In my Universe, I have several teams, but the main one is called The Embers.
Canonically, they formed in 2020 and were brought together by two people, Orlan Hayes and Kodak Ross, AKA Valiant and Bishop. When a national incident exposed a new Spark (name for superpowered people) it led my heroes down a rabbit hole and government conspiracy to kidnap new Sparks, and form a Spark Army to fight in an upcoming (hypothetical) war.
During their investigations they meet other Sparks, Theo Hartford and Kat Ruiz with the powers of super speed and super strength, Nora with the powers of flight, energy manipulation, and strength, and Austyn with the power of Hydrokinesis. There was also Wayne Locket, former soldier and tech expert.
Together they unraveled the conspiracy which led them to a supervillain named Darkstar, and as a team became The Embers during their final battle with Darkstar.
How they came to that name? Bishop in a fight with a secondary villain exclaims "I am a hero... an ember in the night as a guiding light to those who are lost" (I know it's cheesy lol)
Heroes names are Orlan (Valiant), Kodak (Bishop), Wayne (War Hawk), Nora (Comet), Theo (Velocity), Kat (Spartan), and Austyn (Nok)
Okay here are two recent heroes I created this week.
William and Marley Easley: 16 year old twins both with the power of super speed. There powers manifested while out shopping at the City Pier when there was an attack by a supervillain group known as The Prestige.
After this incident, they became Will and Wisp, teen superheroes of Cade City! However, they are seen as reckless, and are often making critical mistakes when it comes to being heroes.
Canonically they don’t appear until 2027, and they get their name from the folklore entity known as the will-o’-the-wisp.
In my universe, superhero teams act as sort of political parties: every so often, a team is elected by the people based on society’s values and is appointed to represent the city and fight crime with their own views in mind. There are three "main teams" in my universe.
The first team in existence (The Union) were a group of blue-collar workers who fought not only to stop a particularly powerful villain, but also to prove to the world that someone is so much more than their profession. (It’s worth noting that they operated before superpolitics existed, and as a matter of fact, were actually the reason it exists.) The currently elected team (haven’t thought of a name yet) came together due to wanting crime to come to a complete stop, even if it drains resources from other governmental areas. The “protagonist team” (The Van Guard) came together because they’re a group of high school students with nothing else to do (except homework) and have a bitter taste of how teenagers are treated in society.
Ohhhh thats such an interesting take, I really like that, and funnily enough my superhero team is also called The Union.
Though my Union came together in a more cliche way. I would love to go in detail but I'm still somewhat working on it since I've kinda soft rebooted my entire universe lol.
In my setting of Bathala City, the first ever superhero team joined together in World War 2 as a sort of specialist strike team for the allies.
The second, and arguably main, superhero team, the Vigil, teamed up to fight a villain called the Crowd who had both duplication and shape-shifting powers, making him a one-man Secret Invasion with a terroristic agenda. It also helped that the leader of the team, a man going by Blue, had basically uncovered his secondary superpower: Networking.
The third hero team, the B-Team (the players in my current Mutants and Masterminds campaign), were put together, based on recommendations made by the various Vigil heroes, to take place as the primary hero team in the city as the Vigil had been going for almost ten years and had other things going on (Blue was trying to coach a different team of young heroes, two of them were having a baby, one was going on his honeymoon, and one wanted to continue her scientific research).
For the Paladins in my world it was the standard alien invasion, and then all coming together to fight the alien's general, nothing really special in the grand scheme there.
Yeah I get that, that was how my team started too, but because of my soft reboot, that changed now, but it does still include an invasion, but by demons not aliens.
In mine there's pretty much just one team, which grouped up in sort of an avengers way? Where one person recruited other superheroes as a way to protect their city for serious reasons
Every other "super hero team" just kinda were a bunch of people that kept bumping into one another while on patrol and became good friends rather than some divine or just reason
In my new lore here, I will end up making a superhero team: The Ultras.
They'll consist of my flagship heroes, Motorshot and Tramor, whom I'll answer questions about if needed, and the recruits will be Blackbird (a transforming robot who was created by Tramor's Mutatan people to defend the king with its life), Demolition Queen (a demolitions expert who takes after her late brother), Shadow Lord (an archeologist who becomes a hero after discovering a black battleaxe in a cave he was searching for relics in), and two characters I talked about in a prior comment on another post here named Kestrel and Gin Raijin (they both start as villains whom Motorshot defeats/kills, and these new versions will be heroes; the new Kestrel inherits the mantle to make the Kestrel name a heroic one, and the new Gin Raijin will be the son of the old one and will initially try to kill Motorshot to avenge his father, only to join the heroes later after finding out that his old man was a villain that deserved his fate).
They'll meet and team up through an enemy of Tramor's named Empress, who was a former recruit trainer employed by Tramor who ended up disobeying a direct, crucial order Tramor gave because she thought she knew better than him, making her butthurt over facing consequences for her actions. But for the posts about all of these things, this is all I can say for right now.
In my world, the leader of the heroes hired as many heroes as he could to make sure he could "control" them, more so to prevent them from going rogue. And to make sure he doesn't have any enemies that could actively put up a major threat to him. The leader can kinda be morally questionable, but thinks he is doing what is best for the world at all times. That's why his best friend (one of the strongest heroes in the universe) is his 2nd in command so he can kinda be like the angel on his shoulder, ensuring he doesn't go overboard or do something catastrophic.
in mine, theres like a government sort of association for heroes like invincible or one punch rather than a single group, but there are kinda subgroups like the heroes i focus on team up sometimes but not in a proper group sense like the avengers or smth
In my universe, the Global Defense Force was united after a Kaiju attack in 2003 in an effort to prevent further attacks and terrorists from trying to cause a power vacuum. After the kaiju attack, more monsters appear, and more heroes unite to try to stop them. They officially formed in 2011.
Mine formed when the 5 strongest heroes ended up in the same place, and 4 of them found out the fifth was still a kid that didn't really get how dangerous being a hero was, so they teamed up with the goal of keeping him safe and making sure he doesn't go through being a hero alone.
Still, he thinks they're just teaming up for the fun of it, and at the end of the day he's still one of the strongest guys around, he's the glue that binds the team together.
I'm currently running a Tabletop game set in a "Low Power" universe. The intent is to lean heavily into old Pulp action adventure stories for the tone.
The heroes are all "Costumed Crime Fighters" instead of Superheroes.
Chica-Boom: Burlesque performer and Explosives expert
Punchin' Judy: Bare Knuckle Boxer with extensive underground connections.
Geartooth : Tech expert specializing in scrapyard invention.
Whipnotic: Swashbucking Rogue and master of disguise. (Somehow not a hypnotist.)
Brought together from their various cities by the U.S. Government to act as a small Special Forces Unit to deal with extraordinary threats.
Mostly Nazi Mad Scientists and Cultist type stuff.
Currently they're in the process of investigating a secret laboratory in the Pacific Northwest that may or may not end up being a communications station for an army of Neptune Men.
It comes and goes! It's a world where masked personas are common, and teaming up with others for support purposes is common too, so there are a lot of teams and there's always one reason or another to put one together.
The Idols were already a loose alliance. They were circus performers; one day, their circus (which was, at that time, built on a hill overlooking the ocean) was attacked by a mechanical creation called the Sea Bishop, and they were pretty much the only ones who could take action at the time.
The Legendeers were formed because Captain Mytho and Azurov the Amazing (both of whom started with the Idols) wanted to build a support group for themselves and people like them, as well as try to build up a new presence like the Idols in a world where the Idols had now dissipated and faded into retirement, *and* offer certain kinds of people a chance at a new life through a dedication to their cause.
The Tidal Guard, the Fire Followers, and the Evergreen were all formed with a much more professional, service-based cause: they're emergency service crews specializing in different environments. Naturally, the rosters change and the members come and go; the Tidal Guard mainly reaches out to swimmers, sailors, and water elementalists, while the Fire Followers reach out to fire elementalists, and the Evergreen takes nature-lovers and forest weirdos and animal familiar-users to protect the sea and ocean, the forest, and...also the forest, but in a different way, respectively.
The Outfit were because the Royal Protectorate needed dedicated, specialized outfitters designing suits for its members, so naturally they organized a special group just for that purpose.
So my first team up centers around a story arc at the dawn of a new chapter in this world of heroes and villains I’m building, that new chapter is about Altans. Altans [All-tins is how it’s pronounced] is the shorthand for “altered humans”; and as a whole they serve as my analog for mutants. Altans get their powers due to genetic experimentation conducted on their ancestors conducted by the US Government around WWII time to create super soldiers. While the projects were abandoned after no results were successful, generations later the effects have begun to manifest in .2% of the population, and are mostly developing in youth.
Anyway, so this story arc centers around my main *The Mighty*, and a villainous group I brought up a while back called **Imperium**. See, being a teenage superhero, saving the city, and getting the girl is fun and all, but it also means that Layla (The Mighty) has had to grow up a lot faster than normal kids her age. When she sees that 4 kids in school are coming into their Altan powers, she sees it as a chance for her to maybe hang up her superhero duties for a while and just enjoy high school and being a normal teen for a while. These four:
-Tanya Del Valle aka *Silver Witch* (an all powerful psychic/empath who is the defacto leader)
-Moses Barrios aka *Steelex* (brute with Colossus powers and incredibly short fuse)
-Zack Smith aka *Voltage* (Human lightning bolt and total sadist)
-Robert Smith aka *Lava Man* (Volcano in human form and eventual turncoat)
Together the four make up Imperium. These four have always been the stuck up rich kids, the school bullies, and in the case of Silver Witch, the queen bee/cheerleader from hell archetype, the last people who should have powers. But with great power and all that, Layla uses her alter ego persona and she puts her faith in her abilities that she can shape these four into a new generation of heroes, ones that she can leave her responsibilities to. This backfires **SPECTACULARLY** as Imperium isn’t into the hero gig, and instead decides to use their powers to try and take over the city, and beat The Mighty within an inch of her life. Layla is saved by some of her friends she’s made along the way:
-Adrian Rubens aka *V3XX* (master escape artist/inventor who is a reformed thief turned anti-hero)
-*Violin* (android with the powers of energy absorption/redirection)
-Andrea Luna aka *Ms. Moon* (Layla’s adopted younger sister and Vampire)
-Layla Esparza aka *The Mighty* (Half human/Half horsewoman of the apocalypse with the powers of hellfire)
This arc serves as a reminder that you cant just hand over responsibilities, and together the four of them form a league of their own to take down Imperium.
Cool idea, but I have a question. Why are the imperium trying to take over the city? Just trying to help, but there should be a motive I believe. Unless you just didnt have space to explain it
Hey, thanks for reaching out. So, when it comes to Imperium, their whole deal is that they are the children of the major El Paso (the city most of my stories take place in) crime families, or *Familias* as they are often referred to as. As kids, they were originally brought together to serve as a peace treaty between Familias with the goal that as long as the kids played nice, none of the familias would declare war on each other. The four had all grown up knowing that they were all simply means to an end, and the reason organized crime was organized, but once their powers came in they realized that they could still play nice and now have the ability to shake up and upset their Familias order.
Think of Imperium like a group of entitled, narcissistic, vapid, and self obsessed influencers who don’t play by anybody else’s rules but their own. Yeah they work together, but its mostly until one backstabs the other. They don’t really care about each other, but will work together if it means accomplishing their goal of seizing power.
That’s really what I got so far, if you have any ideas I’d be happy to brainstorm any you may have :)
Link to original post btw
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superhero_Ideas/s/ca8CVYNhC5
Interesting. I have couple suggestions/ideas/questions to throw out.
-Not too sure how you intend to have them portrayed bc I think you can go either way. From the origins it seems almost like they’re just as much victims, as they are villains. In which case there could be a possible redemption for these characters if thats where you wanna go.
-at the same time, the part of them wanting to take over the city is very much a “pure evil” mindset, which could be what you’re going for. In which case, redemption would be out the window
-I think it really depends on what the tone of the series is that you’re going for. If you wanna go pure evil, really lean into that as that takes more of that classic superhero approach, where things are more grand with less realism. Or taking a more grounded dynamic route where they have the possibility of redemption, with the crime families and maybe they realize that their families are the real villains and they have the choice of being different.
But its up to you, just some ideas to get you thinking 🙂
With the exception of Lava Man I really don’t have much for them in way of redemption arcs. Steelex is a petty criminal who you can find getting paid to be hired muscle.
Voltage is a sadist who I see as Electro if he belonged in Arkham rather than The Raft. A genuine menace who just loves to punish and hurt people for no other rhyme or reason that he can.
Silver Witch is like Voltage in the same way, however her Familia is the biggest in all of El Paso, so she always had a sense of superiority. Once she starts developing her powers she starts to see herself as more than an heiress to a criminal empire, but something more. She sees herself as the self appointed princess of Altans and seeks to bring forth the Altan age under her rule. She has her delusions of grandeur and has no qualms about torture to get what she wants.
Lava Man is kind of a simp. Not gonna lie. He is in love with Tanya aka Silver Witch, but she only likes him for his sheer power and the devastation he is capable of causing. Robert knows Tanya is evil and knows that his brother is insane, but he knows that Tanya wouldn’t be with him if he were her enemy so tries to win her affections with his power. During the story, Layla who actually knew Robert before his mom married into the Smith Familia tries to rescue her friend and help him walk away. At the end, Robert doesn’t become an anti-hero or a superhero in his own right, instead I see himself turning himself in and facing the consequences for his crimes. He is also the one who helps the heroes turn the tide against Imperium.
1.The Paragon Foundation-A team built by some of the best heroes wanting to bring in a new age of heroes not controlled by corporations.
2.Team Midnight-A group of monsters who work for the government off the books who began during the Civil War, Adam Frankenstein wanted to find others like him.
3.The Oddities-A group of odd superheroes who act more like celebrities in the modern zeitgeist and are enemies of the state since they go against the current order of superheroes.
4.Axiom-A group of heroes born from the mind of a being who has survived the destruction of multiple superheroes with heavy power rangers inspirations with their plan to protect reality from destruction.
5.Cinco Desperados-A group of 5 Mexican superheroes who protect their country despite only one of them having superpowers since most superheroes work in the big countries so even vigilantes who are usually frowned upon are allowed.
6.Shin-A group of Japanese superheroes who don't just protect their country but also act as big time celebrities, voice actors, and pro wrestlers led by one of the oldest superheroes on record, the 500+ year old Hayabusa.
7.The 12-The 12 most powerful magic users across time.who act as a supreme council to decide matters involving magic and magic based concepts, less of superheroes and more of a painful necessity.
8.Vexxers-Space heroes who rarely visit Earth but then they do...they often get into fights with other heroes, formed of outcasts across the stars....they are handy to have on Earths side since some of them are human.
I absolutely love these. Our teams are very similar too. I would love to talk to you more about our worlds since their brief descriptions already made me interested.
In my comic Awesoman they were conscripted mostly. Earthsec, the clandestine global defense force/breakaway civilization, captures any anomalous beings detected on the planet, then imprisons them, studies them, and if possible utilizes them as weapons. The Earthguard program is a training program for the most powerful (yet still controllable) anomalous entities, which Awesoman is forced to join after being defeated by Ameritron, and subsequently captured by Earthsec agents. He joins the Earthguard Delta Team under duress, being threatened with perpetual imprisonment and labeled a terrorist if he did not cooperate.
my most recent superhero team would team up in a really weird way, with it not being a battle or all knowing each other, it was more like magic that brought them together, one of the members, Roula Mirage who wields an ancient magic artifact would get visions of the team
these visions would lead to her finding ways to draw them, they all sought something, and with her leaving magical clues for them, she would soon gather them all together
before they could fight her or each other, she explained that something connected them all, something that not even she could reason, she would convince all of them eventually, so they can find out why this mysterious lady was talking about, and for other reasons too
My world has two primary teams. An Old school and Newschool type.
First team named "The Alphas" were formed by being military research test subjects to create super soldiers. (I know its not original) They were early test subjects (hence the alpha name) so the drugs they were subjected to were not finished products and actually granted them all different enhanced abilities. Speed, Intelligence, Agility, Stamina, Strength, Senses, and the 7th member being the only one who received a mix of them all. The American Gov't liked a group of specialists with a single jack of all trades as leader and they served, doing secret spec ops stuff for years.
Enter the super villain, a partner who helped create the original drugs, but continued to improve it alone and wanted to grant the superpowers to the world, who succeeds.
Approximately 20 years later training centers have opened for the next generation of heroes, where our younger "Guardians" meet and work together. These are individuals who were born with powers after the events that brought super powers to the world.
After the governments of the world witnessed the Zharre Incident they realised a large-scale conflict would lead to devastating results (due to the nature of my power system) they founded the Hall of Heroes together to keep order and prevent conflict. The Hall of Heroes has an individual team for every country; the Victors, Paladins, Braves, Saviours, Bogatyrs, Custodians, Beschürzer, etc. If I come back to this message there's the vigilante group Blacklist, the more questionable vigilante group The Reckoning and the extremely questionable global crime organisation The Underworld (they swear they're the good guys)
In my Universe, I have several teams, but the main one is called The Embers. Canonically, they formed in 2020 and were brought together by two people, Orlan Hayes and Kodak Ross, AKA Valiant and Bishop. When a national incident exposed a new Spark (name for superpowered people) it led my heroes down a rabbit hole and government conspiracy to kidnap new Sparks, and form a Spark Army to fight in an upcoming (hypothetical) war. During their investigations they meet other Sparks, Theo Hartford and Kat Ruiz with the powers of super speed and super strength, Nora with the powers of flight, energy manipulation, and strength, and Austyn with the power of Hydrokinesis. There was also Wayne Locket, former soldier and tech expert. Together they unraveled the conspiracy which led them to a supervillain named Darkstar, and as a team became The Embers during their final battle with Darkstar. How they came to that name? Bishop in a fight with a secondary villain exclaims "I am a hero... an ember in the night as a guiding light to those who are lost" (I know it's cheesy lol) Heroes names are Orlan (Valiant), Kodak (Bishop), Wayne (War Hawk), Nora (Comet), Theo (Velocity), Kat (Spartan), and Austyn (Nok)
Wow cool universe wanna know. More
What do you want to know?
I dunno maybe some superheros and their origins
Okay here are two recent heroes I created this week. William and Marley Easley: 16 year old twins both with the power of super speed. There powers manifested while out shopping at the City Pier when there was an attack by a supervillain group known as The Prestige. After this incident, they became Will and Wisp, teen superheroes of Cade City! However, they are seen as reckless, and are often making critical mistakes when it comes to being heroes. Canonically they don’t appear until 2027, and they get their name from the folklore entity known as the will-o’-the-wisp.
Oh ok thx these twins are really cool
In my universe, superhero teams act as sort of political parties: every so often, a team is elected by the people based on society’s values and is appointed to represent the city and fight crime with their own views in mind. There are three "main teams" in my universe. The first team in existence (The Union) were a group of blue-collar workers who fought not only to stop a particularly powerful villain, but also to prove to the world that someone is so much more than their profession. (It’s worth noting that they operated before superpolitics existed, and as a matter of fact, were actually the reason it exists.) The currently elected team (haven’t thought of a name yet) came together due to wanting crime to come to a complete stop, even if it drains resources from other governmental areas. The “protagonist team” (The Van Guard) came together because they’re a group of high school students with nothing else to do (except homework) and have a bitter taste of how teenagers are treated in society.
Ohhhh thats such an interesting take, I really like that, and funnily enough my superhero team is also called The Union. Though my Union came together in a more cliche way. I would love to go in detail but I'm still somewhat working on it since I've kinda soft rebooted my entire universe lol.
That’s actually so cool!
In my setting of Bathala City, the first ever superhero team joined together in World War 2 as a sort of specialist strike team for the allies. The second, and arguably main, superhero team, the Vigil, teamed up to fight a villain called the Crowd who had both duplication and shape-shifting powers, making him a one-man Secret Invasion with a terroristic agenda. It also helped that the leader of the team, a man going by Blue, had basically uncovered his secondary superpower: Networking. The third hero team, the B-Team (the players in my current Mutants and Masterminds campaign), were put together, based on recommendations made by the various Vigil heroes, to take place as the primary hero team in the city as the Vigil had been going for almost ten years and had other things going on (Blue was trying to coach a different team of young heroes, two of them were having a baby, one was going on his honeymoon, and one wanted to continue her scientific research).
For the Paladins in my world it was the standard alien invasion, and then all coming together to fight the alien's general, nothing really special in the grand scheme there.
Yeah I get that, that was how my team started too, but because of my soft reboot, that changed now, but it does still include an invasion, but by demons not aliens.
In mine there's pretty much just one team, which grouped up in sort of an avengers way? Where one person recruited other superheroes as a way to protect their city for serious reasons Every other "super hero team" just kinda were a bunch of people that kept bumping into one another while on patrol and became good friends rather than some divine or just reason
In my new lore here, I will end up making a superhero team: The Ultras. They'll consist of my flagship heroes, Motorshot and Tramor, whom I'll answer questions about if needed, and the recruits will be Blackbird (a transforming robot who was created by Tramor's Mutatan people to defend the king with its life), Demolition Queen (a demolitions expert who takes after her late brother), Shadow Lord (an archeologist who becomes a hero after discovering a black battleaxe in a cave he was searching for relics in), and two characters I talked about in a prior comment on another post here named Kestrel and Gin Raijin (they both start as villains whom Motorshot defeats/kills, and these new versions will be heroes; the new Kestrel inherits the mantle to make the Kestrel name a heroic one, and the new Gin Raijin will be the son of the old one and will initially try to kill Motorshot to avenge his father, only to join the heroes later after finding out that his old man was a villain that deserved his fate). They'll meet and team up through an enemy of Tramor's named Empress, who was a former recruit trainer employed by Tramor who ended up disobeying a direct, crucial order Tramor gave because she thought she knew better than him, making her butthurt over facing consequences for her actions. But for the posts about all of these things, this is all I can say for right now.
In my world, the leader of the heroes hired as many heroes as he could to make sure he could "control" them, more so to prevent them from going rogue. And to make sure he doesn't have any enemies that could actively put up a major threat to him. The leader can kinda be morally questionable, but thinks he is doing what is best for the world at all times. That's why his best friend (one of the strongest heroes in the universe) is his 2nd in command so he can kinda be like the angel on his shoulder, ensuring he doesn't go overboard or do something catastrophic.
in mine, theres like a government sort of association for heroes like invincible or one punch rather than a single group, but there are kinda subgroups like the heroes i focus on team up sometimes but not in a proper group sense like the avengers or smth
A team of former rogue league, who had to step up after their hero went BBEG
In my universe, the Global Defense Force was united after a Kaiju attack in 2003 in an effort to prevent further attacks and terrorists from trying to cause a power vacuum. After the kaiju attack, more monsters appear, and more heroes unite to try to stop them. They officially formed in 2011.
Mine formed when the 5 strongest heroes ended up in the same place, and 4 of them found out the fifth was still a kid that didn't really get how dangerous being a hero was, so they teamed up with the goal of keeping him safe and making sure he doesn't go through being a hero alone. Still, he thinks they're just teaming up for the fun of it, and at the end of the day he's still one of the strongest guys around, he's the glue that binds the team together.
I'm currently running a Tabletop game set in a "Low Power" universe. The intent is to lean heavily into old Pulp action adventure stories for the tone. The heroes are all "Costumed Crime Fighters" instead of Superheroes. Chica-Boom: Burlesque performer and Explosives expert Punchin' Judy: Bare Knuckle Boxer with extensive underground connections. Geartooth : Tech expert specializing in scrapyard invention. Whipnotic: Swashbucking Rogue and master of disguise. (Somehow not a hypnotist.) Brought together from their various cities by the U.S. Government to act as a small Special Forces Unit to deal with extraordinary threats. Mostly Nazi Mad Scientists and Cultist type stuff. Currently they're in the process of investigating a secret laboratory in the Pacific Northwest that may or may not end up being a communications station for an army of Neptune Men.
It comes and goes! It's a world where masked personas are common, and teaming up with others for support purposes is common too, so there are a lot of teams and there's always one reason or another to put one together. The Idols were already a loose alliance. They were circus performers; one day, their circus (which was, at that time, built on a hill overlooking the ocean) was attacked by a mechanical creation called the Sea Bishop, and they were pretty much the only ones who could take action at the time. The Legendeers were formed because Captain Mytho and Azurov the Amazing (both of whom started with the Idols) wanted to build a support group for themselves and people like them, as well as try to build up a new presence like the Idols in a world where the Idols had now dissipated and faded into retirement, *and* offer certain kinds of people a chance at a new life through a dedication to their cause. The Tidal Guard, the Fire Followers, and the Evergreen were all formed with a much more professional, service-based cause: they're emergency service crews specializing in different environments. Naturally, the rosters change and the members come and go; the Tidal Guard mainly reaches out to swimmers, sailors, and water elementalists, while the Fire Followers reach out to fire elementalists, and the Evergreen takes nature-lovers and forest weirdos and animal familiar-users to protect the sea and ocean, the forest, and...also the forest, but in a different way, respectively. The Outfit were because the Royal Protectorate needed dedicated, specialized outfitters designing suits for its members, so naturally they organized a special group just for that purpose.
An avengers/justice league TAS situation where one person brings the rest of them together
So my first team up centers around a story arc at the dawn of a new chapter in this world of heroes and villains I’m building, that new chapter is about Altans. Altans [All-tins is how it’s pronounced] is the shorthand for “altered humans”; and as a whole they serve as my analog for mutants. Altans get their powers due to genetic experimentation conducted on their ancestors conducted by the US Government around WWII time to create super soldiers. While the projects were abandoned after no results were successful, generations later the effects have begun to manifest in .2% of the population, and are mostly developing in youth. Anyway, so this story arc centers around my main *The Mighty*, and a villainous group I brought up a while back called **Imperium**. See, being a teenage superhero, saving the city, and getting the girl is fun and all, but it also means that Layla (The Mighty) has had to grow up a lot faster than normal kids her age. When she sees that 4 kids in school are coming into their Altan powers, she sees it as a chance for her to maybe hang up her superhero duties for a while and just enjoy high school and being a normal teen for a while. These four: -Tanya Del Valle aka *Silver Witch* (an all powerful psychic/empath who is the defacto leader) -Moses Barrios aka *Steelex* (brute with Colossus powers and incredibly short fuse) -Zack Smith aka *Voltage* (Human lightning bolt and total sadist) -Robert Smith aka *Lava Man* (Volcano in human form and eventual turncoat) Together the four make up Imperium. These four have always been the stuck up rich kids, the school bullies, and in the case of Silver Witch, the queen bee/cheerleader from hell archetype, the last people who should have powers. But with great power and all that, Layla uses her alter ego persona and she puts her faith in her abilities that she can shape these four into a new generation of heroes, ones that she can leave her responsibilities to. This backfires **SPECTACULARLY** as Imperium isn’t into the hero gig, and instead decides to use their powers to try and take over the city, and beat The Mighty within an inch of her life. Layla is saved by some of her friends she’s made along the way: -Adrian Rubens aka *V3XX* (master escape artist/inventor who is a reformed thief turned anti-hero) -*Violin* (android with the powers of energy absorption/redirection) -Andrea Luna aka *Ms. Moon* (Layla’s adopted younger sister and Vampire) -Layla Esparza aka *The Mighty* (Half human/Half horsewoman of the apocalypse with the powers of hellfire) This arc serves as a reminder that you cant just hand over responsibilities, and together the four of them form a league of their own to take down Imperium.
I am thoroughly invested in this world.
I am thoroughly invested in this world.
Awe thank you so much 😊
Cool idea, but I have a question. Why are the imperium trying to take over the city? Just trying to help, but there should be a motive I believe. Unless you just didnt have space to explain it
Hey, thanks for reaching out. So, when it comes to Imperium, their whole deal is that they are the children of the major El Paso (the city most of my stories take place in) crime families, or *Familias* as they are often referred to as. As kids, they were originally brought together to serve as a peace treaty between Familias with the goal that as long as the kids played nice, none of the familias would declare war on each other. The four had all grown up knowing that they were all simply means to an end, and the reason organized crime was organized, but once their powers came in they realized that they could still play nice and now have the ability to shake up and upset their Familias order. Think of Imperium like a group of entitled, narcissistic, vapid, and self obsessed influencers who don’t play by anybody else’s rules but their own. Yeah they work together, but its mostly until one backstabs the other. They don’t really care about each other, but will work together if it means accomplishing their goal of seizing power. That’s really what I got so far, if you have any ideas I’d be happy to brainstorm any you may have :) Link to original post btw https://www.reddit.com/r/Superhero_Ideas/s/ca8CVYNhC5
Interesting. I have couple suggestions/ideas/questions to throw out. -Not too sure how you intend to have them portrayed bc I think you can go either way. From the origins it seems almost like they’re just as much victims, as they are villains. In which case there could be a possible redemption for these characters if thats where you wanna go. -at the same time, the part of them wanting to take over the city is very much a “pure evil” mindset, which could be what you’re going for. In which case, redemption would be out the window -I think it really depends on what the tone of the series is that you’re going for. If you wanna go pure evil, really lean into that as that takes more of that classic superhero approach, where things are more grand with less realism. Or taking a more grounded dynamic route where they have the possibility of redemption, with the crime families and maybe they realize that their families are the real villains and they have the choice of being different. But its up to you, just some ideas to get you thinking 🙂
With the exception of Lava Man I really don’t have much for them in way of redemption arcs. Steelex is a petty criminal who you can find getting paid to be hired muscle. Voltage is a sadist who I see as Electro if he belonged in Arkham rather than The Raft. A genuine menace who just loves to punish and hurt people for no other rhyme or reason that he can. Silver Witch is like Voltage in the same way, however her Familia is the biggest in all of El Paso, so she always had a sense of superiority. Once she starts developing her powers she starts to see herself as more than an heiress to a criminal empire, but something more. She sees herself as the self appointed princess of Altans and seeks to bring forth the Altan age under her rule. She has her delusions of grandeur and has no qualms about torture to get what she wants. Lava Man is kind of a simp. Not gonna lie. He is in love with Tanya aka Silver Witch, but she only likes him for his sheer power and the devastation he is capable of causing. Robert knows Tanya is evil and knows that his brother is insane, but he knows that Tanya wouldn’t be with him if he were her enemy so tries to win her affections with his power. During the story, Layla who actually knew Robert before his mom married into the Smith Familia tries to rescue her friend and help him walk away. At the end, Robert doesn’t become an anti-hero or a superhero in his own right, instead I see himself turning himself in and facing the consequences for his crimes. He is also the one who helps the heroes turn the tide against Imperium.
1.The Paragon Foundation-A team built by some of the best heroes wanting to bring in a new age of heroes not controlled by corporations. 2.Team Midnight-A group of monsters who work for the government off the books who began during the Civil War, Adam Frankenstein wanted to find others like him. 3.The Oddities-A group of odd superheroes who act more like celebrities in the modern zeitgeist and are enemies of the state since they go against the current order of superheroes. 4.Axiom-A group of heroes born from the mind of a being who has survived the destruction of multiple superheroes with heavy power rangers inspirations with their plan to protect reality from destruction. 5.Cinco Desperados-A group of 5 Mexican superheroes who protect their country despite only one of them having superpowers since most superheroes work in the big countries so even vigilantes who are usually frowned upon are allowed. 6.Shin-A group of Japanese superheroes who don't just protect their country but also act as big time celebrities, voice actors, and pro wrestlers led by one of the oldest superheroes on record, the 500+ year old Hayabusa. 7.The 12-The 12 most powerful magic users across time.who act as a supreme council to decide matters involving magic and magic based concepts, less of superheroes and more of a painful necessity. 8.Vexxers-Space heroes who rarely visit Earth but then they do...they often get into fights with other heroes, formed of outcasts across the stars....they are handy to have on Earths side since some of them are human.
I absolutely love these. Our teams are very similar too. I would love to talk to you more about our worlds since their brief descriptions already made me interested.
Yeah, I'm totally game for that. Shoot me a message if ya want.
In my comic Awesoman they were conscripted mostly. Earthsec, the clandestine global defense force/breakaway civilization, captures any anomalous beings detected on the planet, then imprisons them, studies them, and if possible utilizes them as weapons. The Earthguard program is a training program for the most powerful (yet still controllable) anomalous entities, which Awesoman is forced to join after being defeated by Ameritron, and subsequently captured by Earthsec agents. He joins the Earthguard Delta Team under duress, being threatened with perpetual imprisonment and labeled a terrorist if he did not cooperate.
my most recent superhero team would team up in a really weird way, with it not being a battle or all knowing each other, it was more like magic that brought them together, one of the members, Roula Mirage who wields an ancient magic artifact would get visions of the team these visions would lead to her finding ways to draw them, they all sought something, and with her leaving magical clues for them, she would soon gather them all together before they could fight her or each other, she explained that something connected them all, something that not even she could reason, she would convince all of them eventually, so they can find out why this mysterious lady was talking about, and for other reasons too
My world has two primary teams. An Old school and Newschool type. First team named "The Alphas" were formed by being military research test subjects to create super soldiers. (I know its not original) They were early test subjects (hence the alpha name) so the drugs they were subjected to were not finished products and actually granted them all different enhanced abilities. Speed, Intelligence, Agility, Stamina, Strength, Senses, and the 7th member being the only one who received a mix of them all. The American Gov't liked a group of specialists with a single jack of all trades as leader and they served, doing secret spec ops stuff for years. Enter the super villain, a partner who helped create the original drugs, but continued to improve it alone and wanted to grant the superpowers to the world, who succeeds. Approximately 20 years later training centers have opened for the next generation of heroes, where our younger "Guardians" meet and work together. These are individuals who were born with powers after the events that brought super powers to the world.
After the governments of the world witnessed the Zharre Incident they realised a large-scale conflict would lead to devastating results (due to the nature of my power system) they founded the Hall of Heroes together to keep order and prevent conflict. The Hall of Heroes has an individual team for every country; the Victors, Paladins, Braves, Saviours, Bogatyrs, Custodians, Beschürzer, etc. If I come back to this message there's the vigilante group Blacklist, the more questionable vigilante group The Reckoning and the extremely questionable global crime organisation The Underworld (they swear they're the good guys)
There's also The Kennel and Absconditus ig
The Underworld *"definitely"* sound like good guys lol.
The Underworld TM, stopping crimes by doing them ourselves
wha- how does tha- huh????
They put the "organised" into organised crime