My Superhero Homage Setting

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I am starting a new campaign and had a real quandary what to do. I wanted to use the established DC/Marvel universes as a combination, but I didn't want all the headaches that go along with it like continuity and arguments over characters stats, actions etc.

 

So I decided i would use the characters but just change the names and mix the two universes as much as possible.

 

For the new names i thought it would be cool to use names used by superhero rpg projects already but use the original marvel/dc character for the stats.

 

I Have posted lots of this info on the M&M boards, but am currently back to using Hero for all my campaigns so thought I would post it here as well.

 

 

More for my own purposes, I'm just going to recap characters I've done so far and what teams they belong to.

 

The Freedom League

Robin Hood

Meteor Man 3

Centurion

Lady Liberty

The Grey Hunter

The Raven

The Sea King

Zigzag

Johnny Rocket 2

 

Former Members

Hummingbird

Captain Thunder

White Hat

Dust Devil

Freedom Eagle

Talona

Doctor Metropolis

Johnny Rocket 1

Tom Thumb

 

The Sentinels

The Scarlet Archer

The Patriot

Witchcraft

Avar-7

The White Lion

Ragnarok

Daedalus

 

Former Members

Fleetfoot

Caliburn

Lady of the Lantern

Anthem

 

The Next Gen

Nighthawk

Dust Devil

Johnny Rocket 2

 

Former Members

The Scarlet Archer

Raze

 

The Liberty League

Hummingbird

The Patriot

The Pugilist

Captain Thunder

Officer Prometheus

Pan and Belle

Dr Twilight

Freedom Eagle

Talona

Tom Thumb

The Beacon

Jack B Quick

Night Owl

 

Former Members

Lady Liberty

Sea Devil

The All-American

Skybreaker

Mandrake the Magician

Daedalus

 

The Protectors

Slipstream

Ironclad

Adonis

Jack Frost

Iron Duke 1

Midnight Angel

Professor Psion

 

Former Members

Sapphire

Jason Wylder

Johnny Rocket 2

Hummingbird

 

The Academy

Icicle

Photon

 

The Scions of Caine

Mastermind

 

Former Members

Fleetfoot

Witchcraft

Adonis

Icicle

Charade

Ogre

 

The Galaxy Legion

The Grey Hunter

Centurion

Meteor Man 3

Lady Starbright

Ragnarok

Daedalus

 

The Outsiders

Sea-Devil

Grond

Red Phoenix

Lady Starbright

Eldrich

 

Former Members

The Green Man

Powerhouse

 

The Atom Family

Amazing Man

The Monster

Blaze

Facade

 

Law and Order Inc

Green Dragon

Powerhouse

 

The Circle

Witchcraft

Talisman

Dr Twilight

Mandrake The Magician

White Hat

Eldrich

The Master

Doctor Metropolis

The Beacon

 

Executive Sanction

Anthem

The Drifter

 

The Guard

Defender

Talisman

Mother Raven

 

The Supreme Soviets

 

Former Members

Ironclad

 

The New Knights

Caliburn

 

Galaxars

The Devastator

 

The Time Corps

Jason Wylder

 

The Ghouls

 

Squad-X

 

Former Members

Skybreaker

Granite

 

 

The Redeemed

Skybreaker

Raze

 

Former Members

Granite

 

The Secret Seven

Pulsar

Granite

 

Anarchy

Teleios

 

The Frightful Five

Doctor Macabre

Dwarfstar

Menton

Charade

Ogre

 

Factor Four

Professor Fathom

Granite

Binder

Gladiator

 

The Crime League

Doctor Macabre

Alexander Stone

Black Harlequin

 

The Sinister Circle

The Crimson Claw

Brother Basilisk

 

Red Doom

General Winter

 

The Fourth Reich

 

Independent Heroes

Zan-Dar and Aslan

The Green Man

Sapphire

Lightning & Bolt

Lady of the Lantern

The Hornet

 

Independent Villains

Doctor Simian

Doctor Destroyer

Black Talon

Black Harlequin

Conundrum

Alley Cat

Alexander Stone

Mechanon

Pulsar

Teleios

The Baron

The Dragonfly

Alice Queen of Hearts

Bloody Mary

General Winter

Annihilator

Brother Basilisk

Void

 

Rogues Galleries

 

The Freedom League

Doctor Simian, Alexander Stone, Black Harlequin, Mechanon, The Crime League

 

The Sentinels

Doctor Simian, Mechanon, Iron Duke II, The Sinister Circle, Brother Basilisk

 

The Atom Family

Doctor Destroyer, The Devestator, Factor Four, Black Talon

 

The Protectors

Mastermind, The Scions of Caine, Teleios, Anarchy

 

The Liberty League

Red Doom

 

The Next-Gen

The Frightful Five

 

Executive Sanction

Red Doom, the Supreme Soviets

 

The Galaxy Legion

 

The Supreme Soviets

Red Doom, Executive Sanction

 

The Circle

Bloody Mary, The Baron

 

The Devestator

 

Johnny Rocket

Doctor Simian

 

Centurion

Alexander Stone

 

The Raven

Black Harlequin, Conundrum, Alley Cat, The Annihilator

 

The Hornet

The Secret Seven, Alley Cat, Pulsar, Dragonfly, Granite, Alice Queen of Hearts, Void

 

The White Lion

Doctor Simian, Black Talon

 

Dr. Silverback

Doctor Simian

 

Zandar

Black Talon

 

Micromax

Mechanon

 

Eldrich

The Baron

 

Meteor Man

Doctor Macabre

 

Grond

Ogre

 

Foreshadow

Alice Queen of Hearts, Bloody Mary

 

Jaguar

Alice Queen of Hearts

 

Pan & Belle

Bloody Mary

 

Daedelus

General Winter, The Crimson Claw, Brother Basilisk

 

Lady Liberty

General Winter

 

The Patriot

The Crimson Claw, The Annihilator

 

The Silencer

The Hornet, The Annihilator

 

Ragnarok

Brother Basilisk

 

Heracles

Brother Basilisk

 

 

 

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Robin Hood (Green Arrow Homage)

 

ROBIN HOOD – The most famous and possibly skilled archer in the world. Clint McQueen was a millionaire playboy and with little focus in life when he was forced to re-evaluate his priorities when his sister and her husband were killed by the mob leaving there 13 year old son Oliver an orphan.

Already naturally skilled at archery at an early age McQueen threw himself into training to revenge his sister and after a years training first donned his costume and became Robin Hood. Using a wide range of trick arrows and his amazing skill Robin Hood became quickly one of the most popular superheroes of Freedom City.

Within two years he was asked to join the Freedom League and has been a member on and off ever since.

Soon young Oliver Barton was trying to emulate his uncle and nearly got himself killed. Realizing he had to train his nephew for his own good, Barton become Archer Gold and was Robin Hood's sidekick until getting himself mixed up with Drugs and crime. Splitting from his uncle he became the Scarlet Archer a super-villain for hire. Until McQueen eventually got him back on the straight and narrow and got him accepted as a member of the Sentinels.

Archer Gold has an ongoing tempestuous relationship with the heroine Hummingbird and they have almost married on 2 occasions.

He also has a long running partnership of sorts with the hero Star Knight although Star Knight's recent mental problems have seemingly strained this relationship.

 

First Appearance - Robin Hood #1

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #8

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THE SCARLET ARCHER (Hawkeye/Arsenal homage)

 

SCARLET ARCHER

Oliver Barton grew up worshiping his uncle the great hero Robin Hood and wanted nothing more than to emulate him. From a young age he trained himself night and day to become a great archer like his uncle and when he was sixteen secretly donned a costume and attempted to help Robin Hood as his new sidekick Archer Gold.

However, Robin Hood was appalled and refused to let him operate alongside him due to the extreme danger. Once Robin Hood saw that his young nephew would not listen to reason he enrolled him in the Academy and he become a long term student and member of the Next Gen.

However after graduation Oliver’s life became aimless and goalless and he got himself heavily involved with and eventually addicted to drugs. Eventually blackmailed into becoming a super villain for hire he changed his code name to Scarlet Archer and for a while even became one of Robin Hoods most deadly foes.

Eventually saved and put into rehab by the World War 2 legend Uncle Sam, Scarlet Archer turned his life around and became a long term stalwart member of the Sentinels and is once again a hero to the public.

His relationship with his uncle is now much improved but still sometimes strained and Scarlet Archer sometimes struggles and rebels against the dominance of his two mentors Robin Hood Gold and Uncle Sam

 

First Appearance - Stories of Mystery #57

Joined the Next Gen - Next-Gen #1

Joined the Sentinels - Sentinels #16

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HUMMINGBIRD (Black Canary homage)

 

HUMMINGBIRD

Lauren Dinah was born a mutant with the ability to utter a piercing sonic cry which could shatter objects and render human beings unconscious. Luckily for Lauren her parents were close friends of world heavyweight champion and long time Liberty League super hero the Pugilist. He took her under his wing and started to train her in combat and how to use her sonic cry.

Lauren proved to be an apt pupil and she soon rivaled her mentor in skill and ability and soon joined the Liberty League as its newest member Hummingbird.

Soon after she met Robin Hood for the first time and the two soon fell in love and Lauren soon joined the Freedom League to be close to her love.

Her happiness could not last however as Lauren was one of the first mutants to be kidnapped and experimented on by the mutant hating robots the Minutemen. Hummingbird lost her sonic powers during these experiments and only after being rescued by the Protectors and having a long term convalescence and training period with the mutant freedom fighters was she able to regain her powers.

Becoming estranged from Robin Hood in her absence Lauren has recently decided to return to the modern version of the Liberty League as a permanent member.

 

First Appearance - Freedom League #14

Joined the Freedom League #15

Joined the Protectors - Protectors of the Strange #103

Joined the Liberty League - Liberty League Returns! #3

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THE MINUTEMEN (The Sentinels homage)

 

THE MINUTEMEN

The mutant hating robots known as the Minutemen were originally created by Alexander Stone millionaire businessman and owner of Panstar Inc maybe the worlds biggest high tech company. Stone had become the arch nemesis of Centurion and he speculated that the hero was a mutant so put into action the long term project to create advanced robots capable of capturing and killing Centurion.

Stone was foiled when it was revealed that Centurion was in fact an Alien from another dimension and not a mutant at all. Disgusted Stone put an end to the program and deactivated the Minutemen.

Much later the evil robot Mechanon was able to discover the Minuteman and attempted to put them to use against the Sentinels Witchcraft and Fleetfoot, but the Minuteman programming was too strong and they went on a world wide rampage against all mutants that carries on till this day making them one of the Protectors fiercest enemies. Only 21 Minutemen were ever produced and the plans and expertise to produce more has been permanently lost. It has been speculated that there may be an advanced form of Minuteman leading the group but this has never been confirmed.

 

First Appearance - Star Comics # 253

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METEOR MAN 3 (Green Lantern Kyle Rayner homage)

 

METEOR MAN III

Robert Kyle was an unassuming artist when he was chosen by the Circle and its leader Eldritch as the Meteor Ring’s newest Guardian. With the second Meteor Man’s fall from grace and redemption as the spirit of vengeance Lantern Jack the Circle searched for thirteen months and thirteen days until they found their new guardian.

Robert although overwhelmed at first by his new power and responsibility has since become one of the most famous heroes on the planet a core member of the new Freedom League and has struck up a great friendship and partnership with fellow leaguer Johnny Rocket.

Robert’s control over the Meteor Ring is still being tested, but if he is inexperienced in his favor is his great bravery and imagination.

 

First Appearance - Meteor Man #350

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #400

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THE PATRIOT (Captain America homage)

 

PATRIOT

Roger Stevenson was the first soldier to be given the new Infinity Serum in the early days of World War Two. The serum transformed him into the perfect man and he was given combat training until he was a master, armed with an unbreakable shield forged by the governments top scientists, Stevenson now called the Patriot went on to become a wartime legend as leader of the Liberty League.

When many of the League were tragically lost in time in the early 1950’s Patriot was one of the first to return to our time stream. Found by the new super hero group the Sentinels, Patriot became a core member then its leader and soon its heart and soul.

Once again becoming a legend in the modern era, Patriot has been obsessed with rescuing his team mates from the Liberty League he recently helped to achieve this helping to form and lead the modern version of the team splitting his time between them and the Sentinels.

 

First Appearance - The Patriot #1

Joined the Liberty League - Liberty League #1

Joined the Sentinels - Sentinels #4

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SLIPSTREAM (Quicksilver Homage)

 

SLIPSTREAM

Slipstream and Witchcraft were born powerful mutants to maybe the most powerful mutants of all Mastermind. From an early age he force fed them his mutant superiority beliefs and trained them to be pivotal agents in his Scions of Caine. After many clashes with the Protectors. Slipstream and his sister saw Mastermind for the evil man he was and escaped and joined the Sentinels where they both served many years until his sisters marriage to the android Avar-7 forced a deep wedge between them and Slipstream left and slowly drifted back to his father. The mutant speedster soon saw the error of his ways however when battling his old foes the Protectors and when his Mastermind betrayed him and nearly fatally injured him the mutant freedom fighters saved him and nursed him back to health. He stayed with the team and has since become a stalwart member.

 

First Appearance - Protectors of the Strange #4

Joined the Sentinels #16

Joined the Protectors - Protectors of the Strange #330

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Witchcraft (Scarlet Witch homage)

 

WITCHCRAFT

Slipstream and Witchcraft were born powerful mutants to maybe the most powerful mutants of all Mastermind. From an early age he force fed them his mutant superiority beliefs and trained them to be pivotal agents in his Scions of Caine. After many clashes with the Protectors. Slipstream and his sister saw Mastermind for the evil man he was and escaped and joined the Sentinels where they both served many years until her marriage to the android Avar-7 forced a deep wedge between them and Slipstream left and slowly drifted back to his father.

Witchcraft meanwhile has become a real core part of the Sentinels and along with her husband was served with the team many years now becoming one of the most popular and famous mutants on the planet.

Her marriage has had its share of ups and downs often caused by her father, but it has remained strong and she herself has become more and more in control of her powers over her years of experience.

 

First Appearance - Protectors of the Strange #4

Joined the Sentinels - Sentinels #16

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AVAR-7 (The Vision Homage)

 

AVAR-7

The android super hero who was to become such a stalwart member of the Sentinels was originally created to destroy them by the mad robot Mechanon one of their greatest enemies.

However, Mechanon made his android only to humanlike and did not realize his creation would not be able to kill the Sentinels and in fact turned on him and joined his hated enemies to defeat him!

Since then Avar-7 has never left the Sentinels, finding a home and friends in their ranks and eventually finding love with the mutant Witchcraft which has blossomed into marriage.

Despite numerous attempts to destroy him by Mechanon and the conflict with Witchcraft’s over protective brother Slipstream and the public’s continued non acceptance of him, Avar-7 has become contented in his existence and no longer questions his right to “exist”.

 

First Appearance - The Sentinels #57

Joined the Sentinels - The Sentinels #59

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MASTERMIND (Magneto Homage)

 

MASTERMIND

Eroa-Mastor was the chief of his people, a simple cave people back in the mists of time. That was until the Preservers came. They took Eroa-Mastor and remade him from the smallest atom up. Made him new, made him different, made him better! That day the first Mutant was born. The first mutant that started a bloodline of all mutants throughout history. Mastor was made perfect in every way but also given the strange and immensely powerful ability over a substance the preservers introduced to the world – Metal.

Thousands of years later the Preservers returned and did not like the control and Mastor had created over his subjects they took him back with them in their strange craft and experimented on him again. Only on their most recent return did he escape and start to plot to control the world once more through his people the “mutants” he quickly formed the Scions of Caine and gathered evil mutants to his cause. Mostly these are of his own bloodline or are known to him. He has been opposed and defeated at every turn by the group of heroic mutant defenders the Protectors who seek to gain acceptance for mutants and see the Mastermind (as he now calls himself) as the great threat to that goal

 

First Appearance - Protectors of the Strange #1

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CENTURION (Superman homage)

 

CENTURION

Kyle Clarkson is the last survivor of an alternate reality in where the Roman empire never died but flourished and grew. This was until Omega came and swallowed up his world into the Terminus. Kyle’s father was the preminent scientist of his day and was working on a prototype machine to send himself and his family into another dimension to avoid the Terminus. There was only time however to send Kyle alone in the unknown before their fate was upon them. Kyle entered this universe at this time and was found by a farming couple called the Clarkson’s who being childless took in the infant and named him Kyle after the strange writing they found on the capsule “Ky-Le”

Soon as he grew his parents realized he was no normal boy and as his powers manifested they realized they must tell him his true origin and show him the strange books which came with the capsule. Amazingly Kyle was able to comprehend the strange language and his true heritage became known to him.

That night an experiment from Alexander Stone’s worldwide company Panstar went on the rampage endangering Freedom City, Kyle did not hesitate and went off to stop the menace and save the city. Speaking to the press afterwards young Kyle badly criticized both Panstar and its owner, forever earning his enmity.

Forging his Centurion identity the young hero soon settled into Freedom City getting a job as a reporter at the Daily Herald and soon falling in love and marrying Laurie Lamont.

Centurion was soon a founding member of the Freedom League and was possibly the worlds most famous hero until the Terminus invasion and his reported death.

For a whole year he was mourned until it was discovered by the Atom Family that Centurion had in fact been held prisoner by Omega within the Terminus.

Freed by the family of explorers and Omega defeated Centurion returned to a jubilant Freedom City and his wife there joy was soon made even greater by a birth of a son although the infants accelerated aging is worrying his parents greatly

 

First Appearance - Star Comics #1

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #1

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LADY LIBERTY (Wonder Woman homage)

 

LADY LIBERTY

Donna Mason was a simple American girl with a simple life until she met and fell in love with Roger Stevenson the Patriot. One day during the dark days of world war two her love lay dying from a Nazi bomb plot and Donna called out for help for justice! Her call was answered and in that special moment the spirit of liberty entered her body and soul allowing her to save Stevenson and for the first time Lady Liberty was born.

She quickly joined the swelling ranks of the Liberty League and became a staunch member often fighting with her partner the Patriot to become a legendary duo.

At the end of World War two Lady Liberty was one of the first of the wartime heroes to be lost to the time stream. Stevenson was broken hearted and searched for her to the ends of the earth and beyond to no avail , slowly all the members of the Liberty League disappeared including the Patriot himself.

Then in the modern era Donna Mason unexpectedly, unexplainably returned. She found that her team mates had also returned all unharmed and untouched by age. Including her love the Patriot.

Their reunion was joyous and they soon married vowing never to be apart again. In her absence the Patriot had become the heart of the Sentinels and now Lady Liberty vowed to do the same for the new Freedom League.

Together their influence over and respect in the superhero community is immense and they are truly happy at last.

 

First Appearance - All Action Comics #8

Joined The Liberty League - Liberty League #2

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #1

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THE GREY HUNTER (Martian Manhunter homage)

 

GREY HUNTER

Rick Faxxx Was born a Grue psychic back on their home world and was one of the first Grue trained to come to earth as part of their advance scouting and invasion force. He left behind a wife and child on Greyworld. He was assured that if he completed his long term mission on earth and investigated the origin of the dreaded psychic static that came from earth that plagued the Grue so greatly he would be rewarded and his family made famous.

Once he reached earth however and infiltrated its people he soon saw humanity for what it truly was and was unable to betray them to his people.

 

He turned against the Grue and tried to warn earth’s military accidently causing the Roswell incident and forever earning his people’s enmity.

 

He soon learned that due to his treachery his family had been banished and sold into slavery. This filled him with a burning hatred and he vowed to protect the people of earth from the Grue and other alien threats.

He became a founding member of both the Freedom League and the sometimes active Galaxy Legion.

He has often tried to search vainly for his family and he has become a grim hunter of his fellow Greys giving rise to his current code name of Grey Hunter which has replaced his original codename of Pseudo.

 

First Appearance - Crime Comics #225

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #1

Joined the Galaxy Legion - Galaxy Legion #1

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THE RAVEN (Batman homage)

 

RAVEN

Duncan Summers was born into wealth and privilege his parents were among the wealthiest families of Freedom city. He wanted for nothing and he felt his life was perfect. This all changed on his 18th birthday when the crazed super villain Black Harlequin brutally murdered his parents in front of him for no better reason than he was bored.

This plunged Summers into a obsession for revenge which if truth be told he has never quite recovered from. He decided he would bring the Harlequin to justice himself and went on a ten year mission to train his body and mind to make himself capable. During this time he came under the wing of the two crime fighters he now considers his mentors the Liberty League members Midnight and the Pugilist.

When he felt he was ready Summers created the costumed identity of the Raven and did indeed bring the Black Harlequin to justice although since that first encounter the Harlequin has proved to be his ultimate nemesis among his now extensive rogues gallery.

Summers soon attracted other young crime fighters such as Nighthawk, Kestrel, Condor, Hummingbird and others and started a tradition of helping young heroes in their early careers which has continued in his extensive backing of the Claremont academy and the Next-Gen.

The Raven was a founding member of the Freedom League and has become one of the most feared and respected heroes over the last 20 years.

 

First Appearance - Crime Comics #27

Joined the Freedom League - Freedom League #1

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SEA-KING (Aquaman homage)

 

SEA KING

The hero named Sea King is the current monarch of Atlantis and lord of the seven seas. He is a member of the extensive royal family of Atlantis and son of the famous Sea Devil and human heroine of world war 2 Siren.

Their union produced Theseus their first born son. When Sea Devil attacked Freedom City for the second time with the forces of Atlantis under the secret control of Doctor Destroyer, his young heir rebelled against him and with the help of the Atom Family repelled the attack and with his father mentally damaged from Destroyers control took sole charge of the kingdom.

 

Since then he has become a stalwart member of the Freedom League as well as performing his duties as king of Atlantis. He soon married and has had two children of his own Prince Marus, Princess Neireid and has remained on mostly friendly terms with his impetuous father Sea Devil.

 

Sea King recently decided that Atlantis should officially join the UN and this has been accomplished although relations are shaky with many nations who remember how dangerous Atlantis has been after attacks by his father or takeovers by members of the royal family such as Leviathan, Stingray and Ashlook the Barbarian.

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SEA-DEVIL (Namor the Sub-Mariner homage)

 

SEA DEVIL

Zamor is the famous some would say infamous father of Sea King, in fact of all Atlantis itself! Born the heir to a massive undersea kingdom, Zamor has fought hard over the years to overcome his legendary temper and prejudice against the human surface dwellers whom he saw as invading and preying on his kingdom.

Zamor first became known to the surface world when he was supped into joining the Axis in world war 2 and led the forces of Atlantis in a joint attack with the Japanese against Pearl Harbour. He soon saw the Axis for the evil scum that they were and switched sides becoming a frequent ally of the Liberty League and falling in love with one of its members Siren.

 

After the war Zamor took her for his bride and little was heard of from Atlantis until the evil influence of Dr Destroyer forced Zamor and Atlantis once again to invade the surface world this time Freedom City which was only thwarted by the prompt interference of the Atom Family.

 

Zamor soon fell deeply in love with Facade from the Atom Family putting immense strain on his marriage and earning the long term enmity of Dr Atom.

Deciding he needed time away from Atlantis Zamor turned over the throne to his young son Theseus and began a wander lust that continues to this day.

In recent times Sea Devil has only emerged from the seas to aid the enigmatic Eldrich and his strange band of Outsiders in their weird adventures to help humanity. Some say this proves that the Sea Devil is one of humanities protectors while others would point to his invasions of the surface world and be dubious of that statement. His son Sea King ever mindful of his duty to Atlantis has an often strained relationship with his headstrong father.

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ZAN-DAR (Tarzan/Ka-Zar homage)

 

ZAN-DAR

Zan-Dar the Jungle lord is really Lord Alexander Challenger who was marooned in the Lost World by his dying parents after a failed expedition as a very small infant back in the 1930’s raised by the apes and other beasts of the Lost World as a kind of lost king he was given the name “Zan-Dar” meaning jungle lord and given secret herbal powders which would turn out to prolong his life making him effectively immortal. Trained from an early age both to survive in the Lost World and to communicate with the beasts there Zan-Dar is both a an amazing physical combatant and has an uncanny ability to communicate with the beasts of the Lost World.

 

Despite traveling back to civilization to search out his background Zan-Dar has always returned to the lost World to protect it from what he sees is the corrosive effect of mankind. After the Lost World was discovered in the modern era by first the Atom Family and then the Protectors Zan-Dar become a staunch ally of both groups and even for a time traveled back to Freedom City with the Protectors and became a protector of the urban metropolis. Recently however the Mastermind has set up one of his huge sprawling bases deep in the mountains of the Lost World and both Zan-Dar and the Protectors traveled back to the Lost World to save it from his evil rule.

Zan-Dar is joined in his protection of the Lost World by the king of the beasts the huge lion Aslan who also seems to be magically immortal and intelligent and would protect Zan-Dar with his life.

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ASLAN (Zabu homage)

 

ASLAN

Aslan is the lord of the beasts of the Lost world and the protector of Zan-Dar. Seemingly magical in nature and origin he was named by Zan-Dar but the origin of his birth and strange powers of healing and immortality remain shrouded in mystery.

One thing remains sure Aslan will protect both the Lost World and his master with his life.

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DR SIMIAN (Gorilla Grodd homage)

 

DR. SIMIAN

The mad genetic genius Teleios had set up a long term project and base in the Congo working on animal intelligence primarily among simians. This work was interrupted however by a raid from a Grue assault team while Teleios was away. The Grue raiding party took many subjects for study and experimentation but one stood out a huge Gorilla who had already been genetically improved vastly both mentally and physically. The Grue telepaths made him their prime subject seeking to unlock and control vast mental powers they sensed Teleios had given the animal. They succeeded only too well unleashing mental powers that the Gorilla now calling himself “Dr Simian” used to overpower and kill the Grue’s holding him captive. Travelling back to the Congo Simian then proceeded to take over Teleios base for himself and building it into a true city for himself and his intelligent primate subjects. Soon ruling over a city he called Simian City, Dr Simian has become a real thorn in the side of many heroes mostly notably Johnny Rocket, the White Lion, Grey Hunter and his own mutant sun Dr. Silverback.

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DOCTOR DESTROYER (Doctor Doom Homage)

 

DR DESTROYER

Willem Von Sydow was born in a small town in rural Rumania, he came however from poor Austrian heritage and despite him being a child prodigy and in time proving himself a genius he was never accepted or liked by his peers. Showing both extreme disdain for his fellow students however came naturally to the arrogant and disgruntled Von Sydow and he was soon attracted to the Nazi ideals of a superior race. Offering his services he soon became a rising star in the Nazi scientific hierarchy and was given both funding and status within the party to fund his increasingly sinister research. Von Sydow was soon given his own concentration camp to more easily fulfil his research goals and he was soon infamous throughout Germany as “Dr Destroyer” he who destroyed his victims lives in the cause of science.

His reign of terror continued until he was captured by the allies at the end of the war. The allies reluctantly decided rather than prosecute him he had much more value as a scientist and they put him to work on the new atomic bomb program to work closely with their most brilliant scientist Dr Alexander Atom.

Von Sydow recognised in Atom for the first time someone who could maybe be his intellectual superior and instantly deeply hated him for it. He schemed both to sabotage Atom’s upcoming atomic testing and at the same time prove himself Atom’s superior by building the worlds first and greatest suit of personal powered armor.

His first goal went only two well but this had disastrous consequences for the second. Dr Atom and three close members of his family were caught in the botched atomic test but so was Von Sydow himself. The Atom family unbelievably survived but were forever changed by the terrible accident, given strange, weird powers that they would slowly have to come to terms with. Von Sydow himself was saved from certain death by his amazing armor but instead was horribly burned within it and sealed within a terrible living prison he still now seeks to escape.

While the Atom Family decided to use their strange new gifts to aid the world as one of the first of a new generation of super hero groups, Von Sydow perversely blamed them for his fate and his hatred grew even deeper. He retreated back to Rumania and over the coming years staged a bloody coup and took over the country putting himself into an even greater position to strike back at his hated foes the Atom Family and eventually to rule the world.

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AMAZING MAN (Mr. Fantastic homage)

 

AMAZING MAN

Dr Alexander Atom is without doubt considered the greatest genius of the late 20th century despite many others claiming that title. He had been an acclaimed scientist all his life and this was how he would have stayed maybe, in the background until a fateful day when he was thrown together with the infamous Nazi research scientist Von Sydow. Despite Alexander’s best attempts at friendship Von Sydow harboured a secret hatred for his rival and put in place a scheme to expose Atom and his family at the next powerful Atomic test they were conducting giving them a horrible death in the process.

Von Sydow’s scheme worked up until a point but instead of killing his enemies instead the powerful energies somehow infused them with great and strange powers. Atom was given the weird power to be able to stretch and mold his body in a thousand and one wonderful ways, the explosion also seemed to heighten his intellect and scientific capability making him more than ever an Amazing man. With all his other family members gaining powers they decided that they must put their boon/curse to good use and soon became one of the most famous superhero teams the Atom Family!

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THE MONSTER (The Thing Homage)

 

THE MONSTER

Bob Dour was one of the most famous test pilots in the US airforce. His skill with a plane was a thing of beauty. He was soon seconded to Area 51 where the most secret testing of new planes and weapons took place. This soon brought him into contact with Dr Alexander Atom and over the years the two became firm friends, the opposites in their personalities bringing them together in the work they were doing. That all changed on the day the Monster was born. The accident which transformed the four heroes turned Bob into a freakish monster of a strange rocklike substance which seems to be ever changing, ever mutating. This gave Bob immense superhuman strength and toughness but made him a monster in the eyes of the press, who immediately dubbed him one.

Although becoming a founder member of the Atom Family “Uncle Bob” still has not come to terms with his terrible appearance and yearns for a normal life. Despite this he has become one of the most popular and famous heroes in America and as well as becoming the cornerstone of the Atom Family has also strong ties with Until and was for a long time the security director at the Albright Institute which over the years brought him into contact with an amazing number of superheroes. Bob’s greatest wish is a normal life with his long term love Callie Summers daughter of the Raven, who had a crime fighting career herself until seriously injured by the Black Harlequin.

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BLAZE (Human Torch homage)

 

BLAZE

Billy Thunder was the younger brother of his sister Patti who happened to be engaged to the famous scientist Alexander Atom. Billy got along well with Atom often helping him in his experiments and research. He happened to be there the fateful Day Dr. Destroyer unwittingly caused the formation of one of the most famous hero teams in history the Atom Family!

Like the rest of the four young Billy was changed forever by the accident, given the flashy ability to be able to change his body into a fiery blaze with many powers over the element of fire. Quickly dubbed Blaze by the Freedom City Press Billy due to his good looks, flashy powers and firecracker personality has become one of the most popular heroes in the USA. Billy has a deep love/hate relationship with Bob Dour the Monster and they often socialize together. Billy has also romanced many famous heroines most recently Wendy Wildstar.

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FACADE (Invisible Woman homage)

 

FAÇADE

Patti Thunder was a skilled research assistant for the government when she was assigned to Dr Alexander Atom’s prestige research projects to work closely with him. She felt an immediate attraction to him although Atom didn’t see it! She was there on that fateful day when the accident transformed her and her brother, Atom and bob Dour into something more than human. Patti gained the ability to create and manipulate invisible globes of force which over the years has proved a very powerful ability and one she has gained extreme skill in using.

The four were soon dubbed the Atom Family by the press and this proved to be exactly the case a couple of years later when Alexander and Patti married. There marriage has been a happy one in the main producing one son Chase Atom who himself has proved to be a mutant with powerful abilities. The one blot on their marriage is Patti’s ongoing fascination with Sea-Devil. Despite her trying to deny her feelings for him the Atlantean king has often caused deep problems between Alexander and Patti.

Over the years Patti has become one of the most experienced, powerful and capable heroines in the world.