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Monster Hunter: Memoirs are three books co-authored by John Ringo, and IMO are the best in the series.  And well separate from his "Everyone is a Chosen One" series, taking place ~20 years before the events in Minster Hunter: International.  So feel free to dive right in without worry of spoilers.
 
And yeah, 3 & 5 were the best because they WEREN'T about Owen.  
 
Also, check out Bubba the Monster Hunter by John G. Hartness.  Books 1 & 2 are good.  Book 3 starts to go off the rails, and book 4 is a head first dive into a privy trench.  But 1 & 2 are good.

Check out the Wearing the Cape series.  C- & D-level supers work in these "support" roles.  

The question should be do we ever have then INTENTIONALLY.  

I ran a version of the old Island of Dr. Destroyer ages ago as a one-off at my FLAGS.  I posted a game report.  Here it is:
 
 
 

I ran a version of the old Island of Dr. Destroyer ages ago as a one-off at my FLAGS.  I posted a game report.  Here it is:
 
 
 

I ran a version of the old Island of Dr. Destroyer ages ago as a one-off at my FLAGS.  I posted a game report.  Here it is:
 
 
 

I ran a version of the old Island of Dr. Destroyer ages ago as a one-off at my FLAGS.  I posted a game report.  Here it is:
 
 
 

I ran a version of the old Island of Dr. Destroyer ages ago as a one-off at my FLAGS.  I posted a game report.  Here it is:
 
 
 

Quasar - Ensure that she gets plenty of training time using her powers with other members of the team, including cross-training with units of Primus as well as the local and state police.  We'll give her opportunities to use her Supernova Blast under controlled conditions, as well as experiment with other powers she may or may not have.
 
Mystica - Examine the Cosmic Gemstone to see if it has any magical properties.  If it does then Mystica will becomes VERY involved in her training to ensure she doesn't unleash anything unexpected, and she will begin a through investigation of the origin and background of the stone.  If the stone is not magical then Mystica will treat Star Bright like the other members of her team, which means she will ignore her.
 
Shadowhunter - You said she's a rookie so I'm guessing that means she young.  Shadowhunter would ply her with Long Island Ice Tea until she was good and drunk, then get her out of those tights.  Introduce her to a little Supernova Blast of his own.  Oh Yeah.  So young but still of age, right?  Wait!  Don't answer that.  No need.  That's what Secret Identity is for in the first place.  Oh Yeah....

Quasar - Clearly the technology-based threat is the largest one.  "We've got to intercept that Mech-Turkey before it reaches downtown.  Non-flyers, to the Hoverjet!  The rest of you, form up on me!"  A few kinetic blasts should bring it down.  After all, it can't be tougher than Mechanon.  Can it....?
 
Shadowhunter - "That asshat Quasar just flew off with all the heavy hitters!  How the hell am I suppose to handle a giant, mutant turkey all on my own?  sigh.. Same way I handle everything ELSE all on my own - Hide in stealth, observe to find weakness, ambush from behind, called shot to the giblets!"  The opening shot would be an HE blast.  Follow that up with a bolo entangle while it's stunned.  Flash attack to blind it while it can't dodge.  Then more high explosives.  Finish it off with knockout gas.  Pick a tail feather as a trophy, because it pisses off the original Shadowhunter SO MUCH.  
 
Mystica - "Cultists! Feh!  Eat by turkey demon is small price for foolishness!  Mystica would no have been so kind.  And now, gobble-devil, I send you back from where you came.  I send you, and I charge you - Tell the turkey demons.  Tell your story.  Tell them you saw THE WRATH OF MYSTICA!!!!!"  Then the 4d6 RKAs fly until one of them is dead.  Summoning demons, that's kind of a hot button with this one. (She actually has a limited Code Against Mercy, and a Reputation - Slayer of Morbanes.)

So modernize it. 
 
It's not a boxing glove, it's a tiny airbag with a proximity fuse.  Fire it at a person, and just before impact the airbag deploys, spreading the impact surface area across their entire face and, for game purposes, making the attack do Stun Only.

So modernize it. 
 
It's not a boxing glove, it's a tiny airbag with a proximity fuse.  Fire it at a person, and just before impact the airbag deploys, spreading the impact surface area across their entire face and, for game purposes, making the attack do Stun Only.

My personal favorite take on the Trick Arrow Archer is to take everything with Range Based On Strength and say they're thrown weapons - Bolos, flash bangs, gas grenades, etc.

Only read about half the OP.   Your player wants a Variable Power Pool. 
 
A VPP is a power framework that has been a part of the game since around 3rd edition.  IMO you shouldn't let him have one.  Not because it's overpowered (although right/wrong hands it totally is).  Because it's a logistical/rules nightmare that will slow your play sessions to a dead crawl, and suck every last iota of fun out of the room.
 
As a GM I only allow VERY experienced players to buy a VPP, and even then I make then write out a "spell book" ahead of time with every power they think they might ever possibly need, its limitations, it's active points cost, and it's real cost.  But this doesn't ever happen because, in my experience, it's only lazy players who don't want to bother learning the rules or adhering to genera who ever want to a VPP because it lets them set the rulebook aside and say "Well, my character can do anything, so he does this..."

I had a PC that traced his lineage back to the French Revolution:
 
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Zoro - Lone Ranger - Green Hornet (Golden Age) - Shadowhunter I (Silver Age, DNPC) - Shadowhunter II (my PC, Bronze Age)

"Just give me a character sheet and tell me what dice to roll.  And what abilities I have.  And what spells I have memorized.  And what armor & weapons I have.  And what equipment I'm carrying.  And..."

"Just give me a character sheet and tell me what dice to roll.  And what abilities I have.  And what spells I have memorized.  And what armor & weapons I have.  And what equipment I'm carrying.  And..."

From the Champions I-II-III days, an old and retired Crusader.  You could even use a retired Marksman as a foil for Crusader, undermining his authority with the PCs behind his back, and placing doubt and mistrust in the PCs minds.
 
After all, when Dark Champions first came out Crusader moved to Hudson City and became the street-level vigilante Dark Crusader.  So maybe Crusader has an ulterior motive in gathering and training a crew of young super heroes.  Who knows?  But that definitely sounds like something the PCs should investigate...
 
On a related note, I had a PC based on Silk Specter II.  In her backstory, her mother was a retired hero who was the team mate and occasional lover of both Crusader and Marksman.  The mother had the character trained from a young age by her retired ex-hero ex-boyfriends.

And let's not forget a classic from the I-II-III days:
 
"No one could have survived that!"

"Quick!  To the Hoverjet!"
 
In fact I wrote a whole introductory adventure for Champions with pregenerated characters that took place over four "episodes" and at the end of each of the first three episodes their was a reveal that the actual menace was really something ELSE that was very imminent and all the way across town.  And at each transition point I wouldn't advance the plot until one of the players said, loudly and in character, "Quick!  To the Hoverjet!"
 
Because as a Champions GM 90% of your job is to enforce genera.

Everyone looks the other way when the superhero hooks up with the female supervillain.  When the reverse happens, people assume it is mind control.  They are almost always wrong *, but they assume it is so.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*  Even girls with superpowers love a bad boy.

I tell my fantasy players that magic is a multipower powered by END.
 
And they can NEVER re-engineer it into a VPP.  They can just keep buying slots with XP.

Back in the day I had a half-hour long argument with a player who wouldn't stop insisting that AOE was a version of NND, and the NPC's AOE EBs shouldn't effect his character because his character's mask completely covered his ears.
 
The REALLY crazy thing was that there were six players at the table, and initially two other players agreed with him.

Back in the day I had a half-hour long argument with a player who wouldn't stop insisting that AOE was a version of NND, and the NPC's AOE EBs shouldn't effect his character because his character's mask completely covered his ears.
 
The REALLY crazy thing was that there were six players at the table, and initially two other players agreed with him.