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Curious what rules you think would be represent your favorite marvel comic characters? What data sheet would be rep Captain America? Vision? Thor? Etc.

I think the only 40k stat block that'd even come close to Mysterio is the C'Tan Deceiver.
But that's only for the deployment shenanigans, Cosmic Insanity, & being harder to hit. Sadly Mysterio is in no way similar to a named C'tan melee wise. :(

I'd give Captain America your standard space marine stats, but with a 5+ amour save and a 2+ invulnerable save for his shield.

Maybe some special rules that grants a leadership or reroll aura?

Hulk as a Bloodthirster
Dr, Strange as a Changer of Ways

-STS

Hulk would be insulted.

Strange would be confused. He often has the subtlety and manipulative abilities of a brick to the head.

Voss wrote:
Hulk would be insulted.

Strange would be confused. He often has the subtlety and manipulative abilities of a brick to the head.

Is there anything stronger or more smashy than a Bloodthirster?

-STS

Spoiler alert: They've all been hunted down by the Inquisition and killed.

 Insectum7 wrote:
Spoiler alert: They've all been hunted down by the Inquisition and killed.

Iron Man would be abducted by the Omnissiah and spend the rest of his life on Mars.
So would Vision.
So would Ultron. (though the Void Dragon might take Ultron under its wing.)

Modok would do contract work with the Dark Omnissiah
the Brood would likely try to contact a splinter fleet.

the Shi'ar would likely party hardy with the Dark Eldar in Comorraugh.
Fury would likely run a house militia or an Arbites squad.

Bucky would likely get inducted as a Space Marine (God knows his mind is already swiss cheese)


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Oh, I get what the OP is asking.
Fury would be an Inquisitor
Bucky would be an Eversor

The skrull would have fun running the imperium.

The watcher would commit suicide from all the f'in constant grimdark.

Deadpool would drive inquisitors to suicide since he'd know he was in a game setting and tell everyone else about it. Oh, and he'd be a perpetual.

Thor would be a spacewolf.


Galactus would likely save the galaxy by destroying tyranid hive fleets to keep them from leaving him with no planets to feed on. Yeah, I imagine the big G would be able to consume the life essence from a hive fleet while it was parked over a doomed planet.

Wanda Maximoff teams up with Ravenor... Alpha plus level shenanigans ensue.

Groot could be some kind of Exodite wraithlord.

Quicksilver poses me problems. Super speed isn't really represented as such. I guess it would be equivalent to teleportation, so maybe warp.spider exarch?

A lot of superheroes are really CC focused... I can see most of them being strong in one phase of the game, but teams would not be well rounded enough to do well on the table.

-STS

slade the sniper wrote:Hulk as a Bloodthirster
Dr, Strange as a Changer of Ways

Hulk as a Bloodthirster? He would actually start off a little lower, I think. One would need Anger points that he would get every time he missed, failed To Wound, or was Wounded himself. These Anger points would then increase Str, T, and increase his Wound regeneration ala Living Metal, all at the same time.

Strange would not be a Changer of Ways in stats, just a regular human Inquisitor Pysker who could cast pretty much anything a Changer of Ways could cast.

Insectum7 wrote:Spoiler alert: They've all been hunted down by the Inquisition and killed.

Depends on how they arrived. If they just popped up due to Dr Reed's portal shenanigans, probably, if they weren't recruited by them. Not likely considering how... strict their government is. It really depends on how flexible and convincing the Inquisitor who first meets them is. The X-Men would have a real big challenge, though.

Growing up in the universe (aside from being born 38,000 years later), they would have been incorporated in to various disciplines, and many wouldn't have had their powers at all, like Rogers, Wilson, Parker, and Banner. Or at least, their sources would have not been the same.

Rogers would have been too week to be an Astartes, so unless the Dark Eldar played with him to make him a Grotesque, he likely would have been resigned to menial labor. Parker, Banner, Stark, and Richards may have all ended up on Mars at one point in their lives or another. To get their powers, one would be looking at either Dark Eldar shenanigans or Daemonic "gifts", which would lead to them being hunted.

carldooley wrote:the Shi'ar would likely party hardy with the Dark Eldar in Comorraugh.

That's even assuming they could make it across the expanse. The Shi'ar come from their own galaxy and just happen to have the ability to cross between theirs and ours easily in the Marvel universe. Would they have the same ability in the 40K universe? If so, the Inquisition would be on them like white on rice or Orks on a scrap to figure out how, and so would the Tau (as soon as they met).

With great power comes great purging in the name of the Emperor.

Imagine if Thanos snapped and he'd turn the emperor to dust.

Magneto as a Transcendent C'tan?

Wolverine is obviously a SW Weren.

Loki would probably be the Deciever C'tan.

Spiderman would be some Eldar Exarch - maybe a Banshee with Mandiblasters.

Punisher would be an Eversor assassin?

Iron man would be a Primaris Inceptor, most likely.

Miss Marvel would be St. Celestine?

Black Panther would be a Callidus assassin?

How would Hulk stack up to Ghazgull?

Doc Oc would be a Chaos Techpriest (forgot the name)

Mystique would be a Callidus assassin?

Cyclops as a Deathmark?

Colossus as a Liche Guard?

Kitty Pride as a Eldar Warp Spider?

Angel as a Swooping Hawk exarch?

Professor X as a Grey Knight Psycker?

Juggernaut as a Venerable Dreadnought?

I could see all of those for stat lines, just have to make the wargear fit the character... A lot of comic characters are lacking decent ranged weaponry, unless you are going to count thrown objects. Doc Ock, Kitty Pryde, Angel, Juggernaut, etc would be a bit underpowered since they got no dakka.

-STS

slade the sniper wrote:

Voss wrote:
Hulk would be insulted.

Strange would be confused. He often has the subtlety and manipulative abilities of a brick to the head.

Is there anything stronger or more smashy than a Bloodthirster?

-STS

In Marvel? Sure. Hulk would be able to destroy a warlord titan with one punch, much less a Bloodthirster.

Threads like these are always a little weird because different settings operate on entirely different scales. You're comparing a setting confined to a single galaxy for the most part waging wars on below galactic scale, whereas in Marvel you have conflicts like the one in Annihilation where entire galaxies are scoured clean of life, almost to the man.

Galaxies? Try whole universes all because a couple earths got too close to each other.

 Void__Dragon wrote:

slade the sniper wrote:

Voss wrote:
Hulk would be insulted.

Strange would be confused. He often has the subtlety and manipulative abilities of a brick to the head.

Is there anything stronger or more smashy than a Bloodthirster?

-STS

In Marvel? Sure. Hulk would be able to destroy a warlord titan with one punch, much less a Bloodthirster.

Threads like these are always a little weird because different settings operate on entirely different scales. You're comparing a setting confined to a single galaxy for the most part waging wars on below galactic scale, whereas in Marvel you have conflicts like the one in Annihilation where entire galaxies are scoured clean of life, almost to the man.

I was meaning in 40K...not Marvel. I was looking for a high strength CC beast, and I figured Bloodthirster fit more than a Carnifex.

When I look at these things I am not trying to translate the character 100%, just get close enough for a "counts as" not making a whole new thing.

As for Annihilation...so much comic stuff is so powerful, until a named character shows up and punches it in the face. The Annihilation wave sounded so amazing, but just ended up looking really lame and stupid. Same thing for Galactus (the old version), the Skrulls, the Shi'ar, etc. Marvel is a lot like Star Trek in that so many of their big threats are really underwhelming when you look at them for more than 30 seconds.

-STS

Not to mention, most of the Marvel heroes would not be well represented on the scale of 40K. Kill Team would be better (if skills were greatly expanded), and one would be better looking at the scale of Hero Clix or Crisis Protocol for what a lot of them could do.

 Charistoph wrote:
Not to mention, most of the Marvel heroes would not be well represented on the scale of 40K. Kill Team would be better (if skills were greatly expanded), and one would be better looking at the scale of Hero Clix or Crisis Protocol for what a lot of them could do.

I like this idea...
Build a 40k kill team and make them look like marvel characters.
Could do something like (just initial thoughts)
Deathwatch
Sergeant with storm shield and maul (thunder capt)
Veteran with a thunder hammer (thor)
Intercessor with a rifle (winter soldier)
Vanguard vet with 2 plasma pistols and a jump pack (starlord)
Terminator with assault Cannon (colonel rhodes)

If there was a Marvel Super hero in 40k, he/she would be forgotten quickly without a codex release; the marine supplements, however, would continue to be released in an endless parade, and you would notice that now marines can do everything that forgotten Marvel hero used to be able to do, but marines would do it better.

PenitentJake wrote:
If there was a Marvel Super hero in 40k, he/she would be forgotten quickly without a codex release; the marine supplements, however, would continue to be released in an endless parade, and you would notice that now marines can do everything that forgotten Marvel hero used to be able to do, but marines would do it better.

We have, like, three threads about Marine hate. Can we keep it to those threads, please?

Thor would be a Custodian.....lets be real here. Drax would be a Khornate Zerker, and Mantis would be executed on the spot.

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
....lets be real here

Lol, doing my best to adapt a fictional universe to another fictional universe.

Actually, Adam would be the Custodian. Also Heimdall.

 Octopoid wrote:


We have, like, three threads about Marine hate. Can we keep it to those threads, please?

Fair enough. I'll take my foot off the gas.

 Jidmah wrote:
Imagine if Thanos snapped and he'd turn the emperor to dust.

Since the Emperor is already dead I doubt there'd be any noticeable effect.

 Smotejob wrote:
Curious what rules you think would be represent your favorite marvel comic characters? What data sheet would be rep Captain America? Vision? Thor? Etc.

In 8th edition, I actually played an Army list based on this concept. Worked like this:

Super Heavy Imperial Knights Aux Detachment
Hulk - Knight Gallant

Supreme Command Detachment - Adeptus Custodes
Captain America - Trajann Valoris
Winter Soldier - Shield Captain with spear
Iron Man - Shield Captain on Jetbike
Vision - Shield Captain on Jetbike
Thor - Shield Captain on Jetbike

Imperial Guard Battalion (The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and support staff) - Catachans
Nick Fury - Company Commander
Scarlet Witch - Primaris Psyker (used a witch model from AoS painted to look like Scarlet Witch)
Black Widow - Sly Marbo (used an assassin model painted to look like Black Widow)
Coulson - Platoon leader
Strike Team 1 - veterans with plasma guns
Strike Team 2 - veterans with plasma guns
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents team A - infantry squad
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents team B - infantry squad
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents team C - infantry squad
Quinjet 1 - Valkyrie
Quinjet 2 - Valkyrie

It was a LOT of fun to play. The Strike teams were my alpha strike attempt and Hulk was my distraction carnifex. I won a single game in a tournament with them - mostly got absolutely demolished, but that's probably a function of my poor skills rather than the list design. Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, and Black Widow almost always were the stars, oddly enough. Hulk pretty much never did anything (again, not his fault, almost certainly mine).

Sadly it doesn't work nearly as well in 9th because of the restrictions on "souping." BOOOOO!

I mean, the scale of some of the marvel hero's is pretty insane. Some of the Omega level threats would likely feel right at home in 40K. Many of the mid to low strength characters likewise would find a place in universe. But many others either through attitude, mentality or appearance would probably not last long.

DC would also have similar pros and cons.