A new alien menace has began infecting several citizens in Central City [Kansas] and it's sister city across the bridge Keystone City. The Superman hasn't been seen in weeks and is thought to be off world. Batman stays in Gotham and is only ever seen at night. And Wonder Woman was last seen in Europe after the new King and Queen were announced. Central City and Keystone City aren't the only towns infected either. After just three weeks, other large cities in America began seeing strange zombie like trances in several dozen people. Midway City [Michigan], Coast City [California], Star City [Washington], and St. Roch [Louisiana] have all been infected with what appears to be 'alien starfish'.

Batman has already come into contact with what the media is calling 'Starros'. He's tracked most of them to a temp service agency down near the Gotham Harbor.



In this RP, players will get the chance to recreate some of the bigger DC properties in a similar fashion to what happened when the Golden Age was replaced by the Silver Age. The Atom went from being a little person with an atomic punch to what we have today in Ray Palmer using tech to shrink to atomic size. Green Lantern changed from a man in a cape with a supernatural ring of power into a space cop armed with the same type of ring only in an entire Corps. I know what you guys are thinking. "How is this unlike any game that came before?" And the answer is simple. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman will remain mostly unchanged though I may make some tweaks to their histories [they're Gods and Monsters inspired]. EVERYTHING ELSE IS DETERMINED BY YOU. While I'm sure some folks will take more high profile characters, that's not to say you can't reimagine a lesser known character. While we'll more than likely form a team of some kind, though it will probably be Justice League themed, it doesn't have to be made up of reimagined Justice Leaguers. You wanna make Clayface a superspy who works for ARGUS? Perhaps Blue Beetle is something of a size manipulator and shrinks and does stuff in Ant-Man fashion? What if the Flash was reimagined as somebody who manipulates light to a much more basic degree than standard Green Lanterns, like what almost happened in the 80's and after the Crisis?

Here's what I've got for the Big Three so far...



Superman - Crash landed in Kansas in 1938, he took the name Clark Kent for a little more than twenty years until he became adjusted to how things worked on Earth. He began operating as Superman and was dubbed the first metahuman in 1960. In 2017, it looks like he might be twenty years older. The only signs of age are his facial hair and attitude. Built a fortress in Antarctica and saves the world when he has nothing else to do. Lately he's defended larger cities such as Tokyo, Metropolis, Coast City, Paris, and Cairo.

Batman - Doctor Thomas Wayne was a brilliant scientist and chemical researcher in Gotham who was looking into making a pill to grant longer lifespans [inspired by the ageless Superman]. After some experiments go horribly wrong, Wayne is left in a vampire like state and must feed on the blood of his enemies every so often to survive. At first he hunted criminals at night to survive, but since 2012 he's turned his nightlife into a war on crime.

Wonder Woman - The most like her original, Princess Diana was chosen to go out into man's world in 2014 after living on the hidden Paradise Island with her Amazon sisters for nearly seven centuries. The Amazons are more technologically advanced in this universe, WW's sole weapon now being a sword fashioned with Mother Box tech and capabilities.



REMEMBER!

You can take ANY DC Comics character or concept and completely change it up to suit your taste. Any enemies I introduce in this after the Starros will be tied to Justice League-centric baddies as well as several of Superman's enemies and factions within the DCU. ARGUS is still our answer to SHIELD, STAR Labs is still a thing, and Lex Luthor is president in Trump like fashion. He demands to see 'Superman's legal papers' for instance. You wanna recreate the Joker and make him a hero? Go for it! Maybe you've had an idea to make Martian Manhunter a little more like a bounty hunter ala Boba Fett? That's cool too.

I'll be taking Hawkman for a spin as a test pilot in Coast City. Secret ID wise he'll be a little more like Hal Jordan, and it's the plane that does 90% of the work in the beginning. After it's scrapped he and his mechanic friend use the wreckage to create a winged harness and suit.

So... anybody out there wanna take the DCU and reimagine some characters? If there's enough interest I'll post a Character Sheet template, but go ahead and make mention of who you have in mind to recreate!

~KL~

Anybody out there? Surely some of you have had ideas in your mind how you would handle recreating a DC character...?

~KL~

Hawkman Concept Jet Plane



After he crashes it in the first big battle with the Starros, he uses part of the plane as well as alien Starro tech to build himself a suit and wings.



And just for giggles, reference for when he's not in a plane or a flying suit. Need more beards in the world... LOL



~KL~

Two questions:

1. Is it too early to ask for dibs on the Flash?
2. Are Earth-2 originating characters allowed?

Well, I do have a male Star Sapphire character I can use...



Not sure if I'll join yet though. I have a lot going on, and my DC knowledge isn't the best...

Color me interested!

Two questions:

1. Is it too early to ask for dibs on the Flash?
2. Are Earth-2 originating characters allowed?

1.) Nope.

2.) We're changing enough as is, I'll probably hold off on multiverse shenanigans till we're a little more knee deep in the game and the universe we're in.

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern I would say I want Aquaman... but fuck it my biggest regret in your last RP was that I didn't choose to play as Zoom. I'm not making that mistake again.

That being said... which specific Reverse-Flash I choose and how I end up using them ultimately depends on the Flash. Part of me wants to go with a more sympathetic and/or anti-heroic version of Eobard Thawn, but if the "Barry Allen" of this universe is totally different, then that might not be possible. And that's just one example.

@The Kid Lantern I would say I want Aquaman... but fuck it my biggest regret in your last RP was that I didn't choose to play as Zoom. I'm not making that mistake again.

That being said... which specific Reverse-Flash I choose and how I end up using them ultimately depends on the Flash. Part of me wants to go with a more sympathetic and/or anti-heroic version of Eobard Thawn, but if the "Barry Allen" of this universe is totally different, then that might not be possible. And that's just one example.

Zoom could just as well be a guy in a super race car. You don't have to give them the same secret ID's either, I just used familiar stuff with the big three to make the universe seem somewhat familiar. Otherwise I'd have went with Zod Superman, Bekka WW, and Man Bat's alias the vampire Batman's like in Gods and Monsters. I also didn't want to base an RP off of that universe specifically since I haven't seen the whole film.

I'd also think about ways to use the character if the Flash is something completely the opposite of what you want with Zoom or even not used at all. The idea is we'll introduce our characters in the various cities before coming together when Metropolis is hit.

I thought about universes like Stan Lee's DCU [Earth 6]:



As well as Earth 9, the Tangent universe:



... whenever I was toying with the concept of things being similar mostly in name only. In the Tangent universe for example, Green Lantern is a woman with a Lantern on a staff that raises the dead. And the Flash is a girl with light based powers. The Atom of that universe is an atomic powered juggernaut.

With Stan Lee's DCU, Superman was a stranded space cop, Green Lantern was connected to the energies of the Tree of Life, and Shazam was like a demon or something.

You guys can take these concepts and go nuts. My Hawkman is meant to be something of a combo of Hal Jordan and Tony Stark in terms of being a pilot/inventor along with his bff who will likely be something like Tom Kalmaku. I also took a little inspiration from the Rocketeer.

~KL~

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Zoom could just as well be a guy in a super race car. You don't have to give them the same secret ID's either, I just used familiar stuff with the big three to make the universe seem somewhat familiar. Otherwise I'd have went with Zod Superman, Bekka WW, and Man Bat's alias the vampire Batman's like in Gods and Monsters. I also didn't want to base an RP off of that universe specifically since I haven't seen the whole film.

I'd also think about ways to use the character if the Flash is something completely the opposite of what you want with Zoom or even not used at all. The idea is we'll introduce our characters in the various cities before coming together when Metropolis is hit.

I thought about universes like Stan Lee's DCU [Earth 6]:



As well as Earth 9, the Tangent universe:



... whenever I was toying with the concept of things being similar mostly in name only. In the Tangent universe for example, Green Lantern is a woman with a Lantern on a staff that raises the dead. And the Flash is a girl with light based powers. The Atom of that universe is an atomic powered juggernaut.

With Stan Lee's DCU, Superman was a stranded space cop, Green Lantern was connected to the energies of the Tree of Life, and Shazam was like a demon or something.

You guys can take these concepts and go nuts. My Hawkman is meant to be something of a combo of Hal Jordan and Tony Stark in terms of being a pilot/inventor along with his bff who will likely be something like Tom Kalmaku. I also took a little inspiration from the Rocketeer.

~KL~

That kind of defeats the point in using Zoom then. Might as well just pick something totally different.

That leaves me with Aquaman... though frankly I couldn't bring myself to scrap the Atlantis stuff and so the character would just end up being the same as always.

I did have another thought though: Green Lantern. My version somewhat channels the Golden Age Lantern in that it's magical in nature. Unlike that, though, the Green Lantern Ring would be part of a set - one for each of the expected Lantern colors. But rather than be a space cop, these rings are basically magical artifacts of unknown origin that grant a different power depending on which one you're wearing. The only commonality is that each ring stops the wearer from aging while they are worn. So owners of any given ring could be centuries or even a millennia or two old and you'd never notice it. Yeah it's kind of Mandarin Inspired, but to add another twist to things the rings could also be the keys to unlocking an even greater power when brought together. This could motivate ring wearers into centuries old rivalries and fights over who has which rings, perhaps with one particularly old card-carrying villain who's puppet-mastering them all so he can swoop in and snipe the prize for himself.

That sounds cool too. You could do your own take on Atlantis if you want, I just don't want a lot of characters who barely differ from the comics and movies. The spin on GL taking bits of the Mandarin could work.

~KL~

That sounds cool too. You could do your own take on Atlantis if you want, I just don't want a lot of characters who barely differ from the comics and movies. The spin on GL taking bits of the Mandarin could work.

~KL~

To be honest, it's kind of a mix of Mandarin and the Infinity Gauntlet.

Like I said before, colour me interested KL!

@Double I really like your green lantern idea. Sounds real rad!

this looks fun.

I'll post a CS template later tonight when I get home. Gotta go and check on my mom across town and make sure she's got everything she needs [she's in her 70's] then I'll be available. Can't wait to see some of the characters in this!

~KL~

I'm thinking of making that brother eye iMac guy but he's empowered by omega beams ala darkseid

I *almost* went with an OMAC. LOL

~KL~

I am trying to decide between going with either jonah hex or uncle Sam as a character

@Weird Tales LOL I was thinking hex as a backup!

Fuckit, I'll join this, thinking The Return of the Legendary Fission, a true American hero. something to do with Zod, I love me some Zod.