Party_Kake

If I may interject here...

Speech bubbles work well when you design them correctly and manage every tiny bit of what they say and how they work.

For this game they work to reinforce the comic book stereotypes, and give the players a more immersive comic book feeling.

You'll notice if you open up a comic book, the speech bubbles are almost never as static as they are in this game though. The artists play around with them a LOT.

That being said, it might not be worth the effort to be quite so anal about such trivial aspects of the movie. it works rather well as a more humble approach to delivering its content.

I was mainly referring to the well-known (or at least it should be well-known) sentiment that you should avoid giving minions in any ae mission fire control for smoke alone.

Which is a shame because there are a lot of great ideas for missions where you'd want to simulate a burning building and have smoke everywhere. turns out that's a literal NAND gate blocking out lots of people from getting that mission done.

The worst is still setting a timer on a mission and giving everything black hole.

Mormon bubbles.

Yet when you fight against enemies that HAVE those powersets, yeesh, it's frustrating.

Welcome to the club, girl.

Oh, wait, that's not what you meant, was it?

I specifically said "taking best parts while ignoring weaknesses."

If you want an example of a realistic "orphan who became rich" who certainly has issues and doesn't qualify as a Mary Sue, read Steve Jobs' biography. It's practically an instruction manual on how to be the biggest ****** ever.

If you create a story where your character can have two traits that would normally have both ups and downs, and you take all the plusses and ignore all of the downsides, you're skipping over a lot of content that makes your character interesting, thus creating a Mary Sue. Just ask yourself a key question: Does this make my character interesting, or does it just 'handwave away' things?

nope.

1. Not named after you (this is an assumption)
2. No indication of blatantly taking the best parts of polar opposite character traits while ignoring their weaknesses. (such as "rich orphan" or "respected jerk")
3. You're integrating game mechanics into her backstory when you say she "Can't be stopped ever," and since every other character in the game effectively does the same thing, it can be argued that we're all more "Mary sue" than your character concept here is, because you actually have a reason for it. That, however, is due primarily to the [necessary] Plot Invincibility (tm) of all of our characters (in their own little worlds).

"Mary Sue" isn't supposed to be a term that's thrown around to describe any female superhero or villain that is equally powerful as a male. Your description reminds me a little of the Phoenix, but even that depends heavily on the writers.

If the power level is what you're thinking makes her Mary Sue-ish, then just leave the question unanswered and say "nobody knows how powerful this 'goddess' really is."


edit - also, it's probably a side effect of watching too many cheesy cartoons, but electricity has always been a symbol of godlike power, so perhaps a colored electric armor would work? I personally have always wanted to use it and can never quite find a concept where it would really work. perhaps this concept can do it though. Willpower is also a great "godhood" powerset.

I've heard stories that apparently hairless cats don't cause severe allergic reactions like others do.

But before you consider adopting I'd get a more professional second opinion.

I do love my kitties though.

As are tridents.

Man, that's an awesome quote right there.

Also, if I may, it might be more helpful to try and design some form of pvp where the players "build" the arena, either by customizing the area people fight in, or the rules, or the power balance (either by negating the effect of enhancements or outlawing inspirations or temps, or what have you). Sort of like a pvp architect. No idea where you'd start from or how you'd go about doing it, but I get the impression that if you approached pvp from the 'customization' side, it'd have a lot more appeal.

reminds me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp32TigGfZk
warning: ponies.
also technically not a staff.