A Villain Team?
A Terrifying Trio
So this crawled into my head as a villain team for some supers game I’ll never run.
Caught in an undersea volcanic explosion, a scuba diver was mutated into a hideous lava covered monstrosity with giant pincers in place of hands, and extracts revenge on the world as the ROCK LOBSTER!
A martial artist was banned from competition when their mutant power to become two-dimensional manifested unexpectedly… with their career destroyed, they turned to crime as the PAPER TIGER!
An explosion embedded shards of lethal metal in the skin of an ordinary dockworker, while granting them superhuman speed, and the world fears the razor-sharp, lightning-fast crimes of RUNS WITH SCISSORS!
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This is the kind of thing that always gets me nasty notes from my editors…
See, this is why I GM Silver Age superheroes, strange theme villains like this are par for the course.
Or as I like to put it, “The Silver Age, when heroes were heroes and villains had themes.”