17: Superheroes
Superheroes covers a wide range from Shazam to the Punisher, so a lot of the plots above can work like the Buffy, Trinity and spy ideas.
Batman Returns, Iron Man 3 and Hawkeye mostly use the season as ironic counterpoints, but include plot details like a high society party for Bruce Wayne to attend and Clint Barton wanting to get back to his family as a ticking clock.
Do your heroes take part in the city’s Thanksgiving parade or New Year’s Eve party broadcast, have dinner with the mayor, help make sure Toys For Tots runs smoothly, or spend the holidays saving the day like any other?
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| From the Batman Adventures Holiday Special (1994) |
The first time I remember seeing suggestions for Christmas session ideas was an article by Alison Brooks in Fantazia magazine for superhero games, which talked about low-key sessions about holiday preparations and celebrations, Nativity and Santa based adventures, a Christmas truce, ideas based on pantomimes, fairy tales and ghost stories, and other options based on how weird the series normally goes and optionally raising the Weird Level a click or two for the season. Other holiday celebrations could provide ideas as well.
Santa is superhuman and heroic, therefore...
He’s appeared in the big superhero universes and could be called on in a Crisis.
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| Superman's Christmas Adventure (1940) |
Our heroes might also face other festive issues. Want to kick Krampus back to the Pole?
Mutants & Masterminds has Crisis On Christmas, a free short where the idea of Christmas itself is in danger.
ICONS has a Santa adventure and one about a holiday-themed heist ready to go too.
Winter Wonder
Christmas Eve, night falls, and snow starts to fall with it. Weather reports indicate this wasn’t expected... and it seems to only be falling on the city. Who’s behind this? Do the team have a cold-powered enemy - or ally? Has the Snow Queen come to town?
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