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So, what do we make of Otaki and M'Winadji?
Otaki (Oh-TA-kee) is most likely of Japanese decent. If I know my Levitz, she'll be of Earth, with powers gestated from the long-term affects of the Fukishima disaster. What kind of power do you get if you're bit by a radioactive wave? An aquatic-based power is one never seen in the Legion annals, IIRC, so that would be neat.
M'Winadji (MWIN-ad-gee) is of African descent, though not necessarily, in fact, probably, not of Earth. His name evokes T'Challa (thus my addition of the apostrophe) and the movie Jumanji. I imagine he is from some jungle or agrarian world (Manna-5?) with the ability to make wild animals appear. In fact, I bet his power is to grow animals super-fast Chlorphyll Kid-style from miniature sized versions kept in his belt.
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Also, FWIW, my translation from the interlac was mwieadji, but the more commonly accepted mwinadji makes more sense,
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quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: Otaki (Oh-TA-kee) is most likely of Japanese decent. If I know my Levitz, she'll be of Earth, with powers gestated from the long-term affects of the Fukishima disaster.
What are the odds that her codename has the word "sun" in it?
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Heroes of Chinese descent need to have dragon in their code name.
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quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: M'Winadji (MWIN-ad-gee) is of African descent, though not necessarily, in fact, probably, not of Earth. His name evokes T'Challa (thus my addition of the apostrophe) and the movie Jumanji. I imagine he is from some jungle or agrarian world (Manna-5?) with the ability to make wild animals appear. In fact, I bet his power is to grow animals super-fast Chlorphyll Kid-style from miniature sized versions kept in his belt.
Okay, maybe not. [/QB]
How synchronicitous! I was just throwing together some new characters that I would like to play around with and one of them was 'Ark Lad,' who produced 'eggs' that he could cause to expand into full sized animals from different worlds! (He was mixed race, part human and part some fish-race that stored many eggs inside themselves, like sturgeon, and had the mutant ability to imprint his otherwise infertile eggs with DNA from different animals he'd encountered, and then cause them to grow super-fast!)
Kind of the animal version of Chlorophyll Kid, really. The Legion hasn't really had a lot of summoner types, or someone with animal control / manipulation powers (barring poor Animal King).
And Otaki doesn't have to have tsunami powers or sun powers, there's plenty of other Japanese cliches she could tap into, like being a ninja, or having an energized samurai sword, or being able to turn into a giant robot girl (or giant fire-breathing atomic lizard-girl)! Maybe she has yakuza tattoos that she can animate! Maybe she's a nine-tailed fox spirit of mischievous powers!
Or maybe she's like Harmonia Li, Chinese to the hilt, but with mastery of the classical *western* elements. Otaki could be all traditionally Japanese, but have cowgirl powers of stunt-riding horses and trickshooting revolvers!
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Hmm, we're kinda being deluged with utterly new characters when there are plenty of existing candidates to choose from...I am not opposed to new blood in and of itself; we would never have had Tellus or Blok if Levitz was afraid to introduce any new elements to the team after all.
But the way it's happening now seems to be a bit too on the nose...we have characters floating around who want to be Legionnaires, who have no reason not to be Legionnaires, but they're being passed over for completely untested newbies in every instance.
Having said that, I hope Levitz steers away from the obvious cliches. It would be super cool if we got some powers the Legion have never had before instead of just a replacement for Timber Wolf or Colossal Boy or so on...
An empath might be an interesting way to fill the gap that Tellus and Saturn Girl have left.....I like the summoner idea mentioned above as well...maybe a new HEROIC Nemesis Kid? (though I guess that's kinda what we had with Variable Lad, and that didn't really work out too well)
To be honest, I would much rather see Infectious Lass, Calorie Queen, any of the Subs, any of the old-school Academy kids, the Heroes of Lallor or any of the existing reservists come back before getting any new members again so soon though...Glorith hasn't even been on an actual mission yet, has she? Let the new kids settle in a bit before we get newer new kids to steal their thunder
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quote:Originally posted by razsolo: To be honest, I would much rather see Infectious Lass, Calorie Queen, any of the Subs, any of the old-school Academy kids, the Heroes of Lallor or any of the existing reservists come back before getting any new members again so soon though...Glorith hasn't even been on an actual mission yet, has she? Let the new kids settle in a bit before we get newer new kids to steal their thunder
Agreed. I'm still a little bitter over the new kids bumping Lamprey and Nightwind, and wouldn't mind seeing some previously seen figures like 'Tiger Girl' or 'Amp Girl.' Yet more completely new characters seems unnecessary at this point, particularly on a team that's already quite large, and with the specter of the Legion Lost team returning within the year, if their own title gets cancelled.
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quote:Originally posted by razsolo: Hmm, we're kinda being deluged with utterly new characters when there are plenty of existing candidates to choose from...I am not opposed to new blood in and of itself; we would never have had Tellus or Blok if Levitz was afraid to introduce any new elements to the team after all.
But the way it's happening now seems to be a bit too on the nose...we have characters floating around who want to be Legionnaires, who have no reason not to be Legionnaires, but they're being passed over for completely untested newbies in every instance.
Having said that, I hope Levitz steers away from the obvious cliches. It would be super cool if we got some powers the Legion have never had before instead of just a replacement for Timber Wolf or Colossal Boy or so on...
An empath might be an interesting way to fill the gap that Tellus and Saturn Girl have left.....I like the summoner idea mentioned above as well...maybe a new HEROIC Nemesis Kid? (though I guess that's kinda what we had with Variable Lad, and that didn't really work out too well)
To be honest, I would much rather see Infectious Lass, Calorie Queen, any of the Subs, any of the old-school Academy kids, the Heroes of Lallor or any of the existing reservists come back before getting any new members again so soon though...Glorith hasn't even been on an actual mission yet, has she? Let the new kids settle in a bit before we get newer new kids to steal their thunder
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There may not be many people who'll agree with me but I really like this idea. I reckon that with the title being called Legion there should be more members. Okay so I'd love to see Gear, Monstress, Thunder, the Quantum Kids, Amp Girl, Babbage be included to some degree as a nod to previous incarnations. but hey Ho, you'll not hear me complain about new members. be nice if Nightwind, Lamprey, Mandalla, Gravity Kid and Jed were seen as a sub-group, Legion Takron Galtos.
Anyway, yay new members!
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I don't have a problem with new members per se, in fact I enjoy seeing new faces.
My issue is that new members always replace someone else. There is a perceived need to keep the membership down to mid twenties, so each incoming member sees someone's favourite written out.
The number of ex-Legionnaires (including the Lost) is well into double figures. Add the Subs, Lallorians etc and we could easily have a Legion of 50 - 60 members. Now that would be a challenge to the creative team.
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I wonder if a format like the JLU cartoon back then would work. Using a different group per episode allowed the creators to juggle dozens of heroes. Granted, the large majority only had 1-2 spotlighted episodes... and Levitz would be forced to compress his storylines.
And even with the current team size, there are already several members who have had little screen time.
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quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: Otaki (Oh-TA-kee) is most likely of Japanese decent. If I know my Levitz, she'll be of Earth, with powers gestated from the long-term affects of the Fukishima disaster.
What are the odds that her codename has the word "sun" in it?
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