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Edit: Alright! I've gotten the list I'm using sorted out for now! Thanks for all the help, folks. Don't hesitate to keep suggesting people I might not think of, though ;-). There will be future recruiting beyond the initial dossiers, as well as the need for encounters with other heroes in general!

Hey all! I need your brains ;-). No, I'm not going to eat them, promise! I'm working on Why Was There No Truck!? and running headfirst into a problem. Specifically, male characters. I've wanted to add at least one or two male characters to the Overwatch team, to avoid it steering into Harem territory. But I'm legitimately having difficulty rounding up possibly compatible individuals from various superhero media. In example, I just finished trawling through the various X-men teams and found like...10 secondary female characters I could use. In turn I found two male characters that seemed vaguely compatible. I'm going to keep looking through Marvel, along with the other universes in the Amalgam, but I realized it was taking forever and...well...a lot of you have consumed just as much or more superhero media as I have ;-). So I figured I'd outsource for some brainstorming.

So, setting some qualifications here:

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1) No MAJOR characters. Alyssa is putting together a team of largely secondary or inexperienced characters. If they have their own comic run? Or were the leader of a team? They probably don't qualify. No Robins, Wolverines, or Armsmasters, in other words. People like Spyke (Evan Daniels - X-men Evolution) or Cyborg (Teen Titans) are fine. But Robin from Teen Titans or Cyclops from X-men Evolution would be too 'major.' Essentially, no truly 'core' characters. Even Cyborg is honestly pushing it and is only viable since the Titans have already been semi-established as not actively existing.

2) No ridiculously overpowered characters. They already have Alyssa as a power house, and Gotham doesn't really need raw power most of the time. Younger versions of characters that could BECOME powerhouses are fine.

3) No ego cases. This is actually what caused the vast majority of the viable male X-men to be nixed. Many were in leadership roles and thus nixed, but a lot more of them were/are serious ego-cases that neither I nor Alyssa want to try and deal with regularly. Examples: Bobby Drake, Pyro, Alex Summers, Gambit. Seriously, a lot of the male X-men seem to have ego problems, now that I'm looking through them T-T.

4) It needs to be reasonable for them to actually be in the United States. This, unfortunately, eliminates most of the male MHA cast.

5) Team players are a must. Most versions of Spiderman, for example, is absolute ass at being a team player despite actively trying at times. He just seems to be genuinely terrible at it. Though he'd fall afoul of the 'Major Character' issue too.

Addendum: I've established that not everyone is on the same Hero/Villain side as their canon selves are, so minor villains who could have gone a different way are also possible options.

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Get your suggestions in! If any of them fit, they might appear. Either as an outright recruit, or at least on the list of those that the original trio considered for recruitment...