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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I thought it was more to do with Batman not even being in the same league as Superman, so he had to fight less powerful enemies to reflect his inferior power status compared to Superman?

And a criminal is a cirminal, regardless of their "class" - the Joker is still a danger to society, no matter how much money he has.

Originally Posted by Commander

They announced it earlier than that, I thought. Archive.org archives CoH.com all the way back to 2002. I think it's mentioned in some the pre-pre-pre beta announcements.

A lot of CoH can actually be seen (kinda) all over New England. Croatoa, from I remember, was supposed to be a representation of old Salem, Massachusetts. Dark Astoria is very reminiscent of the vast cemetary plot-lands of Newport, RI. Independence Port looks pretty similar to Fall River, MA and Bristol, RI..

Then again, without any specific locations pointed out, I'm sure that most players can point out specific parts of CoH that remind them of their own area.

Originally Posted by Ramification TM

I always thought Founders Falls had some striking similarities to Austin Texas. Even some of the names within the zone seem to have references to areas here in Austin. Might be all in my head, but if I'm not mistaken, part of COH development took place in Austin.

If PC is in Rhode Island that'd be kind of hilarious since they are usually excluded from CoX contests.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Suggest you check Judge Dredd. He and the other Judges do age, despite the medical tech of the world they live in which includes age retardation and cloning. Some recent stories have dealt with the fact that Dredd isn't as young and fit as he was at the beginning and that his time may be running out. One such issue ended with him deciding that if he is going to go out it will be in service to the law and the criminals will know they faced Dredd. He refuses to take the "long walk" that some retired Judges do.

Originally Posted by MentalMaden

I'm with Local on a lot of those points about the original movies and the Singer version. I think a lot of people over romanticize the Donner films because they come from their childhoods and tend to only remember how good Reeves was and forget how bad the movies were (I know I did). At the time they were a phenomenon but after watching part 1 recently, they are really dated and their plots were weak due to constraints with the technology of the time, which we don't have now.

My wish is the writers/directors decide to forgo the need to once again tell the origin story (something both Donner and Singer handled fine). Between those films and Smallville, I think we all get it by now. What would be nice is to finally have a super hero movie where the most powerful takes on 'a' most powerful, without all of the psycho-analyzing of "what it means to be a hero" or "how lonely it must be to be so powerful" or "I'm different, nobody understands me". We've had many movies (Watchmen, Kickass, Ironman, Nolan Batman) the last few years tackle and handle those questions just fine. I'm not saying I want a Bay mouth breather 'splosion fest. You can still write an interesting and intelligent action movie without rehashing a lot of what is overdone at this point.

(My personal wish for the Nolan world)

We see in his Batman movies, Bruce Wayne is willing to step away from vigilantism if he can find a suitable replacement. And what if the threat becomes "too big" for his un-superpowered self. What if the element of the "unrealistic" was brought into the very realistic world of the Nolanverse. Much like the creation of Dr. Manhattan in the Watchmen, once a hero shows up with incredible power, the masked vigilante finds themself of little use. So make the introduction of Superman the "end" of the Bat franchise and the lead in to the Superman reboot. But maybe a sequel or two down the road, make it where Batman has to return and save Supes and show that his real value is in his ability to plan and that he is needed after all. You can always throw in him holding onto some Kryptonite just in case Superman ever goes rogue.

Originally Posted by Ironik

As I said in the other thread, this version might be good if handled properly. I'm not against the idea and a fresh spin could be positive for the character.

Minor spelling note: "loose" means "not tight" while "lose" means "lost."

Originally Posted by Symar

So, reading that link, he's a disabled military dude, and somehow the military got Venom, and used it on the dude to have a supersoldier, but they forcibly remove it every couple of days so they don't merge?
Is that about right?
I haven't ever read many comics, but they can be interesting.

Originally Posted by Inazuma

The super strength is there for Iron Man. In his mini-sodes set, he picked up a car one-handed, and caught a giant robot's flying head before it fell on some bystanders. It's there, he just doesn't use it in combat much. Probably ties into him having no hand-to-hand skills, as Cap demonstrated later on.

Originally Posted by brophog02

I like to think of it more as them normalizing all of the characters. You could argue that Thor or Hulk are massively under their top level, as well.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Brock had cancer and the symbiote didn't want an unhealthy host. Other reasons exist as I recall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Brock

Also, even Brock and the symbiote were not immune to the effects of the Mephisto mindwipe.

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

Things are beginning to veer into the subjective at this point. I wasn't thinking of just length of writing, but also impact, which is tricky to target. I maintain that Lee & Kirby's five-year run on FF, or even John Byrne's, is going to be impossible to match these days under current industry conditions, no matter who gets killed off, temporarily. I concede, however, I've no method of proving this, at least not until I gain the power of the Cosmic Cube and am able to bend reality itself to my merest whim.

Unfortunately, by that time, Johnny Storm will have long since returned from the dead and will re-team with the Fantastic Four to stop me in a multi-issue crossover story arc.

Originally Posted by Lycanus

I was looking through CoH Tvtropes.org and the paragon wiki in-game references pages today and noticed that something wasn't mentioned that I thought was in there.


In the level 41-50 range, there are three particularly apparent enemy groups that seem to form a shout out:


Rikti: a race of psychic aliens who enjoy a telepathic network and use pylons to power their nearby equipment

Devouring Earth: a group of creatures that are created by the mutagenic properties of a sentient microorganism and which alters the very terrain of the world around it as it spreads.

Malta: a group of highly skilled humans with high technology gizmos and giant robots.




Soooo....

Protoss, Zerg and Terran?

Originally Posted by sleestack

This show has become "appointment viewing" for me and my son. I'm really liking the characterization, and they've done a fine job of introducing storylines and interweaving them.

I agree with the poster above: The Hawkeye/Hulk "bromance" is very nicely done. I especially loved when Cap was giving Tony some hand-to-hand training, while Hawkeye and Hulk sat on the sidelines and made fun of Tony for getting his kiester handed to him. Repeatedly.

Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf

Oooops, That was Lion-O? I thought it was Wily Katt

Too Boy-ish. We know he's still a boy, but in an adult body...