Post by comedian on Sept 6, 2012 21:00:58 GMT -4
The person behind the character:
Name/Nickname: (what you wanna be called out of character.)
Experience: (On and off a few years)
Contact information: (email)
Character basics:
Real name: Edward Blake
Code name: The Comedian
Date of Birth: 1924
Place of Birth: United States
Age: Hmm maybe I should adapt his birth date to make him younger?
Known family: (parents grandparents aunts uncles etc.)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'3
Weight: 240lb
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Superhero / Working for the CIA
Affiliation: The Watchmen
Abilities: None
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality:
The Comedian is beyond cynical. He hasn't just scene the true nature of humanity and of the world, he also understands it perfectly. Such an understanding is heavy bearing and the only way Eddie can deal with this is to get lost in his Comedian character.
The Comedian is totally amoral and does not care about his actions. This is a parody of everyone else only looking out for themselves thinking their actions effect the grand scheme of things. Although often fighting on the side people would call "the good guys" he takes the approach of not caring and sometimes even abusing his power as "one of the good guys" in parody to all the other superhereos who appoint themselves into a class that frees them from societies normal rules.
He can see the funny side of everything. Humans struggling, their justification of their actions thinking their self ritechous, the duality of humans one day acting nice to one person and then the next acting like a jerk to someone else The Comedian sees the world for how it is... and he simply doesn't care.
History: (I'll adapt this a little to Bring Comedian into the 21st Century so I'l make him born just before Vietnam)
The Comedian was born in the United States and in his teenage years joined a crime fighting superhero squad. He was the youngest of the group. He saw how the other Superhero's acted. He noticed how being a superhero seemed to give all these guys a purpose in life. He saw how they all seemed to think they were making a real difference in the world and it sort of infuriated the Comedian to think people could be so stupid to believe that they were all that stood in the earths way from total destruction. At first their attitude annoyed him but eventually he thought it was sort of funny and just let it roll off his back. He even started parodying them and called himself the Comedian. Some caught on a little but most were totally obvious to what the name Comedian actually meant and what the parody was actually about.
By the time Vietnam came about The Comedian was enlisted to help. Tearing through Vietnam the Comedian on one hand killed many Vietnamese soldiers saving the lives of many Americans but also killed many civilians in the crossfire. It didn't matter though and no one seemed to mind since he was doing it in the name of the Stars and Stripes. Vietnam didn't change The Comedian's outlook on life but it did re-enforce his views as being correct.
After coming home early the Comedian spent awhile with Richard Nixon and LBJ. Its not known for sure but he was on the CIA contact list for possible guns for hire and many higher ups in the organization believe The Comedian was one of the shooters of JFK.
Since then The Comedian has being doing many black operations for the Government. Most of his operations are completely amoral but the fact its for the government makes them alright. The Comedian understands perfectly there is no difference between a terrorist blowing up buildings for his crazy beliefs and the United States soldiers that go over there to kill them based on his beliefs. Humans are bloodthirsty, revenge driven lunatics and the Comedian understands this perfectly and the only way he can deal with it is to joke about it.
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Code word: Armageddon
Name/Nickname: (what you wanna be called out of character.)
Experience: (On and off a few years)
Contact information: (email)
Character basics:
Real name: Edward Blake
Code name: The Comedian
Date of Birth: 1924
Place of Birth: United States
Age: Hmm maybe I should adapt his birth date to make him younger?
Known family: (parents grandparents aunts uncles etc.)
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'3
Weight: 240lb
Legal Status: Adult
Occupation: Superhero / Working for the CIA
Affiliation: The Watchmen
Abilities: None
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality:
The Comedian is beyond cynical. He hasn't just scene the true nature of humanity and of the world, he also understands it perfectly. Such an understanding is heavy bearing and the only way Eddie can deal with this is to get lost in his Comedian character.
The Comedian is totally amoral and does not care about his actions. This is a parody of everyone else only looking out for themselves thinking their actions effect the grand scheme of things. Although often fighting on the side people would call "the good guys" he takes the approach of not caring and sometimes even abusing his power as "one of the good guys" in parody to all the other superhereos who appoint themselves into a class that frees them from societies normal rules.
He can see the funny side of everything. Humans struggling, their justification of their actions thinking their self ritechous, the duality of humans one day acting nice to one person and then the next acting like a jerk to someone else The Comedian sees the world for how it is... and he simply doesn't care.
History: (I'll adapt this a little to Bring Comedian into the 21st Century so I'l make him born just before Vietnam)
The Comedian was born in the United States and in his teenage years joined a crime fighting superhero squad. He was the youngest of the group. He saw how the other Superhero's acted. He noticed how being a superhero seemed to give all these guys a purpose in life. He saw how they all seemed to think they were making a real difference in the world and it sort of infuriated the Comedian to think people could be so stupid to believe that they were all that stood in the earths way from total destruction. At first their attitude annoyed him but eventually he thought it was sort of funny and just let it roll off his back. He even started parodying them and called himself the Comedian. Some caught on a little but most were totally obvious to what the name Comedian actually meant and what the parody was actually about.
By the time Vietnam came about The Comedian was enlisted to help. Tearing through Vietnam the Comedian on one hand killed many Vietnamese soldiers saving the lives of many Americans but also killed many civilians in the crossfire. It didn't matter though and no one seemed to mind since he was doing it in the name of the Stars and Stripes. Vietnam didn't change The Comedian's outlook on life but it did re-enforce his views as being correct.
After coming home early the Comedian spent awhile with Richard Nixon and LBJ. Its not known for sure but he was on the CIA contact list for possible guns for hire and many higher ups in the organization believe The Comedian was one of the shooters of JFK.
Since then The Comedian has being doing many black operations for the Government. Most of his operations are completely amoral but the fact its for the government makes them alright. The Comedian understands perfectly there is no difference between a terrorist blowing up buildings for his crazy beliefs and the United States soldiers that go over there to kill them based on his beliefs. Humans are bloodthirsty, revenge driven lunatics and the Comedian understands this perfectly and the only way he can deal with it is to joke about it.
SAMPLE RP
(Okay I'll make something up real quick)
Captain America had brought all the Superhero's together to try and create a super team to stop the invading threat. He had just delivered a speech and everyone seemed pretty impressed when from the back the Comedian started snickering under his breath. When people turned around to see who it was making the noises they saw the Comedian laughing.
The Comedian got up from his chair and walked up to the front to join Captain America in the spotlight.
"Listen to yourself speak, Your little Avengers squad isn't big enough so now you want to make it even bigger by getting everyone following your lead? Haha your funny. What's even funnier is the fact you've appointed yourself as leader of this whole operation and call yourself Captain America yet you've been frozen and missed the most important years in American history. You don't know the damnest thing about America... you Don't even know the damnest thing about yourself"
The Comedian then walked back over to his chair and picked up a bottle of alcohol he had hidden in a brown paper bag. It appeared that the entire speech he had just been drinking not taking the situation seriously at all. Though why would he? He had scene it all before.
"Why do you do it man? What are you actually trying to achieve? I know its not to save the world. If you cared about that then you'd know the world's problems aren't external aliens that your trying to fight but rather these people destroying themselves. But you can't get your head around that can you Mr. Stars and Stripes. You need to make the enemy foreign since your either too stupid to understand the situation or too weak to accept it."
The Comedian turned his back on Captain America and walked down the isle passed other superheros watching the situation who seemed very taken back by the Comedian's response. The Comedian looked around the room at all the other faces of costumed heros who looked in shock. The Comedian couldn't help himself but make one more remark
"The fact that you even got this room together. The fact that there are actually people in this room who would happily listen to and take orders from you... thats the real joke"
The Comedian finished off the rest of his bottle and began to walk out of the room
(Okay I'll make something up real quick)
Captain America had brought all the Superhero's together to try and create a super team to stop the invading threat. He had just delivered a speech and everyone seemed pretty impressed when from the back the Comedian started snickering under his breath. When people turned around to see who it was making the noises they saw the Comedian laughing.
The Comedian got up from his chair and walked up to the front to join Captain America in the spotlight.
"Listen to yourself speak, Your little Avengers squad isn't big enough so now you want to make it even bigger by getting everyone following your lead? Haha your funny. What's even funnier is the fact you've appointed yourself as leader of this whole operation and call yourself Captain America yet you've been frozen and missed the most important years in American history. You don't know the damnest thing about America... you Don't even know the damnest thing about yourself"
The Comedian then walked back over to his chair and picked up a bottle of alcohol he had hidden in a brown paper bag. It appeared that the entire speech he had just been drinking not taking the situation seriously at all. Though why would he? He had scene it all before.
"Why do you do it man? What are you actually trying to achieve? I know its not to save the world. If you cared about that then you'd know the world's problems aren't external aliens that your trying to fight but rather these people destroying themselves. But you can't get your head around that can you Mr. Stars and Stripes. You need to make the enemy foreign since your either too stupid to understand the situation or too weak to accept it."
The Comedian turned his back on Captain America and walked down the isle passed other superheros watching the situation who seemed very taken back by the Comedian's response. The Comedian looked around the room at all the other faces of costumed heros who looked in shock. The Comedian couldn't help himself but make one more remark
"The fact that you even got this room together. The fact that there are actually people in this room who would happily listen to and take orders from you... thats the real joke"
The Comedian finished off the rest of his bottle and began to walk out of the room
Code word: Armageddon