Faster than a speeding tachyon! More powerful than a phase inverter! Able to leap tall space elevators in a single bound!
And he smells great, too!
This month, Ptrope took his nose out of his comic book collection just long enough to challenge the forum to comic book heroes! The kicker is that these are heroes that could exist within the everyday universe of Star Trek, not just characters in its fiction - heroes that starship captains read about in their morning briefs, not just when they're looking for a restroom for some 'me time.'
And the folks came through big! So let's flip open those pages, skip the ads for x-ray specs and sea monkeys, and tell us who the winner is of Crisis in Infinite Alpha Quadrants! While you're at it, vote for two - it's a big galaxy!
Admiral2
Albertese
"Sometimes duty outweighs orders!"
B.J.
Buck Rogers
A 24th-century descendant of Tony Stark, in civilian battle armor that is equipped with Micro Phasers; his omni-beam emitter can generate tractor beams; and his flight systems are based on Micro-impulse and Micro-warp drive engines.
Klaus
Praetor
Disgraced Starfleet Ensign Nick Locarno was relegated to rather mundane recon missions as a scout after his Academy actions resulted in the death of a fellow cadet. On a routine scout mission, he discovered Orion pirates raiding a pre-warp planet. Locarno tried to stop them, but crashed on the planet. He received a huge dose of warp radiation poisoning, which made him glow blue. He discovered that the energy he emitted could be channeled through the shard of a dilithium crystal from his shuttle's warp core; this allowed him to shape the energy to his mind's will. He fitted the crystal into his Academy ring and ended up having to use his new-found powers to fight off the Orion pirates to protect the locals, who are at a roughly 20th-century-Earth level and believed him to be some kind of superhero.
After being rescued by Starfleet, it was decided that the best way to contain the cultural contamination and protect the primitive planet is to actually make him a superhero. They equipped him with a proper ring and costume, and sent him back to the planet as 'Transwarp.' He can fly unharmed through almost any environment by shrouding himself in a subspace field, travel at warp 9+ speeds on his own - faster than any starship speed record - as well as make energy constructs with the will of his mind. His one weakness is that he must recharge himself from a warp core every 24 hrs.
Ptrope
Shawnster
Starscape
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Poll ends Mar. 3, 2009; voters may choose 2 entries
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And he smells great, too!
This month, Ptrope took his nose out of his comic book collection just long enough to challenge the forum to comic book heroes! The kicker is that these are heroes that could exist within the everyday universe of Star Trek, not just characters in its fiction - heroes that starship captains read about in their morning briefs, not just when they're looking for a restroom for some 'me time.'
And the folks came through big! So let's flip open those pages, skip the ads for x-ray specs and sea monkeys, and tell us who the winner is of Crisis in Infinite Alpha Quadrants! While you're at it, vote for two - it's a big galaxy!Admiral2
Albertese
"Sometimes duty outweighs orders!"
B.J.
Buck Rogers
A 24th-century descendant of Tony Stark, in civilian battle armor that is equipped with Micro Phasers; his omni-beam emitter can generate tractor beams; and his flight systems are based on Micro-impulse and Micro-warp drive engines.
Klaus
Praetor
Disgraced Starfleet Ensign Nick Locarno was relegated to rather mundane recon missions as a scout after his Academy actions resulted in the death of a fellow cadet. On a routine scout mission, he discovered Orion pirates raiding a pre-warp planet. Locarno tried to stop them, but crashed on the planet. He received a huge dose of warp radiation poisoning, which made him glow blue. He discovered that the energy he emitted could be channeled through the shard of a dilithium crystal from his shuttle's warp core; this allowed him to shape the energy to his mind's will. He fitted the crystal into his Academy ring and ended up having to use his new-found powers to fight off the Orion pirates to protect the locals, who are at a roughly 20th-century-Earth level and believed him to be some kind of superhero.
After being rescued by Starfleet, it was decided that the best way to contain the cultural contamination and protect the primitive planet is to actually make him a superhero. They equipped him with a proper ring and costume, and sent him back to the planet as 'Transwarp.' He can fly unharmed through almost any environment by shrouding himself in a subspace field, travel at warp 9+ speeds on his own - faster than any starship speed record - as well as make energy constructs with the will of his mind. His one weakness is that he must recharge himself from a warp core every 24 hrs.
Ptrope
Shawnster
Starscape
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Poll ends Mar. 3, 2009; voters may choose 2 entries
Gallery
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. I also like the back story for Transwarp - it's a great idea for an existing character, and a neat twist on both Green Lantern and the Prime Directive.
. Charlie-X has so many parallels to a certain professer of -men that one has to wonder where that could go - hopefully he wouldn't end up in a wheelchair (or whatever that thing was that Pike was in!); his powers also remind me of Proteus, one of my favorite villains.
), and Buck Rogers's guy - does he have a name? Would "Iron" be too low-tech in the 24th C.? - is a logical, if you'll excuse the term, use of the sort of technology that would be available to the industrious industrialist.
But he does not share the stylin' headgear of my character! 
I'm still not sure who I would have voted for though. 
