Petition to change Coulson's symbol

DrDevilDinosaur
DrDevilDinosaur Posts: 436 Mover and Shaker
edited 2017 28 in MPQ General Discussion
The silhouette with the shades just looks odd - especially when shrunk down for the tile icons.

Why not make it a palm tree - to symbolise Tahiti. It's a recognisable shape that can be made simple enough and retains it's visual clarity even when shrunk to a small size. It's not like there's going to be a rush of characters who are somehow inexplicably linked to palm trees are going to start filling the game - we've got Blade and Kate who have more than enough of a hold on the "glasses" market.

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  • RemoDestroyer
    RemoDestroyer Posts: 277 Mover and Shaker
    Cyclops has kind of a glasses icon too
  • TheWerebison
    TheWerebison Posts: 431 Mover and Shaker
    Nope, needs to be a flying car.

    In fact, screw the symbols-inside-circles nonsense. Lola deserves her own tile SHAPE. Coulson's tiles will be variant colors of a 1962 Chevy Corvette.
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm more annoyed that "super secret shield tech" is just a pistol that shoots lightning and not this.

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  • Killians8
    Killians8 Posts: 134 Tile Toppler
    Requesting unimportant (opinion) changes likes this only means delaying more meaningful changes. Time and resources are finite. Do you want them redesigning pictures or improving gameplay, balance, rewards, or anything else that actually makes us happy?
  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,802 Chairperson of the Boards
    Funny, I love it. It stands out.
  • JHawkInc
    JHawkInc Posts: 2,605 Chairperson of the Boards
    Killians8 wrote:
    Requesting unimportant (opinion) changes likes this only means delaying more meaningful changes. Time and resources are finite. Do you want them redesigning pictures or improving gameplay, balance, rewards, or anything else that actually makes us happy?

    The people who would redesign pictures and the people working on gameplay/balance etc are most likely not the same people. Telling the art people that Coulson's symbol is fine doesn't magically give them skills to work on other aspects of the game.
  • DrDevilDinosaur
    DrDevilDinosaur Posts: 436 Mover and Shaker
    Just realised: what are they going to do when they add Shades to the game? (probably Luke Cage season 2 cross over, so a while away, but still...)
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    I thought it looked kinda dumb, but I think a petition about it is silly. There are much bigger issues facing the game.
  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm surprised they didn't simply just use the Shield logo. They did change Bullseyes symbol when his 3* was released and they changed Colosuss (not sure why).

    I wish his blue had a stun.. that animation looks like he's stunning the enemy, not stealing AP
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    Punisher5784 wrote:
    and they changed Colosuss (not sure why).

    Because this icon_colossus.png is closely tied to the old soviet union. Something many wish to move on from.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    In mother Russia you don't choose the symbol, the symbol chooses you?
  • OneLastGambit
    OneLastGambit Posts: 1,963 Chairperson of the Boards
    I really like it. I like all of his art and think they did a good job in general
  • mpqr7
    mpqr7 Posts: 2,642 Chairperson of the Boards
    I like it a lot. Even if I didn't, there are way more important things to focus on.
  • JablesMc
    JablesMc Posts: 235 Tile Toppler
    Dragon_Nexus wrote:
    Punisher5784 wrote:
    and they changed Colosuss (not sure why).

    Because this icon_colossus.png is closely tied to the old soviet union. Something many wish to move on from.
    I miss the H&S symbol for Mr. Rasputin.

    I mean, I get why it was changed, but still.
  • STOPTHIS
    STOPTHIS Posts: 781 Critical Contributor
    Coulson's symbol should be his goofy smirk that he always had no matter what the tone of the scene is.
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    My headcanon says they reclassified him as Hydra because Hydra was to the Nazis what ISIS is to Al Queda.
    "Those guys are nuts. I mean we're extremist evil scumbags but...there are rules, ya know?"
  • CNash
    CNash Posts: 952 Critical Contributor
    Marvel's official biography just says he was born in Russia.

    With the comic book time effect, it's becoming harder and harder for characters to have been present during certain infamous past eras without massive retconning. Magneto gets de-aged every so often so that he can be plausibly a Holocaust survivor, as it's such a big part of his character. Colossus these days is barely even old enough to remember the Soviet Union, and it tends to get glossed over.
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    The Marvel Universe operates on an elastic timeline.
    There's basically one point in history that never changes, and that's the second world war. Everything else is "some time ago".

    When did the Avengers get formed? Some time ago.
    When did the first Civil War happen? Some time ago.

    It's why in Internation Iron Man, suddenly young Tony Stark is using a mobile phone when Tony Stark was already old before MS DOS existed when it came to comics.

    Things just shift along the time line as required, stretching away from WW2.

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