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sgtken60
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Is there a list of German Superheroes from 1941 on?
I am going to start working on the descriptions of some of my heroes and one "Kapitan Eisenblut" I have a background forming in my head but I want it to fit in the CO story line.
My plan is to make Eisenblut, really old (born in 1908), and gain his power through German Experiments to make a Super-Soldat (Super Soldier), but he turned against them during the War, and fought against their plans for a Master Race.
I am going to start working on the descriptions of some of my heroes and one "Kapitan Eisenblut" I have a background forming in my head but I want it to fit in the CO story line.
My plan is to make Eisenblut, really old (born in 1908), and gain his power through German Experiments to make a Super-Soldat (Super Soldier), but he turned against them during the War, and fought against their plans for a Master Race.
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Thanks, is there anymore out there? When I ran Champions RPG in the USN, I thought there was a mention of something more. I think it was a mission you could do, but this was way back in 1985-86 so I may have my games mixed up.
Old age it is fun LoL
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Most of Nazi Germany's superhumans were under the direction of Der Totenkopf (see above), who became one of Hitler's closest advisors. Totenkopf conducted numerous experiments to create more "super-soldiers," which combined his enchantments with "weird science" devised by several brilliant researchers, including a young Albert Zerstoiten (the future Dr. Destroyer). Most of those experiments ended in horrible and agonizing failures, but there were a few notable successes. For your purposes the most relevant examples would be: Der Rind ("the ox"), who gained superhuman strength and toughness, and wore an armored costume and helmet with deadly horns; and Donner ("thunder"), who could grow up to eight meters tall with proportionately increased strength.
The program also achieved some remarkable success with bionic augmentation. General Blut was a critically-injured tank commander whose brain was transferred into a massive, powerful tank-like vehicle which he could control directly like a new body. A similar process was later used to preserve Adolf Hitler's brain after his "death" in a bulky but strong robotic body of roughly human configuration. Near the end of the war scientists produced a whole squad of cyborgs, called the Hartherzig Soldaten ("hard-hearted soldiers"). They were never deployed, but kept in stasis in hidden bunkers to await the call to serve a "Fourth Reich." One such bunker was discovered in this millennium by Herr Doktor Pandemonium, one of the leaders of DEMON.
Much of the Nazis' radical technological achievement can be attributed to assistance from the Gremlins, a race native to the dimension of Faerie (home to the creatures, races, and gods from Earthly myth and folklore), who are adept at blending magic with mechanism. Germany discovered and invaded their homeland and forced the Gremlins to work for them.
Golden Age Champions goes into Champions Germany and its supers during WW II in great detail. Most of the information about present-day CU Germany appears in Champions Worldwide. The Hard-hearted Soldiers are mentioned in DEMON: Servants Of Darkness.
If you want more information about any of the above, or have other questions, please don't hesitate to post followups.
That is what gave me the idea of Kapitan Eisenblut, but my basic idea is as follows (sorry Captain America), Nazis using an unholy combination of dark magics and science come up with their Super-Soldat, and he was one of these men.
That's cool, and reminiscent of the plot from one of my favourite superhero stories, Zenith by Grant Morrison (originally appearing in 2000AD). One of the early antagonists is a Nazi supersoldier called Masterman, the Nazi Cult of the Black Sun (those Nazis and their interest in the occult) strengthened his body using lovecraftian science, which was basically magic to them. Thus strengthened, it was now strong enough to be a host body for an elder god, Iok Sotot.
http://britishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Masterman
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“I remember my life before my powers, I was born in 1908 in Kaufbeuren, Germany to Manfred von Friedrich, my Father who was a strict military man.”And to my sweet Mother; Ariane von Friedrich (Schuster), the second oldest son of six children. Father was in the Bavarian Army, when the “Great War” broke out and he was transported to the Western Front as part of the German 6th Army under the command of Crown Prince Rupprecht.”
“We would not see him again, until the spring of 1919. After the war, our family had many struggles as did many in Germany during those times. Then Herr Hitler came to power, my Father was against the Nazis from the beginning, but my elder brother, Aloysius joined their party soon as he could.” Then the next war broke out, Aloysius was a member of the SS by then. While I would have to join the Wehrmacht, I fought first against the Poles, and then the French. But soon I would be transferred to Operation Barbarossa.”
“While on the Eastern Front, I would meet with my Brother - Aloysius again, he and his SS unit were looking for volunteers for a special operations unit, back in Germany. A few of us stepped forward, but I decided to stay, but then Aloysius picked me as a volunteer, I think he had done this to pay me back for all those times I came to Father defense during their heated arguments, or perhaps for some other slight I had done to him.”
“When we got to the bunker, and we all got to meet Herr Doctor (von Wrede). And first there was the tests, mental and physical – harder than even basic training, soon out of the 200 volunteers, there was only 50 of us left, the others were sent back to the front. Then the true horror began, the Herr Doctor injected each of us with his serums. These cause some of to change, a few like me grew stronger, and taller, the others suffered deaths that haunt me to this day. But then the Hooded Woman arrived and then began chanting strange words we did not know, while we were being injected, by the Herr Doctor.”
“Soon many of us where no longer human, those individuals would soon disappear. Then where was only five us, we had grown into Übermensch/Supermen, I processed super strength and toughness and was given the Code Name - Hauptmann Eisenblut. I had grown even more I was over 2 meters in height and gained the power of flight – this I managed to keep to myself, having discovered it during a mission against the Russians, when I was separated from my handlers. Then later on one of my so called missions, I came across the true horror of the Nazis I found a Einsatzgruppen Squad lining up a group Jewish men, women and children for execution.”
“Something in me just snapped, these men were not Germans! They were animals! How could they shoot down children! Before I knew it, the squad’s blood was on my hands, only afterwards did I realize one of those men was my own brother Aloysius. I knew I would be destroyed as an experiment gone wrong, so I fled using the one power (my flight), that I hid from Herr Doctor to escape. I headed towards the American, for the simple reason I was under no illusion of how I would be received by the Russians!”
“Now I am over 100yrs old, and I have not aged a day (from the serums or the magic I do not know) I still use the name and uniform given to me so many years ago. But I fight a different war, one against those who return to a time when force and hatred where the law of the land. Never again while I live will this happen.”
Well there is only one way I can answer that.
Huh????
With respect BTW.
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There's no Vichy French super in GAC, but one notable French resistance operative is written up (in the "highly-trained normal human" category). Besides write-ups for quite a few American heroes active during the war, there are also six British, two Canadians, two Russians, one Chinese, and one from what is now Gabon; as well as a Gremlin from Faerie (see above), and a sapient spell-casting dog from another dimension where canines are the dominant intelligent species.
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Well for me, picking a German has to do with my Father he served during WWII and fought the Nazis. He also was in Kaufbeuren, Germany at the end of the war.
Well, that would be the Marvel/Captain America influence on me.
And the year I picked for his birth, was my Father's birth year so it also away to salute my Pops.
Well, I am working a 12 to 16hr shift today, I will try to fill it in some more.
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I've made the point in those discussions that Champions Europe differs from real-world Europe in that the former saw a great deal of superhuman activity starting with WW II, which had to have an impact on its public consciousness and culture.
Well for me German, does not automatically mean Nazi. My Great Grandmother (my Dad's Grandma), was German and she was not a Nazi. And most of the Nazi Elite were War Criminals of the worst kind.
So I am taking my Character down the path as a Hero, who has made mistakes. Since I have never met a human who has not made a mistake or two
Also see for me WWII has a lot of personal memories since my Father was Vet of that War, and I grew up following my old man round at American Legions, VFWs, etc. so I got to talk to some of the generation that save the world.
So that is why I picked that era, it was a era that shape the ones that followed it. IMO.
Another admirable one was Kapitan Theodor Detmers. Again, not a Nazi flunky, he actually became a sailor shortly after WW1, and did something so amazing as a captain that it wasn't until people finally found the wreck of the ship he'd sunk that they finally stopped trying to say he lied about it. Detmers was captain of the Kormoran, aka "Raider G" as the allies called it, was a merchant ship retrofitted to be a mine layer and had small deck guns added for the purpose of menacing shipping. It is credited with 10 kills and 1 capture of merchant vessels. In Kormoran's final fight, Detmers was sailing in Australian waters with the goal of mining Australian ports. He got intercepted by Captain Joseph Burnett commanding the light cruiser HMAS Sydney. what ensued was a naval battle between a lightly armed refitted freighter, and a small warship with much greater firepower and armor. The end result? The Sydney is not only lost with all hands but no one even found the bodies. One corpse that later washed up on Christmas Island may be from the crew, but it's hard to tell. Around 80% of Detmer's crew survived(a large chunk of those that died were due to one of the life rafts sinking) and the only reason the Kormoran was scuttled was due to a fire approaching the mine holds that they couldn't put out.
How did Detmers win? He tricked Burnett into getting close enough that the crew of Kormoran could use precision targeting and take out specific targets such as the bridge of Sydney with their opening salvo. Sydney was crippled before the fight got serious. Kormoran's crew actually incapacitated several of Sydney's deck guns mid-fight.
It's admirable because it was a feat of cunning and skill that literally shocked the world.
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So the Aryan became a super hero. He fought crime and super villains, protected the innocent, upheld the law, all the things a superhero is supposed to do, while taking every opportunity to publicly promote his philosophy. He held no animosity toward the "lesser" races and would gladly have accepted them as followers. He was particularly aggressive in combating typical violent white supremacists, whom he believed were undermining his cause, and went out of his way to oppose them. The Aryan inverts the maxim of the end justifying the means. In his case the means are invariably proper and admirable, but his end goal is a world where a minority rule the rest of humanity because of an accident of birth.
Well I can see why he not part of "current official setting", I can hear the Sh*tstorm he would cause. LOL
Heroes do good things for good reasons.
Villains do bad things for bad reasons.
Anti-heroes do bad things for good reasons.
Anti-villains do good things for bad reasons.
This guy had goals that... most people would consider bad, but his methods of trying to achieve them are useful to the public as a whole. Ultimately his goal is futile, and eventually the story would probably have to address that, but until then he'd be useful as a hero. How useful would probably depend on how much time he spent preaching though....
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Ernst Von Niehl was a dedicated Nazi and one of the Third Reich's premier weapon designers, inventing a disintegrating weapon using "Nihil energy." When he was about to test it in combat, a group of Canadian heroes attacked and caused the weapon to misfire, discorporating Von Niehl and stranding him in another dimension. After many years Von Niehl was able to coalesce himself as a roughly-humanoid energy being, in a pocket dimension inhabited by Aryan-looking people. Von Niehl conquered them and renamed himself Baron Nihil, and eventually learned to open a portal back to Earth, where he menaces the modern world (particularly Canada) with his powers, technology, and followers, for the cause of Nazism. Baron Nihil is detailed in Champions Villains Vol. 1: Master Villains.
Of course Kapitan Eisenblut would probably remember Albert "Dr. Destroyer" Zerstoiten from the war since Zerstoiten was involved in Germany's supers-creation experiments. Zerstoiten was never a Nazi or sympathetic to their cause, but was no less cruel and ruthless.
For me as a german Superheroes have a odd feel. I think that the Nazis back then left a lot of us with a sour taste regarding Übermenschen, its also true that we here in Europe have no real tradition of Superhero comics.
That aside. I think I remember darkly that someone from germany described a native Superhero Group a while back in the Hero Game Forums. I looked for it but could not find it. (Maybe Liaden can find it)
* addendum if it is supposed to be Captain its probatly Hauptmann in german. Kapitän is a naval rank
I should also mention that the leader of UNITY, UNTIL's superhero team, is German. Quasar is a physicist named Johann Mersinger who was once actually in the employ of Dr. Destroyer. He defected from DD's organization to UNTIL; but Destroyer never forgives or forgets betrayal, or any slight for that matter. The Doctor had a tiny bomb planted in an experimental blaster Mersinger was testing, but the resulting bombardment turned him into a being of "living energy."
There were only about 4 of them plus the player character. The only two I remember were:
- Duergar
I obviously stole the name from D&D; to my non-German speaking ear, it sounded approximately Germanic. He was basically a D&D style Dwarven Fighter, but obviously using his abilities to fight as a modern day superhero.
- Grunblitz
This was my attempt to meet the language halfway - I was shooting for something that would be the equivalent of "The Green Bolt" but I am not really sure if that translates accurately.