I am still on RPG, so do feel free to message me. Just don't have the time or energy to actually join any RP's right now. Focusing on a LOT of other projects, including getting into Audio Drama.
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7 yrs ago
Computer is back, yay. I can post again :)
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7 yrs ago
Computer is getting some much needed maintenance. Will be slow posting for the next week or 2.
8 yrs ago
Sorry for disappearing for 2 months. Life kinda went to shit and RPG was pushed to the back of my mind.
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9 yrs ago
Computer is broke AGAIN. Dog jumped on me when I had a glass of water in my hand, but some of it leaked in. Posts are going to be slow for the next week.
We run the risk of not distinguishing the characters enough for comfort within the same game, and with Silk already accepted, overloading the game with Spider-People regardless.
C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y
_________________________________________________________ Benjamin 'Peter' Reilly _________________________________________________________ 20 | Single _________________________________________________________ Manhattan | American
N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S
A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ SUPERHUMAN PHYSICALITY Enhanced twice over, once by his mutated genetics and again by the Reach's experiments at his creation, Ben is stronger, faster, more durable, more agile, with faster reflexes and more stamina than any non-metahuman individual could ever imagine, and rivalling or even surpassing many other powered beings as well. This additionally extends to his body's injury response, able to heal and regenerate far quicker than humanly possible, recovering from wounds in a matter of minutes and hours, rather than days and weeks.
◼ WALL-CRAWLING Thanks to the genetic changes brought on by the spider's toxin, Ben is able to cling to any surface - regardless of orientation - and crawl or climb along or up without risk of losing purchase or falling. Ceilings, walls, metal, plaster - it doesn't seem to matter how it's laid out or what it's made of; Ben can adhere and navigate as easily as putting one foot in front of the other.
◼ SPIDER-SENSE Ben possesses a psuedo-precognitive alert ability, dubbed 'Spider-Sense', that warns him of any incoming danger and allows his reflexes to enable him to dodge, evade, or counter any blow, projectile, or even more esoteric forms of danger or harm that may attempt to befoul him. Working in a full 360-degree span around him, the strength of the alert response is also proportional relative to the severity of the danger; the most extreme responses can react intensely enough to cause physical pain. While it does not trigger while unconscious, it remains while Ben is sleeping, or when stunned or otherwise paralyzed but still conscious. To a certain extent, Ben can also wilfully exert his spider-sense and tune into his surroundings, through walls, floors, ceilings, or around corners, and 'probe' for potential threats and individuals, although this is hazier and not as fine-detail as the reflexive alert response, and required significant mental concentration to achieve and maintain.
◼ WEBBING Part of the Reach's improvements to Ben's cloned biology, the experiment that lead to his creation also introduced natural, organic web-spinners to his body, able to secrete upon demand a natural and proportional reproduction of spider-silk. With adhesive qualities and tensile strength rivalling steel wire, this silk enables Ben to swing - his main method of transportation - as well as quickly zip-line to other points, and can additionally be used as an entrapment, weaving, or sculpting substance to suit many, many requirements. -
N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S
S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ GIFTED INTELLECT Peter had a natural talent and aptitude for the sciences, marked as one of the single most well-graded students in the history of his high school and flagged for an Oscorp internship and research role before his abduction; Ben has inherited this great mind, gifted with one of the keenest intellects on the planet, though slightly atrophied from the half-decade abduction, experimentation, and clone-growth process.
◼ MASTER ACROBAT Mostly provided by the combination of his physical enhancements, Ben is the premier acrobat and gymnast on the face of the Earth, able to twist, turn, balance, swing, and stunt beyond limits thought possible. -
T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ PHOTOGRAPHY With am inherited passion, a keen eye, and the ability to get places and angles others can't, Ben is inadvertently quite the dab hand at photography, capturing images that dazzle and amaze; something he's used to his advantage in a world growing ever-more-obsessed with the activities of particular notable individuals... -
T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...
Peter Parker, 15, a young and exceedingly clever high-school student in Queens, is invited to an exclusive guided tour through the Oscorp research centre in Manhattan, attending a program created for the best and brightest, intended to afford New York's most intelligent youth a window into the foremost scientific hub in New York State, and a lifeline opportunity to join their ranks upon completion of their studies. Unbeknownst to either Oscorp or Peter himself, a spider - subject to genetic research and experimentation within the bowels of the site's laboratory, aided by early technological exchange with the Reach - escaped its enclosure. It found Peter, using its final gasps of life to deliver a single bite, and introduce a toxin to Peter's body that would prove to be the fateful pivot upon which his entire life would spin.
Struck down by a debilitating illness, Peter spent weeks wracked with agonizing pains, migraines, nausea, fading in and out of consciousness as his very genetic makeup was rewritten, pulled apart and knitted back together. When he finally recovered, he found himself in possession of strange, unexplained powers; stronger, faster, tougher; quicker reflexes, and and ability to cling to any surface regardless of orientation; most peculiar of all, an almost pre-cognitive warning of incoming danger or harm, allowing him to twist and react to evade or counter. Giddy from what these new powers meant for him, Peter was reckless; he bounded into the city, engaging in nothing more than simple play around the urban landscape of Manhattan, a new sandbox opening up before him. Visions of a reinvented life swam before him: the Amazing Spider-Man! Stronger than you, faster than you! Witness his incredible wall-crawling! Laud his inability to be hit! See how he swings from web of his own creation! See how robbers and bullies cower before him, and the ladies swoon beneath him! Spectacular, Sensational, Superior...!
And then Uncle Ben was murdered. And then Aunt May had a stroke. And then Peter Parker was abducted as the Reach War erupted.
Five long years took their toll on a teenager. Kept in a half-conscious state of suspended animation, Peter's DNA was harvested again and again for hideous experiments into neogenics, the Reach sure that this mutated boy's cells held the key to turning the tide of the war and conquering Earth. All manner of tests and trials were held; reproducing the original spider, creating biologic serums out of Peter's genetic makeup, direct transfusion, even cross-gene grafting. Frustrated by failure at every turn, the Reach rounded on a new avenue; direct genetic cloning. The logic held up: Peter, by some unknown quantity or quality, had accepted and melded with the original spider's toxin, an against-the-odds alchemy that improved him beyond the scope of Human, rather than destroy him at the cellular level like so many other subjects since. Reproduce that, and the Reach had an army that could seamlessly hide within Humanity's ranks, under their direct control, and ready to destroy their enemy from within. The science was agreed on; the experiment approved. The cloning began.
The plan never saw itself realized; five years into the crisis, the Superman appeared, and the Reach were driven from Earth entirely. In the carnage, Peter awoke from his suspension, five years older and his memories murky and muddled since the abduction. He broke containment easily, assisting and rescuing others as he escaped the research station amidst a distracted and routed Reach - including, to his distress, a solitary, perfectly identical copy, withered half-lame from incomplete growth, and equally confused. Together, they returned to Earth, and watched the sky clear of their tormentors, fleeing on their heels faced with the might of Earth's new defender.
And then the bomb went off.
Only in the wake of fresh calamity was the truth revealed; this wilted, languishing Peter was no half-finished clone, no incomplete experiment. This was the original Peter Parker, the abductee, drained and harvested and picked at for the Reach's heinous purposes; the Peter who had escaped, who had broken containment and rescued the others, was the singular successful, stable reproduction in their myriad cloning attempts. The original begged the clone to understand - he was stronger, faster, tougher, a Spider-Man Improved, a terrible reckoning created by the Reach but never utilized. He had to be better; he had to be greater. He had to take to heart the lessons the Reach had not, the lessons Peter had learned so dreadfully, the lessons the Superman demonstrated so nobly.
With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility. And there had to be a Spider-Man. Peter Parker couldn't die for nothing.
Peter Parker was buried with his Uncle and Aunt. Ben Reilly attended from a distance, and then disappeared into New York City. Peter was right. There had to be a Spider-Man. But how could Ben ever measure up?
P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )
I love Spider-Man but honestly, Ben Reilly and the Scarlet Spider have always been cooler. The identity struggle, the suit, even the alias are all just a bit more interesting and have a bit more edge on the age-old tale of Peter Parker. My main issue with ever writing a Spider-Man story is also what do you write that hasn't been written already, with what's one half of the two most successful comic book properties on the planet? I don't have anything for Peter and re-doing a classic origin would put me to sleep; but Ben? Ben's cool. Ben's trying to fill a hole Peter never had the chance to drill in the first place. Ben's trying to figure out who he is, if he's not Peter. With Peter dead, maybe he is Peter, just by default. But does he want to be Peter? Does he want to be Spider-Man? I don't know, but we can sure find out.
That's where you'd be wrong, bucko, as i withdraw my other Peter Parker suggestion and will return to the drawing board, because your idea is better.
C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y
_________________________________________________________ Peter Benjamin Parker _________________________________________________________ Age: 39 | Relationship Status: Married _________________________________________________________ Affiliation: Parker Industries | Nationality: American
N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S
A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ ABILITY
Superhuman Strength: Capable of lifting 10 tons over his head with minimal effort, Spidey has been shown to exceed this when in times of great peril or through sheer willpower.
Superhuman Durability: While his skin doesn't stop bullet, he is capable of surviving considerable amounts of blunt-force trauma. Hit by cars, trains, superhumans capable of ripping buildings apart, Spider-Man just keeps bouncing back.
Wall-Crawling: Due to hyperstrong-microfibers that have grown out of the pores of his body, he is capable of sticking to most surfaces and clinging on with just the palm of his hand or soles of his feet, even just by hooking on with his shoulders.
Hyper-Reflexes: Spidey's reflexes are that of an insect, during times of stress, he perceives the world around him at 40x the speed of others and reacts accordingly. Seeing the world in slow motion, but seeming to move normally.
Spider-Senses: Spidey's Senses are something of an oddity. Some form of Extra-Sensory Perception, he gets a strange tingle in the back of his neck whenever danger is nearby.
Superhuman Regeneration: While not exactly healing back broken bones in seconds or anything, Spidey's recovery rate is considerably elevated. Able to heal minor cuts and scrapes in hours with broken bones coming back in days rather than weeks.
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T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TOOLS
Spider-Suit: The suit is just as much a part of Spider-Man as the cool powers, having advanced technologies built into it. Including:
Web-Slingers: A useful tool that allows him to (As his themesong says) spin a web of any size. He has multiple different formula's that he developed and packed into super-compressed capsules that he uses as ammo for his webslingers. Robes to wrap up people, grapples to hold and swing from, super-dense balls that are essentially for punching someone in the face from across the room, sticky-goop webs that hold his opponents in place, etc.
Spider-Tracers: While the Web-Slingers are built into the palm-side of his wrist, he also has a Spider-Tracer shooter built into the back of it, allowing him to fire a tracking device at fleeing foes, sometimes because they are flying, but mostly because someone is in danger and Spidey always chooses to help those in need above hurting his foes.
Spider-Visor: Although his spider-senses allow him to navigate pretty well, the visor in his suit has multiple display modes, including a Heads-Up Display for keeping track of his equipment and any damage to it, as well as night-vision, UV-sensors and other things that help him in his Spider-Maning tasks.
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N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S
Expert Gymnast: Although he actually was rather into gymnastics when he was quite young, he had mostly forgotten it until that heady day when he was 15 when that Radioactive Spider came down... Well, it turns out that his former training seemed to come in quite handy when he was able to bend and flex the way he could. Ever since he became Spider-Man, Peter has been actively training to get better and better.
Skilled Photographer: Oh for the days of living on the $100 a week that JJ used to pay him for his photo's of "The Webslinging Menace" He was never the best photographer and the job kinda sucked all of the joy he used to have in the medium out of him, but he's still nonetheless quite good with a camera.
"Way Of The Spider": In the beginning, Spidey used to rely heavily on his super-powers for combat. Ambushing and overpowering his foes in blitz-attacks. But as he grew, he began to develop his own style of combat. Partially inspired by old Kung-Fu movies, combined with a healthy dose of Karate from a local teacher, as well as a teeny-tiny bit of professional wrestling from back in the day when he was "the Amazing Human-Spider" This martial art proved to be rather effective.
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T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ TALENT
Genius Level Intellect: Spider-Man is a powerful hero, but frankly, would be nothing without the genius levels of intellect that Peter Parker possesses. Creating gadgets, outthinking his opponents, mastering Robotics, Neogenics and even got the most prestigeous thing a scientist can ask for: Has a particle named after him. Peter's knowledge of the physical sciences are not the greatest in the universe (He'll be the first to admit that he's no Reed Richards) But there are few in the scientific community that would scoff at his prowess.
Indomitable Will: "Stay Down" is, almost literally, not in Pete's vocabulary. Life has been doing its absolute damnedest to keep him down since forever and he has never let it do so, no matter how many times he had to look in his wallet and say "Nope, too broke for 10c ramen packets" no matter how many loved ones have died in seemingly pointless ways, no matter how many times a Supervillain puts his head through a pane-glass window, no matter how many times alien goo monsters turn him into a raging dickhead and he has to constantly worry about them hunting him down like a Bunny-Boiling Ex, no matter how many times the papers smeer his name, no matter how many times he has to pick himself up off the ground, Peter lives by the code of "All i have to do is get back up exactly 1 more time than they can knock me down." and so far it's working.
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T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...
Orphaned at a young age, Peter was raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Growing up, he had his best friend group including Mary Jane Watson (The Girl Next Door) and Harry Osborn (the son of a friend of May's) They would spend a lot of time together, playing in the back garden, being the 3 Musketeers (Well, 2 musketeers, Harry had to be the Queen of Spain) As life went on, Mary Jane went to live with her Aunt. Peter and Harry wouldn't learn until later in life that it's because her alcoholic father had beaten her mother until she committed suicide and authorities had awarded custody to the closest mentally competent family member. They met back up when they all went to Highschool together. The 3 Musketeers reunited.
So, this is the part of the story where the Spider shows up, let's NOT do this one last time, spider-bite, weird powers, Professional Wrestling, Uncle Ben killed by guy Peter could have stopped from robbing his boss, but didn't want to get involved yada-yada-yada, you know the drill. So, now, he is The Amazing Spider-Man at the age of only 16. A few years go by, simple robberies he's stopping, alleyway muggings, becomes something of a local legend, although he's annoyed that most people seem to think he's just horning in on Batman's gig. He graduates from High-School, super-villains begin to show up. His first is Doctor Curtis Connors, a brilliant Neogenecist who's working on Lizard DNA. He ends up turning himself into a giant lizard monster and becomes obsessed with unlocking the secrets of Spider-Man's powers, Curt actually befriended Peter and then betrayed him, giving Pete some severe Trust issues for a while.
Other villains came along, Mac Gargan, Adrien Tombes, Dmitri Smerdyakov, Max Dillon, he had an unfortunate run-in with a nasty pile of Alien goop, but that's a LONG story, heard it's running with some gun-crazed maniac now... Several of his villains turned out to be... Well, not villains. His sort-of rival from his days at Empire State, Michael Morbius, he may have turned himself into a mutant-vampire-like creature, but all-in-all, he only does what he does in an attempt to cure his unfortunate mistake. Otto Octavius is a genius and was his and Michaels professor at Empire State. Unfortunately, he went a little... Well, i believe the medical term is "Coo-coo-kachoo-pants-on-head-banana's" But i'm not entirely sure, i'm not a doctor... Well, i am, but not that kind of doctor. Point is, he welded 4 mechanical arms to his spine and got it in his head that he could save the entire human race from itself by stealing vast quantities of cash and building giant mechanical octopus-bots and spider-smashers. A little confused, but he had the right spirit. Alasdair Smythe... Ok, he was a brilliant scientist who ALSO went a little "blibble-blibble-blibble" (Again, i believe that's the correct pronunciation) when The Kingpin framed Spider-Man for killing his father, Spencer. He mutated himself into a giant mountain of muscle and cybornetic enhancements with giant spikes that shoot laserbeams and stuff in order to get his revenge (As one naturally does), but as soon as he found out it was Kingpin just trying to make enemies for Spider-Man... Well, turns out he's not such a bad guy.
So, you may be wondering about his old friends, Harry and MJ? Well, some good, some bad. Harry's Dad tested a new Super-Soldier syrum on himself in a desperate attempt to win a military contract. The positive is that it did turn him into a superhuman badass, the bad news is that it turned him into a superhuman badass with severe Schizophrenia and now has "The Goblin" who tells him to burn things. Namely, things called Spider-Man. Well, eventually, Gobby decided to get his son in on the game and recruited him as a Sidekick by the name of Hobgoblin. There was a number of fights, Spider-Man won some, Gobby almost won others. Eventually, Norman managed to band together 4 other Villains into a team he called The Sinister Six, but in the end, most of them were defeated and jailed. To make matters worse for Gobby, the truth came out that, yes, Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Luckily, there was enough of Harry left in there to allow him to break out of his fathers control. Harry eloped with his girlfriend and Peter didn't hear from him again...
As for MJ? Well, in her words "Face facts, Tiger, you won the jackpot" Their whirlwind romance had a LOT of ups and downs, threats to leave him because she didn't know he was Spider-Man and kept missing appointments because "Sorry, babe, gotta save New York from a runaway man in a giant rhino-costume" wasn't exactly an easy pill to swallow. But after Aunt May's passing, Peter was forced to come clean with her... Luckily, the best romances are built on trust and affection... And after she finished beating 7 bells out of him for lying to her for all these years, she forgave him. They married just before The Reach arrived.
Spider-Man didn't have much interaction with The Reach. They never really had any villains that bothered Queens, so he didn't really give them much thought. He suspected that they may have had something to do with that weird alien goo-monster he had trouble with previously, but again, never managed to prove anything. That also had the knock-on effect of Peter never really wanting to mess with Alien technology, because of said last time... That was until the attack... Spider-Man had his work cut out for him keeping New York under control as panicing filled the streets, but with MJ there to be his emotional center, he was able to persevere. Then, 5 years ago, up in the sky, it wasn't a bird, it wasn't a plane, it was a big blue Angel who came and saved them. Spider-Man didn't go to Washington to help, as he vowed to protect New York and his then Pregnant wife... Oh, i didn't mention, MJ was preggers at this time. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, May-Day Parker, on the day the Bomb went off (There's definitely no way that could possibly come back to bite us ever)
With the Aliens defeated, Peter was positive things were looking up... That was until it turned out that a force from within rather than without came to infect America. Maxwell Lord decided that "Anything even slightly inhuman has gotta go." He didn't seem to care too much about the Cyborgs and other mechanical monstrosities, but Spider-Man's already smeared public image got raked through the mud EVEN WORSE this time. Things then went from bad to worse. Harry came back into the picture in the Goblin Armour, the brand new Green Goblin. And... Well... Harry purposely lost the fight... Not only that, he purposely got himself killed on the big screen in front of the whole city. Turns out, the Goblin had began to take over again. It was running riot through Harry's brain and he couldn't take it. Harry was a good person, he didn't want to hurt people, and with his wife having died of Cancer, he just couldn't take the risk he would do anything to their son.
Whilst dying, Harry threw off the mask in front of the camera's to prove once-and-for all that the Green Goblin was an ALWAYS had been Harry Osborn, that the rumours surrounding his father were entirely his doing. His last sacrifice in an attempt to buy his fathers soul back from The Goblin. But Harry had set his affairs in order. He had signed everything over to his son, Norman "Normie" . and the executors of his sons estate until he came of age... MJ and Peter. The next day, Peter met with Norman... Norman... Didn't take it well... There were some cross words had, threats of legal action, threats of violence, but ultimately, for the sake of Harry's memory and the sake of Normie. See, Harry had actually been a fairly sensible investor and actually managed to gain a small controlling stake in Oscorp over the years. A stake that he left to Normie. And with Oscorp being one of the premier weapons-contractors, business had been BOOMING. Meaning that that stock was now worth quite a lot. As the executor of the estate, Peter could do anything he wanted with those shares and there was nothing Norman could do to stop him, but to honour Harry's memory, he sold the controlling stake to Norman, securing Normans place as the one-and-only Immortal-God-Emperor of Oscorp with pretty much nobody able to tell him what to do.
With that money, Peter invested in a new company, Parker Industries. A new tech start-up that developed new hardware, software, pharmaceuticals, the very controversial Neogenics division and other non-military projects designed to help the people of the world and to save lives. And the cherry atop the sundae? With a bit of political clout as gained for him by being the Spokesperson of Spider-Man back during the Reach invasion, he was able to leverage it to Parole some of his old enemies out of the clink, on the proviso that they serve their time developing for Parker Industries.
P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )
I want to explore the next phase of Spider-Man's story if his story was actually allowed to progress. Marvel has this idea in their minds that Spider-Man is only allowed to suffer and be an ignorant teenager. I want to show how he actually handles being a man with his own responisbilities and with a happy family, but obviously, Pete isn't done being life's whipping boy just yet. His suffering has just evolved and he has evolved with it. I kinda want to work in some of the Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy stuff, but i realize that's super popular and borderline it's own thing at this point, so i'm going go forego any use of them. I also plan to work with the other New York/Spider-themed players to make sure that i'm gonna give them all of the space they need in order to make sure that their stories take priority, hence why Venom is left somewhat ambiguous in this.
So, some of the plots i plan to explore in this include:
The Metahuman Question
Normie and May-Day are both Metahumans. Although May-Day was always expected to have some Mutant powers, due to Peter's Radioactive Spider-Blood, she develops a few... Less than intended mutations along with it due to The Reach's DNA-diddling fiasco. Normie's metahuman ability on the otherhand is a severely increased intellect. He is almost as smart as Peter despite being only 8 years old. Problem is that as soon as The Agency figures this out, the defecation is going to hit the osculation.
Spider-Girl and American Son
As a follow on from the previous point, Normie and May-Day are best of friends and have both know about Peter being Spider-Man... Well, they want to do Crime Fighting as well. May-Day already has her Spider powers coming in nicely, but Normie... Normie idolizes Captain America... But the problem is that Normie was born with a brilliant mind, but a lame body. He has always been rather physically weak... He plans to fix that using Neogenics and some stolen Oscorp files.
Clone Saga
Ah yes, that old chestnut. So, this is going to be The Agencies big plan to deal with Spider-Man. Clone Him. And with the help of some Reach science, they may have just the means to make some Enhanced Spider-Powered Boot-Boys with which to round up and murder as many Meta's as they can find.
Norman's Revenge
Norman got away with being the Green Goblin scott free... And if he puts the suit back on, he invalidates every sacrifice his beloved son made... Even Norman's not that selfish and petty (Close, but no cigar) With an agency out there looking to take down every mutant, including Spider-Man, he may be looking for some partners within The Agency to take his revenge for him and deliver his beloved grandson back into his arms.
Superior Six
With Octavius, Smythe, Tombes, Dillon and Morbius working at Parker Industries, Peter is eager to maybe put together a team that can show the world that not all Mutants are bad, that they can absolutely do good for the world. Unforutnately, these 5 may be willing to help Peter and work off their debt to Society, most of them actually REALLY dislike each other, especially after the Sinister Six debacle. So, making them into an Avengers team may not be the easiest thing in the universe...
@Master Bruce Hey, I knew it was a long shot, but had to try.
Although, I will disagree with the "Any intrigue would immediately pivot to them" as I said, the entire crux of the story is "Robots In Disguise" and I would argue that they would be no more intrusive than, say, Hulk (In terms of Government wanting to control their unstoppable power) or Rom The Space Knight (In terms of "We must control this amazing Alien technology!")
In any case, completely abide by your ruling, just disagreeing on one point. Right, onto hairbrained scheme #2.
I suspect you're right and he'll agree with you, but ultimately, putting my best foot forward and getting rejected is something i can live with. I'll also get thinking of a secondary idea. Being that we don't seem to have a Spider-Man yet, i might try my hat in that always very popular ring.
As i said, it was a no last time, and the worst i can get this time is a "Still no, dickhead" but i can take that. But i think the idea of "Aliens who need to keep their identity a secret, while battling other aliens with secret identities" would fit in well in a Marvel/DC universe. Kinda like what Skybound is doing, except i don't plan to kill a beloved fan-favourite character twice every page and expect people to still be shocked after 10 issues of that shit.