Yep (it's one of the DLCs). Although, as noted above, you don't get to wear the logo.

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I have a character who's wearing a hoodie with the logo on it. Don't remember where/when I picked it up though,.

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Oh yeah, the hoodie. That's a random drop. 2814 would probably wear one if she happened to get that lucky. On the other hand, she sometimes wears a Superman one, so presumably the hoodies are not what you would call officially sanctioned. :)

I've heard tell (and I make no warranty as to how authentic a fact it is) that the unavailability of the proper costume logo for heroes with the Light powerset, despite the fact that they are obviously Green Lanterns, was the developers' inexplicably effective sop to the Corporate Masters' concern that flooding the game with a million-zillion GLs when there are canonically supposed to be only 3600 of them in the whole universe would be a bit of a credibility stretch. The explanation (as Jerkface notes to 2814 above) is that you're not a real GL, you're just some kind of power-ringed "special constable" who'll be dismissed back to his day job once the riot is over.

Some years ago I speculated that John Stewart in the pre-Unlimited JL cartoon was actually this kind of thing and not a real Green Lantern, owing to how hilariously weak his powers were often depicted as being. I mean, in Starcrossed his power ring gets broken by some guy with an axe. That doesn't happen to proper Green Lanterns. :)

There are admittedly a lot of scale problems involved in allowing GLs as player characters in a shared-world game. To take one example, I mean, let's face it, to a Green Lantern - to anyone with proper superpowers - Bane shouldn't be interesting, let alone challenging. Nobody who can survive, let alone win, a fight with Mongul should even notice Bane. He's a steroid-pumped Mexican wrestler. He shouldn't even be able to beat Killer Croc. It was preposterous enough that he was originally presented as a threat to Batman, let alone actually-super superheroes.

(NOTE: The above may be informed to a disproportionate degree by the fact that oh my freaking God I hate Bane. ;)

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Every writer after that? Big bruiser who punches through walls. It's annoying. I'd like to see someone do a storyline with him in which he doesn't have access to venom at all, and still manages to bust some major shit up, or hell maybe even get away with it.

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GO NOW and get Gail Simone's 'Secret Six', wherein she does just that with Bane - he is actively avoiding using Venom because he felt it was becoming a crutch and he wanted to not have to rely on it.

Also, it's got some awesome writing, a number of terribly creepy villians, a trip to Hell, a character resurrection that makes sense, and generally is fairly awesome.

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Look, just go read it. :)

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I've always preferred to think of the later interpretations as tacit acknowledgements that his original plotline was daft as fuck from the word go and only worked because Denny cheated. :)

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And hey, lower power level rings are far from the dumbest thing the Space Smurfs have done this decade. In fact, if they'd listened to Ganthet and had them go for people that had some training, it'd actually be genius!

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I understand the desire to make them the equivalent of Da Chief and/or those Admirals back at Starfleet HQ - distant authority figures to make the cowboy cops and captains in the field look good - and not the Boring Omniscient Bosses that the Arisians were, but surely there's some middle ground between that and "should not be trusted to organize a school bake sale." Their utter incompetence at their (self-)appointed task has, like Azuria in CoH, reduced them to a joke. (As we see here.)

Well, to be fair the MAGI vault in Galaxy City wasn't actually Azurias job. I'm not sure the Guardians have anything besides bad writing to blame their actions on.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

as an explanation for the origin of absolutely every player character, the Exobyte thing doesn't even stand up by the extremely liberal standards to which the explanations for things in MMOs based on comic books tend to be held, and can safely be disregarded in virtually all cases.

Invader Kyra, for instance, would be extremely surprised to be told that her superpowers derive from having inhaled magic evil-robot fairy dust from a parallel future. She's always been under the impression that they were on account of she's from Mars.

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Yeah, it's even weirder in a setting where you can get superpowers in almost every way possible, from alien tech to magic to genetics, to speaking a certain mathematical formula out loud. Quite an odd move on the writers part, and easily ignored for RP purposes.

>Invader Kyra, for instance, would be extremely surprised to be told
>that her superpowers derive from having inhaled magic evil-robot fairy
>dust from a parallel future. She's always been under the impression
>that they were on account of she's from Mars.

Man, now I want to make a Martian...

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

You can't quite, for the usual reasons that constrain shared-world videogame characters, but you can get reasonably close. There are no equivalents for the standard Martian density-shifting, invisibility (as far as I've been able to determine), or shapeshiting abilities (the power set that does some shapeshifting is otherwise not thematically that appropriate), and there's the... slight oddity that one of the available powers in the Mental set is pyrokinesis, but you can at least be green and have glowing red eyes.

Mind you, it's entirely possible that Kyra is only claiming to be an agent of the Martian government, and in fact is from some... other planet. I mean, yes, she's telekinetic and has Blast-O-Vision, but she also carries a pair of blaster pistols and she can only sort-of fly. And there's her nom de guerre, which she insists has simply lost something in translation, but...

... that uniform just doesn't look particularly Martian to some observers.

Although, to be fair, this one does, and sometimes she doesn't even wear one, as such.

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>

I suppose it depends on how fond she is of vending-machine snack foods and wether or not she has a metallic backpack stashed somewhere...

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The former would prove little; Martians are also notorious devotees of Earth junk food. :)

There's a generic school backpack available, and a kinda military/SWAT one, but she was too in-game broke for me to get her one for this joke.

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Well, that's no fun. If I wanted to play in DCUO, I'd be a semi-genius who'd managed to duplicate the Gravity Rod.

Sure, it's seventy-year old technology. But it beats up mooks just fine.

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Guess I might wander in to try it out. All I've got there so far is my CoH main doing some recon for Portal Corp and a local girl granted the incredible Exobyte powers of hitting things with a stick. (Judging by the high rate of snark, it's possible she got her 'powers' from Batgirl. Stephs gonna be smug about that).

It's amusing how a world being invaded by Brainiac is still more cheerful then the modern comics it's based off...

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Interstella was created pretty much entirely to make use of the "Cosmic" character skin, which I greatly wish was available in CoH. She's your righteous two-fisted flying hero type from Metropolis, using the Mental set (Telekinesis) and hand blasts.

Pathfinder Bravo is a staff fighter; ex-Army, he knows how to use a rifle, of course, but his mentor really doesn't like guns and just because the streets have turned into a warzone doesn't mean that shooting possessed citizens would be cool. I've given some thought to importing him into CoH once Staff Melee goes live there, but I think I want to keep him in his own milieu.

Overclockd is a speedster and a pretty amoral bastard, which is why he's now on Luthor's payroll. Martial arts and Electric powers, like I said.

Oh, and my completely silly idea?
Superman's Pal (aka "Dial 'O' For Olsen") - Every week, Jimmy Olsen is affected by a random Exobyte. Reroll with a new powerset, and take a shot.

"Rubber bullets. Honest."
- Operative White, sublimely indifferent to the disapproval of Batman

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*Quirks an eyebrow* Wasn't that originally Batman's line from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns? Faithfully animated here, though they do kinda skip all the way to the fight in the mud pit.

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Amusingly, when I looked up the Green Lantern Corps article on the DCUO wiki, I noticed that one of the red links under 'Members' is 'Green Lantern Panicked Recruit', which your short here nicely conveys. I keep waffling on the idea of playing this, now that its free. Maybe I will.

On another note, I can't help but wonder what would happen of a bunch of Lex-modified Exobytes were dropped into a universe without Brainiac to come looking for them (or where Braniac is less of a threat, relatively speaking). I mean, UF could handle it, its not like insanely weird things don't happen every day there, but RL Earth, or Earth Prime would be a hell of a mess, as would quite a few others.

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Heh, I don't think that's actually meant to describe a player character - there's a GLs-vs.-YLs-themed PvP event I keep seeing countdown banners for in-game called "Ring War", which I have never investigated but which I would tend to suspect involves an NPC or two by that name.

It does neatly summarize the 27 poor bastards before 2814, though. (And 2814 herself, for the first 10 minutes or so of her career, before she had her Beyond Sane moment in the pod. :)

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Well, yeah. The big difference for her is that she overcame her panic. Its a good short.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
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“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

It's an MMO with a level progression, so direct comparisons of this kind are pretty much meaningless. As in any MMO based on a prominent license, you start out hilariously weak and eventually, by slow degrees, progress until you're... still hilariously weak compared to any NPC whose name you would recognize. If you're running a licensed MMO, you can't have lowly rabble like the player characters showing up the iconic intellectual properties owned by the people who are paying the bills, after all. :)

At the same time, though, there are certain areas in which you're incredibly powerful simply because of the way the mechanics of the game world are set up. For instance, there appears to be no such thing as falling damage in DCUO, so even if you contrive to fall from the very top of the skybox to the street, you just make a loud noise and a mysteriously fleeting crater. There's no such power as super-strength, just a "weapon" set called Brawling, so if you're a two-fisted personage of action, you can at least attempt to beat up anything Superman could beat up. And so on.

TLDR: It has all the same stupid limitations as any other shared-world game, and because of them there's not really any point in asking yourself, Is that pre-Crisis Superman or Animated Series Superman? He's just Superman as much as anyone inside that game engine can be, and slightly more so than you because he's a signature NPC. :)

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Nitpick: There is a superstrength power. It lets you pick up and throw bigger shit, and thrown items do more damage/go farther. It's one of the "Iconic" powers.

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'Girds you with strength to lift vehicles and smash opponents.

Permanently Gain: +100% Weaponization Rating'

I see what Gryphon means by 'hilariously weak', given how many canon superpowered characters, including throwaways and goons that don't even rate a name, can lift a vehicle (and you need Level 22 for this; does that mean the specific character has to be Level 22, or just that once you get any character to Level 22, its unlocked for all characters on that account?).

Does it model 'mundane' heroes any better (ignoring the fact that a canon Super Normal like Robin or Spoiler (if she ever shows up) will beat you easily, since that's an NPC thing)?

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The problem is that it doesn't matter who you are, you're at roughly the same power rating, so that there isn't a "best" way to play. So a staff fighting tech powered agility is going to be about as good as a blasting fire powered flying dude. Assuming equal equipment (and equal skill) you're both gonna be laying out the same amount of damage. So, no, it doesn't.

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Well, going to free would naturally get a lot of people signing up who are either a) cheap, b) broke, or c) both, who thus would not have signed up otherwise. That's got to slow it down. Does not excuse the buggyness, though.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

I figured you don't grow up in Gotham City (and not even in the suburbs, in the city) without either becoming completely colorless and downtrodden, or, well, that.

If Harvey Bullock ever met 2814, and if he gave her any shit at all about being a superhero, he'd be in for the full, unabridged "if you people were even slightly capable of doing your goddamn jobs, this wouldn't have happened to me, donut jockey, so don't even" edition of the Riot Act. Knowing Harvey, he might like that.

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Or loonier than a pitbull trapped in a spin dryer. Messrs. Dent and Nigma and Mesdames Isley and Quinn are native sons and daughters of Fair Gotham, after all. (I would include the notable epitome of Gotham crazy, Jack the Grin, but I believe that, as a former carnie, he may or may not be native born, but rather an expatriate from the rest of the world.)

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Actually, Harley's from Bensonhurst, but that doesn't really speak against your theory. :)

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