I play all the stereotypes. My characters are all over the place (COH or any other game). Diversity is my playground.
Oh I also forget,
My character Mist (AKA Mist of Shadows in the game) is a combination of vigilante and hero, basically take Spawn and combine him with Spiderman, you'd have Mist. A sort of charismatic individual with a violent sense of justice.
It seems I'm always playing outsiders in one fashion or another, also none of my characters are just regular human males.
PAX Lawbringer - Lawbug from the future, pursueing a criminal through an illegal time warp he's stuck here unless he can convince Oroborous to help him return. Pity his translator has so much trouble with the archaic Anglish spoken in Paragon City.
Progenitor Ch'Torx - Criminal Cult Leader fleeing from the above Lawbug. His hope is to alter the future by stopping mankind before they get offplanet and steal the heritage of a galaxay spanning empire that rightfully should belong to HIS people...
Rogue Rikti - Being a Rikti defector turned hero in Paragon City is no fun and just TRY and stroll past any Vanguard building and see what happens.
Titanium Steele- Stacy Steele, paralyzed after being attacked by the Clockwork King's Paladin she volunteered for experimental 'treatment' and woke up in a giant Nigh-Invulnerable Super Strong Cyborg Body with supermodel looks and her ditzy blonde brain inside.
Amazing Arc Wielder- Hero-Corp part-timer and owner operator of Atlas Park Appliance Repair.
Sword Maiden- Sure those twin blades you found in Oranbega saved your life when the CoT kidnapped you. Too bad they are cursed and slowly drain your soul unless you keep them fed with blood. Guess its a good thing there are so many criminals in Paragon City the cops won't notice if some go missing...
Scarlet Toxin- Your bum mutant genes make you allergic to everything! Good thing you're a train biochemist and geneticist. Too bad trying to cure your mutantcy cost so much you've had to turn to a life of crime to support your research.
Clockwork Bride- Titanium Steele from a universe where the Clockwork King transformed everyone into creatures like himself starting with the broken paralyzed body of his first victim. No-body could have guessed they would fall in love and work toether to take over thier world.
Mistress Mindlash- Your mother sold her body and you... well you sold your soul or rather you temptly offer to sell your soul. To any and all demonic forces willing to grant you more and more power. But how long can you keep them at bay, sacrificing the souls of your victims to appease the appetites of your dark 'creditors'...
Freaky Flora- The devouring earth twisted your body made you more plant than human but they made your mind crystal clear. Mankind MUST pay for its treatment of the planet. If you have to work with Arachnos to achive your goals well one day they will feel yours and the planets wrath too!
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The stereotype that tends to fit my characters (with the exception of my EATs) is "tool user". Their powers are not inherent to them but instead are something they have learned to use. This means that they are of tech or magic origin (the magic users obviously have a "magic is a tool, nothing more" theme to them).
Colossal Girl (my main) is my Power Girl homage. Superstrong tanker with huge...tracks of land. (well, they're not THAT big)
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Well... there is a small list of them... most are still lvl 2, as of this post is made, but I got lucky getting the names I wanted.
Cazadora Esmeralda: Basically... throw Green Arrow and Manhunter here.
Gothic Doll: Uhmmm honestly... still don't know what inspired me to make her... but I love her.
Personal Project: Chilean Superteam
Condor Azul: Inspired by Captain America and a Legacy role. The one at play is the 3rd Condor, and once i get superscience a female 4th version will appear.
Husar de la Muerte: Think Vigilante, Rose Wilson, Hitman...
Tralca: Close to Storm.
Puma Salvaje: Think about wolverine, Wildcat 2.. Not as feral as wolvie, but hard for her to control her bloodlust in battle.
Caupolican: Historical figure who fought the spanish conquistadors.
Pincoya / Anemona: Homage to DrMike's Stranger's character who interestingly resembles the traditional descriptions of the "Pincoya" myth from Chiloe Island.
Caleuche: Android and Protector of Anemone. Atlantean technology. In the Myths of Chiloe, Pincoya (similar to a mermaid, but with legs and blond hair) save people from the sea... if for some reason she is not able to, she carry their bodies to the phantom ship Caleuche, where they are supposed to Live in happiness (at least in one of the versions).
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The best superhero setting reference I've ever seen is Aaron Allston's Strike Force. (It has a great section on superhero stereotypes.)
Planet Smasher - the adventurous professor
Dr. Desolator - the mad scientist
Dynamite Jack & Midnight Might - trying-to-make-up-for-past-mistakes guy
Grim Fandango - immortal deal-with-the-'devil' guy
Incorruptible - ends justify the means
Silver Sledge - power armored billionaire
My villains tend to be actual evil people, not the lame, boring, cliched, misunderstood-but-believes-he's-doing-the-right-thing, confused guy. They're evil. They know it.
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So here's a question for all of you, what kind of stereotype do you play?
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Usually some kind of victim, like the X-men. My toon is hated as a teen and nearly murdered at age 13, usually by parents, and then goes out on his own.
Im now actually trying to break that with my new tanker.
Man, I try to avoid the more obvious tropes. If I find myself using one, I try to put an spin or twist to it..
Oryo Ryou- it could be said that she is the Frankenstein monster gone wrong (or right)? Basically, she's got DNA from twenty different individuals, thanks to a mad scientist at Crey..although she considers the couple who adopted her as a child her real parents. (Guess there's some Clark Kent in her, too.)
The Rose of Paragon- is in some ways, a spoof of a young George Takai set loose on the set of Star Trek with a fencing foil, and has actors/stuntpeople for parents...She could have been white bread instead of Hawaiian, but I wanted to make her as different from the other Zorro/Utena types in the city as I could. (And yes, I *like* sharp pointy things. Deal:P)
Mystik Paladin-..yes, he's a damn boy scout gone rock star, gone superhero. Or Rick Springfield puts on medieval armor and fights with a magic broadsword ( was cast as a boy scout gone rock star gone superhero:P)
Both Rose and Paladin are examples of normal people who have weird things happen to them (which resulted in their respective superpowers). Ryou is more the girl who trained all her life to give back to the heroes who rescued her as a small child from Crey Labs, by becoming one. Guess I didn't subvert them enough...
I'd go on, but this would take all night, and I'm trying to get back on a normal sleep schedule.
(later, rather than add yet another post)
I'm also guilty of the magical girl trope-(I actually have three, but two are the same character-one being an healer for the SG she's in..the third's origin pokes fun at collectable card games and is nine years old icly..)
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Most of my characters fall into two types. The first are mythical beings with a modern twist - so far, these include two biker elves, a mercenary Djinn with a gun, and most recently a Sidhe superspy.
Second are the true normals - humans who don't have anything "super" about them except the will to persevere. Unfortunately, these characters tend to languish after a bit; at some point, it gets increasingly hard for me to see them as non-supers as they accumulate abilities, which kinda kills the fun.
I've only had one "four-color" character. Thought I had an original story for her, but along the way I suddenly realized, "crap, she's Wonder Woman with clothes." Also have exactly one (1) ghost-like character who refuses to be defined any further than that.
Mild-mannered librarian.
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I wouldn't say magisterum really fits into any set HERO stereotype...
He's a bit overconfident, and....uhm...power hungry?
Magisterum- 50+3 Fortunata--Virtue
Lukerion- 33 Emp/Rad Defender--Virtue
Noah Heartily- 34 SS/SD brute- Virtue
Mika Heartily- 50+1 Fire/MM blaster-Virtue
I finally realised what stereotype I play. My heroes are HEROES, and my villains are VILLAINS. I don't have any characters that fit best as Rogues or Vigilantes. They are either super-good paragons of virtue or dark, dastardly, and dire epitomes of evil.
Lapin Lazuli is the absolute soul and image of heroism; even her off-time (between her day job and her heroing) is spent volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens.
Eiko-chan is a complete psychopath. She barely recognises other people as real, thinks nothing of killing hundreds or even thousands to acheive her goals, and is so callous that at age fourteen she was thrown in the Zig after her own testimony in her trial.
Monocle Smile is the Old Spice Guy, saving the world and being awesome.
Stacy Wu held on to the Malleus Mundi for almost a year, trying to research it so she could rewrite the world the way she wanted, instead of the way Scirocco wanted.
I don't play anything in-between. Maybe I need to.