Re: Out of Character Banter
Second Gen - a group of young villains...or would be villains who were trained by their actual villainous parent/parents who decided they didn't really want to be villains, but......sometimes their training gets the best of them. They stop a bank robbery and maybe some money is missing, etc. Everyone character would be a 'legacy' that is a child of a villain - probably an established one in Marvel Canon if not the 616 version of that character.
'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?' A group of people wildly unsuited to be heroes are given superpowers, costumes, and a name - they made a deal for all of these and their patron will be able to call upon them to do a certain amount of deeds/tests/etc. Their patron is Mojo and unknown to them they are starring in his newest TV show yet!
A supercommando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they did not commit. These neb promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortunes. If you had a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire ... The A-Team!
In 2010 multiple portals opened around the world and an army of both mundane and superhuman invaders marched through the portals. The heroes - and some of the villains of the world rallied together with the armies of the world and fought back. The greatest group of heroes actually took the fight through the main portal and shortly thereafter the portals shut down. The flow of invaders stopped, but by that time they had conquered large swathes of the world and numbered in the hundreds of millions, nearly every hero and villain who had fought were died, crippled, or captured, while humanity had lost almost half their population. The invaders are settling and firming up their conquests and readying to complete their conquest. You were the small time, the cowardly, the disinterested, the self-absorbed, the imprisoned, the dregs. It is time to step up or shut up. Will you go quietly into the night or rage against the dying of the light?
In 1908 the planes of existance were....squeezed together and this had several effects - one of which was the plane of Tartarus cracked slightly. Power oozed out and several of the Greco-Roman deities were poisoned and now are dead or dying. Zeus the Skyfather and his brothers cling to life though weakened and now are recruiting their children and grandchildren for Tartarus is breaking and the Titans will soon emerge.