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Create A Hero Theme Battle Royale: Final Cut! Poll coming soon!
DJ Eebs
Moderator, Administrator admin
Moderator, Administrator admin
Okay, here's the deal. You guys managed to put about 70 suggestions for themes together for the new Create A Hero contests we'll be running here in Graphic Violence. I'd like to get everyone's opinions on what to run first, and I'd like to do a poll.
HOWEVER
We only have room for 20 options in our forum polls, and I don't want to start a poll off-site, especially with 70+ possibilities. So we're going to try something different.
In the next post, I'm going to put together a list of the suggestions. They're going to be numbered. What I'm going to ask you to do in this thread is vote for what you want. You're going to list your two favorites (order doesn't matter). These selections will get one point each. You will also list your least favorite option, which will lose one point (negative numbers will probably occur). You only get one vote post a day (so you can vote for two choices you like, and one you don't).
After twenty-four hours, I'm going to cut the bottom ten. I'm going to do this every day until we get to twenty options, at which point I'll put up a poll. Here's the format I want you to post in, to make it easier to read:
Upvote: #13
Upvote: #14
Downvote: #45
If you don't vote in this format, I won't count your vote. It's a really simple instruction! I'll keep the original post updated as to what the status is as of each day, and I'll try to update with a scoreboard whenever possible. This should be done within a week, and hopefully we'll be able to kick off the contests by August!
CUTS:
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
HOWEVER
We only have room for 20 options in our forum polls, and I don't want to start a poll off-site, especially with 70+ possibilities. So we're going to try something different.
In the next post, I'm going to put together a list of the suggestions. They're going to be numbered. What I'm going to ask you to do in this thread is vote for what you want. You're going to list your two favorites (order doesn't matter). These selections will get one point each. You will also list your least favorite option, which will lose one point (negative numbers will probably occur). You only get one vote post a day (so you can vote for two choices you like, and one you don't).
After twenty-four hours, I'm going to cut the bottom ten. I'm going to do this every day until we get to twenty options, at which point I'll put up a poll. Here's the format I want you to post in, to make it easier to read:
Upvote: #13
Upvote: #14
Downvote: #45
If you don't vote in this format, I won't count your vote. It's a really simple instruction! I'll keep the original post updated as to what the status is as of each day, and I'll try to update with a scoreboard whenever possible. This should be done within a week, and hopefully we'll be able to kick off the contests by August!
CUTS:
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
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Updated: 7-22-09, 9:00 PM Central
4. Result of super-soldier program funded by Columbian drug lords +5
9. "B List" Heroes/Villains i.e. less powerful but still interesting characters such as Daredevil, Booster Gold, etc +4
12. Ridiculous Silver Age origin +6
15. Least Likely Horror Monster to Become a Superhero +3
18. Inspired by Folk Tales, Myths, and Legends +7
19. Best Application of Real, Current Science +6
20. It Came From The Year 2000 (hero from what people in the 50s thought the future would look like) +8
25. Super-Powered Pets and the People who love them. +7
37. God, My Alter-Ego is a Douchebag (the hero or civilian identity is a tool, either by choice, psychosis, or body exchanging) +8
40. Superhero condemned to be forever mocked for one dickish thing they did in a badly-written story arc +5
42. Together, they fight crime (C-List heroes only, no fully competent people allowed) +5
43. "Summoning them was cheaper than hiring movers..." +5
47. I Bought My Grimoire From Barnes & Noble +8
52. National Treasures: Government sponsored superhero of any Nation of your choosing except the US +5
53. Gifts From Fickle Gods: Powers are a privilege, not a right. +4
54. No Budget Superheroes: Powers Below The Poverty Line +4
58. I Was Built To Be a Children's Toy; Now I Fight Crime +7
60. It's Like I Hit The Jackpot: Superpowers And A Debilitating Psychosis +4
61. My Power is Awesome but Really Hard to Draw +7
ELIMINATED: DAY ONE
2. Tech-based non-powered billionaire -2
3. Hero personification of Christ -1
6. Anti-Hero -1
8. "A List" Heroes/Villains i.e. very powerful, JLA or Avengers caliber heroes -1
11. Traditional super-hero -3
16. I'd be A Mary Sue If Not for One My Crippling Weakness -2
28. If You're a Megalomaniac bent on World Domination and you know it, clap your hands... -1
33. You want smug, I got it -1
35. A celebrity created me! -1
55. Mohammed Made Me Do It: Religion and Powers -1
65. Mutation Themed Heroes/Villains -1
ELIMINATED: DAY TWO
1. Sole survivor of race of mole-people -3
7. Silly Hero/Villain -2
10. Tech Themed Heroes/Villains -1
21. Seriously, I Only Built This Anatomically Correct Android To Fight Crime -1
24. Like all good things in life...It Emerged From The Sewers 0
39. I got my superpowers, but where did my war go? 0
41. Office guy gets powers; now what? -2
45. Totally not Harry Potter in spandex -3
46. With These Enchanted D20s I Am Become Magic -1
48. Long, Strong, and Down to Get the Friction On; stretchy superheroes 0
49. Shrinking Seems Like A Joke Until Someone Leaves Footprints In Your Brain 0
50. I Just Killed Hitler; Now What? 0
56. Magic Hats And The People Who Wear Them 0
57. By Hook Or By Crook: Powers Stolen By Their Possessors 0
62. Science Themed Heroes/Villains 0
63. Alien Themed Heroes/Villains 0
64. Magic Themed Heroes/Villains 0
66. Western super-hero 0
67. Sci-fi themed -1
68. Noir themed 0
69. Gangster themed 0
ELIMINATED: DAY THREE
5. Gold/Silver Age style Hero/Villain 0
13. Exploitation Film character 0
14. Worst Super Power Ever +1
23. The Greatest Generation of Propaganda Heroes +1
27. No Powers, No Cry: Non-Super powered Heroes 0
30. Who gave this harbinger of the Apocalypse free will, anyway? +1
31. I came here to frag some bastiches and chew gum, but then they killed my family. Now, it's personal. +1
32. I'm just a normal kid from the Midwest who was given powers, and my family is still alive and root for me. -3
34. I was born from the doodling in a 9th grader's paper margins +1
36. Of All the People on Earth to Give Super Powers, They Picked That Guy? -1
38. Corporate Funded Mascot / Super Hero +1
44. "She turned me into a newt!" 0
70. Urban themed 0
71. Robot themed 0
ELIMINATED: DAY FOUR
17. Aliens Anal Probed Me and All I Got Were These Super Powers +3
22. Hi, I'm From A Post-Apocalyptic Future, And I'm Here To Help +2
26. Superheroes who really, really shouldn't have Superpowers +3
29. They'll see. One day, they'll all see! +1
51. I am Still Relevant in This Modern Era, Whippersnappers! +2
59. I Was Abducted By Aliens and All I Got Was This Lousy Sentience +3
Upvote: #58
Downvote: #11
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Upvote: #5
Downvote: #44
Aren't 43-47 kind of all under the aegis of Magic-themed? Do we really need to make distinctions there?
http://lexiconmegatherium.tumblr.com/
Upvote: #61
Downvote: #2
well, I guess, but I suppose you can narrow those down manually
I just copy and pasted the list from the thread, for the most part
Upvote: #59
Downvote: #65
Upvote: #5
Downvote: #28
Upvote: #19
Downvote: #58
Upvote: #54
Downvote: #35
Upvote: #34
Downvote:#16
Updog #38
Downvote #6
Upvote: #52
Downvote: #8
Upvote: #20
Downvote: #2
Upvote #27
No opinion on a downvote. They're all good suggestions.
Upvote #12
Downvote #33
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Upvote #25
Downvote #3
Upvote: #19.
Downvote: #17
Upvote:# 43
Downvote 23
ctrl+c ctrl+v
Also, if I had realized we were making suggestions for themes, I would've given mine some thought instead of pulling them out of my ass.
Either way, like TLB, I'm too lazy to do this each day and will just wait and see what happens. I'll vote when it gets down to a poll.
that's like
a shitton of buttons dogg
Upvote: #18
Downvote: #16
look broseph
eat fresh
i mean
do the dew
fuck
just do it.
that's the one I meant.
...
wait
Before I get infraction, TLB and I are definitely crafting a superhero who only speaks in slogans. So we're totally just working on our pitch right now.
Upvote: #18
Downvote: #11
Upvote: #47
Downvote: #11
Upvote: #18
Downvote: #5