Is my character good? I named him Super-Nova

^ lol. The science is a bit off but it sounds good :) He looks a lot like spider-man but I like his powerset . Instead of star particles it would be better to say that it was a mystery blend made by some kind of accident. Maybe his villain was a class mate who was mad over the attention he was getting for his experiment and the villain mixed unknown chemicals to try to destroy the experiment - then the next day he drinks it or there is a massive explosion which creates him. Kinda a sentry/lex Luther/dr.doom /reed Richards type story. ___ maybe you have the villain try to duplicate it but turns himself into some kind of monster instead of a hero .

Lol I hate that too. Dc drives me nuts with all the ironic and generic names for characters.

@blazersports 1, The super name is fine, he needs a normal last name. 2, New origin. Example: He was working to create a mini super nova to power the world but an explosion, etc. That was kinda the plot from spider-man 2 but you get the idea.

(He works for NASA or some kind of lab) (He was trapped inside of the unsafe area of a particle collider) or (He was studying a strange asteroid that had just crashed landed. The landing caused major damage all around and casualties were high. A sample of the asteroid was sent to him for testing. While examining the rock either the rock explodes,he inhales dust or he cuts himself on it and it injects him) (Jimmy spends months in the hospital but when he recovers he finds that he gained powers) ( He bravely goes back to work at examining the asteroid 'which no one else has been able to figure out it's elements or where it came from',. Jimmy finds that it is so dense that it can only be created from the high pressure of a super nova explosion. The 'star dust' covering it could be a living organisim from an alien planet or you could have it as an unknown substance from the core of a star ' which gets explained later'.) the particle collider is nearly the same but the science would need to be better explained. The particle collider somehow split the molicules around him so that now he is outside of our own time and space, it somehow changed his molecular structure.

Most important of all write the story that you want to read and write. If you're néw to writing or dont have the science knowledge or interest to research it, then I'd suggest keeping it simple and using the classic examples of simplified origins. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks because it's YOU'RE hero and Your story and if it's not something that feels natural and enjoyable to write then the story will not flow and you may become frustrated. So take advise and tips and whatever help you can get but keep it true to your own vision aswell.

Thanks. Need anything else just ask.

@blazersports said:

Be Honest, I made a character that I think is really cool. I have a description and a picture of him... Please reply if you agree with me! :) I'm only a novas drawer so ya I know his head is a little wonky. :P

Origin: Super-Nova

Jimmy-Nova

A genius 24 year old at University was working in the science lab. He made a mixture of particles from an exploding star (or supernova) and chemicals. He drank this mixture and felt nothing. This mixture was supposed to give great intellect. He continued working and once the day was over he went home. The next morning he woke up and felt different. All throughout the day he felt different. As the day ended the bus home missed him. He chased the bus with great speed. Thinking of the day before he tested these newly discovered powers. He was able to levitate, travel at great speeds and had super human strength. He could also make a flash and disappear from sight in an explosion of fire. Three months passed before he could use his powers again. A lost astronaut had come back from space after being saved by NASA. This man was no longer ordinary. He was terrorizing Los Angeles. He decided tom put his powers to use and fight him. He was not the only one who heard of this for many heroes and villains siding and fighting him came from around the world. Including: Venom, Carnage, Abomination, Iron Monger and Red Skull. The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man and Scarlet-Spider also went. Unknowing that the terror they faced was a man of great power named Vengeance , who could blend in with his surrounding and hide his stench, had super human strength, speed, telekinesis and was full of rage.

So give me your honest opinion so i can improve. :) thanks!

Honestly, I don't like the name because it reminds me of Nova.

Second, I don't like the costume because he looks like Spider-man.

BUt I like your idea of your character

The science needs work? You guys must be kidding as "star dust" mixed with "chemicals" makes just as much sense as gamma bombs, interstellar orphans, "cosmic rays," white dwarf star lens', radioactive spiders, super soldiers cryogenically preserved in salt water....should I go on?

@blazersports: The science in your origin is as good as just about that used in ANY comic book character's origin. You just need fancier terms is all. Like the redesign on the costume much better that the original as well.

@Kallarkz: Those times haven't ended. Show me the new characters whose origins are any more logical than their predecessors.

@onemoreposter... There is a difference between 'unknown' science (example, in the 1950's ppl actually believed that a mutated giant monster could grow from certain radiation) the science was unknown at the time the same way that ppl once thought the sun revolved around the earth. In 100 years a lot of our science will also seen as foolish, as advancements are made. 'star dust' it just reminds me to much of fairy dust.lol But the star powered concept is good because it is explainable by our known science (with some imagination) of course.

@blazersports: You misunderstood @Enosisik's advice. You mixed those origins together, now it makes no sense. Take out the asteroid. When the collider hits him it causes his body to rapidly produce hydrogen. the collider creates a reaction which fuses the element hydrogen to helium. Instead of releasing the energy causing him to expand, his body condenses it. The guy's pretty much a walking star. Tada! Something hardly anyone will understand and can't argue with it.........Exactly.Thumbs up! :)

@Kallarkz: Those times haven't ended. Show me the new characters whose origins are any more logical than their predecessors.... Captain America is on PEDS and steroids. Steroids as we know them didn't even exist when that origin was written... The science is wrong on some because the writers are not scientist and science is ever changing. You can complain about the science of Hulk all you want but ya know what the problem is... It is scientifically impossible anyway . Genetic alteration perhaps is the only way it is possible to create a Hulk and basically that's what the gamma radiation did... when Hulk was created DNA hadn't even been discovered so Stan Lee used gamma radiation as a replacement fir science that no one understood.