DANNY THE STREET
Created By: Grant Morrison & Richard Case
First Appearance: The Doom Patrol #35 (Aug. 1990)
Role: LSD-Inspired Character, Living Street, Aide to the Unfortunate
Group Affiliations: The Doom Patrol, The Teen Titans
PL 9 (216)
STRENGTH 12 STAMINA -- AGILITY -3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (History) 6 (+6)
Expertise (Current Events) 10 (+10)
Insight 4 (+7)
Perception 4 (+7)
Persuasion 3 (+6)
Advantages:
Interpose
Powers:
"Is a Street"
Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects) [30]
Growth 14 (Str & Toughness +14, +14 Mass, +7 Intimidation, -7 Dodge/Parry) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [29]
Growth +6 (+20 Mass, +2 Speed, -20 Stealth) -- (250 feet) (Flaws: Limited to Non-ST & STA Growths) [6]
"Alter Street's Appearance" Morph 3 (Topological Features) [15]
Regeneration 2 (Feats: Regrows Features) [3]
"Appears Anywhere on Earth" Teleport 13 (Feats: Increased Mass 12) (Extras: Accurate, Extended) [64]
"The City Simply Makes Room For Him" Movement 2 (Permeate 2) (Extras: Continuous) [8]
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+12 Damage, DC 27)
Initiative -3
Defenses:
Dodge +4 (DC 14), Parry +4 (DC 14), Toughness +14, Fortitude --, Will +7
Complications:
Disabled (Mute)- Danny cannot truly speak out loud.
Motivation (Safe Haven)- Danny's goal is to be a safe haven for the unfortunate and dispossessed of the world.
Prejudice (Possibly Homosexual)- Danny speaks in an old English gay slang, and plays with the notion of gender with the shops located on his form.
Total: Abilities: 32 / Skills: 30--15 / Advantages: 1 / Powers: 155 / Defenses: 23 (216)
-Now how'd I know this was a Grant Morrison character?
-Danny the Street is a sentient, living STREET- one which can transport himself anywhere in the world, and can only communicate via letters on things within his proximity (like signage, manhole vapors, broken glass, windows, & newsprint). He acts as a home for the strange and the dispossessed. He moves about the world, looking for such unfortunates, expressing a flamboyant personality akin to a gay male (even using the carny dialect "Polari", also used by gay males in the 19th Century). He's a "crossdresser", too- his sidewalks are lined with stereotypical "masculine" stores (gun shops, sporting goods, etc.), but decorates them with frilly pink curtains & lace. He's even named for a Drag Queen- Danny La Rue (which is French for "Street"). He aided the Doom Patrol when they faced a man obsessed with 1950s Americana, defeating him with a Perpetual Cabaret (oh, MORRISON). He later left for another Earth, becoming Danny the World, inhabited by Crazy Jane of the Doom Patrol.
-Danny reappeared in the New 52 as an ally of the Teen Titans, "joining" the team, since he's a teenager, and doing spy work for Robin. He dies attempting to get the Titans back to civilization after becoming an island for a time. He may have survived- being reduced to "Danny the Alley". The "Rebirth" of DC used him as well- he's Danny the Brick, being carried about by Crazy Jane- a bunch of aliens want to use him to make meat for cheap fast food restaurants, but the Doom Patrol saves him. This character has had more appearances in the past ten years than I think he has in the previous bit of his history- likely because somebody saw the whole "Sentient Street" thing and just ran with the gag again and again.
-Designing a sentient STREET isn't something most RPG systems are really made for, but nonetheless, I've used M&M 3e to build a living PLANET and a UNIVERSE one time, so I think I can handle it. Danny has certain basic aspects from being a street- Immunity & Growth, in addition to high Toughness and Strength. He's regenerated from harm before, so there's Regeneration in there. His ability to make himself look like any old street is actually a fairly broad Morph effect- given his sheer size and mass, changing something as big as a BUILDING is actually rather simple- it's a cheat I learned from my build of Ego the Living Planet- shifting entire mountain ranges would be an enormous Move Object for any OTHER character, but when you ARE the topographical feature, it's the equivalent of a human being moving their hairline or nose around.
-Danny can appear anywhere on Earth, which is a massive Extended Teleport. Adding a huge amount of "Increased Mass" allows him to take numerous passengers, vehicles, etc., since they're all technically touching him. And as for his ability to just kind of blend in to the city, and have it "shift" to make room... a simple Permeate! It's a bit of a "cheat", but technically, that's what's happening at a fundamental level- he's moving through stuff without actually affecting it.
. In the comics, he is Jackson Hyde, a boy whose adopted parents have kept from the water since childhood- the whole Brightest Day story results in him gaining magical tattoos that light up, and he becomes the new Aqualad (his predecessor, Tempest, had been rapidly written-out in Blackest Night). His birth father, Black Manta, attacks and nearly kills Jackson's adoptive father, and it's revealed that Mera & Aquaman hid him away years ago for his own safety. He sided with the Aquafamily against his father (who coldly stated that Jackson and his dead mother meant NOTHING to him), and helped drive off Black Manta and his allies. He was announced as being about to join the Teen Titans... and then DC Rebooted itself.
