Purple Powers

[CrosshairCollie]

This is kind of a strange question, but ... let's say you're looking at superhero art, online or otherwise, and you come across a character who has no particular designs on his costume that would indicate what sorts of powers he has ... but he is firing a purple energy blast from his hand.

 

What kind of energy would you think it would be?

 

Just a weird question that came to me ... if it was yellow, most people would, I think, suspect a heat ray; blue, a cold ray. Green, radiation. But ... what kind of energy do you think of when you see purple?

[BNakagawa]

Re: Purple Powers

 

[prince] Funky. [/prince]

[Shaft]

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EGO Blast?

[Bloodstone]

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Either psychic energy or magnetism.

[Edsel]

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Perhaps ultraviolet... or grapes.

[Marcus Impudite]

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In Mystic World there's this suite of lightening spells where the caster is free to choose what color he wants his blasts to be. If he were using those or something similiar, it may just be that purple is his favorite color.

[Sketchpad]

Re: Purple Powers

 

TK ... or grape soda

[phookz]

Re: Purple Powers

 

I'm going to have to go with Edsel and Sketchpad and think some kind of grape based attack.

 

Seriously, I would probably think magic/mysticism, gravity, or some type of strange radiation, but it could be anything.

[Maelstrom]

Re: Purple Powers

 

Fanta

 

Or gravity. I think Graviton from Marvel used purple.

[badger3k]

Re: Purple Powers

 

This is kind of a strange question, but ... let's say you're looking at superhero art, online or otherwise, and you come across a character who has no particular designs on his costume that would indicate what sorts of powers he has ... but he is firing a purple energy blast from his hand.

 

What kind of energy would you think it would be?

 

Just a weird question that came to me ... if it was yellow, most people would, I think, suspect a heat ray; blue, a cold ray. Green, radiation. But ... what kind of energy do you think of when you see purple?

 

I'd think the artist has no taste in colors, or else the printer ran out of ink.

 

It could be anything - about the only thing I think of is Mind Control thanks to that stupid Purple Man.

[freakboy6117]

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Hmm could be darkness based as black is hard to show well in older comics thus dark blue and purple being common colours in old batman costumes

[bubba smith]

Re: Purple Powers

 

Fanta

 

Or gravity. I think Graviton from Marvel used purple.

so are iron mans repulsor rays maybe the characters blasts are taser stun rays

[DusterBoy]

Re: Purple Powers

 

[Hendrix]Hazy[Hendrix]

[Hugh Neilson]

Re: Purple Powers

 

It's a paralysis/stasis ray. The original Batman and the Outsiders showed us that.

 

EDIT: And yellow suggests electricity, despite the fact that real electricity tends to look blue-white, due to years of comic book artists use of yellow.

[NestorDRod]

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Hmm could be darkness based as black is hard to show well in older comics thus dark blue and purple being common colours in old batman costumes

 

That was my thought too. Purple is normally used in comics for dark-based powers, so I'd say some sort of negative-energy or similar techno-babbly terminology.

 

That's it! It's a multi-phasic energy field!

[BoloOfEarth]

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Cat-based TK. Purr-pull.

[BobGreenwade]

Re: Purple Powers

 

My first thought, since I just bought the full collection of Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe, was the evil mystical energy of Crisis and Reverend Darrk. Just thinking of that universe's version of the Doom Patrol gives me the creeps, especially Deathstroke.

 

But I don't think that's what you're looking for, since the character in question is probably not in that universe and you're talking about a superhero anyway.

 

Still, purple puts me in mind of some kind of "anti-energy," so if I were to make a guess about what the hero's powers were like I'd say he probably drains the strength, mental clarity, or other attributes of those he targets. That, or he exudes some sort of gas with similar properties. (Purple Haze, as suggested by DusterBoy, does have some appeal in this regard.)

[Supreme Serpent]

Re: Purple Powers

 

Prose.

[CrosshairCollie]

Re: Purple Powers

 

It's a paralysis/stasis ray. The original Batman and the Outsiders showed us that.

 

EDIT: And yellow suggests electricity, despite the fact that real electricity tends to look blue-white, due to years of comic book artists use of yellow.

 

True, but it tends to be drawn jaggedly, so that's a dead giveaway.

[Matt the Bruins]

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Purple beams always make me think of Darkseid's Omega Effect from his appearances in Legion of Super Heroes. So disintegration/power-draining/time travel/mess you up BAD energy?

[steriaca]

Re: Purple Powers

 

I'll say "Elemental Darkness", or in this case, "Elemental Purpleness". Basicly what Marvel calls "Darkforce". You can cover an area with purple, push people around with solid purple force blasts, wrap them with a purple "entangle", move things with purple "TK", and other stuff.

 

Humm...this might be what I need for the nemisis of one of the charaters I plan to do for Champions Online. My charater: Sunburn. My nemisis: Deep Pruple(?). Prehaps the name Tartrus would sound cooler for a darkness manipulator. Anyhow...

[Tech]

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It's anything you want it to be, whether Gravity, Darkness or some other attack.

[Kirby]

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My first thought was actually light-based. I had a player whose character had pink colored powers and they were all light themed.

 

In addition, purple could be a color scheme or royal supers.

[Arac-4105]

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I'm surprised nobody's remembered the technology from DC's Wonder Woman.

 

The Purple Ray was a healing device, so this guy might be a ranged healer, or fighting zombies (who get 'hurt' by being healed).

 

[Zeropoint]

Re: Purple Powers

 

Use a Fenix Down FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!