More 40K Superheroes (and Villain!)

Well, I thought I was done with this after the first one, but looks like I'm still going. Much like the Victorian Superheroes, I just keep coming up with ideas for 40k heroes that work too well to ignore. Unlike the Victorian stuff, however, I'm building most of these ideas when I can, because they work well with my narrative 40k games over on some other blogs I'm on. Also, I like messing with hardcore 40k-fanbois but doing stuff like female Space Marines and Ork Merchants, so this is another outlet for that, in a way.

The Avengers 40,000

When we last left our heroes, Kang the Conqueror had found himself trapped in a grim, dark future by the phenomena known as Warp Storms preventing his time travel technology from working. Unable to conquer the Galaxy on his own, rent as it was by constant war and ruled by a decaying mutant corpse, Kang chose to do what history had demonstrated to be the best course of action, assemble The Avengers! Like any era, there were heroes to be found in the wide galaxy, though they took vastly different forms to the ones with which Kang was familiar; Brunnhilde was an alien-hunting Space Marine burdened with conscience, Carol Danvers had betrayed humanity for the T'Au Empire and M'Baku fought the menace of the Orks. Gathering who he could, Kang himself led this newest incarnation of Earth's Mightiest Heroes in an attempt to free the Galaxy once more.

As time wore on, Kang would find more familiar faces haunting the strange corners of the 41st Millennium, some would be welcome recruits, but others would be revealed to be enemies, old and new. Thanks in part to Kang, the heroes have arrived, but so too, it seems, have the villains. Trapped in a time not his own, Kang and his Avengers fight the good fight against hopeless odds; because that's what heroes do.

Rogue Trader Pryde, The Daring Devil, Trooper Greyson and Carol Danvers face off against Trayzen the Collector.

Rouge Trader Pryde: Kathryn Pryde was probably meant to live a normal, mundane life on her homeworld, but she had the misfortune to fall in love with a man from the stars. Quill Spartax, also known as the Star Lord, was the youngest in a dynasty of Rogue Traders, known for being brash and making poor decisions as much as his heroism and good looks. Pryde fell in love and joined Quill in the stars, going on adventures and even befriending a young xenodragon, which she named Lockheed. In time though, Quill's dangerous lifestyle caught up with him and he died on the Galactic Fringe. With no immediate family to take over the Rogue Trader Writ, Pryde had her late husband's armour adapted to fit her and became the new Star Lord.

The Daring Devil: That Aeldari and Humans can interbreed and produce viable offspring is a closely guarded secret by both races, especially since the embarrassing incident of the first Librarian of the Ultramarines. For some, however, that secret is something more; it is a prophecy. Deep in the winding halls of the Black Library, the Solitaires whisper of the coming of their greatest warrior, born of both races, the Daring Devil. When such hybrids are born, the Solitaries whisk them away for a lifetime of rigorous training and testing, and such was the fate of Mayhew Mur'Doch, the bastard son of a human soldier and an Aeldari warrior. Mayhew was a born fighter, the most naturally talented killer ever seen in the ranks of the Solitaries, whilst being completely blind. In his iconic red uniform, the Daring Devil is a legend, striking from the shadows and mowing down foes like death itself. 

Carol Danvers: No story on this one, I was just doing a Gue'vesa Kill Team and had the parts spare. I figured I may not always want to be fielding her in the Crisis Suit.

PDF Veteran Carter Greyson: Carter never wanted to fight, he wanted to save people. Born on a reasonably peaceful Imperial world, Carter volunteered for the Planetary Defense Force to help battle fires, rescue people from disasters and dig flood trenches. When war came to his sub-sector though, Carter found a lasgun thrust into his hand and Chaos Cultists in his sights, and as much as he hated it, Carter was clearly born for the battlefield. Slogging through the mud, fighting for his life, Carter continued to save everyone he could, keeping his squad-mates alive and throwing himself into the melee first, his trusty fire axe leading the way.

Trayzen the Collector: Known by many ways and many faces over the millions of years he's lived, Tanaleer Tevan, the Collector, one of the Elders of the Universe, survives well into the 41st Millennium. The disguise of Trayzen has been useful to the Collector, drifting in and out of Necrotyr society for aeons, taking interesting finds for himself whilst manipulating those around him. When a chance encounter brought Inquisitor Kang and Trayzen face-to-face, the Elder revealed he may be in possession of a way for Kang to leave the grim and dark future in which he was trapped. The two clashed and Trayzen escaped, but Kang did not forget and has since made it one of the missions of his Avengers to track down Trayzen and uncover what he has at his disposal.