Pick a Z-list character from the Big Two. You got one? You sure? Alright

Pick a Z-list character from the Big Two. You got one? You sure? Alright.

You have to write an ongoing for them. You're guaranteed at least 12 issues. What do you do with them?

Have a bump for potential.

>RED BEE
Red Bee has to go pop a hornet shaped cap in some bitch nigga's ass.

Issue 1, he goes up and fights the entire Suicide Squad. Even the dead ones

Issue 2, he goes and fucks Superman's wife while his son watches. How does he get away with this? Kryptonite Bees

Issue 3, he goes and breaks Robin's kneecaps so Batman will stop using Bat-A-Rangs. Red Bee's got a copyright on the whole animal themed throwing weapon.

Issue 4, he goes back in time and punches a dinosaur in the dick creating a ripple in time so huge and so hard that it hits Booster Gold straight in the nuts too. In doing so, the Red Bee destroys all of reality. Riding on a giant Red Bee of War, Red Bee has to sacrifice his own consciousness to restore the universe just as he remembered it

Literally every other issue is the entirety of the first Die Hard movie but Red Bee is drawn over John McClain

Can I choose more than one? At the same time?

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>Karu-Sil
Issue One: Origin story. How her family was killed and she became the child of a pack of beasts. Ends with Green Lantern Blish killing her pack.

Issue Two: Yellow power ring finds her, she tries to hunt Blish down using it but is defeated. As he's about to take the ring from her, Sinestro Corps show up and save her. However, she runs away from them.

Issue Three: Terrified and in hiding, Karu uses the ring to project her pack for the first time.However, upon losing concentration and dissipating the projection, she lashes out and destroys an alien ship. They retaliate and she finds herself more practiced with her ring.

Issue Four: She reluctantly returns to Sinestro and he trains her with the ring. As she goes, she realises Sinestro Corps is the closest thing she has to a pack now.

Not sure where it goes from here, possibly an arc where the red lanterns see the anger in her and attempt to 'recruit' her. Eventually she succumbs and temporarily becomes a red lantern and fights the Sinestro Corps, who bring her back to her senses somehow.

So there's this scientist. And he's had enough. He used to be one of the foremost experts in interdimensional studies, but when a supervillain stole his prototype dimensional gate and let it be destroyed during a battle, his project was shut down and all funding retired. Driven into a deep depression, he lets his life spiral out of control until he decides to rebuild his dimensional gate and find his way into another universe. One without superheroes, supervillains, super-anythings. Just a normal world. Desperate for parts to begin his work, he sneaks into a mysterious landfill that rumors say is used extensively by supervillains who want to dispose of broken material, and inside he finds a cyborg woman in red, broken and thrown out like garbage. A lightbulb goes off over his head and he takes her back to his laboratory, repairs her as best as possible and reactivates her systems. And so, Miss Army Knife is REBORN!

The series would be divided into short 2-issue arcs capped with a long 4-issue finale. Each arc would involve the scientist using Miss Army Knife as a smokescreen, sending her off to fight this or that superhero while he steals the components he needs during the scuffle. Miss Army Knife herself acts like a hammy Silver Age villainess, which the scientist assumes is a glitch in her systems, so she does shit like build an army of giant robot Leatherman tools or fly around in an oversized Victorinox ship. Eventually, however, it's revealed that her organic components have been slowly healing ever since she was repaired, and she's found herself really enjoying her time as a crazy over the top bad girl. Meanwhile, the scientist has to deal with a certain bout of Pygmalionism as he gradually begins to see Miss Army Knife as more than just a tool, and eventually he's forced to decide between her or his dream of a better world.

Imagine it like a villainous Nextwave/X-Club but with hints of romantic comedy and themes of escapism running throughout.

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>Major Disaster
He beats almost all the rogues without breaking a sweat and the major fight is against Weather Wizard. At the end he defets Weather Wizard just to face Flash.

Disco devil comes outta retirement as a deputized member of heroes for hire after this animus civil war 2 electric bugaloo shit. Tries helping the community but obviously scares a lot off cause he was a bad guy. Iron fist and power man guest appearances every now and then. Lots of "jive turkeys" this and " can you dig" that's as him and other honorary members of heroes for hire try to actually help their community while the occasional a list hero and villains spill into their neighborhood and despite being out of their league they try their best to help whether avoid damage, save people caught in the cross fire, or maybe even run off and have the terrible dilemma wondering if they are capable of being heroes.

>Shooting Star
Victoria Star and Drew Daniels aka Shooting Star and Texas Twister a rift opens in their home and they find themselves transported to the Dallas of the late 1880s. They run into the famous outlaw Belle Starr who promptly murders Drew. She turns to do the same to Victoria but intervention by the local law enforcement drives her off. After burying Drew, Victoria attempts to track down Belle and bring her to justice.

In the second or third issue she does manage to track down Belle who proves immune to Victoria's star-shaped stun pellets. During the fight Victoria notices a demonic aura coming from Belle that seems that nearly causes the outlaw to collapse, she is however able to escape. She next encounters Carter Slade and Flaming Star as they fight the Demon Bear that has been stalking Flaming Star's reservation (Flaming Star will be an ancestor to Danielle Moonstar). Afterwards, realizing that she'll have to throw away her vow against killing to bring down Belle, Phantom Rider and Flaming Star help her craft weapons similar Carter's for dealing with demonic threats. Now on a quest across the American west for vengeance, Victoria frequently finds herself drawn more and more into helping towns, ranchers, travellers and others of all sorts against threats that usually wind up having a supernatural cause.

Victoria finally confronts Belle where it is revealed that she's not simply possessed by but merged with Riglevio, the demon who had previously possessed Shooting Star. Having escaped its statue imprisonment, it ended up in the past where it found Belle Starr grieving in the wake of her husband's death. There, she made a pact with Riglevio; he would bring back her husband but only if she killed the two who had caused him much anguish: Drew and Victoria, her own descendent. However, Victoria is able to win the ensuing fight killing them both. She avenges her dead lover but is now trapped in the past.

So a pulpy western/horror vengeance tale.

>Hypno Hustler

Give him a Ceelo Green style makeover. Team him up with Lullaby. They're the Music Meisters of the Marvel U.

Granted, this would work better for a cartoon than a comic, but still.

Also just because, at some point if the book continued past issue 12, it'd bring in the public domain western/horror character Masked Marvel as her main partner because, well, just look at him.

Fucking sold.

>Aura
A slice of life comedy/drama comic about a former superhero turned washed up celebrity. Maybe go full Vertigo on it and give her an imaginary friend too.

What do those characters even have in common?

They're all dead.

The book is about their adventures and misadventures as they try to escape the Grim Reaper (or rather, his non-union equivalent) across the multiverse. It's got comedy, action, drama, romance, pathos, and plenty of obscure and not-so-obscure Marvel shit.

>Tarantula
Raul Delreal is a militant working for under small republic of Delvadia. After watching a fellow soldier murder a child and be protected for his heinous act, Raul leaves goes AWOL and is pursued. While being pursued, he encounters a man who claims to be the last member of 'Project Tarantula,' a project created to make Delvadia its own personal Captain America. After the first two Tarantulas became criminals and caught the attention of Captain America and Spider-Man, the project was cancelled.
The man tells Raul that he still has hidden the last chamber with an enhancement serum and Tarantula gear he has updated over the years. The man gives Raul access to all of this, before being executed by the military. Raul then becomes the new Tarantula, who now fights the very government the original was created to enforce.

The Tarantula's story would be an ongoing, not only fighting his country's enforcers, but his own rogues gallery with an occasional appearance by classic lesser-known villains like Flag Smasher, Melter, and Baron Blood.

Persuasion is a big fucking bundle of missed potential.

Writers keep trying to take her away from her heroic roots when that's way more compelling than making her Purple Woman.

Here, you have a woman with a power that's inherently manipulative, and a life that literally started as her with a rape baby. Her entire existence is based on what a shitbag her father is, and despite this, despite having an existence that would give anyone an existential crisis deluxe, she STILL tries to make the best of what she's given and make a positive difference in the world.

Hell, the fact that there's no arc where she's forced to team up with Jessica Jones is criminal

It could work if you do a series and treat it as a drug/addiction analogy in a way. Using her powers is so easy and can solve most problems she has but it's something she's reluctant to do for fear of "falling off the wagon" and going into a full blown relapse in regards to control and bending others to her whims. Her experiences also, despite her best efforts, leads to an inherent mistrust of others and despite whatever airs she puts on preventing people from getting close to her on an emotional level (either friendly or romantically) as she's never quite sure if people are close to her of their own free will.

The latter part might be good, but I'm mostly thinking of the sheer self-loathing.

Let's face it, you'd be hard-pressed to find a villain more universally loathed than Purple Man. In a universe where a guy managed to kill half of all living things, the walking ball of misery, rape, and murder has less people that genuinely like him.

Hell, she might even wonder why her mother bothered to keep her. She's not going to have a good life. She's Purple Man's Rape Baby. There's nothing good about her- what her powers are, where she came from, who she is.

And yet, somehow, she manages to avoid putting a bullet in her brain, crawl out of bed, and try to make the world a better place than it was that morning.

And of course, this is to say nothing of how others perceive her.

You know all about the Purple Man. You've seen all the news stories, you know exactly what a horrifying shitbag he is.

So here comes this woman with all his powers, but it's ok because she's a GOOD one.

How are YOU going to react?

That's EXACTLY why I want her to team up with Jessica Jones for a case. Persuasion would have the hardest time convincing Jessica that, yes, she's a good guy, purely because Jessica might be the one person who hates Purple Man the most.

Who's the guy in the top right?

She leaves cloak to find herself and goes on a space adventure