Concepts you will never make

So we all have some ideas we want to make, but don't have time/space/slots to do them justice.

So let's share them, let others make them. For great justice.

-A stone/stone character called Cityface. Literally a piece of the city come to life. He fights to clean up his city from crime, and birds.

-A street justice scrapper/SR who fights using a fight on wires system, an implant that sends his body into a state of sezuire when his adreline gets pumping, to allow for faster reflexes (stolen from shadowrun).

-A bright yellow smiley in a suit who only speaks in emoticons.

Anyone else got any concepts or ideas?

Love~ Lea the Spider Girl

Whenever I think of something so ridiculous I should never reasonably make it, I just do it anyways.

I used to have a Spines/Elec Scrapper named Mapserver Man who never got past level 4.

I also have a level 20 DP/Time Corruptor named Syntax Shot... His info says "I have come from the future to correct your grammar."

No one seemed to enjoy teaming with those characters for some reason.

Knockback Man: This Energy/Storm Corruptor fights evil using the much loved power of knockback, his battlycry is "KNOCKBACK !!" that he spams every time he uses some of his favorite powers which include Gale, Power Push, Energy Torrent and of course Tornado.

There are plenty of concepts I will never make in this game.

Some of them... well, they are great concepts, but I can't actually make them work in context of the game. Either the powers don't exist yet (like a probability manipulation power set, or thrown weapons), CAN'T exists (No size control or wall-crawling, ever) or they exist, but I can't use them in the combinations I need/want. (At least, outside of AE.)

Others might be possible to create, but the mechanics of one set or the other turns me off - a concept I had for a Stone/Stone Brute never got off the ground because of how much I can't stand the Speed Debuff of Stone Armor. I have three characters just waiting in limbo for Energy Melee to become viable once again. I've also had to scuttle plans for several Dual Pistol characters simply because I cannot stand the Gun-Fu B.S. that the Dual Pistols set crams down our throat. One or two powers, I could have handled... almost every single one? Nope!

Finally, there are concepts I can't create because the character creater can't make them (yet.) Like a headless character (yes, the Jar without a Brain comes close... but not close enough, darn it.) Or simply a closed Trenchcoat. (C'mon, Devs. You can't give us skirts and kilts, and then say that a closed trench coat is too restrictive! I'm not asking for ankle length here...)

I have one that I keep trying to play, but I just never find the time for.

A 13 year old hyperactive boy that has his mutation manifest while watching his favorite saturday morning cartoon. The people with spikey hair that yell the names of their attacks were just getting ready to blow up a planet (again) when he tried to mimic their shouts and blew up half of his house. His parents were livid and sent him to Paragon immediately, where he runs around shooting the bad guys with energy as he shouts and says hi to all the awesome heroes he sees. Because when you're 13 and hyperactive and explosive: Everything is awesome.

His name: Nine Thousand One

Due to an unfortunate habit I picked up, whenever I make a game I try to always make new characters for that game instead of expy-ing the old characters. With that said, I did have several ideas for heroes and villains that I won't be making in the game due to this principle. They are the following:


A science origin Spines/Dark Armor scrapper vigilante. The story goes that an alien race in the end of a war discovered that certain abstract concepts and emotions could be used as a source of power if harnessed through a specialized alloy found and tempered in another dimension (the netherdimension). This was made into an armor capable of emitting tremendous power. Though time, this armor sucked up the malice of the war, and though the war was over the dark armor still persisted, moving through it's own will and regenerating any damage done to it. This was soon called the Tangible Evil. Eventually it was imprisoned, and was dumped into a volcano on an uninhabited planet as to never be found. Little did the alien race know that they had dumped the armor on Earth in the Americas, on the opposite side of the planet where people were already starting to branch out.

Fast forward thousands of years into the future to a troubled teenager named Tom. Tommy was bullied so horrendously that it couldn't even be called "bullying" anymore, even by his teachers and parents. Tom was sickly and was also unable to defend himself. Full of resentment and distaste for the world, he would wander about at night not caring if he lived or died. Eventually stumbling into an abandoned mine, getting lost and causing a cave in, Tom found himself some very strange bits of metal he had never seen before; what appeared to be a rudimentary glove. The moment he put it on, the walls around him came to life, and the strange rocks attacked him, forming the dark suit of armor. With his newfound incredible power, Tom set out to put an end to all the pathetic rot in the world, even before they were to become criminals. His new trans-dimensional armor assembled, he assumed the identity of what the alien writing on the armor seemed to spell: Raxx.


Alongside of Raxx there are two more in the same storyline (they won't be as long winded). They are Treyson and Epsilon, both of whom have very similar origins. They were both friends in highschool (with Treyson being tormentor of Tom). Treyson's father was an archaeologist heavily studying eastern mythology, particularly war technologies and specific battles. Amongst his research he stumbled upon an old pagan fable about how 4 tribes of earth, wind, fire, and water had fought themselves to death all the while constructing mystical swords to harness each tribes spirit. Thinking there was some truth to this, Treyson's father decided to try and find these mystical weapons. He finds three of them, and takes them to the U.S. to be studied and put into a museum. It was there that it was discovered that these weapons actually electricity/magnetism, entropy states, and thermal states (the water sword was never found). Treyson's father was soon found dead, and his son and two of his friends were later seen with the swords and using amazing element based powers. No one specifically knows what happened. Anyway, the third guy was a one-off who wasn't important. Treyson himself is a Broadsword/Fire Armor scrapper, and Epsilon isn't representable in the game (Katana/Storm summoning is the closest you could get).


After that little series 7 or so years ago there was another set of hero-like individuals that me, my sister, and a friend actually tried to make a show out of. All ambitions were struck down upon finding out that making an anime in flash takes forever and a day to do and is hard as hell. Things kind of fell apart between the friend and us, so this idea is essentially killed, but alas here is what we had.

In the immediate future the discovery of a new element with strangely radioactive isotopes and alterable quantum states caused scientific advances to jump forward rather quickly. Genetic engineering became so advanced that the wealthy class were effectively choosing the traits of their children, and hidden abilities could be unlocked or even invented in the genome. With the new element in high demand and the world generally not at ease, a cold war started, with nations dumping tons of money into genetically engineering super soldiers that would be unstoppable through nearly all conventional war tactics. Alongside this came technological advancements, in particular nanotechnology. With the world's wealthiest powers dumping all of their money into nanotech and genetic engineering, eventually those participating governments went bankrupt. The northern EU union, the southern EU union (there's two in my fictional world), China, U.S., Australia, and France all suffered economic collapse, causing a near worldwide depression and widening the divide between have and have nots so far you could barely see one another. What we are left with are genetically engineered supersoldiers with no war to fight, the results of rampant and reckless nanotechnology experiments, and a strange phenomena when frequent exposure to a rare isotope of this applied phlebotinum would result in strange superpowers manifesting for little to no reason. Amongst all of the side characters, there are several main characters that could easily fit the CoH power sets.

The opening protagonist (named after her voice actor, so I won't be saying it online) would've been a katana / regen scrapper. Made near the end of the genetic engineering projects, she had many powers, such as an enhanced reaction so quick she could nearly catch a bullet, increased strength, increased speed, a great healing factor, enhanced immune system, and a specially calibrated metabolism to constantly keep a fat reserve for colder climates (reoccurring joke about how she was genetically engineered to be husky). She fights with a sword because, being that fast and strong, a handgun isn't a superior weapon in any sense. She works for a small government run company tasked with dealing with the super-powered menaces as they crop up. The story essentially revolves around this company and all of the... strange company it keeps.

The second main protagonist was another woman, extremely skinny and shy, was for awhile friends with the daughter of a husband/wife team of scientists who discovered the applied phlebotinum. Giving their daughter an amulet made out of a rare isotope of the material, their daughter soon gave it to the second protagonist as a gift. It just so happens that the main protagonist had some precise non-genetic physiology that would give superpowers when exposed to the rare isotope. She slowly develops telekinesis and telepathy over time, discovering these powers in a fit of rage which tears a college up in a psychic storm (which I personally animated...). Being a rage induced psychic bomb that was otherwise benign, she was dumped into the company to "deal with her" since she nearly blew up the prison she was staying at. Closest CoH power set being a Psychic Blast/Mental Manipulation blaster.

Last one (I SWEAR!!!) was caused when a very ghetto and pregnant woman signed up to be in a clinical trial for nanomachine treatments. Of course, you weren't supposed to sign up for these if you are pregnant or nursing, but she was the epitome of ghetto. Some of the nanomachines became lodged in her fetus's brain, instead of passing through the urine like they were supposed to. Fast forward 20 years into the future, and the now man (later to be named Vigilant) got himself into trouble when he chased a purse snatcher (a 13 year old girl) down, and using her youth made it look to be the most horrible scene possible. After being tased several times to the point where his heart stopped, he awoke in the hospital to find something very strange had happened. Those nanomachines had become lodged deep between the frontal and parietal lobes of his brain. Their programming had ceased, and upon being blanks for so long they reverted into basic calculators that his mind had inadvertently wired into. Once tased several times, the nanomachines activated, and Vigilant began seeing numbers and equations and wireframe models and projections in his head. These equations allowed him to calculate the immediate outcome of events with incredible accuracy, so accurate that he could essentially see 5 seconds into the future, as well as tell you important facts about things such as weight, length, velocity, density, and other such random facts. Using his new powers he broke out of the hospital he was confined in, and went to work for a rival company than the one story takes place in. Powerset wise, he'd be a martial arts/super reflexes scrapper, but this also skirts the lines since he would also use gadgets and guns and stuff.

That last one is one of my favorites, since whenever the "what superpower would you like?" thing comes up, I always select math-powered minor omniscient super reflexes that can very accurately predict the future.

I had two ideas when CoV came out (Edit-...both also used the science pack, was that much later?) that I'll never do, centered around a mad scientist working in the Rogue Isles, who had two children

1) Tech, Bots/FF, small male using the funky googly-eyed face.
Techy gloves/boots and regular clothes, safety helmet. Mentally Handicapped son of the mad scientist, rigged up with force field generators that use his motions. When he wan'ts someone protected he waves his arms that way, if he gets scared and raises them he is covered by a personal force field, etc. Set loose to 'play' in safety anywhere on the rogue aisles, guarded by robots.

2) Science ???/???
The mad scientist's daughter, who does nothing but play video games and never leaves the house even though he wants her to see the world. As a compromise, for her sweet sixteen and each birthday thereafter, he has given her something to remote control and 'play' by running around the rogue isles.
A giant demon using the exposed/wired brain and one or two tech parts like it's been lobotomized and is being controlled... a robot that's all shiny silver except a rusty/dark colored communication looking device like it's been rewired... a zombie looking guy who is the corpse of some powerful mutant, rigged up with preservatives and electric shock devices to make it move around...

No power set was really varied enough for #2. The best I saw was weapon/shield because shield has so many options, but it didn't really work well enough for me.

Yes, far too many to list here because - hey, you never know - I might actually make them someday and I don't want to log in and find the name [redacted] already taken!

(Like people would try and steal my weak spoonerism, I know!)

Some of them end up in AE arcs I make, and some end up starting in an AE arc and then migrating out, such as my four and counting versions of Princess Yinyin (various power sets and ATs)* from my arc about an alternate earth where the dominant life form evolved from pandas instead of apes. I just liked the costume so much. :P

Altitis means they'll probably never get past 6th level, but you never know...


*afterall, if there's one alternate universe with a Princess Yinyin who became a master of swords and then crosses to Primal Earth, there could be another where she popped over here, picked up a couple of pistols and said "NOW you're talking!"

I keep meaning to do a parody of my toddler, he'd be a vigilante or rogue called "the wiggler" but I havn't got a powerset combo that's quite perfect. It'd have to include:

lots of knockdown PBAoE in an always on toggle.
Melee and Sonic attacks,
Unlimited endurance,
Mag ten billion immob protection (though possibly with limited protection to sleep)
A "You can't get mad at me, I'm way to cute" AoE placate power
Highly variable alignment/motivations based on imponderables.

I had more success making a parody of my wife's cat once. That kind of worked, but kitty is a less nuanced creature.

Here's one I just couldn't stick with who ended up being sent off to "retire" on Freedom (where the last time I had her on to check and see if she had a couple of recipes I was looking for she got two blind invites):



She's an Energy/Storm Corruptor.

My other joke characters all ended up making it to 50. Which is farther than many of my "ooh, that combination would be great" characters did because while I tend to min/max in discussions on the forums fun trumps numbers for me in game.

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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.

Mostly because I am always very wary of repeating powersets I've played on other characters:

Contagious Fever: An Illusion/Thermal Controller. This character has the power to make others come down with a fever that causes them to have extremely high temperatures and powerful hallucinations.

For many reasons, the Hero I'll never make is "The Cleaning Woman". She's a Staff/Dark brute who is cleaning the streets of Paragon of crime (and grime). By necessity, you would need to color your Dark powers a sand/dirt. Other names could be "Mop n Glow" or a male version called "Swabby" or "Mr. Clean".

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the broom option for the staff set.

A character I have made and deleted several times is Xydor the Clown. He's an alien that after observing the natives of paragon city decided that a clown costume would allow him to blend in for closer observation.

Brawlman.

6 slot brawl and set it to auto.

A Force Field Defender named "Captain Condom" making sure to hand out free 'protection' to every hero he sees.

Would likely be generic'ed in a heart beat.