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Re: Forth wall perception? It's a minor psychological limitation that makes other people think you're insane or at least annoying.

Re: How to kill characters?

Re: WWII Era Superheroes and Villains

Re: Martial Arts, Foci, and Possibly HD You just get the skill and then put a limitation on it as if it were a power.

Re: Villains Vandals And Vermin (VVV) A living breathing world SHOULD have knobs and jobbers, characters who are little more than agents in individual costumes as well as characters who can devastate cities with a missed shot. Spider-Man doesn't just fight the Green Goblin and the Rhino, he also fights the Kangaroo and the Disco Hustler.

Re: Name that age: Some titles I actually read

Re: Name that age: Some titles I actually read The Ultimate books of course are self-consciously Iron Agey. That one's just too easy. Spider-Man on the other hand.... The Silver Age is primarily defined by the influence of the Comics Code. Nothing happens in Spider-Man (the movie) that the Comics Code would have a problem with that I can think of. What's more just about everything that happens in that movie is something that _actually_ happened in the Silver Age...since after all it's an adaptation of an actual Silver Age story. However there are changes. The upside-down kiss in the rain, the fact that this Peter while still a whiz kid isn't capable of producing useful original inventions at the drop of a hat, and the shift from a purely random radiation accident giving him his power to more updated buzzwords involving genesplicing... I think you call it Silver or Bronze with equal justification. The Fantastic Four movies on the other hand are definitely Bronze. Not mean enough to be Iron but the changes in Doom all reflect Iron Age sensibilities. The villain is no longer a foreign despot but a domestic businessman and his new origin is in fact from the Iron Age Ultimate FF. The second film goes further into Iron. And yes, the X-Men movies are probably Iron. The government is an enemy, there's a high incidental death toll that increases with each movie, the villains aren't that much worse than the heroes.

Re: What is a name? Sorry, that was my fault. However I want to point out that the more abstruse a name, the less likely you are to get more than one entry.

Re: What is a name? Ralph Besse was regarded by others as a tragic example of a promising mathematician who had wasted his potential by concentrating his efforts on solving an impossible problem. Not only didn't anyone know the answer, there weren't all that many people who could understand the question. He worked on it for more than 10 years since his days as a grad student, striving for the breakthrough that would make his thesis not merely good enough to get him his Ph.D. but win him the Nobel Prize. Finally after 72 hours without sleep working on the problem he was convinced he had it. He phoned his thesis advisor but was so incoherent that the professor called an ambulance for him. After 48 hours of psychiatric observation he was released and rushed back to his apartment. Strangely, even though he was on foot, it took him only a minute or so to run the several miles back. But the solution to the problem that he'd written was incomprehensible to him now, filled with undefined notations and operation symbols. Heartbroken, he went out to get drunk but things didn't get any less strange. Once again he crossed town in an impossibly short time. When he walked out in front of a car it moved in a straight line around him to avoid him. The pub quickly emptied as people noticed the way the bartop was shortening so he could get his beer faster and the drunker he got the more distorted everything around him got. He'd become Ellipsis, gifted with the intuitive ability to warp space, shortening the distance between any two points at will. This acted as a defense (by diverting attacks to the side) and a means of transportation, as he'd walk slowly, while around the ground rippled and seemed to propel the patch of ground on which he walked at amazing speed. He could broaden even the tiniest crack into a large opening just by manipulating the topology of space. He could even manipulate the flow of time, stealing speed from others. However, he didn't have much of an attack so he abandoned the study of maths and took up martial arts instead. Next: Soma

Re: "Batman, but with..." Invisibility Presence Drain Teleportation Mind control versus supernatural entities "Begone".

Re: Humans are "Special" ...Weeeeell...technically they have given another. You see on Enterprise a few products of the genetic experiments that produced Khan got on the loose and four of them ended up getting taken on board by a Klingon ship. They then proceeded to beat up the entire crew, took over the ship with the intention of using it to conquer the galaxy. Yes, they were all insane. The Klingons found this alarming and embarassing, so much so that they got their hands on some of the genetic material that produced these psychopathic freaks and spliced it into a virus that would, in theory create a race of Super-Klingons so bullies would no longer kick sand in their faces. It didn't really work out but for a while there were a bunch of Klingons who had human facial features and dispositions that were even more unpleasant than usual. Finally sometime before the TNG era a method was discovered to reverse the last of the of the genetic alterations and they all lived happily ever after except for Keh'lahr, who now looked a bit funny.

Re: Humans are "Special" Of course they got it from Ford's Klingon novel.

Re: Denno Coil: Kids, Cyberspace and Suprpsing Darkness Denno Coil's version of cyberspace is suspiciously like other anime's vision of the spirit world. I also note of course that only children and the insane see it.

Re: WWII Era Superheroes and Villains I don't see the problem unless you didn't explain what you had in mind clearly to them.

Re: Getting the heroes together (the first time) Personally I think a group of superheroes meeting in a bar is totally non-cliche. No team of superheroes has ever gotten together like that. Cliche for superheroes is "A giant robot attacks the city" or "A bunch of heroes all have been tipped off about this warehouse full of drugs" or "Your wheel-chair bound patron introduces the heroes he's gathered together and introduces them to each other". Of course the bar-room meeting does set a certain tone for the group.

Re: A Plot Idea ... With No Good Resolution Give it a personality either directly by making it a character that you can talk into going home or indirectly by it being a kind of tool belonging to a character who wants it back.

Re: Trying to figure out a good villain name Professional circus clowns in the 1920s didn't have stage names. After all they weren't the star performers so the ringmasters didn't introduce them to the audience and they didn't hang around long enough to get known as individual performers to the rubes. Clown stage names are mostly for ones who rent themselves out to parties or host TV shows or something. But since most supervillains do have stage names, how about Hellequin? http://130.88.203.109/languages/culturevulture/general/harlequin/

Re: Humans are "Special" Hunh. Music. Protoculture. Now there's an idea for a special power for humans.

Re: Humans are "Special" Well yeah. I was pointing out that humans looked pretty inferior compared to everyone else in Ben 10, after all.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I understand Sailor Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Re: Sand Staff Hunh? Isn't HtH inherent in Hand Attack?

Re: Help me make Awesome Presence Oh I agree. It isn't more than minor. But it isn't cosmetic. It isn't just changing the way things look or seem.

Re: Help me make Awesome Presence

Re: What Age?

Re: What's in a Name OK First Wave: Out to 20 light years. Planets initially discovered by Starwisp probes are colonised by fusion rockets launched by Earth's nation. Names are from Earth mythology. Second Wave: Out to 40 light years by reactionless drive. Names reflect the ideologies and religions of the "colonists" who are sent out by the Pax as a means of getting rid of their opponents. Third Wave: Slow hyperdrive means that worlds that aren't habitable are now being colonised by corporations to act as trade links and mining colonies. They tend to end up being named disparagingly by the actual colonists. Fourth Wave: Fast Hyperdrive takes colonisation beyond the 40 light year sphere.