TGAOL Plot
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Plot Ideas
Bad-luck attack
The Bad luck hero strikes! Bishie has a very bad hair day, his clothing stains, he's late for work, His nails break, people at work realize he's handsome ... and someone is taking pictures.
Bishie contest
Bishie recieves a mysterious invitation to this year's Bishie Contest. He hasn't been there for a few years since he was "politely" told to never come back. The last time he entered, all of his opponents were disqualified for "some reason." Some broke their nails, others had split ends. He was victorious, but it was obvious that treachery was afoot.
Now, someone wants him back, or they will release embarrassing pictures of him around the world. And he doesn't want that.
Random junkfood
The vending machine where Bish works sells chocolate coated Ritalin--R&Ms. Like, peanut M&Ms, except with Ritalin instead. Small writing on the package says "may contain nuts." There might be some subplot about Hilarity getting ahold of a packet and finally having the focus to complete a doomsday device.
TV sports event
Bish watches most major sporting events when they're televised: Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, etc., but not for the sport. There's a discussion about how new villains always try to disrupt them and are always thwarted on national television by the 20 or so heroes present to defend the game(s). He rants for a while about the recurrence and how villains just don't seem to learn. Mayhem tries to find out if he ever did that to some sport, running through a list of major events. To each one, he denies ever having even considered it. Hilarity brings up something about a national fencing tournament when he was a teenager. He claims that was both not televised and totally justified as he should have been allowed to compete.
Action Figures
Hilarity has a Bish action figure that she plays with occasionally, mostly to make it rampage, with a "Bishie smash!" and a "Grrr! Argh!"
Hostage Situation
How does Bish react when caught in a bank robbery involving no supers? Mostly an internal debate about whether to sit it out and act normal, or act and get noticed.
Trouble with Guards
Who in their right mind would want to be a security guard henchman when there are supers about? Look into the life of one such guard. Maybe he has really good insurance? Maybe he is paid very well. Maybe he doesn't mind being a meat shield?
Supers v. Normals... fight?
There's a bigger issue at hand: how do supers and normals interact? I mean, yes, the SHs are there to make sure the SVs don't take over the world and enslave the normals, or whatever, but what about the regular old villains? What need would there be for normal cops and firefighters if there are SHs around saving kittens and foiling robberies? Maybe the SHs have a union, or a code of trying not to get involved in every little minor thing. Chances are there's such a small percentage of supers, and that group is evenly split along the hero/villain line that you can't count on a hero to be there all the time, even in their patron city. The attitude has gotten past "Where's a hero when you need one?" and back to "Call the cops when we're in trouble" because normals will assume that if there is something super involved, there will be a superhero eventually.
Governmental Constraints
The government has issues with all of these supers running around. The public loves 'em more than politicians. They routinely destroy public buildings and ruin traffic. And you can't contain them. So the government has been looking for their own forces to combat supers with.
A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. is the agency in charge of controlling supers. When there is too much super activity, they descend, politely ask the supers to disperse and begin their own covert policing. Of course, they don't like to negotiate or imagine, and their toilet paper is made of red tape, but they are thorough.
The Anti-League consists of government-controlled supers whose job it is to balance the scales between super villains and super heroes. They tend to cause a superflous calamity somewhere slightly out of town to distract the groups, and then block out the supers. The supers usually leave town or find another town that needs saving in the meantime, and move there.
