Let’s see, I created Pugilist, Mr. Mystery, Lady Hex, Minotaur, Inferna and Cyclone. Erik and I created Protonik from an illustration and concept that Kyle developed, The Twist was all three of us as was Marathon (Kyle named him as well), Headcase was Erik, Redhawk was me, the Atomic Brain was Erik and Kyle, Hyena was Erik, Damocles was my name, Erik’s concept, Kyle’s sketch. Gepetto was Erik, Kalak was Kyle’s sketch, Erik’s idea with help from Kyle. Remlok was my name and help with Erik’s idea.

Most of these characters came from the brainstorming sessions that we had. I have a notebook full of character names (some good, some bad, some that will show up and some that won’t) that we came up with while concepting. Some names we hit on as just being so damn cool (ala Mr. Mystery and the Atomic Brain) that we had to make a character to fit them. Some names we struggled with (the Twist and Marathon were tough).

The whole META-4 concept has been very collaborative so it’s hard to say that one character is mine or Erik’s or Kyle’s. We all added our say into the pot and stirred it around together.

In Crooks! we each came up with concepts we wanted to explore, and we assigned each other concepts to develop based on things we liked (for me, Murder Man and Butcher Boy were ideas that I loved. Kyle had come up with the name Murder Man, and I added Butcher Boy. Interesting though, Kyle and I had totally different ideas about how that character should be presented). Some characters were just skeletons of ideas (Waymaker, Carrion Queen) that got fleshed out through a lot of back and forth conversation. Some ideas were wholly formed when we started (Unifier, Johnny Reb, Moutain King). Erik was there to guide and control Kyle’s writing and mine (thank god, otherwise that book would have been chock full of bad grammar, passive voice, and spelling mistakes).

That’s part of what makes the META-4 universe so fun for us to work on and also so personal and dear to our hearts. We can’t imagine other people creating ideas to populate our world, because we have so many ideas we’d already like to explore. It’s a bit like imagining someone other than Frank Miller doing Sin City, or Kurt Busiek handing off Astro City.

Forward | Courage Unlimited | A Note on Notes | Thematic Influence | The Luciferian | Roll Call | Knock-Off | Gimmick | Twist | Cyclone | The Pugilist | Minotaur, ANTAG and Bestiary | Iraq Discoveries | The Reserve | The Front

All content within the “Super Unicorn Unbridled” is owned by the respective authors. All the content was granted generously by members of Super Unicorn: Sean Glenn, Erik Mona, or Kyle Hunter on the Mutants and Masterminds Atomic Think Tank messageboard. ECORE and XEI do not claim ownership of any content. This series was put together to organize information about the META-4 setting and its characters.

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