Let's not forget The Blimp, from "The Inferior Five".

*SPOILER ALERT*

Dumb Bunny from "The Inferior Five" was actually Mockingbird in "The Secret Six"! ((Sorry for the spoiler!))

Foradain wrote:

I thought Dumb Bunny was Angel's (of Angel and the Ape) half sister...

You're correct. Athena Tremor is Angel O'Day's half-sister.

It has come up a couple of times before, and from what I remember hearing we should have body options beyond just heroic/super model, including fat.

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/12-comics-that-shouldnt-be-live-action-films-fat-fury.jpg

This guy. With Supermans powers. You know, Comic-Guy! Looks like me!

My favorite character from back when I used to play the Heroes Unlimited pen-and-paper RPG was a cyborg named "Potbelly Bob". He had cybernetic arms and legs that did most of the work for him, and consequently got very little actual cardiovascular exercise despite being able to run as fast as a race car, and found it nearly impossible to keep his torso in shape. Having that kind of body shape available would be awesome.

Somehow, I think fat characters would be right at home as some of the mightiest heroes and villains in CoT. Maybe it's the fact that [url=http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/051/9/9/blade_under_mask__a_new_day_by_sheba_windstorm-d4q94m5.jpg]muscleguts are badass[/url], it's a sign that you [url=http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/chelsentus/despicable_me_2_movie-wide.jpg]don't even need to lift a finger to pwn someone[/url], or because Far-Eastern-themed gods (in [url=http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news_images/7104ukha.jpg]mythology[/url] or [url=http://17woo.tgbusdata.cn/forum/201211/24/0109422i07qql17nqizwxu.jpg]video games[/url]) are stereotypically portrayed as such. Either way, I'm all for this.

Starhammer wrote:

I am hugely* in favor of fat character concepts in superhero games (or fantasy, sci-fi, or anything else really). My biggest* concern about them however is that there is a tendency for the sliders that control body size to stretch clothing/armor in ways that ruin the effect. This happened a lot with Jackets in CoH, where a big belly couldn't be made to mesh with the rest of the body, and sent the edges of the jacket standing out at weird angles.
*Sorry, bad puns are sometimes an enormous* problem, but they seemed to within the scope of this subject.

For what it's worth the Unreal Engine 4 (the main graphics engine CoT will be using) is far more capable than CoH's graphics were in terms of body/clothing animations. What that means for us is that it should be more possible (likely?) that we would be able to have at least "Arthur" sized characters (see Wolf Shadow's post earlier in this thread) in CoT than we ever would have been able to have under CoH's system. The key here is that clothes can actually "drape/shift" over shapes in UE4 rather than just being sort of "glued" onto body surfaces - that should greatly reduce the specific problems you mentioned.

It'd probably still be hard to have super-blob type fatness without its own dedicated body model, but I'm hoping semi-chubby bodies will be within the realm of possibility using the main male/female body models the Devs are currently working on.

Clipping, in the APEX system with UnrealEngine4, will not be an issue.

Building those models and costuming them so the design lines aesthetically work for even large models (and that movement physics look good without poking fun at or disrespecting the model) will be somewhat more difficult.

Me want fat! Yes, I've wanted to make many of my tanks from CoH fat...like Blob fat. It would be a nice option, but not a requirement. I would imagine it'll be an option.

There's a very simple reason for making "portly people" a possibility with the Costume Creator. It allows reuse of the exact same character models when making chubb-chubb Civilians. That way you don't need to use two separate systems for making fat people because the "hero" system won't allow it.

TheMightyPaladin wrote:

Anyway I never found a way to make a large lady.

OMG! A fat female sonic blaster!

Battle Cry: "It ain't over till I sing, baby!"

You got them all right.
But my image for lust isn't a very popular stereotype.
I've more often seen lust depicted as a lecherous old man or a goat man.
I used a hot chick partly because: I more than one female character and I couldn't find the right facial expression to do it as a male.
Sloth actually had illusion powers to represent dreams. Both sleeping dreams and dreams unfulfilled because of our failure to act

I used these characters in a mission I created called Dark Night of the Soul.
The contact was a pile of bones, identified as the relics of Saint John of the Cross.
The text explained that the mission was a symbolic vision you had while meditating on the bones.
Saint John of the Cross was inside the mission as an NPC and Spiritual guide.
After fighting each of the Seven Deadly sins and then Satan, Pride would return congratulating you on you success, and praising your name.
Satan was actually the toughest foe because he had Demon Summoning and Pain Domination all maxed out and a bunch of spawns around him, but the final battle with pride was important.
When pride was defeated again the mission was over and the relics of Saint John would remind you that victory over sin always leads to another battle with sin. The fight doesn't end until we reach our final reward and only those who endure to the end will be saved.