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May's relationship with Octopus was always interesting, though. As stupid as it makes May sound, she always believed that Octopus (who was a Doctor, for goodness sake, so he must be a fine young man) was the victim of media exaggeration while that terrible Spider-Man was always hounding him. The two met, originally, when Octopus happened to take up May's ad for a border in her house to meet some of her bills. It's correct that they were also, at one point, engaged, though that ended with Octopus and Hammerhead presumed dead via nuclear explosion.
Years later, Ock would stop by the Parker household on a lonely Christmas, seeking the company of the lone person in the world who treated him decently (his crimes notwithstanding); only to turn away when he saw her with a full family and a new fiancee (Nathan Lubensky, a non-supervillain suitor who was eventually killed by the Vulture, so that might be relevant too) inside through the window. A half hearted fight with Spider-Man later, he tentacled his way off into the snow.
I'm probably not telling it particularly well, but the two of them had a storied relationship that was really the only sign of humanity from Doc Ock until we were given some of his personal history (and another girlfriend) in the mid 90's.
May also dated, though she never got to the engagement stage, with Willie Lumpkin: the Fantastic Four's elderly mail man. -
Quote:It was called Fray, named after the Slayer of a distant, Batman Beyond-esque future. I don't know if it was really that much like BB, or if I'm just projecting onto it, but that's the way I would describe the setting. It's not really consistent with a history in which every possible slayer is activated, but Fray featured in a crossover with Buffy Season 8 that at least acknowledged the inconsistency and hinted at storyline reasons for it to exist.Originally Posted by Cowman
Yeah, what about the future comic mini they did.
Slayer 2099 or whatever.
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Quote:It's the standard rule in zombie movies/series not to refer to the creatures as zombies. Shaun of the Dead is the only memorable film that broke this rule (and parodied it as well), but it was a comedy. For some reason every zombie production feels that it makes the dead more frightening and unknowable if the survivors don't refer to them with a familiar term.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
There's one thing that I've noticed in this series, actually haven't noticed. They haven't used the Z word. Reminds me of the British supernatural series Ultraviolet which never used the V word.
Heck, I'm not even sure why we call them zombies in general. Night of the Living Dead, the progenitor of the modern "zombie", called them ghouls. -
I did as well, but I felt it, and the episode overall, would've been more effective if the previous week's preview hadn't clearly spelled out that it was going to be fairies. If you're going to lead the heroes down the wrong path, to start with, you should lead us down it too. Like the promos proclaiming a rogue Cupid last season.
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Quote:I'm of the opinion that Sam's casual interest in everything going on was part of what made the episode hilarious, as was his willingness to make jokes and sleep with hippie chicks at Dean's expense, despite the peril he was in. Robo-Sam is a lot of fun as a temporary different take on the character.Originally Posted by ObiWan
I don't know about that. Sam was funnier in this episode than all of last season when he still had his soul.
I also liked, as a more serious aside, how Sam's unusual state and Castiel's distant nature are making Dean more alone than he's ever been, even with "Sam" around. We've never seen him completely without support for any length of time, and now he's alone on the road with this thing that isn't quite his brother and that he can't trust. This show loves to heap abuse on its characters, but I don't think we've seen this degree of isolation before. -
Interesting episode. Not sure I like the conception of purgatory they're bringing in, but it's something to think about. The alpha vampire was a decent antagonist for this episode, and I'd like to see him more. I appreciate that he's caveman old, rather than victorian england old. Vampire legends have been around long enough that he should be among our oldest fears.
When the alpha vampire commented that even things like him have a mother...was I the only one who immediately thought of Echidna? She and various other "mother of monsters" figures do exist in mythology, the show could be pooling them into a single being...it could also be a reference to Lillith, as certain traditions have her taking on the mother of monsters role, but since she's already dead, and it makes little sense for a demon to be older than the first monsters within the show's mythology, I'm going to guess against it. -
Quote:Darkseid doesn't use magic, often at least, nor is he inherently magical. The New Gods are all Gods of Science. That's what makes them distinct from the old gods, such as the Olympians. He's just a really powerful alien, ultimately, with some great technology on his side.Originally Posted by Durakken
Darkseid is a god... That is magic.
The power source of Oan tech is a magical entity. It's technically Magitech.
As far as this event goes, I hadn't even heard of it. I do like the line up, except Amadeus Cho because of his forceful mary sue tendencies, and am somewhat interested in your description...but who is the main antagonist that you were comparing to Darkseid? Somebody they're hinting at, or did you not want to spoil the already revealed name? -
Quote:This was pretty much my reaction to it. It's kinda insulting for the creator to assert that there's one, and only one, way to make a strong female character, or that every character referenced on the chart, a number of whom are quite good and renowned characters, are somehow lacking that magical quality. I'd be interested to see the author provide an example of a strong female character by his or her criteria, rather than a mass of counter examples.Originally Posted by DKellis
I'm having a bit of trouble with the implication that none of the character types and examples shown are considered Strong Female Characters.
Anyway, that's probably taking it a lot more seriously than it was intended. It had some humor to it. -
Yes, when we're listing off the worst spider-man anythings ever, let's not forget the Japanese Supaidaman, where of course Peter used a giant robot to fight crime, or the 70's American Spider-man live action TV show. That and some of the older cartoons....no. Spider-Man 3 does not rate. It was a disappointing follow up to Spider-Man 2, but it's also the victim of fan hyperbole. It would've been better with only Sandman and the Goblin (not the Hobgoblin, as somebody in the thread said: harry was never the hobgoblin), sure. Lots of things it could've done better, but it's still alright. I own the DVD and don't regret it.
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Quote:This panel is actually -from- the story where Susan was a villain, and Reed was intentionally getting her angry as..part of a plan to subdue her without hurting her, if I recall correctly.Originally Posted by GreenFIame
Come on i Reed Richer would never hit Susan unless Some type of Villain was behind it, Doctor Doom did take over Reed body once and swap body.You haven't Shown the true Story behind this Slap and didn't Susan turn bad once also.
And on the subject of Pym: it irritates me that his most recognizable legacy among fans is "wifebeater". When the only incidence of violence against his wife was during the midst of a massive psychological breakdown, sustained by gaslighting from super villains. When his wife herself forgave him for the -single- incident years ago, and has been romantically involved with him afterwards, to no further violence. When he suffers another psychological break, and multiple manifestations of himself, based partly on a villain's sorcery and partly on his own guilt over that single incident and fear of it ever happening again.
I know that it's partly because of Ultimates making "wifebeater" the single defining trait of Ultimate Pym's character, but geeze. Fans need a broader perspective on characters, and to forgive the vagaries of weird writing. It's not like Spider-Man hasn't killed half a dozen people.
http://www.spiderfan.org/faq/killed.html
Yet fans haven't saddled him with the definitive trait "Murderer", yet. People miss out on an interesting character in Pym because of the bad, undeserved reputation he's gotten in fan circles. -
Quote:I very much doubt they're considering doing another season without Sam and Dean, and especially not with the extended family they've shown, here. They were clearly put in the episode to be disliked. I was honestly surprised Dean didn't blow up at them with "How many of you have beaten Lucifer, exactly?", but his comment about being a professional was close enough.Originally Posted by Veritech
It was one of the things i was expecting them to get into this season. That with the boss gone (Lucifer), all hell breaks loose, (if you'll excuse the term) so i was expecting this after a fashion. Even the somewhat 'meh' response to folks being back from the dead, happens a lot on this show. Not to fond of the extended family though. Makes a body wonder if they decide to try and get another season of the show going, and they'll try to do it without Sam & Dean.
As i said, i liked it and i want to see where it goes from here.
The episode was...weird, overall. Definitely noticed some changes in the way the show is directed and composed. And the anticlimactic ending which suggests there won't even be a season (there will, of course, but as of this point the story is Dean's, and he's not going anywhere) was definitely different, though interesting. I'd have to say the episode overall was not one of the show's better ones on its own merits, but it did do a good job of setting things up for a season. -
"I wish to have the form of immortality that I desire at this moment."
The phenomenally cosmic entity could tell exactly what your desire is, and by the law of the wish would have to enact it. My best stab at it without going through it exactingly.
Another idea: If nothing else, make your first wish of three "I wish for all my wishes to be enacted in a form consistent with the intent behind them rather than the words used to express that intent." So wishes 2 and 3 have to give you what you actually mean, not the genie's own interpretation of what you say. -
The major problem I see with that initiative is I believe few, if any, people would elect to have children. While it may seem to one considering this proposition that having a child, or children, and going on to die in your natural time is the better alternative, it would be much different for a person actually in that situation, being presented with the option: live potentially eternally (not really true, but for practical purposes), or have children and die in a few decades. It would be extremely hard to bite that bullet.
I'd prefer a society that enforces birth controls. In any society that respects human rights, the choice to bring another human into the world affects everyone around you, not just you. If you fail to provide for them we all have to, through orphanages, welfare, healthcare, foster family programs, jails (in the case of criminal activity), and so on. So yes, it is the public's business whether you have children. Therefore the public is within its rights to have some say on your reproduction. So birth controls are not, in and of themselves, unthinkable. And in my suggested society, they would simply match the allowed births to the deaths that occur on average during a year. Even if you don't die of age there's still accidents, murders, suicides, diseases, and what have you. Couples who want to have children would file for license to propogate, and it'd go on from there.
I'm sure this sounds repugnant to a lot of us, but I think it's really our only option in a world where people have indefinite lifespans. -
Quote:You could turn your creations over to people who do understand this sort of thing (after patenting it, which might prove difficult, but there are workarounds) and have them explain it to you. Reverse engineering is several magnitudes easier than engineering. A real world Forge could do a lot to advance the human race, even if he doesn't understand what he's doing during the creative process.Originally Posted by synthozoic
Okay here is a weird one: I would not like to have Forge's power. Why? Because he makes all these wonderful gadgets but has no real understanding how he does it. I'd really, really, really hate that. At least Mr. Fantastic understands the stuff he makes and can share his knowledge with others.
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Quote:I think Eternity ranks about third, tied with Death and Galactus, as well as the Celestials (who are collectively on this same level, though individually I'm not sure where they fall), Lord Chaos, Master Order, Infinity and Oblivion, et cetera. Above them would be the Living Tribunal, and then above that the One Above All, the barely referenced entity that the Living Tribunal serves.Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
In Marvel, Eternity is't even at the top of the food chain. He isn't even 3rd IIRC.
I'm not 100% certain, but I think that's where you'd put the ranking of Marvel's cosmic entities. -
Quote:Where you see character assassination, others might see character development. Maybe Dick has been about wanting to get out of Bruce's shadow. Maybe he has been rebelling against Bruce for years, now, in his way. But you know what? Rebellious children often end up -exactly- like the parents they swore they'd never become. Perhaps Dick's objection to becoming Batman was because it was someone else's plan for him, not on his own terms. Perhaps his objection has been subconsciously because he knew himself becoming Batman would mean Bruce is gone, and he knows he'd be unable to live up to the legacy of the man he admires most.Originally Posted by Durakken
The problem with it isn't the concept... it's that it doesn't work with the characters.
Dick doesn't want to be Batman. Bruce doesn't want Dick to be Batman. He has only asked him to take over the one time because he was the best choice at the time. Bruce said NOT to be Batman in his message to Dick and he told Tim long ago that he'd like Tim to take over one day as Batman.
So it doesn't make sense for any of the characters involved to have Dick remain Batman and it doesn't make sense to toss out Nightwing.
The entire thing just doesn't make any sense in continuity nor as a story thing as it makes a joke of the entire series.
But with Bruce "dead", and Tim not old enough, Jean Paul dead at present I believe? (and proven not a good choice anyway), Jason crazy murdering people, Dick had to step into the role, whether he wanted it or not. Because he believed there had to be a Batman. And after being forced to grow into the role, is it so inconceivable that what he wants has changed? That he -does- want to be Batman, after all? Many are the times life surprises people with activities, ideas, and roles that they learn to accept and even cherish, despite initially rejecting.
That is how I would write it if I were the one doing the comic, at least. Dick has been fighting what part of him knew was destiny, fighting to keep Bruce, the one true Batman, around, but now that he's come to terms with it, he's not going to give it up. -
Quote:So his villains should all be...robots? Women? Aliens? I'm not sure where them being guys is a problem. I certainly think villains being human is acceptable.Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
Even some of Spider-Man's "better" villains are pretty lame, either through appearance or motivations. Kraven the Hunter is a hairy guy with a gun. Vulture is an old guy in a suit. Doc Ock is a smart guy with metal arms. Scorpion is a guy in a suit. Chameleon is "generic shape-shifter." The Green Goblin is a guy in a suit with an insanity plea.
They've all just been written fairly well throughout the years, or have the unmistakable power of nostalgia on their side.
Kraven rarely uses guns, and is superhuman. He's one of the ridiculously well trained types comics seem full of, as well as being augmented by jungle potions, most likely magical. Whatever that means; he's not normal.
Vulture is indeed an old guy in a suit, though his wings make him superhumanly strong while worn. I'll grant you that the vulture isn't the best supervillain in history.
Ock is just a smart guy with metal arms, but those metal arms are sometimes ridiculously powerful, and the threat posed by smart varies from writer to writer. The second spider-man film shows some great examples of what they can do, and it was pretty tame compared to things he's done in the books.
Scorpion's suit doesn't do anything, aside from his tail. Other than that he's a super powered genetically modified arachnid/man hybrid, just like Spider-Man himself.
Green Goblin has a variety of nasty tricks in his bag, weapons for every ocassion there and on his glider, and is also scientifically modified to be faster, stronger, and more agile than a normal human, as well as developing a healing factor over the years.
I guess what I'm saying, in short, is that every villain ever is "just a guy or girl with x". Batman is often considered the other contender for best rogues' gallery, and his are almost all "crazy guy with guns and henchmen." Execution is everything, as alluded to by your comment that they were well written. If these guys aren't up to snuff, what would you consider a good villain? -
Quote:In a later issue Peter recollects that he always had a crush on her, but he didn't act on it. When he had already started dating Betty she got interested in him, but he -couldn't- act on it because he was already seeing somebody, so he often ended up annoyed with her for getting him in trouble with Betty through her attentions.Originally Posted by Goldbrick
Ahem, actually, Liz Allen was Flash Thompson's obsession in high school, and "Petey" as she called Parker wasn't interested in her, he was all about Betty Brant, who was his first big love interest. Liz was interested in Parker though, and her persistence kept him in hot water with both Flash and the rather insecure Betty Brant. This was the main relationship storyline for Spider-Man during the classic Ditko years.
This fits entirely with what I was saying, I'm not sure if it was meant as refutation or as a continuation of the argument?Quote:Originally Posted by Goldbrick
Mary Jane Watson was the niece of a friend of Aunt May's. And those two ladies were always trying to arrange for Peter to meet MJ, but he kept wiggling out of it. Parker didn't even see MJ until some time after Betty Brant (and after Ditko, during the John Romita years).
One of my big complaints about the movies was that they skipped over the Ditko years thereby making a mess of the original Silver Age timeline. I suspect Sam Raimi didn't start reading Spider-Man until the 70s. -
Quote:Having MJ as the girl Peter always dreamed about, the girl he was after in high school, and the first girl he got serious with...is spitting on the history, backstory, and continuity. As others in this thread have enumerated, Spider-Man actually had many other love interests, and some of them came before, and some after, Mary Jane!Originally Posted by catsi563
Movie directors and producers still dont get it do they? you'd think they'd learn from the cluster flops that Last Airbender and Catwoman, and a couple others were.
You dont mess with the basics, you dont throw in new characters, and you dont spit on the history and backstory and continuity.
Betty Brant was the first. Jonah Jameson's secretary whom Peter flirted with in all three of the previous movies. They were serious at one point, even considering marriage, until she got involved with Ned Leeds, a Bugle reporter, because she didn't want to be with someone who would be in danger all the time like Peter.
Liz Allan was the girl Peter had a crush on in high school before he actually got a date (with Betty), and she began to reciprocate interest while he was dating Betty, but they never really got together.
Gwen Stacy was the next major interest, and I think most of us know how that played out. Dated her his first couple college years, the Goblin killed her, the Goblin died, one of Peter's college professors cloned her and the clone...took off because she didn't want to be around people that knew and loved the real Gwen. That last part's a little less memorable, but anyway!
MJ was next. She and Peter were on and off for a while, but then he proposed. And she turned him down. They split up!
After MJ Peter dallied with Debra Whitman, a secretary to the biochemistry department at ESU. He eventually ended his relationship with her when she married another man, who abused her, and rescued her as spider-man. He revealed his secret identity to her to break her out of the delusions of a perfect husband she had forced on herself, and she faded into the background and eventually left.
Felicia Hardy, AKA Black Cat, also came along in the MJ-interim period. Though she was really interested in Spider-Man and couldn't stand Peter, despite knowing that they were the same person. This dichotomy, and Cat's basic dishonesty/immorality, eventually pushed the two apart.
I don't -think- I'm missing any other love interests in the interim. After Cat, he got back with MJ and eventually married her. They were married for two decades of out of comics time, but most of us know where that stands now.
Anyway! My overarching point is that making MJ the one and only girl in Peter's life is actually more of a disservice to the material than presenting a movie with somebody else in it. And frankly the material could use some alteration; I summed up the convoluted mess of his relationships with Gwen, Debra, Betty, Felicia, and MJ in a very simplified, streamlined fashion.
In conclusion: I'm a Spider-Man nerd, and if you're going to make a movie about a Spider-Man in high school, it's actually respecting the source material to have somebody other than MJ as the love interest, since he didn't date her with any seriousness until he was nearly done with college. -
Quote:The problem with Captain Marvel from a legal standpoint wasn't just that he was similar to Superman, it's that some of the writers at the time were literally taking Superman stories, already printed, and turning them into Captain Marvel stories with only a few adjustments. Captain Marvel was also a much, much bigger target than any of the other "knock-offs". Much bigger than Superman, at the time. Captain Marvel's comics, produced twice a month, were selling 1.3 -million- issues each. I wouldn't be surprised if the monthly sales there, 2.6 million, were substantially more than everything Marvel or DC produces today in a given month. So DC was going after a big target which they felt was making huge profits off something they owned. DC was the underdog in their suit against Fawcett.Originally Posted by That_Ninja
Yeah, both guys who made Superman stuck with it (and later scerwed out of it, but that's a story for another time). Captain Marvel was made later by two different people (C.C. Beck and Bill Parker). He was a very poplar for Fawcett Comics and at one time sold more than Superman comics (The theory is that since Captain Marvel was actually Billy Batson, a little boy, that most young readers could identify with him more than a grown up newspaper reporter). Despite the fact that Captain Marvel was very original from most other Superman knockoffs, DC comics successfully sued Fawcett comics and the comic was canceled. The rights to Shazam! comics floated around for decades. DC even made their own Captain Marvel knockoff called "Captain Thunder" for some minor stories with Superman. It wasn't until the 70's when DC comics bought the rights to the character and began to publish more comics (set in a different universe with some team ups with Superman from time to time, until the crisis brought the Marvels into mainstream continuity).
And to amend a little more; DC didn't actually win the suit. Court proceedings dragged on for about nine years, and by that time it seemed like the superhero market had dried up. Fawcett wasn't making nearly as much on Captain Marvel anymore, so they decided to cut their losses on the legal battle and settled out of court.
Thor isn't marvel's superman in terms of being a similar character, but definitely is in a power level sense. Stan has said that he introduced him to fill a similar role in the universe.
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Quote:I have to disagree with this. One of the failings of the latter two Pirates films, in my eyes, was that they bought into Jack's hype. They were too much about how wacky, interesting, and "legendary" he is, and didn't keep you guessing nearly enough about his motives or sanity. The multi-Jack scenes in At World's Ends were among the worst scenes in the movie, though nothing beats giant woman dissolving into crabs.Originally Posted by ObiWan
More Jack, always better.
Jack, like all things, is best in moderation. To keep him from getting stale. Which is exactly why I'm looking forward to this next installment of the franchise; I believe there's been enough time off for the writers and cast to create something more interesting, and for the public to -want- another Pirates film. -
Quote:There's a Submarine on the Live Servers in Sharkhead with a smuggler standing next to it offering to take people to Paragon, if they're of a certain moral character.Originally Posted by Terminal Velocity
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Quote:AE has far from flopped. Do people use it to make farms? Absolutely. Is that all anyone does with it? Absolutely not. There are thousands, literally thousands, of actual STORIES people have made in the AE, and that are still accessible for you to play any time you want. There's a lifetime of missions in there. You could play AE every day, from now until the game dies, and I imagine you'd never run out of story arcs to play that are not farms, as more will be added while you're playing older ones.Originally Posted by TheJazMan
6) New game innovations. Make some open missions, new ways to customize etc. AE was a great idea but poorly added and, so far, it has flopped. It is a farm creator - that's pretty much it.
They're not all the best mishes made, but some of them are great. Easily on par or better than developer created missions. And they're always something new. Farms are a sad offshoot of an otherwise great innovation in the game, that I'm constantly saddened by people disregarding as anything but a new exp tool. The AE people wanted is in there, and being used properly, you just have to look. -
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Malta don't have a problem with supers per se, just uncontrolled supers, such as our characters. The group was formed by intelligence agents in charge of meta-human operations, after the Might for Right act was overturned. So they're used to supers working for them.
Being a member of the Knives might count as "under control." Then again, we are never told why Indigo left, iirc.
Edit: According to ParagonWiki, Indigo is a mutation origin contact. Eeeeenteresting.
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That actually raises further questions, specifically what qualifies as "Uncontrolledl?" Some heroes are part of government recognized organizations and have some limits or rules about their powers while others (PCs) are likely free agents. Another point to bring up is that Malta constantly stress that all their members are fully human, bots and technology notwithstanding, and Slingers are the pride of everyone because they can take down a super.
As for the mutant entry in ParagonWiki, that comes from the fact that she sells Mutant Enhancements (Crimson's in there too). Likewise, they show up in MA contacts as Mutation, but then so does Amanda Loomis who is very much not a mutant. It's just confusing all around.
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It's also worth noting that Malta employs supers when they can. There's a shapeshifter known as Moment working for them in one of the latter arcs (I think it's World Wide Red, but not 100%). -
Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
Signal to Noise -- Neutral -- 67277
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Who is Kidnapping the World's Great Philosophers? -- Neutral -- 86347
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Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) - Heroic
Noah Reborn -- Heroic (2370)
Polar Emergence Neutral Government User Interface Network (PENGUIN) #29205 - Heroic
Jumping in Feet First - Heroic - 1345
Midnight Bells Toll ----Villanious
A Hero is made, Not Born. -- Heroic -- Arc# 20863
A Mother's Nightmare -- Heroic -- #6955
A Rose's Thorns -- Heroic -- 113224
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THE BOMBER --- Heroic --- Arc 16607
In The Shadow of Statesman --Neutral--1160
A Show to Die For! --- Heroic --- 30645
Check... and Mate #15095 - Heroic - Mini Task Force
Teen Phalanx Forever! -- Heroic (67335)
This Life Immortal - (5756) Heroic
Paradox Paradox - (69221) Heroic Stop yourself and Stellar from being erased!
Sidekicks Can Be A Pain In The Cape - (28430)
'Tis Nobler in the Mind - Heroic
Deadly Sins! - 99366: fairly tough arc, can be solo'd.
Marketing Opportunity - Villainous - 83747
To Save A Single World - Heroic - 83744
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It's a Small, Small World - 149387 - Heroic : Fight for freedom in a sub-atomic universe.
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The String Thief, Arc ID: 15726 Neutral 1-54
Mean People, Arc ID:16690 Neutral 1-54
The Extadine Lab -- Heroic (2595)
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon -- Heroic (1684)
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous (though I wouldn't recommend against a hero )
The Fire Bunnies - Neutral, They are only bunnies after all...
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) - Neutral
Trademark Infringement -- Heroic (2220)
Hail to the King Neutral (34640)
Walk On the Wild Side - Neutral - 3580
Shirley You Jest (25474) -- Neutral
The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! - Heroic - 61013
Gnomish Madness (30204) - Heroic
Doctor Nadir and the Hellion Heist (49661) - Heroic
Laugh? I Thought I'd DIE! - Heroic
The P.U.G. Strike force (arc 35585) -Villian
A Translator is the Wind or the Thunder in Turns -- (2936) - Heroic
What's in a Name? - Villainous
None More Black, Dude! (#86312) Neutral
Rise of the Drakule - Neutral
Return of the Revenge of the Son of Drakule Part 2: First Blood - Neutral
Martian Chimpanzees and the Cyborg Cheerleaders of DOOM! (Arc #69947) - Heroic
Daytime Divas - #94504 Where else can you get a hair extension as a souvenir?
Death to Disco! - (Neutral, 84420) A short arc that has time travel, silk shirts, platform shoes, Jimmy Carter and a chance to save Rock and Roll.
Too Many Bunnygirls! - ID#101165(neutral). Time to stop them once and for all.
Invasion on Earth BX1132! - Neutral - 45+ - #98943
Ee=Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! - Neutral - 3662
The foul-mouthed Handyman! - Neutral - 1076
City of Norms - Neutral - 132944
Killing The Meow Farm - 141625 - Neutral
Shortbow - Arc ID: 143566 - Heroic Lvl: 30-38
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Fashion Apocalypse - Neutral - 14840
The Running of the Bulls -- Heroic 29973
A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings #1481 -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising -- Heroic (12669)
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I - Heroic (althoughs romantic villains could try this too )
Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) - Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
The Toypocalypse! (49280) - Heroic
Fishing for Fame with Red Herring - Heroic (66861)
Putting Out Fires: A Corporate Satire (20100) - Villainous
The Rise and Refall of Pets'n'Things.com - Heroic - 1061
The Cat's in the Cradle (8776) - Villainous
Females for Hire - Neutral (Heroic and/or Mercenary motivations) (110723)
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Bricked Electronics -- Heroic (LIVE! 2180)
The Bravuran Jobs -- Villainous (16809)
The Black Flag Is On The Rise (Pirates!) - Villainous
The Monstrous Regiment of Lesbian Hellions -- Heroic (27178)
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) - Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) - Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
The Internet is for Crime (53385) - Villains
Plastic Pistol Peril (1135) - Heroic
Friends in Need (Of Body Parts) - Villainous (31005)
A Little RnR - Heroic (17523) click for Promotional Poster
Mechanical Mayhem - Villainous (76721)
Females for Hire (about a mercenary gang) - Neutral (Heroic and/or Mercenary motivations) (110723)
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Drama
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The Conciliators: Simone -- Heroic (4010)
The Fan Club -- Heroic
Matchstick Women -- Heroic -- 3369
Of Mentors and Legacy - Heroic - 1589
Digital Love -- Neutral -- 3571
A Flame the Burns Bright- 112548
Clonus, Parts 1 & 2 - Arc ID: 21499 - Heroic Lvl 30-54
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Global Domination
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Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)
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Global Destruction
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The Twilight of this Blue Orb -- Villainous (98529)
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Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping -- Villainous (1388)
Easy Money -- Villainous (31490)
The Great Diamond Heist -- Villainous (96169)
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Historical (Realistic)
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Wrinkle in Time -- Heroic(68920)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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The War on Superadine - The Regulators in their 1980's drug war (Heroic) (Arc 7959)
Origins - Volume 1 (57077) -- Heroic
The Once and Future King (#71601) - Heroic
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Holiday
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City of Ho Ho Ho #18775 - Heroic
Hectic Holidays -- Heroic (36999) also comedy
Santa's Missing List - 34961
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Horror
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Astoria in D Minor (41565) -- Heroic
Dark Dreams (3615)
D!E COUNT DADDY MACULA D!E! (10619) -- Heroic (1970's Action/Horror)
Don't Play With The Dead (31813) -- Neutral
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) - Neutral (Unless you happen to be a mad cultist, in which case, go nuts!)
Small Fears -- Heroic
Lights, Camera, Scream! (#68627) - 3 Mission arc that get's you into the B-Horror film circuit.
Duality --Heroic -- 84105
Hunting the Hunters --Villainous -- 93362 - Help a vampire find out who is hunting his people
Creepy Crawlers - Arc ID: 82553 (Lv 41 - 52, a short, solo-friendly ghost story. Best played alone.)
I Will Dance On Your Grave - Arc ID 92630 Any level, no EBs or AVs, Voodoo, Necromancy
Movie Monster Madness.. - 102058
Something Comes to Yarmouth(58812) - Heroic, levels 25+ (masearch link)
The Zombie Apocalypse Task Force: Something wicked this way comes.
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Large-Scale Crisis
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Alpha and Omega (60015) -- Heroic
Is it Live or is it Memory-X - Arc ID #70210 - Heroic
This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future - Heroic
A Warrior's Friend - Heroic
The Clockwork War -- Heroic (18672)
Flight of the Valkyries - Precursor (20272) -- Neutral
The Human Hive (#1632) - Neutral
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 1, Neutral (15006)
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...e#Post13304513
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 2, The Terran Revolt, Neutral (46711)
url=http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13304455&an=0&am p;page=0#Post13304455
Bleed the Freak - Arc ID #6919 - Heroic
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Magic
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The Magical Miss Fitz (5079) -- Heroic
Chains of Blood (5492) -- Heroic
A Deal with Destiny -- Heroic
The Broken Chain (82378) -- heroic
Croatoa's Great War: The Parfait Family Reunion -- Neutral -- 71880
Rex is Missing! - Heroic - 51702
The Tannhäuser Gate (Arc 96322)
I Will Dance On Your Grave - Arc ID 92630 Any level, no EBs or AVs, Voodoo, Necromancy
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Military
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Redoubt Operations #1: Fires over Kalago -- Heroic
Red Typhoon (Arc 4912) -- Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
Axis and Allies -- Villainous (1379)
Vanguard AQUA (58475) -- Neutral
Wings of Deception, 101926
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Misc. Adventure
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Impossible Kung Fu Mission -- Nuetral (111367)
The Portal Bandits (3326) -- Heroic
A Glitch in the Wyre- Arc 73197-- Neutral (Fun for both the good kids and the bad kids too!)
The Council Cargo - Arc ID: 36951 (Heroic, Lv 26 - 31, solo or team)
Hero Therapy! (TM) - 119228
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Mystery
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Blowback (18575) -- Heroic
Dream Paper -- Heroic (13030)
Dream Paper 2: Restless Sleep -- Heroic (16797)
Dream Paper 3: Broken Dreams -- Heroic (13064)
Hunter of Beasts: It begins with a riot... Arc ID: 110465 - Heroic
Females for Hire - Neutral (Heroic and/or Mercenary motivations) (110723)
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Mythology
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Atlantis Attacks! -- Neutral (30898) -- Click for Promotional Poster
The Seelie War -- Heroic
The Unseelie War -- Villainous
The Seeds of Yggdrasil[b/] -- heroic
Tales of Cimerora, volume 1 : Of feathers and fur -- Heroic
The Aegis Affair - Heroic - **** - 16376
Witches and Warriors (53006)- Heroic
Rites of the Maenads (61159) - Heroic
The Parable of the Fruit Salad -- Heroic -- 65369
The Eye of Balor (88176) - Heroic
Madness And The Minotaur - Neutral - 90124
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Nemesis Plots
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Brass Reaver: Part 1 -- Neutral
The Handbag Plot -- Heroicish -- 36414
Rise and Fall of the Iron General -- Heroic -- 142200
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Player-Chosen Outcome
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Hunting the Dark Dragon -- Heroic
Playing Gods -- Heroic (51106)
Time's Maelstrom -- Heroic #147296
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Sci-Fi
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Above Mars - Part 1: The Wellington -- Neutral (13215)
Adventures of the Space Marines -- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 -- Neutral
The Adventures of the United Earth Rangers -- Neutral (29549)
The Continuing Adventures of the United Earth Rangers -- Neutral (70237)
The Final Nemesis
The Knights of Rularuu -- Heroic (75386)
Reach for the Stars -- Neutral (78904)
Spaced Invaders --Heroic(56856)
That Mysterious Buzzing Sound - 12774
The Balance of Power - 26931 - Neutral
welcome to donut world - 1233 heroic
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It's a Small, Small World - 149387 - Heroic : Fight for freedom in a sub-atomic universe.
Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder -- Neutral
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Puzzles/Riddles
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Grim Riddles (#1396) - Heroic]