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  1. Re: Re: Champions in 3-D Plus

     

    Originally posted by FenrisUlf

    [*]Animalmorphed World/Earth C- In honor of "Captain Carot and his Amazing Zoo Crew" everyone here is a cartoon like animal. PCs may not be amused by their counterparts.

     

    Heh -- Fenris would love that one.

     

    I dunno-- he might find that his counterpart is a wolf with a strange obsession with the bizarre 'hairless monkeys' of legend and lore...

  2. Irving would be quite happy to get on with doing other good things for people, probably more centered around the library. Literacy classes. Reading to kids. Being a public notary. Stuff like that.

     

    His teammates... well, one of them, Elizabeth van Leiden (my husband's character-- I should post her here sometime) would be only too happy to get the hell out of the hero business and back to her studies. Being cured of her superheroic condition as well would be gravy (looking like a human glowstick isn't really her idea of joy).

  3. Re: It's not too heroic, but...

     

    Originally posted by Superskrull

    Contract Escort Service

     

    Girls only, huh? Tough luck if the villain's a straight woman, a gay man, or an alien (and forget about the robots, zombies, and other asexual beings)...

  4. We're all a bunch of Comic Book Guys here, even the girls.

     

    Anyway, I think when it comes to Batman having to fight anybody truly superhuman, he has to be able to set up the playing field to give him an edge or he's in trouble. Consider the big final fight of The Dark Knight Returns.

     

    [And note that if Oliver had screwed up Bats might well have been killed even before the heart attack kicked in, though Supes may have only had orders to completely cripple him.]

  5. Originally posted by J4y

    I still can't help but cringe at how bloody aweful that picture is. I have trouble believing a profession artist could do something that bad.

     

    It's not great, but at least it's not Rob Liefeld, the man who gave Captain America bitch-tits:

     

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  6. Originally posted by FenrisUlf

    You're surprised? Cops in the 'Big easy' have ALWAYS had a rep for being nasty -- comes from being among the worst-paid officers in the entire US.

     

    No, not surprised, just my comment on Blue's post-- LA's got some obnoxious ones, God knows, but that lot in New Orleans was impressively bad.

  7. Originally posted by loraxxx

    ACTUALLY darkwing dark is a (quite hilarious) rip-off of THE SHADOW...

     

    I've always thought of him as a bit more like The (non-Morpheus) Sandman-- his gas gun's that kind of weapon, anyway...

     

    Anybody ever thought of stealing Darkwing's better entry lines for Foxbat?

     

    And, to go back on subject for a moment, bird helmets have been done before, and not badly either:

     

    gatch2a.jpg

     

    [Fans of Gatchaman-- wouldn't Joe Asakura actually make a good basis for Nighthawk, particularly his particular problems with Gallactor?]

  8. Irving would probably try and talk the guy down, though given his old team dynamic said talk would be interrupted by the rather bad-tempered energy projector shooting Psychoticguy in the face and then pummeling him, in which case Irving would try to save the kitten. And if he didn't, he'd feel awful for days, probably just trying to console himself that at least it wasn't a human child (while Irving is not human himself, he tends to place somewhat more importance on the lives of fully-sapient beings, if only because you can have great conversations with them).

  9. Actually, Slade/Deathstroke seems to be a villain from the original comics and would have nothing to do with Batman unless the TV show writers decide to really put a twist in things.

     

    Anyone else like the EC comics reference? :D

  10. I think what we're bumping into here is really a semantics issue. What most folks here mean by '4-color' in the context of Champions games is the kind of comic storylines you saw in the Silver (and often Golden) Age, where there's lots of mayhem and property destruction and yet very few people really get hurt and almost never get killed (I think the Death of Gwen Stacey in Spiderman was the beginning of the end for that).

     

    Batman's an odd case 'cause he's run the range from being an unusually tough and gritty hero for the Golden Age, to being as silly as any Silver Age silly hero got (I have some good examples in another thread here) and then back to very gritty again starting in the 1970s.

     

    Perhaps we should start using the phrase 'Silver Age' instead? It'll be hard to break a habit...

  11. Originally posted by J4y

    I guess spending 10 minutes to research something was too much.

     

    Do keep in mind that this was still the era when people thought a duck and cover drill was a viable preparation for nuclear war...

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