Who do we look up to now?

I wish they update the signature heroes costumes and powers to shake things up a bit in the supergroups like Freedom Phalanx and Vindicators.

I guess I'm the only one who always felt that my character was the one who would be THE hero to city/world.

I always assumed the fact that you single handedly save Statesman at least twice was proof that WE are the true heroes. The ones who truly stepped up to save the city/world when it came crashing down around the signature heroes.

I'm not sure if "strong morality" is such a good idea. I know it's a turnoff for me, at least, as such characters tend to feel more like icons than real people. Remember when Sonic the Hedgehog was an icon of his times and the hallmark of a whole generation? He did that not by being the paragon of honour, justice and truthfulness but by being a cheeky smarmy wiseass who thumbed his nose at the world's villains (often literally) and simply proved too fast to catch and too strong to beat.

Personally, if I had my vote for who would be our next "icon," it would be someone like that.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

To the OP
Hero 1, that is all.

Personally most of the icon heroes never did much for me. Heck most where blatant direct spoofs of mainstream comic icons and we all know which ones.

However among the lore of the history of paragon there is one story alone of 2 heroes who frankly lived and died as fair little comic stories in thier own right.

Galaxy Girl and her partner Dauntless! Surprisingly few people I RP with on virtue know as much as I do, and all I really know is the same info anyone else has access to, maybe spiced up abit with my imagination.

Once upon a time there was a girl named kelly and a boy named robbie, and they grew up together in Paragon Heights. Never heard of it? well its a lost region still ruined to this day.

Kelly was a little red headed spitfire of an irish girl who was always quick to protect little robbie who the bullies liked to call runt. More then once she knocked down a boy bigger then her to make a point size didnt matter. Robbie learned that lesson from her to.

So they grew up, and kelly was always helping out and looking out for those in need around the Heights. Then one night fate would take her down a dark alley, and there in a moment of action faster then thought and a flurry of gun fire her powers as a kin/energy defender would manifest.

Soon robbie caught on to kelly flying around as galaxy girl and made it clear he wasnt going to let her do that kind of dangerous stuff without him at her back.

Years passed and they grew into adults, and heroes in the fullest sense of the word both in and out of the tights. It was at the soup kitchen where kelly volunteered that a challenge she wasnt ready for would strike.

Attacked by an assassin who specialized in killing capes, she was caught off guard and made the mistake of holding back with so many eye witnesses around. Overwhelmed all seemed lost for her and the people at the shelter.

Dauntless a mere man came at the meta human monster who had layed mightier beings then him low, with a fury of fist and shield( I always imagine dauntless as a shield guy dont know why) drawing a line in the sand with his own life. he bought kelly the time she needed to recover and draw upon the kinetic energy released in the fight.

However it was only as the killer dealt his coup de grace' to Dauntless that kelly was able to overwhelm and drive off the monster. dauntless died that day a hero far to little known for all his heroic sacrifice.

But that wasnt the end. No kelly kept going, but after robbie, her heart was gone, and soon she retired to being more of a mother to the troubled youth of the Heights.

When the war came with the rikti and the first ships appeared in the sky, she was among the first in the air holding a line, a grand motherly lady in an old cape that hadnt seen an iron in years.

During the battle a group of heroes lead by miss liberty where surrounded and cut off as a retreat was ordered. Refusing to give ground any more then dauntless had for her she put herself between the young heroes and a volly. She pulled in more kinetic energy then she had ever dared, focussed it through herself. A field enveloped the stranded, laser fire dispersed like sunlight on a prism. The explosion vaporized the rikti and left the region ravaged, but miraculously the young heroes and the civilians they had tried to lead to safety where unharmed. No sign of Galaxy Girl was ever discovered.

Now those are heroes to look up to. just my two inf.

i just resubbed...

i *just* found out that Statesman is being killed.



i'm sad, i really like Statesman. to me he's very iconic of CoH. i'm sad to see him go.

so what about Recluse? what about States' TF? and who will be on the webpage now fighting that big robot? these are the things i'm concerned about. =)

also, yeah, the signature characters need costume and roster updates badly. but we all know this.

My main's opinion of Statesman can be found in an interview I wrote in response to a "writing challenge" in the Virtue forums many years ago. Cat Stevie, also of Virtue, has a similar outlook. (I really, really need to update and just plain redesign my CoH pages.)

With a few exceptions (another interview for the same "challenge"), my characters never "looked up" to Statesman and won't be any more (or less) affected by his death than they would be by the death of any hero.

Space.

It's now the only limit left, and beyond that is exploration of said noiseless vacuum.

States is gone, so there isn't a set path. It's a ''make your own/control your own destiny.'' Paragon's of the past have faded with his death, and soon all the other bigwigs of the game will also die off. Then we'll be in a stand off against Wade, and from there Recluse and his band. Once all the Freedom Phalanx dies, Wade is eventually killed off, Lord Recluse falls, and his band is destroyed; we'll all get two notices in a weeks time span. First notice, '' World Of Heroes (or City Of Heroes 2 is launching for beta in..) '' and a week after, '' Server consolidation on the old COH game will be..''

Keep rollin rollin rollin'...