Jab’s Builds! (Nightmare Creatures/Circus! Lawnmower Man! Metroid!)
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Blindspot
BLINDSPOT I (Kylie Kopeikin)
Created By: Terry Kavanagh, Bryan Hitch & Bob McLeod
First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men Annual #19 (1995)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: Humanity's Last Stand/The Mutant Liberation Front II
PL 7 (73)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Anti-Mutant Bigot) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+2)
Advantages:
Equipment (Communications), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Personal Teleporters" (Flaws: Easily-Removable) [5]
Teleport 10 (Flaws: Limited to Long Distances) (8 points)
Dazzle Visuals 8 [16]
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Dazzle +6 (+8 Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +3
Complications:
Hatred (Mutants)
Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 12--6 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 21 / Defenses: 7 (73)
-She was killed by Simon Trask for refusing to fight the Punisher, because her family was in the compound he was attacking.
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Thermal
THERMAL (Molly Peterson)
Created By: Terry Kavanagh, Bryan Hitch & Bob McLeod
First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men Annual #19 (1995)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: Humanity's Last Stand/The Mutant Liberation Front II
PL 7 (82)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Anti-Mutant Bigot) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+2)
Advantages:
Equipment (Communications), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Personal Teleporters" (Flaws: Easily-Removable) [5]
Teleport 10 (Flaws: Limited to Long Distances) (8 points)
"Cold Blast" Snare 8 (24) -- [25]
- AE: Heat Blast 8 (16)
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Blast +6 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Cold Blast +6 (+8 Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +3
Complications:
Hatred (Mutants)
Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 12--6 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 30 / Defenses: 7 (82)
-Another Cold/Fire character (a LOT of those in the lower ranks of forgotten characters over at Marvel), she was nearly killed when Trask blew up the base, but she was rescued by the Punisher, and gave up a ton of info as a result.
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Burnout
BURNOUT I & II (Kristine Calverly & Megan O'Toole)
Created By: Terry Kavanagh, Bryan Hitch & Bob McLeod
First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men Annual #19 (1995)
Role: Forgotten Villain
Group Affiliations: Humanity's Last Stand/The Mutant Liberation Front II
PL 7 (94)
STRENGTH 2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 10 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Expertise (Anti-Mutant Bigot) 4 (+4)
Intimidation 4 (+4)
Perception 2 (+2)
Advantages:
Equipment (Communications), Ranged Attack 2
Powers:
"Personal Teleporters" (Flaws: Easily-Removable) [5]
Teleport 10 (Flaws: Limited to Long Distances) (8 points)
Speed 6 (500 mph) [6]
Quickness 4 [4]
"Speed Feats"
Strength Damage +4 (Extras: Multiattack 6) (Inaccurate -1) [9]
"Gauntlets" (Flaws: Removable) [8]
Deflect 8 (8)
Strength-Damage +2 (2)
-- (10 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +10 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Multiattack +10 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +3, Fortitude +4, Will +3
Complications:
Hatred (Mutants)
Total: Abilities: 44 / Skills: 12--6 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 33 / Defenses: 9 (94)
-A Speedster, the original died when she was denied more of the drug that granted her speed (she literally burned alive). O'Toole took over, but likely died when their compound blew up.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
Dammit, forgot to build Redshirt. Oh well, he can wait till after my Sailor Moon builds are posted .Thorpocalypse wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:54 pm With my horrible random memory, when I saw MLF, I didn't think MILF, I had this equally crappy 90's thing pop into my head.
KLF...uh-huh, uh-huh...
And besides, Marvel already has a MILF.
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Sailor Moon
SAILOR MOON:
Bold statement: Nobody has ever loved anything as teenaged Jab loved Sailor Moon.
I LOVED this show when I was in High School. In a time when it was massively uncool for a boy to watch a "show for girls", I was like openly talking about this to several of my male friends at the time. I remember seeing snippets of it at first, glossing it over as a silly, powdery girl show, and making fun of it with my buddies at school. Then one day I was SUPER-bored after school (it aired at 4:30 on YTV in Canada I believe) and caught an episode... it ended up being the EPIC story where the Scouts met up with the spirit of Queen Serenity, who showed them their entire history with the Moon Kingdom, and then they subsequently killed the villainous Malachite. THEN, the next episode was the major "Them (vs) Beryl and the Doom & Gloom Girls" story. Bam. Hooked. Just like that. What a series of episodes to run through to start my fandom with this show (not in any way diminished by learning just HOW edited and hacked-up that finale was- they took two ultraviolent episodes- even for JAPAN- and merged them into one where you couldn't see the girls die, and everything was shortened in general). Plus, all the ladies in it (especially one Raye Hino... *sigh*...) were extremely hot, and I was like fifteen.
I became a HUGE fan of the series, and told my best friend at the time about it- he was hesitant to like it at first, but pretty soon we were a couple of secret Sailor Moon marks, hiding it from our ultra-macho High School buddies. This was my first major introduction to anime fandom (I loved "Astro Boy" and "Saber Rider and the Star Sherrifs" as a kid, but never acknowledged them as anime, being like seven or something), and I became one of those classic mid-90s teenage anime fans, who had no outlet for the love aside from what was shown on TV at the time- VHS tapes cost a FORTUNE at that time, meaning I could only look wistfully at them at the local HMV store. Season Boxed Sets? HAH- not even a thing. So this meant watching Sailor Moon and Hello Kitty for my anime fix, pretty much, as the Animesplosion that Dragon Ball Z started (and Naruto & Bleach later ultimized) was YEARS away.
Was it good? Well let's just say that Sailor Moon kicks the ever-loving shit out of Dragon Ball Z on every possible level, and leave it at that. Sailor Moon even has good FILLER. You LOOK FORWARD to Sailor Moon filler.
I watched Sailor Moon R (the Japanese name for the second season), then the ACTUAL start of Sailor Moon R (infamously, North American TV stations aired the seasons out of order for no apparent reason), then the actual original season... then became enraged because the magic 65 episode number (the amount needed for syndication) was ALL THEY EVER DUBBED. Yeah, they cancelled the series due to low ratings (it was big in Canada, but not in the States), and I had to go onto the internet (something not every household had way back in 1996-97) to find out the fate of the show- THEN I was introduced to the fandom proper.
I discovered there were Sailors OTHER than the Main Five, that there were five seasons overall, and that we'd almost never get the new episodes without a "Save Our Sailors" campaign, back in the day when every single website ever was part of a Webring and full of Shrines to individual favourite characters... I almost kinda miss that form of the internet (before perversion and 4channishness had created its own unique "culture"), but it was pretty chaotic and hard to find good stuff back in the day. You were lucky to cycle through the Anime Web Turnpike and find one or two good "Rei Hino Shrines" which mostly copied information from each other, and were written in the third person.
So yeah- I was a monster Sailor Moon fan right here. By the time they FINALLY got the last episodes of Sailor Moon R dubbed, I was sadly out of the fandom by that point (it was about TWO YEARS; an eternity in teenage years) and mostly glossed it over, though I caught most of it. I saw Sailor Moon S for the most part, but found it utterly boring and full of lame villains (despite the added Sailors and the lesbian subtext). Super S got dubbed as well I believe, but I was so out of the fandom that I didn't even care.
Nonetheless, now that I'm older (and wiser?), I can look back with a fresh mind at all these old episodes and characters, and I really appreciate it. I find myself more tired of the goofy antics, "Crying Girl" faces, occasional bad dubbing and the eventual sameness and stupidity of the villain designs, but the villains in the first two seasons are AWESOME (among the best General-type characters ever in anime or animation in general- I seek to copy this mentality every chance I get), the action is occasionally pretty sweet (the Tidus fight, the occasional times the Scouts took REAL Battle Damage, the Season One Finale, and of course Nephlite's infamous last stand), and there are some GREAT characters and unusual archetypes here, from back before every anime seemed to be a crappy shonen anime about "getting stronger".
The Iconic Anime:
-So much of what I think of as "Anime Tropes" were things I first saw here. Sailor Mercury's inexplicable blue hair (Robotech did this as well). The "sweat drops" when characters were worried or embarrassed. Still frames of people's staring eyes. "Limited Animation" disguised in a more artful way, as opposed to Hanna-Barbera Half-Assing. Transformation Sequences. "Filler Episodes".
The Infamous Dub:
OK, speaking of the Original Dub (which was originally just called "The Dub"): It wasn't THAT bad. It gets a short shrift by a lot of fans, namely because of "it's foreign so it must be better" and the general anti-dubbing wars that were FAR more intense back before there were many decent companies actually dubbing things. It was... heavily flawed, but decent considering the rules. Zoisite was changed from a gay man to a female for obvious reasons (and really, you'd have NEVER known without the 'net telling you back then), ie. it would NEVER have passed any censors, and this was the mid-90s. A lot of episodes were cut, especially side-ones that didn't involve the main plot. Sailors Uranus & Neptune were changed from not-so-subtle lesbian lovers to cousins (though leaving in enough relationship stuff to still make it weird). The Dark Messiah had its name changed. The Dark Kingdom is just changed to "The Negaverse", and later villains from Nemesis are also given that name, as if it's still full of evil people. Queen Metallia is called "The Negaforce". Character names were changed, back in the days before it was cool to leave everyone's names sounding Japanese (still, four of them retained near-exact names, like Ami/Amy & Rei/Raye). The team are called "Sailor Scouts" instead of "Sailor Senshi/Warriors", though both names don't make a lot of sense (the latter is QUITE redundant- Sailors ARE Warriors, y'know?- plus, they almost never fight on the frickin' water, so nitpicking over the "Scouts" thing is dumb as hell). These things were either necessary, or a bit minor.
More important changes were to plot points. The Season One finale was merged into a single episode from two ultra-violent ones, and implied the heroines didn't die. At one point, it's made to look like Sailor Mars STOLE the Silver Crystal when the original makes it clear she was given it by Sailor Moon to keep safe, which is a deplorable change that REALLY altered Sailor Mars's character.
So some were pretty big, annoying changes. But the main plot's still all there, and most of this really hardly changes anything too major. The most spectacularly bad example of Dub Fail is when Sailor Moon begs Prince Darien to "remember your name is DARIEN!" and he's all like "WUT?" and recognizes the name. Which is the name he's currently using. That's mainly because the dub somehow decided to rename "Prince Endymion" and just leave the normal guy's name in it's place. Just a temporary funny/bizarre moment, though- some people act as if this was a giant plot hole that ruined everything. The voice acting was iffy, but truth be told... people overrate original Japanese VAs all the freaking time- the original Japanese had a ton of REALLY squeaky-voiced girls, and the dub matched this with really annoying girls for the most part as well. Susan Roman was so good that even Dub-Haters enjoyed her performance as Sailor Jupiter. And despite the dub's occasional snafus, the show was still bad-ass, and more than worth getting into just with the dub. Is the original better? Yes, no question. But the dub is still a fine show if that's all you can get (and for 99% of the people on earth, it is- this show is infamously the worst-case scenario for additional DVD releases, matched only by Jem and the Holograms having an eternal lock-up regarding the rights- both shows took so long to get fully DVD releases that it was almost too late, and nostalgic potential had passed them by.
You have to keep in mind this was YEARS before anime dubbing became common, and "whole cloth" dubs became the norm- many of these changes were quite strictly ordered from above, so you can't blame the dubbers for censorship and little things like that. Nowadays, all the girls would have their original names, there'd be no English stuff, no "Sailor Says" segment, etc. C'est la vie.
Oh, and the MUSIC. WAS. AWESOME. Seriously, you will not find better "Mid-90s Power Rock You-Can-Do-It Ballad"-type stuff anywhere else. Think Transformers: The Movie in general tone and "believe in yourself!" attitude and you've about got it. You've Got The Power is defined by it's name, and Carry On is just EPIC Final Boss Battle stuff for girls. Must-listen stuff, no matter how bad the anti-dub crowd whined about soundtrack changes. And honestly... the original anime soundtrack is complete garbage. All "soft jazz" & "synth-crap" nonsense.
The New Dub:
Some professional anime-voiceover people are responsible for the New Dub, and it's pretty decent. Hearing Frankie Stein as Sailor Mercury, and Madeline Hatter as Queen Beryl & Berthier is a hoot. Though sadly their attempts at matching the dialogue as closely as possible (tragically, we lose lines like "Silence, you self-righteous prick!" from Prince Demande) means that we lose a lot of emotion from some of the dialogue. Though it's easy to make fun of the Original Dub, it seemed like the actors had more talent and impact. Sailor Mars sounds much older these days (though oddly, the actress- the cutest of the bunch, naturally- looks of a pretty normal age), Jupiter isn't as good as when she was Susan Roman, etc. Ami is definitely better, though- the previous one had a REALLY squeaky voice. Stephanie Sheh does pretty good as Usagi (who is supposed to be annoying- she's about 1/5th as annoying as the actual Japanese V.A.), but part of me will always enjoy the Canadian girl who played her before (if only because she used the same voice for the ultra-vulgar John Callahan's Quads).
There's assorted other Flaws that you'll find in the series, however:
* The whole "Villain creates a new craze and tries to drain energy" thing gets cliched FAST, especially with three different sets of villains doing it.
* What with the Generals usually being more powerful than the Sailors, you'd think they'd actually stick around and KILL THEM before they became too big a threat. But no- every General creates a monster and then runs away. This is especially bad for guys like Jadeite & Nephrite, who could probably curbstomp the tiny early groups of Sailors.
* The animation is classic Early Nineties Anime- kind of crappy. They'll have moments here or there, but usually it's very jerky, and the show is REALLY big on "sudden frame jump" stuff where they go from neutral to a big crazy pose without any frames in between. One of the directors is particularly horrible- you can spot him a mile away because he draws "Triangle Eyes", giving everyone some odd looks. Even five years later, animation in the business would drastically improve- if there was ever an anime that needed an upgrade into a shiny new version, it was this one.
* Too much goofiness for my tastes, especially as I got older. It's a little funny for the girls to stick their tongues out at each other or be bratty, but nowadays it looks like something for little kids (technically speaking, it kind of was originally, but was meant to have a more branching fanbase as well)- especially with the fountains of tears, the excessive "pratfall" reactions, etc. They use the anime slapstick cliches in OVERDRIVE here.
* The non-Moon Sailors get NO character development or focus after a point! This is the worst flaw of the entire show, and one that most later series wouldn't make- you actually learn almost NOTHING about the daily lives of the girls in the anime (the manga shows a bit more). We never find out why Rei lives with her Grandfather, or what Lita & Mina's parents are like- we literally never see them, nor hear about them. Hell, none of them even hook up with guys, or actually deal with personal things except for a one-episode-focus per season! And even THOSE eventually lead nowhere! The show creates these fantastic, interesting supporting characters (like Amy's love interest Greg, or Lita's "Platonic Male Friend" Ken), and then lets them wither on the vine with no mention once they've outlived their usefulness to the immediate. This is indefensible- the manga sidesteps this by having all the girls declare vows of chastity to Sailor Moon, but this creates the same problem (a bland, non-moving supporting cast).
And honestly, it's so fix-able. And would NEVER happen nowadays- writers are usually much better about showcasing the other characters and making sure that everyone at least gets backstory.
I did my first set of Sailor Moon builds WAY, way back, and they were heavily flawed, classic cases of 'early builds gone wrong'. It took me QUITE a while to get this system, apparently (makes me want to be more supportive of rookies without dashing their hopes right out of the gate by pointing out mistakes)- each Scout had most of their powers built individually (ie. without Alternate Powers/Effects, which would make more sense), were PL 10 without actually fitting the mark in a few instances, the set-ups looked ugly, and most of their powers were flawed to the point of uselessness, being Tiring or Distracting, among other things. So I figured it was time to re-do them, with builds I could be proud of- my second set of 2e Builds. And then after Mike5000 (an old commenter on the ATT) suggested it, I kinda realized I wanted to re-build them proper in 3e, using my more modern sensibilities.
I figure I'll start off with the Inner Senshi, move to the villains from a few early seasons (The Negaverse/Dark Kingdom, Ail & Ann with the Doom Tree, and the Black Moon Family), the Outer Senshi, and even some Supporting Cast members. I'll include Dub & Japanese names as well.
For Power Levels, I ultimately went with the idea that all the Senshi (except Moon when she goes balls-out with power) would be PL 10 at the end of their careers, like I originally intended. They're actually kinda hard to figure out PL-wise, since they only fought supervillains in their own universe, and never crossed-over, or fought standard Mooks like most heroes do (some heroes are easy to determine by fighting Soldiers and Thugs). For example, there's very few official Power Feats that AREN'T just blowing up villains. Some of the few instances I can think of: Sailor Jupiter blowing a hole in an apartment building so the Senshi could get in, and the Senshi looked SHOCKED at her power level (at barely a PL 8-worthy Power Attack usage). Things like falling trees are still devastating, and every Snare you can think of outright SCREWED the entire team. A few of the villains did more impressive things (Jadeite mentally moves some AIRPLANES into slowly running down the girls; Nephlite demolishes twenty feet of sidewalk casually), but really, most everyone in this universe is rather vulnerable, and focuses a tad more on accuracy than damage output. A Season Two enemy Catzi/Koan lets out a MASSIVE fireball that merely severely injures the poor human it hits (Chad/Yuuichiro), and badly burns Sailor Mars, so nobody's EXTREMELY powerful, even in later seasons.
I would gather that the Senshi are PL 8 in Season One, and PL 9 in Sailor Moon R. They're PL 10 by the end of the series. Their powers were supposedly "upgraded" in each season, as they got new Power Sticks or what have you, but anyone other than Sailor Moon only had two power-ups each at best (and one of those was a one-use only type of deal), and it was more of a "say, don't show" level of power upgrade, so I don't buy that they're any stronger than necessary to match up with the heroes of Marvel of DC. This isn't the Manga, where they were tearing apart the entire planet with each fight or something (no, really)- they're just very powerful teenage girls.
For powers, I'll stick with the anime (as I'm most familiar with it), but I might throw in some powers from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (the so-bad-it's-good ultra-pink Power Rangers-style sentai live-action show) for the hell of it.
The Basic Story:
Sailor Moon: The Dark Kingdom/Negaverse shows up, being led by Queen Metalia and her minion Queen Beryl (no idea why they needed TWO Queens, though). Beryl uses four Generals (all named after a type of green precious metal ending in "-ite"). They need Energy for Metalia to take over the planet. Young teenager Usagi is contacted by a talking cat named Luna, and turned into Sailor Moon. After going solo for a few episodes (with the mysterious Tuxedo Mask helping), she quickly forms a trio with Sailors Mercury & Mars. They are soon joined by Sailors Jupiter & Venus. The Dark Kingdom tries to get the Seven Rainbow Crystals while everyone's searching for "The Moon Princess", which turns out to be Sailor Moon. The Crystals form the Silver Crystal (given some long-ass name in Japan), and all the Generals end up getting killed. In a final, epic battle, all the Sailors die saving Sailor Moon, who goes on to unlock the full power of the Crystal, vaporizing both Evil Queens, and dying. Her final act is to resurrect everybody, with no memories of their past.
Sailor Moon R- Part 1: The memory loss lasts exactly one episode, as Ail & An, two weird aliens, come to Earth to steal energy for their Doom Tree. The Sailors reform, and the whole gang realizes that the Aliens and their Tree are good.
Sailor Moon R- Part 2: The Black Moon Family arrives, trying to darken various points of Tokyo, in order to weaken it. They're from the future, when Neo-Queen Serenity rules the world, and they want their piece of it. We also meet a certain Pink Spore named Chibi-Usa, who turns out to be Usagi & Tuxedo Mask's child from the future. Sailor Pluto also debuts as a background character.
Sailor Moon S: Sailors Neptune & Uranus debut, working on their own to stop The Witches 5, Professor Tomoe, and Master Pharaoh 90, some weird alien intelligence looking for the Holy Grail (three items of power) and The Dark Messiah, who will end the world. There's a ton of pseudo-religious stuff going on, and it's all very confusing. Sailor Saturn debuts at the end to do the "I die using my powers, but then am resurrected" bit. Sailor Moon is, of course, The Messiah who saves everyone. Tragically, Chibi-Usa becomes Sailor Chibi/Mini-Moon.
Sailor Moon SuperS: The Dead Circus or whatever attacks with their goofy-looking henchmen. Queen Nehellenia wants to gaze into people's Dream Mirrors to find out who's holding Pegasus. Sailor Chibi-Moon is of course integral to the plot, in one of the silliest, and most-hated, seasons.
Sailor Moon Super Stars: Sailor Galaxia, an evil Sailor, and her band of Sailors from across the stars, come to Earth to mess everyone up. The Sailor Starlights, a band of three women who transform into male singers, make their debut. Sailor Moon becomes godly-powerful, and resurrects everyone once they die.
These builds will feature the characters from Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R only- I want to wait until I've seen the appearances of the Sailor Moon S in the new dub to build the newbies, as well as the later-season characters.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
Awaiting without much patience.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
I used to really like Sailor Moon when I was a kid. I just wish there would be more video games for it.
The Sailor Moon RPG for SNES was interesting (I played it with a fan-translation) since it had original villains in addition to having to fight revived past villains. There were actually Mirror Image Villains for the Senshi! However, the designs..could have been better, I think?.
The Sailor Moon RPG for SNES was interesting (I played it with a fan-translation) since it had original villains in addition to having to fight revived past villains. There were actually Mirror Image Villains for the Senshi! However, the designs..could have been better, I think?.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
never been into Sailor Moon.
but I'll read this. I always do.
but I'll read this. I always do.
Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
Someone needs to stat up that team. I figured that came from a Deadpool comic not a Taskmaster comic. Interesting.Thorpocalypse wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:54 pm With my horrible random memory, when I saw MLF, I didn't think MILF, I had this equally crappy 90's thing pop into my head.
KLF...uh-huh, uh-huh...
And besides, Marvel already has a MILF.
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Sailor Moon
SAILOR MOON (Usagi Tsukino, aka Princess Serenity, Neo-Queen Serenity)
Dub Name: Serena
Role: The Main Hero, The Crybaby
Main Fuku Colour: Blue
Elemental Alignment: Love
Hair Colour: Strawberry Blonde
PL 11 (171)
STRENGTH 0/1 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 1
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Athletics 6 (+6, +7 Sailor)
Deception 2 (+6, +8 Attractive)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 10 (+10)
Investigation 3 (+3)
Perception 3 (+3)
Persuasion 5 (+9, +11 Attractive)
Ranged Combat (Moon Attacks) 2 (+9)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Attractive, Daze (Persuasion), Defensive Attack, Equipment (Sailor Communicator), Ranged Attack 5, Taunt, Teamwork, Ultimate Will Save
Powers:
"Sailor Strength"
Enhanced Strength 1 [2]
Strength-Damage +2 [2]
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
Movement 1 (Safe Fall) [2]
Features 1: Boots Form Ice Skates [1]
"Disguise Pen" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [6]
Morph 2 (Women) (10 points)
"Tiara" (Flaws: Removable) [21]
"Moon Tiara Stardust!" Nullify Mind Control 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Cloud +2) (24) -- (26 points)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Action!" Blast 9 (Feats: Accurate, Ricochet 3, Homing) (23)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Snare" Snare 8 (Feats: Accurate, Reversible) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (18)
"Moon Healing Escalation!" Affliction 11 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Transformed to Purified Human) (Extras: Ranged, Continuous +3) (Flaws: Distracting, Limited to Basically-Good/Willing Targets) (33)
"Moon Princess Halation!" Blast 13 Linked to Weaken Toughness 13 (Extras: Ranged) (Flaws: Distracting) (39) -- (43)
- AE: "Sonic Cry Attack" Affliction 5 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned) (Extras: Area- Hearing Perception) (Flaws: Limited Degree) (5)
- AE: "Sailor Teleport!" Teleport 14 (Extras: Extended Only +0, Accurate) (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (14)
- AE: "Sailor Planet Attack!" Damage 14 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2, Penetrating 6) (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (20)
- AE: "Sailor Planet Power!" Force Field 8 (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (2)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Sailor Strength +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Moon Tiara Action! +10 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Moon Healing Escalation! +8 (+11 Ranged Affliction, DC 21)
Moon Princess Halation +8 (+13 Ranged Damage, 28)
Planet Attack +14 Area (+14 Damage, DC 29)
Initiative +9
Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +10
Complications:
Power Loss (All Powers)- Sailor Senshi must be able to gesture and speak freely to use their powers. If they are Bound or Snared, they cannot use their attacks easily.
Normal Identity (Tsukino Usagi, Without Power Stick)
Responsibility (Sailor Senshi)- The Senshi are charged to fight evil.
Responsibility (Schooling)- Unfortunately, Usagi is terrible at it.
Secret (Identity)- The Senshi must not reveal their identities to the world at large, nor their villains.
Responsibility (Princess Serenity)- Usagi/Serena is both the Princess of the Moon Kingdom, and the future Queen of the World. This makes her many enemies, and gives her numerous responsibilities.
Responsibility (I Just Want To Be Normal)- Usagi hates the constant violence, and the threats against her life. Her fondest wish is to "just be a normal girl" once again, and leave all this super-heroing behind.
Power Loss (All Powers)- At times, Usagi's desire to be normal actually affects her powers, and she loses her special abilities.
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Responsibility (Lazy)- Usagi does not like to do things that require effort.
Responsibility (Gluttonous)- Usagi LOOOOOOOOOOOVES to eat, particularly sweet things.
Responsibility (Incompetent)- Usagi is a poor student.
Responsibility (Sleepyhead)- Usagi is famous for her ability to sleep in past her alarm and be late for school.
Responsibility (Crybaby)- Usagi's first reaction to almost every bit of stress, for YEARS, was to openly cry rivers of tears.
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Relationship (Naru Osaka)- Naru was Usagi's best friend in the early days- it was them plus two other background girls, and later, only Naru as Usagi's Non-Sailor-Friend.
Relationship (Ami- Sailor Mercury)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the "snobbish" world-class student, and deeply admires Ami's brilliance.
Relationship (Rei- Sailor Mars)- Sailor Mars is grouchy, hard-working, snide and arrogant- she despises all of Usagi's above-mentioned Responsibilities, and is constantly screaming at her to improve. Usagi both hates to be insulted, and spitefully argues back with Rei, who is "So mean!" The two pick at and tease each other, and generally never go more than a day without a big fight. However, Usagi deeply respects Rei's work ethic, beauty, grace and toughness- it is Rei to whom Usagi entrusts the Silver Crystal when she fears she'll break and give it up, and it is Rei's loss that Usagi feels most deeply at D-Point.
Relationship (Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask)- Usagi & Mamoru argued non-stop at first, with him gladly teasing the silly young girl. However, she had a serious crush on the mysterious, handsome Tuxedo Mask, who always came to her rescue. Only later did they realize their true feelings for one another, as they were in fact lovers in another life, and destined to be together in the future. When he breaks up with her in Sailor Moon R, she is emotionally shattered to the point where even her closest friends won't tease her.
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Relationship (Minako- Sailor Venus)- Usagi was once worshipful of the possibly-fictional Sailor V, but soon comes to view Minako as a kindred spirit in Idol-loving weirdness.
Relationship (Makoto- Sailor Jupiter)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the violent giantess, and comes to deeply admire Mako's strength, hatred of bullies, and cooking ability. That the two have the same taste in men (such as Motoki) is helpful as well.
Relationship (Motoki)- Usagi nursed a serious, but childlike, crush on Motoki Furuhata in the first season.
Relationship (Chibi-Usa)- Usagi finds the bratty little "spore" as annoying as anything- the two are entirely too much alike. It's only later, once she realizes that "Little Usagi" is actually her own DAUGHTER, from the future, that they start to get along.
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Phobia (Thunder)- Usagi is petrified of thunder, to the point of screaming, crying and running away to hide when she hears it.
Responsibility (Believes in People)- Usagi has an obsessive desire to see the best in people- she refuses to see only the negatives, and is constantly willing to help, even towards people who despise her (like Nastumi/An).
Responsibility (That Kind Of Girl)- Usagi tends to draw strong reactions from some men, who fall obsessively in love with her at first sight. Umino crushes on her during their time at Junior High. Seijuro/Ail openly crushes on her as soon as he comes to Earth, almost abandoning his lifelong companion for her. Prince Demande is so obsessed with Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity that he tries to use his powers to RAPE HER.
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Enemy (The Dark Kingdom, Ail & An, The Black Moon Clan, The Death Busters, Queen Nehellenia, Sailor Galaxia)
Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 82 / Defenses: 23 (171)
Sailor Moon- Loser-As-Audience-Surrogate:
-Sailor Moon is a character that I found tough to like. Given that the TV show is CALLED Sailor Moon, this is perhaps not a good thing, but let's face it- the girl is kind of annoying. It's ultimately the POINT of her character, though- she's meant to represent the "Everygirl". Rather than excelling at things or being a role model, she's lazy, clumsy, a sleepyhead, a crybaby, argumentative, and prone to mindless crushes. Running gags about her involve incredible gluttony (scarfing down candy by the ton) or sloth (her mother is constantly screaming at her over being late for school). She's even DUMB- her repeated failures on tests is another constant source of embarrassment- in the first first episode, some handsome stranger sees her crumpled-up test score and asks if she's "just stupid".
-One thing that's clearer in retrospect, and when I've read other retrospectives on the series, is that Usagi is basically an innocent, guileless person who believes in EVERYONE. When all of the other students are talking about shunning the brilliant, stand-offish newcomer, Usagi's the own who cuts through Ami Mizuno's defensive walls and realizes that the girl's not a snob after all. Similarly, when Makoto Kino comes to school and is openly feared as a hostile brawler, Usagi ignores their protests and makes a new friend forever. Repeatedly throughout the show, Usagi does this- ignoring the detractors, and fighting past people's defensiveness, and willingly helps people out. And really, no other character could have drawn quite the reaction we get out of her in Sailor Moon R, when she has her heart broken by Mamoru, and becomes so emotionally devastated that she can barely function, actually staring at him with a desperate smile and pleading, tear-filled eyes. It's INSANE.
-She's also a weak link in battles, and runs screaming from just about every bad guy in the early days. She cries when hurt, whines about bruises, and generally doesn't act like any real superhero. She even mourns the loss of a "normal life", and bemoans the fact that she just has to get into recurring battles and watch her dearest friends get hurt. In this, she's actually quite realistic- I think plenty of normal people, even those who idolize and fantasize about the "Superhero Lifestyle", would pretty quickly get sick of holding their bleeding loved ones or fighting monsters.
-But yeah, I found her annoying. That every male character seemed to fall in love with her instantly only made me MORE annoyed (I mean, Sailor Mars is right there). Thankfully, Mars was around to speak for people like me. That said, it was pretty neat by the end of Sailor Moon R how she'd basically had to accept her life, and instead of crying about every little thing, she decided to suck it up and walk straight into danger without even putting the others in the line of fire with her.
Sailor Moon's Powers:
-Sailor Moon is easily the most powerful Senshi, which makes her tricky to stat out. She's the worst fighter overall, and is generally the least-skilled or physically capable one, which reduces her points-cost considerably. But all those powers.... they need some explanation. The Disguise Pen was rarely-used after the first season, but allowed her to disguise herself back when there weren't five Senshi kicking around and you had one character doing everything. Her Tiara is statted separately from her other attacks, since it's a Removable Device that retained its power over the years (mainly in movies). It has been a Blast, a Snare and even once nullified Mind Control over a small area.
-For the heck of it, I included some of her varying attacks over the years, usually variations of Blasts or Transform to Regular Person, which I statted as a Continuous Affliction. It can turn various Monsters back into normal, but in Sailor Moon R, is used to turn the Black Moon Family into ordinary people. Sailor Moon is two PLs higher than her allies in any given season- as she's generally the one to score the final hit, and is DEFINITELY the only one to defeat the villains, this makes sense. She also links Weaken Toughness with the Blasts, because (as Mike5000 pointed out way, way back in the day) every enemy hit with her attacks tended to be vaporized instantly. And here I was struggling with how to properly represent how damaging Sailor Moon's attacks seemed without breaking the system- it's a much more elegant solution to make it act like the old "Corrosion" power.
-However, Sailor Moon's Defenses are no better than those of her allies, and combined with her lower Fighting Ability, this makes her vulnerable, and therefore she requires her teammates to either distract the foes, or wear them down.
-Her "Princess Serenity" stuff will come from another build- that character only makes rare (ie. Season Finale) appearances.
SAILOR MOON (Usagi Tsukino, aka Princess Serenity, Neo-Queen Serenity)- First Season
Dub Name: Serena
Role: The Main Hero, The Crybaby
Main Fuku Colour: Blue
Elemental Alignment: Love
Hair Colour: Strawberry Blonde
PL 10 (148)
STRENGTH 0/1 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 1
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Athletics 6 (+6, +7 Sailor)
Deception 2 (+6, +8 Attractive)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 10 (+10)
Investigation 3 (+3)
Perception 3 (+3)
Persuasion 5 (+9, +11 Attractive)
Ranged Combat (Moon Attacks) 2 (+9)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Attractive, Daze (Persuasion), Defensive Attack, Equipment (Sailor Communicator), Ranged Attack 5, Taunt, Teamwork, Ultimate Will Save
Powers:
"Sailor Strength"
Enhanced Strength 1 [2]
Strength-Damage +2 [2]
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
Movement 1 (Safe Fall) [2]
Features 1: Boots Form Ice Skates [1]
"Disguise Pen" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [6]
Morph 2 (Women) (10 points)
"Tiara" (Flaws: Removable) [21]
"Moon Tiara Stardust!" Nullify Mind Control 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Cloud +2) (24) -- (26 points)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Action!" Blast 9 (Feats: Accurate, Ricochet 3, Homing) (23)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Snare" Snare 8 (Feats: Accurate, Reversible) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (18)
"Moon Stick With the Legendary Silver Crystal" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [23]
"Moon Healing Escalation!" Affliction 11 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Transformed to Purified Human) (Extras: Ranged, Continuous +3) (Flaws: Distracting, Limited to Basically-Good/Willing Targets) (33)
"Sonic Cry Attack" Affliction 5 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned) (Extras: Area- Hearing Perception) (Flaws: Limited Degree) (5)
-- (38 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Sailor Strength +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Moon Tiara Action! +10 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Moon Healing Escalation! +8 (+11 Ranged Affliction, DC 21)
Initiative +9
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +10
Complications:
Power Loss (All Powers)- Sailor Senshi must be able to gesture and speak freely to use their powers. If they are Bound or Snared, they cannot use their attacks easily.
Normal Identity (Tsukino Usagi, Without Power Stick)
Responsibility (Sailor Senshi)- The Senshi are charged to fight evil.
Responsibility (Schooling)- Unfortunately, Usagi is terrible at it.
Secret (Identity)- The Senshi must not reveal their identities to the world at large, nor their villains.
Responsibility (Princess Serenity)- Usagi/Serena is both the Princess of the Moon Kingdom, and the future Queen of the World. This makes her many enemies, and gives her numerous responsibilities.
Responsibility (I Just Want To Be Normal)- Usagi hates the constant violence, and the threats against her life. Her fondest wish is to "just be a normal girl" once again, and leave all this super-heroing behind.
Power Loss (All Powers)- At times, Usagi's desire to be normal actually affects her powers, and she loses her special abilities.
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Responsibility (Lazy)- Usagi does not like to do things that require effort.
Responsibility (Gluttonous)- Usagi LOOOOOOOOOOOVES to eat, particularly sweet things.
Responsibility (Incompetent)- Usagi is a poor student.
Responsibility (Sleepyhead)- Usagi is famous for her ability to sleep in past her alarm and be late for school.
Responsibility (Crybaby)- Usagi's first reaction to almost every bit of stress, for YEARS, was to openly cry rivers of tears.
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Relationship (Naru Osaka)- Naru was Usagi's best friend in the early days- it was them plus two other background girls, and later, only Naru as Usagi's Non-Sailor-Friend.
Relationship (Ami- Sailor Mercury)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the "snobbish" world-class student, and deeply admires Ami's brilliance.
Relationship (Rei- Sailor Mars)- Sailor Mars is grouchy, hard-working, snide and arrogant- she despises all of Usagi's above-mentioned Responsibilities, and is constantly screaming at her to improve. Usagi both hates to be insulted, and spitefully argues back with Rei, who is "So mean!" The two pick at and tease each other, and generally never go more than a day without a big fight. However, Usagi deeply respects Rei's work ethic, beauty, grace and toughness- it is Rei to whom Usagi entrusts the Silver Crystal when she fears she'll break and give it up, and it is Rei's loss that Usagi feels most deeply at D-Point.
Relationship (Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask)- Usagi & Mamoru argued non-stop at first, with him gladly teasing the silly young girl. However, she had a serious crush on the mysterious, handsome Tuxedo Mask, who always came to her rescue. Only later did they realize their true feelings for one another, as they were in fact lovers in another life, and destined to be together in the future. When he breaks up with her in Sailor Moon R, she is emotionally shattered to the point where even her closest friends won't tease her.
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Relationship (Minako- Sailor Venus)- Usagi was once worshipful of the possibly-fictional Sailor V, but soon comes to view Minako as a kindred spirit in Idol-loving weirdness.
Relationship (Makoto- Sailor Jupiter)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the violent giantess, and comes to deeply admire Mako's strength, hatred of bullies, and cooking ability. That the two have the same taste in men (such as Motoki) is helpful as well.
Relationship (Motoki)- Usagi nursed a serious, but childlike, crush on Motoki Furuhata in the first season.
Relationship (Chibi-Usa)- Usagi finds the bratty little "spore" as annoying as anything- the two are entirely too much alike. It's only later, once she realizes that "Little Usagi" is actually her own DAUGHTER, from the future, that they start to get along.
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Phobia (Thunder)- Usagi is petrified of thunder, to the point of screaming, crying and running away to hide when she hears it.
Responsibility (Believes in People)- Usagi has an obsessive desire to see the best in people- she refuses to see only the negatives, and is constantly willing to help, even towards people who despise her (like Nastumi/An).
Responsibility (That Kind Of Girl)- Usagi tends to draw strong reactions from some men, who fall obsessively in love with her at first sight. Umino crushes on her during their time at Junior High. Seijuro/Ail openly crushes on her as soon as he comes to Earth, almost abandoning his lifelong companion for her. Prince Demande is so obsessed with Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity that he tries to use his powers to RAPE HER.
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Enemy (The Dark Kingdom, Ail & An, The Black Moon Clan, The Death Busters, Queen Nehellenia, Sailor Galaxia)
Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 60 / Defenses: 22 (148)
-Sailor Moon is much weaker in the first season, being only PL 10 and lacking the variety of attacks outside the Moon Stick & Tiara. She's only PL 7 defensively, as well.
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Re: Sailor Moon
Dispute. Well before then, she's willingly charging into battle, accompanied by Stan Bush lyrics in one continuity, to protect said spore. Usagi doesn't hate anyone.Jabroniville wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:05 am Relationship (Chibi-Usa)- Usagi hates the bratty little "spore" as much as anything- the two are entirely too much alike. It's only later, once she realizes that "Little Usagi" is actually her own DAUGHTER, from the future, that they start to get along.
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HATE might be too strong a word, but they were adversarial as balls, fighting almost constantly. It even got to the point where Usagi nearly SLAPPED her in one of the final episodes, though it was because she blamed Chibi-Usa for getting her friends captured.Davies wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:26 amDispute. Well before then, she's willingly charging into battle, accompanied by Stan Bush lyrics in one continuity, to protect said spore. Usagi doesn't hate anyone.Jabroniville wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:05 am Relationship (Chibi-Usa)- Usagi hates the bratty little "spore" as much as anything- the two are entirely too much alike. It's only later, once she realizes that "Little Usagi" is actually her own DAUGHTER, from the future, that they start to get along.
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The Tsukinos
USAGI'S FAMILY:
-Usagi's family life was a big part of the early show, and each season typically had them appear to be "Victims of the Week" at least once as well. They were based off of Naoko Takeuchi's own family (even sharing their names), which makes things funny since Sailor V's family was ALSO based off of Naoko's family... meaning that Sailors Moon & Venus had identical family groups. But of course Venus's never showed up in the anime.
IKUKO:
-A very typical housewife character, Ikuko appears cheerful and nurturing, but is also a strict, domineering woman to her daughter, frequently screaming at the lazybones to wake up and get ready for school, or to do better on her assignments. She's frequently seen befuddled and exhausted by this daily grind. Typical of many early '90s anime characters, she has a bizarre hair color- dark blue. A funny gag in one of the episodes has her husband moon wistfully over the idea of retiring and doing nothing else in his life, which provokes Ikuko into OUTRAGE, as she insists that he constantly needs to work in order to support his family. Kenji's sheer terror makes it pretty clear that Ikuko has him SUPREMELY whipped. She also finds Mamoru hot, and insists Usagi bring him by the house more. They coulda done a lot more with her.
KENJI:
-Usagi's father was pretty fun. A magazine photographer (Editor in the manga), he was seen at home more often than the typical "Salaryman"- just enough to be seen annoyed at Ikuko & Usagi hollering at each other. A lot of humor is derived from his worrisome, fussbudget nature- when he sees Mamoru for the first time, he basically loses his shit, demanding that Usagi dump this boy that he found much "too old". Kenji's protective nature shows up a few other times, often leading him to defend his family in glorious manner... with severe ass-kickings resulting. The "Laser Tag" episode features him & Shingo repeatedly fighting the monster and trying to be brave, which leads to some funny scenes where they are cleary terrified, yet doing their damndest to help. It's pretty endearing.
SHINGO:
-Usagi's younger brother is quite typical- he's annoying, bratty, and constantly teasing his older sister. He's also a tiny bit more level-headed (not that that's saying much). He appears a lot more early on, and one episode actually does a good job of portraying the relationships of young children. He has this young female friend, and is getting teased by the other boys for it. So when she makes him this heartfelt gift of a well-made doll, he feels shamed by the others, and so rejects it publicly- abruptly shoving it back in her face while saying he doesn't want it, thus breaking the thing she'd worked so hard on. And he felt like SHIT because of it, realizing what he'd done. This ends up much more heart-wrenching than your typical anime gag story.
-Usagi's family life was a big part of the early show, and each season typically had them appear to be "Victims of the Week" at least once as well. They were based off of Naoko Takeuchi's own family (even sharing their names), which makes things funny since Sailor V's family was ALSO based off of Naoko's family... meaning that Sailors Moon & Venus had identical family groups. But of course Venus's never showed up in the anime.
IKUKO:
-A very typical housewife character, Ikuko appears cheerful and nurturing, but is also a strict, domineering woman to her daughter, frequently screaming at the lazybones to wake up and get ready for school, or to do better on her assignments. She's frequently seen befuddled and exhausted by this daily grind. Typical of many early '90s anime characters, she has a bizarre hair color- dark blue. A funny gag in one of the episodes has her husband moon wistfully over the idea of retiring and doing nothing else in his life, which provokes Ikuko into OUTRAGE, as she insists that he constantly needs to work in order to support his family. Kenji's sheer terror makes it pretty clear that Ikuko has him SUPREMELY whipped. She also finds Mamoru hot, and insists Usagi bring him by the house more. They coulda done a lot more with her.
KENJI:
-Usagi's father was pretty fun. A magazine photographer (Editor in the manga), he was seen at home more often than the typical "Salaryman"- just enough to be seen annoyed at Ikuko & Usagi hollering at each other. A lot of humor is derived from his worrisome, fussbudget nature- when he sees Mamoru for the first time, he basically loses his shit, demanding that Usagi dump this boy that he found much "too old". Kenji's protective nature shows up a few other times, often leading him to defend his family in glorious manner... with severe ass-kickings resulting. The "Laser Tag" episode features him & Shingo repeatedly fighting the monster and trying to be brave, which leads to some funny scenes where they are cleary terrified, yet doing their damndest to help. It's pretty endearing.
SHINGO:
-Usagi's younger brother is quite typical- he's annoying, bratty, and constantly teasing his older sister. He's also a tiny bit more level-headed (not that that's saying much). He appears a lot more early on, and one episode actually does a good job of portraying the relationships of young children. He has this young female friend, and is getting teased by the other boys for it. So when she makes him this heartfelt gift of a well-made doll, he feels shamed by the others, and so rejects it publicly- abruptly shoving it back in her face while saying he doesn't want it, thus breaking the thing she'd worked so hard on. And he felt like SHIT because of it, realizing what he'd done. This ends up much more heart-wrenching than your typical anime gag story.
Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
This might be heresy in this thread, bu personally I prefer the Pretty Cure franchise.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Elphaba! Fiyero! Glinda! SHIELD! The MLF!)
Wow, I looked that up, and... I have no idea what that is. I know I've seen the name pop up on TV Tropes a million times, but anime stuff on there makes no sense unless you're already familiar with the characters. What's it about, and what's good about it? How much does it take from its forebears (Sailor Moon is usually considered the starting-point of "Girls Action Anime", barring ancient stuff like Princess Knight)?
Jumping Jesus- SIX-HUNDRED EPISODES?!? MAN, has anime ever changed! I remember the days when every anime was a Limited-Run story that was over in a handful of episodes, and that 200-episode runners like Sailor Moon & Dragon Ball Z were exceptional rarities. But the culture has changed- they saw the sheer amount of $$$ you could make with endless shows, keeping the toys & collectibles in production for years.
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