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City of Heroes Players Honor Christopher Reeve

Posted by Zonk on from the some-mmog-folk-have-social-skills dept.

Thanks to Gamespot for the quick blurb about City of Heroes players honoring Christopher Reeve, who passed away recently. The Superhero Massive Game has been awash in showings of respect. Screens and commentary can be found on CoH Warcry for the past several days.

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  1. best honor is to GET HIS NAME RIGHT by stoutstreet · · Score: 4, Informative

    REEVE

  2. Sometimes... by cephyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...things like this feel "too little too late" -- I mean sure, its great to memorialize him now. But wouldn't it have been better to do this while he was alive? As a tribute to the work he has done for spinal cord injury patients? So many people are remembered and properly honored after they are dead. A tragedy.

    Does he get to see this? no. Does anyone in his family? I hope so, but I have no idea if they'd understand it.

    It's a great gesture. A great idea. Just misguided if you ask me. We all would be better served if players donated one month of the CoH subscription fee to his charity.

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    1. Re:Sometimes... by jeffehobbs · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ...things like this feel "too little too late" -- I mean sure, its great to memorialize him now. But wouldn't it have been better to do this while he was alive?

      I look forward to your upcoming Abe Vigoda tribute.

      A tribute is a tribute. There's plenty of things in this world to second-guess, but not stuff like this. If it makes people feel better about the loss of someone that meant something to them, let it be.

      ~jeff

    2. Re:Sometimes... by Babbster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think it's great that you offered tributes to Christopher Reeve while he was still alive and I'm sure that both he and his family appreciated them. I'm sure that they also appreciated all the money you gave to, and raised for, his cause. Now, why don't you just take quiet pride in your great benevolence and not take pot shots at other people who, for whatever reason, and in whatever fashion, were paying tribute to a guy now taking a dirt nap?

    3. Re:Sometimes... by SandSpider · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What, you think that the people who played COH didn't, in some way or another, worship him while he was alive? You don't think that millions of movie goers and comic book readers, when asked to imagine superman in real life, didn't think of Christopher Reeve?

      Christopher Reeve was a living legend, and many, many people extended sympathy and support when he had his accident. I've read in several places, including here, that the reason people are hit by Reeve's death more than, say, Rodney Dangerfield was not because of a difference in, er, respect for the two men, but because people were really expecting him to walk again, and it's sad that now we'll never be able to see that.

      I have no doubt that the Christopher Reeve Spinal Injury Foundation has been able to raise tremendous amounts of money both before and after his death in the aid of finding a cure.

      I'm not a religious man, but what if there is an afterlife, and what if he does get to see the respect that people give him, even though he's dead? And do you think that people in his family, if they do find out about this, are in some way going to feel bad or even not feel better to find out that a large group of people want to pay their respects to their recently lost family member? Unless he ended up bitter at having been remembered as Superman, there's no reason why his family shouldn't appreciate this.

      Also, there's no reason why they can't both honor him and donate to his foundation.

      Let the man have his legacy, and let people remember him for both his work to cure spinal cord injuries and for the pleasure he brought them, letting people know that it's okay to be a good guy and a super hero.

      =Brian

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  3. PvP tribute by Lord+Dreamshaper · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a really nice tribute

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    1. Re:PvP tribute by Atomic+Punk · · Score: 3, Interesting

      GUComics also had a nice one..
      http://www.gucomics.com/archives/view.php?c date=20 041011

  4. Also on PvP Forums... by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    See this forum thread for more screen shots.

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  5. That's rather distasteful, so here's mine by LSD-OBS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Q: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?
    A: Christopher Walken.

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