So, I figured I'd try my hand at this. Hopefully I didn't yank any characters that others posted about.

First in my 3-man/woman team is Poison Ivy.



I've always had a thing for Poison Ivy. Probably the red hair. Or that her normal outfit usually involves only leaves around her no-no ares. Or maybe it's the fact that I will go out in the back yard and rub poison ivy on my...

Wait. Sorry. Too much information there.

Anyway...

I know she's in Lego Batman and the upcoming Arkham Asylum game, but I don't care; she'd be considered a comic book character for my team. And I think she'd be a pretty cool addition to a fighting game. She'd have simple punch and kick moves, but I'd also give her some power attacks where she'd cause plants to grow under her opponent's feet, where they'd either sustain injury or get caught up in vines. It would be like a long-range grab move. Maybe allow her to grow plants at her feet that spit poisonous seeds that release toxic vapors for a few seconds, damaging foes.

Super attack...hmmm. How about calling forth a large venus fly-trap that grabs the enemy in its mouth, chew on it a bit, and then spits them into the side of the screen, smashing them against it?

I'll admit...it's a little unimaginative. Maybe I'm a little distracted.


What would sex with a plant be classified as? Foliagality?

Next up...I'm hoping this one isn't a stretch. He does appear in a Capcom game, so bonus points there. However, he started off as a cartoon character (or was it a comic book character, and then cartoon?). That still counts as being a video game character, right?

I hope it does...because it's Uncle Mother Fucking Scrooge.



The pogo-cane attack is a given for his arsenal of geriatric attacks. And he could do the golf-swing to knock projectiles back at his opponent. Long-range attack? Covered: he throws gold coins. Granted, it would be a weak attack, but with his near-unlimited amounts of gold, he could care less. It's F.U. money.

His super attack would be to whistle and call forth a wave of gold (bars, coins, statues, whatever) from his vault...let's call it "The Gold Rush". Suck that, poor people. You've got all sorts of fancy fireballs and uppercuts; Scrooge pisses on those moves and shows you what really counts in this world.


Screw your Hadouken; he's got cash to buy you 50,000 times over.

And finally...my favorite: Hellboy.



C'mon...look at him. He'd be awesome in a fighting game, and including him would redeem him from his initial lackluster console entries (sadly, I own both). His Right Hand of Doom alone sounds like a combo or power move. The Samaritan, his large revolver? Though he admits in the comics that he's a lousy shot, it's still screaming to be used as a long-range attack.

And his power-up move could be the "World Destroyer" or something along those lines. His horns would grow, the screen would change to some hellish, supernatural background, and he'd call down some sort of other-worldly beast to wreak havoc on his opponent. When the move has finished, he'd break off the horns and return to normal.

I'm getting a nerd-boner just thinking about using him in a fighting game.



So...a team-up attack? I thought about it for a little bit, and then realized something that connects the three of them: "Man's Ruin". You've got Poison Ivy: sex. Uncle Scrooge is a miser with way too much money. And Hellboy could very well bring about the end of the world. So let's work with that. Poison Ivy jumps in, grabs the opponent and plants (heh heh) a kiss on them...followed up with a spinning body slam onto the ground. Uncle Scrooge drops gold bars from the sky, building a wall around them as Hellboy steps in rips open the ground under them, causing waves of flame to erupt from the depths of hell.

And...that's it. Hopefully it's good enough.