What’s that, up in the sky? Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s the next big superhero phenomenon! With so many superhero movies coming out over the summer, it seems like there's never been a better time to wear your underwear on the outside.

From May 22nd to June 27th, your task is to create a 2 to 5 minute superhero short, introducing an entirely new hero to the world! It can be an origin story, a paranormal investigation, or even a final battle where your hero's mettle is well and truly tested. What does it mean to be a superhero? That's for you to decide!

As per my usual, this challenge is part of the BrickFilm Cinematic Universe, an integrated continuity for brickfilms, but you don't need to worry about that when making your entry. What it means is that all entries will be put into a BFCU playlist, and in the future there may be a chance for BiM to form its own JLA/Avengers/[insert team name here]...

Requirements
First off, you have to design a costume, and then post your minifig to this thread. You may choose your superhero's powers but they cannot be reality warping or omnipotence. Be sensible, people. Don't make a Beyonder or a Martian Manhunter.

Here is a list to inspire you. Please note that you do not have to choose a power set from this list, this is just meant to be inspiration. Your character could teleport, make energy constructs, be able to shrink or grow, or even just explode and reform somewhere else - it's up to you.

• Super strength, invulnerability and a battering-ram head

• Super speed, intangibility (moving through objects) and x-ray vision

• Flight and fireballs

• Laser vision and force-fields

• Super tunneling, rock skin and super strength

• Animal shapeshifting (this includes dinosaurs - don't laugh)

• Cyborg body, laser arm and computer interfacing

• Freezing/ice manipulation

Need more inspiration? Take a peek at this.

Every superhero needs a villain too - make your villain and post them to the thread, but you are free to give them any powers you like as long as it is not the same as the hero, and does not involve controlling space, time or reality. Be creative, and wow your audience - after all, superhero movies are foremost about spectacle.

Moderate violence is allowed - this is a superhero challenge, after all - but gore and bad language are strongly discouraged. Keep it PG-13 please, although this is not a firm rule.

Somewhere in your entry - at the beginning, the end, it doesn't matter - please put the words 'Made for the BFCU Superhero Season Challenge. There is no official logo, so you can add the text in any way you like.

Winners
Yeeeeeaaaaah about that. This is a Challenge rather than a Contest, and as such there are no prizes (unless someone wishes to donate something). 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will all be chosen from the entries, and I am discussing finding a way to 'display' the 1st prize winner somewhere in recognition of the accolade.

Judges
jampot
Pritchard Studios

Really, this is just for fun. Loads of us love making superhero brickfilms, what with the rise of the LEGO Super Heroes line, and this seems like a great opportunity for us to take what we know of superhero cinema's stereotypes and tropes and forge something with our own individual stamps on them.

If you have any questions please comment below, and I look forward to seeing what superheroes people come up with!

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein