Tuesday Tangents: West Coast Avengers

[lurkerwithout]

Yes, I know its no longer Tuesday. Again. What can I say, I get distracted by sleep and what not and don't come up with anything. I have an idea for something using the founding Avengers, but I'm putting that on the back-burner for now. Today we'll use the core second team. And since Willowhas already made inroads into this Marvel 'verse with her Exiles and Uncanny X-Men ideas, I'll go back and add some Wild West stuff...

The Avengers of the West Coast are a band of bounty hunters for the most part. Though they've made a reputation taking down corrupt law-men, industrialists and robber barons. Throughout California and up the coast and down into Mexico, these Avengers are known as heroes for the downtrodden...

Led by Roger Stephens a former U.S. Cavalry officer. The charismatic and brave man is often simply called THe Captain. Other members of the band include the Portuguese brother and sister, Pedro de (I hope de replaces the) Vivo one of the fastest guns around and Felicidade de Ruvio rumored to be a bruxia or witch. And Clint Eagle-eye the half-Apache scout and marksman...

I'm still trying to come up with tangent versions of other Avengers from that era. Black Panther, Hercules, Beast, Wonder Man, Jocasta, Swordsman, Mantis, Vision and Falcon. At least I think Falcon was an Avenger then. All I know is the Avengers roster got huge there for awhile. Sometimes with around a dozen or more active members...

Comments

[kail-panille.livejournal.com]

de == of, by the way. You want "el" or "la" for the.

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Hercules could be a former carnival strongman. And Beast could have been a star attraction in the freak show. (For that matter, Swordsman and Mantis could also have that background ... a sword swallower and an Asian burlesque performer.)

Falcon could be a runaway slave or former slave, depending on the years you're looking at.

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

Whoa... does Avengers have a title with Amazing in the front? Cause I can see Carnival Posters in my head right now.

*randoms at you*

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

Also they don't all have to be in the past. Some of them could totally build on the Avengers/Fury angle involving the Gods.

Wonder Man - A new shining glory of Hephestus, blessed with intelligence by Hermes; a winged exoskeleton that can act independently with it's own AI, a solid figure of impenetrable bronze.

Man, I am so into magic, aren't I.

And now I'm thinking what if Hephestus isn't involved at all and it's just Hermes walking around creating living statues that defend libraries and other places of learning and communication from some radical sect that wants to send the world back to an illiterate stone age - cause y'know, knowledge has led to sin and corruption and the world must be saved!

So Wonder Man & "The" Black Knight at least ?

Re: *randoms at you*

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I'm liking your Wonder Man and Black Knight. This Tangent Marvel 'verse definitely has more of a magic base than the "X-Gene leads to Powers" Celestial thing Marvel 616 has...