City of Neo-- Wait, what?

I've been really pleasantly surprised by the creativity of the City of Heroes playerbase this evening. I expected to log in to see dozens of identical-looking gun foo artists in black latex, mirror shades, and trenchcoats made to use the dual pistols set.

There have indeed been quite a few of those, but what I've most noticed have been the cowboys.

That's right. Six-gun totin', quick-drawin', outlaw-pluggin' cowboys. Some of them have been zombified.

I've also seen space captains, pulp-era secret agents, cops, private detectives, silver-age vigilantes, bronze-age assasins, a clown, several gun-wielding robots, the requisite catgirls, Sentai 'Rangers', and a wide array of things that are NOT Neo and Trinity clones.

Nice creativity, Heroes!

I created a cyborg chick in a green trenchcoat and laser sighted guns.

I wonder if enough Western themed avatars being created would cause the devs to make a Western themed zone?

Yeah... I had fun designing my zombie cowgirl. I'm gonna remake her on one of the Live servers.

I made a mage with magical talking guns that speak broken German. I thought that she was pretty creative, but I'm pretty sure the zombie cowboys outdo her on sheer radness.

Any cyborg undead coboys yet?

Considering how popular cowboy comics used to be, it's hardly surprising.

And then there is my Scottish resistance fighter, Beefy McShootface, that came to the realization that Scotland become part of England centuries ago and in disillusionment came to Paragon City to shoot villains in the face instead. He wears a formal kilt, bowler, leather vest and elegant tie, granny glasses and those runners that have the long socks.

I made a historically accurate representation of a steam-punk cyborg Aaron Burr.

I haven't made mine yet (I promised myself I'd finish leveling at least one of my three sub-50 characters before starting a new one) but I'm going with the trenchcoat and fedora private detective look for mine. It's possible I've been reading to much Harry Dresden recently.

On test when dps went out, my first was a "el mariachi" parody name "el contable"(the accountant), debating on whether to go cowboy or Mariachi first.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I made a pirate type, with dual flintlocks arggg

I reactivated my US Account and disabled the EU one and spent an enjoyable evening keeping all those gun-toting blasters alive on Virtue with my Plant/Empathy controller.

5 Blasters, 1 Defender and a Tank and me who fitted in by using our fingers as guns and going pew-pew-pew. I don't think I've ever seen so many blasters in trenchcoats running about (most with Ninja Run).

My Shadow/Spirit hybrid is coming and I am waiting to create Ghost Ranger-type.

My first Dual-pistols attempt was a time-traveling inventor from 1895. When fired, his temporal flintlocks would jump back in time a split-second and be instantly reloaded.
Gold-tinted electricity manipulation seemed to fit the theme well. If I recreate him on the live servers munitions mastery with a Nemesis rifle would be a nice choice I think...

As per my style of ripoff creating original content, my Dual Pistoleer is a cross between Mass Effect's Tali'Zora and our very own Positron, with a look that's largely inspired by Torchlight's Vanquisher, who herself had a look inspired by Warcraft's Muradin and his dwarves. I made a couple of posters of her back in Beta and I'll be damned if I don't plug them in at every opportunity I get.

I ended up calling her "Velcro Kitty," a name I've gotten nothing but scorn for, but that's OK. It came out of my own line of someone who gathers more <something I don't remember> than a Velcro kitty rolling through a pile of woollen sweaters, as a reference to her propensity for getting herself into trouble.

She ended up as a Dual Pistols/Electric Blaster, and her story is that she is some kind of part-energy being trapped within her containment suit to prevent electrocuting large portions of the city very much perpetually. I did give her a feline face, but it's buried under two layers of hood and mask, so no-one can really tell. I'd have given her wildcat ears, too, but I can't do that with a hood on. Really, if VG Cat can have ear on their helmets, why can't I?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.