The Spidey Gang

[Hypester]

Wait... but we all know Spider-Man's stats, right? so what are you doing, hypester?

Well, I've got this crazy idea in my head for a Smallville (but not sucky) style Spidey TV show, and after watching the new cartoon Spectacular Spider-man, which is a TON better than I thought it was, and reading some Spider-Man loves Mary Jane... and having this crazy idea for a RP game where each of Spidey's friends is heroic in their own right, well.. that doesn't sound like much fun, so I might as well just make up all the characters myself and post them. And without my books they might not even be accurate.

I think I'll give them some hidden attribute most teens don't posses, but still is relatively plausible. Keep in mind there are 6 cads here... it's long.

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MJ Wastson
Real Name: Mary-Jane Hyacinth Watson
TV Trope Position: "The Lancer"
Age: 15
Height: 5'9"
Occupation: High School Student, Catalog Model
Persona: Fun loving to the max, outgoing, adventurous, loves risk, and loves being away from her severely dysfunctional and moderately abusive family.
Played by: Joanna Levesque

Abilities
Int: 3
Str: 1
Agi: 2
Spd: 1
Dur: 2

Actions
Social Skills: 4
- High School Social Ladder
- Persuasion
- Party Scene
- Acting

Gymnastics: 3
- Acrobatics
- Tumbling
- Swinging

Mastery of Kung Fu: 2
- Agility and Weapon Bonus
- Balance
- Basic Forms
- Staff

Dance: 4
- Hip Hop
- Freestyle
- Seductive
- Acting

Modifiers
Energy Battery: 3 (Reserve of 15 instead of 6)

Equipment
T-Mobile Sidekick 3
A great many clothes

Challenges
Haunted Present - MJ's home life is a mess. Her father beats her mother, who is only usually able to protect her... this is done while her mother gives her constant guilt trips and responsibility speeches, especially about leaving her brother behind.
Vanity - MJ like to look good, often when other matters should clearly take precedent, ie lethal threats, certain calamity and deep seated personal issues, both hers and others. It's likely a defense mechanism.

Production Notes
This is our "crouching tiger hidden badass"... she seems like a dainty pretty little girl, and she is, she's very much a Queen Bee, and a Libby. She's not a 'nice' person per se... but when the chips are down and there's no other choice, she harnesses all that anger from her home life and y'know, that kind of after-school level karate and actually becomes a threat to a grown man. She's not necessarily a superhero like the current comics version of her (Wiki: Jackpot) but she's pretty intense, when she's in, what the other character refer to as "Killer MJ."

Joanna's done an incredible job with MJ, and you get the feeling that this vapid pretty girl with waning daddy issues is kind of a front, and we like deep characters. We like them a lot. Oh, and the scenes she has with Harry are kickass. We're going to have to milk that next season.

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Gwen Stacy
Real Name: Gwenneth Evelyn Stacy
TV Trope Position: "The Smart Guy"
Age: 14
Height: 5'2"
Occupation: High School Student, Intern/Biolab Technician
Persona: Bookish, introverted and absolutely terrified of any and everything.
Played by: Kay Panabaker

Actions
Int: 6
Str: 1
Agi: 1
Spd: 1
Dur: 1

Actions
General Knowledge: 4
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Psychology
- Medicine
Healing Medical: 1
- Takes three panels to heal one white stone
Technology: 3
- Computers
Social Skills: 2
- Chatrooms
- RPGs

Modifiers
Mental Defense (+6)

Equipment
Annual Bus Pass
A great deal of books
iMac G5 Laptop Computer with Wireless Connection

Challenges
Scared of Opposite Sex - Gwen is totally cripped with guys, a female geek, and it's hard.
Overprotective Dad - She's sheltered for a reason, Captain Stacy knows exactly how hard the real world is, and doesn't want her in any part of it.

Production Notes
Gwen's our smart girl... she knows stuff, she's just a bookworm of the highest order, and she's the stereotypical male geek... but she's a girl. While this doesn't sound all that innovative it's opened up a lot of storytelling options for us... we get to cross those standard outcast issues with a lot of feminine emotion, and insecurity and self doubt, and, well, sometime we wonder how this girl gets up in the morning.

<<but the other kids love her>>

Oh, yeah, the other kids think she's just the best thing since sliced bread. We're waiting til Peter comes out with his genius, and then she gets jealousy and envy on top of that. Oh, and she likes the guy. Kay Panabaker, by the way, is a real life genious, she's a senior in college, right? Yeah, she's 17, so she gives the whole thing some authenticity. She might really like Peter, but, obviously, that's the kind of thing that can REALLY ruin a TV show with such young actors. Ask Brad Pitt and one of his...

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Harry Osborne
Real Name: Harold Isaac Osborne
TV Trope Position: "The Chick"
Age: 16
Height: 5'10"
Occupation: High School Student, Entrepreneur, Heir
Persona: Suave, Debonair, basically has a heart of gold, though he can be a bit reclusive and secretive.
Played by: Hunter Gomez

Abilities
Int: 4
Str: 1
Agi: 1
Spd: 1
Dur: 2

Actions
Business Skills: 4
Leadership: 2
- Tactician (one free stone to anyone receiving leadership)
Businesscraft: 3
- Incorporation
- Merging
- Taxes
Social Skills: 5
- Lying
- Coercion
- Negotiation

Modifiers
Wealth: 4

Challenges
Tough Love - Harry is constantly being pushed by his father, pressure he is always under.
Lonely at the Top - Harry has trouble making real friends, as well as trouble trusting them. Everyone is at an emotional arm's distance.

Production Notes
Behold the Golden Child! Harry starts off as this perfect guy, he's got money, he's cool, he reaches out, he's overcome his pushy parents... he's a self made man and he hasn't even graduated. Overtime, we see him get corrupted by the things that happen around him. The start of the series is when he first steps out of his dad's incubator chamber and into the rest of the world, to see what he can really do. As he figures that out, climbing the social ladder in high school will eventually begin to feel small... he's kind of the "With Great Power comes Great Corruption" aesop.

<<But not too quickly>>

No, it's a bit of a slow steady thing, just a little bit each episode, just a nod to his internal struggle, he'll come back for a bit, then he won't be able to resist getting away with something. He gets really good at lying. This is something Hunter has been kicking butt on. He just comes off as so genuine, the reveals are going to be so tasty. Case in point, he's not going to be going insane when/if he becomes the Green Goblin... it's going to be a calculate move... and perhaps not an honest one. It's hard not to center on he, MJ and Gwen, as they're the ones we're most familiar with from the mythos, but trust us, it's a five man band, and without the big guy and the hero, they really don't have much going for them.

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Eddie Brock
Real Name: Edward Theodore Brock Jr.
Age: 19
Height: 6'0
TV Trope Position: "The Big Guy"
Occupation: College Student, Pizza Delivery Guy
Persona: Extremely laid back, to a fault. On top of being as blunt and frank as humanly possible, Eddie is kind of the rationalist of the group. He's got less of the adolescent dreaminess, he knows life is rough, and is happy to share it with others.
Played by:

Abilities
Int: 5
Str: 2
Agi: 2
Spd: 2
Dur: 3

Actions
Social Skills: 3
- The Truth
- Sarcasm
Vehicle Operation: 3
- Vans
Close Combat: 4
- Strength Bonus
- Boxing
- Street Brawling
Ranged Combat: 2

Modifiers
Toughness (+1) no AP

Equipment
Colt Magnum: (+2)
Old School Black and Red Van "The A-Team"

Challenges
Orphan - Misses his parents sometimes. They were really good people. Foster homes are pretty hit and miss, though.
Alcoholic - A self proclaimed social drinker can get out of hand sometimes.

Production Notes
The Big guy... I mean, come one... who doesn't love the big guy? Eddie is kind of this outcast in college, and he ends up connecting with these high school kids, though coincidence, and he ends up, in his own way, liking them. Plus, we have someone to put all of our snark in. He's the commentator, and when fists don't work out, Eddie has a gun, and really isn't that hesitant to take life.

We want to build a lot of mystery and menace around this guy, it comes to the point where he's just plain scary, especially after he levels somebody to save MJ's life. It's a bit contrived having THREE future costume guys on the same squad, but that's kind of how Spider-Man's world works... the people closest to him become monsters... and we're definitely going to explore exactly why that is once Venom comes around.

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Hobie Brown
Real Name: Hobert Michael Brown
TV Trope Position: "The Hero"
Age: 15
Height: 5'6"
Occupation: High School Student, Basketball Point Guard, Janitor
Persona: Very spontaneous, creative and seemingly fearless.
Played by: Malcolm David Kelley

Abilities
Int: 4
Str: 2
Agi: 3
Spd: 2
Dur: 2

Actions
Social Skills: 4
- High School Scene
- Streetwise
- African American Community
Basketball: 4
- Basketball
- Ranged Combat with spherical objects
Thieving: 3
- Agility Bonus
- Pickpocketing
- Sleight of Hand
Close Combat: 2
- Agility Bonus
- Street Fighting


Modifiers
Wealth: 0

Equipment
Cell Phone
1988 Honda Civic

Challenges
Haunted Past - Hobie didn't grow up in a very fun way.
Big Family - With four little brothers and sisters. Wayne (5), Tanya (7), Lily (11) and Bradley (13), Hobert often has to handle these guys on his own.

Production Notes
So we got in trouble. There were some people that thought that having a basketball playing thief as our African American cast member was... faulty. <<Racist.>> Yeah, and then I got to thinking... what if we can break that? What if people, even people who fit racial stereotypes, are people... and they have thoughts, and dreams and hopes and... y'know a point of view.

And that's what we're shooting for. We've got Malcolm David Kelley from Lost on board, and this is a kid who is committed to making the world a better place after all that he's been through, just based on where he's from and what he looks like. He works his tail off, and he's taking on the great responsibility without the great power. He's the one who connects with each of the others, like they're his little brothers and sisters, and that's what gives him the strength, and knowledge necessary to bring them together, and unite them when there's things to do.

Of course, his morality is a teency bit off... which leads to some interesting conflicts, and decisions for the rest of the cast. His right and wrong isn't based on the law. This is the source of most of his conflicts, his lack of belief in the law, in both it's correctness and the way it's enforced and carried out.

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Peter Parker
Real Name: Peter Benjamin Parker
TV Trope Position: "The Sixth Ranger"
Age: 14
Height: 5'5"
Occupation: High School Student, Photographer
Persona: Quiet, creepily so, very introverted, easily bullied, very melancholy
Played by: Logan Lerman

Abilities
Int: 7
Str: 4
Agi: 7
Spd: 4
Dur: 4

Actions
Inventing: 1
Social Skills: 4
- Spider-Man Persona
- Witty Remarks
- Baiting and Teasing
- Reduced to 1 without psychological protection (mask)
Technology: 3
- Intelligence Bonus
- Computers
- Chemistry

Web Slinging: 5
Close Combat: 1
- Agility Bonus
Ranged Combat: 3
- Webbing

Modifiers
Healing Factor
Reflexive Dodge (+3)
Prescience
Destiny Force
Wealth: -1

Equipment
Web Shooters (+6) to ranged combat, vs strength and defense to entangle/disable/stun
Spider Searchlight

Challenges
Guilty Conscience - After the death of his Uncle, Spider-Man is very, very depressed
Big Secret - Peter Parker is Spider-Man... a big honking deal. Something no one knows about... yet.
Partial to Underdog - Peter has an unyielding need to help people now, it keeps coming back.

Production Notes
Now, here's the problem... how do you make a Spider-Man show... where Spider-Man isn't the main character. Especially when we've got the exceptional Logan Lerman on board... it's impossible right?

Except, it's not. He's the candy for the episode, the tease. Peter's secret is the thing the audience knows that the rest of the cast doesn't. As Spider-Man, he knows all these kids, he's connected to them... he's their common link and Spider-Man ends up not only saving their behinds on several occasions, but the season ends when they discover a badly beaten and bruised Spider-Man, and unmask him. And then the fun starts. Keep in mind, the series starts BEFORE the Spider-bite. We've got problems before that.

[Hypester]

The Spidey Gang

Network: NBC
Time Slot: Mondays 8pm, 7 central.
Executive Producers: Hypester and Joss Whedon
Main Cast: Malcolm David Kelley, Logan Lerman, Kay Panabaker, Joanna Levesque, Hunter Gomez,
Additional Cast:
Aunt May
Brent Spiner...........Uncle Ben
Neal McDonaugh...........Captain Stacy
Paula Newsome.........Mama Brown
Flash Thompson
Big Kong
Woody Harrellson........ Norman Osborne

Season 1: "Origin of Spider-Man"

Episode 1: Amazing Fantasy pt 1
Hobie Brown is at the end of his rope and decides to take drastic measures to make ends meet for his family. This runs him afoul of a pizza delivery guy as well as gets him in trouble with would-be girlfriend, cheerleader Mary Jane Watson. When he enlists the help of the local rich boy in his crazy scheme, Hobie finds out that local gangster Hammerhead was the original designate, and that it's not a load of cash... it's a canister of goo.

Episode 2: Amazing Fantasy Pt 2
Now in trouble, Hobie winds up working with his new friends to hide the unknown valuable substance with some trouble. When local gangster Lonnie Lincoln comes looking for it, it takes five very different young folks. Meanwhile, Mary Jane and Harry get a clue as to Hobie's home life, and his nobility comes into question.

Episode 3: Amazing Fantasy Pt 3
The team imposes on Freshman Peter Parker to get the insight behind the substance and they track it to Adrian Toombs, a terminally ill philanthropist, who apparently thinks he's discovered the secret to youth and healing, and is willing to do anything for it. After sending his personal bodyguard after them with an extremely powerful jetpack, Eddie saves their hides by putting the man down permanently. The goo itself is returned to Toombs. The kids' loose alliance then seems to evaporate.

Episode 4: Face it Tiger
Mary Jane gets booted from the Cheerleading team on account of accusations of misconduct, which she refuses to talk abut. It turns out, she's being suspended for clocking a girl after talking about her mother. This on top of waning grades reintroduces her to Gwen Stacy. With Hobie's ineffectual probing of the situation, he convinces Harry to get a lawyer to get her suspension revoked, since the altercation took place at an away game. Harry hires hotshot lawyer Matt Murdock, who goes up against Jennifer Walters from the D.A's office. The case, ends up involving Debra Whitman (the other girls') drug abuse, and similar upbrining to MJ. All the kids get called to the stand, eventually... but it's Hobie's testimony that turns the tide.

Episode 5: Here Lizard, Lizard, Lizard...
Gwen finally gets a job at NYU as an intern in Dr. Curt Connors' lab, though she relies on grungy Eddie to transport her. They, polar opposites, have a serious brother-sister bonding moment and Eddie ends up breaking a guy's nose who tries to hit on her. In the lab, Gwen is working with Connors on his lizard research, and is there when Alex O'Hirn tries to steal it... and the spectral laser ends up severing Connors' arm off, Gwen gets taken as a hostage. Eddie enlists Hobie and Harry's help... MJ tags along. With the police in full outrage at the behest of Captain Stacy, the team manages to find the location, thanks to clever breadcrumb leaving by Gwen, as well as intercept the research before it can be given over to a man named Alistar Smythe, a wheelchair bound amputee.

Episode 6: The Wizard of Osborne
Harry Osborn owns three companies. One is a lemonade vendor, grown out of his first lemonade stand. The other is a business incubator, of his own invention, based on his own methods. The last is a bio-research lab, right now working on an artificial heart. Obviously a good guy. When he asks his new friends to accompany him on a trip, it's really just to get a shot at Mary Jane, much to Hobie's shagrin. It's at his remote research lab that they meet Dr. Elias Wirtham, whom Hobie quickly becomes in awe of. As the vacation goes by, Wirtham eventually shows off just how he's using Harry's funding, something that Hobie ends up hating. Of course, the artificial heart that Wirtham has gives some kind of electromagentic mojo which he uses to extort the businessman, who manages to talk him down, manipulate and then betray him to his father's security team that was dispatched.

Episode 7: Sins Past
Gwen Stacy has a very interesting relationship with her father. He's extremely overprotective, and background checks on her new friends doesn't give him any more confidence in them. By proposing a birthday party dinner, Gwen hopes to not only get her dad to calm down, but get some face time with her crush, the mysterious and moody Peter Parker. Mary Jane steps in to make it memorable and Hobie has the unenviable job of tracking down and inviting Peter Parker.

Of course, Eddie and Harry do some checking up of themselves on George Stacy, in hopes of giving Gwen some leverage against his tyranny... they find some internal investigations surrounding him, and, using money and a little intimidation and surprise, manage to find out exactly why George Stacy doesn't trust New York City... because it's out to get him. One of the thugs they interrogate is Herman Schultz, who almost manages to give them a nasty shock.

Episode 8: Clone Saga
When Harry and MJ finally get together, they become the 'it' couple, and it becomes a bit of a circus at school as people begin to copy everything that they do. Meanwhile Hobie finds a new hero in Fred Myers, ex-NBA due to an injury who comes to town about his new book, "The Boomerang Effect and You" which amounts to just high end karma. Hobie begins to emulate this man who takes in a kid from "his alma mater" in midtown. Gwen, on the other hand, finds herself mimicking her crush, Peter Parker and Eddie gets himself a new gang, fed up with the highschoolers. Naturally, all of this comes falling down like a house of cards, as Fred Myers styles himself a Robin Hood and Hobie tries to stop him, only to get his butt beat, but it turns out his friends come through for him just as planned, Gwen even leaves Peter, albeit, not without a touching moment. "Boomerang" falls for an elaborate Pizza scam which frees Hobie and traps Boomerang inside with the alarm set off.

Episode 9: Jack O' Lantern
A great Halloween costume is fun on it's own, when it's a big Midtown costume party/dance, the more fun is had by all. When you add in Jason Macendale, a lunatic with far too many flash grenades that's holding the school hostage, then it becomes a whole lot less fun... it becomes a trial of survival. Scurrying, hiding and shimying around the school, the crew has to face life and death... and someone (incidental minor supporting cast) doesn't make it out. Mutant Sarah Rushman is carted off under a white sheet. Too bad... Hobie liked her too.

Episode 10: Identity Crisis
Stories are told as the crew play poker. It begins to become clear exactly how well connected they are. Hobie recalls how Captain Stacy kept him from going to Juvenile Detention when he was 12. Eddie recalls how Norman Osborn gave him his first real job as a lab techie. MJ remembers the Watsons, Parkers and Brocks all spending time together when they were young, while Harry recalls when Hobie saved him from a bully while they were much younger. Gwen remembers MJ introducing her to Peter Parker for the first time. More outpouring comes out and there's just a lot of great bonding and questioning. Harry and MJ especially end up dealing with their core selves. Hobie is made to look like a hypocrite and Gwen is called a coward. The crew seems to disband again, because they are just "too different."

Episode 11: Genetically Engineered Radioactive Mutant Drugged-Up Super-Spiders
A field trip is instituted to Oscorp. Going through all the exibits is difficult enough, but with what MJ claims as a shapeshifter on the loose, and all the relationships between the kids strained, it takes all of their wits to catch this Chamelon unawares. Of course, finding him, or her, is only half of the problem, as he seems to be after someone, but Eddie manages to get the drop on him (knocking out the real MJ and Hobie in the process) before he can take out Harry.

Also, in the clash, everyone almost gets bitten by one of the spiders, barely scarcely missing. Of course, that parker kid gets bitten.

Episode 12: Marvel Team Up
Gwen's affection for Peter Parker reaches new highs. Of course, Peter looks like a totally different kid now anyway. After trashing Hobie on the basketball court, beating up local bullies Flash and Kong, then making a pass at MJ, the guys decide he needs to be stopped. Gwen manages to go home with him and finds out his family is very nice, but Peter ends up in an argument and heads out in a fuss. Gwen can't convince him to calm down.

When Hobie's home gets robbed and his mother shot (but not killed), he's pretty upset, and with the help of Private Investigator Mac Gargan they manage to find one of the robbers, Flint Marko. Though, Eddie gets shot during the whole thing, and has to get rushed to the hospital. Hobie decides to help Eddie and let Marko get away.

Episode 13: Maximum Carnage
Hobie enters an underground wrestling league in a costume... he does well, until he comes face to face with another costumed guy, after discovering his true identity and Peter's reasons for fighting, Prowler official invites Peter Parker into the crew. Just after this, Peter discovers his uncle is dead. End Season.

Season 2
Episode 1: Brand New Day
The Spider-Man POV features the battle with the Burgular while the next day, the crew each console Peter Parker on his loss when they find out. Most in pretty horrible ways... the the goo from season one seems to come up again, this time in kids lockers as a drug that's being confiscated. A change in Adrian Toombs' behavior is all they need to check up on the man... only to find out that he's seemingly 40 years younger. And he knows who they are. Before Toomb and his scary jetpack with wings can eliminate them, the crew gets a big rescue, by the Amazing Spider-Man.

hypester's notes
I kinda realize that this is so beyond undoable... but I can't help the idea... it really just does it for me.

[Hypester]

[Jet]

I've read the whole fight now and man, this IS so Smallvile! I especially liked Hobbie Brown as a main character- always wanted him to get some more spotlight and he fits in Spidey gang perfectly.
Also all those episodes with Spidey villains... there's a whole lot of them and its cool to see them in "non-powered" form instead, makes me wonder if Shocker will really appear.

[johnstargazer]

Yeah, this stuff is fantastic, Hypester. I love the idea.

[Stark]

Wha...?! No Felicia Hardy???

Just kidding, Hype. Everything's awesome. ;D

[Jet]

Seeing as its a Smallvile ripoff, she'll come in third season, date all male main cast, get married to Harry, divorce with him becouse she's pragnent with Eddie and goes vigilante as Black Cat with Spiderman on his side. Oh, and MJ will start a few catfights with her for no better reason.

Yeah, that would be a day ^^

[Stark]

Maybe that's undoable as a series, but as a game it could be interesting. And if it does ever happen, I'd call dibs on Eddie Brock, with a few changes if the GM would allow me to.