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Railman

 

A middle aged guy in a classic train engineer's getup, Victor Mengsk uses the power of engineering to solve his difficulties. His only actual power is the ability to grow or shrink objects - thus, his pockets are stuffed with pulleys, frames and winches, and on occasion an actual railway engine. He doesn't tend to be overly useful in a fight (although being able to shrink Grond to 1:100 scale has proved handy) but he always hangs around for the cleanup work.

In his school presentations, he shows kids the power of basic physics and technology, how levers, pulleys and other simple technology can make things so much easier for everyone.

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BLOCK Chain

 

The PR experts charged with assembling The Informers, where desperate to complete the team before their planned first appearance, so when they received an application from a "Block-Chain" defending an impoverished neighborhood, sent her an acceptance email without a second thought.

 

She turned out to be a chain-weilding street-level martial artist, defending her block from gangs - with no STEM connection at all.  Undeterred, they called their principle who provided her with new nanotech chain of self-replicating links keyed to her so that it moved like an extension of her will, and, if broken or snatched away would repair itself and return to her.  

 

In the meantime, they gave her a crash course in cryptocurrency buzzwords, but it turns out, the discipline and determination to train yourself up to superheroic levels of martial skill works on book learning, too, and she was quickly giving expert-sounding lectures on the subject... and in just a few months had even mastered it, to the further surprise of all involved.

 

"When Bulldozer grabbed hold of my chain, he thought he could use his greater size and strength to drag me around, but each link of the chain builds itself with its own authentication, so it moves only how I want it to."

 

 

So, I was responsible for that debacle, so I'm just throw'n it out there.

 

Whoever wants to post the next team idea, go for it.  

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Sorry for not doing more for this last one but I did not want to monopolise it and it was hard thinking of one idea.

 

New Team: The Pentagon

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions (and more than a few bad ones if we are to be honest) and the team called The Pentagon was one of these. This was a team picked to be the best of the best and mirroring the ideals that make America great. Unfortunately these ideals are the ones that the teams backers/founders felt that the team should possess rather than the ones that the idea of America should have. Ultimately the team was a failure because of the conflicting agendas behind the scenes and the performance of the chosen candidates.

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to come up with one of the five members of the team. However they don't need to have served on the same team.

And they can all be the same type so yes everyone can design a martial artist for example but they won't have all been on the same team.

Of necessity is what made them a failure in the team. This can be the fact that their patriotism was used against them, that they were a bigot for example, that backstage actors saw to their demise, that their performance in the field was inferior to training or whatever you like. The backstage actors can use anything to get rid of someone such as blackmail, drug addiction, sex scandal to even having them murdered. We will say that the team ran from the early 60s to 1991.

We will stop at 5 unless people want to do more.

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Proud American

 

Gottfried Willis Oberthson was a second-generation American from Boston. He fought in WWII as a Marine, earning a Silver Star Medal on Guadalcanal and a second on Iwo Jima, and finishing the war as a Master Sergeant. He went on to serve in Korea, winning an eventual promotion to First Sergeant.

Some of the backers of the initial Pentagon viewed what they were doing as requiring a solid and dependable non-com to instill an appropriate level of discipline and adherence to orders to the group. Oberthson was outfitted with the latest tech and arms the USA of 1960 could provide - gyrojet rocket guns, a strength boosting exo-frame, back-mounted concussion grenade launchers. Given the code name Proud American he was viewed as a serious asset.

In the field, things didn't work out that way. Oberthson was used to working with Marine infantry as part of or leading a well-oiled team, and the Pentagon wasn't that, nor were the members willing to be put through his gruelling version of basic training. And his gear was, well, cutting edge - which meant it didn't work as advertised. The gyrojets were useless inside of ten feet, the exo-frame shorted out any time it got wet, and the grenade launchers were so inaccurate he ended up concussing himself more than once.

Worse, however, was Oberthson's attitude to anyone who wasn't white. He was an out-and-out racist and white supremacist, basically unable to work with anyone he saw as "inferior" unless he was in a position of power over them. And then he made their lives hell. If he hadn't had a lot of backing from the hardline military faction supporting the Pentagon project he wold have been the first member expelled.

Even so, after an ugly incident with a Civil Rights protest in '66, Proud American was sidelined. His gear (which had undergone considerable improvement) was copied, and Sergeant Oberthson was basically told to train a new, younger man recently returned from Vietnam - clearly, his replacement. Instead, Oberthson stole the gear, went AWOL, and wasn't heard from again until '72, when he emerged as the "Superhero" White Dragon, "champion" of the KKK. Two years later, A US Army Special Forces team tracked him down in Louisiana and Oberthson was killed in the attempt to arrest him.

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Blitz

 

Marcus Dunbar was offered membership in The Pentagon in 1984. Dunbar overcame being raised in a crime ridden neighborhood in Ward 8 in Washington  DC to become a football All-American and Heisman candidate who passed up on an NFL career to pursue his law degree. He was viewed as an inspirational story by the backers of the team and he was happy to accept. Dunbar was treated with a refined version of Professor Laszlo Hargrove's Mercurio Formula which granted him superspeed, superstrength and high damage resistance. Taking up the codename Blitz as a reference to his days as a linebacker on the gridiron he was a solid team member. He was especially effective in fighting against criminals involved with the drug trade as he lost family members to addiction and gang violence. This would eventually be his downfall however. He zealously pursued a trail of drug trafficking into the States from South America which ended up being part of an operation by the CIA to gain money to support various rebel groups. One of the backers also had his hand in that operation and not wanting to risk the bad publicity of removing Blitz from the team, came up with another plan. The backer had one of the Pentagon technicians lower Blitz's monthly Mercurio infusion. Then the backer slipped him information that led Blitz into a cartel trap in Columbia. He fought bravely, but with his powers weakened he was eventually killed by super-powered cartel assassin Vibora. 

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Virginia

 

One of the noted women members of the group, Virginia was an orphan whose real name has been redacted from all official sources. She was skilled in martial arts and had enhanced strength. While some of the backers were keen on female representation, others were just as keen to see the downfall of any women members regardless of any consequences. However it took time, too much if you asked those who wanted her gone. it would not be the backers who finally did for her but the Underworld.  Tired of vigilante attacks the cartels and other criminal organisations decided to make an example of vigilantes they could get their hands on. Keeping track of investigations they realised they could catch at least one and physically and mentally destroy them. Consequently they laid a rather delicate bread crumb trail so as not to be too obvious and Virginia was the one they caught. Using mercenaries with enhanced strength, amoral mentalists and a cocaine derivative they broke her and let the TV networks report back on the junkie hero. To the delight of her political foes she was publicly removed from the team. She died of a drug overdose sometime in the late 90s.    

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(Stars & ) Stripes

 

It could have been the plot to a romance, a wounded soldier, a compassionate nurse, a make-shift hospital in an old roman church bombed out by the nazis, the two, alone shelter in it's catacombs... but it was not romance that blossomed, but superpowers.  They never spoke in detail of what they found down there, but speculation runs that it was more likely cthonic or mythos than divine magic.  

In any case, the pair emerged with superpowers, 'Stars' could shroud herself in 'black light' becoming virtually invisible & throw 'white light' 'stars' that could cut through steel, 'Stripes' could protect himself with a strobing force field and blast enemies with either a deadly ray of baleful red heat from his right hand, or a stunning white blast of electricity from his left.  

The press played up their romance angle, and the two made brief appearances at the occasional USO show together, displaying their powers while Stripes gave a rousing patriotic speech.  But, in reality, they rarely worked together - Stripes powers were useful on the front lines, while Stars powers made her a natural assassin often working with commandos behind the lines.

After the War - and Korea - they mustered out but Stars was soon recruited by the CIA, she worked overseas ostensibly as a spy, but probably also an assassin, until she vanished under mysterious circumstances, never to surface again... speculation includes simply dying in a failed op, or possibly suicide.

 

Stripes was recruited to join the Pentagon, and he was a solid contributor and one of the longest-standing members, becoming the team spokesman, if not leader, eventually.  Stars was replaced with a kid sidekick (not counting as one of the five members) of the same name - represented as his son with the original Stars (and when that didn't add up, adopted orphan - neither were true, he had been recruited from a pool of disadvantaged young mutants, the backers just wanted a wholesome-seeming backstory).   The new Stars had no similarity to the original, he was a regenerator who could extend that power to others temporarily, by touch.  Over the years, as he grew up, he received extensive martial arts training and various attempts at gearing him up to a full super, but it never quite fit his temperament, and he rarely fought aggressively.  Also, as an adult, a relationship grew between Stars & Stripes, only, this time, the romance was real, even if it had to be kept strictly secret.

Stripes was also inconveniently up-standing and would have blown the whistle on the teams shadier operations or resigned in protest when one of his colleagues was unfairly ruined, but the powers behind the scenes knew his 'shameful' secret, and he was kept in line by blackmail for many years.  In the 80s, Stripes became less and less active in field operations, but continued to be a spokesman for the team, looking drawn and haggard at times.  The official story was that he had been badly wounded in a battle with The Ripper (from classic enemies), and had never fully recovered.   He died several years before the team disbanded. 

 

A few years later, Stars came out.  

 

 

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Silversmith

 

Many origins were purported for the man called Silversmith. Some claimed he gained his power as a descendent of Paul Revere (which he actually was), others that he had been blessed by the American Spirit (which was not true, and the Spirit refuted the rumour in one of his rare public appearances  where he also made his distaste for the Pentagon well known), others still that he was enhanced by a government super-soldier program. The truth was that Macon Barrett Herriott-Jones was a mutant. This was also the fact his shadowy backers held over him - it would have been a terrible scandal for his high-class family to have produced a mutant, so Macon was coerced into the Pentagon around 1980.

Silversmith's power was to convert objects into pure silver. Depending on how close to silver it was in the first place. he could do it at range (metals, metal salts), by touch (ceramics, stone, other hard objects) or with great concentration and difficulty (anything organic). The object invariably reverted to it's original substance in an hour or so, though organic items - such as people - did not survive the process.

However, Macon's heart was never in the game. He had no desire to hurt anyone, and usually confined himself to converting guns of enemies (and then informing them that silver firing chambers were nowhere near strong enough) or weighing them down with sold silver clothing or armour. Worse, it soon became clear that using his powers had a deleterious effect on his sanity - by 1986 he was hanging on by a thread. But his "backers" wouldn't let him retire.

In late 1986, Pentagon went up against a powerful psychic. The name of this person is classified for some reason, though many suspect it to be Menton. The psychic caused Silversmith to silverise his teammates Spur and Wilco...and himself. Spur and Wilco died, and Silversmith never thawed out. His "statue" is held in a government facility, monitored remotely, to this day.

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We need a number of team mates

 

Meanwhile

The Forester

Thought to be an ex-military man, The Forester has attacked various corporate away days injuring some and killing others. He has also killed fly tippers who thought to dump rubbish in the countryside. He has used a bow and arrow but is known to have used guns. He is the surveillance expert in the wild for the team and seems to be at home i any sort of wild terrain from the mountains to the moors. He seems to understand English, French and Spanish. Whether he uses camouflage or has it as an inherent power is as yet unknown. 

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The Lady of the May

 

Given her name by the English press, this mysterious fey young lady appears where groups of workers, surveyors, prospectors or the like gather to start a new development project in a park or wilderness.

The transgressers are rarely seen again, but the population of local endangered mammals often enjoy a slight population recovery.

 

 

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The Piper at the Gates

 

One of the most mysterious of the Lords, yet also one of the most merciful. He(?) has never been seen. Instead, the presence of the Piper is shown only by their music, at either dawn or dusk. The Piper simply makes polluters or despoilers think again, sit unmoving in the wilderness, then pick up their tools or garbage and go home. Nothing can convince them to return to work - they find other jobs. Only a tiny number ever throw off the effect, and it always takes months.

 

The Piper has also been known to make security personnel and police who are trying to move or harm eco-protesters "harmless". In this case the people become dedicated pacifists.

 

The rest of the Lords know how to summon the Piper, but have never given any information about who or what the Piper is.

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Biou

 

This French member of the group is thought to be a Were-Bull. The bull form is that of a black bull from the Camargue region. Despite the fact that they are a 'lycanthrope' they are well balanced and frequently exasperated by the actions of the others but most particularly by The Forester. This member of the group will negotiate. He is also the strongest as either a human or a bull. He has a working knowledge of the wild areas of Britain and France although why is unclear. He does not follow some of the stereotypes of his country and will quite happily gore anyone mocking French defeats or defeatism. He has no problem with the Germans, English or Russians although if they threaten the environment or a polluter then he will target them.

 

(Should have mentioned that there are (were) several British army units called Forester)

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Jack in the Green 

 

Jack is a plant manipulator able to rapidly grow plants he is in contact with his costume is composed of foliage and vines by manipulating the plants he can enhance his strength effective armor.

he's able to create vine tendrils for several different effects swinging entangling and creating defensive barriers.

he carries seeds of a variety of plants performing tricks like growing large trees in an instant producing soporific spore clouds thorny bushes etc.

while the forester is the surveillance expert in a suitably wild area jack's plant armor offers extremely effective camouflage admittedly in urban areas the opposite is usually true with him looking like a walking topiary.

 

(play style think Spider-man meets Swamp thing)

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I haven't done a team in a long time. What could be a worthy challenge to this board of geniuses? Let's go with the six member League of Traveling Gentlemen. The premise of this group is that the heroes of Jules Verne's classic novels exist in the modern world as modern heroes doing good while traveling abroad.

CES    

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 Professor Hieronymus Arbogast

 

A renowned geologist and explorer who created the massive Arbogast Auger to allow him to venture deep into the subterranean earth. He has made many discoveries of pockets of civilizations and creatures deep in the earth on his travels, but these accounts have largely been dismissed by the scientific community. Undaunted he continues his adventures while also consulting and collaborating with other members of the League.

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The Strong Man

 

A mysterious figure, an inventor of great ability but of whom little is known. He has taken all of air, space and sea as his domain, and goodness help those he finds despoiling them, but he also seeks out travellers and aids them in their researches and discoveries. With his "triphibious" craft, the Schreck, he can travel on land, sea or air with equal ability, and tremendous velocity. He has the greatest respect for those like the League, who choose to seek out knowledge and will not let "known" limits inhibit them.

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Professor Rosetta Marie Champion is a direct descendant of Professor Champion, and is an expert of the inner world, geology, dinosaurs, primates (cave men( culture and such. She is rather asexual herself and hates when she is treated as an inferior just because of her gender.

 

She and Professor Arbogast have a tight professional relationship, as they are friends who share there adventures and can vouch for each other, even when the others cannot (or will not).

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