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A group of unlikely people that met through tragic and miraculous circumstance have looked at the world around them and they have seen the suck. The villains suck. The heroes suck. The cops suck. The government sucks. Everyone fucking sucks. But these guys? They decided to embrace the suck. The Marvelous Madcaps were born on a whim, which is only fitting considering they act on whims. They aren't SHIELD agents or X-Men or Avengers with missions and dossiers. They're a group of kickass people tired of being told they have to be heroes or that they can't be when the heroes they have are doing a shit job. The Madcaps go where they want, when they want, and they do what they want. Maybe they'll rescue a kitten from a tree or maybe they'll have a massive war with a squadron of the Watchdogs' finest. Maybe they'll even rob an ATM or two. Who knows!
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Once upon a time, there were some people that did some things.
In a world where heroes and villains seem to have peeled themselves from the pages of graphic novels and inserted themselves into our lives, it feels like everyone expects extraordinary people to do extraordinary things. To them, it seemed as though anyone with the intellect of Tony Stark or the strength of Our Lord and Savior Steven Grant Rogers should definitely use it for good, to serve humanity and thwart evil-doers.
Unfortunately for all the assumers making asses outta themselves, not everyone wants to fall in line with their black-and-white model of good and bad, heroes and villains. Being incredibly skilled or having powers beyond human capability shouldn't force you into one of two boxes, right?
That's where Madcaps comes in. Their name is about as seriously as they take their "job".
It all started one balmy summer day six months ago. Eight individuals happened to be on the same plane that was hijacked by a wannabe-villain -- The Ender. Terrifying, right? The only thing that was scary about him was his incompetence. The plane went down, but only by a series of highly unfortunate accidents rather than by The Ender's own doing. But, luckily enough for the good people of Flight 871, they had not-quite-superheroes on board! The crash landing wasn't so bad, and there were no fatalities or serious injuries. The Ender managed to get away, but nobody was dead and he was an idiot that was probably going to get caught soon anyways. No harm, no foul.
Now, the people of Flight 871 ended up stranded in the beautiful, mosquito-infested wilderness of the Rockies for a month before the rescue party found them. Huzzah. The Eight -- as the heroes of the crash were initially called -- were harangued and harassed the whole time about working for the greater good. The not-quite-heroes talked amongst each other (because talking to everyone else was annoying) and discovered they were more alike than they thought.
They parted ways after the rescue, but they remained in close contact. A few years later, they found themselves kicking it at their bi-annual vacation when one of them spoke up about some real shit...
Their heroes kind of fuckin' sucked. They were all so useless. It felt like there was nobody that was willing to stick up for people that weren't human and it was a load of bullshit. In fact, the UN had passed a Registration Act that was even worse than the new-and-improved Sokovia Accords (which prevented superhumans and mutants from using their abilities outside of their own homes). The Registration Act called for anyone and everyone that wasn't human and any human with a kick to report to their local Sentinel Services office to be evaluated and tagged. The government would decide whether or not they were dangerous, and they'd then be registered to an international database. The dangerous ones were considered WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), and the fine print of the Registration Act declared that any WMD was considered government property and subject to be procured and used at the discretion of their native country.
Some of them were already evading Sentinel Services -- more than a few of them had a track record already. Tony Stark didn't seem keen on helping, and Captain America was AWOL with his half of the Avengers. The Revengers would probably help, but they didn't have much drive without Thor there.
So, thus the Madcaps were born. Sure, their name was kinda dumb, but they're a force of nature. Their goal? To dole out justice whenever, wherever, and however they see fit. Nothing is below their paygrade.
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☆This roleplay is based in an alternate Marvel universe. As such, I am okay with, and encourage, characters that are amazingly amazing, maybe even downright goddamn cliche. You want a character that can bend the very laws of physics? GO FOR IT, BRO! Just please keep in mind that your characters are not immune to cause and effect.
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☆Do not be afraid to make suggestions! This isn't just my story -- it's our story! I would love to hear from my fellow writers on what you guys think would make this even more fun.
☆I'm honestly 1000% okay with people having the same powers or skills.
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☆Please use real-life people for your character face claims. I don't care if you use Beyonce, but please. Real life face claims. Thank you
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- Rosita Bianchi (Small Foxx)
- Colleen Hoang (Shizuochan)
- Robert Valentine (Bears)
- Elijah Reynard (CallMeCrimson)
- Temperence Rigel (Elle Joyner)
- Kelsey Vance (Cosmic Penguin)
- Adam Masters (QuakeUSPB)
- Alison McPherson (MST3K 4ever)
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Considering that our AU includes mutants, Inhumans, and everything in between, the timeline is kind of... there. Nothing that Fox or Sony has ever produced is in any way canon in this universe. I spit on their films. PTUH! Anyway. Consider this an MCU-AU. The events of the films from Iron Man up to Black Panther are canon, as are the events of everything from Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones,*gag*Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Punisher, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, and *shiver* Inhumans.
But, for your convenience, here's a basic-as-shit timeline!
1942: With the help of German engineering *in my Reinhardt voice*, the American Government has created the first perfect super-soldier – Steven Rogers, aka Captain America. Months later he crashes a ship and freezes after a battle with a Nazi that unironically calls himself Red Skull.
1962: X-Men divert the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hellfire Club ends and Brotherhood of Mutants begins. United States government begins massive cover-up.
1965: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is officially registered as an accredited school and begins to enroll students and recruit mutants.
2008: Sometime in mid-February he "breaks Harlem" in a battle for the ages against Abomination, a creature that is the first prime example why the government can't be trusted to train or create supers. Then Bruce Banner disappears. Around that same time, Tony Stark is kidnapped before reappearing in May. A few months later Tony Stark murders (is it murder if it's self-defense?) Obadiah Stane before coming out as Iron Man.
2010: Shit almost goes to Hell in a handbasket because Tony Stark's father is a thief and Whiplash came for blood. Justin Hammer went to jail because he sucks – and teamed up with a supervillain. And Tony Stark/Iron Man beat his new nemesis, Whiplash. But where's the bird? The good news is that Tony's bestie, Rhodey, decides to steal one of his suits, call himself War Machine, and is now a hero.
2011: Humans find out that they are definitely not alone. As if playboys with missile-laden suits of armor and giant green monsters weren't enough to worry about, humans found out that the Vikings weren't crazy. Thor crashed down to Midgard after being exiled and had a grudge match with his adopted brother, Loki (who's also real fine) that nearly leveled a small town in New Mexico. Then they all just disappeared. OH! SHIELD also found Captain America and decided to defrost him.
2012: Loki came back and he's mad. He wants to rule over humans because he believes humanity is incapable of doing anything worthwhile on their own. He's not entirely wrong. But, humans are humans. The Avengers, SHIELD's super secret boyband, is formed and consists of: Iron Man, Thor (who decided to chase Loki to Midgard and help the puny humans), Bruce Banner/Hulk (who was seduced out of hiding by–), Natasha Romanova/Black Widow (who was previously spying on Tony Stark and destroying Happy Hogan's ego), Clint Barton/Hawkeye (who's basically their dad), and Captain America. They beat back Loki's invasion and win the Battle of New York. Insane. Why didn't the mutants help? They're perfectly fine not being discovered and hunted down.
2013: Once again, people go after Tony Stark and his tech. He has a lot of shit going on, the Vice President turns out to be shady, exploding super-soldiers are running around, Tony does dumb shit (like challenge a super villain to come and fight him at his house). It's messy. The panic attacks and PTSD aren't helping matters. But, because he's a hero, he saves the day. And then he destroys all of his suits and fixes his chest – HOORAY. And apparently, War Machine is now Iron Patriot because that sounds less like his sole mission is to invade and conquer. Later on that year, we see many places in the world experience unnatural phenomenon as the worlds, not the stars, the worlds align. Dark Elves apparently aren't dead (thanks, Bor) and they try to take over the entire universe. Thor, his biceps, his genius girlfriend, her intern, her intern's intern, and some old guy manage to defeat them! Though there's a giant creature from Jotunheim running around somewhere now...
2014: SURPRISE, BITCH! IT'S HYDRA. Yes, HYDRA. While the government thought that Captain America had ended them decades ago, they were surprised to find out that HYDRA has been infiltrating SHIELD and every level of government since the 40s. It wasn't that hard, given that the government actually hired some of them... But who cares. It's also when Cap's best friend, Bucky comes back as a sort of mind-controlled zomie: The Winter Soldier. It's frightening, though most citizens didn't even know what was going on, just that secret organizations and supers were fighting again, and now there's a black guy with metal wings and a jetpack flying around with Captain America. Nick Fury is "dead". SHIELD fell and many agents sought refuge working for the government or, even better, Tony Stark. Those that didn't work for Stark continued on in the shadows, aided by the many faces of Koenig.There's also some shit going on in space with a Kree guy, Ronan, and a dipshit human that goes around calling him Star Prince or something.
2015: Tony Stark seems to be incapable of not messing shit up. This marks the year that his murderbot got smart and realized that humans were shitty creatures destroying the world. So he decided to help them do it faster. The Avengers refused to stand for it and they beat him, though at the expense of several lives and livelihoods, as always. And then Hulk launches himself into space and Thor goes home with the technology that created Murderbot. An amazing potential hero dies when it should have been Hawkeye, and the Avengers gain a 17 year old witch. Back in the US, there's a tiny man with ants running around calling himself Ant-Man. Scott Lang, a brilliant hacker and burglar, got his hands on Hank Pym's tech, which is better than Stark's, and decided to be a superhero in the best way – taking down corporate. Hey! He managed to beat Falcon! In Queens there's also a kid running around in a crappy spider costume calling himself Spider-Man. But he's doing good. He's doing real good.
2016: The Avengers botch a mission that ends up killing refugees, children, and others when they accidentally toss a bomb... at a hospital. The legality of their operations is then called into question. The Sokovia Accords are drawn up! Anyone and everyone wanting to do superhero shit (especially supers, and especially Avengers) have to sign and abide by the new rules or retire. Or be imprisoned. The Avengers split up because at least 4 of them know better than to trust the governments to oversee people with super abilities. They fight a lot, have a showdown in a German airport. Tony Stark thinks it's brilliant to let a 15 fight seasoned assassins, heroes, soldiers, and warriors. Rhodey becomes a paraplegic. Bucky tries to clear his name because he's not going around killing people – it's another man in a wig. #TeamCap gets imprisoned on The Raft until Cap breaks them out, but not before he and Bucky put the smackdown on Tony. Meanwhile, T'Challa/Black Panther is actually doing something productive and he manages to catch the man who orchestrated the entire splitting up and destroying of the Avengers. Later, Cap and his team hide out all over the world. Bucky is kept in Wakanda where their advanced technology helps fix what HYDRA broke.
AND IN CHINA there's a wizard fight. Sorcerers from Kamar-Taj engage in an unholy battle to decided whether or not a timeless entity will be allowed to merge with our world. Doctor Strange, a cocky and narcissistic surgeon that found something better than god – MAGIC – becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme after successfully wielding the Eye of Agamoto to annoy the shit out of a timeless entity (Dormamu) until a bargain is struck that makes Dormamu go away and wish he'd never met Strange. Unfortunately, the misunderstood and misled Kaicilius had to die. Sad. And there's a black wizard running around killing other wizards.
OH AND BY THE WAY. The X-Men went viral went someone from Xavier's accidentally uploaded their mutant-filled mansion birthday bash to all of their social media accounts. And that's how mutants were outed. There was a press conference a week later that saw the President of the US bumble his way through an attempt to educate the general populace about the X-Gene. 2016 got even better. Three months after mutants are outed, the UN draws up the Registration Act. The Registration Act requires any and every being, whether human or not, that has any kind of powers or special abilities or special equipment to register with their local government, to then be uploaded into an international database. Unlike with the Sokovia Accords, this didn't apply only to people that wanted to fight crime and be heroes. Have powers, must register. Unfortunately, the fine-print decrees that non-human beings have absolutely zero constitutional rights and any being deemed too dangerous or powerful would be labeled a WMD (weapon of mass destruction) and considered property of their respective government. AND THEN ALONG CAME SENTINEL SERVICES.
2017: Stuff is happening in space, but now it's here too! Nobody on earth knows why mysterious blue goop started bubbling up and swallowing things and it's impossible to analyze. To be discussed later. Spider-Man is still around and now he thinks he's the shit because he has a teched-out suit and he went toe-to-toe against Falcon and Winter Soldier and Ant-Man and won. But let's not talk about how Cap handed his ass to him. He manages to take down Vulture, a notorious arms dealer, but he's just doing friendly neighborhood Spider-Man stuff. Nothing to see here. The real action is in space! Hulk finds Thor, they fight, they laugh, they instigate a revolution led by a pile of talking rocks, the Kronan called Korg (please, take a pamphlet). But why is Thor on the slave planet of Sakaar? Because his big sister that makes him look like the adopted one is back now that dad's dead, and she wants the world. Thor can't beat her so he saves his people and releases Surtur, who destroys all of Asgard. Ragnarok, bitches.
2018: Deep in the heart of Africa, Wakanda is being better than the rest of the world and M'Baku is being fine as hell. They've got their shit going on, but it doesn't matter to the storyline because nobody in the story would know about it. There's also an alien coming but... hey. Who cares. Thor's ship has landed but he's nowhere to be seen -- just Loki (disguised as Thor), the last Valkyrie, Heimdall, Bruce Banner, and a shit ton of refugees. Tony Stark and Black Panther pooled their wealth to buy a large piece of land in rural New York that Asgardians could settle until they figured out a more permanent solution.
And because there's so much going on in the MCU tv shows, rather than put them all in the timeline, here's this:
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 1 (2013)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 2 (2014)
- Agent Carter – Season 1 (2015)
- Daredevil – Season 1 (2015)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 3 (2015)
- Jessica Jones – Season 1 (2015)
- Agent Carter – Season 2 (2016)
- Daredevil – Season 2 (2016)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 4 (2016)
- Luke Cage – Season 1 (2016)
- Iron Fist - Season 1 (2017)
- The Defenders – Season 1 (2017)
- Inhumans – Season 1 (2017)
- The Punisher – Season 1 (2017)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Season 5 (2018)
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Alright, so you've read the timeline and you're wondering what's going on with the supers. I get it. Well, here you go!
SHIELD: Currently a super secret organization (more than before) back from the future and trying to change it. Operating out of an underground bunker. Nick Fury is alive, but he's on a beach somewhere enjoying a mojito.
AVENGERS: Team Cap (Captain America, Ant-Man, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Hawkeye, White Wolf, Bruce Banner) is in hiding and are considered war criminals. Team Stark (Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Vision, & Iron Patriot) are out enjoying their lives as superheroes, doing whatever they want. Natasha once sided with Tony, but then switched to Cap, and is now in the wind as a blonde just doing her own thing. T'Challa is on T'Challa's side and he has a kingdom to run. Fuck the Avengers.
TRASK INDUSTRIES: A private (secretly funded by the government) corporation that poses as a pharmaceutical company. It was founded in the late 1930s and since then they've done everything they can to get their hands on any kind of super they possibly can. They engage in experiments that violate all kinds of laws of humanity, and their goals are often unclear. They view humans as superior and everything else as lesser beings to be manipulated and harnessed as tools, weapons, toys, and whatever they deem fit. They are ruthless and uncaring.
SENTINEL SERVICES: In 2016, when mutants "came out", many politicians that'd been previously unaware of their existence demanded that there be a branch of law enforcement dedicated solely to capturing, subduing, and imprisoning "rogue" mutants. Sentinel Services has been around for two years, but they're already showing signs of being corrupt; they have a nasty habit of capturing innocent mutants, charging them with the crime of existing. But nobody says anything because it's hard to prove when you've got the government at your back. Rumors are that they sometimes supply Trask with mutants.
WATCHDOGS: They're a bunch of fucking assholes. Most of them are former military, but they've got a stick up their ass about supers. They don't mind humans genetically enhanced by steroids and experiments and cybernetics too much, but they hold a special hatred for Inhumans and Mutants. The Watchdogs are a milita that rolls around kidnapping supers with all the skill of a black ops team. They then either torture and kill them or sell them to places like Trask Industries. The government doesn't really seem to care.
X-MEN: They are a barely-elite group of mutants that specialize in protecting mutants from humans, humans from mutants, and everyone from the Brotherhood. Most of them are under 21 and former students of Xavier's. They don't have too much to do besides search and rescue since the Brotherhood ghosted them. Unlike the Avengers, they don't like the spotlight. You won't see them doing television interviews or anything; they get their job done and they leave.
BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS: They really can't stand humans, and who can blame them. Most of them suffered greatly at the hands of humans and turned to the bosom of the Brotherhood for safehaven. They believe the world would be better off without humans and have, on many occasions, attempted to make humans aware of mutantkind, only to be thwarted by the X-Men. They disappeared from everyone's radar in 2015.
MUTANTS: Mutants are also called Homo Sapien Superior. Many papers have been written on them and the X-Gene has been studied extensively, although the government is keen on keeping this information under wraps. Mutants were once considered myths, though they aren't rare at all. Before, Xavier's and the Brotherhood were quick at snapping up budding young mutants before they could be discovered by humans. They lived a life of secrecy, hiding what their genes made them capable of. But, after the Brotherhood disappeared, they came out. Not because they wanted to, though (refer to 2016 on timeline). They still try to remain secretive, but more and more feel emboldened enough to be out as they are.
INHUMANS: Inhumans were even more secret than mutants once upon a time. Nobody even knew they were a possibility. But, after water supplies and a large amount of fish oil vitamins were contaminated with Terrigen Mist, people with Inhuman genes began to go through Terrigenesis all over the world. SHIELD recruited many, some decided to just hide, and others were kidnapped... And then you have the bloodline of the OG Inhumans. After their home was overtaken, the Inhumans that have been living on the moon migrated to Earth and were granted a large piece of land in Hawaii to restart their kingdom anew. But not all people of Attilan trust their royal family to break away from the oppressive and degrading caste system that started the coup in the first place; and can they really trust humans, especially from the government?
SORCERERS: They have magic. Some inherited, others learned it. They keep to themselves and guard the world from the supernatural.
ENHANCED HUMANS: They come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Their powers were obtained in many different ways -- blessed by some deity or cosmic entity, getting struck by lighting during a blue moon, getting bit by a radioactive raven -- but the majority of them are the subjects of illicit, unethical, and often illegal experiments conducted by either the government or private corporations.
AESIR & VANIR: Asgard was home to many Aesir and Vanir, though both are often mistake as Asgardians (it's wrong because Asgardian isn't a species, it's more of a nationality). They look like humans but they can lift up to 2 tons, weigh thousands of pounds, can punch Hulk through five buildings, have an immense amount of stamina, and are incredibly durable. Not because they are all warriors, but just because it's how they're designed. They're currently refugees in upstate New York.
ALIENS: I won't even try to list them all, to be honest.
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