Next Gen (Freedom City)

The Next Gen (also written "Next-Gen") are fictional teen superheroes within the Freedom City campaign setting of the "Mutants and Masterminds" role-playing game. They are roughly analogous to the Teen Titans and the early X-Men or New Mutants teams.

Based out of the "Claremont Academy" (similar to the Xavier Academy, and named after X-Men writer Chris Claremont), the student superheroes known as the Next-Gen are taught by retired wealthy adventurer Duncan Summers, whom an earlier generation knew as the Batman-like costumed crimefighter called The Raven. While he has retired from active crimefighting (his daughter Callie is the current Raven, and a member of the Freedom League), he has founded the Claremont Academy to teach discipline, control and proper values and ethics to young superhumans. Duncan has staffed the school with a number of former heroes, who have practical experience with the kind of situations these heroes-in-training may someday face.

Not all the students at Claremont are supers, and of those who are, only a handful take part in active superheroic activity on a regular basis. This small group has come to be called the Next-Gen:

Bolt - Son of Captain Thunder, he has electrical and super-speed powers. Loosely analogous to Quicksilver, he even has white hair.

Megastar - Young boy whose body is bonded with an alien combat nanosuit, which he plays like a videogame and which forms into an adult outer appearance. Analogous to Prime of the Ultraverse, with touches of Megas XLR, the Guyver, and the Silver Age Green Lantern.

Nereid - The daughter of Sea-King, the ruler of Atlantis, super-strong and can turn to water. A loose adaptation of Namorita and Fathom.

Seven - Witch in training. Not specifically modeled after any one character, just a generic magic-using superhero, but the closest analogues would be Zatanna, Raven or Magik.

Sonic - Inner-city youth with flight and sonic powers. Has the abilities of Banshee and the background of Static.