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Tell me you wouldn't freak out if you met these guys in a dark alley. I dare you.

Thank You, Marcus. The classic scenario for that one is the hero accidentally causes the death of someone close to the villain, who then has the hero brought to "trial" for murder. I remember a Golden Age Batman story where a gang of robbers, all brothers, died one by one as a result of being chased by Batman. (For example, one of them was being pursued at a carnival and in trying to get away stumbled into the back of a shooting gallery, where he was shot by the patrons.) The leader of the gang blamed Batman for all the deaths, and after managing to capture him basically sentenced him to death right then and there. He took him into a specialized execution room, and forced Robin to choose between an electric chair, a gallows, a firing squad, and a couple of other methods which I don't remember. Another possibility is a villain with an anarchist/madcap bent puts the hero on trial for being the "ultimate conformist"--that by fighting crime and striking terror into people's hearts they encourage compliance and submission to authority, and in doing so impose conformity and suppress freedom and creativity. Or something like that. Hope that helps.

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I'm afraid I don't recognize the movie. Could someone clue me in, please?

You know--I think you just described me. But what can I do about it?

Well, if you had absolute power, would there be a need for new weapons? Because if you had absolute power, you could abolish war as a means of settling disputes domestically and internationally, because the whole world would be one people, one nation under your absolute control. There would be no need of weapons of war, because there would be no war. Unless you planned to keep war going as a means of keeping the people impoverished, as per Orwell's 1984. Just thinking about things.

So--superheroes are burlesque dancers, then?

Perhaps he could go by his middle name, and call himself--Aerios, Son Of Ares! It would open possibilities for some Thor-type dialogue, I think.

It certainly looks impressive. I could see it finding its way into movies or action shows, perhaps as the weapon of a squad of elite soldiers, or what the mook guards are carrying that the good guys can take away from them.

Yeah. Really.

Many posts ago I put upon this thread a less-than-lethal weapon called the JPX Defender, which allowed your characters to ruin an NPC's day without killing them. Those who appreciated the weapon will undoubtedly be pleased to know there is now a four-shot version-- Hope that helps.

I was thinking something along the lines of what happened with members of the Manson family--that this character was so seduced and captivated by the crimelord that she would do the most hideous and unspeakable things to other people to prove her loyalty and maintain his affection. So it wouldn't be so much what was done to her, but what she has done to others in his name--destruction, torture, mutilation and murder. There would have to be an incident at some point where she would be forced to reconsider her life and the crimes she has committed, not unlike The Bride from the Kill Bill movies discovering she was pregnant. Up to that point she would have done anything for Bill--including murder a church full of innocents. (They didn't call him Snake Charmer for nothing.) But after she found that out, she realized things had to change--that she had to leave her old life and him behind. Hope that helps.

Are your heroes traveling under their own devising, or are they somehow drawn to events like this Quantum Leap--style? I ask because it occurs to me that if I were to travel freely to 1975, I would buy as much stock in 20th Century Fox and Kenner Toys as I could get my hands on, sell everything after 1983, stick the money in the most secure, highest interest-bearing account I could find, then return to the present and cash in. Just sayin'.

What do you hunt with those things? Dinosaurs?

Edward Rickenbacker--race-car driver turned fighter pilot. America's first super-patriot hero--Sky Racer, Sentinel Of The Air.

What Bubba said--but I do wish there were names, and possibly even power descriptions, to go with the characters.

This is much more creepy to anyone following The Walking Dead--and while it's based on something that happened last season, the "cookie speech" from the most recent episode (3-8) makes it that much more creepy--

I admit--that did not occur to me.

"Look! It's The Legion!"

If you go with the notion that Faeries are miniature people (Tinkerbell, anyone?) then Shrinking is in order, so that the character can more readily interact with that "side of the family," so to speak. Hope that helps.

I'd say they qualify more for the "Foods For Those Who Just Don't Care Anymore" thread. But honestly, are they that much different than the gravy and dressing sodas put out by Jones Sodas every Thanksgiving?

My apologies. I missed this thread when I posted.

Then again, they didn't need superpowers to be superheroic. Check out panel three on this page from Captain America-- I figure that's over a dozen Nazis that he's taken out of the fight just by swinging his arms out to the sides. You can almost hear the "falling tenpins" sound effect. Cap didn't need to fly or shoot disintegrator beams from his eyes to upend the laws of physics.

So--are private police any better than public police?