Create a Hero Theme Team!

[freakboy6117]

Old Glory

 

Leon butler-Burwell lied about his age when he joined the army in 1941 16 year old he passed paratrooper training and dropped right into sicily where he began to build a legend for his bravery ferocity and skill he would gain several medals for his exploits. By 1944 he was highly decorated his actions on D-day would gain him the congressional medal of honour after the war he used the Gi bill to get a degree in electrical engineering. In 1950 he reenlisted and returned to the army to fight in Korea again he would distinguish him self unfortunately his luck ran out and he was badly wounded. The next 60 years Leon was a pillar of the community always helping in his community donating money and time mentoring kids and protecting his neighbours eventually in his 90s Leon died quietly in his sleep. Only to awaken reborn in the body of an 18 year old his mind as sharp as it ever was.

 

 

Leon is at the peak of human ability a highly trained fighter with almost a century of life experience. He has also been granted extraordinary healing and regenerative abilities he is tireless and recovers from wounds in moments. He is the teams heart and soul a lifetime of courage and good deeds.

[freakboy6117]

Ok next team

 

The dynamic duos

 

The 6 members of this team are actually a trio of twosomes the duos have teamed up to deal with problems too big for two.

 

(Some rules the first poster creates a Hero, the second makes the companion and so on. The second can be anything sidekick partner or twin for example but must be thematically linked)

[csyphrett]

Harlan Quincy always had a wisecrack for anybody. While attending a costume ball, he disrupted a robbery while wearing the orange and blue tux and mask that would earn him the name of the Heckler. He picked up some skills along the way, but his trademark comments are the primary weapon in his arsenal.

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[freakboy6117]

I had a bunch for the hecklers partner I considered a female scientist with access to the infamous Mr Hyde formula making them Heckle and Jekyl or a brick who hits like a black jack giving you heckler and Cosh but my favourite idea is...

 

VEX

 

The Heckler never imagined that he would have a side-kick let alone a teenage girl but Vex had other ideas she was always there when he was in the middle of foiling a crime. She wasn't very skilled when she turned up in her home made copy of his costume but some how villains who met her always suffered failure.

 

missed her, blundered into each others way and tripped over their own feet on one occasion all three things happen at once dropping a chandelier on top of the whole gang.

 

As he couldn't get rid of her the heckler has taken it on him self to train her.

Vex has probability powers that she has very little control over but tends to protect her put her in the right place and helps her Vex every criminal she encounters.

 

She is not the quick witted wordsmith that the heckler is but is working on her banter.

[death tribble]

Libertarian

 

He is a square jawed hero, a man of principle, a man of integrity and someone who can be believed in. He is not as invulnerable as some but he can fly. He also gets cats out of trees and can walk into fires to save others or hold up part of the building to let the firemen do it. He is a team player. He has had several partners who he relies on as he lacks the investigation skills necessary to function in the crime fighting biz. they are also more adept at spotting the obvious traps that sometimes Libertarian would walk straight into. Libertarian is often on the receiving end of things that Vex and The Heckler have said but rather him than anyone else.

[BoloOfEarth]

Prompted by me mis-reading the name for DT's hero...

 

The Librarian is the Libertarian's current partner -- some say she's more than his crimefighting partner, though Libertarian always acts like a complete gentleman and treats her in a professional manner (much to Librarian's aggravation).  She not only has an eidetic memory; she can instantly "read" and mostly understand any form of media (including electronic) simply by touching it.  Thus, she is a walking, talking encyclopedia and Jill of All Trades.  Unfortunately, she doesn't have any physical powers, though she has been working out and taking numerous martial arts classes in the hopes of avoiding becoming the Girl Hostage.

[csyphrett]

Spoon has the unique power of digging out chunks of any substance with any spoon he might pick up. He often uses this for rescues by tunneling to where a victim is buried and digging that person out.

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[freakboy6117]

The Bohemian

 

Lizušní ližička was born in the Czech Republic is a beautiful athletic woman a world reknowned expert on medieval history and linguist.

 

She used to travel the world authenticating manuscripts. During a visit to Ukraine during the Russian invasion she was trapped under a collapsed University archive whilst trying to save the collection from shelling. She was saved by SPOON and decided to join him in his adventures using her extensive training in historical European martial arts and a high tech version of historical plate.

 

During there adventures they located a cache of stolen nazi art including a magical Spear of great power which she now uses as her primary weapon. (it is of course a Bohemian ear spoon).

[freakboy6117]

New team

 

The stolen

 

All six members of the team used to be thieves but have stolen artifacts formerly belonging to heroes and have changed their ways sometimes not totally willingly.

[Badger]

Nocturnal is an albino who has the ability to pass through the shadow, by disappearing into one and coming out another anywhere.  Proved valuable in being a thief.  Wasn't really committed to thievery though, it was just something to do with his powers.  Eventually, a hero/heroine he somewhat admired talked him into being a hero*, though he isn't really committed to it either, just another thing to do with his powers.  He does have fun using his powers to scare criminals though.  He can also drag other people into shadows with them as long as they are touching, but, he avoids doing this, as if they lose touch, that person gets trapped in the shadow world, and Nocturnal might not be able to find them again. Not a pleasant fate to think about.  Due to sensitivities he has a hatred for bright lights, and may attack wildly the source of it.

 

 

Note: Actually I don't know if I've used such a character, been awhile since I have posted to these things so I a little out of it.

 

*He stole a possession of that hero/heroine, who had left a tracking device on it, and tracked him down.

[JackValhalla]

Cetaceus didn't even want to stop thieving. But his hand was forced. Flipper. Whatever. God this takes some adjusting. 

 

There was no reason for the darn thing to be cursed. Who would curse a scrimshaw collection? Seriously? Sure, it was worth a few thousand dollars, but it wasn't a priceless antique or something. But somewhere in the past couple hundred years, someone loved this thing enough to put a curse on anyone that would steal it. And Tommy stole it. So then he was turned into a whale. A hundred-ton sperm whale. Well, a humanoid sperm whale. 

 

Sure, with some practice he was able to condense his form down to normal human size and back, but he was still not going to blend in anywhere ever again, and his old contacts and fences dropped him as soon as he developed superpowers. And the thing was, his only marketable skill was cat burglary. There was nothing for him to fall back on. It was either supervillainy or superheroism for him, no other options. And no villain team needs a cat burglar whose only asset was that he could grow himself too big to fit into most spaces. But he was surprised to find out that as a superhero, his inside knowledge of criminal procedure was a real asset, as was his giant size and his sonar powers. And the ability to hold his breath for five hours made him particularly adept at surviving many standard supervillain deathtraps. 

 

He'd rather be stealing. It was fun. But until he loses his powers, he'll be the superhero Cetaceus. 

[csyphrett]

Star Stein stole the Omniwave Projector from Argent. This device is supposed to alter the molecules of anything that it is fired against. Instead it altered Star's molecules so that she can control them to change shape, size, and mass. This allowed her to be a better thief and become bored with her profession.

 

She became the Mighty Star for the excitement

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[BoloOfEarth]

Yeah, some people call themselves heroes and heroines, but really they're just *&^$*ing *%$&^%$-heads.

 

Mages and gadgeteers are the worst of the lot.  They'll leave these little "surprises" behind for bad guys to find.  Usually they're made to either keep you from taking something or capture you, and hey, I can understand booby-traps.  I try to steal something, you try to make sure I don't.  That's cool.

 

But what Mystic Master did was *not* cool.  The cowled %$#&%#-weed set me up by putting a magical curse on a big-@^%$ diamond, then getting word out about it to the top thieves in town.  It was entrapment, pure and simple. 

 

The "Stone of Empathic Connection," he called it.  I call it a piece of ^&%*@.   Can't throw it away, can't give it away, can't sell it.  It just keeps coming back to me.  Only way to get rid of it is for someone to steal it, and after MM got the word out, nobody's dumb enough to take from me.  I had some dark sorcerer take a look at it; he says it causes a short-term connection between its owner and whomever he harms in any way, massively magnifying anything detrimental that they feel.  Basically, I get to feel violated, or whatever else a mark feels when I pass one over on him.  And heaven forbid I sap a guard to get past him, or I'll have a headache for a week.

 

Okay, so I get the whole "karma" idea.  But this really, REALLY sucks.

 

When I finally tracked MM down and confronted him (and he finally stopped laughing), he told me I could break the curse by doing good deeds.  Seems that when I help somebody, I also get to feel a massive relief from this whole doom-and-gloom I've been feeling ever since I stole the rock.  As a so-called "superhero," I've had to get creative to get past the whole shared-pain thing; using Aikido, I can redirect another person's attack so he's causing himself harm.  I tried joining the Stolen on the down-low, but MM outed me.  Told the media I was the Corsican, and the name stuck.

 

The *&^$*ing *%$&^%$-head.

[Badger]

Perceptor named after a certain cartoon character, was born with "microscope eyes" as he calls.  Able to magnify his vision, proving effective for a burglar, he and his gang raked out success after success  (being able to read the safe combination from a mile away over the owner's shoulder for example).  Unfortunately, for some reason only known to them, his righthand man sold them out when trying to steal the hero named the Montreal Marauder's family heirloom the Grace Emerald.  He was given a conditional pardon in exchange for joining this new group.  Kind of hates, the hero crap, but he is consumed with revenge, and this is his best means to achieving it for now.

 

Although a capable enough fighter, he doesn't do much of it.  Using his superpower and lending his strategic mind to the group more than anything.  (when he does fight, he is an exceptionally dirty no-holds barred type, more interested in the victory than honor-which has definitely thrown an occasional criminal for a loop thinking the "hero" wouldn't use certain moves)

[death tribble]

Mitchell Gairns was just an ordinary guy with limited prospects and a future that was going nowhere. For fun and to be part of a crowd Mitchell joined in the raid on a warehouse. It went wrong for several of the people involved as it turned out the place was booby trapped.and although no-one died they ended up in prison when the police came to investigate the silent alarm that had been triggered. Mitchell would have been caught himself if he had not found a secret room and the clothes that were inside. Mitchell took them and fled when the coast was clear.

Later he examined them and tried them on. That was the end of his normal life. For Mitchell now fought crime. The clothes were the Revenant's costume and Mitchell became the new Revenant. Mitchell now has no control of his own life but to be honest he doesn't feel bad about it. He has never been more alive.

 

New Team: Zodiac Force

This group is split into three four person groups. Simply specify four of the group. They must have a relation to the sign of their codename.

All must belong to the same group.

[JackValhalla]

The First Squad of the Zodiac Force is made of Libra, Aquarius, Gemini and Sagittarius, and serves as the main patrol squad for Zodiac.

 

The tactical leader of the squad is Libra, whose birth name is Janine Tyler. She was attacked by The Monster during one of its rampages, and was rescued and healed by an unknown reality warper that she has never found since then. Whatever the hero did to rescue her, she acquired powers in the aftermath, including the psychic ability to sense evil intent or criminal actions, a missile reflection ability that works with a pair of hand-held portals, and the ability to mimic one other power in her line of sight. It's a grab-bag of powers, not cohesive, but it helps her guide her squad to stop crimes in progress, defend herself and meet criminals on their own terms. She is motivated by a driving need for justice to make sure that nobody is ever victimized like she was by the Monster. And under that is a pervasive fear that one day she will be helpless again. 

 

The reconnaissance and communication specialist for First Squad is Aquarius, who was born Steven Garrafalo. He tested positive for mutation as a child, but he powers themselves lay latent until he experimented with magic in college, driven by an urge he could not explain. He bonded with a pair of elementals, one of wind and one of water. He has fair-to-middling combat utility, with a wind-shield to defend himself and a blast of water like a firehose, but he shines best when he can use breezes to bring sounds to his ears from afar, or channel his vision through water to scout ahead at a distance. Where Libra detects a crime eminent, Aquarius peers ahead to see what the threat is. He has never questioned his motivations, he got powers and joined a team of heroes without hesitation and seems almost preternaturally suited to this role. 

 

The transportation and main combatant of First Squad comes from Sagittarius, an actual centaur from the faelands with a magic bow and horseshoes. He can carry a teammate on his back and run at freeway speeds through tight alleys and even up stairs, making his squad extremely mobile. With his bow he can launch arrows that can shoot down helicopters or bruise a peach, at his discretion, and his expert aim is unquestionable. He is a large target and vulnerable, so he relies on his teammates to keep him safe in combat. He was transported to our world by a witch from his homeland that wanted to get him out of her way, but he has fallen in love with mortal culture and music so he never wants to leave. He was invited to join Zodiac because of the theme he fit, and he joined for his own reasons that he has never disclosed.

 

Gemini is backup and support for First Squad. She used to be Ashley Jones, a small-time thief who decided that super-science was where the real profit was. She was absconding with a crated device that she could not even pronounce or identify, and a pothole jarred it too much and it activated, sucking itself into a dimensional portal and spitting out another copy of Ashley. The two combined and she blacked out. As part of her probation she had to join a hero team, using her new powers to help. She can double anyone she sees, creating a perfect duplicate of anyone but herself, and both copies are healed largely or completely in the process. She often duplicates Sagittarius for travel or heavy artillery, duplicates Libra for defense or utility, or Aquarius to secure air superiority. Libra refuses to use her power mimicry to duplicate Gemini, it sets off her "crime sense" to even consider it. 

[death tribble]

I should have said specify one member of the group and then the next three people would specify one of the other three remaining.

 

JackValhalla can specify the next team if he so wishes as he has done all four.

[csyphrett]

I should have said specify one member of the group and then the next three people would specify one of the other three remaining.

 

JackValhalla can specify the next team if he so wishes as he has done all four.

I thought you wanted three teams of four from your post.

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[death tribble]

No just one of the four and four in total. I worded it wrong. mea culpa

[csyphrett]

I tell you what lets go with the three teams of four. I have to go to the hospital. When I get back, I'll do a team also. That'll just leave one team to be done.

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[csyphrett]

The Second Squad is made up of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Virgo.

 

Taurus is Lee Smith. A cowboy by trade, Lee grew a set of long horns from his skull. THe medical community could not offer an explanation other than they were boney growths. Lee found he could ram things with his horns and knock them over. He joined the Zodiac Force to figure out how he became a living battering ram.

 

Scorpio is Jenny Lottle. She developed a device that allows her to shrink. She armed herself with a tranq gun to protect herself at such small sizes. Now she uses her equipment as the team's best infiltrator.

 

Leo is Don Trin. He inherited the power to be a werelion from his father. His other forms has all the usual were powers, but he's intelligent on top of that to allow him to hunt the biggest of all games.

 

Virgo Is Jane Mauy. The name is an ironic joke since Jane is hardly a virgin and charges up her magic powers through sex whenever she can. When fully charged, she can alter reality on a major scale. Needless to say, she is the team's problem solver and biggest target at the same time.

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[death tribble]

That leaves Capricorn, Pisces, Cancer and Aries

[freakboy6117]

Ok as my previous attempt to post this deleted it's self after I'd written 65% of the team I'm

 

Cancer

 

Dr June fiddler PhD was a top flight xenobiologist when an unusual alien probe crashed off the coast of Oregon she was called in to consult on the probe.

 

Only it wasn't a probe it was a life pod during her initial inspection she was able to open the pod revealing its occupant a huge vaguely crab like bipedal creature with two huge clawed limbs and two smaller manipulators limbs below. Unfortunately the carapace was virtually impenetrable to the equipment in her lab could barely scratch the surface.

 

Looking for a soft spot to start her dissection she probed the carapace between the thick armoured plates somehow she triggered the shell to open. Revealing that the thick outer shell was not the organism itself but at some kind of biotechnological space suit. The creature within was humanoid with only 2 arms and incredibly frail looking.

 

June lifted the fragile corpse from the shell and set it aside whilst she continued to examine the shell but the moment she touched the inner surface she was enveloped by a writhing mass of tendrils like a sea anemone pulling her into the shell she screamed only for her cries to be muffled by invading tendrils she felt them pierce her skin fusing with her circulatory and nervous system the pain was indescribable and then the shell closed around her.

 

Trapped in the shell June experienced a nauseating feeling as it infiltrated her body she was suddenly bombarded with sensory data for senses she didn't even have she experienced synaesthesia as her brain attempted to process the input and there was a voice at the back of her mind.

 

she couldn't really understand it but some broad pictures came through she knew this was a battle suit built to protect its host.That's when the guards came thinking this alien to thing had just devoured her on camera.

 

The guards pulled guns and faster that thought the shell leapt into action it was so sudden June barely realised what was happening before it was to late but at the last instant she stopped the huge claws from crushing the poor guard. It took all her will to cut through the chaotic synaesthesia caused by melding with the shell and to stand down she meekly went to the security cell though it would have barely slowed the suit if she had wished to escape it took her days to master even the most basic functions of the suit but eventually she was able to explain what had happened.

 

In the time since her unfortunate melding with the shell she has managed to come to terms with it while she only understands a what the secondary mind within the symbiotic battle suit is capable of she has mastered a lot of its functions.

 

she has been able to attune to the alien sensory organs gaining not only an expanded visual and auditory spectrum but 360 degree vision chemical analysis by touch and taste.

 

the suit was designed to keep its pilot alive indefinitely given sufficient organic matter or energy to run its internal biofactories. The secondary mind also acts as a semi conscious co-pilot responding to danger and attempting to protect her before June is even aware of it. She is still trying to teach the mind as sometimes it's responses are not appropriate to the situation. Almost killing a guard that first time has made June a little bit gun shy.

 

The two huge upper limbs are not only superhumanly strong and able to rend tear and pierce armour plate but can also generate a high energy plasma beam.

 

The shell itself is incredibly durable it would take considerable time and multiple diamond drills to cut into it. It also contains chromophores that allow it to shift colour not to invisibility but good camouflage it can also suppress it's heat emissions.

 

The suits great power and toughness combined with one of the most brilliant biotechologists on the planet make her a fearsome addition to the team.

 

Unfortunately for June the symbiosis with the suit is permanent without a secondary symbiote that would allow both her and the shell to function independently she can never exit it.

 

She has grown to love the abilities the suit gives her and the opportunity to help people. She has also discovered great affection for the shells secondary mind

 

although she questions just how smart it really is it seems to have an intellect similar to a smart dog and she has senses waves of enjoyment from it both when it helps protect her and others but she feels like there are hidden depths she's barely scratched the surface of.

 

she now lives in a specially constructed lab and uses all her time away from the teams various heroics and charity work attempting to retro engineer a substitute for the second symbiote and hunting clues about the shells mysterious creators.

[freakboy6117]

Pisces

 

Formerly the Atlantean hero Leviathan he changed his name when he joined the zodiac force.

 

A blue atlantean barbarian, he saw the reforms the crown of Atlantis was bringing to his people and stood with them as an ambassador first to the hold outs savage tribes who oppose the Atlantean monarchy and then as a good will ambassador to the Lander nations.

 

During one of his peace missions to the hinterlands of Atlantis's domain he was attacked by rebels taking refuge in a narrow hidden cave he discovered a lost treasure from Atlantis golden age.

 

It was a set of mystical bracers that allow him to grow to a gargantuan size he used his new found gift in service of crown and country and when a new ambassador to the surface was needed he took great pride in representing his people to the world

 

Now he uses his huge size and atlantean toughness in service of the zodiac force and uses the goodwill engendered to represent his beloved home and seeks inspiration from the surface world to better the lives of all those who dwell beneath the sea.

[freakboy6117]

Aries

 

Eugene ” R.A.M.~R.A.I.D.3r” Ramsden was the man to call if you needed a security system bypassed a computer network zombified or traffic lights spoofed. As the go to tech guy for LA’s criminal elite he was successful and reasonably wealthy but he wanted to be more like the cool badass thieves, grifters and mercs he worked for. He got his chance with a off grid security system in a locked down bonded warehouse he would have to go in with the team to bypass it.

 

It all went horribly wrong about 30 seconds after they pulled up to the warehouse. as Eugene was trying to shut down one of the remote cameras, an LAPD squad car rolled past and spotted the crew.

 

before anyone could react let x tgrrbreak out the cover story one of the goons”(later Eugene would find out the guy had a major cocaine and meth habit,) pulled his gun and started blazing away. Eugene hit the dirt and started crawling for their van only for a bunch of stray rounds to take out the van's tires and radiator. Eugene cowered under the van as a prolonged fire fight ensued the crooks heavy fire power held the squad car off but they couldn't break away before reinforcements arrived. Eventually a SWAT team arrived and running low on ammo the crew was forced to surrender. In the ensuing rush to capture the armed criminals the SWAT team missed Eugene in his shadowy hiding place he noticed he had a clear run to the edge of the cordon. He ran for it but 18 hours a day in front of a monitor on a diet of code red and cheetos hadn't done much good for his physique. The he saw his salvation a little way behind the cordon was an idling Van with an LAPD technician fiddling with a nice looking tablet. Eugene ran up behind the tech and smashed him with his laptop he grabbed the tablet and the van keys and drove off.

 

He made it to the bolt hole he'd set up for the gangs get away he’d rigged a the Faraday cage so they could sweep the loot for trackers.

 

He pulled the SWAT van into the cage closed the roll gate and decided to see if the van had something he could convert into cash so he could get away before someone dropped a dime on him.

 

opening the back

Eugene almost collapsed in ecstasy at the sight.

the rear of the van was a fully equipped mobile machine shop and armoury but that paled compared to what sat in the heart of the van Eugene's jaw almost dropped off it was a prototype of police powered armour.

 

Knowing this was the score of a lifetime and that the LAPD would stop at nothing to get it back.

 

Eugene quickly scanned the van for trackers it was a similar size to their getaway vehicle he fried the Lo-jack switched the plates and carefully laid the big magnetic decals for a fake laundry service over the swat paint work climbing on the roof he covered the roof with white vinyl covering over the numbers 5 minutes with a power driver and the flashers where off then another ten as he sprayed fake Road dirt over it less than 2 hours after stealing the van. It was to all purposes invisible.

 

Eugene managed to hack into the support tablet and discover the secrets of the unit he took the van out into the desert well away from civilization he tested the armour out.

 

The LAPD called it the ABS Advanced Breaching System Eugene called it the RAM the right arm housed a high powered pneumatic battering ram and spreader that would busy through all but the toughest barriers.

 

Over the right shoulder was a drum fed grenade launcher loaded with smoke teargas and flashbangs.

 

the left arm housed a twin barreled shot gun the rotary magazine that surrounds the left arm contains 24 shells on a powered carousel allowing it to load Hatton doorbusters rubber slugs tazer rounds at the touch of a button. The thick armour plate on the front would stop small arms and small amounts of explosives the rear was less well defended but would still stop almost any Firearm.

 

Best of all both fists had contact tazers and the armour boosted his strength and tied him into the police database with facial recognition and weapon scanners.

 

LA’s newest super-villains debut was 48 hrs later when The Ram smashed his way into the prisoner transport and liberated his former crew and another 20 small time crooks. His next was an armoured car hit in broad daylight. Eugene caught national attention and was invited to join Zodiac force as Aries. .

 

Before a job Eugene is still R.A.M.~R.A.I.D.3r doing the digital leg work gathering Intel and breaking security systems.

 

On a job he has gone a bit power mad he loves using the suit it's his biggest rush like a real life FPS for a weedy computer dude the opportunity to stick it to the sort of Jock type who hassled him all his life. So he tends to target muscular or athletic handsome male heroes