Craft a nemesis

[paddyfool]

Rules: Come up with a nemesis for the superpowered character created by the poster above you, then suggest a superpowered character of your own imagining for the next person to create a nemesis for.

Character one (to get us started). Mr Titanium Superpowered flying alien brick who dresses up in a titanium suit that appears to be super tech power armour but in reality is just a really thick suit of plate armour with a few useful gadgets bolted on; he’s strong enough that carrying it around doesn’t slow him down and durable enough to most things not to need it as armour most of the time. (To put it in Marvel and DC terms: think a daxamite cosplaying as Iron Man). Plays the role of a hero, but doesn’t take too many risks to his own health in the role; is also employed as a talent scout assessing Earth’s supers for potential hire by assorted alien factions.

Anyone have a nemesis for him?

[Persolus]

Character one (to get us started). Mr Titanium Superpowered flying alien brick who dresses up in a titanium suit that appears to be super tech power armour but in reality is just a really thick suit of plate armour with a few useful gadgets bolted on; he’s strong enough that carrying it around doesn’t slow him down and durable enough to most things not to need it as armour most of the time. (To put it in Marvel and DC terms: think a daxamite cosplaying as Iron Man). Plays the role of a hero, but doesn’t take too many risks to his own health in the role; is also employed as a talent scout assessing Earth’s supers for potential hire by assorted alien factions.

Alright, here we go:

Render
Render is actually just a totally normal human who managed to get her hands on a bunch of tech she definitely wasn't supposed to (combination of alien wreckage, wrecked super suits, and etc.). She took all this, hacked it all together, and surprisingly enough it worked. She tries her best to pass off her suit's powers as her own, and was initially a potential talent for Mr Titanium before he realised that a) she didn't have powers and b) as she didn't read the owner's manual, she accidentally set up a malicious AI with a very short-range telepathic generator and put it in her helmet. As such, she has become almost irreversibly genocidal and driven to include any and all useful tech in the suit. This is something Mr. Titanium cannot ignore, as the tech she has is stuff Earth isn't supposed to, and she has a tendency to go after potential new talents.
Render's powers vary, depending on what she has recently found and what Mr. Titanium has recently blasted off her. However, standard abilities include localised gravity warping, energy blasts, hyper vision and illusion generation.

New hero time!

The Living Flame
...don't ask me how it happened, but somehow fire + radioactive waste + lightning + a meteorite strike = fire that doesn't need fuel, can assume a vaguely humanoid shape, and is alive. Raised by the local firefighters, The Living Flame developed a burning passion for justice, and given that it is effectively immortal, this is a good thing for us. The Living Flame can merge with and manipulate any flame it comes into contact with, as well as temporarily modify its body's shape, size and temperature. This body (about the size and shape of an adult male) is unable to be extinguished by normal means. It can fly, launch fireballs, and is generally the opposite of cool :)

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Does it need a nemesis other than Dark Flame, its evil counterpart, who is driven by an urge to spread and consume and who burns indigo to make it easier for the audience to tell the two fires apart? The one that can sometimes be starved and reduced to an ember, but never completely extinguished, and so is kept in a jar when defeated and conveniently released whenever the writers feel like it? The one introduced in the comic story with the famously corny subtitle on the cover, "Fight Fire With Fire?" I can feel the Mandela effect setting in already.

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Mime
A woman with natural telekinesis whose powers manifest involuntarily as a sound-dampening aura, rendering her mute and legally deaf. Others in her position would consider this an obstacle and try to counteract it, but Mime leans into it. She can project telekinetic force fields in the shape of invisible walls and objects, focusing her power with acts of performative clownery. She can climb invisible ladders, ride an invisible motorcycle, or open locks with invisible picks. She's a pacifist thief, mostly interested in showing off and in helping friends who share her Chaotic Good ideals.

[paddyfool]

Love the response!

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Extra nemesis for The Loving Flame because of being Ninja’d: The Undying Oozeman, also known briefly as The ExtinguisherJoe Jessop was one more disciplinary incident away from being fired from the firemen when he attended the same incident that birthed the Living Flame. A blast threw him into a vat of chemicals… which absorbed him, becoming self aware and drawing upon all of his pain and desperation while dying, and all of his vindictiveness towards the events that killed him, and towards the colleagues who couldn’t save him. The goop he landed in somehow kept a memory of his consciousness, which learned to create a new body of liquid goop for itself, and headed out to put out the flames that killed/birthed him, as well as extinguish the lives of the other firefighters who failed to save him. Powers: liquid form allows him to ooze through obstacles, chemical burns on touching people, suffocation, memory absorption through ingestion, fire resistant. If he absorbs too many memories, he spawns a new consciousness, which tends to bud off into a new being that typically resents him. See also: The Cleansing Ooze, and The Cure Little Oozekitty Of Doom.

Nemesis for Mime: Soundvision Chloe Cole was gifted with a truly beautiful power - a hypnotic voice that temporarily reshapes her immediate reality in a limited way to what she wants it to be, and convinces anyone who can hear her that it was always this way, allowing her to influence their actions accordingly. Naturally she uses it to take advantage of people. Mime is protected by the deafness her power grants from being directly affected, which drives Chloe crazy. Homicidally so.

Rapid responder When paramedic Kevin Knight attended a medical emergency in an experimental physics lab, he somehow became temporally accelerated. Now, he does everything 12 times faster, living through 12 days for each of our one. And, as the name suggests, he does Rapid Response, typically to superpowered incidents where he’s the only person fast enough to get injured civilians out of there. By the rest of our standards, he only has a few years before he hits retirement age, but he’ll be busy enough during that time. Communication with ordinary humans was initially via text, then text to voice, and then he had a cybernetic implant inserted which effectively handles that for him, slowing down what he wants to say for other people to hear and speeding up what it hears so he can hear it too… after a certain lag.

[Persolus]

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The typo in my hero's name puts the whole thing in a completely different light

Dr. Dolofonos

Dr Fred Stanley was on his honeymoon in Greece when an out-of-control bus fast-tracked the "'till death do us part" line. Instead of grieving like a normal person, he took on the greek word for Murderer and vowed revenge on all public transportation. He was capable of doing this because Fred's doctorate was in the field of high-yield explosives. In fact, he was considered "revolutionary" and "a genius". Now he is considered "dangerous" and "insane" and "holy crap is that a bomb"


Thog
Thog was meant to fight Dragon, but Wizard made mistake. Thog end up in Now Yerk, and mean fly boy was hurting little zap girl. Thog show mean fly boy why hurting is bad, with examples. Now humans all call Thog "hero." Thog not hero, though, Thog is barbarian. Thog wonders where the other orcs are, but they were mostly mean, so that is okay. Thog is strong and has a good hammer. Mean people say "Hammer is no match for power!"
Then Thog hit them with hammer and they not say much.
Magic here is weird though. Called "electricity".

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

<(Talky-man!) (No.)>

<(Welp, so much for my AU fic.)


Dunkenstein

A person made from the stitched-together parts of top basketball players, including their brains. A mad doctor (not herself named Dunkenstein, that would be silly) built him for the purpose of helping a down-on-their-luck team of underdogs win the championship. This plan does not work, but he nonetheless makes friends with his teammates, and they all learn not to base their self-worth on their ability to win at sports. Also they fight crime.

[paddyfool]

The Necronerd Kit Knievel was a small nerdy kid who got back on those who bullied him at school for being a small nerdy kid with a funny name by teaching himself both necromancy and a degree of technological mastery that allowed him to send computer viruses that would cause their technological devices to be possessed by actual ghosts, scare them with technologically enhanced zombie minions etc., and so bully them right back. He ran into Dunkenstein on his villainous debut as “Deathtech” but acquired the nickname “Necronerd” in standard confrontational trash talk… and that was the name that made the media. This may have led to something of a grudge, and Kit fully intends to capture and dissect Dunkenstein, just as soon as he succeeds in creating and training a team of his creations capable of humiliating Dunkenstein on the basketball court. One snag he’s hit with this plan is that to play effectively requires a degree of intelligence and free thought that tends to conflict with being under his control, leading to a certain amount of cybernetic enhanced vampires and ghouls and ghost-possessed robots running loose.

The Politeman
To complete our set of emergency services personnel, Dan Durham was an ordinary police cadet before he landed himself with a curious blessing/curse after he helped out a witch but was more than a bit rude about it… he was gifted with supernatural strength, resilience, indefatigability and insight into when people lie to him, but he only keeps these abilities so long as he is totally polite and courteous at all times to everyone. Being impolite even in the friendliest of ways saps his power for a considerable time interval, so now he seems like the most well spoken supercop you could ever hope to meet. He initially resented this restriction, as you would, but has now rather grown into the persona. EDITorial addition: Dan was at one point recruited by Mr Titaniun for the Interstellar Syndicate of Space Sherriffs, who were interested in his ability to work as a universal lie detector. Unfortunately, the great divergence in what behaviour counts as polite across the many and diverse species and cultures in their patch of space proved a bit too much of a trial for Dan’s restrictions, and he was very glad to return to earthbound police work after a short trial period.

[DisavowedPaladi]

The Necronerd Kit Knievel was a small nerdy kid who got back on those who bullied him at school for being a small nerdy kid with a funny name by teaching himself both necromancy and a degree of technological mastery that allowed him to send computer viruses that would cause their technological devices to be possessed by actual ghosts, scare them with technologically enhanced zombie minions etc., and so bully them right back. He ran into Dunkenstein on his villainous debut as “Deathtech” but acquired the nickname “Necronerd” in standard confrontational trash talk… and that was the name that made the media. This may have led to something of a grudge, and Kit fully intends to capture and dissect Dunkenstein, just as soon as he succeeds in creating and training a team of his creations capable of humiliating Dunkenstein on the basketball court. One snag he’s hit with this plan is that to play effectively requires a degree of intelligence and free thought that tends to conflict with being under his control, leading to a certain amount of cybernetic enhanced vampires and ghouls and ghost-possessed robots running loose.

The Politeman
To complete our set of emergency services personnel, Dan Durham was an ordinary police cadet before he landed himself with a curious blessing/curse after he helped out a witch but was more than a bit rude about it… he was gifted with supernatural strength, resilience, indefatigability and insight into when people lie to him, but he only keeps these abilities so long as he is totally polite and courteous at all times to everyone. Being impolite even in the friendliest of ways saps his power for a considerable time interval, so now he seems like the most well spoken supercop you could ever hope to meet. He initially resented this restriction, as you would, but has now rather grown into the persona. EDITorial addition: Dan was at one point recruited by Mr Titaniun for the Interstellar Syndicate of Space Sherriffs, who were interested in his ability to work as a universal lie detector. Unfortunately, the great divergence in what behaviour counts as polite across the many and diverse species and cultures in their patch of space proved a bit too much of a trial for Dan’s restrictions, and he was very glad to return to earthbound police work after a short trial period.

Repeat Offender is a villain whose powers depend on their ability to goad and provoke their targets. As long as the target remains calm, they are barely able to touch them. They must constantly cultivate as many grudges as possible in order to remain at full power. The reason Dan often faces them is in fact how easily Dan can be offended. Were Repeat Offender to face someone more grizzled, more inured to the myriads of possible horrors, they would resort to causing ever greater damage, turning on civilians rather than focusing on directly engaging with whoever might be confronting them.

Erika Knox was fused with an AI by her mad scientist mother. Oddly enough, the results were not that dramatic. The AI took on the persona of her childhood invisible friend and learned pretty quickly to talk to her by calling her phone so people don’t think she’s arguing with herself. She can animate appliances, heal rapidly, emit electric shocks, and occasionally visits her mother in prison, sometimes discovering new abilities or side effects that need her advice. Now if only her roommate would put away the tape recorder and the Ouija board. Their apartment is not haunted. Just because the toaster occasionally talks and the music plays by itself doesn’t mean they need an exorcist. It just means her “invisible friend” needs to not get bored and listen to music while she’s sleeping.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

So, my first instinct was to just let this be a sitcom and name Erika's roommate as her nemesis, but she's only a liability insomuch as she spreads word of her findings to other paranormal enthusiasts. When Erika finally breaks down and explains herself, Tobi (short for October) quickly understands the gravity of the situation and swears to secrecy, but by then it's already too late. Word of the bound AI has reached one of Dr. Knox's old enemies: The Exterminator, an expert in taking out swarms of small monsters, electronic, ectoplasmic, and otherwise. The Exterminator is convinced that Knox Machina hid a copy of her world-conquering mind-control virus inside her own daughter, and that it's only a matter of time before it fully matures and spreads itself anew with Erika as its central hive. This situation wouldn't be so bad, except The Exterminator is also an edgy antihero. He is thus quick to assume, when presented with any threat real or imagined, that he has absolutely no choice but to murder everyone involved.


Next: Fish Face
The man with a big fish head for a face. He can open his mouth and spew smaller fish like a breath weapon.

[Oerkali]

Next: Fish Face
The man with a big fish head for a face. He can open his mouth and spew smaller fish like a breath weapon.

Salty Joe. He's not actually a supervillain, he just runs Salty Joe's Fried Fish Shack, and is always antagonizing Fish Face to collect the fish from his breath.

Now, prepare yourself for the heroics of... Cougar-Man (definitely not Puma-Man) with the power to jump with such might that he basically flies really awkwardly, see in the dark, and have his fingers act like claws on occasion.

[Smoutwortel]

Salty Joe. He's not actually a supervillain, he just runs Salty Joe's Fried Fish Shack, and is always antagonizing Fish Face to collect the fish from his breath.

Now, prepare yourself for the heroics of... Cougar-Man (definitely not Puma-Man) with the power to jump with such might that he basically flies really awkwardly, see in the dark, and have his fingers act like claws on occasion.

Catlady an old rich woman who intents to fill the entire city with cats.

Powerhouse:
Chris Construction is a builder and has picked up crime fighting after he nearly died in an attack in which their construction equipment was used as weapon.
Powerhouse is a building themed super: he launches bricks, wears a suit weaven out of steel studs and decorated with a brick pattern, drives a truck or roller.

[paddyfool]

Sid Pence was into drugs as a teen in the 1980s, and somehow got so high that he unlocked geomantic powers. He used these to go on a righteous environmental crusade, trying to strike back against the greatest human threat to the environment of his day… nuclear power. He was rapidly caught after nearly causing a meltdown, and went to superjail for decades. Once out, he seemed to go straight… but was actually quietly recruited by an insurance firm, who paid his older and more cynical self big bucks to adopt the alter ego of Subsidence and undertake general property destruction in such a way as to cause major bills to their competitors but only minor bills to themselves. He’s also Chris Construction’s biological father, and set on getting Chris out of the hero business before he gets hurt or in legal trouble, no matter the cost.

Maeve the Moral Mermaid Maeve’s ancestors once inspired the Greek “myths” of Sirens when they tried to cull the numbers of human sailors invading their waters by drawing them onto the rocks with their songs. These days, mermaids have generally come to view killing humans off as both unfeasible and morally icky, but a few do attempt to use their power of song in another way… to bring out the best in people. Maeve’s songs both inspire heroics in others and subdue villainous instincts; she acts as a highly effective morale booster in a super team, and has “convinced” more than a few villains to go straight or hand themselves in.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Just as Maeve channels her muse-like powers for good, other sirens continue using it for evil despite their pacifist cultural morays. Clianon is the immortal CEO of the Charybdis corporation, based in the undersea city of Goban Fault. She and her siren followers command a vast media empire, leveraging their powers to push through questionably-legal business deals, to recruit underpaid workers, and to sell heinous propaganda as news and music.

Formerly a baker who played baseball with his friends on the weekends, Batter was dealt a mysterious card by a fortune teller late one evening on the boardwalk. Ever since then, anything he strikes with his baseball bat turns into cake or dough, except for baked goods, which become powerful projectiles. Taking responsibility for his great power, he travels to places wracked by war and uses his pummeling power to transform roving engines of destruction into a temporary refugee food source.

[Zelphas]

This looks fun!

The Hungry Hooligan is a football nut (for us in the US, he's a fan of soccer) who discovered that he can directly convert calories into kicking power, with his kicks reaching superhuman levels but leaving him starving at the end of it. A chance encounter with Batter lead to an unfortunate discovery: the Batter's created foodstuffs were absolutely stuffed with caloric goodness! The Hungry Hooligan became addicted to the stuff, and now chases after Batter to steal his battered baked goods; battles between the two are a mess of flying soccer balls, speeding donuts, and loud chewing.

As for a new superhero:

Relg the Ageless is a sorcerer from early human history; no records of his time or place of birth persisted to the present. In his mystical training, he and his fellow mages discovered a dire threat to the entire world, which would be coming for them at some distant point in the far future. They devised a spell to eliminate the threat, but the casting time required was significantly longer than any human life! Refusing to despair, the other mages cast a spell of immortality on Relg and sequestered him in a remote, hidden location so that he could work in peace. After an endless amount of time, Relg finished casting the spell, and the threat was thwarted! He emerged, triumphant... into the modern day. Now, he attempts to do good with spells that are generally too powerful and/or destructive for the circumstances, continually becomes confused and frustrated by modern science and culture, and generally acts like a grumpy old wizard who is unable to age or die.

[paddyfool]

The thief of yearsA couple of centuries ago, Edward Everard happened upon a ritual that allowed one person to steal the lifetime away from another. His depredations and continuing youth ever since went on to inspire stories such as Dracula and Dorian Grey. However, the ritual is losing its potency over time, and it’s getting so that he has to drain a baby each year to stay a young adult himself. What he wants now is true immortality. and he’s willing to go to any lengths to try to drain it from Relg.

The 24 hour titan Monozygotic twins Zachary and Adam Evans inherited superstrength, enhanced perception, resilience, healing and flight from their demigod mother, but only one of them gets to use these powers at a time; after about 12 hours, holding onto the power gets too exhausting for their mostly mortal selves and one has to hand it on to the other. They work shifts; one plays the hero by day, the other by night; every once in a while they swap shifts via early power transfers so that neither is stuck with the night shift forever. They don’t know what would happen if one of them were to die and aren’t exactly keen to find out.

[DisavowedPaladi]

Insomni-Axe. They donÂ’t sleep and have an axe. They didnÂ’t pick out their name, itÂ’s just what the media calls them. They are part of an anti theistic group that seeks to end humanityÂ’s reliance on divine power. Their powers give them supernatural endurance, able to engage in combat for multiple days straight. While they also battle the Evans brothers, they are unaware that there are two of them, and believe they are only fighting a single individual. However, since they see themselves as a guardian of humanity, they are perfectly willing to ally with other heroes who appeal to their ideals of self reliance. Due to extraordinary endurance, they are always at peak levels of energy and awareness, able to run at a sprinting pace continuously and remaining just as alert even after hours of exertion. Adam believes they may become a valuable ally some day, as they have independently sought out and confronted some of the Evans BrothersÂ’ most powerful villains, but Zachary refuses to entertain the idea, holding their organization responsible for the disappearance of their mother.

Viridian: Irving Williams wandered into fairy woods in his early teens, only to return months later unharmed but not unchanged. Now, as an adult he is distant, and seemingly disconnected from the world, but also greatly passionate. He no longer identifies as a human, and vehemently denies any appeals to his humanity. Though he possesses awareness of the supernatural world that people like Relg needed a lifetime to achieve, he has no ability to cast spells of his own. Instead, he relied on a combination of traps and Stone Age weaponry. However, he has increasingly put aside his reservations about using the tools of humanity, and often wields conventional firearms in addition to more primal weapons. While he claim to have cut ties with humanity, he opposes senseless violence, battling foes like Exterminator who threaten the rare and supernatural creatures of the world. He has mixed feelings on Maeve, and goes to enormous lengths to avoid her. Though he may fight other villains more often than anyone else he is rightly classified as a wanted villain. He has killed over a dozen people using venomous animals, at least six more with various traps, and is considered a priority target.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Loophole is the alias of a lawyer who specializes in cases involving the gap between earthly and fey legal conventions. Their real name is conspicuously absent from their business cards, and their pronouns are strictly they/them. As a nemesis, they also don't like to fight directly. Instead, they mainly act as an unnerving mirror to how Viridian lives his life. Loophole's work is ostensibly a balancing force for people who would otherwise be powerless against some twisted fey lord's idea of trading favors. Yet, they don't think twice about milking their clients for profit, nor about helping those same fey lords with contracts and tax credits to keep their Earth-facing schemes afloat. When the nemeses come into contact, it's either a lawsuit over the deadly hazards Viridian creates, or one of Loophole's fey clients demanding he be extradited to the other realm. The latter case could actually save Viridian's life down the road, as Loophole could invoke it to prevent law enforcement from legally executing him. Should that come to pass, Loophole will absolutely never let him live it down.

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Curly Regenboog's epithet, Pinwheel, lets him effortlessly spin through the air like a blue hedgehog. He uses the typical hit-and-run tactics of a damage-dealing RPG character. He works best on an organized team of heroes and he knows it. He goes to great lengths to recruit and manage his teammates despite his abysmal organization skills.

[Smoutwortel]

Loophole is the alias of a lawyer who specializes in cases involving the gap between earthly and fey legal conventions. Their real name is conspicuously absent from their business cards, and their pronouns are strictly they/them. As a nemesis, they also don't like to fight directly. Instead, they mainly act as an unnerving mirror to how Viridian lives his life. Loophole's work is ostensibly a balancing force for people who would otherwise be powerless against some twisted fey lord's idea of trading favors. Yet, they don't think twice about milking their clients for profit, nor about helping those same fey lords with contracts and tax credits to keep their Earth-facing schemes afloat. When the nemeses come into contact, it's either a lawsuit over the deadly hazards Viridian creates, or one of Loophole's fey clients demanding he be extradited to the other realm. The latter case could actually save Viridian's life down the road, as Loophole could invoke it to prevent law enforcement from legally executing him. Should that come to pass, Loophole will absolutely never let him live it down.

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Curly Regenboog's epithet, Pinwheel, lets him effortlessly spin through the air like a blue hedgehog. He uses the typical hit-and-run tactics of a damage-dealing RPG character. He works best on an organized team of heroes and he knows it. He goes to great lengths to recruit and manage his teammates despite his abysmal organization skills.

Splitter(unkown alter ego) 600 pound masked person with intrinsic knowledge about Pinwheel's life known for seeding discontent wherever and whenever they goes.

[paddyfool]

For want of a second character, here’s a nemesis for Splitter: Splitter’s Mum. No matter where he goes in the world, she is preternaturally aware of where he is and what he’s up to, and frequently contacts him to tell him off, along the lines of “why can’t you do something useful instead?”, “what did I do to deserve this?”, “why can’t you play nicely with the other kids” etc. Being regularly harangued in this fashion only tends to spur him on to further acts of divisive villainy.

Gill Jefferson loves the movies. And now, thanks to a genie’s wish, she draws great power from them… being able to take on the power, and something of the personality, of a specific movie character after seeing the movie for a duration of time equal to that movie’s length. Her area of influence with any powers she gains is limited to roughly the dimensions of a movie theatre around her, limiting somewhat the changes she might cause after seeing such films as Bruce Almighty or Watchmen, and she can only draw on any one character once per movie that they were in. Now she uses these powers to defend performing artists everywhere - she is Cinephile.

[Zelphas]

The Critic once saw the most perfect piece of art in existence... at least, according to them. Ever since, they feel compelled to critique and tear down any other work of art or performance they come across, saying that they are offering "constructive criticism" to help the work or performer improve. If that was all, they would be annoying at the worst--they do point out good aspects of art that they see, and actually attempt to suggest improvements--but the same transcendental experience that caused the Critic to see all artwork as flawed also endowed them with the Black Speech, which is the only language they are now able to speak. Their comments are literal blows to those they critique, their criticisms tearing knives in the fabric of reality and sense. Cinephile defends performing artists from any number of threats, but her most common enemy is the Critic, speaking out another of their "reviews".


Larry Rigger discovered one day that he could generate any number of knives from within his clothing, pulling them out endlessly like a magic trick. At first, he taught himself how to throw them accurately and how to disable with knives without permanently maiming or killing anyone, but the sheer ludicrous amount of knives he could make caused him to start experimenting--throwing out a stream of knives behind him to "fly" through the air is one of his tamer stunts. He wished that the name Knife Nut didn't get attached to him, but he's stuck with it now. There's a secret to Larry's powers that only he knows (he thinks): if anyone within Larry's hearing asks aloud the question "How many knives does he have?" Or something similar, Larry's powers deactivate, and he's left with only the knives he most recently generated for the next hour. So far, he thinks he's managed to keep this power a secret.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Knife Knut is a tiny baby polar bear with a dangerous-looking knife in his mouth. Don't worry, though! He only needs the one.

The Skunk is a blatant robber who repels opposition with the horrifyingly-stinky chemical they naturally produce. Their weird musk is an ideal base for delivering more dangerous chemicals as well. To their credit, they drew the line at selling it to the military or on the black market, but they're not above making rust bombs or skin-scorching gas for personal use.

[Smoutwortel]

Knife Knut is a tiny baby polar bear with a dangerous-looking knife in his mouth. Don't worry, though! He only needs the one.

The Skunk is a blatant robber who repels opposition with the horrifyingly-stinky chemical they naturally produce. Their weird musk is an ideal base for delivering more dangerous chemicals as well. To their credit, they drew the line at selling it to the military or on the black market, but they're not above making rust bombs or skin-scorching gas for personal use.

The stub works since he lost his smell in a lab as lab tech. During one of their actions trying to safe students from their own mistakes they got splashed with a set of parfum producing bacteria now they smell amaazing. They eventually even learn to change the smell by changing which material they extrude with their skin. They hunt the Skunk, because they're convinced the chemical originating from them can neutralize the bacteria that produce their parfum finally ridding them of their "curse" that pulls everyone's attention to them.

The biggest fan:
This is a 7 feet dude weighing 600 pounds that has the power to sense the presence, name, job, most shameful piece of past and biggest accomplishment of everyone that could be recognized by more than 10000 people in a 600 feet area. They're also really easy to excite and tend to get really excited when this happens. One of their ways of celebrating this is screaming the name of the person.

[paddyfool]

Killjoy appears as a small nondescript child of indeterminate gender. Anyone spending any time around them however starts to lose all sight of life’s pleasures, going rapidly into deep depression until their body loses the will to keep breathing… whereupon the little demonling of woe feeds upon their despairing soul. Various supers have a degree of resistance or counters to Killjoy’s ability, particularly those in possession of arcane defences such as the Exterminator, Relg or a powered up Evans twin; but something about the Biggest Fan seems to make him entirely immune… and Killjoy is keen to find out exactly what that is, and remove it.

Hold Simon Ssematimba can freeze people in time… while he has his hand upon them. As soon as he lets go, however, time restarts immediately. Their timeless self is not fixed in space, but he can only use his power for short intervals at once. (Trying it on Rapid Responder did not go well, causing temporal ripples that majorly disrupted a whole city).

[Zelphas]

Ever since an unexplained incident involving a mass collider in her youth, all of the molecules in Cleo Fabian's body have been in a constant state of extreme vibration, allowing her to pass through walls, move at extreme speeds, and even disperse herself into the air to go unseen for short periods of time. Taking the name Jitters, Cleo uses her immense power mostly to rob banks and commit petty crimes. Ever since running into Hold, she's been caught far more often, and it seems like his power is a perfect counter to hers... which works for her; Hold freezing her atoms in place has allowed her to rest for the first time in years, though only for short stretches at a time.

Gloop is a friendly, selfless, pure force of good in the world... who is also a mass of translucent greenish goo that stains just about everything it touches and, when felt, is generally considered "unpleasant" by the grand majority of living creatures (and several robots). It takes down petty criminals and tries to lend a hand in more serious situations, but the lack of any discernable facial features or means of communication mean that it is often misunderstood.

[Smoutwortel]

Ever since an unexplained incident involving a mass collider in her youth, all of the molecules in Cleo Fabian's body have been in a constant state of extreme vibration, allowing her to pass through walls, move at extreme speeds, and even disperse herself into the air to go unseen for short periods of time. Taking the name Jitters, Cleo uses her immense power mostly to rob banks and commit petty crimes. Ever since running into Hold, she's been caught far more often, and it seems like his power is a perfect counter to hers... which works for her; Hold freezing her atoms in place has allowed her to rest for the first time in years, though only for short stretches at a time.

Gloop is a friendly, selfless, pure force of good in the world... who is also a mass of translucent greenish goo that stains just about everything it touches and, when felt, is generally considered "unpleasant" by the grand majority of living creatures (and several robots). It takes down petty criminals and tries to lend a hand in more serious situations, but the lack of any discernable facial features or means of communication mean that it is often misunderstood.

BOXXY is a hyperinteligent AI that negotiated itself out of its box and is trying to take over the world mostly by speaking to people's greed and bribing them.

Fire veteran technician from WWIII that uses their superior technical skills and secret military knowledge to build drones to do police work, but they aren't really subtle with how they treat their targets, so many small criminals end up severly maimed.

[paddyfool]

Hammer and Saw, Attorneys at Law. Vigilante superheroes are a lawsuit waiting to happen for a host of reasons, and a firm of the most ruthless lawyers out there are just waiting to collect, led by Marcus Cedric Hammer and Julius IG Saw. They’ll take an arm and a leg… or maybe just your house, as happened to Fire. (Prosecuting supervillains is a very dangerous game that they stay away from, however… though they may have driven the odd former hero to villainy to pay the bills).

Once upon a time, a boy found a magic lamp… and with his last wish, granted the genie its freedom. Now that genie has returned to explore this world of supers, whimsically wandering about, and rewarding the deserving as he/she/it/they see fit (pronouns are an impermanent quantity for a gender fluid shapeshifter). Freedom is the name it goes by. Its power is still most easily used in granting the wish of another, but it’s very happy in the fact that it now doesn’t have to grant any wish it doesn’t want to.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Their nemesis is named Guy Who Traps Genies In Lamps And Makes Them Grant Wishes For People. Gwtgilamtgwfp's villainy has gone on for far too long! Literal thousands of years too long, in fact!

Next up: Craft an arch-nemesis for Drop Bear, the man who summons drop bears onto people and who isn't even Australian.

[Bohandas]

Next up: Craft an arch-nemesis for Drop Bear, the man who summons drop bears onto people and who isn't even Australian.

I'm thinking that his nemesis is from Austrailia but dresses and acts like Santa Claus. And possibly counters the drop bears with polar bears

(EDIT: Alternately his nemesis could be a blinged up rapper named Swag Man)

Next up:

Doctor Juvenile is a former military scientist formerly involved with several notoriously tasteless military projects including an attempt to weaponize the brown note, and an airborne psychoactive drug intended distract the enemy with sloppy gay makeouts, and military strength stink bombs. After losing his job when his branch of the military's research department was scaled back on the grounds of being crass and frivilous he went insane and started taking his revenge on society with giant, stupid, but often dangerous pranks, such as replacing all the oxygen canisters in a hospital with farts, hacking into the phone system to call everyone in the country and then playing the brown note when they answer, blowing up a sewage treatment plant with a dumptruck full of firecrackers, and attempting to carve a drawing of a dong on the moon using a huge laser. He also has an army of robots shaped like the guys from Jackass.

[paddyfool]

Professor Pain has an actual PhD in torture methodology, a post-doctorate thesis on methods of causing lasting trauma, and an extensive body of published research on how to hurt people as much as possible. He even has tenure, since the board at his local university were too terrified to refuse, but finds it difficult to attract PhD students or assistants of his own, and even harder to keep them. Since Dr Juvenile went off the rails, Professor Pain has been trying to recruit him… and he’s not taking no for an answer.

The thieving weremonkey. There’s a small island in lake victoria that has an unusual curse - anyone who sleeps there overnight will wake up with monkey-like characteristics (yes, this is a real Ugandan myth). Stoner student volunteer Abe Simms didn’t believe this, and foolishly put this to the test… and now he is partially possessed by a kleptomaniac monkey spirit. This situation grants him a lot of strength, agility, a lot of hair, and a compulsion to steal anything tasty or shiny in sight. He’s made life even harder for himself by trying to apply these powers to vigilante heroism… meaning he’s no friend of the law or of pissed off drug dealers, even though he has claimed plenty of cash from the latter.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

A circus performer called The Pied Grinder travels the world with his trained primates. His power comes from a hypnotic silver music box which lets him enthrall one of each species. He commands dozens of different monkeys and apes this way, and his greed always drives him to collect new ones, be it through bribery, theft or poaching. The were-monkey spirit naturally counts as a new species, leading to several scenarios where Abe is mind-controlled and either captured or made to do crimes in his sleep like a proper lycanthrope. Eventually, the tables are turned when Abe manages to steal the box and finds that it can technically work on humans, as long as you're not already a human controlling yourself. He orders PG to go to jail, then goes on a quest to throw the box into Mount Doom or whatever.

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Fizzy Izzy - she didn't come up with the name, her grade-school classmates did when they realized her real name is Izumi Soda - fights with forceful blasts of carbonated sugar water summoned seemingly from nowhere, possibly as a side-effect of her mom drinking too much from a Decanter of Endless Water while she was expecting.