Rich McGee

For what it is worth,I liked the lethality.  It encouraged role play over gun play when things started going south.
 
 

You can go longhand:
 
Shape shift, regeneration, maybe some personal defense that doesn't help the guy in the costume--
 
Or you could claim "instant change", only into one outfit-  _this_ outfit, and handwave the altered shaoes of stretchy people and morphy people.
 
Or you can do what I do and declare it sfx of  havibg a super suit, available if you want it.
 
 

Princess Bareback
 
The person called Princess Bareback is one of the most beautiful women in Clown Town. She is the daughter of the mayor of Clown Town, Mayor Ringmaster. While she doesn't actually directly commit crimes, she is madly in love with KO Clown and she deliberately makes herself the damsel in distress just to get his attention so she can subject him to mushy stuff, which of course causes him distress.
 
She usually wears a beautiful light colored dress with a matching bonnet, her blonde hair in a ponytail then styled into long sausage ringlets which flows past her waist but above her knees, and big blue eyes with long eyelashes. As a damsel in distress mode, she usually finds herself also cocooned from shoulders to ankles in ropes and a bandana gag around her face.
 
She doesn't actually have to be kidnapped to cause problems for KO Clown. Sometimes by stepping in between a fight to give him a kiss when he least can handle it for example.
 
She is often found tied up near Mister Mean, but it should be noted that Mister Mean rairly ever actually kidnapped her. She is also a common victim of whatever flimflam device Spring Shoes O'Sullivan has convinced her could actually win her KO Clown's heart.
 
While the character's idea and mode of dress is based on a twisted variant of the silent movie damsels in distress (already considered old hat by that state), her name comes from circus bareback horse riders.

Yep. That's the idea.

Spring Shoe O'Sullivan
 
A crackpot inventor and flimflam man who sold his "miraculous" gadgets and gizmos to the citizens of Clown Town. His gimmicks always end up failing in dangerous ways and would require KO Klown to come to the rescue of the poor suckers tricked by the conniving con man. 
 
He was inspired partly by the legend of Spring-heeled Jack and medicine show shysters. He was considered a minor character and only made one appearance in the shorts and returned briefly in the comics. He still managed to somehow break through the weakened dimensional barrier, but was easily defeated and hasn't been seen since.
 
O'Sullivan wears a garish emerald green suit, bowler hat, a loud orange vest and bow tie. He is thin and sports slicked backed red hair and a handlebar mustache. 
 
As his nickname indicates his main gimmick is his spring-loaded shoes that allow him to leap great distances, but he would eventually lose control and careen around chaotically. He had other contraptions that were often Rube Goldberg type machines that ultimately performed mundane functions.

Not that I know of, but I was primarily a Champions purchaser, not their other Hero games - think I owned the early core books for Danger International, Fantasy and Space and that was it.  I've only seen them in that long-ago Dragon but they sure stick in my memory - like almost all Dee artwork.

Our _country_, Sir.  Our entire country.
 

After his ejection from TSR, Gygax developed a new game and took it to GDW.  It was originally called Dangerous Dimensions, but was changed to DJ after TSR threatened to sue.  Then TSR sued anyway claiming DJ was a derivative work of D&D.  The lawsuit was utterly baseless but GDW didn't have the resources to fight TSR (They Sue Regularly) and was forced to hand over all printed DJ material, which I assume was then sent to a landfill.
 
(It never ceases to amaze me how much our hobby is dominated by copyright law, lawyers, and corporate suits who hold their customers in open contempt.)
 
Oddly enough, DJ shared little with D&D other than being a TTRPG.  As I understand it, DJ was an attempt at a universal system that used only d6s and d10s and had point buy character creation.

Thank you. I was thinking about a variant of the Circus Strongman archtype.

Hi. The former steriaca here. Let me try my hand in this.
 
Vile Vinny
 
Vile Vinny is basically a cartoonist gorilla shaped human with amazing superhuman strength and durability (doubly potent because of his Toon Force powers). If he can put his hands on something he can wreck it, but KO Clown can always fix the things he wrecks (it's a no range Transformation which "heals back" when a heroic Toon Force user wills it to be fixed and actually takes any action to fix it). He can normally lift a car with little effect, but has lifted things nobody could in the cartoons.
 
Vile Vinny represents the stupid hulking bad guy who rampages around Clown Town and generally uses his great strength to ruin things around the town.
 
It should be noted that Vile Vinny never met Mister Mean in the cartoons, and was probably reduced to never appearing in the comic at that time (because he never crossed dimensions he wasn't practically liked as a character).
 
Vile Vinny dresses like a circus strongman, wearing a tiger pattern one piece with only one strap on his right shoulder. He is also covered with reddish brown fur (he is a pseudo gorilla after all), and mean red eyes.

All of the illustrations in Crimefighters are familiar. Were they used in Hero books?

Cripes, and you want me to find something new?  Thanks, no pressure at all... 
 
Ah, I know.  In celebration of the earliest version of Mickey Mouse entering public domain at last, let's see some villains from the (entirely fictional) Clown Town cinematic cartoon franchise from the 1930s.  I covered the franchise's lead hero and main villain over here but as the blog post says there were other baddies in the shorts beyond Mister Mean.  Let's see who you think they were and how they're adapting to our weird colorful reality.
 
Three or four should be plenty, I'd think.
 
For those who don't want to scroll through game stats for an unfamiliar system, here's the most salient points for both characters:
 
KO Clown
KO Clown started out as a character in the 1930s "Clown Town" cinematic cartoon series, where he mostly played the hero by showing up at the last moment to stop the scheme of Mister Mean by bonking him with a hammer.  The shorts weren't the most sophisticated humor even for their era, but became popular enough to get a newspaper strip and later a children's radio program and comic book.  In the late 1940s a young boy named Ricky Little somehow gained the ability to summon KO Clown into our reality by saying the magic word "Okaykayo!" and the two of them spent about five years bonking real-life mobsters, recalcitrant Nazis, mad scientists and Communist spies alongside other peculiar Golden Age heroes.
Ricky disappeared when he was sixteen, the same night that a studio fire destroyed the original prints of the Clown Town shorts and that was the last anyone saw of KO Clown for decades.  Clown Town faded into obscurity by the end of the 1950s, and remained an obscure "lost media" curiosity until 2023 when a forgotten film reel was discovered by a film historian.  As luck would have it, that historian had a ten year old daughter and the magic word worked as well for her as it had for Ricky Little.  It took a while to explain concepts like "child endangerment" to KO Clown, but he eventually accepted that things had changed.  He now works with a minor superhero team rather than a unpowered preteen crimefighting partner.  Many villains hate him with a passion - getting beaten silly by an old-fashioned cartoon is embarrassing - but he's actually got his fans even in the supercrime community.
But no matter how busy things get, he still makes time to visit little Susie and always comes when she calls out "Okaykayo!"  Her father is still digging into KO Clown's past, and there are some things buried there that might be awkward for everyone involved.  If KO Clown can manifest here in the real world, why not other cartoon characters like Mister Mean?  And what happened to Ricky Little?
Description: A cartoon clown.  Tall, gangly, rubber-limbed, wearing bright blue pants, a canary yellow shirt with big red buttons, white suspenders and gloves, and enormous red clown shoes.  Frequently carries the tools of his trade, with his powers letting him conjure an endless variety of pies, seltzer bottles, jugglers' clubs, rubber chickens and similar props out of thin air.  His favorite "toy" is a huge red mallet that's taller than he is.  His clown makeup changes to reflect his emotions, usually glad, sad, or mad.  Sometimes he goes all monochrome just for the sake of nostalgia.  Has a jolly voice and his movements are weirdly irregular, like early cel animation.
Gender: Male            Age: Clowns Are Eternal           Height: 6'2"          Eyes: Bright Blue
Hair: Neon Green Fright Wig       Skin: Pasty White Under The Clown Makeup     Build: Lanky
His greatest weakness is "Kissy Stuff" as he puts it.  As a character from a 1930s children's cartoon who has the emotional maturity of a stereotypical ten year old boy, even mild displays of affection throw him off his stride.  Explicit sexual displays are pretty much his Achilles' heel - assuming he even recognizes them for what they are.  He may express concern about catching cooties when fighting female supervillains.
 
Mister Mean
Much like his nemesis, Mister Mean was a character from the 1930s "Clown Town" cartoon.  He was the show's principle bad guy, always scheming to take over the town and make its citizens' lives miserable and always stopped in the end by KO Clown.  It's not clear how he's followed the Clown to the real world in the 2020s - is there a rotten little kid behind it? - but he's back his old shenanigans.  While technically a supervillain, his idea of an ingenious criminal plot tends to be childish, outdated, impractical or all three.  He works very poorly with his peers, many of whom either baffle or secretly horrify him.  His weird powers are useful enough that he does attract all manner of petty thugs as henchmen, although they're more interested in using him as a distraction while they get away with some actual loot - often in bags clearly labeled as such.  To date he's proved impossible to arrest (much less imprison) as he melts away into a puddle of black ink when defeated, inevitably returning in weeks or months.
It's quite possible that Mister Mean may only be the first Clown Town villain to manifest.  The shorts did have other lesser baddies and there's obviously some kind of breach in reality revolving around the films.  If the breach widens it may only be a matter of time until there's more criminal silliness going on.  For now it seems Mister Mean is the only one carrying out schemes to counterfeit nickels, steal all the ice cream in the city, and turn everyone into mice.
Description: A cartoon bad guy.  He generally wears a black suit under a black overcoat and a tall, crooked stovepipe hat - black, of course.  Short and scrawny with a hunched physique and arms so long his spidery hands drag on the ground.  Carries a six foot long fountain pen that he impossibly tucks away in his coat when it's not needed.  His inability grow suitably villainous facial hair is a sore point for him.
Gender: Male          Age: Timeless Classic         Height: 5'0"          Eyes: Red
Hair: Black              Skin: Sickly Green           Build: Hunched
Mister Mean's powers are very similar to KO Clown's, although he favors conjuring up comedically menacing weaponry with Transmutation instead of circus props.  He's particularly fond of big round bombs (usually labelled as such) with sputtering fuses, jagged daggers that don't seem to actually draw blood, blackjacks and occasionally tommy guns when he's feeling like playing gangster.  His signature weapon is a huge fountain pen that he can use to jab people, spray ink, or siphon energy from people - which leaves other cartoons all shriveled and puny but just makes real world folks intensely sleepy.
His greatest weakness is extreme squeamishness about the sight of blood, which (as he puts it) just isn't natural.  "Why are you people all full of red ink?"

That sounds like a mistake in the point cost more than anything else, which is pretty easy to fix by tweaking the cost and playtesting until it feels right.  Versatility should cost something, the question being how much.  

Rich,
 
You can pick the next team.
Themes that have been done more than once. Arsonists, the Seven Sins, the Undead, teams operating only at night or during the day, users of cold powers, sports, agents, constellations, chemical elements, giants, retired villains, aliens, pirates, anime, toys, Information Technology, cowboys, Lovecraft/Cthulhu mythos, yellow journalism, maths, school/college, families, cops, villain support groups, holidays, heroes who are villains, monsters, halloween, darkness/shadow/night powers
Teams from Africa, Japan, Soviet Russia, Britain, India and based on American history have been done.
The 12 labours of Hercules, the 7 days of the Week, the compass points, the 4 seasons, planets, dinosaurs, extinct animals, earth/air/fire/water powers, flying/water based heroes/villains, American Indians, Nazis, snakes, bikers, gangsters, blades, gun, martial artists, clowns, the weather, colours of the rainbow, cooking, alcohol, fairies and weight have also been themes

They say in Low Gothic. 

No one tells the Inquisition what language to speak.

It is.
 
And since i don't want it to be, I have disqualified it.  That and checkers are my last bits of tactical gaming joy, and I am not going to sully the tactical,beauty with a three-hit-points RPG. 
 
 
 

A bit off topic from the original question, but since it fits the thread title I'll parasitize it instead of starting a new one just to toot my own horn a bit. 
 
Today marked the completion of a long-running project over on my SCRPG resource blog.  Since villains are one of the things a new(ish) supers RPG needs most, a couple of years back I started in to do one of every possible pairing of villain "approach" and "archetype" in the core book.  For those who don't play, villains are constructed by pairing those two elements, selecting some options off each one's menu, adding a few other details, and you're done.  It's a faster process than Hero by a bit but not trivial, and of course you need a solid concept for what you're trying to create to start with.  There are (inexplicably) 18 villain approaches and 14 archetypes, which makes for a grand total of 252 possible pairings. 
 
Didn't expect to actually finish all of them when it started, but after some grinding I finished up the last one today, squeaking over the 2023 finish line.  Still doesn't begin to cover every possible villain build (you'll always have menu options you didn't take, which can differentiate one Bully/Indomitable baddy from another) but it's enough for me.  Also quite a few more villains than some supers RPG get in their whole history, and probably twice or thrice as many as the Greater Than Games folks have officially published.
 
So yay, me.  Now I can think about what to move on to next.

Built that one twice when I was a kid.  The distressed fragments of one of them (along with a couple of Space 1999 Eagles) became part of my "graveyard of wrecked ships" table that I built for some early minis gaming, which got me started on making gaming scenery.

What the title says! Let's hope 2024 is one of the better years.

Any superhero vehicles here would be considered light aircraft.  The payphone may've been occasionally vandalized.  Airport management has tried to have it removed, but, so far, the phone company hasn't budged.

"Perfect!  Hold that pose!"

Coastal City does not have any public airports within its boundaries.  The city is serviced by Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, and Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.  Dulles is the primary international airport for the Washington, D.C. region, which Coastal City is on the edge of, while Reagan National is the primary domestic airport.
 
Coastal City Airport, located two miles beyond the city limits, is a general aviation airport.  Just outside the terminal is a mailbox and a place where pets can relieve themselves.  Inside is a pay phone, water fountain where one can fill a water bottle, restrooms, a vending area, the Runway 5 Café, and a first aid station.  A car rental agency and a gas station/convenience store are across the street from the airport.
 
Outside is Hawke Air, Inc., gas pumps for 100 Low Lead Avgas and Jet-A, T-hangars, restrooms, and the base for Medstar 4, the area medical helicopter.  Light aircraft, including a biplane and gliders occupy most of the apron area, but there are also ground vehicles with light bars.
 

I'd be greatly surprised if Ms. Brown doesn't achieve her dream.  And maybe wind up getting recruited into some superpowered "space patrol" organization after her first mission encounters a series of highly unlikely events.  If there's anyone in that group that deserves to be a superhero it's Val.

Not just you, Cygnia.  Just went through that myself.