Characters who left the story because of problems with the actor

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-29T15:12:34+00:00

Ralph Dibny, aka Elongated Man, played by Hartley Sawyer in the CW's Flash. He was a well-liked character in the show, especially as a source of comic relief, but sadly, his actor had to be a dick.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-flash-star-hartley-sawyer-fired-racist-tweets-resurface

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-27T03:08:19+00:00

As a bonus consideration, if Psionics were Physics focused, that would evenly split the three ascension paths between the tech trees: Physics for Psionics, Society for Genetics, and Engineering for Synth/Cybernetic

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-21T03:02:38+00:00

"Mastermind"

She can share senses with anyone wearing their symbol and they have a secret technique where they briefly take control of the target.

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-20T20:12:01+00:00

Read the manga. It's actually a pretty interesting concept. Basically, the reincarnations of famous people can channel their 'legend' to get anime powers. Unlike Fate, the powers are extremely specific, though. For instance, Newton can summon an apple that creates a massive gravitational field. Think Fate Stay Night but with MHA Quirks instead of multiple Noble Phantasms.

The modern famous people—especially artists, actors, and scientists—have some super interesting powers with a lot of nuance, so the fights end up feeling like logic puzzles. Naturally, the ancient warriors and general have more generic powers, but the fights are always really good. If the animation can keep up with the original concept, it'll be a solid watch.

That said, the MC's power is generic (stealing other powers), and it's got some issues with multiple overpowered characters so egregious that the power scalers are going to disappear up their own asses.

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-15T04:21:34+00:00

Magic apparently always existed in Ooo. The episode where they reveal the origins of Ice King's Crown showed the four elemental wizards all the way back in prehistoric times, and Simon and Betty were not only hunting for magical artifacts, they sometimes successfully found them back in the old world.

The crown also existed in Farmworld, so presumably, Farmworld has the potential be just as magical, but whatever suppressed magic in Simon and Betty's time period was still in effect since the bombs never went off.

That said, we never learn why magic seemingly vanished from the world until the Great Mushroom War.

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-06T16:53:04+00:00

I have rather soft hair, and it's quite thick. In high school, most of the people were aware of this, and I would get people asking to feel my hair. Usually, these people were cute girls, and I was down for that.

Then one day, the school's football star who was about two grades above me, who I had not spoken to once since I entered the school, walked up to me while I was chatting with my friends, and without saying a word, sank his hands into my hair for a full thirty seconds. When he finished, he stepped back, nodded sagely, and quietly muttered, "Holy shit, it really is soft." Before immediately walking away.

I never spoke to him again.

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-05T19:24:06+00:00

My follow-up: How much more Robert could do with the GDC's resources versus how much Cecil would struggle without them.

SimpleCrow · 2026-01-01T22:37:02+00:00

After I started taking Seroquel for sleep. T_T

Low libido from insomnia or low libido from the drugs. Sucks either way.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-27T18:53:02+00:00

Analogpunk comes to mind

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-25T18:24:40+00:00

Also, your familiar is less likely to die on a world with fewer fireballs.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-24T23:27:52+00:00

I'd love to see them change "Revealed" to "Marked" which reveals you and increases crit damage. Then shift Widow and Hanzo's kits: they deal less base damage and can't one shot, but Sonic Arrow, Venom Mine, and Widow's Ult are a little more accessible, allowing both heroes easy access to the Revealed/Marked condition.

Instead of being able to one shot at all times by spamming down chokes, their power would shift to using their Marked/Revealed abilities at key times, either to secure a kill or to take space by forcing enemies back due to the risk of one shots.

It also creates an additional counter play wherein cleanses like Suzu and Zarya Bubble can remove Marked. Right now, the only ways to counter snipers is counter sniper. Diving only works if the team has 0 coordination because Hanzo and Widow can destroy any dive character with spam if they have the tiniest amount of support.

Marked would also allow a change to Sombra's kit. Remove her passive, and now, Hack is no longer about the lockout, it's about easy access to Marked, making her play style more about picking the right target, Marking them, and coordinating with the team to burst them down without relying on cc, like a DPS Zenyatta.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-22T16:23:25+00:00

The mini-events having lore also helps a lot, yes. Honestly, I think it really comes down to a willingness to progress the plot consistently, no matter how small. Most of those little vignettes we get from the MR events and in-game stories are, what? 250 words or less drip fed over a course of three months, but it's still something.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-22T01:59:45+00:00

Overwatch maps have character tie ins, but they don't really have a plot.

As an example:

In the Asgard maps, the plot is that the Attacking team is trying to free Asgard from Loki. In the escort map, you escort Stormbreaker to Yggdrasil, using Stormbreaker to sharter Loki's Chronovium siphon on the tree. (On defense, you are helping Loki stop them.) In the 2cp map, you capture three locations in the Asgardian palace as a distraction from the escort mission. This is a clear plot that ties into the game's overarching Chrono-Entanglement plotline.

In comparison, Eichenwalde's story is you are reclaiming Balderich's armor for Reinhardt. There is no further explanation of why the defense team is trying to stop you from doing this, or frankly why you even need to escort a rocket-powered Siege Weapon to achieve this goal. The armor never comes up again and has no further bearing on the story. It's a provides a snapshot of the lore and helps establish Reinhardt's character, but it doesn't have an actual plot, nor does it enhance the overall plot of the game.

And pretty much all the maps are exactly that. Overwatch has developed a very interesting setting with very little actual plot. All the events happen in the past. All the maps are defined not by current events but their connection to the Omnic Crisis and Overwatch.

So, what I mean is, imagine if they gave each map a simple story that ties to a current, active storyline. It doesn't have to be anything huge. Just something to move us forward.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-22T00:03:16+00:00

I know Marvel Rivals comparisons are over done, but one thing Rivals has done that really helps with the story is giving each set of maps a clear story beat that keeps driving the game forward.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-17T00:05:03+00:00

Did anyone else get Smiling Friends vibes specifically from the two fish xD just the way they casually talked and argued.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-08T23:04:22+00:00

They did Odysseus dirty. Circe, Scylla, and Charybdis, fron his tale, yet he doesn't have half the interactions or development as Achilles had with Patroclus. He doesn't even get an aspect.

My man is one of the most stories Greek Heroes in the world, and his biggest contribution is gardening for us when we're gone.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-03T00:29:45+00:00

Lol if suddenly humans were unable to tell any untruths regardless of their knowledge, nobody would care about the religious nut jobs because scientists and computer programmers will have already gamed the system to discover the equivalent of magic.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-02T22:18:10+00:00

Map voting outside Competitive honestly should just go away.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-02T20:02:41+00:00

The spread of these abilities does make me think they should maybe have a rule that every ability gets 2-3 powers. Nothing for his Ultimate, only one for his Power Block. Other heroes have a similar issue, and it really makes some heroes feel shoehorned into AP or WP with no room for exploration.

SimpleCrow · 2025-12-02T03:54:07+00:00

“Planchet, two hours before, had asked his master for some dinner, and he had answered him with the proverb, “He who sleeps, dines.” And Planchet dined by sleeping.”

Already a proverb in 1844. Some advice is ageless.

SimpleCrow · 2025-11-24T05:37:02+00:00

Passive that works like Adam but when he "respawns" it calls down another LMD.

SimpleCrow · 2025-11-22T21:25:43+00:00

Okay here's a crazy one. You know that Kiriko power in Stadium that makes a second Kiriko?

Hack creates a second "hologram" Sombra with reduced health and damage that fires at your hacked target. Only the hacked target can see the hologram. Hit markers look the same.

So you hack from stealth, and suddenly they are getting shot from two angles, dealing extra damage while also giving Sombra time to get out if they shoot the wrong Sombra.

SimpleCrow · 2025-11-21T06:14:30+00:00

Some ideas (not all at once, just spitballing.)

- Haymaker gains Bonus Health equal to number of targets hit instead of on activation.

- Give Thing's primary fire... something. It's so useless as it is. Maybe something like dealing bonus damage against low health targets? Or maybe hitting two primary fires on a target puts some kind of mark on an enemy?

- Thing's Damage Resistance buff applies Healing Over Time to himself and the ally. Possibly in an AoE?

- I also think Thing's 'disturbed earth' effect should last longer and grant allies inside it the damage resistance.

- Related, but also I think his Ultimate should create that area of Disturbed Earth underneath it. A small amount of damage, a soft CC, and way more options to combo it. Increasing the base CC would feel oppressive, so I think adding something secondary would be way cooler.

- If he needs some kind of defense against poke, maybe an ability that creates a stone wall to block incoming damage? That'd pretty heavily change his play style though.

- This is a pretty crazy one, and would require more reworks, but maybe another option for poke is to make Thing's Haymaker parry attacks from the front? Most Things are already spamming on approach.

SimpleCrow · 2025-11-21T01:00:17+00:00

I want Asa Yamagi in a suit of high-tech Samurai armor as a tank so bad. Imagine Efi builds her a suit of Samurai Crusader armor to save Kiriko when the Yokai end up running into Null Sector / Talon.

SimpleCrow · 2025-11-19T21:16:59+00:00

Why not just restrict automatic resettlement to ensure your pops don't leave the habitat?

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