What if the robot wasn't an actual robot, but Metallo in a 'full-robot' disguise? It could be explained as Luthor wanting to get rid of a potentially massive spike in Oscorp's stocks using a near-untraceable third-party: Metallo, aka John Corben, a mercenary-for-hire whom he had saved via brain-transplant from another hit that had gone wrong. It could also make for a potential BSOD moment for Josie, when she finds out that the 'robot' she had sworn vengeance on all this time was actually human...
Edit: gah, Moerin beat me to it!
Eh, my suggestion above still stands.
edited 3rd Dec '12 3:22:22 PM by Demovere
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Maybe Metallo spent some time searching for good energy sources to maintain his cybernetics, before settling on Kryptonite a while later?
Whatever, it's high time I slept. I'll officially confirm the sign-up thing in the morning probably.
edited 3rd Dec '12 3:28:33 PM by LizardOfAus
And a Strange Figure Emerges.
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May I make a suggestion? While plugging new characters in any old time would have problems, for instance you wouldn't want to drop them cold into the middle of a combat situation or even a general ongoing crisis like the riots, I don't see a problem integrating them into a period where not much is happening, like now in NYC for instance. On the other hand a villain using advanced technology for evil purposes, like, oh say, the Mad Hatter, might also arouse her interest. Not bring her into the actual battle but if BB and Deadpool don't aprehend old Jervis immediately she might be drawn into the investigation.
Alright, alright, alriiiiight! I'm going to finish this later.
- Name: Manchester Black
- Gender: Male
- Age: Late 20s
- Appearance: Dr. Black, at your service.
◊ Also, he doesn't smoke. And that Union Jack is a tattoo, not a shirt.
- Alignment: Anti-Hero
- Personality: Black has changed from the last time he challenged Superman. Instead of killing himself as in the comics, he decided to live on a middle path between Supes' way and his own. He still kills his enemies, but he is trying to follow Superman's example by not killing the mundane criminals he captures. But if they have super-anything, whether it be intellect, fighting skill, or actual powers, he will dispose of them without a thought.
- Powers and Abilities: Very powerful and precise telepathy and telekinesis.
- Weapons and Equipment: None, not anymore.
- Origin: The last of the boys born in his family, Chester had to fend for himself and his sister after their mother died and their father fell into insobriety. One day, he stopped a train from running over his sister, which killed literally a dozen people in the process. The British government took notice and recruited him into a secret superhuman program. After a mission in Africa, he took up freelance vigilantism with his old group, The Elite. But when their methods went too far, Superman put a stop to their activities and apparently lobotomized Black's powers away. In reality, his powers were temporarily taken away by a small concussion. In revenge, Black attempted to goad Superman into killing him by tricking him into thinking Black had murdered Lois. When Superman refused, Black went away distraught at what he had done and fled to New York, where he resolved to continue living with a new way of doing things.
edited 24th Dec '12 11:46:25 AM by Insano
Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...Also an enemy of Magneto. While Magneto feels that mutants are to be the Earth's next lords and masters and thus regular humanity should treat them all as such, Manchester instead wants to take over the planet in his belief that humans in general are bastards, especially baseline humans, and thus need to be herded up and treated like sheep as a way to stop them from bringing themselves into extinction.
edited 15th Dec '12 5:48:20 PM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!Sorry, but there might be a problem here. In the continuity of this game, Superman hasn't publicly appeared yet. The current alien superhero of Metropolis is Captain Mar-Vell.
I should really put up a notification or something about that.
edited 24th Dec '12 11:52:35 AM by LizardOfAus
And a Strange Figure Emerges.He tries to teach everyone that life is suffering so they can hurry up and reach enlightenment. He does this by committing horrible atrocities that make everyone sad.
Like my Hadhists from the TV Tropes Campaign Setting.
Name: The Weeper
Real Name: Mortimer Gloom
Gender: Male
Age: Late Middle-Age
Alignment: Evil
Mortimer Gloom was long ago The Weeper, before he went on his crusade of absolute annihilation of everything, to send it all screaming into oblivion. He was a normal man before tragedy sent him into a psychotic break. He carved people up, leaving tears of blood from their eyes, the news dubbing him the Weeper until he was caught. Placed into Arkham Asylum, his rehabilitation went well. He found Buddhism, which helped him find peace. He was released, a cured man
He traveled the world then, seeking to bring peace to everyone. On his travels, he met a man on a lonely rode and the two spoke at great lengths until Mortimer realized he had been led into the middle of nowhere. That's when the man revealed to him his true form, The Fear Lord D'Spayre. He tore away the thin veneer of sanity holding back Mortimer's pathological misery, tearing away his wants and desires as the Buddha had, but warped by mortal madness and immortal evil.
After Mortimer recovered from his 'Enlightenment', he was left with the mocking laughter of D'Spayre and a trio of items. The three creations, one from D'Spayre and one from his sister and father, Spite and Walker-In-Darkness, each to make Mortimer one of their champions in the mortal world. He may be the first, an experimental prototype for their plans to subjugate reality.
One was a magic staff, disguised as a walking stick, called Despair Like Leaden Tears, D'Spayre's creation, which had the power to call up the Weeping World, as Mortimer dubbed it, to briefly merge with ours. Here it rains, all the time, and that rain saps away happiness, will power and strength. Even the small gods of machines and unthinking items lose power and meaning under the Weeping World's tears. It has a dream-like quality, conjuring up phantoms of the inhabitant's mental anguish that they cannot deny as illusion except for those who's minds are bent to lucid sleeping, with the wills to overcome even nightmares.
The second was a sword, disguised as a dagger, called With What Wars Will Wage, Spite's creation. Mortimer feeds it and then it growls, and deep within all mortals something growls in them as well. All the worst excesses of mortal things rumbles forth, their rage, their greed, their pride, their indifference and apathy, welling up inside like a dark tide until they give in to their evil. A cut of his palm is enough to effect a crowd already on the edge, a much greater sacrifice is needed for more.
The third was a crown, disguised as a top hat, called For The Puppet-King Of Darkness, the Dweller's creation. It whispers dark things in his mind, gives him ideas. It also offers protection against telepathy, as such an intruder will have to contend with legion of shadowy 'shoulder-devils' already inside of his head before they could read or command anything of Mortimer.
The Weeper now follows a twisted form of Buddhism, believing in it as whole heartedly as only a fanatic and psychopath can. That one does not achieve Enlightenment and breaks the cycle of reincarnation, is a choice, a choice one makes because they continued to be deluded by the lies of happiness in life.
edited 26th Jan '13 9:36:18 PM by God_of_Awesome

Metallo, I guess? Um, for the DC crazed evil robot, I mean. Or the Plutonium Man, I guess.