Construct a team roster... without classic members

[PatrickG]

I've seen top talent wind up in this situation before. They land an assignment on a popular team book only to find that most of the current and classic roster of the team is not available for them to use.

In the spirit of Cap's Kooky Quartet and the Justice League International, your mission is to name a team or two and fill its roster with as few current or classic members as possible.

Here's my stab at this, pre-first cup of coffee:

FANTASTIC FOUR
Bentley Wittman (aka the Wizard) (I like taking characters with a streak of obsessive envy and forcing them to put up or shut up)
Sharon Ventura (in her Ms. Marvel persona, now Ms. Fantastic)
Rachel Summers
The 4man. (Mystery character. Hint: He is a Richards. However, there are shades of X-Man in there. Plus, the pun is irresistible.)

X-MEN
Madame Web
Polaris
Vance Astrovik
Dazzler
Toro
Namora
Bullseye (So sue me)
Twilight from 2099

AVENGERS
Left-Winger
Right-Winger
Hornet
Ronin
Erik the Red
Invincible Man
Thunderstrike
-- The "Guess Who...?" roster

[Gothos]

How about a Thunderbolts made up of villains so bad that not only did no one want to re-use them, no one even bothered to have Scourge kill them off?

THE RABBLE ROUSER (Torch)
THE PROTECTOR (Ant-Man)
MADAME MACABRE (Giant-Man)
THE COLOSSUS (Giant- Man)
THE COMMISSAR (Avengers)
THUG THATCHER (Thor)
the original DOCTOR STRANGE (Iron Man)
RED BARBARIAN (Iron Man)
MISTER DOLL (Iron Man-- admittedly MD died and was briefly replaced by MADAME DOLL in SPIDER-WOMAN, but hey, comics can resuscitate anyone--)

It could be Marvel's version of "the Forgotten Villains."

[Tommy]

I would love to have an X-men book where I wouldn't get stuck with Wolverine. (Although I think a lot of this exorcise is an effort in definitions, after all would Emma Frost be considered "classic" at this point?)

X-men

Polaris
X-Man
Northstar
Lady Mastermind
Celia Reyes
Dust
Husk

[Charles RB]

NEW AVENGERS

Dark Angel (replacing Dr Strange's role)
Gravity (replacing Spidey)
American Eagle (replacing Luke Cage)
Silver Sable (replacing Iron Fist as "backer")
Casper Cole, White Tiger (replacing Ronin)
Silver Samurai (replacing Wolverine)
Deadly Nightshade (the traditional "former-villain-going-good")

[Cam63]

OK, I'll give it a go.

JLA: Super*...er, Bat*... um, Wonder*...

Nope, 'can't do it.

[Grazzt]

SUICIDE SQUAD
Red Arrow (he can go back to Arsenal, if he wants)
Manhunter (Kate Spencer)
Pied Piper (has secretly tuned everyone's wristband to his pipe)
The Shade (probably will only stick around for a mission or two)
Knockout (I assume she'll be back once Final Crisis is over)
Killer Frost
Tarantula
Clayface I
Freeway

Amanda Waller running the whole thing is a given.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Leader: Robin

Wonder Girl
Beast Boy
Speedy
Connor Hawke
Timber Wolf III (the latest Waid version)
Kid Lantern
Animal Boy (Buddy Baker's son)

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I'd likely go ahead and revamp Titans and use the Avengers/X-Men as a mold. Robin needs a guy to question his leadership of the team. And who better than a boy years from his own time like Timber Wolf. Who will have that Hawkeye/Wolverine type challenge to Robin in battle at times.

Connor Hawke will use his name now and his uniform change will see him go into a more Storm Shadow type costume with arrows on the back. Mia (Speedy) will be his gf who pushes Connor to join the team since well....Connor basically wanted to retire awhile with her and relax. He even muses in one issue about how he and Mia had plans to open a Florist shop .

Buddy Baker's son starts to exhbit powers like his dad but has trouble controlling them at times. And tapping and leaving the powers. He visits the Titans and asks them to help his son learn.

And well...Kid Lantern is a personal fan fiction character I have always loved. And with so many character sidekicks...well why not ?

[tangentman]

The Justice League of America
Power Girl
Nightwing
Thunderbolt (Charlton hero, not JJ Thunder's pet genie)
Skyrocket
The Creeper
Jennifer Morgan
Brainwave (son of the original)
Jemm, Son of Saturn

The Avengers
Iron Fist
Thundra
American Eagle
Sepulchre
Mastermind Excello
Living Lightning
Doc Samson

The Defenders
Devil-Slayer
Sharon Ventura
Talisman
Nova I
Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)

[PatrickG]

Okay a few DC ideas off the cuff:

Justice League B:
Triumph
Moon Maiden
Steel
Argus
Resurrection Man
Animal Man
Blue Beetle
Static

JSA:
Rex Tyler, Hourman
STRIPE
Dynaman
Dr. Fate
Fury I
The Silver Age Crimson Avenger (Albert Haywood?)
Golden Guardian
Mary the Gimmick Girl (Courtney's best friend from Blue Valley)

Teen Titans
Phantom Girl
Kid Eternity
Anarky
Brainiac's Daughter aka XTC (one of the last Kingdom Come concepts not to be mined)
Cliff Baker, Animal Man's son, as the new Beast Boy
Valor - a mysterious new black female character with ties to Daxam and Mon-El

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Seven Soldiers Of Victory:

Connor Hawke
Mia Dearden
Crimson Avenger (new)
Shining Knight (new)
Stargirl
STRIPE
Vigilante (Wolfman's.)

Okay, Pat Dugan IS a classic member, but STRIPE isn't his classic concept.

[Grazzt]

Seven Soldiers Of Victory:

Connor Hawke
Mia Dearden
Crimson Avenger (new)
Shining Knight (new)
Stargirl
STRIPE
Vigilante (Wolfman's.)

Okay, Pat Dugan IS a classic member, but STRIPE isn't his classic concept.

You should bring back Adrian Chase instead of using Wolfman's. While we're dreaming.

[Michael P]

Leader: Robin

Wonder Girl
Beast Boy
Speedy
Connor Hawke
Timber Wolf III (the latest Waid version)
Kid Lantern
Animal Boy (Buddy Baker's son)

You just used 4 classic members there, Super.

I'd love to see someone do Animal Boy now, though.

How about the Defenders?

Phoenix (Jean Grey)
Spider-Man
Machine Man
Blink
Kyllian (God help you if you remember this guy)
D-Man
Blob

[Michael P]

You should bring back Adrian Chase instead of using Wolfman's. While we're dreaming.

Wolfman's Vigilante *is* Adrian Chase. His first one, anyway.

[Grazzt]

Wolfman's Vigilante *is* Adrian Chase. His first one, anyway.

Sorry, I assumed she was talking about the new one.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

You should bring back Adrian Chase instead of using Wolfman's. While we're dreaming.

Wasn't he Wolfman's?

....I don't know much about the Vigilantes, except for the first, so I'll take your reccomendation.

Whomever is the new 7SoV Vigilante, however, will have to wear a cowboy costume on a motorcycle.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

You just used 4 classic members there, Super.

I'd love to see someone do Animal Boy now, though.

How about the Defenders?

Phoenix (Jean Grey)
Spider-Man
Machine Man
Blink
Kyllian (God help you if you remember this guy)
D-Man
Blob

Ohhh I thought it was a mix/match of rosters. Like put some people who had never been members on a team. I think Baker's son would be perfect for a Teen Titans book.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Avengers;

Punisher
Moon Knight
Deadpool
Mr. Fixit (I know, it is kind of cheating)
Ghost Rider
Havok

[bfrank]

Justice League:

Mr. Terrific
Donna Troy
Metamorpho
Mary Marvel
Bloodwynde
The Ray
Cyborg
Vixen
That Blue lantern dude
Tyroc!


X-Men:

Psylocke
Firestar
Justice
Northstar
Aurora
Magik
Namor
Elixer


Avengers:

Storm
War Machine
Invisible Woman
Triathlon
Silver Claw
Gravity
Thundra
Hyperion

Teen Titans

Batgirl (Babs)
Silver Scarab
Black Canary (JR)
Fury (Lyta)
Joto
Aquagirl (tula)
Offspring

[Dazzler]

I'll do the X-men.

Bedlam
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Tarot
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Anole
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Bling
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/Bling(x-men).jpg/200px-Bling(x-men).jpg

Not the most powerful team, ever, but I think they'd be interesting together.

[Black Atom]

There's really an X-Man called "Bling"?

I feel 50 years old whenever I pick up an issue of X-Men...

[Tobias March]

A take on the Fallen Angels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(comics)) - cept these are teenage Marvel heroes that have died and returned.

Alex Wilder finds the dead teens in different forms of afterlife and tricks them into returning to earth with him. Using his experience and knowledge of the Marvel Universe once again he convinces them to become superheroes again. What they don't realize is that they are acting on behalf of the Gibborim.

Skin - although this is AoA Angelo, died in an alternate earth which was then itself erased. The surviving Generation X members assume he's the same Angelo they remember, but he's colder, more willing to kill.

Hornet - really doesn't like Wolverine.

Namorita - escaped a hell styled after Hades and whose powers are no longer aquatic based, but necro-pathic.

[stealthwise]

The Secret Six are all supposedly killed after a huge explosion/cave-in/orgy, and the impetus exists for a new team to be put in place:

- the new Captain Boomerang, to keep the kind of tenuous connection to the Suicide Squad that Deadshot had provided
- Anarky, the original one, who would struggle to work within the confines of a group, for obvious reasons (not sure what the hell they plan to do with the character when they bring him back, but I don't really care)
- Livewire, mostly because she'd be funny as hell
- Golden Glider, as she was a traitorous bitch
- Fatality, in order to provide a powerhouse with room for character growth
- Nite-Wing, as lame as he is, would be the new "morally conflicted murderer" who believes himself better than the rest

[Infra-Man]

Challengers of the Unknown
Vigilante (Greg Saunders)
Ryan Choi
Jack Knight
Richard Dragon
Lady Blackhawk

[Dazzler]

There's really an X-Man called "Bling"?

I feel 50 years old whenever I pick up an issue of X-Men...

Yeah, I like her a lot, although, I had to drop the exclamation point from her name...it's actually Bling!. Ugh.

She's not been around much lately, but basically, she's got the power to be made of diamond and shoot diamond shards. Her powers aren't the greatest, but I really like her personality.

--Dazz

[Tobias March]

Yeah, I like her a lot, although, I had to drop the exclamation point from her name...it's actually Bling!. Ugh.

She's not been around much lately, but basically, she's got the power to be made of diamond and shoot diamond shards. Her powers aren't the greatest, but I really like her personality.

--Dazz

She was one of my favourite additions during Milligan's run. But then she came on to Mystique and I guess the X-office can only have one token lesbian in the books.

Quesada!!!