Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-173.185.20.227-20140928034241/@comment-24891101-20140928040004

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Black and red is a color scheme long associated with the sinister, red of course being blood, and black both darkness and also decay. Countless fictional characters have this color scheme, and it signifies their sinister nature.

He's not particularly faster than other characters.

A man with a badass demeanor hardly owes inspiration to a single source. Badassery is interesting and compelling, and has a long tradition in human culture.

The ability for an object to empower someone is rather different from tactical absorption and immediate release of enemy attack.

The first and third are freebies; a character having them is in no way derived from another, for those traits are truly ancient. The second is inapplicable, and the fourth is a single point of partial similarity.