Futuristic Agent of Maniacles OOC and Characters

[Darkling0096]

Well, my specialty is fantasy. I've got another one, but he's a dumbass. I didn't even get the Saitama comparison till I watched One Punch Man.

Call him Suburban Knight, his superpower is just... survival. He doesn't have any flight or superstrength, he's just infuriatingly hard to kill.

 

[Sigram]

Loophole abuse is unbecoming. Yes, superhero by definition means a good person or who person who does good with superhuman abilities. But the idea of a superhero is firmly routed in a certain thematic and tonal sense.

I'm not saying your character couldn't work in a superhero setting. But by what you are saying then is that any story with people using powers in a good way is a superhero story. I disagree.

You need a certain criteria to fit into a superhero. Now not all these are needed or even necessary, but all great works of superhero fiction either hit on these tropes or they deconstruct them.

- Colorful costumes. Spandex, masks,

- Secret identities or aliases

- Costumed crime fighting or crime causing

And some other stuff.

But when you ask people about superhero fiction is it brings to mind a certain image.

Then maybe not superhero, but hero in general? Or super being?

 

[Darkling0096]

OMG. Monkey King!

I don't know who you are, but thank you for figuring that out at 'Wukong'

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Well, my specialty is fantasy. I've got another one, but he's a dumbass. I didn't even get the Saitama comparison till I watched One Punch Man.

Call him Suburban Knight, his superpower is just... survival. He doesn't have any flight or superstrength, he's just infuriatingly hard to kill.

I'm picturing a dude in knight armor costume with high durability or regen

Then maybe not superhero, but hero in general? Or super being?

Well, genre classifcation is a hard thing in general. There is a lot of crossover. I was just making the point that a superhero genre story is more than just 'good person with powers'. Harry Potter is a story about people with powers.

But it isn't a superhero story.

Although I would consider superhero stories to be fantasy.

So ...Harry Potter and My Hero Academia right? Both are school fantasies. But the split comes in how they go about it. The things My Hero Academia has makes it firmly routed in that superhero type genre. It has capes, colorful costumes etc. It has that vibe to it ya know?

 

[Darkling0096]

I'm picturing a dude in knight armor costume with high durability or regen

Well, you got the costume right, but the power is more complicated than a regenerative ability. He adapts to survive circumstances.
Shoot him up, and he'll squeeze the bullets out and start regenerating. Tie him to a boulder and toss him into a lake, he'll grow gills. Poison him, he'll develop instant immunity. Blow him to pieces? He'll pull an Iron Giant and the pieces will crawl back together.
If survival means copying a power, though, he has to take that L, he can't copy, he just can't fucking die. It really pisses the supervillain off

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Well, you got the costume right, but the power is more complicated than a regenerative ability. He adapts to survive circumstances.
Shoot him up, and he'll squeeze the bullets out and start regenerating. Tie him to a boulder and toss him into a lake, he'll grow gills. Poison him, he'll develop instant immunity. Blow him to pieces? He'll pull an Iron Giant and the pieces will crawl back together.
If survival means copying a power, though, he has to take that L, he can't copy, he just can't fucking die. It really pisses the supervillain off

I assume there are some limitations, though?

Trap him?

Atomize him?

 

[Darkling0096]

Yeah. He's not super strong, just really, really hard to kill. He can be hurt and restrained, but beyond survival, he's got basic human limitations.
And if you separate the head from the rest of the body it will take a few weeks for either the body to grow a new head or a couple months for the head to grow a new body if he can't reform.

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Yeah. He's not super strong, just really, really hard to kill. He can be hurt and restrained, but beyond survival, he's got basic human limitations.
And if you separate the head from the rest of the body it will take a few weeks for either the body to grow a new head or a couple months for the head to grow a new body if he can't reform.

I actually really like it.

I think that'd be cool to use if one of us ever did a superhero. I got a lot of superhero and villain characters I'm just sort of sitting on, until I figure out a proper setting and system of abilites

 

[Darkling0096]

I actually really like it.

I think that'd be cool to use if one of us ever did a superhero. I got a lot of superhero and villain characters I'm just sort of sitting on, until I figure out a proper setting and system of abilites

Finally, someone gets it. "But that's OP" how? He's unkillable, not invincible.

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Finally, someone gets it. "But that's OP" how? He's unkillable, not invincible.

I've never considered virtually unklillable to be OP. Deadpool is a street level character and he can't really die. But yeah. He can be knockedout with enough forced, trapped, kept busy, get beaten up, or demolished so hard that it will take awhile to recover.

He's not invincible

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Not to mention we aren't even getting into how Suburban Knight would gel against someone who had a nullification ability,

 

[Darkling0096]

Well, presumably that would depend on relative speed of their abilities. Whomever can activate first would win. If Suburban Knight's was first, he would adapt to resist, but if he wasn't, he would basically just be a normal human.

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Well, presumably that would depend on relative speed of their abilities. Whomever can activate first would win. If Suburban Knight's was first, he would adapt to resist, but if he wasn't, he would basically just be a normal human.

Also depending how powers where or where they come from in this proposed setting. So like in my undeveloped superhero world in my head I have a character called Backfire. His ability, not him, the ability itself runs direct interference against other powers, particularly the powers of people trying to do him harm.

So as they attempt an attack or fuck with him his ability makes their own work against them in some form.

 

[Freikugel]

With the amount of stuff I had seen and done in rpg, that one seems pretty fine, I guess it depends on the verse

 

[Freikugel]

How about magnificent man

 

[Kinggunlucky]

How about magnificent man

I actually scrapped him. I don't I'll use him in future stuff. Or at least I'd done him down, make him more unique. At the end of the day its all about character and the person. Who they are. I felt I didn't do a job in making him complex enough.

Drakul will always stay in superhero stuff I write, though

 

[Kinggunlucky]

One of my favorites I haven't had to chance to write yet in a story or RPG is called Thurman Clutterbuck aka Absolute Zero

He'd be a killer for hire.

Thurman's ability lets him cover anywhere from a room to a city block in a winter wonderland. A really cold. Super cold. He can manipulate the ttemp at will, although it takes sometime for it to kick in, and he can only lower it.

And lower it.

And lower it.

It can get to the point where fingers and toes turn blue in seconds, freeze any living things in place if they are caught in his range etc. He basically freezes things to death at an advanced rate.

 

[Kinggunlucky]

I have to note, though it's not like he touches them and they freeze. The ability is enviromental nature. The land itself begins to be coated in ice, snow falls etc

 

[Freikugel]

Yeah. He's not super strong, just really, really hard to kill. He can be hurt and restrained, but beyond survival, he's got basic human limitations.
And if you separate the head from the rest of the body it will take a few weeks for either the body to grow a new head or a couple months for the head to grow a new body if he can't reform.

Walt wouldn't if he head regrow a body and the body regrow a head essentially creating two of them? Like Peter Griffin?

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Sadist and Masochist are twins.

They wear really revealing black leather and have white face paint. Sadist taller, stronger, faster, and more durable the more pain he inflicts on other. It can get to the point he can grow to kaiju size. His twin brother Masochist has the same ability, but only when they are getting hurt.

 

[Freikugel]

Sadist and Masochist are twins.

They wear really revealing black leather and have white face paint. Sadist taller, stronger, faster, and more durable the more pain he inflicts on other. It can get to the point he can grow to kaiju size. His twin brother Masochist has the same ability, but only when they are getting hurt.

Reminds I had twins in that superhero game

 

[Kinggunlucky]

Reminds I had twins in that superhero game

You did indeed.

Espers I think

 

[Freikugel]

Don't remind the names, they were psychics

 

[Darkling0096]

Walt wouldn't if he head regrow a body and the body regrow a head essentially creating two of them? Like Peter Griffin?

No, one would grow and the other would die depending on how hard it would be for it to get free. Like, if you put the head in a jar and buried the body, the body would grow a head, because it's easier for the body to dig it's way out than it would be for the head to create enough pressure to shatter the jar without squishing itself.

 

[Freikugel]

No, one would grow and the other would die depending on how hard it would be for it to get free. Like, if you put the head in a jar and buried the body, the body would grow a head, because it's easier for the body to dig it's way out than it would be for the head to create enough pressure to shatter the jar without squishing itself.

What if equally split into two halves, both in the exact same conditions to be regrown?