The Last Action (Super) Hero

[phoenix240]

During a relatively quiet patrol, monitor detail or evening at home your character is overcoming a wash of dizziness and mild nausea. When they recover they're somewhere else: a ICU ward room. A child is laying the bed, unconscious and attached to various monitors and IVs. She looks deathly ill. There are few personal effects around in attempt to brighten up the room. Most of them revolve around you or more exactly s version of you, comics, posters including one for a movie all showing a Hollywood version of your character. There's a distant sound like a explosion, the ground shakes and the lights flicker. Outside the room, you can hear commotion, panicked voices and people rushing. The child awakens and sees you and his eyes light up in wonder.

 

 

Your character has been pulled into an alternate world, a world with no metahumans to speak off... until recently. For some reason, powerful metahuman beings have begun appearing in this world. And none of them are heroes. These new villains have been running amok, causing immense devestation in a world unprepared to deal with their power. As you might expect, the ill child is responsible for your character predicament. In this world, your character is an extremely popular comic book character and franchise with a recently debut feature film that's been number one in the box office for 3 weeks running (despite some harsh reviews and Geek hate for the liberties taken).

 

 

Somehow, this kid has pulled you into his world in his desire for a hero to save it (and himself as one of the afore mentioned rampaging metas is dangerously close to the hospital). He is terminally ill, beyond the medical technology of this world and not expected to live long and might your only ticket home. On the other hand, this is s world desperately needs a hero

 

 

What do you do?

 

An additional detail

 

 

 

The metahumans are super criminals from various worlds, including your characters. An interdimensional trouble maker has been running a new schemwe ferrying metahuman criminals to a defenseless alternate universe ripe for plunder in return for a cut of their pillage and future favors. Any criminals that have gone missing for awhile in your character's home world might be here now.

 

 

[assault]

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This probably happened to Captain Wonder, but could have happened to Captain Justice.

 

Both: save the world, regardless of the cost. If it means not getting home, so be it.They're heroes.

 

They're quite oblivious to the fourth wall, so they're unaware of the fact that they will almost certainly get home, and why.

[sinanju]

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Black Knight lives for adventure. As he has no real loved ones in his life (lots of playmates, but no serious relationships, and no family), he'll throw himself into his new adventure with his usual gusto. Fame and adulation from the population doesn't hurt, and it means that many more groupies, so what's not to like? This world or his own, makes little difference. He can satisfy his taste for adventure, do good, and get the girl(s). If he never gets home, he won't mind so much.

 

Iron Maiden would be angry and frustrated by being torn away from her loved ones and friends. Nonetheless, she has a very serious case of Red Hen Syndrome (i.e., it has to be done; if nobody else is willing, she'll do it), so she'll step up to fight the influx of supervillains. She'd be both pleased (she does like being admired) and annoyed to find her life--her very real, very personal life reduced to fodder for comics, novels and movies, and wouldn't take kindly to people to who bring it up. But when it comes down it, she'll do the right thing.

 

Raven, as a reality-manipulator herself, wouldn't be terribly surprised to find herself dragged into someone else's story, or to find her life chronicled in comics and movies. She'd take it all in stride, and do her best to deal with the influx of supervillains and to try to heal the kid (she does have healing powers, after all). Her alter ego, Kate Sutherland, crusading ADA for Hudson City, would be much less sanguine about it all. She'd be infuriated, in fact. But helpless to do anything about it. If she ends up trapped in that world, she'd have to decide how best to make herself a place (and make herself useful) in her new home.

[FrankL]

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Garrett, will be the hero. In his down time, he will look into the novels, comic books, and movies to see how much of his real life is reflected. He hopes to find information regarding a few mysteries of his life and adventures (mainly missing comrades). He will store that information away in case he gets home.

 

Bolt, would love the chance to be the first super hero of a world! He'll protect the world. If it means not going home, he will deal with that later. He'll miss his family and friends, but he's pretty used to not having many close friends. After making his presence known, he'll start checking for alternates to people he knows.

[phoenix240]

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Being an impulsive sort, Knighthawk would act first and brood the consequences later. Being the only superhero in the world would be a definite thrill but he has some strong ties to his home world (friends, strong family obligations, a girlfriend) and would seek to find a way back eventually and soon rather than later.

[Badger]

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Badger- Wonders just how the heck he had actual popularity, since he tends to avoid publicity in his world. *Maybe the movie was for his team, and this kid actually likes the "wierd" characters* (*Badger's rationalization)

[Drhoz]

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If Vitus was the kid's favorite character, I'd have to wonder why he wasn't in a psychiatric hospital... but that said, Vitus's fury at being being moved still further away from any chance of restoring his home would be countered by the child's condition - Vitus does like children, despite his permanant grouchiness - so after instructing the locals and slaughtering the villains left right and center in as spectacular a manner as possible ( as a lesson to the interdimensional asshole and anybody else wanting to try the same thing ), would sit down and cast some healing magicks - the ones he doesn't use in public, because he knows the result would be thousands of terminal cases coming to beg for the same, and that would break his heart.

 

ROVER would be at a severe disadvantage due to loosing his connection to SPOT, but would do he dardedest to apprehend the villains. Unfortunately I suspect the local military industrial complex would *very* much like to get their hands on his technology, and being as naive as he is would probably obey any orders to that effect.

 

Zero would be a strange choice as Hero too, but at least telepathically ordering the villains to shoot themselves in the head, etc, or return home immeadiately if that was an option, would be easier to conceal from the locals. Not much I could do with the boy's condition, unfortunately.

 

Rumbaba would be in serious trouble - local weapons would a serious threat to him, let alone the fantasy monsters running around. He would be in very real danger of being shot dead by a panicked cop. Of course, he could still act to hamstring the monsters and thus slow them down for the locals. Hopefully he'd have a few healing potions to hand for the kid, too.

 

Brother Polonius would think he'd gone mad or was being tormented by demons. The results would not be pretty. Of course, if convinced of the relative status of the realities, burning Games Workshop to the ground for tormenting untold trillions of humans in such a manner is on the cards.

[Christopher]

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Landslide

 

would wonder how much you can write about her, since she barely finished training. She would most likely just start aprehending the bad guys. She is just a normal Brick back home, but being the first superhero is something. Of course differentiating herself from her comic-alter ego would be difficulty.

Also, she would wonder how the Live of herself/her Hollywood double is.

 

Theoretically a Blood Transfusion could save the boy. There is a chance he just turns into a copy of herself and most likely he will loose his previous superpower anyway (so no real chance to come back home). But she would get a faithfull Sidekick (a side effect of doing the right thing).

 

Even if she found a way, she would only go if this worlds is save or has heroes of her own.

[Christopher]

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Theoretically a Blood Transfusion could save the boy. There is a chance he just turns into a copy of herself and most likely he will loose his previous superpower anyway (so no real chance to come back home). But she would get a faithfull Sidekick (a side effect of doing the right thing).

Considering that her blood could be use a sort of "instant mutation"-/supersoldier-serum , one additional posibility opened up:

When it are really a lot Villians, Landslide might need to "create" a lot of help. She could found her own superteam on the new world that way.

Of course that raises some questions: What powers will those that recieve her blood get? How high is the chance of catastrophic backshlash(dying) from it? Will those affected be able to procreate with normal humans or at least among themself? (DNA get's a Carbon/Silicon based mix. But also highly adaptive and dominant; could be impossible, or step by step taking over humanities gene-pool).

 

It could very well open up the literal "pandoras box", by introdicing superpowers for this world. So she might rahter go the hard way and do it allone/only with her sidekick.

[Vulcan]

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Okay...

 

Why this kid would have fixated on Vigil as his hero is beyond me, unless it is because he also has a terminal disease... but his regeneration keeps him alive, if not always well.

 

But... talk about having no secrets! With his background (as a mostly-reformed villian) being open knowledge, few people are going to trust him. And he's not exactly really high on the power level chart, more of a martial arts 'eggshell with a sledgehammer." This is gonna be a tough one.

 

Although the possibility that his actions might be able to prevent the rampant anti-super paranioa of his past world would be quite appealing.

 

At least he has all the skills to set up a whole new secret ID. He's done it before - several times - in his original universe.

[Lord Mhoram]

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Black Cat would heal the child first (Healing, Transform, whatever was needed) - then after she recovered would go after the villains. If the youngster was interested, she'd train the girl in martial arts and ch'i* while she did so. She'd also find the villain causing the problem and stop them. 'Cat having retired as a senior member of the world's equivalent of the JLA/AVengers retired to become an agent for an inter-dimensional agency. - this is exactly the sort of thing that her normal missions are on. If it took years, she'd do it.

 

 

* part of her schtick is that anyone can learn to do what she does, so she trains people all the time.

[Lord Mhoram]

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I read this to the wife (Black Cat's GM) and she said "save this" - this plot looks like it was designed for my character, and now she wants to run it for me.

[phoenix240]

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I read this to the wife (Black Cat's GM) and she said "save this" - this plot looks like it was designed for my character' date=' and now she wants to run it for me. [/quote']

 

 

Cool, I'd love to hear how it turns out.

[DusterBoy]

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Blue Streak would not be able to help the boy, since she has no healing powers she can use on others. She would help as she could in the hospital and do her best to tackle the metahuman causing the havoc. When she found that she was this world's saviour, she would step up to the plate, since "I'm a superhero, that's what I do". She would be looking for a way home and, maybe a way to get at the mastermind behind this if she found out what was going on "behind the scenes". She isn't a trained detective, but she's good at finding things out.

 

She would also find out all she could about this world's portrayal of her, including the woman who plays her in the movies, and likely look her up.

[phoenix240]

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Blue Streak would not be able to help the boy, since she has no healing powers she can use on others. She would help as she could in the hospital and do her best to tackle the metahuman causing the havoc. When she found that she was this world's saviour, she would step up to the plate, since "I'm a superhero, that's what I do". She would be looking for a way home and, maybe a way to get at the mastermind behind this if she found out what was going on "behind the scenes". She isn't a trained detective, but she's good at finding things out.

 

She would also find out all she could about this world's portrayal of her, including the woman who plays her in the movies, and likely look her up.

 

Hey, thanks, that's something I forgot. Who do you think would be play your PC in the movie? Would he be a Marvel, DC or something line character? Who writes him the best?

[sinanju]

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Hey' date=' thanks, that's something I forgot. Who do you think would be play your PC in the movie? Would he be a Marvel, DC or something line character? Who writes him the best? [/quote']

 

For Iron Maiden there is only one choice: English actress Jemima Rooper, who has been my mental model for the character from Day One.

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For The Black Knight it would be Clancy Brown, who played the Kurgan in HIGHLANDER.

 

For Raven...I don't know. Someone who could look like cah-RA-zy goth gal.

[Lord Mhoram]

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For Cat - Written recently by Johns/Busiek with Art from George Perez.

 

For the movie- probably somebody Asian, because she is a martial artist (likely one the geek hate things) Michelle Yoah or Zhang Ziyi - because honestly the martial arts is more important than look for her movie.

[Vulcan]

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The defining feature I gave to Vigil was his deceptively gentle brown eyes; something similar to James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in the original Conan the Barbarian, right in the beginning of the movie. The actor would need to be able to NAIL that to make the character work.