UPDATE: City Of Heroes: Going Rogue Giveaway Winners

FINAL UPDATE: We've picked the winners and sent all the codes. If you're one of the lucky 10, check your Twitter account for your City of Heroes: Going Rogue download code and register it by creating and logging into an account on NCSoft's website. Thanks to everyone who entered. We had a ton of well-written, interesting, and hilarious heroes and origin stories. Check out excerpts from the winning entries below.

[NOTE: Many of the entries were very long. I've cut them down to about one paragraph each here, but you can read the full entries in our comments.]

From ShallNoiseUpon

Wakiza

Wakiza was born to parents in the golden, rolling plains not dissimilar from the plains of the American Midwest.  In his formative years, Wakiza was often teased due to his name, meaning Brave Warrior.  However, as Wakiza grew, he felt it would only be appropriate to live up to the Brave Warrior moniker.  Wakiza fights for what is just and good in the world.  After many years of riding the plains and dishing out brave warriorism Wakiza is scarred from battle.  He returns to his village a changed man.  He finds his father and mother sitting in the house Wakiza was born in.  As he enters his father says "Boy. Sit down," Wakiza sits.  His father tells him how when Wakiza was born, the plains were a vicious, savage place, but now the plainspeople could live in peace due to the efforts of Wakiza.  His father then told Wakiza "at least we didn't name you Sue."

From Nikki the bee

Name:  Legal Tender (aka mild-mannered Edmund Wechsler)

Powers:  Ability to create and control any form of legal tender or currency without upsetting the economical balance of the country from which the money comes from.  In other words, not only is this guy perpetually loaded, but a couple dimes in his hands can mean lights out for bad guys.  In fact, he always has loose change on his person--usually about $1.13 in his pocket and a sock full of nickels.  Why?  Because his control of money means he can launch quarters at your forehead like a bullet!  And if there's change in your pocket?  Expect L.T. to use it against you.  Being pelted with pennies is NOT a pleasant experience when these metallic denominations are traveling 100 m/s.

From CoastalCowboy

Torch of Liberty.
Martial Artist (rough and tumble, not Asian style).

Some people get the hero game forced onto them. Some get into it for fun. A few guys grow up with capes and costumes in the blood. Larry O’Connor was one of those guys. When he was little, he thought that every kid’s father had a costume stashed somewhere. Every house had a security system that could slow down an armored assault and had an underground bolt hole—“just in case”. All of Larry’s friends were heroes’ and cops’ kids. It wasn’t until he got older that he began to wonder. Why did he have such a great gym in his home? How could his parents afford the security system—and afford to send him to a school out in the Falls? Why didn’t he go to school in Baumton, and why couldn’t he just go out when and where he wanted? But when he tried to ask, he was always told “later”. For years, that was enough. He had plenty of distractions.

From eltarian

Name: Lady Lightningblade

True Name:  Susan Ann Harris, Ph.D in Biochemistry, Ph.D in Surgical Medicine

Powers: Electrical Armor, Flight, and Dual-Wielding Swords.

Dr. Susan Ann Harris was an aspiring and talented scientist for the Arachnos Organization, developing a serum for boosting superpowers.  When she discovered that her serum was being tested on unsuspecting gang members around Mercy Island, she decided to escape and inform the authorities.  She sought to flee to Paragon City with the serum and the research, so she had to come up with a workable disguise.  She acquired a discarded uniform and altered it to something less recognizable, adding a trench coat and a pair of swords from her personal collection.

From DashMcCool

My heroine: Teen Spirit

Power: Controls darkness and fear.

Backstory: A school bus was returning to Talos Island from a football game when the supernatural "event" occurred that turned Astoria into Dark Astoria, land of ghosts.  The Pantheon awakened an ancient evil, devastating the entire area.  The school bus was just crossing the border as the event happened, killing everyone aboard except the driver and one of the cheerleaders sitting near the front.  Megan was physically unharmed, but the souls of the 12 cheerleaders also riding in the bus possessed her as a result of the violent desecration of Astoria.

From The Illest Villan

Name: The Propagandist

Story; The Propagandist used to be a well known street artist, trying to get known in the dictator ruled world he lives in. After a tragic accident, involving one of his best friends getting gunned down by the police force and his face catching fire due to a faulty spray paint can, he swore to rid the world of the evil that ruled it. He became a masked vigilante, trying to start a rebellion with his artwork, which not only included vandalism, but murder. The Propagandist is known for spraying his victim's faces with a highly toxic spray paint, which causes them to die instantly. While the public views him as a murderous psychopath, The Propagandist believes that he is doing the public justice.

From Joseph Breen

Name: Celsius

Powers: Thermogenesis, Thermokinesis.

Origin: Celsius, aged 25, was born Attican Halcomb.  Raised by his parents in a small town outside of Lexington, KY, he lived a normal life by anyone's standards. He attended classes, he played video games, he hung out with his friends. It wasn't until the summer he turned 17 that his powers first manifested.  While working at a local restaurant he was involved in an accident involving a pot of boiling water. A co-worker was carrying a large pot of boiling water from one side of the kitchen to the other and slipped on a potato peel, upending the entire pot on Attican, who was attempting to clean up a pile of potato peels he'd accidentally dumped in the floor.  The water that landed on him was far from boiling, however; in fact, it was just barely above room-temperature.  This set in motion a chain-reaction in Attican's abilities, initiated by his body's instinctive reaction to prevent serious burns due to intense heat. For the next week, Attican's body absorbed heat energy at an excessive rate, at one point resulting a localized snow-storm when Attican walked home from work in the rain. Through various training techniques, and assistance from other super-powered individuals, Attican has gained a great level of control of his powers.

From hedgehogboy5

My hero is Lakto-Lad, a boy with the ability to control milk and other dairy products. He contracted his powers in an incident involving his carton of milk getting to close to toxic waste during a school field trip to the local nuclear reactor. Now, whenever he sees trouble afoot such as bullies stealing lunch money he transforms into Lakto-Lad and hits the baddies with some calcium fortified government subsidized justice!

From blueruckus

Omni-Troll

Has the power to access any internet forum at any time and leave comments that completely derail conversations and infuriate everyone. He never needs to register for any sites or boards, he can just post at will. Admins have no power over him and they must accept his awesomeness.

From JT1080

The Hippie

It's cornball as hell but I strongly remember creating this idea as a kid. He had stupid powers like shooting rainbows out of his hands and "mez" powers that could crowd-control groups of enemies into a peaceful stupor.

I even remember sketching out this idea, as I used to love drawing as a kid. He had the long dirty brown hair, a tie-dye headband (of course), and some ripped up bell-bottom jeans, and a denim vest on.

UPDATE: The deadline is up! I'll be rounding up entries and choosing winners soon. Winners will be announced and will receive their download codes some time tomorrow, so stay tuned.

ORIGINAL STORY: Last week, NCSoft launched Going Rogue, the second expansion pack for their superhero MMO City of Heroes. I'm a big fan of the game and this latest add-on, so I'm pleased to announce that we'll be giving away 10 copies of the full City of Heroes package. Check below for details on how to win a ticket to Paragon City!

For your chance to win, you need to leave a comment on this story telling us your best idea for a superhero -- give us his or her name, powers, and, heck, even a brief origin story if you're feeling ambitious. Here's all it takes:

1. Log in to your Game Informer account and leave a comment on this story with the name and superpower of your hero. Do so by 12:00 a.m. CST tonight (i.e. midnight). Be sure to leave your Twitter name in the comment as well!

2. Around midnight, I'll dig through the entries and pick out 10 winners. I'll update this post with the winners and their entries tomorrow.

3. You'll receive a Twitter DM from the @gameinformer account with your code if you're a winner.

Winners will receive a download code that will give you access City of Heroes: Going Rogue as well as the original City of Heroes and City of Villains. The code will also provide a month of game time and a bunch of bonus items.

Remember that in addition to leaving a comment, you'll need to be following our @gameinformer account on Twitter in order to receive the DM with your prize! Good luck!