Rodoan

Of all the troll threads in all the forums in all the world, I walk into this one.

If I were to describe me, I'd be exactly like how I play my ss/inv tank: overgrown Boy Scout leading the charge, first in, last out, guarding the flock. Since I'm not invulnerable and could scratch a finger on a sharp door grip, I tend to modify the real life with more caution. But in a team situation, I'm the guy who is the guardian leader: I drive a team forward, support and encourage others, and take the heat of angry management to protect the team. I also tend to hesistate if I don't see that team respond immediately to my leadership decisions, and sometimes weaken my leadership by constantly reevaluating whether I'm leading correctly. Its the same way with the tank. I'll only charge in when I'm certain all are ready and healed, so sometimes the impatient scrappers ignore the others and run past me.

Now if you were to ask my mom , she'd call me a mastermind (and she has). I was the kid that the adults always perceived as innocent when a group of kids got in trouble for pranks and such. Over time Mom realized I was the planner: setting things up, psyching up the other kids, then sending them out to do my bidding so my hands stayed clean. Fortunately, that was my youth. I've since crossed over to the blue side.

Q,
Are you just going for movies? or are TV stuff fair game?

Charade 1963 film with a bit of everything: espionage, theft, murder, mystery, romance. It helps that Henry Mancini wrote the famous theme, and that it boasts an all-star cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy. I like the quote concerning it on Wikipedia:

Probably would use Ace Barnstormer, 'cause I love WW1 biplanes and old school pulp fiction so much. If I had to go with a lore-based character, then either Alistair Sutton, founder/leader of the Dawn Patrol (again with the WW1 flying aces), or maybe just simply M1 (again with the WW1 theme)

You might want to toss a SPOILERS line up in the OP, Thirty-Seven. We do get new players now and then(hopefully several as Going Rogue ramps up), who may not know of these ties.

Here, there be SPOILERS.


That said, I'd not had any connections to Leonard Silmon, and had to go read the wiki article. I'm not certain how he drags into your overall discussion of Nemesis and the Coming Storm. Is it the similarity of his last name to Silos that makes the connection?

There have been discussions, at least piecemeal, concerning these topics on forum threads in the past.

From what I've been able to gather, both from in-game and discussion, the Coming Storm appears to be an alien invasion with the Shivan as scouts. Based on comments by Mender Silos, who is probably Nemesis, it would seem he got nosy again, like he did with the Ritki home world, and attracted the attention of the Shivan's master/s. It appears that Mendor Silos regrets the results and is trying to change the outcome, but just like Nemesis, he's doing so to his own ends. The Letter Sender believes the goals of Silos to be as bad, and is formulating a plan and strike squad to counter. As to who is referred to as the Coming Storm, the guesses are many with four main contenders in the material I've read so far:
1. An alien armada composed of the same species that will later burn the Kheldians for fuel.
2. Rularuu of Earth Prime dimension and whatever armies he brings with him.
3. The Earth Prime dimension's version of aliens that interacted with the Ritki. I'm personally unclear whether this is intended to mean the aliens that altered the Rikti, or an invading force driven back from the Rikti home world. It has also been suggested that this alien force is the same as in #1.
4. An as yet unseen, undescribed alien race.

I am not certain how Doctor Aeon plays into all this, if at all.

Atlas is analgous to Hank Pym. For that matter, it sounds like Talos might have been as well.

Rularuu is not unlike Galactus.

Nemesis has several parallels to DC's Vandal Savage.

Proteus could be compared to Clayface.

Crey Industries could compare to LexCorp, though I don't think Baroness Crey holds any real comparison to Lex Luthor.

Dark Watcher always impressed me as a bit like The Shadow.

Valkyrie I always felt, had a backstory that always reminded me of Marvel's Thor, just minus the Nordic diety stuff.

the Paragon Protectors are not unlike the Project Cadmus Ultimen on Justice League Unlimited.

Synapse is the obvious analog to Marvel's Quicksilver and every Flash and speedster DC has ever unleashed.

Citadel and Luminary are synthetic life forms, like the Vision.

EDIT: Ghost Widow might be a possible analog to DC's Gentleman Ghost

I'm guessing this is a reasonable fit for the building edition:



Statues. Paragon City is legendary for statues to heroes. Unfortunately, we have the same models duplicated over and over in the city. Probably needed in order to get the game going back in 2004, but can you...

• retcon at least many of the duplicates with new designs?
• throw in some statues to famous, never seen denizens of the city.
• add descriptive plates to ones we have, like the M-1 statue in Steel Canyon.
• add a few statues to "normals" as well. I'm surprised I've not see a statue of Spanky Rabinowitz anywhere. Considering the man's ego and how many ways he touched the city, it would seem a given he'd have found a way to get a statue put up.

(EDITED to add bullet points)

found another:

64 Shadows = U = Umbra (aka Shadow Lass)

Quoting from my comment in the other thread:

23 Ice Control = Fz = Frozone
30 Toughness = Fm = Fortress Maximus? (of the Autobots)
37 Super Senses = Sn = The Sentinel (TV hero known for hightened senses)
42 Sonics = Db = Decibel
48 Alternate Form = Sz = Shazam!
65 Tracking = Ds = Dawnstar


There's still several we've not pinned down.

And issue 19 most likely will continue to bring more back with its end game content.