New Orleans Superheroes

Following on from my New Orleans setting thoughts, I spent part of last night roughing out a NOLA superhero team. Riffing on the 50 States Initiative from Marvel Comics, as we’re getting back into playing the Heroes of Detroit as the Michigan state team.

No team name and a shortage of character codenames at this time, because I suck at those.

Laurence Dupre: Team leader, a former Navy officer and Coast Guard captain given an energy absorption power, so he can shrug off lasers as well as bullets (they still hurt, so he’s not stepping on Luke Cage’s shtick). Looks like Dennis Haysbert, greying at the temples. (Elle Collins at SyFy agrees with me about Dennis Haysbert as a superhero leader. So I may steal Amandla Stenberg for Octavia and Gary Carr for The Beat. :D )

Octavia Harris: A history student gifted with a city-sense that allows her to find anyone in the city, predict and influence things, know just when and where to send emergency services, perfectly time a truck backing up to hit a killer robot.

The Beat: Old-school rapper with sonic attacks. Not as charming as he thinks he is.

Agent Spear: Government agent armed with an alien melee/missile weapon. Has nothing to do with New Orleans really, because I figured not everybody in the team should.

Naiad: Amphibious humanoid. Kind of green, black eyes, webbed fingers and toes. Is she a mutant? An Atlantean? An Atlantean mutant?

Update four years on: The New Orleans Stars for ICONS Assembled Edition!