Decided to post snapshots of familar faces I've seen in City of Heroes. ;D
Two Legends hanging out.
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/ThorandMaryMarvel_zpsf85ae524.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Batman1_zps22964133.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/HulkGuy_zps80d7842c.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/CapAmerica_zpsa19c87f3.gif)
How he predicted IronMan3 about 5 years ago...I'll never know.
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/IronMan3_zps54a9e22b.gif)
"They're GRRRREat!"
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/TonyTiger_zpsa5b6175a.gif)
"We're needed Miss Peel."
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/MzPealandSteed_zpsfd93e9b8.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Fantasticgirl_zps606345c4.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/PhantomGirl_zps0a06daed.gif)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/DocStrange_zps2c88281d.gif)
I need to rummage around my screen shots. There was a guy, Cozmic, on Victory, whose main toon looked like Cosmic Boy from Legion of Superheroes. I also somewhere saw a Wonder twin once. I always loved CoX for that, even if it tread on thin ice as far as copyright. :)
I had designated Freedom as my copyright violation server. I'll have to dig through and see if they made it into my screenshots.
yezz...thought this might be a change of pace. :roll:
I saw lots of these, but I more reported them to protect Paragon than took screenshots.
I never made any, but I admit when I was giving CO a fair shake I did make Celes Chere down to every little detail I could think of. Named her 'Runeknight'.
Some more snapshots of familar faces I've seen in City of Heroes.
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Hercules_zps532df930.gif) (http://s1094.photobucket.com/user/BlueDalek/media/Hercules_zps532df930.gif.html)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/CaptainDynamic_zps854305d1.gif) (http://s1094.photobucket.com/user/BlueDalek/media/CaptainDynamic_zps854305d1.gif.html)
...are we not men? yep....even saw ACDC but he didn't stay for a snapshot.
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Devo_zpsc22122c2.gif) (http://s1094.photobucket.com/user/BlueDalek/media/Devo_zpsc22122c2.gif.html)
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Robin_zpsa9a2de6f.gif) (http://s1094.photobucket.com/user/BlueDalek/media/Robin_zpsa9a2de6f.gif.html)
I wish to God I could remember who it was, but I saw someone running around in-game briefly (on Justice, I think it was) in a near-perfect Captain America outfit, with the name "Cappy's Stunt Double". The bio had something to the effect of "Cap's back to fighting the good fight, but he still has contractual obligations to the USO. So we take turns. When he has to perform, I step in and do hero stuff."
When I laughingly commented on it, he immediately broke into this choreographed song and dance routine.
He was one of the only copyright violations I didn't report.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Quote from: Samuraiko on April 12, 2013, 03:54:20 AM
I wish to God I could remember who it was, but I saw someone running around in-game briefly (on Justice, I think it was) in a near-perfect Captain America outfit, with the name "Cappy's Stunt Double". The bio had something to the effect of "Cap's back to fighting the good fight, but he still has contractual obligations to the USO. So we take turns. When he has to perform, I step in and do hero stuff."
When I laughingly commented on it, he immediately broke into this choreographed song and dance routine.
He was one of the only copyright violations I didn't report.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Was it the Star Spangled Man from the Cap America movie? Because that'd be freaking awesome.
Near the end, I created a character named ANGRY MAN IS ANGRY, with a backstory that was an obvious ripoff of the Hulk's. (Naturally, his costume was a copy of... Superman. I didn't play him much, but if I'd gotten him to 20, I would have made his second costume a copy of Batman)
I wish I'd grabbed more screenshots.
i think it was around 2005-2006 that i saw Statesman getting on the tram in Skyway City. Does that count?
Later that day i read that some people at a con that Cryptic was participating at were given the opportunity to team up with Statesman in game that day, which makes sense. Didn't talk to him or get a screenshot since i just saw him run into the station and catch a train. By the time i realized he had costume pieces not available to other players and started to go "wait a minute..." the train arrived, so i didn't get a screenshot or try chatting with him. Of course in the later years it was not uncommon for Devs to show up driving one signature hero or another, but at the time it was unusual.
Of course if we're just talking about people making copies of other companies' heroes in game then it would probably take years for to list them all, some amazingly true to the original, but i almost never bothered to screenshot them.
I never reported anyone, and not because I had a few myself. I was impressed at the accuracy, more often than not.
I understand the copyright thing...I just enjoyed seeing hero,heroines of all types and took snapshots when I saw something interesting...I have a few more shots but they're not close ups.
I heard of Devs once in a blue moon firing up a character and joining players. One dev just talked to us in their special red chat mode for an hour. Never actually saw him,her.
I should have taken the shots of Ronald McDonald, I saw a few of those.
I still remember around the time the cyborg pack came out and running into an awesome claws scrapper based on a predator complete with a laser eye. Blew my mind the things people could do with the creator pieces.
Should've snapshotted the Magneto, Storm, Phoenix, Cyclops and Wolverine that I saw scampering about...
I saw this guy in the Hollows back in 2006.
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.imagecoast.com%2Fimages%2Fblondeshell%2Funicron2.jpg)
Aha...I had no idea whom UNICRON was, but Google did. ;D
(https://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/BlueDalek/Unicron_zpsa33378eb.jpg) (http://s1094.photobucket.com/user/BlueDalek/media/Unicron_zpsa33378eb.jpg.html)
I actually would rather like to see that Celes Ch- err... Runeknight :p Final Fantasy VI is my jam, you see :D
Quote from: Argetlahm on April 17, 2013, 11:31:07 AM
I actually would rather like to see that Celes Ch- err... Runeknight :p Final Fantasy VI is my jam, you see :D
Did that actually. LOL
But my favorite was making a Katara lookalike from The Last Airbender. The water affinity powers simply wouldn't allow me to leave it alone.
Since I finally got the raw pics uploaded lets see what the character creator challenged me to duplicate. I appologize for the size, someday I'll crop them. First the various anime/manga ones.
Agent Kei - Kei from The Dirty Pair
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121201-01-08-43_zps5a789490.jpg)
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.gearsonline.net%2Fseries%2Fdirtypair%2Fcharacters%2Fimages%2Fkei-intro.png)
Section Leader - Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121130-22-43-35_zpscc247423.jpg)
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Misc/head8bd.jpg)
Siobhan of the Glenn - Clare from Claymore
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121201-00-21-29_zps76edb260.jpg)
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=kawaii-mobile.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F06%2FClaymore.Clare_.640x960-5.jpg)
Arts Noodlot - Doctor Doom with a palette shift and translated into dutch at a time when Google Translate didn't preserve copyrighted names. Robot Mastermind of course.
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121201-01-46-35_zps08bf9a98.jpg)
Fictional characters from movies
Sorry, no reference pics
Jim Duncan - The Stranger from High Plains Drifter
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121130-23-50-50_zps02a68a05.jpg)
Dark Umbra - The Shadow
(https://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a213/FatherXmas/Character%20Shots/screenshot_121130-23-27-52_zpsb9f1732e.jpg)
Some of these were intentional homages. The anime ones were started as "I bet if I can make that look in the costume editor?"
Quote from: Blondeshell on April 15, 2013, 11:23:08 PM
I saw this guy in the Hollows back in 2006.
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.imagecoast.com%2Fimages%2Fblondeshell%2Funicron2.jpg)
This may be one of the best things that I have ever seen!
Two years ago this guy ChimoruCOH made this Marvel vs Capcom 2 montage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJtBaNZeHGE) using City of Heroes to recreate a bunch of Capcom and Marvel characters. It's pretty awesome.
I've got some sightings of familiar heroes in my screenshots, but it's gonna take me a while to look through them. I've got tens of thousands of screenies.
The screenies and the stories were fun! Thanks for the pleasant nostalgia. :)
I used to make copywrited heroes on servers not to play but just to see how close I can make them.
I had one server filled with 12 from the Legion of Superheroes and another server with 12 from the golden age JSA.
Some of them you could make like 99% perfect.
I once made a shield scrapper called "Cyber America" that was a cyborg in a REALLY good Cap outfit. I later got the costume returned to default by the devs with a nice little message. They let me keep the name though.
This was when Cap was 'dead' so the bio was Paragon was testing out a robotic replacement.
That is cool stuff.
But on the otherhand I see why many devs and gam publishers dont delve too much into the creativity customization department. Sometimes as good as those toons are, on a live game can be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Then why build a game with deep customization if everyone is goign to just build the Hulk Batman Superman Thor DR Doom anyways? Might as well make a game with the real thing and no worries about lawsuits or having to destroy a copyright thing that was only meant as a homage and not to harm and tickign off a player?
I still find it hilarious that Marvel tried to get City of Heroes shut down on those grounds, but it was later discovered that Marvel's own employees were playing the game as Marvel lookalikes.
I think that discovery was what ultimately ended the lawsuit.
Quote from: Little David on May 28, 2013, 01:58:53 AM
I still find it hilarious that Marvel tried to get City of Heroes shut down on those grounds, but it was later discovered that Marvel's own employees were playing the game as Marvel lookalikes.
I think that discovery was what ultimately ended the lawsuit.
or led to some sort of settlement.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.wonderlandblog.com%2Fphotos%2Funcategorized%2Flfcc_widowtroopers_th.jpg)
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=farm4.staticflickr.com%2F3535%2F3745125333_fa05604234_z.jpg)
this is like a photobomb for COH'ers, once I noticed it in the first photo, all I can see is Ghost Widow, lol.
I think I ran into "Thor" from the first post towards the end.
I'd done a few myself, but usually they never became characters. Did make a few "homage" characters though (please don't be too big, please don't be too big, please don't be too big...):
(https://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z297/MetalRacer78/City%20of%20Heroes/Homages-Batman_COH_zps8eae7940.jpg)
(These three should be obvious)
(https://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z297/MetalRacer78/City%20of%20Heroes/Homages_zps98c2da3c.jpg)
(Top left to bottom right: Atim Saiyan, Zero'Wing, Texas'Star, Crimson Cardinal, Sound'Wave (real inventive that one...), Primed)
The only two "tribute" characters that I ever made were Starbrand from Marvel's New Universe adn Hawk from Hawk & Dove. Unfortunately, I lost screen shots when my hard drive wiped. Despite being rediculously accurate (including names as close as I could get them) They were so obscure that they were never reported. :p
(https://faces.cohtitan.com/render/image/large/0/82061.jpg)
Made this on the fly, figured we could use a little miss lib :)
I saw tons, but this guy was my favorite, I think.
(https://i.imgur.com/VMxgW9I.jpg)
In one fell swoop:
3 from DC, 3 from Marvel.
screenshot_120519-08-41-40, pretty sure we're queued up for Synapse.
Quote from: goodtime on June 06, 2013, 01:24:12 AM
In one fell swoop: 3 from DC, 3 from Marvel.
You're not counting The Human Torch (fire armor)?
Quote from: SerialBeggar on June 06, 2013, 01:32:25 AM
You're not counting The Human Torch (fire armor)?
I almost added that in, but left it with the costume pieces. :)
From Champions Online:
(https://faces.cohtitan.com/render/image/large/0/82065.jpg)
:'(