The Game At Our Level: Main
Here's some stuff we came up with for the evil-villains comic:
Contents
Ex super-villains
Main Plot
The super villain main character of our story is currently trying to live a normal life and actually retire. He has a nice house and one steady roommate, though he occasionally rents out his extra room to former cohorts, or possibly wannabees of the super hero or villain type. He's making serious effort towards not using any powers in his new life, but finds this difficult, because it makes things so much easier. Wacky hijinks ensue when old allies and enemies try to influence his new life. Also, dating can be difficult.
Characters
The Mains
Main Character: The Bish. Real Name: Gene (possibly Eugene?) Long White/blue hair. Colored contacts. Powers of suggestion. Possibly other powers, including a sword. Actually trying to retire from being a super-villain and live a normal life. As a SV, dressed well and was very stylish. As a normal guy, he’s got a techie job and dresses down, and is consciously trying to not use his powers of suggestion when progressing with his job. Owns a house in the burbs, 2 car garage, a hybrid car, and a motorcycle. He always wears contacts (of different colors) except for Holloween, of course (don't know what his natural eye color is...) He's working for an evil technology conglomerate bent on world domination via a mega-death-ray. He doesn’t know this when he goes to work there. But hey, they have good benefits.
Mechanic: Hilarity. Real Name: Alyssa P. Hacker. Cute busty Asian girl with glasses who lives in the Bish’s basement and builds stuff. She was his mad scientist/mechanic when he was a SV, and always had an escape plan, in addition to notes about how his plans were susceptible to failure, although she managed to forget to show them to him until after the plans had failed. Every time. In the house, Alyssa is the gamer and occasionally has her D&D group over for games. They are stereotypical geeky gamers. Very Kaylee/Lucca based--has occasional horny moments which, while they are never directed at the Bish, they make him twitchy/uncomfortable.
Various roommates that come and go (and by go, I mean get kicked out)
Hothead Magician: Over confident. He thinks he has rapier wit—he doesn’t, he just switches between catch-phrases regularly. Recycler wit, perhaps. Likes to dress in bright colors—not so good for sneaking around. Believes magic is greater than all, and doesn’t understand why anyone would use technology. Tries to ignore magical side effects. Decent looking, but constantly using magic to shore up perceived physical faults. Bish used to use him as the “ugly friend” on the dating scheme and Hothead never caught on. Might at some point have a random one-night-stand with Alyssa at her initiation. At some point breaks something that Alyssa was working on, and gets the shit beaten out of him promptly thereafter. Half-elven?
Stealth bitch: Mayhem. Real Name: Kristen Hacker. Rogue-type older sister of Alyssa. Wears tight leather catsuits with inappropriately placed zippers but uses chameleon and silence powers to sneak around so it wouldn’t matter what she was wearing. Bish’s ex-girlfriend—they get into shouting matches when she comes around to get her little sister to build stuff from the plans she’s stolen. Constantly brings things up from their previous lovelife to finish arguments. Bish occasionally comments on her dressing like a hooker and not allowing her “clients” into his house. She gives her little sister sexy underwear as presents in the hopes of getting her to dress up a little more.
Big Lug: The Ant. Can lift 40 times his body weight. Has a costume with mandibles and stuff. Makes grumbling comments about being smarter than everyone, and knows a lot of trivia and has a huge vocabulary, but actually isn’t all that smart and doesn’t know much about planning. Believes the reason people don’t listen to him is because they think he’s just big and dumb.
Spot: Has the power to mind-control Dalmatians, up to 101 at a time. Also can speak to dogs and is trying to take over the world by turning dogs against their owners. Solely for the joke of "Out, damn Spot" when he's evicted.
The Hippy: Filthy hippie. Has a secret plot to put LSD in wonderbread.
Super-Heroes
The Maid: An undercover super-hero-wannabee who's trying to come up with proof that Bish is plotting something evil so that she can catch him and become a real super-hero.
Mr. Bad Luck: A trivial super-hero who is after Bish to make him pay for past misdeeds. Causes him to have a really, really bad day.
Irate Dandylion: A radiation experiment gone wrong by a lab accident, she is a sentient humanoid dandylion who calls up earth powers and stuff. She fights the oppression of Kentucky bluegrass. She and Bishie get into conflicts because he has hay fever.
Super-hero, two doors down: Some random superhero with a secret identity. Has very little to do directly with Bish.
Plucky Reporter: Her father was a 7th son, and she has 6 older brothers. She is very lucky. She knows that someone on this block is a hidden super-hero, and has become fixated on Bish. ‘Cause, well, bishie.
Super-stealth hero: Has been tracking the Bish and thinks he's somehow in charge of the evil company he's just working for. He's sneaky and batman-like, except for the part where he just doesn't get some very obvious things. Like how Bish is really retired.
Hero out for revenge Superhero whose brother went insane when he was disqualified from the bishie contest. Has sworn revenge for what Bish has done.
Plot ideas
Bad-luck attack: The Bad luck hero strikes! Bishie has a very bad hair day, his clothing stains, he's late for work, His nails break, people at work realize he's handsome ... and someone is taking pictures.
Bishie contest: The last time he entered, all of his opponents were disqualified for "some reason." Someone wants him back, or they will release pictures of him at his weakest moment.
Random junkfood: The vending machine where Bish works sells chocolate coated Ritalin--R&Ms. Like, peanut M&Ms, except with Ritalin instead. Small writing on the package says "may contain nuts." There might be some subplot about Hilarity getting ahold of a packet and finally having the focus to complete a doomsday device.
TV sports event: Bish watches most major sporting events when they're televised: Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, etc., but not for the sport. There's a discussion about how new villains always try to disrupt them and are always thwarted on national television by the 20 or so heroes present to defend the game(s). He rants for a while about the recurrence and how villains just don't seem to learn. Mayhem tries to find out if he ever did that to some sport, running through a list of major events. To each one, he denies ever having even considered it. Hilarity brings up something about a national fencing tournament when he was a teenager. He claims that was both not televised and totally justified as he should have been allowed to compete.
