[CanRay]

I'd have to have a job to get a memo.

[Little D]

Anything and anyone can be a munchkin (powergamer) in any RPG.

You can be a munchkin in SR, D&D, Conan, Star Wars, AFMBE, Dark Heresy, CoC...  I won't name them all.  But you can be a powergamer in any single thing you put your mind to, especially RPGs.  The question is ; how much of a munchkin do you want to be?  Do you -want- to be basically invincible and take down anything that comes your path?  Or do you want the gritty, desperate low-power character?

Sometimes I want to play Superman difficulty, where the world is made of cardboard.  Sometimes, I feel like playing Charlie Brown, and -I- am the cardboard.

As long as everyone (including GM) know what they are getting into, it's fine.  Sometimes, you get to be the Avengers.  Sometimes, you're lucky if you wind up looking like the Tick and his merry bunch of sickos.

And as for Deadpool?  Too much cyberware, burned some Edge to survive nasty death, ends up looking like chopped liver.  Simple, easy, effective.

[CanRay]

Sometimes, I feel like playing Charlie Brown, and -I- am the cardboard.

Sometimes?  That's how I always feel.

Oh, and this, BTW.  (Warning, as NSFW as Shadowrun itself!).

[Crimsondude]

I hate NSFW. Depending on your employer's leniency if it's not work-related everything is NSFW.

Sorry. Mini rant there.

[bigity]

Yes but there is a world of difference between forum browsing and someone walking by while you have an image of metal bikini clad anime girls up on your screen.

[hobgoblin]

Yes but there is a world of difference between forum browsing and someone walking by while you have an image of metal bikini clad anime girls up on your screen.

Time to find a new line of work then.

[CanRay]

I hate NSFW. Depending on your employer's leniency if it's not work-related everything is NSFW.

Sorry. Mini rant there.

OK, let me correct myself:  Partial Nudity and Possible Gorn.

[Canticle]

Back in SR3 I wrote a smallish (unpublished) article on Superheroes in the Shadowrun universe.  The piece was still in the early stages of writing (I think it was in the second draft) when the e-zine it was for folded up and I never did a real final draft.

My basic take was that there ARE superheroes in the Shadowrun universe.  They're rare and they are for the most part mentally ill or people pushed beyond the point of a "reasonable" response into the unreasonable.  They believe themselves to be real-life comic book heros.  The original concept was based on the actual "real life" superheroes running around right now then adding in the ability to actually become super human.

While I never incorporated the article into my games formally, I have had two groups of runners run into someone claiming to be a superhero.

I actually ran a run where the players were hired to kill a superhero named NeoMan in the barrens for messing with the Crush. He was insane and haunted by a matrix ghost.

[Little D]

I hate NSFW. Depending on your employer's leniency if it's not work-related everything is NSFW.

Sorry. Mini rant there.

There are employers that consider it a privilege that their employees can scan the internetz while at work.

I personally think that as long as the job is done, you should be able to do whatever with your on-work time, besides downloading porn and such.

[Little D]

Sometimes, I feel like playing Charlie Brown, and -I- am the cardboard.

Sometimes?  That's how I always feel.

Oh, and this, BTW.  (Warning, as NSFW as Shadowrun itself!).

*Hug*

[TheWanderingJewels]

Well...not sure about the marvel universe or even DC....but Manga has brought us Silent Mobius: a excellent example of a Shadowrun Police campaign in a not very nice version of Tokyo.

[Gibbersan]

Definitely Deathlok (Marvel) would fit a cybered-out Street Sam.

[CanRay]

Hey, why didn't I think of this before?

Dethklok!  They're totally edgy and metal!  They're cybernetics away from being a group of really stupid Shadowrunners!

[Crimsondude]

Deathlok is a cyberzombie, and based on a rejected pitch for the original cyberzombie—Robocop.

[Gibbersan]

You could do Deathlok without resorting to a dual-natured cyberzombie.  I was thinking more of the Michael Collins-era Deathlok where his brain was transplanted into the electronics.