32 posts · 1815 views · started 2022-07-09 03:34 UTC
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Sea-Envy
2022-07-09 03:34 UTC
#1
Looking for some fun ideas for my champaign
In Sentinels we have Miss Information, and Inverse has Miss Deeds
In my game there is a boarding/finishing school for young super villainesses
Mrs. Terious school for larcenous ladies.
All the powered students are formally called Miss - [name]
Miss Conduct has electric powers and leadership skills
Miss Ing has invisibility
Miss Take is a thief trained in a disarm/trip soft martial art style
Miss Isle is a blaster
Mrs. Terious was a lady of high society and low morals hired by a mad scientist to educate his army of clone female super soldiers. Mrs. T found out the scientist also intended them to be his harem so “removed” the scientist and took the clone tubes and is now decanting them and teaching them to be independent free-spirited women like herself.
I mentioned this a long time ago because all the bad girl - schoolgirls are Lts but Legion and Overlord don’t have any actions that effect Lts.
The school also has a mute bodyguard/chauffer called Mr. E.
Does anyone have some more suggestions for “Miss” characters?
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skywhale
2022-07-09 03:46 UTC
#2
I’m sure Miss Anthrope would find some reason to become a villainess.
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TakeWalker
2022-07-09 13:14 UTC
#3
Miss Direction would either be a reality warper or have mind-confusing abilities.
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Thunderbird
2022-07-09 14:46 UTC
#4
The math professor is Miss Calculation.
Philosophy and Ethics is Miss Alignment.
Languages is Miss Nomer.
Don’t forget the Headmistress, Miss Chief!
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fjur
2022-07-09 16:01 UTC
#5
Miss Hap — Bad luck aura/walking disaster
Miss Fit — Size-Changing mutant athlete
Miss Tic — Magic
Miss Sion — Telepathic mission control
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skywhale
2022-07-09 16:39 UTC
#6
Ooh, and Miss Erry can cause people pain. But she desperately wants to be a part of a team.
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Godai
2022-07-09 20:03 UTC
#7
Miss Spoke, the Sonic controller
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Sea-Envy
2022-07-09 21:01 UTC (in reply to #7)
#8
I think I copy pasted that list. but getting all your input will be more fun
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der_andere_Jan
2022-07-10 08:11 UTC (in reply to #8)
#9
People tend to assume Miss Conception was a midwife, but that’s certainly not right. Also, she’s not actually part of the villain team… use her as a red herring to spice up the story.
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fjur
2022-07-10 15:03 UTC
#10
Miss Place — Teleporter, can shunt objects into a pocket dimension
Miss Lead — Illusionist
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Samantha_The_Demoncat
2022-07-10 21:30 UTC
#11
Miss Demeanor - Instructs students in how to pull-off general crimes
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Godai
2022-07-11 01:49 UTC
#12
Miss El Toe - Masked Luchador wrestler who’s signature move is a Flying French Kiss into a hurricanrana off the top ropes.
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Sea-Envy
2022-07-11 03:19 UTC
#13
as I mentioned Mrs. Terious and Mr. E are the staff at the school but eventually Sir Prize might show up as a British hero wanting to capture her for crimes committed in the U.K.
my inspiration for this group was the Rudy Vallee + Glynis Johns episode of the Adam West Batman.
Including the part where the evil schoolgirls capture Robin, and he is not afraid for his life but for his… innocence. I think that when the girls hit D6 status as LTs they will “surrender” and stop fighting or trying to escape but hinder a male hero by making lewd hand gestures or lifting their skirts. (As I mentioned the clone maker had naughty intentions so the girls might have more hormones than a normal 16–19-year-old girl. and 85% of criminals that hear about that would think that was bad)
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fjur
2022-07-11 04:17 UTC (in reply to #13)
#14
That was part of the “Londinium” Arc, right? Good times.
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Thunderbird
2022-07-11 12:54 UTC (in reply to #13)
#15
I don’t know if you’ll feel the need for the military to get involved, but you could always have Major Disaster and General Chaos.
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fjur
2022-07-11 14:58 UTC
#16
I don’t think we want the lawyers to get involved:
Miss Communication
Miss Diagnosis
Miss Fit
Miss Herd
Miss Isle
Miss Judge
Miss Manage
Miss Nomer
Miss Print
Miss Quote
Miss Taken (has the power of constantly being kidnapped by villains and taken to their secret lairs?)
Miss Understanding
I personally kinda like the ones where the second part of the name suggests different things to the combined name (like Miss Fit). No idea what Miss Isle does…
EDIT: If you want an alternative to Major Diasaster that hasnt been used, I think “Major Crisis” is free and clear.
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Chief_Lackey_Rich
2022-08-27 17:54 UTC (in reply to #18)
#19
So, Adam Warren’s Empowered with less bondage cheesecake? Actually, she canonically went to college for a supers major, and could reasonably be assumed to have taken a course (no doubt taught by Miss Taken) on how to deal with being captured. She must have aced that course, the current online strips (from volume nine of the print comic, IIRC) really highlight how well taking her prisoner works out for most villains - and it gets worse if they try to repeat the process.
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Chief_Lackey_Rich
2022-08-27 17:58 UTC (in reply to #16)
#20
FWIW, there’s also a DC character (probably several versions of him, even) named Mister E. He always has the “mister” spelled out rather than abbreviated, but if the point is to avoid duplication Mr. E is still a bit close.
The point is, I think that it’s a name that’s been used so many different times by so many different people, it doesn’t really matter anymore is someone new starts using it.
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Chief_Lackey_Rich
2022-08-27 19:20 UTC (in reply to #21)
#22
Fair enough. It’s too obvious a bit of wordplay to trace an origin point.
And none of them (except maybe your high school English teacher, I guess) are to be confused with E-Man, the Charlton Comics alien superhero. That was a cute book, and had some great backup stories. I should track down some of the old issues and re-read them, it’s been years. There have been a lot of minor revivals since the 70s, but the ones I’ve seen didn’t quite have the same charm.
Nova Kane (speaking of wordplay) being an exotic dancer working her way through grad school was pretty edgy for the time period, now that I think about it.
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Irrevenant
2022-08-28 04:25 UTC (in reply to #19)
#23
Haven’t read much Empowered, though I’m tangentially aware of it.
My original inspiration was an ability available to the “mundane character” class playbook in Monster of the Week. It allows you to play an “I get captured by the monster” move (which can be more helpful than it sounds)…
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Chief_Lackey_Rich
2022-08-28 10:08 UTC (in reply to #23)
#24
Yes, I’ve played it as well. It’s a very, ah, Daphne-esque move, although that aspect of her character has gradually been toned down over the years, or highlighted as a self-parody. Fun game, that.
Empowered (which is NSFW unless you have a very tolerant HR department) started out as a joke character based on how much cheesecake bondage art Warren was getting commissioned to draw, and gradually turned into 11 manga-style volumes (with a 12th in the works for years now) worth of rather well-done stories with some real character growth, story stakes, and an increasingly fleshed out setting that manages a weird split between comedic, sci-fi, and Image-ish supers. Good read (and free as a webcomic at the moment) although it will depend on your tolerance for both cheesecake and sudden tone shifts between tongue-in-cheek parody and some really grim character concepts. The lead character is prone to getting captured and tied up, for reasons that involve spoilers but actually make a lot of sense when they do get revealed. She really makes it work in her favor after a while, in part because most of the setting’s villains are somehow even more idiotic than her mostly-terrible hero teammates,
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Irrevenant
2022-08-29 03:47 UTC (in reply to #24)
#25
Additional 'Miss’es:
Miss Direction (combination of perfect sense of direction with reality perception/distortion powers?) - often seen hanging out with Miss Guided.
Miss Ewe (sheep powers)
Miss Fortune (who amazingly doesn’t seem to be an official superhero yet, though there is a LoL character of that name…).
Miss Fire (ditto, except for the LoL bit…)
Miss Conception (some sort of manifester ala Idealist?)
EDIT: Miss Elaneous (okay, I’ll stop. Probably…)
(EDIT: Just realised Miss Direction was already done. Oops!)
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Thunderbird
2022-08-29 13:53 UTC (in reply to #25)
#26
Miss Fortune sounds like a Disparation amalgam of Miss Information and Kismet.
Miss Fire is probably a nickname that Citizen Hammer uses to tease Citizen Summer.
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Sea-Envy
2022-09-01 10:01 UTC
#27
thanks for even more info guys / gals / others
I was thinking about coming back for at least one last inspiration.
I found a good pic of a schoolgirl with a gasmask and added a cloudy aura and I need to find the right name for her
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Sea-Envy
2022-09-01 10:07 UTC (in reply to #18)
#28
my plan from miss Isle is a blaster = missile also she is Polanyian with a mild volcano goddess thing going on.
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Irrevenant
2022-09-01 10:32 UTC (in reply to #27)
#29
Miss Ty? (Pronounced Miss-tee)
EDIT: I belatedly realise that just “Miss T” would probably work…
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fjur
2022-09-01 16:55 UTC (in reply to #29)
#30
So, the alternate reality gender-flipped version of Mr. T?
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Chief_Lackey_Rich
2022-09-01 22:04 UTC (in reply to #30)
#31
I pity the fool who messes with Miss T.
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Sea-Envy
2023-02-27 01:37 UTC
#33
Update
I ran the first encounter with the Mrs. Terious School for Larcenous Ladies-
At a crowded field trip day museum day our psychic junior high student had a telepathic burst triggered by a weird crystal art piece and learned someone was coming back to rob the place that night. The heroes went in an open receiving dock door, found disarmed alarms and then they found the schoolgirls.
The important hero for this is not the psychic but Ratio, Sophia “Phi” Viktus, a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl taking university classes in America. Natural prodigy, no known power origin. Academic - Genius - Gadgeteer - Analytical - RP quality Book Worm - Principals of Discovery and Science
Roll20 was being mean, and her rolls were bad for most of the fight… almost as if she was off balance or disoriented.
When they started interrogating the captured girls, they noticed the lack of belly buttons and serial numbers in a double helix tattoo on their forearms. Ratio wandered off in a daze to check herself for tattoos and a bellybutton. I told the player it was up to her if she had a bellybutton or not. It was not my plan that there was a hero connection to the school, but I had that story in a box ready to drop in at a moment’s notice. She does not have a tattoo on her arm, but she does have evidence of a skin graft and childhood memories of sticking her arm between the furnace and hot water heater as a child and getting a burn. And when she learned how to swim her mother explaining the scar on her belly that she crawled away as a baby and cut herself. During the fight the weird crystal had another psychic burst and now Sophia is noticing inconsistencies in her childhood memories that she had not considered before.
What has actually happened-
pause for dramatic tension, and to give my player a chance to back out on the off chance she is reading this.
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Sophia was once a member of the Terious school. She was… Miss. Information but she did not want to be a bad person and instead use her smarts to help people. So, she had her memory wiped, given fake memories of a boring/happy life and sent to Europe to be forgotten.
You might be wondering how Sophia ended up not only in America but in the same city as the Terious school? It was Miss Chief an AI failsafe to get revenge if something bad happened to Miss Information. And of course, the vengeance is against the school and Sophia- with big “you’re not my real mom!” energy. Of course, the AI will have melodramatic dialogue but generally not do much more than mean spirited pranks.