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Considering that GRAB itself has 4-5 members? Let's not overwhelm them. New team... Firepower This team of four specializes in arson to order, from burning a single person, through heavily insured businesses, to entire forests. While the individual members may have been in the business a while, the group only came together six months ago and is only now coming to the attention of the player character team. Each member should have powers or skills suitable for arson.

Velocivore aka Guero Humanez has a deliberately misleading codename--his ability is to match the velocity of any being or object in his line of signt. He carries an assortment of gear designed to get him inside the vehicle once he's matched its speed. Some of it looks pretty scary, but he only uses non-lethal weapons on living beings. (Yeah, that was a couple of years ago--no wonder I couldn't find it, and the opening post really didn't give me any clues. Which reminds me that the Hero Team thread is stuck on another of those "too many characters for an obscure theme" groups.)

The Sweeney, based on the 1970s Brit TV series. Heavily armed cops and robbers. Didn't like the ending.

Could we get this with the spelling fixed? I need to know more about the area, and there doesn't seem to be a Monchmart anywhere.

We don't know, which is mentioned in the article itself. Treat as possible, but not certain.

The Hobgoblin of Little Minds was originally a primary school grammar teacher known for her strictness and eventually kicked out for physical abuse of the students. Her Stand is "Wordcrimes", which punishes any misuse of language (by the Hobgoblin's standards) in poetically appropriate ways.

More "magical realism" than anything else (and there's enough deniability to explain everything away), but Tigerman by Nick Hardaway. A British army sergeant is assigned to a dying island in the Arabian Sea, and finds he must adopt a costumed identity to deal with the situation. http://www.skjam.com/2014/07/30/book-review-tigerman/

Knockoff no longer knows his/her/its real name--Knockoff's powers allow him to turn into a copy of any other person, with most of their memories, skills, and powers, but an inferior version twisted towards petty crime. Knockoff's ability to stay in any form is inversely proportional to their power level--he could hold the shape of a helpless infant for up to a year but Doctor Destroyer for only a second. When Knockoff runs out of time on a form or is knocked out, he/she/it reverts to the last previous form that still has some time on it (usually that helpless infant.)

Raising awareness of sexual harassment at SDCC: https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sexual-harassment-at-comic-con-in-the-spotlight-93048198212.html

Alkaid was once better known as Meriem Ha'aqua, a serving girl in a Moroccan casino. Treated poorly by her employers, she was constantly on the edge of starvation. She began filching food from the buffet set out for the casino guests. Eventually she was caught, and the casino's cruel owner poured a caustic mixture down her throat as an "ironic" method of murder. It was at this point that her powers kicked in, allowing her to spew acids or alkaline mixtures from her mouth and nose. She took over the casino for a short while, until the owner's silent partners showed up with ways to counter her abilities. She was barely alive when the Behanians collected her for their group. Her interest is in items that create food and drink, locking them away from the world so that no one can enjoy them--as her powers have destroyed her senses of taste and smell.

You can start here with the Bronx Historical Society's website. http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/bxbrief.html One possible plot hook is the opening of Yankee Stadium in 1923. Quite a bit of pulp stories were set in NYC, many of them in the Bronx.

I've been listening to the old "Adventures of Superman" radio show, right now I'm in "The Knights of the White Carnation" arc. The Knights see themselves as "patriotic Americans" and hate all "foreigners", that is, anyone with an ethnic sounding name like Pulaski, Cohen, Fratelli, etc. (Nothing is mentioned about race, but we can take that as given.) As such, they are ashamed that Metropolis High's basketball team is 80% "foreign" and will stop at nothing to get the foreigners off the team, and never mind that Metropolis has a shot at the championship. So, the Knight of the White Carnation, with similar views, flourished in the early 1950s, was put in suspended animation, revived in the modern day by a racist group, but they find to their sorrow that many of them are considered "foreigners" too.

Presume that this is a GM you trust, and it's clear that this is a plot point, not plot armor.

Your character's hero team (or the one they team up with most often) is battling a villain. Thing is, this particular villain is a step down from the usual. He/she/it normally fights much lower-level heroes, and struggles at that. Today they're taking on the whole team and easily holding their own. Superior teamwork finally takes its toll, and you have the villain on the ropes--when they suddenly teleport away. And if your team has someone that can trace teleportation, it's untraceable. The villain has never had teleportation powers before. A little research reveals that several other hero groups have had the same thing happen; normally low-level villains suddenly are much more powerful, and have new escape powers preventing them from being captured. One hero who happened to have a semi-friendly relationship with the villain attacking his group (long story, don't ask) reports that the villain claimed not to know where his new powers came from--he just woke up that way. What would your character do?

Here's a look at "Fifties Cap", a recurring foe of the modern Captain America. http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4770287.html#comments

Fourteen? We have trouble getting to six members sometimes! Blue Devilkin aka Frank Yonigan, attends Duke University. His "sentai" armor resembles the school mascot, and he is best attuned to water and ice effects. He wants to be a tobacco planter when he graduates with his botany degree. Sometimes he has difficulty reconciling his mystic powers with his Baptist heritage.

If you just want to do "antagonist" flag suits, check out Executive Sanction from the old Allies supplement.

Aquaman regularly has sushi. Cthulu sushi.

Back to the article, it could be seen as equally sexist if men had to surrender their bags, but women didn't. (And I note that the writer considers the problem of theft as negligible so would simply not have it for either sex.)

I know I have seen bras with cigarette pack pouches from back when I was in the air force; but I don't know if they were anything but a gag gift.

Campaigns in New York City are especially vulnerable to this one: Mind Control the state legislature into passing restrictive laws aimed at superheros.

I might favor a combination of Boom Town and Instant City. Recently, a vast deposit of Originite, a mineral with properties that trigger superhuman abilities in people susceptible to that, was found under what was a ghost town in Wisconsin. Realizing that this unfortunately widely-publicized event would draw a boom town, the US government paid a superhuman construction team to put up housing and infrastructure in a matter of weeks. Now, as people fill up the town, PRIMUS wants a superteam to handle any problems that crop up. (there's an origin event every few days at the moment.) Boomville is really ugly, given the kitbashed architecture, but it needs you badly. I recently read a story titled "Capeless City" which was set in Philadelphia. People with powers were encouraged to keep them on the down low. Anyone who didn't comply woke up the next morning in New York City, and dealing with the powered population there. This was accomplished by the city government secretly employing a paranormal being that copied powers--and kept them. With such a wide variety of powers, he could find something to knock you out long enough for transport.

Dr. Headshrinker is also known by several other aliases, all names of famous psychiatrists and psychologists. (He needs to switch locations a lot.) His job is helping costumed criminals with their mental problems, from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder through a need to leave rhyming clues for the hero, to certain sexual hangups even villains would rather not talk about in public. While he's a skilled psychiatrist, it's not known if he ever held a legitimate license to practice. It is known that he has mild hypnotic abilities, not so much that he has a very slow gradual Mental Transformation power which he uses to give his patients temporary relief from their worst symptoms.

Polarizer aka Yussuf Dwani has magnetic abilities, but due to a curse placed on him by the Winter King, can only use those powers in summer. Unlike some of the other Sunshine Boys, he travels to the Southern Hemisphere to work during their summer as well.

Hapon Goldentongue was once Hattie Goldfarb, who always hated that she had to give up her chance at musical stardom when her mother fell ill, and she had to take care of the old woman. She lived her rock and roll fantasies through her bard character, but now her magical music is very real. (In real life, Hattie is only modestly talented at music, the kind of person who gets torn apart by the judges on American Idol.) And now team #250, the America Smashers! They come from the year 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Sadly, in the alternate timeline they come from the world has become a dystopia ruled by a United States gone mad with power. Clearly the only way to stop this from happening is to use a one-way time machine to go back to 1776 and prevent America from ever coming to be. Problem is that as they were leaving, a Freedom Police raid entered their hideaway and the controls were damaged by gunfire. So the America Smashers must somehow destroy the United States in 2014. So, five superhumans dedicated to destroying America, but their costumes, powersets and codenames were meant to fit in in the Thirteen Colonies. Worse, they no longer remember the precise series of events that led up to the US becoming world dictator--they think chronal leakage.