Content-Free Friday: Pick my superhero
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triadruid has graciously agreed to make me a superhero icon. (Or at least has intimated that he might do such a thing, and I think I can talk him into actually doing it.)His question, though, was what extant comic-book superhero would be an accurate avatar for me? Anybody got an opinion on that? Supervillains are also acceptable. :)
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:30 pm (UTC)Anarky
and
Dr.Fate
Of course i'm a bit of DC fan so my opinion is a little biased I guess. Though to be honest I kinda picture you as being the love child between Emma Frost & John Constantine.
Incidentally i've been
suckeredconvinced to participate in a Mutants & Masterminds campaign. Though the premise is that we're all non costumed supervillains. It's supposed to be Reservoir Dogs meets The Secret Six.Hope this helps.
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 08:30 pm (UTC)Good calls, all. I very much enjoy the concept of being a character who is the love child of Frost and Constantine, particularly.
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 08:17 pm (UTC)I really like both Harley and Mystique, also.
The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 07:02 pm (UTC)or
Arsenic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Yorkes)
(she has a genetically engineered dinasour!!!!)
or
Forge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_%28comics%29)
or
Nite-Owl(II) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nite_Owl)
Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 08:01 pm (UTC)Thanks.
Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 09:08 pm (UTC)Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 08:14 pm (UTC)Have you read Watchmen?
Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 08:21 pm (UTC)I've read the Watchmen. I wasn't sure who Nite-Owl II was though (I forget if the first Nite Owl was the one from the 40s that the original adopted).
By the way I don't know if I can vote again but have you considered ABC's Promethea?
Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 08:28 pm (UTC)Also, yeah, Promethea. Not the Marjorie or the Anna Prometheas though. Probably either Barbara or Bill.
I am obviously going to lose geek cred on this.
Date: 2006-10-27 09:07 pm (UTC)In other news, homemade pie. Mmmmmm pie. Helps take the sting out of hours of back-breaking labor, ya know. :)
Re: I am obviously going to lose geek cred on this.
Date: 2006-10-27 09:32 pm (UTC)I asked the question primarily because the 'action' in Watchmen takes place when the main characters are all sort of past their prime and out of the business. Nite Owl is a character who it's pretty easy to be like and respect, but he (like most of the Watchmen crew) is also fairly pathetic. The story is absolutely heart-breaking -- these are people who were once sort of champions of right and justice, beloved by the people and in the middle of things, who are now middle-aged, outmoded, and unwanted by the people they protected. They're inspired by a previous Golden Age, but their time is more like a garbage age. It's a little like the superhero version of the Island of Misfit Toys. There's a particularly wrenching scene with Nite Owl and the Silk Spectre -- the intimation is that Dreiburg (the Nite Owl) is impotent as his normal everyday self, and has to put on the suit and bust bad guys in order to get it up. They're all so damaged, you have to love them.
Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 08:51 pm (UTC)Seriously. Be your very own Lady Ta'veren...in red. I'm diggin' it.
Dark Tiger~
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:56 pm (UTC)Re: The possibilities seem endless to me, but here are a few..
Date: 2006-10-27 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-27 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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