Polls: Let's Design a Heroine!

General discussions about superheroines!
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ThatOnePervert
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I'm curious as to what the ideal heroine looks like to the forum and thought we might run some polls to determine their design and powers. Rather than making a new forum topic for each poll I think it would be faster to just set up a few Strawpolls and let people have at it. Polls will close every 24-48 hours depending on voter turnout. To start we'll determine her basic appearance, ethnic background, age, and body type. I will update with the current polls and the winners from the previous polls as we go.

Last Poll:

Weakness
https://strawpoll.com/polls/xVg7dkQreZr
Winner: Not-Kryptonite (Some substance robs her of her strength)

Old Polls:
Age Poll
https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnba20lMy5
Winner: 26-30

Ethnic Background (If my classifications seem wrong or rude in some way, I apologize, I know we have a lot of people from around the world here, I'm just trying to cover the bases as I understand them as an American)
https://strawpoll.com/polls/7rnzGBkk3gO
Winner: Caucasian/European

Body Type (I used freedom units for height, google can translate to metric)
https://strawpoll.com/polls/05Zd17r0Ey6
Winner: Average (5'5-5'8) Thicc/Curvy

Hair
https://strawpoll.com/polls/LVyKxklKQn0
Winner: Black

Eyes
https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmdQo72ga
Winner: Green

Persona
https://strawpoll.com/polls/eNg6ROQVwgA
Winner: Domineering (Your Emma Frost style authoritarian)

Power Origins
https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgeVYWYrZp
Winner: Magical (Spellcasting, Magical power items, Magical/divine heritage, etc.)

Power Level
https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyP2rQL7gN
Winner: Mid tier (Able to hold her own against your average city's police force)

Origin of her magic
https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoqN7XXgA
Winner: Magical Item (A Magical, belt, mask, wand, boots, or other item(s) empowers the heroine)

Magic Item
https://strawpoll.com/polls/61gDB44jWyw
Winner: Belt

Powers granted by the belt
https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmdK6Woga
Winners: Strength, Durability, Speed, Reflexes/Agility, Senses
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Petit, naive with an mildly exotic look and great hair. I always thought Cali Logan as Super Pink was a character that should have had more on screen opportunities. Seeing a pretty little thing getting thrown around and finally facing a perilous predicament is great…. Some of my favorite scenes are Batgirl just getting picked up and manhandled into a peril….
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For me a heroine's body has to be athletic in shape,(I am going to be sexist here, but I am also going after what men should not be in this) when we see a flabby or overweight performer; it just does not work.

For the men flabbiness is out and especially if you are playing Robin; no reeceding hairlines
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Lynda Carter Season 2 is my ideal, but in general, I want someone who comes across as tall, with a fit look. Think 70's runner, or 80's aerobics.

Note that you can get the "tall" look by hiring an actress of average height with the right build, and casting shorter villains and henchmen. This also allows you to hire someone 6' to 6'2" and cast them as a "giant."

For ethnicity, I would generally say "broadly Caucasian" which could also include Hispanic, Native American, or Middle Eastern or South Asian. At present, I'm turned off by obvious race-swapping, but if it's an original character, anything goes.

For males, particularly villains and henchmen, I tend to like actors who fade into the background somewhat. I'm always up for a good Frank Gorshin impression, though.
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Fun poll!

Based on my selections, I think I probably have at least three ideal heroine types, and they tend to be the more difficult ones to cast (which makes it a challenge).

re Sneakly's comment, I think you may want to add a poll on hair, both color and length, when you expand upon the poll concept a bit more.
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What does European mean? Celtic, Spanish, Germanic, Italian, Slavic, Sumoi, Italian, Magyar, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian?

These are all wildly different things and looks
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lionbadger wrote:
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What does European mean? Celtic, Spanish, Germanic, Italian, Slavic, Sumoi, Italian, Magyar, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian?

These are all wildly different things and looks
Generally Western European is what I had in mind, England, France, Germany, etc. No trying to leave anyone out, purposefully, but also didn't want to come down to listing every country on the planet.
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At end of play the current winners are as follows:

Age: 26-30
Ethnic Background: Caucasian/European
Body type: Average (5'5-5'8) Thicc/Curvy

Next up we'll be voting on hair color, eye color and the personality of her heroic persona.

Hair
https://strawpoll.com/polls/LVyKxklKQn0

Eyes
https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmdQo72ga

Persona
https://strawpoll.com/polls/eNg6ROQVwgA
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ThatOnePervert wrote:
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Generally Western European is what I had in mind, England, France, Germany, etc. No trying to leave anyone out, purposefully, but also didn't want to come down to listing every country on the planet.
yeah

it's pretty clear

maybe next time just write "generic white American" and be done with it, fits better with "the generic black american" you have in there, because there's certainly no ethnic differences betweem Egypt, Gambia, Nigeria, Kenya and Botswana is there.

state of this
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lionbadger wrote:
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ThatOnePervert wrote:
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Generally Western European is what I had in mind, England, France, Germany, etc. No trying to leave anyone out, purposefully, but also didn't want to come down to listing every country on the planet.
yeah

it's pretty clear

maybe next time just write "generic white American" and be done with it, fits better with "the generic black american" you have in there, because there's certainly no ethnic differences between Egypt, Gambia, Nigeria, Kenya and Botswana is there.

state of this
Again, no offense was meant by any of the options provided, this was just an idea I had at six in the morning and thought I'd throw up some polls. I could go back and add a Western Europe options and divide the different parts of Africa if people really want, but I don't think there's gonna be a lot of demand for it.
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With this round of voting coming to a close our heroine's physical appearance is largely set. She's a Caucasian woman around 25-30 years old and 5'5-5'8 with a thicc figure. Though given the last thread that someone made about thiccness I think that still leaves a lot of room for interpretation. She has raven black hair and green eyes, was expecting blonde, but considering the WW love around here it's not that surprising. What did surprise me a bit was the domineering personality. You guys looking to get stepped on or is this one of those "the bigger they are, the harder they fall" situations?

Whatever the reasoning, we move from appearance to ability our next two polls will determine the nature of her powers and her general power level. Polls are listed below.

Power Origins
https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgeVYWYrZp

Power Level
https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyP2rQL7gN
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If you want me to step on your toes you would have to look for Circe. What I'm looking for is for her to have an intimidating or fatal appearance. I took the audacity in posting pictures of two beautiful women, one is intimidating.
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argento wrote:
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If you want me to step on your toes you would have to look for Circe. What I'm looking for is for her to have an intimidating or fatal appearance. I took the audacity in posting pictures of two beautiful women, one is intimidating.
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I get that, I wouldn't say she's intimidating, but she looks more confident and confidence and intimidation are pretty close to each other.
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These last two polls were pretty neck and neck, but by one point each it looks like we have our winners. Magical origins beat genetic/mutations and our heroine is mid tier instead of low tier in terms of strength.

With that in mind, what is the nature of our heroine's magical abilities?

https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoqN7XXgA
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ThatOnePervert wrote:
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argento wrote:
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If you want me to step on your toes you would have to look for Circe. What I'm looking for is for her to have an intimidating or fatal appearance. I took the audacity in posting pictures of two beautiful women, one is intimidating.
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I get that, I wouldn't say she's intimidating, but she looks more confident and confidence and intimidation are pretty close to each other.
Suppose you have no commitments and you decide to go to a disco. In the discotheque there are the two women in the picture. Which one would you talk to? :hmmm:
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Probably the brunette.
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Our last poll ended in a decisive victory for a magical item as our heroine's power source. Now onto our biggest poll yet, what is the magical item she draws her powers from? I added 26 options to this one so if I miss something obvious I apologize (I almost made the poll without a belt as an option so it is possible), but hopefully what I have provided works for everyone. Some choices might require a second vote to narrow down from there.

Magic Item
https://strawpoll.com/polls/61gDB44jWyw

While you're voting please think about a powerset for our heroine that might interest you. Choose 3-5 powers that you feel match her status as a mid tier superheroine and write them in the comments and I'll add them to the final poll for her powers.
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We've got a three-way tie on the current poll so we're going into overtime. Right now are top three options are Mask, Belt and Anklet.
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After overtime Belt came out on top, beating all the more interesting options and pushing us ever closer to recreating Wonder Woman.

Jokes aside, our next vote will be to determine what powers are heroine gets from her magic belt. For this one, let's say the top 3-5 options win, mostly just so if a clearly themed power set is voted on and one or two of the less popular options don't feel fitting we have the option to drop them. I submitted 30 different powers and some of them will probably require a second vote if they win, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Powers granted by the belt
https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmdK6Woga
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She is almost created. What will she look like.

I have an idea: :ww1: :yahoo:
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DonShip wrote:
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She is almost created. What will she look like.

I have an idea: :ww1: :yahoo:
At this point I'll be satisfied if she has one power that's not WW's.
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Results are in, Strength and Durability come out on top with Agility in third and Speed/Reflexes and Super Senses tie for fourth. So she's a brick, not even a flying brick, Just basic bitch tier powers all the way down. This is how dictatorships rise because democracy has failed us.

But let's not say that I abandoned the system because the results weren't what I hoped for. We still have one last poll to flesh our heroine out. Obviously our heroine needs her belt to have her powers, so losing it would be her main weakness. But does she have any other special way to weaken her?

Weakness
https://strawpoll.com/polls/xVg7dkQreZr
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So with the weakness poll finished we now have a fully fleshed out superheroine.

She is a 26-30 year old Caucasian woman with black hair and green eyes standing somewhere between 5'5-5'8 with a curvy build. She had a domineering personality and a magical belt that grants her Super strength, durability, speed, reflexes and senses to the point she could hold her own against an armed police force. Her biggest weaknesses are the loss of her magical belt and a mysterious substance that drains her of her powers.

So the original plan was to maybe commission some art or write some stories about our new heroine. Maybe she could become a sort of forum mascot if enough people liked her. But honestly considering what we created I think someone should just write a fanfic exploring the idea of Wonder Woman being part Kryptonian.

But this was fun, maybe at some point in the future we can do a poll to determine the forum's ideal villainess. I look forward to recreating Catwoman with all of you.
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Leave out the more common options and it might get good.
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