Else Earth: Anarchy over Europe (Supervillain Team)

[Enforcer84]

This is another think out loud on the boards topic. I have a team I've never really done anything with - like complete write ups, come up with backgrounds, and fill roster - you know, the little things. 

 

Premise of the Group: Bad Seed Scions of Wealthy European Families who participate in boredom-driven crime waves. Generally orgies of violence, destruction, and vandalism.

 

The original group were...completely weird. They'd basically bought their powers (ie I was playing with the Champions Gadgets books) 

 

Prodigal Star - (Leader, Englishman) This mess is his idea. He's has a pair of combat bracers that let him fly, blast, protect himself, and force punch. He had some coms gear and other protective items. 

 

Bella Donna  - (French) A rather tired Dominatrix idea - basically liked the idea of the Steel Whip and Whip fighting Martial arts.

 

Imperial Lion - (UK? Not sure) a Military/Security specialist and bodyguard of Prodigal Star, he got the Booster Belt (gives you a bunch of Attribute bonuses) and some military grade weaponry. Mostly a brick but with some fire power.

 

Zeitgeist - (Germany) Poor hodgepodge of gadgets. 

 

and then I got bored...

 

For a few years.

 

Came back to the team while cleaning my files and decided to not delete them.

I gave the first three some expensive genetic modifications (a package deal of attribute and LS bonues) but...they're nothiing like the premise. Got rid of Zeitgiest because he was dumb. So I went a bit further to reach their goals

 

Added two actual powered Agents:

Riot - (Spain) This guy is like Marvel's Empath - a little more of a mass hysteria though. He also had the genetic modifications to better survive his new profession and a blaster pistol in case someone resists his emotion control.

 

Antaeus - (Greek) Can turn himself to stone and has earth/stone control he's a brick but has some big earth moving abilities - a (much) lower-powered Terrax the Tamer. Refused genetic manipulation.

 

I'm thinking I want at least one Energy Projector and Maybe a creator of the gadgets everyone else uses (and the genetic treatments) 

 

Also I'm not sold on Imperial Lion, he bores me - but I envision him as more just PS's bodyguard and not an active member. 

 

Anyone have any obnoxious Euro Trash Millennial villains they're not using? Maybe make Jedward into villains?

 

 

 

 

[Enforcer84]

Antaeus

 

Ok I renamed my Greek (I'd had him Dutch originally, which is fine but since I was married to the Antaeus identity...) 

 

Spitballing his origin. The name I got from my awesome random name generator was: Akakios Vassilis Raptis . Akakios derives form a word meaning "innocent, not evil." I played on that. 

Akakios's family earned their fortune through unsavory importing and exporting (they were smugglers for lack of a better term) and Akakios was his mother's hope for a good boy. He eschewed the family business (being the youngest) and became a fire fighter in his native Heraklion. 

 

Hand-waved mystical Incident later. I could have him meet one of the Dark Olympians 

 

And he's driven mad with power and he's now just a soak on his families fortunes (though he does get a bit back from his criminal "Investments"). The transformation gave him demi-god good looks and when he's stone he's a Greek statue come to life, often in expensive suits. 

[Lord Liaden]

Quick thought about Imperial Lion: since the team has had "genetic modifications," how about making him an actual lion mutated to humanoid form and intelligence by whoever gave the others their abilities? I'm sure it would please Prodigal Star to have a bodyguard so symbolic of English royalty.

 

Then you could merge some of the background and concept/stats of your original Imperial Lion, and Zeitgeist, to create (drumroll)... the Hessian.

[Enforcer84]

oooh

That's a great idea. Though I made the scientist German. 

[Lord Liaden]

oooh

That's a great idea. Though I made the scientist German. 

 

Thanks. You should go with what works for you, but... don't you think a mad German scientist is, well, cliche? Your remarks about Antaeus make me suspect you have a Dutch background you're not using...

 

In any case, given your scientist's apparent breadth of expertise, and involvement with perpetrators of chaos, I really think he needs the code-name, Mandelbrot.

[Lord Liaden]

Per your request for another energy projector, I nominate a descendant of Russian princes displaced by the Communist revolution. He had in his possession a family heirloom, an Axe of Perun. He was wearing it as part of a party costume when he was struck by lightning, granting him magical lightning- and storm-generating powers. He now calls himself Perun, after the sky-god of pagan Russia.

[Enforcer84]

Ok, gleefully swiped the genetically altered lion. Tacitus Rex, the Imperial Lion. He's still a highly trained soldier (though his training includes RAF-centric history, he was trained by mercenaries and private tutors)

[Enforcer84]

Perun works pretty good. Thank you!

[death tribble]

Imperial Lion sounds more like British Indian harking back to the days of Empire.

 

the German either harks back to the pre-war Germany or is a revolt against it as the Baader Meinhof gang were.

 

Be wary of using Irish and English in the same time. There is bad blood between the English who were major landowners in Ireland and the Irish Catholics.

 

You could have an ice projector from Sweden or Norway. They both have Royal Houses and thus also have nobility..

[Lord Liaden]

I have an idea for an Italian woman who generates toxins in her body that she can use offensively, calling herself Borgia, if you want to hear more.

[assault]

The Simpsons have your German right here.

[Enforcer84]

I have an idea for an Italian woman who generates toxins in her body that she can use offensively, calling herself Borgia, if you want to hear more.

Go for it. She'd fit right in.

[Lord Liaden]

Gloria Carati was a biochemist who believed she had discovered a gene therapy to immunize an organism against almost any toxin. Animal trials on the treatment went poorly, so her research grant was suspended. Convinced she had solved the problem she used her share of her family's fortune to refine the treatment on her own, and tested it on herself. But the therapy went farther than intended; while her body gained the immunity factor, it also became able to produce a wide variety of poisons and drugs, secreted through her skin and transmittable to another person by touch. The chemical balance of her brain was also affected, inducing a cruel and violent psychosis. She first took "revenge" on the administrator who had cut her funding, finding she enjoyed killing so much she began offering her services to the underworld as the assassin Borgia.

 

In this capacity she came to the attention of Prodigal Star, who recruited her for Anarchy over Europe. The group's resident scientist [Have you settled on his/her name yet?] outfitted her with special gauntlets which channel the chemicals she produces, allowing her to inject them into an opponent through hypodermic "claws," or fire darts coated with them.

 

(In case it isn't obvious, it would be easy to adapt the character sheet for Scorpia, of the Champions villain team Eurostar, for Borgia.)

[Enforcer84]

That's great, LL. Thank you!