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kilian777
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[2008-04-20 02:36:05 +0000 UTC]
"Space Motherf**kin Aviator"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 612; Deviations: 113; Watchers: 48
Watching: 89; Pageviews: 23673; Comments Made: 16446; Friends: 89
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Anyone who creates with the strength of their hearts!Favorite movies: V for Vendetta
Favorite TV shows: Misfits, anything Batman
Favorite bands / musical artists: K-os, Panic! at the Disco, Modest Mouse, Sting
Favorite books: The High House, Watchmen
Favorite writers: arrogant ol' me
Favorite games: dual monsters
Favorite gaming platform: Computer
Tools of the Trade: pencil, paper, chewing gum, computer, and brain
Other Interests: writing, reading, drawing, stirring things up!
# About me
What can I say? I can get a bit anal when it comes to spelling and pronunciation. Also I love puns, incidentally.Also, this is me, in case you were wondering: mebad.deviantart.com/art/Raperβ¦
Current Residence: beyond the Momerath's Outgrabe
deviantWEAR sizing preference: large an in cha'ge m8
Print preference: the good kind
Favourite genre of music: vagueley folkish alterna-rock
Favourite photographer: Gildae-san, Bri-san, and MEBAD-san
Favourite style of art: Realism
Operating System: Windows 7
MP3 player of choice: iPoo'd
Shell of choice: the ones with sunflower seeds in them
Wallpaper of choice: one with pretty flowers on it
Skin of choice: banana skins
Favourite cartoon character: Spider-man
Personal Quote: "Don't try to headbutt a snake, that'll just end badly"
# Comments
Comments: 1220
Thank you for fav'ing my live-action Power Ring (Jessica Cruz) casting choice! Would you please leave a comment on it regarding what you think of it as well?
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Hi, thanks for the fav, I hope you'll enjoy even the rest of the gallery, have a good day, bye!
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So with villains to redesign...here's what I have:
Hugo Strange
Blackfire
The Queen (Isabel Rochev)
General Zod
and...Goth. I'm tempted to pick this thankfully obscure idiot for the reason that I can't tell if he's a satire on subculture paranoia or if they actually want me to take his character seriously. It's a bit of a mixed message they're sending. Usually you can tell if a villain is a walking joke or not. Reading this guy's backstory is like reading Hangman's Curse so I think they want me to take him seriously.
But Mongal is more attractive to draw because she's obscure and muscley.
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i think it is meant to be really dated paranoia, or a parody of really dated paranoia. and I'm surprised you didn't go for someone like Giganta or the female furies, or maybe Morgan LaFey
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Aaah. Overall, Goth seems pretty lame. And metal. His visual design is more metal than goth so there's another thing I don't like about him.
Giganta would be kind of cool, maybe if I knew her character better than what I read on her wiki page. But as it is, I generally don't go for size-based characters.
I think if I redesigned her she'd end up something like the Savior from DMC4. My version of her would be something like she weaponizes her body by putting a bunch of smaller weapons on her body instead of thinking of herself as one cohesive weapon. Especially considering that there is a "Dr." in her character story and that she's smart enough to transfer her fucking mind from an animal to a human, I'd expect her to be smarter.
It's also to do with the fact that she's a petty character. She's a victim of superpeople collateral damage, but then I'm fairly used to writing characters that have pasts much darker than hers so she comes off as extremely immature to me.
She's wasted potential.
Morgan seems cool too. But I like her character and don't think it requires much revision.
The female furies...instead of drawing 5 villains you want me to draw 10? Maybe if you paid me I'd do that.
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then darken her. and being pretty isn't essential for her character. this is a redesign of her media.dcentertainment.com/site⦠.to be honest, i 'm surprised a lot of wonder woman villains didn't make it into your list. Genocide is among them.
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It's not that her character needs darkening. She's a simple character that I'd like to see a bit of complexity with.
I went to the DC wiki and looked through their villains tags. And I remember seeing Genocide, but the name alone kind of turned me away. It's a little on the nose, don't you think? I mean names like Dr. Psycho kind of make me facepalm. They're villain names, not really activist names. The only entity that ever actually did that IRL that I know of was Murder Inc.
When I name my forces or give my characters alter egos, it's usually a nickname that they took upon themselves.
Like Lillian. Her power often manifests as green fire, and her powers are to raise the recently deceased. Hence, she received the nickname "Deadfire".
The Vengere Corporation is an anagram of "revenge", but it's used as the last name of Marilynn Vengere, a posthuman spy created solely to further the purposes of my villain character. The villain here is named "God", but the name was given to him by fanatical cultists. In this case, he trashed his old name because he really does believe he's God.
Eve uses the name "Red Queen" partly as an ironic nickname given to her by God for her habit of indiscriminately killing people. Her real name is Eve, and it was given to her because she was the first human created outside of the womb in western society. She's the first of her kind.
My Iron God character has a name. It's Ch'Ghrygathoth. But that name is like saying Sauron in Lord of the Rings or Voldemort in Harry Potter so everyone just uses "Iron God". Plus, Ch'GhrygathothΒ is sort of hard to pronounce with human speech equipment so the name sticks. The "Ironess" is an identity created to protect a character from being identified and is relevant to the fact that her skin is pretty much a bomb-proof carapace.
But...Genocide? Dr. Psycho? What fucking 9-year old came up with that?! You can argue that putting "iron" into nicknames, using God, and callings someone Deadfire is on the nose, but half of these names come off as the names of villains from Saturday morning cartoons. I saw a lot of characters like this and the names turned me away.
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a lot of wonder woman's villains are ancient, namely doctor psycho, back in the golden age, the Bat-baby age. as for Genocide, she's essentially a Doomsday for Wonder Woman and her name is more of a throwback to the dark age of the nineties when everyone had "gritty" names. I think it's meant to be ironic too, as she's more of the strong, silent, no nonsense types, so she clearly didn't pick such a dramatic name out for herself, but she makes it fit because she's so ruthless.
and they sound like the names of saturday morning cartoon villains because they are and have been the names of saturday morning cartoon villains. that's kind of half the fun of comics is trying one's hardest to make a world in which an adult would end up being called "Captain Cold" or "Sinestro", even if you fail. At least you end up with characters who are essentially burnt out, one note metacriminals who fell into a gimmick and next thing you know the news and interpol give then an off-the-top-of-their-head nickname that stuck and they have to live with it forever, looking at it as something between a hobby that they love even though it's weird and a quaint identity they've begrudgingly grown attached to. That or they're from another planet and/or are too no-nonsense to know or acknowledge how silly their name is, like Doctor Doom or Darksied or Atrocitus.
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I guess. There are reasons for things like this but I'm still looking in on something I'm not a part of so I see those names and I don't assume that.
Besides, I've seen Sinestro's design. That's a rare case of a villain who looks like his name. He looks like a sinister maestro. I've got nothing against him except maybe wondering why they chose yellow to represent fear. I'd think that's more of a red color, but yellow? He looks like a hornet, which I suppose relates to our habit of using yellow in caution symbols. I'd be tempted to use black if not for Black Lantern.
I did look at Doomsday's page, but I didn't gravitate towards him. Neither his power nor his appearance was that interesting. It's "woooo I'm an evil invincible abomination" which lends itself to story potential but otherwise comes off as a reverse Superman type deal. Invincible characters aren't really my thing. I like hard-to-kill people.
We've debated this before. You've criticized me for calling my characters "Lola Bloodworth". I still like and want to use that name but I only changed it because the character is more mature than calling herself Lola, even though the violent "party hard" culture of Devil's Island caters to those sorts of names.
In the past you've said it's the characters thatΒ make the names, not the other way around.
I more or less think of in terms of what a gangster would name themselves. If they're bad enough, their names alone become notorious. Al Capone, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Osama Bin Laden, Yasser Arafat, Validmir Putin...
The only person in that small list who actually gave themselves a name was Stalin. As I recall, Josef's real name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Jospeh Stalin was shorter, and I believe "Stalin" is Russian for "Steel". He used that for propaganda purposes. That's about the only instance I know of where a super villain gimmick stuck.
Gang names are even weirder. You've got Mexico with "El chapo" Guzman, which roughly translates out to "The Chap". Babyface Nelson was a 1930s gangster with a...babyface. Al Capone earned his name "Scarface" literally because he had a scar on his face.
Joseph Mengele earned his name "The Angel of Death" because he was notoriously brutal with inmates at Auschwitz.
The Zodiac Killer wrote letters that used zodiac signs.
But did we ever straight up call a terrorist or a dictator "Genocide"? Captain Cold is believable because it sounds like a nickname that disgruntled employees give their mean boss. Which I guess he is. Then there's Doctor Doom. All of these villain names sound mocking.
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Also they chose yellow because they needed to have an emotional state for each color on the roygbiv scale and being yellow meant being afraid.
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they could have done better with purple
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do you mean indigo or violet?
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Violet.
In a visual sense, we associate yellow with caution. It's eye-catching and instills and "OH SHIT" sort of vibe because it's intense. It's the visual equivalent of a jump scare.
If you're talking about fear, darker colors imply mysterious depths and the unknown. As animals that function on the Circadian cycle, we instinctively seek shelter in darkness. Nighttime is when we sleep. It is when we are most vulnerable to the unseen predators with night vision.
Yellow implies something like fire or bees.
Dangerous, yes, but can easily be avoided.
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Well they had the yellow power ring before it had an emotion attached to it. Fear happened to work. Also the lanterns are about light.
Also, I don't know why I'm asking, but what in particular bothers you about the Star Sapphires?
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I know that the Lanterns are about light. I did redesign Green Lantern as a cyberpunk dude you know.
Technically there isn't a lot that bothers me about Star Sapphire. I could complain about how they're basically a race of pinup figures but I have seen how the males dress.
Blackfire in particular just bothers me because her visual design doesn't completely sync with her character. She's plagued by feelings of inadequacy and the neglect of her people. I'd picture someone like that in amuch more ragged "revolutionary" costume or having big weaponized wings, sort of like Hawkgirl only more like the wings of a star fighter. She's just a black clone of Starfire.
I read this and my God, that costume does not fit her.
Plus, everything about this cover . Now I've been to Tumblr long enough to know about the "well this costume was obviously made to exploit!"versus "She just likes that costume" but for fuck's sake look at that cover. Starfire's got her gigantic "TEENAGE" breasts shoved into Blackfire's pleasure laser. That is a blatant sexual display if ever I saw one in a comic.
And then I go to Google search for more dignified pictures and then there's this ...
Among the non-sexualized images are these costumes
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The second one I don't have a lot to gripe against. But the top one...that one looks like this certain costume .
Blackfire is all roar and little bite, if the bondage imagery has anything to say about that. She comes off as someone who DEMANDS respect and would seek to visually intimidate her enemies.
Plus, she's got this theme of impairment. Would she be that comfortable with her body or would she want to cover herself in armor?
The full spandex bodysuit and the strange crown thing outlining her face doesn't do it for me.
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If you think that's ridiculous, you should see her new 52 costume.
The Tamaranians are written so that they are creatures who are not big on modesty. Maybe this is "covering up" in the eyes of a tamaranian
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I could have predicted things would go that way with her.
She technically has an excuse to wear nothing, but the constant harassment on this planet would probably educate her on the hazards of being naive pretty quickly. Even if that is innocent on her character's part, the suggestive posing makes it quite obvious that it's a pervert drawing her.
I write for a few people without a modern sense of decency. Particularly, Devil's Island, Rorran, and a few other places in my books sort of expect one to wear skintight or no clothes at all. Devil's Island has the excuse because it is an adult-oriented culture. Rorran is influenced by a foreign culture that lives on a ball of magma, whose inabitants don't wear clothing so they don't sweat to death.
And Starfire's power comes from absorbing sunlight. I wouldn't give a rat's ass about her costume if she weren't put in blatantly sexual positions so often.
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The "constant harrassment" would probably just make her burn someone to death with a starbolt or cause her to put them through a wall without a second thought.
more importantly, the wings on her costume would be kind or irrelevent, because she got all of the traditional powers of her people and more when she was experimented on.
The tamaranians are very sexually liberated. That said, her character clearly exists so that she can be erotica in comics.
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Well then; have her reveal her totalitarian nature at an early age.
I refuse to believe that it was the one incident during combat training that let everyone know she was evil. Someone like this has an antisocial personality and that shows up at an early age.
Yeah, I read further into that. That seems like a really cheap way to get around her disabilities in writing.
Yes. Yes it does.
On another note this did inspire sort of a new story of mine. An intergalactic rogue trying to scrounge up cash to fix her ship. How original, I know.
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nobody liked her and nobody wanted her to rule. her antisocial personality kind of shown through from out the gate.
She, as a trope character is essentially an evil version of Starfire, to see her disability changed to better fit that is saddening but not surprising.
That said, having to live without powers only to have them invasively jail-breaked on without one's consent by torturous strangers could make for an interesting story.
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then why the fuck would they teach her to fight in the first place
I generally dislike how the villain characters have the more interesting backstories. It's like "What the fuck, writers! These characters are great! You're wasting them!"
Or maybe the idea of a physically disabled villain was to npc for them.
I would know, having written Death Warrant...five times...
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because she was still a member of the royal family and they were hoping an outlet might help. like fools.
villains have less of a status quo to cling to and can suffer through more because they don't have to stay sane. And also because all characters are under-utilized 99% of the time. also, she wouldn't be disabled in our eyes, or the eyes of other alien species, just in the eyes of her people. it may have been lost on the readers, who see far more in depth now then they used too.
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you know fuck DC I'm going to start my own studio
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I wasn't judging your name choices by bringing this up, I was more reveling in comic lore.
And Genocide isn't a genocidal person. she just single-mindedly wanted to kill wonder woman. Her name was more of a byproduct of her creators, like I had said, it had been given to her. When given a corpse to infuse with magical energies, chemicals and bionics or whatever, one tends to get over-dramatic with the naming. Also, I think Captain Cold chose his own name and is just really unimaginative. He had a freeze ray and Mr. Freeze was taken. And some of them are a little mocking. remember this began as a children's genre, so a lot of the old names were meant to make them seem less scarey. nowadays they serve to kind of counter your view of them as monsterous ass holes and actually evil people.
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I know, it just reminded me of that.
If it were up to me I'd just rename them if you want to make them adult.
Like, a common thing in the military and some action movies is to come up with callsigns. If anything, I'd expect people like this to be known as weird and mundane names that don't fit at all.
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most of the villain names are for marketing and are used in kids shows. a lot of the super heroes just call people they know by their names. Like the villain Firefly's real name is Garfield Lynns. Batman just calls him Lynns.
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You know what I'd call myself if I were a superhero? Nothing. And if they gave me a name you know what I'd do? Write angry letters to the news and start up a disgruntled blog about news perceptions.
I was talking to my comic book friend about this. Superheroes are like luchadors to me and nearly impossible for me to take with an ounce of seriousness.
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firstly, I find the concept of you ever willfully becoming or referring to yourself as a super hero as weird. Secondly, you would have to do more to prove that you were the hero in question than send a radio station angry anonymous letters claiming you were the guy. Thirdly, it would all depend on what kind of super powers you had and from where you got them. They may come with a name.
fourthly, you don't have to take something seriously to enjoy it.
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Dude I'd refer to myself that way. I'd be condescending as fuck about it, too.
Also, I probably would do stuff around the "city". Though again I'd be condescending about it by leaving letters with my beat up criminals like "Hope you have room for these two!" or "Less people to lock up, more time for donuts!" or some stupid crap like that.
And yes it would depend on the superpower.
But whatever name I'm given I'd still object to it.
And your fourth point is correct.
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Yes well you do love sticking it to the man.
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Actually it has more to do with the fact that annoying people is fun.
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you'd think you'd have more sympathy, since you have absolutely no tolerance for being annoyed.
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When I call myself a bitch that's only half a joke. I can be a total bitch.
I don't always have my sympathy switch flipped to the on position and when I don't I find that playing with people is fun.
I like being on top and receiving lots of praise and/or animosity. What I don't like is people just ignoring me.
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