Wouldn't-it-be-neat-ism
Aug. 28th, 2004 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksThat's a term Colin and I used to bandy around in high school to describe things that were done by comic creators not because of any deep creative purpose but just because it was so darn cool. Which was inconsistent in its result as to whether it was any good or not. Examples include making Puck (of Alpha Flight) being a tall guy magically stunted into a dwarf instead of being a dwarf all along; Danielle Moonstar turning into a Valkryie; Thor becoming a frog. Even turned it into an acronym-verb: wibnism.
So I was thinking about City of Heroes and thinking to myself - wouldn't-it-be-neat if for an expansion, a zone, or even a whole server that they could do City of Heroes: Golden Age? Imagine - 1930s and 1940s architecture, vehicles, weapons - the predecessors of the gangs we see in present-day Paragon City - Bank robbers, mobsters, tommy guns - missions during World War II into enemy territory...
So I was thinking about City of Heroes and thinking to myself - wouldn't-it-be-neat if for an expansion, a zone, or even a whole server that they could do City of Heroes: Golden Age? Imagine - 1930s and 1940s architecture, vehicles, weapons - the predecessors of the gangs we see in present-day Paragon City - Bank robbers, mobsters, tommy guns - missions during World War II into enemy territory...
