Quick Villain Idea (Q.V.I.): The Bug Brigade

Every so often I come up with some bizarre ideas for villains at work (it's a brainless job half the time, so I can work and create at the same time ).  So since I don't have time to do the normal rejected villain profiles right now, here's a weird idea for a villain that may or may not show up in the comics.

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Today's Villain:  The Bug Brigade

Synopsis:  The Bug Brigade was originally a group of impressionable kids that had big dreams of one day becoming superheroes.  These dreams were realized sooner than expected, thanks to the intervention of the Shard Master, that granted them the powers they desired through the use of Star Shards.  However, during their first outing, the shards simultaneously exploded, corrupting the children with Shard Radiation and turning them all into monstrous shard mutant versions of their heroic personas.

Powers: Besides the usual Shard Mutant abilities, the Bug Brigade all have powers based on the insect they mutated into.  So for example, Beetle Boy (pulling a random name out of a hat here) would have unbreakable carapace, winged flight, increased strength, and possibly the ability to shift the earth around him.  The other members would have similarly themed powers.

Additional Notes:  The big moral issue with the Bug Brigade is that while they're near-mindless monsters, going around slaughtering people, they are also still kids, whose parents are worried sick wondering what has happened to their children.  This would be one of the biggest moral conflicts that the Immortals would have to deal with, and their actions during their dealings with the Brigade would determine how exactly they treat Shard Mutants from now on; whether they kill them out of mercy, or whether they spare them in hopes for a cure (likely the latter).

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I hope you guys enjoyed that.  I'll upload these Q.V.I.'s every so often I think, to gauge different ideas, and see what sticks with people.  They should also make for a good reference should I want to create a few quick Rejected Villain Profiles, and I'm short on ideas (not that that's been too much of a problem before...)