I had an "Action Item Man" (Time Troller... He had the ability to stop time, get it?). Does that count?
Close enough, i think, but pants would still be discouraged if he was a hero out of respect for tradition and Troy Hickman.
As for CoH... i'm waiting for opportunities to back some of the successor projects in concrete ways, and hope to eventually have access to a SWGemu equivalent for CoH if nothing else. Currently i'm mostly keeping up with CoH-related developments through here, several Facebook pages, and some of the successor project sites. While i would love to get the game back properly at this point it seems that the alternatives are on a shorter timeline.
It still seems like some of the most boneheaded timing to have killed the game around the time movies like The Avengers were making the genre popular internationally in a big way. Especially since CoH was in the black, even if it wasn't a huge hit at the time. Still somewhat puzzled as to why NCsoft didn't put out the next issue and then wind down the studio to put the game into maintenance mode instead of abruptly killing it. i guess that's not the NCsoft way.