"Simon Williams was a bodybuilder and starting his career as acting when he was kidnapped and subjected to his brother Eric; a cyborg mercenary by the name of the Grim Reaper. Simon was subjected to an experiment with ionic energy to gave him great strength and mass. Becoming the hero Wonder Man; he became an instant celebrity and his acting career took off! A promising right to greatness as an A-list actor and soon to be A-list superhero went to a screeching halt at the incident that took place live on the premiere of his latest movie Arkon III: Swords Against Aardvarks:"
The superhero documentary show Behind the Mask was on the TV showing several clips and magazine covers with a smiling muscular man in a black sleeveless shirt with a red 'W' symbol and a red cut to him on the red carpet premiere smiling in a black suit as he started glowing purple and the Squadron Supreme members Zarda and Stanley who were attending got the onlookers and other VIPs out of the way as he ended up near exploding.
In a reinforced apartment watching this on the TV was Simon who was now glowing purple uncontrollably with energy tendrils around him as he had a red 'W' still visible; in the apartment it was decorated with posters of his movies. "Oh yeah... One little incident and your career gets destroyed! I woke up to find flowers next to my bed from my manager along with a note saying that he quit and my surefire up and coming spot on the Squadron Supreme denied... My offers were withdrawn and Tony Stark who had personally handpicked me to star in his upcoming biopic...He now refuses to acknowledge my existence! I was gonna be someone before my powers went out of control... Not my fault that some stupid scientist missed something crucial about my condition..." Simon snapped bitterly.
"You really think that it was an accident? Stark wanted you taken care off; your ego was getting out of control and he hates someone whose ego rivals his... Plus he didn't want your fantasy movie to outgross Hyperion Lives with how much Tim Burton got paid to be brought in..." said a voice as Richmond appeared before him as Nighthawk.
"Nighthawk... What are you doing here..." demanded Simon before screaming in pain as several devices were sent out reacting to the ionic energy in his building as he ended up losing his physical form.
"My new ally had did some digging and I was able to use a little counter measure against you that I had drawn up..." Richmond told him as Fury appeared smirking with the device ready to collect and store the ionic energy body. "Don't worry Simon... You are still very much alive..." Richmond then said calmly to the energy being stored.
Peter as Spider-Man was now at a professional photo studio there to support Zarda as she would be doing a bikini shoot with Jennifer. Zarda was waiting at the dressing room and Jennifer arrived in her business suit. "So here is the power couple themselves; happy for you both but am I going to lose you as a badmate now Zarda?" Jennifer ended up asking with a smile and Peter couldn't help but speak up.
"Don't worry; I don't mind... I don't want to break anything that you both have..." Peter ended up saying as they both then looked at him and grinned.
"So no conditions like you get to watch or join in?" Jennifer teased as then both heroines entered the dressing room but not before Zarda kissed Peter on the cheeks of her mask as well as swaying her way in.
"To think that it all ended up here..." said a voice amused and Peter turned around and then noticed a smiling well builty redheaded woman his age wearing a Spider-Man one piece swimsuit and a robe. He actually recognised her as Mary Jane Watson who stayed in the neigbhour apartment to his growing up and May actually set her up to be his Prom date. He had hardly seen her since they both graduated high school. "Been a while Tiger..." Mary Jane told him smirking with her arms folded and Peter's eyes widened as she used the nickname she used to call Peter.
"Have we met miss?" Peter asked as Mary Jane shook her head.
"I know who you are Peter... I always did... You were terrible at not acting suspicious and anyone with two eyes could figure it out if they paid close attention to you... I won't say anyone but it looks like felt did you good with your superhero career and with Power Princess... While I had to work at the gym to build my figure up to pursue a modelling job..." Mary Jane assured him and looked amused.
Peter sighed and asked "So how are things Mary Jane?"
"Partying and having fun... Living it up... While you are busy saving lives and now hanging with the world's mightiest heroes..." Mary Jane answered and then smiled. "You think that you can please tell me if Blur is available and if you could introduce me? I like fast guys..." Mary Jane asked as Peter was taken aback.
"Isn't he much older..." Peter asked as Mary Jane responded with a face that read 'did you seriously just asked me that?'
"They teach about your girlfriend fighting in World War II in history classes and she apparently lived in the Norse times..." Mary Jane told him and Peter knew that he wasn't one to talk. "Good luck with all this Tiger and I will be seeing you hopefully.." Mary Jane told him as she walked away waving with Peter waving back.
"Same here Mary Jane..." Peter called out as the door opened and out came Zarda and Jennifer in bathrobes smirking at him as they walked with him to the shooting area.
In an African jungle; the bodies of pirates and terrorists littered the ground as a figure dressed in a black bodysuit, helmet mask with panther ears and silver linings around it. He shook his head as he destroyed vials and lab set ups; "More serums and experiments courtesy of Stark Industries... Made to create more villains for his Squadron Supreme to fight... The war he would bring if he ever found out about Wakanda's secrets..." the figure muttered shaking his head.
However he felt an otherwordly presence unlike anything he had ever experienced; even communicating with Bast herself was nothing like this. He looked up and saw up in the skylooking down at him was a tall big bald headed figure looking down at him in a long dark blue high collared cloak with a golden decoration. There were no pupils in his eyes.
"T'Challa; the Black Panther and King of Wakanda... Only so much I can intervene without risking the stability of this universe or draw too much attention to myself from the other Watchers but I must warn you... The best hopes for the future of your world to restore true heroism needs assistance in order to tip the balance more in their favour..."
A Marvel hero that had a career in acting? Off course I had to include him in a Boys version of the Marvel Universe. Just like if you were doing this in DC; you have to have Amanda Waller in the Mallory role though probably more active since the original version had her lose all but one of her children so I think Green Lantern killing her grandchildren would probably just motivate her further. Especially the versions you are most familiar with.
