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Post by dans on Jul 4, 2019 21:53:40 GMT
I need a couple of villain names for a story set in San Francisco in the 1960s.
One is just a standard bad guy and the name should be kind of humorous. For example, I'm considering Red Rainbow and Red Radical, who would both probably be Commies. I don't have any particular powers in mind yet.
The other is a mad scientist who is experimenting with personality transfer between bodies. He is a wacko, and has never really been successful. He may not have had a super villain name before the start of this story, or he may have been around for a few years using this name.
Don't have to be male; these guys are going to clash with Miss Music and Palette, so one or both can be female.
I will come up with backstories likely based on the names I choose.
If you suggest a name I use, I'll put you in a story if you like, you choose whether you would be a good guy or a bad guy.
Thanks!
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 5, 2019 1:32:17 GMT
The mad scientist: Doctor Disassociation or Mister Multiple (given his obsession with personality transfers and the associated question of multiple personalities should he prove less than competent at his task. NB: He isn't really a doctor, MD or PhD, he just uses the title to generate 'respect' for his scientific 'prowess', which isn't forthcoming.
The other bad guy: Red Herring, Marxist Manhandler, Vanguardian, Proletarian Powerhouse, Revolutionary Raider, Proletarian Pistol, Red Beria, Uprising, Peoples Powerhouse, Czechmate, Warsaw Warmonger, Moscow Murderhouse, Soviet Supreme, Redhander, Marxist Marauder, Socialist Sidewinder, Daz Kapital...
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Post by dans on Jul 5, 2019 1:40:44 GMT
in the early 60s nobody used dissociation, but Mr. Multiple might work. Thanks!
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 5, 2019 3:08:36 GMT
I did some digging too, and it seems that in the early sixties (Diagnostic Statistical Manual -II), the condition was referred to as "hysterical neurosis-dissociative type." DSM-II listed the diagnostic criteria as "In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce such symptoms as amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiple personality." DSM-II only came out in 1968, but let's say that our metahumans consulted a neurologist or psychologist of their acquaintance who they knew was on one of the consultative committees for DSM-II if you decide to situate the story before that date. Mr./Madam Multiple may have made a wild extrapolation from the development of the electroencephalograph and decided to construct a machine that he thought could induce altered personalities. For this, he or she may have been kicked out of the American Psychological Association for a gross breach of research ethics but carried on their experimentation anyway. EEG equipment had already been developed by 1924, so it's well within your time frame. As to their real name- it'd be a hoot if their name turned out to be Christian or Kristen Beauchamp, Martin or Martha Prince, Carla or Charles Fowler, Roberta or Richard Stephenson, Isabel or Simon Doucett, or Jacinda or Jacob Hyde. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorderI've also had a thought about your second character. If this communist metahuman is the product of Soviet genetic science, then there's a skeleton in that particular closet named Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976), an incompetent plant geneticist, and who may have been responsible for crop failures and Soviet famines. His influence declined after Stalin died in 1953, but depending when in the sixties you situate your story, you could take humourous advantage of the continuing albeit diminishing effects of this charlatan. Let's say that Lysenko also had some negative influence on metagenetic research in this Earth's Soviet Union. You might therefore expect to find Soviet metahumans with unreliable, fluctuating or temperamental metahuman abilities or quite useless ones. Rather than admit it and suffer the derision of the United States and its allies, the USSR sends these somewhat erratic metas out on decoy missions, with unintentionally amusing results. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko |
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Post by Dave B on Jul 5, 2019 5:00:00 GMT
Your Mad scientist could Professor Personality since he is transferring into another being a non powered communist I suggest the Commissar Cossack or the Cossack Commissar
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Post by johnreiter902 on Jul 5, 2019 12:37:41 GMT
Dr. Derangement
Red Rioter
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Post by dans on Jul 6, 2019 13:58:54 GMT
So, part of this story will occur in the Reiter Shipyard. Dav B and redsycorax, what names should I use to put you guys into the story? Not using any of the names you suggested (yet) but I appreciate the response.
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 7, 2019 0:34:05 GMT
William Craig, a scientist who's helping your heroes out with background and motivation.
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Post by Dan on Jul 7, 2019 17:56:21 GMT
Okie Dokie - I have the Reiter Shipyard, a San Francisco police scientist named William Craig (do they call him Bill?. I think Doc Quentin, the collector of 40s memorabilia who owns the last unopened bottle of Kooba Kola, will pop in as well. Waiting for Dave...
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 8, 2019 22:34:25 GMT
They call him Will.
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