the classic Avengers - re-imagined?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:11 pm
the classic Avengers - re-imagined?
I'd like help/suggestions for specific characters from the classic team(s) of the AVENGERS. I'd like to build *new* versions (for my own universe/campaign) but heavily based on the existing "icons/archetypes" of these characters.
Basically building and using the same statistics FOR the "homage" character and developing a new origin/image that is immediately recognizable but also unique in background and power descriptions.
I would like help with ideas for these specific AVENGERS characters:
Iron Man
Thor
Ant Man
Giant Man (aka. Goliath)
Hank Pym (as inventor/gadgeteer)
Wasp
Hulk
Captain America
Hawkeye
Black Panther
Scarlet Witch
Vision
Quicksilver
Wonderman
Here's what I'd like help with (in format), as an example:
I'd like help/suggestions for specific characters from the classic team(s) of the AVENGERS. I'd like to build *new* versions (for my own universe/campaign) but heavily based on the existing "icons/archetypes" of these characters.
Basically building and using the same statistics FOR the "homage" character and developing a new origin/image that is immediately recognizable but also unique in background and power descriptions.
I would like help with ideas for these specific AVENGERS characters:
Iron Man
Thor
Ant Man
Giant Man (aka. Goliath)
Hank Pym (as inventor/gadgeteer)
Wasp
Hulk
Captain America
Hawkeye
Black Panther
Scarlet Witch
Vision
Quicksilver
Wonderman
Here's what I'd like help with (in format), as an example:
HOMAGE: Captain America
(American) KNOW-HOW
REAL NAME: Andy Adams
TAGLINE: Idealist, Patriotic Hero, American Icon
ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Boyscout; Apple Pie; Ace; Goody-Two-Shoes
SKILLS/POWERS/ABILITIES/ACCESSORIES: Just beyond peak human skill, strength and agility. Having the natural ability of all known forms of combat, able to perform feats of strength and athletics just beyond the greatest human olympic athletes. Though he does not realize it, Know-How's natural instinct for battle tactics and leadership is derived through a minor clairvoyance ability to "see" the future seconds before it happens, this ability makes him one of the world's greatest battle tacticians. When in secret identity form (Andy), Know-How is able to form/teleport to locations where needed, he does not have this ability (or understand how to use/control it) otherwise. Know-How is equipped with his trusty Transparent Unobtanium tower shield, which is capable of defending/deflecting attacks on himself and others. It is also lite enough to be thrown and returns to the hero through a balanced boomerang-like form.
WEAKNESS: Idealist, Naive.
ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good
HISTORY/ORIGIN: Know-How is what every hero should be - idealistic, loyal, uncompromising, heroic... He is the product of a boy's ideal of everything a hero should be. Actually a 13 year old boy in Iowa, Know-How forms from the psychic energy from Andy's sub-concious manifests itself as the hero Know-How. Whisping away the boy and forming in places of need, when needed Know-How springs into justice. Andy's identity is a secret hidden in a small town in Iowa, as even his fellow heroes know the image of the 20-something "man" under Know-How's mask, while the real hero is just a boy with a dream... which is often-times why many other heroes smirk at his honest idealism and quaint naivety. The power/abilities of Know-How are generated from Andy's mind, while theoretically unlimited Andy's mind has formed the "boundaries" of what Know-How can be therefore they are set in stone as a "patriotic shield hero" in style and power levels (for the moment).
PLACE OF BIRTH: Iowa, USA
HEIGHT: 6'4"
WEIGHT: 260 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond
UNUSUAL FEATURES: Perfect human form with a square jaw, massive dimples and cleft chin.
INSPIRING PICTURE
(if you can find any image that might inspire a "look" for the character, post it!)
(NOTE: For Example - this is a picture I photoshopped up as an example of what "KnowHow" might look like)
