Las Vegas superheroes

Rewatching Batman: The Animated Series and getting to Zatanna, here played as a stage magician rather than a sorceress using the style, and when arrested for making the money in the Gotham Mint disappear she notes “This never happens to me in Vegas!”

And that got me thinking, what is Vegas like in the DC Universe? Basically the same, with a couple of issues of various comics set there. And in the Marvel Universe? Basically the same, with the occasional storyline and a couple of casinos related to demons. Despite there being an Avengers interactive show there in real life. The TV Tropes page for Las Vegas doesn’t even have a tab for comics.

Gaming-wise, there’s Alas Vegas for the pop culture nightmare version, a Mage: The Ascension book, a free Dresden Files setting chapter, a Relics book and a Ken Hite 60s booklet for The Fall Of Delta Green which might help for a period setting.

So, like New Orleans before it, what would I do for a Las Vegas superhero team?

Las Vegas, particularly the world famous Strip of giant casinos which isn’t technically part of it, already has the 1950s-60s gangster connections as well as architecture like a 1950s Batman comic. So start with a crimefighter from the era, and either set a game then or have a legendary character in its super history. One-Eyed Jack, a Shadow type.

Next, like Zatanna, magic is big there, so a magician? Showgirl style optional. Maybe a showgirl martial artist as well or instead.

And we’re out in the desert, so someone with sand-related powers?

A casino base, or keep that for the local gangster-y villain?

Not accurate nowadays of course. Not leaning too heavily on the gambling theme, much as I liked The Player.