Master Bruce

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New game!

Who would you guys fan cast as your characters.

@Lord Wraith

Hmm. This Batman, specifically? Probably a 30-year-old Richard Armitage.



Though I could also see a young Michael Fassbender, Luke Evans, or Jon Hamm working quite well.

Coincidentally, aside from Fassbender due to his established role as Magneto, those actors are also who I hope Matt Reeves is at least looking at for his Batman movie. After two and a half movies, I'm ready to see Affleck retire the role. He just doesn't seem to be having a good time, and I've never really bought into him as Batman anyway, given that most of the actors to have played the role didn't have huge careers prior to being cast. All I could ever see was Ben Affleck in a Batman costume, given he was a veteran actor/director when he landed it.

Though, by that logic, Reeves should be looking at nothing but unknowns.

Eh. This is why I'm not a casting director.

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Glad to know that y'all are enjoying the game. It genuinely makes me happy to know that something I was almost sure was dead and buried for good lives on in some form or another. You guys have really helped re-energize my drive to write again, and I can't thank all of you enough for it.

That said, though, as a wise old sage once told me...

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!

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But you know what killed UDC 2.0? And World of Heroes? And All-Star Marvel? And every other game on the Hype? People not posting. So while we're all patting ourselves on the back for games we played a decade ago, let's not ignore that we've got a killer game going right now.

@AndyC

@Byrd Man? Did you switch accounts?

(My next post is half-written and sitting in a Word document. I've become very aware of the fact that I need to high-tail it to get this Deadshot arc out of the way, because I still want to get to at least one of the arcs I had actually planned beyond all of the introductory stuff before the season ends.)

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I will say, @Master Bruce, that while I have fond memories of Selina Kyle, undercover cop, I do feel the whole "make Batman's side characters into cops" trope has played itself out, and I only wish I could've thought to make her a crime boss' daughter as you have. Now there's a Catwoman run I could've sunk my teeth into...

@Eddie Brock

You're really gonna like my next post, then...

(Also, I can't take full credit for that. Jeph Loeb was actually the one to establish that Falcone is kinda/sorta/maybe Selina's biological father in the Dark Victory storyline, which has since been retconned. I just took that ball and ran with it, because I've always been fascinated by the idea.)

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Once you got Riddler, you won't want any other diddler.

@Byrd Man

Now we all know what the question mark cane is really for...

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This is definitely code for a sex scene.
There's still a chance here. You can write a scene between your two characters that will put all of Nate's fantasies to shame.

@Retired

You say that in jest, but as I remember it, Eddie's Ultimate Selina did end up fucking Byrd's Nygma.

Traitors. The both of 'em.

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Do you remember the Maroni wedding arc? Your Batman, Eddie's Selina, my Nygma, and Spike's Bane all converged on the same place for a fucking hell of a reception.

@Byrd Man

Fuck me, that was some of the best interaction I've ever taken part in. That was actually my first big real fight with Spike's Bane, setting up the whole Ultimate Knightfall stuff. I also really fondly recall your part in that arc itself, where you had Nygma pose as Dr. Death to lure Batman into a trap spearheaded by the GCPD, weakening him to the point that Bane could attack and take him out.

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I think this was my blue collar Batman idea that I always talked to MB about. Of course when I get to do it, MB is nowhere to be found. But his absence was really the only reason I got to do it in the first place.

@Byrd Man

Yeah, you never got to do that, but you did actually do a really intriguing run with Green Arrow that utilized the blue collar idea. I still want to rip you off one day by having all of Bruce's sidekicks/wards/adopted kids just be a series of biological children, which was a surprisingly effective change to Ollie's character.

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I enjoyed World of Heroes when we had a stacked Teen Titans roster. Superboy, Robin, Ravager, Zachary Zatara, Kid Flash, and Supergirl all PCed at the same time. Otherwise, I don't really remember it. I had way more fun in the Ultimate and One Universe RPGs.

@Eddie Brock

With as much reverence as I have for World Of Heroes, that second iteration of Ultimate DC was some of the best stuff I've ever produced to this day. And I wasn't alone. From Byrd's amazing Edward Nygma, who never became The Riddler but was an incredibly formidable opponent without the need for any of those trappings, to Andy's pretty awesome Robin and Raven ship, to Spike's Bane, to your Selina Kyle, who I still hold in such a high regard that I've never been able to feel quite right in writing Selina for myself. I still wish we had gotten to do half of the stuff we'd planned for Bruce and Selina as Batman and Catwoman, because we got to do alot of the build-up to it. There were alot of great players who visited UDC's Gotham... much to the chagrin of alot of players, who represented cities that weren't nearly as popular.

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<Snipped quote by Master Bruce>

_{Looks to one of MB's posts in the IC.}
Yeah. Fuck the kind of writers who would to that.

@Retired

I may or may not have actually intended that to be a subtle reference to that very instance.

_{(I'm playing Ultimate Batman, goddammit!)}