Demons & Zombies Blue-side!?!?

Sir, your misinterpretations, false impressions, or downright slanderous lies are characteristic of a livingist bias. This language carries the danger of setting back zombie and their Masterminds rights for years, and perpetuating negative stereotypes of the negative-energy-aligned. I shall not allow it be so when a Mastermind and their zombies are given no guarantee of acceptance in society.

As an advocate for rights for all life-challenged at home, and believer in human rights at all stages of life and after abroad, I cannot sit idle while words, indeed trends, this dangerous grow among your "hero" society, threatening to spill over into society at large, which I can aver already has a negative enough disposition against my clientèle.

I can count on one remaining necrotic hand the instances of positive representations, good role models, and beneficial images your society has brought forth into the public sphere. Contrast this with an unending litany of images of slavering-mouthed, mindless, depraved, brain-eating savages spewing forth from the vaults of Paragon City society's propaganda centers. Even the most progressive examples of zombie representations from within Paragon's walls serve to vilify life-challenged citizens, and I shall oppose every one.

Should a zombie pay for the crimes that ended his life in the first place? Should the protections under the law cease with the drawing of your breath? Should a citizen give up all he is just because he is life-challenged? The fault cannot be held upon the life-challenged but in fault the Mastermind who uses them. Are you to say that being in life or after is incapable of redemption?

I have every faith that mankind will come to accept their zombie siblings in time. You cannot stop the movement of those who refuse to stop moving. Deceased Americans have been elected to Senate office, collected federal salaries, published popular music tracks, and served as spiritual guide to the living. Suffrage is due these long-suffering people.

I implore you to apologize publicly for your scathing words, and issue a statement that makes your positive stance on life-challenged citizens clear.

And if you do join the deceased, look me up, for I shall represent you.

Or it could be like in the Necroscope novels. The dead are willingly rising up to help you, because they like you. I have a villain (who may go hero) who is a 100% normal person. So why does he have a pack of demons obeying him? They approached Random Access Man on their own, and decided to serve him as a way to pass the time.

Anything goes in comics and I have plenty of heroes that look(and act) like villains.

There are a huge number of heroes that get their powers from demonic sources (Spawn for one), use demonic magic, are witches or simply are demons themselves.

In game you have been playing with demons and demonic heroes since day one. Do you think all of those horned, bat winged guys shooting smoking skulls out of their hands were fairies? One of the main heroes, Infernal, uses demon binding.

There is no hell/heaven in city of heroes so your good/bad concept doesn't work. Most of the cities demons don't come from hell, they come from another dimension.

In any case good and evil are seperated by a grey line, and regardless of were your powers come from, it is up to you to decide how to use them. Don't be surprised if that flaming demon charging at you throws down his claw to help you up and kick some bad guy butt.

My nightmare summoning mastermind will be making her way to Paragon at some point

Granted, it wasn't a human he brought back, but if Harry Dresden can bring back Sue...

You can easily play it similar, in that the dead do not have a will. They are driven by the will of the necromancer. If he raises them to fight evil, then good.

Another thought on Zombies.

Convicts with multiple life sentences.

Let's see....

Thugs: How about freedom-loving Scottish hooligans? Kind of a modernized Jacobite uprising against Emperor Cole?

Mercs: You washed out of the Super Soldier Program because they thought you were too much of a loose cannon. Hah...had too much of a mind of your own is what they meant. Seeing how the political winds were blowing, you rounded up a few of your buddies and went to ground in Paragon City. You know there are plenty of people and organizations here who have done research into super soldier engineering and who have some pretty nice military gear to boot. May as well bust some heads that need busting while looking for your answers.

Robots: Baby Transformers spawned by that Cube thing, and brought to Paragon City to be reprogrammed and made useful. You just happen to be the poor wretch who got volunteered for the job of cleaning up after them.

Ninjas: Could just be a bunch of people from a martial arts school who take their training to the "Nth" level by taking on super-powered foes. Or, dare I say it...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...in really good disguises?

Zombies: "This...is my BOOMstick!" (Army of Darkness)
Anyway, one day you woke up with a strange yearning. A feeling that you could control something beyond the realm of this world. So you let things happen, hoping that you'd wind up with something cool as a pet, like a baby Igneous or even a mini-Godzilla. What you got was a a sack of bones and a bit of flesh that had once been a rabbit. Hmm. Well, after a bit of training and a lot of gag-reflex-suppressing, you have managed to get yourself to the point where you can call forth a human zombie. It's not what you would have preferred, certainly..but you figure that Someone Out There must want you to have this odd power, and you guess crimefighting is about the only useful thing that might come of it. Those crash test dummies have the automotive testing market cornered, after all. If someone else complains, maybe they can tell you where you can go to exchange your power for something that fits better.

Demons: You are an agent of a Higher Power. This Higher Power sends demons to you that are seeking redemption. You act to harness their powers and abilities for good purposes, hoping to help them one day return to the good graces of the Higher Power. It's a job that requires equal parts strong will, compassionate heart, and steely nerves.

A tad off the original topic, but answering the thugs issue, the original bio for my toon, Ghost of A. Chance, Thugs/Poison MM:


"Chance is dead?"

"Yes, Sir. Made to appear an Arachnos termination."

"Excellent. Without their leader, those uncultured simpletons will present no further hindrance to my plans."

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"You hear? Chance is back."

"Dude... no way Ace is back. That Arachnos guy blew a hole right through him."

"No, I'm telling you, Acero Chance is back. I seen him."

"You trippin'."

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"Tell me, how is it you have not secured the territory I described?"

"It's the thugs, they're tougher than we thought. Even without Chance. They shoot straight, they take hit after hit, we take one out, and two more show up. And it's like they know what we're up to, and they get there before us, even."

"Hm. That IS odd...."

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"Alright, some of us have seen Chance. Some of us haven't. Some of you ain't, and you say you have. I don't care. You roll with us, you're brothers. It's how Chance rolled."

"We taking it to Arachnos? That's a big piece..."

"It was gonna be one bullet at a time, anyway, right?"