Sunday, February 5, 2006

Opinion Poll!
Which is the goofer superhero/supervillain codename: Marvel's U.S.Agent (a hero) or DC's K.G.Beast (a villain)? Comment, true believers, I'm genuinely curious.

The Magic of Shazam!
An argument can be made that a hero is defined by the villainy he thwarts. Below is a list of villains I hope to use in The Magic of Shazam! The first catagory are those villains created by others and presently galavanting about the DC Universe making mischief; the second is composed of foes used in the Golden Age Fawcett Comics adventures of the Marvel Family whom I intend to modify/modernize and introduce into the DCU; the third group are T.L.A.M. originals. My only hope for this last group is that they don't suck.

Existing Evil
Dr. Thaddeus Sivana
Black Adam (Teth-Adam/Theo Adam)
Mr. Mind
Captain Nazi (Katrina Krueger; previously: Madame Libertine)
Mr. Atom
Ibac ("Stinky" Printwhistle)
Arson Fiend (George Tweedle)
Chain Lightning (Amy, surname unknown)
Binary (Patty and Patty, surnames unknown; previously: Patty-Patty-Bang-Bang)
Vandal Savage (Vandar Adg)
Sabbac (Ishmael Gregor)*

Waiting in the Wings
Ivan Derook
Crocodile Mob (Herkimer, Sylvester, Casimir, Balthezar, Jorrk, Conrad, Ambrose, & Theodore; previously: the Crocodile-Men)
The Ghoul (Grelf; previously: the Space Ghoul)
King Kull
The Mummy (some variation of Nefertiti; previously: The Mad Mummy [male])
Levram Niatpac
Samurai Spy (Tsutomu Hirota; previously: Nippo)
Dr. Phoul - ODESSA
Baron Blitzkrieg (name pending, not the original Baron Blitzkrieg) - ODESSA

My Malcontents
Xenophon (Costas Papadelias)
Red Oni (Junichiro Hirota)
Erlkonig (name pending)
The Perfect (Percival Pringle)
Scion of Shazam (Xia Timur)
The Aryan Racer (name pending) - ODESSA
Kriegmaschine - ODESSA
V.5 (name pending) - ODESSA
The Clockwork Gang (Fielding Field; Marshall Field; Penny Penney; "Monty" Ward; Trevor Roebuck [female]; Sears, given name pending)
The Dread Pirate (Petra, surname pending)
The May Queen (name pending)
Lightning Rod (Rodney Ampere)
The Maze (Daedalus Broadstreet)
Spring Heeled Jack (name pending)
Diamondhead (name pending)

The previously discussed codenames Hotspur, Asunder, Dandelion, and Vexillum, as well as newcomers Propaganda, Vox Populi, and The Trojan, are still in play, but aren't yet ready to be listed. Why list Diamondhead but not Asunder? I don't yet know Diamondhead's real name, but I have a good idea what he looks like, what his powers are, and the broad strokes of his origin/motivation; so, he's actually much farther along than Asunder, who right now is basically just a visually and aurally pleasing word.

I've got a couple ideas for independent enemies of Spy Smasher (Aleph and the Zealots, The Amalekite) and Mr. Scarlet (Green Mamba, the Red Death), but for no adequately explored reason I've elected to keep them off the list. Go figure.

*Sabbac is a current adversary of Captain Marvel Jr. (Kid Marvel in MOS!) and the Outsiders in Judd Winick's Outsiders. I am not a fan of Winick's work; so, I cannot imagine the circumstances in which I would ever choose to use one of his characters.

2 comments:

AlNaga The Dreaded! said...

Binary (Patty and Patty, surnames unknown; previously: Patty-Patty-Bang-Bang)

I assume that Binary was your re-name of Patty Patty Bang Bang. How about Patty Binarei (You could write in your fanfiction that the "lighter Patty"(my attempt to be racially sensitive) was named Patrica Calvanarei and the "darker Patty" was Patrica Binge. They could combine last names to form a name that sounds like Binary.

This is already practice in Fanfiction, check out this one where they gave the Mysterious Kyd Wykkyd the name, Elliot Knight. It was such a good name, most fanfiction I have read since then dub Kyd Wykkyd as Elliot.
www.fanfiction.net
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/553449/mistressmarionette
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5273451/1/To_Be_Tragic

AlNaga The Dreaded! said...

or Patty Elbin and Patrica Nari.
Let me know what you think.