GERMANY CAPE WORLD

The Hitler Hangover hit Germany and its supers HARD. Pretty much all the records had to be stricken of all their former heroes. Those who were still alive needed either a top-to-bottom rebranding or outright disappeared. Germany would never acknowledge their old supers, innocent or not, and they essentially had to rebuild their super presence from scratch. No country has ever had to go through that to such a degree as Germany did.

an official statement was given that all the Nazi era super hero's were killed during the war and that none survived *this statement was backed by American officials but Russian officials have stated that some war criminals of exeptional nature were granted clemency by the allied forces after the war. (WW2 Russian hero "Red Winter" is on record as saying that not many (heroes) survived Russia's advance but there was definitely 1 that survived). There are rumours that an old retired superhero, who is pushing towards his 90th birthday, is living somewhere in berlin. Nobody knows if it is true and investigating it is difficult due to the governments stance that such a person doesn´t exist.

genetic experiments on the german population gave a small percent the ability to manifest super powers. Think an artificial metagene/ X-gene. However, there is cultural stigma attached to the use of these powers because of their dark origins.A lot of German heroes are "angels in disguise" because no one wants to admit to saving the day with a super gene Nazi scientists injected their grandparents with. And god help you if you think you can market your powers. You aren't allowed to profit off Nazi gifts. You aren't even allowed to use them outside "pressing and immediate danger to yourself and others".

There are support groups of "non-superhero" superheroes in Germany who feel frustrated by being unable to use their powers to the fullest but still want to make a difference. You can have really cute things like an underground handyman team that'll construct a house in a hour by combining their powers and do it for nothing for people that need it, then vanish into the night. Like vigilante Social Services. They want to use their powers to help and they will
because it is problematic to use native supers (because of the fallout if anyone traces their bloodline back to a Nazi super) the german government has created races of robots and artificial humans to perform many of the functions of superhero within their society.

Berlin used robots as a way to get around the Berlin Wall. Legal loopholes classified them in the early days as "things" not "citizens". So you could just mail them across. And even when the law wised up you had transforming robots. Suitcases and garbage cans were smugglers.

after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany - with the UN's permission - was finally able to form a proper Deutsch Liga ("German League"), albeit with intense UN oversight just to be safe. The Germans swear up and down the street that something like the Third Reich's Übermensch Gesellschaft ("Superman Society") will never happen again, and they've been true to their word.

germany's new super heroes are not explicitly under the control of the government, but they do follow strict guidelines set forth from the UN. They almost always err to the directions of the german government, and work closely with a government liaison. a few older heroes have been accepted into the new german superhero union but they have been heavily scrutinised and have been forced to change their name and costumes.
the training of these superheroes is undertaken by UN officials

German Supers, at least those that become heroes, tend to be less flashy about it than American or Japanese heroes are, their outfits tend towards the practical(capes are a bit of a cultural taboo), still recognizable as Superhero clothes/uniforms, but more in the Morrison X-Men era vein than the usual Superhero outfits, overall due to how over the top and impractically Nazi era Supers tended to dress



DRUSSENMANN
The great hero DRUSSENMANN (Jet Man) was Germany's first robot hero and is as loved by his countrymen as Superman is loved by Americans (In the DC universe, not in Cape World). In his first few years he was disguised as a human, but after battle damage revealed him to be a robot he was pleased to find that Germany enthusiastically accepted their Metal Mann as one of their own.

SINCE then Germany has been robot capital of the world. They have little all-robot cities and cities where humans and robots live together. A girl made of gold walking down the street might turn head in other countries, but not in Germany.

There have of course been conflict. There's conflict in any country. But the occasional maniac that thinks robots should be destroyed or a robot that tries to be Ultron/Sky Net is quickly dealt with by sane humans and robots.

The idea is to show that in the absence of lots of bad guys to beat up people turn their superpowers into making the world a more complicated and beautiful place. Many university students enter Berlin U thinking the goal is to build a "better" human, but their professors quickly correct them. Robotics is about creating variety, both in the kinds of robots and ways in which they interact with humans. Its about making a stranger, more colorful world. You have robots built to think more and feel less and robot built to feel more and think less, and none is "better" than the other. Germany knows first hand what happens when you start to consider certain groups "better" than others, and that experience has prepared them to create entirely new "races" of people.

"Free Will' for robots is perhaps the most contentious issue in Germany. Is it moral to create a robot that "needs" to do "the right thing", that "needs" to help and serve people? The few "big time" bad guys in Germany are extremists that fall on both sides of the issue.

PROFESSOR FUTURA
a cunning and tricky gadgeteer with a focus in rocket science, who has access to a multipurpose energy gun, force field device and flight harness. futura is an artificial human created as a resident of a futuristic city of constructs. She has come to Germany to study humanity. She finds us incredibly interesting, and the world outside her robot city fascinates her, but she doesn't want to be a human girl.

EIMERKOPF/BUCKET HEAD
German antiquarian with gear salvaged from Nazi tech. Explores the ruined "Super Cities" of Hitler era German. Found a strange map of leylines that show the road to Atlantis.

The German dude we rolled up. Speaking of which, we need to finish rolling that Oceania character.

Bucket Head is an antiques dealer and collector that salvaged a ray gun, force field belt, and jetpack from his collection of Nazi tech.

He rather regrets dismantling the priceless artifacts, but considers it worth it in the end. His gear helps him in his urban exploration of ruined "1000 year Reich" cities Hitler had partially made before D-day. Think partially constructed hunks of Fritz Lang's metropolis. Outlaws, explorers, crazy robots, and all sort of interesting characters make their home in the "ruins".

His helmet, besides being a Berlin fashion no-no, is functional for his urban exploration. It filters out decaying building materials and mold and keeps his head safe from falling debris that might clip through the not-too reliable shield. It also connects to an insular network of spelunkers and explorers and provides him with maps and building plans.

He sees his gear as tools, not weapons. His jetpack lets him access tall, ruined spires and towers that were never built with doors or stairs. His gun lets him dig through earth and debris.

One day Bucket Head (as his Urban Exploration crew affectionately nicknamed him) stumbles across a crate containing strange artifacts...and a map of leylines across the entire Earth...leading to Lemuria and Atlantis, and possibly some other places.

To complicate matters ever sense he hurt his eyes staring at the map he's been seeing a beautiful, strange looking girl in his dreams.

The girl doesn't say anything. But he feels her thoughts, and her thoughts make him long for her. It is almost as if she is asking "help me”.

Obviously Bucket Head's discovery is too big for some urban exploration team to tackle. But he's technically a criminal. Germany doesn't take kindly to anonymous masked men carrying ray guns What's a Bucket Head to do?

And so his story presents him as Cape Germany's "focus" character, like Meowing Midori and Barnstormer. He travels around Germany looking for answers and help, and maybe even assembling a crew to follow the leylines to wherever or whatever they lead to.

DEUTSCH LIGA
Very much "rescue heroes", they don't tend to actually fight unless they have to. They're content using their practiced skills to rescue and repair while more martial teams such as England's KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE and Russia's PEOPLE'S CHAMPIONS beat up the bad guys.

TOYBOX
A community of tiny robots that operate together to form and control one giant robot that dwarfs even most of Japans' Super Robots. Toybox is both ride, base, and friend to other members of Deutsch Liga.

TOYBOX can deconstruct and reconstruct itself in seconds into whatever the situation calls it to be. A shelter for refugees? A dam? A hospital? Think Metroplex from Transformers but made of nanites.

Extremely powerful, the international community worried about Germany having a super this powerful, but TOYBOX has proven itself with an exemplary record of saving and preserving lives.

TOYBOX's character and personality is hard to define. Its more of a city than a person. Most of its components are sapient with individual personalities. One could even describe TOYBOX as a culture. Its components worship the sanctity of human life. TOYBOX's default form is human shape and its components believe that just as they belong to one single human body so too do all humans belong to a single "body of humanity". It's somewhat of a medieval concept. The human body is "mapped" to the higher cosmos, the body of God. Man made in the image of God and all that.

Rarely will you find components referring to themselves -as- "toybox". They call themselves "Arm A-3" or "Leg C-19". They believe "toybox" is like a religious concept. He exists in spirit and is felt by all of them, and when they work together they bring "him" to life.

Toybox religion is a fascinating subject.