#Super heroes

[cdontarts]

Discover the wonderful 4 ocs based on the Fantastic Four Want to know more details about their origin Look at the image description

Harold Ryans Mr. Wonderful Has a third eye that shoots optical lasers Bobby Williams Known as Blob A goo that is very tough and elastic Ben Claw Known as the bear man With the powers of a bear Mass His Strength Is far beyond Jessica Williams Ice Woman Has Cryokinesis Powers Before gaining super powers They were part of a group of passengers on a flight that was hit by a shower of stars The Four survived and gained powers And that's how the Wonderfuls ones appeared

[stone-cold-groove]

Spy Smasher trading card No. 5 - 1941.

[rubykgrant]

Finally finished up the casual and the super-powered designs for Benito Espinoza! AKA, Phaze~

He's 16, Mexican (born in Mexico City, but his family moved to California when he was 2), the tallest of the kids (6ft 3in, he's a tree), a junior at school who does really good in music classes/geography/history, and has been learning how to box since he was 11.

He's been going to school with his friends for the last 3 years, but before that, he lived in a different town; he was going through kind of a lonely time, his parents were busy with new jobs (dad is a professional chef and currently has his own restaurant, mom is an actress who used to be stuck in a contract for a very stressful TV series but has currently found a more comfortable place working in live theater), he was an only child without many close friends, so he used to just ditch school and wander around by himself. He never really got up to anything bad, but teachers sure wanted to act like he was already a lost cause. His parents realized he'd been neglected, and this school REALLY was unpleasant, so they moved to a new place, and had a new start.

For the most part, it was a really good change... a little TOO good at first. Benito was the new kid, tall, good-looking, athletic, and instantly popular. Lots of other kids gave him attention, or wanted his, without actually caring about him as a person. He got his feelings hurt, and his heart broke, and almost decided he didn't care if he hurt anybody else's feelings either... but Benito really isn't built for that. He cares too MUCH, and emotions resonate very deeply in him. He felt guilty, and thought maybe he just didn't deserve friends... Andrew changed that, getting to know Benito, making a genuine connection, and being able to just enjoy each other's company. Andrew also recognized how much empathy Benito had for others; why it hurt so much when people even thought he hasn't "good enough", and why he tended not to ask for attention even when he needed it.

Since then, Benito has been able to be more comfortable with his feelings, he likes to be the one that helps/takes care of others, but he's not a people-pleaser anymore. His sweet smile and gentle way of joking around hides how nervous he can still feel when other people make assumptions about him (and he's very aware that being such a big kid means he's judged more harshly if he every gets upset/angry, which isn't FAIR). Benito has a lot of hobbies (boxing, arts and crafts, video games, collecting unique animal figurines that are carved/sculpted, and he likes finding both versions of a movie/book so he can see the whole story), and a lot of skills (he takes several health classes/emergency training), but he's not sure if he wants to make anything a "career goal" yet (though, he's really good with kids, and later thinks about maybe being a teacher/somebody who helps children that have been through trauma)

Benito is certainly strong, but when he starts developing super powers, his abilities are more "intangible", he can turn himself invisible, pass through solid objects, and rip open spiraling portals that allow him to teleport! When his powers first show up, he needs to be able to SEE where he wants to teleport to, but as he gains more control, he can also go to any location he is very familiar with, and also lock-on to his friends whenever they need help.

While Phaze is technically in the groups of kids who are "villains", they aren't legit "evil"; mostly just jerks/punks/brats who have some angst to work through... and also, especially for Phaze, kids who are sick of being forced to not only follow unfair rules, but STILL get treated unfairly no matter how hard they try! Benito has a LOT of issues with people who get ignored or hurt by a system that is supposed to protect them, while actual "bad guys" get away with whatever they want. So... as villains, Phaze and his team can BREAK the rules in CONSTRUCTIVE ways! Sometimes the only way to make things fair is to stop playing a game that forces you to lose (and the hero kids get this too, so eventually, everybody is on the same page).

I knew I wanted spirals somewhere in his outfit, but I tried not to make it too busy or "stripey". Way back in the day, and early design for this character had JTHM claw boots because my best friend and I had just gotten into all that, and I wanted to keep it somehow... after struggling to make the spirals work as the focus of the design, I thought about making them the accents/trim . So, it still needed SOMETHING. Instead of a sleek onsie kind of outfit, I tried to add a jacket... I didn't want it to be a big coat/cloak and hood, because then he'd have Grim Reaper vibes. Not bad, just not his brand exactly. Though, a spooky "darkness/underworld" touch might help. Less with the idea of death itself, more with the idea of moving between worlds/passing through the portals he creates. I started to lean into bats, WITHOUT making him look like a lost Batman kid (or a vampire). I thought about different depictions of Camazotz that I've seen, and that helped with the idea of the claw boots being like bat talons, and part of the mask design having a lower jaw with fangs, and bat wings as the collar of the jacket. I also took inspiration with some luchador designs, finishing up the mask, adding in the spirals, and at last- he looks OK!

[the-edude]

Our superhero group disguised as goons

[hearsayhorizons]

Thinktober 2024 24: Change

I am the homeless veteran begging for change near the minimart. I am the protestors shouting for change outside the town hall—although, between my power and theirs as time-twisters—I’m sensing them a week before the demonstration.

I am the shapeless figure that no person and no camera in Acadia can see if I do not permit it. As I take the elevator to the penthouse, I become a different shape. The doors are guarded and locked; that doesn’t matter. The building is on my property.

There is a moment of tension as I slip inside, but—though the occupant is here, he remains facing the windows even when the doors shut behind me. I pass to the large desk on feet that might as well be soundless. The desk is built a little high; it’s meant to accommodate the owner’s wheel chair so that he doesn’t need to transition between seats. Few personal effects—a big bowl of fruit, a large computer screen. And a picture: two children standing before a church, hugging.

Sarah Keaton and Ben Silverlake.

The man at the window looks very little like his picture. Today, he has a lantern jaw, ink-black hair with a wave, and he bulges with muscles.

There is some flaw in the empowered of the third generation (although how a generation is measured here I do not know, because I am aware of several empowered older than humanity itself, some older than concepts... and yet this man in his thirties is the third generation). Whatever their appearance before their powers manifested, they slide toward the same generic template: strong jaw, dark hair, pale skin. The women or neuter have a similar phenotype, although perhaps the jaw gene for men becomes the breast gene in women. They could double for each other per their sex, and sometimes do, to preserve identities where needed. But the strangest thing about this slow transformation to some platonic, heroic build?

None of them seems to notice these changes as strange. The man I stand beside now has a picture of himself and his best friend as children and they are both blonde and skinny, and if you ask him when he started dying his hair—as I have asked her—he would only look at me in confusion. Even Ben Silverlake, owner of 3EMP, perhaps second in power in Acadia to myself... has no idea.

There are few things that scare a city, but this is one of them. And the fourth generation (however you count them) are, and remain, as varied as any other people of the racial makeup of the city can be.

I’m not sure why I came here. Maybe because between Silverlake and the picture I knew I’d see, again, the clearest example of this physical transformation. It hasn’t hurt anything, yet, although I wonder if the blindspot is a psychological problem.

It could be a warper. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a warper strong enough to put this... curse? On an entire group of people, strong enough that no one notices. Strong enough that no one notices. The fact that, to my knowledge, I alone remark on it? If everyone in the city knows something one way, that should be it for me.

Out of impulse I snatch the picture and leave. He’ll notice after I’m gone, but I don’t know what he’ll do with that information. I don’t know what I’ll do with my information, this picture. I can’t leave the city and wouldn’t anyway, and there are no answers here.

I wear Sarah Keaton’s old face, and I do not hide myself, but it doesn’t matter. I don’t know why it doesn’t matter.

[mjschryver]

Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan; cosplayer unknown

Photo by David "DTJAAAAM" Ngo. Friday, October 7th, 2016

New York Comic Con October 6th – 9th, 2016

[hauntingsoundtracks]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, directed by Jim Sharman

Super Heroes, original music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien

[ivanbane]

Lego Marvel Super Hero 2 (Multiplayer #1)

[nevergetstuck]

Compassion, some people do not have it unless it happens to them

[echologname]

If cartoons have taught me anything, it's that wanting stuff is dangerous. Every villain wants something and they'll cross whatever lines they have to in order to get that thing. A villain being unsatisfied and seeking to fill that is their whole origin story and why they do what they do. They're a good example of what NOT to do: be selfish and the heroes serve as the example of what we SHOULD do: be selfless. One is hate and the other is love.

It's easy to look at all the cool things in the world and fall for wanting them, but what you REALLY want is what you need: love and gratitude for what you already have and hope for everything you will have because of God's promises. The time and energy it takes obsessing over something you don't have is tiring, it can really drain you and deprive you of your joy.

[fuzzy-oooze]

*corporate nothing music*

Hello, we at Literally Just Me Making This Stuff Inc has recently come to the realization that making a superhero setting with a heavy "mutants and cyborgs" bent without having a character with a normal genetic mutation is a missed opportunity and so we have given warden Garrick Powers Icyhthosis Vulgaris, a genetic skin condition that causes your dead skin cells to not shed properly resulting in the formation of small, itchy, dry scales over your skin. I bet you've never even heard of that one.

[jamespoeartistry]

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[thena0315]

Which Team You Picking To Save The World From A Massive Invasion?

[rubykgrant]

FINALLY. This re-design took forever, I had to redraw it like 6 times, the poses kept not being right, and then the look itself wasn't working... you see, a thousand years ago when I was 15, my best friend and I made up a bunch of super heroes. One kid had super strength, which was cool and all, but other characters also had enhanced strength, so it wasn't very spectacular. The character himself was very interesting, so for a long time early on, I kept trying to add something to make him special. At first, I tried adjusting the abilities with the super strength; maybe he can manipulate gravity (making heavy things light/light things heavy), maybe he can also increase/decrease his size (always keeping his original super strength, even when tiny), maybe he has additional limbs (basically Four Arms from Ben 10, but with a different color-scheme). Meanwhile, in the background was this one side character, who wasn't very important for the grand plot, but VISUALLY looked very cool... because that character had been my friend's idea, I eventually asked them- "Hey. Can I use that for this guy?", which they were cool with, so FINALLY he has more unique powers; Phaze (spelled with a Z because that's cool~) is physicall strong, but his real powers are more "intangible", he can turn himself invisible, pass through solid objects, and rip open spiraling portals that allow him to teleport! When his powers first develop, he needs to be able to SEE where he wants to teleport to, but as he gains more control, he can also go to any location he is very familiar with, and also lock-on to his friends whenever they need help.

I knew I wanted spirals somewhere in his outfit, but I tried not to make it too busy or "stripey". I won't like, way back in the day, wegave the first version of Phaze JTHM claw boots because we had just gotten into all that, and I wanted to keep it somehow... after struggling to make the spirals work as the focus of the design, I thought about making them the accents/trim . So, it still needed SOMETHING. Instead of a sleek onsie kind of outfit, I tried to add a jacket... I didn't want it to be a big coat/cloak and hood, because then he'd have Grim Reaper vibes. Not bad, just not his brand exactly. Though, a spooky "darkness/underworld" touch might help. Less with the idea of death itself, more with the idea of moving between worlds/passing through the portals he creates. I started to lean into bats, WITHOUT making him look like a lost Batman kid (or a vampire). The character is indeed Mexican, so I thought about different depictions of Camazotz that I've seen, and that helped with the idea of the claw boots being like bat talons, and part of the mask design having a lower jaw with fangs, and bat wings as the collar of the jacket. I also took inspiration with some luchador designs, finishing up the mask, adding in the spirals, and at last- he looks OK! I'm still not sure if I want to keep the outfit in shades of gray, or with the vibrant magenta (either way, his powers are still the magenta colors). I tend to lean toward very saturated colors, and it definitely has the look of energy/putting on a grand show, but the grays have their own charm too~

[the-edude]

Another fake comic book cover for out super hero game

[hearsayhorizons]

Thinktober 2024 21: Ghost

My psych “advisor” is soooo upset with “the regression on your mental state regarding your powerset” or something like that. I think I’m doing well for Grabbag Woman... or Lady PickandMix. I dunno, code name pending. Do I get a code name? The advisor said it was a medley of powers. That sounds nice.

Anyway! Everything is all cool and good and I’m getting a sense of things—everything still comes in the three pack and I still can’t predict which I’m going to get, but we did some tests. Whatever I get, I know how to use it (basics, anyway) for as long as I’m using it. I can throw that chakram and hit like three targets. I felt like Xena!

Three stationary targets, at ideal range, which I instinctively knew. But I wouldn’t be able to give you a number on that, and... god, embarrassing. After I threw a bunch of knives, they GAVE  me one, and I stabbed the shit out of myself. Thankfully my “helpy” power was healing at that point, so that fixed it.

So yeah, making improvements, learning cool things. Maybe shaping up to be... part of a team? If they’re okay with “random item girl” on their team.

And then my mom died.

Which happens. Everything was... It was fine. We got everything done, and she fell in love with Marie Kondo a few years ago so there wasn’t much STUFF, just... you know.

And then the next time I hit the “ghostie” part of my powerset—there she was! Just... like, waiting? Like I’m Allison Dubois. My handlers are looking at me all crazy as I’m talking to her, crying, SHE’S TALKING TO ME, loves me,  I think I almost got committed, and then—

That ended. And I haven’t been able to hit the ghostie subpower again. I’ve tried so hard my bones ache, but I just can’t manifest powers that often anyway. And I just get the healy or the force field, again and again. They’ve been taking knives away from me but I just keep manifesting more. At some point I gotta see her?

I keep talking to her. Talking to her like we’re seeing the same shit, dealing with it. It’s helping, actually, but I really think they’re going to flunk me out now. What do they do with confirmed empowered with crazypants?

Love you, mom. Hope to see you soon.