Sundog

Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse (no spoilers).  Just as spectacular as the first one.  Be advised that this movie has no ending; it is the first of two parts.  Long for an animated film at around two hours and 15 minutes.  No mid- or post-credits scenes.  Man does web-swinging look like fun.

He's been stealing pennies from every bank and retailer in Millenium City and its surroundings for quite some time.  No one wants them, so he takes them, and now he has enough to convert into millions.  Now the Master Plan can begin its most magnificent phase of implementation!   BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

Can't see it. Get a flash of "please whitelist" then the entire screen goes blank.
 

The Pinkerton Detective Agency actually has a very good name in business. They have a reputation for loyalty, integrity, confidentiality and security. And they don't give a darn about what people who don't hire them think.

If by "sailing ship" you mean a square-rigged tall ship, by the time of those they could make a planed bottomed small craft fairly easily. Rather than launch from the ship, use a crane to lower a boat-bottomed ornithopter (basically a flying boat) over the side and let it take off under it's own power. Reverse the procedure for recovery.
 

I rather had hoped we'd seen the end of that character...

I haven't gamed for a while, but this quote comes out of the first champions campaign I EVER RAN. This was the early 80's Reagan is president down south, the air traffic controllers strike was on, the setting a group of space aliens was covertly invading the earth, and intending on using Canada as their springboard. the group was an all Canadian hero group working for the Mounties (R.C.M.P.) and after half a dozen sessions had tracked the baddies down to their base at Churchill Manitoba on Hudson's Bay. After a planning session the goes into the base and trashes it, on the verge of success, the chief baddies make a bolt. They take off in a souped up private jet, with US government markings, no flyer in the group, looks like they will getaway, the hero's leader "Nelson Eddy York" calls the air base at Borden Manitoba and orders the base commander to scramble a couple of jets and force the plane to land at Winnipeg, the baddies refuse and continue fleeing south. York orders the base commander to shoot the plane down, he says he can't its a US govt. plane, York replies, "I don't give s D*** who they are their violating Canadian air space." At the time an innocent statement in keeping with York's character. 
     At that time the game group lived in Calgary Alta. I lived 140 km. north in Red Deer, I would travel south every two weeks and run a campaign for the weekend, two weeks later I am back to start a new campaign, and when I enter the game room on an easel is a blowup of an editorial cartoon that had run on Thursday in the local paper(Calgary Herald). Two Mounties are standing on a flat surface reins to their horse's in hand, wearing the traditional Mountie uniform, one has a long barreled revolver in one hand smoke curling up from the barrel, in the near distance a figure has driven head first into a small hillock cape spread out behind him, the bottom half of an S visible on his chest..... caption reads "I don't give a D*** who he is he was violating Canadian air space" York not only got it right, He did it two weeks before!

Been personally quarantining for a week now. Most of the symptoms gone, just feels like a head cold.

I can see the next Bond movie now. Laser drones that direct lightning strikes. Someone should tell these researchers to approach Hollywood and secure the rights to the idea to get more funding.

The Serious Man
 
Captain Chronos actually hesitated in recruiting The Serious Man, because his world's end was very dangerous even to Chronos. His world was literally dissolving into nothingness, his entire universe ceasing to be. But nevertheless, the good Captain felt it was the only way.
The Serious Man's powers are subtle. Everything around him becomes, for lack of a better term, a little more real. Powers that warp the laws of physics stop being able to do so. Chemistry starts working on very hard and strict laws. Energy beams can exist, but if you want to bounce a shot - well, better make sure that mirror is pretty much optically perfect.
Why was this important? Because he was up against a force that was making everything UNreal. making it fake, false, a creation of a diseased mind. The universe cannot hold itself together without effective constants, and now there were no constants. For years earlier, a strange and warped mind had discovered a way to impose his worldview on the entire universe. Now, The Serious Man must find and stop that crazed individual.
He must stop Foxbat.
 

The Serious Man
 
Captain Chronos actually hesitated in recruiting The Serious Man, because his world's end was very dangerous even to Chronos. His world was literally dissolving into nothingness, his entire universe ceasing to be. But nevertheless, the good Captain felt it was the only way.
The Serious Man's powers are subtle. Everything around him becomes, for lack of a better term, a little more real. Powers that warp the laws of physics stop being able to do so. Chemistry starts working on very hard and strict laws. Energy beams can exist, but if you want to bounce a shot - well, better make sure that mirror is pretty much optically perfect.
Why was this important? Because he was up against a force that was making everything UNreal. making it fake, false, a creation of a diseased mind. The universe cannot hold itself together without effective constants, and now there were no constants. For years earlier, a strange and warped mind had discovered a way to impose his worldview on the entire universe. Now, The Serious Man must find and stop that crazed individual.
He must stop Foxbat.
 

Sharon Clarke is a success. She can now be released safely into society and she is no threat to anyone or anything. She no longer needs the medication and no more electroconvulsive therapy. The down side is she no longer has any memory of what she did and who she was. Which is a shame as she was supposed to have spirited away a lot of money and other things for her retirement.
But then again the Law Enforcement is glad to see the back of Yellow Beryl
Half oriental and half American although she often changed story to say which one of her parents was American and which Chinese/Japanese/Other Oriental. And she played up to the racist expectations and stereotypes as it annoyed people or got them so angry that they made mistakes. Virtuous did not like it and tried to get her to change which only encouraged her all the more. She was often prone to gloating about her plans and this led to her capture on more than one occasion. The others in the group particularly Poisson Rouge exploited this tendency and thus ensured the success of the group by feeding her false information which she then blurted out to the hero or police. He then pulled the rug out from the police and the hero by telling her the truth which she told the law only for them to believe that it was false.
It is known that Virtuous hammered Poisson Rouge the first chance he got after this.
But it did lead to Sharon becoming unhappy with the group and not as trusting as she was being manipulated. Sadly this was to escalate as another villain had a problem with Virtuous and that was Meggido. He captured her and had her brainwashed into becoming a killer in order to bump off the hero. Sharon and several others went into the sewers beneath the Smithsonian museum in New York City pursued by Virtuous. Only one person was found to have come out and that was Sharon who was then incarcerated and underwent extensive mental health treatment. This was despite what the FBI and police department wanted. When they were able to question her they found that her treatment had wiped out her entire criminal career and thus her memory of all events related to it. It has been claimed, quite successfully, that if the brainwashing had not been undone then she would have achieved a large number of homicides in excess of one hundred or more people.
Meggido openly boasts that he used her to kill the hero and those who were with her. He also taunts that he will make things worse for anyone wanting to avenge the hero or those with Yellow Beryl at the time. Traces have been found that confirm that people died and at least one retrocognitive has confirmed the hero is dead.
Sharon is retired and employed in a social security office where people can keep an eye on her. Her old comrades have confirmed that she does not know what happened to the hero or her stash and so leave her alone.
 
Had this idea for the name today and ran with it.

Atrocity was never more than an associate member of Indecency, because some of the members really didn't want to work with him. His "schtick" was to go for the maximum body count, preferably as bloodily as possible. Yet another "product" of the various super-soldier initiatives, Atrocity was trained and enhanced to be the supreme terror weapon. The fact that he no longer had any sort of moral compass or loyalty to anyone or anything was viewed by his handlers as a success in bio-mental conditioning - until he went off the reservation - and just kept going.
Atrocity hated Virtuous for stopping some of his most "creative" exploits. So he tricked the superhero into trying to stop a runaway tanker truck full of petroleum - except that it was actually full of dioxygen difluoride. And designed to spray it's contents all over anyone trying to get the tanker under control. Or so he claimed, after a PRIMUS team finally brought him in.
The detonation leveled several city blocks. No trace of what was at the centre of the blast was ever determined.

Half-breed son of a Kitsune and the Monkey King..?
 
I'd go for SPD 4 for most starting Bricks, but this guy seems to be a little more on the speedy side, so I'd go for 5.
 

Given the possible background, make it an acrobatics/scrambling movement. I've generally found that it's best to use Flight with the limitation "in or near contact with a surface" as a limitation, as it gets the SFX across without being either too limiting or too complex. Add a meter of clinging for holding on to vertical surfaces.
 

Half-breed son of a Kitsune and the Monkey King..?
 
I'd go for SPD 4 for most starting Bricks, but this guy seems to be a little more on the speedy side, so I'd go for 5.
 

Fire damage shield seems like something to keep the "50 STR is too low for a brick" guy quite. I like it.
 
Sure your only doing 10d6 physical damage, but add whatever the damage the damage shield is doing...
 
Sounds like a flaming brickquet to me. As in charcoal. 

The laundromat conceals the entrance to the base of operations of the local Dark Champions style street hero. One of the washers in the back swings out with a hidden catch, leading to the basement. It can also be accessed through the sewers, and the laundromat serves as a source of additional cash for his war on crime.
The smokeshop, on the other hand, is both the lair and headquarters of one of the more mercenary local street villains.
In both cases they make full use of the fact that their businesses are open 24/7 and one bats an eye at strange people coming in or out. Neither knows of the others' presence.

But what's a super-team without a brick? Several superheroes have fought super-strong, nigh-invulnerable women of diverse appearance, costumes, and pseudonyms. These battles have caused lots, I mean lots of property damage. Factories and businesses have had to shut down because they didn't have insurance against super-battles. Sometimes the female villain got away, though ususally without whatever she came to steal; sometimes she was captured, but another villain teleported her out of jail. (Thank you Bail, here's your tip.)
 
Heroes have not yet realized that all these super-strong female villains are the same woman, variously disguised; nor that the crimes she committed, or tried to commit, were blinds and often the real goal was the property damage. One way Force Majeure can destroy a client's rival is to stage a super-battle. Even sneakier, the group can benefit  a client by staging a super-battle on property that is insured -- whether to destroy evidence of other misdeeds, or just to collect the insurance money.
 
The woman's real code name within Force Majeure? Indemnity.
 
(PS: Another way to profit from super-battles? Short-selling. The process is a little too involved to go into here, but suffice to say there's a way to turn a profit on a stock whose value drops. Unexpected and massive property damage can send the value of a company's stock tumbling. Somebody who knows it was going to happen can make a killing. Force Majeure uses shell companies to profit in this way from companies it attacks, whether from Indemnity's battles, scandals rigged by Corpus Delicti, thefts by De Minimis, other damage by Burakku Kigyo, or just rumors spread by the Litigant. They make at least as much money this way as they get from their clients, and it may indeed be their true "business model.")
 
Dean Shomshak
Oh, is that six? I don't have another team theme at the moment but I know Bolo does, so I pass in favor of him. Take it away, Bolo!
 
Dean Shomshak