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Wow. So its been over a month since I did one of these. Basically because I had no decent ideas. But rereading The Thief of Time I came to the conclusion this Marvel Tangent 'verse needed some time travel themed stuff.
Dr. Alison Blaire is/was/will be a 23rd Century theoretical physicist. Her wife Dr. Betsy Braddock is/was/will be cyberneticist and mechanical engineer. Together the two built the Tachyon Slipdrive, capable of propelling a small craft backwards and forwards in time. Unfortunately for them someone else would/was/is already using a variant time travel technology, robot religious fanatics called The Stark. These zealots attacked the pair in the name of their mysterious Lord K, forcing the two to flee in their experimental craft. The two managed to find that The Stark were active throughout the time stream, exploiting their temporal advantage to further their lord's plan...
Alison and Betsy decided it was up to them to work against the menace of The Stark. Naming their craft The Runaway the pair began their campaign against the deadly robots. While thwarting The Stark's plans they also managed to recruit others to their cause. The blind 14th century "warlock" psychometric reader James Rhodes. The early 20th century Mystery Man Harold "Wasp" Hogan. And the 22nd century military cyborg Bethany Cabe, one of the UNGDF (United Nations Global Defense Forces) Crimson Dynamo Commandos...
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The 1930s were a dark time. The Great Depression referred not just to the financial crash, but to the general state of mind of so many who struggled with poverty. And that mental state was like a fine buffet for various super-natural predators...
It was also a time of rampant criminal activity in the USA. With the massive profits ensured by Prohibition, the various Crime Syndicates were almost legitimate in their control of politics and police. Across the nation, various masked Mystery Men did their best to oppose gangsters
and protect the innocent...
In 1931 an obscure Mystery Man in Detroit named the Vision assembled a group of others from around the country. He convinced them of two things. That he'd chosen his name because he had "waking dreams" that would foretell when super-natural attacks would occur. And that even more dangerous than the criminals were these "demonic" beings drawn to feed off humanity's despair and evil. In all the Vision recruited five heroes to be part of The Defenders from across the country.
- From Texas the brothers Javier and Alejandro Montayo - Los Lobos Hermanos
- From the East Coast former British lord and explorer Kevin R. Plunder - The Hobgoblin
- From New York Wyatt Wingfoot, who claimed to be the great grand-son of the god Hermes. And whose gifts of flight and speed seemed to back that assertion - Quicksilver
- And from the Southwest, the black hero Sam Wilson - The Scorpion.
Their first mission, to stop an invasion of "shadow demons" at a Masquerade Ball thrown by New York's highest society, was a partial success. The demons were driven off but one of the guests, nineteen year old socialite Patsy Walker was killed. Or so it seemed. A few weeks later the Vision, now revealed to his allies as millionaire industrialist and philanthropist Kyle Richmond, discovered that Ms. Walker had partially survived. Trapped between life and death she would fade from visibility and tangibility depending on the hour of the day. Calling herself the Shroud she joined the group, using her unique state to help protect humanity...
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So its about time I actually DID something with this secondary journal since I paid for it. I figure I'll slowly copy over my fiction stuff from my LJ as well as posting new stuff (if I can kick myself to get something done) here. And I'll crosspost the Tuesday Tangent posts. Starting by copying over the already done stuff...
MarvelKid Santeria & the Brothers Voodoo. Four wrestlers in masks with another goofy, slightly exploitive gimmick. A stable of b-list tweeners who'll likely never headline. OR a group of hedge wizards/vampire hunters who use the constant on-the-road lifestyle of the pro wrestler as the perfect cover for hunting down the vampiric minion's of the Brazilian vampire criminal known only as
The Swarm...
Hobie Brown and Robert Farrell have been friends since childhood. They kept each other out of trouble growing up poor in Harlem. They worked together to get through high school. They went to M.I.T. together and both ended up with doctorates. Hobie in Mechanical Engineering and Robert in Chemical Engineering. They were best man at each other's weddings. And together they formed Bootstrap Propulsion Labs. Which eventually became Bootstrap Inc, a multi-billion dollar company that specialized in experimental engine, vehicle and alloy design.
And when they found that their ideas had been stolen by members of the secretive, neo-nazi
T.H.O.R. (Tactical Harbringers of Revolution) orginization they came to a decision together. Finding that T.H.O.R. had agents throughout the local and federal government protecting them, they decided to put a stop to the racist and power-hungry group on their own. Under the umbrella of their now more secure company they formed
The Wrecking Crew, an elite team of special ops with one goal. The destruction of T.H.O.R. and the ending of its threat to themselves and America.
Armed with experimental arms, equipment and vehicles from the fertile minds of Brown and Farrell, the Wrecking Crew wage a secret war against a merciless enemy. Michael "Prowl" Bell - Delta Force, Wally "Hound" Burr - Marine Force Recon, Ken "Jazz" Sansom - FBI forensic psychologist, Laurie "Ratchet" Faso - JPL Labs, Chris "Ironhide" Latta - Military Police unarmed combat trainer, Corey "Brawn" Burton - US Special Forces, Suan "Trailbreaker" Blu - Marine RECON infiltration expert, Frank "Gears" Weller.
The Avengers of the West Coast are a band of bounty hunters for the most part. Though they've made a reputation taking down corrupt law-men, industrialists and robber barons. Throughout California and up the coast and down into Mexico, these
Avengers are known as heroes for the downtrodden...
Led by Roger Stephens a former U.S. Cavalry officer. The charismatic and brave man is often simply called THe Captain. Other members of the band include the Portuguese brother and sister, Pedro de (I hope de replaces the) Vivo one of the fastest guns around and Felicidade de Ruvio rumored to be a bruxia or witch. And Clint Eagle-eye the half-Apache scout and marksman...
I'm still trying to come up with tangent versions of other Avengers from that era. Black Panther, Hercules, Beast, Wonder Man, Jocasta, Swordsman, Mantis, Vision and Falcon. At least I think Falcon was an Avenger then. All I know is the Avengers roster got huge there for awhile. Sometimes with around a dozen or more active members...
The Four are a globally hunted team of killers and espionage freelancers. Led by the genius inventor and amoral monster Dr. Reed Richards. His fantastic, if evil, devices have made them the most wanted people on the planet. The others include master of stealth and disguise Sue "Invisible" Storm and her explosives expert brother Johnny "Torch" Storm. And expert pilot and brutal killer Ben "The Thing" Grimm. Grimm gained his nickname after surviving being shot down but with horrific scarring...
Though wanted by every law enforcement agency around, The Four are the personal white whale of the
Advanced Ideas Squad of INTERPOL. Each member is a brilliant police officer as well as having varied and personal motivations for hunting the Four. Latverian nobleman Victor Von Doom attended the same schools as Reed. The two were at first friendly rivals. But as Richards revealed himself to have no concern for the human costs of his research, Von Doom distanced himself returning home. The good doctor had specialized in cybernetics and robotics, planning to use his genius to help the people of his small country. Latveria had become a democracy over the last several decades but their former ruling family were respected and revered. The former Contessa, Victor's mother, was a leading humanitarian. It was her work at building peace that caused her enemies to hire the Four to eliminate her. This murder drove Von Doom into joining INTERPOL and forming the A.I.S.
Other members include the Americans Bentley Wittman: surveillance (FBI) and Phillip Masters: tactics (CIA), Italian Jose Santini: counter-terrorism (Guardia di Finanza), Spaniard Esteban Corazon De Ablo: demolitions/chemical weapons disposal (National Police) and Russian Ivan Kragoff: ex-commando and small unit tactics. The elite team is dedicated to the pursuit and capture of the Four at any cost...
The Spider: Man Without Fear. Peter Po Parker is 2nd Generation American Chinese and a high-wire acrobat for the Lee & Ditko Brothers Circus. All he wants is to entertain people and challenge himself with his often dangerous act. And maybe making up his mind about the romantic triangle he's in with bare back rider Gwen and lion-tamer's assistant Mary Jane. But when you're family tree is filled with crazed Geomancers, international spies and Mystic Kung-Fu warriors its hard to be "normal". Especially when your family and their enemies keep interfering...
Inspired by Plok's idea of "Marvel as written by various famous authors", Willow of Seeking Avalon has been doing Marvel Tangents. Where the names are the same but the concepts are different. So far she has
The Gambit a group dedicated to fighting supernatural threats to mankind. At the cost of one of their members lives every mission. Which led to my idea for
X-Man, DaVinci's secret robot, secret ally of the Gambit. Which then led to
The Uncanny X-Men. A future team of robots built by
The Exiles (a community of alien dissidents exiled to Earth to get them out of the way) to battle threats on Earth and abroad...
Also
The Avengers (Black Panther, Silver Fox, White Tiger and The Wolverine), a female team of half human/half beasts empowered by the demi-goddess Circe to fight evil. Inspiring me with
The Fury, a former sergeant in the Ukranian army, now the avatar of the Furies. She is the more violent and darker rival to the Avengers...
She's also got
The Amazing Nightcrawler, three generations of the Wagner family who fight evil in New York using their family's gift/curse...
Which leads me to
The Doctors' Strange. The staff of the Stephen Strange Memorial Hospital have unique problems. But thats expected when you're the worlds authority on treating metahuman issues. Chief-of-staff Dr. Matt Murdock has to balance the care of his sometimes dangerous patients with the emotional hot house that is his staff. Think Grey's Anatomy with super-heroes...
ETA: Willow adds (from an IM with Zombie Mallet) new takes on
Ghost Rider as a cross of Deadman & Max Headroom. And her take on
Deadpool. Which reminds a little of The Crow & a little of both The Spectre & Ragman...
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