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Re: Hero Alliance Sourcebook? I recall three different characters who fought in their lingerie.

Re: Hero Alliance Sourcebook? Ah, so big slices of cheesecake. Cool.

Re: Hero Alliance Sourcebook?

Re: Invisibility, No Fringe, Requires Squid

Re: Best Published Superhero Adventure? It's not Deathduel's fault that Willingham reused it in the comic.

Re: Heroes I believe it takes both. Either one separately would be insufficient.

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Re: Karate Kid vs Karate Kid

Re: steampunk internet I did a steampunk internet where the monitors were pinboards (displaying pictures by extending pins out into somewhat three-dimensional images.)

Re: Tricks for a Triplicator? In the opening episode of the LOSH cartoon, Triplicate Lass uses her power to amplify the power of her kick by doing a jump kick and then replicating, with each body gaining added momentum from the movement forward, then recombining as the kick is delivered. I was moderately impressed with the creativity of the guy who thought of that manuever.

Re: Sonics - tired power, need new ideas I'm thinking that would take a medical procedure.

Re: Help me name this hero! I keep suggesting "Hellequin" (which is the original name of Harlequin) but nobody ever goes for it. Alternately, "Killjoy" or "Madcap".

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Re: WWYCD: Washington, D.C. is no more. Riptide: Help with damage control, put together a benefit concert for the victims, offer his services as a superhero to the new President...and secretly try to figure out who the new President is working for. Hm...come to think of he does have a time machine stashed away even though he was reluctant to use it. He might try to reverse it. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated: Offers to sell the Canadian government a network of active scanners that will insure that nobody can bring fissionable material into Ottawa without being noticed. After that, move on to offering to sell the same technology to many different governments.

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Re: Heroes It wasn't in the least incomprehensible. Nikki's power, her only power as should have been obvious from that start is super-strength. Crazy is not a power. And I think having precognition only show the character what the GM wants him to know is the right way to handle it.

Re: Dredging Obscurity for Villain Ideas DC White Rabbit or Marvel White Rabbit?

Re: WWYCD: The Jack-In-Th-Box Senerio Hellfire: Stays home. She is not qualified to deal with explosive devices so the best thing she can possibly do is stay out of the way and let the professionals handle it. Wizard of Oz Incorporated: Wait until the police have evacuated the area. Then investigate using Tin Man remotely. Riptide: Watch at a distance while a gadgeteer investigates the box. Run in and pull him out if it starts to activate.

Re: Dredging Obscurity for Villain Ideas Incidentally the Persuader (Marvel) had a sadly shortened career. Too bad the Kingpin had him Persuade the Punisher. That never works out well.

Re: WSWYCK: Karaoke Night Hellfire: Fever, because she'd want to try to use it to hit on the object of her romantic obsession. Riptide: Inagaddadavida. He's a drummer. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated: Big Sugar fan so he'd sing All Hell For A Basement.

Re: Would Marvel/DC Sue? Well any character who had their own comic book named after them is a legal risk unless they are a public domain character like Hercules. I can't count the number of iterations of Hercules as a superhero there have been. But minor characters, including most villains are fair game as long as it doesn't duplicate their look and/or powers. DC Copperhead: Snake villain Marvel Copperhead: Copper plated armour DC Nightshade: Darkness controller Marvel Nightshade: Pheromone mind control You can also get away with renamed recostumed derivative concepts. Thus DC has Captain Boomerang while Marvel just has Boomerang.

Re: Would Marvel/DC Sue? Legally, a name in itself doesn't mean all that much. For example both Marvel and DC have Rampages. Marvel's is a watered down Iron Man and DC's is a golden-skinned She-Hulk pastiche. So if some real person gets bit by a radioactive wolverine and sprouts claws and the ability to move at superspeed, he could be in trouble if he tries to call himself Wolverine, but he'd be fine if he called himself Rampage. But comic books would find themselves compelled to do disclaimers about the fictionality of their characters or storylines.

Re: Need Perjoratives! Dude, I've got superpowers. That means I'm better than them and don't need to worry what they call me.

Re: Dredging Obscurity for Villain Ideas Back in the days when Clark Kent was a television anchor, the rival network became envious that CK's guys were getting all the Superman stories so they financed the creation of a gadget-based superhero named "Blackrock" (named after CBS's headquarters building). His gimmick was that he absorbed TV and radio signals to fly and shoot energy blasts. (Which would in theory mean I suppose that he screwed up everyone's viewing every time he tried to do his thing). I kind of like those corporate characters and his dialog was funny with that "Stay tuned" and "Don't touch that dial" stuff. Capricorn was a one-shot foe in a Batman/Superman teamup. He was a terminally ill telepath who tried to use the threat of people's darkest secrets to get them to commit suicide. He successfully outmanuevered both of them only to die accidentally in the abandoned lead water system pipes underneath Gotham while making his escape. Batman and Superman never knew that that their secret IDs were safe again. And of course "Asbestos Lady". With her amazing power of dressing in asbestos...well OK she was pretty useless.

Re: Need Perjoratives! There was an obscure indie comic where they were called "Dans", short for "fancy dan".