My Wife is in TV Guide - Who Wants To Be A Superhero 2

[Mistwell]

I think you will find, as far as eye candy goes, that there will be a large following for Basura, and Ms. Limelight (once she gets a costume change next week - I think the wig throws things off a bit for her). On the men's side, the girls LOVE Hyper-Strike (and some boys love Parthenon).

Last night at the viewing of the first episode at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Hyper-Strike was just there to watch the episode (because he had not gotten a chance to see it the night before). When Feedback from the podium, seeing him in the audience with Hygena, called him up on stage a huge chunk of the audience spontaneously broke into a chorus of "FLIP FLIP FLIP" At one point. So Hyper-Strike, a bit embarrassed at first, agreed to do a flip in front of people. One thing led to another and he is suddenly doing front flips, back flips, spins, and balancing someone's huge sword on his nose for them! He concluded the night by yelling "Anime Rocks!" to some cheers from the audience, who clearly loved him. He was swarmed by cute girls wanting his autograph.

 

[Firebeetle]

Congratulations to you and your wife.

Who is the other D&D player? Is it Defuser or Mindset. Defuser's power description includes actual ranges (as does Hygena's), so my money is on him.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Ok thoughts so far:

I am rooting for Hygena

After 1 episode Defuser is the frontrunner (but I also thought Major Victory was as well).

Basura is definitely the eye candy for guys, although there is something to be said for maid uniforms as well.

What is with Mr. Mitzvah?

Ms. Limelight will probably go about 2/3 of the way through.

Are you entertaining any questions about the show? Not who wins or loses (which I am sure is covered by NDAs and I wouldn't want to know anyways) but on productiobn questions like were the contestants really surprised by Feedback when he told them they were on the show at the begining?

 

[Relique du Madde]

What is with Mr. Mitzvah?

I think he is a throwback to when ethnic characters had to be based on extreme ethnic/racial stereotypes. So basically he's a jewish exploitation superhero.

The interesting thing is that according to Wikipedia Mr. Mitzvah's creator DID NOT create him for the competition... he was created for the show. (I know that sounds strange so hear me out.) appearantly, after getting accepted to join the show he was asked to give up the copy right for his original character, Peaceman, but refused. So as a result he came up with Mr Mitzvah and agreed to let the show's producers copyright that name.

If you think about it... that was a brilliant and ballsy move, after all, if Mr Miitzvah turns out to be as bad as I think he will get, I seriously doubt he would have made it onto the show in the first place.

 

[Mistwell]

Congratulations to you and your wife.

Who is the other D&D player? Is it Defuser or Mindset. Defuser's power description includes actual ranges (as does Hygena's), so my money is on him.

Yeah it's Defuser.

 

[Mistwell]

Ok thoughts so far:

I am rooting for Hygena

After 1 episode Defuser is the frontrunner (but I also thought Major Victory was as well).

Basura is definitely the eye candy for guys, although there is something to be said for maid uniforms as well.

What is with Mr. Mitzvah?

Ms. Limelight will probably go about 2/3 of the way through.

Are you entertaining any questions about the show? Not who wins or loses (which I am sure is covered by NDAs and I wouldn't want to know anyways) but on productiobn questions like were the contestants really surprised by Feedback when he told them they were on the show at the begining?

I am covered by a pretty heavy NDA.

I can I think however answer that particular question (since I was not under an NDA at that point I think). Yes, my wife was very shocked by Feedback. I snuck him into the house, and she did not hear us coming up behind her at the time. That is the actual genuine look of shock on her face that you see. And she really was baking cupcakes at the time (for my office).

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I am covered by a pretty heavy NDA.

I can I think however answer that particular question (since I was not under an NDA at that point I think). Yes, my wife was very shocked by Feedback. I snuck him into the house, and she did not hear us coming up behind her at the time. That is the actual genuine look of shock on her face that you see. And she really was baking cupcakes at the time (for my office).

Nice to hear that. I always wonder how much things like that are staged in reality shows. My prime suspect for staging the "surprise moment" is Extreme Home Makeover. When they show up at the house and shout for the family to come out, the family members always run out together. If they really surprised them, I would expect that people would come at different times as they came from different parts of the house.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Nice to hear that. I always wonder how much things like that are staged in reality shows. My prime suspect for staging the "surprise moment" is Extreme Home Makeover. When they show up at the house and shout for the family to come out, the family members always run out together. If they really surprised them, I would expect that people would come at different times as they came from different parts of the house.

Or on Pimp My Ride where they come out of the house wearing mic packs on thier backs.

 

[Firebeetle]

I think he is a throwback to when ethnic characters had to be based on extreme ethnic/racial stereotypes. So basically he's a jewish exploitation superhero.

The interesting thing is that according to Wikipedia Mr. Mitzvah's creator DID NOT create him for the competition... he was created for the show. (I know that sounds strange so hear me out.) appearantly, after getting accepted to join the show he was asked to give up the copy right for his original character, Peaceman, but refused. So as a result he came up with Mr Mitzvah and agreed to let the show's producers copyright that name.

If you think about it... that was a brilliant and ballsy move, after all, if Mr Miitzvah turns out to be as bad as I think he will get, I seriously doubt he would have made it onto the show in the first place.

I checked into this guy too, "Sir" Ivan Wilzig, he's way more interesting than his character. He's a son of a wealthy financier who left business to become a musician (described as "technippy", techno with hippy lyrics) and founded the "Peaceman Foundation" to pursue world peace. He dresses up as Peaceman for events (check out the website below), but naturally wasn't willing to give up rights to the character. He also lives in what is referred to as "The Castle" because that is what it looks like.

Here's his site:
http://www.sirivanmusic.com/flash.html

Peace out.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I think he is a throwback to when ethnic characters had to be based on extreme ethnic/racial stereotypes. So basically he's a jewish exploitation superhero.
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If you think about it... that was a brilliant and ballsy move, after all, if Mr Miitzvah turns out to be as bad as I think he will get, I seriously doubt he would have made it onto the show in the first place.

Actually, I think the Mr Mitzvah character could appeal to Stan pretty heavily. After all, the former Mr Lieber (or Lieberman, depending on the source you check) and his artistic partner the former Mr Kurtzberg spent the first part of their careers including Christmas specials for their universally "christian lite" characters to appeal to the broadest audience possible. He might find a jewish superhero drawing his heroic inspiration from taking the mitzvah (good deed) to it's furthest conclusion kinda cool.