I've been thinking about my superhero comic more and more lately and I've come up with some ideas. One thing that I think I'm going to do is put him on a super hero team kind of like the JLA of his universe. It should be cool because he wouldn't really be one of the heavy hitters of the team as he's just the medic of the group.
My reason for doing this is because I want him to be different from most other super heroes. All other super heroes solve their problems by hitting something, or shooting it with a laser out of their ass or something. The main power of The Medic is to heal people, so obviously theres little offensive capabilities to start with. So if his power is to heal, then how is he going to stop a purse snatcher or mugger? Its not like healing him would really have any effect, though I suppose if he initiated a massive reproduction of cells he could effectively give someone cancer. Man, I need to remember that.
Now, I've been also thinking of giving him additional powers besides healing, but still have them be defensive in nature. I think force fields (think invisible woman) would be a good one, because while still primarily defensive, it could be used offensively by creating a small, baseball sized force sphere and throwing it at someone. I mean he's going to need something besides natural fighting ability if he's going to eventually fight the bad guy. So I'm trying to think of other powers that are defensive, but could be used offensively if need be.
Something else I need to think about is what the other heroes are going to be. Something that I don't want to do is create throw away characters that I won't care about but fill the rolls of superhero archetypes that are easily recognizable. I think one is going to have telekinetic powers, because I think with that you can emulate a lot of other classic powers like flight (move yourself) strength (move just about anything) and even bullet proof (move the bullets out of the way). The only hero that I can really think of who thats their thing is Gene Grey from X-men, and even then half the time she's evil and dead.
I think either a robot or a guy in a robotic suit might be cool without being too over done. I would probably want to avoid the patriotic american hero, or the traditional Superman/Batman. I know I want an agility based hero, because those are always cooler then strength based ones to me.
So far that would make:
1) The Medic
2) Telekinetic
3) Agility based
4) Robot.
I think thats good so far, I'll probably want two more to round it all out but its a good start. Anyway, more on that later. Its bedtime now.
