Omega Man

the New Champions

Oh completely aware I was just more sharing for comedy purposes I got quite far into a concept then had an oh no moment.

@Ezekiel

There's also the option of just making a new character based on something else. IDK how many RP's I've done where I just made an analog for a character in another universe...

I was just wondering what you had in mind. Just talking about superheroes is my jam, so I'm always interested in hearing about what 2nd and 3rd string characters people know about.

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@Ezekiel Chances are there's a Marvel analog if it's DC, lemme know what you had in mind and I'll toss some Marvel characters/concepts at ya!

EDIT: Thought I posted this before leaving and I forgot to hit the 'Post Reply' button.

the New Champions

I should have the rest of my CS for Angel finished sometime after lunch today. There anybody else watching this? We really only need a team of five to get this one going!!

the New Champions

Here's what I've got so far...

* The town of Darkwater will have a population of roughly 70k. Worthington Industries has multiple production plants, warehouses, and call centers, as well as a pharmaceutical R&D lab employing a few thousand residents of the area.

* The New Champions HQ will be in the former spot of Worthington Aerospace at the top of Hayes Mountain on the east side of town. This was one of the dormant locations Fisk and Hammer were attempting to buy before hiring mercenaries to attack other Worthington owned properties. This lead to Warren creating the New Champions.

* The city is home to landmarks such as the Appalachian Mountains on the eastern side of town, Warpath River, Kirby Dam, Industrial Park in Mid-Town, the Mountain Mall in Downtown, as well as Shooter Heights housing projects on the west side of town, and Highland Drive (a twenty-two mile curvy road driving up and around several of the mountains and nicer suburbs).

* Dozens of fast food chains and finer restaurant establishments, and a dozen or so schools including a community college are sprinkled through the area. A local spot to mention is Isabella's Pizzeria with one location across from the Mountain Mall in Downtown as well as another one near Warpath Park on the west side of town.

* Fisk Construction will begin building cheap housing on the edges of town and some time into the RP the city limits will be extended to cover more ground.

* Roxxon will secure office space downtown to begin moving an operation into the area and Justin Hammer will successfully buy out an up and coming tech lab as well as an old production plant to renovate.

* Stane International has a single production plant in Darkwater.

Spoiler if it's not obvious

The idea is the supervillains with money are cultivating a town to build blue collar minion armies for hire. Other supervillains will be brought in to serve specific purposes like Arcade owning and operating the two arcades and Hydroman working at the water treatment facility once it's bought by Fisk Utilities. Of the population, nearly five thousand are rumored to already be on the payroll of one of the big investors and moonlighting as minions for hire around the world with other investors looking to do the same. Several notable supervillains for hire are also rumored to be living in the area. The biggest rumor is that Taskmaster took a gym coach job at one of the schools after taking a liking to one of the teachers.

Here's a CS template if anybody's already got something in mind....

Archetype:
Name:
Alias:
Age:
Powers/Skills:
Weaknesses:
Equipment:
Personality: [5 words best describing your character]
Appearance: [pic or description]
BRIEF Bio: [couple paragraphs MAX]
Storylines: [What do you have in mind for your character?]
Notes: [anything else you need to tell us?]

the New Champions

@Azure Bubbles@Ultimate Spidey

I'm currently working on some bullet points for the city of Darkwater as well as a CS template. Should have something up after lunch for anybody who may be watching this!

And for the record, if anybody was a fan of the later versions of the Champions team, I wouldn't be against some of those characters being slightly reworked for this. They'd just have to be over the age of 18 and able to travel for a job cause you're basically becoming a paid superhero. I really dug Amadeus Cho shrinking somewhat after his Totally Awesome Hulk days and becoming Brawn. Viv Vision was one of my wife's favorites. I always wanted it to be Viv's brother that came back as a teen hero but she's grown on me too.

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@Omega Man
Any other restrictions when it comes to reworking canon characters?
Any canon characters off limits? (besides Johnny Blaze)
Can we gender swap, identity swap (like, make Ben Grimm the Pumisher), change the origin (like, from a person given powers to a person born with powers/mutant) or reform a villain?
Could we take a canon character (for example, Spider-Man) and put an Original Character in the costume?

@Ultimate Spidey

Original Champions are off limits, so that's: Hercules, Ghost Rider/Blaze, Black Widow, and Iceman.

This is meant to take place in something close to the mainstream universe. Making Ben Grimm the Punisher wouldn't work, but you could make a legacy Punisher of your own, or another Spider-clone with their own alias. You could reform a villain, change up powers, etc. for a canon inspired character. In-game Angel will put out a call to any heroes looking for employment willing to move to the Darkwater area. Somebody shows up in a suit with spider powers or with a skull on their chest it could fill the wildcard spot. Wanna reform Rhino and make him our brute? You could do that. Wanna gender bend Scarlet Witch and create a Scarlet Warlock? That'd be pretty dope and it'd fill the supernatural spot. The tech spot could be somebody like Prowler, a new take on Tinkerer, etc.

B and C list characters are the bread and butter of the Marvel universe, you can rework just about anything and it'd be alright for this RP. Though Taskmaster and other mercenary types will be among our enemies if the game moves forward.

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the New Champions

Warren Worthington III weighed his options. After the fall of Xavier the X-Men were in disarray; Juggernaut was on one squad while Magneto was leading another. Warren was packing away some things in a new apartment at the top of a Worthington Industries building when he came across an old newspaper clipping of himself and the original Champions team some years earlier. He was in his early twenties then. He was in his early thirties now. Warren remembered he didn't need to be a member of the X-Men or some offshoot team to be relevant. He just needed to be a hero.

His company (Worthington Industries) was an international conglomerate with holdings in advanced aviation technology, pharmaceuticals, experimental alternative fuels, etc. with nearly uncountable net worth. Warren helped rebuild the X-mansion nearly a dozen times in a decade with his wealth. Now he was looking into reworking an old experimental airplane hangar in Darkwater Tennessee into a headquarters for a new Champions team. None of the old team were available it seemed. Probably better off. But who could take the place of Hercules, Ghost Rider, Black Widow, and Iceman? And what threats would they face?

None other than the Kingpin of Crime, whose criminal empire was trying to buy up old properties of Worthington Industries for unknown purposes. Nothing that Warren couldn't handle, until mercenaries began showing up targeting his different offices and factories in the Darkwater area. Then other known rich villains such as Justin Hammer, Obadiah Stane, and Darion Agger of Roxxon also began trying to buy up what land and small businesses they could in Darkwater. But why?

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So that's the plot. Kinda random superteam in Marvel moving locations and facing off against a villain group loosely based on Scientologists and Clearwater. The rich villains actually have a plan for Darkwater but I'm keeping that a mystery till this gets going. I can probably use the Darkwater plot for just about any superhero team but the only other thing I've tried writing something with was essentially creating an X-Force type of team in the DC universe with the anti-hero Magog.

I chose the Champions concept because the team was created without any real focus back in the 70's and only lasted seventeen issues. It was supposed to also include Black Goliath on the team but that was nixed by editorial. It was meant to be a pair of mutants, a strong guy, a woman, and 'somebody with an ongoing title' which wound up being Ghost Rider. I wasn't the biggest fan of the more recent relaunches, basically making it another teenage team of heroes (to get ignored by Marvel) like the New Warriors and Avengers Academy.

What I'm looking for specifically is just based more on the archetypes of the classic line-up. In-universe, the heroes who take Angel up on becoming Champions will be on the Worthington Industries payroll. Here's what I'm hoping to find for the RP:

Strong Hero - this can be a demi god like Hercules or a random brute character

Mutant #2 - anybody other than Iceman, preferably somebody with a blaster type of power

Supernatural - tons of heroes fit into this category, just can't use classic Ghost Rider

Tech Person - every team needs one, Angel will need one specifically

Wildcard - Darkstar and Black Goliath were both meant to be 6th members, anything goes

I'm looking for an even mix of reworked cannons and originals for this. Some part of me wanted to rework the Phin Mason/Tinkerer character from the Miles Morales game and throw her into the mix as an NPC. In case somebody likes being the tech hero though I decided to hold off and just make it another archetype. There a handful of folks out there who're looking for a superhero RP that isn't quite the same old same old?

the Alliance of Liberty City

Son of Liberty couldn't really say much. Half the people fighting this alien bug horde were in civilian clothes; at least Judah was wearing a mask. Painkiller worked to get the injured civilians healed closer back to the police and EMT barricades. With the help of the other slightly older Asian gentleman the process was almost flawless. "Perhaps the two men knew each other?" Liberty Son thought silently to himself as the bugs numbers were starting to diminish. Other heroes like Yellowjacket and Little Guy joined the fight just in time to help contain the chaos.

Spellbound had been ignored by the floating female giving orders to the monstrous form of Kid Cosmo. His words didn't matter to her. However when the size altering girl squared up with Kid Cosmo the fight seemed a little more evenly matched. The orange alien grabbed Spellbound with one of his lower arms and tried using the cloaked teen hero as a weapon against the girl while also throwing punches with his top two arms. Son of Liberty surveyed the craziness and with the most of the bugs being dealt with he refocused on the girl with the horned skull mask and Kid Cosmo.

"Spellbound! I've got ya, man!" Judah screamed clubbing the four armed monster with the enhanced strength granted by the torch until the alien released his grip from the young man's blue cloak. "I'll help the new girl with Dorito-face here, you think you can do something with Ruby Gloom up there?" he asked hoping Eli had time to get his wits about him.

"Where's the lady with the wings when you need her to hit something?" Painkiller thought to himself as he watched the more physical heroes finish off the bugs and refocus on the prior threats. As Xero brought another civilian to Painkiller he had to ask, "You been at this long? You're not half bad at crowd control."

Across town....

Judy Juggernaut waited as the Supercop left the Academy on the edge of town. The half cyborg hero got into his souped up squad car and took off towards the action on the other side of Liberty City.

"He's gone. Tell me where to go. I think the staff has already went home for the day..."Judy stated into the radio in her helmet.

@Silver Carrot@Stern Algorithm@Eviledd1984@Azure Bubbles@Finetales

the Alliance of Liberty City

The young woman in white with the creepy mask let herself be known, floating down behind the four armed monster that was once a hero after he'd been dealt a punishing strike by the female newcomer. As the orange alien picked himself up another new face hit the scene. Asking how he could help, Liberty Son was a bit overwhelmed now with another new hero he knew nothing about. He took a few deep breaths, noticing Painkiller had successfully got all the endangered civilians to a safer position behind police barricades that were set up.

"Interference, do you copy?" Son of Liberty voiced to his ear piece styled communicator. At a glace he though he saw Spellbound from behind what he was using for cover. However it may have just been a random kid in a blue hoodie rather than a mystical cloak.

Unfortunately, the ally back at the Fortress didn't get the call. Like weeks earlier something had happened to the technology in the general vicinity. Since the Son of Liberty's tech was based around creating electro-magnetic fields, his torch weapon was at least still functioning properly.

"Hi boss?! I don't know your name, your powers, and you drop in with that?" Judah asked as surprised as he was confused. "I can't shake that this is just a distraction. It's too random." SoL stated behind the cover of a turned over SUV.

"Listen, Sam was it..? You and the other guy here try not to get ki..." and before he could even finish something even more frightening than a four armed alien behemoth and a woman in a horned skull mask poured out of a nearby grocery store.

Dozens of large bug-like aliens burst out of the front end of the store ravenous and tearing apart the food they'd stolen. Anyone unfortunate enough to cross their paths was torn apart by their lower appendages. The former Kid Cosmo paused, as if knowing that this wasn't their fight. Painkiller jumped on to his green motorcycle and took off directly at the mass of bug creatures coming out of the grocery store. Ramping off of a damaged flatbed truck, he launched the cycle at the creatures while hitting the ground himself near injured civilians. He attempted to dodge the stampeding bugs but got cut up himself. However, his healing powers were working overtime healing his wounds as well as those of the injured civilians.

"I don't know anything really about either one of you. But there's a few dozen bugs that need exterminating. Do what you can and don't get killed. Maybe help the other guy in green save some civilians..." Son of Liberty stated running at the battlefield at first before using the power of the torch for a super leap. He landed with a thud knocking down a handful of bug creatures around him to the asphalt street.

Legion of Superheroes

@Dark Light@PatientBean@DrDistasteful

If I can just get another CS or two I can move forward with an OOC/IC! I know this seems like a super niche concept but there's endless possibilities! There's feral folks similar to Wolverine, lightning manipulators, element lads, solar powered heroes, shadow manipulators, ghost girls, triplicate people, guys who bounce, people from Saturn's moon Titan, etc. There's aliens born with power like the Durlan shapeshifters, heroes who are in accidents and science experiments gone wrong, and once in awhile you'll see a hero inspired by an older hero from the 20th century like Thunder or any of the Super-people. I think Bendis even had a four armed alien from Sorcerer's World gain the helmet of Fate.