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athelind ([personal profile] athelind) wrote2007-11-03 04:57 pm

In The Loup

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.

[identity profile] hafoc.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
...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...

[identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking of calling the Mastermind of the group...

Lobe-O.

[identity profile] hafoc.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Pity. Dr. Moebius has such a nice history. :)