Oh lordie....

I'm not playing Champions Online, but I was checking something on their site, and I noticed that one of the NPC villains in the game is.... Foxbat.

For those who don't know, Foxbat was created for the Champions RPG system (pen and paper and dice) by accident (or so was related to me). You see, the game creators/designers were putting out a sourcebook containing a number of enemy NPCs (villains) for GMs to use. The only problem was, one of the characters on the cover was... Foxbat. Only he didn't actually appear in the book, all written up with stats and such. This caused a mild bit of concern, because hey, he's on the cover and all. He ought to be in the book.

"What do we call him?"
"You don't know? You drew him!"
"Well, his costume kinda looks like a fox. Or a bat."
"Fine, we'll call him Foxbat. What's that gun he's holding?"
"Um... it's a ping-pong ball gun."

So, you had a villain, sort-of, one of whose quotes is "Behold your doom, the Amazing Ping-pong Ball Gun! ... Why are you all laughing?"

And he's in the game.