No advantages and the character may not make Presence Attacks.

Advantage I: Presence Attacks – the character may make Presence Attacks at this point. It is correct to say that this is not so much an advantage as much as simply an indicator that the character is coming into his own, gaining confidence and reputation.

Advantage II: Headquarters – character receives 10 bonus experience points solely for the purpose of building a base or vehicle(s) (e.g., this converts to 50 XP for those bases and/or vehicles) – these points may be applied to a team base/vehicle(s).

Character receives 50 bonus experience points which he may apportion among any or all of the following advantages (only):

Advantage IV: Reorganization – the character may undergo a "radiation accident" or otherwise revamp his character (completely, even, GM willing)

Advantage V: Agency – a character may use a portion of his bonus points for the sole purpose of building an agency or contributing to his team’s agency

Advantage VI: Life Saving – for every 9 XP the character wishes to set aside he may save his own or another’s life in spite of what would be a death blow or circumstance; once spent, these points are lost forever and may not be rebuilt.  This may be purchased later on, as well.  Players may go into XP debt with Life Saving.

For more conventional games, an analogue to this would be allowing characters to purchase the 5th version of Regeneration with the Resurrection Adder and 1 Charge with "Charges Never Recover," which costs 9 XP per 1 BOD Regeneration from death (may be increased, 2d6 costs 12 XP, 3d6 costs 15, each +3 XP add 1 more d6).  Mix with some hand-waving to indicate that death blows don't do more than take a character to the 2x negative BODY point!

Thus, for example, a character may spend 30 points on an agency, 10 points on reorganizing his character, and 10 points for one single life saving in the future.

Advantage VII: Immunity – a character gets 50 points that he may spend on perks, contacts, or specialized immunities. These points may be spent at any time but only for these purposes. Immunities are a new form of perk; they are one-time payoffs for offenses the character has made. They may also buy off a hunted that has come into play during the game (ie, no points have actually been paid for the hunted).  These points may also be used to buy off Disadvantages if appropriate. 

The cost for an immunity is:

• 15 points for a major offense (any offense where a major government or super group is willing to take action)
• 10 points for a middling offense (any offense where a small government or single super is willing to take action)
• 5 points for a minor offense (any offense where a local government or significant organization is willing to take action)

The real "powers that be," the ones deep and dark and unknown to most, are watching.  Your adventures take fantastic shape as you are among the top of the heap in your sort of world.  You've made it in New York (if you can make it there...).  Your character becomes more plot-altering than before, so to speak.  From the traditional comic book perspective, people outside of comics are well aware of you, as memorabilia of all sorts is made.  There's material coming out in book and even maybe movie form.

At this level, the character receives 25 XP to spend as per below.

Advantage VIII: Organization Ties – a character may formalize his ties to organizations or develop new ties to organizations, by spending on appropriate Perks.  At this point, the GM should generally allow access to organizations that wouldn't have been available earlier, a result of a clear bump in status.

Advantage IX: Enhancements – certain special powers become available:

Mastery:  For 20 XP, a character may be a "master" of a particular tight group of attacks or abilities.  He is, for all intents and purposes, one of the best ever in this area.  It is rare he meets an equal.  Characters with a Mastery shake 4d6 when making to-hit or skill rolls and get the best of 3 of those.  A 3 is still a critical success, albeit easier to achieve.   Generally, this area should be unique to a single PC and reflect their shining ability.  It shouldn't overlap between players, ideally.

For more conventional games, an analogue to this would be allowing characters to simply exceed campaign limits on CV/skill level bonuses by 3.

Open-Ended Damage:  For +1/2 Advantage, an attack "open ends" on a "6".  This means the dice is rerolled and the next roll is ADDITIONAL in nature.  Similar to Mastery, this should typically be one of a character's trademark/thematic attacks.  Normally this should be limited to two purchases per PC.  For VPP-based characters, an attack may be defined for this purpose and its Active Cost should reflect this 1/2 Advantage.

For more conventional games, an analogue to this would be allowing characters to simply exceed campaign damage limits by 1/3 the DC limit.

Missed Me:  To simulate how well ongoing characters are at avoiding or taking lethal damage, a specialized form of Invulnerability intended to work with any sort of character conception.   "Ultra-Healing" works against ANY damage at the rate of spending 3 XP for ANY single strike - it is basically a non-recoverable 1-charge version of a rare Invulnerability called "Only for a vital moment"!  As the 1-time charge indicates, this is "spend and lose", the XP are lost once spent.  HOWEVER, unlike Life-Saving, this must be declared in use no later than the point where the strike hits and BEFORE damage is known!  GMs should normally warn characters if a strike seems big/significant and this should not be fake-out UNLESS it is part of a direct mental illusion or the like.  DOUBLE HOWEVER, characters are allowed to go into XP debt if they wish with both Missed Me. 

For more conventional games, this is could be modeled in HERO as Desolid with 1 non-recoverable charge (-4), a conditional power "Does not Work in Ubiquitous Circumstances" (-2) and "No Conscious Control" (-2) as a metagaming tactic, and pay 4 XP.  Flavor to taste!

You're a part of your own world's mythologies.  You battle cosmic forces.  From the traditional comic book perspective, everyone's heard of your character, you are one of those iconic characters like Batman.

A character receives 30 points which he may spend on any increased-life Life Support options, Presence and/or any of the below:

Advantage X: Solved Mysteries – a character may receive answers to great personal mysteries, such as who his father is, where his powers come from, etc. The character may also ask for the enactment of personal situations he would like to see, such as the landing of the aliens who gave him power. Each request costs 8 XP. Solved mysteries should always involve a situation fairly concocted by the GM at the player's request, and should not unbalance the game, although the player should get his mystery solved or situational request granted and not be killed. Only personal mysteries should be addressed, not mysteries such as who committed such-and-such a crime (unless, of course, that particular crime was of great personal importance to the character).  

For more conventional games, this is could be modeled in HERO as Clairsentience with Retrocognition and Precognition (the precognition used as a fudge for "seeing" an event deterministically) with 1 non-recoverable charge (-4), a conditional power "Only as relates to self" (-2) for 8 XP.  Another method (one I'm not so fond of) would be Extra-Dimensional Movement, 1 non-recoverable charge (-4) with Usable by Others (+1/4) and x8 Increased Weight (to account for a typical PC group) (+3 Adder), and consider that the PC has moved everyone to a dimension with this occurrence.

Advantage XII: Take-back – a character may take back events in the future! This is similar to lifesaving above, but in this case the character may take back actions and results up to the beginning of the particular gaming session, at least insomuch as his character is affected. The character receives 35 XP for this purpose or to use for other purposes, as these XP can also be used for advantages from the prior levels (including Reorganization). 5 points will recall a situation that is not grave or serious for the character or his associates. 10 points will recall a situation that is serious or deadly for the character and/or his associates (the situation lead to or could have lead to injuries, humiliation, and/or severe problems). 20 points will recall a situation that affects the world or other greater noble purposes.

If a situation is "taken back", all experience and reputation points gained or lost are negated, for all involved characters. Usually, it can all be viewed as a dream sequence or hypnosis or something similar. However, if there are players (not characters or non-player characters) involved who do not want the situation taken back, the GM must devise some way around all this; perhaps the character the player wishes to save has a personal god who changes everything just for that character. The GM and player should attempt to stay in the conception of the character.

Situations prior to gaining this ability may not be taken back, thus, when gaining this ability, the character must set aside a reserve to draw on later.

Advantage XIII: Ascendance (i.e., it’s time to quit) – a character may end his active career by "ascending" to his "ideal state" and/or become virtually unbeatable with an extra 500 (or whatever!) experience points.

Ascendance means a character may, for example: join his god; or seemingly die, only to live underground and, although ending his known career, train people to fight evil; find the secret to eternal life and live quietly forever, his true quest over; become a god unconcerned with humans; etc. The GM should concoct a scenario to fit the character's needs, although there should still be some challenge. Ascendance also indicates an "end" appropriate to the character; it should be carefully thought out.

If characters are instead moving on, simply gain 40 XP and spend them on advantages from the prior levels (including Reorganization).  For additional Rep Levels, each Rep Level is the prior level in points plus the difference between the prior two levels plus 750, for example:

for a level beyond "Eternal", subtract the 5225 for the preceding Galactic level from the 7475 for the Eternal level, which results in 2250, so this next highest level is reached at 7475 + 2250 points for the difference + 750 points, resulting in a level at 10475

for a level beyond "Eternal+1", subtract the Eternal level 7475 from the Eternal+1 level of 10475, which results in 3000; so Eternal+2 equals 10475+3000+750, which is 14225