Poll: The January 2023 Five Bad Band Superdraft

[Pariah]

Okay, here is the promised poll. It will be up until sometime on Friday. Vote early and vote often! (Oh, wait, that's something else....)

 

The choices are organized by title and in alphabetical order. Shown below are the rosters, again organized by title. 

 

Spoiler

Title: Battle For The Pink Panther
Location: Tokyo
The Heist: Theft of the Pink Panther on loan to Tokyo
The Big Bad: T.H.E. Cat
The Dragon: Cat Man (DC)
The Evil Genius: Mr. Wolf (The Bad Guys)
The Brute: Nuku Nuku
The Dark Chick: Katnappe 
The Hapless Hero: T'Challa
The Hero's Sidekick: White Tiger II
Option: Cat's Eye burglar team
Option: Inspector Clouseau 
Option: Charles Lytton (a/k/a/ The Phantom)

Title: Beauty and the Beasts, or The Hunchback of Castle Grayskull 
Location: Castle Grayskull
The Heist: 
The Big Bad: Doctor Doom
The Dragon: Red Skull
The Evil Genius: Two-Face
The Brute: Mr. Hyde (TLoEG)
The Dark Chick: Mystique 
The Hapless Hero: Yennefer of Vengerberg
The Hero's Sidekick: Fa Mulan
Option: The Magic Mirror
Option: Cyrano de Bergerac
Option: PT Barnum's Circus Freaks (The Greatest Showman)

Title: The Brain Trust
Location: Lake Tahoe, Nevada
The Heist: A Kidnapping! (of one or more nerds)
The Big Bad: The Riddler
The Dragon: Syndrome 
The Evil Genius: The Leader
The Brute: The Maestro (Bruce Banner)
The Dark Chick: Dr. Harleen Quinzel 
The Hapless Hero: Mr. Terrific 
The Hero's Sidekick: Moon Girl
Option: The brain of Professor X
Option: Dr. Dinosaur
Option: Amanda Waller

 

Title: Civic War

Location: Washington, DC
The Heist: To heist the White House
The Big Bad: Steve Rogers as Nomad
The Dragon: Scott Lang as Ant-Man
The Evil Genius: Clint Barton as Hawkeye
The Brute: Solomon Grundy as himself
The Dark Chick: Wanda Maximoff as The Scarlet Witch
The Hapless Hero: Tony Stark as Iron Man
The Hero's Sidekick: Peter Parker as Spider-Man
Option: Pietro Maximoff as Quicksilver
Option: Genreal Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross as himself
Option: Opening narration: "In 2016, a crack Avengers unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men and women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Washington DC underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as Avengers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the eX-Avengers-Team."

Title: Die, Witch!
Location: New York City
The Heist: The Assassination of Agatha Harkness
The Big Bad: Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, etc.)
The Dragon: Yelena Belova (Black Widow, Hawkeye)
The Evil Genius: Melina Vostokoff (Black Widow)
The Brute: Titania (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law)
The Dark Chick: Sharon Carter (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier)
The Hapless Hero: Peggy Carter (What If...?)
The Hero's Sidekick: Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Option: Agatha Harkness (WandaVision)
Option: A Wakandan vibraniaum spear
Option: The Scepter (containing the Mind Stone)

Title: I Love Paris When I'm Thieving 
Location: Paris, France
The Heist: To steal other paintings from the Louvre which are in the same room as the Mona Lisa
The Big Bad: Carmen Sandiego
The Dragon: Catwoman
The Evil Genius: Egg Fu
The Brute: Juggernaut
The Dark Chick: Sage
The Hapless Hero: Nightwing
The Hero's Sidekick: Beast Boy
Option: A jamming device (like in The Italian Job)
Option: Sky Pirates 2's ultrasonic generator to make things float 
Option: Jubilee

Title: Many Dragons, One Atomic Bomb
Location: USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Summer 1945
The Heist: To steal the Gadget -- the prototype implosion-type A-bomb -- before the actual Trinity test
The Big Bad: Fu Manchu
The Dragon: Wo Fat
The Evil Genius: Dr. Julius No (James Bond series) 
The Brute: Oddjob (James Bond series)
The Dark Chick: Dragon Lady (Terry and the Pirates)
The Hapless Hero: Lee (Enter the Dragon)
The Hero's Sidekick: Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Option: Wile E. Coyote (local guide for villains)
Option: the Metal Men (DC canon, good guy allies)
Option: Theme music: Windshear from Ronnie Montrose's "The Speed of Sound"

Title: The Race Card
Location: Paris, Texas
The Heist: The destruction of public buildings and local monuments
The Big Bad: Killmonger
The Dragon: Black Manta
The Evil Genius: Deadly Nightshade
The Brute: Rage
The Dark Chick: Voodoo
The Hapless Hero: The White Dragon
The Hero's Sidekick: Peacemaker
Option: Sam Wilson (a/k/a Falcon/Captain America)
Option: The National Force
Option: The Aryan Brigade

 

Thanks for playing, everyone!

[death tribble]

This poll will be stolen by one of the participants

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

8 minutes ago, death tribble said:

This poll will be stolen by one of the participants

 

[Cancer]

Voted.

[Pariah]

1 hour ago, death tribble said:

This poll will be stolen by one of the participants

 

Is this a prophecy, or a warning?

[death tribble]

It is a fact. 

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

There were a lot of fun ideas. Being bad feels pretty good. 

[Old Man]

 

Just reposting my heist:

 

Heist: Stealing the Heart of Yennefer of Vengerberg (figuratively speaking)

[Hermit]

I did not partake due to RL situations, but had fun reading and lurking and I have voted.  Alas, I could only vote for three.

Thanks for the show, all of you.

[Pariah]

Okay, I guess it's time to call this thing. Our winner is ... 

 

 Logan D. Hurricanes with "Brain Trust"! 

 

And in a three-way tie for runner-up, we have

 

csyphret with "Battle for the Pink Panther"!

Death Tribble with "I Love Paris When I'm Thieving"
Cancer with "Many Dragons, One Atomic Bomb"

 

Great work, everyone!

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

 

Thank you!

[death tribble]

I came second which is unusual. But csyphrett also came joint second so congrats

[csyphrett]

8 hours ago, death tribble said:

I came second which is unusual. But csyphrett also came joint second so congrats

Congrats to you

CES