Justice Avengers: (West Coast) Sign Ups

Copying this from Saturn's post, just so that we have all the characters for Jump City in the same thread.

• Name: Red She-Hulk
• Real Name: Elizabeth 'Betty' Ross
• Gender: Female
• Age: Late 20's
• Appearance: Angry, ◊ Red◊ and Sexy.◊ Civilian Appearance◊
• Alignment: Anti-Villain
• Personality:
  • As Betty Ross, she is reserved, cool and collected. She carries herself with an air of dignity and intelligence that speaks to her character. She doesn't allow herself to get emotional and will prefer to handle things by talking them out.
  • But as Red She-Hulk, her inhibitions disappear. She does whatever she wants, and does care what other people think. She doesn't take crap from anyone and solves her problems with her fists. She gets emotional, loud, angry and mean. She's got a mean tongue and an even meaner punch. Also, while she doesn't achieve She-Hulk levels of flirtiness, it does get up there, very often. She's got strong morals and doesn't like to be taken advantage of.
• Powers and Abilities: Due to the gamma radiation, Red-She Hulk has powers on par with her ex-husband Hulk and her father Red Hulk. She can change between being Betty Ross and Red-She Hulk at will, but Red-She Hulk is much taller and buffer, so Betty's clothes had a difficult time containing her.
  • Super Strength: Red-She Hulk is arguably the strongest women on the planet. She can lift many tons over her head, and her force can punch through pretty much anything. Her anger helps.
  • Speed: Due, at least partially, to the great muscular strength and development of her leg muscles, she is capable of running and moving at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
  • Durability: Red She-Hulk's body is highly resistant to all forms of conventional injury. Her skin is capable of withstanding extreme pressures, temperatures as high as 3, 000 degrees Fahrenheit and as low as -195 degrees Fahrenheit, falls from great heights, field-artillery canon shells, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining any injury.
  • Healing Factor: Despite her body's extremely high resistance to injury, it is possible to injure her. However, she is capable of rapidly regenerating injuries that result in great tissue damage and blood loss within a matter of minutes. However, she is not capable of regenerating missing limbs or organs. Red She-Hulk's highly efficient metabolism renders her immune to all drugs and toxins as well as total immunity to all known Earthly diseases.
• Weapons and Equipment: Red-She Hulk has a beloved sword◊ which she usually refers to as her "Big-Ass Sword". Betty Ross is skilled in the use of small fire-arms.
• Origin: Born in California, Betty was the only child of Air Force General Thaddeus Ross and his wife Karen Lee. Karen died when Betty was a teenager, and Ross shut Betty out of his life, claiming that a military base was no place for a young woman. Betty went off to boarding school. She returned to Thaddeus' home after finishing school but then as for much of her life she was dominated by Thaddeus. By now Thaddeus was in charge of the top secret Gamma Bomb Project at Desert Base in New Mexico. Betty greeted the bomb's creator, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, when he arrived at the base. A strong attraction grew between Bruce and Betty. However, Thaddeus held resentment for the quiet, slender, nuclear physicist thinking him a physical and emotional weakling. Thaddeus' dislike of Bruce intensified when he realized that Betty was falling in love with him.

Eventually, exposure to gamma radiation turned Bruce in the Hulk, and over the next few years, many conflicts arose between Bruce, Betty and Ross. Betty never stopped loving Bruce, even as the Hulk. Ross always wanted to kill the Hulk, but this hatred intensified when he discovered that Hulk was Banner, and it turned into a dark situation for Betty when she was torn between her father, and the man she loved who was a monster himself. It eventually came to a head when Betty died as a result of Hulk and Ross's fighting.

To combat Hulk, Ross eventually allowed himself to be subjected to the same experimentation and radiation that created the Hulk, and driven by revenge and anger over the loss of his daughter, he became Red Hulk, stronger even than Hulk, and retained all of his intelligence.

Eventually, Red Hulk was approached by the Leader, long-time enemy of the Hulk with a proposition. Leader would bring Betty back to life if Red Hulk then preformed missions for him, including but not limited to killing Bruce Banner and Hulk. Red Hulk agreed, but he did not know what he was agreeing to. Betty was brought back to life, but the only way it could be done included exposing her to her father's radiated blood and DNA. And so, she came back as Red-She Hulk.

Originally, Red She-Hulk was an unstoppable force◊, extremely unintelligent, angry and destructive. Seeing her like this, Ross was reminded of how the Hulk was originally, and it saddened and pained him to see what his daughter had become. Red Hulk ended up teaming with Hulk as they were the only ones who could bring Red She-Hulk down. The fight led to Red She-Hulk reverting to her original self and that was when Bruce discovered that not only was Betty alive, but he had seen what she had become. There was a lot of talking, and Betty eventually came to the conclusion that not only was she a different person now, but the man she had fallen in love with so long ago was a different person too, so she left. The experience broke her heart, but she had new found self-confidence in her power, and she gained control over the Red She-Hulk form.

Betty Ross went on to work for SHIELD, taking missions from Nick Fury, but she was actually a spy, working for evil organization and feeding information to them about SHIELD. She was eventually discovered and fought her way out of SHIELD, but she decided to keep her SHIELD uniform for two reasons. It allows her to continue her villainous acts and spoil SHIELD's good name, and it is the only piece of clothing she owns that both Betty Ross and Red-She-Hulk can both fit into.

She has since moved to Hub City, one of the most corrupt cities in the world, mostly to take on tasks for money and deal her own personal justice to corrupt politicians and law enforcers.

edited 10th Sep '14 9:43:13 AM by LizardOfAus

Should also probably put Deadpool in this thread.

Do you still need people?

We're always open.

Great! I don't really understand the rules, though. Could you help me? I'm sorry if I sound rude or annoying.

No problem, no problem whatsoever. What parts do you need help with?

Can I be Ambush Bug? Can I join without interrupting? Ambush Bug is meta, so could I technically do this when I appear?

Hey, hey, hey! I'm incredibly obscure, so this link can help! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush_Bug

welcome!

Wait, that's it? Am I really a member? You mean we. Whatever.

well liz is the one that accepts characters, but it's cool. I am just saying hi

Gonna need you to make a character sheet.

And oh, Christ, Saturn is bringing Deadpool to Jump City. Deadpool and Ambush Bug. OH LORD.

Yeah, he can be meta, but him going 'just click this to see more about me' or something like that would be better, in my opinion.

• Superhero Name: Ambush Bug.

• Civilian Name: Irwin Schwab. I was raised by my beloved mother, a television.

• Gender: Male! winks

• Age: Late twenties to early thirties.

• Appearance: Skinny guy in a green bug suit, complete with cute li'l antennae!

• Alignment: Depends on the hour!

• Personality: I'm goofy, weird, random, and unpredictable.

• Powers: Teleportation and a bit of martials arts! Don't underestimate me! -gets hit with feather- Ah, my back!

• Weapons: Teleportation and whatever I can find.

• Origin: So many things! I don't even know if I'm in continuity, to be honest. If you're going for my very first appearance, I got my suit, bugged Superman a lot of times, and my teleportation suit sorta fused with me, making me able to teleport at will. The rest is lost in my mind. I think that feather gave me a concussion.

edited 19th Sep '14 3:17:16 PM by MiscellaneousSoup

I once proposed that while Ambush Bug would be meta, it would be more like him acknowledging that he's working in front of a camera instead of complete and total fourth wall breaking like with Deadpool. Only Deadpool can actually reference stuff from the real world and has complete medium awareness.

That was back when I was thinking about dropping Ambush Bug into Jump City IIRC.

All right then...the form seems to tick all the boxes. I'd prefer if it was done in the format shown on the rules post, but I guess this version fits with the character...

Fellow players, what do you think?

Cool, Ambush Bug! I used to like this character, a lot. However, I want to point something out: since some of his adventures were so wacky, not all of them could be considered in-continuity. But they can be justified as being hallucinations (he is crazy after all.) What I suggest you do is, whenever he breaks the Fourth Wall, everyone else just sees him talking to himself. And remember, he *cannot* know stuff just because he thinks that he's a comic book character, for example he couldn't know the other characters' secret identities unless he finds them out by himself.

All of this also applies to Deadpool.

Surely not all the wacky adventures, Sijo. I'd like to have at least a couple happen in game. For instance, in the comics, his arch-enemy was a sentient sock puppet. What kind of game would Jump City be, if we didn't at some point have an evil sentient sock puppet?

Right now, the only thing keeping me indecisive is the format for the sign-up form. Guys, do you think it's passable?

edited 19th Sep '14 10:51:22 AM by LizardOfAus

Sorry. I'm really bad with that. Should I edit it and link the new format here?

Oh, all right, you can have Argh!yle show up, but YOU explain him. No Fourth Wall breaking though, except as dreams.

Hey, I can retype that in official format for you if you want.

You can if you want to. I don't want to inconvenience you. Also, what do you mean by fourth-wall in dreams? Zzzz.....Why can't I be in the New 52? zzzz...snore.... That? Also, about the secret identities, AB discovered Supergirl's identity by recognizing her face. Should I include that?

@Sijo: Maybe to have make things make a bit more sense and to possibly make it a whole lot more hilarious, we could have something like a powerful demon from the depths of Hell being brought onto Earth and originally going to possess a human vessel which would allow him to eventually turn the planet into Hell on Earth, but Ambush Bug unintentionally messed up the summoning process and said demon now instead has a sock puppet as his vessel, practically neutering his power and thus wishes bloody vengeance upon Ambush Bug.....which the demon fails constantly, since he's just an evil, sentient sock puppet now.

Also, I postulated as well that while Deadpool is legitimately crazy, Ambush Bug's fourth wall breaking comes his ability to somehow see all Mojoverse cameras on Earth.

So many cameras! Where's my makeup? I look ugly and that's no way to win INSERT RANDOM PERSON's love! Like that?

Also, don't think Supergirl exists yet. So, no point in putting that in.

Okay. Should I do anything related to Ambush Bug while I wait to find out if I'm in?

EDIT: I won't be here for most of Saturday, but I'll check back to see.

edited 19th Sep '14 1:49:00 PM by MiscellaneousSoup