-Cybernetic right arm: The arm gives Hugh increased strength in that arm and also contains a high powered grappling hook used to turn his horizontal acceleration into vertical acceleration. Perfect for flinging yourself aimlessly into the sky.
-Future Human: In the 41st century, Earth is a lot differentfrom how it is in modern times. The mass of the planet had increased a great deal making the gravity stronger in response. There is also a lot of pollutants in the world making humans need to adapt or die off. Luckily humans decided to adapt to these horrible conditions and ended up being able to survive their harsh reality. While this only just barely allows a human to survive in the future, a 41st century human in the present has quite a bit of advantage over the normal humans in the present. Unluckily though Hugh is pretty sickly and doesn’t exercise so he basically equates to a normal human who works out regularly. Hugh is pretty well versed in mechanical engineering which allows him to upgrade his costume from time to time or help out other heroes with his knowledge.
-Slip-Stream suit: Hugh’s suit gives him amazing reflexes, capable of dodging an onslaught of attacks and even a few bullets (if he’s already moving or prepared for it) and it has a pair of headphones in it that enable him to hear police and criminal transmission over telephone or radio. The main feature of the suit is it ability to let the wearer travel at incredible speeds via a futuristic, clean energy rocket on the suit’s back. Currently the suit can just barely reach the speed of sound if Hugh really pushes himself.


-Human: Hugh is, at his base, a human who can be shot, stabbed, choked, poisoned and everything else a normal human can die from.
-Power: While his robot arm is a lot more reliable with EMP proofing and nearly limitless energy force, his Slip-Stream suit is a lot less reliable as it has no protection against EMP weapons (it can however repair itself after about ten minutes) and it need to be recharged. It can operate for 72 hours on a full charge or 12 hours if he’s running constantly.










-Paradox: Time travel sucks. Hugh finds that out after Hugh goes back in time to kill Hugh.
-Insider trading: Hugh likes money so when he’s approached by a company offering him a boat load of money and a new base how can he say no?
-Superhuman Rumble!: Hugh tries to bring in more fans and potential sponsors by arranging a one night only fight between the city’s most powerful heroes.
-Blast from the Past: A figure from Hugh’s past makes a return.


-Rush has only been active for three years. This isn’t a contradiction.

Archetype: 'Big Guy'

Name: Charles Anspach

Alias: His primary alias is a simple 'Overlord', yet he also tolerates being referred to as 'His Highness', 'Lord', 'Emperor', 'Champion of

Darkness', and 'His Evilness', although as a self-deprecating joke.

Age: 90's, but due to foul black magic, late 40's physically.

Personality: In five words, he can be described as "Pragmatic, Untrusting, Determined, Icey, and Gentlemanly"

Appearance: Inside of his armor (Which he often even sleeps with), he is a menacing figure with feathered ears, an intimidating visage, and a light grey-blueish color worn down with a blood-red tint over countless battles. Many pieces are covered in straps of leather or other pieces of cloth. The thick plates are occasionally decorated with fine engravings that are of obvious high quality to this day, many added after the armor's construction to commemorate great wars its owner has taken part in.

He seems to have forgotten what he actually looks like himself. Indeed, he fears if there even is a body under his armor anymore. Nonetheless, he has blue eyes barely visible through his visor, faintly glowing with mysterious energies, and stands at a very impressive six-foot-eight, height bolstered long ago by his original magic enhancements.

Alignment: Mostly Hero. Used to be Evil, but now Heroic, as requested by his dark gods.

Biography: Born in an alternate medieval timeline, Charles Anspach grew up relatively normally until he started receiving visions from what must've been the gods of his world. Ordered to conquer the known lands piece by piece, he was blessed with great arcane knowledge and magical enhancements to improve his own body with, being able to change his blood and flesh on the fly to the situation at hand. Using his newfound powers to strengthen himself, he worked surreptitiously to the very top of his home kingdom, instigated a civil war, and was simply the last man standing with the abilities to lead.

Crowned king, he began his divinely inspired conquest of the world, gifted with great visions and insights by his supernatural benefactors until a team of great heroes began working against him. He was convinced to order construction of a great mystical portal by his superiors as county by county was retaken by the rightful rulers of the kingdoms he invaded, until the band of champions working against him threw him into his portal. Little did they know, this threw him into an alternate (to him) timeline, falling from a great height in an alleyway, almost entirely depowered and with a final order forever written in his head.

"Sin no more, and join with an alliance of heroes."

Waking up from his unconsciousness, his true mission now clear, he shall work to regain his powers and complete his task by any means necessary.

Storylines: While heroic, Overlord gives zero shits about murder and still has a medieval way of thinking, not to mention recovering from being 'drunk on the dark side' for nearly a century. It'd be cool if he had a few arcs of character development to work better in the modern world and with a revised code of ethics.

Powers: While depowered, Overlord is still much stronger then your average human being. His powers now include:

• Charles Anspach is very strong in the physical, muscle sense. While he used to be able to 'cleave a mountain in two', now he can 'only' cut an armored man in half or make a hole in a concrete wall with his unaided fist.
• Complimenting his strength, his body has enhanced regeneration and endurance. As will be mentioned later, he simply can't normally bleed out and even the shock of losing a limb is meaningless to him.
• With some of his 'higher-level' knowledge still being quite difficult to remember, Anspach can still recite powerful incantations that allow him to change the properties of his own blood. Indeed, as his gods said to him, "Blood defines the organism." Due to this, he simply can't bleed out and even if his arm or leg was blown off, he could amusingly just pick it back up and force it to re-attach and work with his spells.
• Besides his blood-magic, he still remembers his personal combat style, emphasized with a sort of 'graceful simpleness' with quick slashes and disregard for short-term injury. Very few have took him on and lived to tell the tale. Indeed, the only way he was defeated was by extensive trickery.
• Charles Anspach occasionally sees visions from his gods, while a rare occurrence, he takes them very seriously.

He had various other powers, most he doesn't even remember at this time.

The weapons he had with him at his 'death' were two simple swords, one short, and one long. His very first weapons, unlike their master they are utterly devoid of magical enhancements now. Although, even without powers derived from sorcery, they are very well-made blades.

His armor is masterfully crafted and made with a special 'skysteel', and thankfully for Anspach still has that useful self-healing ability at least. While much slower then what it was at his heyday, it can still mend itself after a fight. Very useful for keeping the repair bill low. Nonetheless, it is much more durable in the first place then its more fantastically powered owner.

Weaknesses:

• While he possesses regenerative abilities, simple brute force, and a very strong set of armor, he can still be destroyed with enough firepower or force. Not to mention, this requires an upkeep of plenty of food and drink that could certainly cause monetary problems, and his chances at survival away from a sustainable supply line are limited to say the least. Without what can only be described as a feast or two a day, he won't be nearly as effective as his usual.
• His abilities can certainly seem quite freakish, and the fact he's so open about his past as a horrendous Evil Overlord won't be good for relations at all in many situations.
• While he can handily win a fight at close-range, his options for mobility are limited as he's simply a very large man that can't enter smaller vehicles, jump from rooftop to rooftop handily, nor be stealthy in any sense. The clanking of his heavy armor, glowing blue eyes and severely spooky appearance and ponderous pace will be noticed no matter the battlefield and he'll be a very good target for longer ranged combatants.

As a 'short' notice, in general, Overlord fights like a Bloodborne or Dark Souls player character, but with much more power available and quicker still in attacking.

Overlord originaly had a vast repertoire of weapons available to him, yet now he only has his two short swords; his 'Gravestone Blades', christened as such after a particularly violent fight earlier into his career, which at the end, he used the original forms of to serve as a makeshift gravestone out of respect for his fallen foe.

The current ones have lost their magical enhancements, yet are still able to accept Overlord or anyone else's lifeblood to activate special runes on the blades, although they are damaged and ill-defined, reducing their effectiveness in increasing the blades own. Currently, the runes lengthen the blades a fourth again and cause a thin fire to form on the surface of the swords. Of course, as Overlord himself is far weaker at this point, he would never use these qualities outside of an emergency.

On the swords themselves, the longer one is the more curved of the two, akin to a saber, and has a longer hilt with a hole in it able to uniquely accept the shorter one's own hilt. This, alongside the fact that the thick scabbard for the smaller of the two is easily applicable in a pinch, effectively allows the 'Gravestones' to form into a spear. Although, it isn't a particularly good spear, being entirely made out of metal, thus making it hard to use.

Aside from his blades, Overlord's body armor can easily be considered a piece of equipment itself. Made of a special 'Sky-steel' and possessing an arcane effect that allows it to self regenerate, if slowly. The series of plates and linked chains (And, of course, endearingly simple peasant-like clothing underneath all of that) offer a superb defense against melee weapons and many small arms, but dedicated anti-armor weapons such as sniper rifles, anti-material rifles, or simply heavier armaments in general (not to mention vehicular weapons) will easily be able to pierce it and damage the man inside.

While the regeneration effect can slowly recreate the entire armor from one example such as the gauntlet or chestplate, this may take several days and isn't useful in the heat of battle, aside from perhaps very minor cuts or dents. Aside from the durability and mild self-healing properties of the armor, the man inside is no slouch in the defensive department either. Overlord's defensive properties can be described as the antithesis of his own armor's; easily damaged in the first place, but easily repaired too. Almost hilariously, Overlord can even re-attach limbs in a fight while murmuring cryptic 'magic words'. Finally, on the defenses front, Overlord has little concern for 'bleeding out' or 'losing conciousness', being effectively immune to these due to a combination of psychological conditioning and lingering blessings by his dark gods.

Before getting to technique, Overlord has one final asset available to him; his Blood Magic. While it primarily allows his defensive abilities, it also has uses on the offensive. As aforementioned, his swords can be enhanced temporarily by inputting his own blood into certain engravings on the swords, yet more directly, if injured, Overlord can instantly crystallize his 'ichor' and force it out as a short-ranged, but still ranged attack. While not directly comparable to a bullet, having foreign, coagulated, hardened, and likely toxic blood entering your body on impact, not to mention the kinetic force, isn't pleasant.

Finally, the last combat related note on Overlord is the fact that all these abilities combined make for a potent warrior who cares little for personal injury as long as goals are attained. His general technique focuses on quick, simple (yet not 'crude') attacks meant to reduce the enemies' ability to fight before going in for a coup-de-grace. As he gets more 'injured', his abilities get stronger due to a rush of adrenaline and the odd euphoria that occurs before a defeat, bolstering his resolve and strength and using his own wounds against his enemies. Ultimately, the best way to 'handle' Overlord would be utter overwhelming force occuring all at once from surprise. As a fight goes on longer, Overlord's chances to win increase.

Archetype: Size Manipulator

Name: Jonathan Lowell

Alias: Doctor Neutrino

Age: 32

Powers: Doctor Neutrino is a brilliant scientist who discovered a methods to shift mass in and out of an alternate dimension. Primarily this allows him to shrink himself down to incredibly small sizes by shifting his mass out in a particular way or grow to tremendous size by adding additional mass, though it also has other applications including instead manipulating density in order to become incredibly dense or virtually intangible.

When shrunken down, he retains his full human strength and capabilities and at giant size sheer mass and the ability to move it enables him to be super-strong. The Neutrino Suit also affords him a limited degree of protection in various extreme environments, though it is not necessarily armored or possessed of any weaponry of note.

In addition John Lowell is possessed of a genius if somewhat eccentric mind and has since used his powers to become an expert in all things small from the tiniest aspects of human biology to cutting edge nanotechnology he's assembled by hand to even the very secrets of the subatomic universe.

Weaknesses:

Doctor Neutrino can only maintain his giant form for about five minutes currently, full-body intangibility requires him to hold his breath for the duration of the process or risk suffocation. While he can shrink, grow and adjust the density of other objects, he must currently make physical contact with them in order for the process to work. Currently without his suit he is merely a brilliant if ordinary scientist. His maximum height is a towering 40 stories tall, but any larger and he risks irreppairable damage to his body. His giant form also risks considerable collateral damage if he's not extremely careful.

Alignment: Hero

Personality: [Brilliant, Fun-Loving, Eccentric, Caring, Absent Minded]

Appearance: John Lowell is a bit of an absent minded professor, brown hair often mussed and unkempt, labcoats and jackets often smudged, singed and wrinkled from numerous experiments or just from some force that conspires to keep them that way. He's perhaps humorously not a tall man, about 5'3" when not employing size-altering technology. He has the sort of face that smiles and laughs easily when it's not puzzling over some new task or the general mysteries of the universe, though nowadays his experiments tend to be very hands on and action-packed indeed. His brown eyes can be either reflective or merry but are generally warm regardless. The Neutrino Suit is bright blue with white highlights on the chest, shoulders and sides and it's generally form fitting, though Lowell is hardly an Olympian, the helmet is silver and the visor a has a slightly orange tint.

BRIEF Bio: For most of his younger life, John Lowell was a party boy from an extremely wealthy old New England family without a care in the world except distracting himself from his own boredom. This was particularly difficult because in addition to wealth he happened to have a rather prodigious intellect he felt he was wasting on his admittedly amusing life of leisure. Eventually simple hedonism and partying wasn't enough of a challenge for him and he set his mind to revolutionizing scientific fields, or so he told himself. It took ages of work but he did eventually have a breakthrough, discovering a method to shift physical mass between dimensions. He started building a suit that would let him use his discovery in order to explore the world at all sizes, but before he could do more than finish a prototype a notorious Boston gang leader kidnapped his now aging parents for ransom. Donning his new suit in order to infiltrate the building where his parents were being held hostage he defeated the gang and rescued his parents.

This helped John realize something, namely that doing good out in the world was more rewarding than both hedonism and the pursuit of pure scientific knowledge. Thus he took the identity of Doctor Neutrino, protecting both Boston and the world at large and having big adventures at sizes both great and small.

Storylines: If it's alright I'd really like to come up with my own storylines instead.

Notes: I'm taking some inspiration from Ant-Man, but also the Atom and for attitude, Ted Kord the second Blue Beetle but played slightly more seriously than Ted occasionally was used.

Archetype: Inter-dimensional hero
Name: Marvin Smith
Alias: Commander Gauntlet
Age: 26
Powers:
Spectral Gauntlet: Marvin's only power is the ability create armored ghost like hand that floats above the ground and can be felt on the physical plane. He can manipulate it to do different tasks like a real hand and for combat purposes he can have it punch, grapple or whatever hand motions he finds useful for the task at the time. The hand can also change sizes and can go from being the size of a normal hand to the size of a Honda CRV. At its maximum size the hand is able to lift a maximum of one thousand pounds, at normal size it is just as strong as a normal hand. For defensive purposes Marvin can put the gauntlet in front or wrap around him to protect him from attacks.
Weaknesses: The hand can only move a maximum distance of fifty feet away from Marvin and when it is created it has to be within seven feet from him. While the gauntlet is tough it is not invincible and with every hard hit it starts deteriorate and starts to form holes. He can only summon one hand a time and after it is dismissed it takes thirty minutes for it to be fully repair from the damage. Once it is destroyed he has to wait to use it again. It also takes a few seconds for the gauntlet to grow in size and it requires concentration to manipulate it. Aside from his power, Marvin has all of the vulnerabilities of a normal human.
Alignment: hero
Personality: Egotistical, direct, obnoxious, eager and thoughtless
Appearance:

BRIEF Bio: In a world where nearly everyone has superpowers and heroes and villains are as common of a job as your average retail worker, Marvin Smith had a dream of becoming one of the great ones. Unfortantly in his dimension where a man can tow planets on a chain and heroes can move at light speed, Marvin and his singe superpower seemed insignificant. No matter how hard he tried Marvin couldn't compete and he wasn't able to make it to the top. In his world there are winners and losers of the super powered community, and he was among the losers.

Even in his home city in New Zealand he was still outclassed and found himself disappointed in his career as a hero. It wasn't too long in his disappointment and failure that he heard of ingenious scientists developing a potential dimensional doorway. Maybe in another world his powers and acts of heroics would be more appreciated, so with little thought for other things in his life, Marvin offered himself as a test subject to see if the dimensional gateway would work. After waiting about a month and preparing himself for the journey, Marvin traveled through the gateway and into primary earth.

Unfortunately the gateway only stayed open for a few seconds before closing behind him and leaving him trapped in this new dimension. With no friends or family in this alternate dimension, Marvin would have to start up from the bottom and work his way up. Thankfully back in his home dimension gold and jewels were a common commodity for money and he wouldn't have to worry about his finances in this new world he had stepped into. To his relief he also saw that this world had a much smaller population of superhuman people and therefor meant that Marvin could finally seize the glory he so desperately wanted.

With his alias and powers, Marvin set out to be a winner in the hero community. Unfortantly by traveling to this dimension Marvin unknowingly opened up a doorway for horrific extra-dimensional entities to come into this world and cause chaos.
Storylines: trying to become a celebrity in the hero community and failing most of the time while also fighting against Lovecraftian themed monsters
Notes: he has a combat knife for when bad guys and monsters get up close and personal and his spectral hand is gone.

The Otiga are an alien race hailing from Okanim, the planet we call Venus. In terms of appearance, they are superficially similar to humans, having the same basic build and average size. Their eyes lack pupils and are a bright (almost glowing) yellow, and their hair is pure white and generally sticks up in stiff spikes. Their skintone is a dark grey, they have only four digits on both their hands and feet, and their ears look somewhat fin-like. An Otiga's body generates a bioelectric field, which boosts their physical strength above the human average and allows them to hover for short periods, and due to living so close to the sun they are adapted to warmer climates and can withstand higher amounts of solar radiation than creatures of Earth can.

A scientifically inclined race, the Otiga utilize their bioelectric fields to power their technology, which is far more advanced than what humans are currently capable of using. Otiga scientists and inventors don't take credit for their individual achievements, for they all believe that each new discovery is a blessing from their god, the Machine Mother, who is enshrined in the center of the grand senate of Okanim.

Millenia ago, the Otiga had an alliance with their closest spacefaring neighbours, the inhabitants of the planet humans would later name "Mars". Historical records of that time are fragmented, but what is known is that something called "The Great Betrayal" happened and the two planets were drawn into war with each other. Eventually, the Otiga won, but at a cost; their numbers had been crippled by the war, and so they had to spend thousands of years repopulating and repairing even as the people of Earth progressed and developed outside of their watchful eye. Eventually, during the early 20th century (by Earth's reckoning), they decided to scout out the blue planet, sending a manned probe... Which due to complications unfortunately crash landed nearby Roswell, New Mexico, killing the pilot instantly. In a panic, the operation was aborted whilst the Otiga tried to figure out what they could do next; the war had led them to be cautious of aliens, and so they didn't want to directly approach Earth until they understood whether they were potential allies or an enemy that needed to be crushed before they grew into too much of a threat. And whilst they discussed and debated what to do, a clandestine human organization salvaged the crashed spacecraft...

Okanim (or Venus) has since been equipped with an elaborate planetary defence system to prevent the humans from getting too close, one that makes their probes send back false data on the atmosphere of the planet which makes it seem like a desolate, hellish world unsuitable for life. To keep up this masquerade, any probes that get too close are destroyed by the defence system, with the intention being that this will make the humans think that the "inhospitable climate" was the cause of the destruction. Meanwhile, they still secretly keep tabs on Earth, as the senate continues to debate whether or not they are trustworthy...

Originally a clandestine department of the US government, the Initiative was founded during World War II in an effort to create the perfect soldier with which to fight the Axis forces with, and once the Cold War set in they were determined to stay one step ahead from the Soviets. Initially, their experiments mostly involved relatively sane if somewhat experimental science, but everything changed in 1947, when a vessel of extraterrestrial origin crashlanded nearby Roswell, New Mexico. What remained of the wreckage (including the deceased pilot) was salvaged and taken into the custody of the Initiative, who immediately began experimenting on the alien technology and the corpse within. Ever since then, they quickly descended into mad science and ethically questionable experiments, to the point that by the 90's they were shut down; the government have proceeded to disavow any knowledge that the Initiative ever existed.

Despite this, many members of the Initiative disregarded orders and instead began working even more secretively than before, all for various reasons. Some were too deeply engrossed in their research to stop, some felt that superhumans were a growing threat and they needed weapons to use against them, but whatever the reasons they had they reformed not long after the official disbandment. Currently, they operate in a secret underground facility near New Athens.

Whilst the most well known product of the Initiative's research was Project Genome, developed by their genetics department, they didn't solely focus on genetic engineering. The Initiative was (and still is, to a lesser degree) split into several departments including the aforementioned genetics department, but also a robotics and cybernetics department, a pharmaceutical department, a department researching various forms of radiation, and the bloody, grisly mutant research department (whom even the other departments believe go too far in their research). The robotics and cybernetics department have occassionally leaked some of their research, and many a robot or cyborg hero includes part of their research in their designs. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical department was working on a drug that temporarily grants superpowers to the user, but not only did this get (unintentionally) leaked but the formula was degraded and modified to use easier to acquire ingredients. This led to the emergence of the street drug known as "Psycho"; rare and expensive, immensely addictive and with horriffic withdrawal symptoms, but still popular with those who can acquire it due to the fact that it does allow them to develop superpowers for a short time.