Christopher R Taylor

Beautiful coloring - like the little flairs you are putting in the generic background shapes!
 
Hotshot definitely looks conceited.

A lot would depend. If the superheroes had a better track record than the government for fighting supervillains, I might go full Libertarian instead. Nevermind the idea I might have a mutant kid in my family who got attacked by a giant robot in the name of 'national security'.
 
One of my problems with the CW series in the comics (Besides it being awful) was that suddenly the entire population seemed mind wiped from all the times the superheroes had saved the world 

OK the poll has Champions Presents slightly in the lead, so I'm going to go with that, starting with the group Spectrum from adventure 1.  Champions Presents is a 3-adventure book that covers some great basic comic book type scenarios, and this team is the first group of bad guys faced.  Unfortunately I never have had a chance to run the adventures, although they look really solid.
 
The first one up is Black Bird who really isn't a bad guy at all.  He's a fairly good guy who had a terrible experience using his superpowers, so he wants to restrain and control them in the nation.  Black Bird is a US Senator.
 
BLACK BIRD   Val Char Cost  10  STR    0  21  DEX   22  15  CON   5  18  INT     8  10  EGO   0  20  PRE  10   7   OCV  20   7   DCV  20   3   OMCV 0   3   DMCV 0  10  PD     8           With Force Field: PD 20; rPD 10  10  ED     8           With Force Field: ED 20; rED 10   5   SPD  30   5   REC   1  50  END   6  10  BOD   0  24  STN   2   12m RUN   0   4m SWIM 0   4m LEAP  0 Characteristics Cost: 140   Cost Power  40    Sonic Blast: Blast 8d6  20    Sonic Force Field: Resistant Protection (10 PD/10 ED) (30 Active Points); Costs Endurance (-1/2)  59    Soar: Flight 34m, Persistent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (59 Active Points) Powers Cost: 119   Cost Skill   3     Bureaucratics 13-   3     Conversation 13-   3     Oratory 13-   3     Persuasion 13-   3     PS: Politician 13- Skills Cost: 15   Total Character Cost: 274   Pts Complication  10  Dependent NPC:  Wife Infrequently (Normal)  10  Hunted:  Various supervillains Infrequently (As Pow; Harshly Punish)  10  Monitored:  Very Frequently (Less Pow; NCI; Watching)  20  Psychological Complication:  Always politicking (Very Common; Strong)  15  Psychological Complication:  Very hesitant to use powers (Common; Strong)  10  Vulnerability:  1 1/2 x STUN Bullets (Common)  10  Vulnerability:  1 1/2 x BODY Bullets (Common) Complication Points: 85   Black Bird.hdc

Truely the most powerful force in any comic-verse.
 
Foreign Orchid

Yeah the marketing wasn't great, they could have sold it as what it was: great pulp story like Star Wars, but on Mars and more original.  Such a great potential property and the film was... kinda boring.

What was especially amazing about John Carter was that apparently none of that fortune went to marketing. 

Or to a good script.

SPOOOON!

And if you need some serious ammo to take out that supervillain:
 

Has anyone posted the Tavor TAR-21?
 
 
Israeli gun, 5.56 chamber, smaller than the M-16 and highly rated.  It can fire 900 rpm out of a 30 round magazine (out in a hurry at full rock and roll), and it has muzzle velocity of 910 m/s.  The Isralis tend to make really rugged guns.
 

I know what to name them.
 
Come get some!
 
Duke Nukem's ammo of choice.

And if you need some serious ammo to take out that supervillain:
 

The Civil War storyline fills me with disinterest

Watched a great documentary called The Wrecking Crew about a super talented group of studio musicians that played... pretty much everything recorded in America for about 30 years.  I'm not exaggerating.  They were the uncredited backup band for a zillion acts, wrote tons of theme songs, ad jingles, and did the real studio work for many bands from Frank Sinatra to The Beach Boys to Herb Alpert and way beyond.
 
That doc and 20 Feet From Stardom are a brilliant, amazing glance at basically unknown, underrated talent.  This video from 20 Feet... gives a feeling for the incredible talent involved in places you didn't really pay attention to.

So much more awesome than the goth/punk look they ended up with for Wanda in Avengers 2.   [sigh]

Oh lots and lots
 

George Pérez, I think, would be quite pleased--
 

And the final Challenges for Champions character, Nemo the shark.  Not an especially noteworthy shark, except its been bred and trained to be extremely voracious and ill tempered.  Even worse than Dr Evil's Sea Bass.  I had to tweak him slightly; they didn't reduce his running and he had life support to breathe water, which meant it was fully amphibious, which didn't match the concept or description.
 
NEMO   Val Char Cost  20  STR   10  18  DEX   16  13  CON   3   8   INT    -2   8   EGO  -2  15  PRE    5   6   OCV  15   5   DCV  10   3   OMCV  0   3   DMCV  0  14  PD      6          rPD: 8  13  ED      5          rPD: 8   4   SPD  20   7   REC   3  25  END   1  10  BOD   0  28  STN 4     4m RUN   -8 24m SWIM 10   8m LEAP   2 Characteristics Cost: 98   Cost Power   5     Tireless: Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (5 Active Points) applied to STR   3     Tireless: Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (3 Active Points) applied to Swimming   2     Large: Knockback Resistance -2m  31    Bite: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 1/2d6 (3d6 w/STR), Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) (31 Active Points)  37    Rough Skin: Blast 4d6, Area Of Effect (2m Surface; +1/4), Penetrating (+1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Constant (+1/2) (55 Active Points); No Range (-1/2)  18    Tough Skin: Resistant Protection (6 PD/6 ED)  10    Keen Nose: Discriminatory with Smell/Taste Group  10    Keen Nose: Tracking with Smell/Taste Group   9     Keen Nose: +6 versus Range Modifier for Hearing Group Powers Cost: 125   Cost Skill  16    +2 with HTH Combat Skills Cost: 16   Total Character Cost: 239   Pts. Complication  10   Distinctive Features:  Sores and blighted skin (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses)  30   Enraged:  Berserk Smells blood nearby (Uncommon), go 11-, recover 8-  20   Negative Reputation:  Killer Shark, Very Frequently (Extreme)  15   Physical Complication:  No Fine Manipulatory ability (Frequently; Slightly Impairing)  15   Physical Complication:  Must keep moving to breathe (Frequently; Slightly Impairing)  10   Physical Complication:  Cannot let go of grabbed items (Infrequently; Slightly Impairing)   5    Physical Complication:  Colorblind (Infrequently; Barely Impairing)  15   Psychological Complication:  Extremely aggressive (Common; Strong) Complication Points: 120  

Nemo.hdc

Cap and his cappettes!
 

She can't do both?

Krystal Blue, who isn't really a bad guy at all but is hunting one in a scenario. She's so guilt shocked if hit by a hero she's even got a vulnerability.  How could you??  She started out as faking a hero fight to get media and theatrical agent attention but it went tragically wrong.
 
KRYSTAL BLUE   Val Char Cost  15  STR    5  29  DEX   38  18  CON   8  18  INT     8   8   EGO  -2  13  PRE    3   9   OCV  30   9   OCV  30   3   OMCV 0   3   DMCV 0   5   PD     3   5   ED     3   6   SPD 40  10  REC  6  35  END  3  10  BOD  0  28  STN  4   22m RUN  10   4m SWIM 0 16m LEAP  6 Characteristics Cost: 220   Cost Power    5    Radio Headband: Radio Perception/Transmission (Radio Group) (10 Active Points); OAF (-1)   11   Razor Tipped Shoe: Naked Advantage: Armor Piercing (+1/4) for up to 45 Active Points, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (16 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) Powers Cost: 16   Cost Martial Arts Maneuver    5    Offensive Strike:  1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +1 DCV, 9d6 Strike    5    Defensive Strike:  1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +3 DCV, 5d6 Strike    4    Martial Strike:  1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +2 DCV, 7d6 Strike    4    Martial Block:  1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +2 DCV, Block, Abort    4   Martial Disarm:  1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, Disarm; 35 STR to Disarm    8    +2 HTH Damage Class(es) Martial Arts Cost: 30   Cost Skill    3    Acrobatics 15-    3    Acting 12-   24   +3 with DCV    3    Paramedics 13- Skills Cost: 33   Cost Talent    6    +2/+2d6 Striking Appearance (vs. all characters) Talents Cost: 6   Total Character Cost: 305   Pts. Complication  15   Hunted:  Auto-Gunner Frequently (As Pow; Harshly Punish)  15   Psychological Complication:  Hunting Auto-gunner (Common; Strong)  20   Psychological Complication:  Code against killing (Common; Total)  15   Psychological Complication:  Protects Innocents (Common; Strong)  20   Vulnerability:  2 x STUN Attacks by heroes (Common)  10   Vulnerability:  2 x Effect Presence Attacks by heroes (Uncommon) Complication Points: 95  

Krystal Blue.hdc

Marvel television does seem to be a little more representative of East Asians than their movies, notably Melinda May in Agents of SHIELD. At least we got Helen Cho in Age of Ultron.
 
But Yinsen and the Mandarin are tricky cases. Keeping the wartime arms-supplier connection for Tony Stark meant moving his origin from Vietnam to Afghanistan, so the ethnic change made sense. As for the Mandarin, I strongly suspect Marvel was concerned over offending and alienating that big Chinese moviegoing revenue stream.

Starhand's description mentions him using his power to cool drinks.  For years I couldn't figure out how that was supposed to work.  Just recently I realized that he must be using Variable Advantage to give his STR Variable Special Effect.  Usually a power will have both, not use one to create the other, so I completely missed it.