Little less free time than I expected.  I'm going to just post a bit about where the idea for this originated.  Hopefully it will help explain a bit more about it.  

Influences:
The Boys - TV Series
The 1968 RP Series 
Marvel Knights series' in general
The "Batman: White Knight" series

The Boys
The perspective of living in a world with supers as a normal meatsack human was very interesting as was the eventual outside influence involved in supers superpowers (no spoilers).  Their intersection with government was also very interesting and something I would like to play with, but not in modern or historical America or even really future America due to the drama that would likely summon up.

The 1968 RP series 
It ended up dying, unfortunately, fairly quickly before I could get much more in to stuff happening in Vietnam and back at home in America, but one problem I saw myself running in to was posting as the Nuke character.  An American soldier who is basically spun out on pills and enjoying killing during an actual historical war.  He wasn't supposed to be a good guy but he's also not supposed to be as utterly evil as we would often see someone killing on the scale he would be killing at.  It's a controversial war and I know we have users here who are Vietnamese so while I was trying to make it clear he was not a good person I also tend to try to make characters likable on some axis and I could see the potential for that to become a problem.
I liked having an enemy that wasn't evil.  They weren't super villain evil.  They weren't normal terrible evil people evil.  They were another government that the main characters' (both Cpt. A and Nuke) government was opposed to.

Marvel Knight series'
Though I haven't read most of them and am not familiar with quite a bit of it I liked the more gritty nature.  The Punisher series in particular was ugly.  The violence was unpleasant.  Just close enough to real to be a bit disturbing rather than entertaining as it usually is.  That and the street level nature of the series really helped separate these stories from most comic book stuff.  I also read some of the Wolverine issues that looked like theyd fit in the Marvel Knight series'.  Maybe he actually had one, I'm not sure.  Same concept applies though.

Batman: White Knight series
The concept that Joker, if sane, might actually be good for Gotham.  The concept of a Batman Related Disaster Relief Fund.  The idea that there is a superhero (I don't recall his name) who is essentially the Batman of a less economically blessed neighborhood near Gotham and the idea that Batman seems to be blissfully unaware that he's not looking out for this neighborhood and they instead have their own dark knight.



I will put out a little blurb or two for character ideas.  At least two.  Should get the first one done tomorrow, it's the most thought out of the ideas.
Wolverine as a low level, low life, detective in the slums of Panau, dragging ass through life drinking, drugging ****ing, and not really trying to get his act together.  
A Superman level character working for the current Panau government, but very apathetic.  No real loyalty for the government.  Sort of a Patrick Bateman as Superman.  Obvious similarities to whats his face from The Boys, but without the weird fetishes, or daddy/mommy issues, or rage issues.