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    Quackhell got a reaction from death tribble in Create a Hero Theme Team!   
    The dashing, daring, and debonair Mako Magnifico pilots the SabreShark Supercycle.  Mako has cybernetic implants to enhance his reflexes to handle the high speeds that the SabreShark is capable of and his strength to keep it under control. His weapons include a laser katana array, micro missle cluster launchers and for defense he relies on his speed and his heightened reflexes to dodge attacks. He is a bit cocky and at times takes unnecessary risks, but he will put his ego in check when it comes to helping those in need.
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    Quackhell reacted to csyphrett in Create a Hero Theme Team!   
    Griem Ghast drives the Spooky Spoiler. This silvery dagger has a skull for the front, and fog for the exhaust. It's main weapons are poltergeists, while defensively it is usually untouchable as it makes its ghostly way along the highways and biways of the country that is home to the race that year. 
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    Once a year, eight racers use a route that cross part of the globe before moving on to the next planet on the route. Their machines are some of the fastest, most well armed vehicles ever seen. And the drivers aren't afraid to do some rescue work on the side even if costs them time.
     
    Who are the heroic Star Car drivers and the names of their machines.
     
    (I know we did a similar thing for the villain list, and probably one for this list too. I'm trying to stir up the story machine.
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    The ESPies' last member is the Ghost Mask. A master of espionage and infiltration, no one has seen the real face of the Ghost Mask, or learned his ability to mentally possess others is so good, he can pass for anyone anywhere while remaining locked in his room trying to figure out how to play the latest computer game.
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    Quackhell reacted to csyphrett in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    Ryuto Nakamara is the villainous  devourer of all that is good known as the Kyoto Kama Killing Katana of Kelp. He has two related powers that he loves above all else and claims are better than any others. The first is the ability to grow a kelpish plant to attack any obstacle with its long tentacle like leaves. Then the leaves can eat that substance if he wishes.
     
    Nakamara has only taken this job as a temporary shelter since he is on the run from most of the superheroines and villianesses in his native Japan for his use of his kelp on costumes, and taking pictures of the results.
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    Quackhell reacted to death tribble in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    'You want a talking monkey ?'
    'Yes'
    'You want a talking monkey'
    'Yes'
    'How am I supposed to be taking seriously if one of the gang is a talking monkey ?'
    'Then for starters you should not be working with me. Also aren't you the one who is credited with The Candelabra Cavalcade, the Hour of the Spotted Lemur and Buy One, Get One and Flee Screaming ?'
    'And it would have worked if it weren't for those meddling kids !' the Bat sighed. 'Alright anything else ?'
    'I've developed a weapon for him that will knock out pesky interlopers'
    The Viridian Bat sighed, it was going to be one of those was it ?
    Grokk the Talking Monkey with a Zap Gun is an intelligent monkey armed with what looks like a laser pistol. This will render people unconscious or at least make people stay at range. Grokk has been described as a Capuchin and also a Golden Tamarin which do not look alike. He understands and speaks English although he can understand French and Spanish and also supposedly several Chinese languages. He is larger than a normal monkey of his supposed species. He is also skilled at 'dirty infighting like poking people in the eyes and tripping them up. Telepaths believe that he is doing this for the thrill of it.
     
    Over a decade and a half ago Dynamo worked on compiling a list of over 3,000 names for superheroes, villains and vigilantes after a comment in the Champions Universe book (if I recall correctly) about there being about 3,000 paranormal people in the world. and so the board went about completing a list. Grokk was one of the named who generated debate as to whether you should have silly ones in the list. So I have recalled him for the group.
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    Quackhell reacted to steriaca in Supers Image game   
    Quackhell for the win.
     
    The character, by the way, is Sailor Titan, my fan senshi. She was arted by my bestie in Sailor Moon Amino, Faun.
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    Quackhell reacted to steriaca in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    Walter Walkabout was an anamatronic humanoid wallabe and star and lead singer of the children's show The Chocolate Sundaes. They were on the air for about twenty-five years before finally given the axe by the network. Walter was the only one of the four robot band to excape in resemblance of 'alive' thinking mechanical beings can get.
     
    Eventually he came across Dr. Nymax!, and he joined the Lucky 13 to pay for his maintenance and eventually reactivation of the other three. He is a light brick in a silly wallabe costume and speaks in a silly Australian accent. He has a huge pouch to put things in and take things out of. And he has a boomerang. Only one. And he doesn't know how to throw it.
     


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    Quackhell reacted to death tribble in Create a Hero Theme Team!   
    Travelling Show
     
    This member of the group can entrance a target and make them believe that something else is happening but the more disruption, i.e. noise, that is happening in the vicinity the harder it is to do. They also can only work their mojo on one person or animal not an entire group.
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    Quackhell reacted to death tribble in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    The last member of the team is the one that is only used where necessary. Gorger. He eats whatever it is and that is the end of that. It can be inorganic or organic. And it does not have to be dead. And the length of death does not matter either. Super Visor hates using him but sometimes the ends justify the means. There are tales that Gorger has eaten a lorry from cab to container, a tank and an entire apartment block but come on nobody could do that. Could they ? 
     
    New Team: Lucky 13
    It is the ultimate nightmare scenario ! The Viridian Bat teamed up with Dr Nymax! and created the infamy that was ever afterwards known as It Always Rains on Tuesdays caper.
    Your mission should you choose to accept it is to detail one of the Lucky 13 with the following provisos:-
    There can be no more than 4 of anyone archetype i.e. bricks, martial artists, armour wearers, energy projectors or intelligent talking cats
    Neither of the masterminds is overly fond of psychopathic killers so no more than one of these and that would probably be a 'Cleaner'
    None of the 13 have to have anything to do with rain, water or Tuesdays.
    They should not be really powerful i.e. Superman class
    Any nationality is permitted but make sure they can communicate with the others.
    None of them should have 'the greatest luck in the world' or 'unluck' at any level
    They should be able to work with each other so a walking nuclear reactor that would kill the rest is right out.
    There should be at least 2 of each gender minimum.
     
    Let's get to seven members and see if anyone wants to continue.
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    Quackhell got a reaction from steriaca in Supers Image game   
    Subject 752 is the greatest success of the Kobayashi Institute thus far as the 12 year old boy had survived his treatments of Project: NEOGEN and had developed abilities and gained full control of them almost immediately. Most importantly he was fully under control of government liaison "Mr. Sakura(Cherry Blossom)". 752 can summon a bio-electric ectoplasmic shell around his body that takes various forms. This one he calls Sailor Star. While this shell is active he can fly and shoot bolts of bio-electricity and is highly resistant to attacks. He can also summon a giant robot form, a kaiju monster that breaths bolts of energy and a wise cracking boyishly handsome man wielding a ridiculously huge sword that is somehow also a gun.
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    Quackhell reacted to steriaca in Supers Image game   
    Let's see what this one brings...
     
    (Your free to ignore the sailor uniform by the way.)
     
     

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    Quackhell got a reaction from archer in Supers Image game   
    I was hoping for one more entry, but with two really good ones I don't think there is any reason to hold off. Mark O.N.E gets the nod as I like the versatility of the powers and dual hero/villain nature of the character. Steriaca the next image is yours.
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    Quackhell reacted to csyphrett in Create a Hero Theme Team!   
    Sometimes you need someone who can go toe to toe with a target, and not nuke everything from orbit. You need someone like Kurogane, a man who reads what others intend, and acts accordingly. The fact that he can strike the target's nervous system with any weapon he picks up is a bonus.
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    Quackhell reacted to BoloOfEarth in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    I'm not counting Super Visor as one of the 6, since she was provided in the OP for this team. 
     
    Sometimes, you can't just bump off all the witnesses - that's where you need StoMem.  Short for Stolen Memory, he's a psion with a limited power: the ability to completely erase someone's short-term memory.  (He can read people's short term memories prior to erasing them, which he often does to make sure somebody else didn't slip through the cracks before The Cleaners arrived.)
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    Quackhell reacted to death tribble in Create a Villain Theme Team!   
    Spring Clean
     
    If you want your boudoir of blood to look like a Victorian living room then you need Spring Clean. This villainess has the ability to wash a room removing such unsightly things as fingerprints and say incriminating footprints so they are spick and span as if they have never been used. This is a dead give away to the police.that she has been there or that someone has cleaned up. She lets Spatter do his bit first before she gets to work but she can clean up blood if her colleague is not around. He just does it better. 
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    Cody Garret is Spatter. His job revolves around his ability to command blood. His primary function is policing blood stains from the crime scene in case of a messy death
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    Overlook
     
    This member of the team has a version of precognition or farsight that enables him to view what is going on over a long distance. He has also learned to lip read so that he can determine what people are saying as well. Any form of darkness or fog can mask what he can see but he can pass on the general direction of the enemy. He can be vulnerable to attack so someone usually stays with him to protect him.  He can zoom in and out with his gift.
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    Nora Inu is the muscle of the team. Her command of telekinesis is so great she can change matter at the atomic level. Her code name is Mindspear.
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    Marvin Mencer found mystical gauntlets which, if Marvin decided he wants something gone, and is holding such an object, "gets rid" of said object. He doesn't know exactly how, just that it doesn't work on living things with a life force (but deals quite well with corpses). He is given the code name Remover, mostly because Eraser was already taken.
     


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    Jack Gadfrey was very proud of his father, who was an accomplished scientist and engineer. Unfortunately, his father felt he needed more than accolades and a comfy salary so sought out funding from VIPER for a couple of his more...ambitious projects.
     
    When those projects didn't show rapid results, the leader of the local VIPER nest decided he'd been defrauded. Mark's father and mother were assassinated in an afternoon raid on his father's home lab, a lab which VIPER cleared out almost down to the bare floors.
     
    However when Mark came home from school and found his parents' bodies, he also found a large crate in the kitchen which had been scheduled for a UPS pickup. Inside the crate, Mark found an over-sized pair of high tech gauntlet weapons, instructions on how to use them, and a large bottle of expensive liquor with an attached note of apology to the leader of the local VIPER nest for delivery taking much longer than expected.
     
    Jack drank part of the bottle of liquor to boost his courage, donned the gauntlets, and went to the address on the package to avenge his parents' death.
     
    The business at that address turned out to be little more than a VIPER front but that was more than enough for Jack to wring out the location of the actual nest from the survivor.
     
    The nest never knew what hit them.
     
    PowerJack was born.
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    Quackhell reacted to steriaca in Supers Image game   
    This is the teenage android Mark O.N.E.. He was built to be able to generate and store incredible amounts of electricity, and to morph his hands/arms/legs/feat into various tools. Pictured here is his Lifter Hands (incresed Strength only for lifting and carring). He is still exploring the vast capabilities of his android body.
     
    He is not exactly a superhero or a supervillain. He is still struggling to find his own place in the world, and the reason why he was built and programed the way he is. In fact, he has no memory of who created him. This, one moment he saves people from a burning building, another moment he is robbing a bank.
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    Quackhell reacted to Hermit in A superhero setting from Scratch   
    Ugh. So many typos, that's what I get for confusing insomnia for a muse
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    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.
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    Quackhell reacted to wcw43921 in Supers Image game   
    As BoloOfEarth said, Quackhell knocked this one out of the park.  Now I want my own Blazer Sword.
     
    Good Job, Quackhell.  Post the next image, if you please.  (And Thanks to Bolo and archer for not making it a one-and-done.)
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