I did post this on G+ before, but I thought to share this with all non G+ users too:
The other day, when a few people from our group had their coffee break together, they thought that it was a shame, that we OR people so far don’t have super heroes…and this is what we came up with:
The setting of our story is the modern, but enormously dark city of Dantzig, Poland 
The good guys (aka iForce):
- Optiman (Superhero; weapon of choice: Feasibility pumpgun, vehicle: Hyper plane)
- Heuristic boy (Sidekick)
- Obiwan Gurobi (old guy you go to when you have a hard to solve problem – the only sentence he knows though still helpful every time: “May the iForce be with you”)
The bad guys:
- Dr. LocOpt (Villain; weapon of choice: his “Degeneration” powers (think of the Quake3 voice, saying “Regeneration” – http://fliiby.com/file/6193/obtcmihvjz.html)
- Poly hydra (Dr. LocOpt’s dangerous snake monster with many heads)
- N.P. Hard (Villain; weapon of choice: Infeasibility cloak, also: the guy who makes every easy problem enormously hard to solve, btw. no one knows his real first and middle name, only the initials)
- Two Phase (using the simplest possible decision support system ever – a coin)
The neutral characters (sometimes good, sometimes bad):
- Cutwoman (sometimes she can help by using her cuts, e.g. her director’s cut, but sometimes eliminates feasible solutions…she always has her own agenda)
- simpLex Luther (not the most clever guy, but very successful and everybody knows him)
- Cylce-Ops (drives simpLex Luther nuts)
Polititians:
- Al GOR
Guest stars:
Bender (Futurama), MethodMan (rapping: “We are the column generation”) and of course the one and only MIP Jagger
Here is an image of our whiteboard:
Characters proposed from people who commented on the G+ post:
- Nash-man (already knows what you’re going to do, the only way to defeat him is to think irrationally…) – as proposed by Vincent Knight
- Sad L. Point (villain): gives users false hope of a solution, then depresses them by dashing that hope – as proposed by Paul Rubin
- Swapman (who is protecting your neighbourhood from innefficient solutions) – as proposed by Tim Schöneberg
