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Ok folkes. Requime and Frost are recruiting for openings in there supervillain team Deathstroke. Who would you put into the worlds unluckiest supervillain team?

 

May I suggest that the team be rebranded as unofficial comic team. The group is serious, but the unluck of everyone renders them funny.

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Well you could go old school and put Ogre, Esper, Lazer and Pulsar with them or if you really want to play up the laughs make it Bulldozer, Cybermind, El Salto and Zig Zag.  If you want to play up the Unluck angle try Ankylosaur, Evil Eye, Hornet and Pulsar.

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From a continuity standpoint, I think it would be most reasonable to start with the escapees from Stronghold in the 2009 mass breakout, since Requiem and Frost spent quite a few years in Stronghold. Requiem smartened up quite a bit from the experience, and is taking a more measured approach to supervillainy. However, according to Champions Villains Vol. 2 Frost's sarcastic mouth has caused a lot of conflicts with other villains, particularly in Stronghold. Villains who would like to hand him his head include Alchemica, Blackguard, Fenris, Gauntlet, Hornet, Mantara, Ogre, El Salto, and Vibron. Requiem also got into a brawl with Stiletto that sent them both to the Stronghold infirmary, so he's likely out of contention.

 

Arrowhead, another Stronghold escapee, would be a good candidate. His write-up in CV Vol. 3 says he's interested in forming or joining a superteam, preferably one that's professional and not too murderous. He's otherwise a pretty normal and positive guy, just the sort Requiem is looking for to build a stable team. Leviathan is also easy-going and would fill the "brick" role on the team well. Arrowhead has spoken to Megavolt, whom he met in Stronghold, about forming a team, and he's considering it; although his addition might make the new Deathstroke a little top heavy in energy-projectors.

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I've ignored the official CU version and kept the original lineup.  I have added one new member (because we have 7 PC heroes and I like things to be relatively even).  Draconic (note, NOT Dr. Draconis), who is a good ol' boy who stumbled across one of Draconis's old suits of battle armor, and joined up with Deathstroke because... well, he's not all that bright and he thinks Requiem is Da Man.  Draconic also has a rivalry with Death Commando (who he calls "old man" and constantly tries to upstage). 

 

If going with the official CU version, I'm partial to Lord Liaden's suggestions.

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Count me as another that ignored the official cannon. Before I retired my last campaign, Deathstroke was a major thorn in the heroes' sides. Death Commando ended up a bit more like Deathstroke the Terminator in our game, and the group had a few rotating members outside of the core bunch of them. 

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Back in Fourth Edition I used the version of the Deathstroke team from that edition's version of Champions Universe; but I ran with the concept from the original Deathstroke adventure module, of the team starting an underground political movement to supplant the American government with "crooks who are at least honest about it." That premise had a lot of potential the module didn't really explore. The addition of the mentalist Scatterbrain, and hiring a publicist for the team, added more plot avenues to the premise.

 

I should also note that while Stinger officially was killed, the current champions villain Hornet has practically the same origin as Stinger, and a very similar power set.

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Going by the OP's premise, I think they might try to recruit Buzzsaw (Villains, Vandals & Vermin, pgs. 64-65) and (as SteelCold posted) Hazard (Evil Unleashed, pgs. 85-86) in the hope that their exceptional Luck might rub off on the rest of the team.  (Requiem may want Hazard, but end up settling for Buzzsaw.)  They might try to recruit (as Deadman mentioned) Ogre (Conquerors, Killers & Crooks. pgs 187-188), but that could easily go south after one of Requiem's soliloquies.  ("You.  .  .sound.  .  .like.  .  .a Bully!  I HATE BULLIES!") 

 

As for recruits that could work out, I'm thinking Ankylosaur (CKC, pgs. 116-118) and Devastator (EU, pgs. 72-74) would make welcome additions with regards to muscle and firepower.  Exo (VVV, pgs. 72-73) might actually come to them, figuring they're the kind of macho that would be fun and profitable with which to hang around.  Blackguard (VVV, pgs. 60-61) might figure they could provide plenty of opportunities for good fights, and Requiem and Frost would want to have him as a fellow mutant.  Lodestone (CKC, pgs. 170-171) might join, figuring as part of a villain team there would be a chance for even bigger scores.

 

Hope that helps.

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Alternately, you could take all the suggestions and have the heroes find out about and bust up a team tryout session.  Massive free-for-all, with some supervillains taking potshots at other supervillains due to past incidents, in addition to taking on the heroes.  Whoever escapes (carrying off Requiem and Frost if they get KO'd) becomes the new team lineup.

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A tryout session that gets out of control and the heroes have to bust things up could be a lot of fun.  Especially if it ends up they really haven't done anything particularly criminal, it just was a very loud, violent brawl.  The heroes could end up with some grudging respect and maybe a few friends.

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Alternately, you could take all the suggestions and have the heroes find out about and bust up a team tryout session.  Massive free-for-all, with some supervillains taking potshots at other supervillains due to past incidents, in addition to taking on the heroes.  Whoever escapes (carrying off Requiem and Frost if they get KO'd) becomes the new team lineup.

 

That's a really great idea...I'm stealing it.  :angel:

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My tryout list. Amarillo, Arrowhead, Blackguard, Stiletto, MegaVolt, Hazard, Crash (an original character, a clumsy speeder), Scatterbrain 2 (original character, female who gained mental powers, lost her hair, and became a bit absent minded when she was slipped the Psi Serium instead of a roofie in her drink at a party), Oger, and Deathtech (another original character, Dr. Death's grandson who secretly wants revenge, a gadgetear(.

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Lets talk about my original characters.

 

Scatterbrain 2: Hero/Champions does not have the stereotypical bald headed mentlist officially, so she fits that roll. Her mental powers are, in a multipower Telepathy, Mind Control 1 (Telepathic, One Command: Don't Move), Mind Control 2 (Limited Power: Must Put Victim Into Mind Control 1 First), Mental Blast, and Telekinesis, and outside multipower Flight (telekinesis) and Resistant Protection (costume and telekinesis force field). And Mental Defence.

 

The Psi Potion affected her memory along with her hair falling out. She doesn't have amnisa, and can form new memories. It is just that small details tend to slip through her mind. She forgets names, to lock cell doors, to take out the garbage, her keys, you know, small stuff. Her mind control in two stepts repersents her forgetting to ishue a command, then remembering to do so.

 

More on Crash and Deathtech later. Tell me if she is a good fit.

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Crash is someone Deathstroke never had before, a speedster. Crash is a mutant with the ability to move rather fast. Unforcently, when he slows down to human levels of speed, he becomes comically clumsy.

 

He is trying to get his lover/partner Burn to join the grohup, but he (Burn) knows of Deathstroke's reputation and is activly trying to get Crash to leave the group before it is to late.

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Deathtech is the gadgetear of the group. He has his grandfather's energy gauntlet, a "power backpack", "forcefield belt" and a vest filled with little bits of tech which he can put together for vareous effects (a VVP). He is the "starscream" of the group, allways viewing Recquim's plots as doomed to failer.

 

He wants to take full control of Deathstroke and with his leadership turn the group into an omega level group. Then he will kill Frost and Requime for what happened to his grandfather, Dr. Death.

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