Need help with a Superhero idea.

[PhunkyPhazon]

This seems to be pretty good, and I agree with what AngelicSven said. At the end of the day, character development is the most important thing, and let's face it: coming up with a completely 100% original idea for a new superhero is almost impossible by this point. And as you pointed out, it's all to easy to subconsciously take your ideas from another hero without realizing it. I can't really say if your hero is truly like Penance since I know very little about him, but the basic concept sounds solid enough. Just be sure to give him a weakness.

I've had a superhero idea floating around in my head for awhile, too. Only problem is I can't come up with a costume.

 

[scire]

I've read through all the post and a two things popped into my head, just wanted to share them with you.
1. He has very complex and very destructive powers, how does he learn to control them at first, wouldn't he just accidently blow up something before he understands his own powers? You have a lot of possibilities in this case, like when his powers are unlocked he can sense energy in all of its forms but it is very hard to handle a new sense so he panics and flees to a relatively low energy place (wasteland?) where he learns to control it. Might make him OP but you could limit him in other ways. Because I think there are some very interesting possibilities with a sense like that. But apart from the new sense you can do all lot of things with the discovery of its powers.
2. Just a little idea for a bad guy, bad guy is part of the new blood/evolution project too, could be second generation as well, maybe first I'll leave that to you, the bad guy is overall not as good in all aspects of energy manipulation, but he can infuse other people with energy, which has healing effects and makes them physically stronger, he could have a whole cult around him of people who think he is a god that descended from heaven, his primary goal could be to expand his cult (which is quite easy because the people are desperate and he has healing powers) but the cult has some evil cleansing the world idea or something like that, so the hero must stop the cult. When the bad guy heals people he obviously must get his enrgy from something else, but he could use thing like electricity wires or simply a small fire and stuff like that. You can even have a big epic battle where the bad guy discovers that with enough energy he can raise the dead for a short while and he could drain the energy of a power plant to create a zombie army out of a cemetary. Lots of options.
Sorry for such a big piece of text, tell me what you think of it.

 

[Willem]

To be honest, this all sounds very unoriginal and dull.

I'd use this setting to make a parody about comic superheroes. A man saving the worlds economy by punching people with the force of a train is not good writing. I don't know, you could pitch this to Cartoon Network and be a millionaire.

In my opinion, I think you should challenge yourself to write something more creative.

 

[Jackhorse]

Namewise you could probably do something clever around the theme of a "Prodigal Son" if your making the parents good people or perhaps making them malicious people, proud of him for following into the family business.

or possibly "Course" either a reference to his power over energy or how he is choosing his own path in life.

Sorry for the not very good post but let me know if you think either name worth a bucket of spit

 

[Jackhorse]

If he incorporates the suggestion of making the hero self serving at first at least then its pretty orginal allready there are far too few comics about the bad guys and less about moral development. Generally they just take the form of not being a pussy or confidence or giving more value to people etc in character development arcs. That or they show parent issues, it has the potential to be pretty damn awesome at this stage in my opinion.

Wow... This comic isn't even real yet and I'm already a fanboy

EDIT: sorry this was supposed to be a qoute of Willem but I must have hit the wrong button. Sorry about the double post!