TechnoViking Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 The stories are getting better, so the show is growing on me. That theme song has to go still. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandi Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Originally posted by Mike Basinger That theme song has to go still. Aw, I kind of like it-- it's a J-pop version of the old Secret Agent Man theme... Anyway, saw an ep of the show for the first time last night (the Puppet Master one). Weird, but I could probably get to liking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4y Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Makes me wonder -- what kind of boyfriend would Raven attract? Surely not Beast Boy, who although he has a high opinion of himself is probably not all that popular with girls 9and certainly isn;t popular with Raven!). Somehow I can't help but think that a lot of chicks would really dig shapeshifters. *cough* Raven however is stacked, she looks like some porn star when that cloak opens, she'll have to beat the boys off with a stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormraven Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Originally posted by J4y Makes me wonder -- what kind of boyfriend would Raven attract? Surely not Beast Boy, who although he has a high opinion of himself is probably not all that popular with girls 9and certainly isn;t popular with Raven!). Somehow I can't help but think that a lot of chicks would really dig shapeshifters. *cough* Raven however is stacked, she looks like some porn star when that cloak opens, she'll have to beat the boys off with a stick. As an aside, one of DC's newer offerings, comics-wise, is 'Formerly Known as the Justice League'. Most of the characters from when Maxwell Lord was 'in charge' have returned. One such is Ralph Dibny, Elongated Man. His wife is rating the moving men with Fire, and Fire rates Ralph a 4. His wife disagrees, explaining that he's sweet, kind, loving... Has flexible body parts Yeah. Shapeshifters blow the curve, I guess. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenreFiend Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Originally posted by Stormraven Yeah. Shapeshifters blow the curve, I guess. :-) Which is the real reason Sue Richards stays married to Reed;) . But, Beast Boy cannot change or enlongate specific body parts. He takes the shape of different animals, which would not make him any more appealing to most women (though there are a few, but that's an entirely different type of website). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Jogger Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Actually, there was the scene with Starfire and Beast Boy. Starfire was upset with Beast Boy for a nasty prank that accidently got her (instead of Cyborg). Beast Boy transforms into a kitten with HUGE anime eyes and mews. Starfire ignores him. "But the kitten always works" Later, Beast Boy says he's really sorry and Starfire forgives him. He turns into a kitten and Starfire catches him and hugs him close. Definately, next shapeshifter I build will have a cute kitten form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 I wouldn;t read too much into Starfire glomping the green kittne. For all intents and purposes, Starfire is taken. Further, beast Boy knows this and wouldn't dream of interfering (he may be a prankster, but he isn;t a letch). Now, though, I'd REALLY like to see some writeups. Sounds like raven and beast Boy would be the toughest characters to write up. beast Boy would be tough to play because he has hundreds of different animal forms he can take at whim, each with its own set of abilities and disadvantages. We're talking a buy who could be anything from a rat to a T-Rex. Raven would mainly be tough to write up because we haven;t seen all she can do. IOn the comic., she was powerful enough to do significant damage to the pkanet while under the control of her demonic father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Jogger Posted September 14, 2003 Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 It's not all that difficult to write up Beast Boy. Shapeshift (Sight, Touch, Any Animal, Instant Change) HKA, (+1/4 Variable Special Effects, "When Animals Attack" Claws, Bite, or Horns/Antlers) Regeneration Armor (Combat Luck?) Life Support, Gills (-1/4 aquatic forms only) Extra Limbs? Telescopic Vision, (-1/4 Only in Eagle form) Nightvision, (-1/4 Only in forms that have excellent night vision) Tracking Scent, (-1/4 Only Bloodhound form) Animal Multipower (-1/4 must shift into approriate animal form) -Growth -4 levels of Shrinking -Density Increase, ("Putting on weight?") -Flight, Wings -Running, Four on the Floor -Swimming, Flipper Action -Armor, Tough hide Distinctive Features: Green (Noticed) Psychological limitation: Some animal mentality when in animal form (Common, Slight) Psychological limitation: Team Player Psychological limitation: Prankster Physical limitation: Can't talk in animal form Background: Beast Boy got his powers from an synetic blood transfusion which saved his life, but turned his skin permenantly green. It also allowed him to change into nearly any animal form. GM's might allow senses in a multipower since Beast Boy has lots of strange senses, but limited to chosen form. If it gets too crazy, I suppose you can wrap everything into a Cosmic VPP (Animal Powers), but it should be 0-phase and no skill roll. Well, what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhouse Posted September 14, 2003 Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 For Best Boy you could have a shape shift combined with a VPP with limits suchs as abilities must be appropriate for a "real" animal. For example, he couldn't be a kitty cat with 60 str. Can the points go to stats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 Originally posted by Powerhouse For Best Boy you could have a shape shift combined with a VPP with limits suchs as abilities must be appropriate for a "real" animal. For example, he couldn't be a kitty cat with 60 str. Can the points go to stats? They would have to. Beast Boy's normal STR is 10 -- 13 at most. But he's much stronger when he's an elephant or a dinosaur and much weaker when he's a kitten or rat. Likewise, his dexterity goes up as well when he's a chimpanzee, but he loses the ability to manipulate objects whee he takes most animal forms (very few of the animals he changes into are gifted with opposable thumbs). The one stat that doesn;t change is his INT. Although he gains some instinctive animal reactions when he changes, his mind is intact. As the episode withj Aqualad demonstrates, his thought patterns are just as coherent as they always are when he's in animal form. Beast boy is actualkly a quite intelligent and creative idividual. His chice of forms is good, and he makes good use of the forms he chooses. Very few other supeeroes would choose a squid as a combat form, and none would use it so effectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4y Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I was a little dissapointed with the Aqualad episode. It was nice to see Aqualad more than a gimp that talks to fishes but Beastboy was kinda weird, half the time he was the slowest thing in the ocean, easily beaten by the whales to rescue the sub and by Aqualad to fight Trident. I also thought the "solutions" of asking which Trident was best, then sealing the cave were both pretty feeble. The cave in might hold Trident a couple hours, tops, not to mention that even if it DOES work and seal him off forever it's probably going to be one ugly mess of canabilism and starvation in there. Ick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandi Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Keep in mind that the Aqualad ep was written by Marv Wolfman, who IIRC is straight Silver Age. Imagine Stan Lee trying to write an episode of X-Men: Evolution and you get the idea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Wolfman wrote the Teen Titans in the early 80s, which by all accounts was Bronze Age (though his Titans may have had a bit of Silver Age to them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Originally posted by Peregrine Wolfman wrote the Teen Titans in the early 80s, which by all accounts was Bronze Age (though his Titans may have had a bit of Silver Age to them). Amongst other things, Wolfman wrote the Judas Contract storyline, which featured the Titans being infiltrated by a 16 year old sociopath (Terra), who was having an affair with someone much older (the Terminator). Terra eventually died a death that was comparatively permanent by comics standards, that is, it's only recently that someone who may or may not be her has come back. Wolfman also wrote stories about the H.I.V.E. mistress, who murdered her husband, and then committed suicide when she was about to be captured. Several other exercises in nasty death also took place during his run on the Titans. I think it's far to call his stuff Bronze Age. The greatest complement I can give to him is that the stuff he was involved with was comparable with early Claremont X-Men. It was a DC comic with a Marvel feel. That's not exactly a compliment. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Originally posted by assault Amongst other things, Wolfman wrote the Judas Contract storyline, which featured the Titans being infiltrated by a 16 year old sociopath (Terra), who was having an affair with someone much older (the Terminator). Terra eventually died a death that was comparatively permanent by comics standards, that is, it's only recently that someone who may or may not be her has come back. Wolfman also wrote stories about the H.I.V.E. mistress, who murdered her husband, and then committed suicide when she was about to be captured. Several other exercises in nasty death also took place during his run on the Titans. I think it's far to call his stuff Bronze Age. The greatest complement I can give to him is that the stuff he was involved with was comparable with early Claremont X-Men. It was a DC comic with a Marvel feel. That's not exactly a compliment. Alan Yup ... he happened to write one of the greatest stories in comics history. I speak of the Judas Contract. It was also in this story that we were introduced to Jericho, where a former sidekick became Nightwing and some groundwork for stories that are still being written today was created As far as the DC Comic with Marvel feel ... I believe that's because they were head to head with Marvel's X-Men ... though IMHO the Titans of that era exceeded the mighty mutants by miles as the stories were thought out and, though complicated, usually had a beginning and ending. Claremont, other wise known as the Dangling Plot in his hero ID, rarely ended things. I'll take Wolfman and Perez over anyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starblaze Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Originally posted by assault Amongst other things, Wolfman wrote the Judas Contract storyline, which featured the Titans being infiltrated by a 16 year old sociopath (Terra), who was having an affair with someone much older (the Terminator). Terra eventually died a death that was comparatively permanent by comics standards, that is, it's only recently that someone who may or may not be her has come back. Wolfman also wrote stories about the H.I.V.E. mistress, who murdered her husband, and then committed suicide when she was about to be captured. Several other exercises in nasty death also took place during his run on the Titans. I think it's far to call his stuff Bronze Age. The greatest complement I can give to him is that the stuff he was involved with was comparable with early Claremont X-Men. It was a DC comic with a Marvel feel. That's not exactly a compliment. Alan They even outsold the X-Men for a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GestaltBennie Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 I've seen two episodes of the animated series. I'll give it a few more chances, but thus far seeing the offspring of Batman: The Animated Series and Wolfman/Perez's Teen Titans run reduced to PokeTitans isn't just disappointing, it's heartwrenching. If others can find something they enjoy in this, great - I know this is supposed to be light fare - but right now the character designs and stock anime visual gags are grating on me. Scott Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin28 Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Originally posted by Sketchpad Personally, I love the theme But then ... I'm weird like that I got to see PuffyAmiYumi open for the B-52s in San Francisco. They rawk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetsujin28 Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Originally posted by Mike Basinger The stories are getting better, so the show is growing on me. That theme song has to go still. Mike Absofrickinlutely NOT! PuffyAmiYumi will control the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire_Steel Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 I like TT, I didnt expect to but I do.. sometimes my gaming group functions as well as these kids do as a cohesive team so its nice to know I dont have the only dysfunctionaL group.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmenace Posted September 26, 2003 Report Share Posted September 26, 2003 Is there any other kind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire_Steel Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 good point there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4y Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 They do have a tendancy to fight lone enemys and it's rare they even double team them, usually we watch as they attack one at a time and get easily dealt with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmenace Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 On a semi related issue, does anyone know when in October the new Justice League episodes air? From the ads describing the TT episodes on "Justice Saturdays" I thought that they might be bundled together along with the Clone Wars shorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4y Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 On a semi related issue, does anyone know when in October the new Justice League episodes air? http://www.jlanimated.com/schedule/schedule.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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