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Superhero Design Competition: The Best Entries

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By Total Film published 11 August 2012

Edgar Wright judges the best of your designs and pitches

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Acubens

Acubens

Designed By: Niels Hoyle-Dodson, Washington, United States

About Acubens: Sword mastery, hand-to-hand combat mastery, and the ability to draw power from stars and celestial bodies to energise spears and emit a blinding radiation from his eyes, known as Starmight.

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Super Beard Boy

Super Beard Boy

Designed By: Josh Trotter, Victoria, Austraila

About Super Beard Boy: The beard is the super hero, the man is the side kick, called Side Kick. SBB can produce hair balls. Can remove Side Kick’s moustache: the Moustache-e-rang. Can grow to any length. Uses hair puns to sass his opponents.

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Jack Flash

Jack Flash

Designed By: Dan Goodfellow, Glastonbury, UK

About Jack Flash:
Control of lightning/electrical energy. Stylistically trapped in the ’80s, hence the white jacket with rolled-up sleeves and fingerless gloves. Relies on his insulated sculpted rubber body armour to disguise middle-age spread. Theme tune: cross between a cheap rip off of Axel F and the Automan theme.

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Steel Monkey

Steel Monkey

Designed By: Nick Hetherington, Nottingham, UK

About Steel Monkey: Street performer Kurtis Conroy lost his legs in The Scorpion Network’s attacks across Britain on Christmas Eve 2014. In the aftermath Kurtis was recruited to the Military Prostheses Project. The prostheses he developed with Dr. Helen Jameson gave him the ability to move with the speed and agility of a monkey!

Partnered with the MoD’s most advanced tactical computer; given access to cutting edge weaponry and blessed with athletic prowess, Kurtis became more than the man who lost his legs helping people – he became a hero, a hero known as Steel Monkey.

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Zombie Girl

Zombie Girl

Designed By: Ben Nijssen, Leiden, Holland

About Zombie Girl:
She has been given the power to raise the dead by the Grim Reaper, to help her get revenge on those who shot her parents and left her for dead.

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Freerunner

Freerunner

Designed By: Richard Reynolds, Mansfield, UK

About Freerunner: Uses badass parkour and vigilante skills to protect the innocent... Also laser vision!

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Golden Eagle

Golden Eagle

Designed By: David O’Sullivan, Dartmouth, UK

About Golden Eagle: Superior strength, speed, stamina, agility and durability. Enhanced healing factor. Decreased ageing rate. Superhumanly acute senses. Expert martial artist, acrobat and marksman. Master strategist, tactician and field commander.

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Up And Atom

Up And Atom

Designed By: Richard Drewson, Swansea , UK

About Up And Atom:
Atom manipulation - can destroy or create things at will. Energy projection - can create streams of energy that can be used as a weapon. Limited flight.

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Bloodstrife

Bloodstrife

Designed By: Micaella Anunciacion, Quezon City, Phillipines

About Bloodstrife: James Lee is known to his enemies as Bloodstrife. He has the power to materialise his own blood at will. Each creation uses up his own blood depending on how much is needed and how much his blood supply can handle. He needs to concentrate while using matter, or else it spills.

He regenerates blood but it takes time depending on blood loss. The more blood his uses, the whiter his hair and complexion will be at the time. When he creates and uses a weapon, he masters its use instantly and becomes exceedingly powerful.

Edgar Wright Says: "A character who can transform his own blood into weapons is a intriguing and macabre concept. One can imagine the anime adaptation and Bong Joon-ho live-action version. I worry a little bit that him cutting himself to defeat his foes could be controversial, but I like the idea of an anaemic superhero. His foe could be Haemoglobin. You can have that."

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Meat Man

Meat Man

Designed By: Dominic Kerley, Bournemouth, UK

About Meat Man: Super human strength, super human agility and invisible skin.

Edgar Wright Says:
“A scientist vigilante who’s quest for justice led him to experiment with becoming Muscle Man, but ends up with the raw, unsettling vision of Meat Man. Somewhere between Frank from Hellraiser and Super Meat Boy, the boffin known as Eric Salt looks quite vulnerable as the skinned-alive superhero.

"I would like to see his medium-rare adventures, but am afraid he will cook in the sun. Either way this is bloody good, very well done and other assorted steak puns.”

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Roadkill

Roadkill

Designed By: Nick Cann, York, UK

About Roadkill: He gains the abilities of animals by collecting the body parts he finds and carries on his person.

Edgar Wright Says: “A superhero who usurps the power of spirit animals who have been left for dead on the road? Count me in. Finally a vigilante who stands up for the rights of the mammals and reptiles who are thoughtlessly killed by heartless drivers every day. I’d like to see Roadkill use the following in battle: the venom of the rattlesnake, the spines of the hedgehog, the couldn’t-care-less attitude of the cat.

"The movie could be a badass revenge epic to double-bill with Watership Down . I once hit a rabbit when I was 18 years old in my Vauxhall Chevette. I am not proud of it and deserve to be smitten to death with Roadkill’s avenging rabbit foot.”

Edgar Wright gave us Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and is behind the first crowd-sourced online graphic novel, The Random Adventures Of Brandon Generator .

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