Superheroes 'r' us

[rgraham666]

My alter ego is a vampire.

Sure, he's got lots of powers. He can shot put a Volkswagen, grow claws that can penetrate a kevlar vest, disappear from your perception and other things.

But his condition isolates him from humanity, who he still cares for. And he's constantly fighting against The Beast, the part of him that makes him Kindred.

So he's a lot like me. I've actually written a story about him. Not suitable for Lit unfortunately.

As you can tell I'm a big fan of Vampire: The Masquerade.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Weird how much our choice of super-character says about us: whether we're misunderstood outcasts or omnipotent bums (Mr. X was a ne'er-do-well) or creatures with poison blood.

How does that poison blood/breath thing work? You mean if you get too close to someone they die? (Talk about symbolism!)

Also, I've always wondered, all these Captain marvels and Captain Phantoms and Captain Midnights: just where did they earn their rank? How come there aren't any Lieutenant Marvels and General Midnights? And someday will it be Colonel Phantom?

---dr.M.

 

[SummerMorning]

My alter ego is a lord, who essentially doesn't have to do anything, because he has lackies doing it for him... in his spare time he practices fencing, sailing, mountaineering, motorcycling...

 

[Guest]

I can't seriously say there's any super-hero I'd want to be. I think my super-heroes have all been artists of some sort, but I wouldn't want to be them either. If anything, sometimes I wish I could be very ordinary and loved for it.

Perdita

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

I thought immortal only ment that yoou'd never die from old age, but you could still get killed from, say decapitation?

Imortals can't be killed, eternals live until they are killed. Or at least that's the way I heard it. If you are invincible, you can't be killed, but presumedly you could die from old age.

Even imortals seem to have some sort of weakness, however. such as that they can be killed by having there heads removed, or from seeing there own reflection or by being tricked by a wild swan into trying to swim

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

I can't seriously say there's any super-hero I'd want to be. I think my super-heroes have all been artists of some sort, but I wouldn't want to be them either. If anything, sometimes I wish I could be very ordinary and loved for it.

Perdita

Super Porn Writer,

has the power to make people fall over each other in lust, forgetting whatever they were fighting about

Peaple who are as naturally lusty as say, lou will be immune

 

[Svenskaflicka]

If I was a super-hero, I'd like to be Super Donald.

 

[Jamdin]

Also, I've always wondered, all these Captain marvels and Captain Phantoms and Captain Midnights: just where did they earn their rank? How come there aren't any Lieutenant Marvels and General Midnights? And someday will it be Colonel Phantom?

---dr.M.

I do not know about Captain Marvel, but the first Captain Phantom (my own creation) was actually a Confederal captain in the Civil War. Since there is no longer a Conderate Army, the chance for him (or his descendants) to be promoted.

I believe Captain Midnight's real name was Captain Albright, a pilot during WWI. He reported to Major Steel. Funny thing about Captain America was that he was Private Steve Rogers. Since most superheroes were created during WWII, ranks from the armed forces were used in their names.

 

[Guest]

Cool thread!

I have no superhero alter ego. Spiderlovingsuperwoman IS me!

I know I've said this before, but I am the leader of the Spider Protection Corporation.

http://www.psyche-erotica.co.uk/images/spiders.gif

Lou - Founder and Leader of the S.P.C.

 

[shereads]

Weird how much our choice of super-character says about us: whether we're misunderstood outcasts or omnipotent bums (Mr. X was a ne'er-do-well) or creatures with poison blood.

How does that poison blood/breath thing work? You mean if you get too close to someone they die? (Talk about symbolism!)

Also, I've always wondered, all these Captain marvels and Captain Phantoms and Captain Midnights: just where did they earn their rank? How come there aren't any Lieutenant Marvels and General Midnights? And someday will it be Colonel Phantom?

---dr.M.

Have you ever seen the cartoon, "X Presidents" on Saturday Night Live? Reagan pretends to be the sweet little man, and behind the scenes he kicks ass - gets all the other ex-presidents riled, and they battle evil in their leotards. They all hiss when Clinton wants to join them. It's a brilliant piece of work. One of the few reasons I keep up with SNL anymore.

Also: superhero buffs who haven't seen it, should rent M. Night Shalalan's "Unbreakable." (He wrote and directed The Sixth Sense; this one also has an ending that nobody saw coming.)

 

[Marsipanne]

How does that poison blood/breath thing work? You mean if you get too close to someone they die? (Talk about symbolism!)

I had the complicated chemistry thing and background to why she had poison blood all figured out.. but I seemed to have deleted that file and I'm more than a liddle annoyed now. It was something about her father being a mad scientist/chemist and she breathing in tons of mercury and stuff.

Originally, it was just poison blood, not poison breath. However, that was in the less informed days when I thought that having sex with someone who had HIV would give you HIV and that HIV was in blood. Then I found out HIV is transmitted in bodily fluids, not blood during sex so that theory scrapped and I switched to having poison breath. The Myra Loren character didn't have poison breath (I invented her ages ago) but my story characters do. The idea is that poison is engulfing the person's body. It isn't really something flowing in the blood, it's more like a chemical that's present everywhere in the body and it's dissolved into the blood in places, making it poisonous. And to be precise, it isn't exactly just poisonous; it's corrosive.

I liked the idea of something beautiful being deadly. In fact, I've got a bit of an obsession with that too. Hence, all my antagonists are ungodly beautiful creatures.

 

[Remec]

I used to pretend I was Wonder Woman, but her tits were always so much bigger than mine!

I dunno...sure they're nice, but I think being shoved into that breastplate of a corset she wears as a costume in almost every incarnation ('cept that run in the 60s when she'd lost her powers) prolly helps quite a bit with the visual image and presentation...

<g>

 

[Remec]

Wonder Woman has always been an object of fetish worship. I remember once coming across an adult fanfic site and there were more stories about WW than about anyone else. And when I used to search for erotic cartoons, I was always coming across Wonder Woman in bondage strips. And when she wasn't taking it she was dishing it out.

<nod>
I'm not surprised. She is the archetype female hero, after all. And can be traced back to earlier female characters in pulps and artistic depictions of some kind or another for a while before that.

Plus, the Amazon's whole wearing of the shackles as an outward sign of penance for having submitted to Heracles and losing their powers should she be bound by them by a man leads itself quite nicely into bondage fetish...particularly since so much bondage gear and dress tends to be derivative of Wonder Woman's early foes...it's just a natural step to take.

 

[Remec]

LOL
we would play wonderwoman and aqua man.. loved those webbed feet/hands.. makes me wonder.. for some reason i was always aqua man. oh god.. i think i might need therapy.

It's the appearance thing. You have that short blonde hair and bright eyes...and dazzling smile, which, while almost never smiling these days and a bit of a grump sometimes in the past, Aquaman certainly could let shine with the best of them...<g>

(Same reason I always for stuck being Batman or other dark heroes. I'd just skip the looks and go for someone in a full helm who was rarely out of costume...like Hawkeye or Swordsman...or someone obscure, like Jack Russell.)

 

[Remec]

Also, I've always wondered, all these Captain marvels and Captain Phantoms and Captain Midnights: just where did they earn their rank? How come there aren't any Lieutenant Marvels and General Midnights? And someday will it be Colonel Phantom?

<popping up to interrupt minor rant>
"Actually, there are three Lt Marvels...or, there were in the original continuity, back when there was Earth-S and all. Actually, they may predate DC's ownership of that mythos, when all the Shazam characters belonged to Fawcett."

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Does anyone remember Hawkman from D.C. comics? He was bare-chested, had big wings and the head of a hawk over his face and used to fly around and only use medieval weapons. He had a whole family too: Hawkwoman and Hawkman Jr. and maybe even Uncle Hawkman.

What the hell was his story? I could never figure that dude out. He was a cop from the planet Hawk or something?

Also J'ohn J'onez or whatever the hell his name was: The Martian Manhunter. What was up with him?

---dr.M.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

<popping up to interrupt minor rant>
"Actually, there are three Lt Marvels...or, there were in the original continuity, back when there was Earth-S and all. Actually, they may predate DC's ownership of that mythos, when all the Shazam characters belonged to Fawcett."

Yeah, I remember Captain Marvel from way back when Superman was suing him. By the time I knew him, he'd fallen so far that they used to give out these little comics about him in kids' shoe stores. Billy Bateson trying on Red Goose shoes.

There was a whole Captain Marvel family, too, wasn't there? Didn't he have a sister and a kid brother or something?

He had the wimpiest damned cape I've ever seen. With flowers or something on it. It was kind of an off-the-shoulder wrap or lobster-bib type thing.

But what a jaw!

---dr.M.

 

[cookiejar]

Yeah, I remember Captain Marvel from way back when Superman was suing him. By the time I knew him, he'd fallen so far that they used to give out these little comics about him in kids' shoe stores. Billy Bateson trying on Red Goose shoes.

There was a whole Captain Marvel family, too, wasn't there? Didn't he have a sister and a kid brother or something?

He had the wimpiest damned cape I've ever seen. With flowers or something on it. It was kind of an off-the-shoulder wrap or lobster-bib type thing.

But what a jaw!

---dr.M.

I never knew you were such a fashion hound dr_m.

 

[Guest]

It's the appearance thing. You have that short blonde hair and bright eyes...and dazzling smile, which, while almost never smiling these days and a bit of a grump sometimes in the past, Aquaman certainly could let shine with the best of them...<g>

(Same reason I always for stuck being Batman or other dark heroes. I'd just skip the looks and go for someone in a full helm who was rarely out of costume...like Hawkeye or Swordsman...or someone obscure, like Jack Russell.)

ah rem, youre a charmer.

thinking my new superhero alter ego is Sappholite. bringer of lesbianism.. defender of chicks.. not afraid to be politically incorrect... infallible but indestructible... or maybe ill have to work on her a bit more..
we shall see.

 

[Remec]

Hawkman

Does anyone remember Hawkman from D.C. comics? He was bare-chested, had big wings and the head of a hawk over his face and used to fly around and only use medieval weapons. He had a whole family too: Hawkwoman and Hawkman Jr. and maybe even Uncle Hawkman.

What the hell was his story? I could never figure that dude out. He was a cop from the planet Hawk or something?

That was the Silver Age one.

Originally, Hawkman was Carter Hall, a collector of fine weaponry from earlier times. (He may have actually been in the museum business, but I forget.) He discovers that he is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince and that both his previous life's love as well as the nemesis who slew them both have also been reincarnated.

From him you get the original Hawkgirl, who later becomes Hawkwoman, as well as his son who goes through several different superhero identities.

When they revamped and jumpstarted the DC universe in the '60s with the Barry Allen Flash and Hal Jordan Green Lantern, they introduced a new Hawkman. Katar Hol, from the planet Thanagar, was indeed an alien policeman who originally came to Earth in search of a fleeing suspect and ends up staying here for some reason of another. (I've never read these stories, so I'm a little unclear on why he remained on our world.)

 

[Remec]

Martian Manhunter

Also J'ohn J'onez or whatever the hell his name was: The Martian Manhunter. What was up with him?

In the tradition of Superman and many others, the Martian Manhunter is one of the last of his race. Coming to Earth for some reason or another, he fled the terrified people who he came in contact with until he finally managed to use his powers of telepathy and shapeshifting to blend in with the everyday Earthling.

Again, for some reason I'm not up on, he gravitates to a life fighting crime. First as a police detective and then as a private eye, he anglicizes his Martian name into the similar John Jones, and does what he can to stem the tide of crime. Eventually, he joins up with others and becomes a founding member of the Justice League.

 

[Remec]

There was a whole Captain Marvel family, too, wasn't there? Didn't he have a sister and a kid brother or something?

He had the wimpiest damned cape I've ever seen. With flowers or something on it. It was kind of an off-the-shoulder wrap or lobster-bib type thing.

But what a jaw!

<nod> Yep...lost sister who becomes Mary Marvel and this sort of adopted brother who was a lame fan of his and gained the power of being Captain Marvel, Jr. There was also Uncle Dudley, who didn't have superpowers, but was a stage magician, conartist, and quick change expert who would dart out to solve mysteries that didn't really need the powered members for.

 

[Remec]

ah rem, youre a charmer.

thinking my new superhero alter ego is Sappholite. bringer of lesbianism.. defender of chicks.. not afraid to be politically incorrect... infallible but indestructible... or maybe ill have to work on her a bit more..
we shall see.

Mmm...vella kiss...mmm Well, my day is made...<wink>

Sounds like an intriguing character...sure ya wouldn't like to be Bisexual Lass? Not that there's anything wrong with the other, naturally...well, other than, like, eliminating anything beyond casual flirting and such...hehehe