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Job 90: nominate costumes for the Joker
Same as usual - submit the Joker's default costume plus anywhere from 1 to 7 alternates.
Job 91: nominate arcade mode rivals for Green Lantern and Thor
Who do we want Green Lantern and Thor's rival battles in arcade mode to be against?
For Green Lantern, I'm going to nominate Thanos - one of DC's villains, Mongul, is basically a lawyer-friendly Thanos (Jim Starlin created both characters), and Green Lantern has a well-justified grudge against Mongul for destroying his hometown. (this event led to Hal Jordan becoming Parallax in an attempt to bring it back)
Default
His main design has plenty of alterations, but they're all pretty similar. It's the main Joker design. Not much to say.
Joker (2019)
If this skin isn't in the game then there just wasn't a reason to add Joker.
The Killing Joke
Red Hood
The Dark Knight Returns
White Knight
This one may seem a bit odd, but White Knight was a pretty big Batman storyline in the recent years of Batman comics, and Joker was a central character in it. It just seems too fitting.
Emperor Joker
(FYI Joker is the one on the bottom :]) This is actually a Superman storyline, which was adapted in the Batman: Brave and the Bold show, where Joker gains Mr. Mxyzptlk's powers. This design is really distinctive and fitting of the Joker, and it being from Superman rather than Batman makes it all the more interesting to include.
The Long Halloween
(His pilot gear, FYI) I was struggling to pick between this or Gotham By Gaslight. This one looked cooler
His main design has plenty of alterations, but they're all pretty similar. It's the main Joker design. Not much to say.
Joker (2019)
If this skin isn't in the game then there just wasn't a reason to add Joker.
The Killing Joke
Red Hood
The Dark Knight Returns
White Knight
This one may seem a bit odd, but White Knight was a pretty big Batman storyline in the recent years of Batman comics, and Joker was a central character in it. It just seems too fitting.
Emperor Joker
(FYI Joker is the one on the bottom :]) This is actually a Superman storyline, which was adapted in the Batman: Brave and the Bold show, where Joker gains Mr. Mxyzptlk's powers. This design is really distinctive and fitting of the Joker, and it being from Superman rather than Batman makes it all the more interesting to include.
The Long Halloween
(His pilot gear, FYI) I was struggling to pick between this or Gotham By Gaslight. This one looked cooler
Job 91: Rivals
These two have already been said, and I agree with them because they're insanely obvious choices:
Green Lantern's rival is Captain Marvel, and Thor's is Shazam.
Now, onto another topic.
First off, I promised I would do this, so here it is:
Job 89: Villain Trading Cards
- Lex Luthor (DC)
- The smartest man on his planet, Lex Luthor reigns over Metropolis as the CEO of Lexcorp., a multibillion dollar company founded and headed by the Luthor family. Dedicating his life to defeating Superman once and for all, Luthor has driven himself into becoming one of the world's most feared supervillains, using his intellect, status and endless wealth as tools to which he intends to accomplish his goal, in which he sees himself as the most revered human being to ever walk the Earth.
- Brimstone (DC)
- An artificial being created by Darkseid, Brimstone is a powerful adversary among Superman's rogues gallery; being made from pure superheated plasma, Brimstone has the abilities of flight and the power to control lava and magma-based objects. Unfortunately for Darkseid, Brimstone did not live up to his desires, as time and time again, it is defeated by heroes and villains alike, and reconstructed by mysterious forces and subjected to the same fate of defeat.
- Atomic Skull (DC)
- Joseph Martin was merely a college student when he started suffering from an inexplicable illness. Expecting S.T.A.R. Labs to have an answer, Joseph's life would eventually fall away into an everlasting tragedy; surviving a terrorist attack thanks to exposure to the Parasite, and having been exploded, beaten and ridiculed for his now diseased look, Joseph would slowly lose all connection to his sanity, save for his favorite film: The Curse of the Atomic Skull!
- Lobo (DC)
- The main man, Lobo, rides his bike across the galaxy as its #1 intergalactic bounty hunter. The main man, Lobo, always snuffs his target out, until he made contact with Earth and its legion of heroes, including Superman. Fortunately for the main man, Lobo, he has been banned from entering the afterlife, thus rendering him unkillable; The main man, Lobo, has all of eternity to do what he does best, and hunt bounties all across the galaxy, and one day, the main man, Lobo, will collect on Superman, one way or another,
- Metallo (DC)
- A half-man, half-machine, fueled by a Kryptonite heart, Sgt. John Corben trudges through life as a metallic abomination. Initially joining the military to carry out an attack on Superman, the battle ends in a near-death experience for Corben, resulting in his transformation into Metallo. Though he may not be fully man, Corben has a full hatred for Superman, and will stop at nothing to see him dead beneath his iron feet.
- Parasite (DC)
- Rudy Jones, the Parasite, is a villain with the potential to be one of the most powerful in the universe. His abilities allow him to absorb the powers and weaknesses of anyone he touches, and drain the life from their eyes as he does it. However, Jones' numerous attempts to feed on Superman always ends up being more than he can chew; without the Kryptonian physiology and creativity that Superman has for his powers, Parasite will never be anything more than just that,
- Superboy Prime (DC)
- Hailing from a world where every superhero is merely just a fictional character, Kal-El is disillusioned by a preconceived destiny of becoming the world's greatest superhero: Superman. During the destructing of Earth-Prime in a multiversal Crisis, Kal would eventually go mad, believing all other Earths and Supermen inferior to his own, and taking up a new destiny, as one of the most powerful villains across the Multiverse.
- Livewire (DC)
- Leslie Willis, the hostess of Metropolis' most popular and controversial anti-Superman radio talk show, ends up suffering an accident on stage during a thunderstorm. Despite Superman's attempts to save her, Leslie undergoes a transform which leaves her hospitalized, but upon full recover, finds out she has the ability to control electricity in anyway she sees fit. Believing the Man of Steel as the cause for her accident, she sets herself out in an endless crusade against the Super-family.
- Mongul (DC)
- An alien warlord exiled from his own home after a revolution, Mongul scours the universe in his moon-sized superweapon, the Warworld, seeking nothing more than to rule another planet under his iron fist. Reaching a power level almost as fearful's as Darkseid, Mongul has become a threat not just to Superman but to the Justice League and Earth as a whole. Whenever the Warworld enters the orbit of Earth, let it heed as a warning to those who bask in it's presence, for only two choices now remain: worship Mongul, or perish,
- Mongal (DC)
- Born with the blood of Mongul the Elder in her veins, Mongal carries a presence as the daughter of one of the most powerful rules in the universe. Though never quite reaching the heights of her own father, Mongal serves as one of his top warriors, and a ruler in her own right, capable of going toe to toe with Superman. With a reputation this impressive, it is not a wonder Amanda Waller forced her into becoming a member of Task Force X.
Proposition
Now then. I was thinking about this yesterday but decided to wait earlier today to see the results of the Marvel Cosmic characters, and as I expected, quite a few of them came close to each other. I do honestly have qualms with how we only have 1 Guardian among the base roster, which is unlikely to be fixed given the other categories, but I digress. There are a lot of excellent character choices that will likely never make it into the game beyond more than alternate endings and trading cards, even with DLC. There are also plenty of other characters not being nominated as frequently that still serve central roles across various comics in their respective companies. I had a brief revelation last night, however.
The Marvel vs. Capcom series has a recurring mechanic in which the player can call upon an assist character; Essentially, one of their off-screen teammates will briefly appear on screen and perform an attack or two, and then vanish from the fight, However, this is an action only done by playable characters and is done so as a result of the tag-team mechanics of the games... except for the first game in the series. In Clash of Superheroes (not X-Men or Vs. Street Fighter, FYI), all of the assist characters were non-playable characters, which could be marked as cameos for all intents and purposes.
Since this project has elected to adapt Injustice's (and other traditional 2D fighters) 1 on 1 battle system, it stands to reasons that teammate assists just isn't a viable addition. So I would like to propose an alternative solution, and I want to see if it will be added into the project or not, under Megadoomer 's consent.
Character Assists would be a new gameplay feature, in which a selection of various DC and Marvel characters would be available to choose from (ideally these character selections would differ entirely from the main roster of already playable characters), and they can be called upon to perform a limited range of special, unique attacks against the opponent, say, once per match, before being unavailable for use. I suppose this can work like the Wager function in Injustice, in which it can only be accessed once a player is on their second bar of health. Hell, if we're opting not to have a Wager function, we can use this a substitute. I will also say that this could be an optional feature, if it is felt by others that fights should just focus purely on the two main characters.
My reasoning for this addition is that it would be a nice blend of both Injustice's traditional fighting gameplay and MvC's unique gameplay mechanics, and offer as a way to include as many characters as possible in a realistic manner. Characters that don't quite make it high on the polls but have a lot of agreed upon potential could definitely be bartered for as assists, or, and I think this is also a good option for future jobs, we can nominate characters solely for assists that we otherwise would never nominate as a regular character. For example, let's say I nominate Cosmo the Space Dog as an assist, utilizing a telepathic attack in which it stuns the opponent character, or Lois Lane as an assist in which she reads off a harsh newspaper headline diminishing a character's reputation, causing them to take physical damage due to their bruised ego.
Obviously this could end up conflicting to whatever future jobs may be planned or how the rest of the community wants to see this project turn out. I think, however, that with the base roster only 6 characters away from wrapping up, and no current idea on how many DLC characters will be added, this would be a neat way to include more characters. I will also put this out first and foremost that if this is something we do end up doing, assists should not ban characters from being nominated in future categories. This isn't Smash Bros. so there is no reason for that rule to apply.
That's all I have to say for now.
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