Yeah, I have a Grav Controller (Ms. Mentana, Virtue) who wears a nice suit, and she just looks silly when sprinting, so I try not to. It's a pain, but in two levels she'll have Teleport and we'll be good to go.
Why just yesterday I saw a Captian Canada and asked him to please sing me "O' Canada". No reply, none at all.
Running along I found the The Tiger whom I tried to engage in a conversation about how much I liked his breakfast cereal and if he's do a "They're Grrrreeat!" for me. No response. None.
So I've come to the conculusion that these heros where playing as if they where mutes and thus unable to talk.
Handicapping is the only answer that makes sense to me. Right?
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don't know if this counts...
but my character, Jaeger Leeds (Virtue), is the son of the Jersey Devil and has a general disdain for 'normal' humans and any semblance of corporate/law/etc types.. as such, when being presented with a choice for a new contact, he always takes this into consideration when choosing who to make his contact. ..not really a handicap, unless it hinders his preferred where-abouts of said contact.
My first MA: It's a No Good day. (Arc ID: 92684)
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@Solunis: Desumater - (27) - Elec/Dark brute (Pinnacle); Syrah - (23) - DB/WP scrapper (Pinnacle) (proud member of Pinnacle on Tap)
I found someone who has been playing for 8 weeks with one character and is still lvl 2 because he says his character is afraid of fighting, when he talked he had to say OOC: before everything.
He was probably lying anywho...
If only we could be level 2 forever. *sigh* I still think that was my favorite one. 
My problem is that when I play in-character, I have difficulty communicating with regular people. My voice recognition software is somewhat glitchy and my communication software wasn't developed for casual conversation. Sometimes people think I'm loopy when they heal me and don't understand that by "Remote Assistance Query Received... Access Acknowledged!" that I really mean, "Thanks!"
If I do engage in coversation with someone, I'm prone to interjection from pop-up ads and ActiveX scripts. "Would you like to download and install XXXhotgirlsdesktop?" It can be rather embarassing for the person I'm addressing, but thankfully, it hardly troubles me, expect that those ads are annoying.
Then... there's the BSOD's... *shudder*
Calash has a very strong body, however his mind is weak due to the years of pain, and the interface with the technology. So he is very vulnerable to mental attacks.
This is the primary reason I made him a fire tanker. Nice effects but no resistance to mental attacks.
I have a character who is a mischeivous summoned imp....and well...it might be considered a handicap when she'll go wanding off after someone wearing something especially neat looking...for no good reason =P
I meet a controller who wont throw a punch. He had this thug locked in a stone prison and wouldnt punch him. Told me he dosent punch.
i dont like punching, i might break a nail!
Well Shukaku, having a demon sealed inside of him, (So I'm a Naruto fanboy! So what?) suffers from occasional insanity and referring to himself in the third person. I never let my quirks slip into my regular leveling, nor do I RP at ALL with non-RPers. After all, if I stopped shielding people for two fights and started screaming at myself, they'd probably kick me from the team. I do always talk in "(( ))" to designate OOC, though.
I don't know if you'd call it a handicap, but I usually try to stick with the caracter concept when picking powers.
For instance, Lipitor is supposed to be an obese tanker (despite the limitations of character creation) who found that he had developed above-average strength and a resistance to pain after taking the drug he's named for. So far, I've stayed away from the resist powers (resist elements, resist energies) and gone for those that might be attributed to his size, and also chosen not to add any attacks beyond Brawl, Jab, and Punch, because he's not supposed to be all that adept at fighting. He's just sorta throwing his weight around and occasionally making contact. He's also not taking Super Speed, Jump, or Fly because there's just no way he could move his bulk without the help of the Universal Remote the doctors have promised him to zap himself and others where they need to go.
Then there's BlarneyStone. He's my attempt to make a totally normal, natural human character. He's an assault rifle/gadgets blaster without super speed, jump, fly, or teleport. I took hurdle out of the Fitness pool, but I'm not planning on going with anything particularly 'Super' when choosing new powers. Yes, I know a normal human character won't be carrying around an assault rifle that acts as a full arsenal, but that's a limitation of the game, not the character.
Does anyone handicap their characters? for instance, i've got one, October Storm. He's a blaster, but i never use the sprint power with him..meaning it takes longer to get anywhere, afterall he is 76 years old. Another one, Rachelle, has amnesia brought on by watching her father being torn apart by 5th Column wolfpack robots, so far she hasn't run into any of the Nazi wanabee's, but if she did she'd either run away screaming, go cataonic, or scream and just run in hitting with her fists like she was a tanker or something (all good ways to earn her a trip to the hospital, but good for RP purposes) Anyone else do something like this?