Stories by @gwynplaine

Nemesis

Once upon a time, little Matthew Anderson lost his drug-peddling parents and fortune when they were arrested on his 10th birthday by Officer Joe Costello. Well, every boy becomes a man eventually. And after 20 years of training around the world, that boy eventually became the most evil man on the planet. Some call him a terrorist. Others call him the world's only Supervillain in a world without Superheroes. But you can call him by his true name: Nemesis. And he has big plans for Joe Costello, who has now become the mayor of Los Angeles. And by the time he's done, Los Angeles will never be the same.

Superman: A Better Tomorrow

After stopping another killing spree committed by the Parasite, Superman's public perception begins to dip, due to many people thinking that he should kill his villains. His no-kill rule is then put to the test when a new group of "superheroes" called the Elite arrive. Led by the sarcastic and cynical Manchester Black, this team is more than willing to cross the line, as they kill every villain they fight. As public perception begins to turn in favor of these super powered murderers, Superman has to try and prove to the citizens of Earth that pacifism is a better solution than violence.

Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight Vol 2

DOA: Joker, Penguin, & Two-Face secretly poison Batman with a virus that will kill him in 24 hours. At the same time, a daughter of a senator Bruce Wayne knows is kidnapped by a group of radical terrorists. Knowing he's probably going to die soon, Bruce devotes his last hours to saving the girl. HEAVY RAIN: A gang of criminals called the Gargoyle Gang rob a party held by a wealthy actress and take her assistant hostage. Having stolen an obsolete map of the sewers, the gang soon gets lost in the sewers. With a heavy rainstorm on its way, Batman must journey into the sewers, defeat the Gargoyle Gang, and save the hostage before they all drown in the rising rain water. THE FACTOR OF FEAR: When a cowardly small-time crook named Titus pulls off a failed armored truck robbery, he starts to see Batman's shadow everywhere he looks. Is Batman chasing after Titus, or is he just letting his paranoia get the better of him? JUST ANOTHER NIGHT: While Bruce has been going steady with a woman named Veronica Thomas for a few months, he decides to take her and her son Justin to the movies for a Grey Ghost movie marathon. But on their way home, they're stopped at gunpoint by a mugger.

Luthor

Alexander Joseph Luthor is one of the richest and smartest men in the world, a malignant narcissist with a genius-level intellect and endless resources. Before Superman arrived in Metropolis, Lex was the hero of the city, the man who helped build the backbone of Metropolis. Then along came this man, someone who was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and could fly faster than the speed of light. Because of Superman's prescience, Lex feels like he's lost his mantle as the hero of Metropolis, and he can't stand feeling small. His jealousy soon spirals into xenophobia, and Lex starts to see Superman as the ultimate threat to humanity. Seeing no reason to trust this all powerful alien being, Lex swears to rid the world of the Kryptonian threat for the benefit of all mankind.

Avengers Arena

A group of 16 teenage superheroes awaken on an island in the middle of nowhere, having been kidnapped in their sleep by a B-list villain who wants to be an A-lister. Arcade, the X-Men/Spider-man villain is tired of being overlooked by everyone else, and plans to prove to everyone how big a man he can be with his latest scheme. Using a mixture of magic and Black-Market Stark Industries technology, he constructed a massive death arena island several miles wide, and has kidnapped several students from the Xavier Institute and Avengers Academy to be his guinea pigs. After 30 days, he will send a rescue signal out for the heroes to find them, and whoever has survived in that amount of time will be set free. Over the next 30 days, alliances are made, lines are drawn, and several heroes die. It also becomes apparent that some of these "heroes" might not be as morally sound as the public believes them to be.

Black Streak II: Winning Hand

A sadistic, psychopathic gang leader from England called King Ace comes to Harking City. He and his gang go on a tour of Ultra-Violence and chaos through the streets. Meanwhile, Black Streak starts hanging out with rich British teenager, Adrian Halbert, after meeting him at an art gallery. Adrian is fun, charismatic, and rich AF, always doing what ever he wants when ever he wants, no matter the expense. However, as Louis spends more time with his new friend, he starts to realize that Adrian has a twisted dark side to him. When he and Louis almost get mugged one night, Adrian beat one of the attackers to near death, and seemed to take a sadistic pleasure in it as the blood hit his face.

Bonfire II: The Last Laugh

Bonfire builds himself a new robotic assistant called P.1.X.1, a female android that houses an artificial intelligence he programmed, something like Vision & Jarvis. Meanwhile, a new teenage villain called The Prankster has been pulling off theatrical and comedic attacks all over the city. He launches a giant gumball at the HCPD precinct, replaces all of the money in the banks with Monopoly money, switches every street sign in the city, and replaced every police officer's gun with BANG! joke guns. He even live-streams all of his "pranks" for everyone to watch, and has thousands of followers online. Unfortunately, Prankster is way smarter than people probably think. Every prank he pulls is actually a distraction so he can rob either the bank, diamond exchange, or museums. He also makes his attacks as random as possible, so nobody is able to "ruin the punchline".

Black Streak: Need For Speed

Set in Old Town, the slum district of Harking City, we watch the story of Louis Ryder as he gradually rises from parkour free runner to speedster superhero. After gaining super-speed powers during an accident while free-running, Louis is forced to use his powers to battle a new super villain called Zap, who's drained the entire city's power grid and plunged it into a blackout.

Ryuko II: Blood Lotus

Set two years after the first movie, Ryuko has become a household name in Tokyo, protecting its citizens and helping the common man. But sadly, her efforts of dismantling the city's criminal underworld haven't proved to be enough. That is until the night she meets Lady Lotus, the leader of a ninja clan who plans to weed out the city's corruption. It turns out that Lotus' clan have been making great strides across the country, so much so that Lotus is basically Japan's secret empress. She has admired Ryuko's efforts and wants to recruit her into her ninja clan so they can save the world together. Unfortunately, Ryuko learns that it's actually a cult of a assassins and Lotus' plan to save the world is to secretly overthrow its governments and rule the world as it's benevolent empress.

Bonfire: Light To Wick

Set in the year 2170, Jackson Carlyle is the personification of a spoiled prodigy child. His parents own one of the biggest companies in the world, and made much of their money from building technologically advanced weapons for the government. When he was in his mid 20s, he was invited to his father’s weapons laboratory, where his father and his team of scientists was developing a serum that when injected, gives a person superpowers based on their genetic makeup. During his tour, a mercenary broke into the lab to steal the serum. In order to stop the theft, Jackson took the serum and became a man made entirely of fire. Although he stopped the thief, Jackson is unprepared to tangle with the man behind the robbery, a new villain called The Illusionist, who seeks to mind control the entirety of Harking City in order to finally establish a sense of order.

Ryuko: The Emerald Samurai

Set in the year 2170, we follow the adventures of Akira Fukuhara, a.k.a Ryuko. Protecting the streets with the “Chitsujo no ken”, an indestructible mystical katana that can slice through literally anything. While investigating a new series of murders, all clues lead Ryuko to the killer, her long-lost sister Fujiko, who is now operating as a serial killer called Shinigami. Akira and Fujiko haven't seen each other in 4 years, not since Akira ran away when she discovered their family's horrible secret. Their father was a Yakuza crime lord who had been training his daughters to become his perfect assassins, who would operate using the family swords, the "“Chitsujo no ken” and the "Konton no ken". Confronting her father on this horrible secret, this led to a fight between the two ending with her father falling out of the top floor of the Fukuhara Tower. Fujiko was heartbroken, and has gone completely insane due to losing both of the most important people in her life, and devolved into a death-obsessed schizophrenic serial killer called Shinigami. Over the moon with her sister back, Fujiko now wants to join Ryuko in her crime-fighting.

Deadpool 3

While on a mission, Deadpool & X-Force come across the chaotic duo of Madcap & Slapstick, two wisecracking, 4th Wall breaking, anarchist clowns with the same healing factor as Deadpool. Both parties begin a long feud as they're constantly sent on the same missions to assassinate the same people. Before long, the entire movie turns into a size-measuring contest between these 3 annoying and immature dick weeds.

Batman: Black & White

After a failed attempt to united the Gotham mobs under one leader; Matches Malone, it ends up sparking a month long gang war between The Penguin, Black Mask, Two-Face, The Great White Shark, and The Ventriloquist. While Penguin is busy with the war, he leaves his right-hand man, Ignatius Ogilvy, in charge of his empire. Without Penguin in charge anymore, Ignatius starts a secret alliance with Black Mask's gang, secretly ordering hits on Penguin. His ultimate plan is to gain control over every gang in Gotham City by forming secret alliances with the other gangs, ending with as the true "King" of the Gotham Criminal Underworld, the "Emperor Penguin".

Batman: The Deranged Detective

While investigating a medicine robbery from Arkham Asylum, Renee Montoya suddenly loses her mind and destroys all of the evidence she’d gathered. She then goes on a terrifying rampage towards the GCPD in order to destroy the hard drives stored there. After she’s stopped by the combined efforts of Batman & The Jokester, the two investigate her apartment in order to find out what made her go cuckoo. During their search of Renee’s apartment, they manage to uncover a solved rubix cube on her desk. After a quick scan, Bruce discovers that it had been solved the day she went crazy. The next day at Wayne Enterprises, Bruce winds up getting a chinese puzzle box mailed to his office. Suddenly, Bruce went crazy and started tearing up his office, destroying his computer and everything on his desk, laughing like a madman and babbling incoherent nonsense. He and Renee were then committed to Arkham Asylum for psychological analysis. Now it’s up to Jokester and Batgirl to figure out what happened to Bruce. It turns out that the mastermind is actually Dr. Byron Meredith (a.k.a) the Merrymaker. His plan was to inject the chemicals he stole into his fellow doctors and drive them insane, all in a revenge plot against the people who fired him for his extreme research into the minds of Joker worshippers. After that, he’d become the new head doctor of Arkham Asylum under the false identity of Dr. Merion Brydeth.

Batgirl: War Of The Roses

A new drug is being peddled around Gotham called “Flower Power”, which comes in the form of various types of drug-laced flowers. All you have to do is sniff the flower, and then sit back and enjoy the ride as the drugs do their job. The only problem is that the drug, like many others, is extremely addictive. Batgirl ends up getting roped into the conflict after her college roommate gets hooked on the stuff, and begins neglecting everything else in her life in order to continue chasing that feeling of bliss. While investigating a lead to find the producer of Flower Power, Batgirl runs into Poison Ivy, who’s also trying to find the distributor, though for completely different reasons. She’s enraged that someone has tainted her “babies”, and she wants to put a stop to this. Reluctantly, Batgirl forms a temporary alliance with Ivy in order to find the producer of Flower Power. It turns out that the producer is Louis Baudelaire, a.k.a. Louie The Lilac. He was the crooked owner of Baudelaire’s, a flower company based in Gotham City. However the flower company is only a front for his more nefarious endeavors, as Louis is actually a drug-running gangster who was put away by Batman years ago. After being released from Blackgate on “Good Behavior”, Louis plans to regain the empire he lost with a more potent strain of his drugs.

Birds Of Prey: Double Down

Set 1 year after Batgirl, Renee Montoya, Huntress, and Black Canary joined together to form the Birds Of Prey and defeated Black Mask, a new case comes knocking on their doorstep. Dead female meta-humans are being found all over Gotham with clear signs that they were beaten to death in a fight. While following a lead, Black Canary goes missing for a week. When she turns back up, she starts a strange habit of going out at exactly 11:00 pm, and returning at around 5:30 am with clear signs she's been in a fight. After placing a tracker on her, Batgirl, Huntress, and Montoya find out that she's been participating in an underground meta-human fight club in the basement of the Emerald Cobra Casino. The leader of the ring is Roulette, the millionaire owner of the casino who holds these gladiator battles for corrupt rich socialites to watch and place bets on. It also turns out that she's brainwashed Black Canary into working for her as her top fighter, due to her immense power and fighting expertise.

Isle Of Villainy

Every 5 years, 22 villains of the DC Universe are selected for a game show: Isle Of Villainy, a Survivor/Total Drama style reality show taking place on an abandoned island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. This year's contestants are split into 2 groups, The Brainz & The Brawn. Hosted by The Joker, these teams will have to work together and fight for survival in different challenges based on different types of themes, all for the prize of the combined wealth of Lex Luthor, Bruce Wayne, and Oliver Queen. This year's theme is Cinema, with every challenge tailored to a certain movie genre, from Romantic Musicals to Depressing War Dramas. Challenges will be won, hearts will be broken, and lasting friendships will be made. Doesn't it feel so good to be bad?

Justice League: Legion Of Doom

Set 1 year after Superman and Batman joined together to form the Justice League, Lex Luthor decides to even the playing field by forming a league of his own. He thus travels across the world, offering a spot to any of the super-villains on the FBI's most wanted list. He winds up recruiting The Joker, Reverse Flash, Cheetah, The Riddler, Black Manta, Dr. Poison & Scarecrow. Together, the legion plans to take out the Justice League and rule the world (of course). Each of them has a vital part in Lex's master plan to destroy, or at least disgrace the Justice League. Using Reverse Flash's speed, they're able to gain access to the Batcave, and manage to acquire Batman's files on the Justice League, containing everything from strengths to weaknesses. Using this information, Lex sends different members of the legion to fight their respective heroes, with an added bonus that'll allow them to incapacitate the hero. Wonder Woman is infected with a hallucinogenic serum that makes her see everyone as Cheetah. Batman is trapped in an endless maze filled with memorials to all of his past failures. Superman is exposed to red kryptonite, causing him to go insane. Flash is attached to a bomb that'll explode if he stops running or slows to under 100 mph. Martian Manhunter is infected with nanites that burn on contact with air. Aquaman is rendered hydrophobic by Scarecrow's fear toxin. Now it's up to the Teen Titans to save the Justice League & stop the Legion of Doom.

Superman: Childish Things

Winslow & Mary Schott used to be the happiest toy makers in Britain, and were even the heads of their own company: Schott Toys. Winslow himself was a mechanical genius, as many of the toys he designed were extremely advanced twists on older concepts, such as the Smart Teddy. Winslow also had a strong love of children, and was essentially a big child himself. Unfortunately, all happy days come to an end. After Mary was killed in a car crash, Winslow signed on with a big corporation in order to bring happiness to children all over the world. Unfortunately, that company turned out to be a subsidiary of Lexcorp, who secretly sold Schott's advanced toy designs to weapons manufacturers. Heartbroken & enraged when he found out, an already mentally unwell Winslow snapped. In revenge, he mailed a booby trapped teddy bear to the executive who cheated him. When he turned it on, the bear exploded, killing him instantly. Winslow then moved to Metropolis in order to get revenge on the head of the corporation: Lex Luthor. Unfortunately, Superman had to intervene. After first being captured, Winslow befriends another Superman villain, Oswald Loomis: The Prankster. Forming a partnership, the two break out of prison in order to kill Lex Luthor while distracting the Man Of Steel.

The Flash: Rogue Vengeance

Tired of The Flash constantly stopping them from achieving their goals, 6 members of his rogues gallery join together to take him down. Led by Captain Cold, the newly dubbed "Rogues" formulate a plan that will allow them to commit the crime of the century and proceed to live out the rest of their days in peaceful retirement. Meanwhile, Barry and Iris' relationship has hit a rough patch, and the two have temporarily split up. During their time apart, Barry starts to date fellow CSI member Patty Spivot, and the two seem to hit it off. Unfortunately, during the Trickster's attack on the CCPD, Patty is severely injured and confined to the hospital until further notice. Now with the weight of protecting Central City, his personal life, and the injuring of one of his closest friends, Barry starts to have a mental breakdown.