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[Long John Killer]

- that's no Halo Gundam, it's just power armor! Not every giant robot thing is Gundam! >:[

It was designed by one of Gundam's artists.   Though that episode was from Bones, not Sunrise. Don't remember how that whole deal went down.

And the only music I remember from Wing is this and this, and one of those don't really count, but I guess I'll get an earful of the music you mean when I watch it.

[Jmorphman]

Designer means squat! This ain't a Gundam either, it's a Scopedog! >:[

[Kamekaze]

-If I met you would you accept my challenge to play cvs2/sfz2a/sf3?
-Are you actually good at any of those?
-If not why?
-If so prove it

[Foobs]

Spoiler (click to show)

Rock's seventeen in MOTW

How does it feel to be a pedophile?
Thoughts on an independent Scotland.

[Chimoru]

Q JMorphMan : Have you ever been known as FigureFan?

If he was, then I knew  both of you  AND  Intensity from that forum.

[A$AP Buckus]

-What's your thoughts on IKEMEN?
-Which Resident Evil has the best Mercenaries?

[Jmorphman]

-If I met you would you accept my challenge to play cvs2/sfz2a/sf3?
-Are you actually good at any of those?
-If not why?
-If so prove it

- I guess but I would stress that I would not be a very interesting match
- not really
- I suck at fighting games
- nooooooooooo

Spoiler (click to show)

Rock's seventeen in MOTW

How does it feel to be a pedophile?
Thoughts on an independent Scotland.

- well it was age appropriate when I was also a teenager! >:[
- seems like there's a lot of evidence that it's not such a good idea, maybe

Q JMorphMan : Have you ever been known as FigureFan?

Nope, always just Jmorphman.

-What's your thoughts on IKEMEN?
-Which Resident Evil has the best Mercenaries?

- haven't really delved into it much but it seems cool
- RE4 because of Super Salvador

I missed some questions so I went back and tried to find them

It's time for very important Superman questions!!!

How should Superman work: should it be "Superman, disguised as Clark Kent" (Clark is the disguise, Superman/Kal-El is the real person), or "Clark Kent, disguised as Superman" (Superman is the mask, Clark is the real person), or the modern, triune personas (the Superman act is a put-on, exaggerating his natural bravery and politeness; Metropolis Clark is a disguise, an exaggerated caricature of himself; and Smallville Clark is the natural way he behaves but can only be shared with his close confidants)?

Now I throw this question right back at you.

I used to think it should be real person is Clark, Superman is the mask, but as time has gone on I've shifted on that. The line "Superman, disguised as Clark Kent" (and not the other way around) has been around since the very beginning, and it sets Superman apart from almost every other superhero (of course now Batman has had like a 30 year history of Batman being the real persona and that's a whole other subject but I think it should be played similarly to Superman, which I will get to as soon as I finish this long ass parenthetical). Of course, just because it was there from the beginning doesn't mean it can't be tweaked or revamped: compare to say, whether the Kents are alive or dead in the present day; I'm very much for them being alive, even though that's a very recent invention. I would argue that their death wasn't really thought out when Siegal and Shuster were coming up with Superman's origin (and in fact some versions of that early origin story had Superman reach Earth as an adult!), and their being dead was grandfathered in over the years and became immutable, until Byrne's reboot. I think the value of having people Superman can confide in is very important (as long as it doesn't become overused, like sometimes in the 90s when Superman would run off to the Kent farm for advice for each and every problem), so tweaking that part of the original conception isn't a huge deal (a nice compromise is to kill oh Jonathan but keep Martha alive, plus that usually leads to amazing, heartbreaking scenes like this). And then of course you have to have Lois learn the secret, like what Siegal and Shuster originally intended to make happen (in the same story that would've introduced Kryptonite!), but DC nixed it and instead it took nearly 50 years to do. With Lois in the picture you can phase out the trips to the Kent farm but still keep the angle of having a confidant, and also they can get married because it's such a great romance and who the fuck wants Wonder Woman and Superman together ugh so terrible god DC stop sucking so much

Oh right, I was supposed to be talking about the Superman/Clark Kent split. Right OK, so, that whole thing is wrapped up in the psychology of Superman's creators, two poor, physically weak Jewish boys who imagined that their real selves, the ones they hid from the world, were actually strong, confident, and powerful. That concept is very powerful, and resonates with a lot of people, and I feel like it's part of the core of Superman, and worth keeping. But there's a danger in overemphasizing this, and making Superman too alien; this got pretty bad in the Silver Age IMO, where Superman was generally portrayed as just a straight up alien guy, with no real humanity, who thinks of himself as Kal-El, not Clark, and who ignores the people who actually raised him in favor of his dead planet and his birth parents, both of whom he has no real memories of. And that's pretty weird! The Byrne reboot went way too far in the other direction I think, turning Clark Kent into a confident football linebacker who doesn't seem all that different from Superman. Morrison and Waid's (and others, those two are the ones who come to mind) invention of the triune identities in the 2000s is the best way of balancing this: you have Smallville Clark, the man raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent, his actual personality, that he reveals only to his close confidants. There's Metropolis Clark, a disguise, a meek and clumsy character he plays when in public, slouching his shoulders and changing his posture to make him not recognizable as Superman. And finally there's Superman, who's fairly close to the Smallville Clark persona, but with the heroics played up, his chest thrust out more, and always on his best behavior. I think it's a great compromise and injects that power of the "if only they knew the real me" concept back into the Superman mythos.

also I got complaints from a certain dumb idiot that my X-Men roster

- Whats the perfect x-men lineup?

- Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Jean Grey (she really needs a codename that's better than Marvel Girl because no one calls her that and using Phoenix is too confusing, right guys?), Emma Frost (and yet her lack of codename is not as bothersome?), Beast, Shadowcat, Colossus, and Nightcrawler

was too influenced by Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run and ummm actually I was thinking primarily of Morrison's team so shut your stupid face, and also that it wasn't exhaustive enough, so fine, I'll do another team because those goddamn X-Men have like 7 different X-Men teams, it's ridiculous:
Rogue, Iceman, Psylocke, Karma, Sunspot, Mirage, Chamber, Darwin

and hell let's do another Avengers team because same goddamn deal:
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Luke Cage, White Tiger, Hank Pym, Wasp, Scarlet Witch

I already did two JL teams and Legion of Superheroes always has a massive team so no more. >:[

[Gennos]

What do you think of The Punisher?
If Batman and The Punisher fought, who do you think would win?
What do you think of Marvel's equivalent of Batman Moon Knight?

[Jmorphman]

 - I like him and I loved Punisher: War Zone but I'm not the biggest fan so I haven't really read much of him
- Batman. Reason: he's Batman. Now, Batman vs. Captain America, gotta go with Captain America on that, no question, Batman might have slightly better martial arts training but the super soldier serum would win out, and the shield would cancel out the gadgets
- he's always been neat but never like, great, until Warren Ellis really reinvigorated the character and took him to another level

[DJ_HANNIBALROYCE]

What do you think of The Punisher?
If Batman and The Punisher fought, who do you think would win?
What do you think of Marvel's equivalent of Batman Moon Knight?

im sorry...but ur avatar is HILARIOUS! sorry for the mini-derailment.

anyways, Jmorp...will u ever create a character off ur current avatar? if so....can i help?

[Synck]

Questions:

-How you feel this days?
-Favorite  Books?
-Favorite Snack?
-Favorite Movie?

That's all from me ,and it's quite simple...

[Legendary DeMoNk@I]

Well....


-At what point did you decide to create a character the first time?
-How did you come up with the name Jmorphman?
-Fruits? or veggies?
-What has been your strangest experience in the mugen community?
-Do you like the idea of wolverine being killed off in Marvel next month?

[Jmorphman]

anyways, Jmorp...will u ever create a character off ur current avatar? if so....can i help?

- probably not, the Greendale Human Being can barely see out of this getout, let alone fight in it

-How you feel this days?
-Favorite  Books?
-Favorite Snack?
-Favorite Movie?

- good I guess
- ANIMORPHS and uh I really like The Baroque Cycle, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Areas of My Expertise, and Cryptonomicon
- an entire tub of cookie dough, it has to be an entire tub or I walk and won't play the gig
- IDK, I don't wanna choose one, I like Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Spider-Man 2, and Kill Bill vol. 2

-At what point did you decide to create a character the first time?
-How did you come up with the name Jmorphman?
-Fruits? or veggies?
-What has been your strangest experience in the mugen community?
-Do you like the idea of wolverine being killed off in Marvel next month?

- when I got sick and tired of boring CvS2 characters like Joe, Chun-Li, Ken, and Kyo, etc. Things could be done better, moves can be added, etc. And it didn't look like PotS was making any more characters outside of his fullgame, so if no one was going to fix this outrageous state of affairs, I might as well try and shittily make an attempt!
- I've been asked this like, no joke, 5 times in this thread already. C'mon guys, seriously.
- fruit
- that time I spent the early hours of one morning deleting hundreds upon hundreds of spammed porn pictures, the sacrifices I have made for this forum, you know? And the worst part of it all was that it was all straight porn!
- seems like it could lead to some interesting places

[Japanese Jesus]

Thoughts on Hathaway Noa?

[Neetso]

What would be the best Gudam to start to watch?

[Jmorphman]

Thoughts on Hathaway Noa?

Could be written better, but I get what Tomino was doing. Still, I wish the movie used the version of events involving Hathaway from Beltorchika's Children instead of what ended up happening.

What would be the best Gudam to start to watch?

First movie trilogy.

[Speedpreacher]

Is there anything from the new 52 that you've read or are currently reading?

[Jmorphman]

Not currently reading anything, but read most of Snyder's Batman, Azzarello's Wonder Woman, Morrison's Action Comics and a few other things not worth mentioning.

[Alther Primus]

- What are your thoughts on Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
- If you could switch the roles of any Comic hero and Comic villain (I.E. The Joker as a hero with Batman as a villain,) who would they be?
- Have you ever played DooM or DooM II?  If so, what are your thoughts on it/them?
- Sephiroth or Kefka?
- Favorite Gundam series?

[TrinitroRoy]

Okaydokey, more questions:
-Imagine, you have to organize a big anime series of the SNK fighting game King of Fighters, where every season of the anime represents the KoF games in chronological order (excluding Maximum Impact , the Dream Matches and the remakes, but including the KOF EX games on GBA and KOF Kyo). Who would you cast for voice acting and animating and scripting outside of the KOF endings and what would be your plans for that big anime series in general (seeing that nobody really attempted a KOF anime, unlike Street Fighter or even Fatal Fury)
-If you were to code someone in a completely different style (just try to imagine it, no matter how crazy that sounds) without being a joke character (joke characters play in their own league), who would be the very first character in that style?
-From a scala between 1 and MY HEAD, how hard is it to be a Global Moderator? And why?
-Who's the KOF character you hate most and why?
-Who's the Street Fighter character you hate most and why?