Talk:Phoenix Man/@comment-24.192.250.249-20190627214100

LOL I just had the greatest idea for how they could bring "him" back....it was his suit that became the monster, wasn't it? What if one of Fubuki's squad were to gather up and sew it back up because he thinks the head looks cool, only to accidentally become the new phoenix man after putting on the repaired costume? This way you could keep phoenix man coming back, but also keep generating "new" characters due to slight personality shifts with each new appearance, with the new wearer replacing his "calm, out of battle" personality while Phoenix Man proper keeps trying to rebuild the Monster Association, just so he can proclaim himself king of something.

Basically he becomes a long running "foil" for the hero association as he's not really "bad" but keeps recreating and staffing a "bad" organisation. Sweet Mask naturally wants to kill him because he's a fucking idiot, but most of the other heroes actually consider this as a beneficial service, as it plays upon the ego of monsters, forcing themselves to announce their presence instead of attacking and possibly wiping out cities without warning, as well as causing internal casualties from monsters trying to challenge Phoenix' #2 for the right to challenge the king himself, ala "Afro Samurai"

And over time, possibly he becomes more "noble" as well, as befitting a proper "mascot" character.

(Which also naturally leaves open the inevitable possibility of having a contrasting evil mascot that's a child killer like Ripper.... I am, of course, rooting for a purple dinosaur/alien as the child killing mascot!)