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Disney Villains Victorious: Gridlocked - Rise of Heroes

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The Froggy Ninja said:
That's definitely on the todo list. We've got about two years before the WWW gets off the ground as anything other than a network of colleges and military facilities, and we've probably got enough of an in with the feds to contest MC's pre internet blackmail options.
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Honestly taking something over is a lot easier than making it ourselves, so this is a good thing. Let Tim Burners-Lee do the hard part while we invest in hopping aboard as an early adopter.
 
KnownParadox said:
Honestly taking something over is a lot easier than making it ourselves, so this is a good thing. Let Tim Burners-Lee do the hard part while we invest in hopping aboard as an early adopter.
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The real trick will be becoming a telecom provider with sufficiently robust infrastructure that it would make sense to expand the internet through our existing facilities.
 
New idea for an Omake:

Roger Rabbit In:

The Drusselstein Driving Test Waltz!

Co-Starring Jessica Rabbit

With Special Guest Appearance by
Heinz Doofenshmirtz!
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I think I might have something here, going to let it percolate a bit more before I start writing.
 
TheNotoriousSMP said:
New idea for an Omake:

Roger Rabbit In:

The Drusselstein Driving Test Waltz!

Co-Starring Jessica Rabbit

With Special Guest Appearance by
Heinz Doofenshmirtz!
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I think I might have something here, going to let it percolate a bit more before I start writing.
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Problem is that requires publicly acknowledging Drusselstein exists, I'm pretty sure there was an international treaty against doing that.
 
nwish425 said:
Problem is that requires publicly acknowledging Drusselstein exists, I'm pretty sure there was an international treaty against doing that.
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Is there a source for this? It doesn't sound familiar, but I suppose I'm not an expert on Drusselstein lore
DaviProGamer27 said:
Easy solution. Roger says that Drusselstein is a made up place, and everyone believes it. I mean, what idiot would seriously name a country like that?
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There are at least eight rivers Avon in Europe, which translates to "River River". Compared to that naming a country "Stony Rock" isn't that weird lol.
 
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The Froggy Ninja said:
The real trick will be becoming a telecom provider with sufficiently robust infrastructure that it would make sense to expand the internet through our existing facilities.
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We'll probably end up as a weird generalist hero corp like in Doofquest, but if we focused down on telecom/internet stuff, that'd be nice. Build up to Overbearing (assuming Rise of Heroes uses the same industry mechanic) and make sure to prevent ENCOM, and more importantly the MCP, from ever taking power. World conquering supervillains just aren't good for business, or saving the world.

If anyone thinks its odd that Verizongooglemazon has a surprisingly robust and militarized R&D branch we can just say it's for security, or that it's just a hobby of ours.

Also, to tie it into the very important hero team up plan, becoming dominant online means great opportunities to run PR for heroes, propaganda for things we like, pushing down anything we don't, and ensure there's proper communication between heroes and hero teams through the world wide web. Call it Metahumans Online or something suitably catchy.

TV, the Internet, computers and eventual computer phones, doomsday weapons... we've got a bright future ahead of us.

Assuming we do follow this route I mean. This is literally Turn 0 who knows what we'll be doing.
 
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While I like the idea in the narrow area of 'get into the internet early' I feel it swings way too far into the mega-corp angle. I'd really prefer to be the centralized hero corps that seemed to be the original idea as, generally, the heros do actually stop most of the villains that were worried about and them having more support should cut off more than half the issues they had even in canon.

Don't get me wrong obviously I'd love for the Business side to not be lost along the way because those aren't bad ideas or anything. Just it seems a lot easier for the public to swallow and a lot more outwardly moral for a hero corp to have businesses to fund their endeavors than for a telemarketing company to have a massively powerful private military.
 
Lifeandlice said:
While I like the idea in the narrow area of 'get into the internet early' I feel it swings way too far into the mega-corp angle. I'd really prefer to be the centralized hero corps that seemed to be the original idea as, generally, the heros do actually stop most of the villains that were worried about and them having more support should cut off more than half the issues they had even in canon.

Don't get me wrong obviously I'd love for the Business side to not be lost along the way because those aren't bad ideas or anything. Just it seems a lot easier for the public to swallow and a lot more outwardly moral for a hero corp to have businesses to fund their endeavors than for a telemarketing company to have a massively powerful private military.
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Oh absolutely, I just like dreaming big. The telecom company idea also serves the purpose of making sure the world conquering AI never gets going.

Anyways, if we focused more on the heroes angle, we can also go another way.

Here's the concept, picture it.

You know Q? From James Bond? Makes the gadgets and such? What if we did that, but country wide, and for every hero. We serve as a sort of support and coordination company for heroes across the country. Insurance for if they crumple a building, legal services in case of law suits, gadgets and heroic bases (not evil lairs, to be clear on that) for their use. Corporatize "The Man In The Chair". We coordinate, we support, we help.

I'm not entirely sure how we'd make money off of it. But how does something like that work? This might be leaning too far in the opposite direction of megacorp with a robust security and R&D division though now that I think about it.

I'm still in support of the telecom megacorp plan to be perfectly honest but I feel like supporting heroes should be one of the pillars of our company, no matter what form it takes. Whether that's a behind the scenes support company coordinating heroes everywhere and making sure they all succeed, or a ruthless megacorp incorporating exceptional individuals into our structure, all with the supreme goal of saving the world no matter the costs.
 
I honestly believe we can be a great help for superheroes if we go down the internet route, it's just a problem of branding.

We'll portray ourselves as a herocorp, and establish internet work to support the heroes, and help others get the support and help they need in their lives.
 
goable said:
I honestly believe we can be a great help for superheroes if we go down the internet route, it's just a problem of branding.

We'll portray ourselves as a herocorp, and establish internet work to support the heroes, and help others get the support and help they need in their lives.
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Exactly! It's all a matter of PR, and if you begin to dominate the main method of human communication PR begins to get a lot easier.

I think we can be a successful hero organization and a successful megacorp at the same time. Might require some elbow grease and a good amount of propaganda but it's certainly doable.

And, I mean, we're doing it all to Save The World. Can't get more Heroic than that. Right?
 
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KnownParadox said:
Anyways, if we focused more on the heroes angle, we can also go another way.

Here's the concept, picture it.

You know Q? From James Bond? Makes the gadgets and such? What if we did that, but country wide, and for every hero. We serve as a sort of support and coordination company for heroes across the country. Insurance for if they crumple a building, legal services in case of law suits, gadgets and heroic bases (not evil lairs, to be clear on that) for their use. Corporatize "The Man In The Chair". We coordinate, we support, we help.
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Oh I understand. That's kinda what a hero org even is. It's information (that we gather), it's training (that we provide), it's insurance (that we back), it's back up (that we provide), it's tech (fresh from our labs and manufacturing), it's therapist (on our payroll), it's making sure that heros can be the places they're needed (with our convenient bases). Make no mistake, thinking about it long enough and a Hero Org is just as scary as a Villain one. Optics and morals however, now that's the fun part.

But I feel the Q angle is decent but is a mite limited in some cases. There's a reason I early on mention getting Doof to adopt this universes Will Robinson, or getting Mr Incredible early, not get for his great heroics and major use but also for the slim chance of him pushing Buddy our way. Tech heros can do some real work as shown by San Fransokyo.

Imagine the kind of good Will, Buddy, and Doof would do if they put their minds together? Imagine the kind of hero one of them, assumedly Buddy since he wanted to be on the front lines as it were, could become with the suits and gear they could conjure up.
KnownParadox said:
I'm not entirely sure how we'd make money off of it. But how does something like that work? This might be leaning too far in the opposite direction of megacorp with a robust security and R&D division though now that I think about it.
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Gather enough Learning in one spot and get even a mild Stewardship hero, of which some hero choices even could be, see Jet Stream and the Commander who both have very successful businesses alongside their heroics. Hell even Frozone and Gazerbeam seemed to be doing rather well themselves given one had a very nice home and the other was an active figure in politics. It makes money on itself really.
KnownParadox said:
I'm still in support of the telecom megacorp plan to be perfectly honest but I feel like supporting heroes should be one of the pillars of our company, no matter what form it takes. Whether that's a behind the scenes support company coordinating heroes everywhere and making sure they all succeed, or a ruthless megacorp incorporating exceptional individuals into our structure, all with the supreme goal of saving the world no matter the costs.
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As far as this Doof is aware, his best attempts at Evil and Ruthless business failed. While we could potentially do better I really think a Hero First focus with plenty of well built side industries (telecoms and internet being major ones) would not only fit what has been the idea so far but cut off more issues overall than a Mega-corp focus really could even if the Telecom mega corp could cut off one particular big issue.
 
If we want to get into Telecommunications, we could always try to get Winston Deavor and DevTech on board somewhere down the line. On top of that Winston is a genuine Hero supporter and that meshes well with our goals. Although admittedly I don't remember how far in the future Devtech is established
 
Shade31415 said:
If we want to get into Telecommunications, we could always try to get Winston Deavor and DevTech on board somewhere down the line. On top of that Winston is a genuine Hero supporter and that meshes well with our goals. Although admittedly I don't remember how far in the future Devtech is established
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Hell, we could probably nab his dad, considering the SRA (and his subsequent death) hasn't happened yet. DevTech is currently a fairly small electronics company, but its CEO is a major Hero supporter.
 
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Shade31415 said:
If we want to get into Telecommunications, we could always try to get Winston Deavor and DevTech on board somewhere down the line. On top of that Winston is a genuine Hero supporter and that meshes well with our goals. Although admittedly I don't remember how far in the future Devtech is established
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DevTech is a family company. The family is a pretty decent nod to the Wayne's and Starks both but shifted for the context of the Incredibles. His father was the OG CEO of a relatively small tech company that later grew under Winston and Evelyn's combined Charm, Business sense, and Intelligence.

Acquiring it should also give us the ability to prevent Screenslaver, get us a decent enough Pro-Hero Stewardship unit, and get two easy hero connections in Gazerbeam and Frionic.
 
Saw the whole Drusselstein driving test and couldn't welp but wonder two things and actually make a post over just watching.

1. What if a toon helped influence it to be that way.
2. What if Drusselstein had some sort of influence on toons such as something like them using their driving test as a reference?

Is though the detail of 80 UN nations banning the test and waltz with 49 near to point of war. So it seems at some point the US was close to actually declaring war then. Wonder what build up might've happened from that?


Also just randomly thinking of Milo Murphy and Hamster and Gretal....
 
After we deal with Doom, and report back to Federal base, can we choose where to put our HeadQuartes, or do we HAVE to stay in Danville?
 
Aren't we tasked specifically to watch over a certain entity that appears in a certain town? That place seems reasonable to base ourselves out of so we can do precisely what we are trying to do.
 
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