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Lloyd Lance is a loser -- literally.  He loses things.  He has the power of aportation - the ability to teleport something or someone from one location to another, as long as it's to or from a location he had previously memorized.  He figured he could use this as a burglar and thief - aporting locked doors away to gain entry to a location, aporting cash and jewelry and heavy bars of gold to his own private vault, and aporting people across town if they try to stop him.  He assumed the identity of Z-port, and it worked for a time.  He even took some of his new-found wealth and created caches of weapons and equipment, which he could teleport to him as needed. 

 

Unfortunately, he spread himself too thin too fast.  He had memorized over a hundred locations across the country, and was having a hard time keeping track of them.  Sure, he could aport a Van Gogh painting to one of his treasure vaults -- but which vault?  And after tech genius hero (and Z-port's nemesis) Dr. Cybertek figured out how to trace Z-port's teleportation, more often than not his ill-gotten gains would be retrieved by authorities before Z-port had a chance to get there and spirit them away himself.  And even if his aportation wasn't traced, Z-port has a hard time remembering where he sent something.  It didn't take long for the sought-after B&E specialist to become a running gag of the villain world.  ("You want to lose something forever?  Have Z-port try to steal it.")  However, since he can help his fellow Losers escape (and even teleport himself to freedom), he's still seen as a somewhat valuable asset.

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O.k. I don't usually break the one per team rule but two things.

 

First I notice I forgot to give Molly's supervillianess name. The papers named her Molly Mayhem,

 

Secondly

 

Dr. Curtis Codon thought he developed a method for speaking to fish. His first effort was to talk to a cod in a bowl. But something went terribly wrong. The next thing he knew his mind was trapped in the cod's body. Fortunatly for him he could still control his old body. He then used it to build his first robot transport. Either when he found himself trapped in a fish's body, or watching his body die, at some point his mind snapped. The once peaceful Dr. Codon turned the robotic mobile body into a heavily armed war machine. Putting rockets on the fish tank so he could escape to the next killer robot body should his current one be destroyed. The Cruel Cod attacked the city. For some reason the humans just aren't taking their new fish overlord seriously. So he joined the legion of losers to get troops as he conquers the world.

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I tend to do more than one per team when I have the ideas and I like the theme.

 

Heavily Armoured Carl/Armoured Carl

 

When the forces of law enforcement sit down and chat about their experiences inevitably up comes a story about Armoured Carl or Heavily Armoured Carl. He mans an egg shaped battlesuit which has weapons or weapon arrays attached. And that is when things can go pear shaped.

For example when he had twin blast cannons which flew off the pod backwards when he fired it first time. Or the time he fired the weapons and the recoil knocked him over onto his back. Or the time the weapons misfired and shot him backwards into a wall. There are more than a few stories like this circulating in hero and police circles. Despite the formidable weapons, Carl has never killed anyone. Wonded yes. By accident rather than design.

Carl however is able to survive. Despite the continual failure of the weapons the pod is quite impregnable. And he has been able to walk off with stolen cash and straight through a wall under heavy fire. Carl is also much in demand from various criminal organisations.

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Doctors think Mike Meadows' mental powers are tied directly to the genetic defect that keeps the 30 year old at the developmental level of a kindergartner.  Regardless of their source, however, there's little doubt his mental abilities are quite powerful.  When Mental Mike commands someone to act like a chicken, chances are they're going to do it (at least for a bit).   Thankfully, Mike isn't a mean or vindictive sort; he's more likely to command a superhero to fly off to Dairy Queen to get him a chocolate-dipped cone (with sprinkles!) than to cause the hero to do anything particularly dangerous.  Mike is, however, rather stubborn, so it's not so easy to convince him to stop robbing the bank and "put on these nice shiny handcuffs" once someone has talked him into starting the robbery in the first place.

 

I'll defer to The Arc for the next team idea.

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The Grand Gulag was constructed in the waining days of Joesph Stalins rule, not long before his death. This was also the time that super powered beings were starting make their prescence known. Naturally the ruling communist party saw most super powered beings as a threat to their rule. So the Grand Gulag was the solution. A natural cavern was discovered about 6 miles down in Siberia. This cavern was what was to be become known as the Grand Gulag and was modified to house super powered beings. The only access to the surface was by a single elevator. With the remoteness of the prison it at first became a dumping ground for undesireable super powered beings. Later the Grand Gulag changed to a place where human experiements became commonplace and the very concept of humanity had been forgotten. It is truly Hell on Earth. In the 50 years that the prison has been in opperation, no one and I mean no one has every escaped, until today....

 

They were known as the восемь or the Eight. Oh to be sure there were others who made the attempt, but other than the восемь no other escapees made it out. Who are the восемь, the survivors who clawed their way out of the Grand Gulag?

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The CIA has done some nasty things in its time and one of the nastiest was betraying networks set up by British Intelligence in order to promote one of its own sources and feed a titbit to the KGB. Edmund Spencer was a Russian speaking agent taken in the round up. Ordinarily he would have gone to one of the other prisons but either a clerical mix up or a request for new test subjects by a doctor meant he was sent to the Grand Guag. The initial experiments should have killed him but his survival triggered more experiments and his retention in the Gulag. He was able to regenerate and thus had the secret of this been discovered, the Russians would have had a major advance. For all sorts of reasons this was not so, Despite vivisection and having all his vital organs removed, Edmund came back to life.

It was one of the other prisoners who revealed to Edmund that it was the CIA's doing that led to his capture and suffering. That was what broke him. The Communists and Capitalists were no different to each other. He silently vowed to escape and take revenge. It was Edmund who worked out the security protocols and how to get round them. And which of those imprisoned had the best chance of getting out and then operating in the outside. The others call him Ghost. He is the spy and security specialist of the group. since escaping he is updating his skill set to encompass computers as they were not around when he was taken. But when you have longevity you have time.

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​The Copper Lady

 

 

Originally ​The Mistress of the Copper Mountain​, one of the first imprisoned, she was victim of the Communist regime desire to rid itself of undesireable elements that might let the masses think of their past folklore and not to the future under Soviet rule.  It is unclear how they kept her prisoner since such a place would normally be her domain.  The Ghost picked her for help with her knowledge of how mines work. She proved invaluable in the groups' working towards the surface.

 

Her powers seem to be stone/earth related.  (and for some reason she can turn into a lizard)

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Piotr Dvatyelov is known as два ("dva", translates as "two").  He has the ability to separate his astral form from his body and possess others.  Since the Grand Gulag's elevator included biometric keys (retina and palm print scans) up at the surface to operate, Piotr's ability was needed for the восемь to escape.  He doesn't fully trust Ghost, but since the Brit spy honored his promise to carry Piotr's body out during the escape. he feels honor-bound to follow him -- at least for now.

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Dvoynoy

 

Who or what he or she was is now lost including their original form. Dvoynoy or double now appears as man or a woman but how long they were a prisoner beforehand the others do not know and the paperwork is missing. Piotr witnessed him/her becoming someone else once and kept them under observation. He reported back to the others who recruited them. The one thing that is clear to the others is that Dvoynoy is petrified of the Russian mob. So anyone displaying tattoos automatically scares them.

They are wary of Piotr as they do not like being possessed. Telepathy won't work on Dvoynoy only throwing up confusing images. During the escape Dvoynoy appeared as guards or prisoners depending on what was needed and freaking out the other prisoners by changing between man and woman. They work with the others as they are protected by them. Ghost slaughtered several people who tried to take both Dva and Dvoynoy so they know the group can be trusted 

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The CIA will go to great lengths to protect its sources or cover up its misdeeds. Don't believe me ? Watch the Bourne films. A journalist who did some digging into the old days of the KGB came across the files that showed that Edmund Spencer had been betrayed by the CIA and thrown into the Grand Gulag. It should not have happened and ordinarily the CIA would have made sure the journalist had an accident. Instead they and their contacts had to put him into the Gulag. After all Edmund was dead, right ? Wrong. Boris Stepanovich ended up being experimented on and gained energy powers which were unstable. Until The Copper Lady, The Ghost and others managed to stabilise him. He talked in bits and pieces but enough to arouse the interest of his compatriots. When he was better he told them what he knew which really set the cat among the pigeons. Zveroboy became the name of the journalist as he was able to blast things to pieces. The name comes from the Russian tank destroyers of WW2 

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Zek (Zero) is a victim of experiments with quantum tunneling. He is a two-dimensional shape that can place himself against any surface and open a path to the other side of that surface. He was kept in a water tank where the water was kept agitated to keep him from applying himself fully and escaping.  Once the others were free, his tank was damaged and he easily escaped.

CES

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Vladimir Pushkin used to be the world's most powerful telekinetic. He could reshape matter, fly, blow things up with their internal motion, baseline teleportation of targets, and a host of other major powers. Pushkin was electrocuted and partially lobotomized in a battle with vigilantes and state heroes when he tried to reshape Kiev to his own desires.

 

Vladimir Pushkin used to be the world's most powerful telekinetic but now all he can do is push things away from him at escape velocity.

 

All he can do is Push.

CES 

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Vinovnyy

 

Anna Aristov is family to one of the originators of the Grand Gulag project. However one of the ways to get ahead in Russia was betray your opponent/superior and Anna ended up in the Gulag after the failed coup of 1991. She ended up being experimented on and like The Ghost ended up with longevity. As those in charge made sure that the other prisoners knew of her connection to the prison she was not popular with her compatriots. Her ill treatment at their hands brought on a power of broadcast empathy, she could paralyse people with guilt so that they could not do anything but confront their crimes. The Ghost picked up on this and used it in the escape. Now used the Russian name for Guilty, Vinovnyy aids the team in their endeavours in an effort to make amends for the sins of her forebears.

 

New Team: Three Little Pigs

Three members all with a porcine theme. 

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Willie "Warthog" Wilson is a disgraced ex-cop, kicked off the force for getting greedy and filching cash from drug busts.  On his way out the door, he stole a prototype suit of body armor and a custom Harley with mini Gatling guns mounted front and rear.  (The Harley was impounded from a local gadgeteer supervillain captured and sentenced to 10 years in Stronghold.  Willie is sure Gat won't mind him borrowing his hog for a while.)

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I feel this team needs a female member but I'm really struggling to come up with one that won't get me shot, or really exceed the bounds of good taste. Failing that, let's try this guy:

 

Leroy Williams (43) was always a slob. His day was split between his bed, the couch and his computer. Mother always yelled at him, but picked up after him and fed him anyways. Daddy was long gone.

 

Then came that fateful day when the Mob came looking for all that money of theirs that Daddy had lit out with.

 

Leroy barely noticed the door being smashed in. 

 

He ignored his mother's screams, pleading and that final, merciful gunshot.

 

He didn't even look up from his porn when they forced open his bedroom door, pushing aside a day's worth of filthy clothes, candy wrappers, soft drink cans and pizza boxes, or threatened him with their guns.

 

But when they started smashing his Action Figure collection looking for the loot, something snapped!!!

 

Leroy exploded in white hot fury. Some of those were mint in the box!!!!!

 

To no avail, the gangsters shot at Leroy, their bullets somehow failing to pierce his flabby bulk. With sickening crunches Leroy's massive fists crushed skulls and shattered limbs until all the crooks were silent. 

 

Leroy would have gone back to his computer, except it was shot up in the fight. He watched TV for a bit, but it wasn't long before he'd eaten all the food he could find (which wasn't much. Leroy's experience in cooking, or even such exotic concepts as "Pantry Cupboard" or "Deep Freezer" was zilch.

 

Starving (man, it'd easily been an hour since his last meal), Leroy ventured into the outside world and thus started the one-man food theft crime wave the papers would dub Pigsty.

 

"Pizza or your kneecaps, man. Your choice."

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Ok. Considering it is my birthday week, let me try one.

 

Name: Party Crashers

Members: 5

Theam: Five minor supervillains who crash the birthday party of millionaire J. M. R. Zyron. Each one has a seprate reason to crash the party, and find themselves working together for, well, reasions.

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J.M.R. Zyron wanted a birthday bash for the ages which meant some traditional things. Which despite his age meant balloons. Thousands of balloons of every shape, size, and color, But millionaires don't have just regular balloons, or ones filled with simple helium. No these balloons would be filled with a special lighter than air gas just developed by his company. Which the Balloonist figured would be easier to steal at a birthday party than Zyron's factory. Suddenly a dark shadow fell over the party as the Balloonist's war dirigible became visible, and his airmen rained down grabbing every balloon and air tank they could find. Which another sinister figure took as his unexpected cue to strike. And that sinsister figure was....

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Cheers. I'm in Australia so the last few posts happened while I was asleep :)

 

...the figure was a stunning blonde with a knockout figure dressed in an impeccably cut costume.

 

Linda Van Hoorn was a bored rich girl. Too smart to be satisfied with marrying some drone within her social class, too vain to keep her light under a bushel and too selfish to care about philanthropy. 

 

Her Eureka moment came one night when a party she was tolerating  was raided by a bunch of crooks. The leader of the thugs figured to get some high class action and tried to molest her, but unluckily for him Linda used martial arts and gymnastics to keep her knockout body in shape and dull the ennui. The thug was on the floor with multiple fractures before he knew what hit him.

 

The rest of the crooks took one look at what had happened to their boss and fled. The party guests showered Linda with gratitude.

 

Another woman would have been inspired to fight crime and protect the innocent.

 

Another woman would have gained quiet satisfaction from a good job well done.

 

Not Linda.

 

Taking the thug with her, Linda confined him to a spare basement room and pumped him for information about the underworld and crime. When she was satisfied he could help her no more, he was disposed of. Time to go shopping!

 

During the daytime Linda Van Hoorn remains a bored rich girl. At night she lives a daring life of crime, robbing, raiding and doing whatever she damn well pleases as The Socialite.

 

Activating her rocket heels, the Socialite swooped down to a decorative archway and drew a bead on that bitch Marilyn Zyron. Three rounds rapid should be enough to take care of THAT particular fashion rival...

 

As she was about to squeeze the trigger on her custom made, silver plated pistol, Linda's attention was diverted by a shadowy figure lurking in the bushes below.

 

No! It couldn't be...

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Oops late pig entry thought I'd submitted last night.

 

Teacup

 

A few years ago during the Teacup pig Fad Teresa Cupertino most ardent desired was for one. She bought one from a breeder only there was two problems there is no such thing as a teacup pig and the so called breeder was nothing of the kind he was a Animal liberationist desperate to get money so he could flee the country.

 

A month later Teresa had a very rapidly growing full size sow. Not just a sow but an angry one that bit her. After the bite things got strange it turns out buttercup the pig was an experimental subject in a program called High Intensity Growth Hormones optimizing Nutrition Texture Health & ethically husbanding organisms genetics

 

H. I. G. H. O. N. T. H. E. H. O. G. used growth hormones genetic engineering and in vitro nutritional supplements to produce the perfect pig for factory farming. Unfortunately for Teresa exposure to Buttercups tainted body fluids gave her a dose of the experimental serums used and Teresa found her self changed.

 

Teresas powers manifested as the ability to change size while she isn't able to shift a huge amount only about 50% shrinking down to under 3 feet tall or turning onto a almost 9 ft hulking brute. At 3 feet Teresa is faster and more agile but not very strong tthe little pig is her goto form for escaping a bad situation she will shrink down don a disguise and go we we we all the way home.

 

Her larger firm is a hulking ogre like being intimidating and destructive she is hard to hurt and can smash through barriers made of anything straw, sticks or brick.

 

Teacup does triple duty in her smaller form she acts as a scout using her size shift she can easily shift her appearance or get into small spaces.

 

Normal size she occasionally acts as honey trap.

 

And big piggy is the team brick.

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