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MARVEL VILLAINS

Kang the Conqueror

time traveling despot from far in the future, the 21st century. Using arcane technologies from the future he has an edge over the Victorian Era, and is determined to shape the upcoming 20th century in his image. As Kang's real name is Nathaniel Richards, and has gone by other aliases, you might want to come up with your own alias.

The Hellfire Club

Composed primarily of former members of the now defunct East India Trading Company, The inner circle of the hellfire club consists of wealthy merchants and chiefs of industry who are determined to regain their lost finances. Instead of mutants, there powers derive from a demonic contract with the mysterious demon Blackheart (who is unknown to all except the inner circle). membership includes Sebastian Shaw, his layabout opium addict son Shinobu (Shinobi always struck me as an odd name), the cyborg Donald Pierce, (who's more like the amazing screw on head, attaching his still human head to various robot bodies) Emma Frost (who controls her husband with psychic powers), and the time travelling Trevor Fitzroy. There current plan involves building giant clockwork men called Sentinels and using them to provoke World War I (which Fitzroy knows about via time travel) early, leading to the eventually collapse of western civilization.

The Mandarin

A mysterious crime lord opposing European occupation of China, the Mandarin uses ancient Chinese black magic and technology built by kidnapped scientists (Such as the charming and debonaire Sir Anthony Stark) to plan the downfall of the British empire. He has bestowed numerous western mercenaries with strange powers. Among them an American named Crusher Creel (Absorbing man), A Russian named Emil Blonsky (The Abomination), and Paul Duvall (the Grey Gargoyle) to act as his minions. His current plan involves using two powerful monsters: A giant mechanical man (Ultimo) and a giant Chinese dragon (Fing Fang Foom) to utterly destroy all of Europe, allowing China to rise as the worlds next Superpower.

HYDRA

A Prussian noble named Wolfgang Struker has decided to create an empire for Prussia which rivals the British empire. Aiding him in his quest are Baron Heinrich Zemo and Johann Schmidt, a disfigured mercenary who claims to have fought in the American Revolution (the validity of this is suspect, considering it would make him almost a hundred years old, and he carries himself as if he were a man of thirty, but few call him on it and live to tell the tale). Struker has assembled an impressive army, and the banner for the army is Struker's family crest: a Hydra.

To make them even more of a threat, Struker has also enlisted the aid of a swedish scientist named Arin Zola, who has been studying Darwins theory of natural selection and has expanded greatly upon it. Rumor has it he is building a race of creatures which are half human, half rat.

Radioactive man

Chen Lu is a railroad worker in the American West, and like his fellow Chinamen he recieves little respect from his American peers, but he continues onward to support his family. One day, while blasting through a mountain, Chen is caught in a cave collapse and ends up in a hidden chamber, where he is exposed to mysterious green glowing rocks. When he is eventually found, his skin has turned green, and he now has the strength of many men, capable of doing the work of ten men. This is lucky, because after Chen returns to work everyone around him begins to sicken and die, including his wife and two children. Chen is blamed and driven off by the surviving railroad workers, but their blame is justified: Chen is now giving off radiation, ten years before Marie and Pierre Curie would discover the concept. Now Chen is living as a hermit, bitter at the loss of his family and his freakish appearence, as well as his mistreatment in general, he has begun to lash out at nearby downs and at his former employers, endagering people with his rampages and even moreso with his radioactive aura.

Apocalypse

En Sabbah Nur: One of the last remaining pirates and Captain of The Apocalypse, En Sabbah Nur is a hulking mountain of a man, though apparently lacking the shapeshifting power of his 616 counterpart, he is still a force to be reckoned with. He is immortal or at least claims it, and considering he once took a cannon shot straight to the chest with no effect, few argue his claim. Nur's crew is made up of indviduals with strange and terrifying abilities, including but not limited to the viscious and feral Victor Creed, the deranged and disfigured Wade Wilson, the lookout Calypso, who can see enemy ships coming a mile away, and the monstrously huge Fredrick Dukes. Nur's latest crime is attacking a british trading ship called The Excalibur, and kidnapping the wealthy nobleman Warren Worthington the Third. The Worthington's are wealthy beyond belief, but oddly no ransom has been issued. But what else could the evil Immortal want with the young and reclusive Warren?

Doctor Doom

practically as-is; just give him steampunk supertech instead of standard and you're good to go.

Doom could of kept his story, mixing the feel from 1602 with modern. He could of been a Gypsy who attended the same Univeristy as Richards through hard work, and his mother selling her soul to Mephisto. He picked up witchcraft and Steamcraft by himself, and he could have found Strange Clockwork Designs from a travel from the Future.

Doc Ock

a Dr. Moreau sort, perhaps? Dr. Octavius' unfortunate obsession with the legendary Kraken of the deeps and his own vast surgical skill have led him to surgically implant tentacles to his back, which grant him great strength -- and madness!

Punisher

And perhaps one of their first real tests should be stopping the mad man who keeps killing off criminals in white chapel--Punisher Jack?

the Shocker

the Shocker be something like Nikolai Tesla's bastard son, running about in rubber boots with a pair of his father's big cannons strapped to his arms. That puts me in my happy place...

The Sentinels

could be made of Stone! Giving rumor that they are Golems or Giants or Something.

Mr Hyde

Basic story from Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde, only the scientists name is Calvin Zarbo. The reason for the name change from the book is because Zarbo's real name was censored for purposes of protecting his family.

Aliens

Since its steampunk intersteller travel is a no no, if there's gonna be any travel it should only be to planets in this solar system. As a result, the major alien races of Marvel are are located within travelling distance: the Skrull hail from Mars, The Shi'ar come from Venus, the Kree are Neptune natives, The Brood come from Pluto, The Dire Wraiths are from Uranus, and so on. Only major alien baddies (like Xenmu the titan, or Galactus) originate from outside of the solar system.

Ulysses Klaw

Klaw is a british scientist who has just returned from a safari in Africa where he discovered a small sample of a strange metal which can produce powerful supersonic waves. He has already produced several tuning fork shaped devices from the metal he brought back which can direct the sound like a weapon, and he is planning to put together a second team to go back and get more of the material. What he hasnt told anyone is that A) he didnt find the material, he STOLE it from the isolated and technologically advanced African kingdom of Wakanda, and B) that he intends to sell the weapons to the highest bidder (among those bidding including HYDRA, The Mandarin, and the Hellfire club). The PC's could be members of the safari, sent by the crown to keep an eye on Klaw, or they could be on the trail of Klaw and his safari band (which primarily consists of four muscle bound thugs who refer to themselves as 'the wrecking crew') in order to bring them in for treason.

Wilson Fisk

A New York based merchant, Fisk has been hailed by some as "The second Boss Tweed." He certainly acts the part, participating in many of the shady antics of his predecessor. Truthfully though, He is not Tweed's successor, but rather his former employer. All of Tweed's actions were guided from the shadow's by Fisk. And now that Tweed is out of the picture, Fisk has decided to take a more personal hand in his affairs. but fisk is no fool, he knows how powerful public opinion is, and how it got Tweed in the end, so to make sure he keeps a dazzling public image, Fisk employs numerous assassins to silence any opposition to his operations. Among these assasins are Elektra natios, a young Grecian heiress who just returned from a tour of the orient, a deranged prostitute turned serial killer named Mary, and a eyepatch wearing Irishman with deadly aim and no known name (when asked his name, he just snickers and points at his eyepatch, which has a bullseye emblazoned on it).

19th Century villains

• Professor Moriarty
• Dracula
• Jack the Ripper
• Invisible Man
• Jekyl/Hyde
• Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Frankenstien's Monster

MARVEL HEROES

Mr. HULK

The Strange Case of Doctor Banner and Mister Hulk

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.

Simon Williams, Man of Wonder

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.

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.

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.

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.

Iron Man

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

Hank Pym

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 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 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.

The Fantastic Four

could still of been working on somesort of Ether Transversing Golden Durigible, or a Moon Train or something.