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

[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.