Be honest now /co/, we're all friends here, have you ever (as an adult) created your own superhero? And I mean put significant thought and effort into it even briefly.
>>154210444Yes, I'm working on an astounding superhero series that may never see publication.
Yea, I did. Then I expanded it into a much larger concept.
>>154210444I've played City of heroes for like 8 years.
>>154210444I made a plan for a practical and concealing costume in case I ever get powers, but that's PROBABLY not going to happen. In fact, I get further and further from superpowers every day, til I can't really get in or out of bed without trouble and a lot of prep.I also made some superhero parodies in my comic.
>>154210444Yes, and I have multiple. One of my best is a speedster. He is a unique take on super speed that I have not seen at all in DC or Marvel. His name is meaningful and barely used in comics, and I most importantly solved the problem with speedsters and he can do things like run around the world without a writer being forced to come up with reasons as to why he couldn't just solve every problemI have a bioweapon superhero too. Essentially what if Nemesis was good and became more than what he was designed to do. I kept on thinking how the justice league would treat him and I think he would be a sweetheart character in "my adventures with superman"
>>154210444I have made at minimum three superhero universes in my adulthood.
>>154210444A lifetime ago, I wanted to make an RPG Maker game with OC's that had the dynamic of the Teen Titans cartoon. I filled half a notebook with autistic shit like origin stories, power sets, locales, villains, and gameplay mechanics.
>>154212310I have always wanted to make something akin to X-men except BELIEVABLE mutations. Bio powers are a fun limitation. There's a ton of possibility. you can make biological flame, with the right chemicals, or at least generate scalding amounts of heat.. you can grow spikes out of you but they would need to have 'velvet' on them first, not just appear like magic. acid, venom, there's a lot of possibilities.
>>154210444Of course I have, anon. I’m starting a FASERIP campaign and making characters for it as we speak. I have my own fan comic series in the works, too, with the obligatory mutant OC everyone eventually makes being a core part of its cast. You do realize that almost every single superhero was created by an adult, right?
>>154210444Yes, I'm always thinking about it. I like the concept and I want it to be something serious one day. I try to come up with new things for the universe. >>154214079Well, well, well
>>154214079>almostDang it i didn't read that, it would've been funnier
>>154210444Yeah, I made a Superhero based on my childhood Lego character. He was a super engineer with Jedi-like telekinetic powers that could arrange together anything, he weared all black with a black cape and a grey helmet (with black visor). The name was <It's a username of mine IRL, but think something like "Enigma Dark.">His secret identity had a half white half black shirt and frankly didn't look dissimilar to Ben 10,000. I drew a short comic involving him.
>>154210444Yeah, several. I'm in the early stages of producing my own comic book that I'm planning to self publish.
Yes and I use AI becausei can't draw. Also my current superhero i created is like a fusion of Captain America and Superman but has a bit punisher's personality and demeanor. Honestly AI makes coming up with superheroes way easier.
>>154210444Yes. I mainly do the Stan Lee thing of thinking of alliterations or puns and then try to brainstorm a hero or villain around them. Had then the concept for a hero who everyone thinks is a Batman style no powers vigilante but in actually has a time rewind power to fake it. Then have built a cast around him with as many time related puns as I can think of for character names.
Yes he's made for white men
>>154210444I've spent hundreds of dollars on art of my superhero OCs that I do nothing with and tell one about.
>>154210444An old idea of mine - Glorious:Setup is that during a devastating attack by an alien invasion force the famous heroine Glorious sacrificed herself to destroy the alien mothership, crippling the invasion and helping save the Earth.Except thats not what happened. Glorious didn't sacrifice herself at all, she was simply trapped far from home in deep space with no idea how to get back.Five years later, in a stolen space ship, Glorious finally returns to an Earth that thinks her long dead. She reconnects with friends and family, tries to put her life back together, and get things back to the way things... wait, who the fuck is that? Who is that buff guy flying around in my colors and symbol?What do you MEAN he is calling himself "Glorious"? Thats MY NAME!The Glorious name, after her 'death', has been taken up by a pure-hearted fanboy of the original. He's super thrilled that she is alive and back, and he'd love to give the name back to her, there is just one problem: it turns out that the new Glorious is way more popular than the original. No matter how many times they both insist that she should get the name back, everyone just calls her 'Lady Glorious'.Whats worse, Glorious (lady) quickly comes to the upsetting realization that Glorious (dude) isn't just more famous, he's waaaay stronger than she is. Except that he doesn't realize it! He idolizes the original so much that he just assumes that he could never live up to her example, and keeps assuming that she's as strong or stronger than he is. Which isn't true, but she's much too proud to admit it, forcing herself to power through challenges that she knows are out of her league in order to not lose face in front of this imposter. Which only convinces the new Glorious even more that she is much more unstoppable than she really is, which gets her into more trouble, etc.Make it a comedy between this prideful idiot and her stronger, but naive, fanboy successor. Also big bombastic super fights.
>>154217537Lady Glorious's powerset is flying and forcefields, but what most people don't know is that those are actually the same power. As in, going fast is what makes her forcefields turn on. The faster she is going, the stronger her shield. But that also means that once she slows down the shield immediately starts getting weaker. This creates some fun limitations to build fights around. When she is in her element she is flying around like a human cannonball as fast as she can, punching through giant robots or shield slamming tough alien bastards into the ground, etc. But in any situation where she CAN'T do that, she's at a disadvantage. She's ironically more in danger standing on the ground fighting a guy with a knife than she is flying into earth orbit to battering ram through a spaceship. This means that she does a lot of shit that looks SUPER COOL when she is in her element (zooms in at lightning speed to block an attack aimed at a building, catching it at JUST the right moment as she flies by) but its also very easy to put her in a situation where other people can easily think she has things handled but she's panicking internally because she's having to bluff that her shield will no-sell the enemy attack when she KNOWS it won't. Its a powerset that forces her to fight aggressively. Despite being a forcefield user, she can't just plant herself in front of a squishy target and throw up a wall to defend it like Sue Storm, thats not how her power works. Personality wise, Lady Glorious is kind of a bitch. She genuinely has a heroic heart and wants to save people, but she's extremely prideful and vain, and is kind of a sore winner. The iconic ending to a Lady Glorious fight is her battered, bloody, probably with one or more broken bones that she is trying to hide and standing over her defeated enemy and and talking shit at their unconcious body before she throws up.
>>154217650Dude Glorious is, in many ways, the hero that Lady Glorious pretends to be: he can fly, but his super-toughness is innate. No speed requirement, no downtime, he's just always that tough and that strong. Unlike Lady Glorious he has actual Superstrength and shoot sonic booms as a ranged attack, so in many ways he is a direct upgrade to her in a fight. The only exception is that he can't 'push' his powers at all. His max flight speed is his max flight speed, there's nothing he can do to go faster than that. Same with the rest of his powers: his limits are high, but ironclad.Lady Glorious, meanwhile, can always exert herself to go that little bit faster when she puts her mind to it, its just as exhausting and painful as you would expect pushing yourself to your absolute limit is. At her strongest, Lady Glorious *can* be stronger than Dude Glorious, but not for long and not without cost. Whereas Dude Glorious is high tier tier all the time and its easy for him.Dude Glorious's core motivation is actually shame. See, his powers manifested shortly before the alien invasion happened. They got stronger with time, but he could have helped fight off the aliens. But he was too scared. He wasn't a hero yet. Instead he spent the invasion huddled with his family, feeling powerless, watching the invasion play out on the news, and 'real heroes' like Lady Glorious do what he was too afraid to.He's promised never to sit by and let destruction like that happen again. He's never going to let people get hurt because he didn't even try to save them. And, to him, the perfect image of fighting against impossible odds was watching Glorious charge the alien mothership alone like a shooting star. Thats who Glorious is to him.
If you can't draw you're basically fucked when creating a superhero. They are so intrinsically tied to comics (or tv/movies which obviously is impossible for anyone here) that you're better off pursuing some other genre. You might argue superheroes began in the pulps but, as action packed as they could be, were not the same level of over the top bombast as cape stuff.
Yes, but I could never come up with a good name for him.>Basically a T1000 made by the government to be the ultimate spy and assassin.>With just a scrap of DNA can transform into a perfect copy of any person on earth, convincing enough to pass close but not intense examination.>Made entirely of grey goo/nanites>Eats raw metal to gain mass for greater transformations>Can transform body at will into any form or shape, including a puddle of silver liquid to slip past doors or get into cracks>Weak to powerful magnets>Also has a solid digital brain and solid fusion core, the only physical weak points, but they're usually protected by a solid metal body. >Was born in a lab, but escaped>Pretends to be a normal human to better understand humanity>Has various identities, both male and female>Was inspired by other super heroes to create a super hero identity to better serve the public>The only way to detect him under disguise is through invasive surgery. The disguise is more than flesh deep, including simulated veins, nerves, and organs>Virtually impossible to find when under disguise
>>154210444Copy pasting this from a previous thread with this same topicIt was a quartet of 4 teen superheroes, but I only remember 3 of them:>The Flea. A highschool athlete with a promising career but after taking some experimental steroids he gains super legs, giving himself not just strong speed (above prime human but not speedster level) and kicks, his namesake comes from his ability to jump. He was the leader of the group, basically a slightly edgier Robin personality wise.>Newton's Nightmare. I can't remember how he got his powers but he's the youngest member of the team and was basically Beast Boy in personality. His power was that he could control his gravitational direction at will, so he could essentially fly by falling upwards and then switching direction. I think I gave him a cooldown for each time he did it, so ge couldn't just keep himself floating.>Barbarian Girl. That wasn't her name but can't remember it. She was basically a really buff Red Sonja style barbarian who was time displaced by some phenomenon that would have been brought up in her focus stories. She was the strongest and was the mellee weapon specialist. Personality wise she was just a gruff amazon proud warrior, with some taking things literally humor put in.>As I said, can't remember the fourth, just that it was another girl. I think she might have been a Raven ripoff of some kind but can't remember anything specific.It is fun because I was imagining episodes in the style of Teen Titans in my head, although they were vague scenes without a full story. Don't think I came up with any villains though.
>>154210444Sure.
If you have a Y chromosome and haven't ever made your own superhero at least once in your life and imagined what they would do if they were in your favorite cartoons, you cannot call yourself a creative and are functionally an NPC
>>154221436Not necessarily.
I have an idea for a power and a character, but haven't settled on the design part yet
>>154210444I have a whole setting full of them work-shopped
