Also known as the Because I Could department. These are characters I made either in an effort to replicate a particular character from somewhere else, or just because I was messing around with the character creation system. I don't play them regularly, and in some cases they were deleted after I got the screenshots, so I won't bother listing the servers they're on.
Anna here, as you can probably tell from her color scheme, was originally devised as an X-Men character way back in the 80s, when the old Marvel Super Heroes campaign that gave us Don Griffin started. She was an NPC who used to chum around with Don some, before Gamemaster Joe killed her off in a fit of pique.
Dynamo Dan's sister Natalie as Reactor Girl, version 1. I'll probably make her again and play her more regularly.
Here's Version 2 of Reactor Girl. As you can see, Natalie's gotten a bit more confident about her wardrobe.
This is the Reactor Girl of Earth-2 - Nathan Harris, Reactor Man. (Earth-2's Dynamo Dani, Nathan's elder sister, will probably also get designed someday.)
Red Star MX-594 was my first character, a Technology Tanker. I made him spindly like this instead of hulking like you might expect because, well, mainly because I could. 594 is an ex-Soviet military robot who still obeys his primary programming by protecting the proletariat of Paragon City. He's also apparently a chick magnet, which I find more than a little weird.
A more advanced member of the Red Star series, RX-112 is a Technology Scrapper - a little heavier on the offense, a little lighter on the defense, but with the same basic abilities and somewhat sleeker styling.
Rodina VX-1 is the most technologically advanced of the Red Star line. Officially "Red Star VX-001", she was the prototype for a series of Red Stars which never made it to production before the Soviet Union collapsed.
The Silver Phantom - Does she look familiar? Click on her for more information.
Utena Tenjou, Chief of the International Police Organization, ca. 2430.
It's the Official Hammer, large (well, at least tall) and in charge!
Shellhead Mk V. Surely you recognize him. I've also done a Mk I version, but I don't have any screenshots of him yet.
A passable approximation of the Iron Monger from Iron Man Vol. 1 #200. Made just to see how close I could get.
My attempt at replicating a favorite Iron Man villain. Not too successful at recreating his actual look, but this makes for a decently convincing might-have-been Dynamo suit, I think.
A not-quite-successful attempt at creating a TRON Game Warrior (I'll probably try it again sometime). This shot isn't really here for him, though, so much as for the other character in the shot, a familiar-looking fellow known, according to the name hovering above his head when not in screenshot mode, as "the Mater Cheif".
Mr. Steve Rogers.
My first Iron Chef-themed character, Iron Chef J is on Justice. The Iron Chef J on Virtue is another player's member of that server's Iron Chef team, which also includes my own Iron Chef C.
Iron Chef Sakai, my second Chef, was made on Virtue, and was later reborn as Iron Chef F, still another player's member of the Iron Chef team.
Arctica, a cryonic-weapons gynoid. Made to see if I could get away with a character who basically isn't wearing a costume. I'll probably remake her sometime with slightly different features.
Not long after getting the game, I threatened to make a scantily clad luchadora named "La Violencia" just because I could. Well, here she is. Her bio card reads, "Some ambassadors' daughters end up being taken in by an ancient clan of shadow warriors and trained in their deadly arts after their fathers' assassinations. Unfortunately, Courtney McNish's father wasn't stationed in the Middle East, she she wound up being adopted by a family of Mexican masked wrestlers."
How's this for silly? They'll let you make Joe Stalin, but they won't let you CALL him Joe Stalin. If you try to enter a name that has anything to DO with Stalin, you get back "that name is invalid," which is not the same error message you get if the name is already taken. Goofy. So this guy was called "the Iron Georgian", for the brief time he existed, which was basically just long enough to take these screenshots.
The Scarlet Sentinel is pretty much impossible, thanks to the hard-coded colors of the power effects in this game, so I present to you instead what he would have been if I had actually bought a class ring with the appropriate stone for Stearns High School's colors in it: Ladies and gentlemen, the Blue Beacon!
Professor Neutrino, mild-mannered college professor with radiation-based powers. He eschews the standard containment suit as hopelessly unclassy ("I look like a demented frogman") and dresses to impress overtop of it. The Prof may go active one of these days; in my brief time playing him, I noticed that he's fun to roleplay.
Truss challenged me to come up with a CoH avatar for the Existential Cowboy, a character we dreamed up some years ago. "Existential Cowboy" is too long a name, so I give you instead Marshal John Crosston, the Zen Cowboy. (Battlecry: "The dogie that can get along is not the true dogie.")
Ohka-Maru, the 17th holder of the Red Eye Society's prestigious field agent title. Derived from a character I invented for a round-robin story some years ago.
Tom Russell is Captain Hero, the Last Son of Xenos.
Wayne "Fireball" Jones was a hot fastball pitcher for the minor-league Kings Row Red Caps, on his way to a bright career as a major-leaguer, when the manifestation of his mutant power forced him out of organized baseball. Now he brings the heat for justice!
