Fuck year dr. horrible.
Captain Hammer: Corporate Tool

>last night's thread about the Latvian town for sale

WHUT?

rolled 76 = 76

>>7117784
where are those examples OP

>>7117806

323k, IIRC.

Better start fundraising, pal.

>>7117807

unzoomed in, that looks like a big blue dildo.

Mediocrates, The Jack of All Trades: The man is absolutely ok at EVERYTHING. Brain surgery? He can patch it up. Car troubles? He can get it going long enough to get to a shop. Lockpicking? Well as long as this isn't a bank vault or anything. As far as superpowers, he's got 'em all, he's just not good at it. He can "fly" about 3 feet from the ground. His heat vision can make toast. He can turn translucent at will. His battle cry is "I'll see what I can do!"

>>7117794
STAND BACK EVERYONE NOTHING HERE TO SEE

JUST IMMINENT DANGER IN THE MIDDLE OF IT; ME!

YES, CAPTAIN HAMMER'S HERE, HAIR BLOWING IN THE BREEZE

THE DAY NEEDS MY SAVING EXPERTIIIIIISE

Love Sausage.

Asphalt: official court summoner and leader of the group. Has the ability to meld into concrete and reemerge anywhere, and has elemental control over concrete. This guy is a nightmare to fight in urban environments. Orwellian overtones, he's always watching.

Madame Fanserve: this voluptuous young woman becomes stronger, faster, and more dexterous the less she wears. Second in command of the superhero troupe.

Captain Retcon: birth name Marty Stu. Once per day, Captain Retcon can retcon his entire backstory, powers, contacts, etc. The PC's are the only ones who notice the inconsistency.

Steam Man: like Ironman, but with a steampunk armorsuit. Constantly makes Mr. Freeze style puns about steam ("now you've gotten me REAL steamed up, villain!") and then laughs maniacally as the enraged PC's try in vain to penetrate his armor to beat the shit out of him for it.

The Grouch: Oscar Osmond became a superhero when, at eight years old, some neighborhood bullies threw him in a dumpster. He can teleport from trash can to trash can, make dust devils of litter, etc. The Grouch is disillusioned with the good guys, so the PC's may be able to win him over to their side.

>>7117824

Sorry, took longer to type up than I anticipated. They're at: >>7117874

Swiss Armyman: He's a short and angry muscular man wearing a red suit with a white cross on his chest. His power is all kinds of tools he can extract from his hands with a loud SNIKT sound

DJ Freedom: Prepare for a sonic attack! This Technomancer weaves subliminal spells into his tracks, each loop in the mix either boosts his allies or weakens his enemies. He can only keep a few going at a time without the sounds clashing, but with his arm-mounted mixer and his speakerbox backpack, he can master the mix on the fly.

Not sure if these single entries are still the OP but regardless I'll just get in early that you should probably have a villain turned hero in the same way that there is always the hero turned villain "...I'd love to turn back, but its... its too late for me now" etc.

Rather than have them follow the usual villain ->hero tropes have them be an inverse. So constantly ranting to the PCs about how they still feel the urge to forge an empire of conquest, but they are too far lost to the adrenaline rush, the hedonistic appeal of saving people and caring for others before themselves.

I'll work on a more comprehensively described hero but just getting this out there first.

>>7117952

I like this one. Stolen.

>>7118042

Brilliant idea. "It is...too late for me." Rip off and invert Vader's lines from Return of the Jedi.

>>7118042
Oh and of course they can be convinced by the PCs to temporarily betray their comrades through speeches. Like "Look inside yourself. I know the old Master X is still there! There must be some spark of self centredness and malicious hate for the common man left in you! I knew you well enough to be sure that you can fight this!"

And then the guy will mime out struggling against some invisible force will gritting his teeth as he pulls out a knife and stabs a 6 year old in the face or something. Only the invisible force was trying to STOP him from doing it.

Captain N - He traps villains inside a holographic prison and forces them to play games that teach lessons about morality and helping others. Unless he's having a bad day, in which case you get to star in a live-action production of I Wanna Be The Guy.

The Doorman: A man who can create a door from anything. Like if he wants to get a door through a steel wall, he can press his body against it to create a doorway in the shape of his body; alt. He can pick up a large piece of wood or something to press it against the wall and make a door in the shape of that object.

special ability: create a door to a sort of ghost dimension
pros: he can't be seen or attacked, but can see everything as if he was there
cons: he can't attack and when leaving the door makes a loud creaking sound so he can't do sneak attacks all that well.

>>7118106

That's if the PC's roll a 20. On a lesser success, they just get him to betray the heroes.

Anyway, I think I'll call him Professor Goodness (formerly Professor Pain).

The Pied Piper: A hero with a magical flute. It allows him to completely control rats to fight villains and his pipe has a lesser effect on humans, distracting them and allowing the pied piper to capture them.

He is, however, a hero of dubious morals. He sometimes keeps some of the theft money from the villains for himself. He is mostly in it for the glory, and could be corrupted by the PCs.

>>7118125

>>live-action production of I Wanna Be The Guy

Dude, no way in hell is this guy a hero.

>>7118142
>>7118127

These are good, keep 'em coming.

Leapfrog: A colorful cornball hero with leaping powers, superhuman durability, and a techno-blaster that entagles villains. However, the source of his powers is much more sinister than it appears, he is actually a horrid undead creature who hides his true nature, save when he intends to murder a particularly evil villain in which case he dons the costume of The Ghoul.

Firefight: Possessing short range fire powers this vigilante fights with a gun with no trigger; he sets off the bullets by injecting fire into the chamber thereby shooting bullets encased in flames.

Elephant in the Room: A former poacher of African big game, this hero knows how to hunt dangerous prey. To atone for his sins a witchdoctor cursed him to be half-elephant, despite his size he is still quite capable of ambushing opponents and he uses his strength to dual-wield double barreled shotguns, which he reloads with his trunk.

Lead Foot: Capable of increasing the density of himself and things he touches, he spends most of his time in his souped-up car running down evil.

Professor Unkillable: A genius mathematician, he mathematically proved the time and cause of his own death, therefore any other attempt on his life will fail. Armed with this knowledge he fights crime knowing he can't do much, but he can do something, and can't be killed by his recklessness.

Captain Obvious, master of the obvious! He has two chief super powers. First, he is always aware of the obvious. This may sound silly, but then think on how many obvious traps heroes fall into. Second, he can say things that are Super Obvious. He makes an incrediblely obvious statement as if it were the most exciting and profound thing in the world. Everyone in the area is stunned as they attempt to determine if he's some sort of zen genius or just full of crap.

The Flasher.

A vigilante wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora, and ONLY a trenchcoat and fedora. He keeps the trenchcoat buttoned (he actually uses buckles, or occasionally velcro), but when faced with a situation that calls for his powers, he rips open his trenchcoat. A bright flash emanates from his dick disorienting and blinding baddies. Wanted by the police for indecent exposure, he is forced to be a vigilante instead of a proper superhero .

>>7118230

Those last three are awesome, especially Elephant in the Room.

>>7117850

Sorry it took me a while to notice this gem. I think this guy would work better as a minion though. Maybe a one-off enemy before they start clashing with the main hero group.

Comrade Laser: This foreign hero speaks some broken english, but not enough for it to be intelligible at all. Comrade Laser isn't even his hero name, its just the one assigned to him by the city's populace in the absence of any kind of intelligible identification. The glyphs on his suit resemble Cyrillic however none of the city's European immigrants can understand it either. This hero flies in an upright position and projects energy beams from various points on his body, however there does not seem to be any correlation between these locations and the structural features of the human body. Comrade laser has on occasion displayed a penchant for theme music however his is a strange combination of German techno, Indian sounding vocals and Ukrainian folk music that has lead to collateral damage in the form of bystanders rendered insane by the unearthly melody.

Comrade Laser could be mistaken for a villain if it weren't for his mysterious interventions in mortal affairs being inevitably a force for good, be it saving citizens from crashing aircraft, disarming bank robbers, powering the christmas lights at the orphanage charity dinner, or defusing violence in the red light district.

>>7118276

Hmm. I may use this guy as a Doctor Manhattan type. The PC's will never see him in person (and if they did, it would be a TPK), but will constantly be in the news and stuff. A symbol of the major, international super scene they hope to one day be a part of; the ultimate enemy they may one day be able to face.

Bag Lady. Human, female, white, pale, frail, her back features one large tattoo that grants her freedom from hunger, thirst, breath, and sleep. Her eyes have dark circles from no sleep (just because she doesn't need it doesn't mean she doesn't get tired). Her abdomen has a large scar across it where her creators removed her, now unnecessary, organs. Her lips have runes tattooed over them, her body has been augmented to function like a massive bag of holding.
She can swallow items and bring them back up later, her mouth can stretch to fit larger items, but only to a point. She's constantly depressed and communicates via innate telepathy--her only innate power. She's lost track of her own inventory and will occasionally cough up strange things (a beehive, 3 purple silk dresses, 10' long pole).

>>7118127
ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR ONE PIECE?

Captain Corgi: this Welsh Corgi has the powers of flight and super strength, and has practiced several identifiable asian martial arts in his fight against evil. He appears to be able to understand but not speak any human language. No one knows who his owner is, or who made his costume (complete with cape). He has come to the rescue of all creatures of the city, including humans, dogs, and (begrudgingly) cats.

>>7118377
And how could I forget the craziest concept I've seen: A Champions character named "Deathwish". He had "Suicidal" as a psychological disadvantage, but his 9D of Luck (his only power) made it impossible for him to off himself. So he bought a gun and a lone ranger mask, then started challenging supervillains to fights.

The Electric Chair
A cyborg made using alien technology. Mo one quite understands how this tech works, but it seems to have given him power over chairs. You name it, he can so do it - so long as it's a chair. Flies by siting on chair and moving it around. Fights by throwing chairs or using them as a shield.

>>7118380
why yes, yes I am. I am also enjoying the variety of interesting powers that are held within, and could be useful to the OP

Stuntman Hank, a washed-up B-movie stuntman whose only powers are regeneration and stunt driving.

That said, getting hit with a car going 70 mph FUCKING HURTS. Even more than having it thrown at you, as that one Empowered comic mentions.

>>7118377
>>7118398

Yes.

>>7118383
>>7118385

Maybe.

Tankencarmen: An animate Mummy of an egyptian pharaoh that has for unknown reasons developed a supernatural affinity with vehicles that it employs to fight crime. Tankencarmen is lumberingly slow on foot, as befits a mummy, however considering he can just drive up and then hurl himself out of a car window at you this is not typically a problem. He also appears to be able to summon nearby vehicles to his aid, be they anything from a bulldozer to a segway. All this ultimately makes him a sufficiently effective crimefighter to make up for his poor speed, vulnerability to fire (He usually avoids being caught in a car wreck by exploiting his supernatural affinity for vehicles, being able to either cause a car to continue past its natural threshold or diving out into another vehicle), loose bandages, and stench.

>>7118403
If you're going to be mentioning something from popular fiction, please say so so that someone like me doesn't say "oh, that's neat," and use it in our game. Nothing like having your players say "lolhack" when you're not actually doing that.

>>7118330
Also, yeah, thats fair enough. I was thinking of him as being what would happen if superman was raised in an incomprehensible ukrainian/german/mayan/puerto rican alien culture but nonetheless developed the same ingrained sense of morality.

Powers would be primarily toned down versions of supermans abilities. Can fly, but only about as fast as a commercial helicopter. Superhuman strength but by only a small margin. Not bulletproof, but bullet resistant.

Main exception being heat ray vision SHOOTING FROM EVERYWHERE.

Supercollider: Invulnerable, Super Fast, and retarded, this hero fights evil head-on, literally running into evildoers as fast as he can. He apparently "just want[s] hugs, but Nice Man says my hugs hurt, so I hug bad guys. A hug is still a hug, and that way I don't hurt good guys." He didn't come up with the name, and has long since stopped trying to say it.

Grimdark Inspector Gadget.
His gadgets operate independently of him sometimes, often when he least needs it, almost intentionally malicious in their intent. For example, it could be as innocent as binoculars activating when hes squinting at something far away, or as GRIMDARK as the simple act of pointing an accusatory finger turning into an accidental *BLAM*

The Boogeyman
This fellow has the power to appear in any closet or under any bed. Has been known to take freelance jobs scaring bad kids.

>>7118276


Neutral asshole

>>7118431

Huh. This one actually seems like a minor villain who the PC's could call to their banner. He'll have a lower PL than them.

>>7118550

YES! This guy isn't really a hero or a villain. Just an unaligned super who the PC's might happen to befriend.

Ragdoll: This hero is an up and comer who's power is that at will, anyone in contact with him goes limp. This makes his grabs, when they occur, virtually inescapable short of contingency planning or gadgets; however most of the time he choses to fight with punches and kicks, each one appearing disproportionately powerful to a bystander because it knocks its target right over most of the time due to them losing control of their body for the duration of the hit.

He desperately tries to hide from the media, and his enemies, that in actuality he isn't very strong. At all.

Holly Hell: Daughter of a twisted union between an angel and a demon, she has the ability to call upon the combined powers of both, but due to their conflicting nature, it damages he heavily whenever she does.

You know, OP, you would probably have tons of success by cloning this thread in /co/. They are proper nerds too, so they would most likely understand the need to create them.

And for my 2 cents? Well, I can't figure out many goodguys of my own, the best idea I could have would be Desynchronosis: The master of Epochs. Who can use anything that has ever been or ever will be within reach from him. His flaw? Only marginally fettered in the present he has a bit of a problem understanding what is going on.

The Human Bullet:
A metal figurine of a man, with a base diameter exactly matching that of a .270 Winchester round. When fired, and this hero is entirely reliant on another person doing this for him, the bullet comes to life, and is capable of employing diplomacy on other, mundane bullets, inciting them to spare the innocent, and attack the villainous. The human bullet also has a sustained flight time of about 10 seconds during which seemingly impossible turns and maneovers can be performed. After this he is once again reliant on being fired once more by a gun of the appropriate bore size in order to become animate again.

>>7118608
THE BURNINATOR!: A psycho who can control fire, who claims he's a time traveler who came to the modern day from the 90's with his pal KAOS X-STREAM!

>>7118682
Might have to throw in something like a Psychic pull or an inscription on the base to explain how this fucker is getting people to fire him in the first place. He can't have always been part of a super team.

The DJ. Has powers based on what music he can hear at the time. Powers come from a magical boom box that also transforms according to the music that's playing. Ghetto rap makes him invulnerable to bullets and turns the box into an uzi. Heavy Metal makes him super strong and turns the box into a battle axe. Classical music makes him incredibly graceful and turns the box into a rapier. The list goes on and on.

Problem is that his powers only kick in at the beginning of a song and then stop as soon as it ends. Then he has to change the batteries on his boom box.

>>7118608
>Holly Hell: Daughter of a twisted union between an angel and a demon, she has the ability to call upon the combined powers of both, but due to their conflicting nature, it damages he heavily whenever she does.
Needs more collateral damage.

The Delivery Man: whenever you call any chinese food restaurant and ask for something completely unrelated to food (like a handwavium power cell or the ashes of Raphotep the Wise), there is a percent chance (equal to the to the average percent tip you give to waiters and delivery drivers) that it will be delivered to your door within 30 minutes by a hyper-friendly asian man in his 30s speaking broken english and wearing a mask over his eyes. He will ask for an extremely reasonable price for the item, and expect a tip. No one has survived to tell of what happens if one takes the item but refuses to pay.

>>7118733

Not my character, but I'd say that every time she uses her powers she sets off the Rapture early. Every time she does so she has to explain to the hosts of angels and legions of devils that it was a false alarm. Thus, everybody finds her annoying and the only afterlife she is welcome in is Purgatory.

>>7118682
>>7118230

Firefight and Human Bullet. Deadly combo, or DEADLIEST combo?

>>7118774
...

That is fucking hilarious.

>>7118747
I love this one.

>>7118747

Oh, definitely using this one. There's bound to be at least one mad scientist PC who needs wonderflonium or something, and this is a great way for him to roleplay obtaining it. Of course, if they overuse Delivery Man, it'll start to cut into their landbuying funds.

>>7118680

Never been to /co/. I might give it a shot though, thanks.

>>7118774
I wholeheartedly approve.

>>7118608
or she has the whole equal use of forces only thing going on - Every time she uses a power for good, she unleashes an equal evil as well, with no control over it's nature. The same applies for evil deeds, if she ever does any- random interventions from the powers of good occur around her.
To make it interesting, these extra powers never cancel the original, and are usually totally unrelated.

>>7118774

That gives me an idea. The only reason Pope Benedict overturned the whole "unbaptized babies go to purgatory" thing was because she pestered him into doing it. When your afterlife is carpeted with the souls of babies its rather unpleasant. I've got an image of her as being the Cultist-chan of modern times.

>>7118886

Speaking of which, the Pope is a superhero in this setting. International level, way above the PC's heads, just part of the setting fluff. Kind of like Comrade Laser.

Metrognome: A short, slightly rotund and dapper man in his late 40s or early 50s. Wears a costume vaguely reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera, except with a Riddler-esque mask / bowler hat combo. Carries a conductors baton. When he conducts a tune, nearby evildoers find themselves subconsiously moving to the beat, making their movements and actions inherently predictable by those with musical insight.

>>7119005

That's...nightmare fuel.

Will consider it, but honestly I might just save that for a Call of Cthulhu game.

>>7119005

This, just.. have the beat mesmerize his opponents, so the longer he fights, the slower he will tap, making enemy movement incredibly sluggish. He defeats them by forcing them to wait for the next beat before they can move.

A dude I've always thought of, some due who can recognize patterns, sequences and codes as easily as a normal person can recognize the colour red.
I call him Enigman.

I have NO idea what he'd be good for - other than hacking at super speed, perhaps.

>>7119005

He's the Music Meister!
And everyone just fawns!
He's the Music Meister!
And we are all his pawns!

>>7119069
Make him a Sunn O))) fan.

>>7119320

Maybe he'd be excellent at unarmed combat as well, if he survived long enough to understand and analyse his opponent's technique and modify his own to counter it perfectly.

Hell, given the chance to study anything he could be brilliant at it. After all, everything's just patterns and if you can understand the variables the future is easy to predict.

>>7119361
I'm a regular at /x/, and in a "how do I become creepy?"-thread, I stumbled upon an odd fact: people move in subtle yet recognizable patterns, and thus not moving in a certain recognizable pattern becomes inhuman and freaky.
Enigman would easily figure out any person's pattern of movement within a minute of time or so, and I recon maybe his many years of experience with this 'power' (make him be in his early 30s or late 20s) have taught him how to interpret these patterns in a way to predict "what's next" - resolving in extreme mental reflexes (though not necessarily physical: he might see the boomerang and know it's on to get him, but he might not be fast enough to move away from it?)

>>7119320

He'd probably be a really good partner to the Metrognome...

I always had an idea for superhero that could create items at will - he's a loveable Chaotic Good scoundrel who'd start off with small things like coins, dollar bills, poker chips, cards - that kinda stuff, in Vegas. Of course his power would grow, and somewhere years down the line, he'd summon an aircraft carrier to drop on the BBEG, complete with fighter jets and fully stocked armories.

Anyone got a good name? Sleight just sounds meh to me.

>>7119419
Hmmm... So let's say Metrognome has his enemies entranced at, say, 58BPM (slow rythm, if I understand the concept correctly?) - this would result in the entranced enemies to move slowly and they wont be able to move until the next beat, giving Enigman plenty of time to calculate every possible outcome of every possible move they might perform?

>>7119494
Shit. All you need now is a mad scientist to build a brain wave transsequencer (aka. thoughtie-talkie) and a Flash-like character who can receive the transsequencer signal from Enigman's brain so he's always a step ahead of the enemy :|
Fantastic Four, step out of our way; we are the Cruel Quadron!

>>7119494

"Well, every good night ends with a slow dance, wouldn't you say, Enigman?!"

"Undoubtably, but I don't forsee this one progressing much further!"

>>7119571
>Cue Statler & Waldorf

This thread pleases me.

>>7119413
>>how do I become creepy thread

I don't suppose you have a link to an archived thread or two of those? I tried going to /x/ recently, and saw /b/.

>>7119691
Lemme see...
/x/ archive
http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/archive.php5?board=X
Can't seem to find the specific thread... But there are, however, some awesome horror ideas and the entire archive is generally of good quality.
Classic /xtg/ thread
http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=1483864&x=x+and+tg+working+together

>>7119919
Thank you good sir.

>>7119979
Glad to help. MWAHAHAHAHAHAH-etc.

Sir-plus: low level superhero in medieval themed powered armor and an electric greatsword. Inadvertently won a crate containing some decommissioned DARPA gizmos instead of a palette of 2 gross of toilet paper at a government auction. Decided that saving people would get more chicks than being thrifty. Tries to play the "White Knight" character, but frequently becomes poon-minded around women
Pros: Lots of gadgets, bigass taser sword
Cons: Hasn't read the manual, so frequently turns on the wrong gadget or power. Basically a "wannabe" according to the real supers out there

>>7119979
>>7119919
On the same note, I found a similar thread mainly concentrating on the external factors of creepiness (irl atmosphere during game etc.)
http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=451429&x=creepy+moments+for+rpg+sessi
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DERAIL. MOAR SUPERHEROES!!

rolled 15 = 15

OP how familiar are you with M&M?

And my two cents.

Mr Manikin. A man who fell into the plastic vats at a manikin making factory and 'survived'. He is now a more expressive department store dummy with all the features. His powers are detachable but fully functioning limbs that can somehow see and hear everything around the limb. Also being not quite alive he's not effected by poison and the like and can be repaired by just melting more plastic into him to patch up the holes, while discolored at first it changes to the color and texture of the original dummy. Not exactly the best stand up and fight hero but with the way his limbs work he's great at foiling defenses.

>>7120090

Also helpful, thank you. I love running horror, or games with a hint of horror to spice them up, but frankly it's not something that comes naturally and while I get praise for it it's something I really need to work on.

Apollo: A huge, bearded man, easily 6.5 - 7.0 feet tall. Hulking, toned and very imposing. Has a gruff, imperious manner which can be construed as domineering and bullying. He projects a permenant aura of doubt - any evildoers will lose their confidence in their ability to defeat him. This effect only lasts for as long as they can see, hear or otherwise perceive Apollo. Otherwise, he's just a bodybuilder with just enough intelligence to understand how his power functions and how to capitalise on it.

Archive?

>>7117874
>Captain Retcon
His mild-mannered alter ego involves working for GW as an editor.

>>7121934
Maybe if we had a few more.

As is, probably best to just copy what you like.

Mr.E: A man with minor psychic abilities, he can cloud the minds of others and has even, on occasion, erased all memories of himself from a person's mind. His goals are unknown, but he's been known to do quite evil deeds to get to his ends... though no one knows what those are.

>>7122046
...IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

>>7122046
You just made me lol and a little bit died inside of me

>>7122046

If any of my group played Warhammer, I'd totally do that. Unfortunately, I don't think any of them would get the joke.

>>7118125
MONSTER.

>>7122046
>Captain Retcon
His mild-mannered alter ego involves working for DC as an editor.

>>7122292
Captain Retcon

His mild-mannered alter ego involves working for Marvel as an editor.

>>7122309
>>7122292
Fuck it, let's just say he trolls Super Boy Prime and call it a night.

has this been archived?

>>7122354
He's super boy prime's father every Friday and only on Fridays.

Super boy prime?