Worst Fear!

[Dr. Anomaly]

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Dr. Anomaly: A couple of months ago, game-time, Dr. Anomaly got transposed with his counterpart in a world in which Lord Omega (our name for Dr. Destroyer) had taken over North America and was rapidly expanding to the rest of the world. In that world, his team-mates were leading a cell-based resistance, always on the edge of discovery and eradication. They were, to his mind, twisted versions of themselves gone down a path of morale compromise and the use of murderous force, all in the name of trying to restore freedom. In other words, were rapidly becoming the same as the monsters they were facing.

 

Dr. Anomaly is back in his own world now. His worst nightmare would probably be something along these lines:

 

1) Events transpire that shape his world into the same one he saw during his extra-dimensional journey, and even though he is forewarned, he's unable to stop it.

 

2) His team mates, after compromising everything they ever believed in while trying to stop Lord Omega, fail and are killed, leaving only Dr. Anomaly

 

3) Beaten down by his failure to prevent this from coming about despite his foreknowledge, and his failure to keep his team mates alive, Dr. Anomaly's spirit is broken. He is caught by Lord Omega's forces, and ends up serving Lord Omega more-or-less willingly. He rationalizes that by helping Lord Omega to finish conquering the world as quickly as possible, the number of lives lost will be less than the number that would die in a long, drawn-out conflict. But he knows it's a weak rationalization for his failures and the broken spirit that makes him incapable of fighting (and dying) for what he knows to be right.

 

That would be his current worst nightmare. The answer is different now than it would have been before, and will probably change in the future. But right now, that's it.

[death tribble]

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Worst fear ? Seeing a page full of WWYCD threads. Seen before. Oh for negative rep !

 

And ChuckG ? Not everyone can use PM due to where they are when they post etc. So they might have to post instead.

[Chuckg]

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Worst fear ? Seeing a page full of WWYCD threads. Seen before. Oh for negative rep !

 

And ChuckG ? Not everyone can use PM due to where they are when they post etc. So they might have to post instead.

 

If you can log on to this board at all to post, you can use the PM function.

[death tribble]

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People can't PM me.

 

Also I would rather praise or insult someone via the post than PM. That way everyone knows how you feel. Not just the person you PM. Insulting via PM seems cowardly to me. Your view may vary.

[ZootSoot]

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> Let me put it this way: A what now?

 

Doom captured the Purple Man, and put him in a gigantic amplifier that revved his normally immediate-area-only mind-control powers up to where they could not only cover the entire globe, but successfully dominate people up to and including Thor. With this, he conquered the entire world.

 

The Purple Man, enslaved as he was, told Doom that Doom was nothing -- it was /his/ power fueling Doom's conquest, and that therefore he was the one who should be ruling.

 

Doom, responding as he usually does to a challenge aimed at his pride, immediately stepped into the heart of the amplifier with the Purple Man, took off his mask, turned off his technology-based mental defense, and told the Purple Man to take his best shot -- which he did.

 

... and Doom didn't even blink.

 

"Now, Killgrave -- /who/ is fit to rule?"

 

Arrghhh! My worst fear, remembering that I paid $12.00 for that crapfest, that loathesome piece of Doomporn. Does Stan Lee have to die before they retire that idiotic annoyance of a character? There isn't a single character from the old Image roster that I would not welcome as Doom's permanent replacement, not ONE.

[Zed-F]

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Soulbarb's worst fear would be if she managed to find a way to save her own soul from Camuranima's grasp, shattering her Soulstone and sending shards of it flying everywhere, only to find out after the fact that in doing so she'd (a) unexpectedly lost her powers and ( caused innocents throughout Houston who came into contact with the fragments to be taken by Camuranima in her place.

[Hermit]

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Soulbarb's worst fear would be if she managed to find a way to save her own soul from Camuranima's grasp' date=' shattering her Soulstone and sending shards of it flying everywhere, only to find out after the fact that in doing so she'd (a) unexpectedly lost her powers and ( caused innocents throughout Houston who came into contact with the fragments to be taken by Camuranima in her place.[/quote']

 

Thanks for the idea!

 

Kidding, kidding...

 

[Powerhouse]

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I always thought that was a cool scene with Doom (and I HATE the Purple Man anyway). The only thing I didn't like is that the scene puts Doom above (as opposed to on par with) the likes of Thor, Captain America, Dr. Strange, and Professor X in terms of willpower. They should be roughly equals IMHO if the latter two not more resistant to psionic manipulation.

 

Possible ideas:

 

Doom was ready while everyone else suffered a X2 effect from being surprised

 

Doom's meglomania (VC, Total) raised the roll needed to Ego +50.

 

Bad writing to get a plot across.

 

Isn't is funny how someone will enough will to be the *only* guy to resist Purpleman packs it in like a crybaby when the world gets too nitty gritty to run? I guess Dr. D doesn't have a good Beaucratic skill roll

[Badger]

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Maybe Doom just isnt evil enough for Bureaucratics.

[TheQuestionMan]

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To be helpless. To not be able to help or stop someone or something from hurting someone else. To have no strength and mobility of my own.

 

QM

[Chuckg]

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Isn't is funny how someone will enough will to be the *only* guy to resist Purpleman packs it in like a crybaby when the world gets too nitty gritty to run? I guess Dr. D doesn't have a good Beaucratic skill roll

 

On the contrary, he has an excellent Bureaucratics roll. Note that the during the time Doom was running the planet, he was pulling off strokes of administrative genius. Everything was running on time, nobody was hungry, nobody was angry. (Everybody was also entirely without free will or civil rights, but hey, that's why he's the villain.)

 

Doom didn't quit running the world out of fear, or stress, or pain, or inability to handle the job.

 

He quit running it because it had gotten so damn dull. Being the world's office manager just wasn't glorious enough. The conquering was more fun than the actual ruling.

 

There's a reason why his future takeover plans after that didn't involve global mind control.

 

As for Doom being supreme in willpower -- no, I can accept him having no peers in this field. Although people like Doctor Strange and Xavier can (and have) come close, *they're* not the ones who are epically self-motivated that even when the Beyonder is slowly ripping apart their very molecular structure at the roots, they can /still/ keep moving past the pain to successfully execute their master plan.

 

Thanos and his journey to the heart of existence (in THANOS QUEST) has shown Doom-like willpower, in that he was able to keep himself together by sheer force of will even when the very fabric of reality was being torn open inside of his body. I don't think anyone else has.

[Metaphysician]

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There's the weird thing that happened with Kang at the end of Avengers Forever, but I honestly don't know how to categorize that.

[FenrisUlf]

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Baron von Darien: I know it's a cliche to say that your character is 'beyond' this kind of attack -- but given his EGO 45, his over 1100 years of (really unpleasant) life experience, his having long since gotten more than used to staring into every type of horror and blasphemy that over a millenium spent as a master vampire and demon hunter can produce...

 

... well, let's just say that he got nicknamed 'Victor von Vampire' for a /reason/.

 

Any would-be Scarecrow that pulls this maneuver on the Baron is half a second away from an extremely painful lesson in exactly why that was a very bad idea.

 

What if he sees his wife/child/whatever as a vampire, an absolutely evil and monstrous vampire... and he's the one who turned them?

 

EDITAh, my apologies, Chuckg. I didn't read far enough ahead to see where Baron D actually lived through this already. Though putting him through it again might be fun in a sadistic way...

 

And my characters?

 

FenrisUlf would most likely flash on seeing his family and friends torn to pieces -- and then tastes the blood on his fangs. Though that would likely send him into a berserk fury, at which point his teammates would have to nail him with a couple of Entangles to hold him down...

[Chuckg]

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What if he sees his wife/child/whatever as a vampire, an absolutely evil and monstrous vampire... and he's the one who turned them?

 

EDITAh, my apologies, Chuckg. I didn't read far enough ahead to see where Baron D actually lived through this already. Though putting him through it again might be fun in a sadistic way...

 

Actually, his wife and son were just murdered -- he accepted vampirism in an effort to gain the power to avenge them, a feat otherwise beyond his capacity. (Not that he wasn't any slouch as a warrior even when mortal, but the other guys had a small army, and he didn't. And this being back during the 10th century, it's not like 'appeal to legal authorities' was much of an option.)

 

It was the /second/ woman he fell in love with, centuries later, whom he Embraced and then... well, it ended about as poorly as such things /can/ end.

 

He hasn't dated much since then.

[Dr Archeville]

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Dead Head: For the zombies which overran his home planet (he's a PC in a Galactic Champions game; his homeworld was overrun by [revamped] Dawn of the Dead-style zombies) to somehow get off-world and spread their plague to every inhabited world in the Universe. That, or the loss of his mental faculties and he degenerates into a flesh-eating, brain-craving maniac, like all the other zombies on his homeworld.

 

Doktor Archeville: fully falling to the madness that has touched every member of his family (and which manifests in him as low-grade "Mad Scientist Personality Disorder"), causing him to do something like become the next Dr. Destroyer.

[Manchine]

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Worst Fear. This makes the characters more HUMAN.

 

Manchine, would be becoming blind. Manchine is techinacally me and thats my worst fear. Not being able to see. (I was blind for a short time.)

 

Animal Teen, he is all about his youth and looks. So Growing old.

 

Sonic Soldier, being hunted by the American Government.

 

Earth Lord, to have his hero look down on him.

 

White Knight, being a disappointment to his FATHER!

 

Seige, not being able to control her powers and hearing everyones thoughts driving her insane!

[GoldenAge]

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Bastion:

Dr Sebastian Castle is rarely afraid of anything. Sure, he's apprehensive and worries, but fear is usually replaced with grim resolve and "what if" scenarios that lead to solutions... That's Dr. Castle, mind you. I know different!

 

If ever a time came when Dr. Molly Checkett was endangered or, god forbid, killed Bastion would loose his mind.

 

- Sure, Molly was his former lab assistant. It was during the years they spent together working in tandem that Sebastian grew to love her.

- Its also true that Molly Checkett used Sebastian’s emotions to manipulate him, eventually usurping his Quantum theories which she used to become a doctor and get one of the most prestigious scientific jobs in the country. Her actions left Dr. Castle lost, alone, unfunded and bankrupt.

- Its also a fact that the wiley Dr. Molly Checkett still keeps in contact with Bastion, occasionally going so far as to steal his newest research and claim it as her own in order to maintain her influential position at Antares Corporation.

- Yes, Bastion knows she's doing it. But what can he do? Though he'd deny it; he deeply loves her to this day and realizes that only his work will keep here where she wants to be.

 

If anything serious were to endanger or harm her... he might go fetal. (But he doesn't know:sneaky: )

[ZootSoot]

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On the contrary, he has an excellent Bureaucratics roll. Note that the during the time Doom was running the planet, he was pulling off strokes of administrative genius. Everything was running on time, nobody was hungry, nobody was angry. (Everybody was also entirely without free will or civil rights, but hey, that's why he's the villain.)

 

Doom didn't quit running the world out of fear, or stress, or pain, or inability to handle the job.

 

He quit running it because it had gotten so damn dull. Being the world's office manager just wasn't glorious enough. The conquering was more fun than the actual ruling.

 

There's a reason why his future takeover plans after that didn't involve global mind control.

 

As for Doom being supreme in willpower -- no, I can accept him having no peers in this field. Although people like Doctor Strange and Xavier can (and have) come close, *they're* not the ones who are epically self-motivated that even when the Beyonder is slowly ripping apart their very molecular structure at the roots, they can /still/ keep moving past the pain to successfully execute their master plan.

 

Thanos and his journey to the heart of existence (in THANOS QUEST) has shown Doom-like willpower, in that he was able to keep himself together by sheer force of will even when the very fabric of reality was being torn open inside of his body. I don't think anyone else has.

 

I don't know. I don't think I am willing to trade good writing and intelligent character design for an occasional randgasm. Oh, wait, I am more intelligent than a mole-rat, I can reject Rand in her entirety . . . does mean I will miss Spiderman.

[Haven Walkur]

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Worst fears?

Here are my thoughts for three of my characters: Gamma Girl, Hidden Dragon and Wildfire.

 

Gamma Girl

"I'm still in love with you, Clark, that hasn't changed." Gamma Girl struggles to smile, to keep her voice light and casual through the knot aching in her throat. "But I'm cool with it."

 

"You don't need to worry, Haven." Superboy shakes his head, smiling at her. His eyes are intensely blue, matching the highlights in his unruly black hair. "You don't need to worry about loving me."

 

"Clark?" Barely a whisper, Gamma Girl's voice. Hope hits her like a deep breath of brandy, like the intoxicating fumes of a liquor she'll never be able to drink. It makes her head swim. Her chest tightens like a drum around her pounding heart. "What...what do you mean?"

 

"Just this." Superboy moves close to her, reaches out as if to stroke his hand down the invisible skin of her forcefield. "You don't ever have to worry about loving me."

 

Gamma Girl lifts her head, craning up for Superboy's touch. With his super-strength, he reached through her forcefield to the girl inside, a girl who, in 18 years, had never known the touch of another person -- until Superboy touched her. Until Clark touched her. And now Haven wants his touch as a flower wants the touch of the sun, as grass wants the touch of the rain. Her whole soul is yearning upward towards Clark's outstretched fingers in elemental need, for a touch vital as sunlight or water.

 

But Superboy's hand stays just out of reach, steady in midair, almost but not quite brushing Haven's nearly-inpenetrable forcefield. He shakes his head quickly. "Don't worry about loving me, Haven, because I don't love you." Superboy's blue eyes look suddenly very dark as he frowns and drops his outstretched hand to his side. "You're not worth my love. You're not even worth my attention! Heck, the Legion should never have let you join in the first place. It's just as well you're bottled up in a forcefield...it keeps you out of the way of the real heroes.

 

"In any case, I'll certainly never touch you again."

 

...never touch you again

 

...never...again

 

And Gamma Girl realizes there are some forms of damage that go right through her forcefield.

 

 

Gamma Girl is my most recent character but one. She's from a Champions-based "Legion of Superheroes" game run by Dr Anomaly.

 

Hidden Dragon

Joanna's worst fear would be learning that her suspicions are right, and her divine father isn't the Willow Dragon of ancient China. Her worst fear is that her divine father is really Darkseid, Lord of Apokalips.

 

Hidden Dragon is an older character is from the same Champions-based "Legion of Superheroes" game, but considerably further on in the timeline.

 

Wildfire

Does anyone remember the Champions 3D supplement? Sheridan's greatest fear would be returning to the hideous reality of "Horror World", the world overrun by the mosquito-like Anopheles, man-sized monsters that preyed on humans. There was also an assortment of Lovecraftian nasties lurking in the shadows everywhere...and Earth wasn't falling into ruin and despair, it was already fallen.

 

Wildfire is my oldest Champions character. She's from a straight CU game also run by Dr Anomaly.

[Jack O' Knives]

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Jack O' Knives - Jack's primary ability is simple luck. Sure, he's a high level acrobat and martial artist who routinely goes toe to toe with a half-dozen ninjas, but before he ever threw a punch or juggled a knife he was just a guy born under a lucky star. As a result, he's been spared alot of the pain most of us pick up through our own lives, inconveniences like having your car break down away from home or your power go out in the middle of an important download.

 

Since he became part of a team, he's come to realize just how lucky he is, and one team mate has introduced him to the concept of Karma. The fear of a bad luck "Snap Back" casually ruining his existance and persisting until the day he died would be an easy one.

 

On a more personal level, he fears his girlfriend is only in love with his heroic persona, but it seems unlikely that a fear effect could bring that up in any meaningful way in combat.

 

Robin Hood - In an M&M game, Robin tangled with the Fear Master, though he never got a chance to pull out any of her deepest seated fears. While using a chemical agent to reduce her resistance to his other tricks, alot of self doubt and questioning of worth did rise to the surface though. Beyond that, he sister was the unfortunate victim of a laboratory accident that reduced her to a puddle of sentient black fluid (no control over her shape yet, so she's just a puddle), so dissolving would most likely come up as a Fear as well.

 

Regent - Regent has a great number of concerns, superhuman criminals, government actions, his ability to keep his personal project funded, and the like. His greatest fear, however, is probably losing control of his powers again. The first time he reflexively unleashed an energy blast, it consumed a dance club and everyone inside except for himself, after having studied and practiced his powers as long as he has, he could probably expand that effect over a town...

[hooligan x]

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Team F-up

 

Lillith-Since wathcing her twin drown and almost dying herself, I'm gonna guess "drowning". Heck, she gets the disad points for it and everything.

 

Dr Benedict- Afraid that Capt Mysterion will take complete control and try to relive his glory days as tyrant of the Nile.

 

Palmer- Afraid her respectable super-boyfriend will find out about her coke-whore days (Thurs & Sat).

[Mike W]

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Actually, one of my most recent Champs characters, a metamorph named Proteus, actually did run across the Scarecrow. Of course, the thing he fears most is devolving or becoming more animalistic. So the fear gas would have an unusual effect on him. The thing is, the first time he ran across Scarecrow was when he had been traded to Scarecrow after being captured by another group of bad guys(Batroc's Brigade) and Scarecrow actually used his chemistry to turn Proteus feral for a while. Later on, Proteus caught up to Scarecrow(after having taken the time to make himself immune to Scarecrow's chemicals through deliberately and repeatedly exposing himself to them - Proteus isn't the sanest man). Couldn't kill him in Gotham without the Bat getting mad, but Scarecrow's mind is REALLY broken now after seeing his "creation" hunt him down while he was exposed to his own toxins.

[Tiree]

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I have a character actually living his worst nightmare. He can not die. His backstory was a very vile vicious man who was immortal. After living for 400 years, he started wondering why... When was this vicious cycle going to ever end? When will he grow old and die?

 

At the very beginning of the campaign, another PC saved his life (it was actually an NPC but he doesn't know that!), and that PC is the embodiment of an "Angel". So my character turned his life around and decided to do "Good" things, but it is very hard since he is a very Materialistic and Greedy person. So hopefully what ever higher power there is, will remove his curse and let him die naturally (of old age).

[Arac-4105]

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What would be my characters' greatest fears...

 

Arac-4105's would be to find himself chained and collared, led around like an animal on a leash and turned into a blindly-obedient living weapon.

 

Mythic's would be to find his new abilities taken from him and stuck back in his wheelchair, totally ignored by family, friends, and society in general.

[Kristopher]

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I'm unfortunately, or fortunately, in the same boat as Chuckg on many of characters...facing the unimaginable and coming out the other side tends to be a common theme with my characters. (Admittedly, more of these are NPCs than they are PCs, but I'd play a version of most of them given the chance.)

 

T'Shenk Kennet - born in the 900s AD, watched his wife die of a wasting disease, was sacrificed to a demon so the infernalist local bishop could have his daughter, spent centuries in hell, has fought every flavor of mystic, mentalist, demon, and godling imaginable and come out on top. What could the tiny mind of a human psychic possibly offer up that he hasn't already seen?

 

War Angel - Saviel's already experienced her worst fear, which is why she's on earth and refuses to go back so long as there is there is evil that needs opposing on earth. And she's an Angel. Of War. This would-be Scarecrow might end up wetting his pants as soon as Saviel fully manifests.

 

Deth - She was killed, but her latent powers allowed her body to remain suspended between life and death long enough for her to defeat "the death" that was sent to collect her soul. She absorbed it and came back to her body. She's alive again...mostly. Anyone who looks into her mind sees... things that cannot be conveyed in words...

 

 

Now, for a few less grim and jaded characters...

 

Twilight - the shadows desert her, or turn against her... or she gets lost in the shadowrealm (altough these are iffy...she's so comfortable with the whole thing that I don't know if such a fear would even exist in her)...hmm, she can't talk above a whisper, so she might fear losing her voice completely.

 

Omega Girl - she loses control and destroys...everything.