In The Loup

[athelind]

Okay, time to poll the studio audience.

I'm coming up with villains for a superhero RPG, and I need conceptual ideas. I don't need specific powers or origins so much as I need clever names, themes, and gimmicks. Think Classic Batman Villains -- theme villains who could easily play as either High Camp or Disturbingly Obsessed. A villain that sounds silly may not play silly -- remember the archetypal theme villain.

On the flip side of the same coin, I've got a specific team of adversaries that I want to round out. In the spirit of the terrible puns that Mike W. Barr used to come up with for the supervillains in Batman and the Outsiders... I have a band of super-powered werewolves.

1. There's Feedback Loup, and his devastating sonic howl.


2. Jeweler's Loup, who can create and shape diamond-hard crystal from thin air.


3. and Loup de Loup, an agile, high-speed flying... werewolf.

Three is a pretty scrawny supervillain group,though. I need at least two more to round this pack out -- though three more would let me dub them the "Six-Pack".

I know you guys. Surely someone out there can come up with more awful wolf puns. The French "Loup" isn't required; if you can come up with similar wretchedness in other languages, gopher baroque.

Comments

[jonaswins.livejournal.com]

Quantum Loup?

The Louprechaun?

...Fruit Loup? X)

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

The muscle of the pack would have to be Belt Loup.

[scarfman]

The Chicago Loup, who butchers hogs and has wide shoulders.

For more general villains: Jack Acid, who dresses like Nick Bottom after Puck was done with him and has potions for eating through anything.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Infinite Loup, the computer hacker who can project multiple images of himself to confuse and distract enemies. Each doppelganger sucks power out of any electric, electronic, or computer system, too, so when you have an Infinite Loup going, everything shuts down.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Thrownfur Loup, with her ability to administer massive shocks, both electrical and psychological.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

...and, of course, their leader and mastermind, Professor Moebius Loup. A mild-mannered mathematical genius and college professor until he was caught in the backlash from a dimension-shifting physics experiment gone horribly wrong. Now mad and bent on revenge against the world, he lives in the shadows, directing the Six Pack.

His chief strength is his twisted genius, which makes him a valuable and respected leader in spite of his rather one-dimensional personality. He lacks any great offensive abilities, and therefore tends to stay behind the others in any sort of pack attack. However, when danger threatens and the defeat of the Pack seems certain, he can band them together and "Do the Twist," and just like that, the Six Pack is simply... not... there...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of calling the Mastermind of the group...

Lobe-O.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Pity. Dr. Moebius has such a nice history. :)

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

For the Wolves I'd suggest Loupback, who can redirect any attack back to it's source.

For general, I'd happily volunteer some of the villains I used in my old Champions campagin, which was like it or not very Silver Age, for all that I was reading '80's comics: The Atomic Playboy (suave and supremely radioactive), The Menagerie (my take on Dragon Man, an android of amazing animal parts and powers), Gulag-13 (if you need any Soviet state supervillains)... I have more. If I can find my old notes. :)

--Drake

[athelind.livejournal.com]

They sound a bit too high-powered for a Batman-style game, honestly.

[baiji.livejournal.com]

The "social Mixer". Something in dealing with projecting random emotions onto others, or maybe forcing another's persona on another via some means (chemical, mental mutation, device). Even as an unintentional villian; throwing someone in the right place with such an ability could create a mob of unstable madness.

[haystack.livejournal.com]

Captain Kumquat, who can summon the fruit in all states from fresh to ohmyGodwasthatonceCitrus?, in any smount. Theme colors are orange and green.

Dr. Tesser, a genius of physics who has discovered how to take advantage of fourth-dimensional physical space. He delights in using hypercubes as traps for unwary heroes (think of them as pocket dimensions in the vein of "And He Built a Crooked House"). Imagine the sort of fortress this guy could create... I imagine it'd make for one heck of an invasion attempt -- if the players could ever figure their way through it.

M.C. Houseshaker, a DJ gone bad who uses (you guessed it) attacks of high-powered music. Damn, I need to make a sandwich with such cheese...

...werewolf names. Loup-y, you say...

Recursive Loup, able to summon copies of herself for a brief time. Probably would need some limitation, such as having to divide her power amongst the copies. So, one copy might be her strength, two would be half her strength, and so on.

Vicious Loup, who fights normally unless he takes damage. The more he's hurt, the more damage he deals. If he's out of combat, the increase in damage abilities fades fairly quickly, so he does well to stay in the thick of things.

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

You could always go for broke and use a villainous duck from Howard the Duck's universe...that's zany and wacky enough with being dangerous. Or the same with Myxyzpitlyx's dimension. Perhaps toning the power down by explaining a power-transferrence as happened in Emperor Joker.

And I have only one name coming to mind... The Cycler.

[margaras.livejournal.com]

Dog of War?

[twentythoughts.livejournal.com]

Loupy, the group mascot. He's very, yes, loopy.

Canta Loupe, a wolf with the ability to turn any fruit into were-fruit, which he then controls. You'll never look at an apple the same way.

As for more generic stuff, I enjoy the idea of someone named Marionette... Basically someone who has full (tele)kinetic control of their own body, which has so flexible joints that it's basically a ragdoll when Marionette's unconscious. Add really, really long hair which is also fully controlled by Marionette, and knives attached to hands and feet, and you've got someone who's pretty dang deadly in combat.

And then there's Origami: Someone who's able to make any object in their hand act like a more effective weapon. To examplify: A baseball bat is a really hard, unbreakable baseball bat. A hollow plastic kid's baseball bat is STILL a really hard, unbreakable baseball bat. A sheet of paper formed into a vague semblance of a baseball bat is also a really hard, unbreakable baseball bat. Not to mention that simple sheets of paper aren't just simple sheets of paper: They're A4-sized razor blades in Origami's hand. Now, Origami's also hella good at, yes, origami, and can make a fully functional paper gun that shoots deadly paper bullets in mere seconds.

[twentythoughts.livejournal.com]

Although thinking of it, "Canta Loupe" should probably be a girl. I don't know any guys named Canta.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Characters I still want to play or use in my own games, but which could be ripped off include;

Dred Lock, a superpowered Rasta.

Main Gauche, who channels energy through making rude gestures with his left hand.

Der Panzerfaust, a German guy with a huge robotic arm.

Doktor Flammenwerfer, who... well, yeah.

Doc Mandelbrot, who hypnotizes people with his spirals.

"Lou" Crotta, who had himself genetically spliced with a hyena to give himself a bone-shearing bite that made him an underworld terror.

Katyusha, flying Russian girl.

Neutron Star, a midget who can adjust his mass to be denser than lead.

[atomicdumbass.livejournal.com]

Lobe-O please.

This is seriously damn funny. I wish I could play.

Rhymes now:

The Loup Group
The Loup Troop

Beware the keen senses of the Snoop Loup
Be awed by the mad Basketball skillz of the Hoop Loup
Dread the intellect-deadening Stupe Loup
Hang out with the Bra-Destroying Droop Loup
Flee from the flingings of the Poop Loup
Follow your nose to the...well, the Froot Loup
...maybe there's a guy who sails a sloop and feeds you soup that gives you croup...

...probably not...

[baxil.livejournal.com]

For the Loups, I got nothin' that hasn't already been said. But if the werewolves were created by a mad scientist that will eventually face the PCs, you could cry havoc and let loose the Doc of Warg.