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- Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:15 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (The Mad Hatter! Torque! Blockbuster! Tarantula II!)
Characters like Nite-Wing are good to showcase that not everyone is meant to be a superhero. There's a genuine difference between Nite-Wing and guy Gardner, even when Guy is at his absolute worst. Both of them are arrogant meat-heads who are glory hounds and who enjoy beating people up. The main dif...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:53 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Tarantula (Catalina Flores)
This is known as "a distinction without a difference". Also known as "a writer should understand what words mean".Jabroniville wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 2:05 am ("For the record, I’ve never used the word 'rape', I just said it was non-consensual"),
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:06 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Bat-Mite! Jason Todd! Nocturna! Zebra-Man!)
I actually have a good chunk of the original Nocturna / Night-Thief / Night-Slayer run from when it first came out, including the final appearance of Nocturna, and I've got to say that both now and then it's a fun read. Nocturna is someone I could actually see as a legitimate romance for Bruce, at l...
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 3:37 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Bat-Mite! Jason Todd! Nocturna! Zebra-Man!)
Ace the Bathound was one of those characters that never made much sense to me outside of being the dog of an older, retired Bruce Wayne. Someone like Superman having a dog made sense because, well, Superman's a farm boy at heart, symbol of America, and a dog is basically the embodiment of all things...
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:31 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Batman! Adam West! Alfred! Commissioner Gordon!)
Gordon is one of those characters that is genuinely important to the Batman mythos. For one thing, he legitimizes Batman's existence, making it clear that he's a hero fighting for the law rather than a vigilante subverting he law. The fact that Gordon works with Batman to solve crimes beyond the pol...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:41 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
Bonus points for the use of Sue. I feel like any good Elongated Man story needs to be equally about Ralph and Sue. They're one of the most down to Earth couples in DC and they just enjoy doing everything together. So when they're out doing mystery stuff, Sue would want to be involved with more than...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:01 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Silver Age & Modern Batman! Adam West! Alfred!)
Heh, thanks guys.
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:07 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
- Views: 7219302
Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
And though I bow to no one in my admiration of the world famous Elongated Man, I have to disagree that he's a better detective. Ralph usually lagged a few seconds behind Batman in making deductions when they worked together. Plus the Bat has a much wider range of methods of detection. Ralph and Sue...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:04 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Silver Age & Modern Batman! Adam West! Alfred!)
One of my favorite Alfred lines was from the Batman: Mask of the Phantasm film: *on a TV in the Batcave, Arthur Reeves is speaking to the press* Reeves: "What kind of city are we running when we depend on the support of a potential madman!" Alfred: *turns the TV off and walks to Bruce, who...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:51 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
- Views: 7219302
Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
Amazing to see the power-inflation of Batman as you move from one era to the next. It fits in line with what we see in many of the modern comics and animations: A supposedly 'normal' if well-trained and equipped man bulldozing over metahumans with significant powers that by all means should not be ...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:43 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
- Views: 7219302
Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
One of the problems I have with just about everyone's writeup of Batman is STR 4. Batman is in peak physical condition, but he runs into guys who are bigger and stronger than he is–Ubu comes to mind, the KGBeast, or un-Venomed Bane. Giving Batman STR 4 means you have to make those guys superhuman, ...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:34 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
Regarding how flexible Batman is as a character, I don't think anything demonstrated that notion better than the fact that we got three good Batman cartoons back to back, each with a slightly different take on the Batman character and mythos, and all three of them were very good in different ways. B...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:05 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Earth-Two Robin & Huntress! Modern Batman!)
I think overall, I prefer the Bronze Age Batman in terms of presentation. He was someone who was highly capable, could be intimidating when he wanted to be, and he dealt with serious threats . . . but he wasn't an asshole to his friends. He easily acknowledged how much his friendships with Dick, Alf...
- Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
- Replies: 35431
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Re: Batman (Overview)
I've got to disagree with you on one point there. Batman wasn't so much inspired by Zorro as he was DC's attempt to cash in on the success of The Shadow. Guy with a mask, carrying a gun, delivering justice to bad guys, being a billionaire, having a neat flying vehicle, scaring the daylights out of ...
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 6:41 pm
- Forum: Character Sheets
- Topic: The T-Verse [Earth 75]: Dragon Mandarin, Ninjas, & Naginatas, the Storms, Black Fox, Scorpion, Toad
- Replies: 948
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Re: Strikeback
I'm unsure who the artist of the picture used is, but if anyone knows please let me know so I can them that person the proper credit. That looks like a fan edit of Ronnie Thunderbolts art. I use that art a lot myself over in my own RT Art Edit thread . But I'm not sure who edited that particular im...