Character Changes

[barfly2021]

Commander Sam from Anniversary set I just called Sam in 2135. he's fighting all aliens standing up for "Merica" and Earth

[Vanimal]

Not so much a name change or anything but I've changed Astarte into more of a Homelander type character. He feels like he's the ultimate hero who deserves his flowers yet despises the fans for cheering Pardon and the more hardcore element of FTR. I'm still in a pre-Screwjob FTR, his backstage interactions with Sonny Rocket have been really fun to play, with the Commissioner scared of his teams top star. Astarte hasn't revealed his true self yet to the fans, when he does it should take him to another level.

[awsomsinger]

I once turned Brute and Massacre into babyfaces - does that count? 

[paladin18]

I haven't played COTG on a regular basis in about 20 years but I am starting to get back to that side, even as I continue to play the Legends side of things.

The one character change for storyline purposes that I remember loving the most was when I turned Massif heel. This would have been with his original card and probably taken place sometime in 2089 or 2090, game-wise. I just remember him turning on Commander Sam and Star Warrior vowing revenge for Massif going over to the heel side. Except, Star Warrior really didn't understand. Massif wasn't joining the heel side of the GWF; he hated Thantos equally as much as he now despised Commander Sam, Omega and Star Warrior.

No, Massif wasn't going to be a heel or a face. Massif was going to be looking out for Massif and what benefitted Massif from now on.

Massif took the Heavyweight Title from Thantos pretty handily, attempted to injure Thantos so that Massif wouldn't have to deal with him and then set his sights on taking the real trophies, as he saw it: the careers of men like Omega, Commander Sam, Kraken, Star Warrior and so on.

Massif went from being one of the GWF's most popular wrestlers to their most hated in a matter of weeks.

And I loved playing every minute of that out.

[wayne]

I don't change much at all as stick to storyline. However 2 that spring to mind. Greg Valentine, just me but didn't like it that a real guy was in the GWF story. So I changed his name to Tough Guy and just blocked out his art representation in my mind. The other is Earthquake. I know Tom got there first but as it matched the well known WWF wrestler I wasn't keen on the name, so I just called him Mattock from the start and then added Chopper when the storyline had him go through the workshop. On dark shows I imagined he sometimes went by the name of Tremor. Despite all that I am in 2109 and using Mike Fortune by his correct name. I know that goes against what I said but I feel more comfortable with him and justify it as he was inspired by COTG.

Don't get me wrong I love the legends line but to me COTG and Legends is kept very separate.

[brucetosis]

Feb 12, 2023 16:45:40 GMT -5 paladin18 said:

I haven't played COTG on a regular basis in about 20 years but I am starting to get back to that side, even as I continue to play the Legends side of things.

The one character change for storyline purposes that I remember loving the most was when I turned Massif heel. This would have been with his original card and probably taken place sometime in 2089 or 2090, game-wise. I just remember him turning on Commander Sam and Star Warrior vowing revenge for Massif going over to the heel side. Except, Star Warrior really didn't understand. Massif wasn't joining the heel side of the GWF; he hated Thantos equally as much as he now despised Commander Sam, Omega and Star Warrior.

No, Massif wasn't going to be a heel or a face. Massif was going to be looking out for Massif and what benefitted Massif from now on.

Massif took the Heavyweight Title from Thantos pretty handily, attempted to injure Thantos so that Massif wouldn't have to deal with him and then set his sights on taking the real trophies, as he saw it: the careers of men like Omega, Commander Sam, Kraken, Star Warrior and so on.

Massif went from being one of the GWF's most popular wrestlers to their most hated in a matter of weeks.

And I loved playing every minute of that out.



I also turned Massif heel pretty early on.  Thantos originally used mindgames on Massif to make him turn on his FDF teammates, and then I had a bootleg faction leader called the Cultist team Massif up with Bishop Hell.  Massif & Bishop Hell turned out to be the most dominant tag team in my fed's history, and Massif had a couple of runs as the Heavyweight Champion as well.  

[Gammarauder13]

Most times, I usually did this when a character got updated with a name change. Comrade Terror/Dreadnaught, Adam Blast/US Patriot. That sort of thing.