Create a Villain Theme Team!

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Other people, singles and albums active in the decade include David Bowie's thin White Duke personna, disco, glam rock, Donna Summer, Alice Cooper, the Osmonds, The Bay City Rollers, Sweet, Jethro Tull, Focus, Paul McCartney's Wings, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, David Cassidy, David Bowie's Low album, Iggy Pop (with and without the stooges), Iggy Pop's The Passenger, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, Abba, Waterloo (by Abba), George Harrison's My Sweet Lord, Lieutenant Pigeon, Wizzard (Roy Wood), The Electric Light Orchestra (their Out of the Blue double album is this decade), Rick Wakeman, Curved Air, Prog Rock, Carl Douglas single Kung Fu Fighting, John Denver, 10cc, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody and Killer Queen (by Queen), Elton John, David Soul, Theme from Shaft, American Pie, Crocodile Rock, The Edgar Winter Group's single Frankenstein, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, The Steve Miller Band's single The Joker, Ray Stevens single The Streak, Black Sabbeth, Led Zepplin (the albums Led Zepplin IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti)

[steriaca]

Did I mention that all members are Lifedrinkers (i.e. vampires, draining directly off lifeforce/chi/ki instead of being bothered by drinking blood)?

[BoloOfEarth]

Did I mention that all members are Lifedrinkers (i.e. vampires, draining directly off lifeforce/chi/ki instead of being bothered by drinking blood)?

I'll edit my post.  Sorry.

 

Actually, it works better that way.  Thanks for the reminder.

[csyphrett]

Wight Jenkins was always able to shrink and fly. She started out as the heroine Tiny Dancer. After being bitten by Cooper Manson and becoming a vampire, she became the Tiny Terror.

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[steriaca]

Cooper does not bite...he grabs to drain his victims, or he simply stands their if he uses lifedrinking power #4. Beyond that Tinny Terror is sound.

[BoloOfEarth]

Millennium City's got its hustlers,

Vibora Bay's got its bums.

Campaign City's got Big Jim Walker;

He's a lifestealing son-of-a-gun.

 

Yeah, he's big and dumb as a vamp can come

But he's stronger than a zombie horse.

And when the lesser undead come together at night

You know they all call Big Jim "Boss," just because.

 

And they say you don't tug on Dracula's cape,

You don't spit into The Blob,

You don't pull the mask off the Phantom of the Opera,

And you don't mess around with Jim.

 

 

Big Jim carries around a custom-made two-piece pool cue (aluminum, not wood; he doesn't want to give anybody a handy stake to use) that he knows how to use well in hand-to-hand combat.  He dresses well, and usually has a cigarette dangling from his lips.  ("They said smoking would be the death of me.  Heh.")

[csyphrett]

Floyd Pinkerton is the Lunatic. His life draining ability is enhanced by his mental power of personality reworking. Anyone Floyd decides to victimize suddenly have strange outbursts, the need to be clean at all times, hallucinations, and mild strokes, then death.

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[csyphrett]

The Mudroot Menacers are a staple of their small town and the surrounding county. These five lowlifes are frequent enemies of the Farm Belt. Their theme is cereal mascots.

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[death tribble]

Here is a link to The Farm Belt

http://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/74984-create-a-hero-theme-team/page-11

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Baron Von Redberry

 

The Baron dresses up like the short lived Cereal mascot Baron Von Redberry and uses a cod German accent. He is a bit too big for the uniform and gets grief because of it. However he is quite strong and can take quite a bit of punishment. Locals don't tend to use the Baron's real name as they know he'll dunk them in pig slurry. Also they don't mention the fact that he can't fly or where the plane is as that would set him off as well.

[csyphrett]

The locals know to get out of way of the man in a bear costume known as Super Crisp. This is a blaster capable of burning through anything he notices. He can power up with a extra powerful blast by eating any sugar/honey products.

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[BoloOfEarth]

"Dude!  Hey Sam!  Duuuuude!"

 

"What is it Sonny?  (sigh)  Are you high again?"

 

Sonny laughed.  "Yeah, man.  High as a bird!  Hey, dude, check this out!"  He picked up a handful of chocolate cereal and crushed it.  As the powder leaked out between his fingers, it turned into a cloud of brownish smoke that enveloped both Sunny and his roommate Sam.  Sonny just laughed, but Sam began to spaz out and babble incoherently. 

 

When Sam finally came back to his senses a few minutes later, he shoved Sonny angrily.  "Not cool, man.  I told you before to keep your drugs away from me.  You want to throw your own life away, that's your choice.  But I'm here at college to learn.  Loser."  He stormed out of the dorm room, slamming the door behind him.

 

"But dude, that wasn't drugs," said Sonny, a bit confused.  "I've been able to do this for years..."

 

Shortly afterward, Sonny got kicked out of school for his out-of-control drug use.  His parents tried "tough love" and cut him off financially, so he soon found himself desperately in need of cash.  Taking the name Cocoa Puff, Sonny used his powers to rob a few convenience stores, which is how he came to the attention of the other Mudroot Menacers. 

 

CP can produce clouds of smoke and gasses with various effects, to which he is seemingly immune.  (Sonny can actually do this purely on his own, but for some reason he believes he must crush handfuls of different cereals to get the different effects.)  His signature effect is, of course, his Cocoa Puff (the hallucinogenic gas that makes people go cuckoo), but he can produce a sticky Honey Cloud (Entangle) using Honey Nut Cheerios, or a strength-draining gas crushing Fruity Pebbles, and so on. 

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Captain Cruncher

 

He is a thug who enjoys hearing bones crunch as he squeezes people either in bear hugs or as he squeezes parts of their anatomy like hands. As he is 'the captain' he is the one in charge. And if he gets upset then he crunches. But oh lord do not mention exercise crunches to him as he gets upset. In times past then someone nicknamed him after the cereal mascot and that just made things worse for everyone.

[CaptnStrawberry]

Quazy Quisp is small, purple and strange.  Nobody knows exactly what he is or what planet he's from but he evidently crashed his craft near Mudroot.  He can alter his form into shapes such as beach balls and mailboxes; however they are always bright purple with a smiley face and thus the disguise rarely lasts very long.  When annoyed, he draws his laser blaster.  Occasionally, he does give out free comic books. . starring himself!

 

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Next Team: The Invertebrates.  Insect and spider themes would work obviously, but so would worms, jellyfish, sea sponges and other oddities in the animal kingdom.  No plants!  Six members.

[CaptnStrawberry]

Ok, I'll start:

 

Urtica is Ursa Ellinwood; a pet shop owner who sold and cared for exotic animals.   One day on a dare, she decided to cook and eat a S. American tarantula.   Suprisingly tasty, over the next few days the skin over her entire body began to mutate and produce hundreds of long, sharp bristles.   She is able to eject them with surprising, armor-piercing force; the toxic tips can result in uncontrollable itching, paralysis or blindness.   Combined with superhuman strength and short bursts of meta-speed; she has now embarked on a life of crime as a founding member of The Invertebrates.

[BoloOfEarth]

Eyrthwyrm was once a low-level DEMON initiate (Ethan Wright) who was forced into a ritual to merge him with a low-level demonic creature.  Wright managed to maintain control (which should tell you how low-level this demonic creature really is), though he now looks like a man-sized humanoid earthworm, albeit with big gnashing teeth and moderate psionic attacks, including the ability to scan for human minds and attack remotely. He also has the dubiously useful ability to command legions of earthworms, slugs, and other such creatures residing within the soil.

 

He left DEMON (though his brethren repeatedly try to remind him that nobody just leaves DEMON) and joined the Invertebrates, hoping to steal enough money to eventually get a spellcaster to reverse his transformation and return him to normal.

[csyphrett]

Wanted by the police for his burglaries, the scientific community for his ability to survive hostile environments, Casey Roan can flatten himself out to squeeze through any opening as the Tapeworm

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[death tribble]

MDC

 

There are legends from Asia of a giant red worm in the Gobi desert whose existence can neither be confirmed or denied. But there are no reports of a man sized purple caterpillar, the so called Mongolian Death Caterpillar. He can climb walls and survive falls of a 100 feet or more. He may not land on his feet but he can survive the drops. And he can eat anything which is useful to the rest of the team as they may need to escape. Whether he can change to human or not has yet to be witnessed and mental powers have not been successful.

[BoloOfEarth]

Logan Custer was a simple farmer, working his fields, when a swarm of locusts arrived.  These weren't your garden-variety locusts, either.  These had been genetically engineered by a mad supergenius.  They could eat anything, including solid wood and human flesh.  And when they arrived at Logan's farm, they ate everything they could... including Logan.  When they left there was no sign of the farmer except some tattered, bloody clothing.

 

But Logan had the last laugh.  He still exists, albeit as the hive mind of the swarm of locusts.  He can split off smaller swarms to do his bidding, or combine into a gigantic swarm able to decimate a small town in minutes.  He's even learned to direct the locusts to form one giant humanoid-ish creature nearly 20 meters tall.  By varying the buzz of various groups of locusts, he discovered he could communicate (though the buzzing is very disconcerting) and announced himself as Locutis (he's a ST:TNG fan and besides, he figures Locust is too simplistic a name).

[CaptnStrawberry]

That's an interesting variation on the theme!  When I was growing up, one of my favorite episodes of the old Spidey cartoon featured the villain Swarm.  He didn't even have any dialogue - he would just say "Swarm. SWARM!" and laugh maniacally.  But that made him more alien and menacing.  Plus he turned poor old Aunt May into a bee person!

 

One more and then a new theme.

[steriaca]

Starfisher is an alien humanoid starfish from outerspace. Besides superhuman strength and an alien mind, Starfisher can create duplicates of himself by cutting parts of himself off. In fact, anyone can create duplicates of Starfisher by cutting off pieces of Starfisher. The limit seems to be 25 (older duplicates disolve when new ones are created). Nobody knows what Starfisher's native system is. (rumours have it that Starfisher is still a baby of that race, and that it's parrent is a city size being able to control the minds of everyone on a planet).

[steriaca]

Next group: The Great Eight. Members: 8. Premise: 8 supervillains who believe that they are doing heroic things. They rob banks to prevent others from stealing the banks money. Ect...ect..

[csyphrett]

Robyn Lox is the heroic Bobbin Spool. Her command of thread allows to act like a spider as long as she has a supply close at hand. Naturally like her predecessor in Sherwood Forest, she robs from the rich to give to the poor.

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Il Professore

 

Benedict Merryweather masquerades as the debonair Italian criminal Il Professore. With so many people devoted to doing good Benedict worried that karma was out of balance whilst others committed mindless slaughter. So he came up with the idea of balancing things by committing crimes where people did not get hurt. In particular those who were rich and cared nothing for the common people are his targets. They may be upset by what he does and try for revenge but you would not associate mild mannered Benedict with the handsome sophisticated Alessandro Monterverdi, Il Professore. He lives by his wits and avoids physical confrontation if at all possible. His mind is a steel trap and he can manipulate computers and people to win.

[csyphrett]

David Banque is a hacker who uses his abilities to expose security holes while ripping off companies. He also publishes any embarrassing or criminal information he comes across as benefiting society. His calling card of a pop up screen demanding money for the poor has become his handle of Ransomware

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