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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4463182" data-attributes="member: 41584">That's certainly the last place I would have thought to get inspiration for a character, but it's kinda neat how you worked it in. Three media-influenced characters I remember fondly;1) My own oddball bit of media influence was a vampire character based off of 'Nicky' from Operation: Mindcrime (a Queensryche album), whom I interpreted as a strung-out Brujah hitman working unwillingly for a mind-manipulating Ventrue 'Doctor X.' 2) One of the other players in one of our Vampire games based his character off of a WWF wrestler, and was always doing body-slams and lifting people off the ground and throwing them.  (Also a Brujah.)  He picked his 'wrestler name' after watching some episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and so our Coterie included 'Crunch Ironjock,' who ended up becoming Brujan Primogen for Seattle... 3) A Supers character I played, Mngwa, was a cryptid grey-furred great cat from Africa, who could turn into a tall and fierce looking woman, and the entire character inspiration came from the Sri Lankan model who was chasing the lead singer around in the Hungry Like the Wolf video, by Duran Duran.  Something about her angular face and her long, lean frame, totally cliqued for me and I had to make her some sort of shapeshifter (which she was in the video as well).</blockquote>