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My League of Superheroes

By obie1103 May 5, 2009 0 Comments

So I've been spending a lot of time with Facebook lately - more than I should, actually. And in one of its apps I had the chance to build my 5-man superhero team and while it was fun thinking of who would be in the team, it wasn't sattisfied with my own little league of supers. So after work, I came home and thought about who I would want and here's my roster.

Jack Hawksmoor

The King of Cities

My first pick is The Authority's Jack Hawksmoor; the King of Cities. Now the reason why I chose Jack was mainly because of his abilities. What you need to know about me is that I'm not that big of a Wildstorm fan, I'm more into Marvel, DC and Top Cow comics but despite my lack of fondness for Wildstorm I was still intrigued by Jack's character upon reading on him on comicvine.

For people who don't know Jack, he is the so-called King of Cities. This man can pretty much do anything he wants to within the limits of the city he is in: eat pollution, talk to buildings, reshape streets - practically anything as long as he is within a city. Basically, he is sort of an urban Morpheus and the city is The Dreaming. His powers also relate to the health, size and population of the city so the greater the city is the stronger Jack is. And when you say strong I mean STRONG. This man had literally turned Tokyo (Yes Tokyo. As in Tokyo, Japan) into a giant robot, merged with it and fought off Kansan city.

Engineer

The second Engineer: Angela Spica

My next pic is another one from The Authority: Wildstorm's Engineer, Angela Spica. Why did I choose Engineer? Because every team needs its resident well... engineer. I was actually picking from Iron Man, Forge and Engineer. I chose her over Iron Man because Tony Stark is a dick and the man just gets on my nerves sometimes. And I chose her over Forge because although they have the same capabilities, the only mechanized part of Forge is his arm while Engineer actually replaced her blood with nano-tech liquid! Now how cool is that?

Just like Forge and Iron Man, Angela is a technopath which means she can talk to machines, in a manner of speaking. And just like her moniker implies she is an engineer - able to create pretty much anything from machines to weapons, make duplicates of herself, generate energy shields and electrical storms, spread viruses (that can affect both machines and people), grow organs, time travel and whatever else she can think of. There really is no limit to what her machines can do other than her imagination. She also wears her nanotechnology on her skin when in battle and it's shown to be stronger that the first Engineers, allowing her to take direct hits from atomic bombs without sustaining damage.

Trauma

Third pick is someone from Marvel whom I think was a pretty much overlooked all throughout the Civil War Arc: Terrance Ward aka Trauma. This dude has been flying under the radar for a while now but I still think that he's got one of the coolest abilities in The Initiative. (although its been done before)

Trauma has the ability to shape-shift into his opponent's worst fear. At first, he could not fully control the power, causing him to become a gigantic version of Armory's fear (a spider). After receiving training from Dani Moonstar, Terrence is now able to "fine-tune" his transformations, and actually use them to calm people. Trauma has even been able to assume the forms of Thor, Abomination, and Juggernaut. It still has been yet to be revealed whether he obtains the same power levels of the form he assumes when he shapeshifts. If he does, then the boy should be considered an omega-level mutant

Chinatsu

I wanted my superhero team to be a motley crew of heroes. I wanted it to be composed of a variety of characters so that the team could undertake any kind of mission imaginable. I wanted the team to be able to do assault, rescue, reconnaissance and even stealth missions. This is why I chose Chinatsu

Chinatsu is the vampire heroine for the series Drain. She is a proud kunoichi (female ninja) who was turned into a vampire and had everything taken away from her. She now lives throughout the ages, dedicating her very life er- existence to seeking out and getting revenge on the creature who made her what she is today.

Chinatsu has powers just like your normal everyday vampire - super strength, agility, immortality, enhanced senses, AND she is also, wait for it... a ninja! (talk about creatures of the night). Now if a vampire ninja doesn't spell out stealth then I don't know what will.

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