History YMMV / FreedomCity

* {{Narm}}: The Crime League are this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom, and contain all the Saturday morning cartoon villains you'd expect -- mad scientists, evil clowns, cackling world conquerors... and ''the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings''. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics, and attempts to give this the respect it deserved next to teammates like Dr Simian, superintelligent cyber-gorilla, came off as both laughable and painfully tone-deaf . Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.

* {{Narm}}: The Crime League are this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom, and contain all the Saturday morning villains you'd expect -- mad scientists, evil clowns, cackling world conquerors... and ''the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings''. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics, and attempts to give this the respect it deserved next to teammates like Dr Simian, superintelligent cyber-gorilla, came off as both laughable and painfully tone-deaf . Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.

* {{Narm}}: The Crime League are this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom, and contain all the Saturday morning villains you'd expect -- mad scientists, evil clowns, cackling world conquerors... and ''the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings''. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics, and attempts to give this character the respect it deserved next to teammates like Dr Simian, superintelligent cyber-gorilla, came off as both laughable and painfully tone-deaf . Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.

* {{Narm}}: The Crime League are this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom, and contain all the Saturday morning villains you'd expect -- mad scientist apes, evil clowns, cackling world conquerers... and ''the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings''. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics in a lineup of cartoon supervillains. Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.

* {{Narm}}: The Crime League are the primary antagonists of the setting, this setting's answer to the Legion of Doom. It has your standard mad scientist apes, evil clowns, cackling sorcerers ... and ''the vengeful souls of everyone killed in the Hiroshima Bombings''. This would be a jarringly dark character in most horror games, never mind one based on wacky silver-age comics in a lineup of cartoon supervillains. Luckily, in Third Edition, Hiroshima Shadow has seemingly been quietly dropped from the setting, with not even a mention in supplements so far.

* {{Squick}}: Amply provided by Alister Usher, a cadaverous man with necrotic skin who fed his father's corpse to his dogs and was in an incestuous relationship with all of his sisters. And oh yeah, provided most of Freedom City's child prostitutes and mind melting drugs.
* {{UnfortunateImplications}}: Goliath from the Civil War supplement is a {{Gentle Giant}} saved by [[CaptainPatriotic Columbia]] from a lynching...only to be killed near the end of said war for doing exactly what the lynchers thought he had done. The context of this all taking place during the American Civil War, with the unavoidable subtext of African-American lynchings hovering over the work, makes this even worse.

* {{UnfortunateImplications}}: Goliath from the Civil War supplement is a {{GentleGiant}} saved by [[CaptainPatriotic Columbia]] from a lynching...only to be killed near the end of said war for doing exactly what the lynchers thought he had done. The context of this all taking place during the American Civil War, with the unavoidable subtext of African-American lynchings hovering over the work, makes this even worse.

* {{Squick}}: Amply provided by Alister Usher, a cadaverous man with necrotic skin who fed his father's corpse to his dogs and was in an incestuous relationship with all of his sisters. And oh yeah, provided most of Freedom City's child prostitutes and mind melting drugs.

* MagnificentBastard: August Tiberius Roman is the game’s ComicBook/LexLuthor analogue, and the archenemy of the late Centurion, the setting’s greatest and most powerful superhero. Starting out as Freedom City’s most feared mafia don, Roman bought a pardon from the US government in 1943, and went onto frustrate the Centurion and the Freedom League for decades to come, first as the secret financial backer of the Crime League, and then as the city’s “Emperor of Crime.” By the 1950s and 60s, Roman controlled almost every mafioso, gangster, and street criminal in Freedom City, and was receiving a cut of near every crime committed in town, with only truly depraved organizations like Alister Usher’s falling outside his purview. This culminated in his outright buying Mayor Franklin Pierce in the 90s, and running the city in everything but name. When Pierce was brought down, he tried to take Roman with him, but the mafioso simply divested his underworld holdings and survived, broke, but free. Now retired, Roman has outlived all his allies and most of his enemies, including the Centurion, and supports himself in his old age by running the Circuit-Maximus, an illegal underground fight club featuring superhumans. [[KarmaHoudini No longer an active participant in most of the city’s criminal life, the elderly Roman is still a figure to be feared, and one that no hero or villain in their right mind aims to cross.]]

** Wilhelm Kantor, alias Overshadow, is a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] warcriminal and EvilSorcerer turned [[WesternTerrorists international terrorist]]. As a member of the ''SS'' and the Thule Society, Kantor learned that he was the reincarnation of Tan-Aktor, a TreacherousAdvisor to the Egyptian Pharoah Heru-Ra. [[HumanSacrifice Sacrificing]] twelve of his men, Kantor regained his past memories and powers, then went onto become the true mastermind behind the Nazi ''[[SuperSoldier Ubersoldaten]]'' program. When ''Schwartzpanzer'' was crippled in combat, Kantor sacrificed him to increase the power of his own personal assassin, ''Nacht-Krieger''; when the war ended Kantor would use the ritual suicides of his ''SS'' and Thule Society colleagues to further empower himself and ''Nacht-Krieger''. Kantor went onto kill almost the entire roster of the Allies of Freedom, left ''Nacht-Krieger'' to take the fall, and set up the terrorist group SHADOW. He has since attacked world capitals with armies of clones, tried to get the USA and USSR to [[NukeEm nuke one another]], poisoned municipal water supplies, and attempted to use Omega's power to take control of space/time. In the meantime, he has kept himself alive, first by [[BodySurf bodyjacking]] clones of himself, and later trying to take over the body of his own son, Ragnarok. Evil on a grand scale and a [[EvilIsPetty petty one]] (once using a terrorist attack just to ruin an enemy's retirement party), and with a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder bad habit]] of throwing his "friends" under the bus when it suits him, Kantor is [[ItsAllAboutMe out only for himself]], and is as bad as even a Nazi can get.
** Omega is the setting's resident OmnicidalManiac. Once the [[FallenHero heroic king]] of the first race of mortals, Omega realised that entropy was going to destroy the multiverse, and decided that he wanted to be on the winning side. Turning on [[{{God}} Unus The Creator]], Omega stole the Doom-Coil (the very device Unus had designed to fight against entropy) and reprogrammed it to spread entropy, feeding his own universe into it as fuel. In the process he defeated Unus, [[KillTheGod slew most of the other gods]], and completely surrendered to [[ThePowerOfHate his own hatred]]. Omega now travels universe to universe, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] and recruiting the greatest heroes of each 'verse into his army, before annihilating their home dimensions. He transformed the greatest physician of one universe into the sadistic [[MadDoctor Physician Friendly]], promised to spare another hero's people only to turn them into mindless drones, and not only destroyed The Centurion's homeworld, but then tracked him to Earth-Prime, killing him and nearly wiping out Freedom City in the process. Concerned only with expanding his own dead realm (the so-called Terminus), Omega's goal in the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt extinction of all life across the multiverse]].

* MagnificentBastard: August Tiberius Roman, an elder statesman of supervillainy who got his start during the GoldenAge and remains a going concern in UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, having only semiretired despite being well into his nineties. He's never been convicted, and has easily made the transition from TheDon to supervillain backer to "Emperor of Crime", to proprietor of an underground fight club ring. He's never had a setback he couldn't recover from, and even in his old age, bereft of his criminal empire, he remains a potent force in the underworld. Couple that with his expert planning, skill as a manipulator, and sense of style, and you have an archetypal MB.

* CompleteMonster: There are some fairly repellant villains, but none quite as bad as Wilhelm Kantor or Omega.

* MagnificentBastard: August Tiberius Roman, an elder statesman of supervillainy who got his start during the GoldenAge and remains a going concern in UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, having only semiretired despite being well into his nineties. He's never been convicted, and has easily made the transition from TheDon to supervillain backer to "Emperor of Crime", to proprotier of an underground fight club ring. He's never had a setback he couldn't recover from, and even in his old age, bereft of his criminal empire, he remains a potent force in the underworld. Couple that with his expert planning, skill as a manipulator, and sense of style, and you have an archetypal MB.

* MagnificentBastard: August Tiberius Roman, an elder statesman of supervillainy who got his start during the GoldenAge and remains a going concern in the ModernAge, having only semiretired despite being well into his nineties. He's never been convicted, and has easily made the transition from TheDon to supervillain backer to "Emperor of Crime", to proprotier of an underground fight club ring. He's never had a setback he couldn't recover from, and even in his old age, bereft of his criminal empire, he remains a potent force in the underworld. Couple that with his expert planning, skill as a manipulator, and sense of style, and you have an archetypal MB.
* {{Squick}}: Amply provided by Alister Usher, a cadaverous man with necrotic skin who fed his father's corpse to his dogs and was in an incestuous relationship with all of his sisters. And oh yeah, provided most of Freedom City's child prostitutes and mind melting drugs.

** Omega is the setting's resident OmnicidalManiac. Once the [[FallenHero heroic king]] of the first race of mortals, Omega realised that entropy was going to destroy the multiverse, and decided that he wanted to be on the winning side. Turning on [[{{God}} Unus The Creator]], Omega stole the Doom-Coil (the very device Unus had designed to fight against entropy) and reprogrammed it to spread entropy, feeding his own universe into it as fuel. In the process he defeated Unus, [[KillTheGod slew most of the other gods]], and completely surrendered to [[ThePowerOfHate his own hatred]]. Omega now travels universe to universe, [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] and recruiting the greatest heroes of each 'verse into his army, before annihilating their home dimensions. He transformed the greatest physician of one universe into the sadistic [[MadDoctor Physician Friendly]], promised to spare another hero's people only to turn them into mindless drones, and not only destroyed The Centurion's homeworld, but then tracked him to Earth-Prime, killing him and nearly wiping out Freedom City in the process. Concerned only with expanding his own dead realm (the so-called Terminus), Omega's goal in the [[ApocalypseHow extinction of all life across the multiverse]].

* CompleteMonster: Wilhelm Kantor and Omega. Kantor's a Nazi EvilSorcerer, with a penchant for [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] his allies to increase his own power, and who has, over the course of his career, tried to get the USA and USSR to [[NukeEm nuke each other]], used armies of clones to invade world capitals, causing untold damage and casualties, and attempted to [[GrandTheftMe bodyjack]] his own son, Ragnarok. Omega, in the meantime, is an OmnicidalManiac and MultiversalConqueror who betrayed [[{{God}} Unus the Creator]], travels world to world [[TheCorrupter corrupting heroes to his cause]], and whose end goal is to allow entropy to engulf the multiiverse, rendering it as dead as his own realm at The Terminus. Neither one has a FreudianExcuse or any redeeming qualities, and they are as bad as the setting allows anybody to get.

* MagnificentBastard: August Tiberius Roman, an elder statesman of supervillainy who got his start during the GoldenAge and remains a going concern in the ModernAge, having only semiretired despite being well into his nineties. He's never been convicted, and has easily made the transition from TheDon to supervillain backer to "Emperor of Crime", to propitier of an underground fight club ring. He's never had a setback he couldn't recover from, and even in his old age, bereft of his old criminal empire, he remains a potent force in the underworld. Couple that with his expert planning, skill as a manipulator, and sense of style, and you have an archetypal MB.

* {{Squick}}: [[BrotherSisterIncest Rant and Rave]].
** However, their squickiness is only {{Fanon}}, so the correct trope is probably [[IncestYay this]].