A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

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Here's an upgraded version of a villain that was originally mentioned in steriaca's Paradox Timely/TED threads

(and the Mister Wicked thread, IIRC) -- the time- and dimension-hopping Chronosaurus Rex:

 

 

 

 

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Here's a young superteam that occupies the middle ground between Teen Champions and Champions

supergroups -- E-Force:

 

 

 

 

Each of the team's members -- Flashfire, Waveskimmer, Earthbreaker, and Skyrider -- possess powers which

represent the Four Elements known to the ancients: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The source of their powers remain

unknown; if anyone is privy to that knowledge, they're keeping quiet about it.

 

(The members of E-Force gained their powers when they inadvertantly stumbled upon a dark magical ritual while

hiking through the forest nearest their hometown. The sorcerer performing the ritual was attempting to summon

a number of elemental beings from the planes of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air in order to steal their powers for his

own, when the local mystic protector interrupted his conjuring. In the course of the fight, the bindings holding the

elementals in place weakened, allowing portions of their essences to escape. These portions struck the four

friends, with each of them manifesting the abilities of the elementals from which they had come. Using their new

powers, the group aided the mystic protector against the evil sorcerer, successfully driving him off. Deciding to

use their powers for good, the four friends -- with the help of the mystic protector -- formed E-Force, with the 'E'

standing for Elemental.)

 

 

(EDIT: I didn't realize until after I'd posted the pics here that I noticed that I'd forgotten to put an insignia on Skyrider's

costume [ ]; talk about a D'oh moment. I'll get a corrected pic for her on here ASAP.)

 

 

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OK, here's the corrected pic of Skyrider:

 

 

 

 

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Here's a demonically-enhanced minion suitable for either Fantasy Hero or Supers-and-Sorcery

campaigns -- Karrnag the Ravager:

 

 

 

 

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[The Arc]

Here's a young superteam that occupies the middle ground between Teen Champions and Champions

supergroups -- E-Force:

 

 

Flashfire.jpgWaveskimmer.jpgEarthbreaker.jpgSkyrider.jpg

 

 

Each of the team's members -- Flashfire, Waveskimmer, Earthbreaker, and Skyrider -- possess powers which

represent the Four Elements known to the ancients: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The source of their powers remain

unknown; if anyone is privy to that knowledge, they're keeping quiet about it.

 

(The members of E-Force gained their powers when they inadvertantly stumbled upon a dark magical ritual while

hiking through the forest nearest their hometown. The sorcerer performing the ritual was attempting to summon

a number of elemental beings from the planes of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air in order to steal their powers for his

own, when the local mystic protector interrupted his conjuring. In the course of the fight, the bindings holding the

elementals in place weakened, allowing portions of their essences to escape. These portions struck the four

friends, with each of them manifesting the abilities of the elementals from which they had come. Using their new

powers, the group aided the mystic protector against the evil sorcerer, successfully driving him off. Deciding to

use their powers for good, the four friends -- with the help of the mystic protector -- formed E-Force, with the 'E'

standing for Elemental.)

 

 

(EDIT: I didn't realize until after I'd posted the pics here that I noticed that I'd forgotten to put an insignia on Skyrider's

costume [ ]; talk about a D'oh moment. I'll get a corrected pic for her on here ASAP.)

 

 

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What no Captain Elemental?

[jolt]

What no Captain Elemental?

 

The team has no heart

[The Arc]

Suggested foes...

 

Loot and Plunder, twins super-teens...

[jolt]

Has anyone downloaded the program?  Online, I can switch the menus to English and was wondering if I could do the same if I download the offline version.

[Major Tom 2009]

The team has no heart

 

Hardy-har-har     .

 

I wasn't going for Captain Planet or the Planeteers when I cooked up these pics; rather, I was going for a

young team with a theme suggesting the Elements.

 

 

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[jolt]

Hardy-har-har     .

 

I wasn't going for Captain Planet or the Planeteers when I cooked up these pics; rather, I was going for a

young team with a theme suggesting the Elements.

 

 

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I know, but when I saw Captain Element all I could think of was Captain Planet.  I'm always amazed at how long that show lasted considering it's message was about as subtle as a brick to the face.

[The Arc]

Has anyone downloaded the program?  Online, I can switch the menus to English and was wondering if I could do the same if I download the offline version.

 

He does have an offline version. However, I've never bought it. I wouldn't feel too comfortable with buying something outside of the US. According to his website it's $5.00. I'm not sure if that's American or Brazilian dollars or whatever they use...

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I had a thought earlier today regarding E-Force, especially after reading the posts about Captain Element

and Captain Planet, and figured: why not give them a fifth member -- but with a twist.

 

Like Marvel's Thunderriders (formerly Team America), E-Force has the ability to combine their powers to

create a composite entity called Tempus:

 

 

 

 

As a fusion of the four members' powers, Tempus has the ability to use any of the Elemental powers that

they can, plus superhuman strength (STR 40). In addition, he/it has the ability to control time to a certain

extent (slowing time or speeding it up in order to gain a tactical advantage over an enemy, or to view past

events).

 

 

 

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[The Arc]

Great, now do some villains.

[Major Tom 2009]

Suggested foes...

 

Loot and Plunder, twins super-teens...

 

 

Here ya go -- Loot and Plunder, teen super-pirates:

 

 

 

 

Loot possesses the power to project what he calls "disinegtrator beams" from his hands; however, he

chooses to project them through his cutlass in order to convince people that it's it that has the power.

The cutlass itself is constructed of an unknown alloy which is impervious to the disintegration effect.

Loot is what most people -- especially women of all ages -- would call "devilishly handsome", and he's

not above making shameless use of that talent. He is also an expert swordsman.

 

Plunder has the ability to emit pheromones from her body which have the effect of making those exposed

to them her willing love-slaves, who will do anything she asks them to. Plunder usually shoots her victims

with darts filled with a will-deadening drug before she "turns on the charm", which makes it easier for her

to use her powers on them. She is also what her victims have unianimously described as "drop-dead

gorgeous" -- which makes it even easier for her to enthrall them.

 

Both teens are Olympic-level athletes in excellent physical condition as well as being brother and sister;

while both have red hair, Plunder chooses to dye hers blonde (her eyebrows, however, have been left

their original color, for reasons only she knows).

 

 

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Aaaarrrrr!

[Major Tom 2009]

Here's the villain responsible for the creation of E-Force -- a time-displaced Abyznian sorcerer-priest

called Lord Drakharos:

 

 

 

 

Originally from the period near the end of the Valdorian Age, Drakharos and his minions had kidnapped

a young Valdorian woman who was possessed of great, though untapped, mystical potential. His plan

was to sacrifice his captive at the climax of a dark ritual; as well as to claim her mystical energies at

the instant of her death. Unfortunately for his scheme, a band of Valdorian warriors broke into the ritual

chamber and engaged the sorcerer-priest and his minions in combat. During the fight, the captive girl --

who was still bound to the sacrificial altar -- unknowingly tapped her mystical potential and teleported

herself, altar and all, out of the chamber and through a "hole" in time.

 

Witnessing the sudden escape of his intended victim, Drakharos followed in the hope of recapturing her

and -- with luck -- attempting the ritual in a more secure location. As fate would have it, the few seconds

that had passed between her departure and his entry into the "hole" translated into a ten-year separat-

ion between her arrival on 21st-century Earth in 2005, and Drakharos' arrival in early 2015 (this would

have the effect of giving the young woman the time she needed to both accept the fact that she had

the power to wield magic*, and to learn how to use it as a force for good). Finding himself stranded in

an unfamiliar time, the evil Abyznian began searching for a way to acquire enough mystical strength to

(hopefully) return to his own time, hence his attempt to steal power from four Elemental beings.

 

An attempt that, ironically, was not only stopped by the very woman he had sought to kill -- now known

in our time as Mistress Shadowflame -- but also resulted in the creation of the superteam that would

prove to be the bane of his existence: E-Force.

 

(*Remember, in TVA it's mentioned that the Valdorians have a pronounced hatred of magic/sorcery, and

considered it a tool of evil; imagine how someone with such a deep-seated attitude would feel to discover

something like that about herself [ ].)

 

 

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One of the many servitor creatures that Drakharos can summon to do his bidding -- the Salamander:

 

 

 

 

 

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Drakharos has recently managed to make contact with an old friend of his -- a seductress named

Lady Alura:

 

 

 

 

Alura's job, for the most part, is to seduce and tempt men who might be of use to Drakharos into

his service, and she is generally successful in this task. On those rare occasions when she can't

seduce or tempt her target, she transforms into her true form -- that of a succubus -- and drains

him dry, leaving behind the shrunken husk of her victim.

 

 

 

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Drakharos' archenemy and friend and mentor to E-Force -- Mistress Shadowflame:

 

 

 

 

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Here is the first of three other servitor creatures that serve Drakharos -- a Frost Spider:

 

 

 

 

This demonic arachnid is not only capable of moving with inhuman stealth, it also generates a field

of near-absolute zero cold; this field is so intense that it can instantly weaken a normal human

being, leaving him or her helpless -- easy prey for the perpetually-hungry arachnid.

 

It can also spin an extremely strong crystalline web, which it uses to ensnare its enemies -- especially

when it's confronted by multiple foes. As this webbing dries, its temperature drops rapidly, simultaneous-

ly causing the body temperature of those trapped within it to drop rapidly, eventually resulting in death.

 

 

 

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The second of these fearsome creatures is a felinoid creature known as a Helltiger:

 

 

 

 

Like the Frost Spider, this beast is an ambush predator, using concealment and natural camouflage

to hunt its prey -- namely, whoever Drakharos tells it to hunt and kill. While it does resemble one of

the big hunting cats of Earth, there are some notable differences between the Helltiger and its

Earthly kin -- the first and most immediately noticeable of which are the horns on top of its head. It

also has crimson-colored fur with orange-red stripes on its body.

 

Another feature of the Helltiger which sets it apart from Earth cats is that, like venomous snakes, it

possesses poison glands and hollow fangs, which enables it to inject a neurotoxic venom with its

bite. A victim of a Helltiger's bite is doomed to a slow and agonizing death by suffocation as his

nervous system slowly shuts down, unless he has friends that can get him to a hospital in time.

 

 

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The last -- and perhaps the most terrifying -- of these creatures is a massive, serpentine beast known as

a Mist Cobra:

 

 

 

 

Larger than any known species of Earthly snake -- but not as massive as the prehistoric Titanoboa -- the

Mist Cobra is the most cunning and stealthy of Drakharos' minion creatures. What makes it especially

terrifying to face is that, until it's ready to kill its chosen prey, it exists in an intangible state, making it

virtually impervious to any known conventional weapon. When it is prepared to strike, it does so by spray-

ing its venom at its prey, in the same manner as the ringhal (a.k.a. spitting cobra).

 

The venom of the Mist Cobra is different from that of any Earthly snake, due to the fact that, instead of

causing celluar damage or nerve paralysis in its victims, it causes a gradual breakdown in the molecular

cohesion of their bodies, eventually causing them to dissipate into a cloud of mist. Once this happens,

the Mist Cobra feeds upon its victims by inhaling them into itself.

 

 

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Here's the national hero of Barbados -- Mariner:

 

 

 

 

Mariner possesses superhuman strength (STR 50) and agility, the ability to survive underwater without

the need for bulky life-support gear, and incredible resistance to most forms of damage -- up to and

including antiarmor weapons such as the TOW missile. He can also fly at near-supersonic speeds.

 

His costume contains a pressure-resistant and waterproof radio and communications system, allowing

him to become aware of any emergency or crime, and to respond to it in a short period of time.

 

 

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Another Northern superhero for Confederate World -- the lycanthropic Black Wolf:

 

 

 

 

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Captain Victory, greatest hero of the USA on Confederate World:

 

 

 

 

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Wherever there are two equal yet opposite forces, there exists a third, neutral force which ensures

that the balance between them is not tipped in either direction. In the case of the entities known as

the White and Lord Umbros -- manifestations of Good and Evil -- that neutral force takes the form

of the entity known as the Grey Eminence:

 

 

 

 

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