Re: Unusual Character Ideas
My brother -- (dive for cover) -- came up with A-list. A major-league celebrity, his powers were entirely based on what he could do in the movies.
Also, Ricochet -- a Dark Champions type gunslinger. Except that he's an extra-dimensional mage, and the guns aren't even a special effect -- they are completely meaningless -- take them away from him and you're as likely as not to find out that they're completely solid, or made from hollow chocolate, or similar. That and a leather-duster-of-many-things, and a 4-color attitude, and Dormammu's number on speed-dial . . .
I neer get concepts like this. My oddest concept was in an AD&D game, and the GM rolled it randomly. Ready?
Were-rat. Engineer. Pacifist. Coward. Bad personal habits and hygiene (almost goes without saying for a w-r). Brilliant. "Now, roll-play it, Mike." It was so fun I hung onto the character for over a decade.