My recreation of Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle's Anarky from the 1970s-80s.
Heroes: Riptide (Marina Kelly)
Marina was a marine biologist who operated out of the Bahamas, recording the habits of sea flora and fauna for scientific study. She has a huge love of the sea, often spending the majority of her time free-diving in the bay and interacting with the underwater creatures she loved so much. She even has a pet dolphin she named "Svo", an abbreviation of "svobodného ducha", which means Free Spirit in Czech. During a scuba diving tour she was leading, a ship containing a bootleg version of the Super Serum hit a rock, tearing a hole in it's side and causing the serum to spill out into the surrounding waters. The tour group and everyone else in the bay was violently mutated by the serum, causing them all to develop superpowers and drown. She was the only one to survive, as she developed the ability to turn her entire body into a being composed entirely of water. Horrified by what she'd become, she swam back to her lab and locked herself inside of her huge office aquarium. Shen then spent the next 2 weeks locked in her office, trying to figure out how to control her new abilities. During her time, she learned that her entire body is essentially malleable, and that she can bend her body any way she pleases. She also had the ability to control water, breathe underwater, turn essentially intangible, shape-shift into other people, and morph her entire body into a puddle, allowing her the ability to slip through crevasses. After finally getting control over her abilities, she left her office and stepped back out into the world. On her first day out, she headed back to her favorite beach, just in time to see a yacht crash into the pier and start to sink. She quickly leapt into action and saved everyone on the boat. Everyone was in awe of the "Aqua-Lady", as they called her. She was reported in the paper, with some people claiming that she was a "Goddess Of The Sea". While certainly not seeing herself as a "Goddess", she was inspired by superheroes like Bonfire and Ryuko to become her own hero. She then fashioned her own costume out of a wetsuit she owned, and made her official debut to the public a week later. While finally meeting up with friends at the Marathon Mall, the place was accosted by a team of robbers who were trying to rob the jewelry store. Seeing a golden opportunity, she leapt into action and stopped the robbers. She then introduced herself to the public as "Riptide". A year later, P.E.A.C.E. caught wind of a new superhero operating out of the Bahamas, and they sent Ultra-Violet and Black Streak to investigate and offer her a spot on the team. They happened to do it at the exact same time Hazmax & Toxzita moved their operation to the Bahamas, who were planning on infecting the water with a toxin that would turn anyone who ingested it into a toxic mutant. The three heroes then teamed up and combined their abilities to stop them and cure all of the citizens of Nassau. After this, she accepted their offer, and joined the team as their resident environmentalist hero. She now spends her time helping out along the coastline between the USA & the Bahamas, stopping smuggling operations, helping out during shipwrecks and oceanic archeology assignments.
"Evil? Come on, how reductive. I suppose me evil means you good. Bullshit! I mean, it's true that I've never given a second thought to anyone that I've let die, but I take no pleasure in it...like a truly evil man would. I'm merely...removing nuisances. Public service, really. But you...I believe for the first time, I will rather enjoy watching you die."
- Kilgrave
James Gordon Jr, Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, The Joker, Roulette, Hugo Strange
Carmilla Carmine Tribute (Power & Control)
This is a song I found that I think fits Carmilla Carmine, the Swan Demoness, from Hazbin Hotel perfectly. Give it a listen!
Neo Joker
Before she met the Clown Prince of Crime, Marian Drews was a depressed, self harming bank teller who had nothing to live for. She'd often cut her wrists in full view of everyone else, just to see if anyone cared enough to stop her. Then one day, she met the love of her life. The Joker robbed the Bank that she worked at, and pointed a gun at her head. Suddenly, she wanted to live. Instead of killing her, The Joker handed her a sack and told her to load it with money from the vault. Halfway through this, he started to call her Harley. Already terrified, Marian just went along with it, afraid that if she didn't that he would kill her. As soon as they left the bank and escaped the cops, The Joker handed her Harley's old costume and told her to put it on. It turns out that the original Harleen Quinzel had left Joker's crew a few months ago, and Marian had a striking resemblance to the former psychiatrist. As soon as they got back to his Ha-Hacienda, The Joker bandaged her wrist wounds, and then buried his head in her lap and began to cry. It was then that Marian realized that The Joker wasn't a monstrous demon, just a deeply damaged man who wanted someone to love him. Just like that, she became his new Harley Quinn. Sometime during their partnership, she modified the costume and made it look more like a Roller Skater than a Classic Jester. One night after The Joker broke out of Arkham Asylum for the umpteenth time, Batman chased him to a medical warehouse and force fed him a bottle of unknown pills. These pills had a rather unexpected effect on The Joker, restoring him to his former sane self. Returning to his identity of Jack Napier, he tried to propose to who he thought was Harleen Quinzel, but Marian rebuffed his advances. She loved The Joker, not Jack Napier. Before she could force makeup on Jack's face, she was kicked in the face by Harleen Quinzel, who had come to save her "Puddin". While Jack and Harleen were trying to make Jack the new councilman of Gotham City, they used very corrupt means in order to prove that Batman is the worst thing for the city. They used a combination of Clayface and Mad Hatter's mind-control tech to mind control all of the super villains of Gotham to go on a rampage and destroy a library that Jack had recently built in Backport, and all to prove that Batman can't solve every problem. Meanwhile, Marian decided to become the new Joker while Jack was gone from the role. She then found a warehouse where Jack was stashing all of the villains and the mind control tech. Cutting a deal with the Mad Hatter, she and Jervis mind-controlled the villains in order to go against Jack's orders and destroy the city. After attacking Wayne Manor, they managed to steal the blueprints for a giant freeze ray constructed by Thomas Wayne and Baron Von Fries, Mr. Freeze's father. They then found the ray and used it to freeze all of Gotham City, and gave the GCPD an ultimatum: either Jack turns back into The Joker, or she lets everyone in the city die. After a strained alliance between Batman and Jack Napier, Jack turned back into The Joker and battled Neo Joker within the caves where the ray was stationed. When the walls collapsed, Jack tried to sacrifice himself by driving the Batmobile into a narrow causeway and ejecting Harleen Quinzel onto one of the motorcycles, telling her to go and get Neo Joker. Fortunately, Jack survived and Marian was captured after she and Harleen had a fight. She was then taken to Arkham Asylum and became one of it's newest inmates. However, she got what she wanted, as Jack’s pills wore off and he become The Joker once again.