Marvel Super Heroes

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This week's one-shot will be Marvel Super Heroes, Elite Edition! You can get the books at the link. Other Stuff->Downloads->Netbooks and Enhancements. You may want to peruse the Elite Players and Elite Ulimate Powers. Don't bother with the wheels, as the Universal Table has changed a bit, and they aren't useful.

You won't necessarily need them, however, as pre-gens are being provided. I'll have a docket of info including excerpts from the books as needed for each. You can, however, check out the characters and decide which one you may like, at the end of this post.

Set in a midwestern city of metropolitan size, this world may be Marvel, but it's DC as well. Amalgam it ain't, but all heroes from either universe co-exist here. That doesn't mean they're all showing up, however. The world also has twice as many supervillains, and they all seem to show up when they least are wanted.

After a disastrous attack on the group's bases, the Metahuman Enforcement Agency was dismantled. Primarily engineered by "The Goblin King", it also introduced other crime groups to enter the city, like the Vorpal Gang and the Mesa Fortunas. In the wake of that disaster, unaffliated methuman heroes entered the fray and kept the city whole.

Amos Fortune ran for mayor that year, striking a deal with the Goblins to force a win. During his tenure, the cityscape changed a great deal. Most obvious is the change of name, New Fortune. Apparently Amos wanted us to remember the city was his. The MEA's successor organization, the DEO, was not allowed to operate within the city. Instead, for metahuman crime, the Fortune government contracted Suitox Corp, the buyer of the remains of Bartlett Labs, to provide private security officers.

An accident engineered by the Vorpals stripped Kid Zilla of his ability to generate radition and massively slowed his regeneration, while simultaneously mortally wounding him. He was installed into the main reactor of the power plant, able to manipulate the energies enough to keep himself alive, but unable to leave without dying. On the plus side, he is also able to boost the output so that the city no longer endures brownouts.


Janus Keller was a scientist working for Suitox Corp. Manipulation of light energy was his specialty. Unfortunately, a lab accident involving an unidentified gemstone ended his life. Janus died that day. 7 days later, he awoke on an operating table, the stone embedded in his stomach. The Suitox scientists had planned the accident, bringing him back to life with the strange energy of the gem, rebuilding and reinforcing his body with cybernetic components. Enraged, he broke free from the building and hid in the slums. With a new armored fighting form and control over light itself, Diffraction hits the streets looking for ways to bring down the corrupt organization.


A renegade blue Khund, Ottobahn fled his home planet on a spacebike to avoid persecution. He was a blue, supposed to be the intellectual and spiritual leaders of his race, with the brains and temperment of a red. He wanted to fight and party instead of leading, and so he was threatened constantly. Stalling out near Luna, he blew up the remains of his bike, hurling himself toward Earth. As soon as he passed through the ionosphere and hit that wonderful ozone, he was hooked. The strange chemical mutated his cells, granting him the means to fly down to the ground. Finding himself nearby a place called Maxx's, Ottobahn went looking for a drink.


Officer Callahan was a decorated member of the FPD. Assigned as part of a strike team to take out the Velocity 13 labs in the city, their team's lab got many samples of V13 from many different places. One set, gained from a basement of an ex-Suitox employee, was off-colored and had a thicker texture than the others. Three separate attempts to steal it were made before the team assigned a guard. Jason was there the night that four black-painted SX-GC guards stormed the lab, destroying everything in sight. Jason was hit with the strange V13 as well as washed with much of the standard stuff. He was shot three times, and the goons left. He healed at a higher rate due to the V13 exposure, and survived. Two weeks later, his superspeed still active, he was placed on administrative leave. Metahumans could not be employed by the FPD. His CO suggested that he contact the DEO, operating covertly, to find a cure. However, he soon realized there was no need for a cure. His powers were temporary.


Battling the other-worldly cloned symbiotes, Pyroclad and Cyclone attempted to use a dimensional shift machine to send them back to their own plane. Instead, they sent them to an alternate Earth. In the chaos surrounding this, the body of that Earth's Tommy Bartlett was sucked through the portal. He was unable to prevent this, as he was, at the time, projecting into the astral plane. When he returned to his body, he was trapped on the wrong side of the now-closed rift. Now going by the name William, publically posing as his own twin, he still studies with his master on the astral plane while fighting for justice in a new world.


Bugger off. I'm tired. Ask the Emperor.

Bonus... Who is Cryoclad?