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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — super-hero comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
An important character in the Kim Possible animated movie So The Drama, but this profile (and the title and the picture) have S P O I L E R S galore.
Obscure one-shot Batman foe who works as an underworld costumed hitman.
This profile is for the 1937 Walt Disney cartoon version, which you might remember has super-powers.
One of our capsule profiles about a Big Jim toy. Yes, we actually have several of those. I’m surprised too, and I wrote them.
Low-powered stock comic book killers who can be used in almost any campaign.
They fought Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn once.
A Fallout 3 humanoid monster added to the base game using a popular mod full of such radioactive creatures.
An overview of the main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
As well as the setting, the way magic works, the background, the species of ponies, etc.
The famous Hellboy as he appears in the comics, hunting monsters and demons and all sorts of other bad guys.
The gold medal winner from our 2014 Halloween character creation contest, with an extensive background in witchery and grandmothering.
This far future version of Superman appeared during the 2006-2007 run of the Legion of Super-Heroes animated series on the CW. He’s named Kel Ell and has somewhat different powers.
The original version of Torque in the 1990s Valiant Comics Harbinger stories with Jim Shooter and all that jazz.
From the Fables universe, the Literal who can make all objects come alive. Gary is also more or less the sidekick of the rogue Jack of Fables.
An original character from our 2014 Halloween character creation contest – a six-dimensional king flattened to 3.5 dimensions by dark gods. Comes with a free set of Hounds of Tindalos.
A made-up 4-person adventuring party for the Avernum heroic-fantasy computer role-playing game statted up in DC Heroes. This also presents the underground setting of the video game.
An original character for the DC Heroes RPG, who uses his supernatural power over doors to facilitate C-list slasher horror movie situations (and sequels). He was created during our 2014 Halloween character creation contest.
From our 2014 Halloween themed character creation contest, an enhanced psychokiller with a split personality.
A young witch created as a Player Character in a DC Heroes RPG campaign.
A capsule profile from the Halcyon comic book limited series.
Jarhead is a super-soldier from the Halcyon comics by Marc Guggenheim, published by Image Comics. He’s archetypal and easy to use in other settings.
This is our 3rd chronological profile for Frenzy. This one covers 2007-2014, where she is a member of the X-Men, with an emphasis on the Age of X virtual reality events.
Material about how the Mass Effect 2 biotic powers could work in-universe and in a tabletop RPG rather than in a video game, and new DC Heroes Powers to model these abilities.
Short profile and DCH/DCA stats for the peculiar hovertank in Mass Effect 2, plus hypotheses about how it might work.
This article discusses the guns and body armour in the first Mass Effect video game, for both the DC Heroes and the Mutants and Masterminds RPG systems. It also covers various in-universe details and the necessary data for verisimilitude in a tabletop RPG campaign.
A mostly technical article about the biotic powers in the first Mass Effect game, and using them in DC Heroes or in DCA/M&M.
A pure, glittery and two-fisted super-heroine from a 1985 RPG scenario in a French magazine. So yeah, we can do that too. If we want.
This strategy guide is intended to help people playing the Avernum: Escape from the Pit old-school computer RPG. Since we research many video game characters we also do game guides from time to time if there isn’t enough on the Internet.
A handy page with definitions of terms used on this site that are known to geeks, but not necessarily to other people. You can of course request or suggest new definitions at the community discussion space (currently on Yahoo! Groups).
The infamous tank destroyer/armoured recon vehicle from the first Mass Effect video game.
The “15 worlds” is an aborted cosmology that existed in DC Comics during the “DC Implosion” – primarily those written by David Michelinie such as Claw the Unconquered, Starfire or Star Hunters. This profile is a thorough exploration of this nigh-forgotten bit of universe building.
Shenhua’s stoner driver in the Black Lagoon anime and manga. Now has his own short profile rather than an appendix in Shenhua’s profile.