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Which leaves only treason.
 
Lucifer, Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling. Pierre Laval, Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, William 'Lord Haw Haw' Joyce and Griff the Wonder Collie. All well known traitors whose actions need no further explanation. To this list must now be added the name of Gilbert Reinhardt who has sold out the human race. He was not a well known villain like a DEMON Morbane or a Viper Nest leader. However he saw an opportunity and took it. Now under the name of Stearno he plots the downfall not only of governments but the whole human race.
 
Next one to post can choose the new team

Father An Ran should have known better than to read the books in the forbidden section of the Church's library. He should have known better to say the words inside some of them. He definitely should not have agreed to the deal no matter what. Now he attacks the Catholic church with his clerical powers, doing whatever he can to weaken its standing as a force for good
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Stygian Destroyer
 
Representing the Fifth Circle: Wrath is Tariq Nassar. Nassar was a occultist who after much effort acquired the Dagger of Thoth-Amon. He used it  to summon the waters of the River Styx and conduct a ritual of bathing in a mixture of the waters and blood of seven sacrificial souls. He sought god like power, but instead was transformed into a monstrous raging beast. He went on a rampage of destruction and slaughter only to return to the waters and go into an inert state where his mind continued to brim with hate until the next awakening. The Nine Circles managed to discover his location and used some mystic wards to gain control of the monster and now use it as a weapon to destroy their enemies and foster panic and mayhem in the world. The Destroyer is 20 feet tall, immensely powerful, seemingly indestructible and bleeds and can vomit poisonous stygian waters.

Shazala, Mistress of Desire
 
Who better to exemplify Lust than a succubus ? And this is Shazala, Mistress of Desire. She is beautiful and has ensured that she can appear as such to men and women and cause them to do things for her. She cannot be made to look ugly even when sporting a pair of subtle horns and wings. She has made deals with wizards and others to preserve her life and figure and is the oldest of the group although she does not let on as such. She prefers to cause others to fight for her although she can defend herself. Her tactics usually involve her teleporting away or using invisibility or darkness to hide. She will allow her victims to satiate their desires as she finds it easier to control people as a result. She also defers to the others as to who is in charge. It makes them more of a target than her   

So all the fun ones, eh ? So we continue

The villain known as Storehouse is a kleptomaniac. He steals things and keeps them in his body until he needs them.  In a battle with police and local superheroes, he dropped the contents of a furniture warehouse on his enemy, and then the building itself. No one knows what his upper limit is, and most heroes worry what will happen if he tries to use his power on the whole planet instead of parts.
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Stärker
 
Ilsa Shaw represents the Seventh Circle, Violence. A mutant whose power to absorb and transform physical pain into heightened strength, toughness and restorative healing emerged while she was being beaten by her abusive mother. Suddenly filled with power IIsa lashed out and broke her mother's arm. Ilsa engaged in self harm after this in order to again feel that rush of power. When she got in a fight with bullies much older than her and ended up savagely beating them, the news report garnered the attention of Dr. Blanc from the Institut De L'étrange . He recruited her and trained her to utilize her powers to the utmost. Several years after proving herself as muscle for hire she was selected by the newest version of the 9 Circles.
 
In battle she wears a blood red suit of body armor that is equipped with a shock device that allows her to "jump start" her before a fight. She will always go after the biggest and strongest target and goad them into hand to hand combat in order to maximize her abilities. She has become addicted to physical pain and is always seeking new ways fulfill this need.

Simplifier
 
This member of the group looks at the making of graven images and works to change people's minds. However the cult of celebrity has given him problems as some have suggested he should kill the celebrities or destroy the magazines that make them idols. He wears a simple uniform that resembles a lower member of the church with a black tunic and a white tie. Most of the time Simplifier will try and talk someone out of the worship of idols but if he is facing an idol such as gargoyle he is empowered and can blast the idol to pieces with holy power. This has also been the fate of demons who can also be considered as idols.
Simplifier wears a bullet proof layer as some of the foes have sent gunmen to kill what they see as the weakest member of the team.. He also knows first aid and has some martial arts knowledge mainly for self defence.

The Nazi cloning program just didn't go as planned.
 
The Hitler fetus was successfully implanted in the involuntary donor womb. But something happened during the data download in the third trimester. The mother went into premature labor as the fetus started to grow at an astonishing rate. The c-section was too late to save the mother's life but that was inconsequential to the program: the child survived.
 
Unfortunately for the scientists, the baby continued to mature and grow into an adolescent within days then killed the scientists.
 
The new man was born. The superior man. What was supposed to be the perfect man. But regardless, this is the day for the H-Man!
 
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The information download into the unborn H-Man was supposed to include all of Hitler's memories, all of Nazi Germany's super-science knowledge, and all of the military expertise of Germany's top people. And it might have worked if the scientist hadn't kept thinking of additional information to include such as current events, pop culture, superheroes, the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia, and on and on.
 
As it is, H-Man knows his previous incarnation was as Hitler and he has some fuzzy memories of that life. He has a voracious appetite for drugs. He has disdain for anyone who he considers to be his inferiors but isn't quite psychotic about it. The super-science and military knowledge is intact along with much of the knowledge about the current world. And he knows that Nazi scientists would like nothing more than to catch and dissect him to figure out what went wrong so they could start over. 
 
H-Man hasn't decided whether he's a hero (in his own mind), a villain, or a politician: he's been too busy raiding secret Nazi warehouses for resources and establishing the connections needed to keep him supplied with illicit pharmaceuticals for both recreation and work.
 
He has, however, decided that he hates being an adolescent and hates being short and hates being reminded of both of those facts: his astounding growth rate stalled out well before adulthood. At this point, H-Man doesn't know whether he will age normally to become an adult over the coming years, whether he's stuck being an adolescent, or whether he's stuck being an adolescent forever. You see, the process which brought him to life was supposed to give him an immortal body as well.
 
The prospect of being a short adolescent forever has, somewhat understandably, been an irritation during his (ahem) short life.
 
But regardless, the show must go on. Stay in America? Take over Germany? Get revenge on Russia? Fight superheroes? Fight supervillains? Subvert superheroes? Gather supervillains? So much to do and so...much...time in which to do it.
 
But youthful hormones are bubbling and it won't be long until H-Man takes the stage...to do something...something epic?
 
"Should I take the red pill? Should I take the blue pill? Screw it, I'll take both along with a couple of the pinks. What's the worst that could happen?"

"Servobot! Dictate the following."
 
Servobot: "YES SIR!"
 
"I Billy Lipniski have tired of  being surrounded by idiots and fools. By the uneducated masses and rubes. Also I tire of having my allowance being so low. Ridiculous! How am I supposed to build my Stupendous Devastationator Cannon with 5 dollars a week? Impossible...no strike that!"
 
Servobot: "STRIKEN SIR!!"
 
Billy: "As a genius of the highest level I can overcome any obstacle. I will become a master villain. I shall be the bane of all dums dums and dullards. Authorities will quiver at the mere mention of my name!"
 
Servobot: "APOLOGIES SIR, BUT THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE. BILLY LIPNISKI CALULACTES OUT TO .00000451 ON MY INTIMDATION-O-METER."
 
Billy: "Silence you bucket of bolts! I will not use my given name. No I shall be....HEL..."
 
"LANGUAGE!!"
 
Billy: "Er...sorry Mombot...I shall hence forth be known as HECKRAISER!!! Muhahahaha!!!"
 
Servobot: "EXCELLENT EVIL LIFE SIR. BRAVO"
 
Heckrasier: "Stop sucking up Servobot...I shall spare you the compactor...this time. Now let's get back to work on my fully functioning super cool Light Sab..."
 
Servobot: "SIR. PERHAPS ANOTHER NAME? YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SUED BY...THEM."
 
Heckraiser: "Hmmmm....indeed Servobot...not even a supervillain as brilliant as I will be can stand up to the Mouse and his Evil Empire. So....let's call it the Blazer Sword. Yes...that will work just fine. Beware planet Earth....Tomorrow you meet your new master!"
 
 

"Servobot! Dictate the following."
 
Servobot: "YES SIR!"
 
"I Billy Lipniski have tired of  being surrounded by idiots and fools. By the uneducated masses and rubes. Also I tire of having my allowance being so low. Ridiculous! How am I supposed to build my Stupendous Devastationator Cannon with 5 dollars a week? Impossible...no strike that!"
 
Servobot: "STRIKEN SIR!!"
 
Billy: "As a genius of the highest level I can overcome any obstacle. I will become a master villain. I shall be the bane of all dums dums and dullards. Authorities will quiver at the mere mention of my name!"
 
Servobot: "APOLOGIES SIR, BUT THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE. BILLY LIPNISKI CALULACTES OUT TO .00000451 ON MY INTIMDATION-O-METER."
 
Billy: "Silence you bucket of bolts! I will not use my given name. No I shall be....HEL..."
 
"LANGUAGE!!"
 
Billy: "Er...sorry Mombot...I shall hence forth be known as HECKRAISER!!! Muhahahaha!!!"
 
Servobot: "EXCELLENT EVIL LIFE SIR. BRAVO"
 
Heckrasier: "Stop sucking up Servobot...I shall spare you the compactor...this time. Now let's get back to work on my fully functioning super cool Light Sab..."
 
Servobot: "SIR. PERHAPS ANOTHER NAME? YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SUED BY...THEM."
 
Heckraiser: "Hmmmm....indeed Servobot...not even a supervillain as brilliant as I will be can stand up to the Mouse and his Evil Empire. So....let's call it the Blazer Sword. Yes...that will work just fine. Beware planet Earth....Tomorrow you meet your new master!"
 
 

Geez, Quackhell couldn't even let me put out a mediocre post before he knocks one out of the park.    Anyway, here goes...
 
>>> Rejected Submission to UNTIL Supercriminal Tactical Reference Manual  <<<
Subject:  Hubert Humphries
Category:  Supergenius
Power Origin:  Subject Hubert Humphries, age 10, exhibits incredible technical intelligence (albeit not so much common sense), evidenced by his building an energy sword, anti-grav scooter, and other similar high-tech devices to aid him in his self-proclaimed "War against Crime."  It is believed subject's engineering acumen is the result of a genetic mutation.  Subject also claims to have been bitten by a "radioactive man" and says he now has the "proportionate strength of a fully grown adult male."  Note that the reporting agent specifies "technical intelligence" -- true intelligence is questionable, owing both to this latter claim as well as subject's chosen superhero moniker.  To wit, he uses the first two letters of his name, along with the radioactive being that bit him, to produce the code name "Hu-Man".
 
(I just posted this so it's not a "one-and-done".)
 

"Servobot! Dictate the following."
 
Servobot: "YES SIR!"
 
"I Billy Lipniski have tired of  being surrounded by idiots and fools. By the uneducated masses and rubes. Also I tire of having my allowance being so low. Ridiculous! How am I supposed to build my Stupendous Devastationator Cannon with 5 dollars a week? Impossible...no strike that!"
 
Servobot: "STRIKEN SIR!!"
 
Billy: "As a genius of the highest level I can overcome any obstacle. I will become a master villain. I shall be the bane of all dums dums and dullards. Authorities will quiver at the mere mention of my name!"
 
Servobot: "APOLOGIES SIR, BUT THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE. BILLY LIPNISKI CALULACTES OUT TO .00000451 ON MY INTIMDATION-O-METER."
 
Billy: "Silence you bucket of bolts! I will not use my given name. No I shall be....HEL..."
 
"LANGUAGE!!"
 
Billy: "Er...sorry Mombot...I shall hence forth be known as HECKRAISER!!! Muhahahaha!!!"
 
Servobot: "EXCELLENT EVIL LIFE SIR. BRAVO"
 
Heckrasier: "Stop sucking up Servobot...I shall spare you the compactor...this time. Now let's get back to work on my fully functioning super cool Light Sab..."
 
Servobot: "SIR. PERHAPS ANOTHER NAME? YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SUED BY...THEM."
 
Heckraiser: "Hmmmm....indeed Servobot...not even a supervillain as brilliant as I will be can stand up to the Mouse and his Evil Empire. So....let's call it the Blazer Sword. Yes...that will work just fine. Beware planet Earth....Tomorrow you meet your new master!"
 
 

Wow, a lot of close votes on this one.
 
Speaking of which, to those that voted: Thanks

Kari Clauson floats through life, intersecting with people like they were ghosts. She is untouchable and barely touches others. She defines her her status as a holding pattern as she waits for something to change. She is Limbo.
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The Cad is an emergency medic, forcing not only thou shall not kill, but also thou shall not die, as he works his way across the city.
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It was meant to be a world very much like the one we know and live in. Just another very closely aligned paralel universe with minor differences at best from what anyone else would call 'the real world'. It had its Roman Empire, it's Rise of Christianity, it's battle of Hastings, Europe discovers the Americas, the Napoleonic era, the whole smear.
Then Chunks of another reality broadsided it hard utterly transforming it in parts, and having ripple effects elsewhere. You could call it a quantum entanglement, or a fragmened dimensional intrusion, or whatever will help you make sense of it and make you sleep better at night. One reality poured into another, and there were consequences that stuck.
Whatever that old world was like, it was fully of superheroes, supervillains, and strangeness it was all to happy to bequeth on its unsuspecting heirs.
The biggest change occured during the Great War.  It seems funny, with so much focus on the United States of America as the home of all things super, that one of the biggest initial incursions was in Anatolia aka Asia Minor.  That was the end of the Ottomon Empire. That was the end of what we now call the Armenian Genocide. It was the birth (or Rebirth if you believe old Greek Myths) of the Amazon nation.
Depending on how you define Hero, the first hero was a heroine. We know her better now as Mother Justice. She was the first and greatest of the Amazons, and she had enough.
The world's eyes were on Europe. Perhaps that was a mistake.
But then, supers would make their mark known there too.
The Great War was ending, the War between and Superheroes and Supervillains? That would prove to be eternal
 
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So Aliens are known publicly... how about that...
 
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And just for fun, we have the curse of Atlantis hit a modern city/area
 
 

Thank You, Quackhell.  Here's something hopefully everyone will enjoy--
 

Bear Witness
 
This member of the group is affected by a form of lycanthropy. If someone lies in front of them he turns into a bear and tries to attack them. The mere sight of someone turning into a bear in front of them is enough to make most people run to the hills, swear off alcohol and make an oath to never ever tell a lie again. This did not unfortunately put a hunter off who lied in front of him and shot him after he turned into a bear only to find out that he was immune to bullets. And he can talk as well. As long as you do not tell a lie, you are safe as Bear Witness will not attack anyone who does not lie. This makes him the bane of advertisers, politicians and spin doctors. He is also lethal in a prison environment because everyone is innocent there of course. Bear Witness cannot tell a lie and does not believe in evasions either.
Bear Witness looks like a grizzly bear with a black surcoat with a gold coloured cross.

Four really excellent takes and this was a tough choice. However I am a sucker for world building and lore so The Mighty Ant having a  connection to a previous character is too good for me to pass up. wcw43921 the next image is yours.

Astrologus
 
Simon Benworthy, psychic to the stars is the representative of the Eighth Circle, Fraud. He is capable of precognition and can cause good or bad luck to those around him although not himself. While working for the group he usually dresses up as an agent or nondescript goon although he has better protection such as body armour. He does not use weapons as that might give the game away. He also uses disguise skill to hide his identity.
Simon has worked for various casinos and this is where he came to find out about Kimbell and passed on the information to his contacts who brought him into the new version of the Nine Circles. Simon had known that he would brought into the organisation due to his power and is content with it. He keeps out of the way of the others due to his luck and precognitive power. He is also wise enough not to provoke the others and will distract them if tempers flare and being calm would help. 

Kimbell Lawton should have died when he was fourteen years old. Instead he grew up to become Gluttony. 
 
History: Doctors had diagnosed Kimbell with a rare form of extremely aggressive childhood leukemia when he was six, and he'd beat it, and then beat it again when it returned a few years later.  When it came back a third time there wasn't enough of him left to keep fighting, and the doctors put his life expectancy at a little under nine months.  Unlike most parents, Kimbell's father -- a Las Vegas casino magnate with Mafia connections -- was in a position to do something about it.  He spent millions searching for a cure, and his search lead him to a laboratory in Southeast Asia, where a disheveled American ex-pat calling himself Doctor Amazo  promised he could cure Kimbell's cancer.  Amazo was true to his word, and Kimbell returned home cancer free.
 
Very soon it became clear that Amazo's miracle cure had some unexpected side effects.  While multiple doctors confirmed he was in full remission, Kimbell's hair didn't grow back, his skin didn't regain its color, and he seemed incapable of gaining weight.  Still, a sickly child was a vast improvement over a dead child, and  Kimbell's parents were happy with the outcome...until they came out to discover Kimbell hunched the body of their maid, his hands and face covered in blood.  The next morning, Kimbell's mother noticed the color had returned to his cheeks and for the first time since the operation his eyes weren't dark rings and made the connection.    Kimbell's father assured her their boy would be fine, that he knew people who could help them keep Kimbell fed... 
 
Powers/Tactics: Doctor Amazo is...not from around here.  Kimbell Lawton is a host to a genetically modified Klengathian bloodworm, a foot-long segmented parasite native to the planet Klengathu in the Frangolias Sector of Bandoonian space.   The bloodworm hasn't cured Kimbell's cancer, it's actually driven it into overdrive -- the bloodworm feeds on the cancerous cells in Kimbell's body.  But the cancer isn't enough, and thus the bloodworm drives its host to consume an appropriate substitute: human flesh.
 
In order to facilitate this feeding, the bloodworm has modified its hosts body, making Kimbell faster, stronger, more durable than any human.  Kimbell's skin is elastic and extremely durable, allowing him to ignore small arms fire, knives and the like.  The bloodworm has effected a number of physiological changes in Kimbell to help him hunt and feed, including the ability to grow razor sharp claws, a second set of fang-like teeth, and distend his jaw so that he can bite targets. He can also cling to walls and contort his body in surprising ways.  In combat, Kimbell prefers to use stealth to approach his quarry, leaping onto them and grappling them before applying his bite.
 
Appearance: Kimbell is tall, extremely gaunt male human in his late twenties.  He is bald, with deeply set dark eyes and an unhealthy pallor. As Gluttony he uses stage make-up to further whiten his skin and make the shadows around his eyes deeper.  His standard costume is a simple one-piece black bodysuit without hood or gloves.
 

Dupe
 
David Garner (Dave to everyone) is an easygoing good-natured guy who the others keep dragging into their schemes and leaving to pick up the pieces or the blame. Except that Dave is the leader of the group. You've seen the film, The Departed so you know SPOILER ALERT ! that Matt Damon was a mole planted in the police by Jack Nicholson's mob boss. Same with David who has subtle mental defences in place that fool ordinary telepathic enquiry.
Dave is passing information back about the current crop of Ravenswood students whilst also very gently manipulating Gabby and John (Joseph) as the de facto leaders of the team. Dave is strong, slightly invulnerable and acrobatic which is why the others (mis)use him. Dave is also immune to suggestion as part of his conditioning but is aware when someone is trying to influence him in that way and will fall for it. Ravenswood teachers think that David is under Gabby's thumb. Little do they know the truth.
 
New Topic: Nine Circle of Hell
There has been a team of this type going since the 1960s. Some times they are comical, sometimes they are darkly evil but there are supposed to be nine members. Sometimes this does not happen as heroes can intervene can put a stop to this before it takes place. The current team has recently debuted and there are 9 members. Your mission should you choose to accept it is to detail one of the members which must conform to one of the circles as Dante illustrates in the Inferno part of the Divine Comedy These are.
First Circle (Limbo) *
Second Circle (Lust)
Third Circle (Gluttony)
Fourth Circle (Greed)
Fifth Circle (Wrath)
Sixth Circle (Heresy)
Seventh Circle (Violence)
Eight Circle (Fraud)
Ninth Circle (Treachery)
Wikipedia link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Nine_circles_of_Hell)
* This can be a limbo dancer or someone who does not believe in God
 
Once we reach five we'll decide about continuing.

Lady Sings the Blues
 
Lesley Andrews becomes Madame Du Bonclaire when she wears the blue opera gloves. She is a short haired blonde with a blue mask, blue evening dress, blue hat (if appropriate), blue gloves, sapphires and blue shoes. The most well connected of the group she is thought to be an amateur detective in the manner of Agatha Christie's Ms Marple. She is interested in mysteries and will drag the others into it even when they might not want to. She can teleport, can project force walls and blasts with fire. She tends to behave as if addicted while using her powers which has confused her colleagues at times. She has deductive skills and also likes to work like an amateur Raffles.
 
New team: The Ten Commandments
This team is based on the 10 Commandments. Detail at least five of them. They live to enforce their specific commandment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments

Lady In White
 
Hattie Kittridge wears the bone white gloves that give her the powers of invisibility, intangibility, the ability to generate a chilling mist and to project fear into targets. She is much more secretive and less public than the rest of the team and isn't interested in living a second younger more glamorous life, but just tries to do good and then return to her normal life. Hattie has always been a curious sort and whenever she picked a book for the club it was always a mystery. This has extended into her hero career as she has often teams with Detective Valerie Alvarez to help solve murder cases as opposed to more flashy battles with supervillains. Hattie is also worried that the gloves may be altering their personalities the more they are worn and has tried to discover more about their origins as well as the background the magician who gifted them.