Re: Icons - The Costume and Superpowers Store
Excellent idea. Somebody rep this guy for me, huh?
Perhaps the objective isn't so much to create heroes and villains as it is to see how different individuals who seek the power to "make things right" actually go about doing so once they have been given the power. Batman, for instance, had a tragedy in his past which drove him to protect others from suffering as he has. Others choose to use their powers to gain wealth, some sort of elevated status, the admiration or "respect" (fear) of others, etc. What happens when a certain number of "loose cannons" are set upon the world, each with their own agenda? Is the net result a better, if somewhat more chaotic world or does the world descend into despotism as those with the might to do so sieze power?
It could be that Icons is an agency of some foreign power (extraterrestrial or maybe extradimensional) whose purpose is to sow chaos to weaken the Earth's defenses against invasion. Conversely, it could be preparing Earth to defend itself by creating beings who have the ability to counter the advanced technology of an invader. It could be some cosmic experiment by advanced beings for reasons we can't fathom, and everyone, not just the "suits", is a labrat for this experiment.
I'd recommend leaking hints that support several of these theories, but keeping Icons' motivation a mystery as much as possible.