Getting Older...


Chaos Creator

 

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A few ideas of what the heroes and villains of CoH have to look forward to as they age...

* After hearing that canning can preserve the life of certain fruits and vegetables, Positron rethinks his "getting out of the armor" policy.

* Captain Mako, after losing all his teeth, decides to get a full set of dentures. Despite his direst threats the Gillette company refuses to provide the replacements.

* As her aging body can no longer sustain the damage it used to, Silver Mantis instead satisfies her masochistic needs by calling the Social Security Administration and asking what her current benefits look like.

* At the age of 85 Synapse is nearly as fast as when he was a younger man, however the sound of his walker at that speed has people hearing jackhammers all over the city.

* Although Ghost Widow herself does not age as time goes by, she still feels time's pinch. Most memorable was her desperate pleas to the Depends company for something in a steel-belted model for an aging Wretch.

* When going in for his annual medical check up, Back Alley Brawler turned to the doctor and held up his massive metal gloves, extending two fingers on one. "If you get to check my prostate, then I get to check yours."

* Foreshadow is still able to see future events, but with his short term memory can't remember what the heck he saw. "It had something to do with trees... or was it dogs? Barking was involved somehow..."

* At the general request of the populace, Miss Liberty discontinued wearing mini-skirts.

* After an unfortunate "Swan Dive" comment by a hapless thug; Swan began to use her telekinetic powers as "support" to reverse the effects gravity had wreaked upon her body.

* After years of subtle torment and torture of the general Rogue Isles' populace, Westin Phipps is reduced to yelling at kids to get the hell outta his front yard.

* Lord Nemesis decides his next plot should be in a cemetary.

* Blue Steel has to start using both hands to bench press the planet.

* Decades later the Croatoan War Witch finally meets her Pocket D counterpart. Things degenerate quickly as the ghostly WW takes one look at her living version and says "Thank the gods I died early."

* After thousands of years of constant battle between the two immortals, after generations of mortals have gone by while their hatred boiled, Lord Recluse finally decides to apologize and try to make peace. "Look, I'm sorry for what I said about your half-helmet..."

* After years of fruitless effort, the staff of Paragon Home for the Elderly finally decide it's just easier to give Doc Quantum a private corner of the facility and a constant supply of gerbils upon which to conduct his "Morality Tests."

* People learn to avoid Scirocco when he starts talking about his "mystical wind powers" and NO ONE falls for the "pull my finger" line anymore.

* Vanity finally gets the better of Sister Psyche and, rather than allow her real body to age, she begins hooking rides on beautiful, very young women. Manticore's nickname officially changed to "that lucky ba**ard."

* People constantly having to reassure Black Scorpion that his new turbo-assault-wheelchair is "way cooler" than Professor X's.

* Freakshow overheard saying "why in my day we didn't have your fancy fusion core generators... we had to shove six AA batteries up our a**es... and we were HAPPY to do it!"

* Although he still kidnapped Baby New Year, Snaptooth's complaints changed from "Stop that rhyming!" to "Who keeps turning up the thermostat in these caves?! Do you rascals think I'm MADE of money?!"

* After years of refusing to take the risk, Citadel finally decides that Microsoft has learned enough from the mistakes of the past to finally come out with a completely stable and safe operating system. Moments after downloading and installing Windows Infinity he realizes that some things never change.

And....

Fusionette: Where are you going?

Temblor: I'm goin' down to the town office to fill out the paperwork for my social security.

Fusionette: But Jim how are you going to prove your age? You know you lost all your birth records and paperwork years ago...

Temblor: Don't worry about it woman...

(time passes and Jim returns home)

Fusionette: How did it go?

Temblor: No problem at all... I'll get my first check next Thursday.

Fusionette: But how did you prove your age?

Temblor: I just opened up my shirt and showed them all the gray hairs on my chest.

Fusionette: Well, if it was that easy.. why didn't you drop your drawers and get a disability check too?


My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

 

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Loved it!

The Fusionette/Jimmy stuff was priceless.


Final Straw, DM/Regen Scrapper
Solari, Fire/Fire Blaster
Real Americana, MA/SR Scrapper
Task Force Timmy, Grav/Rad Controller
Astral Paragon, Spines/Regen Scrapper
Mr Drama King, Katana/Regen Scrapper
Psi-Stunner, Psi/Mental Blaster

 

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Ah Steelclaw, your lists never fail to amuse me.


 

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Haha

Love the Faultline/Fusionette one