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Have you considered shuriken?

You can do that without time travel by sending them to New Mexico.

That's just sick -- in more ways than one. That's also an awesome supervillain plot. Trick the heroes into thinking the villain is going to change something in late WW1 for the express purpose of making the heroes Patient Zero for a new Spanish Flu outbreak once they return to the present.

If there was a Tetsuronin back in the days of Ninja Hero, the name was a coincidence. The current CU version is a (roughly) 1100-point powered-armor wearer.

That's one way of doing it. PRE+30 will leave the target at DCV 0 if they don't surrender, run away or feint faint.

The DEMON sourcebook, starting at page 156 is probably as close as we're all going to get to an official Champions Universe version of what happened during Luther Black's Leap Day working in 2012.

Here's another alternative that's less lethal but can be entertaining: Knockout Gas: Blast 2d6, Area Of Effect (4m Radius; +1/4), Constant (+1/2), Attack Versus Alternate Defense (LS: Self-contained breathing or holding your breath; All Or Nothing; +1) (27 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Minute (-1), IIF (-1/4) Real cost should be around 12 points. Change the area-effect to fit the room you intend to trap the PCs in, dump the PCs into it, and start the gas flowing. Genre-savvy PCs who don't have self-contained breathing will hold their breath while trying to get out of the trap room; make sure the DEF and BODY of the walls are enough to make punching and blasting their way out very slow going. Heroes attempting to hold their breath will literally knock themselves out trying to escape if you've reinforced the walls right. The villain can then vent the room and collect them at their leisure. An amusing variant you can throw at the PCs if none of them have anything like "Detect Molecular Composition" or Smell group with Discriminatory &/or Analyze: make the gas you pump into the room non-toxic. The PCs may still hold their breath while trying to get out, and still knock themselves out in the attempt. Why work at taking them out when they may be willing to take themselves out for you?

Here's a little quick something I whipped up in HD that should be quite nasty. And by 'nasty' I mean 'lethal': Hydrofluoric Acid Mist: Drain BODY 1 point, Area Of Effect (1m Radius; +1/4), Trigger (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; Stepping into the target hex; +1/4), Penetrating (x2; +1), Damage Over Time (30 damage increments, damage occurs every Segment, can be negated by washing the stuff off; +5) (22 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), IIF (-1/4) The special effect of the trigger can be a tripwire or a photocouple

In other words, "What if Special Order 191 had not been discovered by Union Scouts before the Battle of Antietam?" In the bad old days of Usenet (late 1980's or so), the what-if newsgroup voted Special Order 191's discovery the historical incident most likely to have been caused by time travellers.

Please tell me you and the PC actually sang as part of roleplaying that contest. Lie to me if you have to.

"No one sits like Morphant, no one HITS like Morphant, no one spreads evil 'cross the whole land like Morphant..." Great. I'm going to be hearing that all day now.

By using the handyman's secret weapon: Extradimensional Movement

...and two seconds after I hit POST last night, I remembered that there was a Mirror-Universe chapter which may have been the actual source of my "Professor Preserver" memory. D'oh.

I remember that supplement. The Lovecraft-ish adventure at the beginning still gives me the creeps just thinking about it 25 years later. I can't speak for the GURPS Nazi alt-universe, but the one done for C3D was interesting enough. Especially snce (and I may be recalling this incorrectly) the superhero who led the Resistance was the disembodied brain of Albert Zerstoiten in a life-support jar and called himself Professor Preserver.

Since you're looking for 6th century villains, how about the disembodied 3rd-century evil mage Nero Astrolabus? ...better known to the modern Champions Universe as the source of David 'Invictus' Sutherland's powers?

The Kinetic Damper as presented in the original post was a 30-second proof of concept build in Hero Designer, without more thought put into it. Making it fully invisible with a Trigger that fires when the target moves as you suggest would be changes I would make rebuilding it now.

He almost looks Irish

A favorite power construct of mine is a variation on the Champions:Powers "Stop Where You Are" power which added a Side Effect of 10d6 damage to the victim recipient, representing the target in effect running into an invisible wall of some sort. Last night, I finally asked myself the question I should have two years ago concerning the use of Side Effect in this manner: "Would Steve Long allow this?" It took only a moment's worth of introspection before I answered my own question with "Not only no, but hell no!" So, back to the drawing board... The "Stop Dead" power on the same page of Champions:Powers does exactly what I want, but its recommended usage in gameplay is either very complex or physically unrealistic. Is there a better way to do this power, then? Going back to the effect, it's basically the equivalent of the target running into an invisible wall. And when you define it that way, there are much simpler methods to build invisible walls in HERO System: Kinetic Damper: Barrier 35 PD, 0 BODY (up to 1m long, 1m tall, and 1/2m thick), Non-Anchored, Invisible Power Effects (Inobvious to sight; +1/4) (84 Active Points); Time Limit (Extra Phase; -3), Cannot Englobe (-1/4), Does not work against stationary targets (-1/4) This should be proof against any combination of target STR and velocity up to 35d6 of Move-Through, half of which will be taken by the victim target. And, it should be a lot simpler to run in combat. Thoughts?

Based on his writeup, I always assumed that he didn't know as much as he thought he did. Plus, he's sort of narrowly-specialized compared to Doom.

For that matter, how about ARGENT in a similar scenario?

Unless Trump demonstrates he has superpowers, I'm going with yes. Invictus has been around since at least the 4th edition, his most recent writeup is in 6th ed "Champions Villains, Volume 1."

David Sutherland, AKA Invictus, from the Champions Universe.

This is really close to a power I gave Starforce in my TASK FORCE stories, only without the 'Reduced Penetration' limitation. I deliberately designed it as 'No Range' as well.

Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting - Mind Control Area-effect, set command (make everyone in the range of effect attack everyone else with Martial Arts)

If they hit a wall, ceiling, or ground and don't have something like Breakfall, Acrobatics, their own Leaping, or Flight to stick the landing, then yes.