Some new Spider-Dash villain designs! · 9:05am Aug 25th, 2019
So...remember in my last blog post when I said that I was planning a major re-casting of the future villains in the story, where I replaced the mysterious Crystal King with Rex Storm, the Kingpin of Crime...while Sombra has become the supervillain known as Mister Negative? Well, here's a sneak peak at some designs I've thought of for them both.
First, here's the Storm King as Wilson Fisk, AKA the Kingpin of Crime.
...And here's King Sombra as Martin Li, AKA Mister Negative.
Please tell me what you think of these designs. I'm always open to feedback.
Also, I can gladly inform you all that I will publish the next chapter of the story very soon. I just have to do some last minute editing first, but it will be up in a day or two tops...otherwise you'll have remind me or something.
I think you could make Storm King just a little bit bigger. Not bigger like in fatter, seeing as how most of Kingpin's "fat" is actually muscle, but still he's a little too thin.
Otherwise, I love King Sombra's design. As well as the design of the mask for his Demons. Are there gonna be other designs for the masks? And is he going to have a vendetta against Celestia like in Spider-Man 2018?
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Thanks! I had to spend quite a lot of time on him, but I'm proud of the result.
Since I basically just took the design of Sombra's mind control helmets and coloured them like the Inner Demon masks, I think there'll only be one look for them unfortunately.
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Besides, the story is still mostly in text form, so small changes in mask designs probably wouldn't be noticed all that much anyway.
Hmmm...you know, with this character, nothing is really set in stone right now. Though with both Chrysalis and the Nightmare Goblin already being villains with a vendetta against Celestia, I might give him another motivation when he finally shows up to not seem too repetitive. Because really, while I did like how both Martin and Otto were characterised and presented in the ps4 game, I was honestly not a fan about how they both had the exact same motivation for justifying all the horrible things they did.
However, since Sombra's motivation isn't set in stone, you got any ideas for what his deal might be?
I guess I could tweek him a little next time I draw him...though then the change I would make would in that case be to give him a longer torso, slightly wider shoulders and bigger arms. However, I don't want to make his gut or legs too big or muscular given that the Storm King has a remarkably thin waist and relatively short legs compared to the rest of him. I mean, take a look.
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Also, in my defence, the Kingpin's proportions in things I've seen him in are really wonky and inconsistent most of the time. I mean, compare this...
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...to this...
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Hmm, hard to say since in canon he's just your generic power hungry dictator.
Well, do you plan on having Starswirl in your story? If so, maybe him? Maybe he was running some less that legal/ethical experiments and it created his negative side and killed his parents?
And yeah, the Kingpin's designs can be really off the wall. At the very least they didn't give him a twelve back and so much bulging muscles that you'd swear he was thought up by Rob Liefeld.
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You mean like this monstrosity?
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Professor Starswirl has been mentioned a couple of times in the story so far, with him being Celestia's former mentor and also the founder of something called 'Starswirl Industries'...which apparently went down in smoke after a few of their experiments got a little too far. Maybe Sombra himself is a result of those experiments?
However, one thing I haven't decided yet is if Starswirl is still alive to take revenge on in this continuity. Also, I'm still not entirely sold on the whole idea of Mr Negative raising a whole army and committing acts of terrorism just to take revenge on one guy...especially one who probably wouldn't be nearly as powerful and well-protected as Osborn was in the ps4 game.
Though when I sat down and thought about it for awhile, I may have come up with an alternative idea for the character.
See, one bit of trivia that stood out to me about Martin Li is that he somehow managed to amass quite a fortune in order to set up his F.E.A.S.T shelter, and in my experience, people don't just become rich overnight. So what if when he's in his Negative persona, he's a ruthless bank-robber and/or mob boss who goes around stealing huge sums of money by illegal means...and then uses that money in order to give shelter to homeless people when he's in back in his more positive persona. I think that could fit his two-faced nature quite well, and also not be too confusing or convoluted for the readers to keep up with.
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KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Personally I didn't mind the motivations in the 2018 game, because revenge tends to be a very powerful motivator. Just look at 2018's Doc Ock.
But yeah, your idea works.
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Don't worry, there'll be quite a few villains in this story who wants revenge on someone. Venom comes to mind as one of the more prominent examples.
That's also why I wanted Sombra to be different, since I don't want to overdo the whole revenge plot too many times.
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Fair enough. Constantly reusing a plot point or motivation is a good way for writing to get stale.
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That's actually a problem I had with that game (which I otherwise love, don't get me wrong), because while Mr Negative and Dock Ock were excellent villains in their own right, the fact that they had the exact same motivation and even plan for going about it...didn't really sit well with me. There's only so much I can listen to the both of them justifying terrorism with the excuse that 'Norman is an asshole' before I grow tired of it.
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I wouldn't necessarily say it was just because Norman was an asshole. Norman's experiments in trying to find a cure for his wife and his son did end up killing Martin Li's parents. If anything, Doc Ock's was the weaker one. But it was passable. To me at least.
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The point wasn't that I found the villain motivation stupid or contrived, my main beef was just that I found the two main villains to be way too similar to each other without anything substantial to really make them differ or contrast each other.
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Oh.
Fair point.