Line #23 TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer


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4	''Halt Evil Doer!'' is a third party M&M Superlink supplement for the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' rules system. It was created by Charles Phipps, Michael Suttkus, and Mike Lafferty. The first edition was a PDF-only release but a Second Edition has since been released. The book describes the setting of Heroic Earth where superheroes are faced against hordes of extremely well-funded and politically-powerful supervillains. The setting contains numerous CaptainErsatz characters mixed-in with a large number of original {{NPC}}s.
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6	The book describes a setting where superheroes are linked to mythology and public domain characters. The modern age has superheroes appearing during the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] of the 1940s, a [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] during the 1980s, an [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Iron Age]] during the 1990s, and now a [[MediaNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Nickel Age]] for the 21st century. The setting is defined by a [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] mentality with superheroes being genuinely heroic but overwhelmed by a large number of supervillains. The only reason the superheroes continue to prosper is primarily because the supervillains hate each other as much as they do the heroes.
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9	!!Examples:
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11	* ArchnemesisDad: Splotch's J. Jonah Jameson counterpart is his own father. Noah Stein canonically doesn't know Joel is Splotch, but it's not clear it would change his opinion much if he did.
12	* AntiVillain: General Venom, Battle Czar, Red King, most of the Psychotic Seven are misguided but questionably evil.
13	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Pulp-era magician hero the Amazing Weiss -- better known to mundane history as Harry Houdini.
14	* BigBad: Iron Khan, Death Mask III, General Venom, and Orkus are all archvillains that can carry entire campaigns.
15	* TheCape: Divinos is TheParagon of good, nobility, and hope that leads all of the others.
16	* CastingAShadow: The Ink Spot legacy all can created shadow force constructs.
17	* CorruptChurch: The Church of Humanity, a fake made-up religion created by a anti superhuman bigot which states that [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metamen]] were created by aliens to destroy the world and non humans are all soulless monsters. (Also a ChurchOfHappyology)
18	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kenneth Kane, the secret identity of Death Mask III.
19	* TheCowl: Black Wing II (also a BadassBookworm) is a genius scientist detective and martial arts master who fights crime!
20	* DevilButNoGod: In the HED! Universe, Heaven has not been proven to exist, but Hell has been established as an existing realm. Mainly due to its ruler being a BigBad.
21	* DistaffCounterpart: Angel Girl to Divinos, being his kid sister. Blood Wing to Black Wing, being his insane clone.
22	* EldritchAbomination: The Darkness Before Time, Orkus.
23	* EvilCounterpart: Stain, who's Venom to Splotch's Spider-Man. He also has his own Carnage-like Even Eviler Counterpart, Bloodstain.
24	* {{Expy}}: [[Expy/HaltEvilDoer Has its own page.]]
25	* FantasticRacism: As with the Marvel universe, there is a great deal of mistrust against mutants (called [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metamen]] in this setting), with numerous hate groups and government agencies persecuting them.
26	* TheFairFolk: Their leader, ironically, is a ''human'' called the the Dark Undermaster.
27	* GreatGazoo: Mister Hoppy is an all powerful pooka who loves playing pranks on the heroes.
28	* KillerRabbit: Again, Mister Hoppy, who looks like a little boy with rabbit ears but can rewrite reality.
29	* NinetiesAntiHero: Deconstructed with the Psychotic Seven [[InsistentTerminology (though they call themselves the Justicars)]]-by the time the game's "main" time period rolls around, they've been classified as a supervillain group after their thirst for justice at any price lead them to attempt an armed takeover of the US.
30	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Freehold is Boston, Falconcrest is Chicago, New Amsterdam is New York and Los Dios is Los Angeles. The real cities exist as well, with New York in particular having a longstanding rivalry with New Amsterdam.
31	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted. Most of the scientists in the setting have areas of special concern. Red King=Genetics, General Venom=Robotics, etc.
32	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Subverted with the House of Serpents. They ''are'' a terrorist organization with superpowered members, but when it comes down to it, they're not even the most evil of the AntiVillain groups.
33	* PatrioticFervor: Deconstructed with General Venom and the House of Serpents; They honestly love America, which is why they plan to overthrow the government-they think it's long since mutated into a form that the Founding Fathers would be disgusted with.
34	* PublicDomainCharacter: {{Dracula}} is a major villain. Dame Michelle Holmes of the Foundation for World Harmony (the SHIELD/Checkmate organisation) is a descendant of Franchise/SherlockHolmes, whereas the Death Masks (and Black Wing II) are descended from James Moriarty. Death Mask's equivalent of Latveria is the original {{Ruritania}} from ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda''. And the Black Panther and Aquaman Expies are descended from [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quartermain]] and [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]], respectively.
35	* SelfPlagiarism: Many of the concepts in the setting would be recycled by the author into his ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' books.
36	* StableTimeLoop: In this setting, Dracula (who was turned into a vampire by Orkus the Entropic Master in the 14th century) was the first vampire, ever. All other vampires are descended from Dracula or people turned into vampires by Dracula. However, vampires have existed on Earth for thousands of years. How can both of these facts be true? Well, Dracula had this little accident with Death Mask III's time machine once, and...
37	* SpaceStation: Divinos has one, which is a giant crystal palace in space.
38	* ThoseWackyNazis: Death's Head is a former Nazi, though he did this by time traveling back in time to try and take over the Third Reich.
39	* VampireMonarch: Dracula is the leader of the Vampire Nation. He's also the first vampire, even though there were vampires long before he died; it's a bit [[TimeyWimeyBall timey wimey]].
40	* WesternTerrorists: The House of Serpents is actually a fairly realistic version-they're a lot like a widespread, advanced, and well-funded right-wing militia.

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