go with them into the city if they needed a hand.

 

He'd even go into the city to help a friend get out of it. Usually to arrange bail, lawyers, that kind of thing, when a lumberman had been too rowdy for "the city folk".

 

One time, though, he went into one Seattle's worse areas to get a friend free from bad drugs and worse people. He showed up at the lead ****er's house in a mask and cutoffs, with a club in one hand and a chainsaw in the other. "That supposed scare me?" said the ****er. Before Jack could say anything, out came the Uzi. The guy may have been a ****er, but nothing scared him. Not even 275 pounds of muscle with a chainsaw.

 

The Uzi was emptied into Jack. That'll kill you sure - - - unless you're a Latent Metahuman, then it might activate your powers. Takes a lot of luck for that to happen.

 

Jack (for once) had that much luck. It had been raining that night, and all the rain for blocks around rushed to the spot right in front of Jack that the bullets had to go through. Water slows down bullets pretty well, particularly if the water's compressed to dozens of times its usual density.

 

Fact is, the bullets were stopped dead. And dead is what the ****er was right afterwards; chopped in two by the chainsaw. The noise brought the ****er's "homeboys" to see what had happened. Jack ran off into the night, not being one to push his luck. The "homeboys" figured out what the mystery visitor in the night was probably after, and killed Jack's friend in a truly vicious way.

 

After the ****ers killed his friend, Jack retreated for a couple of months, to train himself with his powers and with his weapons and fists.

 

His powers all revolve around rainy weather. He can move the weather towards rain (clear into cloudy, cloudy into socked-in overcast, misty into deep fog, overcast to sprinkling, sprinkling into steady rain, steady rain into deluge). He can move water around, but only if it's unblocked; he can get water out of an open container, but can't move around a closed container. He doesn't have much control over the water he moves; dropping/throwing it at someone, or making a short-lived barrier is about it.

 

When he felt he'd trained enough, he started going into the city more often. He hasn't moved there by any means, and he still makes his living as a lumberman. But he takes as much time off as he can, and drives into the city - - - sometimes even if he's working the next day. Still, he's not in Seattle very often.

 

He's become a vigilante, sweeping in from who-knows-where and hitting drug dealers, pimps, and other scum, then retreating to wherever he came from. The criminals and the police in Seattle don't know anything about him, having not even a clue where he hides out; one and all, they think it's somewhere in the city. Everyone is puzzled by how infrequently he "appears"; it's not the way any other vigilante behaves.

 

One thing everyone knows: when he is around, it's bad news for lowlifes. He's careful, striking from surprise and always ready to retreat if out-numbered or out-gunned. He uses his powers to take out firearms, from as far away as he can, then moves in to deal with the disarmed foe from close up.

 

He's let a few "small time hangers-on" go, to spread the word of how dangerous he is. One of the earliest was a "hit" he made where he increased the rain in the area so as to get an advantage. When he told the one punk he left alive to run while he could, the punk said "You did dat wit' the rain!" "Yeah," he growled, "I made it more rainy." When the newspapers got the story, they misquoted that as -- as they should have spelled it -- "rainy-er". But they spelled it "rainier" which immediately became confused with the local peak, Mount Rainier. [For those not from Washington, that's pronounced "rayNEAR"]

 

Ever since, the cops, the crooks, and the public have been following the exploits of the vigilante known as "Rainier". And Jack's been chuckling a little about the name, pissed about the things ascribed to Rainier he didn't do, and glad what he has done seems to have made a difference. Not much of one, Jack admits, but a difference none-the-less.

 

He has no plans to quit; he wants more vengeance for his friend's memory, and wants the city to be a safer place for his still-living friends to visit.

[Sociotard]

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EDIT: woops, forgot this was Dark Champions. Uh . . .

 

The Forgettable Man. He has mastered the art possesed by the state of Idaho in general: people can't remember who he is. I mean, potatoes and the name of the capital aside, how much do you know about Idaho.

[Narratio]

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Wyoming would have to have a Cowboy who hands out real justice with a six gun. And who, if the criminal didn't really mean to be bad, just made a small mistake like jaywalking say, would just tar and feather him before tying him to the back of a passing frieght train.

 

The name would have to be very genre, "Six Gun Kid" sort of thing.

[SSgt Baloo]

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Wyoming would have to have a Cowboy who hands out real justice with a six gun. And who, if the criminal didn't really mean to be bad, just made a small mistake like jaywalking say, would just tar and feather him before tying him to the back of a passing frieght train.

 

The name would have to be very genre, "Six Gun Kid" sort of thing.

 

Tarred, feathered, and run outta town on the rails? For jaywalking?? I think your Wyoming hero needs to switch to decaf.

[Hawknight]

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Along time ago I started to write an enemies book for Hawaii called "Hawaiian Heroes" as I was born there and still feel the pull of the Islands. Then fifth edition came along and it seemed that genre books like that were not going to be done. I had alot of characters made up with Hero Machine pictures for the art just to block it out. One of my favorite is the street level/minor super powered Hero pictured below. He is the closest to a Dark Champions (Animated) character from all that I created. One day I will finish it and post it on the Champions forum.

 

I give you Tiki. A mute invulnerable low class brick. His head is made of magical wood and doesn't burn. The goddess Pele gifted him and a whole Ohana (family) of supers to protect the Islands. I will post a write up as soon as I can dig up the disc I have it on.

 

Tiki is a street level who mostly stops burglars, gangs and drug deals. He will help other metas but never stays for long and returns to patrolling the streets of Honolulu.

 

Art by HeroMachine2.5 and a cropped picture of a tiki keychain.

[bubba smith]

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Along time ago I started to write an enemies book for Hawaii called "Hawaiian Heroes" as I was born there and still feel the pull of the Islands. Then fifth edition came along and it seemed that genre books like that were not going to be done. I had alot of characters made up with Hero Machine pictures for the art just to block it out. One of my favorite is the street level/minor super powered Hero pictured below. He is the closest to a Dark Champions (Animated) character from all that I created. One day I will finish it and post it on the Champions forum.

 

I give you Tiki. A mute invulnerable low class brick. His head is made of magical wood and doesn't burn. The goddess Pele gifted him and a whole Ohana (family) of supers to protect the Islands. I will post a write up as soon as I can dig up the disc I have it on.

 

Tiki is a street level who mostly stops burglars, gangs and drug deals. He will help other metas but never stays for long and returns to patrolling the streets of Honolulu.

 

Art by HeroMachine2.5 and a cropped picture of a tiki keychain.

:thumbup:

[freakboy6117]

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here's one for Arizona an idea I came up with for the other thread but fits this one better.

 

COPPER JACKET

 

Tyler Colton was the best gunsmith in Phoenix not to mention a world class marksman. his guns where prized possessions all across the country. but the leader of a drug gang that smuggled there product through Arizona wanted his guns and his access to exotic firearms. then gang threatened his family. Tyler refused and the furious gang leader has Tyler's home was torched his wife and daughter died in the blaze he almost did too. if he hadn't fallen asleep in his basement workshop. he made it out alive but his his face was badly burnt as he made his escape.

 

knowing the police couldn't do anything with so many of the force on the drug smugglers payroll.

 

Tyler adopted the copper mask and Armour of a legendary Arizona masked gunslinger and now fights the good fight as copper jacket using his custom firearms not to mention prodigious skill to protect those targeted by criminals across the state.

 

Tyler also supplies specialist equipment to other champions of the night all across the country.

[Narratio]

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Tarred' date=' feathered, and run outta town on the rails? For [i']jaywalking?? [/i]I think your Wyoming hero needs to switch to decaf.

Well, this is a 'DARK' champions thread. So our heroes are either going to tend towards a monomaniacal view of good and bad or they're so close to being the bad guys that your need a score card to keep track.

 

Hmmm, how about a gadget based hero for New York (City that is) Gadget pool is all built into his morphing yellow cab. Specialises in being able to get to crime scenes while they're in progress. Either replacing the getaway car drivers vehicles thus transporting the crooks straight to jail.

 

Or maybe a Ghost rider variant? Racing down some dark alley to where somebody has just been mugged, having his car eat the perpetrators souls? Divine justice with a running meter.

[SSgt Baloo]

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Or maybe a Ghost rider variant? Racing down some dark alley to where somebody has just been mugged' date=' having his car eat the perpetrators souls? Divine just with a running meter.[/quote']

 

Honk, honk!!

 

[bubba smith]

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here's one for Arizona an idea I came up with for the other thread but fits this one better.

 

COPPER JACKET

 

Tyler Colton was the best gunsmith in Phoenix not to mention a world class marksman. his guns where prized possessions all across the country. but the leader of a drug gang that smuggled there product through Arizona wanted his guns and his access to exotic firearms. then gang threatened his family. Tyler refused and the furious gang leader has Tyler's home was torched his wife and daughter died in the blaze he almost did too. if he hadn't fallen asleep in his basement workshop. he made it out alive but his his face was badly burnt as he made his escape.

 

knowing the police couldn't do anything with so many of the force on the drug smugglers payroll.

 

Tyler adopted the copper mask and Armour of a legendary Arizona masked gunslinger and now fights the good fight as copper jacket using his custom firearms not to mention prodigious skill to protect those targeted by criminals across the state.

 

Tyler also supplies specialist equipment to other champions of the night all across the country.

good work

[Narratio]

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Florida... Got to be a guy with Aligator abilities. A defender of the rapidly fading wetlands. Mostly fighting against crooked property developers (Is that an oxymoron?) who build golf courses and possibly the whole of Disneyworld. Then, when anybody talks about 'Mr. Xxxxxx is sleeping with the fishes' this guy can just burp/belch politely and say that he doesn't think so.

[Basil]

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Florida... Got to be a guy with Aligator abilities. A defender of the rapidly fading wetlands. Mostly fighting against crooked property developers (Is that an oxymoron?)

 

No, it's a tautology.