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they're bad. like spoiled milk and rotten eggs in human form.
The BLACKOUT plot is coming soon, featuring 417 hardened horrible criminals running loose. We've been given THE STRANGLER, THE BLACK MAMBA, and THE TICK...but that leaves so much room for so many others. Horrible people with names and stories. So here's your chance to come up with some and share them, and maybe inspire someone to use them during this plot! (There may be some unpleasantness in this meme, then; be sure to warn accordingly and try not to be too graphic.)
For example...the dreaded Jack the Stripper, a sexy male dancer who stripped his victims of their skin! Magic Mike? More like Murderous Mike! A drop dead sexy hunk with TERROR in mind! Or how about the Pizza Cutter? Driven to madness after a night of deliveries with no tips at all, ending with the slaughter of a quiet gated community just outside Nonah? He left a trail of fear that lasted for years...and now he's out! And Pizza Shack says one of their drivers has gone missing, and so has their car! He could be delivering YOUR pizza!
So come up with your best, your scariest, your most ridiculous, and let's hash out some of the baddies the Masked and Menacing are about to face! Here's a simple form if that's easier for you.
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CRIMES: Literally Steve Buscemi in Con Air
APPEARANCE: Literally Steve Buscemi in Con Air
CRIMINAL NAME: Loretta Brown - officially called The Baker Butcher, sometimes referred to as The Bunisher by people with NO TASTE
CRIMES: Loretta Brown was a middle-aged small town baker in a the local doughnut and coffee shop. She had been there about six months before the owners, an older couple, stopped coming in, and suddenly Loretta had the deed to the store and was the only one who knew where they went. Retired to the Keys, she said, and she didn't know an address or a number. Surprisingly, no one else did, either. She kept the shop running for another three months before she attempted to buy out the other bakery in town. It was a well known attempt that failed. The other owner wanted nothing to do with being a chain; she disappeared a few weeks later. Probably to the Keys. This prompted local law enforcement to look into things...investigators spent ten minutes in the shop before Loretta was put in cuffs. This story has been covered numerous times on various TV shows. Loretta Brown is banned from prison kitchen duty.
APPEARANCE: legitimately the sweetest little old lady you can imagine
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CRIMES: He kidnapped four world-class chefs and forced them through his Saw style culinary competition. Have fun making hot dogs with a pumpkin on your head. The torments he put those poor chefs through ranged from the benign to the dangerous (win this auction and you can chop off one of your opponent's hands!!!). Three chefs were killed, one in a horrific ball pit and knife accident, and the fourth is currently undergoing some heavy counseling.
APPEARANCE: Alton Brown but with his Cutthroat Kitchen evil beard.
CRIMINAL NAME: One-Handed James
CRIMES: you know that one urban legend that everybody knows of the couple at make-out point but they keep hearing a scratching sound on the top of the car, turn on the radio, hear that an inmate at an asylum with a hook for his hand escaped and it turns out the scratching sound was the hook handed guy trying to scratch through the car roof and only a few more scratched and he would have succeeded. it's that guy. this criminal is literally that guy.
APPEARANCE: he has a hook for a hand?
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CRIMES: Freelance international terrorist for hire skilled in explosives and assassination, apprehended by previous generation of imPorts in 2004. Notably creepy and eccentric behaviour, zero regard for human life.
APPEARANCE: He's basically Nicolas Cage in Face/Off (warning for language and violence in the link), complete with the long coat and dual-wielding pistols.
CRIMINAL NAME: Nina Nightingale, AKA 'Nexus'
CRIMES: Carried out a thrill-seeking Florida-wide crime spree in the 1990s under the alias 'Nexus' while maintaining her public identity as an esteemed character actress. Carried out or participated in numerous acts of murder, torture, intimidation, blackmail, robbery and other crimes which earned her a life sentence after her arrest. Like many of the 417, she resents imPort criminals for getting slaps on the wrist for their crimes, and will lose little time gathering a new gang of henchmen to aid her search for revenge.
APPEARANCE: Nexus is in her early 60s, wearing body armour and carrying a shotgun she snagged from the prison guard equipment on her way out. She's hot-tempered and not to be underestimated.
CRIMINAL NAME: Artie Anderson the Arsonist, aka TRIPLE-A
CRIMES: Triple-A got his start burning down his failing Nonah business for insurance money in 1999, only to discover that it's really fun to set things on fire. He swiftly escalated to setting buildings, cars, and people on fire for pleasure before being brought to justice.
APPEARANCE: Six-foot tall, middle-aged, heavyset bald man in an orange prison jumpsuit, wearing a dust filter mask over his face and tinted goggles over his eyes. Flings molotov cocktails in combat, capable hand-to-hand combatant.
CRIMINAL NAME: Patrick Villisca, the De Chima Chopper
CRIMES: Patrick Villisca was highly respected as a successful investment consultant in De Chima before imPort heroes uncovered his secret life as an axe-wielding serial killer in 2007, with seven known victims. No motive was ever discovered or given for the killings. Villisca is known to resent imPorts for his arrest.
APPEARANCE: Villisca still identifies himself as a respected member of the business community, and will be stealing a nice dark suit for himself as soon as he's free... and an axe, to use against the nearest imPorts he can find.
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CRIMES: Serial killer who murdered a dozen families by boobytrapping people's houses while they were away, turning them into elaborate death traps. Sometimes he'd break in, other times he'd gain access by posing as a plumber/electrician/repairperson. His methods included but were not limited to- poisoning the house's water supply, or replacing it with acid, rigging stoves/ovens/microwaves to explode, causing light switches to start fires or trigger explosions, filling the house with poison gas. And of course, he'd rig things up so that once a family entered, they couldn't leave.
APPEARANCE: Jacobson's appearance is pretty much the definition of nondescript, making him hard to pick out of a crowd- in both appearance and demeanor, he comes off as bland but friendly. Jacobson will be disguising himself as an electrician, offering help dealing with the blackouts- in truth, he'll be trying to sabotage any generators-especially those run by imPorts- to either stop working or explode messily, and trying to murderously boobytrap any imPort housing he can gain access to. If directly confronted, he'll try to flee, rather than fight- moving on to adapt a different disguise and target a different part of town.
CRIMINAL NAME: Leo Bohler
CRIMES: A former cop from Maurtia Falls, and corrupt and brutal even by that city's standards, Leo got away with murder, assault, and theft for years before he attacked the wife of one of his coworkers. This was too much even for them- and Leo soon found evidence surfacing of all his prior crimes, as well as several he didn't commit.
APPEARANCE: Leo is tall and heavily built, with a police badge tattooed on his left shoulder. He'll steal weapons, along with a bulletproof vest and riot gear, from the Maurtia Falls police department- and police will be the targets of his rage almost as much as imPorts.
CRIMINAL NAME: Mary Hunder
CRIMES: A former soldier and big game hunter, Mary found hunting dangerous animals had lost its thrill- so she began kidnapping people- mostly those with incredible survival skills or great physical prowess, taking gruesome trophies after she killed them. Her spree came to an end when she tried to go after imPorts, finding herself captured and arrested by her intended prey.
APPEARANCE: Mary's a physically fit woman in her late forties, with a gaunt face and greying hair. She'll break into hunting and outdoor supply stores. She'll be targeting imPorts that seem most able to put up a good fight- tracking them from rooftops and shooting them with a hunting rifle- and she has excellent aim- or attacking with a hunting knife if it comes down to hand-to-hand. If any imPorts have unusual or powerful equipment or weapons, she'll try to take them.
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CRIMES: Murder, kidnapping, and more murder.
Ripley Cross was former engineer & a highly skilled stage magician, illusionist, hypnotist, and escape artist. Made most famous by his daring, death-defying escapes, Ripley toured the world and earned both a fortune and a place in entertainment history - but for him, it wasn't enough.
His escapes were where the true thrill lied for him, but as the thrill dulled, his stakes escalated. Escaping chains underwater, removing a straight jacket and escaping a buried coffin - each stunt was more perilous than the last. But with humans showing up who had actual superpowers, people began to lose interest in a "mere" magician. To prove his escapes weren't just illusions, he challenged others to escape the same conditions - a challenge that had his tour swiftly shut down, when failure resulted in the challengers' deaths.
Though his reputation was tarnished in the eyes of the general public, he found he had an audience in a far less mainstream revenue. He began to perform very exclusive shows in very secret, underground locations. He was paid far more money, and given far, far fewer restrictions. He began to take a certain delight in designing the most insane conditions to be escaped, the most intricate traps, and escaping them for his adoring crowd — just before trapping a challenger from the audience in the same contraption and watching them fail (and subsequently, die) every time.
If there was no challenger, then, well. He'd have to choose a member of the audience himself and make them try it, by coercion, hypnosis, or just getting his bouncers to shove them into the trap by force.
He was arrested when trying to create a trap so difficult that even an ImPort couldn't escape it. To verify the validity of his claims, he had an ImPort kidnapped and brought to his underground show. The act brought too much attention to his activities, and he was shut down before the show could go on and given life in prison.
Ripley's been planning his comeback show ever since, taking careful notes of active ImPorts and designing escape acts based on their powers and known weaknesses. He still has quite a large following among his old underground audience, ones who would be more than willing to help him put on one more show should the opportunity ever arise.
When he gets out, he'll want to kidnap ImPorts and put on an escape show with them, forcing them to try to escape death traps based on their weaknesses to a bloodthirsty audience.
APPEARANCE: Though his time in prison has left him grayed and weathered, he'll do his best to put on his old stage face - heavy, pale makeup, dyed black hair, heavy guyliner to add to the stark contrast against his skin and create that "mysterious" look he was always so fond of. A wardrobe of black, loose clothes is enough to finish off that look.
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CRIMES: Mikhail has a rather large body count, starting with his parents. He was a young boy, immigrated from the Eastern Bloc, but when he was rather young, he took out not just his parents, but everyone on his block in a rather spectacular fire. From there, he took to terrorizing teenagers, finding them funny to murder. Probably because they seemed to have that weird clique thing going on. Regardless, his hallmarks are multiple stab wounds, and large swaths of decimated suburban blocks, but near the end, before he was caught, he started to get bold, and would use his talents for industrial sabotage -- literally killing off entire businesses for the highest bidder. He kills with a knife. Because he's hardcore.
APPEARANCE: It's an average-sized man in a silver mask. Who carries around a knife.
Yeah y'all get it.
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CRIMES: A science professor from a popular educational tv show in this world, Nay was a non-believer in religious and paranormal affairs as well as posessing anti-imPort opinions. When people from other, magical and religiously-populated universes became part of this world, Nay became embroiled in hatred, having an on-air meltdown that was cut short as he killed any imPort-sympathizing members of his tv show's crew. He has massacred most of the studio with fire and chemicals by the time authorities arrived on scene. He has been imprisoned since the 1990's for his crimes but pays close attention to outside affairs, keeping tabs on any people he deems as "unscientific" and therefore an enemy.
APPEARANCE: A smol skinny dude who wears cozyt sweater-vests, ties with cute science themed prints and a labcoat 24/7