City of Heroes sued?

Eunice and I play the online game City of Heroes quite a bit. It's a lot of fun to play together. For one thing, you always know you'll be in a good group.

Anyway, City of Heroes lets players design their own superheroes from the ground up using Archetypes. As with any MMOG, some segment of the population will think it's kewl to play some known character. You end up with a lot of creative spellings of known names. Of course now that I've written that I can't remember any, other than the T1ck.

CoH has a fantastic costume creator. It allows players to build a character with a very unique look. In my opinion this is one of the things that CoH did right.

So what do you get with a bunch of gamers and an amazing costume creator? There are some very creative people out there, and not all of them use their talents for good. As I said above, there is also a segment of the population that just wants to play as their favorite superhero. Marvel has a sued over an online game, it's the first time I know of that another major company is involved.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, or even if it will go to court.