Jump to content

Create a Villain Theme Team!


BoloOfEarth

Recommended Posts

Squidra

 

A homeless man "living" in an abandoned fish canary, the man known now as Squidra was abducted and modified by The Great Beast as a test to see if a normal human could survive his modification process (so at one day he could use it himself). The man lost all hair, grew ten tentacles out of his body (four from his back, three from his chest, two attached to each thigh, and one from the back of his head), and a huge beak like mouth in his stomach area and an extra digestive pathway. He also gained limited "camouflage" invisibility and the ability to squirt an organic ink like liquid from his tentacles. For a while, he worked as The Great Beast's only human agent till he created the others in his preparation to achieve "godhood".

 

Squidra has reservations following The Great Beast, but stays with him because he ultimately has no where else to go. Forcently The Great Beast hasn't gotten so insane as to not treat his 'pets' well, and in the Great Beast's mind that includes Squidra. The Great Beast eventually plans on turning Squidra into a kaiju size behemoth...but that would involve tons of the wonder substance The Great Beast uses to create the modifications he uses.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Vanish

 

Mike "Mickey" Huter was an ok-looking, slightly intelligent,  moderately athletic young man of good family who should have easily made something of himself.  But little Mickey was a sensitive boy, always picked on, never aplying himself, and his life spiraled into depression and misery.

He sought out the Great Beast thinking he could at least make a tasty snack for some monster rather than killing himself to no purpose at all.

Instead of being put out if his misery, he was subjected to psuedo-matter. 

Vanish is still basically humanoid, though everything about him looks subtly off, like an uncanny valley effect.  A third eye (on an extensible stalk) allows him to see through solid objects, and where he can see, he can go, without bothering about the points between.  His new flesh reacts to intense emotion by fading from view, then, in extreme cases, reality, becoming insubstantial.  He has no offensive powers - he can't teleport or re-solidify in someone to shock their system or anything, and his physical abnormalities don't include claws/fangs/tentacles/poison.

 

He's still miserable, of course.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 6/6/2022 at 10:02 AM, steriaca said:

New Group: The New Flesh

Member Count: 5 minimum. 

A bunch of humans who got body modified by The Great Beast (from Children of the Night: Horror Enimies), they seem to have walked out of director David Cronenberg's wet dreams. They are twisted, with extra limbs and such, new organs to do things humans normally do not do and such, and there modifications was absolutely painless (he used the same psuedo-matter which his animal hybrid creatures are made from, and it was mentioned that it causes no apparent pain). Some had limbs replaced. Some have limbs relocated. Others have more dramatic body modifications. 

 

(Slightly in horror of Cronenberg's new movie "Crimes of the Future".)

I approve of this villain team! (Makes popcorn, sits back to watch the fun.)

 

Dean Shomshak

Link to comment
Share on other sites

43 minutes ago, DShomshak said:

I approve of this villain team! (Makes popcorn, sits back to watch the fun.)

 

Dean Shomshak

I am both shocked and honored by your approval Dean. I hope our ideas make you proud. And maybe a little bit sicken. Body horror can do that, you know.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Piecemeal 

 

Jennifer Rodriguez, VIPER agent Devlin Dare, and PRIMUS agent David Lee Jones were at the wrong place at the wrong time. All three got blown to bits during a VIPER bank heist when an explosion misfired. Somehow the Great Beast got a hold of the parts and fashioned a new body with psuedo-matter and pieces of each body. Piecemeal is a hulking man-shape with three heads, and the Great Beast uses it's body as a test bed for various animal type powers he might use on himself one day. All three personality fight for control, and all are bugging for their own body.

 

The Great Beast is pondering about elimination of Piecemeal and replacing it with another test bed creation. He loves all his pets, but some a little bit more.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Many Beaks Make Light Work

This creation is one of those that people have named via competitions on the Internet like Villain McVillainface. It's humanoid but covered in beaks. Bipedal and basically sexless. It does not seem to have any eyes or ears or olfactory organs but it can sense anything. All the beaks are the same and are of the same size. It can eat anything and is immune to poisons, gases, radiation, high pressure and temperature extremes. It can survive in space. It understands what is said to it and can reply in cheeps which the others can understand. The bites are not poisonous but any person attacked is subject to a multitude of bites. If someone was wearing a suit of armour like a knight of old, they would not be affected but other protections like forcefields would be eaten through. A force wall would keep it at bay.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ok. It is still up to Death Trible, but I just got to do a number 6. So here comes...

 

Disgust.

 

Disgust was once an overweight gourmet restaurant critic named Arnold Denver. An upset restaurant owner had Arnold abducted and plotted to kill him over a bad review. The Great Beast bargained to have Arnold as a test subject and got his way. Arnold was given multiple stomachs, resistance to damage, and the ability to regurgitate a strong acid out of his mouth. Oh, and multiple mouths (more like food intake openings with long lamprey style teeth) all over his body. And a tounge which now acts like a tentacle in his head.

 

Arnold when not eating everything in sight (including stuff poisonous to others), he crys about his lack of being able to smell or taste anymore. Arnold also angers at fat jokes, othoe it is questionable if he even remembers what his shape use to be before being transformed. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Versailles

This villain team is based on the 1914-18 war. They can be named after any of the battles on the Western Front, after any of the major personalities from the conflict like T E Lawrence and Manfred Von Richthofen or any of the major inventions like the Zeppelin and Sopwith Camel. The team were created by the French initially although there are now German members. Whether they act or dress in period costume is up to you.

Minimum 5 members

If there are more than 5 then battles on the Eastern Front can be included.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Eindecker

 

The first "German" invited to the team, Eindecker serves as scout and fast recon. Compared to other fliers he's not very fast, but his maneuverability and agility are tremendous.

Friedrich Melies was born in the Alsace-Lorraine area, and grew up speaking French and German all but interchangeably, but eventually moved to Germany where he got his doctorate. He became a very good aeronautical engineer, and worked on the Euroair VTOL fighter programme, only for that programme to be shut down and his applications for several patents denied on national security grounds. Angry and disgusted, he built a flight suit using the vectored thrust technology he had been working on, which he was able to massively miniaturize. His problem is that the system has serious weight limits, restricting him to a small number of fire-and-forget missiles as offense, and only very light armour.

His name comes from the Fokker E. III Eindecker ("one deck", what we now call a monoplane), the first dedicated fighter to be used by Germany in the Great War. He commonly wears the Eisernes Kreuz (Iron Cross, German military symbol) on his chestplate. This has made him a lot of enemies in the German military.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Verdun

The brick of the team. This French man can take a lot of punishment. He is also immune to mental illusions, telepathy and mind control. He has some form of longevity. The reason for this is that he is possessed by the ghosts of the dead, those who fell in the battle. And not just the French dead, the Germans as well. It was only when this became apparent that Germans were invited or allowed to join the team. He can pass through obstacles like barbed wire or similar and he can leap over any holes that could be taken for shell holes or trenches.

Verdun has a code of honour, those who respect the battlefields and the dead will be unharmed. Those who don't care will be badly hurt and those who vandalise the graves or memorials will not survive long.

It is not known if Verdun is a manifestation of the dead or someone who was possessed by the dead. Gas attacks work on him and he will mark the person who uses it on him for punishment.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

Fluer (d'Moustarde/ de Ypres)

 

Fluer was named for the poppies that famously sprang up in the fields after WWI, by parents who had both served and been exposed to mustard gas.  She was their only child that made it to term.

In WWII, she served as a nurse, like her mother before her.  

In her 30s she realized she wasn't aging. Afraid she'd be dissected or worse if discovered she faked her death and assumed the fabricated  identity of her own daughter. She figured she'd do that every other decade forever...

But times changed quickly and such tricks became harder and harder, she slid deeper into the criminal underworld trying to keep her secret and was finally recruited by Versailles.

Fluer doesn't age, is virtually immune to poison and disease, and recovers from injuries, even loss of limbs in a matter of hours or days, without scarring.  She can emit almost any organic chemical that is liquid or gas at body temperature at will, but in amounts sufficient to affect only a small radius around her.  But, she can expand the area by hijacking the biology of local plants ahead of time, causing whole fields to suddenly bloom and emmit the chemical of her choice.  Thus, though a mutant, she prefers to pass herself off as a wielder of nature-magic. 

In her cover IDs, Fluer appears to be a homely, gawky young woman of 18 or 20.  Masked and wearing a tight super-suit, though, she pulls off a femme-fetale look.

Though she came to villainy reluctantly, Fluer is a cynical, world-weary old woman (she's over 100) and resigned to her role.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Tommy Atkins

 

This member of the group looks like a British soldier of the 14-18 War. First appearing as a ghost, Tommy became more corporeal with the passing decades. And then he met Verdun. The longer they were in contact the more time Tommy was able to stay as a flesh and body entity. He is the group's sharpshooter and can bayonet people as well. Verdun sourced a Lewis Gun which Tommy can use. Psychics believe that should all the bodies of all the British soldiers be found and identified then Tommy will be able to pass on.  Tommy gets on well with Fluer and Verdun but is wary of the Germans after 14-18 and 39-45. Tommy tries to cheer Fluer up as he is only too well aware of the pain of continued existence. Tommy can disappear into vapour if he takes enough damage. But he comes back.

Like Verdun if anyone vandalises a memorial to the dead, then they are for it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Tannenberg

 

How this member of the group ended up with the others is not clear. Tannenberg is Russian and believes they died in the battle of the same name in 1914. Their memory is hazy but they believe they came West sometime after 1941. Like Tommy they seemed to be incorporeal for a while. Psychics investigating Tommy Atkins believe that a Russian mystic caused Tannenberg to form. They are more like a zombie and can take graphic amounts of damage. Because they can then get up again, this has incited real panic with the public seeing more of the zombie films of George Romero for example. The group have thus got Tannenberg to play this bit up. He is not wary of the German members, he is scared of them.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

New group: The Omegans

Numbers: Five minimal, eight maximum. 

 

A group of high powered beings from various walks of existence gathering together to destroy the local Justice League/Avengers analog (let's call them Justice Squad for now). Each member is a nemesis for a member of the Squad and has their own goles and plots. But they put those plans aside till they get rid of the Squad.

 

No member of the Omegans shares a nemesis. Each would betray the others if it means that member could destroy the nemesis. You also design the nemesis (but 'design' is a loose term...prehaps only a Hero name).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Master of the Game

 

This 'gentleman' (and let's leave it at that, shall we ?) is a master manipulator. Trained in martial arts as self defence as he is a rich man and thus a kidnap target which is why he learned it. That is the official reason. He plays the long game gaining money through blackmail, robbery and intimidation carried out by any number of disposable pawns. He has an iron will and cannot be mind controlled, be 'convinced' by mental illusions or read by telepathy. He can destroy someone by one major revelation or by a series of minor revelations building up pressure on them so that they are undone. People have committed suicide or committed murder due to the actions of 'The Master of the Game'.

The crime fighting detective Rex Dangerfield has managed to sabotage several of the 'Master's' schemes and so must pay as the hero is trying to uncover the real identity of the villain. The reason that the Master has failed to pinpoint Rex in real life is that the hero is a woman who shapeshifts into the hero identity.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Society Gal

 

Miriam Petrovica's name comes from long ago, the halcyon days of the 1920s, when she had a habit of taking the society pages by storm every few years. She'd hang out with the rich and the beautiful, do some scandalously outlandish things, have an affair or two, and find "the right man" and get married. The right man was invariably rich, young and handsome...and dead inside two years. At which point Miriam would pop up again in Paris or New York or Berlin and do it all again.

 

It was the Golden Age hero The Black Fedora who exposed her. Miriam was a monster. Rather literally - she was created by a group of medical students using the forbidden notes of Doctor Victor Frankenstein. Their copies of his notes were incomplete, and they improvised, so Miriam seems quite different from her fellow created beings - she is beautiful, scarless, and was able to fit into society fairly easily. But she also has an unending thirst for human spinal fluids, which she has learned to tap gradually and painlessly through skin contact, slowly killing her lovers or husbands. As long as she has a steady supply, she doesn't age. In addition, she naturally secretes powerful pheromones, making her near-irresistible to men or women. If she actually cares about someone, she will end the relationship before they are seriously harmed - but that is rare indeed. And she does like money...

 

The Black Fedora tried to kill Miriam (he was that sort of mask), but her inhuman strength and toughness almost ended him. So he did the next best thing: He went to the papers. In days Miriam's face and story were all over the world, making her an outcast in the very circles she used to dominate. 

 

For decades, Miriam has been forced to hide in dreary suburbia, drifting from victim to victim. Several times she has tried to find out who The Black Fedora really was, to no avail. She finally gave up in the late 1950s when the surprisingly long lived vigilante disappeared from the public eye entirely. But her hate festered.

 

But today, there's a new man who's taken up the old mantle. The new Black Fedora isn't a killer like his predecessor (and, though no one but he knows it, grandfather), but he's got the same "mystic affinity with the night" (chameleon-weave cloak), "ability to befuddle the senses" (narcotic gas pellets) and "powers of evasion" (good training in Aikido).

 

Miriam really wants to kill him, slowly and painfully. But her first attempt was a botch - he was seemingly immune to her charms, and exposed her again! (The new Black Fedora is both gay and, due to a little accident with those gas pellets, anosmic - he has no sense of smell, making her pheromones useless against him.)

 

The papers have hung that old "Society Gal" moniker on Miriam, but this time she's playing up to it - and playing for keeps.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Queen of the Hunt

 

Victoria Blackledge was born into wealth and often accompanied her father on his safaris to exotic lands. Eventually her skills outmatched his and her love for hunt become an obsession. She especially prized endangered and unique species to add to her trophy room. She learned of a rumored hidden civilization called the Sacred Lands that was populated by animals that only existed in that location. She used her vast resources to finally find it's location and set out for a new hunt. Before she could take down her first target she was confronted by this lands protector,  Zahla The Untamed. Blackledge managed to escape, but she vowed revenge. When Zahla came to America as the official ambassador of the Sacred Lands Blackledge created her own villainous identity to hunt her prey down. She is an expert in a vast array of weapons both moden and ancient, but favors a hi-tech crossbow with a variety of specialized bolts. She lost her left eye during one of her battles with her nemesis and has since had a cybernetic replacement attached. She is able to use the eye to see the images captured by her hunting drones. She helped found the Omegans using her wealth to provide a headquarters and outfit the members as needed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Tharaxes of the Trackless Void

 

This is the classic good guy gone bad. Tharaxes was a lawman on a distant world and quite a good one. Elevated into the interstellar police force know as the Wardens he served with distinction but over time as he saw more villainy afoot in the Universe he became more of a hardliner. The Wardens do not know precisely what happened but Tharaxes was part of a unit assigned to work out what happened on the mystical planet of Threy. Two of the group died and Tharaxes ordered a retreat. He stayed behind to cover the others. He disappeared although the others made it home. Some months later he returned and resigned taking full responsibility for the death of his comrades. He recommended that no-one else go anywhere near Threy as it was harmful to life both physically and mentally. He set off for the furthest reaches of the galaxy. Some years passed and then the Wardens found that Tharaxes had gone rogue. They have chased him ever since and now the battlefield is Earth.

Colin Spivey has become the Warden of the Earth area under the name Guardian of the Sky (Sky Guardian was already taken) and he tries to fight Tharaxes. In this he is helped as Tharaxes is not quite sane anymore. He could easily kill the others but the thought simply has not occurred to him or there is some remnant of law and order in him (which the Wardens believe). The others simply believe he is a space criminal. He can understand all languages via a Universal Translator

Tharaxes has a suite of energy powers he can use and he can survive in space. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Zoran Zarkon

 

Zoran Zarkon, known throughout the world as Double Z, was a friendly businessman and inventor, and secretly a criminal mastermind. He had almost full social control over Megol City when "the Great Green", Omegaman first appeared to fight crime on his adopted planet of Earth. Zoran became so obsessed with causing Onagaman's downfall that he bankrupted his business, and practically destroyed his social life. Then Onegaman exposed him as a criminal mastermind to the public. 

 

This caused Zoran to form the Omegans, naming it after his nemesis as a constant reminder of his bully heroics. How dare this alien invader force his justice upon people of the world! What gives him the right to do so? His ability to withstand most mortal weapons? His inmensed strength? His ability to break the laws of gravity? He has no rights to force the common man to obey his rules. They should be obeying HIS rules.

 

Spoiler

Basically picture the modern version of Lex Luthor with hair...

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The Dread Pirate Gilbert Pensworth II 

 

The Seven Seas and the Oceans of the world are the playground and plunder rich environment of The Dread Pirate Gilbert Pensworth II.  Law Enforcement blame an over-fixation on the Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean for this buccaneer and his 'scallywag' ways. Gilbert thinks he is a star and something to be admired but the police want him dead or alive, preferably the former. He has a ship and a submarine so he can attack ships on the sea and illegally salvage from those beneath it.

Gilbert's foe is Waterman, the Lord of Atlantis (what can I say ? King of the Seas, Sea King and other variants on Ocean have already been taken so Waterman it is.). Gilbert needs the others to fight on land as he is useless fighting there and also clueless. On a river, lake or in the seas he is very effective. (Not swimming pools or aquariums though.)

 

(So we have Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Batman and whoever Black Fedora is (Sandman ?) based on.)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Polus

 

Named after one of the titans of myth, Polus is incredibly strong. Although slow moving he can think just as fast as a computer. If he puts hi hand on a wall he can bring it down by disrupting the ionic bonds between atoms. He can take a sickening level of punishment and can throw around ships if he wants to. He is quite laid back which is why he has not taken over the world yet.

 

His arch-enemy is the Cerulean Cruiser , speedster from beyond the stars. Although the hero cannot damage the villain he can outwit him which is more by luck than judgement.

 

That makes 7, Whoever posts no 8 posts the new team.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...