Landon

Much like the Scooby Doo/Jason match from a few days ago, The Brady Bunch is a good bit smarter than your average slasher movie character that ends up on the wrong end of Jason's machette. They might be obnoxious and we may WANT to see them die, but they aren't dumb enough to pull the same stupid mistakes most horror movie characters pull. A couple of them might bite it in the process, but they'll have a much better survival rate than your usual slasher movie.

I love the covers to The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. They're all a rift on the same concept, with tweaks depending on the story told in that particular volume.

At the earliest, next week most likely.

There's a temporary hold on character acceptance. I mentioned this in the "what characters have you submitted thread. That explains why The Mafia, and numerous other characters, are still awaiting review. So your character isn't being singled out or anything.

All of these ideas are VERY bad. Then again, they aren't much worse than what Marvel and DC have been churning out for the past decade or two. There's a reason why super hero comics have been hurting for new readers, Big Time Comic Companies: your product has sucked, as a whole, for quite some time. Yeah, every now and there there'll be a handful of consecutive issues in a particular title that are good, but that's the exception to the rule. It isn't the only reason why readership has been falling, but its one of the reasons.

Mr. T: Had one amusing TV series (A-Team) and a laughably bad 80s Saturday morning cartoon. Now, pretty much lives off of his pop culture standing and hasn't actually DONE anything in over a decade. Hulk Hogan: Was king of wrestling back when pro wrestling was still relevant and fun. Then he did a bunch of awful movies in the late 80s and early 90s. Now, he's had an attrocious reality TV show and is better known for his family's tabloid exploits. Norris: Legitimate martial artist star. Was in a movie with BRUCE LEE (that counts for a LOT, folks). Was a genuine action star in the 80s. Had a cheesy but amusing TV series in the 90s. Now, does infomercials for workout equipment and is the focus of inane internet memes that ceased being funny about two minutes after they started. I'd say Norris has a far more "credible" and respectable career, so I'd give him the fight regardless of the conditions.

The Scooby Gang is considerably smarter than your average jailbait horror movie fodder. Considering that at LEAST one bimbo manages to survive those movies, I'm pretty sure the gang can handle any iteration of Jason.

Even the characters that have to train start off getting powers "spontaneously." Goku is a super-alien. Naruto has some fox demon inside of him. Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho and Ichigo from Bleach both could see ghosts and stuff. They were all "special" before things started. On the other hand, shounen series tend to outright PUNISH anyone that dares to be as special as these characters, yet didn't start off with special abilities. Rock Lee from Naruto trains and overachieves, and what does he get? He nearly gets killed by another "I was born with powers" character. Krillin in DBZ? Same thing. That said, most mecha anime series DO have ordinary people that are thrust into situations and are given a giant robot, and its often that "normalness" that lends them the "power" that other, more "experienced" people don't have. But your average shounen fighter? The complete opposite. If anything, shounen series are worse, in that they teach kids that you have to already be privledged to get anywhere. At least with comics you have everyday people suddenly getting powers out of nowhere, saying that anyone could suddenly become "super." Peter Parker wasn't an alien with a demon spirit in his stomach, he was an everyday dork that got bitten by a spider. But yeah, this is a little off topic, but whatever. Heehee...

For the record, there won't be any character approvals for at least a few days. So don't get to anxious.

MarvelFanwhatevernumber, if you're going to post multiple pictures, please post them in the same response. No need to make 5 posts in a row when one post would have handled it just fine

I'd argue that this is how EVERY comic book writer behaves, regardless of company affiliation. They always seem to be trying to outgun previous writers and make their characters more and more powerful with each issue. At least it isn't as bad as your typical shounen anime, where you have to sit through 20 episodes of "training" before the character gets more powerful. Comic book characters jump in power between issues without any real rhyme or reason other than "the plot dictates so." one issue Batman struggles to take down Random-Psycho-With-A-Random-Fetish, the next he's finding ways to make sure Darkseid ceases to exist intentional exaggeration>. More powerful =/= More interesting, Mr. Comic Book Writer Dudes, so please stop the lame power creep. Just one reason why I stopped reading super hero comics and loathe most popular anime series. Hardly the main reason, but one of them.

No one will ever reach Aunt May's level. No One.

Akuma is vastly overrated by fanboys. In the game, he's a pansy that takes more damage than light-weights (stamina-wise) like Chun-Li. He might pack more of a punch than some character, since his damage output is pretty high, but he's no more powerful than any other Street Fighter character. Hell, current SF4 character ranks have him as a mid-tier character, with Sagat being the most powerful character in the game. I'd think the games are far more "objective" than whatever comics that people base his power level upon, especially since the comics aren't always "cannon," while the game is considered cannon by Capcom. Throwing him in with the likes of Darkseid and The Emperor from 40K is ridiculous.

Several episodes of flamboyant posturing and melodramatic camera angles ensue before either one does anything to the other character. Then C.C gives Ryuk an apple and the battle ends before either character does anything to the other.

I suggest that every CBUBer that has "Mavel" in their name fight to the death. Then, the losers will change their names to something without "Marvel" in it posthumously, so that we'll actually be able to tell the difference between all of these users.

Protip: Communication cannot be acheived through smilies alone. Words are nice to use every now and then to convey your thoughts.

If it makes you feel any better, I like neither fantasy novels nor DBZ. I like playing D&D, but I can't stomach reading about it. Lodoss War is some good stuff, though. One of the first anime series I saw all the way through. That was eons ago, though, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

All Chiyo-chan's penguin suit can do is make people want to shove her to the ground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5JiRa4LqLU

"Prioritize" all you want, but it won't make them get accepted any faster. The admins will accept them as they get to them and likely won't take the time to see if people want certian characters accepted first.

Poor, poor Elektra. She gets killed off in what was one of the better comic storylines of the 80s, only to get brought back over and over and over again, each time getting lamer and lamer. Now she's maybe-possibly a Skrull? Yuck. Way to ruin a character, dudes.

This isn't a proper CBUB katamari! You were supposed to roll up 1010 words! This katamari is a mere 266 words! REROLL!

The admins review characters at their leisure. Shouldn't take more than a day or two before a character gets accepted, depending on when one of us has the time to go through the review bins.

I honestly don't see the point in this. Links to places like Wikipedia and the like are provided on the character sheets for people who are into the "research" thing, do we really need a bunch of threads linking to more info? Not that I'm gonna stop y'all or anything, just pointing this out.

Pretty sure Superman'd be fast enough to take down two criminals who are across the street from one another before either one of them could try to harm their victims, especially considering there's nothing in the set-up saying said criminals have powers or the like. So, asking which one he'd save seems pretty pointless since he'd save both easily. That said, neither Vash nor Orihime need saving, since both are perfectly capable of defending themselves from generic criminals.