Turning

[pasithea]

Teen Titans right nwo is an episode with Plasmos. The boy screamed, "I'm awake? I can't be awake! I'm only human when I'm sleeping!" and then he melted into his deformed mutant form where he's lost all control over himself and his mind sits helpless, watching the destruction.

I think this fused with Sin City and The Incredibles in my head and produced a really nasty concept for a Champions game.

Turning. A campaign which would focus more on the disadvantages of the heros than their powers. Sure, there'd be opportunities for them to be 'super' but at what cost? What if there were an organization bent on finding the insecurities and weaknesses of the 'goodguys' and willfully tainting them, fighting them with precision attacks. Cosmic-man faces his worst fear, alone in a universe without stars. Jumping Joe sits huddled in a corner, rocking and crying as he repeats over and over, "I couldn't save them. I couldn't save them." Push them to their breaking point, and then when they break, come in with the lawyers and get them put away. Let their own sense of morality keep them imprisoned, and, those that you could turn, that were now on the run from the law rather than being the law, take them, and make them your servants. Once they've started down a dark road, they cannot return.

I wonder which would make me feel more vile? The players being the conspiracy group out to destroy the good guys, or the players being the good guys, watching their characters stripped raw and bloody.

Maybe this idea is best forgotten.

Comments

[holohedron.livejournal.com]

Well, if you really wanted to fuck with people's heads, you could

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[holohedron.livejournal.com]

Curses! Foiled by custom color schemes!

My geeky idea stands, anyway.

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

This is giving me massive, massive deja vu, but I can't remember what series did something similar to this. It wasn't a specific criminal conspiracy, just Cruel Fate that left all the heroes raw and bare, but it was something with the same kind of dark existentialism that I just saw recently...

[paka.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the disadvantage thing has surfaced in at least Batman the Animated Series.

As for the conspiracy, a while back there was a Punisher versus the Marvel Universe alternate story arc in which, instead of the mob getting the Punisher's family, they were accidentally killed by "friendly fire" during a super battle. He swore revenge - and then was backed up by a shadowy conspiracy group of people who'd all been injured, lost family members, etc, during super battles and just wanted it to stop. Not only did they provide him with boss gear and trade secrets, but they hired Matt Murdoch as a lawyer for him, and Daredevil went along believing there was some good in the Punisher, and was trying to redeem him.

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

Though, where does one go from this point of discecting the heroes? Do they get to redeem themselves into new heroes? or are new ones borne of these like Darth vader turning against the emperor?