10: Superheroes
Superheroes overall, especially four-colour and lighter MCU styles.
Larger-than-life figures with mighty clashes, often with striking visual styles and presence...
It’s more of a side gig in general superhero universes than something like Aberrant but can still be the focus of a series.
Marvel and DC both have superhero singers with sound-related powers fronting bands, and for the most recent music-focused Black Canary series the creators actually released a couple of EPs.
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| Black Canary on tour, by Annie Wu |
Real bands sometimes get powered up in comics, often relating to their stage personas and gimmicks.
(Though not always - CHVRCHES can fly because they learned from Hayley Williams.)
And Gerard Way created an askew superhero universe between My Chemical Romance tours.
An early GURPS Supers adventure Deathwish is about a band who are secretly supervillains, though not in a Satanic Panic way despite the name, though their fan club is basically a militia to add some mook fights. (The suggestion of the PCs taking time out to attack a crack den while following the band to Los Angeles didn’t age well.)
Were I to do this I’d probably use ICONS. And Rose Bailey adapted ICONS for Scott Pilgrim style comic supers youth and music scene action with FRETS, in case you really want to blow the roof off the venue.
Rolling Thunder
Concept
A musically powered superhero forming a band as a side project for her hero team.
Clarity, lead singer gifted with a voice that can enrapture or stun
Breaker, DJ with machine empathy
Swoop, guitar, who can fly but has resisted calling herself Flying V or anything
Blur, drums, speedster working out his frustrations on the drum kit
Statistics
Hope 1
Ego 1
Fanbase 1
Cash 0
Performance Traits
Technique 2
Power 3
Stagecraft 2
They’re superheroes, Clash Scenes are going to be a thing
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