One Universe: Marvel/DC RPG Season 1 Character Sheet Player Name: HenryJonesJr
Character: Peter Parker/The Spectacular Spider-Man
Power and Abilities: Peter was granted extraordinary powers when he was bitten by a genetically enhanced, radioactive spider. This granted him superhuman strength, speed, agility, dexterity, durability, reflexes, and a healing factor. It also granted him the ability of “Spider Sense”, which allows him to sense any incoming danger, allowing time to dodge incoming attacks. He also has the ability to crawl on walls like a spider.
Peter is also a scientific prodigy, and has developed a multitude of gadgets to help him in his crime fighting. Chief among these inventions are his web shooters and web fluid. The viscous fluid acts as a spider web, allowing Peter to swing across the city, trap enemies, or be used as a projectile weapon. Peter must carry cartridges of the fluid around with him, however, and he can run out during prolonged battles.
Spider-man has also received combat training from Daredevil, another New York vigilante. Peter is slowly learning to rely not only on his powers, but on his training as well.
Affiliation (Justice League, HAMMER, X-Men, etc): None
Alignment (Good/Evil/Walking the Line): Good
Character Notes (Anything you would like to expand on [Established Rogues, NPCs, etc]): | Spider-man’s New York |
-Midtown High – Pete and Gwen’s high school.
-Empire State University – Doctor Curt Connors’ place of employment and the most likely destination for Peter to attend college. Also where Peter interns.
-Daily Bugle – Peter’s freelance photography job is based at the Bugle.
-Ravencroft Institute – A high tech asylum dedicated to treating the superpowered criminally insane. It is seen as the more respectable version of Gotham’s Arkham Asylum.
-Ryker’s Island – A supermax prison in the river between Queens and New York, it currently houses Tombstone and the Enforcers.
| Allies and NPCs |
-Aunt May – Peter’s caretaker and Aunt, May has raised Peter since he was a young boy. She remains unaware of his status as Spider-man. May is younger in this reality, only about 35-40 years old.
-J. Jonah Jameson – The owner and editor of the Daily Bugle News Network, JJ is Peter’s boss as well as a detractor of Spider-man.
-Gwen Stacy – Peter’s best friend and girlfriend, she recently found out about his secret identity in the climactic fight with Harry Osborn’s Hobgoblin persona.
-Daredevil – Spider-man’s vigilante mentor and combat trainer.
-Robin – Spider-man’s fellow teenage hero and friend.
| Rogues |
-Electro – Currently incarcerated at Ravencroft Institute, Max Dillon was an electrician working at Oscorp tower when he was transformed into a living livewire.
-Scorpion – Mac Gargan, a private investigator, was turned into the Scorpion by Oscorp and J Jonah Jameson in an effort to discover who Spider-man truly was. He later worked for the Hobgoblin.
-Man-Bat – A failed experiment by Oscorp, Man-Bat was stopped by Spider-man, Batman, and Robin.
-Flint Marko and Aleksei Sytsevich – Former muscle for Tombstone, Spider-man has constantly put these two away, even though they keep escaping. They now work for a mysterious benefactor.
-The Enforcers – Tombstone’s go to team, the Enforcers gave Spider-man a run for his money before they were put away with their boss.
-Tombstone – Spider-man’s main adversary during Year One, L Thompson Lincoln was a powerful crime boss in New York. Spider-man brought down his empire, creating a void in New York’s crime scene. Lincoln is now serving time.
-Hobgoblin (Harry Osborn) – Harry Osborn, Peter Parker’s former best friend, took an experimental steroid from his father’s company, becoming the villainous and insane Hobgoblin. Goblin built his criminal empire around the bones of Tombstone’s. He was killed in a final confrontation with Spider-man.
Background and Story So Far: | Young Life |
Peter was born to Richard and Mary Parker in New York in 1994, while both of his parents were working for the mega corporation Oscorp, run by the enigmatic Norman Osborn. Richard was a wizard in the field of genetics and Mary was one of the company’s top engineers. They were successful, smart, and well off thanks to Oscorp’s continued support of them. They loved Peter with all their hearts, and from the outside they seemed to be the model of the American family.
That was all shattered, however, when the Parker’s plane went down on a business trip to Metropolis. The crash was considered highly suspect by the authorities, but now foul play was ever discovered. But the bigger tragedy was the fact that they had now left their young son Peter alone in the world.
Luckily, Richard’s younger brother Ben and his new wife May were there to take care of Peter. The two adopted the boy and raised them as their own. He lived in Queens with them, and attended the Midtown School district where he met his first and oldest friend, Gwen Stacy. Gwen and Peter were inseperable from the day they met, and everyone always pegged them as future sweethearts, even if neither had the courage to act on their feelings. The tragedy of losing his parents always stung Peter, but at least he now had a new family to call his own.
But the shadows of the past were never far away. Ben, May, and Peter were often visited by Norman Osborn, who claimed he wanted nothing more than what was best for Peter and to do his best to make up for the loss of his parents. Peter never liked Norman, but he connected with the tycoon’s son Harry. The two remained friends even when Harry was shipped to boarding school for a few years.
| Year One: Becoming Spider-man |
By the time high school came around, Peter had proven himself to be a scientific whiz in the mold of his parents, but also shy and awkward socially. Aside from Gwen and Harry, Peter had no friends, and tended to be picked on by the jocks, especially Eugene “Flash’ Thompson, who considered Peter his favorite target.
Pete’s life was changed forever during a field trip to Oscorp in his sophomore year of high school. Following Harry into a restricted section of the facility, Peter was bitten by a genetically enhanced, radioactive spider that had managed to free itself from its enclosure. Peter hid the bite from Harry and his friends, and went straight home after the trip. After a night of nightmares and fever, Peter woke to find himself with incredible powers. He was strong, fast, coordinated and dexterous. Later that day he discovered he could climb walls, and sense when danger was around. He had become a superhero over night, and the possibilities thrilled him.
He used his new found abilities to get back at Flash, as well as entering a wrestling contest in order to make some money to impress a popular girl at school, Liz Allen. His new, cocky attitude rubbed his Aunt and Uncle the wrong way, but Peter didn’t care. He was on top of the world. He blew off his uncle as Ben was attempting to give Peter advice, leading to yet another tragedy for the young man.
Ben, attempting to clear his head, went out for a drive, as he was known to do. Unfortunately, he was car jacked, with the mugger shooting him through the stomach, killing him. That night, Peter went out into the city, searching for the murderer. His search led him to a carjacker in the employ of the “Big Man’s” crime family, one of the most powerful mobs in New York.
The weeks that followed, Peter wallowed in he and Aunt May’s grief. Peter blamed himself for his surrogate father’s death, and searched for a way to make it right. Eventually, he remembered his Uncle’s favorite saying, “With great power comes great responsibility.” He had great power, and he would now put upon himself great responsibility. Crafting a homemade costume and developing his webshooters, Peter became the Spectacular Spider-man and set about taking down the Big Man’s operation in order to not only avenge Uncle Ben’s death, but to help New York as well.
The fight against the Big Man was long and grueling, with Spider-man having to take down not only the crime boss, but the hired muscle he sent against the young hero. The Enforcers, the mob boss’s favorite assassins, clashed with Spider-man constantly over the first year, until he was finally able to put them away with the help of Captain George Stacy, Gwen’s father and police captain.
His battles as Spider-man also took a toll on his personal life. Harry and Gwen thought Peter was ignoring them and had no idea what he did with his nights. His school grades were slipping, and Aunt May worried he was in serious trouble. They all tried to intervene in his life, but Peter wouldn’t hear any of it. He tried to be the best nephew and friend he could, but he thought his mission was the most important thing.
With his guards and assassins put away, the Big Man was vulnerable, and Spider-man and the police closed in. He was revealed to be L Thompson Lincoln, a seemingly legit business man, but in reality was the notorious Gotham gangster Tombstone who had relocated to New York. The mobster’s great strength was a test for Spider-man, but at the end of Year One, he prevailed and put him behind bar, shattering his criminal empire. With Tombstone behind bars, and Spider-man a city hero, Peter finally found his great responsibility. New York was his to protect.
| Year Two: Rise of the Rogues |
Year Two, however, was not going to be easy for the wallcrawler. The year kicked off with the emergence of Electro at the Times Square New Year’s Celebration. The man made of living electricity was the most powerful foe Spider-man had faced yet, and Peter found himself outmatched. Their cat and mouse game lasted weeks before Peter was able to determine the villain had been created in an accident at Oscorp. Spider-man broke into the labs to find something to stop Electro. The two squared off one last time, with Spider-man managing to short circuit Electro using a special solution from Oscorp. As Max Dillon was being carted away, the villain claimed that Oscorp was out for Spider-man.
During this time, Peter began to balance his time as Spider-man and Peter Parker, and he and Gwen finally admitted they have feelings for one another and began dating. This was also coupled by increasingly erratic and aloof behavior from Harry. The two attempted to keep their relationship with Harry intact, but Peter and Gwen’s relationship seemed to have put Harry over the edge. They went to Norman for help, but he seemed to have no concern for his son. On top of this, Peter got a freelance photography job at the Daily Bugle.
Peter had little time to worry as well, as two villains emerged to threaten him and the city. Rumors of a bat man began sweeping through the city, leading some to wonder if a copycat vigilante had entered New York. To go along with that, Mac Gargan, a former private investigator, was turned into the Scorpion by J Jonah Jameson, Peter’s boss who was obsessed with finding the identity of Spider-man. Gargan came close to finding out Peter’s identity, but Spider-man managed to stop him before that.
The Man-Bat was another story. His presence brought the attention of the real Batman and his sidekick Robin. The two teamed with Spider-man, much to the Batman’s chagrin, to track down the dangerous creature threatening the city. The three eventually cornered the Man-Bat and managed to subdue the creature, which was revealed to be a failed experiment by Oscorp. Batman and Robin left New York, but not before the Bat warned Spider-man that someone was reforming Tombstone’s crime family, and that he should go to Daredevil for training.
Spider-man took his advice, and sought out the older hero who trained him in the martial arts. The two also began tracking down leads on the resurgent crime family, and the trail led them into the path of the Hobgoblin. The new super villain seemed to know Peter’s every move and could even circumnavigate Peter’s Spider Sense, taking away the hero’s advantage.
Hobgoblin declared war against the city, saying it was his now. Spider-man had to face off against his thugs, led by the Scorpion who had been freed by Hobgoblin. The battles were grueling, but nothing compared to the final confrontation with the villain. He captured Gwen, making it clear to Peter that his identity had been compromised. The two faced off on Oscorp tower, where Peter saved Gwen and the Hobgoblin was mortally wounded by his own weapons. In his dying moments, the Goblin was revealed to be Harry himself. In a moment of clarity, Harry claimed his father turned him into the Goblin, and that Norman wanted Peter’s power for himself.
Peter now knew his great enemy, but lost one of his best friends in the process.
He now stands against the might of Oscorp with his future and very life at stake.
Sample Post (At least 3 well thought out paragraphs as well as some dialogue):
The wind rushes through my mask as I swing through the skies of New York. After all this time, web swinging never fails to cheer me up. It may sound corny, but there’s just something magical about swinging over the streets and rooftops of New York. Even at a time like this where my best friend is dead after trying to turn the city into his own den of crime and his father has declared open war against me. Such is the life of your friendly, neighborhood Spider-man.
I sling another web and use my momentum to turn a hard right, swooping down a few stories as I do so. I know this city like the back of my hand at this point. The fastest and best ways to get around the city are second nature to me. I know every nook and cranny, like this is my concrete English muffin. The city is my playground, and everyone else is just living in it.
At that moment, sirens draw my attention. I follow them to their source, where a man in what appears to be a quilt is standing outside of a bank, “Stand back! All of you!”
With that, he throws a punch through the air. At first I just figure he’s crazy, but then a shockwave bursts forward, slamming the cops and their cars backwards, end over end.
“Oh, well, that’s fun,” I say under my breath before swinging over to the wall above the apparent bank robber. Once there, I call out, “Nice costume, guy! Your mom make it for you?”
“Well, well, well,” the masked man chuckles, “Spider-man. Just the person I was looking for.”
He spins around, slamming the wall with another round of concussive blasts. I kick off the wall, landing in front of the cops who were regaining their feet, “Let me guess…you’re Rumble? Oh! No! You’re Shockwave!”
“Guess again, web-head!” he snarls. “I’m the Shocker!”
“Ha!” I laugh. “Dude come on! You can’t be serious! You do know about the…well you know. Unless you don’t.”
He doesn’t answer, and instead blasts at me again with his gauntlets.
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One Universe: Marvel/DC RPG Season 1 Character Sheet Player Name: HenryJonesJr
Character: Clark Kent/Kal Zod/Superman
Power and Abilities: Superman is one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy. The yellow sun of Earth fills his cells with almost unlimited energy which he can use in a variety of ways. His strength seems to know no bounds. He can fly faster than any jet. He's invulnerable to any known attack, save for magic which his powers do nothing to stop. Superman can fire beams of intense heat from his eyes, as well as having x-ray and binocular-like vision. His hearing is amazing. He is able to hear anywhere on the planet he chooses as long as he concentrates hard enough. He can also can expel a great, freezing gust from his lungs. Clark can survive in the vacuum of space as well as deep underwater.
Clark’s mind also works at a higher level allowing him to learn concepts quicker than the normal person. He is not a super genius, but could become one if he put his mind towards it.
Other than magic, the only known weakness of Superman seems to be a glowing green rock Lex Luthor possesses.
Affiliation (Justice League, HAMMER, X-Men, etc): Justice League
Alignment (Good/Evil/Walking the Line): Good
Character Notes (Anything you would like to expand on [Established Rogues, NPCs, etc]): | Metropolis, DE |
-Daily Planet – Clark’s place of employment
(More coming)
| Allies and NPCs |
-Ma and Pa Kent – Clark’s adoptive parents who live in Smallville, KS. They know of his secret and support his career as Superman
-Lois Lane – Clark’s colleague at the Daily Planet, and Superman’s official contact in the media. Clark has feelings for her, but has yet to tell her.
-Jimmy Olsen – A photographer for the Planet, and friend of Clark’s.
-J’onn J’onzz – Clark saved the Martian Manhunter from his father’s clutches. J’onn now takes care of the Kryptonian ship “Watchtower” that is stuck in Earth’s orbit.
-Reed Richards – One of the smartest men on Earth and leader of the Fantastic Four, Superman and Reed often consult one another.
-BRAINIAC – The Kryptonian artificial intelligence of the Watchtower that advises Clark on his past.
-Lara – Clark’s biological mother and Krypton’s chief scientist. She downloaded her consciousness into BRAINIAC and speaks to Clark through it.
| Rogues |
-Lex Luthor – The so called first son of Metropolis, Lex sees Superman as the greatest threat to humanity. He has threatened and challenged the Man of Steel while also keeping a positive public face.
-Parasite – An alien being whose people were destroyed by the Kryptonian Empire. He came to Earth to extract revenge against Superman.
-Metallo – Former criminal John Corben was turned into a robot fueled by a mysterious mineral by Lex Luthor. He is currently deactivated and contained in Luthor’s private lab.
-Toyman – A genius inventor from LexCorp, he lost his mind when he was fired, and used his designs to wreak havoc on the city. He is currently incarcerated.
-Zod – Clark’s biological father and emperor of the Kryptonians, Zod was defeated when he tried to conquer the Earth. He was once again banished to the Phantom Zone after that.
-Intergang – Metropolis’s biggest organized crime ring, the Intergang received technology from an unknown source to take on Superman.
Background and Story So Far:| Youth |
The alien child known on Earth as Superman was the last surviving member of the Kryptonian Empire after the Lantern Corps and their allies destroyed the planet of Krypton. His journey through the stars lasted almost a thousand years in suspended animation before he crash landed outside Smallville, Kansas. There, he was found and raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Clark, as they named him, was raised as a child with a strong sense of right and wrong, but struggled at the onset of his powers. His parents helped him through the difficult time, and Clark eventually mastered his abilities.
Clark attended school in Smallville and quickly made a best friend in Lana Lang. Clark and Lana were inseparable throughout their youth, and in high school the two began dating. They were sweethearts and the model teen couple until the night of a car crash that involved them and another group of kids from Smallville High. It is unknown what happened, but after that fateful night Clark and Lana never spoke again.
| Becoming Superman |
After high school Clark went on to study journalism at Metropolis University. Here in the huge, glittering city, Clark first saw the need for a hero on Earth. Metropolis was a safe city by most standards, but Kent was forced to intervene in a mugging he witnessed, easily saving a middle aged woman and her daughter. They thanked him profusely, but were amazed at his great strength. This made Clark realize his identity was suspect when using his powers. He crafted a much more confident and cocky look for himself, as well as a costume from the blanket that had arrived with him on Earth. He was now Superman, the Man of Steel and protector of Metropolis.
He soon became an international sensation. Blurry pictures began showing up on blogs and newscasts around the world. Clark began showing up and stopping problems across the globe but was careful not to cause any international incidents. As his fame grew, Clark graduated from college at got a position at the Daily Planet, the news outlet that first covered him. It was here he met Lois Lane, falling for the spunky and determined reporter almost immediately.
| Year One: Fighting Against the Intergang and the Kryptonian Invasion |
Clark and Jimmy Olsen were called out to cover a meteor that was headed towards Earth early in Year One. But Superman knew it would cause massive destruction if it hit the planet, so he moved to intercept it. What he found surprised him, as the meteor was actually a spaceship. He struggled against the UFO, though he eventually managed to crash it in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Metropolis. The deadly creature inside survived and made its way towards the city.
Before he clashed with the alien visitor, however, Superman’s presence was not a welcomed event to some in Metropolis. For decades Bruno Mannheim’s Intergang had ruled the city’s crime scene, and they saw the arrival of Superman as the ultimate threat to said dominance. For that time they had run technology and weapons in and out of the city as well as abroad. Mannheim was the boss, and everyone in the city knew it. But Bruno knew they didn’t stand a chance against the Man of Tomorrow.
That is until they began fighting back with technology more advanced than anyone had ever seen. The Bruno and his gang declared war on Superman, and threatened the entire city around them. They cared not for the repercussions; they just wanted to take care of the one threat to their power and money.
Their battle lasted half the year, until Bruno Mannheim took matters into his own hands, using the mysterious technology to grow to the size of a sky scraper and fight Superman himself. The Man of Steel drew the villain out of the city before beating him and destroying the device that had caused him to grow. He saved it in order to analyze it, but no one has been able to decipher where it came from.
The battle between the Intergang and Superman also made Lex Luthor certain Superman was a bane to humanity existence, not a boon. Luthor then began plotting how to expose the alien’s threat and to stop him at any cost.
The Parasite then made its way to Metropolis after murdering countless humans along the way, and called a challenge to Superman, calling him a Kryptonian murder. Clark of course answered the call, engaging the alien parasite at a gala hosted by Lex Luthor, the second most powerful man in Metropolis. The Parasite proved to be a powerful enemy to Clark and was only defeated thanks to the intervention of Phil Coulson and S.W.O.R.D., a subset of S.H.I.E.L.D. dedicated to protecting the world form extraterrestrial threats. Coulson told Superman that he would be allowed to continue his work free from SHIELD interference as long as Clark agreed to help when necessary. Coulson also gave Clark the information of Reed Richards, a scientist that could help the alien find where he came from.
Clark and Reed discovered a plan for an inter-dimensional portal generator in the pod that brought Superman to Earth. The two, along with SHIELD scientists, built it and a prototype rocket which would carry Reed and his team into space to fire the generator. On the day of the mission, the rocket and device worked perfectly, and a portal to the Phantom Zone was opened. From inside, a Kryptonian war vessel emerged, and Superman was taken on board.
Inside, Clark met his father, Emperor Dru-Zod, and the remaining Kryptonians. Clark found out he was sent to Earth because it would be an easy conquest for the Kryptonians to replenish their slave workforce and build a new army. When Clark resisted, he was thrown into the ship's brig where he met J'onn J'onzz, a mysterious prisoner who offered Clark help in escaping.
They headed back to Earth and rallied the planet’s heroes in order to set up the planet’s resistance. They stood their ground against Zod, but it was the timely intervention of the Lantern Corps that ended up saving the day. In the end, the Kryptonians were repelled and once again trapped in the Phantom Zone.
| Year Two: Luthor’s Tests and Global Threats |
In Year Two, Clark found himself pitted against the villain known as Toyman. The genius inventor and ex-LexCorp employee had gone mad after losing his job, and used his robotic creations to threaten Metropolis and Lex Luthor himself. Superman intervened and stopped the Toyman before he could do any real damage. In reality, the villain was nothing more than a test for Superman set up by Luthor. During the fight, Lex got an up close view on how Superman fought and began devising strategies to defeat him.
Another test came from Luthor before he could talk to Richards, however. A string of bank robberies perpetrated by a being of immeasurable strength caught the attention of Superman. Tracking the perp down, Clark was amazed to find the robber was a cyborg powered by an unknown mineral. The green growing rock in Metallo’s chest sapped Superman’s strength and durability. The cyborg came close to defeating the Man of Steel, who was saved only by the timely intervention by the SHIELD team known as the Avengers. It was there that the great Captain America and Superman first met, forming a fast friendship and pledging to come to one another’s aid if need be.
The year’s third and final test from Luthor came when the Parasite returned to Metropolis. Feeding off the city’s power grid and Luthor’s own prototype generator, the alien was more powerful than he had ever been before. The ensuing fight caused plenty of collateral damage, and Luthor used it and the prevailing view on metahumans to turn the city against Superman.
Superman laid low for a while until the Latveria/Kahndaq conflict. The skirmish threatened to become a global threat, with both leaders not backing down. Victor von Doom and Teth Adam were pig headed and incredibly powerful and an extended conflict could threaten millions. Superman knew he had to act, but he could not do so alone. He gathered heroes of the world, creating a Justice League. The League, partnering with the Avengers, stopped the battle, creating peace between the two sides yet again. The League decided from then on they would be a symbol of hope for the world, and attempt to keep the world safe from all threats.
Sample Post (At least 3 well thought out paragraphs as well as some dialogue):"Luthor," Superman snarled as he landed in the billionaire's office. Clark had clashed with Lex Luthor all year, though he had only learned that fact recently. Luthor had been behind Metallo, Toyman, and the release of the Parasite. All of it was just a test for Clark. Luthor wanted to see what the hero could do, and how he did it. "You wanted me. So here I am. You put the people of this city in danger just to test me. People died, Lex. And now I'm here to put you behind bars."
Luthor laughed at the superhero's challenge and stood, striding over to his liquor cabinet. Luthor was an impressive human being. He was tall, powerfully built, and one of the smartest men on the planet to boot. He poured a glass of scotch before turning back to the Man of Steel, "Superman, you have nothing against me. You and I both know that. If you lay a hand on me you'll just turn the people against you and your freaky friends yet again."
Superman's lip curled at the villain's mockery. He knew it was the case. Luthor was too good at covering his tracks, and Superman attacking the first son of Metropolis would lead to more trouble than he could deal with t this point, "That may be the case, but I hope you know I'm on to you. You won't be able to sneeze without me knowing. And eventually you're going to slip up. When that happens, I'll be there to put you away."
"For your sake, you better hope that happens, alien," Luthor spat back. "Because I plan on attending your funeral in a year."
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