Character(s) OrganicIntelligence's Superhero & Supervillain repository

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I have a bad habit of dreaming up new superhero and supervillain characters when I'm bored, so I'm making this thread as a place where I'll start posting a reference list of all of them over time. Then I can pull from it any time I'm playing in a superheroes RP.

Heroes
I - Jade Lightning, Hell Rider, Night Arrow
II - Beast Girl, Skywing, Flameheart
III - Ghostslinger, Nightwitch, Starmaul (to be added)
IV - Captain Wonder, Solarian, Blue Spectress (to be added)
V - Green Guardian, Herculea, Paladin, Multiman (to be added)
VI - The Eldritch Circle (Arthur Magnus the Master Magus, Woodswalker, the Great Fantasmo, Sea Sorceress) (to be added)
VII - Cosmic Enforcers (Galactic Elders, Warmaster, Silver Slayer, Executrix, the Lawbringer/Sentroid (to be added)

Villains
I - Minotaur, Minotaur (female), Icemaster, Ice Bird, Icemaster's goons
II - Dead Metal, Whisper, Doc Arachnid (to be added)
III - Crimson Hood, Crimson Order goons, Miss Mystery, Miss Mystery's goons (to be added)
IV - Deathlock, Bloodshot, Shellstorm (to be added)
V - Anubia, Sobek, Mummy goons, Arkon the Absolute (to be added)
VI - Baron Bloodthirst, Vampire goons, the Professor, Bobcat (to be added)
VII - Dragoness, Shark Queen, Fishmen goons (to be added)

 

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Heroes I

Spoiler: Jade Lightning

Real name: Jessie Lincoln
Codename: Jade Lightning
Species: Enhanced human
Age: 24
Alignment: Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler: Civilian clothing

Spoiler: Costume

Occupation: Theoretical physicist employed by HiTek Industries.
Influences: Green Lantern, Monica Rambeau

Backstory: Until two years ago, Jessie Lincoln was an otherwise completely ordinary young woman save for being a scientific prodigy. Graduating with a degree in theoretical physics she walked out of college straight into a position with HiTek Industries, a company aimed at studying (and exploiting) exotic technologies and energies that had arrived on earth from extra-terrestrial and extra-dimensional sources. Jessie's first project with her employer was to examine a strange cylinder that appeared to be made out of some kind of crystal and was faintly glowing with an internal jade green light. Where it had come from, she wasn't told - only that it had been something they'd obtained through a government contract. What it was made from, or what was inside of, they didn't know either - it was her team's job to find that out, and if it seemed like there as something useful inside, figure out how to crack it open.

Jessie's team worked on the crystal container for several months, trying everything they could to probe at what was inside of it. The crystalline material didn't seem to match anything known to earthly science and the energies the container gave off were all over the electromagnetic spectrum. Finally, one late night, whilst everyone else had gone home, Jessie thought she could hear a noise coming from inside of the cylinder. Entranced by it in her sleep-deprived state, she deactivated the lab's containment protocols and approached the container. She felt compelled to place her hands on the crystalline surface, and in that moment there was a surge of electricity as all the energies contained inside of it transferred into her body.

Jessie woke up what felt like hours later, only to find herself floating several feet off the ground, her body giving off bolts of lightning at random and her hair and eyes bright green. It took a while for Jessie to get her powers under control, leading to her short-circuiting a whole lot of equipment. Luckily this included the security systems that would have informed her employers of how she had deliberately deactivated the security protocols or what had happened to her, as she wasn't sure she trusted them not to turn her into a human guinea pig. Over time through trial and experimentation she learned the full extent of her abilities, and soon decided to use her new-found powers for good by becoming the superheroine Jade Lightning.

Powers:

• Ability to unleash bolts of green-tinged lightning, or unleash a massive wave of energy at the cost of leaving herself drained
• Supersonic flight
• Moderately enhanced strength and durability
• Can sense electromagnetic fields
• Magnetism control
• Phasing through matter by controlling the electrical fields between atoms

Weaknesses: Sufficient insulation can block her lightning blasts. Certain wavelengths of cosmic radiation can also cause her powers to falter if exposed to them.

Personality traits and interests: Possesses a keen scientific mind and interest in studying strange new phenomena. Cocky, something of a smart-ass who likes to come up with creative insults. Acts rather shy and reserved in her civilian guise, but becomes much more confident and outgoing in her superhero costume. Enjoys reading sci-fi novels and documenting her superheroing efforts on her blog.

Spoiler: Hell Rider

Real name: Nick Ryder
Codename: Hell Rider
Species: Cambion (Human/Demon Hybrid)
Age: 36
Alignment: Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler: Human Form

Spoiler: Demon Form

Spoiler: Hell Bike

Occupation: Courier/Drifter
Influences: Ghost Rider, Hellboy

Backstory: Nick grew up believing himself to be the son of a roadside diner waitress and a passing businessman in a sharp suit and with a charming personality. It was only after he watching his mother, Maria wither away from some unknown disease at the age of fifteen did she tell him the real story, that she had been a practitioner of witchcraft in her younger years and had summoned and married a demon by the name of Baal-Amon. At first they were deeply in love, but as it became clear that Baal-Amon had dark plans for the human race that she could not abide she used up most of her strength to banish him back to Hell - shortening her life dramatically in the process.

That was not the only consequence of summoning Baal-Amon, for Maria was pregnant with their child. After Nick was born Maria placed a seal on him disguised as a birthmark to keep his demonic side hidden, but as soon as she died it was broken and Nick discovered he could tap into a new side of himself that he never knew existed. Then his father appeared before him as an apparition, offering Nick a place by his side as one of the Dukes of Hell if he acted as his father's servant in the mortal realm, spreading his influence and corrupting mortal hearts.

Nick refused, swearing he would use his powers to help others as his mother always taught him. It would not be easy, as people did not trust his demonic nature easily. And his father had other followers on the mortal plane, who he tasked with hunting his son down and killing so his father could claim Nick's soul in Hell for himself. And so Nick has become a drifter, delivering packages and doing odd jobs on his bike whilst occasionally becoming the demonic Hell Rider when he sees others in danger.

Powers: Can shift between human and demon form at will. In demon form, he gains the following powers:

• Superhuman strength and durability
• Immune to fire
• Resistant to the effects of dark magic
• Gains a prehensile tail with a sharp tip and horns
• Can summon the Infernal Blade to his hand, a burning sword infused with demonic energy.
• Can infuse his sawn-off with demonic power, allowing it to shoot blasts of hell-flame.
• Can also infuse his bike with demonic energy, bringing it to like as a mechanical demon with burning wheels.

Weaknesses (if any): The presence of holy icons causes him to feel physical nausea unless he shifts back into human form. He is also vulnerable to magics that can bind or harm demons.

Personality traits and interests: A loner who likes to express himself in as few words as possible. Tries to keep to himself but keeps getting dragged into adventures by his urge to help people.

Spoiler: Night Arrow

Real name: Beth Scott
Codename: Night-Arrow
Species and appearance: Normal human
Age: 26
Alignment: (Anti-)Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler

Occupation: Unemployed, can access all the money she needs from her father's offshore accounts
Influences: Huntress, Kate Bishop, the Punisher

Backstory: Beth Scott is the only child of Jack and Clarence Scott, a pair of genius gadgeteers who traded in created advanced tech to sell to criminals and supervillains on the black market. Beth grew up unaware of this side of her parents, thinking them to simply be everyday wage slaves. They tried hard to keep her out of danger, instead encouraging her to follow her athletic pursuits in gymnastics and archery. She seemed to have a bright future ahead - although that all changed the day her parents fell afoul of the mob.

Beth was luckily at gym practice the day the mob showed up to her parents home and murdered them. When she got home and found their bodies she was ambushed by a mafioso who had stuck around to wait for her, but he was dispatched by an old family friend, Bob 'the Eliminator' Black. Bob took the then-sixteen year old Beth in and trained her in the ways of an assassin so that when she was ready she could seek revenge. He also provided her with a package that her parents had entrusted him with that contained several cards for offshore accounts full of money just in case they were ever killed, as well as a key and coordinates to a hidden warehouse where her father and mother had been crafting new gear for their own use.

Inside Beth found prototypes they had made for various gadgets and tools to make more, including a high-tech mechanical bow. With Bob's help Beth fashioned as many of the gadgets that she could into devices that could be mounted on arrowheads, and took to the streets in a one-woman war against the criminal underworld as Night-Arrow.

Powers:

• Olympian-level skill in athletics and archery;
• Blackbelt in martial arts and knife-fighting;
• Utilises a highly advanced tech-bow that adds extra power to her shots. She has access to a number of different types of arrows, including:
  • Standard armour-piercing arrows with a titanium tip
  • Explosive arrows
  • Electric shock arrows
  • Net arrows
  • Grapping hook arrows
  • Smoke bomb arrows

Among other ones she can create as required;

• Also utilises an adamantium-edged knife in close quarters combat;
• Has been trained in stealth and skulduggery techniques;

Weaknesses (if any):
- Is a normal, squishy human being with gadgets.

Personality traits and interests: Rather strong headed and impatient, often has trust issues due to her past. Can be friendly, even playful once she gets to know someone, but otherwise has a habit of being suspicious of others.

 

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Villains I

Spoiler: Minotaur

Real name: Marcus Tollo
Codename: Minotaur
Species and appearance: Human mutant, 6' 9" tall
Age: 29
Alignment: Villain (albeit with a conscience, do NOT hurt or threaten children around him.)
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler

Occupation: Criminal enforcer/hired muscle
Influences: Rhino, Juggernaut, Bane

Backstory: Marcus Tollo, also known as the Mighty Minotaur, was the child of a dock worker who was exposed to experimental biogenetic chemicals following an industrial accident. Although his father showed no obvious external effects of the exposure, it became obvious after the birth of the first child what it had done to his sperm, for his son was born with the nubs of two horn nubs on his forehead and was an unusual size (his mother, mercifully opted for a c-section).Throughout his childhood and teenage years Mark was tormented by other children for his unusual size and horns, often resulting in him loosing his cool and turning to violence.

In an attempt to channel his anger and immense strength towards something good, his parents enrolled him in a program for youngsters with blossoming powers who might one day become superheroic defenders of the peace. Marcus unfortunately flunked out after picking a fight with a few of his fellow classmates, but he still liked the idea of using his unique traits to become a superhero. So, he stitched together a simple costume, and when the opportunity arose he leapt into action to defeat a pair of super-empowered bank robbers.

Unfortunately the battle did not go the way Marcus had hoped, as he discovered he did not know his own strength and was not experienced in restricting collateral damage, leading to him nearly killing one of the robbers and inadvertently harming several civilians. Marcus found himself the centre of a media campaign of shame and hate for his foolish actions, and ran away from home, furious at himself and the world for treating him this way.

Afterwards, Marcus decided that if he didn't have the makings of a hero, he could be a villain instead, and started hiring out his services to criminal organisations. He has found this life of using his immense size and strength to intimidate, burst into bank vaults and fend off superhero do-gooders much more fulfilling, although he often finds he cannot fully shake off his urge to do good by the downtrodden of the city.

Powers:

• High level superhuman strength,
• High level superhuman stamina and durability,
• Can run at around 60mph and leap several storeys into the air
• Possesses two horns on his head which have been coated with adamantium to allow them to penetrate almost any armour.

Weaknesses: Extremely prone to getting enraged, in which case he can easily be outwitted although at the cost of making him seem to grow even stronger.

Personality traits and interests: Spends most of his free time working out and/or playing cards with other criminals. Marcus is not great with money, and has a habit of spending it on rather pointless things that he ends up breaking. He is quite socially awkward around others, which often results in him being mocked behind his back by other criminals - never, ever to his face though. Has a habit of resorting to his fists when things go wrong.

Spoiler: Minotaur (female)

A female version of Minotaur called Maria Tollo. An alternative universe version? Minotaur got hit by a spell or a hex? Time will tell!

Spoiler

Spoiler: Icemaster

Real name: Ryan Zima
Codename: Icemaster
Species: Living ice being (formally human)
Age: 43
Alignment: Villainous
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler

Occupation: Mad scientist/Mob Boss
Influences: Dr. Freeze, Captain Cold

Backstory: A mad scientist who sought to achieve immortality through injecting his cells with a cryogenic serum that would slow down his aging process to a crawl. Ryan Zima discovered the process worked too well when his entire body began converting into living ice. Still alive, his mind was twisted into madness by the transformation, becoming obsessed with creating an entire race of ice beings like himself and converting the entire Earth into a frozen paradise for more of his kind.

Powers:

• Can fire impaling bolts of ice or rays or freezing cold from his hands
• Genius with advanced knowledge of biology, technology and chemistry.
• Immune to cold tmeperatures
• Can quickly regenerate any part of his body that gets damaged so long as there is sufficient water moisture in the air.
• Can create walls and other physical structures out of ice.

Weaknesses: Sonic attacks, high temperatures, having his containment suit damaged

Personality traits and interests: Completely megalomaniacal, completely lacks any kind of empathy and is both literally and figuratively cold-hearted. Keeps his cool in most situations, but the few times he gets annoyed he can get so hot-headed that his containment suit might start short-circuiting.

Spoiler: Icebird

Real name: Stacey Park
Codename: Icebird
Species: Mutant human
Age: 26
Alignment: Villainous
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler

Occupation: Icemaster's second-in-command
Influences: Vulture, Killer Frost

Backstory: A lost soul who joined Ryan Zima's crew for the promise of immortality and the chance to rule in his new world. After being injected with his mutagen it inadvertently triggered a latent secondary mutation, causing her to grow wings made of ice.

Powers:

• Can fly using her ice wings
• Can fire icy 'feathers' from her wings
• Immune to cold temperatures
• Serum has numbed her pain response and made her better able to withstand injuries
• Ice blades growing from her arms can slash skin and flesh

Weaknesses: Sonic attacks, high temperatures

Personality traits and interests: Cold-blooded, devoted to Icemaster's cause.

Spoiler: Icemaster's goons

Icemaster's followers. Possess numbed pain responses and can withstand injuries that would kill a normal human thanks to being injected with a weakened version of his serum.

Spoiler

 

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Heroes II

Spoiler: Beast Girl

Real name: Samantha 'Sam' Samuels
Codename: Beast Girl
Age: 23
Alignment: Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler: Beast form

Spoiler: Human form

Occupation: Model, influencer, part-time actress
Influences: Beast, Sasquatch, She-Hulk

Backstory: Samantha 'Sam' Samuels, was a relatively normal young woman, born into an upper-middle class family with no prior history of superheroics and with a promising career in front of her as an aspiring model and actress. That was until her twentieth birthday, when Sam and several of her fellow models were kidnapped and held ransom by a supervillain hoping to hold them to ransom. Under the intense fear and stress of her situation a latent mutation kicked in and Sam transformed into a hybrid of woman and beast, tearing apart her captors with animalistic fury.

Afterwards, as her fury subsided and her human mind returned, Sam was horrified to see what she had turned into and what she had done. She hid away from society, refusing to leave her home even after she learned how to will her body to revert back and forth between human and beast forms. She viewed herself as a freak of nature and a monster, something that should never be seen in public ever again, but eventually her agent convinced her that this could be very, very good for her career if she used her status as a superhero to boost her celebrity credentials.

So, Sam reluctantly took to using her abilities to fight supervillains and evil-doers, always there to help others whilst making sure to stick around for the media to make sure they got her face next to the unconscious bad guys. Over time Sam has grown to enjoy her new second career as a superheroine and is always eager for action, but is always weary of the beast within, still lurking at the back of her mind...

Powers:

• Ability to transform between human and beast form
• Beast form provides enhanced strength, agility, reflexes and stamina
• Beast form also possess claws and fangs
• Enhanced night vision, smell and hearing, stronger in beast form but also slightly enhanced in human form
• Enhanced healing, allowing her to recover faster than a normal human from injuries

Weaknesses: Under stressful situations may go 'feral' and her mind becomes animalistic, unable to tell friend from foe and attacking everything around her. Also her enhanced senses make her more sensitive to foul smells and sounds.

Personality traits and interests: An enthusiastic heroine who is always ready to rush into action, although she is also somewhat vain and a bit of a glory-hound, constantly on the look-out for ways that her superhero career can help enhance her modelling and influencer careers as well. Good friend, if sometimes overly judgemental and insensitive.

Spoiler: Skywing

Real name: Rico Lopez
Codename: Skywing
Species: Normal Human
Age: 33
Alignment: Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler: Costume

Spoiler: Unmasked

Occupation: Mechanic, part-time inventor, former USAF test pilot
Influences: Falcon, Star Lord

Backstory: Previously a test pilot for the USAF, Rico left after nearly dying in a crash so that he could care for his ailing mother. As her health worsened, she implored him to find a way to use his talents to help people, and after her death from her chronic illness he began working as a mechanic at his local car repair shop whilst continuing to design and build gadgets that he could patent in the meantime. Eventually, yearning to return to the skies and for the thrill of flying experimental aircraft, he considered returning to the military until he had a flash of inspiration and started working on what would become his wingsuit...

Now going by the codename Skywing, Rico uses his skills and tech to rescue civilians from disaster zones and fight off supervillains who would threaten their safety. He has also come to the attention of the Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, rapidly becoming one of their most valuable agents.

Powers:

• Able to fly using his wing suit
• Wing suit provides protection from G-forces and includes woven nanofibre armour that protects against small arms fire
• Particle projector guns can emit a variety of different types of energy wave to adapt to different foes
• Utility belt carries various devices and gadgets designed for specific missions
• Engineering genius and trained in marksmanship and hand to hand combat

Weaknesses: Is a normal human being, and without his gear is as squishy as any human civilian.

Personality traits and interests: Dutiful and always focused on the mission, although tends to lapse into dry humour in tense or highly dangerous situations.

Spoiler: Flameheart

Real name: Princess 'Zala' Zalamandra
Codename: Flame Heart
Species: Pyrosian
Age: 114
Alignment: Heroic
Costume/clothing:

Spoiler: Appearance

Occupation: Ambassador from the Pyrosian kingdom
Influences: Starfire

Backstory: Heir to the throne of the Pyrosians, a race of elemental fire beings living in a subterranean realm deep below the Earth's surface, Zala grew up always wondering about the beings who dwelt on its chilly surface. Although the rest of her race - in particular her father, the king - were highly suspicious of humanity, Zala begged her father to let her go and explore the surface world - something he eventually agreed to, telling her that she would be an ambassador whilst at the same time instructing his daughter to relay back to him everything she learned.

Overjoyed, Zala flew up to the surface through one of the few passages left between Pyrosia and the surface, emerging into a strange world of more sights and sounds than she could ever imagine. She fell in love with the surface worlders and their cultures, whilst at the same time lamenting their capacity for cruelty and violence, leading her to use the abilities afforded by her pyrosian physiology to protect the innocent from harm. All the while, she continued to tell her father everything she saw and learned through a magic gem, unaware of what he was planning to do with the information...

Powers:

• Superhuman strength and durability
• Pyrokinesis
• Able to fly by shooting flames from hands and feet
• Resistant to high temperatures, can touch molten lava without any ill effects

Weaknesses: Becomes weakened and unable to use her powers if submerged in or drenched with water.

Personality traits and interests: Highly curious about humans and life on the surface world. Extremely friendly and outgoing, although can sometimes be rather immature. Extremely protective of her friends, will fight anyone who tries to hurt them.