Topics: Lexicon, Metagene, Mutant, Tunguska Event.
AMERICAN ASSEMBLY A super team sponsored by the U.S. govt. during WWII. Some of it's wartime activities are still classified. It dissolved in the early 1950's during Sen. Joseph H. McCarthy's hunt for Communist metahumans.
THE ASSEMBLY A rebirth of the American Assembly, the new group was put together by former members of the original WWII team. Lead by the legendary hero Sovereign (recently out of retirement), the team is composed primarily of young and relatively untested metahumans. At his right hand is the winged fury known as Hera. Other core members include Maxus, Flare, Blaze and Surge.ASSEMBLY PRIME HQ of The Assembly, located on the northwest tip of Santa Catalina Island approx. 20 miles south of Los Angeles.
BLACK ARROW (Brace Bannon, retired WWII-era hero): His only metahuman power appears to be his vitality, as he's not aged much since WWII. Appears to be in his mid-40s. He was one of the ex-American Assembly members who put together The Assembly.
CITADEL East coast paranormal detention facility. Like its sister installation known as Stronghold, Citadel is designed to hold the worst of metahuman criminals.DIVA MAX Sexy super-siren and Xenia Vice's latest metahuman marketing gimmick, inspired by Freedom Max.
DIVINE STRIKE An all-female metahuman team.DREAD GUARD A rumored metahuman or mutant team associated with a shadowy criminal organization.
EUROSTRIKE A metahuman team based in Europe.
FREEDOM MAX Los Angeles' most well-known, popular, and licensed metahuman. From action figures to video games, his likeness is known throughout the U.S. and the world. Leader of the Justice Brigade, and the inspiration behind other personalities in the city such as Kid Max, Ultra Max and Diva Max.
JUSTICE BRIGADE A metahuman team based in Los Angeles and lead by Freedom Max.
KID MAX New blonde-haired teenage hero, inspired by Freedom Max. He's only recently appeared in Los Angeles and seems to be as interested in impressing metahuman heroines as he is in fighting crime. A little overconfident, his powers include flight and super strength.
LEGION LAW A vigilante based in Union City in the northeastern U.S. No one's sure where he came from, but rumors of an ex-SEAL or special govt. agent background appear likely. He leans toward high-tech hardware which he uses in a one-man war on the city's organized crime syndicate.
LIBERTY: THE AMERICAN GIRL A new and popular heroine based in L.A. described as a "metahuman powerhouse and all-American girl." Primarily possessing superhuman strength, flight and invulnerability, Liberty carries on the tradition of her WWII-era American Assembly namesake.
N-HUMANS A super team composed of "exotics" and "freaks."
OMEGA STRIKE A metahuman team sponsored by the U.S. government.
RED BRIGADE Soviet super team from the '70s and '80s. The raven-haired Russian heroine known as Red Star was a member in the early '80s before she disappeared.
SOVEREIGN WWII-era metahuman recently out of retirement. Leader of the metahuman team, The Assembly.
STAR SQUAD A metahuman team and rival of the Justice Brigade.
STRONGHOLD The Death Valley Paranormal Detention Facility's more common name. Built to hold the more dangerous metahuman criminals.
THREAT An international criminal organization controlled by a governing body known as the Hierarchy, THREAT engages in both criminal and legitimate business enterprises. Masquerading behind legitimate businesses, THREAT avoids the attention of the world's intelligence and law enforcement communities, manipulating world events for its own inscrutable purposes. Organizationally, Directors are appointed to oversee operations on each continent (ex. there's a Director of THREAT North America, one for THREAT Europe, one for THREAT Asia, ex), which are broken up into regions with Regional Directors over them. THREAT operatives wear no official uniform.
ULTRA MAX Armored hero, inspired by Freedom Max.