[OOC] All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 2

[DrewVonAwesome]

I mean... without giving too much away, Hawkeye DID give him plenty to think about.

[Dedonus]

@Dedonus why whats up? If it is marvel let me know not reading it

@Sep

I am assuming that this means you want to know. Don't open the spoiler otherwise.

DON'T OPEN UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED

Team Iron Man and Team Captain Marvel go to find Bruce Banner because of Ulysses had a vision of the Hulk killing some of the Avengers. During the argument about what to do, Bruce begins to Hulk-out. In response, Hawkeye shoots Banner in the forehead because Banner had told Hawkeye to kill him if he was about ready to turn into the Hulk again.

[Omega Man]

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Why would I care about Champions?

@DrewVonAwesome

Because instead of Young Avengers or New Warriors... the Champions are the new teen superteam in the Marvel U.? You could potentially have a home for Hulkling. Now that I thought about it though I suppose Tony could be a part of the team as well.

@The Kid Lantern: What do you have in mind for the champions?

@Dedonus

I was just thinking any random team full of teen superheroes in the Marvel U. has the potential to be interesting with the right set up. This new take on the Champions reminds me of the New Warriors in the Ultimate Spiderman cartoon. The only New Warrior that was shown in that series was a pic of Speedball, not even sure he showed up in the series aside from that. The team had the likes of Squirrel Girl, Triton [from the Inhumans], Cloak & Dagger, Ka-Zar, etc. In the Champions the only characters that have any connection are Miles/Spidey, Kamala/Ms. Marvel, and Sam/Nova because of their brief time as All New All Different Avengers. Cyclops' involvement came outta left field, as did Amadeus/Hulk, and the inclusion of Vision's daughter Viv was brilliant.

My biggest problem right now is I have no idea which teen hero I'd wanna reimagine for this, or what cannon character I could recreate as a teen. Sleepwalker came to mind, Ricochet and Prodigy [from the Slingers/Spiderman] were both favorites, Cannonball, Nova, still tossing ideas around...

~KL~

[DrewVonAwesome]

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Because instead of Young Avengers or New Warriors... the Champions are the new teen superteam in the Marvel U.? You could potentially have a home for Hulkling. Now that I thought about it though I suppose Tony could be a part of the team as well.

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I was just thinking any random team full of teen superheroes in the Marvel U. has the potential to be interesting with the right set up. This new take on the Champions reminds me of the New Warriors in the Ultimate Spiderman cartoon. The only New Warrior that was shown in that series was a pic of Speedball, not even sure he showed up in the series aside from that. The team had the likes of Squirrel Girl, Triton [from the Inhumans], Cloak & Dagger, Ka-Zar, etc. In the Champions the only characters that have any connection are Miles/Spidey, Kamala/Ms. Marvel, and Sam/Nova because of their brief time as All New All Different Avengers. Cyclops' involvement came outta left field, as did Amadeus/Hulk, and the inclusion of Vision's daughter Viv was brilliant.

My biggest problem right now is I have no idea which teen hero I'd wanna reimagine for this, or what cannon character I could recreate as a teen. Sleepwalker came to mind, Ricochet and Prodigy [from the Slingers/Spiderman] were both favorites, Cannonball, Nova, still tossing ideas around...

~KL~

@The Kid Lantern

Well Hulkling has a home with Ms America's Young Avengers squad. Which Wiccan and Speed will later join most likely as NPCs at this point. So Champions aren't really a thing.

If I had to say one I think you'd be good with, Sam Alexander Nova and Cannonball are two I like personally. Course I do genuinely think Speedball could be interesting for you because I've never seen you really make a comic relief character before.

As for Iron Man, we'll see with Avengers since that's still going on (RIGHT @Sep?!)...

Also I make this AMAZING zinger...

I mean... without giving too much away, Hawkeye DID give him plenty to think about.

@DrewVonAwesome

and no one says anything?! Screw all y'all! You don't get to enjoy my brilliance anymore!

[Dedonus]

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and no one says anything?! Screw all y'all! You don't get to enjoy my brilliance anymore!

@DrewVonAwesome

SPOILERS AGAIN

Ha, ha, ha. Very funny. Banner has a lot to think about because he got shoot in the face.

Edit: Darn it, smiley! Roll your eyes!

[DrewVonAwesome]

Also I just heard another thing that just ruined my day a fair bit. @The Kid Lantern here's another character you might want to think about because I adore him.

SPOILERS

In the recent Vision comic Dr. Doom kills Victor Mancha... because fuck interesting characters right? Also that's now three Marvel deaths in the last month, four if She Hulk's dead. Seriously Marvel has officially ran out of ideas.

[Dedonus]

Also I just heard another thing that just ruined my day a fair bit. @The Kid Lantern here's another character you might want to think about because I adore him.

SPOILERS

In the recent Vision comic Dr. Doom kills Victor Mancha... because fuck interesting characters right? Also that's now three Marvel deaths in the last month, four if She Hulk's dead. Seriously Marvel has officially ran out of ideas.

@DrewVonAwesome

Who...

[DrewVonAwesome]

Involves previous spoiler

He was in Runaways, made by Ultron as a sleeper agent who's suppose to be a superhero fanatic who joins the Avengers and then kills them from inside. Really fun character.

Also fun fact, he was on my short list of characters to replace Mr. Fantastic with. Hulkling though it was a case of seeing the Hulkling SHIELD picture on DA and getting too inspired.

[Omega Man]

If I made a version of Nova, it'd likely be some new guy in the helmet. With Speedball... I just never could get into the character. His costume always looked lame, but he was a good team player when he was with Nova and Justice/Marvel Boy.

~KL~

[Omega Man]

I've no real interest in most of the Runaways characters, most new generation Marvel I never got into. I caught the first and best Young Avengers series when it hit the shelves and enjoyed parts of Civil War and Winter Soldier/BuckyCap, but didn't bother keeping up after that. Most of my Marvel fandom comes from the comics of the late 70's-early 2000's.

It DOES suck to see good characters go to waste. Stingray was part of Deadpool's Mercs for Money team and had an angle for being among them. Slapstick, Solo, and Foolkiller were also on the team, however all three of those characters got new series. Now my boy Machine Man is on the newest incarnation of the team, but it's that Bender knock-off version I don't much care for... maybe he can get a new series and some redemption after a tour of duty with DP.

~KL~

[Natty]

SPOILERS in regards to recent Civil War II thing

What gets me is that Bruce isn't even the Hulk currently. Like in a recent Totally Awesome Hulk issue he was revealed to be completely powerless as a result of Amadeus removed all the gamma radiation from him or something. As such, there was no chance of him Hulking out so no reason to shoot him? Like does Bendis have any clue as to what's going on in other people's books?

I guess there's the argument that Bruce had been experimenting on himself again, but still! Absolutely shocking writing.

In regards to the other mini spoiler that Drew mentioned, I really need to catch up on Vision!!

Thought I'd say though, the idea of possibly bringing on a Sam Alexander Nova was crossing my mind the other day if i ever decided to bring in another character. In order to reduce the number of teen supers in this RP though, I was going to have him be a college dropout in his early twenties (he had to look after his mum). Also planning on having him be wheelchair bound too.

That being said, I'm too busy right now to create a new characters (^^ only said all this as i wanted to put it all down somewhere), so if you wanna give Nova a go KL, be my guest :)

[Omega Man]

I actually came up with a character concept today, while TECHNICALLY it's an original character... the sum of it's parts are still very much a Marvel Universe character. You know those characters who get shopped around to various superheroes? The best examples would be Rick Jones and Amadeus Cho. Rick has been the unofficial sidekick of the Hulk, the other half of not one but TWO Capt. Marvels, he's been a Hulk himself, assumed the identity of Nomad for a bit, and is presently A-Bomb. With Cho across Marvel media he's been attached to Hercules, he's been Iron Spider, a super-genius working for SHIELD, and presently he's the Totally Awesome Hulk.

I'm gonna PM the idea to @Dedonus tonight and see what he thinks.

~KL~

[DrewVonAwesome]

Man Chao and I have talked about it already but I'm still bummed losing Reed Richards. Especially considering part of the reason being I had no feel for writing Susan.

This has nothing to do with anything talked about on the OOC. Just me needing to say that.

[Chao]

@DrewVonAwesome Don't worry, we'll fix this somehow. ;)

[Omega Man]

In case anybody wondered about the new avatar...

THUNDERSTRIKE!

Player Name: The Kid Lantern

Character You Wish To Play: Kevin Masterson

Alias:

Moral Alignment: Hero

Affiliation: None presently

Character Origin & Backstory:

Eric Masterson was an American architect working in Europe when he found what he believed to be the tomb of an Asgardian while mountain climbing. Fast forward another two decades. Eric is an award winning writer and researcher of Norse Gods and the mythology surrounding it. Days after Asgardians started appearing in NYC, Eric was approached by a man claiming to be an inventor hoping to mimic the weaponry of Norse Gods with modern tech. Leaving his seventeen year old son Kevin for a few days turned into Masterson disappearing for the entire month of August!

Kevin was just getting settled into his new school, Midtown High, and had problems fitting in. Born in the south and living with his mother Marcy for the first sixteen years of his life and having a southern accent didn't help matters. The relationship with his super-nerd father was on the rocks to say the least since his mother passed away months earlier after giving custody to Eric. After being gone for nearly a month, his father showed up at their Queens apartment bloody and beaten clutching on to a backpack. His last words were 'only you and I can lift it...' before falling into a coma. While getting his father to the hospital, agents of AIM showed up at the apartment and grabbed what they thought was the backpack containing the weapon. In fact, they had grabbed Kevin's backpack loaded down with textbooks.

Later that night, after leaving his father in the Mount Sinai Hospital, Kevin went home to discover the mace of power in the backpack his father had brought in. After activating the weapon it dropped to the ground and would not budge. That was until Kevin had found an ID scanner in the handle that scanned his thumb print. When the mace recognized him, the safeguard was removed and Kevin was able to lift the weapon. Minutes after that, Kevin was shocked when the agents of AIM returned. The young would-be hero managed to defeat the four men using the power mace much in the same way the Asgardians on tv had used their weapons. The mace seemed to generate and shoot blasts of lightning, when thrown had the striking power to knock a man through a wall, as well as the strange ability to return to Kevin's hand.

With his father still in a coma, Kev forged a superhero identity for himself and did everything he could to find clues to lead him back to the mysterious agents of AIM when he wasn't going to school and living life as a stranger in a strange land.

Powers and Abilities:

Thunderstrike's powers all come from the mace also dubbed Thunderstrike. The weapon is the closest thing to Asgardian weaponry AIM could create and has several abilities, however nowhere near as powerful as the hammer of Thor.

Powers include:

* Lightning/Energy blasts - self explanatory
* Dermal Force Field - when in hand, gives Thunderstrike limited durability
* Flight - unlike Thor's hammer the mace doesn't need to be thrown/caught
* Striking Power - imagine getting hit by a baseball thrown by a pro baseball player
roughly 90 mph. Now turn that into a 50 pound hammer and imagine it with another 100
mph added to it's speed when thrown. Used like a regular hammer or club, it feels like
getting hit by a 50 pound hammer LOL
* Auto Return - when thrown it returns to sender when commanded. Voice activated.
* Safeguard - when turned on, the mace drops to the ground wherever it is unless it
recognizes the ID of Eric Masterson or his son Kevin. They are the only two people
who can wield it as it is meant to be without resistance.

Weaknesses include:

* Safeguard Fail - when the mace is turned off, anyone can carry it around or use it to
bludgeon somebody. A tech expert could crack the safeguard presumably and
reprogram the mace. However most enemies don't know that there is an off switch.
* Dermal Force Field Fail - if the mace isn't in Kevin's hand, he's as vulnerable as
anyone in light body armor.

Sample Story Arcs:

Sins of the Father - Kevin continues to look for clues leading him to AIM while making a name for himself as a teen superhero.

Bloodaxe - Thunderstrike follows clues to an underground testing facility where he comes face to face with AIM's Bloodaxe. This agent of AIM wields a similar weapon to Kevin's mace [a man-made Asgardian knock-off] with similar powers as well as a few of it's own.

Champions/Defenders - Kevin will make friends in the teen superhero community and assemble a team to take down the splinter cell of AIM responsible for his father's current state. This leads the team into a confrontation with the Super Adaptoid!

Important Notes:


* In the comics Thunderstrike was originally Eric Masterson, a stand in for Thor at one
time.
* If something like the Champions doesn't happen in-game, Eric may wake up and claim the mace.
* Kevin Masterson was originally Thunderstrike II in the MC2 universe, and had
internalized the power of the mace.
* This character concept is also influenced by Ultimate Thor.

I was torn between putting him in blue like his dad in the comics, or red as Kevin originally wore in the MC2 universe. Either way, 'ere it is.

~KL~

[Dedonus]

@The Kid Lantern: Accepted.

[FacePunch]

I think @Sep died. RIP Sep.

[Dedonus]

@FacePunch: I think he is just busy.

[FacePunch]

@Dedonus A likely excuse used by many a dead person.

[DrewVonAwesome]

This RP has gotten insanely slow as of late. Disturbingly slow.