[The Canadian Content]

Assassins Associated
Hush
Bullseye
The Hood
Black Widow
Whiplash
Winter Soldier

Matryoshka Six
Red Skull
Metallo
Mandarin
Sabretooth
Scarecrow
Kraven

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Damn, really tough call. I love the members of the M6 individually, especially Red Skull as a leader. But they seem very mishmashed as a whole. AA seems much better focused.

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[Batman]

I have to say that the only teams left that I really dig are BTRs two. We shall see if they survive.

[Deadly]

Assassins.

[BTR]

Dec 29, 2009 15:41:06 GMT -5 @gatorbait said:

Damn, really tough call. I love the members of the M6 individually, especially Red Skull as a leader. But they seem very mishmashed as a whole. AA seems much better focused.

While I like the characters in AA, "better focused" just means "a group of assassins drafted together to make a team of assassins." We had like three of them. I'd be interested in hearing what Hodgey would imagine their story would be (unless I missed it).

M6 is mismatched because it's 6 villains with different strengths who feud with 6 of the most popular heroes in comics and ban together for a common purpose. Again, few villain teams ever last more than a little while so I like having the story element of it.

[The Canadian Content]

Not a detailed backstory, but this is what I wrote about why I put this team together:



Hush
The man came as close as anyone ever has to taking out Batman. He's a brilliant strategist and master manipulator.

Black Widow
Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow, is a gun for hire. A highly trained and deadly gun for hire.

Bullseye
He brings the deadly and the funny.

The Hood
Loki gave him the Norn Stones, which gives him magical powers that rival Loki himself. He also doesn't mind shooting people in the head if it comes to that.

Whiplash
The resident toolman, whiplash supplies the team with its weapons.

Winter Soldier
He'll kill you five different ways before you even know he's there. Then he'll kill you some more.

[Batman]

Dec 30, 2009 21:43:16 GMT -5 BTR said:

While I like the characters in AA, "better focused" just means "a group of assassins drafted together to make a team of assassins." We had like three of them. I'd be interested in hearing what Hodgey would imagine their story would be (unless I missed it).

M6 is mismatched because it's 6 villains with different strengths who feud with 6 of the most popular heroes in comics and ban together for a common purpose. Again, few villain teams ever last more than a little while so I like having the story element of it.

I agree. Here's how I picture it going down--perhaps I can sway a vote or two to a team I hope can survive:

M6 #1: The Red Skull whisks each of the members away from their latest defeats at the hands of their respective archenemies, and explains the plan: They will exchange dance partners and each take on someone who doesn't know their MO, but they will have each other's experience to help guide them. They will capture each of them in turn and once they've all been captured, they'll all get together and let the actual archenemy kill them.

M6 #2: Mandarin v Superman. Although Supes has heat vision, he's always been leery of using it, saving it as a last resort. Mandarin uses his various long-range abilities to his advantage, here.

M6 #3: Metallo v Iron Man. With Metallo's mastery of all machines, Tony Stark is really out of luck in this match-up.

M6 #4: Red Skull v Spider-Man. The Nazi mastermind is out to out-think the wall-crawler.

M6 #5: Kraven the Hunter v Captain America. The good Captain is truly the world's most dangerous game.

M6 #6: Scarecrow v Wolverine. Wolvie is forced to face his deepest fears.

M6 #7: Sabretooth v Batman. Two of the greatest fighters in comics, mano a mano.

M6 #8: Finale. The plan seems to be running smoothly, but something fouls things up near the end and the good guys escape and kick the bad guys asses en masse.

This would be awesome.

[Beer Baron]

How about Scarecrow vs Daredevil.