The Extraordinary Mythos: Hero Teams 1: N. America

This is a list of some of the most notable, important, and recurring teams of heroes in the Extraordinary Mythos, organized along national, regional, and continental lines. First up is North America.

United States

The Allegiance- The Allegiance is the preeminent hero team, more renowned and well known than any other group. In one form or another the Allegiance has been around for decades, stretching back as far as World War II, when it originally began as a union of some the most famous individuals in the cape and costume crowd that had emerged. Over time it has became a kind of dynasty, having its share of ups (the Super War victory) and downs (the Dark Allegiance era). Even as militarized nationalist teams and other competing international groups rise up, the Allegiance remains number one in the superhero world, thanks to a post-millennial renaissance courtesy of Captain Meteor and the defeat of the Dark Allegiance. The current iteration, the sixth (counting the Dark Allegiance), is based out of New York City.

Members:
Afterburner- Extreme sports athlete turned fiery flying speedster with some dark secrets.
Blacksmith- Engineer turned powered armor hero who wields the matter manipulating Hammer of Vulcan.
Doc Quantum- Super-genius physicist enfused with strange matter after an accident that is slowly consuming his body, but grants him physics-manipulating powers.
Harmonika- Retired pop singer who gained sonic powers after partaking of an experimental procedure to restore her damaged vocal chords.
Megabeast- Former supervillain by the name of "Behemoth" looking to make amends for his past.
Silver Centurion- Immortal wandering warrior in his latest heroic identity. An elder statesman of the heroic community.


The Coalition of Champions- The Coalition of Champions is something of a "sister" group of heroes to the Allegiance. To it's detractors, it's the "b-team," where all the Allegiance wannabes and rejects end up. This is something of an unfair opinion, as the Coalition has had fairly decent reputation and some notable heroic members. It was created by former Allegiance member Storm Prince after he renamed himself "Stormlord" and cofounded with Allegiance member Aegis, incorporating an emergent generation of new, younger heroes. However, it was disbanded by Stormlord after a disastrous confrontation with August Star and the Dark Allegiance left the Coalition members all severely beaten and injured. Following the defeat of the Dark Allegiance by the second Grand Assembly, Stormlord, feeling in high spirits after getting the personal satisfaction of some payback, decided to reform the Coalition with Aegis once more, including some of the new heroes that had participated in the Grand Assembly who did not join the new Allegiance. Unfortunately, the emergence of Captain Meteor's new team, Vanguard, has somewhat taken the wind out of the Coalition's sails, and they are currently struggling with a bit of a slump. While the Allegiance predominantly covers the east coast and Vanguard the west coast, the Coalition generally covers middle America.

Members:
Aegis- One of the most famous heroines in the world, and to some the female equivalent to Captain Meteor. An indestructible woman who claims to be empowered by the spirit of justice. 
Guardian Angel- A bonafide angelic warrior incarnate; very controversial for reasons similar to Marduk and Ishtar. An archenemy of the Demoniac, she claims to be on a mission to thwart a demonic conspiracy.
Luminary- Cheerful young heroine with light manipulation powers. A pseudo-protege of Aegis.
Nanosec- Brilliant young scientist who invented a miniaturized version of one of the devices of Doctor Kronos, endowing time control powers. BFFs with Luminary.
Power Knight- A legacy of Defengine, a powered armor superhero who was one of the original Allegiance members. Pretty much the best power armor hero this side of Blacksmith, impressive given he doesn't have a magic hammer.
Stormlord- Founder and leader of both iterations, he started out as one of the youngest members of the Allegiance, and has grown up into a very powerful and respectable hero, a peer of Captain Meteor and the most powerful weather controller in the world. Still shaken up by his beating from August Star all those years ago.
Uproar- Hard hitting dispenser of street justice with a thunderous roar and lion motif who is an occasional partner of Shadow Woman and Megaton.


The Obermann Brothers- A family of scientist-adventurer brothers transformed by exposure to an alien craft they attempted to intercept during a space flight they independently engineered in order to beat both the Soviets and United States into space. Said space flight also exposed Earth to the craft’s presence, creating a new wave of mutations, supernatural phenomena, and extraordinaries on Earth. Being responsible party for all of these events, and mutated by the alien craft's energies as well, the Obermann Brothers have spent almost all of their careers since dealing with the consequences. Despite having powers they have never considered themselves “heroes” and largely keep themselves distant from the rest of the heroic community unless absolutely necessary. They are now currently retired from “science adventuring” and manage the scientific research organization they founded together, SATRN (Scientific And Technological Research Network).

Members:
Emmanuel- The eldest brother and the leader, having a far greater knack for organization and handling human resources. Without him, the other brothers could not have worked together well enough to launch their space flight, battle the forces and enemies they inadvertently created, or form SATRN together.
Jerry- The quiet, introspective one of the bunch. It's never entirely clear who he is or wants to be, but he has an extraordinary talent for being able to adapt to fit into a given situation and do what needs to be done if there is no one else capable, although his specialty is biology.
Joseph- In contrast to Jerry, Joseph is the outgoing one of the bunch, who practically glows around other people. He specializes in electronics and computer technology.
Samson- While Joseph enjoys working with electronics, circuitry, and other "delicate" forms of technology, Samson is all about moving parts and large scale machinery, being the one who helped build and design most of the rocket ship the brothers used for their flight. Despite being the youngest he looks much older than his other brothers, and is very protective of them, often attempting to tackle problems all by himself so they don't have to.

The Peacemakers- The Peacemakers are a group of heroes formed from the first graduating class of the Xidorn International Extraordinary Academy (XIEA). Founded by the Triad, they were a response to the Titan Supremacy, Chronus' group of superhuman supremacist terrorists, after Chronus secretly tried to recruit the school's students to join him. Additionally, they were in general a response to rising tensions between nonpowered humans and extraordinaries, tensions exacerbated by groups like the Titan Supremacy and the New Inquisition. To that end, the Triad selected a key group of students and began giving them special training in secret, creating a group of budding heroes to be ambassadors and protectors for humanity and extraordinaries alike. As the students were young the Triad often accompanied them, both to give them leadership and as a way to give the group some legitimacy with the public (The Triad still being a fairly well liked team). After several years the Triad left the group, leaving the now fully adult students to become their own men and women. Some remain at the Academy as teachers, while others have struck out on their own. But as a superhero team the group has stuck together, becoming one of the most famous and notable hero teams out there.

Members:
Bulwark- Giant hulking man who can grow and shed giant, indestructible scales. Seems rather happy with his lot in life in spite of being the ugliest member and constantly exacerbated with the antics of Ricochet and Gryphon.
Corona- Solar-powered den mother and leader of the Peacemakers. Constantly clashes with Gryphon and Megaton, when she's not in a relationship with either.
Gryphon- An avian extraordinary experimented upon by the secret agency Majestic, transforming him into a flying death machine.
Iron Curtain- A Russian expatriate of Mongol heritage with long, prehensile hair made of living metal that he can mentally control.
Megaton- One of the only members who was not a student at the Academy. A gravity-manipulating street hero looking for a home.
Ricochet- The youngest member, a hyperactive bouncing daredevil and lady killer who runs his mouth off and can never seem to not make a joke.
Silver Bullet- Young black woman who can shift into a metallic humanoid form that grants superspeed via magnetic levitation. One of the more level headed members of the bunch.
Tigress- 
Whisper- Mute and deaf Japanese woman and ex-Yakuza assassin who relies on her telekinetic and telepathic abilities to communicate with others and enhanced her fighting prowess.

Rising Stars- The other team of heroes from the XEIA. The main difference is that, while the Peacemakers largely consist of adult graduates who now teach or work at the school, the Rising Stars are a group of undergraduate students who've banded together to protect themselves from mutual enemies and threats. The impetus of this was the arrival of Necrogirl, a runaway from the Deathwalkers, the servitors of the necromancer Mortis Rex. This event and their defeat of Mortis solidified the ragtag band into an actual team, and they've stayed together ever since, and plan on becoming an actual registered hero team after they graduate.

Members:
Belladonna- A young girl rescued from the Sisterhood of Blood by the vigilante Vendetta. The combination of her rearing by the villainous Widowmaker and excretion of a poison so toxic she must always wear a full body suit made her feel isolated until she met the similarly disabled Mandrake.
Eclaire- Shy young girl from France, Eclaire despises violence and just wants everyone in the world to get along.
Intrepid- English heroine, sidekick to Swiftsure of the Imperial Knights. Sent to train at the Academy because there's just some things her mentor cannot teach her about being a heroine.
Jumpstart- Rocksteady's heterosexual life partner, an electrical charged boy who came to the Academy to help him with his inability to stay still and constantly shocking everything. Hides an abusive past and bullying behinds a goofy exterior.
Kingfisher- The oldest member and more or less the leader. A non-powered vigilante in training, initially rejecting the group to be a loner, but grows and develops as he is forced to work with them.
Mandrake- Young man whose immensely powerful sonic voice came at the cost of a lack of control that destroyed his lower face, forcing him to wear a special mask and drink from a straw. Considers himself a monster, although a mutual attraction to Belladonna has been healthy for his self-image.
Myriad- A shapeshifter, Myriad's early lack of control made it difficult to figure out a gender identity. Myriad doesn't even know what that is psychologically, and so is constantly experimenting to find a place in society, switching between male, female, and some combination in-between.
Necrogirl- The one who started it all, Necrogirl fled the Deathwalkers after Mortis Rex attempted to sacrifice her, threatened by her innate necromantic powers, and came to the Academy for help. When the Deathwalkers arrived and defeated the Peacemakers, it forced the terribly inexperienced students to band together to protect her, and successfully drive off Mortis Rex for a time.
Polarity- A young South Korean woman, Polarity is a heroine in training who is attending the Academy as part of a process to assume leadership of South Korea's developing national superteam. As such she feels a constant burden to assert her authority and prove her ability to lead, leading to constant clashes with Kingfisher. 
Rocksteady- Big bulky kid with a body mostly composed of organic rock. Is a close friend to Jumpstart, being one of the few people who can play around with Jumpstart and not get zapped.

The Statesmen- The post-Cold War group of state sponsored heroes formed after the dissolution of the Patriots due to the Berlin Wall Massacre. After the United States became a signatory to the United Nations Extraordinary Convention (UNEC), the idea was made to reform the Patriots as a more domestically minded group. Gone were the "soldier heroes" of the Patriots, and in stepped the powered policemen called the Statesmen. They are a branch of the US Marshals, and answer to the President of the United States, sometimes directly, and other times through the Cabinet and Joint Chiefs. Though they often have their own activities and missions, the group often works alongside the Department of Justice's superhuman enforcement division and the anti-super divisions of police forces and the National Guard. The end goal is to eventually have at least one member from every state in the US. This has not been easy, as the superhuman population in the Midwest and Great Plains is significantly less than in California or along the East Coast. But so far there are fifteen members, and the DoJ hopes to draft even more into the group in time. The Statesmen is usually split into three teams of five, with one on the East Coast, one on the West Coast, and a third handling the middle, assisting either side if needed. The memberships of these three teams is constantly changing between them, but what doesn't change are the three Statesmen designated as field leaders: Flagbearer, Revere, and Marksman.

Members:
Arclight- Pennsylvania. An electrically-powered powerhouse from Philadelphia.
Black Mamba- Louisiana. Genetically enhanced ex-spy with abilities based around snake physiology.
Columbia- New York. Homeless woman who discovered an alien rod that transforms her into an extraordinary being and fires bolts of empyrean energy.
Coyote- Arizona. An Apache recruited for purposes of projecting an image of "diversity." A feral animalistic type after a coyote's bite interacted poorly with his extraordinary ability. Without proper injections he turns into a rabid, berserk monster.
Flagbearer- Virginia. The third man to bear the legendary name. An injured combat vet given an experimental nanotech treatment that grew back his limbs and made him a cyborg at the cellular level.
G-Force- Illinois. Attempt by Chicago to have its own resident hero.
Hailey Comet- Florida. A young NASA scientist caught in a laboratory accident.
Hummingbird- Georgia. A tiny woman with bird-like wings.
Marksman- Texas. Former Army sniper and Texas Ranger.
Redwood- California. Surprisingly not from anywhere near Hollywood.
Revere- Connecticut. The oldest and most famous member, going all the way back to the original Patriot Unit of WWII, and perhaps still the fastest man alive. An elder statesmen of the heroic community in general.
Sister Salem- Massachusetts. A genuine witch, which she uses as part of her public persona, while pretending that her powers are actually psychic or scientific in nature dressed up to look like magic, and not the real thing.
Thunderbird- South Dakota. A Lakota added to fill a mandated "diversity quota," which offends him.
Tinman- Missouri. An engineer who uses his own homebrew power armor system.
Trinity- New Mexico. Walking nuclear bomb in a combo powered armor and containment suit. Generally something of a weapon of last resort.

The Triad- The Triad are the three original students of Algernon Xidorn, young extraordinaries who he found in his post-WWII adventures. They chose to stay together and follow, and thus became "The Phenomenal Four," which soon became the "Phenomenal Five" after they rescued Brainchild from Amelia Rostek. After Brainchild's apparent death and Xidorn's subsequent retirement from adventuring, they became The Triad and continued as a hero team for a while after that. Nowadays they are semi-retired from hero work, and are teachers at XIEA, and helped to found the Peacemakers from the first class of graduates.

Members:
Landscape- The nominal leader after Xidorn left, although the Triad are generally a more democratic team than typical. Is the main counselor at the Academy, and history, English, social sciences, and the arts. Has a side career as a sculptor making art from his own body.
Sylphide- An English woman who is the heart and link that holds the trio together. She teaches chemistry, biology, and mathematics at the Academy.
Thunderbolt- The self-described "Human Lightning Bolt" is bit of a daredevil and showoff compared to the more reserved and conservative Landscape, but Sylphide has kept him grounded. Teaches physics, electrical engineering, and computer sciences, but he still feels young at heart, so he likes to play with the students in the more athletic and physical training programs. 

Vanguard- A relatively recent newcomer in the hero community, Vanguard is a personal project of Captain Meteor. After reforming the Allegiance and leading them for a while, Meteor decided to retire from superheroics to help Virago raise their family in California. But a life of relaxation and retirement didn't sit well with him, and so barely a year later, Captain Meteor announced his return to heroics. But with the Allegiance primarily based out of New York City and largely serving the East Coast, he was hesitant to rejoin them. So as a way to keep himself relatively close to family, he decided to form a West Coast counterpart to the Allegiance. Calling on some old acquaintances and some of the most notable heroes from the western half of the United States, he founded Vanguard, basing it out of San Diego. The presence of veteran heroes like Captain Meteor and Blackstone alongside popular newcomers like Icestorm and Kilauea helped to legitimize the team, and now they are the hottest topic in the hero community, much to the chagrin of Stormlord and the Coalition.

Members:
Captain Meteor- One of the greatest and most famous heroes to ever live, Vanguard is just the latest of a long line of teams he has either founded or been a member of.
Evergreen- A extraterrestrial shapeshifting plant woman who primarily operates out of Washington state.
Gatecrasher- A young anti-establishment lady who developed the ability to instantly port in and out of reality, initially using it to play havoc with those she deemed 'corrupt' until she met Captain Meteor.
Icestorm- Oregon-based nuclear physicist who developed the nuclear powered ability to completely violate the laws of thermodynamics, primarily through cold-themed energy manipulation. 
Kilauea- The most well known hero from Hawaii, Kilauea is a woman who claims to be a blood relative of the volcano goddess Pele, and combines fire-based abilities with superstrength and a fish-hook on a rope akin to the demigod Maui.
La Gargola- A wealthy Hispanic technology tycoon seeking to drive out gangs and cartels from the streets by wearing a suit of powered armor that makes him look like a winged demon. 

 

Canada 

Concorde- The original team of extraordinary heroes from Canada. Formed roughly around the same time as the post-war incarnation of the Allegiance, like that team it too has gone through a series of ups and downs, and even a hiatus or two, such as during August Star and the Dark Allegiance's reign of terror. However, like the Allegiance it too has returned, and although it now has to function side-by-side with the Canadian government's own official group, it is very much back in the swing of things.

Members:
Autotron- Toronto student who shares a curious, consensual bond with an extraterrestrial shapeshifting mechanical being. As Autotron, the student wears the alien like a suit of power armor, although the being's technomorphic abilities allow it an extreme amount of versatility.
Delphi- One of the most famous Canadian heroines, Delphi is the founder of Concorde and has been a member of every incarnation. Though getting up there in age, she remains a preeminent psionic in the heroic community, even with Virago now largely overshadowing her.
Lynx- A feral-type heroine from Saskatchewan.
Skytower- A genius physicist who works at the TRIUMF physics laboratory in Vancouver. The son of old school Canadian hero Doc Dynamo, himself descended from American slaves that fled to Canada before the Civil War, he gained size manipulation powers from experimenting with his fathers' gadgets.
Tectonique- The youngest member, a French-Canadian woman with terrakinetic powers. There may be a connection between her and Volcanika of the Wardens.


The Magistrate Wardens- The official state sponsored hero team of Canada. Despite a low crime rate and population compared to it’s southern neighbor, Canada has a surprisingly large amount of extraordinary threats and villains. However, traditionally this was handled by the Canadian equivalent to the Allegiance: Concorde. But between a rapid growth in the extraordinary population, villains immigrating from other nations, and the proliferation of nation teams of heroes, it was decided that Canada needed her own version of the Statesmen. Thus the Magistrate Wardens were formed, and while Concorde will always be more well known, the Wardens have rapidly cemented themselves as the preeminent extraordinary defense of the North. Thanks to a special agreement between Canada and the United States, the Wardens can operate in Alaska too.

Members:
Borealis- A Plains Cree from Saskatchewan with brilliant and beautiful energy manipulations powers that manifest as forcefields and constructs resembling the Aurora Borealis. Though from a much simpler country life he is hardly the image of a stereotypical First Nations member, and agreed to join the Wardens in order bring public attention the plight of many First Nations people and communities in Canada. 
Captain Maple- The legacy of a WWII era hero who became something of a running joke in the country. But despite this tarnished history and seemingly silly powers, the new Captain Maple is determined to prove himself a legitimate hero, not a joke like his predecessors.
Chevaliere- The obligatory Quebecan member, who opposes the violence of other Quebec-based extraordinaries like Les Libérateurs with his incredible sword fighting skills and technologically-enhanced armor and sabre.
Lodestone- A miner from Alberta who drilled into an ancient artifact, causing a chunk of it to embed itself into his chest. Miraculously he survived, and somehow the stone fused with his biology, granting powerful magnetic abilities.
Mermaiden- A half-human half-Fomorian woman from the Hudson Bay coast of Manitoba. Hudson Bay is home to a colony of Fomorians, making the primitive fish people a frequent source of trouble for the Wardens.
Seahawk- The leader, an avian-bodied and winged extraordinary from Newfoundland. Wears a special power armor that enhances his capabilities. 
Snowbeast- A member of a Yeti-like race of giant humanoids from the far north of Canada, who desires better relations between his people and humanity. Despite appearing to be the brick of the team, and indeed is one of the stronger members, he practices a powerful form of natural winter magic.
Tulukaruk- An Inuit from Yukon, whose only condition was that he got to choose his own name. A fairly powerful shadow controller, his most useful trick is his ability to transport the team across thousands of miles instantly.
Volcanika- A reality TV star from Vancouver, she pretended to be an extraordinary for a mokumentary, until she developed actual powers in the form of becoming a walking geothermal powerhouse, forcing her to learn how to go legit as a heroine.