Part Two recounting characters and concepts for a superhero-verse created by an eight-year-old...
The Awesome Ones - from the previous post - are opposed on a global scale by an organization so evil, it can only be called --
THE LEAGUE OF SUPER-EVIL
Formed years ago as a foil for the Awesome Ones, the League of Super-Evil represents the ultimate villain team-up. Although its roster has varied across the years, its central objective has not: to destroy the Awesome Ones (and take over the world and stuff). A partial listing of their historic membership follows.
DEMON JOHN
The devil of the crossroads, promoted from tempting blues musicians, he now torments super-heroes. Naturally he is a rival of Saint Dozen. Demon John appears to be the big mystical baddie of this superverse.
MEXICO LEADER
Once a drug cartel enforcer, he manifested the ability to control minds and quickly rose in the ranks. He runs both the cartels and (secretly) the government of Mexico using a secret identity.
PURE GORILLA
An albino gorilla (I can't make this stuff up), Pure Gorilla wishes to destroy everything he considers impure. Which, of course, varies from day to day. Obsessive, super-strong, and very dangerous.
PURPLE TIGER
Some sort of martial artist/assassin type.
MISTER UNIVERSE
He fell from the sky in a meteor-ship! He has somewhat-vast cosmic powers! He shoots star-energy from his fingertips!
BROWN LANTERN
(This could have gone way worse than it did)
"He's like Green Lantern, only he's brown. And he summons dragons."
"Does he have Green Lantern's powers, but brown?"
"No, he has an old magic ring that's brown, which summons dragons."
"So he's nothing like Green Lantern at all."
"Well, his name is."
PERU MAN
Peru Man is from Peru (naturally); he can fly and shoot beams from his eyes and things. That's about it. Personally I imagine he has a mystic/ancient-alien origin and has Nazca lines all over his body like circuitry-tattoos or something, but that's all me, not the Boy. And, full disclosure - when we play superheroes lately, I am typically assigned to be Peru Man. Serious bias on my part.
IDAHO GHOST
"Idaho Ghost was a guy in Idaho who died but now he's a ghost and can walk through walls and levitate things with his mind but he's super angry about something so he does bad stuff."
SAINT ZERO
Saint Zero is the opposite number of Saint Dozen - a man who had all the potential for goodness sucked out of him. Other than being unkillable, he has no superpowers, but commits many crimes and hurts people. (The Boy is not familiar with the term "serial killer" but that's totally the vibe I get here).
KILLER SUNFLOWER
I don't have any details on this villain, but he/she/it sounds pretty horrifying.
FLUSHABLE BOY
A teenage lad who, via his remarkable ability to shapeshift into human waste and swim rapidly through water pipes, has made an underworld living as an assassin. Think about that for a second. Dude's an assassin who can come up through your toilet. Ass-assin, I guess.
Next time: the wild card teams! The nefarious New Land Gang, and the second-tier heroes of X-Encounter.
Pure awesome.
ReplyDeletePosts like this should come with a warning to set down your coffee...
ReplyDeleteThis was a lot of fun!
If Extreme Studios isn't knocking on your door already, they will be.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping for stat write-ups of all characters.
ReplyDeleteBrown Lantern is totally badass, just by the way.
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