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Calvin Biselle doesn`t resemble with someone we already know?!

lunaw78lunaw78 Posts: 293 Arc User
edited July 2013 in Champions Online Discussion
He`s appearance and even his speech doesn`t resemble with... with... BARACK OBAMA?! :eek:
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  • fudgemonstafudgemonsta Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Doubt it.

    CO was out before Obama was in office.
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Personally, I always thought Biselle looks like Bill Cosby.
  • fudgemonstafudgemonsta Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    chaoswolf820 wrote: »
    Personally, I always thought Biselle looks like Bill Cosby.

    Great, GREAT. Now I'm never gonna be able to do a Two Minute Drill without imaging Cosby talking.

    'Its hubbada bubbada Poe alert! He's got da purple robe and the little guns that go pew pew.'
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fudgemonsta wrote: »
    Great, GREAT. Now I'm never gonna be able to do a Two Minute Drill without imaging Cosby talking.

    'Its hubbada bubbada Poe alert! He's got da purple robe and the little guns that go pew pew.'

    Especially in the Fighting City Hall alert-mission. He jokes about leaving for Peoria, but all I keep hearing is him asking for some delicious Jello Pudding.
  • lunaw78lunaw78 Posts: 293 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    chaoswolf820 wrote: »
    Personally, I always thought Biselle looks like Bill Cosby.
    Nah, he looks more like Barack rather than guy! :biggrin:
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  • fudgemonstafudgemonsta Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lunaw78 wrote: »
    Nah, he looks more like Barack rather than guy! :biggrin:

    But the jello puddin' and the kids sayin' the darndest things!
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  • akirasanbeerakirasanbeer Posts: 228 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    That'd be awesome; Bill Cosby for Mayor 2014!
  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fudgemonsta wrote: »
    Doubt it.

    CO was out before Obama was in office.

    That means that cryptic knew.......PREDICTION OF THE ANTICHRIST? THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,746 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    look for the ad board with a white Biselle on it.
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  • cellarrat33cellarrat33 Posts: 400 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fudgemonsta wrote: »
    Doubt it.

    CO was out before Obama was in office.

    Beta may have been out before he was in office, but official CO launch was in Sept. 2009, approximately 9 months after his inauguration.

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  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I don't think there is any intended resemblance. He is simply a politician in Detroit.
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  • canadascottcanadascott Posts: 1,257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    In the original PnP, Darren didn't intend him as an Obama tribute: the malapropisms that he was given were more likely inspired by Bush's verbal gaffes. However, CO's initial writer, Layman, never saw a reference that was too cute for him to use, so undoubtedly the CO version is influenced by the current president.
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  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,898 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I think he looks more like British boxer Chris Eubank.

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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fudgemonsta wrote: »
    Doubt it.

    CO was out before Obama was in office.
    cellarrat33 wrote: »
    Beta may have been out before he was in office, but official CO launch was in Sept. 2009, approximately 9 months after his inauguration.

    Barack Obama was also a rather well known Senator before he became President.
  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    canadascott wrote: »
    In the original PnP, Darren didn't intend him as an Obama tribute: the malapropisms that he was given were more likely inspired by Bush's verbal gaffes. However, CO's initial writer, Layman, never saw a reference that was too cute for him to use, so undoubtedly the CO version is influenced by the current president.

    Truer words have never been spoked.
  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    biffsmackwell wrote: »
    Truer words have never been spoked.

    Indeed. It seems like everyone and everything in this game is a reference to something. Heck, just yesterday, a team and I fought Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living! (Necrull.)
  • flamingbunnymanflamingbunnyman Posts: 1,995 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    Indeed. It seems like everyone and everything in this game is a reference to something. Heck, just yesterday, a team and I fought Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living! (Necrull.)

    I never noticed that parallel. I'll have to pay more attention next time through.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    America copies it's presidents from the media. Reagan resembles a famous movie star. Bush is lookalike of previous president. 4 presidents were picked because theres a rock formation that has face resemblance of their faces. Lincoln is a vampire hunter lookalike.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flamingbunnyman wrote: »
    I never noticed that parallel. I'll have to pay more attention next time through.

    It was frankly patently obvious to me.

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    :rolleyes: Way to go, Layman.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited July 2013
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  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    America copies it's presidents from the media. Reagan resembles a famous movie star. Bush is lookalike of previous president. 4 presidents were picked because theres a rock formation that has face resemblance of their faces. Lincoln is a vampire hunter lookalike.

    Hahaha... I NEVER NOTICED THIS!!!
  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    it Was Frankly Patently Obvious To Me.

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    :rolleyes: Way To Go, Layman.

    Ancient Spirits Of Canada, Transform This Decayed Flesh Into... Necrull, The Ever-living, eh?
  • akirasanbeerakirasanbeer Posts: 228 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    His in-game face is straight up Mum-ra....the ominous yet appropriate art looming over the forums....not so much. Guess it's the more pronounce skull.
  • lovehammer1lovehammer1 Posts: 416 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lunaw78 wrote: »
    He`s appearance and even his speech doesn`t resemble with... with... BARACK OBAMA?! :eek:
    No. It doesn't.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Posts: 864 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    Indeed. It seems like everyone and everything in this game is a reference to something. Heck, just yesterday, a team and I fought Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living! (Necrull.)

    Hey, and in Neverwinter the big bad is like a female version of Necrull, or Mumm-Ra. That would by default make her, She-Ra.

    And as we all know She-Ra is a master of the universe...So, if we crack the code and follow it to its only possible conclusion.

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  • canadascottcanadascott Posts: 1,257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I can assure you that, at least in the PnP version of Necrull, there's no intent to be a tribute to Mumm-Ra. Neither Steve Sloane (who developed the basic concept) or I (who originated it) are Thundercats fans. We're just drawing from the same pulp sources as the creators of that series: Necrull's a pulp sorcerer-scientist, originally from Egypt, transposed into the modern era, obsessed with immortality, which he tries to obtain through a combination of dark science and Anubis magic. The dessicated undead sorcerer predates Mumm-Ra as a bad guy concept by quite a few years.

    Necrull's CO art isn't too far from the original PnP art, where he's described as wearing a blood-soaked, hooded robe. So I'd chalk this one to a coincidence.
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  • biffsmackwellbiffsmackwell Posts: 4,743 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Take that, Thundercats!
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    edited July 2013
    All this talk about Mumm-Ra and nobody mentions Lion-er, I mean Robobobo...bo bobo. Man, the day I get that name spelled right y'all will be in trouble.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    canadascott wrote: »
    I can assure you that, at least in the PnP version of Necrull, there's no intent to be a tribute to Mumm-Ra. Neither Steve Sloane (who developed the basic concept) or I (who originated it) are Thundercats fans. We're just drawing from the same pulp sources as the creators of that series: Necrull's a pulp sorcerer-scientist, originally from Egypt, transposed into the modern era, obsessed with immortality, which he tries to obtain through a combination of dark science and Anubis magic. The dessicated undead sorcerer predates Mumm-Ra as a bad guy concept by quite a few years.

    Necrull's CO art isn't too far from the original PnP art, where he's described as wearing a blood-soaked, hooded robe. So I'd chalk this one to a coincidence.

    So you're using the Simpsons defense, eh? I suppose it could be just a coincidence, but I just couldn't help think "Mumm-Ra" when I first saw the guy.

    The bio you gave doesn't help much either.
  • jerax1011jerax1011 Posts: 974 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    America copies it's presidents from the media. Reagan resembles a famous movie star. Bush is lookalike of previous president. 4 presidents were picked because theres a rock formation that has face resemblance of their faces. Lincoln is a vampire hunter lookalike.

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  • jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,557 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I always thought that since MC was a rebuilt Detroit Biselle was patterned a bit off a younger version of Dave Bing, former NBA player who became the mayor of Detroit about the time CO was released.
    canadascott wrote: »
    In the original PnP, Darren didn't intend him as an Obama tribute: the malapropisms that he was given were more likely inspired by Bush's verbal gaffes. However, CO's initial writer, Layman, never saw a reference that was too cute for him to use, so undoubtedly the CO version is influenced by the current president.
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  • canadascottcanadascott Posts: 1,257 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jaazaniah1 wrote: »
    I always thought that since MC was a rebuilt Detroit Biselle was patterned a bit off a younger version of Dave Bing, former NBA player who became the mayor of Detroit about the time CO was released.

    I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

    Also a fun fact -- the day of Detroit's destruction is Darren's wife's birthday. :)
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  • smoochansmoochan Posts: 2,567 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    That's racist yo.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,334 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    smoochan wrote: »
    That's racist yo.
    Well, you know, all those people look alike.

    Politicians, I mean.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Well, you know, all those people look alike.

    Politicians, I mean.

    Not too different from lawyers, actually.
  • flamingbunnymanflamingbunnyman Posts: 1,995 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Well, you know, all those people look alike.

    Politicians, I mean.
    kojirohellfire wrote: »
    Not too different from lawyers, actually.

    There's a reason for that.
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flamingbunnyman wrote: »
    There's a reason for that.

    Silly Mr. Tyson. Politicians have no lives.
  • cellarrat33cellarrat33 Posts: 400 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    chaoswolf820 wrote: »
    Silly Mr. Tyson. Politicians have no lives.
    canadascott wrote: »
    ... obsessed with immortality, which he tries to obtain through a combination of dark science and Anubis magic...

    Politicians have much in common with Necrull in my opinion.

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  • lovehammer1lovehammer1 Posts: 416 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Isn't Mr. Wiener a politician? :eek:
    Crazy folk, those politicians.
  • flamingbunnymanflamingbunnyman Posts: 1,995 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lovehammer1 wrote: »
    Isn't Mr. Wiener a politician? :eek:

    Considering the reputation he's built up, you have to wonder about President(s) Bush...
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Posts: 5,508 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Biselle reminds me of an older grown up version of Walt, from Lost.
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  • atringatring Posts: 232 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lovehammer1 wrote: »
    Isn't Mr. Wiener a politician? :eek:
    Crazy folk, those politicians.

    If there isn't at least one "Carlos Danger" in game, tonight, I'm totally makin' one! I'm thinkin' Soldier AT...
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    sockmunkey wrote: »
    Hey, and in Neverwinter the big bad is like a female version of Necrull, or Mumm-Ra. That would by default make her, She-Ra.

    And as we all know She-Ra is a master of the universe...So, if we crack the code and follow it to its only possible conclusion.

    Cryptic is trying to master the universe!

    Actually... (cue nerdity)

    She-Ra is the female equivalent to He-Man, specifically, his long-lost sister.

    Mumm-Ra's female equivalent is more of a polar-opposite, being Mumm-Rana, whose powers draw not from the Ancient Spirits of Evil, but rather those of Good, and who dwells not in a Black Pyramid, but instead a White one.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Posts: 864 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    chaoswolf820 wrote: »
    Actually... (cue nerdity)

    She-Ra is the female equivalent to He-Man, specifically, his long-lost sister.

    Mumm-Ra's female equivalent is more of a polar-opposite, being Mumm-Rana, whose powers draw not from the Ancient Spirits of Evil, but rather those of Good, and who dwells not in a Black Pyramid, but instead a White one.

    Facts and proper lore has no place in my delusions. So while I am aware you are saying words, Im going to ignore them and continue to believe in wild illogical conspiracies manufactured from lack of sleep and and slight insanity.

    You shall not burst my bubble! :tongue:
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Posts: 3,811 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    flamingbunnyman wrote: »
    There's a reason for that.
    Not all of them are Lawyers and Businessmen.

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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Posts: 3,811 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    atring wrote: »
    If there isn't at least one "Carlos Danger" in game, tonight, I'm totally makin' one! I'm thinkin' Soldier AT...
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  • chaoswolf820chaoswolf820 Posts: 756 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    zedbrightlander1 wrote: »
    Not all of them are Lawyers and Businessmen.

    Rush Holt, Jr.
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    Rocket Scientist and - Quaker? :confused:

    Rush Holt is a slightly-badass name.
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