The De Construction Krewe

[nexus]

Tired of frequent and brutal beat downs the only real man's super villain Bulldozer has figured out why those fancy pants superheroes keep beating him

 

They cheat! They gang up on him because they're too scared to take him on mana a mano because they might get their tights torn. So he's decided to get a little back up and teach those punks how to really play the game.

 

So, who would you think would be on his roster? Remember these would have to be characters that would be willing to

 

1. Put up with Bulldozer for at least a brief amount time without trying to beat him into a coma

 

2 Except him as a leader... or at least assuage his huge ego by pretending too.

 

Homegrown characters are perfectly acceptable.

[Marcus Impudite]

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Tired of frequent and brutal beat downs the only real man's super villain Bulldozer has figured out why those fancy pants superheroes keep beating him

 

They cheat! They gang up on him because they're too scared to take him on mana a mano because they might get their tights torn. So he's decided to get a little back up and teach those punks how to really play the game.

 

So, who would you think would be on his roster? Remember these would have to be characters that would be willing to

 

1. Put up with Bulldozer for at least a brief amount time without trying to beat him into a coma

 

2 Except him as a leader... or at least assuage his huge ego by pretending too.

 

Homegrown characters are perfectly acceptable.

 

I'm suddenly reminded of something Brock said to the Monarch's henchmen on an episode of The Venture Bros:

 

"Individually, a five-year-old could beat one of you guys; but together you might actually be dangerous..."

[CoreBrute]

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He might get along with Boa Constrictor, from VIPER, page 138.

He would probably bring along Ripper, who needs to fight all the time (same book page 151) They are actually dangerous.

 

HERCULAN might join, if only for the joy of fighting. And then Foxbat would beg to join, and then be told, 'No your a wimp!' and then later Foxbat helps the heroes beat the team, and says, "Now who's a wimp!"

 

TACHYON from champions (page 209) would join, if only to proove his own superiority to the heroes who beat him up. He would agree that the heroes would be 'cheeting'.

 

That's a whole lot of bricks. Now we need some ranged support for the Krewe.

[HawksmoorSD]

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Who needs ranged support? The Wrecking Cr... I mean The De Construction Krewe don't need no stinking ranged support!!!

 

In all serious you have a bunch of bricks and I'm sure an endless supply of rubble. They are their ranged support.

[Katherine]

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Avant Guarde from Villains, Vandals and Vigilantes. He finds the idea wonderfully absurd especially after realizing that Bulldozer didn't mean "Deconstruction" the way he assumed.

[Nerdnumber1]

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He might get along with Boa Constrictor, from VIPER, page 138.

He would probably bring along Ripper, who needs to fight all the time (same book page 151) They are actually dangerous.

 

HERCULAN might join, if only for the joy of fighting. And then Foxbat would beg to join, and then be told, 'No your a wimp!' and then later Foxbat helps the heroes beat the team, and says, "Now who's a wimp!"

 

TACHYON from champions (page 209) would join, if only to proove his own superiority to the heroes who beat him up. He would agree that the heroes would be 'cheeting'.

 

That's a whole lot of bricks. Now we need some ranged support for the Krewe.

 

Ripper/Boa Constrictor are kind of stuck with Viper (which wouldn't just loan out a valuable, unstable asset like Ripper without direct gain or control). Also, Ripper would probably tear Bulldozer in half if he got annoying (barring Viper restraint, but even that won't stop him if he goes berzerk while fighting next to BZ). Anyway, few villians are as weak as Bulldozer. You might be able to make up a new lackys though.

[OrraBuss]

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I don't have anyone written up but I suggest two names:

 

Thud and Blunder.

 

[nexus]

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I don't have anyone written up but I suggest two names:

 

Thud and Blunder.

 

 

I can work with this.

[Lord Liaden]

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There's a villain from Gold Rush Games's Enemies of San Angelo 4E Champions supplement that might get along well with Bulldozer, at least for a while. Deadweight is another ex-construction worker who accidentally gained the ability to generate a heavy-gravity field around himself to crush his opponents and protect himself from attacks. Like Bulldozer he's a macho bully without a lot going on upstairs. He's almost as big as Bulldozer, and even dresses similarly, in black work pants and boots with no shirt. They would certainly make a good "theme team."

 

For a little variety, you might consider Plague from Classic Enemies. He's not the disease-spreading monster from the 5E supplement Villains, Vandals, And Vermin, but a mutant with the powers of flight, desolidification, and a NND attack from phasing his hand into an opponent's body. He's also a stoner with a rather fried brain, which would probably be fun to roleplay. He's a villain for hire who treats crime like a big party. Plague is weak-willed and easily led, pretty much a requirement for working for Bulldozer.

[nexus]

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He might get along with Boa Constrictor, from VIPER, page 138.

He would probably bring along Ripper, who needs to fight all the time (same book page 151) They are actually dangerous.

 

HERCULAN might join, if only for the joy of fighting. And then Foxbat would beg to join, and then be told, 'No your a wimp!' and then later Foxbat helps the heroes beat the team, and says, "Now who's a wimp!"

 

TACHYON from champions (page 209) would join, if only to prove his own superiority to the heroes who beat him up. He would agree that the heroes would be 'cheeting'.

 

Good suggestions. Ripper and Boa might take some explanation but could work. Ogre might buy into Bulldozer's tale of being "bullied", possibly Hideous too.

 

Who needs ranged support? The Wrecking Cr... I mean The De Construction Krewe don't need no stinking ranged support!!!

 

I was hoping someone would catch that.

 

Avant Guarde from Villains' date=' Vandals and Vigilantes. He finds the idea wonderfully absurd especially after realizing that Bulldozer didn't mean "Deconstruction" the way he assumed.[/quote']

 

Nice... I could see him as sort of mascot that isn't taking the entire thing seriously AT ALL but knows how to cater to BD's ego and make him think he is and that the group's "master plans" are all his idea.

 

I don't have anyone written up but I suggest two names:

 

Thud and Blunder.

 

 

Thud and Blunder will be brick brothers with a twist. Thud's musculature generates powerful and disruptive infrasonic pulses when he exerts himself and his brother (the figurative "brains" of the outfit) has the power to unconsciously manipulate probability but thinks he's just that d**n good. Both are teenagers that idolize Bulldozer along with supervillains, wrestlers and trouble makers in general.

 

There's a villain from Gold Rush Games's Enemies of San Angelo 4E Champions supplement that might get along well with Bulldozer' date=' at least for a while. [b']Deadweight[/b] is another ex-construction worker who accidentally gained the ability to generate a heavy-gravity field around himself to crush his opponents and protect himself from attacks. Like Bulldozer he's a macho bully without a lot going on upstairs. He's almost as big as Bulldozer, and even dresses similarly, in black work pants and boots with no shirt. They would certainly make a good "theme team."

 

For a little variety, you might consider Plague from Classic Enemies. He's not the disease-spreading monster from the 5E supplement Villains, Vandals, And Vermin, but a mutant with the powers of flight, desolidification, and a NND attack from phasing his hand into an opponent's body. He's also a stoner with a rather fried brain, which would probably be fun to roleplay. He's a villain for hire who treats crime like a big party. Plague is weak-willed and easily led, pretty much a requirement for working for Bulldozer.

 

Great suggestions as always LL. Plague could have come along for the party with Thud and Blunder. Deadweight sounds like he'd make a good rival for Bulldozer. Maybe they'll end up fighting each other...

 

Thanks everyone! Keep 'em coming if ya got 'em.

[OrraBuss]

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Thud and Blunder will be brick brothers with a twist. Thud's musculature generates powerful and disruptive infrasonic pulses when he exerts himself and his brother (the figurative "brains" of the outfit) has the power to unconsciously manipulate probability but thinks he's just that d**n good. Both are teenagers that idolize Bulldozer along with supervillains, wrestlers and trouble makers in general.

 

Wow; even my jokes are full of win.

[nexus]

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I think the Krewe needs a woman's touch to keep it from being a total sausage party. My first thought is a mentalist "girlfriend" of one of the other characters but that seems a little cliched. Another thought was to make her actually the more physically powerful member of the team (and just as hyper macho) which is also cliched but in a different way

[CoreBrute]

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Two new ideas:

 

For ranged attacks, go for thunder man, the axe weilding thunder manipulating brick from Champions Worldwide. If you can think why Bulldozer would come to Australia, or he would go to America, they have a Thor like character with a wrestler mentality.

 

For the female touch, whose better then WARMONGER, on a break from the War machine (or on orders of the Warlord to use these bafoons to destroy the PCs) she loves using these angry angry bricks to strike at those annoying heroes. And a little infighting here and there only makes her more please. She is unlikely to be there long term, but then neither does this team.

[Nerdnumber1]

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I think the Krewe needs a woman's touch to keep it from being a total sausage party. My first thought is a mentalist "girlfriend" of one of the other characters but that seems a little cliched. Another thought was to make her actually the more physically powerful member of the team (and just as hyper macho) which is also cliched but in a different way

 

"De Construction Krewe" sounds like a bunch of big dumn bricks to me and unless the girl is the one life form in the history of the multiverse that likes Bulldozer as much as he likes himself, there will be some serious issues. Bulldozer couldn't handle a girl stronger than him (I even doubt that he could even handle a man stronger than him). "Total sausage panrty" is pretty much a necesity to keep Dozer's fragile ego intact ("The Dozer doesn't need his girl's help to take out a bunch of tights-wearing pansies!")

[Lord Liaden]

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"De Construction Krewe" sounds like a bunch of big dumn bricks to me and unless the girl is the one life form in the history of the multiverse that likes Bulldozer as much as he likes himself' date=' there will be some serious issues. Bulldozer couldn't handle a girl stronger than him (I even doubt that he could even handle a man stronger than him). "Total sausage panrty" is pretty much a necesity to keep Dozer's fragile ego intact ("The Dozer doesn't need [b']his[/b] girl's help to take out a bunch of tights-wearing pansies!")

 

I think El Primo Nerdo is dead on with this, at least as far as Bulldozer's normal behavior and interaction with women is concerned. Which is why a female member of the Krewe would pretty much have to be a mentalist, to temper the Dozer's inherent chauvinism and libidinous arrogance with judicious use of Mind Control. And I think I have just the one.

 

Remember the revamp of the classic Champions villain group Deathstroke, for the 4E version of Champions Universe? That incarnation of the team has often been dismissed as too comical (a position I sympathize with). But its one new member, the female mentalist Scatterbrain, would IMHO fit well with the DCK. Scatterbrain is no world-beater -- she's selfish, greedy, vain, manipulative, and compulsively flirtatious (it even says so in her Disadvantages), which suits the less-than serious tone of your De-Constructionists. And her "in" to the group can be the same as it was for Deathstroke: her father, Fabian Bartleheimer, is a "promotional specialist," just the sort of PR flak Bulldozer would hire to polish the image of his new team.

[Lord Liaden]

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Two new ideas:

 

For ranged attacks, go for thunder man, the axe weilding thunder manipulating brick from Champions Worldwide. If you can think why Bulldozer would come to Australia, or he would go to America, they have a Thor like character with a wrestler mentality.

 

I must admit, as written Lightning Man is pretty close to a fantasy-warrior version of Bulldozer, except more powerful and versatile; which might make it hard for Dozer to keep him in line. However, most of LM's power is in his two axes, so if BD demands to fight him unarmed "like a real man" he'd probably win. Of course if you do have a mentalist on the team, he/she could help keep rebellious members in line, if so inclined.

[nexus]

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For the female touch, whose better then WARMONGER, on a break from the War machine (or on orders of the Warlord to use these bafoons to destroy the PCs) she loves using these angry angry bricks to strike at those annoying heroes. And a little infighting here and there only makes her more please. She is unlikely to be there long term, but then neither does this team.

 

Now that's an interesting idea... I'll roll it around. Thanks.

[nexus]

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In case anyone was curious here's the final roster

 

The Deconstruction Krewe

 

Bulldozer

Avant Guard

Deadweight (Homebrew version)

Thud

Blunder

Plague (Buddy of Blunder)

Bubbles (Thud's girlfriend who's tagging along)

[CoreBrute]

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Who is the Avant guard?

 

And does Bulldozer piss off Bubbles by flirting with her all the time?

[Lord Liaden]

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Avant Guard is a duplicating, shape-shifting, teleporting gadgeteer who behaves most of the time like some sort of loony anarchist. His motives are so far inscrutable. His antics can be comical and harmless, or dangerous. He may seem to be working alone one time, in the employ of another villain the next. Sometimes he's focussed and efficient, at others he has the attention span of a puppy. Usually he seems intent on creating some type of spectacle.

 

Avant Guard appears intended to fill the niche of comics characters like the Impossible Man or Mr. Myxyzptlk -- mostly absurd and silly, but capable of causing great harm in certain circumstances.

 

nexus, does Bubbles have any super powers, or is she purely a normal DNPC?

[CoreBrute]

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Why does he sound so much like Foxbat?

 

And which book is he in?

[nexus]

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Who is the Avant guard?

 

Um..what Lord Laiden said. 

 

For now, Avant will most likely be the one to free up Bulldozer and give him the idea to form at team after either the Capes! team or Freak Squad puts him away again. It's a matter of which one finds him first.

 

And does Bulldozer piss off Bubbles by flirting with her all the time?

 

Bubbles is an attention whore so she kind of gets off on it and is ditzy enough not to realize how much annoys her alleged BF (or likes that too…).

 

nexus, does Bubbles have any super powers, or is she purely a normal DNPC?

 

Bubbles has the power to create nearly frictionless and unbreakable transparent "bubbles" of force that act as her defense, offense and essentially costume.

[nexus]

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And which book is he in?

 

Vandals, Villains and Vermin

[bigbywolfe]

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Bubbles has the power to create nearly frictionless and unbreakable transparent "bubbles" of force that act as her defense' date=' offense and essentially costume.[/quote']

 

The transparent bubbles act as her costume?!

[nexus]

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Well, water bubbles are essentially transparent until you layer enough of them... but she is an attention craver and something of an exhibitionist. It's one of the reasons she hangs out with the Krewe, they attract cameras...