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[Mr.Platinum]

Yes, it frustrates me when year after year i see another player making a wolverine character.

So far the most interesting Ripp off i've seen is Van Helsing, nothing like a group of ghouls with one Van Helsing in the mix.

but for NPC's i find my self making up anime/movie.book characters for example.

Gally from Gunnm.

Alex Rain from Nemesis

Your Mom in 3 men and a Geisha.

The Hero from Dragon warrior one????

and one Wario as a decker.


Share them all, let me see your anger.

[Jrayjoker]

Well, Wolverine plays a very important role in my games.

I have Mr. Motley from China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" as a high end free spirit NPC fixer with Karma sharing kind of like Gaf.

[Ancient History]

Molly Millions clone.

One particularly rabid Robocop clone named Cyberstar. I let him do it just so his ass would be owned by the corporation.

[JongWK]

"M" from James Bond's movies. Nothing like a witty old fixer that looks & speaks like Dame Judi Dench.

[Mr.Platinum]

Wow CyberStar that is tottaly awsome.

[warrior_allanon]

phys mage based off Yuske Yurameshe (Yu Yu Hakusho)
street sam based off Vash the Stampede (TriGun)
phys ad based on Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer's "Tombstone" portrayal. was my first character ever played)
Decker that uses Witchblade as her matrix persona
working on
Mage based on Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist)
Mage based on Harry Dresden (Dresden file novels)
Combat rigger/phys ad based on Soske Sagura (Full Metal Panic)

ok, so i have a few that still need work and refining.

[Mr.Platinum]

[CountZero]

Well, my first Shadowrun character was a rigger based on Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, though he eventually turned into my own character (as after the first run I became rather paranoid against Aztechnology).

This post has been edited by CountZero: Jan 2 2006, 07:40 PM

[BishopMcQ]

Phys-ad changeling--based on Bloodrayne.

Warrior--For the Dresden, are you going the ally-spirit homunculus route?

[warrior_allanon]

havent decided yet, i'm actually thinking of making bob an free spirit talismonger/fixer for him

[TimeKeeper]

Drake Hardedge, for those of that have been around that long, was my cabbie decker.
Totally ripped off of Drake Edgewater from Quarintine and it's sequel.

Hardedge has since come into his own and the game's gone into obsecurity, so I'm safe.

I once made a Snake Plisskin/Solid Snake clone for a Merc-theme game I was running. Also had about a third of the AIM roster from Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games in there as well. (This was before MGS1 but after Escape from LA)

Most of my ideas are original. :D

Or so far into obsecurity that no one knows they're rip offs. ;)

[Birdy]

Nice/Evil rip-off NPC from various games

+ T.J Hooker and crew when I need beatcops that have some background/substance. Hey, Verhofen (Robocop) can do it, so why not me ;)

+ Hunter/McCall for his plain-cloth counterparts. In SR Hunter is an Ork.

(Hammer/Doreau if I feel like overdoing it)

+ If I need plaincloth with more style I end up Making Peace

+ Mike Hammer for the tough, self-reliant privat eye

I still like the shotgun final from "The Girl Chasers"

Based on a mix between the TV series (for Hammer) and the Spilane books (For Velda - I hate the Lindsay Bloom variant!)

+ Rally Vincent, Mini May Hopkins und Riding Bean for Gunsmith/Bounty Hunters/Drivers

Fast cars, hot chicks and lots of explosions

+ Miller from "Guns of Navarone" / "Force Ten" for a demolition expert

More the movie version from Force Ten

+ Q for the absent-minded tech. Bonnie Barstow for the more worldly version (Or a rigger)

+ Doyle and Bodie from CI5 (there is only one) for Hitman/ProAgents

+ If in doubt, three classy ladies and an overweight coordinator come in handy as thiefs/investigators

+ Cloony/Kidman from Project Peacemaker for an investigator/hitman team

+ My FBI agents always look like Denzel Washington or Sidney Potier

+ My "High Thread" street cops always end up looking like Judge Dread (Stalone version)

+ Gunny Thomas Highway and Feldwebel Rolf Steiner if I need NCOs

+ My slimebags always end up looking like Legolas



As player characters I basically went through most of the characters from "Bugs" and "Mission Impossible" (the Series!) as well as a version of John Reno in "Wasabi"

[ash_wednesday]

Ok..these two ripe off that I can remember were not form SR but from Rifts. They were Xena and a Predator. The campaign didn't last long.

[evil1i]

Had a friend who made a physad based off Deadpool! He had a geas on most of his physad powers that only worked whilst wearing the suit and even took a skill in combat chatter that allowed him to utter more words in his action phase but they could only be wise cracks.

[FrankTrollman]

Several NPCs in my campaign actually are characters from other Shadowrun-like settings. Rally Vincent and Minnie May are street samurai that make guest appearances sometimes. Brick Top showed up as a gangster (that the PCs eventually shot). Dr. Akagi was a guest star as a scientist working for an unnamed UN contractor (basing its operations in the AGS, Imperial Japan, and Antarctica).

Several other characters are "played by" various actors. One necromancer named Bolt was played by Bela Lugosi, while a particularly overbearing sarariman was played by a boistrous Gene Hackman. The movie that is your Shadowrun game can as expensive a cast as you want it to.

Player characters are usually made similarly. One biochemist character (Glenn Swayne) was based on Glenn Michaels from Out of Sight and The Dude from The Big Lubowski (except with concocting deadly nerve gas and lecturing people about "Wet Noise").

-Frank

[LaughingTiger]

I'm running a crime based campaign in St Louis. My PC's are in the employ of an independant contractor named Solomon Greene.

Greene is played by Harvey Kietel, and we're all grateful.

[mintcar]

[Straight Razor]

(Rurouni Kenshin) samurai X
phyAdept with a katana

[Catsnightmare]

Yep done that, have both a D&D monk character I actually played and a half completed Physical Adept rip off of Sagara Sanosuke from Ruroni Kenshin

[Adarael]

Ripping off Kenshin is no good. Dr. Akagi is pretty good, cuz it's relatively obscure. Snake Plisskin/Solid Snake is walking a line.

Mike Hammer, though? Dude, feel free. Kiss Me Deadly set the freakin cinematic noir standard. It'd be hard to make a hard-bitten detective and NOT rip him off.

[stevebugge]

But if you made a detective rip-off of Frank Drebin that would be pretty funny.

[The Stainless St...]

Have created:

• The Stainless Steel Rat (Naturally)
• Yoda (Who hasn't? But only as an NPC. You have to break some rules for Yoda - He's fucking YODA!)
• Neil McCauley (Yes, I'm another Heat Fanboy - but isn't that a requirement around here?)
• Danny Trejo (see above)
• Marv and Miho from Sin City

Have played with (created by others):

• Wolverine (am I the only one who hasn't made one? Is that another requirement around here?)
• Spidey
• Johnny Mo from Kill Bill
• Various Predators (damn Blur power...)
• Gerald Tarrant (from the Coldfire series by CS Friedman - one of the cooler rip-off's I've played with)
• M.D Geist (Broken, broken, broken... but neat. At least he was played well)
• Jesse Ventura's Blain from Predator (How hard is that? I have a minigun. I chew tobacco. I think I'm a hardass. I'm Blain.)
• Shiva from Streets of Rage
• Various incarnations of Solid Snake
• Vash the Stampede and Wolfwood
• The Darkness (from the Witchblade series. I'm pretty sure both the Witchblade and the Angel were supposed to be in that campaign too, but it ended before they showed up.
• Lady Death

That's all I can come up with right now, but I'm certain there's more...

[khazad]

At the risk of showing a different type of Geekiness....

A rigger/techie based on Reginald Barkley (ST:TNG)
A PhysAd/detective based on Arnold in Red Heat (forget the character's name)
An elf Wizard based on Tuvok (Star Trek Voyager. "I cannot understand why I seem so stiff.")
A Dog Shaman based on "Bones" McCoy. ("Damnit, I'ma Shaman notta Physician!")
A Fixer based on Gul Dukat (just seems to have that slimey, smarmy attitude!)
A Street Sam based on Hawke (from Spencer for Hire - Avery Brooks)
A Street Sam based on Agent Smith from Matrix. (I wear Sunglasses. I talk slow. And deliberately. I enounceate every word. You must fear me.)
And my worst ever character was a smuggler loosely based on Han Solo with a Sean Connery Voice.

Hey, I never said they were GOOD ideas, just ideas that i've thought of and tried. :)

-Dwarf

[Frackula]

Arise, thread!

I'm not very original when it comes to these things. I have created:
- A mage based on Penn, and a samurai based on Teller
- A high level NPC based on Howard Hughes (after he went flippin' insane)
- A psychic based on Yuri from Red Alert 2
- A Russian street doc based on Borat (Sasha Baron Cohen based Borat on a Russian doctor he knew)
- A detective who narrated his life in Dragnet form (Jack Webb)
- A decker named "Ralph Numbers"
- A "Cube shaman" based on Gene Ray the Timecube Guy

[Maltaltin]

One word Mcgiver