Enforcer84 Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 I was so pleased with my contribution to the Japanese hero team thread I thought I'd start a game for us to create teams, we have the Theme Team games, this one is more narrowly defined and yet more open? Rules: The guy who posts a team must pick a Country, A side (Hero of Villain) and a Number of members. (any other information you'd like to provide is up to you) The rest of us populate the team, I'm not going to limit you to one team member per post, if you have an idea for all (let's say) 5 members go for it. Then you can request your team. This is very rules light, so go on and have fun! Our first team is a group of six heroes, the national Team of France. I lack a name so far. If you're interested get posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Something "Paladins" in French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 I get the Carolingian reference, but "Paladins" sounds very conservative to me. It would be a legitimate name for a French team, but not for the national team. Unless we are talking about Vichy France, when it would be just right. Obviously I need to come up with a suggestion of my own. I'll do a little research, and edit into this post. Hmm. Unfortunately, Legion of Superheroes is taken. "The France national football team ... traditional colours are blue, white and red, the colors of the national flag of France, known as the drapeau tricolore, and the coq gaulois is the symbol of the team. France is colloquially known as Les Bleus (The Blues), which is the name associated with all of the country's sporting national teams, due to the blue shirts each team incorporates." and "Nickname(s) Les Bleus (The Blues)Les Tricolores (The Tri-colors)" "The Force de frappe (French: strike force), or Force de dissuasion after 1961, is the designation of what used to be a triad of air-, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons intended for dissuasion, the French term for deterrence." There are a bunch of published French superteams. An interesting one, designed for the UK published superhero RPG Squadron UK, is called "l’Avant-Garde". "Legion of Superheroes" is translated "Légion des Super-Héros" in the French editions. Marvel has "Les Heroes de Paris" (correct French: "Les Héros de Paris"). A thought: what would the non-Franglais term for superhero be in French? Looking at "Paladins" again, it could actually work, if it was suitably qualified to be "Republican" rather than "Royalist" in its connotations. In other words, not too backward looking. "Paladins of Justice"? (Paladins de la Justice) French Wikipedia has a section on "Paladin" called "Utilisation post-médiévale du terme", which is absent in the English version. It looks like my concerns were unjustified. So: "Paladins de la Justice" would be fine. Why not? Force de la justice Force de la liberté Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 E'toile de la Seine: A youngish woman dressed in swashbuckler style and a domino mask, she uses her sword and various star-themed gadgets to protect the neighborhoods around the Seine river. And now that she's joined the team, the rest of France as well. Secretly she is trying to make up for her aunt, the notorious thief Lis Noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 (This one's for you, Log-Man) A play on both the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty (a gift to the US from the French) Mademoiselle Eiffel, an American Ex-Pat who can grow to the size of a tower. Jennifer Adams is the daughter of former Minute Man (DC Based Super Team) Lady Liberty, and inherited her mothers model good looks and power to grow to giant size. Unlike her mother, however, she hated DC and fell in love with Europe during college vacations and studies abroad. She speaks perfect french but despite her love of Europe and her people, Jennifer causes a bit of friction as what some consider a "Typical Bossy American" attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 La Papillon Noir. (The Black Butterfly) A woman of Algerian descent from the estates of northern Marseille, who uses an anti-gravity unit and various other gadgets to fight crime. Papillon (butterfly) is masculine in French, but as far as I know it would be correct for a heroine to use the female form. She would probably drop the "Noir" part after she meets Le Chat Noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Le Chat Noir is a master of cat powers who is either very lucky, or an harbinger of doom. (Sorry, only French i know. It's the name of the Unknown Soldier's sidekick.) CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Khan Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Professeur Fabrice Forestier teaches engineering at L'École Polytechnique. He wears a gold and red, slightly medieval looking Powered Armor to protect Paris as L'Oriflamme. The armor gives him super strength and a variety of energy blasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Khan Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 E'toile de la Seine: A youngish woman dressed in swashbuckler style and a domino mask, she uses her sword and various star-themed gadgets to protect the neighborhoods around the Seine river. And now that she's joined the team, the rest of France as well. Secretly she is trying to make up for her aunt, the notorious thief Lis Noir. The correct spelling should be L'Étoile de la Seine. I like the word play in her name. Seine and Scène (Stage) are homophones in French. Does she have a theater background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Le Météore. A speedster from Strasbourg, who gained his abilities in an explosion caused by a Guess What. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Assault, I think you get to pick the next country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 OK. New Zealand. Villains. 5 members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Kor Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Great White - mutant brick, half-shark, half-man. Super-soldier program gone wrong. Likes to eat his enemies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 "The Wetta" Powered armour wearer .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 The Kiwi Blade- Swordsman who can control the bird life on the island nation. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 1, 2014 Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 not a contribution to the team but a Nemesis for Great White, just the name suggested a Neo-Nazi skin head type locked up in jail for hate crimes offered a chance to reduce his sentence with participation in some questionable medical tests develops super powers from the shark based anti viral treatment. Mean while celebrated Maori rugby player ARAPETA AHIPARERA (touted to be the next all blacks team captain), is involved in a horrendous car accident whilst trying to save the life of a small child. his body broken and unable to play the game he loves he volunteers for an experimental bone regeneration treatment it works only too well leaving him super humanly strong and tough unable to return to the game he loves he uses his new found strengths to fight crime as the "ALL BLACK" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Cackhand & Crook - These two mutant brothers look a great deal alike, but their powers couldn't be more different. Cackhand has energy projection and manipulation with his left hand as its source. He can make constructs or simple but powerful blasts. He tends to be more direct than his brother. Crook has all the skills of a master thief, but his power steals only health. With a thought, Crook can spread illness and disease. Fortunately, folks tend to recover after an hour, but he has shown the ability to escalate it to the point of death at least twice. I believe that's five New Country: The Netherlands, Four Heroes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Mark Wallander is the Delta Dyke. He only has the power to create barriers. He has practiced with that power until he can use it for multiple purposes. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 beschermerleeuw: the guardian lion for generations the guardian lions have been the agents and protectors of the dutch crown chosen and tested and trained by there predecessors they are the crown and the nations champion. previously serving in secret since the explosion of costumed around the world the guardian lions now serve visibly in a golden costume that pays homage to the royal crest. the current guardian lion is a former dutch special forces officer who was personally selected by his predecessor for his bravery in action as part of the operations in Afghanistan. he wears a golden armored costume and a mask including a golden mane of hair. He is armed with the guardians sword a mysterious sword belonging to the first guardian lion made of an unbreakable golden alloy. On his back is a quiver containing seven arrows each arrow has a different function ( the quiver conceals several dozen collapsed reloads for each so he has more ammo that would be obvious) his gauntlets hide a gravity manipulator that allows him to both hurl the arrows(or anything else) with remarkable force and accuracy. it also allows him to generate a personal force shield useful in close combat and for protecting the royal family from gun men etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 The White Bicycle, speedster with anarchist leanings (giving a certain intra-team tension with the fellow immediately above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 De Nactwatch Frans Van Rijn was the son of of an antiquarian book seller in Amsterdam when his father disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Frans was sent off to live with his uncle a one time forger a thief turned mostly legit recover-er/acquirer of antiques and security consultant. he followed his uncle around the world obtaining an eclectic education and learning to speak 7 languages by the time was 18. He went off to study at Oxford where he obtained degrees in art history and art restoration.as well as competing in the boxing club. and returned to Amsterdam where he worked part time at the Rijks museum restoring books from there collection and part time as an investigator for various art collectors locating lost or missing works of art. and making a pretty good living from recovery fees. it was during one of his investigations he discovered the artifact that would change his life seemingly a silver brooch of the kind used to fasten cloaks it was intricately carved with symbols and an image of the crescent moon and it called to him. in the end he negotiated to take the brooch in payment for the recovery of a number of artifacts. he was hypnotized by the brooch and couldn't keep his hands off it he fell asleep the night he acquired it with it in his hands. he had the strangest dreams that night of using the brooch to draw shadows and darkness around him so they enfolding him it should have been terrifying but he never felt so safe. he awoke with a start in his study with the lights out and the room only illuminated by moonlight and at a whim tried to do as he had in his dream to his amazement it worked he drew the darkness and shadows from around the room and clad in this mantle of shadows he found him self stronger faster and tougher than before.Able to leap silently, glide like a bird to, see in darkness like day to vanish into the shadows like a ghost and to summon darkness around him that only he can see through. he became the night time defender of Amsterdam a dark figure face always shrouded in writhing shadows battling crime. travelling the world recovering stolen masterpieces by day a two-fisted PI for the art world He is DE Nachtwatch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 and that's four so next up Jamica three heroes and an opposing three villains (if that's acceptable) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 I'd allow it. It is a game afterall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Doctor Drop Legs- This hero moves like a dancer on fast forward, which is why they call the man Doctor Drop Legs. With his stylish hat over an other wise 'typical' hero costume, Dr. Drop Legs has been seen dodging bullets and weaving through entire mobs of villains untouched. His reflexes and grace are off the charts. He can climb most buildings' walls quicker than some walk across the street as long as there are handholds he can flip too now and then. He's a bit of a show off and folks keep wondering who he might be. Of course, in his secret Identity, he's Dr. Manning Clement, a paraplegic who is finding the tests of his chemical meant to retore mobility to be very promising, but potentially lethal. He knows its poor ethics to use himself as a test subject, but he'd rather be a superhero dancing on the roof tops for a few years than a crippled man for a lifetime. If his sister ever found out about this, she'd be VERY ticked at him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 A foe for DOCTOR DROP LEGS. THE HOT-STEPPER. Angus royal grew up on the streets around the docks in Kingston a street punk who never knew his dad and who's mother never came out of the bottle of a bottle. He learnt all he knew on the streets learning to fight and steals when he was fifteen things got hot after blinding the son of a major player in the Kingston vice scene in a street fight Angus fled Jamaica as a deck hand on a tramp cargo ship. He travelled all over the carribean and in every port of call he picked up new fighting styles bajan stick fighting and calinda in Trinidad capoeira in Brazil. The tramp cargo ship wasn't the most reputable of vessels often operating as a smuggler one such cargo was delivered from a seemingly uninhibited island by men in green uniforms with golden snake logos. As the tramp steam set off to deliver it's illicit cargo a huge storm struck. Angus was down in the cargo bay tying down loose pallets when a huge bolt of lighting struck the ship blasting the mysterious crate. Their was a huge explosion angus was bathed in strange energy the rest of the ship was torn apart by the blast angus was the soul survivor. Left adrift for days his body wracked with strange pains and tremors he was picked up by a fishing boat and taken back to Jamaica and while he recouperated he discovered that the explosion of the mysterious cargo had changed him he had the power to cover any part of his body or any object in his hands with golden flame. He used the power to take over the vice business in Kingston becoming the major king pin. He dresses in a fine cloths usually in shades of gold white and cream and Carey's a gold and ivory cane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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