Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Yep, we’re doing this again. So here we are one more time again. Jessica Jones and Callisto. Why not have them combined into the same post with the last pair? Fair question – it’s because they’re for different games, and this way it’s much easier for me to search out specific models. Basically the same paint colour schemes here, except Jessica has changed her grey t-shirt for a white one. Why? Matching the card art for the two games, mostly – and because a change of t-shirt doesn’t matter or really add a lot to the time or difficulty of painting a model in the same costume/clothing. It certainly helped both of these ladies get to the front of the paint queue in that there were only two models for each character for me to paint – nothing for Crisis Protocol yet, nor any Zombie versions.

Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Something that’s pretty amusing is that in Marvel Zombies, Callisto is a Bystander – an NPC who is effectively an equipment card, and not a playable character. In Marvel United, she’s an enemy boss. A character that 2-4 players have to team up against in an attempt to defeat her. Same character, wildly different power levels and we’ve lost to her in the past as a MU boss character. We haven’t played with Jessica in MU yet, so not sure what she’s like, though she is an absolute beast in MZ (she took out Zombie Hulk, Wasp and Cap when we played on Saturday night)

Marvel United: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage Power Man, Iron Fist, The Punisher

I realised when I was taking the photos that Jessica has several Netflix peers painted, so I thought a small group shot was in order. No timeframe on Daredevil or Elektra getting painted yet, though!

Marvel Zombies: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Marvel Zombies: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Another pair of models from the Marvel Zombies Kickstarter haul today. We have Jessica Jones from the Defenders, also known from the Netflix series (that I haven’t yet watched) and Callisto from the X-Men rogues gallery. Jessica is a hero-suvivor with no Zombie counterpart, and Callisto is a “Bystander”, so effectively a hybrid of an NPC and a piece of gear – in her case, allowing her rescurer to ignore the usual targeting priority rules. I know very little about Jessica, except that she’s really tough and/or strong because… reasons? Like a female Luke Cage? I could look it up, I guess, or watch the show. Probably easier to let Faust and Kuribo weigh in with their knowlege of both characters instead! 😀

Marvel Zombies: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Callisto I know only a little more about. I’ve read some X-Men comics with her in them in the past and I do recall that she’s the leader of the Morlocks, a group of originally-named (mutants?) who live underground. I seem to feel like she’s a frenemy of the X-Men – but I guess that applies to pretty much everyone who they’re crossed paths with over the years, from Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, White Queen, Sabretooth…. have any of their mortal enemies also not been members of the various X-clans?

Painting this pair was pretty straightforward, though Jessica’s over-involved base made her take longer than she really should have. I think she’s also standing over a grate that is trying to do a Marilyn Monroe with her leather jacket, which I lined with red to add a little colour to what would have otherwise been quite a drab figure. She certainly kicks arse in the game, though!