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I don't see a name for the character--I'm guessing it's something to do with the word "Wing." If I may offer suggestions-- Captain Wing Cyberwing Battlewing Winged Avenger/Crusader/Defender/Champion/Terror/Hunter/Victor (pick one--any one) Flying Wing Blue/Red/Black/White/Gold/Silver/Green/Purple Wing (pick a color--any color) Birdwing (BIRRRRDDDWINNGG!!!) And there's plenty more where those came from. . .

Team One could be called The Ortega Imperative, or The Imperative; the latter should be sufficient to keep the players guessing as to their true intent. Team Two could be called The Gold Standard, if for no other reason than they all have word "Gold" in their names.

Merci Beaucoup, Monsieur Vimes. Some nifty info there--I was especially impressed by the number of villains who were the title characters of comic series, and were opposed by "ordinary" humans, as per Fu Manchu and Dracula. I wonder if anyone's ever ran a campaign around this premise?

Unless the chihuahua can attack at range, I got to give it to Wolverine. Hmmm. . .ranged attack. . .what did the chihuahua have for lunch, exactly?

Your hero team name is. . .The Invincible Munchkin Bunch! You are actually PROUD of the fact that your hero team name is. . .The Invincible Munchkin Bunch!

Of course a lot would be determined not only by where he was found, but when he was found. For example: SUPER-SPARTAN--the infant Kal-El lands outside of Sparta in ancient Greece, and is trained in their warrior ways. He defeats the Persians single-handed at Thermopylae, then leads the Spartans to conquest after conquest--until he meets the Amazons and their princess, Diana. SUPER-MOSES--the infant Kal-El lands in ancient Egypt and is found by a Hebrew family who, fearing Pharoah's death edict, place him in a basket and send him down the Nile, where he is found by the royal family and raised as one of their own--until the day when, enraged by an overseer's mistreatment of the Hebrew slaves, kills the man with one mighty blow. He escapes to the desert, and at long last finds the spacecraft that brought him to Earth, and with it his true identity and destiny. He returns to Egypt and demands the Hebrews be freed in the name of truth and justice. The Pharoah refuses, and Moses puts on the pressure--he dries up the Nile with his heat-vision; he uses ultra-frequency harmonics in his super-voice to stir up the toads; Pharoah sends his army to kill him but they're easily defeated without loss of life. Pharoah finally gives in, and Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt--but Pharoah changes his mind and leads the last of his army after them. Moses, having led his people to the Red Sea, raises an artificial sandbar for them to cross, holds off the army long enough for them to escape, then collapses the sandbar. Under his leadership the Hebrews build a mighty nation, dedicated to the ideals of truth and justice. Same theme with a twist: SUPER-MAID OF ORLEANS--The teenage Kara Kor-El crashlands in medieval France, with no memory of her true self. She's found by some nuns from a nearby abbey, who believe her to be an angel sent in answer to their prayers to liberate France from English oppression. Convinced this is her mission, Kara sees the French king to ask permission to lead his army; the king tests her by hiding in disguise among his subjects, but she sees through his peasant's robes with her X-ray vision. The king gives her his army and she uses her powers to drive off the English, never to return. Her mission finished, Kara devotes the rest of her life to God's work with the nuns who found her. You see what I mean?

Re: Mecha... I will say this--as awesome as mecha look, and as great a storytelling device as they are (I got the Cartoon Network for the purpose of seeing the Gundam Wing series), they don't strike me as all that practical as far as combat goes. Yes, they have tons of firepower, but they make a really huge target, and ideally in a firefight one is trying to AVOID getting shot. Plus, they're really only good against fixed installations and other mecha and vehicles--they have no real defense against infantry, other than their size. A resourceful infantry squad with a lot of explosives could give a mecha one HECK of a hotfoot. And I shudder to think what a squadron of attack helicopters--or even only ONE--could do to a mecha. I think the ideal land war machine of the future will be something like a flying tank, possessing a helicopter's mobility, but capable of manuevering on the ground as well (you know, not having to worry about those pesky rotor blades). The Trade Federation's repulsor tank from STAR WARS: Episode I comes close, but it doesn't go very far off the ground, and it's not very fast. A better concept would be the Republic Gunships from STAR WARS: Episode II--with those you had both exceptional mobility and tremendous firepower. I'd definitely take one of those over a mecha--even a Gundam mobile suit.

Re: Celine Actually, wouldn't it been more appropriate to call the ego-boosting drug J-LO? Hmmm???

Lamest Of The Lame I nominate for the Most Lame Villain in a Superhero Comic/Movie/TV Series-- The Wedding Destroyer, from "Lois & Clark" What--did they think "Great! We got Delta Burke to be on the show, what do we do with her? I KNOW!! We have her attempt to destroy Lois & Clark's wedding! In fact, that's what she does! She's--she's--THE WEDDING DESTROYER!" Oh, yeah. Sign her up for the Legion Of Doom. Better call out the entire DC Universe to take her down. In fact, you might have to call in the Avengers, the X-Men, the A-Team and Mutant X to defeat her. After all, she's not Darkseid, or Galactus, or Gozer the Gozerian, or Casanova Frankenstein--she's the Wedding Destroyer!!!!! In the comics, Superman fights enemies like Darkseid, Doomsday, Imperiex--monsters and menaces capable of not just destroying worlds, but the universe. In "Lois & Clark," he could barely handle an enemy trying to destroy his wedding. Talk about a total lack of respect for the character. Someday, I'll be able to forget about the--uggh--Wedding Destroyer. But not today.