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Damn! I so wish I had the talent to do that stuff.

Anti is pejorative. "Alternative Crime Team" is much less offensive to the those engaged in acts that are not standard crimes.

So I'm reading an old National Geographic from the late '70s in the bathroom today, and it mentions that the paint (just the paint!!!) on a modern mid-sized oil tanker weighs 400 tons. Just the paint on the outside of the tanker! 400 tons! Jeez Louise. So my vote for mismatch -- anyone who can casually lift a Supertanker vs. anyone who can't.

... they consider Bulldozer the Master Villain of the campaign. ... if they call in help to battle Green Dragon. ... if they take Foxbat seriously.

I'm an Old Fart too, woo hoo!

Mack Bolan vs. Frank Castle

It wasn't too long after that Robin/Batman confrontation that Dick took up the Nightwing ID, I believe. Marv Wolfman and George Perez really did a lot to make Dick into his own person in the early 80s. He's definitely grown more than Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Wouldn't it be worth it to just buy Rapid Attack instead?

HERO can do realism... just use most of the optional rules, like hit locations and the like, and you'll drop people in one shot. It can also handle people with MGs, tanks, and the like. However, the more "realism" you want, the longer the fight will probably take... though I think that's pretty much standard with any game system.

Doc's 2516 pts. 310 of it in bases. Oh, and the really nasty attack combo... 10D6 RKA + 8D6 Speed Drain MPA...

Has nothing to do with stat inflation, and everything to do with genre emulation. In the comics (at least, until Keith Giffen and JMD poked fun at it), even the out of shape supers are still incredibly good at what they do. They're simply better than "normal" folks, even if they're supposed to be normal themselves. Its part of what makes them superheroes and not just a schmuck in a spanex outfit. So yeah, Pulsar is a high school dropout (and that, btw, doesn't necessarily reflect a lack of intelligence), but is still fairly bright. Or Witchcraft can actually be really dexterous, despite a lifetime spent in study. Why? Because it makes them more heroic... they're cut from better cloth than the average person. Stat inflation, I think, is something that happens when people try to one up each other or their opponents with out regard to character concept. Witchcraft is DEX 20... which is on the low end of DEX in the CU, and fits the character and genre. However, if she's DEX 28 (and thus better than nearly anyone else on the team), while still supposedly a bookworm... that's stat inflation. The key is to compare the characters to other characters at their power level, not to the mooks and red-shirts they're supposed to beat up.

I've always liked Dr. Destroyer. He's got that Darkseid/Thanos thing going now. You don't defeat him, you defeat his plans. And when you do finally defeat him, you know you've reached the pinnacle of being a superhero. He's the shiny brass ring, the top rung of villainy. As for him hiding out? Well, from the backstory, it sounds like when he was in Detroit, -every- superhero in the world pretty much came to battle him. And he was at his old power level, so no 30D6 + 20D6 MPAs... I figure he went into hiding just to let things cool down, as well as to uppower his suit.

But your second version of Batman describes a different character than your first. The first version is a highly trained man who's focussed on training himself for combat. The second version is a man with raw talent that has a bit of fighting experience. Which matches the typical description of Batman? Sometimes the character you're building shouldn't be efficient. Also, I'm working on an Iron Man conversion: http://members.shaw.ca/ogier/forgeiron.htm I welcome comments.

Go to Powers, pick Enhanced Senses, select Rapid and then choose Normal Sight as the option. Take it at two levels. Voila. Universal isn't worth more or less as a limitation, I don't think.

I'd do it with: 6 Hypervision: Rapid (Normal Sight) x100 That'd pretty much cover it, I think.