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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! The Care Bears! Casablanca! Cerebro!)

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I remember reading Danger's introduction and... yeah, I'd enjoyed the comic up to that point, but that whole section just fell flat.
It didn't make sense, it was overly complicated, it seemed to work against existing character traits that had been in existence up to that point.
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And even as a guy who loves looking at the ladies; in my opinion that robo-nipple look is just cringe worthy.

I think the basic premise could have had a lot of promise if they'd approached it differently.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! The Care Bears! Casablanca! Cerebro!)

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I kind of liked her as an implacable killing machine, but once she gained robo-powers and said "I hardly miss my hard-light capabilities", I was like "you gave up THOSE POWERS for Generic Strong-Bot stuff? So Whedon admits you were too powerful". Once she actually joined the X-Men, it was basically "Danger as background nobody", and she hasn't really mattered since.
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Lupin III

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LUPIN III (Arsene Lupin III)
Created By:
Kazuhiko Katu, aka "Monkey Punch"
First Appearance: Weekly Shonen Action (Aug. 10, 1967)
Role: The Leader, The Funny Pervert, The Thief, The Trickster
Group Affiliations: Lupin's Gang
PL 9 (195)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 9 (+14)
Athletics 8 (+9)
Deception 12 (+15)
Expertise (Thief) 15 (+18)
Expertise (History) 5 (+8)
Expertise (Science) 3 (+6)
Insight 5 (+8)
Perception 9 (+12)
Persuasion 6 (+9)
Sleight of Hand 10 (+15)
Stealth 4 (+9)
Technology 3 (+6)
Treatment 2 (+5)
Vehicles 9 (+14)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Beginner's Luck, Benefit (Wealth), Daze (Deception), Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Defensive Throw, Diehard, Equipment 5, Evasion 2, Extraordinary Effort, Fascinate (Deception), Fearless, Grab Finesse, Great Endurance, Improved Aim, Improved Critical 2 (Pistol, Unarmed), Improved Defense 2, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Jack-of-All-Trades, Languages 2 (almost all major ones), Last Stand, Luck 4, Move-By Action, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 7, Second Chance (Falling), Set-Up, Skill Mastery 2 (Thief, Sleight of Hand), Taunt, Teamwork, Ultimate Skill 4 (Thief, Athletics, Deception, Vehicles & Sleight of Hand), Uncanny Dodge (Hearing), Well-Informed

Powers:
Leaping 1 (15 feet) [1]

Equipment:
"Walther P38" Blast 5 (10)
"Souped-Up Yellow Fiat 500" Car (Large, Strength 5, Speed 6, Defense 10, Toughness 7) (12)
"Wristwatch Grapple Wire" Movement 1 (Swinging) (1)

Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Pistol +12 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +9

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +3 (+4 D.Roll), Fortitude +7, Will +8

Complications:
Motivation (Thrills)- Even gaining loot is secondary- Lupin just loves the thrill of the hunt.
Honour- He doesn't steal from the innocent or people who can't afford to be robbed. He only kills in self-defense.
Relationship (The Gang)- Lupin will fight to protect any member of his gang.
Relationship (Fujiko)- Lupin is infatuated with Miss Twin Peaks, and constantly tries to bed her, despite the fact that they are often rivals.
Rivalry (Inspector Zenigata)- Though Zenigata hunts Lupin obsessively, both secretly respect and admire the other, and will frequently team up against greater evils.
Obsession (Women)- Lupin will risk anything to boink a sexy lady, and anything to rescue a damsel in distress. "Which one are we saving, boss?" "The girl!" "Typical."

Total: Abilities: 66 / Skills: 100--50 / Advantages: 58 / Powers: 1 / Defenses: 20 (195)

-Lupin III is a great concept, starting out as a manga by Monkey Punch (pseudonym, obviously), and turning into a more well-known anime series. It's lasted a billion years, though the last couple decades have mainly showed up as yearly one-shots and TV Movies. Lupin III is the grandson of the great French thief Arsene Lupin, and is similarly devoted to living the life of the gentleman thief... well, except replace "gentleman" with "pervert". He IS an anime hero after all. He's in it for kicks, much like some iterations of Carmen Sandiego, and his crimes are often just as outrageous- he once stole the Statue of Liberty, then the top floor of Tiffany's to DECORATE the thing! He's an honourable, protagonist-worthy thief, though, stealing only for kicks, and never robbing from those who can't afford to lose their precious objects- and he often just gives the stuff back once he's proven he could take it. Plus, he ends up fighting WORSE criminals all the time (usually to save a damsel in distress).

-I've seen a handful of episodes and some specials, but the main source of Lupin awesomeness for me (and many others) was "The Castle of Cagliostro", a PHENOMENAL movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the famous guy who did "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke" and all that other good anime stuff (basically, if it looks artsy and is a famous anime, Miyazaki did it). It's just... you kinda have to see it. It's an adventure full of car chases (one of the most epic ones ever), political intrigue, a Princess, a super-dungeon from hell, a giant tower, roof-running the likes of which you've never seen, some fight scenes, and a big fight in a clocktower (note to animation fans: If you see a fight in a clock tower and it's a cartoon, they're referencing this. Batman once had one with the Clock King, for example).

-Lupin III is basically the ultimate Skillmonkey, roughly as capable as your Marvel & DC super-spy types (below PL 10, but still very skilled overall- he's PL 8.5 with his Walther P38), not uber-strong, but Skills? He's got the mother load: Near-unstoppable amounts of Sleight of Hand (he's escaped people wielding handcuffs by cuffing THEM to things), Deception (his disguises fool nearly everyone), Thievery (anything involving planning heists, knowing underworld info, and how to find hidden compartments, etc.) and Vehicles (he once gave his Fiat 500 the Wall-Crawling Movement power- for example), in addition to general skills acrosst he board (he knows the back history of nearly everything, can sneak about very well, and he's good with gadgets, too. Imagine Batman if Batman were a stringy little acrobat that was obsessed with thievery instead of beating up criminals.

-Regarding his Leaping ability- he frequently makes jumps that are literally impossible for any human to replicate, and are spectacular even by anime standards- he actually jumped onto an impossible-to-reach tower (literally a giant cylindar hundreds of feet in the air) by jumping off an adjacent building that had to have been 50 to 100 feet away- let's just call that a spectacular play of a Hero Point. And Lupin's ride, the Fiat 500, is an old-model puny car, but has been souped up with extra speed, and the Defense of a jet ski or motorcycle.
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The subtitled Trailer for The Castle of Cagliostro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzyjBf ... re=related
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Jigen

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JIGEN (Daisuke Jigen)
Created By:
Kazuhiko Katu, aka "Monkey Punch"
First Appearance: Weekly Shonen Action (Aug. 10, 1967)
Role: The Sidekick, The Sharpshooter, The Deadpan Snarker
Group Affiliations: Lupin's Gang
PL 10 (135)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2

Skills:
Athletics 5 (+7)
Deception 6 (+8)
Expertise (Thief) 10 (+12)
Expertise (History) 2 (+4)
Insight 5 (+8)
Intimidation 5 (+7)
Perception 8 (+11)
Ranged Combat (Smith & Wesson) 2 (+14)
Sleight of Hand 3 (+8)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Technology 3 (+5)
Vehicles 5 (+10)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Daze (Intimidation), Defensive Attack, Equipment 4, Evasion, Fearless, Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Magnum) 5, Improved Defense, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Smash, Languages (many), Power Attack, Quick Draw, Ranged Attack 7, Second Chance (Falling), Skill Mastery (Ranged Combat- Gun), Ultimate Aim

Equipment:
"Smith & Wesson Model 19 Combat Revolver"
"Armour-Piercing Rounds" Blast 6 (Extras: Penetrating) (Inaccurate -1) (17) -- (18)
  • AE: "Standard Rounds" Blast 6 (12)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Smith & Wesson +14 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Armour Piercing Rounds +12 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +4, Fortitude +8, Will +8

Complications:
Honour- Jigen doesn't shoot women & children. All men who pose a threat are fair game.
Relationship (The Gang)- Jigen will fight to protect any member of his gang.
Rivalry (Fujiko)- Jigen dislikes Fujiko strongly, and is greatly irritated by Lupin's obsession with her.
Responsibility (Bad Luck)- Jigen always gets his Marlboro's bent, loses his hat, or has a love interest die on him.
Temper- Jigen is driven to a rage by cracks against him, even towards his closest friends.
Weakness (Hat)- Jigen's aim is sometimes dependent upon using a notch in the brim of his hat as a "sight".

Total: Abilities: 60 / Skills: 56--28 / Advantages: 32 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 15 (135)

-Jigen is the snarky, cynical Yin to Lupin's wild, chaotic Yang, and usually has a sly comeback to all of his boss' quirks. A loyal sidekick, Jigen is an unparalleled marksman of epic repute, and assists Lupin on all his quests so that Lupin doesn't just end up talking to himself the whole time.

-It looks a little funny to see Jigen as a PL 10, since his boss, Lupin, the main character is a PL 9, but really, he's set up explicitly as being both a better shot than Lupin, but having a stronger gun as well (Smith & Wesson vs. P38), so he really CAN'T be a lower PL without breaking what the character is. He's MUCH cheaper than Lupin though, being less skilled across the board, and dropping 20 points in Advantages to the boss-man. His accuracy is intense- the guy can shoot Skeet with a handgun, easily hit the wheels of a moving vehicle (while in the back of a wildly-driving Fiat), hit improbable targets all over, and has actually DEFLECTED A BULLET WITH ANOTHER BULLET. Now THAT is what Skill Mastery & Ultimate Aim are all about! It's "only" +14, but he often uses Accurate Attack to go as high as +19. He's a little worse than Lupin at everything but aiming, and acts as the muscle- the mark of a good right-hand man.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! The Care Bears! Casablanca! Cerebro!)

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Jabroniville wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2017 5:03 am I kind of liked her as an implacable killing machine, but once she gained robo-powers and said "I hardly miss my hard-light capabilities", I was like "you gave up THOSE POWERS for Generic Strong-Bot stuff? So Whedon admits you were too powerful". Once she actually joined the X-Men, it was basically "Danger as background nobody", and she hasn't really mattered since.
She's just appeared in 'X-Men: Blue' she's secretly been their Blackbird, yes she's a transformer now.
'A shared universe, like any fictional construct, hinges on suspension of disbelief. When continuity is tossed away, it tatters the construct. Undermines it'
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Goemon

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"Once again my sword has cut a worthless object."
-Always following a Crowning Moment of Awesome


GOEMON (Goemon Ishikawa XIII)
Created By:
Kazuhiko Katu, aka "Monkey Punch"
First Appearance: Weekly Shonen Action (Aug. 10, 1967)
Role: Goonsweeper, Ludicrously-Sharp Sword Guy
Group Affiliations: Lupin's Gang
PL 10 (141)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 6 (+8)
Close Combat (Katana) 3 (+13)
Deception 5 (+6)
Expertise (Samuari) 11 (+13)
Insight 5 (+8)
Intimidation 6 (+7)
Investigation 4 (+7)
Perception 8 (+11)
Sleight of Hand 4 (+4)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Treatment 3 (+5)
Vehicles 5 (+5)

Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Assessment, Cunning Fighter, Defensive Attack, Defensive Strike, Fearless, Great Endurance, Improved Critical (Katana) 4, Improved Defense, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Smash, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Quick Draw, Takedown 2, Uncanny Dodge (Hearing)

Powers:
"Ryusei- Zantetsu Sword" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [11]
Strength-Damage +5 (Feats: Improved Critical) (Extras: Penetrating 10) (16) -- (17 points)
  • AE: Deflect 10 (10)
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Zantetsu +13 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +8

Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +13 (DC 23), Toughness +4, Fortitude +9, Will +11

Complications:
Honour- Goemon is very much the samurai, and will not take a life unless it's a specific duel to the death.
Relationship (The Gang)- Goemon will fight to protect any member of his gang.
Rivalry (Fujiko)- Goemon dislikes Fujiko strongly, and is greatly irritated by Lupin's obsession with her.
Responsibility (Women)- Goemon easily trusts any beautiful woman, and will freely give up all money to her.
Obsession (Self-Improvement)- Goemon meditates, trains and desperately attempts to perfect himself.

Total: Abilities: 52 / Skills: 68--34 / Advantages: 21 / Powers: 11 / Defenses: 23 (141)

-Goemon is the thirteenth in a long line of renegade Samurai, going back to a real-life person hundreds of years ago. Mean to add a more "Japanese" tough to an intrigue & deception-based series, Goemon is a serious, unemotional samurai who regularly fails to laugh, get scared or react emotionally to anything. He mainly comes on after Lupin & Jigen have ended up in the middle of things, phoned-in by Lupin himself to deal with the mooks.

-Goemon is to swords what Jigen is to guns, but even moreso. Things the guy has slashed: Cars, guns, bullets (in mid-air, no less), tank cannons, a helicopter, the burning clothes of Lupin while he flew through the air (without harming Lupin himself), AN AIRPLANE (seriously, the entire plane), and in one particular stand-out, the film on which the animation was made. He's a classic PL 10 warrior, using a special sword that does unholy amounts of damage (+4 to base strength overall!), has an insane Crit ratio (Goemon's Advantages plus the blade's own), and he's nearly as skilled as Lupin & Jigen in various categories (including being a master of all things Japanese thanks to his Samurai Expertise). He's a scary PL 10 in combat, and like Jigen, is more dangerous in combat than Lupin himself.
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Fujiko

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FUJIKO (Fujiko Mine)
Created By:
Kazuhiko Katu, aka "Monkey Punch"
First Appearance: Weekly Shonen Action (Aug. 10, 1967)
Role: Miss Fanservice, The Rival
Group Affiliations: N/A
PL 9 (165)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 7 (+12)
Athletics 7 (+8)
Deception 8 (+11, +16 Attractive)
Expertise (Thief) 11 (+14)
Insight 5 (+8)
Perception 9 (+12)
Persuasion 6 (+9, +14 Attractive)
Sleight of Hand 9 (+14)
Stealth 4 (+9)
Treatment 2 (+5)
Vehicles 6 (+11)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Attractive 2, Beginner's Luck, Benefit (Wealth), Daze (Deception), Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Defensive Throw, Diehard, Equipment 5, Evasion 2, Extraordinary Effort, Fascinate (Deception), Fearless, Grab Finesse, Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Pistol), Improved Defense 2, Improved Initiative, Jack-of-All-Trades, Languages 2 (almost all major ones), Luck 2, Move-By Action, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 7, Skill Mastery (Thief), Taunt, Ultimate Skill 2 (Thief & Deception), Uncanny Dodge (Hearing), Well-Informed

Equipment:
"Browning M1910" Blast 5 (10)
"Assorted Vehicles" (10)

Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Pistol +12 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +9

Defenses:
Dodge +13 (DC 23), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +2 (+3 D.Roll), Fortitude +6, Will +7

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)
Relationship/Rivalry (Lupin & The Gang)- Despite a semi-mutual attraction, Fujiko is rivals with Lupin, and most of his gang strongly dislike her.

Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 74--37 / Advantages: 46 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 18 (165)

-Basically a combo of Femme Fatale/Miss Fanservice and a hot chick ally, Fujiko is a side-character that gets involved in pretty much every Lupin adventure. A thief like Lupin, she uses her feminine wiles to get what she wants, but she's not necessarily on his side. Usually they're rivals, but they will team up against mutual threats, or to split the riches on bigger scores. She's one of the originators of the "Miss Fanservice" concept in anime, debuting in the late 60s with ludicrously huge breasts and a desire to show the goods. How huge? "Fujio Mine" literally translates as "the mountain peaks of Fuji". All of anime & manga owes her a huge debt.

-Fujiko stats up like a slightly-lesser Lupin, a vastly competent thief and ranged fighter in her own right, just not as capable as HE is. She uses Attractive 2 to it's best benefit, being easily able to control men. She doesn't have the crazy wild feats that Jigen & Goemon do, but she can take out men larger than her in melee combat, and is an elite Skillmonkey.
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Re: Grey King

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Jabroniville wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:08 pm Image

THE GREY KING (Addison Falk)
Created By:
Steve Seagle & Carlos Pacheco
First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men #360 (Oct. 1998)
Group Affiliations: Cerebro's X-Men
Role: One-Shot Character
PL 10 (135)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills: 
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (Art) 4 (+7)
Expertise (Current Events) 4 (+7)
Expertise (Chess Player) 8 (+11) -- Costs 1/2 points
Insight 4 (+7)
Perception 5 (+8)
Persuasion 4 (+7)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Mutant Powers: Telekinesis & Psionic Power Nullification" 
"Power Nullification" Affliction 10 (Will; Impaired/Disabled/Transformed to Powerless) (Extras: Perception-Range +2, Cumulative) (40) -- [48]
  • Dynamic AE: Force Field 8 (Feats: Increased Mass 2, Dynamic) (Extras: Affects Others, Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (27)
  • Dynamic AE: "Telekinesis" Move Object 10 (Feats: Precise, Dynamic) (22)
  • Dynamic AE: "TK Attack" Damage 10 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (Feats: Dynamic) (21)
  • Dynamic AE: Flight 4 (30 mph) (Feats: Dynamic) (9)
Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+4 Damage, DC 16)
TK Attack +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Nullification -- (+10 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 20)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +3 (+11 Force Field), Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Money)

Total: Abilities: 58 / Skills: 28--14 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 48 / Defenses: 11 (135)

-The Grey King is the 'team leader'-type, a knock-off of Jean Grey with Sebastian Shaw's code-name and Magneto's personality, with an extra Power Nullification power. He was portrayed as a snobbish rich boy with a knack for intellectual games (like Chess), very much like the old Hellfire Club enemies. He's a fairly ideal and nasty PL 10, but noticeably lacks Combat Advantages when compared to your usual X-character, since his powers are ALL that he is. That means he's good in a fight at first, but will quickly fall by the wayside if he drops his Force Field too far, or gets caught up nullifying people.
Is that the PF around this Grey King? Did he have Phoenix powers?
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Basically, he was taken from Jean and a couple of other characters, and during this time, Jean seemed to be "manifesting" the Phoenix Force again. So basically it just looks like it.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! Casablanca! Cerebro! Lupin III!)

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Love the Lupin the III builds, Jab. A lovable rogue you just love to root for and his crew, perfect stats for everyone. And yeah, Goemon's sword is that crazy powerful, once stolen by thieves to use on a plane as a spinning weapon and considered unbreakable, though can't remember if it is or not myself. And in your commentary part, they brought back the anime for Lupin the Third Part IV this year, even showing the dubbed version on Adult Swim Saturday line-up since June 17th. Hasn't lost a beat, still the same lovable group and their antics.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! Casablanca! Cerebro! Lupin III!)

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I think Lupin is cool, but I haven't seen anything related to it, though I was given a Lupin III plushie by someone once. (And of course, the Main Character's persona in Persona 5 is a reference to the original Arsene Lupin himself.) I plan to at least watch Castle of Cagliostro at some point, since it sounds awesome. I also hear there was a board game that's pretty accurate to the source material. (Lupin and his gang try to steal treasure while avoiding Zenigata and his cops, while the Fujiko player can choose to betray the others and run off on their own with the treasure if they want.)
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Zenigata

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"LUPINNNNNN!! You're under arrest!"

INSPECTOR ZENIGATA (Koichi Zenigata)
Created By:
Kazuhiko Katu, aka "Monkey Punch"
First Appearance: Weekly Shonen Action (Aug. 10, 1967)
Role: The Zenigata (Trope Namer, obviously), The Hunter
Group Affiliations: Interpol, Tokyo Police
PL 8 (96)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 9 DEXTERITY 3
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 4 (+5)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+10)
Expertise (Cop) 10 (+12)
Expertise (Current Events) 6 (+8)
Insight 4 (+6)
Investigation 6 (+8)
Perception 3 (+5)
Stealth 2 (+5)
Vehicles 4 (+7)

Advantages: 
Benefit (Interpol Clearance), Equipment 4 (Cop Gear), Fast Grab, Grab Finesse, Inspire, Leadership, Ranged Combat 7, Ultimate Skill (Cop)

Equipment:
"Colt .45" Blast 5 (10) -- (11)
  • AE: "Jitte Baton" Strength-Damage +2 (2)
"Handcuffs" (1)
"Police Car" (8)

Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Jitte +9 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Pistol +10 (+5 Damage, DC 203
Initiative +9

Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +3, Fortitude +7, Will +8

Complications:
Obsession (Lupin)- It is Zenigata's single-minded life's goal to capture Arsene Lupin III, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish this. The only thing that can hold him off is temporary alliances to save their lives.
Relationship (Lupin)- Despite his goals, Zenigata has shown appreciation for Lupin in the past, and has mourned Lupin's supposed deaths on occasion (and vice-versa). Each will avenge crimes inflicted on the other.
Honour- Zenigata is not a killer, and does not want Lupin dead. He will always fight to save lives, even those of enemies.
Responsibility (Interpol)- Zenigata must follow orders.

Total: Abilities: 48 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 17 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 11 (96)

-Inspector Zenigata is actually my favourite Lupin III character, despite him being kind of a Butt-Monkey in the series overall. The hapless detective who is constantly chasing Lupin throughout, he never quite gets his man- this is in spite of terrific effort, unwavering obsession (he once broke out of a coma just hearing someone say "Lupin"), and actual talent. He's portrayed as incompetent sometimes, but at points he's easily disabled several attackers at once in melee, handcuffed people by tossing his cuffs like a bola, and captured everyone OTHER than Lupin by story's end. There's just something to be said for his perserverance- it's implied that he's actually the best cop on Earth, because he's the only one who can SOMETIMES figure Lupin out- the rest don't have a chance. In "The Castle of Cagliostro", he's the guy who figures out Lupin's going to enter via the aqueducts, but he gets called away before he can do any good. 

-Zenigata's no dummy, but at heart he's just a really high-level, excellent Cop, who isn't good enough to catch Lupin & friends simply because they are AWESOME while he is merely great. He's a PL 8 (95) guy with a high degre of talent (he'd actually be the best cop in Gotham other than Gordon).

INTERPOL COPS
Role:
Zenigata's Back-Up
Group Affiliations: Interpol, Tokyo Police
PL 4 (45)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 1
FIGHTING 4 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Close Combat (Baton) 1 (+5)
Expertise (Cop) 6 (+6)
Expertise (Current Events) 2 (+2)
Insight 2 (+3)
Investigation 4 (+6)
Perception 3 (+5)
Vehicles 4 (+6)

Advantages: 
Equipment 4 (Cop Gear), Teamwork

Equipment:
"Colt .45" Blast 5 (10) -- (11)
AE: "Jitte Baton" Strength-Damage +2 (2)
"Handcuffs" (1)
"Big Fat Shield" Enhanced Dodge 3 & Parry 2 (5)

Offense:
Unarmed +4 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Jitte +5 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Pistol +2 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +1

Defenses:
"Without Shield" Dodge +3 (DC 13), Parry +4 (DC 14), Toughness +2, Fortitude +4, Will +3
"With Shield" Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +2, Fortitude +4, Will +3

Total: Abilities: 24 / Skills: 22--11 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 5 (45)

-Zenigata's Goon Squad consists of a large group of background police officers, who usually charge in behind him en masse and smack away at people with their batons, while hiding behind their huge Riot Shields.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! Casablanca! Cerebro! Lupin III!)

Post by Arkrite »

Yeah, Zenigata suffers from Watson syndrome in my opinion.

It isn't that he's a bumbling fool, it's that his opposition so skilled that he looks that way in comparison.

I also kind of enjoyed the fact that Lupin seems to respect Zenigata to some degree.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Capt. Scarlet! Casablanca! Cerebro! Lupin III!)

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God, I love Castle of Cagliostro. It's one of my favorite anime ever, although I should probably rewatch it to make sure I'm not building it up too much in my memory. Afterwards I went through a big Lupin phase, hunting down everything I could find, but I think Cagliostro was what ended that phase, too: the other Lupin III stuff I watched was generally good, but it was never as good, and my expectations had been set too high.
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