Unlikely Heroes

Ninja
Clown
Priest

Pirate
Housewife

Elvis
2Pac

(they should definitly sing a romantic duet)

King Arthur
Djengis Khan

(hey, your sword isn't straight)

Jack the Ripper
Dracula

(is that your blood I smell?)

Make sure to pass the script to a Hollywood agent, I would love to see the film...

Greetings,
Pelpo

How about some of these:

Kim Jong Il
Pat Buchanan
Michael Moore
Ram Das
Ayatolla Sistani
Martha Stewart
Pancho Villas ghost
Rock Hudsons Brain in a jar

Mix in a little Team America with the League

Oh I forgot one,

Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker)

:P

Has anyone mentioned "Super Spy" yet?

But then another decision arrives ... Super-Spy-Guy (Bond, XXX) or Super-Spy-Chic (Lara Croft, Kim Possible)?

-Bryk

Is it just me, or does this sound like a fantastic premise for a party game? If it's just me, I understand...(hey, I've only had 6 hours of sleep out of the last 72...).
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Players have hands of cards representing all these assorted personages. They'd presumably make melds of three along any common principle that a player proposes and isn't vetoed near-unanimously... (I'm thinking maybe something like 'The Big Idea", where you're somehow investing in the quality of the resulting joke...)

And for once I have a decent title right off the bat: "The Fourth One Ducks..."

Be sure to check out Duel of Ages. Mismatched icon characters is a big part of that game's appeal. In a recent game, I had Buffalo Bill and Beowulf hunting Joshua Jordan, a mildmannered reporter. Beowulf had a bengal tiger with JJ's name on it. Gawain the Green Knight tried to run Beowulf down, but the sturdy Dane pulled out a space marine anti-personnel rifle and that was that.

That said (!), there's still a lot of room in this concept. Duel of Ages is largely about combat and iconic situations ("You're hacking into the mafia boss' computer. Test your brains skill.") You may have a different angle. And it's a hex-and-chit game, most definitely not a party game.

Yogurt

I will amend my previous list to make it fit the format better.

First:
Martha Stewart, Pat Buchanon, Kim Jong Il, and Michael Moore
I think we can turn all of these into "Evil Genius"
Second:
Rock Hudson becomes "Head In A Jar" or maybe "Disembodied Brain"
Third:
Pancho Villa becomes "Revolutionaries Ghost" I don't know about this one though

Pop Stars are always absurd and make good cannon fodder. Flashy things can be distracting sometimes afterall.

I like the sound of this team:
Evil Genius
Disembodied Brain
Pop Star
Ninja
Clown
Flying Nun

I am not sure I followed correctly the idea of this thread, but once in a while, I tought of making a game with all the Horror characters seen in the black and white horor movies of the 60ies. For example :

Dracula
Frankenstein
Invisible Man
Mummy
Monster of Lockness ( some sort of lizard man )
Abott and Castello ( why not?, they made a horror movie too)
etc.
(Yes I know, "The League of extrodinary gentlemen" somewhat have all these characters )

I thought It could made a good theme but I did not find any game design for it. So it could be a cooperative or competive game or it could also be a kill these monsters game. But I think playing these badguy monsters would have been best.

The setting could be a haunted castle/mansion/woods. The resource-producers would be campers who, on a dare, come to visit. The resources would be the things they carry and drop when they are spooked (cheetos, comic books, etc), and each horror character has a special ability that allows them to score. I've never played PR, only heard of it, but this *sounds* feasible. Good luck making a game of it, though.

Sorry for the wolfman I forgot. I am not sure if there is a strict copyright on the idea of a wolfman since there is an RPG called werewolf. I think this is a common creature so this should not be a problem. For the monster of Lockness, this I think is copyrighted since it is not broad enough.

By the way sorry if this thread have gone in another direction.
I'll post the feed back in another thread.