Do Boston Brand and his brother Clevelend count, or only superhero names and not superhero IDs? Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Texas Twister.
Tasmanian Devil? Not an American state, but a state nonetheless.
Olympian, maybe?
If the Brand brothers count as Set suggests, we can add Madison Jeffries.
Posted by Set on :
Is there a hero / villain named Jersey Devil? If not, there should be!
Doctor Manhattan!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Dakota North! (Though not actually super)
Posted by Set on :
Jericho (Named after a city, inexplicably. Amusing, in hindsight, that a man named Jericho would join a team that used to have a man with a magic trumpet that could blow down walls...)
[ January 11, 2010, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: Set ]
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'm kind of surprised there aren't examples (at least that I know of) of cities or states sponsoring local super-hero teams or individual heroes, kind of the way they sponsor sports teams.
I have to admit that I really think "Captain Connecticut" would be a great name.
Posted by Set on :
Over on the Mutants & Masterminds forums, there was a 50 state based American team being created as a kind of forum game. Each poster would pick a state (preferably the one they were from) and make a hero somehow connected to that state. (The thread lost momentum around the time of Civil War and the 50 state Initiative.)
Lots of suggestions for stuff like the Jersey Devil, or an 'Old Man of the Mountain' for New Hampshire, or a California Dreamer.
In addition to state based heroes, city based heroes (Municipal Defenders, they called them in the GURPS Supers setting) have potential as well.
Names like Detroit Steel or the Miami Dolphin or the Boston Herald could be played for laughs, or intended quite seriously.
Which of course leads to the logical next step, in a culture as fond of commercializing celebrity as our own. Super-people hired to be PR stunts / free advertising for corporations.
The super-fast Captain Verizon speeds to the rescue, if General Electric doesn't get there first on his lightning steed!
Oh, just remembered another one. In the D.P. 7 series, one of the very few 'costumed heroes' on that world was named Captain Manhattan, and had force field powers, IIRC.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
How about "New York Minute" for a super-speedster? Its so corny it might work.
I'm surprised too on the lack of examples. But I can't for the life of me think of any off the top of my head...
Posted by Dev Em on :
There are the Great Lakes Avengers. Not a particular state, but kinda in this vein.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Yeah, I actually kind of thought of them when I started the thread, as well as other more "vaguely regional" groups, like the "Titans West", etc.
I really like "California Dreamer"!
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Of course, Western heroes seemed perfectly geared to this. The Wyoming Kid just works as a great western name. Spider-Man has an enemy named "Montana" (part of the Enforcers) who basically is just a cowboy gangster with a lasso motif.
If I was a comic book publisher in the 50's I'd probably have approved titles for "The Oklahoma Kid", "The Arizona Kid" and "Nevada, Cowgirl Outlaw". In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that they already exist. Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Actually, something like the "Rhode Island Kid" would be kind groovy for a Western hero. The name would just scream "tenderfoot", but he'd actually be a badass.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Ooh, even better... Rhode Island Red!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I started writing a OneVision with the LMB appearing in the Golden Age a few years ago and I had considered naming the characters after states, but went another way. For example, the Rockhopper Lad analogue was to be Minnesota Man (I think), because, like Rocky, he had ice powers. It had no relation, necessarily, with where the actual person was from (I've only been to Minnesota once and it was after that).
Actually, this sounds like a good game for Spaceopoly. Go through the fifty states and create a super-hero named after it, complete with origin. Anyone?
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