• Marinara Man, who has the power to turn into liquid. This includes the ability to temporarily transport other people, useful for emergency rescue during natural disasters. He can use it to become harder to hit during close combat, including becoming bulletproof, and he can turn one of his arms or legs to liquid while shooting it out of his hands. He is in his late 30s and a former civil engineer. He is methodical, resourceful, makes friends easily, and trusts to a fault.
  
• Dough Woman. She is in her early 50s and a former accountant. She met Marinara Man during an organ smuggling investigation which ended in her jumping in front of a bullet to save someone else from her estranged son. She is direct, sometimes reckless, cynical, and introspective.
  
• Mozzarella. She is a high school student with the ability to shoot cheese that is so sticky that nothing can possibly get unstuck from it, which works well for slowing fleeing suspects. She is enthusiastic, but she has a hard time striking the balance between taking on too much and giving up too easily.
  

• Spore Queen. She is involved in a scheme involving damaging buildings for a cut of the insurance money. Her parents were arsonists, and while at first she tried to distance herself from them by becoming a mycologist, when her magic mushroom business started to fail, she decided to turn to family habits in order to keep up "the lifestyle to which she had become accustomed".
  
• Upper Crust and Pastamancer. They are a villain duo, one with the ability to turn people to solid bread by laying a hand on them and the other with the ability to control noodles, together known as the "Medusa of Memphis City". The serial killers cross paths and observe that their powers work well together as a team.
  
• Upper Crust was an employee at a tech company whose workforce was in the middle of trying to form a union. When his boss quit and he got promoted, he decided to betray his co-workers and kill his best friend after a Pinkerton agent promised to clean up all the evidence. During the first murder, the body turned to solid bread. From then on, any time he started showing anger, like grabbing a cashier's arm while taking an order, he'd be able to turn that person into crusty bread.
  
• Pastamancer was an accountant at a tax preparation company undergoing "downsizing", firing workers every Friday with a pizza party scheduled on the same day to try to distract from it. While out shopping for a gift at the mall, he runs into someone from work, who heavily implied he could keep his job if he agreed to fudge the numbers on the expense reports. While cooking pasta that night, the pasta starts to float, and he blames it on the crystals that he had bought. His boss makes him the fall guy for the state tax fraud investigation. That night, he attacks his boss with noodles which shoot from his hands, strangling him.
  
• Governor Morris, who covers up the serial killings in exchange for the two companies becoming major donors to his campaign while falsely imprisoning two innocent people in their place. Twenty years prior, rich people in the world started to eat their weight in greed, but only in the form of pizza and pasta. Overnight, private islands became private Pompeiis as stomachs burst and people fled. They eventually realized that they could satiate their fascination long enough to live by redirecting the flood of research into curing genetic diseases toward research into research to gift people with pizza and pasta-related superpowers, usually allies likeminded in greed. He convinces Dough Woman to stay on the side of the law, as she sees it, by tracking down the supervillain vigilante known as Marinara Man, who staged a jailbreak, and his sidekick Mozzarella. He says that anything he has done cannot be helped, while imploring Dough Woman to work within the system to change it, while Marinara Man says she's the one being changed.
  

galenanorth fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Mar 23, 2021