Marvel/DC Mirror Universe

[Manticore]

Okay, I've posted this elsewhere and these are ideas I don't have time to use, but still...

I want to write something based in a comic book Mirror Universe, with evil versions of popular Marvel and DC superheroes (and heroic versions of villainous characters).

For example...

Jonathan Crane is an earnest young psychiatrist starting work at Arkham Asylum. To his horror, he discovers that the inmates are being tormented by sadistic billionaire Bruce Wayne (and his costumed alter ego, the Devil Bat) who uses the asylum as his own personal playhouse in which he can act out his sick, twisted fantasies. Realising that the Asylum staff and the local police force are utterly corrupt and turning a blind eye to Wayne's nefarious schemes, Crane puts on a ramshackle costume, calls himself Scarecrow and tries to be the hero who will bring the Devil Bat to justice and restore a measure of sanity to Arkham Asylum.

Or...

A member of the Greek pantheon, Ares is the embodiment of violence, brutality and the horrors of war. At last, he gets bored of being a savage, murderous brute and decides to go off and see if he can be anything else, ending up in modern day Earth where he tries a variety of hobbies and professions without much success. However, the other members of the Greek pantheon demand that he come back and carry out his duties. Because destiny says so. They send their most powerful agent, Wonder Woman (er... I'll come up with a name later, if I ever get round to doing this) a being who is the instrument of their will given human form, imbued with the powers of five gods, to chase after him and force him to come home.
(Note: Yeah... it's very similar to the story of Destruction of the Endless, from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics. Oh well.
Also: This version of Wonder Woman isn't really a villain, but my idea is that she doesn't have any free will of her own and she's basically a puppet created and controlled by the Greek gods. Maybe later on their control over her would weaken and she'd decide she wants to learn how to be a real person, so she'd team up with Ares because they basically have the same motivation.)

Or...

Krypton was dying. Genius scientist Jor-El built a spaceship to save his son from the planet's destruction by transporting him to Earth. This spaceship was launched just moments before Krypton exploded. It landed on Earth and the baby boy was discovered by white supremacists. These white supremacists decided to raise the alien boy in secret. Clark Kent (er, I should probably change the name) grew up convinced of the inherent superiority of the white race. When he discovered his incredible superpowers, he realised that he was far superior to anybody else. He decided that this made him the rightful ruler of planet Earth and embarked on a war of conquest...
(Note: Yeah... very similar to the plot of Robert Kirkman's Invincible. Oh well.)

Or...

For centuries, Loki acted as Asgard's troubleshooter. Every time there was a problem, the other gods would come to him and he would solve the problem for them. (Seriously, there are a lot of stories from Norse mythology with the same basic plot: 1. There's a problem. 2. Loki comes up with an ingenious solution. 3. The other gods are ungrateful. Yeah... I'm not sure why Loki ever bothered solving other people's problems for them. It's not like he was ever rewarded for it.) However, when one of Loki's plans was botched and he got his lips sewn up by an angry dwarf, all the other gods jeered and mocked him for his failure. Loki realised that the other gods didn't like him, didn't appreciate all the work he'd done for them and were callous enough to mock him for the mutilation he'd just suffered. So he decided to leave, got lost somewhere on the pathways of the Yggdrasil tree and ended up on modern day Earth...
(I'd portray Odin as a scheming, evil manipulative old man. Thor would be portrayed as a boorish, thuggish brute. Loki would team up with Ares (from above) and get up to all sorts of hijinks. Might be fun.)

Or...

As a child, Erik Lehnsherr witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand. He survived and witnessed many other examples of violence, cruelty and man's inhumanity to man while he was growing up and during his adult life. So he became a pacifist. Calling himself Magneto, he leads a bunch of dirty hippies superheroes who call themselves the Brotherhood of Man, preaching a message of love, tolerance and peace. (Because "United we stand, divided we fall. And if our backs should ever be against the wall, we'll be together! Together, you and I!")
Meanwhile, the X-Corporation, led by Charles Xavier, has put together a group of mutants who are all beautiful, photogenic people with impressive, useful superpowers. They plan to get ordinary people to accept mutants by showing them how much money they could be making if they had mutants working for them. Capitalism, yay!
(Note: This doesn't fit the "mirror universe" pattern. The "Brotherhood of Man" have good intentions and they'll happily accept anyone into their ranks, even ugly people with weird superpowers who'd be shunned by the elitist "X-Corporation", but they're probably not going to be taken seriously by most people. The "X-Corporation" is not evil, unless you think capitalism is evil. I actually think they have a workable plan for getting ordinary humans to accept mutants. It's just that I imagine them as a bunch of elitist dicks. Not villainous, just dickish.)

[Manticore]

Note: I could very easily convert this story idea into a pbp game. It would go something like this...

After most of the Earth's superheroes were killed in their attempts to stop the Superman's rampage, now a new team of inexperienced heroes (modelled on villains from Marvel and DC) have come together to form a new superhero team and defend the Earth from all manner of terrible threats...

So, who would your 'mirror universe version' of a Marvel or DC character be? Anyone?

[shazam]

Norman Osborn was an industrial philanthropist that dedicated his company, Oscorp, to the principles of making the world a better place. Unfortunately, Norman would be responsible for one of the most sadistic menaces the city of New York would ever see, the Spiderman. Peter Parker, young and bitter at the world, was inadvertently exposed to a genetically modified spider and was endowed with spider based powers. The young man initially turned to utilizing his new gifts for fame and profit but even that wasn't enough, Parker wanted power! Soon the Daily Bugle was loaded with stories about the extraordinary crimes committed by this "Spider Menace". Realizing his part in this, Norman turned to his genius intellect to stop the masked criminal building a variety of apparatuses and enlisted help commonly known as the "Spectacular Six". For a time they were successful, fending off the Spiderman and keeping the collateral damage to a minimum. That was until Spiderman got his hands on a rare extraterrestrial organism that "bonded" with him; it was such a dramatic changed Parker renamed himself "Venom" and proceeded to not only defeat the Spectacular Six, but kill them while the fights were televised to scare and horrify the populace. The culmination of the Six's struggle to defeat Venom came to an end when Venom not only unmasked Norman as the "Green Goblin" on live television but impaled him on the Brooklyn Bridge for all the world to see. Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn, saw his father die that day fighting to right a wrong. Swearing vengeance on Venom, Harry gathered what little resources he had and the help of Otto Octavious, the last surviving member of the Six Slaughter to form a New Spectacular Six to bring the terror of the Spiderman to an end.

(Essentially: Spiderman: Bad, Norman Osborn: Good, Sinister Six: Good, but ultimately killed off by Spiderman, Harry becomes the second Green Goblin, which makes it a legacy hero, and forms the second iteration of the Sinister Six, maybe with all new members with Otto playing tactical command and tech support)

[Manticore]

Mar 30, 2015 13:07:15 GMT -5 shazam said:

Norman Osborn was an industrial philanthropist that dedicated his company, Oscorp, to the principles of making the world a better place. Unfortunately, Norman would be responsible for one of the most sadistic menaces the city of New York would ever see, the Spiderman. Peter Parker, young and bitter at the world, was inadvertently exposed to a genetically modified spider and was endowed with spider based powers. The young man initially turned to utilizing his new gifts for fame and profit but even that wasn't enough, Parker wanted power! Soon the Daily Bugle was loaded with stories about the extraordinary crimes committed by this "Spider Menace". Realizing his part in this, Norman turned to his genius intellect to stop the masked criminal building a variety of apparatuses and enlisted help commonly known as the "Spectacular Six". For a time they were successful, fending off the Spiderman and keeping the collateral damage to a minimum. That was until Spiderman got his hands on a rare extraterrestrial organism that "bonded" with him; it was such a dramatic changed Parker renamed himself "Venom" and proceeded to not only defeat the Spectacular Six, but kill them while the fights were televised to scare and horrify the populace. The culmination of the Six's struggle to defeat Venom came to an end when Venom not only unmasked Norman as the "Green Goblin" on live television but impaled him on the Brooklyn Bridge for all the world to see. Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn, saw his father die that day fighting to right a wrong. Swearing vengeance on Venom, Harry gathered what little resources he had and the help of Otto Octavious, the last surviving member of the Six Slaughter to form a New Spectacular Six to bring the terror of the Spiderman to an end.

(Essentially: Spiderman: Bad, Norman Osborn: Good, Sinister Six: Good, but ultimately killed off by Spiderman, Harry becomes the second Green Goblin, which makes it a legacy hero, and forms the second iteration of the Sinister Six, maybe with all new members with Otto playing tactical command and tech support)

That's awesome! I like it.

[lilithsboy]

Amora a beauty to behold in any realm is one of the most powerful sorceresses in Asgard. Once the aprentice to the benevolent Queen of the Norns her magic grew to the point where Odin of Asgard saw it as a threat. The tyrannical king of Asguard threatened war should Karnila continue her tutelage so with a heavy hear Karnilla was forced to expel her beloved pupil. Amara fully understood the reasoning behind the Queen's actions and wished to end the threat Odin posed, this is after all the very same man who kidnapped the only son of the benevolent king of the Jotens. Amora set out to learn as much as she could from other sorcerers in the realms moving on before her presence could be a threat to the local area. Through some twist of fate Amora believes she is destined to be with a very unlikely man, the Odinson Thor. The only problem is that under his father Thor has learned unspeakable cruelty and has begun to turn his eye on Midgard. Amora cannot let Odin have this realm or any other she has ended her studies and used her magic to cross the border between realms. She stands between Asgard and Midgard. She dreams of freeing the realms of the tyranny of Odin. She hopes she can turn Thor from evil. She prays she is strong enough.

*please excuse any mispelling... it is sometimes difficut to remember how all this goes*

[Manticore]

Mar 30, 2015 22:17:14 GMT -5 lilithsboy said:

Amora a beauty to behold in any realm is one of the most powerful sorceresses in Asgard. Once the aprentice to the benevolent Queen of the Norns her magic grew to the point where Odin of Asgard saw it as a threat. The tyrannical king of Asguard threatened war should Karnila continue her tutelage so with a heavy hear Karnilla was forced to expel her beloved pupil. Amara fully understood the reasoning behind the Queen's actions and wished to end the threat Odin posed, this is after all the very same man who kidnapped the only son of the benevolent king of the Jotens. Amora set out to learn as much as she could from other sorcerers in the realms moving on before her presence could be a threat to the local area. Through some twist of fate Amora believes she is destined to be with a very unlikely man, the Odinson Thor. The only problem is that under his father Thor has learned unspeakable cruelty and has begun to turn his eye on Midgard. Amora cannot let Odin have this realm or any other she has ended her studies and used her magic to cross the border between realms. She stands between Asgard and Midgard. She dreams of freeing the realms of the tyranny of Odin. She hopes she can turn Thor from evil. She prays she is strong enough.

*please excuse any mispelling... it is sometimes difficut to remember how all this goes*

Nice.

[ultron2099]

My humble attempt:

Annoyed with the latest triumph of his smug brother Thor, Loki stalks off into the alleys of Asgard late at night. Gazing up into the stars with his god vision, he spots the planet of Krypton about to explode. Knowing the affects of Midgards sun on kyrptonian's, he uses his mystical powers to nudge the space vessel a baby Kal'el travels in. With a deliciously evil twinkle in his eyes he landed the ship at the doorsteps of someone he had been keeping his eye on for the last century, En Sabah Nur.

Over the next twenty years En Sabah Nur pushed the young kryptonian to his limits in every way. And on his 20th birthday in 1978 Apocalypse made his move unleashing Death upon the world. It was with total shock his move met resistance in the form of two mutants defending innocents against the destruction of Apocalypse and death by unleashing their powers, one over metal and the other mental.

With this act, the X-Men was secretly founded as Magneto and Professor Xavier began training for the coming war. At the same time Canada formed Alpha Flight, the Russians the Winter Guard, and the Americans The Avengers. A Global force was also put together under the eye of SHIELD dubbed The Justice League.