Post by Bruce Wayne on Aug 3, 2013 4:13:16 GMT
So, this is where we're going to be posting examples on grounded characters. These are just examples, you don't have to follow what it says. Most of them are villains, but a few of them are heroes we've grounded. If a character is reserved, it'll be marked here (along with the Canon List thread). Reserved means a member or future member (someone in our friend group) has reserved it for their use. Saved means that we staff members have a specific use for plot things.
As characters on this list get used (whether with their original data or through another means) we'll remove it from the list.
We'll list their names, and if they have another identity, we'll put that in too (for the sake of some who might not know their actual names. I know I didn't know a lot of them, especially as we went to minor characters I'd never heard of):
Dr. Thomas Elliot (Hush): Received plastic surgery to look like Bruce Wayne to try to take over Wayne Enterprises and kill the real Bruce. When this fails he becomes a criminal with his face bandaged.
Waylon Jones (Killer Croc): A true gangster. Croc was victim of a degenerative spinal disease and now has a cybernetic spine that looks like the tail of a crocodile, and gives him superhuman strength. Uses bronze knuckle weapons.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/29/killer-croc-dark-knight-rises/
Warren White (Great White Shark): A “blue collar” mobster, gaining more power every day. Wears a fighter plane shark painting on his mask. Utilizes knives; cruel, and vicious.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/29/great-white-shark-dark-knight-rises/
Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot (Penguin): A Russian arm’s dealer, burrowed into the Gotham elite and their criminal underworld. Supplies them with weapons, customized or mass produced. Wields an umbrella gun.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/22/penguin-the-dark-knight-rises/
Hugo Strange: A doctor obsessed with Batman and what makes him do what he does.
Arnold Wesker (Ventriloquist): A kindly older man with a split personality and a cruel personality he manifests through his puppet and murders people with.
Court of Owls: A group of wealthy who secretly control Gotham and train orphans to be assassins to keep their rule strong.
Lonnie Machin (Anarky): An anarchist in Gotham.
Bane: See Dark Knight Rises Reserved
Selina Kyle (Catwoman): See Dark Knight Rises
Thomas Blake (Catman): A millionaire hunter and world-famous trapper. He turned to crime out of boredom, seeing boredom as a burden of the rich.
Mark Desmond (Blockbuster): A scientist who developed and took a super steroid, became a criminal afterwards with his newfound might to get back at all those who mocked him.
Basil Karlo (Clayface): An actor who can make himself look like anyone through detailed masks. As a failed actor he acts like a Phantom of the Opera-type character, like he haunts the theater where he used to work and just sort of kills people.
Joker: See The Dark Knight Reserved
Anatoli Knyazev (KGBeast): Russian operative who wants to renew tensions by assassinating key American officials.
Lyle Bolton (Lock-Up): Master jailbreaker, also locks down places to make sure they can't be helped until he gets his ransoms.
Cameron van Cleer (Killer Moth): A slightly-crazed mercenary with a fascination with bugs who utilizes insect poisons.
Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy): A crazed botanist/chemist who uses plant poisons to kill people.
Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed (Tweedledee and Tweedledum): Separated conjoined twins turned acrobatic serial killers.
Victor Zsasz: See Batman Begins/Arkham Asylum
A Frenchman (The Id): A former neurosurgeon who discovered a sequence of lights that caused people to act out instinctual desires. Plans to hijack the TV signals, show the lights, drive the town wild.
Red Hood: A violent man who sees fit to take justice his own way, other than what the Batman is doing.
Dr. Victor Fries: A scientist specializing in cryogenics, kidnaps people to study the effects of long-term freezing on people. Trying to find a form of suspended animation to make men live forever.
Mr. Freeze: A cold-blooded hitman who works for Dr. Fries, killing anyone who gets in his way, capturing people to bring back to the doctor.
Sandra Wu-San (Lady Shiva): A Triad assassin, similar to China White.
China White: See Arrow
Siobhan McDougal (Silver Banshee): A half-crazed Gaelic woman who constantly hears a "keen", tried to recreate it and wound up creating a sonic weapon capable of causing extreme pain in those listening, stolen from technologies developed by Wayne Industries.
Una Nemo (Absence): A woman who was shot by her boyfriend in a domestic dispute, survived a shot to the head, came back and murdered him. Suffers from delusions and stalks couples, murdering the men.
Leslie Willis (Livewire): A woman who was a former electrician, created "shocker gloves" that work like tactile tasers and started robbing banks, lightbulb collar to hide her face on security cameras.
Alex Trent (Bloodsport): A master martial artist and gunfighter, fights with a pair of guns with knives mounted on them. An assassin "specializing" in "heroes".
No name given (Alpha): A League assassin who employs gun-fu.
Eric Needham (Black Spider): A man who lost his family due to his drug problems, got clean and now hunts down drug dealers and murders them.
Guillermo Barrera (Brutale): See Arrow
Noah Kuttler (Calculator): The "mob encyclopedia", a massively smart man and NSA official with access to almost any kind of information criminals could want. Reserved
Nathan and Kelly Prince (Copperheads): A couple who act as thieves, love snakes, making use of snakeskin in their sneaking suits, use snakeskin whips, and gloves tipped with snake fangs and snake venom. Very acrobatic and lithe.
Cornelius Stirk: An insane man who went on a killing spree years ago, believing himself to be some sort of monster who needs human hearts to live.
Ling Cheng (Lynx): A female Chinese martial artist and assassin, hides her face behind a lynx mask. Works her way into the elite social life to find targets.
Name Unknown (Onomatopoeia): A serial killer who mimics the sounds around him to keep himself hidden.
Carmine Falcone: See Batman Begins
Sal Maroni: See Batman Begins
Jack Kirby (Atlas): A wrestler who turns to crime, using his wrestling name as a potential cover identity. Likely a one-off villain.
Phillip Karnowsky (Barrage): A former special forces officer turned mercenary, M.O. is wearing a shit ton of body armor and wielding an LMG.
Randall Drake (Vril Dox as a forum handle, Brainiac as a hacker handle): A bored teenager. Extremely anti-social, cunning, manipulative, sociopathic. He has no regards for human life. He fakes his own kidnapping and sits around now, causing computer problems that could cripple cities or nations for his own enjoyment. Saved
Carl Draper (Deathtrap): A psycho who kidnaps people and traps them in Jigsaw-style "gauntlets".
Real name unknown (“Dominus”): A man with a control complex, brainwashes his family and a bunch of other people into serving him in a cult-like style.
Douglas Zod: An aging military officer/general, master strategist, highly trained soldier and killer.
Dr. Arthur Kingsley (Evolution King): A scientist who creates a serum that induces progeria, uses it to extort money from various models, athletes, actors, etc. If defeated, he’ll resort to taking families and holding them as a ransom to ensure his own escape, or they die.
Intergang: A roving crime syndicate, picking up more members as it goes. Look at each other like a family. Led by Bruno Mannheim.
Rebecca Faora: A mistress for Zod, a black widow who kills after sex. Soldier, extremely skilled in combat.
Lex Luthor: Master businessman, strategist and highly-intelligent scientist, enters politics after the vigilantes start to crop up.
Murphy Ivo (Amazo): A man with an incredible mind, will not fall for the same thing twice. He learns after seeing it once, and can copy even complex techniques.
Dana Dearden (Obsession): A woman with an addictive personality, attaches herself to various famous figures and kidnaps them, trying to get them to love her back.
The Count: See Arrow
Real name unknown (“Starro”): A cult master who worships a giant starfish creature. A one off villain.
Chuck and Dianne Bates (“Sodom and Gomorrah”): A husband-and-wife mercenary team, often fight in tandem while holding hands.
Owen Mercer (Captain Boomerang): An Australian mercenary, can hit a target with almost anything projectile based.
Carmine Grodd (Gorilla Grodd): A crazed social Darwinist corporate type that wears the skin of a gorilla he killed.
No names (“Untouchables”): A trio of acrobats who claim to be "untouchable" since they're so agile. Rob banks.
John Broome (Abra Kadabra): A washed out magician who uses his illusions to commit crimes. Works with Spellbinder. One off.
Fay Moffit (Spellbinder): A failed artist who uses optical illusions to entrance people and rob them blind. Works with Abra Kadabra. One off.
Hartley Rathaway (Pied Piper): A carefree seeming trickster who leads a group of orphans to commit crimes for him.
Klaus Kristin (Snowman): A slightly off-kilter prankster who traps random people in snowmen statues made of a special epoxy. House of Wax-style stuff. Saved
Thomas and Tad Trigger (“Trigger Twins”): A pair of identical twin mercenaries and master gunslingers.
Derek Powers (Blight): A powerful CEO, mastermind behind a number of villains, drawing them to Gotham to kill Batman.
Mark Mardon (Weather Wizard): A disgraced weatherman who wants revenge against the studio that fired him, using a hostage situation. One-off villain.
Ra’s al Ghul: See Batman Begins Saved
Talia al Ghul: Daughter of Ra’s, ninja, assassin.
Edward Nygma (Riddler): A criminal who leaves behind riddles and enjoys playing with prey.
Sebastian Blood (Brother Blood): See Arrow
Malcolm Merlyn: A League member, see Arrow Reserved
Baroness Paula von Gunther: The daughter of a Nazi spymaster, an off-kilter Neo-Nazi who uses her network of sympathizers to commit a variety of hate crimes and other kinds of crimes.
Priscilla Rich (Cheetah): An eco-terrorist.
Erika Clark (Doctor Poison): A young woman who disguises her gender via bulky clothing, a terrorist attempting to poison America's water supply.
Nina Close (The Mask): A young woman who traps people in S/M-style masks that release cyanide gas is removed or if she triggers it, and makes them rob banks. Works with Dodger at times.
The Dodger: See Arrow
Kung: League member, utilizing animal style martial arts.
Whitney Kanigher (Inventa): A brilliant engineer and master inventor, uses crazy gadgets to commit crimes. Helps make the masks for Nina?
Isabel Rochev: See Arrow
Jonathan Dwight (the Snare): Works with Lock-Up, collects humans. Underground torture complex.
Daniel Brickwell (Brick): Crime lord in Starling City, skin condition to make him look rough. Very physically imposing and strong.
Constantine Drakon: See Arrow
Don Papp (Switchman): Fired by a railroad, now tries to rob them, going back to being an old-time train robber.
Richard Swift (Shade): Rare eye condition keeps him from seeing well in light, can see very well in low light. Commits crimes in the night.
Peter Merkel (Ragdoll): Triple jointed criminal.
Curare: League assassin, uses the poison on her weapons.
Tony Woodward (Girder): A former construction worker fired for sexual harassment tries to kill his former coworkers and boss by rigging the site to fail spectacularly.
Mob Rule: A genetic experiment, an amoral group of 10 identical twins who simply wish to stay alive by any means necessary.
Dick Grayson (Nightwing): Inspired by Batman, acrobat as a child, becomes his own hero.
Jaime Reyes/Ted Kord (Blue Beetle): Batman-style vigilante, doesn't take it as serious as Batman or Arrow.
Victor Stone (Cyborg): A muscled guy, loves machines, has the nickname "cyborg".
Dianna (Wonder Woman): A warrior woman, wields a whip instead of a lasso. On the island of Lian Yu.
Helena Bertinelli (Huntress): See Arrow
Michael Jon Carter (Booster Gold): A man in a small town who pretends to be a hero by pre-arranging crimes and then “stopping” them. Has an in with the police so they keep up the act. Encouraged by the citizens to go to Gotham or Starling, etc. to help fight crime. Leaves because he has no other choice.
As characters on this list get used (whether with their original data or through another means) we'll remove it from the list.
We'll list their names, and if they have another identity, we'll put that in too (for the sake of some who might not know their actual names. I know I didn't know a lot of them, especially as we went to minor characters I'd never heard of):
Dr. Thomas Elliot (Hush): Received plastic surgery to look like Bruce Wayne to try to take over Wayne Enterprises and kill the real Bruce. When this fails he becomes a criminal with his face bandaged.
Waylon Jones (Killer Croc): A true gangster. Croc was victim of a degenerative spinal disease and now has a cybernetic spine that looks like the tail of a crocodile, and gives him superhuman strength. Uses bronze knuckle weapons.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/29/killer-croc-dark-knight-rises/
Warren White (Great White Shark): A “blue collar” mobster, gaining more power every day. Wears a fighter plane shark painting on his mask. Utilizes knives; cruel, and vicious.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/29/great-white-shark-dark-knight-rises/
Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot (Penguin): A Russian arm’s dealer, burrowed into the Gotham elite and their criminal underworld. Supplies them with weapons, customized or mass produced. Wields an umbrella gun.
Reference: accustomfigures.com/2012/10/22/penguin-the-dark-knight-rises/
Hugo Strange: A doctor obsessed with Batman and what makes him do what he does.
Arnold Wesker (Ventriloquist): A kindly older man with a split personality and a cruel personality he manifests through his puppet and murders people with.
Court of Owls: A group of wealthy who secretly control Gotham and train orphans to be assassins to keep their rule strong.
Lonnie Machin (Anarky): An anarchist in Gotham.
Bane: See Dark Knight Rises Reserved
Selina Kyle (Catwoman): See Dark Knight Rises
Thomas Blake (Catman): A millionaire hunter and world-famous trapper. He turned to crime out of boredom, seeing boredom as a burden of the rich.
Mark Desmond (Blockbuster): A scientist who developed and took a super steroid, became a criminal afterwards with his newfound might to get back at all those who mocked him.
Basil Karlo (Clayface): An actor who can make himself look like anyone through detailed masks. As a failed actor he acts like a Phantom of the Opera-type character, like he haunts the theater where he used to work and just sort of kills people.
Joker: See The Dark Knight Reserved
Anatoli Knyazev (KGBeast): Russian operative who wants to renew tensions by assassinating key American officials.
Lyle Bolton (Lock-Up): Master jailbreaker, also locks down places to make sure they can't be helped until he gets his ransoms.
Cameron van Cleer (Killer Moth): A slightly-crazed mercenary with a fascination with bugs who utilizes insect poisons.
Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy): A crazed botanist/chemist who uses plant poisons to kill people.
Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed (Tweedledee and Tweedledum): Separated conjoined twins turned acrobatic serial killers.
Victor Zsasz: See Batman Begins/Arkham Asylum
A Frenchman (The Id): A former neurosurgeon who discovered a sequence of lights that caused people to act out instinctual desires. Plans to hijack the TV signals, show the lights, drive the town wild.
Red Hood: A violent man who sees fit to take justice his own way, other than what the Batman is doing.
Dr. Victor Fries: A scientist specializing in cryogenics, kidnaps people to study the effects of long-term freezing on people. Trying to find a form of suspended animation to make men live forever.
Mr. Freeze: A cold-blooded hitman who works for Dr. Fries, killing anyone who gets in his way, capturing people to bring back to the doctor.
Sandra Wu-San (Lady Shiva): A Triad assassin, similar to China White.
China White: See Arrow
Siobhan McDougal (Silver Banshee): A half-crazed Gaelic woman who constantly hears a "keen", tried to recreate it and wound up creating a sonic weapon capable of causing extreme pain in those listening, stolen from technologies developed by Wayne Industries.
Una Nemo (Absence): A woman who was shot by her boyfriend in a domestic dispute, survived a shot to the head, came back and murdered him. Suffers from delusions and stalks couples, murdering the men.
Leslie Willis (Livewire): A woman who was a former electrician, created "shocker gloves" that work like tactile tasers and started robbing banks, lightbulb collar to hide her face on security cameras.
Alex Trent (Bloodsport): A master martial artist and gunfighter, fights with a pair of guns with knives mounted on them. An assassin "specializing" in "heroes".
No name given (Alpha): A League assassin who employs gun-fu.
Eric Needham (Black Spider): A man who lost his family due to his drug problems, got clean and now hunts down drug dealers and murders them.
Guillermo Barrera (Brutale): See Arrow
Noah Kuttler (Calculator): The "mob encyclopedia", a massively smart man and NSA official with access to almost any kind of information criminals could want. Reserved
Nathan and Kelly Prince (Copperheads): A couple who act as thieves, love snakes, making use of snakeskin in their sneaking suits, use snakeskin whips, and gloves tipped with snake fangs and snake venom. Very acrobatic and lithe.
Cornelius Stirk: An insane man who went on a killing spree years ago, believing himself to be some sort of monster who needs human hearts to live.
Ling Cheng (Lynx): A female Chinese martial artist and assassin, hides her face behind a lynx mask. Works her way into the elite social life to find targets.
Name Unknown (Onomatopoeia): A serial killer who mimics the sounds around him to keep himself hidden.
Carmine Falcone: See Batman Begins
Sal Maroni: See Batman Begins
Jack Kirby (Atlas): A wrestler who turns to crime, using his wrestling name as a potential cover identity. Likely a one-off villain.
Phillip Karnowsky (Barrage): A former special forces officer turned mercenary, M.O. is wearing a shit ton of body armor and wielding an LMG.
Randall Drake (Vril Dox as a forum handle, Brainiac as a hacker handle): A bored teenager. Extremely anti-social, cunning, manipulative, sociopathic. He has no regards for human life. He fakes his own kidnapping and sits around now, causing computer problems that could cripple cities or nations for his own enjoyment. Saved
Carl Draper (Deathtrap): A psycho who kidnaps people and traps them in Jigsaw-style "gauntlets".
Real name unknown (“Dominus”): A man with a control complex, brainwashes his family and a bunch of other people into serving him in a cult-like style.
Douglas Zod: An aging military officer/general, master strategist, highly trained soldier and killer.
Dr. Arthur Kingsley (Evolution King): A scientist who creates a serum that induces progeria, uses it to extort money from various models, athletes, actors, etc. If defeated, he’ll resort to taking families and holding them as a ransom to ensure his own escape, or they die.
Intergang: A roving crime syndicate, picking up more members as it goes. Look at each other like a family. Led by Bruno Mannheim.
Rebecca Faora: A mistress for Zod, a black widow who kills after sex. Soldier, extremely skilled in combat.
Lex Luthor: Master businessman, strategist and highly-intelligent scientist, enters politics after the vigilantes start to crop up.
Murphy Ivo (Amazo): A man with an incredible mind, will not fall for the same thing twice. He learns after seeing it once, and can copy even complex techniques.
Dana Dearden (Obsession): A woman with an addictive personality, attaches herself to various famous figures and kidnaps them, trying to get them to love her back.
The Count: See Arrow
Real name unknown (“Starro”): A cult master who worships a giant starfish creature. A one off villain.
Chuck and Dianne Bates (“Sodom and Gomorrah”): A husband-and-wife mercenary team, often fight in tandem while holding hands.
Owen Mercer (Captain Boomerang): An Australian mercenary, can hit a target with almost anything projectile based.
Carmine Grodd (Gorilla Grodd): A crazed social Darwinist corporate type that wears the skin of a gorilla he killed.
No names (“Untouchables”): A trio of acrobats who claim to be "untouchable" since they're so agile. Rob banks.
John Broome (Abra Kadabra): A washed out magician who uses his illusions to commit crimes. Works with Spellbinder. One off.
Fay Moffit (Spellbinder): A failed artist who uses optical illusions to entrance people and rob them blind. Works with Abra Kadabra. One off.
Hartley Rathaway (Pied Piper): A carefree seeming trickster who leads a group of orphans to commit crimes for him.
Klaus Kristin (Snowman): A slightly off-kilter prankster who traps random people in snowmen statues made of a special epoxy. House of Wax-style stuff. Saved
Thomas and Tad Trigger (“Trigger Twins”): A pair of identical twin mercenaries and master gunslingers.
Derek Powers (Blight): A powerful CEO, mastermind behind a number of villains, drawing them to Gotham to kill Batman.
Mark Mardon (Weather Wizard): A disgraced weatherman who wants revenge against the studio that fired him, using a hostage situation. One-off villain.
Ra’s al Ghul: See Batman Begins Saved
Talia al Ghul: Daughter of Ra’s, ninja, assassin.
Edward Nygma (Riddler): A criminal who leaves behind riddles and enjoys playing with prey.
Sebastian Blood (Brother Blood): See Arrow
Malcolm Merlyn: A League member, see Arrow Reserved
Baroness Paula von Gunther: The daughter of a Nazi spymaster, an off-kilter Neo-Nazi who uses her network of sympathizers to commit a variety of hate crimes and other kinds of crimes.
Priscilla Rich (Cheetah): An eco-terrorist.
Erika Clark (Doctor Poison): A young woman who disguises her gender via bulky clothing, a terrorist attempting to poison America's water supply.
Nina Close (The Mask): A young woman who traps people in S/M-style masks that release cyanide gas is removed or if she triggers it, and makes them rob banks. Works with Dodger at times.
The Dodger: See Arrow
Kung: League member, utilizing animal style martial arts.
Whitney Kanigher (Inventa): A brilliant engineer and master inventor, uses crazy gadgets to commit crimes. Helps make the masks for Nina?
Isabel Rochev: See Arrow
Jonathan Dwight (the Snare): Works with Lock-Up, collects humans. Underground torture complex.
Daniel Brickwell (Brick): Crime lord in Starling City, skin condition to make him look rough. Very physically imposing and strong.
Constantine Drakon: See Arrow
Don Papp (Switchman): Fired by a railroad, now tries to rob them, going back to being an old-time train robber.
Richard Swift (Shade): Rare eye condition keeps him from seeing well in light, can see very well in low light. Commits crimes in the night.
Peter Merkel (Ragdoll): Triple jointed criminal.
Curare: League assassin, uses the poison on her weapons.
Tony Woodward (Girder): A former construction worker fired for sexual harassment tries to kill his former coworkers and boss by rigging the site to fail spectacularly.
Mob Rule: A genetic experiment, an amoral group of 10 identical twins who simply wish to stay alive by any means necessary.
Dick Grayson (Nightwing): Inspired by Batman, acrobat as a child, becomes his own hero.
Jaime Reyes/Ted Kord (Blue Beetle): Batman-style vigilante, doesn't take it as serious as Batman or Arrow.
Victor Stone (Cyborg): A muscled guy, loves machines, has the nickname "cyborg".
Dianna (Wonder Woman): A warrior woman, wields a whip instead of a lasso. On the island of Lian Yu.
Helena Bertinelli (Huntress): See Arrow
Michael Jon Carter (Booster Gold): A man in a small town who pretends to be a hero by pre-arranging crimes and then “stopping” them. Has an in with the police so they keep up the act. Encouraged by the citizens to go to Gotham or Starling, etc. to help fight crime. Leaves because he has no other choice.
