r/Superhero_Ideas • • 18d ago

Other Herotober prompt list

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Alright, I made us a list.

For anyone that hasn’t seen this kind of thing yet, the basic idea is there’s a prompt for each day of October and you’ll create a hero/villain/team/etc based on it. Searching Herotober in the sub will bring up previous entries if you want examples.

It’s all for fun, there’s no requirements to do every day or do one day at a time or whatever. Feel free to ask any questions.

  1. spring

  2. flourish

  3. swarm

  4. twist

  5. construct

  6. code

  7. mist

  8. electron

  9. rock

  10. paper

  11. knot

  12. ranch

  13. helmet

  14. bark

  15. bait

  16. perceive

  17. stick

  18. distort

  19. sweat

  20. borrow

  21. match

  22. wake

  23. hair

  24. leg

  25. lump

  26. pound

  27. smile

  28. temple

  29. divide

  30. flat

  31. bell


r/Superhero_Ideas • • Mar 20 '26

Active Discord Server

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Hello everyone! I know myself and other moderators have been away from this subreddit for some time, and therefore the community may have become a little inactive. This includes the official Discord server. However, some members of the community have created a new server with active users and discussion. Please join!

https://discord.gg/ZtjVqwMZG8


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 11h ago

Need Help with Character Need help coming up with names and possibly powers for my ocean-based superhero girl

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Two names ive sort of gravitated to are "Submarina" and "Ms. Maritime" but im still not sure. For some info which im still working on, her source of power comes from a sleeping eldritch god in the depths of the ocean. She has to make sure that nothing awakens him because he'll destroy the world if he wakes up, so he's both the source of her power as well as her main antagonist in a way. Still need more name ideas + power ideas that arent just a copy and paste of Aquaman's abilities.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 14h ago

Group Date Knights - A Superhero Dating Card Game

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I want to start by thanking this community for the support and feedback you’ve already given as I shared the heroes and villains for my project. I also wanted to share with you the full concept behind the heroes and villains I posted this summer.

Date Knights is a card game for 2-4 players where you play a superhero or supervillain out on a date. In the game, you have to balance earning rewards from "date" actions and "super" actions. The winner is the player who collects the most heart tokens (victory points) before the pool of hearts is completely depleted.

Our current goal is a physical release of our card game but we are also trying to build out a compelling universe that will allow us to continue to do things with these characters over time.

If this sounds like a project you want to get regular updates on or if you are interested in trying the game you can join our mailing list here: http://signup.dateknightsgame.com/

Would love to get feedback if you think this sounds like fun.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 6h ago

Hero Thunderstruck work in progress

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Her fingers look funny


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 6h ago

Art/Visual Back to working on this

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Earlier this year I started working on this comic called “Captain Valor.” In this comic, the titular character, Captain Valor, takes on a rogue government hit squad called the “bobcats” that’s targeting immigrants (an obvious analogue to ICE). The book is meant to emulate the habits of golden age comics, that often had its hero’s encountering villains of the current day.
Anyways I stopped working on the comic earlier this year due to life and burnout, but I’ve gained some inspiration again and I’m now working on it once again. If my comic at all interests you please follow my journey as a try to complete this comic. As of now, all the Line work is done, all that’s left is the lettering and coloring. If you have any feedback feel free to share! I know my art isn’t the best lol but I try.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 9h ago

Villain Every hero needs a VILLAIN(or so they say..), Here is The Patron

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Identity:

. Name = ???.

. Age = believed to be around 100 years old.

. Occupation = most powerful mobster in Chile.

. He is just over 2 meters tall. . He entered the world of crime as a promising young man, possessing so much potential that he became second-in-command to the most powerful mobster in Santiago, Chile. However, when he was denied something, he decided to kill his boss and take his place, transforming that power into a nationwide empire. He founded an independent criminal organization with laboratories called 'Eclipse'. During experiments to create superhumans that should have taken months, due to his arrogance and impatience, The Patron decided to do the work himself. This caused an explosion of chemicals that burned his skin. Despite having an arm disintegrated and his face left a mess, he survived and received powers as a result of the chemicals. His scientists reconstructed his body (or what they could).

Superpowers:

. Super strength.

. Minor regeneration (not enough to regenerate all the skin burned during the explosion).

. Superhuman resistance.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 8h ago

Based on Existing Universe Green lantern oc

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Just thought since green lantern is currently popular recently I’d make my own


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 10h ago

Hero Novabird

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Name: Novabird (real name: Charlie Melkis)

Species: Human/Phoenix hybrid

Age: 25

Inspirations: Firebreather, Gatchaman, Falcon

Bio:
Growing up, Charlie Melkis was rather isolated. Aside from Luna Steele, most kids didn't like to be around Charlie due to her hotheaded nature. However, she always believed her father was a missing-in-action fighter pilot while her mother was an astrophysicist. She always looked to him as an inspiration, which led to her joining the military, quickly becoming the top experimental test pilot for high-altitude, sub-orbital prototype hypersonic jet.

As she was rising past the ozone layer and the exosphere of Earth, the aircraft began to smoke And even worse, the jet's cockpit began to burn up, and before long, it went down. Upon falling back to ground, something strange was discovered - Charlie survived unscathed.

After leaving the ER, Charlie began to notice even stranger things about herself - for one, her body temperature began radiating higher than what was considered normal for a human. Second, when she caught a cold, her coughs felt smoky, and at one point when she sneezed, a small flame burst out!

Now this was bizarre to say the least, so when she told Luna , she took her to her workspace at the BSAF. There, they learned that Charlie’s biology was only 1/2 human - the other half was composed of fiery energy like no other person. Later that night, Charlie had a dream of a large, fiery form who spoke to her as she slept. That's when she learned something that changed her whole world - her father wasn't just a fighter pilot; he was a phoenix who had taken the form of a human. Known as "F'Naux", he had fallen in love with Charlie’s mother, who gave birth to Charlie before he had to leave. He has now entrusted Charlie to be a protector.

Luna helped Charlie create a special suit that included flight capable wings and a helmet to withstand intense speed in the air.

Abilities:

  • Flight: Charlie's Novabird suit allows her to fly through the air incredibly fast. She IS a bird-themed hero, after all.
  • Wing Blades: The wings attached to the sleeves of her suit can sharpen and streamline and sharpen into sharp blades that can cut through metal and rock.
  • Heat Resistance: Being half phoenix, Charlie can withstand heat reaching beyond 100 degrees farhenheit.
  • Fire Breath: While her suit mainly provide her with flight and wing blades, her natural abilities include the aforementioned heat resistance and this. If she's worked up enough, she can breathe intense fire from her mouth. The beak of her suit's helmet can open up and allow her to do this.
  • Physical Strength: As she honed her abilities, she gets stronger too.
  • Pilot skills: Charlie is an expert pilot after training in the military.

r/Superhero_Ideas • • 14h ago

Villain CORTEX

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(TY for the ideas for the names <3, all of them where amazing, yet I find this one the best one for the lore I am doing, wich is diferent to the posted before due to a story I am doing based on the mutant marvel universe. This one is the shortened version)

"Nobody knows their name. Maybe its because It doesnt even has one. It? He? She? They? We dont know either. All we know he was a extremely powerfull mutant with their x-gen even active before born, with telepathy and sevarl kinesis powers, with the biokinesis dangerously powerfull. The problems is that their mutation made him unable to develop a body. Scientifics, curius about their powers, made a sucessfull operation where they got taken off the womb, only with his nervous sistem, hiperdeveloped. He was turned into a biocomputer into a secret lab in Blanding, Utah. With the use of Cortex as a mindless living computer, the science made several advancaments on biological studies, later discovering the Gen X, starting a future war between humans and mutants where they couldnt do anything. Yet, after 13 years of just being a machine, cortex managed to develop their mind control, controling all the scientific workers for 6 months, where they made them build an armour for him to use as a body, then escaping from the facility, erasing it from the existence.

Cortex had several information about him and the outside from the internet, and after his enclosure, he decided to found the "International of Mutants" a revolutionary paramilitary group of morlocks and those mutants who couldn’t reach from any help.

They mision? Fulfill Humanity's nightmare: their extintion and the rise of a new free mutant world, not with Cortex rule, but mutant's Rule. Cortex lacks of ego, urge for power, envy or any other human traits or emotions, he just want that no other mutants has to pass trought pain, and if that means species war, then let the war begin.

"Omnia mutantur'


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 2h ago

Question for Community In honor of VisionQuest, what are your superheroes trusty AI assistants? And what are their purposes?

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I have

NELSON a Jarvis type

JETHRO Jarvis but more assistantly

AMIE like dummy and u

GRAMS can tape into anything analog

CODEI corporate ai for businesses

These ai's are created and used by my heroes Dr. Attribute and Red Rocket


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 31m ago

Art/Visual Commissioned Superhero OCs in Xmen 97 Coloring style

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commissioned original character in xmen 97 artstyle from vgen

  1. Commissioned by K1t5

  2. Comissioned by u/roachwrangler


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 6h ago

Need Help with Character Need help with insect/bug superhero name

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Hello everyone I'm currently working on a new superhero for my universe the character name is Ryan Danvers hes a black teenager living in Golden Shores( My universes stand in for LA) and he's reached out my a company called Morgan Biometrics for a potential job and when he walks in he see a woman shouting that they kill people and are thieves but Ryan goes in and fills out some paperwork and he ends up knocked out and in a containment unit and doctors and the company's CEO Jason Morgan is in there they are running experiments on people and Ryan is the new subject and they want to use a previously though extinct species of insect as the insect is an amalgamation of various other insects it bites Ryan giving him its powers Ryan breaks out and runs into that woman and her name is Dr. Beverly Olsen and her father Issac Olsen along with Jason's father Franklin found the insect in the South American rainforest and it bit him giving him similar abilities and the Morgan's killed Issac during his tenure as a superhero so now Ryan and Beverly become a team as she helps him become a superhero.

So his powers he can shrink and grow, create energy blast called Poison Stings,has a bit of a danger sense,his body creates armor durable enough to deflect bullets, super strength and enhanced speed,and various gadgets and abilities.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 10h ago

Hero Luna Steele/Silver Stargirl

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Name: Silver Stargirl (Civilian identity: Luna Steele)

Species: Star-supercharged Human

Occupation: scientist of the Brainiac’s Science and Anomaly Foundation (BSAF)/superhero

Age: 25

Personality: Curious, smart, snippy, always looking for info, helpful, stern when she needs to be

Bio:
Luna Steele was born in a small coastal town in California. As a kid, she was an oddball among her peers, as she always had a love for space, especially its stars. As she grew up, Luna would take various jobs in search of a stable life, finally landing a secure job in the BSAF laboratory at 25.

Initially overjoyed, she snatched the opportunity right away, only to be sorely disappointed when the only available position left as the laboratory’s cleaning lady. One day, the scientists brought in a fragment of the metal star Asimi-47, which had recently imploded 100 light years away. The star’s pieces had scattered throughout the galaxy, with one finding its way to Earth. Later that night, Luna was cleaning the lab when she saw the star piece. She felt drawn to the cosmic element and got a bit too close, touching the raw metal star and triggering a burst of cosmic metallic power.

The next day, the scientists found Luna unconscious in the laboratory. After conducting some tests on her, they discovered that the Asimi-47 fragment had transferred its energy into her body, granting Luna powers she never could’ve imagined having in her life. However, more tests found that the high amount of cosmic metallic energy would poison and overwhelm her, the scientists allowed Luna to join the team for real and also helped her build a high-tech watch device for her to wear on her wrist that would prevent the star’s energy from overloading her body and killing her. In addition, Luna modified the watch so it can also harness the star’s energy to generate a suit of armor.

With her silver armor, Luna has access to the powers of flight, super-strength and projected steel energy in the form of yellow energy balls in his fists.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 10h ago

Need Help with Character I need help naming my character guys

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So this is my Oc, his name is Kai Lante and I’ve been struggling with coming up with a superhero name for him, his powers include charging certain areas of his body with potential energy and releasing it at a specific point, like gambit if he charged his body instead of objects, he can use it to launch himself by charging legs, or punching with 10x more force by charging his fists. He’s a marvel oc and a mutant, NOT AN X-MAN, he hates the x-man because of their beliefs that mutants dont need cures: “the weather goddess to the blob that lives in agony”-(thats how he sees it) i need help with a superhero name for him and a symbol ideas OLEASE HELP IVE BEEN STUCK FOR LIKE 2 MONTHS MAKING THIS GUY


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 4h ago

Hero The creator/emperor

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This is the creator/emperors soul he is the embodiment of everything he has infinite knowledge and is he creator of fiction he can delete and rewrite characters when he deletes a character anyone who knows that character forgets it ever existed he has infinite knowledge and is infinitely more powerful than anything in fiction any being who sees it will go insane. he can also manipulate fiction itself he also has every ability. He serves as the protector of fiction he can shapeshift into anything, like he can shapeshift into a human in a universe and no one will know that it is not a human. He has no true form only his soul. And is beyond fiction because he designed it. If you see him you'll see the beauty and disturbing/disgusting part of life. He also has Omni manipulation to stabilize fiction. He's beyond superhero he's the only protection fiction will ever get. He cares for his creations.

Artist:me


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 1d ago

Anti-Hero Any ideas for naming him?

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"Since he was a fetus, he was a great telepath and had telekinesis skills, especially biokinesis. However, his body could not stand his power. Only his brain and part of his nerve tissue survived. For much of his life he functioned as an organic computer, until he managed to escape by controlling his captors. He is now a shadow detective, analyzing and hunting down criminals protected by law..."


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 5h ago

Art/Visual Thunderstruck discovers The Devil's Dungeon.

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After Thunderstruck tracked down Belial Samael, publicly known as The Devil, she followed his henchmen as they drove a van to Samael Manor. Upon entering the manor, she was overwhelmed by a horrific stench coming from the basement. Investigating further, she discovered several bodies that had been eaten by the madman. Enraged by the horrifying discovery, Thunderstruck rushed upstairs and confronted Samael, brutally beating him until her fellow hero, Phantom-Man, intervened and pulled her away. The Devil was arrested for his crimes, put on trial, and sentenced to death by lethal injection.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 20h ago

General Question What international superhero teams do you have that are made up of members from around the world?

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Hey guys. What international superhero teams do you have that are made up of members from around the world? For my international superhero team, they’d be named The Continentals. As you can probably guess, the team is comprised of seven members with each one from one of the seven continents of the world (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica). The Continentals members would be overseen by a subset of the United Nations designed specifically to deal with superheroes and metahumans that is inspired by SHIELD. What do you guys think? I can’t wait to see what y’all come up with!


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 8h ago

Need Help with Character Help expanding powers and other ways to use it

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Outer God of Knowledge

Species: Outer God

Personality: Independent. He is friends with the other Outer Gods but prefers to work alone.

Appearance: He has long white hair in a braid down his back. He wears white and blue clothing with fur around his shoulders and a monocle. His energy is white. He has a helmet that covers his entire head, with his braid hanging out the back and a circular visor in the middle that can shoot beams.

Power: Omniknowledge

Abilities:

Omniknowledge: He has knowledge of everything. By looking at someone, he can learn everything about them, including their past, abilities, weaknesses, and thoughts. He can read minds and hearts.
* Future Reading: He can fully see the future, allowing him to know what will happen before it happens. His ability lets him see future events without needing to gather information or solve puzzles.
Knowledge Into Power: He can turn his knowledge into actual power. He can use his knowledge to become the greatest martial artist, change the properties of his energy to make it hotter or more destructive, create powerful swords, and develop new abilities.
Combat Knowledge: He knows martial arts and fighting styles from across universes and planets. He can use his knowledge to counter different opponents.
Cosmic Engineering: He can build cosmic robots, jets, mecha, weapons, and other machines. Everything he creates is Outer God level.
Mind Control: He can control anything he creates with his mind, including his robots, mecha, jets, and weapons.
Creation Summoning: He can summon anything he has created whenever he wants. He can summon numerous copies or different creations at once and control all of them with his mind. All his creations are Outer God level.
White Energy: He can manipulate his white energy and change its properties based on his knowledge.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 23h ago

Need Help with Universe How did the HERO LEGION come to be

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I don’t know how any of them got their powers, should it be a world where lots of people have superpowers or should they have individual origin stories? I also want to think about what the villains could be


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 1d ago

Need Help with Character Who, or what, could make good villains for the Knights?

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Either as a whole, or as individual arch nemesis?

I come up with a fair amount of heroes, but not many villains. I have ideas, but nothing super concrete. But i figured i may as well ask others like me, the amateur professionals, on what their ideas are.

I'm far more of a designer than i am a writer. I can think of designs and i can draw them. But thinking of a villain that would be perfect against my heroes is tricky. Do i go "evil twin"? Do i go a "friend/lover turned enemy"? Or do i go "professional rival"? And what would they do that makes them a threat or a challenge to the hero without being a full counter, or the hero being a full counter to them? it's tricky stuff.

I have some ideas, would love some feedback and ideas. Please, there are no bad ideas and no concept too small.

For context on the Knights and their capabilities, and their areas of expertise;

Adona

A demigoddess with control over her own space and gravity. Think Thor and Wonder Woman almost in terms of background, coming from spiritualistic aliens who are indistinguishable form gods. Based on the Yoruban Orishas. Adona herself being a reincarnation/descendant of Oya.

Though she is also a celebrity. An actor, model, and musician. So someone in the public eye. She is the closest thing in my world to someone on that Superman level of strength and power. Though also on the level of always having to deal with others of their kind, trying to juggle a life where they don't have the split between off duty and on duty. Everyone knows who she is.

I have the idea of another orisha demigod. One associated with Ogun, a being of war and weaponry, thinking a metal manipulator. Magneto crossed with Aries almost.

Excalibur

As their name suggests, they are tied to Arthurian mythology and tales. She is very Shazam coded; a regular person who exclaims a certain magic word/phrase/spell and boom! transforms into a peak supernaturally strong version of themselves. Going from an older woman to her younger self, instead of a child to adult. Their powers coming from the combined might and skill of the knights of the round table, glued together by Merlin and his magic.

Her day job is that of a social worker. Helping those in need is her job no matter where she is. often dealing with magical and supernatural threats from mythic realms. undead wizards. fey entities. all the goodness.

The obvious idea is Morgana Le Fay and/or Mordred, perhaps as a dark version of Excalibur. With Excalibur being the combined might of the round table, what if Mordred is the combined power of dark sorcerers including Morgana?

Geist

A ghostly figure. Walking between the land of the living and the dead. Supernatural but through the lens of science. Think Ghostbusters and Danny Phantom. A paranormal investigator as much as he is a superhero. A man on the outside always looking in kind of vibe.

Once a crack pot scientist who got caught up in an experiment gone wrong. Some think it was an accident, other think is was sabotage. Trapped in a realm not meant for the living, he had to adapt and eventually figured out how to return, but halfway. And is now a magnet for supernatural horrors and conniving ghosts.

GR/D

A tech philanthropist. A technopath able to control and interface with machines the same way a telepath can a living brain. At times getting lost in cyberspace, always afraid of becoming more machine than man. Though his brain has access to an entirely different world composed of nothing but information, he tries not to rely too much on it. Perfecting the physical world, with his own body first. Software is nothing without the hardware to house it.

Think Ironman, Batman, Mr Terrific, Mr Fantastic, Gear, Moon Girl, with a bit of Rocket Racoon. A level of genius that would normally make people mad, but a little bit of madness helps him stay grounded, and a little whimsical.

The obvious route is an Ultron style villain. Evil computer virus that has evolved to the point his own technopathic abilities just dont work on it anymore.

Though another idea is someone who is more of a threat physically, not just mentally. A mad geneticist, trying to evolve/devolve humanity to a more primitive state. Where they can rule as alpha.

Roadman

A young speedster. Former criminal but a decent enough guy. As he got older he became more responsible, wanting to use his powers for good rather than selfishness. Gained his powers through an accident due to his young criminal shenanigans, along with members of his former gang. Think the Bang Babies from Static Shock.

Where as he has tried to turn his life around to do good. his former friends who were also exposed, may not of had the same optimistic look on things.

As a speedster, the instinct to pull from the rogues gallery of the Flash is heavy. Not so far as to go with a guy with an ice gun and a guy with a boomerang. But something similar. A gang of super powered delinquents. All based around the mechanics of movement and momentum perhaps?

S.A.S.H!

the wielder of a great and powerful logic defying belt that can alter reality to the wearers needs, but not necessarily their wants. Your typical power ranger/ kamen rider style of Tokusatsu style of heroing. Facing against aliens and similar such adversaries, whilst trying to live a normal life and keep their identity secret. whilst abiding by the rules place upon her by the device only she can use.

Alien warlords, interdimensional bounty hunters, mutant pirates, cosmic horrors, all kinds want the powers she holds. All because some greater dimensional being wanted more spectacle in the entertainment they call her reality.

Imagine if you took a power ranger morpher and dropped it into the real world. with all the madness and silliness that comes with it.

Trench

Both an alien and a native earthling. Born in the deep seas among other sentient sea life, left for the surface and unable, or unwilling, to return. An incredible shape changer, both as a form of evolutionary mimicry and disguise, which they use for their acting career, and incredible elasticity which they use for many other things.

An eco warrior, a fish out of water, a lover of the human world, but a stranger to it. A surfer bro in the form of a deep sea monster.

Does he face kaiju beasts that emerge from the ocean? does he fight pirates? does he help mediate the problems between land and sea creatures? or is there one particular poacher with eyes set on a new trophy?


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 23h ago

Group My superhero team with an unknown name

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- Moltria is constantly in her monstrous form, she breathes fire and has superstrength
- soulseer can talk to ghosts and summon them
- starlock can fly and make purple force fields
- anode can fly, control electricity, and control metal
- he-urchin can breathe underwater with his gills, and he has a sea urchin mace, and he can control underwater animals


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 16h ago

Art/Visual X-Tracto boy displaying his powers

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X-Tracto boy displaying his ability to cover himself in any solid material he absorbs.


r/Superhero_Ideas • • 15h ago

Hero I'm making a Zombie based hero, and I'd like your guy's input!

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So I was thinking about Zombie games, and their tropes last night, and thought this could be a fun little experiment!

Ok so Picture this: There once was a able bodied, but somewhat stupid man named Heath, who Loved to run and jump around whenever they could.

Unfortunately, Heath developed an unknown illness, that the Doctors had never seen before, which was set to take his life within the week.

As he lays dying in the hospital, a comet passes by earth, said comet would grant every adult on earth supernatural abilities, and Heath was no exception.

My first attempt at a origin story, so gimme some slack.

As for Heath's abilities they'd be the following.

  1. Super strength, durability and Agility.
  2. Razor sharp Claws and teeth.
  3. Sonic screams.
  4. Spitting Acid.
  5. Renegation/self healing.
  6. Limited invisibility.
  7. Pest manipulation, the ability to summon bugs and vermin to aid him.
  8. super tongue? basically a super long, frog like tongue. that does tongue stuff.

His only weaknesses, are a severe allergy to fresh water, and hindered eyesight.

If you couldn't tell, Heath here is heavily based on the special infected of the " Left for dead " games, and the tropes they started, with some abilities from cut/beta zombies tossed in for fun.

Lemme know what you guys think, and give me your suggestions for what I should add or change, I really like this character concept, and hope you do too! (=