Justice Avengers: Discussion

I'm looking forward to Carl and Silvio's interaction.

I expect Slade might have to intervene.

By the way, quick headcount: who's still in Hub City?

Yo.

I'm afraid I'm-a have to quit Hub City, it's struck me like a smooth criminal.

I'm still in.

Still in.

Still in.

Still in.

Yo, still in

Hub City post coming in the morning. Hope I wasn't too harsh with my post for the NY Studio, I'm basing the building on the Fox NY Headquarters.

Also, is Booky about? Does anyone know?

No idea. Hopefully we have a backup plan for Laura, seeing how everyone else went and GTFO'd?

Booky is around; he has contacted me about my other Superhero game (The Good, The Bad and The Spandex) but has not been able to actively join in account of being very busy. I assume that applies here too.

I'm really sorry about that, I'm still around. I just got hit with a lot of overtime (money is a cruel mistress) and such and it threw everything out of whack. I'm right now in the process of getting caught up, however.

edited 30th Aug '16 10:51:41 AM by Booky

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Don't worry about it, happens to the best of us.

Now there's a thought. A satellite-based app that lets you randomly encounter super villains, and is backwards compatible for a flip-phone. Imagine the fun to be had with that...not to mention the buzzfeed articles of serious accidents!

How to make Hawkman interesting: repackage him as DC's Wolverine. No?

Is he? I guess if you emphasize the wild-man aspects. And his convoluted backstories could have amnesia in there somewhere...

Wait, does that make Hawkgirl X-23?

Oh dear God, no. They tried that with him once, I think. In fact all DC's heroes had their "Gritty" reboots at one point (Hello hook-handed Aquaman.)

I think I'm going to write an article on why Grim-And-Gritty just doesn't work with superheroes (not all of them anyway).

While I am normally against grittification, it could work for Hawkman. His two main obstacles are (1), he's boring, and (2), he has the most confusing backstory this side of Spider-Woman.

Admittedly, I'd be more in favor of downplaying Hawkman in favor of Hawkgirl, but if you really must have Hawkman there, why not play him as a murdery, quippy antihero? People seem to like those, even if they aren't my cup of tea.

Hawkman's history was not confusing until they started rebooting him over and over. Seriously, it's THIS easy:

Worshiper of the Egyptian Hawk-god Horus is murdered, modern day reincarnation meets the reincarnation of his killer and adopts the Hawkman identity to achieve his revenge.

As for the "Space" one, we can have him as well:

Alien race whose police officers wear bird-inspired uniforms (based on a race they defeated) send an officer to Earth looking for a criminal. Gets mistaken for Hawkman, who is retired. Decides to stay on Earth to learn about superheroes and Hawk-Man allows him to use his name.

Added Marvel Elements: Horus is an actual god in Marvel.

It never really occurred to me how you can plug Wolverine into almost any story, and I'm not really a big fan of his. Is there a DC character who can fill the "cool bad-boy loner" part? And not Batman.

Jason Todd? Maybe not a loner seeing as he's part of the Bat Family, but Wolverine's in the X-Men and the Avengers and Alpha Flight for a while.

Wolverine is a bit like the village bicycle, isn't he?

That's why the trope exists.

Anyway, on the topic of Hawkman, we can easily due the space, since I incorporated the Thanagarians, Hawkman's race, into Rocket's backstory. Namely, his mace is made out of Nth metal, which when electrified allows him to hit and cause physical harm to supernatural and incorporial enemies, such as ghosts, demons, and extradimensional horrors. Its ability to float into the air activates when its super heated, and, in my idea, is used to by the Thanagarians as a device to help their young to fly until their wings are strong enough for self-lift.

Right, guess who got enough of his nappies? That's right, Mr. Faceless; the fading flaky writing geek, wielder of the edgeless blade(that still cuts) and King of Lame-Style himself!

Ehem... er I'm back guys! what is up? what did I miss? where can I jump in? any exciting news?