Hermit

This one got a Liberal Arts degree huh?

She found them.  *whew*

But I'm not winning yet!
 
Seriously this was yet another brilliant draft everyone.

I have to say it...
 
Something Fishy about that

She is! That's how I wrote that Twilight Road bit in Random Musing.

Ugh. So many typos, that's what I get for confusing insomnia for a muse

Ugh. So many typos, that's what I get for confusing insomnia for a muse

The Major 'Super Cities' of Scratch World- USA List
It should be noted that a lot of of the big cities (or a cluster of medium sized cities) have supers. However, there does seem to be an almost drastic difference in style and flavor. Certain types of supers seem drawn to certain areas more than others. Naturally, there are exceptions to this.
 
 
New York City - In this universe, as many others, superhero comic books took off here. With masked men (and women) making their appearance as early as the Great War, great liberties were often taken with the already outlandish tales of such individuals. NYC is a major political and financial power in America  with a rich and important history; add to that, the hub of immigration that was New York City for so many decades and this thriving metropolis has been and , by a narrow margin, remains the city with largest superhero population. Manhattan likes to boast that it has the premiere superhero team: The Manhattan Miracles, but the Miracles of modern times are not half the the heroes the original team of that name were and its greatest strength is probably good funding and good PR. More likely to show and get things done are the Bronx Boom Brigade, and the Brooklyn Knights (Or Brooklynknights if you prefer). The two teams have a shared disdain for the Miracles, and an odd rivalry where they seem to have frequent goes at each other until some out of towner supers show up, upon which they close ranks. Perhaps this is because of the lost of the Queens super team, the Crusaders... who gave their lives foiling a plan of city wide destruction by the arch-villain Lord Typhon. Queens has a growing number of solo heroes, but they seem too independent minded to form a team to replace the Crusaders. Staten Island has no team either but doesn't seem to want one. It does however have the much misunderstood and vilified superhero  Sparrow. NYC has no less than three super-villain teams that each have their own agendas but they don't seem to associate with any particular borough and must stay mobile. There are countess more independent villains.

Atom City, formerly known as Oak Ridge, this city in Anderson County Tennessee has a history cloaked in science, (sane or otherwise), and mutation. In Scratch world, well before even the Manhatten project, there was study done of the superhuman experience, and deadly chemical weapons that, in this reality, sometimes proved mutagenic. While the earliest projects were kept secret, for ease of containment the US government decided to put most of their more off the wall R&D in one major basket they could keep secret. "Secret City" lasted until the 1950s but soon enough the cat was out of the bag and rather than send folks fleeing from the risks of the experiments, it drew more scientists and those who figured the scientists needed goods and or services like anyone on else. Tech companies also developed into the area, and the rest, as they say is history. Atom City is an odd mish mash of Gernsback styling and appearance, a rather seedy underbelly, and mutations both blatant and insidiously concealed. Its the city where flying cars are being tested for public use and the rich already have limited jet packs. It has solar panels on art deco buildings, and tesla coils laced about. It also has high end drug dealers who can sell you a 'superserum' they swear will give you powers, or black listed medical professionals who will install  prototype cybernetics all for the right price. And cold war espionage has given way to IP theft- no big deal unless the IP is for the likes of new sonic canons. Perhaps most frightening is the Changeling Effect. Named after the old stories of fairies replacing mortal children with their own, the Changeling Effect is the termed for the number of Atomic City Youth who seem to randomly develop powers- often years before they're mature enough to use them wisely.  Holding the line is the largest Government sponsored Superhero team in the country- A.T.O.M. Squadron. America's Tomorrow Oversight Militia is said to be what the ATOM acronym stood for, but most agree some clever pencil neck in DC just thought it would sound cool. The Squadron doesn't much care how dated it sounds. For over fifty years they've held the line against the weird, the wild and the wired while dealing with an often jumpy public that calls them fascists if they come on strong, and do nothings if they use the kid gloves. They have rigorous ethical standards set to keep corruption at bay. And thus far, with a few stumbles, they've yet to fall. Currently, their patience is sorely being tested however. One of their numbers, a mutate known as Ionic, passed away recently. She was buried with full honors, and then? Her body dug up.. and rumors of 'super organs' for sale were soon found to be linked to it. They want to find who ever is behind this violation but the higher ups say it's not a priority. The Squadron abides by their orders- for now. 
 
Independent heroes include the Amazing Doctor Zeppelin (third to bear that name) and the technopath who dresses like Neo from the Matrix but calls himself Gybson.

 
Hollywoodland, famous for the landmark sign on the hill, this California dream factory is the home of America's movie industry. This is the place where the beautiful people are in high demand, and few are more beautiful than supers. Athletic bodies seemingly without effort? Faces that could tempt an angel? Hollywoodland can't get enough of folks like that, even if it doesn't always treat them kindly in the long term. Here you'll find men and women with fast healing or greater durability as stuntmen. Here you'll find low grade shape shifters filling in for the real deal (Though there are laws about duplication now regarding trademarks). Technological geniuses who prefer to make art find a home here, and illusion so real you can taste it is their business. And yet, true superheroes find their careers fairly short lived. All it takes is one wrong tweet, one unpopular statement made too close to a witness, or backing the wrong cause and said hero can find themselves facing a force far more dangerous than supervillains; when the crowds in Hollywoodland turn on you, they tend to bring the public of the world with them. Heroes, like people anywhere, tend to be tribal animals, and few can bare the intensity of pariah hood. They leave the city and either try to continue in another location, perhaps under a new guise, or they find themselves hanging up the tights all together. Most of the superheroes coming to Hollywoodland are the sorts who love the idea of being celebrities, and they can do very well for a short time, but the ones who thrive most are often those who frankly don't give a damn and avoid the cameras as much as anyone can in this town. This has lead to something of a problem for Hollywoodland. Superheroes don't hang around as much as some other big cities, but supervillains? Oh they love the place. The narcissistic nasties often thrive on the hate of others. After all, it's still attention! And yet, Hollywoodland has its champions that have endured. Chief among them is the  LGBT superhero team The Agenda, formed in the 1990s, the founders took the name to thumb their nose at the paranoids of the time. Hoping to be rolemodels for those of alternative life styles, they've faced some pretty heavy hitters again and again and saved countless lives- tens of thousands when they stopped an artificial superquake last year. The biggest name in superheroes here might be Mayfly. The identity of Mayfly changes every year. The mantle lasts exactly 365 days, granting the current bearer amazing powers. After which, they die. Obviously, that's 364 more days than your real Mayfly, but the name stuck thanks to the mysterious 'glowing insect' that appears before each person before they choose to touch it and gain the powers at the cost, or disregard and watch it move on. One full year of greatness before death. Many in Hollywoodland would call that a fair deal. Fortunately, the Mayfly mantle chooses people of good conscience and often great need; spurning overly selfish or immoral folks. Hollywoodland's most enduring supervillain is a failed superheroine turned bad now going by the name Crimson Sunset
 
Chicago, the city of Big Shoulders, the Second City, is run officially by a mayor and city council elected by the will of the people. But the real power in  Chicago is the Tellaro family. Perhaps, if they hadn't gained psychic powers, they would have been caught for tax evasion and the like, instead, they've taken early 20th century mentality for ruthlessness, and infused it with their vision of a Utopia- for them that is.  Leopoldo Tellaro, fourth to bear that name, seems a bit young to be a head man of the family. But then he was groomed by his dear great Uncle for the job. In more ways than folks realize. Leopoldo IV has been subsumed by his ancestor, his mind taken over so that an old man could have a young body again. The potent telepath has many such tricks, but the most prized is his ability to unlock psychic powers in others of his bloodline. Most of his family members have lesser powers, some barely any at all, and only those who have proven their loyalty are 'unlocked'. Collectively though, they exert a subconscious influence on the populace that waxes and wanes. While it might be comical to imagine a whole city ful of people adopting the mannerisms of the good fellas, the truth is less funny when you realize how corrupt the police and city council have become under the Tellaro's power. And yet, the Tellaros own imprints work against them. Superheroes abound in Chicago, chiefly of the rough and tumble masked gangbuster type. The vigilantes of this city, even the ones with powers, seem to be a throw back to a hard boiled, anti authoritarian so they won't be kowtowing to bought coppers type. That's because Leopoldo's subconscious direction of the mental influence fears that type of man...or woman and thus they seem resistant to him and his clan.
Heroes who don't fit that mold, at least to some degree, tend to find themselves leaving town for 'reasons'.  But even with a fighting chance, most superheroes can't bring the Mafia family to justice because their grip on the legal authorities remains ironclad. The masked adventurer Nightfall has had enough of Tellaro's corruption of the city, and is forming a group of those ready and able to tear down the profits that feed the mafia machine.... but the Midnight Brigade is not assembled... yet.

Last night I was thinking of a group of supervillains that all wore skulls and related insignia on their costumes.

I was looking at the Black Terror (reimagined as a villain) as an example.
 
The obvious name for such a group would be SKULL. DC has a fairly minor villain group with this name, but I think this could be ignored.
 
Let's see: Society of the Kreative (oops!) Use of Lawlessness and Licentiousness?

Unfortunately, licentiousness, while amusing, isn't the right word here.
 
SKULL could be a bit Hellfire Club-ish, I suppose.

Rainforest Trust does this.

The Major 'Super Cities' of Scratch World- USA List
It should be noted that a lot of of the big cities (or a cluster of medium sized cities) have supers. However, there does seem to be an almost drastic difference in style and flavor. Certain types of supers seem drawn to certain areas more than others. Naturally, there are exceptions to this.
 
 
New York City - In this universe, as many others, superhero comic books took off here. With masked men (and women) making their appearance as early as the Great War, great liberties were often taken with the already outlandish tales of such individuals. NYC is a major political and financial power in America  with a rich and important history; add to that, the hub of immigration that was New York City for so many decades and this thriving metropolis has been and , by a narrow margin, remains the city with largest superhero population. Manhattan likes to boast that it has the premiere superhero team: The Manhattan Miracles, but the Miracles of modern times are not half the the heroes the original team of that name were and its greatest strength is probably good funding and good PR. More likely to show and get things done are the Bronx Boom Brigade, and the Brooklyn Knights (Or Brooklynknights if you prefer). The two teams have a shared disdain for the Miracles, and an odd rivalry where they seem to have frequent goes at each other until some out of towner supers show up, upon which they close ranks. Perhaps this is because of the lost of the Queens super team, the Crusaders... who gave their lives foiling a plan of city wide destruction by the arch-villain Lord Typhon. Queens has a growing number of solo heroes, but they seem too independent minded to form a team to replace the Crusaders. Staten Island has no team either but doesn't seem to want one. It does however have the much misunderstood and vilified superhero  Sparrow. NYC has no less than three super-villain teams that each have their own agendas but they don't seem to associate with any particular borough and must stay mobile. There are countess more independent villains.

Atom City, formerly known as Oak Ridge, this city in Anderson County Tennessee has a history cloaked in science, (sane or otherwise), and mutation. In Scratch world, well before even the Manhatten project, there was study done of the superhuman experience, and deadly chemical weapons that, in this reality, sometimes proved mutagenic. While the earliest projects were kept secret, for ease of containment the US government decided to put most of their more off the wall R&D in one major basket they could keep secret. "Secret City" lasted until the 1950s but soon enough the cat was out of the bag and rather than send folks fleeing from the risks of the experiments, it drew more scientists and those who figured the scientists needed goods and or services like anyone on else. Tech companies also developed into the area, and the rest, as they say is history. Atom City is an odd mish mash of Gernsback styling and appearance, a rather seedy underbelly, and mutations both blatant and insidiously concealed. Its the city where flying cars are being tested for public use and the rich already have limited jet packs. It has solar panels on art deco buildings, and tesla coils laced about. It also has high end drug dealers who can sell you a 'superserum' they swear will give you powers, or black listed medical professionals who will install  prototype cybernetics all for the right price. And cold war espionage has given way to IP theft- no big deal unless the IP is for the likes of new sonic canons. Perhaps most frightening is the Changeling Effect. Named after the old stories of fairies replacing mortal children with their own, the Changeling Effect is the termed for the number of Atomic City Youth who seem to randomly develop powers- often years before they're mature enough to use them wisely.  Holding the line is the largest Government sponsored Superhero team in the country- A.T.O.M. Squadron. America's Tomorrow Oversight Militia is said to be what the ATOM acronym stood for, but most agree some clever pencil neck in DC just thought it would sound cool. The Squadron doesn't much care how dated it sounds. For over fifty years they've held the line against the weird, the wild and the wired while dealing with an often jumpy public that calls them fascists if they come on strong, and do nothings if they use the kid gloves. They have rigorous ethical standards set to keep corruption at bay. And thus far, with a few stumbles, they've yet to fall. Currently, their patience is sorely being tested however. One of their numbers, a mutate known as Ionic, passed away recently. She was buried with full honors, and then? Her body dug up.. and rumors of 'super organs' for sale were soon found to be linked to it. They want to find who ever is behind this violation but the higher ups say it's not a priority. The Squadron abides by their orders- for now. 
 
Independent heroes include the Amazing Doctor Zeppelin (third to bear that name) and the technopath who dresses like Neo from the Matrix but calls himself Gybson.

 
Hollywoodland, famous for the landmark sign on the hill, this California dream factory is the home of America's movie industry. This is the place where the beautiful people are in high demand, and few are more beautiful than supers. Athletic bodies seemingly without effort? Faces that could tempt an angel? Hollywoodland can't get enough of folks like that, even if it doesn't always treat them kindly in the long term. Here you'll find men and women with fast healing or greater durability as stuntmen. Here you'll find low grade shape shifters filling in for the real deal (Though there are laws about duplication now regarding trademarks). Technological geniuses who prefer to make art find a home here, and illusion so real you can taste it is their business. And yet, true superheroes find their careers fairly short lived. All it takes is one wrong tweet, one unpopular statement made too close to a witness, or backing the wrong cause and said hero can find themselves facing a force far more dangerous than supervillains; when the crowds in Hollywoodland turn on you, they tend to bring the public of the world with them. Heroes, like people anywhere, tend to be tribal animals, and few can bare the intensity of pariah hood. They leave the city and either try to continue in another location, perhaps under a new guise, or they find themselves hanging up the tights all together. Most of the superheroes coming to Hollywoodland are the sorts who love the idea of being celebrities, and they can do very well for a short time, but the ones who thrive most are often those who frankly don't give a damn and avoid the cameras as much as anyone can in this town. This has lead to something of a problem for Hollywoodland. Superheroes don't hang around as much as some other big cities, but supervillains? Oh they love the place. The narcissistic nasties often thrive on the hate of others. After all, it's still attention! And yet, Hollywoodland has its champions that have endured. Chief among them is the  LGBT superhero team The Agenda, formed in the 1990s, the founders took the name to thumb their nose at the paranoids of the time. Hoping to be rolemodels for those of alternative life styles, they've faced some pretty heavy hitters again and again and saved countless lives- tens of thousands when they stopped an artificial superquake last year. The biggest name in superheroes here might be Mayfly. The identity of Mayfly changes every year. The mantle lasts exactly 365 days, granting the current bearer amazing powers. After which, they die. Obviously, that's 364 more days than your real Mayfly, but the name stuck thanks to the mysterious 'glowing insect' that appears before each person before they choose to touch it and gain the powers at the cost, or disregard and watch it move on. One full year of greatness before death. Many in Hollywoodland would call that a fair deal. Fortunately, the Mayfly mantle chooses people of good conscience and often great need; spurning overly selfish or immoral folks. Hollywoodland's most enduring supervillain is a failed superheroine turned bad now going by the name Crimson Sunset
 
Chicago, the city of Big Shoulders, the Second City, is run officially by a mayor and city council elected by the will of the people. But the real power in  Chicago is the Tellaro family. Perhaps, if they hadn't gained psychic powers, they would have been caught for tax evasion and the like, instead, they've taken early 20th century mentality for ruthlessness, and infused it with their vision of a Utopia- for them that is.  Leopoldo Tellaro, fourth to bear that name, seems a bit young to be a head man of the family. But then he was groomed by his dear great Uncle for the job. In more ways than folks realize. Leopoldo IV has been subsumed by his ancestor, his mind taken over so that an old man could have a young body again. The potent telepath has many such tricks, but the most prized is his ability to unlock psychic powers in others of his bloodline. Most of his family members have lesser powers, some barely any at all, and only those who have proven their loyalty are 'unlocked'. Collectively though, they exert a subconscious influence on the populace that waxes and wanes. While it might be comical to imagine a whole city ful of people adopting the mannerisms of the good fellas, the truth is less funny when you realize how corrupt the police and city council have become under the Tellaro's power. And yet, the Tellaros own imprints work against them. Superheroes abound in Chicago, chiefly of the rough and tumble masked gangbuster type. The vigilantes of this city, even the ones with powers, seem to be a throw back to a hard boiled, anti authoritarian so they won't be kowtowing to bought coppers type. That's because Leopoldo's subconscious direction of the mental influence fears that type of man...or woman and thus they seem resistant to him and his clan.
Heroes who don't fit that mold, at least to some degree, tend to find themselves leaving town for 'reasons'.  But even with a fighting chance, most superheroes can't bring the Mafia family to justice because their grip on the legal authorities remains ironclad. The masked adventurer Nightfall has had enough of Tellaro's corruption of the city, and is forming a group of those ready and able to tear down the profits that feed the mafia machine.... but the Midnight Brigade is not assembled... yet.

Will try, no promises 😄
 

I bet you were surprised to get a fortune cookie in an Italian Restaurant.

The Major 'Super Cities' of Scratch World- USA List
It should be noted that a lot of of the big cities (or a cluster of medium sized cities) have supers. However, there does seem to be an almost drastic difference in style and flavor. Certain types of supers seem drawn to certain areas more than others. Naturally, there are exceptions to this.
 
 
New York City - In this universe, as many others, superhero comic books took off here. With masked men (and women) making their appearance as early as the Great War, great liberties were often taken with the already outlandish tales of such individuals. NYC is a major political and financial power in America  with a rich and important history; add to that, the hub of immigration that was New York City for so many decades and this thriving metropolis has been and , by a narrow margin, remains the city with largest superhero population. Manhattan likes to boast that it has the premiere superhero team: The Manhattan Miracles, but the Miracles of modern times are not half the the heroes the original team of that name were and its greatest strength is probably good funding and good PR. More likely to show and get things done are the Bronx Boom Brigade, and the Brooklyn Knights (Or Brooklynknights if you prefer). The two teams have a shared disdain for the Miracles, and an odd rivalry where they seem to have frequent goes at each other until some out of towner supers show up, upon which they close ranks. Perhaps this is because of the lost of the Queens super team, the Crusaders... who gave their lives foiling a plan of city wide destruction by the arch-villain Lord Typhon. Queens has a growing number of solo heroes, but they seem too independent minded to form a team to replace the Crusaders. Staten Island has no team either but doesn't seem to want one. It does however have the much misunderstood and vilified superhero  Sparrow. NYC has no less than three super-villain teams that each have their own agendas but they don't seem to associate with any particular borough and must stay mobile. There are countess more independent villains.

Atom City, formerly known as Oak Ridge, this city in Anderson County Tennessee has a history cloaked in science, (sane or otherwise), and mutation. In Scratch world, well before even the Manhatten project, there was study done of the superhuman experience, and deadly chemical weapons that, in this reality, sometimes proved mutagenic. While the earliest projects were kept secret, for ease of containment the US government decided to put most of their more off the wall R&D in one major basket they could keep secret. "Secret City" lasted until the 1950s but soon enough the cat was out of the bag and rather than send folks fleeing from the risks of the experiments, it drew more scientists and those who figured the scientists needed goods and or services like anyone on else. Tech companies also developed into the area, and the rest, as they say is history. Atom City is an odd mish mash of Gernsback styling and appearance, a rather seedy underbelly, and mutations both blatant and insidiously concealed. Its the city where flying cars are being tested for public use and the rich already have limited jet packs. It has solar panels on art deco buildings, and tesla coils laced about. It also has high end drug dealers who can sell you a 'superserum' they swear will give you powers, or black listed medical professionals who will install  prototype cybernetics all for the right price. And cold war espionage has given way to IP theft- no big deal unless the IP is for the likes of new sonic canons. Perhaps most frightening is the Changeling Effect. Named after the old stories of fairies replacing mortal children with their own, the Changeling Effect is the termed for the number of Atomic City Youth who seem to randomly develop powers- often years before they're mature enough to use them wisely.  Holding the line is the largest Government sponsored Superhero team in the country- A.T.O.M. Squadron. America's Tomorrow Oversight Militia is said to be what the ATOM acronym stood for, but most agree some clever pencil neck in DC just thought it would sound cool. The Squadron doesn't much care how dated it sounds. For over fifty years they've held the line against the weird, the wild and the wired while dealing with an often jumpy public that calls them fascists if they come on strong, and do nothings if they use the kid gloves. They have rigorous ethical standards set to keep corruption at bay. And thus far, with a few stumbles, they've yet to fall. Currently, their patience is sorely being tested however. One of their numbers, a mutate known as Ionic, passed away recently. She was buried with full honors, and then? Her body dug up.. and rumors of 'super organs' for sale were soon found to be linked to it. They want to find who ever is behind this violation but the higher ups say it's not a priority. The Squadron abides by their orders- for now. 
 
Independent heroes include the Amazing Doctor Zeppelin (third to bear that name) and the technopath who dresses like Neo from the Matrix but calls himself Gybson.

 
Hollywoodland, famous for the landmark sign on the hill, this California dream factory is the home of America's movie industry. This is the place where the beautiful people are in high demand, and few are more beautiful than supers. Athletic bodies seemingly without effort? Faces that could tempt an angel? Hollywoodland can't get enough of folks like that, even if it doesn't always treat them kindly in the long term. Here you'll find men and women with fast healing or greater durability as stuntmen. Here you'll find low grade shape shifters filling in for the real deal (Though there are laws about duplication now regarding trademarks). Technological geniuses who prefer to make art find a home here, and illusion so real you can taste it is their business. And yet, true superheroes find their careers fairly short lived. All it takes is one wrong tweet, one unpopular statement made too close to a witness, or backing the wrong cause and said hero can find themselves facing a force far more dangerous than supervillains; when the crowds in Hollywoodland turn on you, they tend to bring the public of the world with them. Heroes, like people anywhere, tend to be tribal animals, and few can bare the intensity of pariah hood. They leave the city and either try to continue in another location, perhaps under a new guise, or they find themselves hanging up the tights all together. Most of the superheroes coming to Hollywoodland are the sorts who love the idea of being celebrities, and they can do very well for a short time, but the ones who thrive most are often those who frankly don't give a damn and avoid the cameras as much as anyone can in this town. This has lead to something of a problem for Hollywoodland. Superheroes don't hang around as much as some other big cities, but supervillains? Oh they love the place. The narcissistic nasties often thrive on the hate of others. After all, it's still attention! And yet, Hollywoodland has its champions that have endured. Chief among them is the  LGBT superhero team The Agenda, formed in the 1990s, the founders took the name to thumb their nose at the paranoids of the time. Hoping to be rolemodels for those of alternative life styles, they've faced some pretty heavy hitters again and again and saved countless lives- tens of thousands when they stopped an artificial superquake last year. The biggest name in superheroes here might be Mayfly. The identity of Mayfly changes every year. The mantle lasts exactly 365 days, granting the current bearer amazing powers. After which, they die. Obviously, that's 364 more days than your real Mayfly, but the name stuck thanks to the mysterious 'glowing insect' that appears before each person before they choose to touch it and gain the powers at the cost, or disregard and watch it move on. One full year of greatness before death. Many in Hollywoodland would call that a fair deal. Fortunately, the Mayfly mantle chooses people of good conscience and often great need; spurning overly selfish or immoral folks. Hollywoodland's most enduring supervillain is a failed superheroine turned bad now going by the name Crimson Sunset
 
Chicago, the city of Big Shoulders, the Second City, is run officially by a mayor and city council elected by the will of the people. But the real power in  Chicago is the Tellaro family. Perhaps, if they hadn't gained psychic powers, they would have been caught for tax evasion and the like, instead, they've taken early 20th century mentality for ruthlessness, and infused it with their vision of a Utopia- for them that is.  Leopoldo Tellaro, fourth to bear that name, seems a bit young to be a head man of the family. But then he was groomed by his dear great Uncle for the job. In more ways than folks realize. Leopoldo IV has been subsumed by his ancestor, his mind taken over so that an old man could have a young body again. The potent telepath has many such tricks, but the most prized is his ability to unlock psychic powers in others of his bloodline. Most of his family members have lesser powers, some barely any at all, and only those who have proven their loyalty are 'unlocked'. Collectively though, they exert a subconscious influence on the populace that waxes and wanes. While it might be comical to imagine a whole city ful of people adopting the mannerisms of the good fellas, the truth is less funny when you realize how corrupt the police and city council have become under the Tellaro's power. And yet, the Tellaros own imprints work against them. Superheroes abound in Chicago, chiefly of the rough and tumble masked gangbuster type. The vigilantes of this city, even the ones with powers, seem to be a throw back to a hard boiled, anti authoritarian so they won't be kowtowing to bought coppers type. That's because Leopoldo's subconscious direction of the mental influence fears that type of man...or woman and thus they seem resistant to him and his clan.
Heroes who don't fit that mold, at least to some degree, tend to find themselves leaving town for 'reasons'.  But even with a fighting chance, most superheroes can't bring the Mafia family to justice because their grip on the legal authorities remains ironclad. The masked adventurer Nightfall has had enough of Tellaro's corruption of the city, and is forming a group of those ready and able to tear down the profits that feed the mafia machine.... but the Midnight Brigade is not assembled... yet.

Shazam.
 
Again.
 
And again and again and again and pretty much since I bought it.
 
At this point, it has become the movie I have seen more times than any other movie, to include Adventures In Babysitting (personal favorite).

Not film related, but TV. 
 
Black Lightening is getting its own super team the Outsiders.
https://apple.news/AVoQueh87Sja1E0iJpL-rDw

Meanwhile... in the UK politics
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49493632

The red rush is damned and the fire sputters within the gray chalice. The song approaches its crescendo but the singer has no strength. Gaia's circle shrinks and the lines are barbed. I shut my eyes but fear the rest.
 
 

Summon the sockpuppets!

Godzilla and Middle-Earth?

And Again!
 
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1177.html

Not to mention the Champions Universe's Empyreans.

Penzance is safe !
Huzzah !

Well, to be more clear, my sockpuppets don't vote for *themselves* ...

And Again!
 
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1177.html