BoloOfEarth

One day at the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter greeted a man who had arrived, curiously enough, with a briefcase.
 
"Welcome to Heaven," Peter said. Then, less certainly, "Umm, what is that you have with you?"
 
The man smiled widely. "I've done it, Saint Peter! I've really done it!"
 
"What have you done, my son?"
 
"Well," the man said, "they always say, 'You can't take it with you.' Well, I've done it. I figured out how to do it, and here it is!"
 
"Interesting," Peter said dubiously. "May I see what you have there?"
 
"Of course!" the man declared.  He opened the briefcase, to reveal that it was full of gold.
 
"Okay," Peter said, "that's interesting. But why have you brought pavement?"

Well, it used to be Jon Stewart, but since his retirement, I'd say it's John Oliver. 

There is a poll open for the best superhero RPG book in 2017.
 
It might not be a huge thing but every award is worth it.  Currently sitting second behind Sentinel Comics: the RPG starter kit.
 
http://bamfsies.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/its-time-open-call-for-2017-bamfsies.html?_sm_au_=iVVfsD08Z4L4TWsH
 
Doc

You asked for it...Finished them today

How about Ultron? Or one of the Iron Man drones from AoU? Maybe an android from Westworld? Or Hector from Saturn 7? Iron Giant? Baymax? Chopper or KS20? Skeets? One of the bots from Metalhead (Black Mirror)? ABC Warrior? Spider-Slayers? Zenyatta, Orisa or Bastion from Overwatch? Gort?

The original computer voice from Star Trek stating the Star Date as agents return from their missions.

No. Instead, he snucked into the base with Foxbat, messed with some if the displays, and left some tech/geek graffiti in the base.
 
Some more robots.
1) A scaled down copy of Giant Robo, also known as the Flying Robot of Johnny Socko And His Flying Robot.
 
2) A scaled down copy of Gigantor, aka Iron Man 28.
 
3) A scaled down copy of The Big O.
 
4) Astro Boy.
 
5) Rockman, also known as Mega Man.
 
6) The robot gunslinger from Westworld. Normally, when anyone draws there gun, it draws and if it doesn't recognize a VIPER agent, shoots them. Now, it sings songs from The King And I when drawned upon. Thanks Foxbat.

Technically Dalicks are not robots, but tanks to slug-like Dalick aliens. If this Professor was a real sci-fi nerd, he would know this fact. But chances are, he dies know they are not robots, but don't care.
 
Any Whovian worth his salt is going to include a Cyberman in the display, even if it is a cyborg alien and not a true robot.
 
Cylon from Battlestar Galactica (your choice with the original or the newer copy).
 
Mecha Kong and Mecha Godzilla., Scaled down.

"Welcome to RAT - Rent an Agent Team.  We are the big cheese in mercenary groups.  Please listen closely as our menu may have changed.  At any time, you may dial your party's extension to be transferred to their line.  For more information about our elite agent teams, hit 1.  For our managed benefits packages for your team, hit 2.  To hire a team for your projects, hit 3.  To apply for a position within our elite forces, hit 4.  To speak with an operator, hit 0 or stay on the line.  Thank you."
 
<Beep 1>
 
"At RAT we know the discerning mercenary employer is looking for experienced men and women capable of handling the latest in weaponry and tactics.  We select our agents from the cream of the armed services and then we extensively train them in our own Hand to Hand combat regime.  Our teams are trained together and are well versed in discretion and law as well as are equipped with the latest personal defense weaponry.  If you have specialized weaponry, you do not need to spend your own resources to train the agents to use them.  We have on staff career trainers to educate our staff before they are deployed to your site. Agents have access to our contacts at our partner law firm Wolfram and Hart, full medical, dental and vision.  All agents are insured for 2 years of full pay in life insurance as well as accidental death and dismemberment.  We match 401K to the first 5% and have employee stock purchasing plans."
 
 

An Almost Live reference?! Damn, l loved that show. I've never heard anyone mention it before anywhere. Billy Kawn, The High-Fiving White Guys, Speedwalker that show was great. I'm glad Bill Nye (and Joel McHale) went on to bigger things, but lots of actors in the show deserved to have better careers. 

I'd be interested in hearing the PS Plumber story.  (FYI, your post caused an immediate flashback to the only parody I've known of the TV show Quantum Leap -- a show called Almost Live had a bit with a time-traveling plumber, called Quantum Leak.  With Bill Nye in the part of Sam Beckett.)

Professor Calculus
 
This hero has an unusual ability. He can throw equations and mathematical formula which manifest in the air causing people to panic as they did not expect the math. They can stop fights and paralyse the minds of those who failed maths (particularly). He wears protective clothing as no-one likes algebra and they throw all sorts of things at him like bullets, grenades, mail boxes, armoured cars etc.

When building a character I like to work from the inside out. Meaning that a lot of the time I've got a better idea of the personality of the guy than of how to write up the powers.   I've been kidded that in the middle of a game I'm the only one who knows the color of his character's socks.
    What all this means is that for me part of writing up is to have a list of skills that I know may never come up in game but I think add flavor to the roll play. Also when every once in a while when one PC being a guitarist or another who's a Houdini buff comes up in session it's a little treat like an episode of TV where you see that favorite character/actor of yours sing, or juggle or something. 
   The next time you're finishing a write-up and have a point or two left over, instead of just tossing them into a stat you'll raise up to an effective number later, consider what this person does when their not saving the city.

I agree, I've enjoyed Ralph's progression to becoming a true hero.  I was wondering how they were going to handle the naming bit.
 
As to your running gag, I applied that to the naming of the PCs' team.  When the players dragged their feet on choosing a team name, an article appeared in their news sheet about an NPC hero team, the Virginia Alliance for Global Interdiction and National Assistance.  When one of the players said, "Seriously?!  They picked the name VAGINA?!" I responded, "No, they're a loose-knit collection of regional heroes who absolutely refused to give themselves a team name.  So the editor of the Hero.Net Herald finally just gave them one out of spite."
 
Before the next game session, the players had picked a team name.

I agree with your implied assumption that Supers vs. Heroic campaigns have a different level of skill use. It has tended to play out that Supers would have less skills, more general skills and be fine with that, and Heroic level characters have more skill, and more detailed levels of skills. I think that comes down to differentiation of PCs. In Supers, the defining characteristics that set you apart are powers, or high level combat skills like martial arts, stealth, etc. In Heroic games, where everyone might be a version of ex-military private ops guy... then skill specialization is what makes one character different from another.
 
That being said, I basically follow the rule, "If it is important and you want it to factor into the game, then pay points for it, and it is my job as GM to make it relevant. If it is merely background, don't worry about it." It is really about what kind of story you want to tell. If you are playing Daredevil-esque character, the fact that Murdock is a lawyer and has multiple skills and knowledge areas reflecting that could be really important, if the game tends to end up in law offices and court rooms the way the comics often do. If the lawyer bit is more, "Explains why I'm around the cop station and have contacts with bail bondsmen, cops, etc." then that is different.
 
I agree with Doc's comments on skill fetishizing... if push came to shove, I would gladly go back to a single, generic "Science" skill, rather than detailing out 27 flavors of Physicist specialization, the way it tends towards today.

I was typing up a post about something in my Champions campaign, but in "campaign" I initially mistyped "d" instead of "c", which would be pronounced "damn pain."  Fitting, at times.

As the GM, I try to give the villain NPCs skills that are appropriate to their backgrounds, even if they're not so likely to be used much in game.  However, in one adventure, Kid Bronze used his tech skills to figure out how to operate the Dynatron (see Dean Shomshak's excellent Shared Origins products) and create superpowered agents for the Heavy Metals supervillain team.
 
The PC heroes in my game tend to get use out of at least some of their non-combat skills.  One example that stands out in my mind was when Terror Inc. launched a nuclear missile at Belgium.  The PC gadgeteer, Maker, used her VPP to catch up to the missile and latch on.  She then opened an access panel and used Electronics, Navigation, Security Systems, and Systems Operation to figure out how to re-direct the missile into orbit.  She'd have tried to disable the warhead, except she didn't have Demolitions skill.  (She does now.)
 
Malarkey has used his Computer Programming and Security Systems skills to hack into the city's traffic cameras to track kidnappers. 
 
Shadowboxer frequently uses his KS: Paranormals to narrow down the list of potential suspects when superpowers have been used in a crime, or to figure out potential tactics to use against foes. 
 
Circe even used her PS: Fashion Designer to converse with a supervillain (A-Bomb) and keep him from participating in a fight.  (It was actually one of the funnest exchanges I've had in game, as the two of them commented about their teammates' costumes, about A-Bomb kidnapping a noted designer to create his costume, and Circe's attempts to get her teammates' outfits more fashionable.)
 
IMO, it's part of the GM's job to make sure PCs have opportunities to use their skills (as well as unusual non-combat powers).  And the players' jobs to try to find ways to use their skills and odd powers to solve crimes and turn plot twists their way.

I was typing up a post about something in my Champions campaign, but in "campaign" I initially mistyped "d" instead of "c", which would be pronounced "damn pain."  Fitting, at times.

Thats why its performance keeps tapiring off

I see one problem with The Further Adventures of Pogo. One of the supporting characters (I think he talks to fish?) has a steady girlfriend. That kind of moves a character in the direction of having a finished arc. Have you considered writing in a Satan-like character who causes the relationship to have never existed? Just a thought. 

An old nazi uboat is found and brought up to the local university. surprise it contains a giant Nazi Robot. I like to introduce clues using a newsletter ith short articles and ads. some are leads to adventures some dead ends some just funny.

Except at the Department of Motor Vehicles, where the wheels often don't move at all.  Which is ironic, really, when you think about it.

When people think of "magical intelligent weapons," they always think of swords.  Always.  100% of the time.  I chalk it up to an appalling lack of imagination.  I mean, who says a quarterstaff can't be imbued with magic and become a vessel for a spiritual essence?  Well, pal, let me tell you, it can, because that's what I am.  And at least I don't have to spend most of my time with my head stuck in a scabbard.  I get to see a whole lot more of the world than your average magical sword, let me tell you.
 
But where are my manners?  Allow me to introduce myself:  I'm Beuregard, but you can call me Bo.  That guy in black carrying me is my buddy Duke Lucas.  I found Duke -- well, he says he found me, but that's just humancentric ego talking -- when he took a taekwondo class after his brother moved out of state.  He wasn't the greatest fighter, to be honest, but I could tell he was a good guy, so I let him carry me around, and in return I help him fight crime.  Believe me, giving ol' Duke the fighting skills of generations of martial artists has come in handy!
 
We're just a couple of good ol' boys, never meaning no harm... but it seems like a lot of harm comes looking for us.  First, there was that piggy mayor and his idiot police chief.  Ye gods, was I glad to be rid of them when we moved to the big city!  But now we're fighting goons in green, cultists, and what have you.  It's a busy life, but then again, what the heck am I going to do with my time?

Something tells me Hilgya is going to kick Durkon's pasty undead butt.

You are right. Someone was fired. Public Unions did not save him.  I was premature. I was wrong. I am sorry.