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Here is an anti-heroine I played in a game.  She's a FBI Agent who made a deal with a devil-like figure which turned her into a half-demon. 

Ireland Approves Same-Sex Marriage

Ireland Approves Same-Sex Marriage

The Japanese Giant Hornet
 

 
I swear--these things are like "The Zanti Misfits" with wings.

Tanishq Abraham, Eleven Years Old, Graduates College
 
In the immortal words of Stan The Man--'Nuff Said.

Tanishq Abraham, Eleven Years Old, Graduates College
 
In the immortal words of Stan The Man--'Nuff Said.

Dr Death was just a prop to distract the PCs while Deathstroke robbed some isotopes, so he had to seem dangerous and powerful to get their attention.  There wasn't an agenda beyond that, although if you're just starting your campaign, it might be a useful tool to help PCs be a bit more careful.
If there's one constant theme through all comics, its that the heroes hold back until they know for sure they won't hurt the target.  How many thousands of times have you read "at least, I can really cut loose" or its variants about robots or a really tough foe?  Genre convention.  If you want to simulate the comics, that's how it works

As I understood it, the mother was the sinister brooding presence--Norman was just the poor soul who couldn't get away from her.
 

 
Ever.

I'm not huge on cosplay but sometimes it really works and this kid is great
 

While Age of Ultron didn't explicitly mention it, I think we are intended to understand that it was Coulson's intel that led the Avengers to Strucker's lair in Sokovia. I have to believe that by now the Avengers know Coulson is alive.
 
As for the shapeshifting material that swallowed up Simmons, I don't think it is in any way related to Graviton. That stuff was described as "alien"...

All I'm going to say on that is that if someone is cruel to me, that doesn't obligate me to be cruel to them in return. Quite the contrary, in fact -- it's horrifyingly difficult not to demand revenge against a crime that heinous, but in the end what do we gain when we kill him? Isn't "all human life is valuable -- except yours" the precise attitude of this man towards his victims?

Merci Beaucoup, mon ami.  I'm glad everyone liked it so much.
 
Here's hoping everyone has just as much fun with this image--
 

Hopefully no one will mind if I bring this up again--
 
Death Sentence For Boston Bomber Unsettles City He Tore Apart
 
Excerpt--
 
To the amazement of people elsewhere, Bostonians overwhelmingly opposed condemning the bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to death. The most recent poll conducted last month for The Boston Globe, found that just 15 percent of city residents wanted him executed. Statewide, 19 percent did. By contrast, 60 percent of Americans wanted Mr. Tsarnaev to get the death penalty, according to a CBS News poll last month.
 
No one here felt sympathy for him. Rather, many thought life in prison would be a fate worse than death, especially for someone as young as Mr. Tsarnaev, who is 21. Others feared that putting him to death would make him a martyr. Still others, interviewed around the city Friday night and Saturday, reflected the region’s historical aversion to the death penalty.
 
I remember that when Tim McVeigh went to the death chamber for the bombing of the Murrah Building and the death of 168 people, he was satisfied with what he had done.  He believed he had, to paraphrase Jefferson, "refreshed the tree of liberty," that he had struck a blow against a government he considered to be tyrannical in its policies and deeds.  Like John Wilkes Booth long before him, he believed he had done right--that he did it for his country.
 
That to me was not justice.  That was basically giving McVeigh what he wanted--a "hero's" death.  And sending Tsarnaev to the death chamber, while it may not be giving him what he wants, will give him what he thinks is inevitable.  He very likely thinks that Americans hate all Muslims and want them dead, regardless of whether they're terrorists or law-abiding citizens--so it's not a great surprise that they want him dead as well.
 
Fulfilling Tsarnaev's worst expectations is not justice.  Making a martyr of him is not justice.  Keeping him in prison for the rest of his life (no parole, no pardon) would offer the one possibility that killing him would not--that of realizing he was wrong.  As the years go by in his six-by-eight foot jail cell, away from any radical activist influence, with little company except his own and little to do except sit and think--he may eventually come to regret his actions, and even admit to being mistaken.  And that would be a greater punishment than killing him, having realized he was wrong and having actual remorse for the deaths he caused, and being unable to do anything about it except live with that remorse and regret as he waits for the end of his life in that six-by-eight cell.
 
Were his sentence somehow commuted to life without parole, it would very likely not happen immediately.  It might not happen after ten years, or even twenty.  But as long as he is alive there would always be the possibility that Tsarnaev would come to realize and regret his transgressions--and that would never happen at all if he were just killed, either peaceably by lethal injection, or violently by a convict hoping to make a name for himself.
 
Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will.

I agree that life in prison with no parole would have been a more fitting sentence. Probably actually less expensive for the taxpayer in the long run, too.

As I understood it, the mother was the sinister brooding presence--Norman was just the poor soul who couldn't get away from her.
 

 
Ever.

Supervillains are like alcoholic drinks. One is too much and a dozen are not enough.

Google Glass was an interesting concept, I'll give you that. But in an age when you have the NSA wanking off in their collective pants at the prospect of turning all the world into the @#$%ing Panopticon, it kinda gives you pause.

"el torrero ósea" (the bony torrero) used to be you average torrero. Until he died and then returned from death as a walking skeleton.
He can thank his sudden return from the land of the death to the Graveblade, an ancient magical weapon that was once looted his ancestor during one of the crusades.
 
He seems not especially concernd about his new state of being, living his live as he used to be:
He still smokes cigars, among other stuff.
He even still works as torrero, but in a new less bloody way:
His body is actually not very resistant to damage, but he will quickly reform even when a bull ran through and over him.
In turn his blade allows him to stun living beings without causing serious harm.
 
This allows him to fight bulls without a drop of blood being spilled, much to the delight of people advertising against the blodyness of bullfighting.
 
He is not interested in being a superhero or villan. He does help when troubl get's in his way or the world/country are in danger. But otherwise he considers himself "just a normal joe, despite my bony complexion".
 
 
Edit: this concept was heavily inspired of Pablo Montaine from the webcomic Endstone:
http://endstone.net/cast/

Behold--The Mighty Stegasaurus!!!
 

Behold--The Mighty Stegasaurus!!!
 

Behold--The Mighty Stegasaurus!!!
 

Saw this one on TwitFace.  
 
THIS is true sexism.  This is the true problem.  Not picture of naked barbarian hotties in niche TTRPGs, but those institutions who still see and treat women as second class citizens.  This is the sort of thing I have a problem with.  I have a problem with the fact that Law Enforcement organizations all across the US seem to be prejudiced against certain minorities and ethnicities.  Not with the fact that minorities and certain ethnicities are underrepresented in TTRPGs (they aren't).
 
I have a problem with the fact that there are religiously affiliated organizations attempting to block the progression of marriage rights between members of the LGBT community.  Not with the fact that language in TTRPGs seem to ignore their existence. (it doesn't)
 
When a person is prevented from advancing in their field.  From living safely in their neighborhood.  Or from marrying the love of their life, there's a problem.  That's what I oppose.  It seems to me that people these days are trying to create problems where none exists or where the problem is not discriminatory (as in preventing someone from Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness).  Perhaps I have a different perspective because I have actually witnessed the KKK burn a cross in a neighbors yard, and this trend of social media activision where people gnash their teeth because of large breasts in a videogame has upset some feminists.  They have a right to be upset sure, but there are real cases of discrimination still out there.  Find and deal with those first.

No, they're actually projectile firing weapons, coilguns. But they utilize the "mass effect" of the game's title - they use an eezo (Element Zero) core to reduce the projectile's mass to virtually nothing, accelerate it as fast as the coil will send a near-massless object, then once it;s outside the effect field of the eezo, it regains it's original mass - without slowing down.
 
handgun and longarm versions aren't actually much more efficient than a regular rail or coilgun would be. Dreadnought-mounted spinal guns, on the other hand...