I built the bare bones for a superhero universe, for use if I ever got a group together to play M&M2e. The idea was to populate some status quo teams, and then see what the players gave me, adjust the world to their back stories, and go from there. So, I built a bunch of archetypal teams that could then be taken apart to create the power vacuum our new heroes need to fill.



The International Legion of Heroes (Avengers/JLA)



The Beast - A young Brazilian youth who turns into a barely controlled monster, on the team to atone for what he did when he first got his powers.



The Cowl - A dark detective seasoned with a bit of Spider-Man, Dr. Midnight and Bruce Lee.



Iron Buddha - A Buddhist monk who coincidentally reached Enlightenment at the moment the Event happened that gave the world superpowers. Practically impossible to hit; practices a mainly defensive martial art.



Jumper - A teleporting trickster with a forcefield and a moderately annoying quantum blast. Beneath the wiseass-ery is a fount of wisdom.



Luminous - A blue-flame elemental, one of the few ILoHs with a powerless alterego. Consequently, can get ridiculously powerful at times.



Alpha Paragon - All-American super woman, and the reason Superman-type heroes are called paragons in this universe. The world believes she's the first superpower to emerge after the Event.



Turing - The smartest man on the planet, and the actual first superpower on the face of the planet. Is now an uploaded consciousness, routinely inhabiting a "Battle-shell" of his own design which looks like a man in a power-suit, and performs like a minor paragon.





The Metropolitan Four (Fantastic Four, and all those other four-man/woman adventurer groups, especially the old pulps.)



American Steel - Generally strong and tough, but with a Steel-clad alternate form that is a classic brick brawler. She's a steel juggernaut.



Egami Rorrim - A mirror- and glass-based teleporter (via mirrored surfaces) and duplicator (can fling molten mirror-stuff from a mirror to copy herself). Protective mirror film envelopes her on command.



Shock Therapy - A flying electrical controller with incredible control over his powers (a huge alt-power array) that, except for the basics, takes all his concentration (non-dynamic).



White Noise - An insubstantial, flying sonic controller with enhanced senses. Can also speak to and understand any and every object/thing/creature/person in his Home city.





Los Angelinos (2nd Stringer West Coast Team)



Silencer - A former gang member, now a 30-something youth counselor and community volunteer. Supplements a bit of flight and Astral sight with non-lethal Ghost Guns that can cause someone to pass out from terror.



Skin Deep - A D-List actor with chameleonesque powers, and bit of power-mimicing that he keeps under wraps.



The Producer - A psionic compeller, who couches most of his actions around movie production cliches.



Spotlight - An unknown person transformed into a being of pure white light. Never talks about their past or their old identity. Possibly the only Earthling to have ever traveled past the orbit of the Moon.



Temblor - A mountain of a man, a moderate brick with some earth control powers. (Never did make this guy, so not much to say about him.)





The Eurostars [new name pending] (The team put together by outsiders that never seems to gel. They are on their third name, etc.)



Ex Pat - A classic brawler from America who bases his heroic persona on gently ribbing the European ideas of a stereotypical American.



El Coronel - The Colonel, a Spaniard who idolized Captain America (they had comics in this 'verse, before the Event) and basically tries to emulate him as best he can.



Nachtschatten - Night Shadow, a German with incredible powers of darkness and shadow.



Astrape - Lightning, a Greek speedster.



Le Magicien - The Magician, a French superpower who claims to be a sorcerer. No one can be sure he's wrong.



Krasny Rytsar - Red Knight, a Russian energy controller of some sort, name approximated.



The Finn - The only superpower from Finland, with nebulous but effective powers. (The sort of character you have to think about letting be a PC: Six ranks in Adaptation, 10 ranks in Nemesis with a default array that makes him a moderate Paragon. Nasty guy.)





The Next Wave (New Mutants, Teen Titans - never made 'em, very nebulous)



Dreamwalker - Travels in dreams, some pre- and post-cognition.



Fire In The Hole - Blows stuff up.



Unstoppable - A mini-juggernaut.



Gojira Boy - A size-changer with a mouth-originating energy blast who likes Godzilla and the LoSH a bit too much.



Gleaming - ...the cube - ice cube - ice man - ice powers. Everyone tells him his name is dumb, but he really likes it.



Invisible Kid - Honorary member, and first second generation superpower to start to manifest. (Named by Gojira Boy for obvious reasons.)





Noteworthy Individuals



Corporal Bullseye - A military man who became a minor super-soldier after the Event, but hid it until he was Honorably discharged. Has since formed a relationship with The Candlestick Maker, who has provided him with a special stealth shield and armor, and non-lethal stun guns (Peacemakers). Possibly the deadliest shot on Earth.



The Candlestick Maker - Primarily a vehicle and costume gadgeteer, working with Cpl. Bullseye for the challenge of making the world's deadliest shot completely non-lethal.



Father Time - "A prematurely retired crime fighter with the awesome ability to control time. Sadly, though he was only endowed with his abilities a decade ago, his personal time line has advanced at least three or four times as fast. Subjectively around sixty-five years old, Father Time has spent the last year or so amassing a fortune and consulting with his old friends, The Maker and The Cowl, in an effort to remain a force for good in the world, despite being unable to be at the front lines anymore. He now has access to a secret base, armaments and vehicles. Now all he needs is a team to make use of it." (Direct from my notes. This was likely to be the way the PC group would get integrated into the 'verse, if they wanted to start off a bit more established.)



Pilgrim - What if Spider-Man had been bitten by a radioactive bird. Pilgrim comes from Peregrin, as in the Falcon.



Walker - One of the small set of super-intellects, and a so-called "Quantum Shaman. (10 ranks of 6-pt Transform. Just for fun.)



-Yook, finally done typing...