The year is 2025. Heroes such as Spiderman [Miles Morales] and Ms. Marvel [Kamala Khan] are getting grey and entering their 40's. Many heroes of their generation have already retired such as Nova [Sam Alexander], and Wolverine [X-23] is among the staff at the Xavier Institute. A new generation of heroes has already started hitting the scene with reports of a new Spider-person, among other things on the Daily Bugle jumbo-tron in Times Square. The world was recently devastated as Steve Rogers, the original Capt. America, passed away in his old age. His successor, Sam Wilson [aka the Falcon], retired from his honorary position as Capt. America shortly after and turned the shield back over to the government. However, nobody was prepared for the return of [insert villains]. How will the new generation of heroes manage? Team-ups? A new super-team? Allies will be made and lines will be drawn. Legacies must continue, heroes and villains reborn... or the future is lost.
This RP gives players an opportunity to continue legacies or build their own within the vastness of the Marvel U in a sandbox style role-play. Since folks like to play around with genderbending concepts and the like, it fits completely with the tone. You can recreate an Avenger, or an X-Man, take one of the F4 for a spin, skies the limit. Compacting the Marvel timeline a little and setting it only eight years in the future was more or less to put some age on the current Marvel NOW era. Though this will be a sandbox style RP, where players are responsible for their own character arcs, there will be key events happening that will effect the entire RP and eventually a team of some kind will need to come together to stop a mutual threat, or at the very least an alliance.
I'm also going to be one of those people who insists this is a High Casual RP. I'm not exactly looking for Advanced level length posts, I just don't want to have to assist everyone with their own individual stories because that isn't what a sandbox style RP is about. Two or three players could be working on their own thing in the game while I'm mimicking a battle like Hulk vs Thing with another player in the background. Depending on how far fetched the concept is, don't expect everything to be accepted. We're working off of a compacted timeline similar to the New52 DC Comics timeline. Basically the younger Avengers and heroes in general have began retiring within the last 2 years and this is the first time [insert villains] have made contact with Earth since the 'Classic Marvel' era. An older version of Miles or Kamala might gather a team of us to fight the currently unknown enemy, but other than that I don't want too many more mentor characters running around.
As far as a generational timeline, here's what I've got:
Golden Age Marvel: 1940 - 1959
Capt. America was created in 1941 during WWII to help defend against the Axis Powers. Soon after the Invaders would be formed along with Prince Namor and the android Human Torch. In 1945, in his final battle with the Red Skull, Capt. America was frozen in ice and lost for decades. Other Golden Age heroes would remain active off and on until around 1959.
'Classic' Marvel: 1980 - 1999
In 1981 Capt. America was found by SHIELD during a time when a group of heroes was gathered to assist Thor in taking down his evil brother Loki. Some time after Reed Richards managed to open a rift to the Negative Zone with cosmic radiation and tech that gave himself and three other individuals powers. The same year, 16 year old Peter Parker became the Amazing Spiderman. The Xavier Institute was opened August of 1984. Most of the heroes would remain active up through the year 2000...
Modern Marvel: 2000 - 2010
After nearly two decades of fighting the good fight again, Capt. America passes the shield down to his friend and ally, the Falcon. The former girlfriend of Thor lifted the Asgardian hammer and now wields the power of Mjolnir. The Amazing Spiderman was taken back when a new younger Spiderman named Miles hit the scene wearing webs. And Tony Stark was shown up by a 17 year old Riri Williams who was already about to graduate MIT Tech and built her own Ironman like suit.
Marvel REBORN: 2025
If Miles [Spiderman], Ms. Marvel [Kamala], Wolverine [X-23], and Nova [Sam] were around 16 years old in 2000, they're in their early 40's now. If Falcap was in his 40's during 'Modern Marvel' then now he'd be close to 60-65 same as the rest of the 'Classic Marvel' era. Heroes need replaced. Sons and daughters of 'Modern Marvel' characters can be created. Completely unrelated characters can take up the mantle of another hero similar to Riri Williams and X-23 replacing Tony Stark and Wolverine. Grandchildren of 'Classic Marvel' can be created. I'd even accept one or two time displaced heroes. Legacies must be REBORN...
Here's a CS skeleton for any interested parties...
Name -
Alias -
Age -
Powers -
Weaknesses -
Personality - [3 words or less]
Experience - [anywhere from a few days up to 2 years]
Appearance -
BRIEF Bio -
Key Differences - [how is the new character different from the current mainstream comics?]
Sample Story Arcs - [two or three ideas on where you plan on taking your character within the RP]
Supporting Characters - [what enemies would play roles in your arcs?]
Notes -
Spiderman can be another young man again now that Miles is retiring, hell even a Spider-Girl could take his place. While I'd be open to accepting new takes on Spiderman and the Punisher [1st or 2nd string heroes], I'd be much more willing to accept changes in the 3rd and 4th stringers that everybody is less familiar with like a new Iron Fist, Dr. Strange, or Invisible Girl. Black Panther for example could be an 18 year old foreign exchange student from Wakanda, Wolverine could be a 15 year old male clone of Logan and a new student at the Xavier Institute, or the Wasp could be an insectoid again...
I'll be making a new take on the Thing who's gonna be a geokinetic that can move stone similar to DC's Terra [just without flying] who will also be able to form an armored stone suit.
So does anybody else have any ideas for Marvel 'the Next Generation'?!? Do you wanna boldly go there? I'm looking to recruit at least 6-9 players for this one!
~KL~
