Omega Man

Japanese Pro-Wrestling RP (E-Fed Style)

I wanna say I've done two RP's like this in the past, but both were pre-Guildfall. I came up with a character that was like a combo of Tatanka and Rey Mysterio that was a masked Native American.

Are we shooting for a single weight division like heavyweights or cruiser weights, or is it sorta just everybody going for the same big belt? And will we just cut promos and single wrestling posts or will there be behind the scenes stuff with our wrestlers in and out of character as well?

Totally gonna make a guy with a mask or face paint.

DC Reborn

Was hoping somebody would take the Flash and do something with them, or maybe make the Speed Force a team of people with different speed based abilities rather than the power within all of them. The Martian Manhunter just being a bounty hunter type of space alien from Mars could also be really dope.

*taps deeper into DC lore and randomness*

- Starman and/or Stargirl could have altered powers and be powered by the 'Starheart' or simply call the energy 'Starfire'

- Toyman could be a smaller action figure style hero instead of Doll Man (could even be a robot)

- The Cheetah could be the fastest hero in this universe

- 'Green Arrow' could be the name of an experimental plane, or plane suit (think of the blue guy from Centurions)

- Aquaman could just be some type of aquatic version of Ultraman (red and silver Japanese hero) or something like the Creature from the Black Lagoon

- Dr. Midnight could just be a late night superhero doctor/surgeon without the blindness or blackout bombs

....that's all I've got for random altered concepts off the top of my head. Everybody stay warm! Preparing for this snowstorm!!!

DC Reborn

Anybody looking around, got any ideas, or have any questions?

DC Reborn

Too bad about The Champions RP, but I might be interested.

@Azure Bubbles

Champions was a little more niche, might do something with the Darkwater setting in another RP down the line though. This one definitely gives players more freedom to do what they want with whatever concepts they're interesting in reworking. If anybody wanted to run with the vampire Batman or New God-ish style WW they could do that too, but Superman is still off the table cause something is going to happen with him in the beginning of the RP....

DC Reborn

A new alien menace has began raiding several warehouses in Central City [Kansas] and it's sister city across the bridge Keystone City. The Superman hasn't been seen in weeks and is thought to be off world. Batman stays in Gotham and is only ever seen at night. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman was last seen in Europe after the new King and Queen were crowned. Central City and Keystone City aren't the only towns being invaded either. In a matter of weeks, other large cities in America began seeing humanoid alien goons in several dozen locations. Midway City [Michigan], Coast City [California], Star City [Washington], and St. Roch [Louisiana] have all been invaded with what appears to be an 'alien criminal organization.'

Batman has already come into contact with what the media is calling 'the Black Circle' because of a brand or mark on several of the aliens. He's tracked most of them to a chemical warehouse down near the Gotham Harbor.

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In this RP, players will get the chance to recreate some of the bigger DC properties in a similar fashion to what happened when the Golden Age was replaced by the Silver Age. The Atom went from being a little person with an atomic punch to what we have today in Ray Palmer using tech to shrink to atomic size. Green Lantern changed from a man in a cape with a supernatural ring of power into a space cop armed with the same type of ring only as part of a larger Corps. I know what you guys are thinking. "How is this unlike any game that came before?" And the answer is simple. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman will remain mostly unchanged though I may make some tweaks to their histories [they're Gods and Monsters inspired]. EVERYTHING ELSE IS DETERMINED BY YOU. While I'm sure some folks will take more high profile characters, that's not to say you can't reimagine a lesser known character. While we'll more than likely form a team of some kind, though it will probably be Justice League themed, it doesn't have to be made up of reimagined Justice Leaguers. You wanna make Clayface a superspy who works for ARGUS? Perhaps Blue Beetle is an alien hero rather than somebody in a scarab themed suit? What if the Flash was reimagined as somebody who manipulates light to a much more basic degree than standard Green Lanterns, like what almost happened in the 80's and after the Crisis? You wanna recreate Hawkman and make him a guy riding on a giant thunderbird? Go for it! Maybe you've had an idea to make Star Sapphire a little more like Diamondhead from Ben10? That's cool too.

Here's what I've got for the Big Three so far...

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Superman - Crash landed in Kansas in 1938, he took the name Clark Kent for a little more than twenty years until he became adjusted to how things worked on Earth. He began operating as Superman and was dubbed the first metahuman in 1960. In 2026, it looks like he might be twenty years older. The only signs of age are his facial hair and attitude. He built a fortress in Antarctica and saves the world when he has nothing else to do. Lately he's defended larger cities such as Tokyo, Metropolis, Coast City, Paris, and Cairo.

Batman - Doctor Thomas Wayne was a brilliant scientist and chemical researcher in Gotham who was looking into making a pill to grant longer lifespans [inspired by the ageless Superman]. After some experiments go horribly wrong, Wayne is left in a vampire like state and must feed on the blood of his enemies every so often to survive. At first he hunted criminals at night to survive, but since 2016 he's turned his nightlife into a war on crime.

Wonder Woman - The most like her original, Princess Diana was chosen to go out into man's world in 2018 after living on the hidden Paradise Island with her Amazon sisters for nearly seven centuries. The Amazons are more technologically advanced in this universe, WW's sole weapon now being a sword fashioned with Mother Box tech and teleportation capabilities.

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REMEMBER!

You can take ANY DC Comics character or concept and completely change it up to suit your tastes. Any enemies I introduce in this after the Black Circle will be tied to Justice League-centric baddies as well as several of Superman's enemies and factions within the DCU. ARGUS is still our answer to SHIELD, STAR Labs is still a thing, and Lex Luthor is president in Trump like fashion. He demands to see 'Superman's legal papers' for instance because the world doesn't know Superman was actually the first alien to call Earth home.

I thought about universes like Stan Lee's DCU [Earth 6]:

Stan Lee's DCU

As well as Earth 9, the Tangent universe:

Tangent Universe

... whenever I was toying with the concept of things being similar mostly in name only. In the Tangent universe for example Green Lantern is a woman with a Lantern on a staff that raises the dead. The Flash is a girl with light based powers. And the Atom of that universe is an atomic powered juggernaut more similar to traditional Superman.

With Stan Lee's DCU Superman was a stranded space cop, Green Lantern was connected to the energies of the Tree of Life, and Sandman was a Jack Kirby-esque guardian of a dream dimension.

Here's the CS requirements if you've made it this far:

Character Sheet Stuff

Character/Concepts Used -
Name -
Alias -
Age -
Personality - five words best describing your character
Alignment - good, bad, or anti-hero?
Archetype - Metahuman, Alien, Supernatural, Human
Powers -
Skills/Equipment -
Weaknesses -
Arch Enemy - Depending on what we get in the villain department...
Appearance -
BRIEF Bio -
Notes -

You guys can take these concepts and go nuts. My Deadman is meant to be something of a combo of Tangent GL and Deadman, with a little inspiration from the Spectre as well for his arch-enemy. Here's my CS to show you guys just how different characters can be in this new DCU...

the Deadman

Character/Concepts Used - Deadman, Green Lantern
Name - James Dean 'JD' McIntyre
Alias - the Deadman
Age - 27 (but DOA)
Personality - stoic, mysterious, blunt, distant, reckless (mostly in combat)
Alignment - good
Archetype - Supernatural
Powers -

Regeneration: While always in a state of decay, D always comes back to his usual zombie visage in time and can even remove and reattach his own limbs.

Heightened Attributes: Stronger, faster, with increased endurance and durability, as well as no need for food or oxygen.

Invisibility: JD can fade out like a ghost and become invisible for short periods.

Flight: his top speed is less than 200 mph, and he generally flies low due to frequently getting lost.

Skills/Equipment - Flunked out of the Air Force in his early 20's. Decent H2H skills. His powers are granted to him by the mystical green Lantern that brought him back to life.

Weaknesses - While a little tougher than a standard human, anybody with strength or blasting power can annihilate this guy. He'll regenerate completely in about twenty four hours.

Arch Enemy - the Spectre, powered by this universe's red lantern

Appearance - see the new avatar

BRIEF Bio -

JD flunked out of the Air Force after learning of his parents dying in a car accident back in his hometown of Gotham. He hadn't been back to that hellhole in years, but after losing his latest job as well as his girlfriend... he decided to pay his parents' graves a visit after a few years had passed. Still sporting a bomber jacket he talked quietly to his parents' headstones when he could hear some weirdos nearby. A dirty old green lantern on a mausoleum flickered to life in the pouring rain and one of the local gang members used the lantern to strike JD in the back of the head, killing him on the spot.

The lantern was dropped to the ground as the three men rolled the body and took his shoes, jacket, wallet, etc. Thunder crashed and the lantern flickered to life once more several days later, this time resurrecting the man's body in the morgue. He reached out for the men but they were long gone, so he sought out the lantern. The lantern glowed brighter than ever before now granting real power to the undead man who now had a suit and powers he'd never dreamed of. After locating his attackers he seemingly ate their corrupted souls and upon returning to the lantern in the cemetery JD regurgitated them into the lantern. He also got his coat back. Now he defends those in Gotham who can't defend themselves as... the Deadman.

Notes - Deadman operates out of an old mausoleum in the Gotham cemetery he was reborn in. Rather than Deadman being tied to some random deity I just made his power source the lantern and did the three step thing like Alan Scott's lantern had, and just changed the end result up a bit.

So... anybody out there wanna take the DCU and turn it on it's head?

the New Champions

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Just outside of Roanoke, VA.

@Ultimate Spidey

I'm about twenty minutes from Bristol Motor Speedway.

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Anybody else watching this or thinking about a character?

the New Champions

@Omega Man
I believe I've settled on a character. Will have a sheet up as soon as possible. I work on weekends and live on the East Coast of the U.S., coincidentally in an Appalachian town.

Was originally gonna attempt to adapt/clone a Spider-Person. But now, I've decided to go with a Spidey villain.

@Ultimate Spidey

Where at in the region? I'm legit in northeast TN. A few if my RP's have fictional towns in this area LOL

the New Champions

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Essentially I have been reading through the Jewel of Gravesend Zatanna and thought she might make a fun wild card slot, before the obvious recollection this wouldn't work haha. I imagine Clea or Wanda would be the closest option to her but doesn't quite match the vibe in my opinion.

Not super set on a magic user, just generally pondering now.

@Ezekiel

If you wanted you could use one of the alternate looks or universe's versions of Strange for a new successor or a guy who flunked out of Strange Academy. Mangaverse Strange, the teenage looking Avengers Academy game Strange had some good looks, Fear Itself Doc Strange, MC2 had a Batman Beyond looking Doc Magus taking over.... or if you want mystic adjacent characters there's people like Morbius, Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, Brother Voodoo, maybe a new Dr. Druid...

Or if you're still pondering what about somebody like the OG Thunderbolts' Atlas? Sasquatch? Vision? Black Knight? Blazing Skull? X-51 the Machine Man? Plant Man? A-Bomb? Cloak or Dagger? Techno? Ricochet? Prowler? (just throwing out randoms at this point LOL)

the New Champions

I'm lurking to see which archetypes get left because I don't have concrete ideas yet

@Silver Carrot

Nobody has shown any interest yet in the strong hero/brute, supernatural, or tech hero spots.

the New Champions

Angel

Archetype: Mutant #1/Founder
Name: Warren Worthington III
Alias: Angel
Age: 33
Powers/Skills:

- Wings grant him the ability to fly up to 180 mph
- Healing factor can heal him from even death
- His blood can be used to heal others
- Enhanced physical attributes, enhanced vision
- Heat and cold resistance, weather doesn't usually bother him

As a founding member of the X-Men, Warren trained for years to be one of the most efficient aerial combatants in the superhero circles. He gained further training in close quarters combat from Wolverine after the two put their differences aside.

Weaknesses:

- He's essentially a regular squishy human in light body armor. Despite his healing factor, he can be taken out of action for weeks depending on the severity of the damage he takes.

Equipment:

- Light body armor made of military grade fabric (bulletproof, fire proof, stab proof)
- Eventually he's gonna have the tech person build him a flaming sword or he's gonna get one enchanted.

Personality: proud, loyal, honorable, optimistic, blunt
Appearance:


BRIEF Bio:

He was a member of the X-Men for years. Warren was a Horseman of Apocalypse. He did other things but those always stick out. More recently after it was revealed Xavier was a giant POS, Angel decided to step away from the X-Men. After shady millionaires tried and failed to buy an old hangar and airstrip from Warren in Tennessee, production plants and warehouses tied to Worthington Industries were targeted by mercenaries. This prompted Warren to recreate a team of New Champions to defend the people of Darkwater.

Storylines:

No Time for Losers - The New Champions rise to defend the city of Darkwater.

Dark Angel - The evil purged from the body of Warren returns in the form of a new Archangel.

Notes: Angel and Archangel were separated by Dr. Strange just before the RP happens. The essence of Archangel was put into a skull in Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum. It eventually returns with a new body of it's own.