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==MARVEL HEROES==
===Captain Namor===
One part Namor, one part Nemo.
::  '''''"I am not what you call a civilized man!  I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating.  I do not therfore obey its laws."'''''


===Mr. HULK===
: The Strange Case of Doctor Banner and Mister Hulk
: The Incredible Mr. Hulk should still be "the same". He originally had some intelligence and was able to sit around the table with the rest of the original Avengers, talking plans. It wasn't really until a little later that his story morphed into "Hulk Always Angry!!! Hulk Need Nobody! Hulk smash everything! Graaaaaaar!"
: Doctor Robert Banner, an esteemed Psychiatrist and Physician from Cavendish Square, was studying a way to unlock a persons inner personality, to tap into the hidden strength from within. Normal techniques and theories only led him to dead-ends. So he turned to Alchemy, and during one promising experiment he was accidentilly interrupted by the House Boy, Richard. After the resulting explosion Banner found that, in times of stress he would turn into the entity known as "Mister Hulk" a monstrous specimen of physicality, unhindered by modern society's restraints.
: It begins in 1886, when a London doctor discovers a formula that unleashes the savage, base impulses that rage within him. Desperate to capture the monster, the Scotland Yard Inspector and the alienist assigned to the case enlisted the aid of other exceptional indivuduals. Once the doctor is brought under control, a mysterious secret agent, answerable only to Queen Victoria and known only as "N", brings these extraordinary adventurers together in service to the Empire as Her Majesty's Champions.
: Marie Curie's wondrous discovery of radium was not the first, sadly. The incautious Bruce Banner, working with pitchblende and a strange metal rumored to be from Atlantis in his Manchester lab, discovered its remarkable properties first - but at the cost of his lab and his humanity. Now he hides the form of the Incredible Hulk and fears his rampages. (alternately, go with the Hyde formula...)
: Dr. Bruce Banner could easily be working with Radium and its effect on the human mind. But something will obvioulsy go horribly wrong when he becomes--the Incredible Mr. Hyde! A giant, vicious gray monster that represents the worst of humanity.
: Former mathmatician student Bruce Banner is so cursed to be merged with an Asgardian mountain troll king for refusing to work with Loki on constructing a 'radium' bomb. Instead, the magical result was the mixing of Loki's magic with what he believes to be a simple lab accident as he studied radium. (Indeed, Loki could well be a source of most being's powers) If you want to stick with Gibralta then the Hulk might have been created when Loki was testing his radium bomb for the British crown.
:  There really should be Dr. Banner and the Incredible Mr. Hulk... Dr. Banner and Dr. Jekyll could have been competing scientists working on unleashing the human potential. Dr. Banner through his studies of Radioactive isotopes and what the images they created (via X-Rays) could tell him of the makeup of the human body and Dr. Jekyll through the study of chemistry. Dr. Banner could have unleashed his Mr. Hulk personae well before Dr. Jekyll was able to complete his work, with Dr. Banner obtaining some "Queen's Cross" award, leaving Dr. Jekyll awash in his "second rate" attempt. This ends up creating bitter feelings based upon jealousy in Dr. Jekyll, thus when Mr. Hyde was unleashed a titanic battle between Mr. Hulk and Mr. Hyde was inevitable... The real gut punch is that Dr. Banner's result was pure chance through an accident, whereas Dr. Jekyll actually created something that could be consumed by and make anyone into a "Mr. Hyde" like being. (Although nowhere near as great as Dr. Jekyll, due to lingering effects of earlier experiments that had already radically altered Dr. Jekyll's makeup.) Those who drink the "Mr. Hyde" concoction would retain some, if not most of their personae in their stronger form, whereas Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde are two distinct people. Dr. Banner and the Incredible Mr. Hulk would be two separate, but strongly aware of one another, personalities and both could have a strong influence on the other. Like Mr. Hulk being far more civilized than the Savage Hulk in recent years of Marvel Comics. Although, he would still be gruff and a little quicker to anger than Dr. Banner, but does know when to pull his punches and does his level best not to wreak havoc when he must exert his muscle. If he accidentally knocked someone over, after doing his best to keep from even hitting them (Like if he was tossed a football field length) he might say, "Oh dear, sorry about that old chap, let me help you help." then grabbing the scared Englishman/woman with his giant green hand and then brushing them off before leaping back into the fray. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would be different. Mr. Hyde would be very strong, very mean and also crafty in a cruel sort of way.

===Simon Williams, Man of Wonder===
: Wonder Man could of been empowered by Ether Instead of Ions!
: Son of Wilford Williams a Munitions Factory Owner who was run out of Business by the innovations of Baron Anthony Stark. Wilford took his own life and his son Simon vowed vengeance. He made a deal with an Evil German Scientist Zemo, making him a Man of Wonder, but in the end could not murder Stark and he betrayed Zemo. Zemo in retribution took Williams life. Recently Simon has risen from the dead, why no one knows. Is anything beyond the capabilities of the Man of Wonder?

===Sir Francis Clinton aka The Hawk===
: obviously inspired by Zorro and Robin Hood. Rich Blueblood by day, Masked Vigilante Archer at night.
: Hawkeye, a rifleman raised in the frontiers of South Africa. He is a master hunter and the world's greatest marksman, but his manners are often considered uncooth by urban Victorian society.
: Hawkeye is an outlaw gunslinger from the Wild West.  Just rough n' tumble enough to ruffle Captain (or whoever’s) feathers.

===Black Widow===
: Black Widow as a Russian spy who got caught up in the hell of the Crimea

===The Black Knight===
: Dane Whitman, a young scientist whose ideas are too far-fetched to be given any credence by his contemporaries, discovers he is the descendant of Sir Percy of Scandia, knight of the Round Table. In further exploring his family history he is able to discover the burial site of his ancestor, and there finds his legendary Ebon Sword. Using the scientific theories that his peers ridiculed, Whitman created a winged horse to carry him into battle and started preparing himself for the inevitable return of his ancestor's mortal enemy: Mordred. It is only after he has begun to battle the evil he sees in the world around him that he realizes the sword he is using carries a strange curse.

===The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver===
: Two gypsies imported as part of a Circus where they were kept as part of a sideshow attraction by the unscrupulous Mister Sinister using his own powers of mesmerism. The two have broken free but their color and foreign nature makes them perpetual outcasts along with their strange abilities. They hide their abilities and dwell in squalor.
: Foundlings from Transia, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff fled their home when the local villagers blamed the strange twins for every misfortune. Pietro, who could run like the wind, and Wanda, who had phenomenal luck at just about anything, wandered Europe until Mister Sinister recruited them into his traveling circus. Billed as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, the twins used their talents to amuse townsfolk, who presumed their amazing feats were but mere tricks. One day, while visiting England with the circus, the twins realized Sinister was manipulating them, so they fled hoping to find solace elsewhere. But two uneducated gypsies alone in England could not find reliable work or a safe home. reduced to poverty, the twins did whatever they could to survive and hide from Sinister.
: Eventually Wanda came to be employed by an old woman named Agatha Harkness. Dame Agatha was visiting from America and offered Wanda a job as her companion. Reluctant to leave her brother, Wanda begged Agatha to hire him as well. But Pietro had already made the decision for both of them and ran off without a goodbye. It was then that Agatha revealed her true intentions-- she was a witch and wanted Wanda to become her apprentice! Because of her extraordinary luck, Wanda had already become acquainted with the occult arts in order to explain it away, so she trained in sorcery for seven years, eventually becoming a true witch. Wanda has now returned to England in search of her brother in the hope that he will return with her to America.
:: From the Sons of Darwin line: Wanda's hex powers from the comics will be transformed into Luck Control and Probability Control of some sort. Instead of being entropy/bad luck-based, I am re-envisioning them as good luck. After all, one person's good luck is usually another's bad luck anyway.
:: From the magic line: Wanda is a trained witch. While the comics-version has always vacillated between explaining Wanda's powers as mutant or magic or both, I'll make the 2 distinct, which will also ease rules efficiency. She'll get some standard magical abilities, but they won't be as powerful as a dedicated sorcerer's would be, which also reflects her newbie status as a magic-wielder.
: Two gypsies imported as part of a Circus where they were kept as part of a sideshow attraction by the unscrupulous Mister Sinister using his own powers of mesmerism. The two have broken free but their color and foreign nature makes them perpetual outcasts along with their strange abilities.  They hide their abilities and dwell in squalor.
: also being Victorian, alot of stuff dealing with Cthon and Mt. Wundagore would fit. Perhaps Cthon is just another part of Lovecraft's Mythos? Not only that but The Scarlet Witch (pre-reality bending godhood) and Quicksilver would need little transplanting from when they were first introduced to when they became Avengers. Scarlet Witch - maybe Cthon takes her over and starts to emerge into the mortal world. 

===Doctor Strange===
: the heroic moniker of the revered doctor and professor of naturalism of the same name. Professionally trained at both Oxford and Arkham Universities, the good doctor has made a name for himself as a sleuth of unnatural means. Wearing his trademark deerstalker hat and his mysterious Eye of Agamotto Strange has long been one of the leading minds on the natural and supernatural world. Sir Stephen was knighted ten years ago for his work in determining the causes of and outlining preventative cures for outbreaks of malaria learned from his long sabbatical in the Himalayas.

===Moon Knight===
: Marcus Spector. The only super hero whom has an origin where "believes was given incredible superhuman abilities to fight crime by an Egyptian god" and it's completely the product of his deranged mind. The Anubian Hell Hounds is partially because he occasionally fights Werewolves.
: Civil War veteran and mercenary Marc Spector tried to lose himself in Africa after the horrors of the war. While in Egypt he was marked as the chosen of the Egyptian God Khonshu and with the help of the god's secretive moon cult, he takes vengeance on the wicked and corrupt as Moon Knight

===Ghost Rider===
: Ghost Rider / Night Rider - the cowboy version.

===Thor===
: Beowulf, the ancient pagan warrior champion, possessed of superhuman vigor and tenacity. A frail and devoutly Christian doctor has, through an accident of psychic archaeology, found himself as the spirit's chosen conduit into the living world.
: John Henry found a hammer buried deep in the mountains while working on the railroad. Grabbing it, he found himself infused with the power of Thor, the Norse God of Thunder. The thing about John Henry is that he is incredibly fucking cool as he stands for mankind's last stand against the industrial age. Needless to say John Henry died competing against Tony Stark's steamhammer, it was this sacrifice that called the lightning...

===Falcon===
Buffalo Soldier Sergeant Sam Wilson was marked with the totem of the falcon and now finds he can soar above the clouds and speak birds. Partner to Captain America.

===X-men = the Baker Street Irregulars===
: Lord Greystoke, aka '''Lo-Gan of the Apes'''
: searching out wheelchairbound detective '''Xavier Holmes''' (a man so brilliant they said he could read minds) to find out about his past. Holmes had gathered... odd youths to help him, which he called '''the Baker Street Irregulars'''. The best mashup, however, was Holmes burly half-brother, '''Cain "The Juggernaught" Mycroft'''...

===Iron Man===
: The Steel Knight, a brilliant scientist and nobleman who has constructed a suit of nigh-invincible electromagnetically-driven battle armor.

===Hank Pym===
: Dr Frankenstein could be a Henry Pym analogue--and Frankenstein's monster is "Ultron", since the original creature was a thing of intellect, but not a human one--while Vision could of course be the creatures attempt at a wife--a female "monster" akin to its own nature, but of course turns to the aid of Humanity.
: Doctor Pym, one of the world's premier scientific geniuses. A master of chemistry, biology, and differencial engineering, and creator of a number of astronishing inventions that enable him to battle delinquents.
: Galatea, the clockwork automaton. Created by Dr. Pym's rogue creation, Adam, to destroy Her Majesty's Champions, she instead rebelled and joined their ranks.
: The Golem and his father Goliath: Jewish Rabbi Ezekiel Pym has long studied the Secrets of God to communicate with insects, gain the strength of Goliath, and work upon protecting his people from evils that would imperil them. To this end, he has created two golems from parts of his own spirit.  One that works to destroy all whom have oppressed the Jews from his anger. The second being a much more forgiving and noble man that was constructed out of the image of the slain brother of his wife Jeanette, Simon.

===Cable===
: Cable is basically the same as in the comics, except that the dark future he has escaped from is one ruled by Nazis

===The Grey Gargoyle===
: the creature who brought the group together. Possessing a wicked cunning and brutal, inhuman strength, he is barely controllable and soon slips his leash, ready to wreck havok once again.

===Black Panther===
: T'Challa, an African tribal prince and epitome of the Noble Savage. He is a supurb physical specimine, a trained hunter and warrior, and steadfastly brave in the face of danger. He is also a spy among the group, hoping to ascertain how much of a threat this group might pose to his homeland.

===Vision===
: One thing I could see is Vision having steam whistles or other noisemakers as forms of communications, something loud and unmistakable to signal when danger is near.

===Luke Cage===
: a freed slave turned bounty hunter

===Nightcrawler=== 
: Kurt Wagner as a British Privateer and captain of the Nightcrawler

===She Hulk===
Jennifer Walters as a early suffaragete who was subjected to experimental hormone injections in order to make her more "managable" which turned her into a giant of a woman.

===Iron Fist===
:  Iron Fist would be stuck down in London dock fighting the opium smugglers.

===Iron Man===
: An American tycoon, wounded in some brushfire colonial war, he turns to the power of Steam to save his life; now, Tony Stark manages his transatlantic commercial empire as well as fighting the good fight in his pneumatic armor.
: Tesla and Starkweather:   Nikolo Telsa is the world's most reknowned theorist on the variety of uses of electricity but one of his students has recently returned from study back to his homeland. Sir Anthony Starkweather is particularly famous for adding his expertise to the using electricity for countless British inventions. His family munitions business in Starkweather Enterprises is a staple of the British Empire with most of the shells in their Navy being made by them. 
: However, the Queen is concerned since Sir Starkweather has been something of a recluse ever since returning from China. The formerly gregarious and libertine gentleman has barely left his mansion and spent all of the rest of his time travelling to his factory in a carriage. He's dismissed half the workers and the other half are kept from certain areas. He's even turned away several of the Queen's more trusted agents. Most disturbingly of all is the fact that they have noticed he's constantly accompanied by Chinamen that came back with him.
: In truth, Anthony Starkweather was critically injured in the Boxer Rebellion by a knife blow to the heart. A Taoist mystic and rabble rouser saw the failure of his design and combined his knowledge of 'chi' mysticism with Stark's own electrical studies to keep his heart going through routine applications of electricity to his body. This man, known as the "Mandarin" to the Chinese immigrants of London has returned with his newly enslaved British Lord in order to force him to construct devices that will allow him to wreck all of London including a powerful mechanical man. Stark is meanwhile designing a clock like device to keep his heart going.
: Can the Avengers defeat Stark in his giant electrical Steam-Machine? If they do, can they do so without harming him and realizing he's on the side of angels? If they do, they might find out that the Mandarin is not relying solely on Stark but has tremendous mystical powers to draw upon if Western Science does not fail.
: The British museum has brought in countless Terracotta warriors and a Dragon Statue into their front doors...
: Lord Iron: Baron Anthony Stark was a English manufacturer of weapons and scientist far ahead of his time when he was captured by Captain Nemo after his latest battleship was sunk. Studying the strange sciences under Nemo, he realized that he needed to serve a greater cause than himself.  Having adapted the technology, the Steam powered Iron Giant now protects London as he has constructed his own sub and operates from a Mysterious Island alcove off the British isles. He struggles with drink and his own prediction of a War like any other.  Maybe Stark could build a drilling machine, or while testing his new Mk3.2 Airship it gets blown of course and crashes in the Land time forgot.
: Curse of The Steam monster
: Anthony Starkweather is Iron Man in this origin with his Telsa origins being able to tie him into the mad science of the day. His Boxer Rebellion origins fits his original origin and the use of electricity to stimulate his heart as a defilibrator as he works on a pace maker is a nice way of keeping anachronistic technology believable yet tying into Tony's origins.
: The Mandarian in this story is a Chinese Revolutionary but his origins are more clearly magical in nature despite his using of technology. He takes heavy influence from Fu Manchu.
: The Terracotta warriors as Golem shocktroopers is based on the Invincible Iron Man cartoon.
: The Jade Statue is Fing Fang Foom, Iron Man's occasional Godzilla like Dragon opponent. Here, he is no longer an alien but an orietental dragon.

===The Fantastic Four===
: could still of been working on somesort of Ether Transversing Golden Durigible, or a Moon Train or something.

===The Shields of Britain===
: Henry-Peter Gyrich, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury envisions eventually "A permanent department for skullduggery, denied military operations, and intelligence gathering. The Shields of Britain."  The Swords of Britain would have to be after the War of the Worlds. The Torchwood Institute formed to research and combat "renown" threats to Great Britain, and use their findings to make the British Empire great.  To those ends, it acquires and reverse engineers technology by any means deemed necessary. While described as "beyond parlament", they are known to cooperate with the AVENGERS to some extent. There appears at present to be some sort of rapport with the Prime Minister although historically this may not always have been the case. To those that have come in contact with Torchwood, they are primarily believed to be a special forces team.



===“Fantastick Voyages -  From the Earth to the Moon”===
:  Jules Verne  is currently writing a fictionalized account of the efforts of Professor Richard Reeds, his stately wife Susan, young dandy and rake Jonathan, and retired Army officer Benjamen. The four of them have yet to experiment with their Moon Cannon that they plan to use to take themselves to the Moon in a shell.
: Instead, they come asking for help because several mysterious deaths have occurred around the construction site. Investigations will reveal dead workers and their doubles with INCREDIBLE STRENGTH. Yes, SKRULLS have impersonated the work crews. But why are they trying to sabotage Reed's canon?
: Because they realize the Moon Canon can be used to attack their ships in orbit as they plan to infiltrate English Society and take it over from within!

===“Fantastick Voyages -  the Center of the Earth”===
: the Fantastick Quartet  -  Another of Reed's plans was detailed earlier in the career of Professor Richards where he and Ben travelled downwards through Sweden in order to visit the Center of the Earth. Now as Earthquakes are rocking the entirety of the planet's great cities, he believes that it might be possible to alleviate some of the pressures by journeying down a Volcano's lava tubes to deliver special explosives to alleviate the pressure.  There, they find Reed's former rival in Doctor Molevic whom failed to reach the Center of the Earth first because of Reed but used his writings to find his way down to the mythical land there and has subjugated it with his knowledge of modern science. With an army of strange creatures created by the Hollow Earth's sunlight radiation, he now plans to take over the world.

===the London Trumpet===
: makes for a better name. The bugle just seems so low brow for a proper British newspaper. For a bit of fun though I'd make JJ Scotish. So he's now loud, obnoxious, and you can break out a terrible Scottish accent whenever you have him speak.  I'd just keep the name simple as J. Jones Jameson. For a really odd twist you could make him a wealthy transplanted Dane so you can include wide ranging East Indian Trading company stuff. It also you means you can have him yell at the players when they mispronounce his name.  James John Jameson: Ack! That damn Spyderma'an! Every day I turn to see him travellin from wall to wall across London doing God knows what with the citizenry! He could be laying eggs in the women for all we know. People think we need some filthy insect-man to protect us? Not in mah paper!  That was basically my thought. I'd do my level best to imitate Sean Connery's accent and be as bombastic as possible. The more ridiculous it sounds coming out of you the better the effect. JJ is nearly comic relief, so its only appropriate that he make wildly inaccurate claims, and use dubious science (as a well educated gentleman of course) to back up all of his claims. The best part is the more dubious the science, the more likely the citizenry are to believe it, what with all the crazy inventions that they had during the late Victorian period.


===Xavier's Grande Carnivale of Oddities!===
: influenced by the Elephant Man, of the X-Men existing in the guise of a traveling carnival sideshow, thilling the crowds of Europe and protecting the freaks and oddities they find along the way.
: "Ladies and gentleman, marvel and be astounded by our fiery-haired and beautiful fortune teller! Witness the collosal strength of the Iron Giant of Russia! Gaze upon the unique features and stupendus acrobatics of the Blue Devil-Man! All this and more can be seen, only at Xavier's Grande Carnivale of Oddities!"