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I think it’s time for some villainy! Here comes a group of anarchists from around the world fighting to bring down any and all governments in order to bring “peace” to humankind since it’s their opinion that nationalism is an outmoded concept which tends to promote rivalry and injustice between nations. Maybe they’re on to something here…
From left to right:SCROUNGER from Australia:
Bryce Taylor doesn’t talk about his past but it is assumed to be pretty violent and crime-related. He has the ability to project a dampening field out from his body at will that disables any additional neural pathways found in the human brain, temporarily blocking access to paranormal abilities of any kind whether they’re natural (like mutations) or magical so long as he’s within range of his field’s variable radius, which is approximately 100 yards. When he touches superhuman beings he can absorb their life energy and use it to increase his own powers and physical abilities.
NEVERMORE from Detroit, USA:
Erin Grady grew up in the most dangerous city of the USA with strong believes in what is right and wrong as the daughter of an African-American civil rights lawyer and an Irish-American feminist and decided to join the ranks of the police in order to make a contribution towards the improvement of her home city. Her world and her trust in the american system crumbled to dust when her parents were gunned down by crooked cops in response to his defense of a black gangbanger who they wanted to be blamed for the killings of several innocent civilians in a drug deal gone wrong between the street gang and the police. Erin decided that such injustice had to happen “nevermore” and trained herself until she felt ready to take up the fight against the system which she considers to be “rotted to the core”. Although she has no real super powers, Erin can stand her ground against many superpowered opponents. She is quite skilled in gymnastics having trained in the sport to senior elite level since she was very young and has received basic Hand-to-Hand Combat training at the police academy as well as more intensive training in various martial arts by several fighting masters.
CODE RED from North-Korea:
Park Young-Jun was a soldier in the North Korean army who dared to criticize Kim Jong-il and thus was sentenced to death for treason. As an alternative to execution, he was “invited” to participate in a secret military experiment with little chance of survival which involved testing the effects of the explosion of a new kind of nuclear bomb called “Quantum Crusher”. Contrary to all expectations, Young-Jun survived and was transformed into a being of pure thermonuclear energy which is unable to live outside his specially built containment suit. This suit prevents him to explode himself (which could destroy at least half the earth) and grants him control over his vast array of powers which are largely nuclear in nature and involve tapping into the strong nuclear force, the energy that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus. Since his own physical atoms are constantly splitting apart, giving him incredible power whose limitations are yet to be determined, he constantly learns new facets to his abilities such as his capability to generate, manipulate, and absorb both matter and infinite amounts of energy of any form for an infinite amount of purposes.
MARABUNTA from the Central African Republic:
When Ajani Ndiaye kissed another man for the first time he was promptly busted and attacked by a group of villagers who intended to beat him to death for his “deviancy”. Luckily for him the stress and pain of the lapidation activated his Xenogene and he was able to punish his tormentors immediately. Ajani has an insectoid physiology and is able to lift weights up to a hundredfold of his bodyweight, stick to any surface and spit an acid venom that can dissolve any organic matter and even some types of metals.
MAD DOG from the UK:
Ajanis boyfriend Frank Nelson is a working-class child from East-London who became a “Redskin” and joined RASH as a teenager after being discriminated by schoolmates due to his candor regarding his homosexuality. Sadly not everyone knows the difference between an anarchistic Redskin and the better known right-wing extremist “naziskins” and when he visited a punk music concert he was confronted by a group of drunken anti-fascists who started to beat the crap out of him. They probably wouldn’t have stopped if his Xenogene hadn’t kicked in and transformed him in a bulky and ferocious looking powerhouse with a doglike face and pale skin who had no problems fighting of his aggressors. Frank possesses superhuman strength, durability and stamina as well as highly increased acute senses and large canine teeth and claws which are both strong enough to shred even reinforced steel.
MYGALE (french for “tarantula”) from France:
Saïd Gacem was born in France as the son of Algerian immigrants and lived his violent and crime dominated life like any other of the seemingly futureless inhabitants of the Parisian suburban areas called “Banlieue”. Without a proper education and hope for a better future he found his recourse in the challenging art of parkour and soon become a master of this acrobatic sport. When in 2005 the long pent-up anger of many young people about the prevailing poverty, racism, hopelessness, mass unemployment and related resignation, boredom and gang violence and the lack of integration capabilities, with specific reference to migrants in the satellite towns, led to outbreaks of violence Saïd was also one of the many people who took to the streets where he was confronted by a group of three cops who started bashing him with their truncheons. This eventually activated his Xenogene that grants him increased speed, reflexes and agility as well as superhuman strength and the spider-like abilty to stick to virtually any surface and crawl across.
Great team! Anarchists are the perfect foil to your government sponsored international teams
With those insect and canine physiologies Mad Dog and Marabunta must have a very uh… interesting love life. :O
@Legatus said:
Awesome!Thanks!
@DiCicatriz said:
Great team! Anarchists are the perfect foil to your government sponsored international teamsThank you. Yeah, I thought so too. Maybe I should do more villains since I have the feeling there are way too many “heroes” running around in my universe. But, hey – we haven’t had a look at the “rogue nations” yet…
@DiCicatriz said:
With those insect and canine physiologies Mad Dog and Marabunta must have a very uh… interesting love life. :OWell, love is complicated per se. But looking at Marabuntas tongue I’d say they’ll have no problems with french kisses…
@Vampyrist said:
I love code red’s mask, it has great shading.Thanks a lot! I’ll never reach the standards of the masters of shading such as djuby, ams, and others, but I think I improved myself over the last few weeks – especially since I’m normally way too lazy for much shading. Hope I finally got the hang of it ….
In case you wondered: I had excruciating back pains the last two weeks (and still going on), so I can’t spend much time at my computer and therefore wasn’t able to “machine” too many new characters. Also I’m working on incorporating some whole new ideas into my main story arc (you may have noticed that there wasn’t coming anything new – that’s because I have to rewrite the whole thing once again) which I hope to introduce to you pretty soon. So I won’t do any more international heroes after these last ones (at least for now).
ALPENJÄGER (Alphunter) from Innsbruck, Tirol/Austria:
Wolfgang Schell is a high decorated soldier in the Austrian army and wearer of a highly sophisticated battle armor with a jetpack and various high-tech weaponry.
TELL from Lucerne, Swiss:
Wilhelm Etterlin is a marksman of incredible accuracy. He is extremely adept at the use of crossbows and various other weapons. He can take virtually any object and use it in combat as an effective weapon.
WOLPERTINGER (Jackalope) from Landshut, Bavaria/Germany:
Sepp Grantlhuber is a shapeshifter who can take on the traits and abilites of any animal imaginable and has the abilty to mix those traits up as he wishes.
Austria still incorporates the Hammer & Sickle? Solid characters overall. Und Wolpertinger… mein Lieblings Wort in Deutsch!
@The Atomic Punk said:
Austria still incorporates the Hammer & Sickle?Yeah, but it has absolutlely no socialist or even communist relevance and is just displayed on the flag of the federal authorities – not on the national flag. This flag version may only be used by the federal authorities, a use by individuals, companies or associations is not allowed and can be punishable with an administrative penalty up to € 3.600, – . Uh-oh! Hope they don’t catch me…
Solid characters overall.
Sounds good enough, thanks!
Und Wolpertinger… mein Lieblingswort in Deutsch!
That’s more Bavarian then German, but then again, most Americans (and other nations as well) think immediately “Beer, Lederhosen and Oktoberfest” when they hear Germany – despite the fact that Germany consists of many different ethnic groups with sometimes very different cultural traits. (just FYI)
Fun Fact 1: The Wolpertinger is a Bavarian mythical creature that was invented in the 19th century and assembled from body parts of different animals to be sold to gullible tourists. Typical how this crowd treats its main “enemy” – the wretched North German (better known as “Preiss” or “Saupreiss”).
Fun Fact 2: In Lower Bavaria (whose inhabitants can be jocularly compared to “rednecks”) the Wolpertinger is called “Oibadrischl“. Maybe a new favorite German word for you?!
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.PS: Just to make sure: No offense meant against any ethnicity, nationality or whatever! I’m just ragging here!!!
That’s more Bavarian then German, but then again, most Americans (and other nations as well) think immediately “Beer, Lederhosen and Oktoberfest” when they hear Germany – despite the fact that Germany consists of many different ethnic groups with sometimes very different cultural traits. (just FYI)
Meine Großeltern waren aus Bayern. However, we learned “Hauptdeutsch” at home. And it is Oktoberfest! Which, yes, means bier und bratwurst! Pretzels, bierocks. We have a fast food chain called Runza that serves bierocks, but calls them Runzas for marketing.
Fun Fact 1: The Wolpertinger is a Bavarian mythical creature that was invented in the 19th century and assembled from body parts of different animals to be sold to gullible tourists. Typical how this crowd treats its main “enemy” – the wretched North German (better known as “Preiss” or “Saupreiss”).
I’ll have to start calling my “Junker” friends “Saupreiss.”
Fun Fact 2: In Lower Bavaria (whose inhabitants can be jocularly compared to “rednecks”) the Wolpertinger is called “Oibadrischl“. Maybe a new favorite German word for you?!
I have heard it called Oibadrischl before. Just doesn’t have the same ring as Wolpertinger.
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.PS: Just to make sure: No offense meant against any ethnicity, nationality or whatever! I’m just ragging here!!!
Serbian-German mix here.
@The Atomic Punk said:
Meine Großeltern waren aus Bayern.Ah – okay. Then you shall be allowed to make those connections…
And it is Oktoberfest!
Yeah, I think maybe this year it’ll be time that I will attend to it. Been too long since my last vistit (7 years?). But then again I’m not much of a beer drinker and they charge pretty stiff prices on Oktoberfest. Almost € 10 Euros (~ $ 13.50) for one “Maß” (1 liter beer). Like I said – maybe…
Serbian-German mix here.
I’m a Luxembourger-German-Belgian mix myself with some more family in France. So I consider myself simply as “European”.
@WMDBASSPLAYER said:
Fantastic characters and artwork, Madjack!Thanks! You too have some very interesting characters.
Got to spend a few days in Munich. LOVED IT THERE!
Yeah, Munich is imho one of those cities that can be mentioned in one breath with metropolises like Berlin, New York and Paris. But I would not want to live right in the big city anymore – I did for two years and it was a little bit too much for me. I prefer the smaller town of Starnberg some 25 kilometers outside of Munich by now. Maybe it’s my age.
Now, even if I’m still struggling with my new story- and timeline (please have patience), I’m gonna post some characters which will appear in this story. Here’s a group of adventurers from an alternative Steampunk-Reality that will play an improtant role in paving the way for the emerge of superhumans in my main universe.
In a world where the industrial revolution was altered through the discovery of an ancient nuclear-powered alien starship beneath stonehenge in 1886, history took a change of course. Amongst the team of researchers that examined the spacecraft was a young student called H.G. Wells who discovered a machine inside the ship that could open wormholes through space and time. But this very discovery finally lead to a war between the discoverers of the ship and it’s constuctors – an alien race known as “The Harvesters” that lived hidden on their earth for millennia and wasn’t very pleased to see a superior technology, that was lost to themselves, in the hands of such an underdeveloped species like humankind. The war eventually ended in an uncertain truce in 1889, but by this time vast areas of their earth had already became inhabitable for both races due to biological and chemical warfare agents and thousands of people have been mutated in an explosion of an alien artifact. With the help of his friend Thomas Edison H.G. Wells finally managed to reengineer the alien technology he had found and was able to build a machine in 1891 that allowed him to travel into parallel dimensions and even through time itself. In an effort to change the fate of his world he gathered a group of adventurers, scientists, and artists – all with unique special abilities – from all around the world and some even from different points in time to form a team that would travel to an alternate reality and search for the only species that has ever been able to withstand the enemy: The Mata’Nui.The Team from left to right and front to back:
KANDINSKY Real Name:
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.Wassily Kandinsky
1866 – 1944
Russia, 1891
Painter and art theorist
Synesthete – Has enhanced senses of perception, which he can combine and / or
intersect with each other and is able to create lifelike illusions consisting of hard light.
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.Ida Rhodes – (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz)
1900-1986
New York/USA, 1929
Mathematician and pioneer in the analysis of systems of programming
Transducer – Can literally “see” electromagnetic wavelengths in colors and shapes
and hear noises produced from a wide range of frequencies. Able to intercept
encrypted communications with her mind.
TESLA Real Name:
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.Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
New York/USA, 1891
Inventor, electrical/mechanical engineer, and futurist
Electrogenic – Has the ability to generate/produce electricity from his own body
as well as to absorb, conduct and manipulate it which give him control over electric fields,
charges and currents.
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.H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
1866-1946
London, 1891
Novelist, Teacher, Historian, Journalist
Power Replication – Is able to mimic and copy the abilities of others and to
combine/merge separate powers to either create a single new force or use
combinations of different powers simultaneously.
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.Marie Curie
1867-1934
France, 1891
Physicist and chemist
Radiation Manipulation – Can manipulate subatomic particles to generate and
manipulate toxic radioactivity to various purposes such as melting objects and
releasing electromagnetic pulse.
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.Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow
1849-1936
Russia, 1919
Physiologist and physician
Influencer – Is able to affect or directly influence other peoples minds to his
commands by directly sending suggestions into their subconscious.
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.Franz Kafka
1883-1924
Italy, 1914
Author and insurance investigator
Morphogene – can shapeshift into a giant cockroach, transforming and reshaping
his form down to the genetic and cellular structure, giving him all the abilities, traits
and appearance/physiology of it.
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.Thomas Alva Edison
1847-1931
New Jersey/USA, 1891
Inventor and businessman
Technopathy – Can manipulate technology and technological constructs,
computers, hardware and other devices that can be termed as “technology”.
Can operate most technology just by touching or looking.
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.Amelia Earheart
1897-1939
California/USA, 1932
Aviation pioneer and author
Wing Generation – Possesses huge wings, hollow birdlike bones and an altered
physiology which enables her to fly at speeds around 90 miles per hour (144 kph)
and heights upt to 10,000 feet (3 km).
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