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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
Holey Brotherhood
Pros:
Know about the rifts
Have some investment in them
Only appear in one panel
Wouldn't be the first time a throw away gag morphed into something more meaningful
Cons:
Appear to be nearer Dorukans Gate than North Pole by the background
It's implied the Scribblers killed them all
Girard said they were the dumbest villains he'd encountered
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
Considering Girard's opinion of Soon, I'm not sure I trust his assessment of people that much.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Schroeswald
I don't actually own them, I'm just trusting the character appearances count thread, which doesn't actually say where they're from (but for Giggles I'd guess its W&XPs bonus content).
Oh, okay. Link?
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Peelee
Well obviously that particular rule only applied to that specific Godsmoot.
But Popcorn needed a high-level cleric whether or not it was a rule just to give the vote, so it would have applied to every Godsmoot.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Fyraltari
Considering Girard's opinion of Soon, I'm not sure I trust his assessment of people that much.
We will probably find out whether his assessment of the Paladin in question was correct or not... Soon.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
ElderSage
Oh, okay. Link?
This is the character appearance thread, to find the characters you’ll have to go through it the old fashioned way, looking through the list in the first 5-ish posts until you find the person you’re looking for (I think the people I was reminding everyone about are under the cameos section).
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
KatsOfLoathing
The wording on the Giant's statement is interesting. It could mean this character's never appeared in any of the prequel stories. It could also mean that they've exclusively appeared in one of the prequel stories. Probably the former, since Start of Darkness and the like aren't intended to be mandatory reading to follow the plot of the comic, but still, interesting.
They could still be someone from the prequel. If a character who has only appeared in one page in a prequel shows up in the main comic, it wouldn't take much explaining for people who haven't read the prequel. Firuk was only in two pages in OtOOtPCs, but strip 1096 explains everything you need to know about him to people who haven't read it.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Crusher
Prediction time.
In my experience, in situations like this, after the reveal happens some annoying jerkwad inevitably pops up to say "Well, its OBVIOUS it was going to be the angel roach. I knew it the whole time." The best way to combat this is to actually keep track of who guessed what. So, when that person shows up, everyone can then point to them guessing RC's Niece, which was not only not the angel roach but also a guess since she had way more than one appearance. Pursuing that goal, I'm going to track everyone's predicts.
Lets keep it consistent with the MitD predictions. Obviously, having a single guess is best for bragging rights, but if you really want you can have up to 3 guesses. They can be rank ordered (1st choice X, 2nd choice Y, 3rd choice Z) or equal-weight ("its one of these 3"). If enough people guess, I'll keep a league-table of the most popular guesses.
I'll track them here unless we start a new thread. I've gone through the thread and added anyone who said anything like "I think its X" or "I'm guessing that its X", or joked that it might be a particular candidate and then ran with the joke instead of letting it die. Pelee probably doesn't *really* think its Xyklon the Consequential, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
Gift Jeraff - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice or Shoulderpad Guy
Lady Eowyn - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice
Ornithologist - 12/11/19 - Serini
Pelee - 12/11/19 - Xyklon the Consequential
Toad - 12/11/19 - an Eastern God
Grey Watcher - 12/11/19 - gnome news fox
Riftwolf - 12/11/19 - Amir
knag - 12/11/19 - Mr Belvedere
Savil - 12/12/19 - Ghost Flumph
The Pilgrim - 12/12/19 - Green Voice
Petrocorus - 12/12/19 - Shoulderpad Guy or Tiamat
ElderSage - 12/13/19 - Popcorn
redemedic - 12/13/19 - Fruit Pie the Sorcerer
I want to be on the list with MitD please.
I know of no actual appearance (where we actually see what he looks like), but there is the SoD shot of his cell where the floorboards show through him, and as someone said the delusion scene where it all appeared to be over, but wasn't, I'd kind of count the delusion bit as another non-appearance myself because it was a halucination/mirage, but that's because of the one in SoD, otherwise it might do. I'm not saying it's a great choice, but the described role fits all that we already expect the MitD's plot arc to become, and I don't have any other guesses I want to make.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Crusher
Prediction time.
In my experience, in situations like this, after the reveal happens some annoying jerkwad inevitably pops up to say "Well, its OBVIOUS it was going to be the angel roach. I knew it the whole time." The best way to combat this is to actually keep track of who guessed what. So, when that person shows up, everyone can then point to them guessing RC's Niece, which was not only not the angel roach but also a guess since she had way more than one appearance. Pursuing that goal, I'm going to track everyone's predicts.
Lets keep it consistent with the MitD predictions. Obviously, having a single guess is best for bragging rights, but if you really want you can have up to 3 guesses. They can be rank ordered (1st choice X, 2nd choice Y, 3rd choice Z) or equal-weight ("its one of these 3"). If enough people guess, I'll keep a league-table of the most popular guesses.
I'll track them here unless we start a new thread. I've gone through the thread and added anyone who said anything like "I think its X" or "I'm guessing that its X", or joked that it might be a particular candidate and then ran with the joke instead of letting it die. Pelee probably doesn't *really* think its Xyklon the Consequential, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
Gift Jeraff - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice or Shoulderpad Guy
Lady Eowyn - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice
Ornithologist - 12/11/19 - Serini
Pelee - 12/11/19 - Xyklon the Consequential
Toad - 12/11/19 - an Eastern God
Grey Watcher - 12/11/19 - gnome news fox
Riftwolf - 12/11/19 - Amir
knag - 12/11/19 - Mr Belvedere
Savil - 12/12/19 - Ghost Flumph
The Pilgrim - 12/12/19 - Green Voice
Petrocorus - 12/12/19 - Shoulderpad Guy or Tiamat
ElderSage - 12/13/19 - Popcorn
redemedic - 12/13/19 - Fruit Pie the Sorcerer
Switch mine to Holey Brotherhood.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
Mine are:
1) Suzy Finklestein
2) King of Nowhere.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Crusher
Prediction time.
In my experience, in situations like this, after the reveal happens some annoying jerkwad inevitably pops up to say "Well, its OBVIOUS it was going to be the angel roach. I knew it the whole time." The best way to combat this is to actually keep track of who guessed what. So, when that person shows up, everyone can then point to them guessing RC's Niece, which was not only not the angel roach but also a guess since she had way more than one appearance. Pursuing that goal, I'm going to track everyone's predicts.
Lets keep it consistent with the MitD predictions. Obviously, having a single guess is best for bragging rights, but if you really want you can have up to 3 guesses. They can be rank ordered (1st choice X, 2nd choice Y, 3rd choice Z) or equal-weight ("its one of these 3"). If enough people guess, I'll keep a league-table of the most popular guesses.
I'll track them here unless we start a new thread. I've gone through the thread and added anyone who said anything like "I think its X" or "I'm guessing that its X", or joked that it might be a particular candidate and then ran with the joke instead of letting it die. Pelee probably doesn't *really* think its Xyklon the Consequential, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
Gift Jeraff - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice or Shoulderpad Guy
Lady Eowyn - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice
Ornithologist - 12/11/19 - Serini
Pelee - 12/11/19 - Xyklon the Consequential
Toad - 12/11/19 - an Eastern God
Grey Watcher - 12/11/19 - gnome news fox
Riftwolf - 12/11/19 - Amir
knag - 12/11/19 - Mr Belvedere
Savil - 12/12/19 - Ghost Flumph
The Pilgrim - 12/12/19 - Green Voice
Petrocorus - 12/12/19 - Shoulderpad Guy or Tiamat
ElderSage - 12/13/19 - Popcorn
redemedic - 12/13/19 - Fruit Pie the Sorcerer
I'd like to add Giggles into my guess, please. In order of what I think is the most likely: 1) Popcorn. 2) Giggles.
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Imean, the only reason to mention that is to give a guessing game, and immediately undercutting that game seems pretty cheap to me. It'd be like me saying, "pick a number between 1 and 10, if you guess it correct you win a prize!" and that number being e.
That (irrational) number is indeed between 1 and 10, and you never said the number had to be an integer, so it's perfectly fair. (My first guess might have been Pi, though.)
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
My vote is for Roy's understudy, who appears only in #613, since Roy was sick that day.
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It would be kind of awesome if it was an Eastern God (super duper unlikely if you ask me) and they could forge a five color sword of order that could slay the Snarl for good.
Although at that point if I was a god I'd end the world anyway somewhere in the next 1000 or so years because imagine how cool a five color world would be!
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Originally Posted by
Windscion
PPS: Also, in #149, the previous supreme leader (not the one in GDGU: that one was a green goblin, this one an orange hobgoblin) appears and wisely pretends to not be the supreme leader. He might have useful information, but now that RC has Gobbotopia, I doubt he has any sway with the goblinoids.
GDGU is in grayscale, so I don't know how you can confidently say that, but more directly, the tribe is explicitly and repeatedly referred to as hobgoblins in GDGU.
Spoiler: GDGU, I guess
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Also, there isn't much reason to highlight all the Supreme Accessories of Leadership in GDGU if not to connect the Supreme Leader who ascends at the end of GDGU to the one in #149.
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Originally Posted by
Crusher
Prediction time.
In my experience, in situations like this, after the reveal happens some annoying jerkwad inevitably pops up to say "Well, its OBVIOUS it was going to be the angel roach. I knew it the whole time." The best way to combat this is to actually keep track of who guessed what. So, when that person shows up, everyone can then point to them guessing RC's Niece, which was not only not the angel roach but also a guess since she had way more than one appearance. Pursuing that goal, I'm going to track everyone's predicts.
Lets keep it consistent with the MitD predictions. Obviously, having a single guess is best for bragging rights, but if you really want you can have up to 3 guesses. They can be rank ordered (1st choice X, 2nd choice Y, 3rd choice Z) or equal-weight ("its one of these 3"). If enough people guess, I'll keep a league-table of the most popular guesses.
I'll track them here unless we start a new thread. I've gone through the thread and added anyone who said anything like "I think its X" or "I'm guessing that its X", or joked that it might be a particular candidate and then ran with the joke instead of letting it die. Pelee probably doesn't *really* think its Xyklon the Consequential, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
Gift Jeraff - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice or Shoulderpad Guy
Lady Eowyn - 12/11/19 - Orange Voice
Ornithologist - 12/11/19 - Serini
Pelee - 12/11/19 - Xyklon the Consequential
Toad - 12/11/19 - an Eastern God
Grey Watcher - 12/11/19 - gnome news fox
Riftwolf - 12/11/19 - Amir
knag - 12/11/19 - Mr Belvedere
Savil - 12/12/19 - Ghost Flumph
The Pilgrim - 12/12/19 - Green Voice
Petrocorus - 12/12/19 - Shoulderpad Guy or Tiamat
ElderSage - 12/13/19 - Popcorn
redemedic - 12/13/19 - Fruit Pie the Sorcerer
Put me down for Tony the Celestial or Shoulderpads Guy.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Ruck
GDGU is in grayscale, so I don't know how you can confidently say that, but more directly, the tribe is explicitly and repeatedly referred to as hobgoblins in GDGU.
Spoiler: GDGU, I guess
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Also, there isn't much reason to highlight all the Supreme Accessories of Leadership in GDGU if not to connect the Supreme Leader who ascends at the end of GDGU to the one in #149.
Redcloak and another goblin are also on GDGU, on page #115, and even in grayscale their skin tone is noticeably different from the former Supreme Leader's (and the other hobgoblins').
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Technically the Snarl has only appeared in person once, when it attacked Laurin and her team. Every other appearance was in Elan crayon drawings.
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My guess is one of the northern gods. An interesting case may be Fenrir: he seems very aggressive and chaotic and voted for destroying the world, but he can't be happy about what Xykon is doing at Kraagor's tomb, either.
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Originally Posted by
lio45
That (irrational) number is indeed between 1 and 10, and you never said the number had to be an integer, so it's perfectly fair. (My first guess might have been Pi, though.)
Didn't say it wasn't between 1 and 10. I said it was cheap (and I picked it because I knew most people thinking of a trick would go for pi first. I also considered tau). See the other post I made with the very rational and incredibly unguessable number for a better example of why it's so cheap.
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Originally Posted by
Ruck
Spoiler: GDGU, I guess
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Also, there isn't much reason to highlight all the Supreme Accessories of Leadership in GDGU if not to connect the Supreme Leader who ascends at the end of GDGU to the one in #149.
Spoiler
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It does directly show that this is the exact hobbo group that takes down Azure City later, which does have thematic elements even if you assume the Supreme Leader is different. But it makes more sense for him to be the same, yes.
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Ornithologist
and interesting thought experiment, The Snarl. This depends on whether you count crayon flashback depictions of it to be appearances or not (Or more accurately, whether Rich does.) While almost 100% not the answer, the story would be very interesting.
Should have read more carefully, thought I was the first to suggest this. But the World within the Snarl makes this a decent possibility. The Snarl cannot stop itself from striking out, but if the world is destroyed, its pet world will be destroyed as well. A creature born of hate and destruction trying to create something good.
Kraagor, who was still alive when he was sealed inside the gate as the Snarl's emissary.
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Originally Posted by
Ron Miel
Mine are:
1) Suzy Finklestein
2) King of Nowhere.
Adding to this, another candidate, Aunt Ivy.
Way back in 2011 the Giant said:
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The Giant
(And yes, I didn't answer the Ivy question intentionally. The story isn't over yet.)
This implies to me that Ivy has a significant role in the story. But so far we've only seen her in one page. I think her major role is still to come.
My list is now:
1) Suzy Finklestein
2) Ivy
3) King of Nowhere.
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Originally Posted by
Ron Miel
1) Suzy Finklestein
2) Ivy
The only two good guesses so far IMO!
BTW, on what comic page was Aunt Ivy? I don't recall it.
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Originally Posted by
lio45
The only two good guesses so far IMO!
BTW, on what comic page was Aunt Ivy? I don't recall it.
Comic 942.
And yeah, I pretty much agree that these are the most likely options, though I’d like them swapped around in my rankings.
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Originally Posted by
Schroeswald
Except that one appearance already explained Ivy's role in the story. I can't see there being more to it than that.
I'd like to suggest the Big Game Hunters from SoD. They'd be getting on in years, but a big dungeon full of exotic monsters would be worth checking out. They may well have useful knowledge about the creatures encountered therein. (It would also fit into my theory about what happened to Redcloak's niece.)
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Well, since people keep mentioning Giggles, what about Eliza from strip 960a?
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Shoulderpads Guy is sounding intriguing enough at this point... if it can be confirmed he never appeared anywhere else in canon.
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Re: Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga
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Originally Posted by
Ron Miel
Adding to this, another candidate, Aunt Ivy.
Way back in 2011 the Giant said:
This implies to me that Ivy has a significant role in the story. But so far we've only seen her in one page. I think her major role is still to come.
My list is now:
1) Suzy Finklestein
2) Ivy
3) King of Nowhere.
That comment was made before Geoffs involvement with Ians capture was known, and learning too much about Ivy might have given the game away. Now she's appeared and wasn't apparently capable of fighting Bozzok (who is kind of like an evil rubbish Worf), I'm not really seeing how her allegiance will be especially useful at this point.
Edit: double checked timings. That comment was made in 2011... Ivy, and Geoffs involvement in Ians capture, weren't revealed till 2014.
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Malfarian
Durkon’s dad?
You haven't had enough of Durkon's family recently? Hasn't the last book left you... Utterly Dwarfed out now?
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Other ideas occurred to me: Randy, Jeff (Sabine's ex from bonus strip #252a), and Therkla's parents.