Characterization Activity:
Step 1: Complete the Superhero/Super-Villain Profile form. Try to be as creative and unique as possible. Don't recreate a character that already exists in a comic book or movie.
Step 2: Imagine a scenario your newly created character might find themselves in. Consider setting (both time and place), and who else might be in the scene.
Step 3: Using action and dialgue only, you are going to indirectly "show" your character's abilities, personality, and other key characteristics. The scene should be 1-2 pages in length. You are not writing a full story, so you can start anywhere in the plot.
Step 2: Imagine a scenario your newly created character might find themselves in. Consider setting (both time and place), and who else might be in the scene.
Step 3: Using action and dialgue only, you are going to indirectly "show" your character's abilities, personality, and other key characteristics. The scene should be 1-2 pages in length. You are not writing a full story, so you can start anywhere in the plot.
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Superhero/Super-Villain Profile:
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List of Superpowers (From B. McKenzie at Superhero Nation):
Generic Physical Superpowers
- Superstrength
- Speed
- Durability
- Agility/reflexes
- Healing/regeneration
- Supersenses
- Sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch
- Sensing danger (spider-sense)
- Sensing other types of events (dishonesty, murder, etc.)
- The ability to remove senses (like inflicting blindness, etc.)
- Longevity/immortality
- Climbing/wall-crawling
- Swimming/water-breathing
- Flight
- Teleportation
- Exceptional leaping (e.g. the Hulk)
- Phasing/intangibility
- Temporal manipulation (like The Matrix)
- Time travel
- Prophecy
- Basic elements (fire, water and/or ice, earth, wind)
- Electricity
- Light
- Darkness and/or shadows
- Gravity
- Magnetic forces
- Radiation
- Energy
- Sound
- Nature
- Skills and/or knowledge
- Popular categories: science, mechanical, computer/electronics, weapons-handling/military, driving, occult/magical.
- Super-intelligence
- Resourcefulness (“I’m never more than a carton of baking soda away from a doomsday device”)
- Telekinesis (moving objects mentally)
- Telepathy (reading minds)
- Mind-to-mind communication
- Mind-control
- Possession (total mental control)
- Memory manipulation (may include creation/alteration/deletion)
- Mentally generated weaponry/objects
- Mindblast
- Ability to locate someone mentally
- Forcefields
- “Psychometry”–the ability to learn things about the past or future of an object by touching it
- Acid/poison
- Controlling plants and/or animals
- Shapeshifting (animals).
- Shapeshifting (people)–mainly useful for disguises/stealth.
- Elasticity
- Self-destruction
- Self-liquification
- Gaseous form
- Growth/shrinking
- Self-duplication
- Invisibility
- Absorbing someone else’s powers
- Negating someone else’s powers
- Luck manipulation (good luck for hero and/or bad luck for enemies)
- Illusions
- Pocket space–the ability to hold and remove objects so that only the user can retrieve them. It could be used for carrying really heavy equipment, hiding valuable and/or stolen and/or highly explosive goods, concealing weapons, smuggling candy into movie theaters, removing a hostile explosive, etc.
- Ability to control density
List of Character Traits: (from B. McKenzie at Superhero Nation)
Mental Characteristics and Mindsets
Generally positive mindsets
Sympathetic traits
Sympathetic traits
Positive levels of normality
Generally positive mindsets
- blase
- careful
- carefree
- cautious
- confident
- creative
- curious
- dutiful
- enlightened
- exuberant
- idealistic
- intelligent
- light-hearted
- logical
- methodical
- savvy
- sophisticated
- spiritual
- steady
- serious
- whimsical
- clueless
- delusional
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- foolhardy
- flitty
- harried
- milquetoast
- paranoid
- pie-in-the-sky (over-idealistic)
- reckless
- self-assured
- sheltered
- smug
- stubborn
- unquestioning (unduly obedient)
- unstable
Sympathetic traits
- conscientious
- dutiful
- faithful
- honest
- idealistic
- innocent
- just
- law-abiding
- prim
- proper
- rebellious
- upright
- shaken
- criminal
- uptight
- treasonous
- puritanical
- hypocritical
- self-appointed
- self-centered
Sympathetic traits
- adventurous
- dedicated
- driven
- energetic
- exuberant
- intrepid
- rugged
- flitty
- bored
- disinterested
- crippled
- languid
- lethargic
- sedate
- charming
- frank
- elegant
- generous
- haughty
- helpful
- humble
- immature
- modest
- pushover
- reserved
- sensitive
Positive levels of normality
- conventional
- familiar
- one-of-a-kind
- usual
- zany
- alien
- bizarre
- conformist
- eccentric
- maladjusted
- weird
- good-humored
- gregarious
- eloquent
- calm
- analytical
- athletic
- superstitious
- combative
- needy
- unfriendly
- aggressive
- clueless
- old-fashioned
- strict
- anti-social
- naïve
- insecure
- spiteful
- disorganized
- untactful
- pushy
- ignorant
- dumb
- selfish
- passive
- jealous
- arrogant
- smirky
- weird
- unprincipled
- saucy
- dangerous
- rude
- sickly
- coarse
- bad sense of humor
- hard
- deceitful
- impulsive
- critical
- moody
- pensive
- nervous
- pampered