Miss El Toe - Masked Luchador wrestler who’s signature move is a Flying French Kiss into a hurricanrana off the top ropes.
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as I mentioned Mrs. Terious and Mr. E are the staff at the school but eventually Sir Prize might show up as a British hero wanting to capture her for crimes committed in the U.K.
my inspiration for this group was the Rudy Vallee + Glynis Johns episode of the Adam West Batman.
Including the part where the evil schoolgirls capture Robin, and he is not afraid for his life but for his… innocence. I think that when the girls hit D6 status as LTs they will “surrender” and stop fighting or trying to escape but hinder a male hero by making lewd hand gestures or lifting their skirts. (As I mentioned the clone maker had naughty intentions so the girls might have more hormones than a normal 16–19-year-old girl. and 85% of criminals that hear about that would think that was bad)
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That was part of the “Londinium” Arc, right? Good times.
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I don’t know if you’ll feel the need for the military to get involved, but you could always have Major Disaster and General Chaos.
I don’t think we want the lawyers to get involved:
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Miss Communication
Miss Diagnosis
Miss Fit
Miss Herd
Miss Isle
Miss Judge
Miss Manage
Miss Nomer
Miss Print
Miss Quote
Miss Taken (has the power of constantly being kidnapped by villains and taken to their secret lairs?)
Miss Understanding
I personally kinda like the ones where the second part of the name suggests different things to the combined name (like Miss Fit). No idea what Miss Isle does…
EDIT: If you want an alternative to Major Diasaster that hasnt been used, I think “Major Crisis” is free and clear.
So, Adam Warren’s Empowered with less bondage cheesecake? 
Actually, she canonically went to college for a supers major, and could reasonably be assumed to have taken a course (no doubt taught by Miss Taken) on how to deal with being captured. She must have aced that course, the current online strips (from volume nine of the print comic, IIRC) really highlight how well taking her prisoner works out for most villains - and it gets worse if they try to repeat the process.
FWIW, there’s also a DC character (probably several versions of him, even) named Mister E. He always has the “mister” spelled out rather than abbreviated, but if the point is to avoid duplication Mr. E is still a bit close.
There is also a Marvel Comics Mister E, a Scooby-Doo Mister E, and a LEGO Mister E. And my high school English teacher, who went by Mr. E.
The point is, I think that it’s a name that’s been used so many different times by so many different people, it doesn’t really matter anymore is someone new starts using it.
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Fair enough. It’s too obvious a bit of wordplay to trace an origin point.
And none of them (except maybe your high school English teacher, I guess) are to be confused with E-Man, the Charlton Comics alien superhero. That was a cute book, and had some great backup stories. I should track down some of the old issues and re-read them, it’s been years. There have been a lot of minor revivals since the 70s, but the ones I’ve seen didn’t quite have the same charm.
Nova Kane (speaking of wordplay) being an exotic dancer working her way through grad school was pretty edgy for the time period, now that I think about it.
Haven’t read much Empowered, though I’m tangentially aware of it.
My original inspiration was an ability available to the “mundane character” class playbook in Monster of the Week. It allows you to play an “I get captured by the monster” move (which can be more helpful than it sounds)…
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Yes, I’ve played it as well. It’s a very, ah, Daphne-esque move, although that aspect of her character has gradually been toned down over the years, or highlighted as a self-parody. Fun game, that.
Empowered (which is NSFW unless you have a very tolerant HR department) started out as a joke character based on how much cheesecake bondage art Warren was getting commissioned to draw, and gradually turned into 11 manga-style volumes (with a 12th in the works for years now) worth of rather well-done stories with some real character growth, story stakes, and an increasingly fleshed out setting that manages a weird split between comedic, sci-fi, and Image-ish supers. Good read (and free as a webcomic at the moment) although it will depend on your tolerance for both cheesecake and sudden tone shifts between tongue-in-cheek parody and some really grim character concepts. The lead character is prone to getting captured and tied up, for reasons that involve spoilers but actually make a lot of sense when they do get revealed. She really makes it work in her favor after a while, in part because most of the setting’s villains are somehow even more idiotic than her mostly-terrible hero teammates,
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Additional 'Miss’es:
- Miss Direction (combination of perfect sense of direction with reality perception/distortion powers?) - often seen hanging out with Miss Guided.
- Miss Ewe (sheep powers)
- Miss Fortune (who amazingly doesn’t seem to be an official superhero yet, though there is a LoL character of that name…).
- Miss Fire (ditto, except for the LoL bit…)
- Miss Conception (some sort of manifester ala Idealist?)
- EDIT: Miss Elaneous (okay, I’ll stop. Probably…)
(EDIT: Just realised Miss Direction was already done. Oops!)
Miss Fortune sounds like a Disparation amalgam of Miss Information and Kismet.
Miss Fire is probably a nickname that Citizen Hammer uses to tease Citizen Summer.
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thanks for even more info guys / gals / others
I was thinking about coming back for at least one last inspiration.
I found a good pic of a schoolgirl with a gasmask and added a cloudy aura and I need to find the right name for her
my plan from miss Isle is a blaster = missile also she is Polanyian with a mild volcano goddess thing going on.
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Miss Ty? (Pronounced Miss-tee)
EDIT: I belatedly realise that just “Miss T” would probably work…
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I pity the fool who messes with Miss T.
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