Superhero Draft - team write-ups and post-draft rankings to be done

Rounding out the first round, kingsnation selects..

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Professor Charles Xavier

The brains of my team, he will do more than just control your mind. Just because he can't walk, doesn't mean he can't take you down. ;)

Professor X is a mutant who possesses vast telepathic powers, and is among the most powerful telepaths in the Marvel Universe.
Professor X is able to perceive the thoughts of others or project his own thoughts within a radius of approximately 250 miles (400 km). With extreme effort, he can greatly extend the range of his telepathy. He can learn foreign languages by reading the language centers of the brain of someone adept, and alternately "teach" languages to others in the same manner; Xavier once trained a new group of mutants mentally, subjectively making them experience months of training together, while only hours passed in the real world.
Xavier's vast psionic powers enable him to manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions to make himself seem invisible, project mental illusions, cause loss of particular memories, and induce pain or temporary mental and/or physical paralysis in others.
He is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals and even share their perceptions.
He can cause the loss of specific memories or even total amnesia. He can also project powerful mental 'bolts,' enabling him to stun the mind of another person into unconsciousness or even cause death.
Professor X can project his 'astral form' into a psychic 'dimension' known as the 'astral plane.' There, he can use his powers to create objects, control his surroundings, and even control and destroy the astral forms of others. He cannot project this form over long distances.
Charles is a genius with multiple doctorates. He is a world-renowned geneticist, an expert in mutation, possesses considerable knowledge of life sciences, and is the inventor of Cerebro. He is the leading authority on genetics, mutation, and psionic powers, and possesses considerable expertise in other life sciences. He possesses a Ph.D. in genetics, biophysics, and psychology. He is highly talented in devising equipment for utilizing and enhancing psionic powers.

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Stay tuned for the first pick of Round 2..
 
With the first pick of Round 2, kingsnation selects...




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The Incredible Hulk

Professor brings the brains, Hulk brings the muscle.

The Hulk possesses the potential for near-limitless physical strength depending directly on his emotional state, particularly his anger. This has been reflected in the repeated comment "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets." The entity Beyonder once claimed that the Hulk's potential strength had "no finite element inside". His durability, healing, and endurance also increase in proportion to his temper. Greg Pak described the Hulk shown during World War Hulk as having a level of physical power where "Hulk was stronger than any mortal --and most immortals-- who ever walked the Earth."
The Hulk is resistant to most forms of injury or damage.
He has withstood the equivalent of inner solar temperatures, nuclear explosions, and planet-splitting impacts. He has been shown to have both regenerative and adaptive healing abilities, including growing tissues to allow him to breathe underwater, surviving unprotected in space for extended periods and when injured, healing from most wounds within seconds.
His powerful legs allow him to leap into lower Earth orbit or across continents and he has displayed sufficient superhuman speed to match Thor or the Sentry.He also has less commonly described powers, including abilities allowing him to "home in" to his place of origin in New Mexico, resist psychic control, grow stronger from radiation or dark magic, and to see and interact with astral forms.
As Bruce Banner, he is considered one of the greatest minds on Earth. He has developed expertise in the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, and physiology, and holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. He possesses "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test".

Defense against most normal weapons? Check.
Defense against psychic control? Check.
Grows stronger from radiation or magic? Check.
Survive extreme temperatures? Check.
Survive nuclear explosions? Check.
Breathe underwater? Check.
Heal within seconds? Check.

Hulk has the entire package.
 
My next pick is coming up give me a few minutes. I think I'll move away from the comics and diversify my team. Peter Parker is already a genius so I think I'll go with the artillery.

I'll post this here since it is appropriate.

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Another childhood favorite. He is not only a great strategist but also a giant robot armed with a blaster and flaming energy axe.

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Optimus Prime is a natural leader
 
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Another childhood favorite. He is not only a great strategist but also a giant robot armed with a blaster and flaming energy axe.

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Optimus Prime is a natural leader

Words cannot express how much this pick angers me. I was so looking forward to the Supes/Prime duo.

Spidey/Prime duo is nearly as good. Well done.
 
After some contemplation once Prof X was picked (also, Spike, good luck having Phoenix on your team without Prof X), I select the only hero I know that can defeat whomever he wishes... even yellow things

from wikipedia
"Stories in 2006 retconned the ring's long-established lack of effect on yellow objects, stating that the ring-wielder need only feel fear and overcome it in order to affect yellow objects."

Seems pretty awesome... I select Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)...
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The whole "powers" part from Wikipedia...
Each Green Lantern wields a power ring that can generate a variety of effects, sustained purely by the ring wearer's strength of will. The greater the user's willpower, the more effective the ring. The limits of the power ring's abilities are not clearly defined and it has been referred to as "the most powerful weapon in the universe" on more than one occasion. Across the years, the ring has been shown capable of accomplishing anything within the imagination of the ring bearer. Stories in 2006 retconned the ring's long-established lack of effect on yellow objects, stating that the ring-wielder need only feel fear and overcome it in order to affect yellow objects. In one issue Kyle Rayner blows up an entire yellow sun in order to destroy a group of hundreds of unpopulated planets that held deadly sicknesses by manipulating the sun's energy to destroy itself.
Power rings as used by various wielders have exhibited (but are not limited to) the following effects:

  • Creates solid 'light energy' which is only limited by the mind
  • Constructs of green 'solid-energy,' often of tremendous size and/or complexity.
  • Flight, including flight at speeds beyond that of light.
  • Plasma bolts.
  • Ability to walk through walls by travelling through 'the Fourth Dimension' [Alan Scott]
  • The rings can act as semi-sentient computers, including accessing the Book of Oa, a massive database of everything from the laws of the Guardians and the Corps to the history of the universe.
  • Time travel.
  • The rings are still reliant on the lantern-shaped power batteries, but no longer limited to 24 hours' charge as they originally were. Kyle Rayner's ring was the first ring to absorb more power than originally thought, having stored the main power battery's energy following its explosion on Oa.
  • Telepathic powers.
  • Translation of virtually all languages.
  • Force field generation.
  • Radiation, including simulated kryptonite radiations.
  • Generate "earplugs" to block out all telepathic communication and manipulation.[6]
  • Render user invisible.[7]
  • Green Lantern: Rebirth revealed that only a certain type of willpower can use the ring effectively, as evidenced when Green Arrow's "cynical" willpower barely allows him to generate a single arrow and leaves him exhausted after this feat.
  • Put humans into a state of suspended animation [8]

So, let's see... Green Lantern can pretty much defeat anyone... and is sworn to protect and serve... pretty nice...
 
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Took a while to figure out where I wanted to go with this one, since there are still a couple comic book heavy hitters out there that I want and who are unlikely to make it back to me, but for some reason I think my next pick might be interesting to at least a few people and I don't want to risk losing him. So, my second hero is:

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Richard B. Riddick - Pitch Black (2000) -- Super powers and all that jazz are fine, but they can be too easily limited when silly things like morals and ethics get in the way. At a certain point, you have to have people willing to do the dirty work (though that could just be the Sicilian talking), and Riddick is great at dirty work. Being a Furyan (just... go with it), he has certain enhanced abilities, but primarily gets by on brute strength, strategy, an ability to read and manipulate people, and the "eyeshine" surgery that gave him the ability to see in the dark. For that reason, the villain islands should be especially careful of things that go bump in the night. I have worried that perhaps his overall ornery personality could lead to a few ruffled feathers in my team, but he's stubborn as hell and fiercly protective of the people he cares about, so as long as I make him a friend I should be okay.

Also, I thought about the Earth qualification in the rules -- the planet seems not to exist (or exist anymore) within the scope of his mythos, but he's a pilot, so I would argue that he'd be able to grab a ship and get here.
 
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After some contemplation once Prof X was picked (also, Spike, good luck having Phoenix on your team without Prof X), I select the only hero I know that can defeat whomever he wishes... even yellow things

from wikipedia

Seems pretty awesome... I select Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)...
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The whole "powers" part from Wikipedia...


So, let's see... Green Lantern can pretty much defeat anyone... and is sworn to protect and serve... pretty nice...

You have all Justice League so far. And you can get all of them except Batman and Superman
 
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Hercules

Ok, well two hero types I wanted here, and I doubt either will make it back around to me. But I need a thumper before I go any further, and history's elite thumper is still sitting out there. Yeah yeah, Incredible Hulk this, Bane that. The helmeted guy who runs through walls, the genetically engineered Krypton thing. Yeah yeah. All invented by some geek with a crayon in the last 40 years. But Hercules? Been kicking *** and taking names for literally thousands of years. He's diverted rivers, held up the sky on his shoulders, killed unkillable beasts by the bucketfull. His standard response when somebody gets in ths way? He hits them/it over the head with his club. Sometimes he just picks them up off the ground and chokes them to death. He does have a little bit of an insanity issue, but you know, who doesn't really? So for my second hero I take the God of Strength, and the gods have mercy on anybody who gets in his way.

Note: this pick has nothing at all to do with anything associated with Kevin Sorbo.

Note2: or anything to do with anything involving the Gubernator riding around New York in a chariot.
 
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Yeah yeah, [B]Incredible Hulk this[/B], Bane that. The helmeted guy who runs through walls, the genetically engineered Krypton thing. Yeah yeah. [B]All invented by some geek with a crayon in the last 40 years.[/B][/QUOTE]

HEY.. I think Hulk kind of resents that.

;)

:p

Nice pick.
 
Took a while to figure out where I wanted to go with this one, since there are still a couple comic book heavy hitters out there that I want and who are unlikely to make it back to me, but for some reason I think my next pick might be interesting to at least a few people and I don't want to risk losing him. So, my second hero is:

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Richard B. Riddick - Pitch Black (2000) -- Super powers and all that jazz are fine, but they can be too easily limited when silly things like morals and ethics get in the way. At a certain point, you have to have people willing to do the dirty work (though that could just be the Sicilian talking), and Riddick is great at dirty work. Being a Furyan (just... go with it), he has certain enhanced abilities, but primarily gets by on brute strength, strategy, an ability to read and manipulate people, and the "eyeshine" surgery that gave him the ability to see in the dark. For that reason, the villain islands should be especially careful of things that go bump in the night. I have worried that perhaps his overall ornery personality could lead to a few ruffled feathers in my team, but he's stubborn as hell and fiercly protective of the people he cares about, so as long as I make him a friend I should be okay.

Also, I thought about the Earth qualification in the rules -- the planet seems not to exist (or exist anymore) within the scope of his mythos, but he's a pilot, so I would argue that he'd be able to grab a ship and get here.

Quite satisfactory pick.
 
With the 6th pick in the 2nd round of the 2009 Superhero Draft Larry89 selects...




(and no Bricklayer I am not selecting KT)...











THE FLASH

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I do believe that makes it my pick and I'm taking a classic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman

Her powers include super strength, enhanced speed and stamina, and flight. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses an animal-like cunning and a natural rapport with animals, which has in the past been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She also makes use of her Lasso of Truth (which forces those bound by it to tell the truth), a pair of indestructible bracelets, and an invisible plane. beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Hermes, and stronger than Hercules."
Wonder Woman's Amazon training also gave her limited telepathy, profound scientific knowledge, and the ability to speak every language known to man. Although Wonder Woman’s mythos was returned to its original interpretation between 1966 and 1967, new abilities were added: super breath (to blow jet streams or transform water into snow); ventriloquism; imperviousness to extremes of heat and cold; ride the air currents as if flying; mental telepathy (even to project images); microscopic vision; the ability to vibrate into another dimension, and others
 

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Link is broken, Flash is too quick to be photographed. I was going to get the Flash second and compose an all wise guy team, but Optimus was calling.
 
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Hercules

Ok, well two hero types I wanted here, and I doubt either will make it back around to me. But I need a thumper before I go any further, and history's elite thumper is still sitting out there. Yeah yeah, Incredible Hulk this, Bane that. The helmeted guy who runs through walls, the genetically engineered Krypton thing. Yeah yeah. All invented by some geek with a crayon in the last 40 years. But Hercules? Been kicking *** and taking names for literally thousands of years. He's diverted rivers, held up the sky on his shoulders, killed unkillable beasts by the bucketfull. His standard response when somebody gets in ths way? He hits them/it over the head with his club. Sometimes he just picks them up off the ground and chokes them to death. He does have a little bit of an insanity issue, but you know, who doesn't really? So for my second hero I take the God of Strength, and the gods have mercy on anybody who gets in his way.

Note: this pick has nothing at all to do with anything associated with Kevin Sorbo.

Note2: or anything to do with anything involving the Gubernator riding around New York in a chariot.

I despise you. :p
 
Sweet! Finally didn't get screwed. You need a rich guy to bankroll the hero operation, and I had two rich guys that I had chosen. Batman, was the second. The first, and my pick:

Iron Man
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Ahh, good old Tony Stark. He has the money, not only for ANYHING my team might need, but also to pay for all the best psychiatrists in the world to help with Phoenix.

Anthony "Tony" Stark was born with extreme intelligence. After the death of his parents when he was 21, Stark inherited Stark Enterprises. After being wounded while in a war zone, he built an armored suit that would help keep him alive. Stark helped to organize the super hero team, the Avengers early in his career as a superhero.


Originally, Tony Stark had no powers of his own, and he depended on his armored suit for all of his super abilities. In it, he can fly and can shoot blasts of energy from his hands. He can also connect to various communications systems such as satellites, cell phones, and computers throughout the world. The armor has boosted his reaction time and enhanced his ability to heal.

The dude owns a flying Ferrari. Plenty of awesome to go around.

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If there's a problem that Doctor Manhattan can't solve with his manipulation of physics, it's time to call a doctor that specializes in magic:

Doctor Fate

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Less popularly known than Doctor Strange, Fate is his DC Universe counterpart, and in fact came along first by a couple of decades.

Doctor Fate possesses a variety of mystical powers. Even without wearing his magical accoutrements, he can fly, is highly resistant to injury, has minor telekinesis, and has greater-than-human strength. Fate is as accomplished a practitioner of magic as exists and can cast spells to achieve almost any effect. He has been shown to emit bolts of mystical energy, craft solid objects out of energy, transform matter, cast illusions, phase through solid objects, take possession of the minds of others, teleport across the universe, and travel through time and between dimensions, among many other feats.

Fate wears the Helm of Nabu, which houses the spirit of the ancient wizards known as Nabu the Wise. Nabu whispers advice to Fate, therefore giving Fate access to his thousands of years of mystical knowledge and experience. Fate also wears the Amulet of Anubis which grants him vast magical abilities. The amulet also houses a pocket dimension which has been used both as a final resting place for previous wearers of the vestments of Fate and as a prison to conquered villains such as the evil wizard Mordru.
 
Two more solid picks. Dr. Fate is an old favorite ever since I was 6 and got his action figure for Christmas...
 
With Wonder Woman and Iron Man gone, looks like I was right in assuming the other two comic book characters on my list wouldn't make it to my next pick.
 
Yaya, my turn! Here it is...
Spawn
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The most badass of all heroes, Spawn is an awesome hero to go along with Goku and I feel so lucky to grab him in the second round. Although he has been through some villainous times, he is much more a hero.

Spawn's name is Al Simmons or it was. He was one of the best assassins and CIA agents. He was sent to hell and made a deal with the devil Malebolgia to become an undead "hellspawn".

Spawn weighs over 500 pounds and is made of necroplasm, giving him superhuman strength and durability. Spawn can regenerate wounds that he receives and his cape, spikes, chains, and skulls are all part of an organism bonded to his central nervous system that will protect Spawn even if he is unconscious. Spawn also has vast magical powers and Simmons uses this ability in various ways, including resurrecting the dead, firing blasts of necroplasmic energy, teleportation, shapeshifting, flight, and curing the sick. Simmons powers briefly becomes nearly omnipotent, after he eats fruit from the Tree of Life. Spawn is practically immortal unless beheaded by a weapon of heaven. Spawn can cause souls to manifest themselves physically as Hellspawn, allowing them to appear and aid him in combat wherever he is.
 
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