>>151812019
>Dispatch
Fuck off

>>151812019
>Mark Millar's WAKFU

>>151812019
What you are suggesting sounds to me like a world that’s in a state of active decay. A world that starts off bright and hopeful with a Golden Age composed of the Incredibles supers, Jonas Venture, Mecha Man Prime, and original heroes of Watchmen only for it to fall.
It sounds like a world where the banning of superheroes caused by Watchmen/the Incredibles leaves a power vacuum allowing companies like SDN, Veidt, and Vought to privatize heroism leading to a mass decay in what it even means to be a hero. By the time The Incredibles and Ozy manage to unban supers, the damage will be done. The only heroes left will be the supes and the lunatics of The Tick and VB.
In this kind of world, Metro Man will be like a final cruel joke. One last Golden Age hero seeming to usher in a second wave, only to die horribly. Sealing the Earth’s fate to be a world of mediocrity and corruption.

>>151812109
…has it seriously been 40 years since a relatively successful non-Big Two superhero story HASN’T been this specific kind of depressing?

>>151812634
Astro City is usually pretty optimistic.

>>151812019
I can't believe no one mentioned Worm

>>151812109
>>151812634
Technically if you take Venture Bros and Watchmen as part of the mix, things were never actually great during the golden age of superheroes. They just had better PR. Superheroes were fucked up even in the earlier generation, its just that *how* they were fucked up didn't become known until later, informing public perception of the more modern supes.

If you want to add a twist, you could have Vought have had a hand in getting superheroes banned in the first place. Intentionally creating a superhero vacuum to purge competition and give themselves time to perfect their formula so that they could step up to be the major players when they allowed superheroes to become legal again.

We will PROBABLY need to have Ozymandias's plan be smaller in scale than it was in Watchman canon. It can still have happened, but the fake alien killed only a chunk of the city, not damn near everyone. That, and it being decades ago by the modern timeline, allows it to have happened but with New York to have recovered to the point of being a functional city again by the 'present'.

>>151813978
That’s probably how it worked. Honestly if we’re including both Venture Bros and The Boys I could see the big superhero purge being a joint plan by the Guild and Vought to create an environment where they could thrive without being stamped out.
The golden age of supers is based on the Incredibles (not sure if we want to include Invincible) and they were mostly true heroes. Even Gamma Jack who was the worst among them was still heroic to an extent. The Guild of Calamitous Intent primarily thrives because there aren’t any heroes competent enough to dismantle them, so it’s likely that the superhero ban was instigated by them to create a curated generation of non threatening Vought heroes.
And then Ozymandias started an age of fearmongering with his Squid

>>151812019
If we’re including Watchmen, can we also include Big Hero 6 (movie) and Empowered?

>>151814236
I'd leave Invincible out of the mix, simply because it doesn't play well in the sandbox with others. Nothing in Invincible that isn't directly related to the Viltrumites ultimately matters, and over the course of the story the whole planet gets fucked up over and over. There's no room for anybody else to exist there without getting blown up in one of the many world ending events.

It occurs to me that the government agency that helped the Incredible get new identities can just be the OSI. Some other heroes might have worked with the OSI under the radar even with the ban, but Bob clearly wouldn't be able to keep it in his pants so he'd be too much a liability to even make the offer to. He's too unreliable and can't be trusted to follow orders if he disagrees with them.

>>151814387
Given that they disband in incredibles 2 I think it’s more likely that the National Supers Agency just got absorbed into the OSI as the government adapted and figured out how to handle powers

Leaving out invincible is probably a good call but I think there should still be some big threat on the Horizon

So, lets try and keep track of where the various heroes of each setting would end up:

Venture Bros is just a bunch of small scale actors, too disorganized to be much of an issue. They can just continue to exist as-is, the OSi and the Guild mostly just neutralize each other.

if Watchmen the comic happened in the 80s, all of those characters are gone by now. Historical, maybe some of them are still alive but the only one of them who would be capable of being active in any respect is Manhattan, who is gone and probably not coming back.

Its unclear to me when The Incedible is actually supposed to take place. Do we say that happened in the 90s? Or was it earlier?

Megamind/Metroman could be big deals, but they mostly just seem to stay in their own city so they are only rarely going to be an issue for anyone else.

Vought trying to corner the superhero market as normal, but clearly their product leaves a lot to be desired. They are probably less influential than in their home setting, because there are other superheroes beyond their formula babies in this world, even if their superhero drug is still a big deal.

SDN from Dispatch seems like its actually probably a small scale outfit. A few branches, mostly centered on the west coast. They also talk about their contracts with SUBSCRIBERS, implying that they mostly don't deal with people who don't pay for their protection. That makes them unlikely to get involved beyond their bubble except in true emergencies, and even then SDN probably expects a government check at the end of the crises.

>>151814453
So what we have is a world where the mundane existence persists as normal and superheroes primarily exist in small pockets scattered about. Either as small scale secrets or corporate products

>>151814453
They were watching Johnny Quest on the television during Incredibles 2. So the 1960s. Specifically 1964

>>151812109
>In this kind of world, Metro Man will be like a final cruel joke.
Not really, Megamind picks up the slack and becomes the new hero of Metro City

>>151814864
This means that if anyone is still active, it’s Violet, Dash, and Jack Jack
how much you wanna bet they knew Rusty as a kid