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I believe he's said it before.
But they can find a facsimile. Whoever does Harley Quinn in Arkahm City is close enough to Arleen Sorkin that it works out just fine (even if she is slightly higher-pitched, which I didn't think possible). -
Quote:you know what they say: Try, try again and again and again and again and again.Originally Posted by Errant
Obviously, the 6th time is the charm. -
Quote:That's the one nobody seems to want to tackle. And possibly why Going Rogue was flawed by design, as the Rogue Isles go barren of do-badders.Originally Posted by Olantern
This brings me to point #2. Given the prevalence of a kind of jaded cynicism among geekdom, including comic fans, the question of "Why are redeemed villains so much more popular than fallen heroes?" is an excellent one. One would think, given how eager fans seem to see things fail and how quick they are to suspect ulterior motives, that they'd enjoy seeing heroes inevitably stumble, not villains rising above themselves. Anyone have any theories on this? (I have several, but I'm not convinced by any of them yet.)
That's about right. Most recent incarnations had him acting as a neutral party.Quote:Originally Posted by Psyguard
It's been a long while since I read any Marvel stuff but from where things stood last time I read about him, Thanos is a bit of an odd one.
Officially his whole schitck was that he is in love with Death (as an anthropomorphic personification) and he feels it is a great injustice that so many people are alive. So he wanted to kill half the universe as a gift to her. Basically his idea of flowers and a box of chocolates for the first date.
however subconsciously he doesn't believe in his own cause and so always leaves himself vulnerable to defeat.
Once he realized his own psychological flaws he became something of an introspective character pondering the nature of the universe more than performing acts of villainy.
Now, like I said, it's been a long time since I read anything Marvel so he may have worked out his issues by now and is back to trying to kill everyone. -
Well really, me.
INCARNATE TRIALS! I want to do them. I want to do all of them, all of the time.
But lately whenever I get online and try to guage what the hell is going on with them, I'm finding information rather hard to come by.
This has been my routine for the last few nights I've logged on:
* Log into RWZ
* Notice 2-4 people hanging around seemingly interested in Trials.
* Ask in Infinity Incarnates and Infinity Trials, "Are any trial teams currently running?"
* Wait 10 minutes.
* Get no response.
* Log off.
So what is going on? Should I take the no response as, "No, kind and beautiful sir, there aren't any trials currently active," or "Eff you, our trials are awesomer without you"? Because I don't know which it is. I have limited time to stand around, especially now that Gotham needs me, so I'll give up quick.
Are the Infinity Incarnate and Infinity Trial channels not the best place to, you know, talk about Incarnates and Trials? Are the habitants of said channels incapable of digital communication and/or multi-tasking?
I've got trials to do! If I must, I'll form the dumb teams myself! I've got like 12 characters I'd like to make more awesomer, and they need to get there prior to the second half of i21's content release, when more Incarnate powers are offered.
So what's up with Incarnate Trials lately? Are people not doing them? If they are, are they antisocial creatures who don't want to answer my query? Or are the Infinity Incarnate and Infinity Trials channels simply worthless? Help me to help you... and me. -
At least you're curious. I thought the Walking Dead could be the big source to make my wife curious about comics. She loves the TV show and is amazed at how scary it makes "dumb 'ol zombies."
But nope. No carryover. -
My bad about the Hulk! I had forgotten it was all a Loki plot! I would have edited, but I was out of town all weekend.
Why is it that the redeemed villain is a more interesting story than the fallen hero? Outside of Mark Waid's Irredeemable, I can't think of too many heroes that were lost to "evil." -
I don't have any anymore, but all of my issues that were of any monetary value were Amazing Spider-Man. First Venom, first Hobgoblin, Six-arms, return of the Burglar (#100 IIRC), the death of Ned Leeds, etc.
If it was valuable after issue #100 or so, I probably had it (except for the first Punisher. ******* that issue.) -
There are still some pretty big differences. The CDC and any virus explanation or origins it would have/could have provided are more explanation than the comics have ever seen.
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Quote:But... Isn't that relevant? Because Dale was trying to get to the stomach.Originally Posted by Dark One
We just need them to meet Otis and he'll take at least one of those characteristics.
Gutting the Walker? That wasn't gutting. That took no skill whatsoever. True hunters know that you want to avoid slicing the stomach and/or intestines to avoid spoiling the meat. However, Darryl is a pretty good tracker. THAT takes skill.
At this point, I don't think the comics have any bearing on the show, except for maybe intentions. i.e.,Quote:Originally Posted by Dark One
Is it acceptable to reference stuff from the comics? Ya, it would be spoilers and all.
... COMIC SPOILERS!!! ...
In the comic, Kirkman intended for Carl to have a near-fatal experience, so we'll get a version of that here. Andrea becomes the badass, so we'll get a version of that here. Shane dies... eventually, we'll get a version of that here.
But already all of the details have been changed. And I'm only surmising a lot of these - It's possible that Rick talking to the walkie talkie will provide the dramatic expository moments in the TV series that Rick's psychosis talking to a dead Lori provided in the book, so maybe she'll survive. *shrug* -
Hey. The dude from the cutscene is in the last mission hero-side. Do we know who that guy is yet?
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I finally got around to looking for it. I couldn't find it. Would it be under a different name, Herc?
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Is that the case with any of the examples I provided?
And I don't think, say, The Joker, Kingpin, Hobgoblin, Carnage, Red Skull, or Annihilus give a damn about the betterment of society as a whole.
More examples: Venom (Lethal Protector?! to be fair, he was always kind of gray), Rhino (for at least a brief stretch in Amazing Spider-Man before he was replaced and/or his fiancee died, I forget which happened first), Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch.
Always grey: Thanos, Galactus, the High Evolutionary (now there's a guy that I would buy the "trying to better society" excuse). -
Teaser looks great. I like that it seems like Thor and Tony Stark could bond (Thor enjoyed Tony's "under the suit" answer, at least that's what the preview presented).
I see you guys talking about Antman a whole lot. That is the worrying one, but I think they're beyond the "will it happen" stage everyone seems concerned with. Last I heard about it, it was confirmed with Simon Pegg starring. Is that no longer true? If that is the direction... it will be so much different in scope than these others that it's a good thing they decided to keep it separate. -
(Note: I'm about two months behind on comics, so if some of my references seem outdated, that's why. Please refrain from mentioning the most up-to-date happenings, or at least provide a spoiler warning beforehand.)
And I don't mean choosing to begin a Brute in Atlas Park.
This has been an ongoing trend at Marvel Comics for a while now (and as that's mostly all I read, the only thing I can specifically comment on).
There are the obvious ones: Hulk began as an Avengers villain, Magento was the X-Men's greatest villain and now he's a member of the team, Emma Frost was always evil eye candy and now she's just a sardonic girlfriend. Juggernaut was an unstoppable engine of destruction, then he began to piss off Cyttorak because he would rather go around that orphanage than through it.
Not to mention the Thunderbolts and all they touch. Baron Zemo was a great villain (although now he's kind of back to being a villain? Hard to keep track with that guy), The Shocker and Boomerang and Calvin Zabo are suddenly concerned with someone other than themselves? Blasphemy!
But perhaps the greatest loss from villainy's ranks would be that of Dr. Doom. Ever since he became the Godfather of Valeria Richards, he's had a surprisingly close relationship with that of his greatest nemesis and his family. In recent issues of FF (and X-Men), Doom has donned the Future Foundation white-and-black costumes and is playing as nice as Doomly possible!
What has always made Doom interesting was the relationships he developed with his archnemeses, but actually joining the team (however briefly this turns out to be), isn't that crossing a line?
What do you think?
Are heroic dalliances for villains a good thing?
They seem to be quite commonplace - Are there any heroes who make selfish, villainous decisions at times and dabble in the "gray"? The only examples I can conjure are the kids in Avengers Academy, and they're kind of still learning. Fear itself: Youth in Revolt (that I also just read) had a really good example of the "Vigilante morality mission" for Hardball as well.
In your estimation, what are the best transitions of villain to hero? Which ones did you know from the start would only be temporary?
For the good of the character, perhaps "FF Doom" will turn out to only be a Doombot, thataway we can have our cake and eat it too! -
Quote:Me too.Originally Posted by Demobot
I got my points but not my token. Grr and argh and stuff.
And through all of the teeth-gnashing, I can't tell when I should be receiving my token. I've heard that I'll receive October's token in November, but I don't really know what the hell is the case anymore. -
I've done that mission twice, and it's happened both times. As soon as I attack, one or two enemies just run off and jump in the ceiling. And the PBAoE solution doesn't work, because they're in the ceiling. I tried jumping, then hitting Whirling Sword a couple of times, but no luck.
It's really awful. -
When the game is no longer rated teen.
And we don't need them. I'll take Spider-Man over the Punisher any day. -
Maestro nailed it. We should have closed this thread two seconds after he replied.
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I thought it was weird enough that they had some Recipe sets available for purchase through the store to begin with (even if it's mostly the neglected sets). It all seems weird.
It will probably be the only way I'll ever get a complete purple set, however, and the only way I'd ever get a PvP set. You see, I have what is called the 'Anti-luck' in-game when it comes to drops. Really really really need a purple recipe? Have a Flight IO recipe! Need just one Pangean Soil salvage to make an expensive recipe (that I had to buy on the Market, naturally), take a Circuit Board! Now you have 11 of them! YAY! -
Quote:Ha. The first time I got a phone call, so I just stopped paying attention. "What are they gonna do to me? They're not even interactable."Originally Posted by Chyron HR
So... who else stayed around in the first villain mission and soloed the Midnight Squad?
Then they became interactable and murdered my face. It was pretty funny.
I have to complain about some things. I've only read pieces of this thread and maybe one of the others, so apologies if these have been discussed to death.
1) Are the SSAs not tested? This is a serious question. Do they not go to the Test server? I've gone the villain-side mission twice with my Villain Scrapper. The first time, I attacked the group guarding the thing in the back of the vault, and two of the enemies immediately ran off and jumped into the ceiling.
The second time, I attacked the group and one ran off and immediately jumped in the ceiling. I'm playing on +2/+3; I can't kill everyone in one hit before they can even move.
I petitioned both times. I didn't see the option to abandon the mission, and I didn't realize the Quit TF button was in the Team window, so I thought I was stuck. I waited for the response each time, so they're at least quite aware that it is an issue. However, what good would resetting the TF have done for me? From my perspective, if you don't alpha all of the enemies, at least one of them is going to run off and jump in the ceiling 100% of the time.
2) Rezzing Rulu-Shin are annoying. Try as I might, I just can't seem to kill all LTs before they get at least one rez off.
3) The Elite Boss made Lemkin look like a chuuuuump. I died a couple of times, then had to jump back through the portals. It was annoying, but a nice challenge (I just wish I had Revive for the first time on my /Regen.
4) My guess for who is behind all of this? Cynically, I think they're trying to kill off Statesman - He's the heroic personification of the former developer, why keep him around? I think they'd like to besmirch his name beforehand, so I thought he would be the one planning the deaths of the other Freedom Phalanx members. However, the dialogue we've seen in the SSA cutscenes wouldn't necessarily fit Statesman, so I suppose not. -
And an adjective or title descriptor.
(The) Ionic Erg
(The) Enigmatic Erg
You said you're a robot, maybe play that up. The Erg Reactor, The Erg Force, etc.
Or... Z-Erg, X-Erg... Oh, or my favorite: Ergonomics. -
Just dropped (ever so briefly) to Premium. I didn't realize my account ran out today - I thought it was tomorrow - And rather than get involved in a single-player game with a story I haven't already heard a million times (like CoH's), I decided to just renew.
As I feared, because I dropped down to Premium for about 4 hours, when I logged back in after re-VIP'ing, all of my characters were locked. I have 36 characters on Infinity, and the log-in screen says I have 36 unlocks.
So they're all locked, and I have enough to unlock them. That's all well and good, but what happens if/when I drop back to Premium? Will they re-lock? Will I be resupplied with more unlocks?
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I'll do my best to remember to be there. I could use it with my Street Justice Brute, A New Challenger.
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