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Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

Robert Tillman, aka Quintet, was a duplicator who committed crimes in the Los Angeles area for years, until the day one of his duplicates was shot and killed by a costumed vigilante. Tillman managed to escape from incarceration, but after that he swore off duplication and retired on the profits from two decades of crimes. When he was approached by Mahlkronos, Tillman was reluctant, but the time traveller promised to go back in time and save the duplicate if Tillman worked for the Evil Hours. So he joined the team as Quarter Till.

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While technically not a member of the band, the Animals wouldn't be able to perform well without Joseph Joe Cool Coltrane, who acts as their set-up man, driver, and (occasionally) pilot. To get all the instruments set up he works like a dog. But that's not surprising, since he can turn into a man-sized beagle.

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The elderly gunman known as High Noon claims to have originaly come from the mid-1800s Old West but ended up in our time by sneaking a ride in a "strange blue box owned by an even stranger man with a long colorful scarf." He is an expert shot with his twin pearl-handled Colt revolvers, and a quite accomplished gambler.

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He came out of retirement after Mahlkronos promised to return him to his original time. Of course, Mahlkronos has no plans to actually do so, but High Noon doesn't know that.

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The former stuntman known as Mythbuster recently discovered his own mutant ability to create explosions anyplace he wishes (including inside things, though he's unable to create them inside living beings). Since he is immune to his own explosions (at least, he doesn't take damage from them, although he does take knockback), he "flies" by creating a series of explosions beneath him.

He dreams of marrying Kari Byron, even though she is completely repulsed by the guy.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: If you died and were allowed to come back for just two minutes to say what you needed to say to someone important in your life' date=' what would be the gist of it ? Difficulty: No hostility, please.[/quote']

 

"Dude, you're my best friend. You need to go to my house, power up my computer and clear out the internet cache, delete my browsing history, all that kinda stuff. Oh, and there's a directory on my hard drive called Rule_34. That needs to be deleted too. Don't even look at it. Especially the subdirectory about llamas."

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I also owe rep, to Lord Liaden as well as psyber624 (as well as others on this thread).

That's five, psyber (Baner, Despair, Thirst, Apathy, and Revenant). What's our next group?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Why should you Let it Snow !' date=' Let it Snow !, Let it Snow ![/quote']

 

If you're a kid, so you can Let It Be a Snow Day! Let It Be a Snow Day! Let It Be a Snow Day!

 

NT: Crazy thing your kids will do to occupy themselves while they're at home instead of at school because of a Snow Day.

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NT: Things to do when just about everything is pain in the rump.

Buy a new seat cushion. Preferrably one that's not stuffed with thumbtacks.

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NT: Subtle signs you shouldn't have purchased this particular smartphone.

It's much smarter than I am.

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The cutest member of Gang Green is Sweet Pea, a petite lass who is very attractive despite her skin being a light green. Many heroes underestimate her, not realizing she is not only an accomplished martial artist, but a shrinker as well. Some suspect she may even have minor mental powers, because so many people fall prey to her "poor innocent me" routine.

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The hippest cat in the Animals is Jimmy "Jaguar" Jones, who sings backup vocals and plays a pretty mean bass guitar. That's no mean feat, when you consider that in cat form, he has some pretty sharp claws that don't always get along with his guitar strings.

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That should be 10. Time for a new team.

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Thus far, we've had:

• Weed
  
• The Phoenix
  
• Addam Munster
  
• Peaceman
  
• Hebean
  
• Moonbeam
  
• Major Djinn
  
• Agent Orange
  

The man known as Guardsman was active in Ohio throughout the 1960s, often teleporting into the midst of crimes in his magical plate armor and shield, using his mystic blade to take down the criminals. The style of his armor and weaponry is medieval English, and he spoke with a strong British accent, though he insisted he was American.

He disappeared without notice from the public in 1970 and didn't reappear until 2010, refusing to say why he had left or why he returned.

Re: Jokes

Did you know that 3.14159% of all sailors are pirates?

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Some days you're outmatched and there's not much you can do about it.

It was 1964 and the Portland superhero known as Moonbeam had his hands full. He knew he could take on two of the DemonStrator's summoned demons, maybe three -- but six was just too much. Thanks to the demonic villain's decision to commit his crime at night, Moonbeam's powers were at their peak, but even that wasn’t enough. He had bought enough time for the bystanders to get to safety and had just taken the fourth demon down when the other two grabbed Moonbeam's arms and pulled him down to the cold concrete of the parking lot. Before the hero could react, DemonStrator had summoned ebon bonds to restrain Moonbeam's arms and legs.

As DemonStrator placed candles at five points around Moonbeam, lit them, and began to chant, the desperate hero looked around for something, anything to help him get free. All he saw was the full moon shining down from above. Suddenly, he recalled Luna's words to him when the moon goddess had first granted him his powers: "I will always be with you, Earth child." When he had told his fellow heroes they laughed at him, claiming it was all a hallucination brought on by the acid he'd dropped earlier that day. But Moonbeam knew in his heart it was real.

The chant was reaching a climax when Moonbeam closed his eyes tightly and wished with all his might that he could be with Luna. When he opened his eyes, he saw he was no longer in the parking lot, but was instead lying on grayish-white sand spotted with pumice-like rocks. His force field glowed white around him, but even through it he could see the stars above, brighter than he'd ever seen them before. That's when he noticed the Earth shining blue and green above him.

The moon, he thought in shock. I’m on the moon. That’s when he realized it wasn’t his force field glowing, but rather him. Somehow he had turned himself to pure moonlight and sent himself to the moon.

Time passed. He wandered the barren plains and craters, eventually finding Luna and living with her in her lunar castle. She taught him to use his light powers in new and interesting (and often frightening) ways. She showed him glimpses of him on an alternate world, actually working for that psychopath DemonStrator as a being called Lunatic. The thought sickened him, but Luna simply smiled and said, “Watch. And learn.”

After many years had passed, Luna told him, “It is nearly time for you to leave. Never forget me, nor this time you’ve spent with me. Remember, I will always be with you.” Suddenly he felt something pulling at him, dragging him up into the void and back toward Earth. He closed his eyes in fear, and when he opened them again, he was lying on a carpeted floor with a man in a black tuxedo and a woman in a shimmering gold gown standing over him.

“Did it work?” asked the woman. “Did you get the demon out of him?”

The man smiled. “I believe so, but let’s ask him. How do you feel, Lunatic?”

“I’m not Lunatic. I’m Moonbeam.” He sat up, and his memories of his time on the moon with Luna began to slowly fade like a vivid dream. “Listen, I may have smoked some weed and dropped some acid along the way, but I’m not crazy.” He looked around the dark-paneled room, then noticed the fallen form of DemonStrator. The evil mage’s hair had grayed and wrinkles creased his face, but he was the same evil villain Moonbeam had fought before. The hero surged to his feet and pointed both hands at the evil mage, preparing to blast him if he moved. “Watch out! That’s DemonStrator. He’s dangerous!”

“DemonStrator? Ah, yes, that’s the name he went by in the 60s and 70s. Lately, he’s been calling himself Demonicus.” The man patted Moonbeam on the arm. “He’s no longer a threat. I believe he had a heart attack during our battle. He’s gone now. And so is the demon he merged with you. It was tricky, but I managed to separate you. You can relax.”

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William Peterson was drummed out of the Marine Corps for his willful disregard of the use of explosives (whether claymore mines, tripwire-triggered flash-bang grenades, or regular thrown grenades). A Corps psychologist said Peterson wasn't homicidal or sadistic; he just loved to see and hear explosions -- the bigger, the better.

The Colonel recruited Peterson into the Rogue Batallion, where he took the name Bang-Flash. He carries a custom drum-fed grenade launcher (with alternating concussion explosion and flash-bang grenades). If stealth is called for, well, then Bang-Flash has to be either disarmed, restrained, or outright sedated, or else he will find a way to get "loud for the crowd."

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Particularly pointless ways for a movie to earn an R rating.

It's about pirates (so it's rated "Arrrrr!").

NT: Particularly silly New Year Resolutions.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Particularly pointless ways for a movie to earn an R rating.

It's about pirates (so it's rated "Arrrrr!").

NT: Particularly silly New Year Resolutions.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

The man known as Malcontent is a former US Army super-soldier subject. The treatments did indeed increase Sgt. Malcolm Tennant's strength and speed to superhuman levels as expected, but they also amplified some of his personality traits -- most noticeably, impulsiveness and agressiveness. The Colonel recruited Sgt. Tennant to his group before the Army could use an experimental procedure to reverse the super-soldier process.

Malcontent is the Batallion member most likely to disobey The Colonel's orders, especially if those orders involve the Batallion waiting for any prolonged period of time, or Mal having to do anything he might see as "busy work".

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life.

At church, I saw something on my the shoulder of my daughter's dress and tried to brush it off, but nothing happened.

Her: "Oh, sometimes I have so much Awesome that it just leaks out."

Later, as we were getting ready to leave, I went to get my coat, which was hanging right next to hers.

Her: "Oh, no! Your coat is touching mine!"

Me: "I was hoping my coat could get some of your Awesome by osmosis. I call it... Awes-mosis!"

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Saying that Mary Jane Potter had a green thumb was like calling Martin Luther King Jr. a mere preacher. She loved plants all her life, but it wasn't until her late teens when she learned that her skill with nurturing all things flora was likely due to a mutant power. One day, she was watering an aspidistra by the garden wall, singing it a gentle song, when the plant suddenly started to GROW. We're not talking a little bloom -- it shot up like a rocket, 'till it nearly reached the sky.

The change didn't last long, and the plant soon returned to normal size. (The authorities later claimed the reports of the "biggest aspidistra in the world" were a mass hallucination.) At first, Mary Jane thought she had also hallucinated the incident (blaming it on some marijuana she had smoked an hour before), but eventually she realized that she had actually caused the out-of-control growth.

She hid her powers for a few years, but one day a group of thugs were threatening a young couple, and before she knew it, Mary Jane caused the grass under their feet to grow 6 feet tall, entangling the thugs and carrying the innocents to safety. Even that she thought an isolated incident, but a few months later she became galvanized by President Kennedy's call to "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." She considered joining the Peace Corps when it was formed a few months later, but decided instead to take Kennedy’s challenge literally and began wandering the US, trying to make it a better place.

A tall, gangly woman, she took the name Weed (she found it amusing on multiple levels) and worked for a while as a solo superheroine. Many ultra-conservatives decried her pro-drug stance and called her a “violent vigilante” despite her never having harmed anybody. Weed disappeared while battling the villainous mage Decimator (whose favorite spell caused instant aging of the target). He was casting his fast-aging spell and she tried to block it by wrapping herself in a protective sheath of quick-grown grass. When the grass fell away, Weed was nowhere to be seen. People thought she had somehow escaped into the earth and either gotten trapped there or popped out elsewhere and simply decided to quit the superheroine scene.

It wasn’t until Weed appeared in the same spot fifty years later that everybody learned both assumptions were wrong. (Scientists theorized that her quick-growth powers have a temporal element that interacted with Decimator’s spell, inadvertently sending her forward in time.) With all of her normal friends and family either elderly or dead, she looks at the other members of That 60s Team! (whom she had worked with on and off previously) as her only remaining friends.

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I did Madness' date=' the missing one is Despair.[/quote']

 

My mistake, for some reason I thought Crazy Ivan was Rage. Re-reading it, I don't know why I thought that.

 

So it's Time (Aging/Decay), Emptiness, Despair, Greed, and Rage remaining.

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Let's see, we have remaining: Time (Aging/Decay), Sacrifice, Emptiness, Despair, Madness, and Greed.

Most people would love to be effectively invulnerable to harm, but not Enid Hallowell. She never thought much of her lack of injury throughout her life, until the Thanksgiving day she, her husband, and their newborn daughter were driving down the interstate on their way to his parents' house. Her husband had just cut between two semi trucks to exit the freeway when the accident occurred. All Enid remembers is bright lights, the blast of an air horn, and screams. Oh, the screams. They still haunt her nights.

Enid woke up in the hospital to learn that her husband and daughter were dead, their bodies so mangled in the wreck that she couldn't even see them to say goodbye. Not surprisingly, she became suicidal but learned that nothing she did could hurt her. Guns, knives, falls, hanging, not even poison. The doctors said she was an "instantaneous regenerator," able to heal damage as fast as it could be done to her. She still feels pain (albeit not fully), but the damage is fleeting at best.

When she heard about Death Squad, she hoped maybe one of them could end her endless nightmare and sought them out. She was distressed to learn that none of them could kill her either, but she did find healing of a different sort in Dolzilla. Enid felt the young girl needed a mother figure, and who better than Enid? She has even started to refer to Dolzilla as her daughter (make of that what you will -- she was already around the bend mentally beforehand, so a little delusion isn't all that unexpected).

Taking the name Endure, she will throw herself in front of anything or anybody threateing Dolzilla, sacrificing herself to the pain rather than see her new "daughter" get harmed. If necessary, she will sacrifice herself to help other teammates, but not if doing so would put Dolzilla in harm's way.

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The hero known as Rodeo is the latest in a long line of west Texas masked crimefighters dating back to the mid-1800s. (His great-grandpappy was the original Longhorn, one of the first costumed heroes in Texas.) In addition to being a phenomenal horseman, Rodeo is a great trick shot who often uses his matching pearl-handled Colt .45 revolvers to disarm opponents or otherwise disable their weapons. Whenever possible, he rides his well-trained stallion Spirit while fighting crime.

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New Team: Mustangs

This group of five heroes and heroines operate in the American Southwest, each from a different state but coming together when needed. Despite the fact that all of them (in some fashion) relate to horses, you'd best not mention My Little Pony in their presence. They take their crimefighting seriously, and none of them are bronies.