greymankle Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 OK we've all seen Superman clones and Batman clones a plenty. Nothing wrong with them just a lot of them. I'm trying to create a Spidey clone but with a new SFX. Swinging, clinging, leaping, entangles, danger sense and of course a ridiculous DEX. I having trouble thinking of an over-arching concept that could encompass all these things. I've kicked around kinetic ropes, or high cyber but it seems to clunky. Spidey is streamlined. High tech is not a problem but I would like most of the powers to be without a focus. I'm not looking for stats or anything just a couple of ideas for the overall SFX. I want to clone the power set of the webslinger not the Character. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Psionics. The character boosts his own physical attributes with psychic control of his metabolism and such. He has limited precognition. He can create strands of "ectoplasm" seemingly out of thin air that are sticky. This stickyness alows him to scale walls, entangle foes and swing from rooftop to rooftop. This also give the character a chance to expand in ways that are very different from Spiderman, perhaps learnig to summon imaginary ectoplasmic entites to fight for him or develping more traditional psi powers, like telepathy or astral projection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Now that I think about it, this is how the second Spider Woman worked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greymankle Posted May 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone ohh I like that. the personality could be a diametric opposite. A calm monk-like persona as opposed to the wise-cracking Spidey. Plus the added mental powers make him more diversified. Thanks man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greymankle Posted May 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Having never heard of Spider woman I have no worries totally stealing the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scifi_Toughguy Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Now that I think about it' date=' this is how the second Spider Woman worked...[/quote'] I was gonna post a reply and say that but you beat me to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_runstedler Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone OK we've all seen Superman clones and Batman clones a plenty. Nothing wrong with them just a lot of them. I'm trying to create a Spidey clone but with a new SFX. Swinging, clinging, leaping, entangles, danger sense and of course a ridiculous DEX. I having trouble thinking of an over-arching concept that could encompass all these things. I've kicked around kinetic ropes, or high cyber but it seems to clunky. Spidey is streamlined. High tech is not a problem but I would like most of the powers to be without a focus. I'm not looking for stats or anything just a couple of ideas for the overall SFX. I want to clone the power set of the webslinger not the Character. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks How about some type of highly advanced computer that was directly connected to his spinal cord. the computer uses super-sensitive sensors to analyse his surroundings and determine if danger is present (i.e. a car being thrown at him from behind etc). If it detects something and analyses it as being a threat, it overrides muscle control and causes the character to leap out of the way, etc. Of course the character could over-ride this, but it would take an ego roll. Its kinda like how a cockroach's back legs start moving even before its simple brain receives information that a light has been turned on...That sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone How about a squid or octopus? I have a stranded alien law enforcement officer with a distinctly non-human appearance, including 6 tentacles, each one with a pair of eyes on the end. Stretching, entangle (limited range), swinging, 360 degree vision, and a few others related to his alien physiology. Doesn't fit in tights real well, but what the hey. Some whacko with 2 bullwhips? Nah. Back '89, I had a guy with a cybered arms that could shoot out some grapple lines from his palms - good for swinging, an entangle, and a ranged martial grab of sorts - grab someone or something with the cable and real it in. If you add a little cyberware to his head you could justify a danger sense - a sensor suite and a tactical computer with some fuzzy logic to determine probabilities of attack, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone I think it's the addition of the "webs" - swinging, entangle, that make it harder to fit to a concept. I've done plenty of Spidey-clones - clinging, fast light bricks - but replace the webs with something else. Could go with "Quantum" or something similar - affects the fundamental forces, so has limited gravity control, can use "superstrings" that hold the universe together for various effects, also tunes him in to danger, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone My borhter had a guy who was a combination Spiderman/Constrictor. He had Psychokinetic Strands. Super high dex, but normal athelete for the rest of his charactersistics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperion Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Instead of making the character be either psionic or human/animal hybrid, how about an astronomer trying to prove the existance of dark matter. As always seems to happen, there was something that happened (either intentional or not) and he was imbued with a portion of the primal forces of nature. There could be a part of him that is always seeing things a second or so in the future (danger sense), assists him in avoiding attacks (DCV levels), grants the speed and power needed for taking care of problems, and anything else that you would like the character to possess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WhammeWhamme Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Werewolf with a whip? (Ooh. That's kinda cool.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Nanites: They quicken him They stretch out to form rudimentry shapes (Swinglines, entangles, etc...) They cover his palms to allow for clinging Only tricky part is DS, but that could be a matter of them somehow warning him of danger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone How about a squid or octopus? I have a stranded alien law enforcement officer with a distinctly non-human appearance' date=' including 6 tentacles, each one with a pair of eyes on the end. Stretching, entangle (limited range), swinging, 360 degree vision, and a few others related to his alien physiology. Doesn't fit in tights real well, but what the hey.[/quote']My Spider-Man clone is Squid-Kid: He has four tentacles coming out of his back, and ink-jets in his forarms. I copped out on the origin, and made him an alien symbiot/suit guy. So far, he's been one of my top three favorite characers to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEmerged Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Spiders are an extremely diverse species. Go for some of the OTHER spider powers, like tunneling and walking on water. Look at some of the spider aspects Spiderman didn't touch on. Poison, for example (this was one of the aspects of Spiderman 2099 that was an improvement, IMO). Perhaps instead of leaving crooks tied up, your characters leaves them paralyzed... And don't discount the simple effects of giving him Extra Limbs. My own NPC Spiderman knockoff has four extra arms he can retract, for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone There's always ASTRO CITY's Jack-in-the-Box: http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptionscomic/astrocity/acjack.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone I'd like to say, off topic, that seeing the words "Spider-Man" and "clone" in the same sentence still makes my sphincter twitch. Edit: Oh, btw, I love Jack in the Box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greymankle Posted June 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone I'd like to say, off topic, that seeing the words "Spider-Man" and "clone" in the same sentence still makes my sphincter twitch. Edit: Oh, btw, I love Jack in the Box. Not a fan of spidey? or don't like clones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone I believe he is refering to the Spidey clone story arc from the actual comic books... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greymankle Posted June 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone I believe he is refering to the Spidey clone story arc from the actual comic books... Ahh, I missed that one. Just a bad story-arc, or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marketeer Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Ahh' date=' I missed that one. Just a bad story-arc, or what?[/quote'] There was potential there for it to be great. They changed writers midstream, and they started with a premise that made over a decade of Spider-Man comics "wrong". I shan't go into more detail, do to possibility of spoiler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexus Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone Nanites: They quicken him They stretch out to form rudimentry shapes (Swinglines, entangles, etc...) They cover his palms to allow for clinging Only tricky part is DS, but that could be a matter of them somehow warning him of danger... You could steal The Engineer's Sensor Perfume idea. She has a cloud of microscopic nanites about her person, monitoring the immediate enviornment for signs of trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marketeer Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Re: Spider Man Clone One "clone" that was Spider-Man themed came from the DC/Marvel collaboration, "Amalgam". Spider-Boy was originally created to be a clone of Super-Soldier (a Captain America/Superman hybrid). Due to an accident that caused him to be born prematurely, the only major superpower he possesses is control over gravity, allowing him to leap, stick to surfaces (by changing which way is "down" for him) and modest superstrength. It was a neat amalgamation of Spider-Man and Superboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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