What DC Characters Can't Be Built In DCUO?

This is a mix between DC trivia and guessing at what the next powersets will be.

So far DC characters that I know of that we can't really build in DCUO would be:
Aquaman (no Water powers. Closest you could get would be Ice which doesn't really work)
PlasticMan (No body shifting powers. Nature animal shifting is the closest you can come and it's pretty lack luster)

Those are the 2 that really pop out to me as DC characters we can't emulate in DCUO. What are characters you can think of that we can't emulate in DCUO or powersets that might be added in the future.

Plastic man would be a pretty cool power. It would suffer as far as the bursting colors go from most powers, but you could say the same about gadgets

The Aqua family (-man, -lad, etc.)
Any non-Green, non-Sinestro Lantern Corp member.
Cyborg, Blue Beetle, etc (cybernetics)
PlasticMan, Giganta, and other body-changers
Brother Blood (could be group together with Red Lantern stuff if you stretched your definitions)

Isn't that covered by Gadgets? I mean for example with Blue Beetle you could just put someone in a blue powersuit and give them handblasters and flying and the gadget powerset and you'd be good to go.

Cheetah. No "feral" powers yet.

They could add Constantine as a legend when the celestial powers go in

Giganta/Atom: Size Alteration

Red Tornado: Air Manipulation

Vixen/Animal Man: Animal Mimicry

Element Woman/Metamorpho: Element Alteration

There are a huge list but I can't think of them right now.

As others above mentioned, Cyborg, Plastic Man/Elongated Man, and Cheetah.

I mentioned a week ago I thought Toy Master would be a great power set.

Lobo.

There is no bad-*** powerset yet.

Jimmy Olsen.

Theres no, "Just some regular dude" powerset.

Yes having Plastic Man's powers would be cool..... although I have no idea how they could pull this off.

Heck it would allow us to create the last of the Fantastic Four. Right now we can create the Human Torch, the Invisible Woman, and the Thing (sort of). With Plastic Man's power we would finally be able to create the last piece of the puzzle... Mr Fantastic.

I would love for them to do a size changing power set. .

I would love to be able to create a Giant-man type of character somehow. Which identity to chose?? Giant-Man??? Goliath?? Yellow Jacket?? Ant-man??? Decisions... decisions...

Superman - No physical powerset
WonderWoman - No physical powerset
Martian Manhunter - No physical powerset
Donna Troy - No physical powerset
WonderGirl - No physical powerset
Superboy - No physical powerset
Captain Marvel (aka Shazam) - No physical powerset
Mary Marvel - No physical powerset
Captain Marvel Jr. - No physical powerset
PowerGirl - No physical powerset
Big Barda - No physical powerset
Atom Smasher - No physical powerset / Grow Iconic
Hawk - No physical powerset
Dove - No physical powerset
Mister Miracle - No physical powerset
Hourman I - No physical powerset
Hourman II - No physical powerset
Hourman III - No physical powerset
Hawkman - No physical powerset
Hawkgirl - No physical powerset
Steel - No physical powerset
Robotman - No physical powerset
Icon - No physical powerset
Orion - No physical powerset
Damage - No physical powerset
Sodam Yat - No physical powerset
Cara Yat - No physical powerset
Diro Yat - No physical powerset
Laurel Gand - No physical powerset
Mon-El - No physical powerset
Andromeda - No physical powerset
Roxxas - No physical powerset

Doomsday - No physical powerset
Black Adam - No physical powerset
Solomon Grundy - No physical powerset
Bane - No physical powerset
Zod - No physical powerset
Ursa - No physical powerset
Non - No physical powerset
Faora - No physical powerset
Bizarro - No physical powerset
Darkseid - No physical powerset
Kalibak - No physical powerset
Mongul - No physical powerset
Mammoth - No physical powerset
Blockbuster - No physical powerset
Rampage - No physical powerset
Fury - No physical powerset
Deathstroke - No physical powerset
Killer Croc - No physical powerset
Cheetah - No physical powerset
Giganta - No physical powerset / Grow Iconic
Maxima - No physical powerset
Ultraman - No physical powerset
SuperWoman - No physical powerset

Fairchild - No physical powerset
Majestic - No physical powerset

Starfire - No Cosmic Rays powerset / - No physical powerset
Red Tornado - No Air powerset
Vixen - No Animal Mimicry powerset
Raven - No Shadow powerset
Obsidian - No Shadow powerset
Shade - No Shadow powerset

Plastic Man/Elongated Man - Technically not possible to do (without it looking horrendous).

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Would you like a physical powerset?

I would. Thank you for asking


but seriously, the OP asks for characters which can't be built properly in the game with the existing powers. just happens that many of DC's most popular characters can't. I did try to list other popular characters I could think of with non physical powers. but it's a short list

While I agree wholeheartedly that we need a physical power set, Superman would be easy to do with a combination of Earth, Iconic, and Flying powers. Unfortunately, that would only be for aesthetic purposes. It would kind of suck regarding power interactions and buffs.

I semi agree about Plastic powers. Yes, your character couldn't elongate without warping the model. But they could do it like every other shape change and have your character disappear with another model taking it's place. So, in my mind, the power would be more like Clayface to make it more visually appealing.

As for the OP's question, we can't do Parasite. No power absorption and mimicry.

And the suggestion of the Atom's powers, I think that would be completely pointless. You character gets a little bigger (can't be too big or it won't fit in some areas) or it becomes smaller. Or "microscopic" and your character just isn't there. The only size change I would like would be for a Super Strength power set, and just have it grow a little bigger, like Bane.

For what it's worth, Brawling, the Super Strength iconic power and Shards and Jackhammer from the Earth power set have done fine enough by me and more than decently match what I could do with the Super Strength-type power set in Champions Online during my time there.

I'm sure others will disagree, but it's worked well enough for me.

For me, I'm nitpicky. My character isn't an "earth" character. Shards and Jackhammer are fine, but things like summoning dust clouds doesn't work for me. I want my Super Strength character to be super strength, not seismic. Plus, in my mind, I picture the second tree in a Physical power set to be Super Speed. And no, the Super Speed movement powers are no substitute. I'm sure we'll have it someday. The devs obviously know it's probably the most requested power, and they said they wanted to do it right and not rush to get it out there.

SPIDERMAN! ... Oh wait... Well, I do see a bunch of Spidermans on DCUO.

I guess that's where we differ. In any game I've played, I look at what's offered and work with it, and I've never had any problems when doing that. Also, for me both Jackhammer and Shards are interchangeable with Super Strength moves because of the number of comics/movies/cartoons I've seen where super strength characters do moves exactly like that. Brawling covers other aspects, and in a pinch the Earth pull move can be a manifestation of something like Superboy's tactile telekinesis (if I'm not lunging in with a punch I'm pulling lol). I do admit to using some other Earth abilities (supercharge heal for emergencies, Crystal golem mainly) but compared to other Earth moves they're pretty low key.

Plus, as much credit as I give the devs for making power sets with unique play styles, for some reason I have trouble imagining them making a physical power set that wouldn't be extremely derivative of what can be done already with powers and abilities already in the game. Kind of weird when I think about it because I have no trouble imagining the devs making a Light-based Tank class to go along with the War of Light DLC coming up. Could be because I see the tools for doing a physical power set as being available in the game already and I'm making use of them.

Guess a lot of it is personal perceptions, that's all.