[Stu]

Super-Buddies 2.0!

Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)
Booster Gold (Michael Carter)
Fire (Beatriz Da Costa)
Ice (Tora Olafsdotter)
Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)
Dr. Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)

BOOOM! Done.

[Batman]

All right my first team is...

the YESTERDAY BATTALION!

1) MISTER TERRIFIC



Terry Sloan is essentially Bruce Wayne without the tragedy to give his life focus. He was called the man of a thousand talents, but the ease with which he mastered every field he tackled soon led him to boredom--to the point of contemplating suicide. He was going to toss himself off of a bridge, but when he saw a young woman doing that very thing, he acted on instinct to save her. Then he realized that putting his prodigious talents to use helping others could give him a new lease on life. He took on the persona of Mister Terrific and the motto "Fair Play!"


2) TORO

When Thomas Raymond attempts to rescue his parents from a train wreck his immunity to flame comes to the attention of circus people who take the now-orphaned boy into their act as "Toro."

When the original Human Torch sees this "act" he comes to the rescue, or so he thinks. It turns out that Toro isn't just resistant to fire and heat, he has all the same powers as the Torch: The power to burst into flame at will, to control all be unharmed by any flame and heat, and to fly.

It's later revealed that Toro's deceased parents were assistants in the android Torch's creator's laboratory, and the radiation they were exposed to caused their son to have the same powers.

The Torch offers to take Toro on as a protege and he spends the next few years helping the Torch melt Nazis and other awful people:





And being rescued by him from horrible death-traps:





But he never let danger deter him from fighting the good fight, and he was darn powerful in his own right.


3) DOCTOR MID-NITE



Surgeon Dr. Charles McNider was blinded by a mobster's tossed bomb. But he soon realized that as much as his day-time vision was impaired, his night-vision was greatly enhanced. He decided to use this fluke to his advantage, using his black-out bombs to descend the vicinity into darkness, so that he can see, while his opponents can not.

Also, he's a medical doctor, and that's bound to come in handy.


4) ZATARA

Zatara's immense mystic power allows him to make just about anything he says in "backwards speech" happen.

He's a tough guy to even make break a sweat.




5) The SPIRIT



When Det. Denny Colt is wakes from a deathlike state of suspended animation--accidentally caused in a melee with the evil Dr. Cobra--and realizes that the underworld thinks that he is dead, it occurs to him the advantages to crimefighting that could bring and decides to remain "dead." He makes his base in a secret HQ under the city graveyard and wears a domino mask to menace evil-doers in his inimitable light-hearted way.


6) FIERY MASK


Jack Castle is a prominent scientist who decides to investigate the abduction of hobos by zombies. He goes undercover and gets captured by zombies himself, who take him to the underground lair of the Zombie Master, a titanic mad scientist who has been using a ray to convert the hapless fellows he abducts into his undead servants. He tries this on Jack, but Jack knows how to resist hypnotic influence, so the evil scientist turns the ray up to eleven.



Which leads to the whole place getting wrecked, and to Jack getting superhuman strength. He decides to use this new power to fight evil menaces. (Not that he wasn't clearly already fighting evil menaces even before he had super strength.) Oh, and his eyes glow now for some reason.

Really, how can you beat that?

[Batman]

OK, time for team #2:

TEAM TOMORROW!

1) POLAR BOY



Leadership of the Legion was determined by election regularly, so no one member got a lot of leadership experience. But one guy got a lot of leadership experience--Polar Boy, the perennial leader of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, a club for the Legion's rejects. Eventually, he made the main team and--with so much more leadership experience--was soon elected leader. Also has cold powers.




2) KRUGARR



Dr. Strange's successor as the Sorceror Supreme in the far future of the Marvel Universe.

Nuff Said.


3) MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER



In the year 4000, (in the Gold Key/Valiant universe) mankind has grown dangerously dependent on robots, particularly the H8 pol-rob chief in the North Am sector. The robot 1A believes that this is wrong and raises Magnus from infancy to be capable of getting by without robots and fight them unarmed when necessary, learning advanced martial arts techniques that allow him to break steel with his bare hands.





4) HOLLYWOOD



Simon Williams was given his Ion powers of superhuman strength and durability by Baron Zemo, who wanted him to infiltrate and betray the Avengers. Because of a business grudge against Tony Stark and the threat that he would now need a serum he could only get from Zemo to survive, Williams agreed. But when the crucial moment arrived, Williams--now dubbed "Wonder Man"--betrayed Zemo rather than the Avengers, and--apparently--died.

But Zemo lied, the lack of serum only caused his body to go into suspended animation for a few years. When he is revived he joins the Avengers. He has incredible strength, flight, and can transform into an ionic energy form and back again.

So why is this 20th century hero in Team Tomorrow? Because he's also immortal, and in the 31st Century calls himself "Hollywood" and meets the Guardians of the Galaxy. A nice powerhouse for the team.


5) ROND VIDAR



Rond was already an honorary member of the Legion before becoming a Green Lantern, both for his groundbreaking scientific achievements in time travel, and his help with stopping his mind-controlling father Universo.

Immune from mind control, a time travel genius, and a Green Lantern. Yeah Rond is pretty bad-ass.


6) CHAMELEON BOY



Reep Daggle, detective, shape-shifter, permanent leader of the Legion Espionage Squad. very awesome.

[Stu]

Not That There's Anything Wrong With This Team
Scandal Savage

Apollo
Midnighter

Obsidian(Todd Rice)

Batwoman (Kate Kane)

The Question (Renee Montoya)

[Lucky]

Awww. Someone got to the goofy gay team before I did.

And Simon Williams FINALLY got taken. Albeit not as I expected.

[Batman]

BRONZE BRIGADE

1) MANHUNTER (Paul Kirk)




2) JACK OF HEARTS (Jack Hart)




3) The FORGOTTEN ONE

AKA Hero AKA Gilgamesh




4) MACHINE MAN (X-51)




5) QUASAR (Wendell Vaughn)

Dropped from the regular draft because somebody assumed that just 'cause Tard said something, that it's so!




And last but definitely not least,

6) ROCKET F-IN RACKOON! (dropped)




OK, make that last and definitely least,

6) CAPTAIN ULTRA (Griffin Gogol)

[salmonjunkie]

The InvAsians

Surge (Noriko Ashida)


The Atom (Dr. Ryan Choi)


Karma (X'ian Coy Manh)


Colleen Wing


Shang-Chi - Master of Kung Fu


Amadeus Cho

[Lucky]

You jerk! Colleen Wing was mine!

Shang-Chi wasn't drafted? Wow, I could have swore he was.

[DevSop]

GRRL POWER:

Marvel Girl - Valeria Richards


Ms. Marvel III (Moonstone) - Karla Sofen


Spoiler - Stephanie Brown


Saturn Girl - Imra Ardeen


Stature - Cassie Lang


Princess Powerful - Molly Hayes

[Lucky]

Supreme Power's answer to Batman, Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond).
Justice Leaguer, former Secretary of Education, and cultural icon, Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce).
Justice Leaguer and supermodel, Vixen (Mari McCabe).
New Mutant and X-Force member and really rich dude, Sunspot (Roberto "Bobby" da Costa).
Former NYPD officer and current bionecelly enhanced Hero for Hire, Misty Knight.
Former Justice Leaguer and creepy necromancer with his own Ghost Rider-esque Penance Stare, Bloodwynd.


Black Justice West Coast!

[Stu]

Last one for me. One member's probably ineligible, but I'm not very serious about them
Made up of characters who know they're comic characters and/or can affect the comic book reality:
TEAM META
Animal Man (Buddy Baker)

Nix Uoton, Monitor of New Earth

Editor Girl, capable of erasing and rewriting reality...with a pencil

Ambush Bug

Psycho Pirate

Grant Morrison, who showed up in the last issue of his Animal Man run to talk to Buddy



Reappeared during the War of the Gods crossover as "The Writer", using his powers to kill some enemies before Writer's Block left him open to being killed.

[Lucky]

Apr 12, 2009 15:57:02 GMT -5 DevSop said:

GRRL POWER:

I'm pretty sure someone already has that name.

And might you explain the rationale behind sticking a sociopathic murderer on a team of 5 teenagers? I mean, I guess Spoiler needs to die again but still.

[DevSop]

I think GB has Girl Power, this is GRRL Power, so it's totally different.

And I have no rhyme or reason to the team, they were just the next 6 female names on my list.

[salmonjunkie]

The Animals
a covert-operation team

Beast Boy (Garfield Logan)


Darkhawk (Chris Powell)


Catwoman (Selina Kyle)


Ant-Man (Erin O'Grady)


Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)


2

[Lucky]

Damn it. Ant-Man was important for an idea. Ah well.

Women have it tough in comics.

Take Katma Tui for example. Poor lady is named a Green Lantern, one of the highest honors in the universe, but since she replaced the villain known as Sinestro her home planet can't help but see the Lanterns as anything but evil and she a monster. But she does become one of the most respected Lanterns in the Corp, too bad she gets depowered. But its ok because she's found her love in John Stewart and marries him, settling on Earth. Of course then Star Sapphire comes to their home and murders her savagely for John to find.


How about Mockingbird? The wife of Hawkeye, an Avenger, and agent of SHIELD she can take of herself.. until the Phantom Rider drugs her, kidnaps her, brainwashes her, and rapes her. She gets free and lets him die, but this destroys her marriage with Hawkeye. Just as they seem to be getting it back together she's murdered by Ultron. Of course its eventually revealed that she had already been abducted by Skrulls and spent years as a prisoner undergoing God knows what torture.



The princess Starfire got lost in a bitter struggle with her sister for rule of their home planet. She was imprisoned and tortured for years before escaping execution. She did however get to Earth and join the Titans. Fell in love with good ole' Nightwing and got engaged. Of course their wedding was interrupted and later Nightwing broke off the relationship. And then she got abducted and brainwashed.


How about Jessica Jones? A shy and lonely girl her parents died when she was just a child in an accident that put her in a coma. But she found that the accident gave her powers and she became a hero. Only no one noticed. No one except the Purple Man who took control of her mind and held her captive for 8 months, during which time he forced her to watch him rape women and to beg him to have sex with her, always denying her until she would cry. Breaking her mind down so much that she developed Stockholm Syndrome. But when Purple Man sent her to attack the Avengers the mind control wore off just in time for the Avengers to beat her into another coma. But Jessica is a survivor and she became her own woman again and found love and married Luke Cage, having his child. Of course then the Skrulls stole her baby.


Poor Siryn. Her father was a spy and was away when her mother learned she was pregnant and gave birth. Soon after her mother died in an IRA bombing. When her father returned in his grief he attacked his brother, leading his brother to decide to get revenge by never telling him of his daughter. So the evil villain Black Tom raised his niece as a criminal but she got away and became a hero with the X-Men and X-Force. Not that things were easy. Alcoholism. She had her throat cut making her mute and powerless. Lost her father and struggled to accept it. But things turned around when she got pregnant with Jamie Madrox (or one of his dupes?) and gets engaged, giving birth to her beautiful son Sean, named after he father. Of course then he was absorbed back into Madrox as an infant dupe. Wow. No wonder she wants to scream.


Sharon Carter was a top SHIELD agent and Captain America's lover before a failed mission had her left for dead. After years of tough mercenary work and unfortunate alliances she returned to America, Cap, and SHIELD a changed woman. It took time but eventually she readjusted and even rekindled her romance with Cap. Too bad he was murdered. Did I mention that she was abducted, brainwashed, and forced to murder Captain America herself? This revelation almost destroyed her when she learned she was pregnant with Cap's baby. Of course the Red Skull's daughter kills the baby while in her womb.


Yep. Its hard being a woman in comics. But these aren't just women, they're heroes. And they shall rise up and stand together! As Survivors of the Fridge!



EDIT: I kinda like this team more than my actual teams.

[Lucky]

EARTH!
Man-Thing


FIRE!
Magma


WIND!
Red Tornado


WATER!
Namorita


HEART!
Meggan


BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM CAPTAIN...


ATOM?

[Batman]

Stu: I'd damn you for taking Animal Man, but Team Meta is an awesome idea and way better than what I had in mind for him, so cool.

Morrison would not be eligible under strict observance of the rules. Disallowing real people was one of the main reasons for the "appeared in comics first" rule. I'd say no way in the real game, but in the Shark draft I see no reason not to make an exception.

Thai: Dammit, I was going to make an animal team. Still might.

Lucky: Those last two teams were hilarious. Especially the fridge survivors. What the hell is wrong with comic book writers? Stop it already!

[Batman]

All right, with Animal Man and Beast Boy gone, I've decided to make my animal team all actual animals, instead of mixing in characters with animal powers.

So, I've decided to drop Rocket Racoon from the Bronze Brigade so that he can lead this team instead. His replacement on the Bronze Brigade will be... uh... Captain Ultra, I guess.

6) CAPTAIN ULTRA



On the plus side he has Ultra-Strength, Ultra-Speed, Ultra-Invulnerability, Ultra-Flight, Ultra-Vision, Ultra-Intangibility, and Ultra... well, anything else the writers think would be funny for him to have at any given time.

On the minus side, he's a bit of a coward and a fool, and faints at the sight of a lit match. No, he's not vulnerable to fire like J'onn, just pyrophobic.


And now on to the new team.


The WILD ANIMALS


For leadership...

1) ROCKET RACOON




For detective ability...

2) DETECTIVE CHIMP




For transportation...

3) LOCKJAW






For sheer class and dignity...

4) MISTER TAWKY TAWNY








For heroic self-sacrifice (and shape-shifting)...

5) PROTY




For underwater ability...

OK, fine, for cheesecake...

6) DOLPHIN



I'm not normally the sort to drool over a comic book character, but holy damn! she's hot.

[Batman]

The INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE

Their leader, the ultimate rebel, star of the one of the first "graphic novels"...

1) SABRE




The team tank...

2) CONCRETE (Ron Lithgow)




The Magic expert...

3) MAGE (Kevin Matchsticks)



A magic baseball bat will come in handy, too.


The babe...

4) FATALE



She has powers a lot like Rogue's.


The kid...

5) ZOT! (Zachary T. Paleozogt)



Takes on the bad-guys with his ten-shooter ray-gun, anti-grav boots and indefatigable optimism.


Finally, the power-house...

6) NEXUS (Horatio Valdemar Hellpop)

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The 2099's

Punisher 2099


Ghost Rider 2099


Hulk 2099


Ravage


Bloodhawk


Xi'an

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The Rejects

Dick Tracy


Smurfette

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Casey Jones


Living Tribunal


Flatman


Arthur

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Green Death 2.0

Night Thrasher


Badrock


Sleepwalker


Union Jack


Longshot


Marrow

[Batman]

The TOONTOWN TITANS

The leader:

1) BUCKY O'HARE




The legendary brawler:

2) POPEYE



He is what he is and that's all that he is.


The moneybags:

3) SCROOGE McDUCK



And before anyone asks, yes, he appeared in comic books for years before ever appearing in animation.


The warrior:

4) USAGI YOJIMBO




The mercenary rogue:

5) BUCK GODOT



He's always available, but never free.


And yet another mercenary rogue:

6) CEREBUS the AARDVARK

[Demko]

Apr 13, 2009 4:07:30 GMT -5 Batman said:

All right, with Animal Man and Beast Boy gone, I've decided to make my animal team all actual animals, instead of mixing in characters with animal powers.

OK, if any team out there was begging for this, it's this one:



SPEAK TO THE RESCUE!

[Lucky]

I can't resist. This team sucks, I just had to do it.

Daken, the lost son of Logan and Dark Avenger's Wolverine.


Former Avenger and clear fantasy of a furry (an oversexed cat woman who only wears a bikini?), Tigra.


X-Force member, Feral.


Wonder Woman villain Cheetah.


Justice Leaguer Crimson Fox.


Yolanda Marquez, member of Infynity Inc Wildcat II.



Wolvie & The Pussycats