Create the perfect superteam

And Psycho-Pirate assembles them as the new Suicide Squad, to sabotage the InterCrisis TimeWar that threatens to retcon them all!

That's really not a bad idea.

"We're all going to be wiped from reality - and replaced with hot teen versions of ourselves!"
"But how can we fight - OUR OWN PLOT?"

"Talk ... slowly ... chum! As ... soon ... as ... this ... dialogue ... balloon ... fills ... up ... it'll be ... the next ... panel! Our climactic ... cataclysmic ... reengineering! The ... gasp ... SPLASH ... PAGE!"

Adam West is Ambush Bug, the Bug Elemental

The Marvel Mentalists:

Emma Frost
Jean Grey
Rachel Summers
Franklin Richards
Destiny

Should I list the team of "original" characters I came up with in junior high?

THE TEEN DEFENDERS

Mindstorm - Telepathic and telekinetic; his big weapon is to blast his opponents' brains with psychic energy. Basic All-American straight-A African-American teen male; this was the Mary-Sue character. (The plot lines I had planned for him should have made people very worried about my state of mind.)

Barricade - Teenaged daughter of an American diplomat. She's telekinetic, but her power only manifests itself in the form walls of force that she can move and manipulate, hence the name. (She flies by riding one of these walls like a surfboard). Modelled after my huge junior-high crush.

Bandit - Teenaged street kid. Teleporter. He creates portals that he can dart into and re-appear anywhere else within eyesight; used to use this skill to pick pockets. Very, very bitter about his hard-knock life. He was Puerto Rican like one of my best friends but had the exact opposite outlook and attitude.

Shrapnel - Teenaged street kid. Ran with Bandit but isn't as hard-hearted. Her power is odd; she can generate this shell of "darkforce" around her body that makes her nigh-invulnerable and super-strong. This shell can also be "detonated" into shards of darkforce that can do some serious damage. I didn't really model her after anyone. (Bandit and Shrapnel ended up having more of a history together than either of them realized.)

Pentagram - The resident teenage mystic. He can do odd, arcane things to anything that has a pentagram inscribed on it and carries 5-point throwing stars as his main offensive weapon. He was also original (and at one point he was to go batshit insane and attempt to destroy the world).

Electrode - Teenaged girl with electrical powers. Due to a government experiment, she has microcircuitry and nanotechnology implanted all throughout her epidermis which activates when she uses her powers, turning her into a logic-controlled cyborg fighting machine. She was actually the catylist for bringing the team together; the fallout of the operation that created her caused the government to gather other teens with paranormal abilities together to keep them out of the clutches of the unscrupulous (aw how nice of them; yes, there was a plot there) and these six ended up training together in an ROTC-esque program as back up the government-sanctioned paranormal teams (Stilleto, Hammer, Anvil, Bolo, Lycos, Thunderpunch and Gyro).

Mindstorm, who is team leader, at one point has his telekinetic powers stripped away, leaving him with his psychic blasts, so he changes his name to Psychoshock. Then he gets brutally killed. I came with all of this before I was obviously depressed.

(Barricade took over as leader and I can't remember if I came up with a new character to take Psychoshock's place.)

I had villains for them too but I won't list them unless people are finding this fascinating.

PLEASE.

OMG I'm so tempted to try & dig out the copious notes & half-ass scribblings I cribbed together (during my paper route deliveries!) for CODENAME: ALPHA. Maybe when I'm awake, & someone starts a POST YOUR GENIUS COMIC IDEAS HERE thread.

OUT WITH IT YOU TWO: POST YOUR GENIUS COMIC IDEAS HERE