Captain_Photon

Because it's lame.

I think you misspelled "Anti-Matter" and "disintegrates".

Ha! He's actually tanking! Awesome. Thor does that in Avengers sometimes, too.

He has done, many times; it's just that he usually invents something for a specific purpose (generally to beat a bad guy who's just thrashed his spiderass with a trick he needs to counter for the rematch) and then puts it away somewhere, or loses in the course of the fight. His innovations rarely become a standard part of his arsenal, because he likes to travel light - there's not a lot of room in that outfit for gear.

(For instance, in Big Time, he develops a whole new costume that can redirect both light and sound around him, which is partly for stealth's sake and partly to counter the Hobgoblin's sonic attack, but then he only uses it for that "mission", as it were. In CoH he'd have gotten it from his contact when he accepted Go and fight the Hobgoblin again, and try not to lose this time. )

But would you make her forget afterward? That's the real test.

(For the record: No.)

Oh, no worries there. Please do.

"To throw you off the scent" and "actually he didn't know that when he started, but he's not enthusiastic about admitting that now" aren't reasonable explanations? I mean, obviously they're pretty much mutually exclusive, but either one stands up fine on its own.

True, but it's especially evident when you're dealing with Tech characters.

ITYM "Hup hup hup hup!" HTH.

(Anyway, for the record, I wasn't in any way claiming that the status quo is not preposterous. Only that I don't see the value in adding more such silliness just to counter something else that's already on the list.)

Nah, just recycled the ToV name on a different server.

Mine currently look like the generic "select body type" mannequin in the costume tool. Which is also flat-out terrible in this context; maybe worse, actually, since at least black-and-opaque might look like a questionable design choice instead of an outright graphics engine error.

Hah! Seriously? Lame. And completely understandable.

But lame.

Yes there is. Toggles to hide both are tucked away somewhere in the Options window, along with all the "hide full salvage warning" and "hide other people's pets' response dialogue" and whatnot options. I forget exactly where, but it's not hard to find them.

Yup.

Even the part about thinking that freaking people out by calling them on their cellphones from inside his brain was funny.

I like some of Ellis's own stuff (Transmetropolitan, for example), but I've never yet seen him take on a house-owned character for either of the Big Two and not screw it up epically from eight o'clock on day one.

It doesn't matter, they've capped aggro anyway.

I thought Extremis was a big mistake at the time, and nothing has yet happened to convince me otherwise. After spending his entire career struggling to keep Iron Man and Tony Stark separate in his head, including a sort of "wilderness" period wherein he had to confront that very issue head-on and find peace with it, Tony suddenly ups and decides, "You know what, it's time not just to step across that carefully, painfully drawn line, but erase it altogether"? Next thing you know, he's building his armor into his bone marrow, getting all Lawnmower Man with spy satellites, talking to people through their cellphones while he's standing in the room with them, and just thinking it's funny that it freaks them out? And to do all that, he cheerfully assimilates and pimps himself out with a technology he didn't even invent?

Um... well, no, actually, that's what we call getting it wrong on every level. Sorry, Warren, thanks for playing, but perhaps you could stick to your own original characters? You're clearly not cut out for this licensed property work-for-hire gig.

That's the only reason why Civil War didn't break my old-timey Iron Man-lovin' heart - Extremis had already made me throw up my hands, post a note with my more seriously comics-following friends saying "wake me when they walk this crap back," and walk away, so I pretty much missed it entirely.

So yeah, I admit I was pretty much thinking of "classic" Iron Man, not that you had any way of knowing that.

Technically, I would argue that Tony's power isn't so much the armor as his ability to invent it. This is not directly useful on the field of battle, unless that field happens to be in a well-equipped hardware store, but there you are.

If you haven't yet, team up with a gravity controller sometime. A minefield plus Wormhole plus the leader-and-minions mob on an outdoor "defeat some dude and guards" mission equals deep, rich inner satisfaction.

Well, it's an Incarnate thing, right? The whole Incarnate concept is designed to walk on whatever your prior origin story was, unless your prior origin story already happened to be "infused with the Power Cosmic by a nebulous semi-anthropomorphic godhead". It's lame, but it's the law.

The only downside I can see to these, offhand, is that they are just as preposterous as the conceits you're designing them to work around if, for example, they happen indoors.

--G.

That particular case is a little like saying racing drivers are too dependent on their cars to win races.

Nope. The Archetypes themselves don't care what side you're on.

I play mine as a hero. I waited five years to play mine as a hero.

Nah, he's supposed to be wearing heavy, slightly-out-of-place work boots. They're better for curbstomping Ratzis.

Right now, Marvel seems to be doing a better job of picking up the pieces. I never thought I'd say that only, oh, five or six years ago, but such is the current whim of the Great Magnet.