I need some diverse 'supers' character ideas

I'm not a liberal ( by european political standards)
but I am progressive socialist.
I envisioned them like this;


are you sure the carbon footprint isn't from the blackfoot confederacy? I feel like we could write a better backstory with them. instead of the silly one that makes him look like a dumb one you currently have for him.

 

Shall we try to keep the topic away from real life politics for this thread? I'm fairly sure there's other threads you can go to if you need that itch scratched.

 

Itcher! character tham makes people feel itchy!

 

Gressen! Hypnotic powers that makes his target feel dazzled, confused and generally awkward.

 

about 90% of this thread offers no 'supers' ideas, and you b1tch about the post that does? k

 

well if youre not a progressive liberal then I wasn't talking to you was I. anyway blackfoot confederacy sounds like a whole race of carbon foots (carbon feet?). hardly a super if hes just one of many. and wappo is more fun to say.

 

Don't remember quoting any particular person there, and I was just heading it off at the pass so to speak. Some diversions I don't mind, politics isn't one of those.

 

oh well since you weren't referring to my post, what do you think of my supers?

 

The power to substantially alter the climate falls within the 'world altering powers' subset I'm looking to avoid. 'Carbon Footprint' got a laugh, though

 

ah crap, I even had the meet cute between climate man and carbon foot all worked out

 

This response isn't a whole lot better, like I said, other threads

 

lots of ideas here

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/14208/101-superhero-character-ideas

i had a snarky reply for Sok that would have made him question his life choices, but i guess i shouldn't feed the troll.

 

Boo! Ragic is doing a "my dad could beat up your dad but also that would be unfair because your dad would die so my dad doesn't want to fight your dad ever because then he would have to destroy the police." BOO!

 

im just trying to respect the wishes of the OP. plz post on topic, thnx.

 

An exercise in fitting things into place:

Maybe they only effect climate within 10 km. He or she THINKS they are effecting climate on a global scale (and temperature still accrues within their sphere of influence but mysteriously does not outside of it) but it's actually only within their designated area. Since Carbon Footprint is always by their side they don't notice either. The irony is that while Footprint makes it very easy to track them, they could have just tracked the hotspot anyway. (Any discrepancy in temperature that Climate notices on the global scale they could attribute to another Super, like Ice Woman or Lieutenant Cold who ALWAYS GETS IN THEIR WAY! or perhaps to political/corporate cover-ups.)

Still a dangerous threat.

 

its funny you should mention limited radius as that was part of my backstory for how they met. Climate Man didn't learn how to use his power all in a day, at first it was just as you described, limited in radius (with a higher temp spike). The result was that the part of glacier he was standing on broke free setting him adrift in the North Pacific on an ever shrinking iceberg with nothing to eat but a sack full of endangered whale blubber and the occasional baby seal attracted by the curiously warm water.

flash back to carbon foot. apparently that forest fire he stamped out was caused by one of the cigarette butts he flicked. alarmed he began to stamp out the fire noticing that the flames did not burn his foot. so he stamped and he stamped. finally he got the fire out but not before it burned down half of the Wappo village. They could have forgiven him for that but when they noticed the footprints he was leaving everywhere they finally decided to banish him. Cursing the drought that lead to his exile Carbon Foot set off to find the legendary Zippo tribe who he felt might be more accepting. Legend told that they had migrated to an uncharted island in the North Pacific. Imagine his surprise while paddling his canoe across the open sea to come across a strange eskimo precariously balanced on a block of ice that seemed to be melting before his eyes. Well he rescued Climate Man and offered him one of his funny cigarettes and an alliance was born.

 

So I am reading annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and I really like it. Reminds me of a roadside picknick.

Just had to share that.