Can’t speak for Wraith but I imagine that would be ok. Just depends on the concept you create a sheet for.
Like what stories would you tell with Terminator in this shared universe? What other characters would you pair them with? As someone who is playing a non Marvel/DC, I think one of the best bits is seeing him interact with characters that he wouldn’t normally interact with.
Yeah, I think the difficulty of including Terminator is that having an apocalyptic future war between humans and machines is necessary for the concept, which really narrows every other character who might want to do future shenanigans (Booster Gold, Legion of Super-Heroes, etc).
Yeah, I think the difficulty of including Terminator is that having an apocalyptic future war between humans and machines is necessary for the concept, which really narrows every other character who might want to do future shenanigans (Booster Gold, Legion of Super-Heroes, etc).
I will say, X-Men do alternative futures all the time and that seems to work (although some maybe disagree). Just as long as it’s stated in story that it’s just one possible future rather than THE future
I will say, X-Men do alternative futures all the time and that seems to work (although some maybe disagree). Just as long as it’s stated in story that it’s just one possible future rather than THE future
Valid point, honestly. Though I'll say that they have the messiest reputation for continuity for a reason... :P
Don't need to apologise - maybe we're being too purist? An interesting point was brought up in a discord chat that you could write a very Terminator-inspired story using characters like Ultron (as your megalomaniacal AI villain stand-in) and Bishop/Cable (as your time-travelling heroes preventing a bad future before it happens stand-ins). Maybe what we should be doing is less 'how can I bring in this off-the-wall media property' and more 'how can I use established comic canon to weld parts together into a story inspired by/similar to the media property I love'.
That said we've also had the most experimentation in this game of any iteration of these one-comic-universe games I've played, and I've been enjoying how much more flexible and daring everyone's been.
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_________________________________________________________ Marc Spector Steven Grant Jake Lockley _________________________________________________________ 30 | Jewish-American
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A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ KHONSHU - Marc's patron deity, the one who gave him new life as he lay dying in a half buried temple. ◼ JEAN-PAUL "FRENCHIE" DUCHAMP - Marc's best friend and partner in his vigilante escapades, being the pilot and mechanic of the Mooncopter. ◼ GENA LANDERS - Owner of Gena's Diner in the Bronx, Jake's favorite place to recuperate after a long shift. ◼ BERTRAND CRAWLEY - An old wino who bums around Gena's Diner and provides information to Jake. ◼ DETECTIVE JONAS FLINT - A freak beat detective and Moon Knight's contact in the NYPD. ◼ MARLENE ALRAUNE - The woman whose life Marc saved in the Middle East. She's tried to keep her distance from the vigilante since he escorted her back to America. ◼ LAYLA EL-FAOULY - A mercenary who was Marc's lover as well as a part of the Karnak Cowboys with Marc and Frenchie. (Deceased)
S O M E T H I N G I N B E T W E E N ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ JACK RUSSELL - A young man cursed with lycanthropy, transforming into a werewolf by night. (Upcoming) ◼ SCARLET FASINERA/STAINED GLASS SCARLET - A vigilante armed with a crossbow whose eagerness to kill criminals puts her at odds with Moon Knight. (Upcoming)
A N T A G O N I S T S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ RAOUL BUSHMAN - A ruthless mercenary and the man who killed Marc, indirectly creating Moon Knight. (Upcoming) ◼ THE COMMITTEE - A shadowy organization that has decided to capitalize upon and exploit superhumans and supernatural beings to fill their own pockets. (Upcoming) ◼ ANTON MOGART/MIDNIGHT MAN - An art collector turned serial art thief who steals priceless paintings and sculptures to add to his own collection. (Upcoming) ◼ ROBERT MARKHAM/MORPHEUS - A man who underwent testing for an experimental drug to help with his insomnia and died not long after. (Deceased, Upcoming)
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Moon Knight kind of became the new hotness for me after many years of only ever apping Q and occasionally the Punisher in these games. I tried my best to come up with a cool concept for Q that was unique from what I'd already done to avoid retreading old ground, but I found that I was at a loss for anything beyond my initial arc. So rather than continue beating a dead horse, I'm going to beat a dying horse.
Marc's origin is pretty standard Moon Knight fair: mercenary, killed by Bushman, resurrected by Khonshu, came back to America to become Moon Knight. Marc and his alters have just begun their superhero career, only active in NYC as Moon Knight for about two months at the start of my run. His supporting cast will be composed of the initial supporting cast from the 80s Moench run (with a far more removed Marlene because I do NOT find her interesting), with some characters from MK's later runs such as Detective Flint and Layla El-Faouly thrown in.
Because I do plan on getting back to Odyssey at some point, I do not plan to retread the ground I was planning on treading there. In Odyssey, I was planning on telling a story focused on Marc's Midnight Mission and him taking on almost exclusively supernatural threats. I do still plan on doing a few supernatural plots but the main focus will be on the criminal underworld of NYC, paying respects to Silverstein's Daredevil/Elektra concept where NYC has become a cyberpunk dystopia but without all the cool shit. While Silverstein plans on focusing on the political and social corruption of the Big Apple as well as DD and Elektra fighting more monstrous versions of their usual rogues, I plan on Marc tackling smaller scale threats such as gangs, mobs, and lower tier metahumans and mutants.
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My goal is to get into crossovers (which I haven't done in almost two years and before that it had been six years) and focusing on a "villain of the week" style formula when I do solo posts, with small self contained arcs each lasting a post or two, three tops. To get myself started, I plan on throwing myself into Roman's monster attack in NYC and going from there.
If you're in NYC or any of the adjacent cities or can realistically slot your character in AND any of these catch your eye, feel free to send me a PM on RPG or a DM on Discord about making it a crossover.
Roughly Chronological Order Hungry Like The Wolf - Moon Knight is hired by the Committee to capture a werewolf that has been stalking Staten Island, putting him on a collision course with a young lycanthropic man named Jack Russell. Midnight In A Perfect World - The Midnight Man has been striking art galleries and private collections throughout New York City, stealing priceless paintings and sculptures. Moon Knight takes it upon himself to investigate. The Killing Moon - A ruthless vigilante, the Stained Glass Scarlet, has been striking the mob families of New York City, leaving crossbow bolt ridden bodies in her wake. Conflicted on her methods, Marc tries to seek her out to decide if he needs to stop her or if he should just leave her be. Came Back Haunted - Marlene enlists Moon Knight's help after her brother Dr. Peter Alraune begins receiving threats to his life from a former patient named Robert Markham. The strange thing is, Robert Markham died four months ago.
I'm pretty far along in my first Spidey post, but I am very out of practice writing action scenes, so there's much editing to be done. Eager to get on the board, though.
A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Amy Rohrbach - Dick's former partner in the BFD EMS Unit ◼ Barbara Gordon - As portrayed by Ruby ◼ Bridget Clancy - The owner of Dick's apartment building ◼ Bruce Wayne - As portrayed by Cyberlad ◼ Cheyenne Freemont - A fashion designer, current creator of the latest Nightwing suit ◼ Dana Tan - Terry's on and off again girlfriend ◼ Haly - Dick's Dog ◼ Harper Rowe - Street urchin, eyes for Oracle ◼ Jason Todd - As portrayed by Cyberlad ◼ Helena Bertinelli - Dick Grayson's on and off again BTGGF and the vigilante Huntress. ◼ Katalina Flores - The vigilante Tarantula, an alley of Dick's. ◼ Mary McGinnis - Terry's mother ◼ Matt McGinnis -Terry's brother ◼ Maxine 'Max' Gibson - A local information broker operating under the handle, 'Oracle'. ◼ Melanie Walker - A new girl in Blüdhaven with eyes for Terry ◼ Rose Wilson - Dick's first protégé, known as Ravager ◼ Stephanie Brown - Spoiler, agent of Oracle, daughter of Cluemaster. ◼ Warren McGinnis - Terry's father ◼ Zeta - CLASSIFIED
A N T A G O N I S T S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ANARCHISTS: ◼ Anarky ◼ Mad Stan
BLOCKBUSTER GANG: ◼ Roland 'Blockbuster' Desmond - The Blüdhaven crimelord known as Blockbuster. Deceased. ◼ Mark Desmond - Blockbuster's brother out for blood. ◼ Orca ◼ Shrike ◼ Torque
HEARTLESS: ◼ Heartless ◼ Punchline ◼ Marionette ◼ Dee Dees
MERCENARIES: ◼ Deathstroke the Terminator - Slade Wilson ◼ Inque ◼ Lady Vic
PARLIAMENT OF OWLS: ◼ Parliament of Owls - Court of Owls ◼ Saiko ◼ Talon
OTHER ROGUES: ◼ Blight - Derek Powers, the Saviour of Blüdhaven. ◼ Mad Hatter ◼ Royal Flush Gang - Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten. ◼ Shriek ◼ Spellbinder ◼ Thaddeus 'Tad' Ryerstad - A new breed of Nightwing
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A cesspool built from Gotham's runoff, anything that doesn't put roots down in Gotham gets flushed into the city-like sewer known as Blüdhaven. A port town, Blüdhaven got its start as a whaling town before becoming an industrial port. The sky is layered in a thick cloud of smog, while streets are constantly filled with fog due to the miles of antique boiler pipe laid beneath cobblestone streets hastily repaired with asphalt and concrete.
But for a brief moment, the city had hope in the form of its very own Bright Knight.
Richard 'Dick' Grayson, the former protegé and Robin of Gotham's Batman, outgrew the shadow of his mentor's cape and, after a soul-finding journey, adopted a symbol of rebirth he learned from a distant Romani relative. From the ashes of Robin rose Nightwing, who took to the streets of Blüdhaven, using the best tricks learned from the Bat to inject fear into the superstitious and cowardly lot that preyed on the vulnerable.
But years of war against the crimelord known as Blockbuster took their toll, eventually driving Dick Grayson to his breaking point, and in a final confrontation, Dick was left maimed and traumatized while Blockbuster was killed.
A former vigilante turned recluse, Dick Grayson has reluctantly enjoyed a simpler life, managing a gymnastics facility and becoming a superintendent over a small apartment complex. However, a new Nightwing has appeared in Blüdhaven, and with it, a trail of bodies, brutally killed by blunt force trauma.
Unable to allow his legacy to be tarnished and fear turned against the people of Blüdhaven, Dick is forced out of his mandated retirement.
The Bright Knight Returns.
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As most of you already know, Dick Grayson is my favourite character in all of comics, and Batman Beyond was a show I basically grew up on. The idea of combining the two is highly appealing revisiting some of my favourite posts I've written over the years with Terry in the tights and a reluctant Dick playing the role of the guy in the chair. Will Dick recover from his injury? I doubt it, but a story of mistaken identity and legacy is certainly looking like a lot of fun to write while also integrating both Dick and Terry into a larger world that contains allies and foes alike from their respective histories.
What you as a reader can expect are episodic posts exploring Terry growing into his new role as the protector of Blüdhaven while Dick is forced to rapidly mature as a mentor and perpetual big brother, founding his own 'Wing-family' with the help of everyone's favourite black sheep, Helena Bertinelli.
Responding in my own paragraphs that arent 1 to 1 for any points except the last one.
- Part of the adaption to the Marvel/DC focused setting is to generally avoid the amount of mass casualty events that seem to crop up every other tuesday in Invincible (especially when the storylines are condensced like in the show). I would choose between adapting larger events i.e Flaxan Invasions as collaborations with people so that the impact of such things can be properly reflected or just not do them. There's plenty of non-end of the world events in the earlier volumes of Invincible to pull from, as well as interacting with the non-Invincible aspects of the world which is part of the fun of the whole crossover thing.
- The connection to Proto-Krypton came out of a concern for me of just explaining their similarities in setting. Given the vast spans of time Last Days of Krypton deals with when it comes to Kryptonian History I don't think it neccesitates their power set being Kryptonian. It's more than just flavour tex,t in that I could see it being a thread to pull down the line with Kryptonian lore, but its not designed to fundementally change either. I feel this sort of answers the scaling concern, given Kryptonians by and large have been shown to pull off far more fanciful feats than Viltrumites (punching through dimensions, moving planets without destroying them, holding up the metaphysical burden of creation etc). This was largely a point of adaptation though so I can just drop it from the concept if need be.
- Omni-man kills the Guardians of The Globe, but I wouldn't say the Guardians are on par with the bigs of DC and Marvel, which is the part of the logic mentioned in my sheet about why he hasn't attempted his takeover by this point as he would in the comics. The other being that I want to write a story in this crossover, not just rewrite Invincible, so Nolan is himself more troubled by the thought of doing the big evil. I would imagine it would still be a threat I'd want to collab with people if a similar-to-comics event did occur, but I don't see it being close to 'the rest of the world are powerless spectators to Mark and Nolan's fight.'
- I think if I ever did get round to writing other Viltrumites on Earth it would feature as more of a covert 'they walk among us' threat as opposed to trying to force everyone to play the lore of Invincible with me. More open interactions with Vultriumites I would keep to adventures far away from where they might break other people's toys.
- Regarding Titan, that is pretty funny I missed that. Along with Nightwing that's an edit I can easily make, I will probably just come up with a totally unique OC please don't steal name for the character.
I'm good with all of this. Pending edits, Invincible is accepted as the second-best Grayson in the RP.
A L L I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Winston is a hyperintelligent gorilla uplifted on the Horizon Lunar Colony. During Overwatch’s operational years, he served as the team’s primary scientific consultant, providing analysis and technical support from a secure off‑site facility. After the fall, he accepted a quiet position within SHIELD’s science division. ◼ Dum Dum Dugan is a veteran S.H.I.E.L.D. operative with decades of field experience. During Overwatch’s operational years, he served as the primary liaison between the task force and S.H.I.E.L.D. ◼ Bobbi Morse AKA Mockingbird is a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative with a background in biology and counterintelligence. She worked alongside Overwatch on several joint missions and briefly had a romantic relationship with Lena before later marrying and returning to full‑time S.H.I.E.L.D. duty. ◼ Genji Shimada is a cybernetically enhanced swordsman who served as one of Overwatch’s most agile infiltration specialists. After the fall, he vanished. ◼ Angela Ziegler is a world class medical researcher who oversaw Overwatch’s medical division. After the collapse, she accepted a consulting role with SHIELD and now focuses on humanitarian work while maintaining discreet ties to her former teammates. ◼ Vivian Chase AKA Sojourn was Tracer’s former captain during her time at Overwatch, with her looking up to her greatly. After the fall of Overwatch, she stepped away from active duty and settled into retirement in Toronto. ◼ The Soldier is a mysterious figure also fighting Talon.
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Overwatch operated as a joint SHIELD–UN task force created to respond to crises that exceeded the reach or jurisdiction of any single nation. It worked in the shadows, handling metahuman incidents, rogue science threats, and politically sensitive conflicts that governments could not publicly acknowledge. Its roster blended elite soldiers, intelligence operatives, scientists, and enhanced individuals whose abilities made them uniquely suited for rapid response missions.
Lena Oxton, a former RAF pilot, joined the task force after a chronal displacement accident left her body stuck in time. Stabilised by the chronal accelerator she now wears, she became one of Overwatch’s most agile operatives, specialising in infiltration, extraction, and high risk civilian protection. She went by the moniker Tracer, a name that reflected both her abilities and her presence on the field. She formed deep bonds with her teammates and carried the spirit of Overwatch’s idealism even when missions demanded secrecy and sacrifice.
The task force collapsed when tensions between Gabriel Reyes, former head of Blackwatch covert operations, and Jack Morrison, former field commander of Overwatch, escalated into open conflict. Their feud culminated in the destruction of Overwatch’s Swiss headquarters, an explosion that killed personnel, shattered public trust, and gave world governments the justification they needed to shut the program down. In the aftermath, members scattered. Some folded into SHIELD, some returned to their home agencies, and others disappeared into private life. Tracer tried to do the same, attempting to build a normal existence away from covert operations. Reports of Talon resurfacing across Europe have pulled her back into action, determined to stop Talon before they gain momentum again.
Should note that I’m omitting certain elements from the world of Overwatch in order for this concept to work in this shared universe. Omnics don’t exist for example and obviously the world isn’t as technologically advanced as that in the Overwatch universe. I’m mainly focusing on Overwatch and Talon themselves, rather than the various other factions in the universe.
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I fell in love with Overwatch and its world when I first started playing it many years ago and eagerly awaited each new lore drop. I always wanted to explore that universe myself and see where the story of Overwatch’s reunion and Talon’s return might lead. This is as good an opportunity as any.
We will be following Tracer’s investigation into Talon, taking her across the globe as she attempts to stop their operations. I can see her encountering a range of mercenaries and assassins as she tries to track down their source. At the same time, she will be looking into contacts from her old Overwatch days, potentially leading toward the formation of a new Overwatch.
I want to delve deeper into the world of secret agencies, mapping out SHIELD, Overwatch, Talon, and other villainous organisations as they appear. This can hopefully lead to collaboration with anyone else playing characters in similar spaces, such as Captain America or the Winter Soldier.
Given the superhero nature of Tracer, she can also work in a wide variety of scenarios, so collaboration is not restricted to the themes above.