What comic book character can you NOT create?

[Redletter]

Cyclops comes to mind as a character you'd think we should be able to make, but can't. Like, we have TONS of beam based powersets, there's even a few powers that shoot lasers from your eyes! But... there's no "eye cast" alt animations for the beams we get?

 

I know i'd ADORE ditching the laser gun from beam rifles, and replace it with eye casts. We have enough animations that sort of originate from the head/face where you'd think this would definitely be something we could do? And it's weird because like, a lot of the powers that COME as eye beams have alt animations to make them NOT eye beams!

 

You could totally make him aesthetically though. But power wise? No "eye blast" powersets to be found.

[Bill Z Bubba]

1 hour ago, Apparition said:

Of course, there's Plaid Lad:

 

And Cypher from the New Mutants.

[Without_Pause]

Squirrel Girl. Speedball. Magneto. Nightcrawler. You can kind of do him, but you can't really recreate his repeated teleporting as part of combat. Same as Flash.

[Ghost]

Mr Fantastic

Green Lantern 

Sandman

Absorbing Man

 

[Redletter]

3 hours ago, Ghost said:

Sandman

A sand blade. Checkmate.

[Redletter]

3 hours ago, Without_Pause said:

Nightcrawler. You can kind of do him, but you can't really recreate his repeated teleporting as part of combat. Same as Flash.

Have you met our lord and savior, Combat Teleport?

[ZorkNemesis]

Nobody has mentioned Mr. Fantastic or Plastic Man, who use stretching powers that we don't have.

 

I feel like we don't have the full spirit of Batman either, since we can't really combine Martial Arts or Street Justice with Devices or Traps.

 

We can't make the one-off Doom Patrol villain Codpiece, for a bevy of obvious reasons.

 

Edited March 3, 2022 by ZorkNemesis

[Luminara]

Come on, people, stop blabbering about C-listers and bench warmers.

 

Squirrel Girl and the Wonder Twins are the real tragic absences.

[InvaderStych]

[Panache]

22 minutes ago, InvaderStych said:

This is just one character over 1000 character slots. Free name changes ftw

[Without_Pause]

7 hours ago, Redletter said:

Have you met our lord and savior, Combat Teleport?

Not quite there.

 

[Panache]

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[Greycat]

Nobody's mentioned the Dogwelder? >.>

[Ukase]

Simply put, all of them.

For one, that requires time spent in the costume creator (yawn) determining which choices to make. 

And, well, it's against the rules to recreate copyrighted characters. And, while I get that some like to present it as an homage, it's a slippery slope. Where the line is drawn is a bit subjective, so why not make the character that Marvel & DC neglected to make? Why waste my time? 

 

[Panache]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

Nobody's mentioned the Dogwelder? >.>

Ugggh, that’s exactly what my broken clip was an image of!

[momentarygrace]

Not a comic book character, manga, but the first character I tried to make in the game (I didn't know any better regarding making copyrighted characters) was Yomiko Readman, from Read or Die. Perfect costume. Powers, no. I ended up making her an elec blaster.

 

 

[Yomo Kimyata]

Howard the Duck

[oedipus_tex]

I don't read comics too often, so my references are all from the early 90s and 2000s.

 

IMO it would be hard to replicate:

• Multiple Man/Jamie Madrox. Illusion Control's ability to make copies of yourself is a good start. I don't really feel like there's a Controller secondary that's a good fit though. If Illusion existed for Dominators, Illusion/Martial would kiiinda cover it. Still see MM as basically a Tank or Scrapper though.

 

• Rogue. There are plenty of "absorb power from enemy" type powers but I still feel like there's room here for a specific "power thief" set.

 

• Cannonball. Imagine what his Blast or Manipulation set would look like. Some kind of flying version of Lighting Rod? Or is he actually some kind of Sentinel with Momentum Armor or something similar?

 

• Quicksilver or really any speedster. It's kinda covered by existing sets, and of course anyone can take Super Speed. I woudn't say Super Reflexes feels like a speedster to me.

 

 

• Magneto/Polaris. We have Gravity Control, which may work as a stand in. Not sure I'm completely convinced Gravity Control is Magnetic Control, and there's not really an Assault set to pair them with that feels right. Unless Magneto is actually a very powerful Gravity/Force Fielder? Room for ideas for sure...

Edited March 3, 2022 by oedipus_tex

[srmalloy]

He's not really from comics, but Letterman from the Electric Company, able to transform the environment by changing the spelling of it. Stopping a thug by changing their gun to gum, for example. Of course, he'd be much nastier as a villain, turning a hero to zero....

[Normal Thomas]

10 minutes ago, oedipus_tex said:

• Magneto/Polaris. We have Gravity Control, which may work as a stand in. Not sure I'm completely convinced Gravity Control is Magnetic Control, and there's not really an Assault set to pair them with that feels right. Unless Magneto is actually a very powerful Gravity/Force Fielder? Room for ideas for sure...

I always saw Gravity Control as the closest stand in for a magnetism control set. I feel like based on his Marvel Vs Capcom appearances maybe an electric assault set would do best? Still, excellent point on how nothing really fits him right. I'd say best you could do is Grav/Elec/Mace Dominator (Mace for Personal Force Field).

 

There's no good analog for probability manipulation so I'd say Scarlet Witch and Longshot can't be done totally right. Longshot is probably easier due to his reliance on weapons.

 

Warlock. I know a lot of people have mentioned shapeshifters but I feel like he's a little different from the usual shapeshifter due to his technological nature.

[Agorazium]

Emma Frost. I guess you could get somewhat close with a Sentinel on Homecoming but as a melee/ranged/tank/dominator hybrid she is difficult to analog.

 

I have a Scarlet Witch homage character who is a Dark/Time corrupter which I think works fairly well using +def and -tohit as a stand-in for probability manipulation.

[Techwright]

21 hours ago, TheZag said:

Its been all about powersets but there are alot of comic characters that you could do a close match to their costume even though power selection may not match up very well.

Just to be contrary...  😛

 

For my pick I'll say Marvel's Random.  He may look like a blaster here, but he literally adapted to most any situation:

 

[Redletter]

17 hours ago, Without_Pause said:

Not quite there.

 

I see your X2 and raise you [Burst of Speed]

[UltraAlt]

On 3/2/2022 at 3:59 PM, Oklahoman said:

What comic book character (hero, villain, or in between) do you feel like you cannot closely approximate in the game right now?

 

 

No Animated-hair attack powers

 

No long male character hairstyles

 

 

No stretching powers

 

no shrinking powers

 

no growing powers

 

Limited Weird body types

Modok, etc. have already been listed on the forums elsewhere.

 

 

Jack Kirby Giants

.... and a whole lot more examples of in Where Monsters Dwell

 

Reality warping powers

 

Where's my motorcycle?

 

 

I could take days tracking examples down.

Jack Kirby alone had tons of characters that don't fit in the CoH mold in regard to costuming and/or powers.

There are just a lot of characters in general ... even outside of Kirby's work

[TraumaTrain]

Old school Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD