Horizon
Horizon
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Horizon is a grounded, melancholic, and bureaucratic superhero deconstruction set in the working-class neighborhoods, diners, and construction sites of modern-day Chicago. The tone is gritty and realistic, focusing on urban decay, mundane municipal hearing rooms, and heavy rigging machinery rather than traditional superhero battles. The visual palette for the Earth scenes relies on heavy shadows, grays, browns, and stark, flat lighting. This heavily contrasts with surreal, otherworldly flashbacks to a cosmic ringed world, which are depicted in a blown-out, warm color palette completely lacking true blacks.
The Characters
Roman Ladner (Horizon): The protagonist is a massive, quiet, deeply traumatized 34-year-old man who works a blue-collar construction cleanup job. He possesses god-like gravitational powers but actively hides them, living in a bare apartment and wearing worn, secondhand coats. He carries immense guilt for accidentally pulling an alien armada out of the sky and destroying a cosmic civilization when he was 14.
Leah Daniels: An overworked, fiercely determined housing advocate. She fights slow, bureaucratic wars to keep tenants in crumbling buildings, operating out of a messy storefront office with a laptop and legal pads.
Diane Okoye: A meticulous, middle-aged government archivist. She is patient, precise, and tracked Roman down by cross-referencing decades-old, ignored paperwork.
Kesha: A hardened, angry survivor from the off-world city Roman destroyed. She has spent 19 years living in a patched, ugly space-hauler searching for answers and eventually confronts him on Earth.