Flying Brick

The Flying Brick may be the most iconic superhero on my list -- and it's next for Mighty Protectors!

The core abilities of the Flying Brick are: Heightened Strength, Armor, Flight, and Power Blast. The lesser abilities include Heightened Endurance and Heightened Senses: "X-ray" vision.

A strong alternative to the armor ability is Invulnerability: all Kinetic damage. This may be more appropriate since the flying brick is usually depicted as being invulnerable to this kind of damage. The downside to this is the fact that there are a lot more damage types than just kinetic.

Suggested weaknesses include: Low Self-Control: Compulsion (not to kill), Nemesis, Personal Problem: Dependent, and Susceptibility.

Flying Brick Sheet

Superman 1938

I recently subscribed to the DC Universe Online, mainly because I wanted to read DC comics; something that I didn't really do during my comic book reading days.

I started with Superman #1 (which premiered June, 1938) and read up to issue #9. I have to say that this version of Superman is quite a bit different than the silver or bronze age depictions. In these early issues, Superman's origin is different, his powers are different, and his personality is different.

His planet of birth, Krypton, dies of 'old age.' A friendly scientist -- not his father -- places the infant Superman into a space-ship, sending it to Earth.

A passing motorist discovers the space-ship with the infant Superman and places the child in an orphanage. There is no mention of Ma and Pa Kent.

As an adult, Clark Kent works for the Daily Star, not the Daily Planet.

Superman can't fly, doesn't have heat-ray vision, doesn't have x-ray vision. There's no mention of super-breath, super-speed, or any of a dozen other abilities that he would later employ. There's no mention of him being harmed by kryptonite. He's strong, capable of bending steel bars. He can leap 1/8 of a mile! And he's bulletproof, with only a 'shell-burst' capable of piercing his skin.

Oh, and this Superman is a jerk, doubtless because he grew up in an orphanage... and by the way, Lois is a jerk too! Superman spies on people -- a lot. He's a bully, who terrifies ordinary citizens as well as crooks, and he casually beats up on people, usually mocking them as he does so.

Notes: On the first page of issue #1 it is stated that Superman can leap 1/8 of a mile, or 132" in Mighty Protectors terms. I therefore tried to get his leaping distance as close to this number as possible.

Superman 1938 PDF

Superman 1938 Image

Superman Origin

Superman is a Spy

Superman is a Jerk I

Superman is a Jerk II

Superman is a Jerk III

Lois is a Jerk Too

Superman #1 Cover

Superman is a trademark of DC Comics. Mighty Protectors is a trademark of Monkey House Games. This write-up is by B.K. Adams.

Superman

Here's my late Bronze-Age, post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, Mighty Protectors version of the Man of Steel. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not much of an authority on Superman, seeing as how I never collected the comic book. This write-up is more of an interpretation of his stats and abilities from reading about what his powers were like in that bronze-age time-period. He's far less powerful than the Golden/Silver Age where he was sometimes shown dragging planets around, but he's still super-powerful, especially from a Mighty Protectors point of view, where he stretches, but doesn't break, the boundaries of what is possible.

Superman Character Sheet (PDF)

Notes

I made him strong enough to lift a battleship (which typically weigh about 115 million pounds). If he were to use a battleship as a weapon, i.e., pick it up and swing it down on a foe, he would do about 4d10+3d12+1 points of blunt kinetic damage. He could certainly have more than this level of Strength.

I  gave him Invulnerability to Kinetic and Energy damage types. This is on top of his already formidable level of Armor. However, one could argue that he should also have invulnerability to the Bio and Entropy damage types. I didn't do that because, like I said, I'm not an expert and wasn't sure if he was indeed "invulnerable" to those types of damage.

His "super breath" has two abilities: Ice Blast and Repulsion Blast; he has to pick which one he is using. To figure out the size of the 'cone' area effect, make the end of the cone up to 19" long and draw lines from each edge to the square where he is standing.

Using his Super Speed, he can fly or run at about Mach 5. I gave his Flight the Hyper-Flight modifier because I believe he has been depicted as flying in space at faster-than-light speeds.

Superman's Fortress of Solitude would contain the Bottled City of Kandor, a "zoo" of interplanetary creatures, various science laboratories, and an arsenal of weapons that he has confiscated over the decades.

Superman has other weaknesses that are not listed because he gets no points for them. They include: Personal Problem - Dependents Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen; Susceptibility to Red Kryptonite (causes bizarre changes in his body and/or mind); and a Weakness that deprives Superman of his powers the longer he is removed from the solar radiation of Earth's yellow sun.

Superman is a trademark of DC Comics, Mighty Protectors is a trademark owned by Monkey House Games