Create a Hero Theme Team!

[Nothere]

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Don loved to learn even more than he love to teach. There was almost no department he wasn't able to sub for. Though the hard scienes were a bit beyond him. And unlike most subs he was content in his role. After all never knowing what you would be teaching next was pretty exciting. Though getting caught in the edge of that superbattle was a bit more excitment than he wanted. Espicially when that greenish goop landed on him. Though now that his body has adapted and he has superpowers he finds crimefighting very stimulating. And once again he has become a jack of all trades, as his ability to absorb the skills, knowlege, and power of those around him make him able to fill into any role. Whatever the facuilty may need the Substitue can fill in.

 

O.k. so now for a new group. uhm. O.k. five members the Alternates. They have the name, powers, or looks of well known Supervillians, but are heros. Unfortunatly it's kind of difficult to convince people of that with their better known/more powerful villianous type running loose.

[BoloOfEarth]

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"If you make that face too often, it'll stick that way!" Oh, if only Mother knew...

 

The man formerly known as Subterfuge had the ability to mimic the powers of others, tied into shapeshifting to look just like them. Subterfuge used this ability often to gain access to VIPER Nests, Demonhames, and villain bases. Unfortunately, he decided to mimic Force (one of the Crowns of Krim) while trying to stop one of the Crowns' plots, and Dark Seraph figured it out. Just moments before additional heroes busted in and forced the Crowns to retreat, Seraph cast a spell on Subterfuge that has permanently blocked him from changing forms or powers again.

 

Now permanently forced to look like one of the more dangerous villains out there, Subterfuge changed his name to Kinesis and uses his telekinetic force powers to try and help others. He truly misses his ability to mimic others, but as he points out, "At least I didn't look like Foxbat when I got stuck."

[csyphrett]

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The Jack Of Fools appeared in harelquin mufti and crow mask at a masquerade ball, stopping a robbery with uncanny agility. He appeared again to save lives during a fire. He began turning up more frequently after that.

 

His sobriquet has attracted the attention of Demon. So far, he has led their men into ambushes created by UNTIL, PRIMUS, and VIPER.

 

He leaves behind the joker and a laugh before vanishing in the night.

[Lucius]

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"At least I didn't look like Foxbat when I got stuck."

 

 

Unlike me.

 

I should have paid attention to all the stories. Things never go right when making wishes with magical genies. But all I said was "I wish I were the biggest hero in the city!"

 

As it happened, all the real heroes of the city were not IN the city right then, having gone to deal with some rampaging giant turkey, of all things. DEMON was responsible for that, as a way of getting the heroes all out of the way for some nefarious scheme, but they didn't expect Foxbat to show up and foil their plans. I guess he rolled his die for that week and it came up "hero." This made him - at the moment I was making my wish - "the biggest hero in the city" and so I became identical to Foxbat. I'm just glad the wish made me a duplicate instead of just switching personalities between bodies or something!

 

I don't want to call myself Foxbat. I'd use Batman, but some guy using a baseball bat has already taken that name.

 

Call me Flying Fox! Evildoers will fear my ping pong ball gun!

 

 

(I'm so humiliated. What have I gotten myself into..)

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary fears the crab cannon

[Old Man]

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By day, law professor Howard Dess taught copyright and tort law at Gotham University. It was a good job, one he'd worked very hard to get, but he'd gotten bored with it and fallen into a rut. So at night, he turned his energies to his other great passion--heavy metal. As frontman for his metal band, the Droids, Howard would stride around the stage in a postapocalyptic costume he'd built with the help of the university engineering department. Heavy steel boots, spiked kneepads, skull-adorned belt, bracers, armored vest to make himself look bigger, even a red flowing cape--with an outlandish spiked helmet to send it over the top. It was even somewhat functional, since Howard designed it to protect him from onstage pyrotechnics, flying beer bottles, angry moshers, and the pulsing sonic waves coming from the amps. Sometimes Howard felt, onstage, that this was his true identity.

 

Then, one day, he happened to catch a breaking news story of costumed superfreaks fighting in a downtown intersection--and the villain was wearing an outfit just like his Droid costume! Enraged, Howard immediately sprang into action to find out who was this upstart was who'd stolen his look and was using it to commit crimes. He quickly realized that he wasn't going to be able to nail this particular criminal with copyright law--he'd have to take matters into his own hands. After working with the university to beef up his and his bandmates' costumes, he soon took to the streets as crimefighting Dr. Dess, Lawyer, backed up by the Dess Droids.

[csyphrett]

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By day' date=' law professor Howard Dess taught copyright and tort law at Gotham University. It was a good job, one he'd worked very hard to get, but he'd gotten bored with it and fallen into a rut. So at night, he turned his energies to his other great passion--[i']heavy metal.[/i] As frontman for his metal band, the Droids, Howard would stride around the stage in a postapocalyptic costume he'd built with the help of the university engineering department. Heavy steel boots, spiked kneepads, skull-adorned belt, bracers, armored vest to make himself look bigger, even a red flowing cape--with an outlandish spiked helmet to send it over the top. It was even somewhat functional, since Howard designed it to protect him from onstage pyrotechnics, flying beer bottles, angry moshers, and the pulsing sonic waves coming from the amps. Sometimes Howard felt, onstage, that this was his true identity.

 

Then, one day, he happened to catch a breaking news story of costumed superfreaks fighting in a downtown intersection--and the villain was wearing an outfit just like his Droid costume! Enraged, Howard immediately sprang into action to find out who was this upstart was who'd stolen his look and was using it to commit crimes. He quickly realized that he wasn't going to be able to nail this particular criminal with copyright law--he'd have to take matters into his own hands. After working with the university to beef up his and his bandmates' costumes, he soon took to the streets as crimefighting Dr. Dess, Lawyer, backed up by the Dess Droids.

 

I don't rate his chances of living very long when the real Dr. D shows up.

CES

[csyphrett]

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Chesire Cat produces gates to get into places and steals things. What happens when one of his gates is intersected by an experimental beam in a facility he planned to rob? What happens when another Chesire Cat appears? What happens when the second Chesire Cat becomes the Dormouse and his archenemy?

 

Will the mirrors put aside their differences and try to make right what went wrong, or will they battle to see who is the best teleporter.

CES

[csyphrett]

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That's five. if anyone wants to throw down another team, the next selection is five members with powers based around Numbers. They are the Countdown.

CES

[Old Man]

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I don't rate his chances of living very long when the real Dr. D shows up.

 

That's what's awesome about it.

[SKJAM!]

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Aristide LeTrois, concert violinist, is also the French hero known as Tricolor. It's unclear if he gets his powers from the concept of the French flag, or just named himself after it due to the nature of them. When he changes color, his powers change; red is Liberte (cannot be held, restrained, entangled or encased), white is Equalite (duplicates the ability of whoever he's looking at when the color change happens) and blue is Fraternite (projects courage, friendliness and goodwill to all around him.) His versatility makes him valuable to the Countdown team, but he tends to put his musical career first, and is notorious for protecting his hands at any cost.

[Lucius]

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It is probably a mutation that gives Ali Gomez his incredible speed based powers. One of his favorite tricks is to move back and forth so rapidly as to appear to be in two places at once. His costumed identity is Split Second.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

What, you figured a hero using the number two for a theme would have palindromedary powers?

[Cygnia]

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(Oh, I've missed this thread )

 

"You know the saying 'Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot'? Well, it's true for the most part. I can look into your heart and mind and see what you're afraid off most. No matter how deep it's buried, I can find it. And if you think you're one of those 'tough guys' who knows no fear, I can MAKE you be afraid. Even if it's over the silliest thing...

 

The ancient Greeks gave a lot of names to weird fears. One of them was 'Triskaidekaphobia'. But let me make it simple for you....you can just call me Thirteen."

 

College student Monica Reyes can manipulate (and even induce at times) a target's phobias. Fortunately (or not), she's decided to use her power for heroics. However, she's VERY overconfident right now as she has yet to come across an opponent that can withstand her abilities (like a robot or a strong-willed mentalist).

[csyphrett]

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(I am going to use this hero for a story somewhere down the line, but I can use him for this too)

 

Harley Atkins always needed to split his attention to deal with the minutaie of his job. He acquired the ability to be Hundred. When villainy rears its head, a one man army is ready to deal with it.

CES

[dmjalund]

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you can just call me Thirteen."

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[Lucius]

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The greatest super hero story ever:

 

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The One.

 

Six Issue limited edition by Rick Veitch working for Epic Comics.

 

And probably totally ineligible for this game, as I didn't create it myself.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

It was also before the palindromedary's time

[csyphrett]

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The greatest super hero story ever:

 

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The One.

 

Six Issue limited edition by Rick Veitch working for Epic Comics.

 

And probably totally ineligible for this game, as I didn't create it myself.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

It was also before the palindromedary's time

 

It is ineligble but can be ripped off if you ignore everything that contradicts the champions setting.

CES

[Lucius]

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It is ineligble but can be ripped off if you ignore everything that contradicts the champions setting.

CES

 

What does the Champions setting have to do with anything?

 

I just checked the originating post

 

A spin-off from the Create a Villain Theme Team thread. These heroes can be potential (not-so) friendly rivals to your PCs or just flavor characters for other parts of your game world (if your heroes are in New York and they need to hit Los Angeles or France or Japan for a case). Perhaps these heroes only focus on a particular fringe element like animal rights, space travel or protecting Delaware. Maybe they're Rust Age to your PCs Four-Color or vice versa. They could be altruistic or mercenary.

 

Team Name:

Number:

Theme/Motive:

 

Remember! Once you post the last hero of a team, you then come up with the next concept!

*****

 

Team Name: The Even-Odds

Number: 7

Theme/Motive: Given the boom poker has experienced thanks to television, it only stands to reason that criminal elements want to try to get a piece of that very expensive pie (either via metahuman cheating or muscling players/patrons for their winnings afterwards). The Even-Odds can be called in to help in case trouble's afoot at the casinos or tournaments...

 

Doesn't say anything about using the Champions setting.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary notes that just because you're playing "Champions" (i.e. using Hero System for superheroes) doesn't mean you're using the Champions setting.

[csyphrett]

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It was my impression that the teams were to be built as ideas for npcs for campaigns for people to use whether as champions or not, just like the team we sent in to Haymaker.

 

Are you running the one as a campaign setting? Is it generic enough for anyone to use? Is it an original idea? Can you write it up on standard guidelines whatever they are for 5th or 6th ed? Is the one a hero, or a setting?

 

Otherwise I have never read it, dont care about it, have always gave Rick Veitch a pass since he doesnt tell stories I want to read about, and seriously doubt it's even the best hero story out there compared to Hellboy, Astro City, or Sailor Moon.

CES

[BoloOfEarth]

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Caveat: I'm not the OP of this thread, so everything I say can be taken with a grain of salt. Or, if you have blood pressure problems like I do, with a grain of non-sodium spice supplement.

 

Well, as someone who has ripped off paid homage to a pre-existing character to fit a theme before, I think as long as you do *something* to make a posted character at least somewhat your own, it's eligible. Lucius, as you yourself said, The One would be "probably totally ineligible for this game, as I didn't create it myself." Of course, if you want to create an homage to The One, I for one (sorry, can't let a good pun pass) would be interested in seeing it.

 

As to fitting within the Champions setting, I don't think that's a requirement per se, though doing so does make a posted character available to anybody running in that, or a similar, setting. Of course, given the comic book genre's potential for alternate dimensions, different timelines, etc., I'd think somebody could find an excuse to import a character from almost any setting into his/her campaign if he/she really wanted.

 

Regarding personal opinions of the relative greatness of various comic book creators or creations (outside of those presented in the thread), I'd cast my vote for those to be debated in another thread. Pretty please with sugar on top.

 

All of that said, I'm going to hold off posting here to give Lucius an opportunity to post an homage to The One, if he so desires, and complete this team. If not, I might be forced to come up with something of my own. Actually, I might just post one anyway, just for the fun of it.

[Cygnia]

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As the OP of this thread, I just ripped off the premise of the Create a Villain Thread, so I say: "Homage away!"

[BoloOfEarth]

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Okay, I just couldn't resist.

 

Despite being the son of a professor of mathematics and being named after a famous physicist / mathematician, Newton Ulrich was always incredibly bad at math. He could mess up the simplest math (even something as basic as counting to five). The only concept he could really grasp was "zero." Something about the concept felt right to him, which might explain why he eventually manifested the mutant ability to nullify or otherwise remove anything inorganic that he touched. (He could make objects cease to exist, and could also cause things like energy fields and alarms to stop operating, but for some reason he can't do that to a living being. Thirteen has posited that this is a mental block, perhaps relating to some phobia of Newton's.) An avid comic book reader, he created a costume and took the name Zero, using his newfound talents to fight crime.

 

An interesting side effect of Newton's nullification field is that, the instant he turns it on, people tend to forget he's around at all unless they're looking directly at him or are directly attacked by him. The instant they turn away, the usually forget him again. Needless to say, he doesn't get a lot of press and is often completely overlooked as a superhero. Zero likes to call himself "a card-carrying non-member" of Countdown.

 

[Please note that the team still needs a fifth member...]

[Lucius]

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... I'm going to hold off posting here to give Lucius an opportunity...

 

I'd prefer to avoid getting into an argument, so I'll pass, but thank you.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary says you can count us out

[Old Man]

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So Countdown has a shapeshifter (of sorts), mentalist, speedster, and... well I don't know what to call Zero. I guess we need a brick?

 

Trust fund inheritor William Tender misspent his youth as any spoiled rich heir would--fast cars, girls, parties, and dissipation. There was one thing he loved above all else: himself. When it came to his person, William spared no expense: high tech gyms, exotic muscle growth treatments, bone structure augmentations, the best yoga, sports, and martial arts instructors money could buy, ex-Soviet bioengineers, native American shamans, you name it, he tried it. After years of this, he became what he'd known he should be all along: superhuman.

 

But before long he found it wasn't enough to be superhuman--he needed to do something with his new superhuman body. When some costumed supercrooks damaged one of his many mansions, he found his calling. Attiring himself in a custom-cut suit made of the latest experimental materials, accessorized with flashy Bond gadgets, he joined the fight against crime as Billionaire.

[AnotherSkip]

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Got an Idea there old man since you finished off the team (I believe)?

[Old Man]

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Hmmm. Well, I always have a hard time coming up with mentalist concepts, so how about an all-mentalist team? We can call them The Idealists. I'm using the term 'mentalist' loosely here--it can mean mental powers or just psionics as a special effect, or whatever. Surprise me.