[CHAR] Golden Age

[Omega Man]

Torch of Liberty

Archetype(s) - Green Lantern; Torch of Liberty
Name - John McIntyre
Alias - Torch of Liberty; aka Torch
Age - 34
Powers/Skills/Equipment -
* Fire Generation/Manipulation - John can currently create green fire from his hands and shoot it
like a flame thrower or shoot compacted bursts of flame hadoken style. This will likely
develop further but nothing too crazy or OP.

* Fire Resistance - Heat and fire don't bother John at all. His body is almost one with the
fire around him.
Weaknesses -
* Basic weaknesses of a standard human in light body armor.
* Water and other substances can hinder the 'Torch's abilities for varied times.

Personality - Honorable, Trustworthy, Short-tempered, Chivilrous, Confident
Experience - 1 year and 4 months
Appearance - see avatar
BRIEF Bio -

BRIEF Bio - Born in 1904, John had the average life of somebody born into being a farm hand. He had basic schooling through about the fifth or sixth grade before having to take on a job. The young man helped take care of roughly twenty acres of farmland, rode horses, and was used to using outhouses. By the 1930's John hit the road and traveled up and down the eastern coast taking on factory jobs here and there. Occasionally he'd still get opportunites on farms. He was decent with firearms when the time ever came, but was as shocked as anyone would be when he created green flames from his hands.

Moving back to north eastern Tennessee, John became friends with the Sheriff in Queensport and learned a thing or two before adopting a costumed identity. After years of using his powers in secret he finally made a name for himself as the Torch of Liberty. During his time as a costumed crime fighter the Torch faced enemies such as the O'Donnell Gang, Ghostface, and the Creature of Warpath River.

Potential Storylines -

Birth of the Justice Guild - The formation of what would be this universe's first superteam.

Nazi Robo-Humans Attack - A strange ship that showed up in the NYC bay is secretly housing an army of robots!

Fast Friends - If we get a speedster I'd love to do a team-up ala GL/Flash.

Additional Notes - I essentially wanted a more street level GL type of guy. John doesn't fly or make constructs, or phase through walls... and there's no weakness to wood. I mean there is... you could catch him off guard with a baseball bat just like anybody LOL

[Azure Bubbles]

Golden Boy

Archetype(s) - Captain America-ish.

Name - Samuel “Sam” Bright

Alias - Golden Boy

Age - 24

Powers/Skills/Equipment -
Sam’s body was enhanced through an experimental super-soldier program, giving him strength, durability, stamina, reflexes, and recovery far beyond an ordinary man. He can lift vehicles, tear through reinforced doors, leap great distances, shield people from explosions, and keep fighting long after most men would have collapsed.

The same experiment also caused Sam’s body to produce a strange golden radiance. Government scientists call it photonic discharge. In simpler terms, Sam glows when he exerts himself. With practice, he has learned to control that light in a few limited ways. He can brighten his aura to act as a beacon in smoke or darkness, shine golden light from his hands like a flashlight, release sudden blinding flashes, and channel radiant force into his punches.

These effects are powerful, but simple and physical rather than mystical. He cannot create hard-light constructs, turn invisible, heal people, or fire endless energy beams.

Before becoming Golden Boy, Sam had experience with farm labor, horseback riding, basic mechanics, stage fighting, stunt work, boxing, and screen acting. Since becoming a hero, he has received additional training in rescue work, military coordination, public appearances, and hand-to-hand combat. When working with the military, he usually carries a compact field radio. Other than that, he mostly relies on himself.

Weaknesses -
Sam is powerful, but he is not invincible. Heavy artillery, sustained gunfire from high-caliber weapons, poison gas, electricity, explosives, and specially designed armor-piercing weapons can injure or overwhelm him. His radiant abilities are also tied to stamina and emotional control. If he overuses them, he can be left exhausted, disoriented, and temporarily light-sensitive.

His public image is another vulnerability. Golden Boy has been carefully sold to the American public as the perfect symbol of American masculinity. Reporters, military officials, studio executives, and government handlers all have an interest in keeping that image intact. Sam is also a gay man in 1938, which makes exposure dangerous. If the wrong person learned the truth, it could be used for blackmail, scandal, or worse.

Personality - Charming, earnest, ambitious, guarded, compassionate.

Experience -
Sam has been active as Golden Boy for a little over a year. His rise was meteoric, and very carefully managed. He is not one of the oldest heroes on the scene, nor is he as powerful or established as the Golden Guardian, but he has quickly become one of the most recognizable faces in the country.



Appearance -
Sam is tall, broad-shouldered, and classically handsome, with the kind of face that photographs almost annoyingly well. He has golden blond hair, bright blue eyes, a strong build, and a warm smile that can look completely sincere even when he is using it to hide discomfort. He is equal parts farm boy, movie star, and recruitment poster.

As Golden Boy, Sam wears a fitted deep blue uniform with gold accents, reinforced gloves, tall boots, a golden sunburst emblem across his chest, and a belt with a matching sunburst emblem as a buckle. A short gold cape gives the costume a dramatic, old-fashioned heroic silhouette without getting in the way during combat. When he uses his powers, a faint golden glow shines under his skin and around his body, growing brighter with effort.

BRIEF Bio -
Samuel Bright was born and raised on a farm, where he learned the value of hard work, quiet endurance, and keeping certain things to himself. He was strong, handsome, and restless from a young age. He was drawn less to the life expected of him and more to the fantasy of the silver screen. Sam wanted to be an actor. He wanted lights, cameras, applause, and the chance to become someone larger than life.

So he left home for Hollywood.

At first, Hollywood gave him very little. Sam worked as an extra, stunt double, background character, and sometimes just a pretty face in a crowd. He had the look people wanted, but not the connections to make much of it. Still, he kept trying. He learned how to smile on cue, how to stand where the light hit best, and how to look charming even when he wasn’t feeling it.

Somewhere along the way, he got noticed by people who were not casting for a film.

Sam was approached for what he was told would be a patriotic opportunity: a government-backed physical excellence program with ties to the studios and national defense. The details were vague, and the promises were tempting. It was supposed to be a chance to serve his country, impress important men, and maybe finally get his break.

Instead, Sam was “volunteered” into an experimental super-soldier program.

The process nearly killed him. It involved injections, radiation, electrical stimulation, physical trials, and enough secrecy that Sam still does not know the full truth of what was done to him. When he survived, he emerged stronger, tougher, faster, and changed. Under strain, his body shone with golden light.

The government saw a weapon. Hollywood saw a star. Together, they created Golden Boy.

Now Sam Bright is one of America’s brightest young heroes, a symbol of wholesome courage and patriotic strength. He appears in newsreels, newspapers, posters, patriotic shorts, staged photographs, public-service reels, and serial adventures built around Golden Boy. He technically still works in film, though not in the way he once hoped. He basically plays Golden Boy all the time. He still wants to be taken seriously as an actor, but the studios would much rather sell him as a living symbol. Mothers adore him. Soldiers cheer for him. Reporters ask when he plans to settle down with a nice girl. The public sees exactly what it has been taught to see: the perfect American hero.

Sam knows better.

He does believe in helping people. He does believe in fighting fascists, protecting the vulnerable, and standing against cruelty. But he also knows Golden Boy is a performance. He was turned into a symbol of ideal manhood, and many of the people cheering his name would reject the man under the gold and blue if they knew the truth.

With Nazi spies and superhumans targeting the Atlantic coast, Sam has answered the call. But as the war draws closer, he has to decide whether he is fighting for America as it is, or America as it ought to be.

Potential Storylines -

* The Poster Boy Problem: Sam struggles with being used as propaganda by the same government and Hollywood machine that created Golden Boy. Studio executives and government handlers keep trying to shape his image through interviews, photo opportunities, publicity appearances, and possible fake romances.
* In the Guardian’s Shadow: Golden Guardian is the established legend. Sam is the newer, younger, more marketable hero constantly compared to him. Sam admires him, but resents being measured against an impossible standard.
* Blackmail Material: Someone uncovers evidence of Sam’s sexuality or his past in Hollywood and tries to use it against him.
* The Laughing Skull: Sam is forced to confront violence and hatred within America itself, especially when the Skull targets minorities and vulnerable communities that authorities have failed to protect.
* A Love Worth Hiding: Sam develops, or already has, feelings for another man. Drama ensues.

Additional Notes -
Sam is closeted publicly, but he knows he is gay, and he is not ashamed of it. But he stays closeted because he knows exactly how people would react if the truth came out.

[Cyrania]

Elastic Man

Archetype(s) - Martian Manhunter, Plastic Man
Name - J'amez J'amezon /Detective James Jameson (when in human form)
Alias - The Manhunter (on Mars)/Elastic Man
Age - 33
Powers/Skills/Equipment - Telepathy, Telekinesis (allowing him to fly for short periods), and Shapeshifting (this allows him to stretch out and absorb damage like he's made of plastic, to appear invisible at times, and to phase through objects). He's also a police detective, so he has a gun and some detective skills, along with some acting prowess and knows some forensics techniques.

Weaknesses - Fire (Both in the pyrophobia sense and in the sense that fire messes with his psychic-based powers and causes them to go haywire, leading him to seem like he's melting like plastic). Also, while he has superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes by Martian standards, he's only human average on Earth due to the difference in gravity and atmosphere

Personality - Compassionate, Haunted, Curious, Methodical, Persistent
Experience - 5 Martian Years/10 Earth Years as the Manhunter, 1 Martian Year/2 Earth Years as Elastic Man
Appearance - His Martian form: Fairly typical green skin with pupilless red eyes in a humanoid form; His back was branded with the mark of the Martian World Government which is usually hidden underneath the blue and red straps and trunks and blue cape that was his 'uniform'. As he was forced to wear that uniform for some time, he sometimes slips into it out of force of habit, but he is seeking to fight that habit.

His main human guise: A 6 ft square jawed, blonde haired Caucasian male with square shoulders. Usually wears a collared shirt, formal slacks, a trench coat, and a fedora like a film noir detective.

His Elastic Man guise: Black haired, slim jawed, slight figured guy with a red top like the Golden Age Plastic Man's with a white undershirt under neath and red pants with a yellow belt, black boots, and a pair of sunglasses.

BRIEF Bio -J'amez was a Maritain Forensic Scientist who suddenly found himself with abilities beyond a normal Martian. The Martian World Government, a Soviet-esque dictatorship, at first sought to persuade him to become their puppet superhero. But when he sought to refuse, they burned his home and family (wife, son, & daughter) to make it seem like he died then placed him under J'ac'b J'amezon /Dr. Iron Will's, his twin brother's, "care" in order to make him into the Martian Manhunter. His will was broken, but then was able to escape due to Dr. Erdel's teleportation experiment and so now tries to keep a low profile as an ordinary human police detective so as to not end up the pawn of Mars or of anyone else ever again. However, when people are in danger around him, J'amez can't help but act. So he ended up becoming Elastic Man on Earth, focusing on his shapeshifting as his primary crime-fighting weapon in such a way as to seem like he's only a very rubbery man. As he's become more attached to his new home though, he can't help but want to protect it as much as he can. So he's taken to seek to take care of any spies and those that seek to attack the coast.

Potential Storylines - Mars attempting to silently infiltrate America and take advantage of the WW2 chaos and so discovering that J'amez is still alive, Refugees from Mars trying to get away from their government, J'amez hiding that he's an alien, Nazi Scientists wanting to capture him to figure out how his powers work and how to make more of him for their army

Additional Notes - Playing around with how in the Golden Age, Martian Manhunter had been a scientist before coming to Earth and of course, Mars still had a very alive population originally and was always supposed to be a 'perfect' place with no crime. I'm also playing with the fact that Mars does have a lower gravity so J'amez would need to be super-strong on some level in order to better blend in with other humans and to function as a superhero.

[Silver Carrot]

Jungle Boy

Archetype(s) - Tarzan, Mowgli
Name - Tommy Atkins
Alias - Jungle Boy
Age - 29

Powers/Skills/Equipment - Tommy has the ability to communicate with and understand the speech of every type of animal. He also has borderline superhuman agility and catlike reflexes, as well as possessing peak human physiology in regards to strength and speed. He's trained in guerilla warfare, basic military strategy, archery and firearms. Tommy has a sharp intellect and is an absurdly quick learner. The equipment he usually possesses include a homemade wooden bow with a quiver of arrows, shorts and foot wraps made from fragments of his old uniform bound with leather straps, and animal pelts adorning his waist and torso.

Weaknesses - Tommy cannot control animals or force them to do his bidding against their will. And besides the fruits of his unusual childhood, training and the ability to communicate with animals, he is just an ordinary man with no superpowers.

Personality - WIP
Experience - Seven years of active service, but a lifetime of survival experience.
Appearance -


BRIEF Bio - Tommy does not know who his parents are, though given his Caucasian complexion, there's a good chance they were British soldiers. He grew up alone and abandoned in the mountains of Waziristan, on the border between British India and Afghanistan. He does not know why or how, but as soon as he was of age to speak, he found he could understand and communicate with the animals around him. He was able to barter his life, trade, tame the animals and even learn skills from them. By the time soldiers found him at twelve years old, the feral child was an accomplished survivalist and tracker and fearsome hunter.

The soldiers took him in, taught him to speak, read and write English, gave him a rudimentary education, and explained the current state of the wider world. He found a bow and arrows lying around once and took up archery as both a hobby and a tool to make hunting much easier and more efficient. He was then trained to be a soldier and instructed in the use of firearms and guerrilla warfare. But he was disillusioned with war itself. All of the enemies of the British Army throughout the 1930's were small rebel factions who just wanted to resist the tyranny of the Empire. Tommy eventually decided to desert and travel to the United States, a land advertised as neutral, free, and a place where any hardworking person could make it in life. He vowed that the next time he took up arms, if he ever took up arms, it would only be to oppose true evil.

Potential Storylines - Besides beginning his road to Herodom and joining a team, Tommy could also try learning to drive.
Additional Notes - Wanted to capture the more 'pulp' side of Golden Age comics. It was this or a detective.