transmetahuman Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Comet: Nightmare motif (D&D nightmare' date=' that is). Probably psychic powers, primarily. Not sure how to work in the morph to human when there is a comet around bit.[/quote'] Well, if you don't mind taking some liberties, maybe as a Nightmare he can only manifest physically at night. At dawn, he has to possess a nearby sentient (therefore, most often, a human), or maybe the nearest dreaming human, or something. Still turns into a human, sorta; still tied to an astronomical phenomenon. You could drop the frequency by associating it with the full moons or something, instead (or whatever other astronomical dealie you can associate with a nightmare being weakened). Wish I'd posted before Oddhat's possessed-kitties idea, cuz you probably won't want to use both on the same team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithcurtis Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Ever hear of Catherine the great? Myth Keith "30 seconds of research" Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestnik Posted August 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Thanks Transmetahuman. I like that idea for Comet. Thus far I have: Beppo Muhaba Mimbe (great ape magician) The Jade Streak (discussed above) Coma (the nightmare/psychic thing) and The Crypt Hound (animated skeleton of Fenris Wolf or some other pseudomythical giant canine I will make up) I need a name for Proty. Proteus is too obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets And Morpheous was taken? Also Metamorpho... Running out of possibilities here. How about a title like 'The Amorph"? Who is only ever mentioned or spoken of in the 3rd person, as it's personality is so unknowable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestnik Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets And Morpheous was taken? Also Metamorpho... Running out of possibilities here. How about a title like 'The Amorph"? Who is only ever mentioned or spoken of in the 3rd person' date=' as it's personality is so unknowable?[/quote'] Nyarlathotep? I just want to get the letters "pro" in there somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmetahuman Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Scientists first called it a "protomorph"; one of the scientists' kids thought they were saying "potty mouth", and started calling it "Potty"... okay, I'll shut up now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemurion Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Nyarlathotep? I just want to get the letters "pro" in there somewhere. Nyarlathprotep? Just an idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenn Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Hmmm. I wonder if Thor would have qualified for membership in the Legion of Super-Pets? Maybe if Mort Weisinger paid any attention to the properties that DC bought. No, not Thor, I mean Manhunter's dog (who himself was an android) - "No Dog Escapes the Dogcatcher"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haven Walkur Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets I love the idea of a "dark" Legion of Super-Pets; that's not only taking the Pets seriously, it's making them seriously frightening! I've been doing some research on the Inuat, the unbodied and malevolent spirits of Inuit belief, and I thought that some of their dog/wolf creatures might make an effective origin for "dark Krypto." Adlet Ten children were once born to an Inuit woman and a red dog. And of these children, five were dogs who crossed the seas to engender the European races. The other five children were the Adlet, wolf-monsters that drink blood, and their offspring are the flesh-eating shape-changers known as the Erqigdlit (singular: Erqigdluq). Akhlut is a spirit that takes the form of both a wolf and a whale. It is a vicious, dangerous beast, and its tracks appear as wolf tracks that lead to and from the ocean. Amarok is a giant wolf in Inuit mythology. It will hunt down and devour anyone foolish enough to hunt alone at night. Sometimes considered equivalent to the Waheela, a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada. [The waheela might actually BE a prehistoric bear-dog (an Amphicyonid), or perhaps a Dire Wolf (Canis dirus), a creature that co-existed with the gray wolf in North America during the Pleistocene. The waheela is reported to travel alone and not in packs as modern wolves do.] Keelut is an evil chthonic spirit who resembles a hairless dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkwleisemann Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets I'm thinking some kind of maxed-out Lovecraftian African Ape God' date=' as in that story the name of which I can't remember, with some Rovert E. Howard touches.[/quote'] *coughs* The Strange Case of Arthur Jermyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestnik Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Nyarlathprotep? Just an idea. THANK YOU!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrakazog Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets What about Gleek and Wonderdog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestnik Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Amarok is a giant wolf in Inuit mythology. It will hunt down and devour anyone foolish enough to hunt alone at night. Sometimes considered equivalent to the Waheela, a wolf-like cryptid reported from Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada. [The waheela might actually BE a prehistoric bear-dog (an Amphicyonid), or perhaps a Dire Wolf (Canis dirus), a creature that co-existed with the gray wolf in North America during the Pleistocene. The waheela is reported to travel alone and not in packs as modern wolves do.] Thanks a lot for the input. I think I'm going to go with the giant skeleton hound idea. I like the image of a 50-foot-tall cadaverous zombie hound who can breath great gouts of flame and cold (that is, heat-ray vision and super-breath). I'm going to try to write up the first one of these guys this weekend. Probably Streaky because he's got the simplest power set (in my interpretation, he's a speedster with vicious Killing Attacks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets What about Gleek and Wonderdog? Part of a super villain team alond with Zan, Jayna, Wendy, and Marvin. Life with the Superfriends can do terrible things to a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Part of a super villain team alond with Zan' date=' Jayna, Wendy, and Marvin. Life with the Superfriends can do terrible things to a child. [/quote'] That's right. They're a whole other team entirely. A very evil and powerful one: the Super Enemies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets THANK YOU!!!! You'll retract that thanks once you actually try to SAY that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Hang on, if you're going to get expansive then the oldest of them must appear. Yes, the original Bat Hound! Hieghtened smell, tracking senses and perhaps a blood draining HKA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haven Walkur Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Ah, no...Ace, like his owner, existed in the wrong century to be a member of the Legion of Super-Pets. The Bat-hound was a 20th Century puppy, and didn't have the ability to time-travel to the 30th Century -- unlike Comet and Streaky, who were members of the Legion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Re: Legion of Super-Pets Well, the oldest of them all is, strangely, the prototype Streaky. In the 1930 novel Gladiator, Prof. Danner tests his formula on a pregnant cat before using it on his pregnant wife and unborn son. He drowns all but one of the newborn kittens. The kitten that lives has Super Strength, Invulnerability, Super Leaping, and some Super Speed. Its depredations include slaughtering local livestock and destroying much property, as well as terifying Mrs. Danner. Eventually the Prof kills it with poison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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