Fighting for Justice as... Say What???
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Anti_Proton,
Posted on: 2010-07-21 19:23 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Which is really sad, cause it's not. One of the things I like about this game is that it isn't all about level 50, it's about the journey there. Right before I switched servers, there was a dude talking in broadcast saying that the reason he farmed AE was because the main game was "broken". To him the main game was broken because he couldn't go from 1-50 in 3 days. |
Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
I wonder if some people even care that this game is about superheroes. Most seem to think it's about xp.
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Freedom
Blueside: Knight'Hawk, lvl 50, Scrapper
Yellowside: Dark'Falcon (Loyalist), lvl 20, Blaster
That Stinging Sensation #482183
I have lots of silly characters, but most of them have some tenuous connection with their name...
Examples:
Captain Kalamari (Warshade)
Rubber Chicken Man (He was irradiated and came to life)
Psychotic Steve (Psy/Mental Blaster)
Pinkbeard the Pirate (Ninjas/Pain MM... yeah. Ninjas. They're secretly robot ninjas.)
Really Angy Man (Fire/SS Tanker)
Fire Banana (Fire/Traps Corruptor)
Atomic Lizard-Donkey (No powerset combination could justify his existence.)
Elfis Lives (He's an undead Elf rock star.)
t3h Ub3rbl4st3r (My guess at the time at the weakest blaster combo I could find...)
His Noodly Appendage (Flying Spaghetti Monster-based Peacebringer)
Banana Slug Woman (Handlebar/Quandry Jalopyfish. Dispenses fragrant vowels!)
Intergalactic Potato (He's a... magical ice... potato.)
... yeah. I also have a lot of characters that are named after nonsense words that I made up. Such as: Explomadoza, Dr. Fejwol, Asoposl, Pungol, Llecarud...)
Proud member of Everyday Heroes (Infinity Heroes), Dream Stalkers (Infinity Villains), Devil Never Cry (Freedom Heroes), Enclave of EVIL (Pinnacle Villains), Phobia (Infinity Villains), Les Enfant Terribles (Freedom Villains), Gravy Train (Virtue Heroes), and more!
Full, detailed character list
After looking over my current stable of characters, I see that I don't have as many silly names as I thought I did:
Deja Thorax
Bow Chicka Bow Wow
Krispy Kremator
Poultrygeist
Willie Whompem
Miss de Meowner
Therm O'Dynamic, my mutant lobster (civilian name being Arthur Podinski)
Those are really the only ones that I feel can be declared silly names.
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Originally Posted by Willowpaw
Deja Thorax
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(The reference is to Deja Thoris, the main squeeze of John Carter, Warlord of Mars... Mars being known as Barsoom to the natives there.)
I also enjoy silly or satiric names. Of course, when you broach this topic, it invariably attracts the attention of Troy Hickman, who is a master of such names. But he also gave us Cyrus Thompson and the "Smoke and Mirrors" arc in the CoH comic, so he does have a serious side as well.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Probably someone used to Guild Wars, or another game where the leveling part is all basically prologue. Could've been a PvP-only type too I suppose.
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Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Which is really sad, cause it's not. One of the things I like about this game is that it isn't all about level 50, it's about the journey there. Right before I switched servers, there was a dude talking in broadcast saying that the reason he farmed AE was because the main game was "broken". To him the main game was broken because he couldn't go from 1-50 in 3 days.
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A few of my sillier names on various servers:
Ivana Sammich (She does.)
Dr. Nekomancer (Zombie cyborg wizard. Earth/Thermal so that he can eventually have flaming poo for a pet.)
Rishathra Furrae
Unique Dragon (Hey, it was available.)
general incompetence (Actually competent PB, but NPC chatter about him tends to make villain groups sound bad.)
Rave Troll (Cry havoc and let slip the drum machines of war!)
Sad Girl in Snow (Shoujo without a cause.)
Lysdexic of Borg (Futility is resistant. Your *** will be laminated.)
Machine That Go Ping (Kin/Elec defibrillator. Also the most expensive machine in the hospital.)
Glow in the Dark Man (He does.)
And so on... admittedly most of them have bios that either make the name seem sensible or run with the sillier aspects. Only one or two have completely serious bios that do nothing to really justify their names.
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
Hmm, silly names.
- Buttered Cat, Gravity/Ice Dominator. Old physics joke, bio explains it. Lots of complements on the name and the character concept, a few detractors.
- DJ Shoopuff, Rad/Psi Blaster. Librarian by day, club-hopping party-provider by night. Her name really could be anything, personally I just like the sound of "Shoopuff" (as well as the actual thing).
- Dr. Particular, Ill/Rad 'troller. I don't consider this a silly name really but some would. The bio explains that he used to be a kids' science show host, along the lines of Mr. Wizard.
- Sister Scylla, BS/Regen Scrapper. Another name that sounds disconnected from anything, until you read the bio and find out she's an ex-KoA, who have names like that.
- Staff Chick, Staff/Regen Scrapper. Okay, she's a placeholder, I'm an optimistic guy. A joke about this.
- Vegan Rage, Plant/Stone Dom. I guess this would be my one character who most fits this topic. Basically she's an archeology student who went spelunking by herself, was presumed dead, and came back as a wannabe Devouring Earth. With a silly name that her creator finds amusing.
- Oh yeah, almost forgot about Quicksand Jesus, the Earth/Rad 'troller. Jesus Dominguez came up with what he thought was a good heroic name, and doesn't understand why people think it highly hilarious to tell him they're "18 and Life" but won't settle for any "Monkey Business".
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Oh, if only you could post sounds on these boards, I'd make it sound like a wacky morning drive-time radio team.|
Originally Posted by Melancton
Presumably she hails from Bassoon?
(The reference is to Deja Thoris, the main squeeze of John Carter, Warlord of Mars... Mars being known as Barsoom to the natives there.) I also enjoy silly or satiric names. Of course, when you broach this topic, it invariably attracts the attention of Troy Hickman, who is a master of such names. But he also gave us Cyrus Thompson and the "Smoke and Mirrors" arc in the CoH comic, so he does have a serious side as well. |
Barsoom sounds like a euphemism, btw, as in "Man, look at the barsooms on that babe!"
Here's a link to a piece on my blog about my punny CoH characters, by the way. You'll notice some of 'em ended up in my Guest Architect arc, and one, Major Feminine Itching, was genericed by the folks upstairs. Let that be a lesson to me!
Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe
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Marvel threatened to sue again over infringement, I take it. |
Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Major Feminine Itching was genericed by the folks upstairs. Let that be a lesson to me!
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"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Actually, I was almost glad it happened in a way. I remember a thread some years back when someone (jokingly, I think) suggested that I must get special treatment because of the comics and such. I guess this proves just what an egalitarian game this is!|
Originally Posted by Melancton
Marvel threatened to sue again over infringement, I take it.
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On the other hand, I have a character who is at something like level 20 whose name is now a bunch of numbers.
I got a rock.
Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe
Right now I have one character with a 'joke' name - Adjective Noun.
I used to have Rouge Angle and Very Dense Man (gravity dom; not that smart) but I play on one server and slots are precious.
I do not suffer from altitis, I enjoy every character of it.
My funny names have expanded now that I bought a bunch of slots:
Captain Hit-Guy (he's very good at what he does, guess what that is!)
Hurricane Bob
Hurricane Steve (Bob's evil twin)
Cretinous Mass (a very dumb stone/stone brute)
The Zombie With No Name (Dual Pistols corrupter)
Professor Unusual (Bots MM)
Al Ian Bean (the Alien Being! *wacky hijinks ensue*)
The Uncertainty (not a funny name but in keeping with the OT he has a funny bio: "Radcliffe Weaselmonkey only remembers two things; his name and the fact that he is...A HERO!" combined with his build: A scrapper that I have run to L30 while only taking pool powers from L6.)
and my favourite:
Beefy McShootface (Dual Pistol blaster of course)
My 50s:
Prime Minister MA/SR Scrap - Protector
Captain Hit-Guy DM/Reg Scrap - Freedom
Prime-Minister ILL/TA Troller - Freedom
Ultimate Minister Inv/SS Tanker - Freedom
Love the site! 
Here's what I (eventually) got:
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Is that one a winner? I really think the sword-wielding hairdresser puts it over the top. | He's a sword-wielding devious hairdresser with nothing left to lose. She's a man-hating nymphomaniac mercenary from Mars. They fight crime! |
For names and descriptions, I tend to go with silly names, bad puns, double entendres, or all of the above - either in the name or the description.
Let me see, I have:
- Heavy Petting, the Bots/Traps (catgirl) MM.
- Kelly Marrey, the Warshade.
- Highly Original, my Psi/EM Blaster.
- Hapless Schoolgirl, the SM/WP Brute.
- Carmen Aburana, who is (you guessed it!) a Fortunata.
- Inattentive, the Emp/Rad Defender (truth in advertising!).
- Beyond Help, my SS/FA Brute (more truth in advertising!).
- Shivan Cheerleader, the Rad/EM Blaster.
- Miss Subtlety, the Fire/Fire(/Fire) Blaster.
- Smokin' Mirrors, an Ill/Rad Controller.
- Bad Cliche, a DM/EA Brute whose bio can be read here.
- Spay This, a Demon/Dark MM (bio here).
- Clooless Noobie, an Energy/Storm Corruptor (who has still gotten blind invites!... bio here).
- Little Bunny Pew Pew, a Mind/Energy Dom (bio and old costume here).
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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Actually Chronos/Cronus are conflated on occasion (for an example, the Percey Jackson novels).
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
*my own record scratch sound effect*
Kronos/Cronos/Chronus/Aeon (Χρόνος) is the personification of Time. Kronus/Cronus (Κρόνος) is the Titan and father of Zeus, with the baby eating and whatnot. You may continue.  |
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I think the only character I have that would even come close to any of this would be...
um...
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Broad Side of a Barn.
But then, he's an 8' Huge-body Rad/Dark Defender, so I guess that leaves him out too.
Um...
I don't think I have anyone that fits this situation...Bummer.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"