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Question: What color makes for the best hero costume?

Maroon

1 (11.1%)

Red

1 (11.1%)

Dark Green

1 (11.1%)

Brown

0 (0.0%)

Orange

0 (0.0%)

Lime Green

0 (0.0%)

Olive

0 (0.0%)

Gold

6 (66.7%)

Total votes: 9

« Created by: Baretta on: Feb 9^th, 2015 at 2:13am »

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What color makes for the best hero costume? (Read 3521 times)

Baretta Avenger Offline Former V&V Player Posts: 346 Joined: Feb 5^th, 2014 Gender:	What color makes for the best hero costume? Feb 9^th, 2015 at 2:13am	Print Post
	For ease of voting, I'm sticking with the eight default colors on the poll.


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proditorcappela Teen Titan Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 133 Location: Silver Spring, MD Joined: Aug 17^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #1 - Feb 9^th, 2015 at 9:49am	Print Post
	"None of the above". I'm picking White, either as a primary or an accent, as it tends to make a huge impression. Bill WIllingham had a really good understanding of that and it really shows in his Elementals designs. Other examples: Guardian of Alpha Flight, Zauriel, Moon Knight, Power Girl, Dagger, the Fantastic Four (Freedom Foundation costumes)


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Hammer Justice Leaguer Offline Stranger in a Stranger Land Posts: 528 Location: McKinney, TX Joined: Aug 17^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2015 at 8:20pm	Print Post
	Agreed! Nicely written, and great examples!


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Ranger Justice Leaguer Offline Also known as Dracos! Posts: 1543 Location: East Indiana Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #3 - Feb 10^th, 2015 at 12:13am	Print Post
	Three shades of green and no blue or purple or black? I choose maroon because I like dark shades of the primary colors.

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Baretta Avenger Offline Former V&V Player Posts: 346 Joined: Feb 5^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #4 - Feb 10^th, 2015 at 12:33am	Print Post
	Ranger wrote on Feb 10^th, 2015 at 12:13am: Three shades of green and no blue or purple or black? The colors in the poll are the colors that default next to each option. If you don't like the choices, you can always create your own threads and polls.


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Phrennzy Avenger Offline I'm very pretty! Posts: 294 Joined: Sep 7^th, 2013	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #5 - Feb 11^th, 2015 at 1:48am	Print Post
	Gold. Flashy flashy! I'm fabulous!


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proditorcappela Teen Titan Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 133 Location: Silver Spring, MD Joined: Aug 17^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #6 - Feb 11^th, 2015 at 10:53am	Print Post
	I forgot Iron Fist's new costume, the white and gold one, which shows off both colors pretty well, and is an eerie mirror of a costume I made for a super-powered martial artist called Paragon about 10 years previous.


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Phrennzy Avenger Offline I'm very pretty! Posts: 294 Joined: Sep 7^th, 2013	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #7 - Feb 11^th, 2015 at 4:13pm	Print Post
	I love that Gold is in the lead. We allllll want to be FABULOUS!


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Matt Justice Leaguer Offline Super hero role-playing & Bronze Age comics fan Posts: 525 Location: Lemon Grove, CA Joined: May 14^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #8 - Feb 16^th, 2015 at 11:19am	Print Post
	Red: Captain Marvel, Flash, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Greatest American Hero all look great. And red as an accent: Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel Jr., etc.


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Phrennzy Avenger Offline I'm very pretty! Posts: 294 Joined: Sep 7^th, 2013	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #9 - Feb 16^th, 2015 at 4:00pm	Print Post
	Gold wins!

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Matt Justice Leaguer Offline Super hero role-playing & Bronze Age comics fan Posts: 525 Location: Lemon Grove, CA Joined: May 14^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #10 - Feb 16^th, 2015 at 8:57pm	Print Post
	Ugh...Booster Gold never appealed to me...! I did enjoy the disco collar He used to sport, I guess, but then they dropped that too.


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Phrennzy Avenger Offline I'm very pretty! Posts: 294 Joined: Sep 7^th, 2013	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #11 - Feb 16^th, 2015 at 11:36pm	Print Post
	Aw, ya gotta love Blue & Gold though! They were the best!

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Matt Justice Leaguer Offline Super hero role-playing & Bronze Age comics fan Posts: 525 Location: Lemon Grove, CA Joined: May 14^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #12 - Feb 17^th, 2015 at 1:58am	Print Post
	Actually no...I like the Ditko Beetle, which they turned into a joke in the DC Justice League revival. His 24-issue series from DC started out okay but got sidetracked by too many ongoing, molasses-paced subplots and too many interfering crossover events. I really wish they'd bring back my Ditko Objectivist Blue Beetle.


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Display Name Justice Leaguer Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 1851 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #13 - Feb 17^th, 2015 at 4:49am	Print Post
	I liked Blue Beetle in the Justice League run where they also did Justice League Europe.


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Klystron Ex Member	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #14 - Feb 17^th, 2015 at 9:06am	Print Post
	Of the choices presented, I chose dark green and would highlight it with orange for a character whose powers favored skills with a smattering of heightened strength, endurance, agility, etc. My first choice is always basic black. You can accent it with any color and come out with a really sharp design that will strike fear in to any fashion criminal. White is okay for some characters but you can't wear between Labor Day and Easter, so it is only marginally functional.


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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #15 - Feb 17^th, 2015 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	You know, this discussion of colors makes me think of something I posted here awhile back. Have you ever noticed (or thought about) what are the 'quintessential V&V colors"? In my opinion, they're orange, green, and purple. Why? Well that's the color(s) that we see on each of the rules or boxed sets. 1st Edition had a white cover, but Villains & Vigilantes was writ large in orange, and there's a bunch of green as well. The 2nd edition boxed set is mostly orange (with a green character). Both 2.0 and 2.1 have green backgrounds, while the rulebook we've had the longest (2.0) has V&V written in orange on a green background with the main character in the pic (the villain Omni-Primus) wearing purple and green. What I find really fascinating about that is that the primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Each of the 'V&V colors' are the blending of two of those. Mix red and blue and you get purple. Mix blue and yellow and you get green. Mix red and yellow and you get orange. So the 'V&V colors' are each one shift away from the primary colors. Which sort of fits V&V, in a weird way. It's always been a little different, but still really cool.


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Ranger Justice Leaguer Offline Also known as Dracos! Posts: 1543 Location: East Indiana Joined: Aug 29^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: What color makes for the best hero costume? Reply #16 - Feb 17^th, 2015 at 10:25pm	Print Post
	I think Jeff was having fun when he chose the secondary colors on the chromatic wheel. They contrast just as well as the primary colors with a bit less of a clash. And as much as I liked the old Blue and learned to like the newer Gold ... Justice League Detroit and its brethren should be struck from being mentioned anyplace in time and space ... including this one
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