The_Night_Raven

So I was on with my SG on Champion a while ago, and we were doing the Positron TF. At one point, we were ambush right in front of Positron and Valkyrie. So here's all these guys shooting at us, trying to kill us, and Mr. Bigshot "I got my armor upgraded" and Ms. "I have this fancy spear that none of you can get!" are just kinda standing there watching.

THANKS A LOT, LEGENDARY HEROES!

Seriously, though, it would be cool if the trainers got some sort of automated power similar to the police drones. There's just something wrong about the eight most famous heroes in all of Paragon city standing there watching you get pounded on.

TERRIFIC idea. The only request I'd make is that there be an option somewhere to allow or dissalow this for your characters.

Follow up question, and I REALLY hope a dev will field this: can I give my buddy a certain time to stop by the Cryptic booth for a signing?

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OK I have Aurora Borealis and Sister Psyche on my site. And I still have Mother Mayhem.

Now is Mother Mayhem still the Aurora Borealis/old Sister Psyche look-a-like or is their a new Mother Mayhem that looks like the new Sister Psyche

Either way I need a picture of the AV that looks like the new Sister Psyche and I need the name of the other AV.

I'm assumeing Mother Mayhem will look like the new Sister Psyche and there will be a new AV that will look like Aurora Borealis

This is kinda confusing I'm hoping the visuals will help people figure out who I'm talking about.

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Just so we're clear, you know that the lady in green is the ORIGINAL Sister Psyche, and that Aurora was the "new' SP for a while, yes?

Once again, I find myself without passage to E3. You don't know just how badly you want to go untill you've been twice and suddenly find yourself without the means. It's everybit as cool as it looks.

HOWEVER, one of my former colleagues and current friend is going, and has offered to pick up some swag for me. Naturally, I told him to send me whatever he got from Cryptic, which he had no problem with as he is strictly a console-only man.

But I was wondering, are any of you devs going to be there? I was hoping I could send him down with my pre-sale box or something and get it signed.

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Exactly, I'm being made to feel like I've been cheating, or getting over on game mechanics all this time. Well why stop with accuracy nerfs, Lets make superjump match real world physics completely, no more 90 degree turns to the right or left once Im airborne. Make my superspeeder skid 50 feet every time he stops. No, wait thats probably coming for the 2 year anniversary.

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I'm not sure how it could be implimented without being so annoying that it wouldn't be worth it, but skidding would be a pretty cool looking effect (like if you actually left skid-marks).

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It was revealed in Time Masters #6. In the chronology, 1000 years after the Lord of Order Nabu The Wise descends to Earth, he & a traveler from the 20th Century create the Scarab in an attempt to use it to break the power of the Pharoah Khafre.

The stories & dates, as usual, do NOT fit however, as Khafre is supposed to be the son of Khufu, who is in actuality the immortal Vandal Savage. Either the dates are 70 years off, or Vandal continued as ruler by impersonating his own son, which wouldn't be too implausible for an immortal...

BUT, this brings the events of Blue Beetle 17-18 into question. There could not have been an "evil alien" inside the Scarab if the Nabu story is true, so who knows? It has been insinuated that Nabu made the whole "sentient Scarab" thing up as misdirection; it has also been noted by fans that the writers are apparently using this characterization of Nabu as a deceiver/prankster to explain (or rather fail to explain) errors & continuity glitches in the collective mythos of anything concerning Dr Fate.

It's all reaaaally confusing. It's what I hate about DC, they just can't leave the past alone. Marvel doesn't tinker with the past, they just straight tell you it was all a lie in the first place & expect you to believe it...

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Marry me.

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This is one of those things that bug me to no end. People automaticaly assume that to be natrual you need to be an assult rifle blaster, ax tanker, Broadsword Scrapper, etc. Natural doesn't mean you have no super powers, what it means is you earned them. They weren't part of your DNA, you weren't experimented on, you don't preform magic rituals, you don't have gears in your head. You practiced and trained yourself beyond what a normal human is capple of. from using fire blast by focusing all your mind on cause the fire to being covered in spines because you mastered a style of martial arts.

/rant off

Sorry, but I get angry ever time I see a post about this.

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What the heck kind of martial art teaches you to GROW EXTRA BONE?

It just doesn't work that way. If you're BORN with the ability? Mutant (unless you're an alien and all your people have it). If something GAVE you the ability? Science/tech/magic (depending on what gave you the ability). But it's a physical impossibility for a normal, unenhanced human to quickly grow bones at will. It just doesn't work that way.

I think that, even WITH the myriad of explanations that defy actual reality (Gamma-ray effects, etc.), people like to have SOME modicrum of reality.

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squeeler: ummm, Azuria, I hear that someone's stolen the remaining pieces of the Wheel of destruction.

Azuria: The what?

aqueeler: The Wheel of Destruction?

Azuria: ...

squeeler: the mystical artifact that, when assembled could mean the end of all life on earth if it fell into the wrongs hands?

Azuria: oh. right.

squeeler: you have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

Azuria: my cat's breath smells like meow-mix.

squeeler: I hate you.

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Yep... been here since Beta, and hope to be here til the servers are switched off (or the cows finally take their world back, whichever happens first).

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:::runs off to make new thread::: Dude, as a fellow beta, we should totally make a pact. On the day they kill this game, sometime around or after they've moved into City of Heroes 2, we should get together with any remaining beta testers for a verterans good-bye.

Thanks, Positron. It's been a great year. And thank whoever came up with the anniversar badge. I DO still wish that there was a "veteran" badge for players who have been here the entire year, but that's probably just me being elitist (what can I say, I like feeling special :-P )

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That has also changed. The Scarab is now said to have been created by Nabu (Dr. Fate) during his time in ancient Egypt. This is apparently to tie in with the rewriting of the origin because neither the "pure energy alien parasite thing" doesn't fit into a mystic Scarab origin story any better than the "Vitamin 2-X pill thing" did.

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[censored]? Was this in JSA? I gotta stop spead-reading.

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Now, as for the scarab itself: it was, originally, an alien being composed of pure energy that the wizard of Shazam had trapped inside a beetle. Hence why it's influence was considered evil by both Dan and Ted.


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I knew it was an alien, but Shazam trapped it? I missed that (congratulations, you're the first person in over a decade to tell me something I DIDN'T know about Blue Beetle). Where did you read that?

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Hmm, those look like the Charlton Comics Blue Beetle Issues in that pic. Kudos & cookies for anyone who can tell me how many Blue Beetles there were & who originally created the Scarab.

Double bonus: name a few of the most popular other Charlton Heroes, the shortest-lived one by the most famous artist AND the most obscure one.

I've been reading comics probably longer than most of you have been alive...

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Actually, it was the complete run of the DC series. I only have one issue of the Charleton Silver-Age series.

There were three Blue Beetles. The first two where both named Dan Garrette, but were NOT the same person. The Golden Age Beetle was a cop who [censored] blue chain-mail and took the experimental vitamin 2-X. The second Ted’s predecessor, who was The Scarab. As for who “originally” created the Scarab, that’s three questions. If you’re talking about the writer, you got me. I actually pay very little attention to creative teams. If you mean how was the Scarab created when its origin was first told, it was an ancient Egyptian artifact found on the sarcophagus of Khaf-Ef-Re. In the current continuity, it was revealed in the DC BB series that it was a sentient being, somewhat similar to venom, that brought poor Dan Garrette II back to life, and tried to posses Ted.

As for other Charlton Heroes, I remember Night Shade, The Question, Captain Atom, The Peace Makers, General Steel, and Judo Master.

Three Dev posts NOT telling people to behave. Easily the beast thread I ever started. :::Beams:::

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P.S. For the poster who stated there was only red K, well, you are partly correct: there is still kryptonite, all colors and sorts, and over 100 pounds of the stuff is missing, presumably in the hands of a secret society of villians. Go read Countdown to Infinite Crisis (RIP Ted Kord).

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No, I said that it was just Red K that takes his powers. The 100 pounds of Kryptonite is in the hands of The new Red Hood, who is supposedly Jason Todd.

Go read a small fraction of the comics I do.

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Well, there was Cyborg, Raven and Changeling, with Robbie's alien g/f starfire along for the ride. Raven turned out to be the daugter of a Demon (can't have that). and Starfire had a tiff with her sister..can't remember what her name is.

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Those weren't Teen Titans founders. Those were The New Teen Titans.

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With that info it isnt a big leap to think as the SideKicks have matured that they would end up forming a team and be heros in their own rights

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At least they didn't call them the Teen Titans. Originally the Teen Titans were entirely composed of Justice League sidekicks: Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy,...seems like there was a fifth but I can't think who. Not Supergirl, I know.

Scorus

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Wonder Girl wasn't a Sidekick.

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Hey that's good comics, when they were fun, you know when heroes were heroes.

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Fun? You want fun? Dude, pickup some of the Early post-crisis Jstice League America/Justice League Europe.

BEFORE THEY KILLED TED! WHY TED?! WHYYYYYY?!

http://www.thenightwatchmen.com has been updated to comply with this, my new concept for the team.

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Statesman's really old. Marcus Cole found his inner strength in the "far east" after WWI, and became the Statesman. He's not quite kung-fu, so I don't know what's up with the far east bit. Also, he's natural. No magic, no mutation, no etc...

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WHo says he's natural? Marcus simply said that he'd unlocked his inner will, abut it was clear that he was pretty vague about the whole thing, so who know what exactly that entangles.

He COULD be a mutant. Maybe his inner will is his born gift. It could be that he tasted eastern mysticism. We don't know.

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As was said before, they're the 8 surviving members of Freedom Phalanx.

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As was said before, of the 1,000 members of Freedom Phalanx, only 800 died. That leaves 200, not 8.

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Who exactly ARE the surviving eight, and why are they CALLED the surviving eight?

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Greetings,
The Surviving Eight are: Statesman, Positron, Synapse, Sister Psyche, Citadel, Manticore, Numina and Back Alley Brawler. They all agreed to remain in Paragon City after the Rikti War, to coordinate the efforts of the new heroes arriving every day.
Ms. Liberty is in fact Statesman's Sidekick but she leads a group of heroes herself. They are called the Vindicators: Minx, Valkyrie, Swan, Infernal, Luminary and most recently Aurora Borealis.

Cheers.

~M

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Thanks for the "Who", but now for the bigger question: the WHY. WHY are they called The Surviving eight?

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See, heres what I don't understand. How can a super hero "lose" thier super powers?

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Coffee...

Hotness....

Crotch...

Ow...

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EEEEEEEEENUCH-CHUCK!

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THANK YOU!

God. really thought no one was gonna catch that.

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There are various examples in the comics of substances (gold kryptonite) or artifacts (ROM's Neutralizer and the weapon that Forge reverse-engineered from it) that can somehow alter an innately-powered hero to temporarily or permanently remove their "super" abilities while leaving them otherwise unharmed. Such items are obviously beyond the purview of the regular game (imagine making it to level 46, being hit by a Sapper, and told "you have lost your powers - game over.")

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Cripes you're old school.

Welcome to the post-Crisis universe. It's strictly red kryptonite that takes away your powers, and that's not around anymore.