Hellsing/Alucard (Just any overpower person really)

[The Salty Vulcan]

I was always more of a Correspondence guy, myself. I was never creative enough with the Life sphere, but screwing around with space-time never got old.

Me, I never found a useful way to use Correspondence other than to make copies of myself. Life was my specialty. You could make a guy fall by creating a spasm in his leg, get a guy to flip his lid by causing a neuro-chemical imbalance. Of course Mind was a great Sphere too.

 

[Stevedave00]

This makes me feel old.
I was expecting a thread about castlevainia >.>

 

[IceStar100]

As <url=http://www.silverspoonandpaperplate.com/altww.html>one of my favorite quotes goes...

"While the Mage was getting Paradoxed all to hell for levitating a quarter inch, that Brujah over there just threw someone over a 4-story building, survived getting shot in the head, outaccellerated a police car, dreadgazed the Pope. . ."

Reality is a harsh mistress but she's so fun to play with.

And her predilection for impromptu nutshots is wonderous when you're playing ST to a Forces and Prime-happy group.

when will people realize the wonderful applications the Life Sphere has?

Screw it all I just wanted to turn into a bat.

I was always more of a Correspondence guy, myself. I was never creative enough with the Life sphere, but screwing around with space-time never got old.

Careful there man or you hit the Fry parodox. You know the one where you end up as your on grandfather and then have to save us all from flying brains. OH GOD THE BRAINS.

(This message brough to you by someone who had way to much suger.)

 

[mike1921]

The appeal of alucard is that he's a complete and utter badass, and we're not supposed to feel on edge during his fights, we're supposed to be grinning evily and enjoying the spectacle.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I was always more of a Correspondence guy, myself. I was never creative enough with the Life sphere, but screwing around with space-time never got old.

Me, I never found a useful way to use Correspondence other than to make copies of myself. Life was my specialty. You could make a guy fall by creating a spasm in his leg, get a guy to flip his lid by causing a neuro-chemical imbalance. Of course Mind was a great Sphere too.

Heh. The Multi-Spaced Me was fun enough by itself, but trick shots, spatial telekinesis, teleportation (including a rote I found in a book that made you move solely with micro-teleports), material pocket dimensions, scrying, and anything you could accomplish with a Portal Gun took the cake for me. And that's all before Correspondence 5, the "everything you see is how I want it to be, dammit!" rank.

Granted, half the fun of the spheres is coming up with all the myriad ways you can use them, but the other half is figuring out how you can use the different spheres to accomplish the same task. Making a guy fall down is a snap with most of them (Spirit would take some work, though). Driving someone insane would be difficult with Correspondence, but it could probably be done with a little imagination and Correspondence 3...

 

[IceStar100]

NeutralDrow & Quantum Roberts:

We keep this up and we will all end up on an IM rolling dice. I call Story Teller.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

I was always more of a Correspondence guy, myself. I was never creative enough with the Life sphere, but screwing around with space-time never got old.

Me, I never found a useful way to use Correspondence other than to make copies of myself. Life was my specialty. You could make a guy fall by creating a spasm in his leg, get a guy to flip his lid by causing a neuro-chemical imbalance. Of course Mind was a great Sphere too.

Heh. The Multi-Spaced Me was fun enough by itself, but trick shots, spatial telekinesis, teleportation (including a rote I found in a book that made you move solely with micro-teleports), material pocket dimensions, scrying, and anything you could accomplish with a Portal Gun took the cake for me. And that's all before Correspondence 5, the "everything you see is how I want it to be, dammit!" rank.

Granted, half the fun of the spheres is coming up with all the myriad ways you can use them, but the other half is figuring out how you can use the different spheres to accomplish the same task. Making a guy fall down is a snap with most of them (Spirit would take some work, though). Driving someone insane would be difficult with Correspondence, but it could probably be done with a little imagination and Correspondence 3...

it could be done by making the victim experience different locations all at once.
Shame the new Mage game isnt as creative

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

NeutralDrow & Quantum Roberts:

We keep this up and we will all end up on an IM rolling dice. I call Story Teller.

sorry for the double post but that would be awesome, Kicking some Progenitor butt brings back memories.

 

[IceStar100]

NeutralDrow & Quantum Roberts:

We keep this up and we will all end up on an IM rolling dice. I call Story Teller.

sorry for the double post but that would be awesome, Kicking some Progenitor butt brings back memories.

Would not be the first time I RPed over an IM. Just know I punish stupity.

 

[Worsle]

He is characterized by being an insane version of Dracula who is also insanely bored, as such he takes a couple hits now and again mainly for shits and giggles. I've also heard the theory that he probably gets off on it and finds something fun about being shot to swiss cheese and then coming back to rip folks to shreds

I am not sure that is much of a theory, I mean he is shown to quite clearly love fighting and violence and will often let people attack him for a while before he really tries to fight back. He was clearly rather upset in the fight against Luke Valentine when he proved to be no where near as dangerous as he had thought and could not keep up the fight.

Though the fact Alucard (I would note the backwards names are fairly standard vampire stuff) is so powerful does seem to be the plot of the show really. I does certainly seem to be a lot of the motivation behind the main villain of the piece.

 

[redrose640]

since this is the only hellsing thread i could find, if anybody who likes hellsing wants to join my group--The Hellsing Organization--then join and ill accept ya. please continue talking.

 

[Spacewolf]

well ive never seen it but i think i saw something to do with hellsing on a youtube vidieo with someone with a sword fighting someone who was using there cape as a weapon and apparently protecting some lass.

Tvtropes also has an entry in there this is going to hurt section about him so maybe he gets his ass handed to him in that episode.

 

[Steppin Razor]

The main draw for characters like Alucard is that they kick arse, plain and simple. Character development is good and all but every now and then I like to see a real badass crushing everything that gets in the way rather than whining on for five episodes before suddenly finding the power within themself to barely defeat an enemy. It gets boring when all you see are characters that gain some power, fight a few battles, lose against the villain, train, defeat the villain, lose to a new villain, train some more, defeat the new villain and on and on it goes in a never ending loop.

 

[000Ronald]

I toy around with this idea. A character in a few of my stories, White Blade, is idealy powerful enough to curb stomp anything that gets in his way; he spends most of any story hunting down and killing people of his strentgth that go on mass killing sprees from boredom (one of them was based on Tetsuo from Akira...so yeah, people like that). Eventually, the guy giving him the information, his friend, is killed; he goes balistic. As far as plot goes, it gives me a reason not to have the majority of characters fighting an army numbering in the billions.

Another (more realistic) story I wrote had to do with a proteje' of an absurdly powerful warrior; him and a handful of other people were so powerful that them going anywhere was considered an act of war, and was punishable as such, and some sort of natural phenomenon followed all of them; Elder (titular character) was followed by a thunderstorm.

That doesn't answer your question though, does it? It's more about who the character is, not what he can do. Alucard is The Man With No Name if he was invincible. White Blade's purposely an asshole, but an asshole with rules who tries really, really hard to remember the little guys he could be stepping on. Elder is pretty much enlightened, and understands and sympathizes with regular human's situations. That they're all so powerful is only a bonus if they're compelling characters.

Apologies Abound

 

[Kalabrikan]

Alucard's ability to fight isn't his appeal; it's the way he taunts and belittles his opponents to submission that makes him such a fun character to watch. He's the badass in a series whose entire cast consists of nothing but badasses.

 

[Audemas]

I remember seeing that show when a friend of mine showed me an episode. I thought that the anime was pretty good. I recently saw a dubbed over version by one of the guys who does the Dragonball Z Abridged series and it was quite funny.