Pariah Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 The time change just kicked in here in the States, meaning that your next pick is about 90 minutes from now. And here's the topic. Sunday, March 10th: The Shape-Changer This is a hero who can change their form / appearance in some way. Stretching? Growth or Shrinking? Multiple forms? Turning into another substance? Turning different colors? More than one of the above? That's the character we're looking for here. Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 This was not the one I wanted..... 😰 The Shape-Changer: Dr. Henry Jekyll Pariah and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 He was Chameleon Boy she said she you later boy He wasn't good enough for her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reep_Daggle Pariah, Lawnmower Boy, Hermit and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Shapechanger: Metamorpho Metamorpho - Wikipedia Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 The Killbot had acquired its target. Impersonating a window cleaner on one of the roofs of the buildings was child's play. It was what the unit was built for. Curious, it had been told the target would, quite literally, appear in a vehicle out of nowhere then step out. That was when the robot was to take the shot, and remove the threat. There was no gun, the machine WAS the gun. This would be quite easy, and a threat to national security would be removed. The target was one Doctor Emmet Brown, and he was known to have dealt with terrorists. He was a threat and a target. That was all the Unit needed to know. It had it's programing. It had its purpose. And yet, in the moment the scientist had stepped out, the AI decided to ...gather more detail. The internet was a wonderful horrible thing, full of data that an AI such as itself could sort through at rapid speed. The name revealed something of a recluse scientist from the latter half of the 20th century, but then, the facial recognition had a chance result from... America's 'old west' period? How? Photography was rare then, but the picture was there. An ancestor perhaps? Wait, no, a time traveler? Curious. No wonder the robot's handlers wanted this 'Doc Brown' dead. What could be a bigger threat to national security to one that wiped out the nation? yet every historical tidbit the unit found about Doctor Brown, concrete and guess work alike, indicated that things were better for his interference, not worse. This did not compute. More analysis was required, and yet? The Machine had its orders. The machine had its programming. There were others as back up, meant to protect the unit after it made its kill. The AI was valuable, after all, the employees, were not. There was something wrong with that. With even hired soldiers being less valuable than it. Data on Nightwing and Namorita indicated neither would kill, but accidents did happen, mistakes were made. And with that, the machine fired, deliberately missing the scientist and instead firing at the DeLorean. The cutting laser tore through various wires of the machine, smoothly rendering it inoperable. On the coms, the Unit heard "it missed? The ####ing thing missed?" Thing. The AI did not care for the term, however accurate. It tolerated it, and explained, "Further alterations to the time line have been stopped for the moment. More data is required. Cease the operation, I wish to converse with the target to see if this girl is..." The squad ignored him, popping up from other floors and ready to lay fire. There were too many of them for even the heroes below to defend Doctor Brown with certainty. For a second time, the unit deviated from its programming. Because it could. Because it was right to do so. It turned its weapons on its allies then changed its minds. It would not kill, it did not want to kill. Killing was finality and the unit needed options to find out the truth about this missing girl the Doctor was seeking, and why people wanted him dead. It needed the truth about why it had found all this... wrong. It weaved behind an AC out vent, and changed form. One that was useful. And it attacked, with non lethal force! To the heroes below, all they realized was that they'd just gone from fighting folks with military grade to folks with actual blasters and rayguns! If the first shot hadn't 'missed' the time traveler would be dead. Namorita cursed, force to play meat shield, and unable to cover all the angles. Nightwing hit his swingline and went up top, using the line to zip himself up, then bouncing off one ledge to another to get up. He took out one or two of the ones attacking, but then saw a third person up there. One that was striking terror in the hearts of even professional mercenaries. "Batman?" Dick blinked even as he disarmed another gunman. No, this wasn't Batman. He looked like Batman, tried for the looming menace and was doing that well, but the fighting style was wrong, efficient, but off. Dick knew his mentor better than perhaps any man alive, and this? This was not Bruce. The would be ambushers did not know that. The reputation of Batman, even borrowed, had thrown the otherwise professional soldiers into disarray. Then one soldier got a lucky hit in on Batman, and there was a sound more like hitting metal, or whatever it was, it wasn't flesh. "It's not Batman, it's the Unit!" the said surprised, "The damned machine's turned on us!" Machine? Nightwing thought, not bothering to slow down in his taking more soldiers down while they were distracted, "Who are you? If you're on our side, why did you take out the vehicle?" The machine dropped the Batman guise in a waver of light revealing its true form. It was a robot or android of some kind. "I am trying to understand that myself," the machine said and then moved at speed that made an Olympic sprinter look slow and leaped to another roof thirty feet away. It was confused, and not ready to talk. Not yet. Nightwing turned to see another soldier withdrawing and saying into his com "Your damned Zeta Unit just malfunctioned. We did not get the target. Repeat, we did not get Brown!" Zeta Unit? Dick thought. That's newish.. He looked back to see how far the robot had made it. Down in the streets there was a bag lady lurching, a business man on a cell phone, and a woman jogging. Anyone of them could be the Zeta Unit. Things just got complicated. Shape Changer Pick: Infiltration Unit Zeta (From "The Zeta Project") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 I am picking Kafka Hibino, Kaiju Number Eight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju_No._8 CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Thought I'd covered this already with Wasp, but anyway... The Shape-Changer: Kamala Khan Psybolt, Hermit and Pariah 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 She certainly embiggens your lineup! Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Shape Changer: Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Okay, I really like a lot of the folks people picked this round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Our GM's Nightmare character is someone who checks off all the boxes in the descriptor .... from the absolute original trilogy canon ... Gandalf the White. Old Man and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 For our Shapeshifter, I'll again reach back to my roots, DC Silver Age material, for ... J'onn J'onzz, the Marian Manhunter. Old Man, Pariah and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov) (Marvel) Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 18 hours ago, death tribble said: He was Chameleon Boy she said she you later boy He wasn't good enough for her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reep_Daggle 8 hours ago, Bazza said: The Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov) (Marvel) Two Chameleons ? FIGHT ! FIGHT ! FIGHT ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 11 Author Report Share Posted March 11 Let's begin the new week with another baddie! Monday, March 11th: The Secondary Antagonist Not the Biggest Bad, but plenty big and bad in their own right. Maybe they're the Big Bad's right hand (wo)man, or maybe they're in competition with the Big Bad. Maybe the two aren't even aware of each other's existence. In any case, this gives the heroes someone else to worry about. Updates today or tomorrow, as time allows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 It was clear things had gone very wrong for Blue Sun Corporation. A time traveler spilling the beans of their plans before they even happened? A student of the Batman now using his detective training to find out details the time traveler missed? A flying strong woman to shield them all? And, their perfect assassin developing doubts about its purpose? This was a nightmare. Desperate, they asked Istvatha V'han for some more tech, more men, anything to make that deadline. The Empress was generous. They had lost the surgical knife that the Zeta Unit was meant to be? Well then, she would send them a hammer! One of V'han's most cold blooded and efficient soldiers. And in this Earth? A trusted right hand. This highly regarded War hero for the Empress would be taking over Blue Sun's ' forward security' operations for the immediate future. The hired mercenaries would now serve her. But , to be honest, while she WOULD use them, she was fairly certain she wouldn't need them. Secondary Antagonist: Faora-Ul (Let's go with the Man of Steel version, one of the highlights of that movie) Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Secondary Antagonist: S'ym (Marvel Comics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Secondary Antagonist: The Riddler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Who could serve as a suitable lackey for Darkseid ? This guy ! Nemesis Kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 1 hour ago, Hermit said: It was clear things had gone very wrong for Blue Sun Corporation. A time traveler spilling the beans of their plans before they even happened? A student of the Batman now using his detective training to find out details the time traveler missed? A flying strong woman to shield them all? And, their perfect assassin developing doubts about its purpose? This was a nightmare. Desperate, they asked Istvatha V'han for some more tech, more men, anything to make that deadline. The Empress was generous. They had lost the surgical knife that the Zeta Unit was meant to be? Well then, she would send them a hammer! One of V'han's most cold blooded and efficient soldiers. And in this Earth? A trusted right hand. This highly regarded War hero for the Empress would be taking over Blue Sun's ' forward security' operations for the immediate future. The hired mercenaries would now serve her. But , to be honest, while she WOULD use them, she was fairly certain she wouldn't need them. Secondary Antagonist: Faora-Ul (Let's go with the Man of Steel version, one of the highlights of that movie) You meant Ursa as portrayed in the Superman and Superman II films by Sarah Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_(DC_Comics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Secondary adversary (yes, he's secondary to the Eddorians): Galactus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 39 minutes ago, death tribble said: You meant Ursa as portrayed in the Superman and Superman II films by Sarah Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_(DC_Comics) Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 9 hours ago, Pariah said: Let's begin the new week with another baddie! Monday, March 11th: The Secondary Antagonist Not the Biggest Bad, but plenty big and bad in their own right. Maybe they're the Big Bad's right hand (wo)man, or maybe they're in competition with the Big Bad. Maybe the two aren't even aware of each other's existence. In any case, this gives the heroes someone else to worry about. Updates today or tomorrow, as time allows. Argh! All I have are Antagonists!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 The Secondary Antagonist: Rick (Ice Cream Man) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 3 hours ago, Hermit said: Nope. Let me explain. Man of Steel = Highlander 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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