Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Off On a Tangent... (Old name, new character)

I had been re-reading some of the Tangent series from DC, where familiar codenames had whole new concepts behind them. Like their Flash was a girl that transformed into, and controlled, light. So I was wondering what all you would come up with?

The rules are simple:
1. Any codename is available, hero or villain.
2. One character per post, and give someone else a chance to post first before your next character.

I'll be doing a character next post, to illustrate the point.

Codename: Mano
Allegiance: Villain
Abilities: This psychic believes himself to be the incarnation of the Anglo-Saxon moon god, and demands worship and offerings from the people around him. If they do not comply, he uses his powers to cause a wave of lunacy to destroy them.

Codename: The Persuader
Allegiance: Hero
Abilities: The Persuader has low level psychic abilities with which he can persuade people to his point of view and make people do things. However his arguments must be logical and make sense. Also he must ask people to do things politely and they won't do something that goes against the person too badly. For example, he could not ask a person to jump off a cliff, but he could ask a guard to please get the door for him and the guard would open it for him.

His fighting skills are very good after having asked the best fighters to train him.

Codename: Emerald Empress
Allegiance: Depends on the situation

The Emerald Empress is the exiled monarch of the magical Emerald World, an alternate dimension with several doorways to the Tangent world. A usurper has seized power and exiled her, closing the doorways; she needs to assemble a combination of specific 13 Earth emeralds that each contain portions of a key in order to return; she also is recruiting allies. Each quest for one of the 13 emeralds finds her alternately on the side of heroes or villains; her quest is paramount to all else.
Abilities: She has various magic-based powers and artifacts at her disposal; all use an emerald motif.

Codename: The Red Bee
Allegiance: Villian

The Red Bee is an obsessive compulsive villian who tangles with the Batman. The Red Bee bases all his crime around the letter "B", stealing things that start with "B" (like gold bullion or Botticelli painting), robbing places that start with "B" {like B-movie theaters or baseball parks), and using "B" weapons (like bolos or bb guns) The Red Bee has also fought Black Canary, Blue Devil, and Big Barda.

Codename: General Zod
Allegiance: US military
Abilities: Superman-class powers

Ephram Zod was an exemplarary career soldier, climbing his way up through the ranks, putting duty ahead of internal politics. As super-hero and super-villain populations began to skyrocket, he lobbied that the US army could not be left behind, else it would become irrelevant, as well as unable to cope with metahuman threats to national and global security. His pleas fell on deaf ears, so he secretly channeled funds to fund a secret military meta-human program, the One Man Army Corps program run by Dr. Jacques Zuir. When authorities moved to shut down the program, Zod, Zuir, and Zod's assistant Farrah Hull used the OMAC technology to give themselves Superman-class powers, before destroying the equipment so it could not fall into the wrong hands. After the fact, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reluctantly agreed to drop charges, and use the trio as their agents among the metahuman community.

I want to try reviving this thread. But to make it more of a game, I'll name an existing character. The next poster will have to reimagine that character and then leaves another character name for the next poster to reimagine.

First up:
Mr. Fantastic

Mr. Fantastic
Allegience: Hero -- sort of
Abilities: Debatable.

Mr. Fantastic fancies himself the ultimate ladies man and claims he has the power to woo anyone. In truth, his abilities exist only in his mind. But although his schemes always backfire, he often stumbles into victory. For example, he attempts to seduce female super-villains and, as they laugh him off, other heroes swoop in and clean up crime!

Next:
The Thing

The Thing
Allegiance: Hero
Abilities: Can turn himself into an inanimate object, once per day, for a period of one hour.

Several millenia ago, the hero now known as The Thing was the servant of an evil sorceror. Having run afoul of said sorceror, our hero was cursed by being changed into a hat rack. His spirit spent the intervening millenia trapped in this form, long out-surviving the sorceror who was responsible for his curse. Recently, the temple in which he stood was excavated, and the magic amulet of the evil sorceror broken, releasing our hero from the spell that beset him, and changing him back to human. Somehow, the whole experience left him with a unique ability however. Once per day, he can change himself into any inanimate object (things, rather than persons or places) he chooses for a period of about one hour, though he has to remain in that form for exactly that period. He also cannot significantly alter his mass, so the object he turns into must be roughly man-sized.

Next:

The Human Torch

The Human Torch
Allegiance: Villian
Abilities: Arsonist extrordinaire.

Jon Storm grew up in New York's Bowery district. Like most boys growing up there, Jon joined a gang and committed many petty crimes. Jon showed a cool hand at setting fires. He became knowledgable of all type of incendiary devices.

Next: To finish out the quartet

Invisible Girl

Invisible Girl
Allegiance: Villain
Abilities: Disguise artist

Suzy Storm is the little sister of Jon Storm, the Human Torch. Growing up, her particularly plain looks and shy demeanor made her feel "invisible" to boys and to other people generally. Through her brother, she became involved in illegal activities, in which she specialized in "casing" targets, using disguises in addition to her own nondescript appearance to move unnoticed and unchallenged in places that others might find difficult to visit.

Next:

Robin

Robin
Allegiance: Gentleman Villain
Abilities: Superhuman stamina

Richard Grayson was the bored son of a wealthy British family. On one of his fathers 'expeditions,' he stumbled upon the Ruby of Sobk-heru during a collapse that crushed him and left him near death. The Ruby bonded with his heart, and can usually be seen in conditions of total darkness as a ruddy glow coming from deep within his chest (it isn't visible under normal lighting, and can be concealed with layers of clothing). The Ruby has given him superhuman recuperative abilities (it glows more brightly when he is healing) and stamina (he never sleeps, can run indefinitely and can go weeks without food or drink, and many hours without air). Jaded by his seemingly immortal existence, Grayson has taken to a career of high-stakes cat-burglery, stealing from his fellow peers in British society, and occasionally even remembering the 'give to the poor' half of his credo. His code-name, 'Robin' came from a miscommunication during an early encounter with a tipsy heiress who slurred out an inquiry as to his identity. Mishearing her comment as 'what are you doing,' he replied, "What does it look like, eh? I'm robbin' you." before leaping out a window with a handful of her jewelry. He was later caught on camera healing from a gunshot wound and the reddish glow was clearly visible, leading to him occasionally being called 'Robin Redbreast.'

Next:

Saturn Girl

Saturn Girl
Allegiance: Hero
Abilities: Gas Form, Small size, Super-strength, Invulnerability

One of the gas inhabitants of Sautrn, Saturn Girl came to Earth seeking adventure and to join the Justice League. Her naturals state is in gaseous form. She can condense herself into a solid state, but that state leaves her only 3 inches tall. When she is in her solid form, she has the strength of ten humans. Also in her solid form, is when she is invulnerable, being densely compact.

Next: Moon Knight

Moon Knight
Allegiance: Spirit of Vengeance
Abilities: Ghostly figure, appears and disappears at will; assorted supernatural powers

Purportedly the ghost of an ancient knight who was murdered in a Scottish manor house belonging to the McGowan family, the ghost still haunts the house and the descendants of the family, even though the house has since been moved to America. The ghost serves as I kind of judge over the members of the McGowan family, protecting those who have devoted their lives to good and punishing those who follow the path of evil. The ghost appears only within a few days surrouding a full moon, and while he can travel to a wide variety of points, seems to have some special connection to the house in which he was murdered.

Next: Porcupine Pete

Porcupine Pete
Allegiance: The creatures of the forest
Abilities: Commands forest creatures; various abilities associated with wild animals, such as heightened senses.

Peter Point grew up in the woods, the son of a park ranger. During adolescence, he underwent a spontaneous mutation and became a porcupine-man. He forsook humanity to live in the forest and adopted its laws, becoming ruler of the forest's residents. Not a villain and not a conventional hero, he protects his furry subjects from all threats, including the encroaching humans.

Next: Commander Steel

Commander Steel
Allegiance: super-patriot
Abilities: Can merge with other metallic robots to become nearly indestructable.

One of the secret "Metal Men" created by Doc Magnus for the U.S. military, Commander Steel is the senior ranking robot, in charge of Lt. Commander Iron, Major Platinum, and Ensign Copper.

Next: Aquaman

Aquaman
Allegiance: Hero(ish)
Abilities: Telekinetic (only affecting liquids)

Arthur Curry is not the King of Atlantis. (i mean, Domed Underwater cities is SOOO Earth-1! )
However, he is the King of the Sea, in that he is an extremely strong telekinetic, who can only affect liquids.
His real job is a fireman in Chicago. (If nothing else, his range is large enough, he can pull water from Lake Michigan to fight particularly large fires...)

2 of his more spectacular acts:
Parting the Red Sea to allow archaeologists to search for the legendary crossing point. (Nothing was found, but it was the basis for a proposed remake of "The Ten Commandments".)
He has also was brought in to put out the burning oil wells in Kuwait, by stopping the flow of petroleum.

Next up: The White Witch

White Witch
Allegiance: Villain
Abilities: Magical abilities

The young lady now known as the White Witch was abandoned as a baby in Southern Louisiana. She was raised among black families who practised Voodoo. As she grew older, she was the victim of resentment by several children of her age in the community, both on account of her chalky white skin, which made her stand out, and her adeptness at magic. Eventually, she was forced to leave the community, but vowed revenge. She eventually fell in with a White Supremacist group which not only accepted but praised her power and skin color. Thus she became... the White Witch!

Next: Blok

Blok
Allegiance: Mercenary (hero)
Abilities: Computer programming

Phyllis Lind is a computer programmer. She acquired the nickname "Blok" for her work in creating firewalls. She is a free lance computer expert ala Oracle.

Next: Dawnstar

Dawnstar
Allegiance: Hero to some, Villain to others
Abilities: Light manipulation

Kashvi Srivastala was born to a poor, but devout, family in Bhopal, India. She seemed to shine in the darkness, even as a child, and her parents chose to keep her bundled up most of the time, to hide her luminescence, fearing the possible reaction of neighbors. As she grew, signs and portents came like visions to their eyes, and they came to realize their mistake. Kashvi began to draw people from all around, to see the visions that would dance in the air around her shining face, and in those visions, see the future. Or, at least the future that they wanted to see... Kashvi learned early to manipulate light to create images from within her mind, and she disciplined herself to show people what they wanted to see, her parents taking their offerings of food, clothing and jewelry in return for a chance to sit with the prophet-child and see 'the future.'

Now twenty years of age, her parents slain by her followers for their 'acts of impiety,' the Dawnstar rules her section of India from the shadows, with mobs of superstitious devotees willing to give even their lives to keep her safe, unaware of how she has been manipulating their faith all of her short life. Folding light around herself to disguise her features, or even become completely invisible, the Shining One walks among 'her people' and learns their secret dreams and fears, the better to use against them!

Next: Darkseid

Darkseid
Allegiance: Villian
Ability: Dark form

Badal Srivastala is the brother of Dawnstar. His power developed later in his life and he was able to keep it hidden from his parents and his sister. He has killed his uncle who saw him use his power. He can assume a dark cloud-like form. He can also send out a small puff of the dark matter that enters a person through their nostrils. This causes people to lose their inhibitions and sense of right & wrong, causing them to act on their dark impulses.

He hopes to eventually kill his sister and take her place. For now he will bide his time and act as her second in command.

Next: Black Canary

Black Canary
Allegiance: Cat-burgler with a heart of gold
Ability: Shapeshifter

Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, the woman now known as Tereixa ('Tera') Mena was born into a family who ran a hotel on the beach, and had a happy childhood, until a fierce storm tore it all away. Left alone and amnesiac, the orphaned child ended up on the streets, stealing to survive. She became friendly with the local street life, both human and animal, and found that the rats and dogs that slunk around the poorer streets would bring her things. But her favorite were the colorful birds, who would sing to her and dance in the air around her. She took to a life of crime, taking what she needed, sneaking onto people's properties in the dead of night, covered in soot to hide her features, with her animal friends providing cover for her.

And so the 'Black Canary' became something of an urban legend, the tiny black figure running out of houses one step ahead of a gun-toting homeowner, saved at the last second by a flock of birds whirring around the gunman's head.

It's been almost two decades, and the waif is a lean young woman, with a home of her own and a new name that she made up for herself. She runs an animal shelter, and still steals from the rich natives (she doesn't target tourists, generally) who exploit the poor and uses the money to finance soup kitchens for people who, like she used to, live on the streets, while setting a bit aside to maintain her shelter.

[That was a rough one!]

Next: Quislet!

(talk about a rough one)

Quislet
Allegiance: 5th Dimension
Ability: 5th Dimension Super Science, animate objects

The younger cousin to Mister Mxyzptlk, Quislet is not as powerful or asdevious. He just likes visiting, pulling harmless pranks and have some fun.

Unlike his cousin for some reason, he doesn't have a physical body when on our dimension. He has to animate things and objects in the surrounding area. This sometimes leads to some unpleasant surprises on whomever he visits. He can easily jump from object to object and even animate multiple things at the same time. The objects are fine afterwards but people say that the things just don't work as well after being animated.

Next: Rainbow Girl

Rainbow Girl
Allegiance: Hero
Abilities: Martial arts, gymnastics, sleight of hand

Becky Fletcher was your typical type A personality girl. She was head cheerleader and class president at her high school, she volunteered at a local soup kitchen, she took self-defense classes, and entertained at childrens hospitals. And then one day, she came home to find that the Joker had butchered her entire family.

Vowing revenge upon all criminals, Becky donned cape and cowl. However, the horror of seeing her family dead snapped Becky's mind slightly. Wanting to leave the world a happier place, Becky always leaves her calling card upon all criminals she defeats - a rainbow sticker. Thus earning her the name Rainbow Girl.

Next:
Cyclops

Codename Cyclops (a.k.a Cycle-Ops)
Allegience: Heroes
Abilities: varied

A covert military organization, the Cycle-Ops ride choppers into trouble zones and use their superhuman abilities to kick badguy butt. They are led by Lt. John "Hellfire" Blaze, who has the ability shoot fire from his skullmask helmet.

Next:
Ghost Rider