UK using the champions system

[LWhitehead]

But a Batman like character needs to fight street level mooks, and also his line up Mad House Villians as well.

 

 

 

LW

[PaladinAg]

The "Bond as a code name" works reasonably well in the film canon. There is even a reference in OHMS to "the other guy" (you just have to imagine Lazenby vice Connery in DaF).  It also explains 'the return to the beginning' of the Craig films.

 

It could even be that "007" is always recruited from the Royal Navy, pretty much ensuring the Commander rank.

 

PaladinAg

[Christopher R Taylor]

It also makes sense of the dark haired scottish guy having blonde hair in several incarnations.  It paves the way for say, Idris Elba to be James Bond at some point.

[PaladinAg]

Well Elba is British, unlike Lazenby or Brosnan :-)

 

PaladinAg

[steriaca]

Well Elba is British, unlike Lazenby or Brosnan :-)

 

PaladinAg

Anyone stated out a "typical" 00 for 6ed yet?

[freakboy6117]

There's always James bond as a Time Lord as an option it does explain how he fits so many gadgets in his car lol 

[steriaca]

There's always James bond as a Time Lord as an option it does explain how he fits so many gadgets in his car lol

I hate to look into James' closet and find one of thoes high colored capes and skullcaps.

[TheQuestionMan]

England - DC Comics Database  

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/England  

 

England - Marvel Comics Database  

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/England  

 

England - Comic Vine  

http://comicvine.gamespot.com/england/4020-55794/  

[TheQuestionMan]

United Kingdom Archetypes:

1. The Knight  
2. The Squire  
3. The Wizard
4. The Druid  
5. The Archer  
6. The Highwayman  
7. The Rebel  
8. The Highlander  
9. The Invader  
10. The Lion  
11. The Dragon  
12. The Viking  
13. The Celts  
14. The Bard/Musician  
15. The Consulting Detective  
16. The Doctor  
17. The Occultist  
18. The Butler  
19. The Super Spy  
20. The Flyer  
21. The Sailor (Captain)  
22. The Hunter  
23. The Gentleman  
24. The Commando  
25. The Round Table/Excalibur   
26. The Faerie  
27. The Cult  
28. The School of Magic  
29. The Supernatural Academy  
30. The Military  
31. The Time Traveller  
32. The Scientist  
33. The Noblesse Oblige

 

Cheers  

 

 

QM

[steriaca]

QM forgot "The Time Traveller" and "The Scientists" (The Doctor from Doctor Who, and Professor Quartermass).

[freakboy6117]

The Gentleman is kind of a meta class that includes lots of people who are upper class /Gentleman spy like James bond John Steed or The Kings-men  Gentleman adventurer Adam Adamant or flash-man [technically]Gentleman doctor John Watson .

 

I think the City Gent is a sub category its a subtle but different look city gents are civil servants or bankers.

 

obviously there is the distaff side too Lady spy Emma Peel or lady penelope. lady adventurer [lara croft] lady of the manor lady Jayne felt-chem from Lovejoy or 

[freakboy6117]

OK so the way I've handled super heroes for the UK in the bits of my UK hero project.

 

Costumed crime is rare it does happen but it's much rarer than in the states most super-villains are too smart to do the smash and grab thing more than once or twice The UK is small so super villains tend not to last long unless they stay under the radar.

 

all super crime is considered a high priority crime is like murder or missing children there is a special police unit who deals with it SO-13 a three person investigative group DCI Gorgon  psychic detective [remote viewing psychic tracking and Psychometry] DS Bernice "Bunty" Sandown-Ascot[ posh girl gone copper able to manifest a phantom steed] Dr Mariah Blackwell [forensic wizard [literally] and shadow gate teleport].

 

There is also the mysterious victorian manse near new scotland yard that belongs to the last remnants of the mystical police force that maintains the old compacts charters and prerogatives between the Crown and the powers and principalities of the other lands

 

two five man special weapons teams and a super tech upgraded riot van. SO-13 for smallish  public incidents  single locations or victims for example small scale mysteries super natural kidnappings murders and burglaries especially they liaise with local super heroes.

 

for bigger incidents you have the UN-explained Incident Task-force  an originally ad-hoc [ but since more formalized] military group drawing from across the forces [recruiting from those who have encountered  extra-normal events] with a civilian scientific research team.

 

they are responsible for investigation and containment of any significant extra normal event that could be anything from alien invasion, unexploded Nazi Magi-tech weapons mystical portal opening to cattle mutilations. mostly unit operates in squad to platoon strength. most of are standard infantry deployed between two divisions Urban and Rural due to the different skill requirements urban wear black tactical gear while rural wear standard British forest camo.

 

SOP is to lock down the site evac and quarantine civilians then call in one of the investigative teams. if it gets too big for unit to handle basically anything above battalion to brigade equivalent strength so full fledged alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, unit soldiers all get a temporary rank increase  and go off to act as specialist officers for regular units.

 

Finally when it comes to stuff that is under the radar hidden cults secret laboratories alien sleeper cells there are the 3 sisters Three small intelligence clearinghouses operating under the auspices of the more well known MI5 and 6 and GCHQ,  MAGI the Magic Artifacts Group Intelligence, MI16/SCIops and Room 40  each of these small department have analysts and internal R&d teams supporting a very small investigative field operative team usually 1-3 agents for their specialties

 

MAGI has existed since before WW2 when it was trying to keep occult items out of the hands of the Nazis  for a while it was part of SOE now it deals with mystical threats lots of its switching out real artifacts for fakes watching international art auctions and the black market

 

Their current top agent is Septimus Blake 7th son of a seventh son and extremely resistant to magic. And Tea Leaf a semi rehabilitated cat burglar with the sight he specialised in stealing magic artifacts he ended up joining Magi after he swallowed a large ruby that turned out to be  a vessel containing the soul of the lost Magi agent  Jack Chancery and now has a ghostly conscience/partner in crime

 

MI 16 is the mad science version mostly they watch lab thefts international shipments but any mysterious disappearances of top scientist or other items.

 

Finally there is ROOM40 a section that grew out of station X at Bletchley Park during the war the code breakers discovered a very strange signal that none of the normal enigma techniques could break. The signal proved to be from an extraterrestrial source the team that worked on it moved to an old crypto facility that belong to the admiralty. Following a increasing number of extraterrestrial incursions the government established the three projects damocles the defense against extraterrestrial threats daedalus the retro engineering division and icarus the crash recovery team if.

 

Eventually the increasing extra threat boiled over into the huge invasion called the war of 5 empires after the war was won peace accords signed the most dangerous enemies vanquished etc. room 40 became the 3rd sister the rest of the projects were merged into UNIT. ROOM40 operates out of GCHQ in fact the unique shape of the GCHQ building is actually a very efficient subspace antenna that lets ROOM 40 monitor the globe for alien incursions.

 

Their top agents are call sign RED and BLUE formerly of the RAF RED is a nigh indestructible due to advanced alien nano tech. His colleague is just a normal man but a technical genius and general badass.  

 

Super heroes mostly operate under the auspices of local government for liability reasons. the city benefits from increased tourism [ which is why two of the more famous city heroes are blackpool's illuminator and Brightons Promenade] and pays for some equipment and pays a stipend. The national superpower register trains and certifies the hero .

 

The national team is the Shining Aegis was actually established by Queen Victoria when the more clandestine Agents of the Crown  where publicly displayed in a battle royal with mecha-men biological chimera and insane martial artists in the crystal palace causing the unfortunate fire.

 

There is still a covert team the Tower ravens for things that can’t be done in bright spandex because of the Seoul convention of military use of  EXtranormal abilities and UN resolutions on  extra legal sanctions.

 

Birmingham has a the brigade they are one of the few independent teams the first two versions were very much altruistic social activists started in the summer of love the second incarnation joined forces when super powered neo nazi football hooligans  attacked minority groups during  the euro96 football championships .

The latest version is much more interested in fame and fortune in fact they have a reality show

 

Newcastle upon tyne has a small team due to an incident at the LIFE center a genetics research facility/science museum causing an explosion in spontaneous super power manifestations.

 

Edinburgh has the Tattoo a archivist and book repairer at the scottish national archive  who became a living spell book when the original tome used her to escape a black magician from a DEMON off shoot.

 

Glasgow has THE KISS a formally mild mannered accountant who was tortured and murdered by a mob boss looking for the secret accounts of a competitor the shallow grave they dumped him in happened to be full of some sort of toxic waste. He’s  a small nondescript man until you hurt him then the fury comes and everything becomes a weapon and the blood paints the walls his regenerative abilities make him all but unstoppable. One of the few true vigilantes in the UK the glasgow police are not looking that hard and the boys at SO13 aren't that bothered

 

Villainy

 

Viper operates in the UK but due to wanting to avoid attention to their money laundering fronts they keep things on the down low they have several vacation/rehab facilities in stately homes as well as an extreme training location for special forces and arctic warfare specialists in the outer hebrides.

 

Argent is represented by the Worshipful Company of Silversmiths a supposedly ancient guild of rogue scientist based under the City of London over the years they have coopted the basil jet sewer system the jubilee line and most recently cross link to establish a network of subterranean labs.

 

The white chaplain is the biggest crime-lord in london he’s probably the most feared villain in the city taking cuts from gangs all over the city unfortunately the random combination of  super serums that gave him his powers make him liable to random bouts of insanity that result in crime waves involving religious themes. He has several lieutenants who are all named after areas of London. Including Michael Ton’ o Brix Stone a density mimic Edge wear a supernaturally skilled weapon master who hunts blade wielding supers. The Green witch a plant magician and herbalist based out of Kew and Maxwell ‘Silver Hammer’ Smith rogue UNIT armourer equipped with stolen Xenotech. There are also the criminal Park a large matriarchal criminal east end family normal human agents the various brothers include  Hyde, finsbury, Regent, Green and St James

 

Major incidents are rare compared to the US usually less than one a year most super villain activity is thwarted before it becomes public knowledge but every now and again the victorian giant robot gets turned on by a dreger and climbs tower bridge or a dimensional rift opens on the millennium bridge and a tour group of chinese tourists end up in avalon.

 

Surprisingly these big events a much more likely to happen in december for some reason no one knows why.

[TheQuestionMan]

Briiliant!

 

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QM