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| Topic | Scarlet Ranks User-Created Superhero Teams |
| scarletspeed7 08/07/18 2:32:50 PM #26: | #70 - Gravy's Angels Created by: Gravy Mag - Fuckin - Neto (Xmen) Several people decided to nominate teams of favorite characters and call them "So-and-So's Angels". Every single one of those teams dropped around 5 rankings as a result. The exception is this one - and that's because it's so bottom of the barrel bad already that I felt bad lowering beyond the "We don't understand that the same character duplicated a million times isn't fun" tier. But I digress. "ME LIKE THESE CHARACTERS THEY MUST BE GOOD TEAM" (Trademark Tamina) is perhaps the worst possible way to construct a superhero team out there. I'm torn as whether to discuss how building a team should work at this point, but suffice it to say, "My Favorite Characters" is not a good system. Even worse, the clear failure to even attempt to obfuscate that concept behind a name that could disguise the group with even a simplistic concept is irritating. Gravy takes it a step further by not even thinking about who he's jamming into a group. Dark Phoenix is functionally one of the worst possible characters you could ever put on a team. Either you have a character with godlike reality manipulation, something that utterly destroys any sort of stakes to the comic, or you have a crazed woman who will refuse to work with the rest of the group. Jean Grey may be evil, but she still hates Magneto. That's a gutteral, visceral reaction. And given that Magneto is the guy here with real leadership skills (don't pretend that "I just fire mah gun" John Stewart is anything more than a glorified yes man to whichever Lantern is top billing this week), Dark Phoenix is murdering the team effectively to get to him. Not that this team will work with Magneto. Mister Freeze is going to walk away from this group quickly because they have nothing to do with Nora. Shazam is going to blow himself up trying to stop Dark Phoenix if she's at full strength, and Surfer/Nova are also going to be put down by Phoenix likely. Surfer is maybe durable enough to survive, but he's not much of a team player in the sense that he never sticks around with a group when they have any tribulation. Oh, and Gambit is not going to be in the picture once Magneto shows up. You almost could have something if you quick out Freeze, Jean and Magneto. That's a team I could maybe work with. But instead, I've been saddled with something that is akin to throwing darts at boards and accepting the results. If you just stop and look at this line-up, you'd see that much like Okonkwo's village, things fall apart. It looks like Gravy's Demons are shouting down his better Angels. Membership Drive: These Angels teams can't be adjusted because they are based on simplistic wish fulfillment. I can't make Gravy like another character. The concept of this group lies entirely in "My Favorite Characters". Instead, I would disband this team and just give the slot to the Legion of Super-Pets because at least they aren't going to murder each other at first sight. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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