Who have you 'cloned'?

***Hermit*** · Oct 30th, '03, 01:56 PM

Naturally, I mean as in borrowing heavily, if not directly, from a published Comic Book Super hero.

I'm curious what, if any, are the concepts that are most successful adaptations that you find yourself using over and over.

This poll, like many of my other ones, means nada really, but is a fun way to pretend to 'keep score'. Multiple choices will be allowed

**Blue** · Oct 30th, '03, 02:07 PM

I try and make some of everything for NPCs/Villains. For player characters, I lean toward energy projectors and martial artists, none of which really fit the above categories. So Other. Though I love them super-patriot types.

***Hermit*** · Oct 30th, '03, 02:10 PM

Argh, good point. Heck, I should have put "One of the FF" as an option

The Torch was, for a time, the very template for Energy Projectors in my games.

**BNakagawa** · Oct 30th, '03, 02:23 PM

Actually, several of my oldest characters predate the comic characters they're inevitably compared to. I'm sure many old timers have the same problem.

**Agent Escafarc** · Oct 30th, '03, 02:44 PM

Orion the Hunter a pre-Longbow Hunters Green Arrow Clone(my first champoins character
Thunder a Mary Marvel(based loosly on the MM in the adventure in the back of the JLA Sourcebook of the latest DCU RPG/with some Miricleman thrown in there) Clone
Cat[II] who is a clone of Cat[I] who is one of two twin daughters of Cat[II]. Cat[III] who is the rencarnated Cat[I] who also is the Adopted mother of Cat[IV] who is the twin sister of Cat[I](needless to say this all involves a lot of time travel from the 1880's to the 31st century

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**austenandrews** · Oct 30th, '03, 02:45 PM

The ones that come to mind are a Cap clone (with a spiffy cape instead of a shield -- yeah, that's me, a font of creativity at age 15), a Bullseye clone (in powers, anyway - one of my favorite PCs), and a butch mythological character (Herne the Hunter) that I guess had his roots in Thor.

-AA

**GestaltBennie** · Oct 30th, '03, 04:16 PM

Mine is Captain Marvel.

Thundrax, my longest running PC was a transforming teenage brick with a mystic origin, and Omega, my ToT PC, is an Iron Age squish of the Big Red Cheese, Supes, and some kid who swears a lot.

Scott Bennie

**McCoy** · Oct 30th, '03, 04:43 PM

I'm the only one with a Wolverine clone?

**JeffreyWKramer** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:01 PM

All I can say is that I'm glad it's not the early/mid '90s any more. I gave up Champions for awhile because it seemed everyone wanted to run some clone/amalgam of Punisher, Ghost Rider and Wolverine, and I wasn't at all interested in running a Dark Champions or high-carnage kind of campaign.

I've seen more characters with AP or Penetrating claws than I've seen clones of any other single comic concept.

Next most common is probably Iron Man clones.

I had one player in our game group whose characters all seemed clones of each other. No matter what else his character did, all his characters flew, had at least 30 STR and had Damage Reduction. His super-patriot, his Manbat clone, his Cyclops clone and even his Green Arrow clone (Blue Bowman) were all immune to small arms fire, could bench-press a Toyota, and flew by on means or another.

**Agent X** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:04 PM

I've cloned everything on the list except for Punisher.

**aylwin13** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:41 PM

I have a few "clones":
Iron-Man: Paladin
Nightcrawler: Black Demon
Cyclops: Starfire (solar eyebeams, complete with visor)
Capt America: Shieldsman

Moonknight and Daredevil I wrote up straight from the comics, picture and all.

**Lightray** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:45 PM

I have an NPC (occasional PC) who, within the first minute I'd introduced him, caused my players to say "Oh, he's like Batman." Now they pester me to "do the voice" every time he shows up.

And I've got a back-up PC character, "Thorium", who has radiation powers and Thor's hammer (and glove and belt).

And I'm working on a create-energy-constructs GL-type right now.

No Superman, yet. And no gun bunnies. But I've had several friends who always made Wolverine wannabes -- that was in the late 80s, though. They may have grown out of that phase. Well, one of them may have.

**Trebuchet** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:51 PM

Iron Man: Ranger
Elektra: Spirit Ninja and Blood Orchid

**Agent X** · Oct 30th, '03, 05:57 PM

I'm fixing to run a character that I'm sure the less astute members of my gaming group will assume is a clone of Green Lantern. He's more of a clone of the old Star Man though.