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Re: Code VS Killing Poll
As to the poll' date=' this will come down to preferred genre. 1-2 is Golden/Silver Age. 4/5 is solid Iron Age. [/quote']The Golden Age was rather different from the Silver Age in terms of heroes who kill:1) There were a number of (obscure, admittedly) killer vigilantes such as the Hangman.
2) Very early on Superman and Batman were both prepared to kill. In Batman #1 (1940) the caped crusader machineguns some thugs driving a truck with the words "Much as I hate to take human life I'm afraid this time it's necessary." I understand that both Supes and Bats quit the killing early on though, something like a year after they debuted I believe.
3) Though I've not seen any examples, I read somewhere that Bucky used to be a vicious little tyke, shooting and grenading Nazis with abandon.
4) In his very first appearance in 1939, Namor kills a couple of deep sea divers. He stabs one and crushes the helmet of the other - quite gruesome.
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Re: Code VS Killing Poll
Back in the Silver Age' date=' in the pages of All Star Squadron, Superman and the Justice Society along with the Marvel Family killed several ordinary people in the waters outside of Great Britian(Okay, so it was WWII)[/quote']All-Star Squadron was an 80s comic which puts it well outside the Silver Age by almost anyone's definition, including mine. 80s = Bronze Age/Iron Age transition period.BTW I'd be very interested if anyone does have any examples of Silver Age heroes killing. AFAIK there aren't any.
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Re: Code VS Killing Poll
I have a slight preference in favour of some form of CvK but mainly it's whatever's appropriate to the setting. If it's Silver Age then you gotta have CvKs. Golden Age had some killer vigilantes. In the Iron Age killing is practically compulsory unless you're doing the retro-SA Iron Age, which I don't think anyone is.
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Re: The Crazy8!
Cuisanart ... in honor of the Might & Magic 3 game I played years and years ago. Someone who uses knives' date=' can make his hands into knives, something like that. Mack the Knife is another possibility.[/quote']Like the evil robot Maximilian in the Black Hole. -
Re: The Crazy8!
"PhantasE": A criminal drugs chemist who employs a hallucinatory gas.
"Quill": A mutant whose body is covered in long spines which he can hurl at foes.
"Doctor Au (pr. awe)": Uses hi-tech armour and weapons (particularly dazzling effects) seemingly made out of gold.
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Re: The Crazy8!
"Double Up": Psychic powers enable him to create multiple doppelgangers.
"Freeze": Temporarily freezes time by means of a device he stole from an eccentric scientist.
"Pipistrelle": Wears a bat costume with glider wings and uses a number of minor gadgets attached to a harness.
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Re: Liberty or Freedom League?
How about calling the Golden Age team The Nazi Smashers and the Silver Age team The Commie Smashers? There's continuity for you.
None of this liberty/freedom bollocks. That's a modern spin on WW2. Back then they were fighting to win the war.
It's interesting to note that Roy Thomas's freedom/liberty teams were created in the bicentennial year. The American Revolution was more about freedom. Freedom from having to pay taxes to the King of England.
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Re: Liberty or Freedom League?
I don't think either is appropriate. There's not a single SA team with those words in their name:
Challengers of the Unknown
Legion of Super-Heroes
Justice League of America
Fantastic Four
Metal Men
Avengers
X-Men
Doom Patrol
Legion of Substitute Heroes
Teen Titans
Mighty Crusaders
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
Inferior Five
Terrific Three
Ultra-Men
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Alliteration and acronyms are the mark of a SA team name. So yeah, Liberty League wouldn't be as bad.
'Liberty' and 'Freedom' are usually thought to be the mark of a Golden Age team but this isn't quite accurate either. What they are in fact are the marks of a Roy Thomas 70s retro Golden Age team. Neither has ever been used for a genuine WW2 era supergroup. They were first employed in 'The Liberty Legion' and 'Freedom's Five', both in 1976.
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Re: The Usual Need A Name Sorta Thing
The team members have excellent names, particularly Cameo and Rain. I was going to use the name Cameo myself, for a disguised shapeshifting assassin. Anyway, diversity and acceptance, huh?
Jigsaw... the pieces are different. But they fit together.
Rainbow
Spectrum
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Re: Need a name for a hero...
You yourself have a fine name, Darth Continent
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Re: Need a name for a hero...
The Cleric
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Re: Worm in your head?
Once they do figure out how he operates' date=' it will probably be to the point where they "need" to keep him around and apreciate that he does more good than harm.[/quote']He's going to have to do a LOT of good to outweigh the whole brain eating thing. -
Re: Non-standard mythologies
Has anyone else ever used any 'non-standard' myth-cycles' date=' like Hindu or Voudon or American Indian?[/quote']Oh yeah. You have to keep trawling new sources, cause Norse and Greek have been used so much.I've got got a Golden Age superhero called Joe Magarac (a Paul Bunyan-esque heroic steel worker from American folklore).
And I ripped off all sorts of obscure sources, including Albanian mythology, for my upcoming DnD game. No special reason for that - just trying to be a bit different.
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Re: Name My Character
Those are really good names. I particularly like Pteradactyl-Man.The Green GargoylePteradactyl-Man
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The Green Monster
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Re: Name My Character
The Boston Devil
Q, the Winged Serpent
Mothman
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Re: Worm in your head?
These are my thoughts on the whole worm that crawls in your head and eats your brain concept:
Eeeeeewwwwwwww!
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Re: Please help name this Hero
Captain Hero
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Re: I need a Super Hero Name for TinkerBelle....
Keep it simple. She's a fairy so call her that.
Fairy
Fay (or Fae if want to be a ponce)
Spriggan
Sprite
Pixie
Nymph
Changeling (has been used admittedly)
Sidhe
Titania
Melusina
Tinkerbell is a fine name IMO, and it could be her actual name - no reason why a daughter can't have the same handle as her mum.
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Re: Teams that Want to Change the World
That's an interesting idea. Never seen a team of supers promoting free market capitalism before. What what they actually do, though?
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Re: Super-sentencing
In the real world, execution. Even if they'd only got as far as property destruction in the current political climate they might be looked on as terrorists.
In a Millarverse the same would happen to them as happens to the Authority after they were beaten by Seth - bizarre, imaginative torture, humiliation and headfuckage. Bound to be a bit of ass raping thrown in too.
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Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics?
Golden Age - The two-fisted action, creativity and everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach
DC's Silver Age - Modern mythology
Marvel's Silver Age - The characters, particularly The Thing
70s Marvel - Dumb fads and a touch of darkness
Iron Age - Retro/postmodernism
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Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics?
Innocence!? There was some pretty spicy stuff in the Golden Age. The Spirit's femme fatales, Torchy, bondage covers, jungle queens and BDSM amazons.I like the Golden age for its sense of wonder and innocence (and by golden age I mean the classic four color style).I'd have said the Golden Age was an era of two-fisted gonzo adventure and lurid thrills. DC's Silver Age was more about wonder and innocence.
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Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics?
Everything.
I'd be happy to run games in any or all of the periods. My favourites are probably the Golden Age, DC Silver Age, 70s Marvel and the Iron Age.
Sometime I'd like to run a game set in the late Golden Age, post WW2, cause I don't think it's been done much, if ever. The 70s is another road less travelled, as is British comics, any era but probably the 80s (Captain Britain, Marvelman, Zenith). I was pondering a Kingdom Come inspired Iron Age game at one point too.
The main superhero thing I'm working on for when my current modern day campaign finishes will be one set in the modern period but with a strong emphasis on investigating/interacting with the history of the previous decades. A bit like Planetary but not so dark.
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Re: Timelines
I like doing the period flavour names - stuff like Phantomaster and Captain Atlantis in the Golden Age, Gorgoom son of Gorgg in the late 50s, the Adventure Five in the Silver Age, the Man-Creature in the Bronze Age, Darkfyre and Machine in the Iron Age.