A new poll!
Hi. Something
Dom/Soldier just said about the Puppet made me wonder:
Who's your favorite
Vanguard villain? Who’s the baddie you love to hate?
Likely suspects (but
not a complete list):
Silas Caine
Jim Harrik and/or
Homicide for Hire
The Entity IT
Black Bat
Dr. Swastika and/or
the Ubermensch
The Luddite
Morgue and/or the
Five Bosses of Big City (may they rest in peace)
Skin Deep
The Primate and/or his Ani-Men
Ratman
The Puppet
Otom the Seer
Warlock and/or the
Crimson Coven
Accelerator
The Dark Avatar
Vanguard Omega
Dr. Change
Gadget Girl
Dr. X and/or the
Soviet Super Soldiers
Jellyfish
The Hyena
Pachyderm
Spider Girucci
Homicide Unlimited
Other?
Thanks. The answers
would be instructional for me. Also, fun.
Best,
Jeff
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Avatar:
OOC:I like Harrik as a neat foe.
I like the Luddite's powers and picture. Wish I knew his actual power descriptions.
As time passes, I find that I think that I like the
adventure against the Primate the best of what we've done.
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Menagerie:
OOC:
My Top 5
Silas Caine
Jim Harrik and/or Homicide for Hire
The Entity IT
Dr. Change
Warlock and/or the Crimson Coven
I also have 1 objection. Pacyderm should not be on the list.
He isn't a villain he is just misunderstood. :)
Viva Vanguard.
Tom
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Slate:
OOC: Favorite villain, IT
Baddies I love to hate,
Luddite #1
Skin Deep a very close #2
Personally loved the Vanguard Omega issues.
Can't wait to see what's about to happen!
Jon
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Slingshot:
OOC:I'm right in my element right now.
Luddite, Harrik and Skin Deep? I'm just missing Silas Caine
and it would be a hat trick.
By far, Silas Caine has been a villain I love to hate.
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GM:
OOC:Thanks. Interesting replies so far. :)
Harold, did you like the Primate storyline because of
Primate as the master villain?
Or was it Oracle's future powers, Greece as the location,
the darker feel than the customary silver-bronze age feel, the Inhuman
betrayal, the Symbiote pseudo-betrayal, or something else?
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Avatar:
OOC:A little of each. The darkness and the desperate nature of the thing, primarily.
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Symbiote:
OOC:
I don't know if he's my "favorite" or "the
one I love to hate" the most, but the Black Bat...troubles me. The way he took down the entire team so
easily. The interplay between him and
Caine that I still don't think we completely understand. The way that Lightning Strike, Slingshot and
Symbiote may still be mind controlled by him for all we know!
Second on my list:
Dr. Swastika, the only villain Hal really hasn't been involved with
(because he came in after that storyline).
Hal would probably see some disturbing similarities between the two of
them--both brilliant scientists, both obsessed with the metagene and what makes
a superhuman. And like The Bat, he's
still out there...
Viva Vanguard,
Greg
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Sentinel:
OOC:Kirk's biggest baddie has to be Swastika whose efforts ended the first heroic age and caused such personal pain to Lancaster. With his mental abilities and his ability to inhabit the bodies of others and force them to do his will... Kirk looks for him behind every corner.
Seems right now the biggest threat is Caine ... who is also
doing everything to end the new heroic age.
(Hmmm. We also know
from the digital zone Caine'ss inner self is incredible strong and that from
Kirk's energy sense Caine is actually a superbeing himself --- any wonder that
Kirk is paranoid about a link between Caine and Swastika ... although thus far
nothing has surfaced to substantiate it and we've seen no sign of Swastika
since our first mission).
However the foe I actually hate is Harrik. Hate him.
Guess its because he always seems a step ahead and has a golden touch
and seems untouchable. You've played it
seemingly that he's been around and is an incredible strategist ... but I
wouldn't be surprised on his actual sheet if he had some luck powers along with
the ability to sense the weakness in others
(ala Karnack of the Inhumans) and stuff like that. Hate that he knows exactly what to do to hurt
us most and that unless taken unawares seems untouchable ... all the while
seemingly just being a 'normal guy'. Hate
that we can't corral him... hope Harold mops the floor with him this
adventure! HATE HIM!
Seth
PS I know that Black Bat is nasty and almost got Kirk
killed, and you've played him up as plenty scary, but in my mind, knowing Tony played him in
the old days (even though I wasn't there), I see him as this cartoony cross
between Tony and Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 From Outer Space running around with a cape hiding his face saying in a fake Transylvanian accent, "I want
to suck your blood."
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Lightning Strike:
OOC:When I played Black Bat he wasn't quite like Bela Lugosi but he also wasn't as evil as he is now. I take that back, I do remember him killing one of the other players parents in one of the games and making Dynamo choose between stopping him and have innocent police officers being devoured by rats so he probably has been pretty evil all along. He has to be number one in my book.
Second is Dr. Change.
That bastard was always one step ahead of the Freedom Force and made
them look foolish many a time.
Harrik is third as I still remember one of the early games
when we fought against him and it may have been at the Museum of Natural
History in NYC when one of the PC's spent an action and a special hit to go
after his sunglasses thinking that they were the source of his power. Unfortunately, they were only sunglasses so
all we managed to do was make him slightly less cool. He must be up to like level 500 by now given
that we fought him in the 1980's. It
would be nice if I could age in comic time!!
Caine is fourth as I don't have as much history with him as
a player but he is certainly number one in terms of how much Lightning Strike
hates him.
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Clone:
OOC:Because of all the 'blank spaces' still floating around in Clone's background I'm going to go with 'Dr. Swastika and/or the Ubermensch' and 'Dr. X and/or the Soviet Super Soldiers' as a tie - I'm dying to have Clone encounter these guys!
-Kev
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Soldier:
OOC:OK, as Soldier has missed out on a lot, and has had limited interaction with a lot of the rest of these guys, I'm going to have a short list.
Topping the list is dear old, especially after the
revelations of the past few issues
Next up, and coming is a very close second, is Silas Caine
Coming in third, I'd have to go with the Patriot
(Mercenary?), as I've got a feeling a I'll be seeing a lot more of him in the
future
And special mention goes to the Puppet, as I just find him
creepy.
