Your own superhero universe. What would it look like? If you could create an original universe, what would you do? Where would you draw inspiration from? DC or Marvel? Would it be set in a world like ours, with our big cities, or would you create fantastic new settings for them? Would they be modern or inspired by the Golden or Silver Ages? Would you focus on the collective history of the universe and major events, or on individual stories of each character and their mythos? inspirational or edgy?

i'd make the women sexy and the villains scary. and the men sexy. and the villains sexy. and the women scary. and the men women.

>Superpowere awaken randomly in roughly 1 in 10k people
>Most of them are not stronger than a gun
>Can only be legally used on government's behalf
>"Heroes" are a special type of a millitary personnel granted a considerable degree of independence to operate in urban enviroment
>Gov has a few City Block level freaks locked around or working for them and their biggest fear is for such an individual to emerge in the wild.
>Use of powers for crime is prevalent but since the punishment for that is hefty and most powers are highly situational most people dont bother.
>There are also small cells of "vigilantes", especially among the youth trying to play a hero without the agreement or oversight of the government.
>Vigilantes and Villains tend to follow a golden era naming/costume conventions bc they're in it largely for the fun, government supes are either glowies in suits or gritty millitarymen ala punisher.

>>149497425
Any examples?

>>149497481
Thought about the stats and it's. 1in a thousand actually.
Also i have a few characters thought up if you'd like to hear about them

>>149497481
awful

>>149497491
well one idea for a villain i had is this half-corpse dude who can extend his spine infinitely and he uses that as a weapon. but just the bones, not the skin or muscle or tendons or anything. so it's just this bare spine waving around.

>>149497491
Truly?
What did you hate about it exactly?

I can't think of anything that hasn't been done before and probably better.
And it's hard figure out, what is a superhero. When do actual superheroes start and just guys with powers end?

Some friends and I came up with this when we were teens.


Earth is filled with superheroes, who are treated as celebrities and adored by the population. One day, the world's foremost supehero team mysteriously disappears, leaving the city unprotected. With no other option, veteran superhero Captain Justice comes out of retirement and recruits a team of whichever capes were deemed too useless and left behind to form the last line of defense against evil.

>Captain Justice is the leader. He's a Captain America-esque patriotic symbol from the 1950's who became too outdated and lives in a retirement home. His sidekick has since become the tacticool modern representation of the real american hero, known as "The Operative". He's one of the kidnapped heroes, motivating Captain Justice to don the cowl and get back into action.

>Citizen X is a Batman-esque urban crimefighter that relies on gadgets. His late mentor, the original Citizen X, is seen as one of the greatest heroes of all times, and he lacks the skills and resources to keep the torch alive, but he is smart and driven enough to try.

>Mind Maiden is a shy assistant librarian who discovers herself to have minor telepathic powers. She can read and control the minds of small animals, little children, and occasionally drunk/high adults. Obsessed with superhero culture.

>The Predicter is a glorified con man who can foresee events that won't happen in the future, which might not even be an actual superpower. He agrees to join the group in exchange for money to pay off a loan shark.

>Flaming Fisting is a rowdy drunk who can set his own hand on fire and punch people with it. He claims this is an ancient martial art taught to him by magic monks.

>Double Dude is a pot-smoking slacker with zero athletic prowess or intelligence who can make one, and only one, exact copy of himself.

Together they are THE LEFTOVERS.

>>149497404 (OP)
If given the chance I think I'd like to do something a la Astro City. I used to get a lot of mileage out of playing City of Heroes back in the day making up characters.

>>149497404 (OP)
No stand ins for superman and wonder woman etc Id try to make them mostly all original. I wold have the mainstay hero teams run by the government with police-like authority to arrest people, and the majority of less powerful vigilantes are technically wanted for not registering to be super cops. Most of the villains would be supernatural based rather than tech based, and most of the conflicts are man made tech vs spirits manifesting through people and giving them power. I would have the giants from ancient history like preflood bible time making a resurgence and they are the main villains along with ghosts. The giants are cannibals and take over large landmasses one city at a time and establish their own reign as cannibals, so the regular citizens are constantly in a state of fear because hauntings or attacks from giants can be quite random. For these reasons the world would demand heroes due to the widespread chaos and politicians selling out their populations to be consumed by giants.

my supergirl/superman spy would be a white trash trailer park ginger tomboy.

>>149497404 (OP)
Honestly, sorta a mix of Marvel, Wildstorm, Venture Bros, the OG Deus Ex and bits of Suda51's No More Heroes and Alfabusa's WoD. Rather than start from scratch, superheroes have been a thing for ages. Although the world looks a bit like our world, you'll see things that show the impact that superheroes have had on our world.

There are various organisations who have taken root and trying to control the future of the world, with many of the villains starting as independent but gradually becoming mercs for organisations either knowingly and unknowingly. Yet despite all this there are still interdimensional forces of evil and aliens who seek to invade etc. Magic is something every culture/race has access to across the cosmos etc, you just need to know how to use it.

As for the heroes. There are public organisations ala the JL/Avengers but there are also underground ones, each of them dealing with their own problems. Earth has recently joined what is essentially the intergalactic alliance etc.

A big problem it avoids that it's not this og Ult Universe where everything is boring, bland and interconnected. The heroes, the villains etc are these colourful, absurd and wild things. Magic is the stuff you see from the early days of Doctor Strange. The aliens are as camp and silly as the stuff from the Silver Age and pre-Voyager Star Trek.

Another problem that is avoided is that there is no 1:1 of any pre-established heroes. There are certainly parallels and fusions, but never one to one.

Similar to Astro City, this would be an anthology title rather than a singular story.

>>149497926
>I can't think of anything that hasn't been done before and probably better.
do it worse then

Superheroes run the world. Not in an "Heroes turne evil sense" but, after one big event that saw all the world's leaders replaced by aliens trying to destroy the world, they were the only people left to run things. It also turns out they're pretty good at it. Instead of violent international conflicts, now political disagreements between nations are settled by super hero wrestling matches.

>>149497404 (OP)
>Grim, dark, full of crime, street level anti-heroes are the focus
>You have government funded heroes who are caught between being lapdogs and public spokespeople/celebrities, it's like an alternate reality but they exist, mainly as antagonists to the street level heroes
>They're not all evil mind you just caught up in a plastic corporate world enforcing ideals of who writes their paycheck

Yeah I know at this point "deconstruction" or whatever is played the fuck out but this has been my vision since the 90s when I built a world around a rip off of Spider-Man who acts more like Wolverine

>>149497404 (OP)
>Universe that takes place in a world where humaniod beings evolved to the point where everyone is born with a superpower making Earrh becoming too alien to our understanding
>Contact and relationships with aliens has become the norm to where humans start looking more aliens and aliens starts to look more like humans at one point
>The concept of a "superhero" occurs at the same time in our world of earth where the great war influenced morally good super-powered individuals to make a world a better place, soon the word superhero becomes an idea, an icon, a sex symbol, something much bigger that influences the culture and identity of the world
>Soon Superheroes who work with the government become the new nuclear arm, and the vigilantes that once where seen as heroes are now as supervillains. Causing an absolute sensation across the world as even corporations become involved
>aesthetics of 1950s futurism as the cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s never occur as the cold war never happened, the current year is 31XX as the time is constantly changing due to time traveling shenanigans
Basically Astro World but with more magic and love for indie comics like Sardine the space pirate and Go-Man

>>149499014
But everyone does that already too!

>>149497404 (OP)
>What would it look like?
Pornographic, painted by Alex Ross

>>149497481
>I start arguments about women beating up men as being unrealistic and have an entire shelf of Sonic merchandise

>>149497926
>When do actual superheroes start and just guys with powers end?
The ones who aren't raping

>>149499623
What indie comics would you pull from anon. I want some reading material.

>>149497425
That's just Australia

>>149498077
>>149498578
>>149499093
>>149498077
I would read this.

>>149499107
I think there will always be room for gritty heroes

>>149497404 (OP)
MHA but not Japan

>>149497404 (OP)
>art deco inspired, very timeless yet clearly retro
>urban cities range from aggressively normal to Gotham City levels of gothicness to Metropolis (both the city and the movie) and how transformative and innovative it is
>drawing heavy inspiration from DC and the pulp heroes that inspired them, as well as Worm's worldbuilding and OPM for how superpowers manifest

Superheroes emerge after WW2 in response to the collective trauma created by the atomic bomb. The explosion tampered with how brains filter and interpret the universe, allowing humans to tap into the unseen parts of reality and manipulate it.
Superpowers manifest through:

>a horrific and tremendous single act of trauma experienced
>multiple compounding traumas over a person's life
>a single act of compassion and kindness being experienced
>several compounding acts of love experienced over a person's life
>random chance at birth

There are only a handful of powerful superheroes, split into upholding the status quo for wealthier countries or fighting as rebels to overthrow them on behalf of third world nations.

>post-scarcity has been achieved for nations of the first world, but is hoarded by the elite and deliberately drip-fed to the average person to maintain a monopoly on power

Similar to Stands, powers reflect the user's ego-personality and passionate desires over the external world. Average superpowered people are still mortal and can be taken down by the average regular human being. The successful superhumans aren't the ones with the typical Superman package, but the skilled and hard-working types who use their powers to aid their existing skill sets. A con man will go far in life with shapeshifting powers, a firefighter will save thousands of people with control over oxygen, etc.

Supervillainy plays out a lot like the Guild from Venture Bros (at least, if you're in a first world nation). Mostly LARPing being carried out by wealthy young people. Think Hippies/New Age.

>>149497404 (OP)
I actually GM a Masks game in a homebrew setting. My playgroup is 5 people who are a team called Second Gen. They're basically all either children or former sidekicks of other heroes.
As for the setting
>There are no natural born first generation power users. Those born with powers are either aliens or inherited them from parents. Basically no mutants.
>Main hero team is The Shining Guardians
>they operate globally and are beloved by all
>there are no questions of borders and geopolitical conflicts when they act
>they save people and everyone cheers

>street level is a bit darker
>the villains tend to be more deranged and violent
>thus the heroes are a bit edgier and also a bit more violent
>one city specifically has banned heroes
>city is basically a technocracy run by a billionaire
>city has a power nullifying field surrounding it
>only heroes there are powerless ones that act illegally.

>magic exists but isn't publicly known
>most magic users are just assumed to have super powers
>2 members of The Shining Guardians are magic users who lie and say they have super powers to almost everyone
>the most powerful magic user in the setting is an ageless sorcerer who discovered and harnessed magic in ancient Mesopotamia
>he spent centuries finding and killing other magic users so he would be the only one
>eventually gave up on that quest after discovering that the more magic there is in the world, the more powerful he becomes
>he's the big bad of the campaign but the players haven't discovered that he's the one behind everything yet

>>149499814
Comics I pull from
>Marshal Law by Pat Mills
Harsh Superhero deconstruction with references to the Vietnam war
>Go-Man by Bill Widener
A 1960s idealist hero fights a 1980s vigilante hero, conflict happens between the two
>Sardine in Outer Space by Joann Sfar (Might as well put, Little Vampire as well)
Quirky French sci-fi with goofball characters
>American Flagg by Howard Chaykin
Explores themes of a world being overwhelmingly corporate with the loss of individuality becoming the norm
>Brat Pack by Rick Veitch
(And Maximortal to an extent)
An morbid take on the fate of teenage sidekicks, with the exploitations you think that can occur in a superhero job
>Kaput and Zosky by Lewis Trondiem
A childhood favorite, an alien duo that goes on wacky adventures.

>>149497404 (OP)
The Universe:
There are no groups, races of super powered people. No mutants or Inhumans or Amazons. Nothing like that. All super powered individuals just kind of happen through accidents or unusual circumstances, magic artifacts or spells. Over time some of these accidents or circumstances have been discovered to be repeatable or the conditions duplicated.

The Heroes:
Basic vigilantism laws are still in place and enforced. There are no "heroes" but anyone is free to act in defense of themselves, their property or others in immediate danger. People that have found themselves with powers are actively recruited by all levels of government from police to military to covert agencies (legitimate).

The Books:
Something like Law an Order where you have a super crime and it's investigation, the arrest, interrogation and court case.
Some books about the military that would be like seal units going on big action filled missions. Probably the closest thing to an average superteam book. Major threats, villains with crazy plans, terrorists those kinds of stories. JL/avengers stuff
Some solo books about operatives. These would be the solo titles. this is where you'd have titles like Batman or Spider-man. Something like that and maybe James Bond/ Jason Bourne. Ongoing stories about individual characters doing special missions for the government and their life. Some action some spy/detective work. Sometimes thwarting an evil plan at the last possible minute.

>>149497404 (OP)
In order to get superpowers you had to sacrifice your body (sexually) to a giant 50 foot tall God

>>149497404 (OP)
I would give them all giant robots.

>>149498077
This sounds fun. You have a clear idea of your cast and their mission. Their abilities aren't outright difficult to balance, imo (I suppose that depends on your cast of villains). I suppose I am kind of a sucker for the underdog team doing their best. I think I like the Predicter best since it sounds like a twist on precognition. The villains might actually have recon on some of them but because they lack presence and 'stardom' of the heroes that were kidnapped, they should be less knowledgeable about them, making it just as much as a guessing game for both sides (exception for Captain J and Citizen X). After all, hubris is always a satisfying way for the villain/villains to fail, thinking they have the upper hand only to have victory snatched from them by the middling heroes they badly underestimated.

My favorite hero stuff is either WW2 stuff or alt-history settings like 1602. Not just Superman but x(and I do like Red Son), but imagining how different governments would do superheroes, what powers they would lean towards, how their costumes would be, etc. There's a lot to get out of from how these guys viewed shit like aliens or the occult and failed experiments, etc. I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
I should probably read Uber already

What if… superman was evil?

>>149499707
I don't mean morality or if they're the good or bad guys.

I think mine would have to be heavily focused on a central story and not a sprawling universe you’d have a bunch of seperate comics in

Off the cuff a story like this

>superman style hero is found dead, nobody understands why or how, seems like murder, batman style hero launches investigation
>most of story focuses on two rookie heroes, still learning the full extent of their abilities, who gradually get roped into this
>david seems to have super healing, enhanced strength and agility, and enhanced senses. But as the story progresses he learns his real ability is being able to manipulate his own body and what it does, eventually doing crazy shit like growing a temporary bone exoskeleton to help fight
>his friend alyssa has weak telekinetic powers and electromagnetic powers, that gradually become stronger, especially once she realises her powers are entirely reliant on her understanding of physics, and how molecules and particles and different materials are formed. She gains more control over them subject to her knowledge of it
>big twist is the Wonder Woman analogue killed superman because she shared her plans to usurp world governments by allowing a major villain attack to happen, and in their wake use it to justify martial rule by the super teams, her no longer believing democracy to be fair or possible to use to fix the worlds problems
>even after batman exposes this a lot of heroes still side with her, some already in on it, others joining because they agree, others because they see them as inevitably winning anyway
>batman forms new team with the rookies, now much stronger involved
>ending has alyssa using her knowledge from studying the superman hero, and David using the full extent of his powers, to have him simulate having superman tier powers, even though it’s burning him out quickly, in order to defeat Wonder Woman after she killed batman

>>149497404 (OP)
It would have a silver age tone with some dashes of bronze age + 90's edginess. Crazy science fiction themes and over the top superpowers abound. The main avengers/justice league team is lead by pastiches of superman, storm and vision; "superman" starts as the typical paragon but gradually grows more anti-heroic dealing with humanity's constant malfeasance. Conversely his lex luthor begins threatening the world with ludicrous schemes every week but abruptly retires from villainy to go on pulpy adventures.
A toon force superhero like the mask fights crime in almost looney tunes style escapades.
A spawn-esque vigilante doles out extremely brutal punishments to the very worst people around, isolating him from other heroes.
A not-fantastic 4 where each member controls a state of matter.
Solomon Kane imitator who hunts degenerates like Blade hunts vampires.
Supervillains include a funky black eco-terriorist akin to poison ivy, a lost khmer rogue super-soldier, a lethal pole-dancing capoeirista wielding a metal staff to aid martial arts moves, a prison escape artist parodying morons who think batman beats up mentally ill poor people (maybe his refusal to kill as well), a Mexican cartel that sells super-drugs while frequently contracting superhumans, and a robot hive-mind accidentally created by "Lex" that wants to rule earth with a benevolent dictatorship.

>>149500646
Hire this man

>>149498077
>The Predicter is a glorified con man who can foresee events that won't happen in the future
id stan this

>>149500198
>>American Flagg by Howard Chaykin
>Explores themes of a world being overwhelmingly corporate with the loss of individuality becoming the norm
The story so iconic and prescient that Chaykin would attempt to remake it at least twice later

>>Brat Pack by Rick Veitch
The original print run, yes
>(And Maximortal to an extent)
No, this turned masturbatory; the point of the original was that not-Superman was a background character

>>149497537
>>149499704
I'm fr looking for real feedback on that.
I can't see why it sucks but clearly people hate it so.

>>149497404 (OP)
>implying I don't already have my own superhero universe

>>149501420
>implying You don't already have your own superhero universe

>>149501770
That's what I said, yes.

>>149497404 (OP)
DC Earth and Marvel Space

>>149497404 (OP)
My story would be that a decade ago people around the world were injected with a vaccine that supposed to protect them from climate change, which caused about 10% to mutate and gain superpowers of varying usefulness, mostly related to their environment and behavior, like people who work out become super strong, people that work in sales get mild mind control abilities, people that eat a lot of chicken grow wings, etc.

You can have a lot of slice of life stories but I think I'd make my main character a detective who has to investigate cases involving mutated people.

I'm heavily inspired by satirical works like the Destroyer (Remo Williams) pulp novels or the Chew comic or Christopher Priest's comics.

>>149502061
>vaccine that supposed to protect them from climate change

Nigga really?

>>149497404 (OP)
it's just top 10
pizza ripoff included

Ive actually posted before in the /hyw/ threads, but a dawfag friend of mine and me have been trying to get a cape webcomic off the ground. The world is a JLU styled setting where people are randomly born with superpowers. Roughly 30 years ago, scientists finally managed to isolate the "meta gene" that grants super powers, which the powers that be of course immediately set out to weaponize. This resulted in world powers creating thier own armies of superpowered "Hybrids" that ultimately went out of control, and worst of all, they started *breeding*. A last ditch effort to prevent the extinction of humanity was to have every nuclear armed power launch thier entire arsenals to cleanse away the Hybrid threat. It worked, only a handful of Hybrids managed to survive, but it left roughly 75% of all of Earth's landmasses completely uninhabitable (Africa, Europe, South America, and decent sized chunks of North America and Asia are just *gone*).
Flash forward to the story proper, and humanity has rebuilt into continent spanning mega cities on what little land is left, as well as expanding to colonies on Mars. Superheroes are all organized in a Justice League styled group called the Heroes Legion, complete with an orbiting space station HQ, and they fight the remaining Hybrids and the weaker knock off Hybrids that inevitably sprang up over the years.
Story proper is about the nephew of one of the founders of the Heroes Legion, who's a Iron Man-esque tech nerd, that lives with his super powered roommates doing thier best to fight crime *outside* the established system, mostly because said uncle won't let them in for reasons. This changes when the story's overarching villians manage to get every Heroes Legion member stuck aboard thier orbiting HQ, then sends them all crashing down, killing effectively every good aligned super powered individual on Earth. So now our plucky, waaaaaaaaaay in over thier heads protagonists must come together to save the day, all that jazz.

>>149497404 (OP)
>Superpowers began appearing randomly in 1949
>A period of massive global instability followed. The US was taken over by a supervillain capable of controlling others with his voice, who installed a fascist regime
>An underground network of masked heroes, the Cavalry, arose and eventually restored American democracy
>By the modern day the world is split between the Soviets and the US-centered "Free World" with various third party countries also involved
>The Cavalry has become an official military and peacekeeping institution
>Vigilantism is tolerated but increasingly controversial, with vigilante rights being basically gun rights in the role it plays in modern politics
>Honolulu has been converted into a 60s super-science "city of tomorrow" meant to house enormous numbers of east Asian refugees, but decades after its construction the luster is gone and it's rife with racial and class tensions
>After 70+ years of superpowered shenanigans, it's all become commonplace. You have superhero families and legacies stretching back multiple generations. The remnants of weird supervillain schemes are everywhere. Honolulu is infested with highly intelligent monkeys who regularly take apart cars and attack delivery drones. It's like pigeons shitting on your head, just a hazard of modern city life.
>Power level is much lower than most modern comics, with speedsters rarely able to break the sound barrier and only a handful of superhumans able to survive in space.

You people seem to like superheroes a lot.

>>149503649
Its a thing for us

>>149497481
Why don't people just shoot the villains/vigialntes? honest question, no hate

>>149500646
hmm...I could see this working tell me more

>>149497404 (OP)
A world almost exactly like ours has one insane super-scientist. He secretly alters the sustained fusion reactor he and his team had built to create and infinitely expand a field of his own design. It's obvious when the machine turns on that it isn't forming a mini sun and the scientist dies preventing anyone from deactivating the machine. A gorgeous shimmering energy radiates out slowly covering the entire world and continuing to expand outward until it's no longer noticable. No one understands what it did, but it essentially connected thinking minds within the field to localized physics. In other words the right belief and intention and confidence is now capable of warping reality.

From that point on events where people display seemingly impossible skill or luck or capability become more frequent, and as time goes on a few come forward claiming to have actual superpowers.

It would start out as very grounded and street-level stories in a world first discovering and reacting to this new paradigm, people both good and bad discovering things they can do and applying them directly to their own lives, and would grow in scale and power level over time until it reaches gurren lagann universal level power

>>149498077
Call him "The Unpredicter"

>>149497404 (OP)
Colorful, hopeful, nice, light-hearted, over-the-top.
Heroes are good, but not flawless, Villains are evil, but not incomprehensible
There are cute animals and shit. The superman equivalent is a femboy because fuck you.

Rip off Marvel because it is what I'm most familiar with, but probably would have things from Japanese media drift in. There is no unifying theme, and you have radioactive people, cyborgs, magicians, half-demons, mutants, vampires, gods, and whatnot all co-existing. Something like "Weirdo" might be used as a collective term, but there isn't a consistent way of living for any of them, which is most directly expressed in some having secret identities while others are very open about their otherness. It would be a vague setting that seems like our Earth unless I think of something cool to use, and characters tend to list their hometowns as actual places. Presumably bounce around different characters since I don't need to flesh out the individual lives that much. Probably leaning closer to edgy, but it doesn't take itself very seriously either.
The Iron Man stand in should have organized crime ties to keep him closer to the ground. Maybe his father worked with them to sabotage competitors and provided their weapons or something. Maybe do something where he takes over and turns them into a heroic organization.
Obviously, there should be a Spider-Man, but I'm not sure if I want to make him closer to something like Venom or Guyver or not. An alien suit that might talk to him seems to provide a fun dynamic, but then there might be to much overlap in being another armor guy. In either case, he's definitely the comic relief one publicly while personal life is a mess and retains the animal motif.
For those who are born with a genetic difference, it would be depicted with the Magneto/Brotherhood of Evil Mutants guys appearing far before any good guy mutants. They would generally be visibly different than baseline humans, but only a third or so would have "useful" differences. A horrible looking but kind-hearted one becomes the "face" of heroic ones.
For villains, Hate-Monger(King Leopold II) and Aleister Crowley-like that uses mascot style familiars sound good.

>>149503649
Sometimes I wonder if /co/ does or does not

>>149497404 (OP)
I've actually been building it for years and it's pretty detailed. It's in the vein of Nolan/Snyder but actually works as both a deconsturction/subversion of superheroes which then molds into a celebration of them. It's dark and gritty at first but it eventually becomes hopeful and bright.

What's the ideal power level for your characters, balancing their strengths with their inherent weaknesses and the limitations of their fighting skills against their foes?

And how will you ensure the stakes remain high?

>>149503649
Yeah.

How powerful do you want your characters to be while still maintaining their weaknesses and limiting their fighting skills when facing their enemies?

And how will you maintain the stakes?

I thought no one wanted anything that wasn't DC and Marvel but Invincible got pretty popular

>>149506814
>And how will you maintain the stakes?

The best stakes aren't whether or not the hero can be defeated or die the best stakes are whether or not he can save the people he cares about.

>>149506814
Can't speak for others, but for >>149502832 we were going to gradually build things over three parts. Part one says more or less grounded, by part 2 our heroes are dealing with more galactic scale threats, and by the finale they're fighting full fledged gods for the fate of everything. The key I believe is to not do too much, too quickly. The Big Two make fun stories but they tend to lean into the big event comics a bit too much for thier own good. Like, CoIE was a great story about the end of the multiverse itself....but where the actual fuck do you go from there? Back to chasing purse snatchers on the street?

POST APOCALYPTIC EARTH
HUMANITY WIPED OUT FROM NUKES
SUDDENLY A SHITTON OF IN-UNIVERSE FICTIONAL SUPERHEROES AND VILLAINS BECOME REAL
TOTAL VIOLENCE AND CHAOS
The main characters are four heroes
>Jack and Tombstone (both from the same in universe fictional campy crime comic. Both are mildly superhuman, like Jack can jump pretty high and decapitate you with his shoes, while Tombstone is bulletproof, fights with a shovel and knows how to sculpt tombstones with his bare hands)
>"Kid" (teenager perpetually stuck in a state half demon and half human from, causing him constant pain and amnesia. From an edgy comic. Can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes and breathe fire. No one knows his name because he's in constant agony)
>Mari (cute witch with huge tits from a battle manga. Very annoying and depressed because she misses following a simple manga MC around. Is actually dying of cancer from nuclear radiation even though no one else seems to have it. Every single cosmic being fucking hates her for some reason.)
EVERYONE GOES INSANE WHEN THEY REALIZE THEY ARE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, BUT THEY MUST CONTINUE LIVING
ALSO THERE'S A BUNCH OF SKELETONS
THAT ARE ALL DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER YET SIT AT A ROUND TABLE TO DECIDE THE WORLD'S FUTURE