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Screenshot of the Day 09/04

Some characters are just FUN. � I have found an AE mission that had nothing but COW characters in it -- Someone was having Blizzard Diablo II Cow level flashbacks when they made it, for sure...

Cover of the day - 08/04

Cover of the day - 08/03

Screenshot of the Day 3/17

I've seen this level 50 character around a lot.� Notice the SG name.�

Screenshot of the Day - 04/25

Villains...

After ignoring the Villain side for SO long, This last week plus I've given it another go - and have succeeded with a vengence. Manadroid is closing in on 35, already making him the best villain I've had on any server. Another level or so and he will be my best character on Freedom.

To my heroic groups, I did manage and check in on you --- a couple had low activity and again were devoid of anyone there when I visited yesterday. There were some exceptions and I did get some time in as both High Impetus and Crusading Cavalier. I went back to the Freedom villain side, and tried my Plant Dominator. But unfortuneately he wasn't able to get a team. Dominators do not solo well, and I ended up going back to Manadroid. I managed to get in on my first Respec Strike Force in St. Martial - which was unusual. The group broke up and reformed when two had to quit due to time restraints. I did manage to get a rare reward which netted a million and a half infamy, Since hitting 34 I was out of SGMode, and earned enough to push my total to over 2 million. Of course I had several gaps in my enhancements, which ate up 750K. I did manage to get the Caleb "Hellbane" badge on the first SF try; a first time for that badge, and first encounter with the GM. That makes the third GM for Manadroid, after Deathsurge, the Ghost of Scrapyard.

I've made a few covers for Manadroid as well

I must say I'm impressed with the Mastermind powers -- with all my bots both Equipped and Upgraded, I can solo rather easily. They let loose a massive volley now. Its kind of wild with the Assault drone doing flame, missles, grenades and his plasma beams, the Protectors firing seeker drones, and the battle drones strafing back and forth. It can be an awesome sight. I've gone up against 3 or 4 "red" Freakshow without too much problem now. Of course the Dark Miasma Heal is giving me nearly a 281 point heal -- enough to completly restore any bots in my immediate vacinity to full health.

Seeing other Villain characters at high levels for the first time, I'm most impressed with the creeping vines of the plant dominator. It makes me want to play my Mr. Thistle --- assuming I don't make a Plant Controller after Issue 12 comes around.

A return to villainy

Over the weekend, on a whim, I ventured back into the Rogue Isles. Part of this is definately motivated by the forthcoming Villain epic types. I am most curious to see those in action, and how they relate to Kheldians -- the Hero epic archetypes. To do that I've got to have a level 50 villain. Until last Friday, the highest villain I had was level 22 or 23 -- both masterminds. So I turned to an old favorite concept on Freedom server - Manadroid. He's a robotic android, activated by released chaotic magic -- essentially turning him into a high tech golem. Itelligent and ruthless, he weilds Dark Miasmic magic powers on top of weild a pulse rifle and summoning robots. But it goes further. He's modified his robotic form with wings, horns, adorned his body with skulls, all to make him more demonic. The appearance is unique.

I've always had fun with him, and got good reactions from others on the look and concept. I've even got some good binds -- One favorite of which has all the robots start bowing saying "Praise be to the EVIL one....". It tends to get a chuckle or two from others, and really punches home his style and attitude.

When I started playing him he was 21. I soloed for all of 3 missions, easy enough to do with a mastermind, since they do tend to be one man teams in themselves. Then I got on a mission and all hell broke loose. Within a single day, I had joined a VG and gotten 40K prestige racked up, along with 7 levels. Last night I pushed that to 30. Now that means that he's got ALMOST all the primary powers, including ALL 6 robots. 1 Assault bot, 2 protector bots, and 3 battle bots. Thanks to a gift from the VG owner, I've been able to push him to level 30 Single Origin Tech enhancements across the board - or close enough to it.

Like before it is harder to get infamy with him -- although I did managed the BLING badge last night somehow. I've gotten over a hundred badges by now. It can still be chaotic with him, especially with the usual 2 or 3 masterminds on a team. Last night I was on a team with 2 other robot masterminds. It became problematic on some maps trying to get through doors when opponents would be in there and various robots all trying to squeeze through at the same time.

Being a Dark Miasma user, he can heal and rez -- assuming he's not the low person on a team attacking +5s on relentless. It is not expected, and has healing has become a chief power. The level 29 power was healing 234 points at a time -- which isn't bad at all -- but has a limited range. I can't help but wonder if healing bots counts toward a healing badge. We'll see.

My arrival in the Villain group seems to have sparked some activity - it is quite likely it will see some expansion in the near future. It will be a pain balancing his growth with my heroes I still want to work up. I've two other villains on Freedom -- Mister Thistle and a Demonculus. I wouldn't be surprised if one of those entered the group as an alt - but I'll be spending my villain time getting Manadroid up there. Upcoming training trips for work and a vacation will put a crimp on that, but We'll see how things go. As far as the blog goes - I hope to put a few pre-entered posts to release while I'm gone.

Keep an eye on my Shared items feed on the sidebar -- I've been keeping an eye on various superhero-MMO news whether it be NCSOFT, COH, or CRYPTIC, CHAMPIONS -- even some Marvel Online. Its easy for me to find and update this with various news items, and I've been trying to do that every couple of days, if not more often. There is a lot going on out there with Champions leaking new info, and City gearing up for another Issue.

Rumors rumors rumors

We're coming into October and for the City of Heroes and City of Villains games, that has always meant big changes.� Halloween events are an annual staple of the game, save the year they introduced the Villains game, released around that time.� Now we have that to look forward to, with the mysterious Issue 11 beyond.

Halloween event provides the only way thus far to earn that 5th costume, thru the obtaining of the 4 masks, and turning them in at Croatoa.� It also allows us a large number of Holiday badges, moreso than any of the other holiday events.�� I expect to see the last of last years masks make their way to the Black Market and Wentworths in the next couple weeks.�� I'd keep an eye on them -- the prices could fluctuate WILDLY, and you might make a COOL deal if you get it at the right time.� Of course farming THIS year's event for a bunch of masks you can hold onto for a couple months and then sell them at a PROFIT isn't a bad idea either.�� They are supposed to have NEW rewards this year -- including some temporary powers that completely change you in to other characters --� presumably you could look like A banished pantheon mage, or a Freakshow tank.�� Not like the Chameleon suit -- this is a COMPLETE change of your model.�� Apparently so good, it won't work in zones where that type is native.� Apparently they don't want a bunch of psuedo Freakshows to lay in wait in Bloody Bay and then ambush people.� Regardless, a few weeks around Halloween should be a GREAT time for screenshots -- Action and otherwise...�� Will the Rikti code that made those mixed level unsidekicked mobs possible in any zone be included on the Halloween or Christmas event be utilized?� One can only hope -- I kind of liked it.

I've already got one SG wanting to do a Halloween party event -- I expect to see MORE of that as the time approaches, especially for the more active groups.

Issue 11 has the new wallpaper available on the CITY website --- A stylized snake, in an edgy infinity symbol 8 -eating its own tail.� IT doesn't really fit either of the two main mystical groups --- Circle of Thorns/Orenbega hasn't used any snake emblems that I can recall.� The symbol is made out of wood, which seems to be more in line with the Banished Pantheon masks, drums, and totems.� But it looks more Norse to me-- European.� Not the island zombie theme of the Pantheon.�� Could they be bringing back the original Orenbega?� Or is this another NEW faction for the game.� If so, for what levels will they be involved?�

The recent issue of the Paragon Times seems to be talking about the spread of the Infected� or Stricken beyond the Outbreak zone.� Now we have seen them OCCASIONALLY in Galaxy City and Atlas Park, hiding on the outskirts, amid crates near shield walls.� So they have gotten out.� Villains see them all the time in Mercy Island.� But the article seems to suggest they spread FAR More widely, that several existing contacts died ages ago, that the Arachnos breakout at the Zig never happened.� This sounds like a TOTAL revamped timeline, and doesn't to me sing out mystical forces.�� Could this new faction be behind the plague to start with?�� If it had mystical origins, science might be the wrong way to attack it.�

But does this make Issue 11 a link to a FAILED timeline where things went markedly different? Perhaps we'll have Portal corp style missions to that world to help out, possibly at much EARLIER Levels?� It wouldn't take much to change a building door into another Portal Corp office -- placing one in Atlas Park, Galaxy City, Steel Canyon , Talos Island and such.� Especially if that universe was bleeding infecteds over here, or some other faction.� A reborn Fifth Column?�� Given the German origin, it would put it the most in line with the wallpaper design somewhat.

Another possiblity is a time loop of some kind -- possibly the significance of the infinity loop.� Perhaps if the failure of a faction in the future created it in our present, ala the Terminator movies.

Check out the forum pages for lots of rumors and discussions of this nature.� It is amazing how much debate has occurred thanks to a simple design that has shown up on wallpapers (and a Dev's T-Shirt at a convention - so I heard).� But WHAT, WHO, and WHY remain onlin in the realm of rumors at the moment.� Needless to say this gives us a LOT to look forward to for the rest of the year.� I'd expect Issue 11 shortly before Thanksgiving, somewhere midway between the Halloween event and the Christmas event.��

The Villain Life

Over the past week plus, i've started 3 new villains and played theum up to level 14 and 15.� One mastermind (Killer Kali), and two corrputors. (Demonculus and Black Barb).�� Saturday having a pulled tendon in my hip keeping me from doing much else, I played COV, making Black Barb on a whim -- using Marshall Justice as a mold to make a counterpart villain, as I said.� Her look has changed along the way, and her colors got darker.

I've made contact with Necromagus of the Regents of Evil, which is an OLD well-established group, although it doesn't have a lot of still active players, despite current recruiting efforts.� Plenty were recruited over the weekend, and many did work well off the start.� I quickly got Barb her first promotion, for 5000 prestige, and now am sitting at about 80% of the way toward the next prestige based promotion threshold.� My character is scienced based, even though the primary theme of the group is magical.� They are NOT a stickler on that point.

After becoming a member, I played with the look a lot.� Two visits later to the Tailor, I ended up with the dark Trenchcoat, v-cut top, red mesh look, with cowgirl hat and boots.� I ended up teaming a few times now and then.� Once with a Necromagus alt,� another time for a Deathsurge takedown, and a couple pickup group multi-mission stints.� A good time mostly.�

Black Barb as I said last post, is an Assault Rifle Kinetic character.� Her Science origin does make her a tad out of place with some of the members -- which are mostly demons, vampires, sorcerers and such.� Playing Kinetics as a secondary is a pain, since most of the medium and upper level abilities so useful, like speed boost, are still not available yet.� Speed Boost will probably not be availble until the mid twenties by my guess, which changes the way I would play kinetics.� Not having big controller powers to support this, but rather mega ranged damage makes it odd to play.� Despite getting in on the last day of invasion, she failed to get the accolade.� Another rikti bomb or two, and another trio of heavies would have likely finished it off.� SO close.�

I'm debating on which of the three villains to focus on.� I like the mastermind, but find myself going back to Barb, who at this time, is�nearing level 16. I usually don't like female alts, but both turned out so well, even if their appearances are somewhat similar now.� And I've the likes of Atomfire to worry about as well.� Time will tell .� I may even get around to some Demonculus or Kali covers...

A week of villainy

I don't know how or why it started -- I think I was looking at some of my villains on Freedom.� Got that level on Mr. Thistle.� Started up a Freedom server version of Demonculus that really seemed to click.� And lastly a new villain taking up my final open slot on Virtue -- Killer Kali, a female thug/poison Mastermind.� A different take on my other such Mastermind, Fatal Overdose that i did well over a year ago.

Its not all been fun.� Demonculus got into a villain group called Hero Busters -- but after I introduced the leader to Guildportal, he up and left for the better part of a week.� Despite updating the message of the day for the group to register on guildportal he's yet to okay my membership.� Having a leader that takes an unnannouced week off is NOT good.� I will probably end up leaving that group soon.� And I even made a banner for the GP site. *sigh*

Sunday on a whim, I made the new mastermind Killer Kali.� Essentially she's an animal right's activist, who invaded the wrong lab, and ended up with a chemical bath that gave her poison powers.�� She was "dead" at first, and immediately after coming out of that psuedo-deathlike state was VERY toxic, and ended up killing Coroner staff in her vicinity.� Her name being Kalinda, the press dubbed her Killer Kalinda, which ended up getting shortened to Killer Kali.� She ended up on the run and forced to adopt a criminal lifestyle to survive.�� I gave her a Fedora, some spiked shoulder pieces , a vest, and the savage costume.� I later changed that slightly to Trenchcoat and spiked epaulets.� Either way, weilding double pistols she looks mean.

Kali nailed a VG early on as a level 50 Cheerleader Slayer was recruiting for The Terminators.� It has proven to be a very large somewhat old group, and has a decent base.� I was one of several new villains recruited that day, and made some new friends easily.�� It looks like about a half dozen are HARD at leveling up their characters.� I'm level 12 now with her.

The one thing I've noticed is the change in value of the salvage items I've been getting.� FEW are worth more than a couple thousand.� It is making it VERY hard to get anywhere NEAR heroic levels of influence as infamy.� I'm just used to some items being worth 4 or 5 times as much -- it makes you feel cheated.� I wasn't aware the two sides had such different levels of value.

I'm starting to get dual origins --- but no EASY money high value salvage -- on Kali or Demonculus.� One would hope...�� I was really wanting to get Bone wings for Demonculus.� He'd look SO much better with those...� Even Manadroid and Omegea got some attention.

Rikti invasions have crossed my path -- A few more bombs and Kali gets the accolade.� Demonculus should be right behind her.

I really ought to be getting back to my heroes-- but I am having fun...

Back at it...

I've been in a post-Dragon*Con lull,� at least reporting here.�� Things have been a little hectic of late, with some extra chores caused by going through an old store room --� a lot of sorting, pitching, repacking, etc.�� It has been cutting into my play time.� But I did hurt my hip Friday, and can only do so much at a time before it begins to complain.

I've been going through some old characters, and getting rid of a few.�� Somehow I ended up playing on Freedom, and noticed a few unfamiliar groups on the hero side.� I ended up over the weekend playing one villain in particular , my old Plant/Thorn Dominator, Mister Thistle.�� I ended up getting a couple levels on him, putting him at� level 15.� I've also been playing with another version of Demonculus, using a variety of bone costume elements with the exoproto costume elements -- it worked VERY well together in white and black.� I used the bonehead face on him, and I'm sorely tempted to change that to an actual skull.� He's supposed to be demon spirit housed in a body primarily made of bone, essentially a magical construct that got a mind of its own, and slew those that created it.� Weilding dark blast and dark miasma, it is fun to play.� I do wish that I could get some decent salvage and earn enough to buy the bone-wings.�� Most items on the villain side are selling for near nothing compared to what I'm used to on hero-side Virtue.� While I've been able to keep myself going (he's level 8 now), he definitely doesn't have the 300-500K that would be required to get the wings.� At least it isn't the 10 million plus it was when the issue was introduced.

I've recieved email from another player running a clown group on Freedom - I believe the villain side.�� I didn't see him on yesterday, but then that would have been too easy.

I've been seeing ANOTHER company using blind tells from phony character names to repeatedly push a multi-million influence/infamy lottery of all things.� I've reported it several times now, but it is SO annoying.� I've not seen the old one, but these guys are becoming even more persistant.� And the scripts they are using are sending off more than one tell at a time -- the last one I got came through 4 times in a row.� I really hope they nail these guys quick.�

More Doc!

Still doing these - and refining my technique a tad...

The Gods of the Golden Age had a big meeting last night which was QUITE the experience. Lots of impressive costumes and characters. One member, Obsidian Ankh, I finally remembered from my days as a member of the Guardians of the Golden Age. Lots of promotions and such in the meeting, a lot of role playing around people with multiple characters. And the Doctor made 14 after only being around for 3 days...

DOUBLE XP Weekend!!!

Its up and running.� And people are coming by.� For the first time in ages, we had all servers but two�at medium load with two at HEAVY load for a period tonight.� It seems everyone is coming by.� If you play the game NOWS the time to play.� Supergroups are out in force trying to recruit, because every recruit means DOUBLE prestige/infamy as well for the weekend.� Its the perfect time to do task forces, badge hunting, etc.�

At its peak Friday night, There was some lag, but not much considering.� I got nearly a full level in on Geostrike; even a bad team with an out of date mission was getting some decent XP.� My lvl 40, Fast Neutrino managed to get in a good third of a level -- but he's still got about 900K to go before he levels again.� I saw a LOT of people on global - about double my usual headcount.

FileFront is running a 14 day free demo -- so if you are interested in trying City of Heroes or Villains -- now is the time!

Movies

One of my favorite things with City has been the videos -- there have been plenty.� Some are just pure game play.� Others use a variety of demo-editing tools to do fully scripted skits.�� Many are done to music.� You'll probably find a few on the sidebar links.� Barring that, nosing around YOUTUBE can get some surprisingly fun results. Welcome to the first YOUTUBE video spotlight entry on this blog...

An OLD favorite - (And I've ran into a couple of these on Virtue early on -- Battle Bovine, Captain Karate.) If you got the Deluxe edition of COH, you probably saw this one. I believe it won a contest to be included on the DVD edition. If not, enjoy.

Even the winter event this year is pretty well represented...

I've seen SOOOO many videos using this song by various artists as a backdrop to their works...

Some tell a story, some have humor, some do both... (Pity the emote featured here doesn't REALLY work...)

Another video that has a common music theme is this one...

I hope you enjoyed the show... Email me if you liked it!

Villains of Victory

I've spent some time on Victory lately, on the Villain side, and thought I'd go through my various screenshots and share with you the various villains I've seen.� There have been quite a few.� Lots of good costumes, some bad, and some familiar in name or look...

Style says a lot to me.� Gentleman Oz is a good example of that.� Likewise the Director.� although he reminds me more of a southern general.�� Demonic Bot Lord just sings with�a nice arangement of spikes, spines, and horns.� Its HARD to do a red-skulled character that doesn't lend itself too much to the Crimson Skull of Marvel infamy.

When I saw ThornBall's name, I thought it would be another spine stalker - but instead she turned out to be a plant Dominator.� Pistol Prince is a nice mix of gangster and ninja in his style, and it works well with a Mastermind.� Of course, i've grown fond of chains lately myself.� �Breznet is just plain UNIQUE.

BitterEnd has a nice clean theme - and I like that name for a villain.� Likewise for Shattered Dream - Note the use of the new horns and hood on this character.� Serious Evil does a good job of obscuring the face - ALWAYS good for a villain.

Seen a lot of large brutes lately on Victory.� And most seem to be Stone brutes, like this pair.�� Clown characters also seem to be coming back, most are grinning.� At least they aren't trying to do ANOTHER Ronald McDonald clone... THAT is getting WAY TO OLD!

Speaking of cloning - here is a trio that is treading dangerous grounds in name, appearance, or a combination thereof.�� Some people just never read the EULA, or chose to ignore it.� If they come back and find themselves the next Generic renamed blank form, they'll learn.� Clones still appear from time to time on City of Villains and City of Heroes, but it seems to me that they always EVENTUALLY get caught.� Whether that is because they are getting found by some scanning of NCSOFT or getting reported by other players I don't know.� After the Marvel lawsuit fiasco, I can't help to wonder when people do obvious ripoffs.� I don't mind homages as long as they are cleverly disguised and thus safely disguised, but even they make me nervous.

Armored and robotic forms are having a comeback - I think its the new helmets and features causing that.� And military types are always somewhat common, but usually I see those in officer uniforms, not field uniforms, like the General here. Red and black are common colors, but I've never seen anyone try CAMO using those colors before.

Flereous manages to do something Vampirella like without getting too close.�� Deathskull has a brighter color choice than most villains I've seen.� Notice how many go with darker colors?� Or dark and red?� Its a pattern that seems to repeat a lot among villains.� Its hard to see on individual villains whether that is because they are using the colors of their VILLAIN group or their own.�

Now here is an interesting trio - part of a theme group.� Its hard to coordinate any sort of identical costume - but this group obvoiously has managed to carry it off.� I've not seen any from the group other than this three so I don't know how many members they have.� USUALLY identical costumes users have similiar names, sometimes playing with the font trick that allows lower case "L"s� and number ones to be used alternatively to allow everyone to appear to have the same name.� Not so here.� I wish this trio luck...

Looks like the Egyptians are making a comeback.� I only ran across the Lord here once in Sharkhead.� The Sphinx is an old friend that joined me and another for a quick run.� As to Hypersomnia? I found the name of both her AND her Villain group -- unique.

I hope everyone enjoyed seeing these.� Its always fun to see what everyone else is doing with the tools the character generation system allows us to.��

Villians - a second look

I've gotten away from most of my villain characters of late, and tried several different types recently on Victory.� Partly to see what was going on - like the costume contest.� Partly to see what had changed for this issue.� I'm noticing a lot, some of which is probably from recent patches.

There are 5th chaaracter costume slots now available.� I can only imagine what might be available there, and what you would have to go through to get that one since it is presumably opened up at level 50 only.
Tutorial level is completely optional -- the only reason to go through it is the jailbird badge.� Unless you want the extra level.
Better scaling of missions.� I seem to remember more missions being locked into low levels.� But I saw some level 2 and 3 missions functioning at level 6 and 8 and not from difficulty settings.� I seem to remember serveral going stale before.� Of course after level 8 or so I tend to head for Port Oakes, anyway, regardless of what missions I've done in Mercy Island.
Mayhem missions - Now they seem to be THE reward for doing newspaper missions.� Heists occasionaly come up as regular newspaper missions.� Plus they give you a temporary travel power.� Two hours worth of flight time from a Skyraider-like Raptor pack - for the Atlas Park mayhem IF successful.� For Kings Row, its a Jump pack (Wingless rocket pack that works like a Super Jump Power -- again for two hours.)� Careful use of these can speed up travel at the preteen levels until you finally DO get your travel power.� My mastermind still has BOTH of these and has since earned a Goldbrick flight pack as well.� They all have time-remaining readouts -- something the old temporary powers never did.
Map changes - Certain missions like the Plague Carrier badge mission are not using the same map as before.� Whether this is a random choice of the game or a replacement I don't know.� But I did it twice and it was the new map both times.
I noticed a mission that gave me a temporary Nictus power of teleport and gravity blast -- much akin to the Council Galaxy's powers.� Although the mission was familiar, this event wasn't.� I couldn't help wonder if it was something I missed, or just didn't notice.� OR if it was truly a new mission, or just one that only SEEMED familiar.

I found out some things that I disliked.� I love regeneration scrappers (Like Professor Infinity).� But Regeneration on a stalker is NOT as good.� To make room for the HIDE power that all stalkers must take at Level 1, the stalker Regeneration set has lost the Endurance Recovery of the Scrapper.� This forces you to think of Endurance reduction� modifications, OR going for Fitness.� Since I like Regeneration because it makes Fitness no longer a major consideration, it really made a Regen Stalker something of a drag by comparision.

I'd not played a Thug Mastermind since the initial Issue 7 launch, so I tried that.� I went with Poison Secondary.� It has become a favorite real quick.� I like the dual pistol gun play.� The mastermind was very easy to solo, even having no self heal powers on this build (unlike a Mastermind with the Dark Miasma secondary.).�� I even ran a good 10 missions in a row with the difficulty set up with almost no problem.� It put me up there in prestige, quickly taking the lead in my villain group.� Strangely I found that using dual pistols seemed much more villain-like than some other power sets.� I couldn't help but wonder though, as my gang mowed through the cops of Atlas Park and King's Row tha this might get CoV into some trouble ESRB wise.� I could easily see some parents fine with villain on hero combat play, but not villain vs. Police.

I've never gotten a villain past level 24.� In 4 days of play he's already 18.� Perhaps with a little bit of focus on him that will change.

Villain Costume Contest

Finally saw another one of these on Victory.� But not in Mercy Island -- it was held in Port Oakes.�� So I was partially right.� Held by a lvl 50 villain named Nocrap (that's right!), there was a million infamy first place prize.

It was the first time I've seen a Villain contest with THAT large of a prize.� Easily 1.5 million was given out...

Bat goes Mayhem

Bloody Bat got some time in this week -- enough for a makeover using some of the BRAND new character elements.

He ran into a few characters getting togther a level 40 Mayhem mission that he was lackeyed into.

The mission was to rob a Brickstown bank. But it quickly went wrong as we split up. This caused a few deaths and we ended up getting split more as we arrived in the jail. It took forever to bring down the door. Cops, Longbow, Even Psi-PPD were in abundance in the jail/PPD HQ.

And Outside brought on more -- including LARGE mechs....

You don't want to know how many times Bat fell on that mission....

Villains Gallery revisited

Lots of activity on the villains side. These are some recently seen on Freedom server.

Nothing beats a good monstorous shape - And Azrael's Bane fillls that bill. The Dark Knight is good, but I'm surprprised he's not been nerfed by the copyright baton...

The Cajun Chicken is one of SEVERAL Chicken types that I've seen lately - haven't found out much about their group, and I've looked. The other toon here is Dark Chalice, one of the Thives Guild members that is currently being created. I thought the white, black, and red costume striking. Lots use two colors , ESPECIALLY red and black for villains. But few use three, and even fewer use three. well.

Sometimes its the villain group name that catches my eye. Like Dark Knight's. Liquid Radiations gave me a chuckle. Miss Paz's? Well you'd be suprised how many groups manage to get an "X" into their name. Somewhere . Somehow.

I liked Topaz's colors -- Given her name I would guess she is wearing her group colors. DD Brute here kind of reminded me of a Dark Helmet knock off. Usually when I see that helmet its someone trying to sneak in either a Magneto clone, or a Statesman clone.

Tattoos are available for villains, but I'm surprised how LITTLE they show up. As to Erotikka - she is living up to her name it would appear.

Traditional and effective - Red and black tends to show up a lot as I said. Nolita wears it better.

Going thru my months archives I found this guy in the background of a shot. A good villain design, similiar to the first big brute I showed - The big ugly alien-types abound in CoV. Especially brutes. And I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw Fabian here (an NPC). Clearly he's seen better days. Doubt he'll get much commerical work lookling like that.

Till next time. take care... I might get a shot of YOUR character next time.