The "Icons" of Virtue

Goodness, some people really get flustered and riled at the notion of popularity. I say embrace your inner mean girl.

My list. Yes, it's subjective, sentimental and incomplete, but it still rocks.

DragonBerry, Ascendant, Rakescar, Cackle, Night Girl, Jumproot, Heroid, Kelp Plankton, Sidney B, Plasma Steam, Invincibelle, Soaring Valor (and her uppity sidekick), Xad (though I cringe to admit it), Thanatos, Bayani, Paladin, Capt. Starfall, Roxstar, Celtic Bolt, Backyard Boom, Captain Valor, Ms. Independence, Rowr, Inertial, Encharger, Massacre Melanie, The Imperial, Poison, White Geisha.

- Sparrowhawk, who needs a new sig and avatar.

I feel pretty spiffy to have played/teamed/RPd with almost every single name listed in this thread. Yay!

Soaring Valor, gods there's a player to miss, the kid too. Swear to god they were the gilmores IRL, or their writers

A lot of names on that list I recognize and agree with. But if I had to choose, I'd pick the Cape and most of all two awesome players: Dragonberry and Hephaestus 1 (@jchinds, so I think backyard boom is his too). As far as friends go on CoX, they're among the first ones I got, talked with and confided with and I'll always appreciate that.

......Wow, that was realllllly sappy.

The Icon in Talos Island is my favorite.

Icons?

Okay....for me, the 'icons' of Virtue are:

• The Cape Radio
• Virtueverse

Got to agree witht hat List of Folks... but if those old FOlks will remember... MOST of those guys and Gals come/Came From the Liberty League. What a Great Group of Folks.


Ascendant is by far the most iconic Character I have ran into in City of Heroes. The rest of us fall second to him.

But really... You could take Sparrow, or Whale, or Xan,Dragonberry, SnipeFu Freedom Fury or even Xad.. There are so many Amazing Folks.. no matter what circle you run in... If you are looking for actual "Icons" I dont think you can nail down a person.. but more like a Persona.. something that represents what Virtue is...

the Most Iconic thing about Virtue.. and the Reason that I Love this place, is the Community. Win or Loose.. Fights and Flame Wars.. we all come together.. we all just seem to Co exist.

SO if I were to point out a Virtue Icon.. it would be the Community.

ohh and the Ducks.. they were Infamous.. difference


Nuff Said.

Of all the names mentioned in this thread, I've only even heard of a few. That doesn't strike me as them being Icons, no offense to everyone else.

There's just one that fits the bill as an Icon, IMO.

I've passed Ascendant a few times on the phone in the train stations and gotten a laugh out of it every time. He's about the only player/character I consider Iconic simply because you can come across people from every server who have at least heard of Ascendant and his conversations with his agent, Saul. He's been referenced in the CoH comic and is mentioned in random text by NPCs in the game who are at "his spot" by the phones in the train stations.

Pretty impressive for a player to be known well enough to be worked into the fabric of the game in that way.

That's an Icon.

Hahaha, I love watching people trying to act like they're so cool that they don't even KNOW who the popular people are, versus the people who are like "Their first album was alright, but after that they totes got lame."

There are definitely iconic player-characters on the Virtue server.

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Ascendant of course wins. Y'all who are claiming to have never heard of him need to pay closer attention. He's been absorbed into the game's lore, the NPC text, and even had a speaking role in the comics.

Dragonberry is a unique and recognizable character, is always an entertaining presence, and is likely the toughest danged Scrapper on the entire server.

I don't know if he still plays anymore, but Frostfire has earned his stripes in Virtue history, largely for his epic battle to regain his name from Cryptic.

Grae Knight had the balls to create like nineteen supergroups, and force them to all dress like him. And people DID. That counts for something.

The Havok Brothers are one of the first duos I can recall ever seeing, and they've been at the center of some pretty major RP events over the years.

Both The Imperial and Vindicator are characters you can't go anywhere CoH-related without seeing. They both have distinctive costumes and personalities, and tremendous gobs of character art plastered over every "City of"-related website in the world.

Xanatos is someone I've always associated as a fixture in Paragon City; partly because he's been around forever, partly because he seems to constantly show up in the background of the comics, and partly because he has his grubby little fingers in so many chunks of Virtue history.

I also think Knight Sentinel deserves an honorable mention, because I remember when he was first firing up his new supergroup, and now I can't take two steps without bumping into one of his crew. The dude has some serious drive.

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I could probably list more, but y'all are just gonna' go "Who?" anyway. Learn your history!

I can't believe no one mentioned Dusk Chameleon yet.