Backstreet Project

Within the comic's narrative, the story opens during a Backstreet Boys concert when a spaceship crashes near the stadium. The band members find an alien from the ship who gives each of them an enchanted amulet embedded with mystic crystals. The alien explains she is on a mission of protecting Earth from an alien invasion that will happen soon; when the band members wear the amulets their DNA is altered by a 'virtual genetic cyclone' which grants them astonishing super powers and transforms them into the superhero team called the Cyber Crusaders. As a real-world origin, the property was produced as a celebrity-branded one-shot comic and associated media around 2000, with Stan Lee Media involvement in planned webisodes.

As published, Backstreet Project is a single-issue comic (2000) featuring the Backstreet Boys depicted 'as themselves' who become the Cyber Crusaders after receiving amulets. The sources state the amulets are 'enchanted' and embedded with mystic crystals and that the members assume superhero forms, but they do not provide detailed, member-by-member costume designs or full visual descriptions in the supplied materials. Merchandise appearances include Burger King action figures (sold with Kids' Meals in 2000), three Burger King TV commercials featuring the band and their cartoon characters, and seven released Flash webisodes portraying the characters.

In‑story, the amulets cause a 'virtual genetic cyclone' that twists the wearers' DNA and grants each member 'astonishing super powers'—the comic presents these powers as the mechanism by which the band becomes the Cyber Crusaders to help address the alien threat. The supplied sources do not enumerate individual members' specific powers or further mechanics beyond the amulets and the virtual genetic cyclone plot device.