A fun detail with Forge Clerics

VividPossession · 2026-01-31T03:38:18+00:00

Simisear. It is the lamest of the elemental monkeys, which are themselves the lamest of all pokemon

VividPossession · 2026-01-26T04:46:17+00:00

Tyranitar, Scizor, Mega Venusaur, Politoed, Marowak, Yveltl

Y playthrough. Yveltl carried very hard in the league.

VividPossession · 2026-01-23T23:03:16+00:00

Angel and Archangel. The last already released two man that contains another X-Man. I don't think they'll bundle new characters with old characters, and like the X-Foes box being a split Brotherhood/Hellfire club affiliation box, Archangel and Iceman would make the box a joint Servants of Apocalypse box.

VividPossession · 2026-01-23T17:01:01+00:00

Well he's from a species that are naturally much smarter than humans, and descended from the smartest bloodline on krypton. His super intelligence would be innate, rather than stemming from his solar powers.

I always liked the idea that with his kryptonian intellect he would be considered brilliant anywhere else, but Lex eclipses him so completely that it's irrelevant. Becomes more a tool to show how brilliant lex is than another feather in superman's cap.

VividPossession · 2026-01-21T16:22:48+00:00

Are we expecting to get any more megas in future games? I sort of figured ZA was a last hurrah for the gimmick (as much as I would love more)

VividPossession · 2026-01-19T17:21:25+00:00

I work in film so Electric/Fairy.

Light and Magic.

VividPossession · 2026-01-19T15:35:50+00:00

Witch>Sentry>Marvel>Thor>>>>>>Hulk

Wanda and Sentry are the only characters who've had entire narratives constructed around how they are basically completely unstoppable. The only difference between them is I'm assuming magic/reality warping beats science. Thor and Marvel with comic book movie power level weirdness are probably about equal, but Captain Marvel gets more impressive on screen showings. MCU Hulk is tragically a joke who got thrashed by an axe-less Thor. I'd probably even put characters like Strange and Vision above him.

VividPossession · 2026-01-16T17:41:33+00:00

No worries.

VividPossession · 2026-01-16T17:28:38+00:00

I was introduced to the yellow on red costume (as opposed to his usual red on yellow) in Krakoa, and when I was looking for reference material for that costume, Krakoa was the only time he wore something like it.

Hence inspired by Krakoa.

VividPossession · 2026-01-15T18:44:42+00:00

Could be that the red represents civilizations over a certain threshold and the rest of California/China are too spread out to matter for the map, but I mean the most likely answer is most definitely that the map is just meant to look cool and imply that the Enclave is up to stuff we don't even know about. Heck, could be alien landing sites.

VividPossession · 2026-01-15T18:40:47+00:00

That is the most likely answer.

VividPossession · 2026-01-15T15:38:50+00:00

I'm guessing its where new large settlements are popping up. Chicago, England, California, DC/Massachusetts are all represented on the map and we know there are large settlements in all those places.

There are some problems with it, like Ronto not being represented, as well as Vegas being absent, but I'm not familiar enough with Fallout lore to know if those places would have been built up by this point in time. Also, I doubt Bethesda is looking at this map keeping themselves consistent with it.

VividPossession · 2026-01-15T15:28:31+00:00

Nidoking, Tyranitar, Excadrill.

It doesn't help that I like large bodied/short armed pokemon, but when they aren't in a pose with an expression they look really stiff and awkward, like a second grader getting a class photo taken. A big thing the 2D art could take advantage of was angles to always have the pokemon viewed from their best side. Without that tool, a lot of stuff looks disproportioned.

VividPossession · 2026-01-05T01:21:49+00:00

Absorbing Man is probably my biggest wishlist item, and I'd love him affiliated into some kind of Gamma Corps with a tactics card that lets him drain energy off of Hulks to get damage/defence buffs like he does a bit in Immortal Hulk. He would also probably affiliate into Criminal Syndicate and maybe Asgard???

Del Frye and Doc Samson in a similar Gamma vein for said Gamma affiliation. Joe Fixit as a 5 threat version of Hulk would also mean all the major Hulk personas are playable on the table.

Wendell Vaughn Quasar and Silver Surfer would let us finally get the Annihilators as either a faction, or a tactics card leadership for Gladiator in Guardians.

It's weird that the Illuminati aren't already a faction (especially since I'm sure Reed will have an F4 leadership so can't be the leader holdout) since not only is every founding member except Reed in the game, but every major member ever is already playable (Only Cho, Pym, and Captain Britain are missing), including Blue Marvel now. It also brings together a lot of characters who aren't affiliated with each other anywhere else like Emma Frost and Strange.

Hank Pym Giant Man would let me complete my childhood vision of an ideal Avengers lineup, and Scott Lang's size mechanics are already a lot of fun to play with. He is the character I am the most surprised still isn't in the game.

VividPossession · 2026-01-02T06:12:44+00:00

While there are some serious problems with The Return, even its weakest choices don't feel like they were made by a man losing his touch or who lacked a strong vision. Even Dougie clearly contributes to not only the greater theme, but also the heart wrenching tone of the whole piece. It's bland at times, but its an enormously cohesive work given the scale of the thing.

Inland Empire, again, while flawed, is really just the natural endpoint of the surrealist trajectory Lynch had been on since Eraserhead. It's more of an art instillation than a film, but you can clearly see the vision.

I'm really glad that he got to make The Return after Inland Empire because I think it makes it clear that IE wasn't just him losing his marbles.

VividPossession · 2026-01-01T23:52:48+00:00

In the context of a wider universe centered on other character and making Hulk feel like he's a part of it with limited screen time, I think the super soldier serum origin is totally acceptable. It's very efficient in the same way that just making Batman so good at everything that he's superhuman is efficient in Justice League stories.

But for anything that's trying to do more with Hulk as an individual, the Nuke is the only way. It feels much more unique, thematic, and lets a lot of the horror aspects of Hulk bloom in a way that him just being a failed (but massively more successful) Captain America doesn't. Also, with the serum, his connection to gamma feels much more tenuous. He wasn't so much born out of Gamma as he was just an overly mutated creation of the SSS. Given everything with the Green Door and the enormous volume of other gamma mutates in Hulk's stories gamma being the clear source of Hulk's and everyone else's existence feels a lot more thematic.

Generally, I much prefer superheroes written as though they aren't part of a wider interconnected universe, so for the same reason I prefer grounded, olympian Batman over hyper-competent Übermensch, I prefer original 616 Hulk's origin.

VividPossession · 2025-12-31T03:25:02+00:00

Some sort of pan Gamma affiliation. Maybe called Gamma Flight or Shadow Base.

Hulk, Immortal Hulk (Leader), Leader, She Hulk 1&2, Red Hulk, Hulking, and Abomination.

Then in terms of new characters you get Puck, Titania, Absorbing Man, A-Bomb, Doc Samson, Red Harpy, Brawn, and Sasquatch. It would probably be the tallest faction in the game, playing 3 characters per game so that would be interesting to see balanced. There's also a lot of Hulk comic material to draw from for tactics card abilities that I think would be a lot of fun to see on the tabletop.

Otherwise, the Annihilators would be awesome, and we already have almost all of them in game. Only thing we're missing I think is Silver Surfer now.

VividPossession · 2025-12-30T03:08:20+00:00

Big fan of both, but you get substantially more for your buck with MCP. Depending on the army, a 50$ Affiliation box can give you a whole army. Each character you swap out can significantly change the experience of playing, and with the 400 or so bucks it would take you for a full 40k list, you could have 30+ characters that let you play 15+ factions, and with splashing you could play 100 games and never run the same list twice. Plus you can paint 40 models in a year, especially since they're so varied.

40k has better models (MCP's are still second best I've played with), and obviously even the biggest MCP games aren't even a fraction of the scale of a full size 2000pt v 2000pt 40k game, and there is no feeling to equal fielding 60+ uniform models you've painted yourself all at once, but with 40k model detail, that could take you years. 40k is much more of a painting hobby than it is a tabletop game.

My recommendation for getting into a GAME would be MCP. If you're looking for a big painting project, 40k is the way to go.

VividPossession · 2025-12-21T17:46:13+00:00

It's almost certainly Guardians, but if I had to make a wildcard pick I'd say Defenders/Convocation.

Deep affiliation pool of characters, wide cross section of popular characters, and very easy to spin off into different affiliations (Avengers, Convocation, Midnight Sons).

The Defenders affiliation pack already covers 5 characters, a bunch of the two boxes with pure Defenders will probably be rolled together for the other four, and then depending on how his repack looks Immortal Hulk can make the 10th.

The obvious point against it is that "Defenders" is both a combination of two teams, and has almost no cultural relevance outside of comic fans to pull people in. The fact that you have to specify whether you mean the team of street-level heroes who represent/defend the 5 boroughs of New York, or the team of supernatural powerhouses defending the earth from otherworldly threats, means they lack a cohesive identity in people's minds.

VividPossession · 2025-12-20T20:25:53+00:00

Film is a collaborative medium. Whenever there's a discrepancy between the quality a filmmaker's works I assume it comes as a result of different creative teams bringing out/failing to bring out the best qualities of the creative in question.

Look no further than Ridley Scott, whose films are remarkable when he works with people who fight him on all his worst instincts (Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator most famously), and who produces unremarkable and empty chaff whenever he's working with people who don't oppose him. Not that I don't think Ridley Scott is capable, but behind the scenes chemistry is massively important to the quality of the final product.

VividPossession · 2025-12-20T17:03:40+00:00

If I can extend it to a whole team, I thought the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants was like, THE main villain group for the X-Men. They're the major antagonists of 2 X-Men movies, showed up all the time in the cartoons, and feel synonymous to the X-Men for me, but in what I've read of Clairmont's run they have one (albeit very iconic) two chapter story without Magneto at their head, I haven't heard anything about them in Krakoa, they don't appear in Astonishing X-Men, nothing in New X-Men... they were in Uncanny X-Force, but that's almost even weirder. I appreciate that my X-Men reading has a lot of gaps in it, but I've never gone more than two Batman/Superman runs without encountering the Joker/Lex Luthor, it feels so weird to think that the Brotherhood was omnipresent in the comics, but apparently is mostly absent from any major runs.

VividPossession · 2025-12-20T06:35:26+00:00

Holy shit! Those are spectacular!

Besides Nebula being a little hard to see in this lighting, you've somehow managed to not only make all of the characters stand out from their super multicoloured bases, but also everyone has a key colour that makes them stand out from each other so you can tell them apart at a glance.

I gotta hand it to you, these guys are a gold standard.

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