-Penguin, The Batman
And now for the slimey old bird himself: The Penguin!
I remember being mesmerized by the Penguin back when I watched the 1966 Batman show (I'm not nearly as old as that statement makes me sound) and fell in love with the character. Poison gas always was cool... poison gas out of your umbrella was straight up awesome!
Naturally then, Penguin needed to be one of the first DC supervillains we made.
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| Waaaaagh wagh wagh |
The figure is a Heroclix figure of the Penguin. The original figure was in a white suit. I wanted our Penguin to be wearing more traditional garb: more like my Batman the Animated Series action figure (not a hoarder.)
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| The sculpted detail inside the umbrella surprised me. You can see even his gun! |
One of my absolute favorite renditions of this character was that of the new 'Lego Batman Movie.' I love caricatures to begin with, so the moment I set my eyes on that slimy shortfig with the oversized top hat element, I knew I wanted to incorporate elements of that character into our heroscape figure. I feel I accomplished this by giving his skin a wash in yellows and greens instead of in my usual browns and reds, giving him a sickly look.
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| He's not quite as powerful as some Penguin models, but he's fun by our reckoning ;) |
Our heroscape characters aren't always comic--accurate. As for me, I feel like making a superhero into heroscape isn't just translating a character's powers into a game, but rather translating the character's legend into the game. Superheros are larger than life, and good ones are larger than the panels they're contained in. So are our designs.
Thus, our card for Penguin--while trying to capture the comic counterpart--also smuggles in a little bit of that classic '66 appearance in there with the poison.
(How poison damage works in our rules is that when a character reveals an Order Marker, you roll one unblockable attack die against that character for each poison marker on that Army Card and remove them.)
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| Admiring the Bat's ride... maybe he should get his own >:D |
So what do you think? How will our old bird fair? Sound off in the comments bellow.
-BG
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