Enforcer84 Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 So my favorite thing to do is to build characters. Usually heroes. I get an idea and jot it down. I've got my homages and my more original bits - but I often build with some minor story in mind and then later on I see a character, check out their hunteds and find lo and behold I've got TONS of unmade villains So here's a bit of a game. I'm going to list some of my villains and anyone interested can pick a name and give me a brief idea of what that name evokes for you Arachne Ascendant, The Black Dogs, The (Group) Antaeus Black Gator, The Black Legion (Group)(Firelord) - Mercenaries from American Southwest and Mexico, team Black Tiger Blackbird, The Blastfire Blight Master Blood Pack (Group) (Shadowwolf) - Team of Lycathropes Blood Riders (Group) Bloodwing Bloodwolf Bullark the Redcap - actual Goblin from Lands of Legend Circe Conquest - WIP thread already open. Corsair, The Crime Lord, The Crimson Cloud Destroyer, The Devios the Mad Diana (Dark Olympus) Dominion Dr Faust Dr. Alchemy Dr. Impossible Dr. Julius Blackthorn Dr. Pulsar Dr. Stone Dragon Emperor Dream Slayer Dreamless, the Eclipse El Escorpion Falling Star Fenris Gatekeeper Golden Scorpion Green Warden, The Gun Bunny Hag, The Hardbody Hardwired Havoc Havok Heart-Breaker Hecate Hel's Valkyrie Immortal Soldier Ivory Theurge, The Kali The Destroyer Killer Shrike Kingmaker, The Leviathos Lloydd Parmenter Lord Kellan Highwater Mad Dog Mentor, The (Purple Haze) Minotaur Mongriel - Fallen Angel Mr. Twilight Night Dragon Panther Phobia Photon Priodon Prodigy Professor Pestilence Purge Raynard, Le Red Cap, The - a gadgeteer villain who bases his gadgets and crimes on fairytales, sort of an homage to Green Goblin. Red Queen, The Rin Sabreclaw Scream Queen Set Shatterstar SpeedDemon Starkiller Steel Shogun Stonhenge Stormfront Terminal Velocity The Fallen Thrym Tyrant, The Venom-Miss Wisp A few of these have some notes. I've included the ones I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothere Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 how detailed do you want this? General powers and apperance? the Minotaur is fairly straight forward. Superstrength, speed, big bull horns. Lower half of a man top half of a bull. Maybe some sort of distortion effect Attitude? The Minotaur presents himself as an animalistic burute, but it's all an act He's hoping to trick heros into trying the old stand in front of something dangerous and make him mad enough to charge you bit. In reality though he's quite well educated, and has sset many booby traps in his lair. History? A genitics researcher hoping to give himself enhanced strength injected himself with some modified bull dna. The plan worked, but there were unexpeccted side effects. At first he wasn't pleased to have been turned into a living minotaur, and commited crimes to acquire funds and materials to try and change back. But hehas since adjusted to his new form, and found he enjoys commiting crimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 And do you seriously want my ideas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 And do you seriously want my ideas ?Any ideas are welcome. Just trying to start a discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 how detailed do you want this? General powers and apperance? the Minotaur is fairly straight forward. Superstrength, speed, big bull horns. Lower half of a man top half of a bull. Maybe some sort of distortion effect Attitude? The Minotaur presents himself as an animalistic burute, but it's all an act He's hoping to trick heros into trying the old stand in front of something dangerous and make him mad enough to charge you bit. In reality though he's quite well educated, and has sset many booby traps in his lair. History? A genitics researcher hoping to give himself enhanced strength injected himself with some modified bull dna. The plan worked, but there were unexpeccted side effects. At first he wasn't pleased to have been turned into a living minotaur, and commited crimes to acquire funds and materials to try and change back. But hehas since adjusted to his new form, and found he enjoys commiting crimes. Any and all comments welcome. I don't promise to use anything though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 Golden Scorpion is an ascetic martial artist who has spent decades meditating and training both body and mind. His will is phenomenal, to the point that he can dominate others into doing his bidding merely by staring at them. His nerve strikes pierce armor and can induce death-like comas. His motivation and greatest weakness is a dedication to "the truth." Golden Scorpion never lies (although he can refuse to speak) and despises those who lie to him. He goes after politicians, advertisers, mothers who tell their children "everything's going to be okay" when that's simply not true, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'm not quite sure who Devios the Mad is, but he's drawn by Jack Kirby. Perhaps his costume could be inspired by one of the designs here: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/caesar/ Sadly there's no Brutus or Cassius. Of course you would need to decide where he came from. Some of the other characters could be from there too. Leviathos seems particularly likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 So my favorite thing to do is to build characters. Usually heroes. I get an idea and jot it down. I've got my homages and my more original bits - but I often build with some minor story in mind and then later on I see a character, check out their hunteds and find lo and behold I've got TONS of unmade villains So here's a bit of a game. I'm going to list some of my villains and anyone interested can pick a name and give me a brief idea of what that name evokes for you Circe Crime Lord, The Destroyer, The Dream Slayer Havok Kali The Destroyer Kingmaker, The Minotaur Photon Raynard, Le Red Queen, The The Fallen A few of these have some notes. I've included the ones I can. Some of these are hard to do think of without being reminded of the famous forebears in the comics. Circe is one of those, Dream Slayer who memorably appeared in the JLA is another being part of (lord) Havok's gang. Similarly the Red Queen who appeared in Asto City during the Steeljack storyline. Can't think of Kali without thinking of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Minotaur is easy whether you make him part of a Zodiac or part of a Greek myth themed team. The Fallen speaks to me of a Fallen Angel. Crime Lord I have used as a Ra's Al Ghul figure controlling crime in one city and having a variety of goons of all shapes and sizes but more likely street level to serve him and thwart Batman like heroes. The Destroyer was the first big bad the heroes in the original campaign faced. Out to destroy the world the heroes had to get a swathe of villains out of the way before they faced him. Huge, monstrous and you stayed out of the way of his attacks, strength or energy based. Photon I used as a light based energy projector in a group called the Satillite Seven. They tended to incorporate archetypes such as armour, brick, martial arts, energy projection etc. So new ideas. Raynard is French for Fox (actually Reynard but we'll let that slide). He is a thief par excellance. He no longer needs to commit thefts, he does it for the thrill and the intellectual challenge. He does not kill or like those who do. When in costume he amps up the accented English like John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail stopping King Arthur geting into the castle. His main defence is not getting hit although he uses martial arts for their defensive abilities and when he has no other choice but to clobber someone to escape. The Kingmaker is a shadowy British figure who is a fixer enabling people to advance or get what they want. However the means are criminal. A master of assassination and blackmail, he is not to be trusted and will work both sides of a deal if need be as the famous Neville the Kingmaker did cf Kingmaker game and Shakespeare Henry VI parts 2 and 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 The Hag - A former fashion modle scared by acid by a obsessive 'fan', Hag dedicates her skills to create an armor with acid sprayers for herself and a obsesive desier on vengous on all handsome men eveywhere. Crimson Cloud - A thieth who is able to generate clouds of red colored, well, whatever. The clouds can put people to sleep, poison them, seem solid to walk upon, prevent people from moveing, ect, ect, ect. The most uncanny ability is the ability to turn himself into a red cloud and seep through tiny cracks in solid objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 Red Queen is easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_%28Through_the_Looking-Glass%29 A nice public domain supervillainess. From the link above: "The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses!" — Lewis Carroll, in "Alice on the Stage" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 ok working on the Ascendant. He's a mystic version of Marvel's Leader. (from my Hulk Homage Endiku) a master of rituals and crafting magical items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 For the Golden Scorpion I take my inspiration from 1930s serials. The Golden Scorpion is a mastermind who wears a black robe and hood reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan but with a massive Golden Scorpion on the front covering from chest to knees. He is behind may schemes but also has something like a massive death ray for the heroes to thwart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 Dr. Impossible, originally a hero in the 1920s, has seen and done too many impossible things and is now quite mad ... or is he. In any event he is now going around killing people and claiming they are extra-dimensional lizard people even though their live histories, physiologies and DNA say differently. Dr. Impossible has the uber competence that was so common in pulp stories of the 20s and he has a host of gadgets that allow him to pretty much pick and choose the laws of physics that he wants to live by on a minute by minute basis. How he got from the 1920s to the present day is unexplained, but probably involved something completely impossible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 For the Golden Scorpion I take my inspiration from 1930s serials. The Golden Scorpion is a mastermind who wears a black robe and hood reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan but with a massive Golden Scorpion on the front covering from chest to knees. He is behind may schemes but also has something like a massive death ray for the heroes to thwart.Ok I definitely see this image. I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 Dr. Impossible, originally a hero in the 1920s, has seen and done too many impossible things and is now quite mad ... or is he. In any event he is now going around killing people and claiming they are extra-dimensional lizard people even though their live histories, physiologies and DNA say differently. Dr. Impossible has the uber competence that was so common in pulp stories of the 20s and he has a host of gadgets that allow him to pretty much pick and choose the laws of physics that he wants to live by on a minute by minute basis. How he got from the 1920s to the present day is unexplained, but probably involved something completely impossible. Neat! Love that as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 Red Queen is easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_%28Through_the_Looking-Glass%29 A nice public domain supervillainess. From the link above: "The Red Queen I pictured as a Fury, but of another type; her passion must be cold and calm - she must be formal and strict, yet not unkindly; pedantic to the 10th degree, the concentrated essence of all governesses!" — Lewis Carroll, in "Alice on the Stage" Like that as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Stormfront is a weather-controller on a large scale, whose main power limitation is that he's only a weather controller on a large scale. He can't narrow it down to less than a countywide area. His specialty is extortion, threatening to smash crops or even entire cities if he doesn't get paid. He used to be more benevolent, if mercenary, until he was kidnapped and brainwashed by neo-Nazis. He doesn't follow their philosophies since he escaped, but has become much more malevolent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Dr Faust - His peers consider him a "glorified car salesman" but Dr. Faust has immense occult knowledge thanks to the many bargains he's made. Having learned the lesson the original Faust never grasped, he never sold his soul to the infernal (Though his deeds have blackened it). Rather, he learned how to bargain other human beings out of THEIR souls, and then traded said invaluables as commodities to various demons and devil for his own gain. In short, he acted as a 'middleman' using demonic resources that weren't his to begin with to give people what they wanted; then traded souls that weren't originally his for demonic influence, power, and knowledge. Infused with learning rather than having 'worked' for it, the silver tongued Faust nevertheless is now an expert on demonology, spiritualism, and the occult in general. Part of his peers snide commentary maybe inspired by envy. Faust has all the perks the material world can bring: Wealth (When you ask for ten percent of a lottery/bet that you use demonic influence to help others win over and over again, it adds up), fame (In his secret ID he's a noted Occult specialist),and beautiful women (Mostly lovely succubi now riding in human hosts) and he has all the time in the world to enjoy himself. ( I borrowed a lot from certain aspects of Felix Faust, but it IS what I thought of when I read the name) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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