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| Character | Side | Origin/Class | Primary | Secondary | Pools |
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| Sharon Venturi | Hero | Mutation Scrapper | Martial Arts | Invulnerability | Flight, Fitness |
| Costume 1, Costume 2, With Rocket Pack, Drawing, Costume 1 modified, Galaxy Ranger outfit, Vanguard 1, Vanguard 2, Vanguard Final, Formal outfit, Galaxy Ranger winter variant. | My first ever character, the costume was a bit rushed because I didn't know how to get out of full screen mode and was hoping there'd be an obvious way once I hit the grid. The intent was to evoke Rocketeer, but the pieces didn't seem to be there. The name is a reference to Sharen Ventura, the Ms. Marvel of the 1980s, and the costume colors homage hers. Getting a million Influence early on for answering a Level 50's riddle has helped me keep her in the finest of Enhancements. Her original info was one sentence, I added the one below in mid-April 2009, and also got her a new costume a lot closer to what I'd intended. The drawing was done in homage to this cover by Dave Stevens. And what would the Rocketeer be without a pistol? I later felt like working up something resembling a Galaxy Rangers uniform in CoH, but rather than make up new characters I used Sharon and Pala-Dyne as mannequins. I decided to try to collect Vanguard costume pieces for Sharon, so her "Vanguard N" costumes track the addition of elements. up to the point I was satisfied I had enough. First character to Level 50! | ||||
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Once, Sharon was just a stuntwoman between jobs, and she met this guy. He
wasn't a normal guy...in fact, he was about as far from normal as you're
going to find, a cosmic-ray-powered superhero who was drifting around trying
to "find himself" during a leave of absence from his team. She thought it'd
be a hoot to travel with him, and the two had several adventures over the
course of a few weeks. However, just as her companion was finding himself,
Sharon was discovering that the low-level cosmic rays he emitted had
triggered what must have been a latent mutant gene. She was offered a spot
on her friend's team, but declined, not wanting to stay in his shadow. So
now she's mastering her powers and carving out a niche for herself in Paragon
City.
Battlecry: INCOMING! | |||||
| Artemis A | Technology Hero | Blaster | Archery | Electricity Manipulation | Flight |
| Costume 1, With "Jet Scrander", In Disguise (Arachnos), Na'vi cosplay, Cupid cosplay, Powerup Mode (with Tech Wings), Cupid try 2. | Evil Mazinger on one server, so why not a good Dianan A (the "upgrade" of the infamous boob-shooter Aphrodite A) on another? Interestingly, at the point I made her, I had three female characters, all of them on Virtue. And all of my Virtue characters were female. Hm. The gender balance was eventually restored, and Penny Gunn moved to Pinnacle. Color scheme copied as closely as I could manage from a Dianan A toy I own. She got her Jet Scrander before Kazengar, but mainly because she was lower level and I wanted to level her up a bit before trying a solo Mayhem with Kaze. After seeing Avatar, I decided to use one of her costume slots to make up a Na'vi archer. Another is Cupid-based for the heck of it, and I finally used her fourth slot as an in-character one. After running her through the 2010 Valentine's event, I kitted her out as a proper cupid. | ||||
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In one shard, a powered armor project resulted in the evil Kazengar when a
lightning spirit was merged with the suit. In another, however, the
engineers didn't turn to magic and eventually solved the problems they had
with the suit power supply. However, realizing it lacked the offensive punch
to face the threats Lord Arachnos was arraying against Paragon City, the
designers looked for a primary weapon system...and found it in volunteer
Diana Naismith, triathlete and not-quite-Olympic-class archer, who suggested
equipping the suit with an arsenal of high-tech arrows. Now, as Artemis A,
she's the testbed for what may just be the next generation of Longbow combat
gear.
Battlecry: Thunder Bow Strike! | |||||
| Antiochus V | Villain | Magic Mastermind | Robotics | Force Fields | Flight |
| Costume 1, Minion 1, Cape glitch, Holographic disguise | Antiochus V came from a Marvel Holiday Special in which Doc Samson tries to tell the Hannukah story (as written by Peter David) to schoolchildren, who keep altering the details. In it, Antiochus IV ends up played by Ultron, so I was inspired to make an evil robot named Antiochus V. The basic character has appeared in both my RoboMACs game and in Academy of Super-Heroes. This one is inspired by his final appearance in the ASH setting, in which he set out to master magic. | ||||
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One of Crey's many attempts at improved AI, this one figured out it was
destined for enslavement by humanity if it stayed where it was. Creating a
shell program to cover its escape, the AI fled into the internet, absorbing
data and developing a rather quirky personality that was shaped in part by
the fact that the first two databases it encountered included Darwinian
theory and Jewish history. Taking his mission from the former and his name
from the latter, he has set out to replace humanity with robots! But he knew
technology alone wouldn't be enough, so he set out to learn magic as well...a
bit of a surprise for his foes....
Battlecry: You've been out-evolved, ape. | |||||
| Acton Lord | Villain | Mutation Corruptor (of course) | Radiation Blast | Thermal Emission | Flying, Fitness, Concealment |
| Costume 1, Costume 2, "Victorian" Acton Lord, Vanguard costume, Domo-kun costume. | This is my second-oldest Legion of Net.Heroes characters, the embodiment of the Corruption Force, aka "Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" as applied to comicbooks. If he vaguely resembles Doctor Dave, it's because he's based on what I looked like 15 years ago (if in much better shape). He really should have a one-connection cape on just his right shoulder, but those aren't available. He started with the Valkyrie cape I got with the Mac Edition booster, but I farmed him up to L24 (it's a corruption of the game, so I almost HAD to) and got him a new cape. The "Victorian" costume looks snazzy just standing there, but his shoulders tend to interpenetrate the top of the cape, which looks bad. A few Mothership raids in a short time got him enough Vanguard Merits to make a proper set of Vanguard armor, and the Domo-kun costume is mainly a joke I put on him because I had a spare slot after ditching the Supergroup that required a unified costume (I never scanned that costume, it wasn't all that interesting). | ||||
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Once he existed in a shard known as the Looniverse, home of the Legion of
Net.Heroes. But he has since escaped that reality and seeks new pastures in
"the real world". An embodiment of corruption in his home reality, he finds
that he can twist the more prosaic forces of nature in Paragon City, wielding
radiation and thermal effects as easily as he once twisted Net and Thread.
Still, it will be a while before he figures out exactly how the elements
translate.
Battlecry: Power corrupts, I should know! | |||||
| Ol' Jed | Hero | Mutation Tanker | Stone Armor | Dark Melee | Leaping, Fighting |
| Costume 1, Color tweaked power, In Trenchcoat, Sunday Go To Meetin' Outfit, Santa outfit. | An unabashed AE farming character. Too much AE can mess up contact chains and cost you goodies, so I don't want to try to get to Level 50 with lots of AE. But I'd also like to make it to L50 some time before the end of the year so I can try out some of the "prestige" classes, so I made Ol' Jed. Tankers seem to be in demand for farming teams, so I made one. I picked some power sets I hadn't used before, though, so I could at least try something new here. :) After a while, though, I got tired of trying to keep up with the Exploit/Nerf war and took Jed outside, where he got invited to the Abandoned Warehouse RPSG. I respecced to make his powers a little more coherent and tinted his Dark Melee to look like dirt. Ol' Jed Heroclix (unpainted). I've also done a HeroClix of his SuperGroup teammate Darren Astor (Unpainted, not quite right painted). And then I realized I forgot the gloves, so I added them. I may need to spawn a separate page for the Abandoned Warehouse clix, now that I've also done Jordan Murphy as well (unpainted but slightly primed). The Abandoned Warehouse eventually fell apart, but most of the people moved to another SG. | ||||
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"My name's Jedediah Zebulon Smith, but you can call me Ol' Jed. Y'might
say farmin's in my blood. Of course, y'might also say an unstable mix of
Superadine and meth is in my blood, but I got my idjit grandson ta blame fer
that. Pulled him outta th' burning wreckage of the drug lab he made in my
spare shed, and musta inhaled when I shoulda exhaled. Can't complain much,
though. Ain't felt this good in years! I've looked better, mind. People
told me I was a Troll now and should try livin' with the other Trolls in
Paragon City, but me and them don't seem ta git along...."
Battlecry: "Go. Hunt. Whup Skulls." | |||||
| The Queen of Misery | Hero | Magic Controller | Illusions | Empathy | Flight |
| Costume 1, Costume 2 | I made this one for two reasons: a realization that I had no one below L20 on Virtue to run lowbie missions with friends, and having several Toy Matinee stones come up on my iPod Shuffle that day. Her info is a sort of poetic paraphrase of the lyrics of "Queen of Misery" by Toy Matinee crossed with a superhero origin, and easily the most emo thing I've written in a while. The liner art had nuns and Elvises, so her second costume is an Elvis. I had to do the cape mission to get the nice fringe pattern, and she's no longer my lowbie blueside. :) | ||||
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She's just looking for a love her father coldly had denied, sweet whispered
promises came to her from the darker side. The power hers, she felt the same,
the darkness lied, gave only shame. And now the city calls, the lonely and
forgotten cry, her penance is to save them all or in trying die.
Battlecry: Such a shallow scene.... | |||||
| Carnivore X | Villain | Mutation Brute | Claws | Electric Armor | Leaping |
| Costume 1, Costume 1 tweaked | As with Queen of Misery, I decided I wanted a lowbie redside too, and I was inspired by a mention of "Carnivore X" in an article about a newly discovered proto-sauropod. Mix in a little Dr. Dinosaur (from Atomic Robo) for the capslock, and have the Martial Arts Super Booster drop that day, and you get this guy. He looks like a Draconum. Also, I would like to say that Ninja Run is pretty nifty. After getting the Mutant Booster, I added a few Organic Armor details. | ||||
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FOOLISH MAMMALS! WE DINOSAURS UNLOCKED THE SECRET OF TIME AEONS BEFORE YOUR
FEVERED MINDS COULD CONCEIVE OF IT, AND WE WILL CLAIM THIS ERA AS OUR OWN!
DO NOT THINK THAT A MERE METEOR COULD DEFEAT THE MIGHTY DINOSAURIA!
Battlecry: YOUR WARM BLOOD WILL SPILL! | |||||
| Solar.Max | Hero | Peacebringer | Luminous Blast | Luminous Aura | Fitness |
| Costume 1, Costume 2 | Well, as you can tell by the cheatydot in there, I wasn't the first one to get the idea to name a character Solar Max on City of Heroes. Probably not even the first Peacebringer. But when I unlocked Kheldians, I decided I wanted to try to make the Solar Max outfit and use that ID for my first Flying Spaghetti Hero. A proper Solar Max armor has the yellow stripe on the left side rather than down the center, but City of Heroes is sorely lacking in simple patterns (see Enforcer 1003, for instance). Costume 2 is a "formal" outfit for when armor isn't really appropriate. | ||||
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Despite all the super-tech and magic out there, sometimes the cutting edge
of exploration involves normal humans. Jack Taylor was an astronaut flying
an experimental warp craft on a shakedown around the Solar System when he ran
into a dying Kheldian, who had in desperation thrown itself at near the speed
of light towards what he hoped was an inhabited world...hundreds of years
ago. Thanks to time dilation, only a few months passed for Ragged
Heliopause, but if Jack hadn't been in the right place at the right time, the
Kheldian would still have died. The bonded entity knows that this may be the
last lifetime for his Kheldian half, but he can't just hide away when the
Nictus roam free on this world. Jack has a lot of learning to do about being
a superhero, and Ragged Heliopause has centuries of catching up to do
regarding the struggles against the Nictus.
Battlecry: Here comes the Sun! | |||||
| Terra-Rize | Villain | Mutation Dominator | Mind Control | Earth Assault | Flight, Fitness |
| Costume 1 | My first "reroll", taking the basic idea of a character and trying again with different power sets and choices. Since TerraRyze, Dominators got access to Earth Assault (which woulda been nice for him), but I decided to go for Mind Control as a Primary. Of course, I used the Terra costume pieces from the Martial Arts Super Booster. :) The bio note is different from the original's, but retains the "really bad day" theme. | ||||
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He no longer remembers his original name, or much of his old life, but
that's probably for the best. As far as he can piece together, he was once a
Brick in the Outcasts before Crey decided he'd make a great test subject for
a new Superadine variant they were working on. Then the Circle of Thorns
attacked the lab and spirited him away to use as a sacrificial subject, but
when a group of Peacebringers stumbled across the ceremony, it misfired and
merged him with the Nictus Shard of a Void Slayer who had been hunting the
Kheldians. And he may have stumbled into a vat of Hamidon goo as he fled the
site, he's not sure. In any case, his skin is now stone and he has a strange
mix of powers vaguely related to his original Brick powers...plus the power
of the mind. He's decided revenge would be nice, if only he could decide who
to go after first!
Battlecry: Revenge for whatever it was! | |||||
| Rechtigkeit | Hero | Mutant Blaster | Electrical Blast | Electricity Manipulation | Flight |
| Costume 1, Sofie Rasch version, Silver Age version | Rechtigkeit aka Justice (the German translation) is one of my rare "flagsuit" concepts. In my ASH setting, Colin Shaw is the third to wield the axe and bear the name, although he goes by Justice rather than Rechtigkeit, so this City of Heroes version is more of a mix of him, the 1970s version (his ghost is visible in this picture, he's 8-9 feet tall so the axe looks small), the 1990s version and Colin from the 2020s (no picture). A former Vogue Ghoul (the term for European paragangers) called Sparker, he's mostly a blaster with an axe, so once I got the Ghost Slaying Axe as a veteran reward, I decided to try making a CoH version of the idea, making him a former Shocker a la the Outcasts. His background was getting a bit wordy, so I didn't put in anything about wanting to fight the newly returned 5th Column, but I figure that as a modern German patriot he'd have no love for Nazis. This could be painful in a second. His second costume is meant to be an approximation of 1990s one linked above, I may reuse it on an Axe Tanker later on. The third was as close as I could get to the 1970s version. | ||||
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The Outcasts are, by name, purely a Paragon City problem. But mutants are
appearing all over the world, with most major cities having at least a few
small gangs similar to the Outcasts. Colin Shaw, son of British expats in
Berlin, was one such mutant, falling in with a small gang and quickly ending
up in prison. He served his time and genuinely turned around, deciding he
would be Germany's version of the Statesman. Someday. First, though, he
needs experience, and what better place to get it than in Paragon City?
(Note: "Rechtigkeit" means "Justice" in German.)
Battlecry: For justice! | |||||
| Lee ROY J-4 | Hero | Mutation Blaster | Assault Rifle | Mental Manipulation | Flight |
| Red Clearance | Yes, this is a Paranoia character concept. Sadly, to avoid things like ----Radstar---- as names, you're only allowed one hyphen in a name, so what should have been Lee-R-OYJ-4 is missing some dashes. I guess they failed to follow him through the interdimensional rift. My tentative plan, should he get more costumes, is to just give him different colors of the same outfit. But I may also go with a "suddenly realizes he can wear any color he wants, but has no fashion sense" outfit too. | ||||
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Lee-R-OYJ-4 was a (more or less) loyal (totally non-mutant) Troubleshooter
in Paragon Complex whose loyalty was rewarded with the chance to test out a
brand new creation of the R&D group. He wasn't told what it was supposed to
do (it was above his clearance level), but he's pretty sure it wasn't
supposed to send him screaming through the dimensional barriers like Hot Fun
through an Infrared. Once it was certain he wasn't ever going home (whew) he
found that his training and abilities suited him for police work,
specifically the Psi-Cop program of the PPD. He trains by day, and at night
he hunts commie mutant traitors who threaten his new home. Okay, they're not
commies, but there's plenty of mutants and traitors. And if the guns
available to him aren't as big, they're less likely to blow up in his face.
Plus, he can use his mutant powers without fear of summary execution! Now,
if only the public information terminals didn't look so ominously
familiar.....
Battlecry: Stay alert! Trust no one! | |||||
