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Contents 1 History 1.1 Titans 1.2 Infinite Crisis and Titans East 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 3 Paraphernalia 3.1 Transportation 4 Notes 5 Trivia 6 See Also 7 Recommended Reading 8 Links and References 8.1 Footnotes

History

Raised in the Colorado community of Cosmos, Cody Driscoll lived alone with his mother in one of the worst trailer parks. His father died when he was just six months old. His mother had two husbands since, so it wasn't easy for Cody.

Cody, although an above average student, was always a bit of a thrill junkie and trouble maker. He made a hobby out of rebelling against authority. It was during one such stunt, sneaking into the government facility known as NORAD, that Cody was teleported away.

Isaiah Crockett, Toni Monetti and Cody were all abducted by the alien race, the H'San Natall. Just before Crockett was abducted, the Atom was caught in the energy stream and was transported as well. Once on the alien ship, they meet and rescued another earth girl (Prysm) who was raised in a virtual reality environment that mimicked life on earth (based on old TV shows from the 1950's). The group of teenagers was able to escape the aliens and return to earth. ^[2]

After sharing in several adventures with the Teen Titans, Cody decided (with some physical coaxing by Superboy) to turn himself in over the NORAD affair. ^[3][4]

Titans

During the adventure, the teens learned that they were half-alien, and their mothers were impregnated by the H'San Natall. They discovered they were all born on June 21st. Apparently, the kids were part of a sleeper agent program by the H'San Natall to defeat the super-powered beings already on Earth. The group stayed together, and with the funding of Loren Jupiter, became the latest incarnation of the Teen Titans. Atom decided to remain on the team to learn how to readjust to his life as a teenager.

Fellow teammate Prysm developed a crush on Cody, although he seemed more interested in pursuing Argent at the time.

After a battle with Haze, fellow teammate Joto seemingly died, leaving the team devastated. The group almost broke up after Joto's ‘death', and Argent was instrumental in initiating a membership drive to keep the group together. The team stayed together for a time with new members Fringe and Captain Marvel, Jr. joining as well.

After another altercation with the H'San Natall and the Veil, the team discovered that Joto was actually alive. They rescued him, and Prysm and Fringe elected to remain in space. As Risk said goodbye to Prysm, he told her he loved her. The rest of the team decided to go their separate ways and disbanded. Risk returned to Colorado to resume living with his mother.

Risk aided the Titans again during the Technis Imperative conflict, which involved the Justice League as well as all Titans, past and present. The two teams eventually worked together to save the earth and former Titans teammate, Victor Stone.

Infinite Crisis and Titans East

After that time, Risk embarked on a career of petty crime, becoming a fugitive. Later, however, he seemed to return to more heroic ways. Superboy called in all the reserve Titans to help him battle Superboy-Prime. When the other Titans attacked him, Superboy-Prime lashed back; not aware of the full extent of his powers, he ended up brutally maiming and murdering several of the Titans. Risk was one of his victims, as Superboy-Prime ripped off his right arm during the battle. Argent used her plasma energy to stop the blood flowing from his shoulder, saving his life. ^[5]

A year later, he was living a life of petty crimes in Colorado, for the thrill of it, apparently addicted to drugs, or painkillers. Returning to his "house", a dirty camper in a bidonville, he was approached and blackmailed by Deathstroke the Terminator into joining a new villainous version of Titans East. ^[6] Titans East clashed with the West Coast based Teen Titans and were soundly defeated. Following the battle, Deathstroke disbanded the group. ^[7]

During the Sinestro Corps War, Superboy-Prime escaped from captivity on Oa and joined Sinestro's ever-growing Corps of ring-wielding warriors. He returned to terrorize the Earth and squared off against a massive contingent of Earth's heroes. Risk engagaged Superboy-Prime for a second time, but on this occasion, Superboy tore off Cody's remaining arm. ^[8]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Hyper-Reflexes: Risk's reaction time is many times greater than the average human being.

• Invulnerability: Risk is invulnerable to most conventional forms of physical attack. However, attacks that originate from a source whose power levels are greater than his own can cause him injury or even death.

• Superhuman Stamina: Risk can operate at full capacity for extended periods of time without tiring. He is also physically healthier than a normal human being and his biology can withstand exposure to viruses or poisons.

• Superhuman Strength: Risk's strength levels are in the superhuman range, many times stronger than that of a normal human being.

• Psychic Link: Risk possesses a psychic link with all of the alien-human hybrids that were genetically bred by the H'San Natall. Through this link, Risk can perceive the emotional trauma of his peers and can determine, within limited range, where his fellow hybrids are located. ^[9]

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Riskmobile: For a very brief time, Cody owned a $230,000 sports car that he referred to as the "Riskmobile". He purchased the vehicle on Loren Jupiter's expense account immediately after joining the Teen Titans. When Jupiter learned about the purchase, he admonished Cody at length, declaring that he would deduct a percentage of the cost for the vehicle from his weekly allowance until it was paid off. By Cody's (albeit inflated) estimation, he would be 212-years-old by the time he paid the vehicle off in full. Cody eventually gave the car to his mother so that she could sell it to help out with her financial woes. ^[10]

Notes

• Cody's eyes are sometimes colored blue and sometimes colored green.

Trivia

• Often prefixes his statements by saying, "Hoookay".

• Is allergic to cats (thankfully, his powers bolster his immune system). ^[11]

See Also

• Discuss Cody Driscoll (New Earth) on the forums
• Appearances of Cody Driscoll (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Cody Driscoll (New Earth)
• Quotations by Cody Driscoll (New Earth)
• Images featuring Cody Driscoll (New Earth)

Recommended Reading

• Teen Titans (Volume 2)

Links and References

• Risk at Wikipedia
• Risk at Titans Tower
• DC Comics Encyclopedia
  

Footnotes

From Final Fantasy Wiki

Risk is a stat exclusive to Vagrant Story. It slowly increases during battles with enemies. The more Risk the player has accumulated, the lower the chances of hitting the target. Higher Risk also lowers Ashley Riot's defensive stats. The upside of this is that higher Risk allows for a great percentage of critical hits. The Vera class of Items are all based upon lowering Risk. The Alchemist's Reagent and Sorcerer's Reagent both also lower Risk.

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Callo Merlose - Jan Rosencrantz - Steward LeSait - Inquisitor Heldricht
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Romeo Guildenstern - Father Duane - Father Grissom - Lady Samantha - Lady Neesa - Sir Tieger - Cardinal Batistum
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Duke Aldous Byron Bardorba - Joshua Corrinne Bardorba - Tia and Marco
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Break Arts - Gran Grimoire - Kiltia - Blood-Sin - The Dark - Risk - Riskbreaker - Parliament - Heart-Seer
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Ability Points - Accuracy - Brave - Charge Time - Evasion - Experience Points - Defense - Health Points - Intelligence - Luck - MBlock - Magic Defense - Magic Points - Magic Power - Mind - Speed - Spirit - Stamina - Strength - Vitality
Final Fantasy VI
Vigor
Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-
Rank Points
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
Soldier Points
Final Fantasy XI
Charisma - Magic Accuracy - Tactical Points - Fame
Final Fantasy XII
License Points
Final Fantasy Tactics
Brave - Faith
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From Lostpedia

This article is about games shown in episodes of Lost. For other uses, see: Game (disambiguation)

Several games are featured in the storyline of Lost.

Contents 1 Occurrences 1.1 Minor occurrences 2 Recurring themes 2.1 The metagame 2.2 Games as a metaphor 2.3 The Numbers 2.4 Black and white 3 Producers' commentary 4 See also

Occurrences

Game	Picture	Notes
Axis and Allies wikipedia or Risk wikipedia		Locke was seen playing a board game, during lunchbreak, with one of his colleagues. The game appeared to consist of a Risk board and generic plastic army men, but is probably meant to strongly resemble Axis and Allies. ("Walkabout") A similar game was played by Locke, Sawyer, and Hurley at the Barracks. This was the 2005 "library" edition of the game with triangular blocks rather than figurines of soldiers. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Backgammon wikipedia		Locke claimed Backgammon is a better game than Checkers, dating back 5,000 years. ("Pilot, Part 2") Locke was referring to the Mesopotamian Royal Game of Ur, which is also related to the Egyptian game of senet. Locke explained the rules of Backgammon to Walt, mentioning that "There are two players. One side is light, and one side is dark." ("Pilot, Part 2") Walt was seen beating Hurley, even though Hurley claimed he was once ranked 17th in a tournament. Hurley lost $83,000 through his Backgammon games with Walt, who doesn't know that Hurley is good for the money. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") Locke and Charlie played it on the beach, to which Locke brought up Charlies heroin addiction. ("Abandoned") Kate was playing it by herself. ("Left Behind") Locke and Sawyer played it while Locke asked if the group still had confidence in him. ("Eggtown") Even as a child, Locke liked Backgammon. ("Cabin Fever") In the non-canonical novel Endangered Species, Locke finds the backgammon set with Faith.
Baseball main article wikipedia		Christian Shephard's catchphrase was about the Boston Red Sox never winning the World Series. ("Outlaws") Ben shows the Red Sox winning the World Series on the Hydra television to Jack. ("The Glass Ballerina") Jack asks Frank Lapidus if the Red Sox won the World Series. Frank says he doesn't want to talk about it because he bleeds "Yankee blue". ("The Economist") One of Richard Alpert's objects that he uses to administer a test to John Locke is a baseball glove. ("Cabin Fever")
Chess main article wikipedia		Henrik and Mathias are seen playing chess in the listening station ("Live Together, Die Alone") Locke finds a computer that allows him to play chess against an automated opponent in the Flame Station. Mikhail claims the computer cannot be beat, but Locke manages to unlock the Flame video by winning a game. ("Enter 77") The board setup is taken from an actual game, a 1985 world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov that became known as the "Brisbane Bombshell" People in the background of Sayid's Paris cafe are playing chess. (Image) ("Enter 77") Pryce is playing chess with Luke when Ben orders him to go get the Losties ("Greatest Hits") Mikhail is playing chess with Richard Alpert. ("Through the Looking Glass") Each player in chess starts with 16 pieces. A chess board is 8 squares by 8 squares, half light, half dark. "MacCutcheon" is a name of a prominent brand of Scotch in Lost; it is also a variation of the French Defence opening in chess [1][2] [3] [4] [5]. Chess is the central theme of "King of the Castle". Ben and Jack are playing, and Ben is victorious after playing a "castle". In "The Beginning of the End", Matthew Abaddon sits in front of a chess board. While in the mental institution, Hurley plays a chess game against "Mr. Eko." ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3") In Lost: Via Domus, Elliot finds a chessboard amongst the wreckage.
Connect Four wikipedia		Connect Four was the game played by Leonard Simms at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. It appears he was playing both colors, while chanting the Numbers over and over again. ("Numbers") Hurley was playing Connect Four at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute in "The Beginning of the End". When a player places 4 pieces in a straight line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, he wins the game. Connect Four has 42 possible positions to put pieces in.
Crossword puzzles main article wikipedia		Shannon worked on a crossword puzzle on the beach. ("Walkabout") Shannon worked on a crossword puzzle in the airport. ("Exodus, Part 1") Locke worked on a crossword puzzle in the Swan. ("Collision") Jack had a crossword puzzle in his car. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
Football wikipedia		Jack played American football with Tom during his time with the Others. ("Par Avion")
Golf wikipedia		Hurley set up a golf course. ("Solitary") Desmond borrows a golf club from Paulo, and offered some advice. Paulo enquired if Desmond played golf, to which Desmond responded 'I'm Scottish.' (the St. Andrews golf course in Scotland is considered the spiritual home of golf). ("Every Man for Himself") Jin had a psychological breakdown on the golfcourse, after which the Losties decided to quit golf for a while. ("Jin Has a Temper-Tantrum on the Golf Course") Sayid meets and kills Mr. Avellino while playing golf on a private course in the Seychelles. ("The Economist")
Horseshoes wikipedia		Hurley defeats Sawyer at a game of horseshoes at the barracks due to his superior luck. ("The Other Woman")
I Never main article wikipedia		Kate and Sawyer played I never. ("Outlaws")
Mouse Trap wikipedia		Locke demonstrated the game Mouse Trap to a child before catching a glimpse of his mother. ("Deus Ex Machina") A Mouse Trap game (box upside down) was seen in front of the window Kate was staring at in the barracks rec room. ("Left Behind") On a Mouse Trap board, every third space contains only the number 23 (really a juxtaposition of 2&3) and every third space contains the numbers 23 and 4
Ping-Pong wikipedia		A ping-pong table was shown in the Swan station. ("The Long Con") A ping-pong table was mentioned in a notebook read by Kate. ("Live Together, Die Alone") Sawyer challenged Hurley to a match to win his stash back. Hurley wins the game. ("Enter 77") A match between Sawyer and Hurley is interrupted by Nikki. ("Exposé") Sawyer plays Jack after his return from the Others' camp, joking that they have to do so every 108 minutes or the island will explode. ("Catch-22")
Poker wikipedia		Boone was wearing a shirt with four aces on it. ("Homecoming") Sawyer, Hurley, Kate and Jack all engaged in a game of Texas Hold 'Em in which Jack won the medical supplies back from Sawyer. They used the DHARMA Initiative playing cards from the Swan station. ("Lockdown")
Football (Assoc. Soccer) wikipedia		Sayid and Essam played football in the park. ("The Greater Good") Young Eko and Yemi are seen playing football before the militia crime lords came to the village. ("The 23rd Psalm") Desmond watches a football game in a pub twice (with fictional team 'Graybridge' playing), predicting the outcome both nights & getting it right once. Actually the images belong to a game between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid from Spain's La Liga. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") Ruth tells Desmond, "We dated for six years, and the closest you ever came to a religious experience was Celtic winning the cup." ("Catch-22")

Minor occurrences

• Basketball

• The patients at Santa Rosa played basketball. ("Dave")
• Kevin Callis wore a NBA Miami Heat logo T-shirt. ("I Do")
• The neighbors across the street of the Reyes in Hurley's childhood scene were playing basketball. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• Jack and Hurley play a game of HORSE, a variant of basketball, at Santa Rosa. ("The Beginning of the End")

• Pool

• Sawyer met Kilo at a pool hall. ("Confidence Man")
• Ana Lucia tracked down Jason McCormack in a bar containing a pool table. ("Collision")
• Kate was held prisoner by the Others at the Barracks in a rec room containing a pool table, foosball table, and two pinball machines ("The Man from Tallahassee")
• Efren Salonga is a possib;e reference to Efren "Bata" Reyes, a professional Filipino billiards/pool player.("Jughead")

• Foosball

• A foosball table was visible (Image) in the toy store breakroom as Frainey visits Locke ("Deus Ex Machina"), as well as the room in the Barracks where Kate is held prisoner by the Others ("The Man from Tallahassee") which also contains a pool table and pinball machines.
• A foosball table was in the rec room where Kate was held prisoner by the Others at the Barracks ("The Man from Tallahassee")

• Darts

• A dartboard is also in the Barrack's rec room when Benjamin and Sayid are being held by Locke.("The Economist") It's pattern is in Black and White.
• There is a dartboard and darts in the Swan station which become magnetically attracted towards the electro magnetic force behind the wall of the station at the end of Series 2.

• Sawyer calls the Island "Monkey Island," a possible reference to LucasArts' series of computer adventure games. ("Pilot, Part 1")
• Walt was frequently seen playing fetch with Vincent.
• A Brisbane Broncos rugby league team poster is seen in Claire and Thomas' apartment. ("Raised by Another")
• Boone is seen wearing an old jersey of the Italian national football team. ("Hearts and Minds")
• Ice hockey can be seen played as Hurley quickly surfs between television channels during a flashback. ("Numbers")
• Sayid's acquaintances, Yusef and Haddad, were playing Half-Life, when he first met them when taken to their apartment by Essam. They were playing the 2001 Playstation 2 version of the game. ("The Greater Good")
• Sanjay is apparently playing a video game when Kate arrives at the front desk of the motel. ("Born to Run")
• Walt played with a Game Boy Advance SP. ("Exodus, Part 1")
• Locke compared the removal of the dynamite to the game Operation. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• Old Scooter Man wore a gambling themed baseball cap. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• A dart board was shown in the Swan station.
• Sawyer compared the Swan computer to the video game Donkey Kong. ("The Long Con")
• While residing at Santa Rosa, Libby is seen seated at a table with a Mancala set in front of her. ("Dave")
• Sawyer boxed in prison. ("Every Man for Himself")
• Desmond is accidentally struck by a cricket bat. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
• Two pinball machines can be seen in the Barracks recreation room. One is the 1999 "Revenge From Mars", the other is the 1988 "Cyclone." When we visit the Barracks later in "LaFleur," purportedly in 1974, the "Cyclone" machine is visible, though it shouldn't even exist yet.
• Some residents of the Barracks were playing volleyball at the time of the Purge. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
• Keamy is seen on the freighter skeet shooting. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
• Sawyer and Hurley played blackjack in ("Fire + Water").

Recurring themes

The metagame

• Desmond warns Jack that Ben and Eloise are playing some kind of game, and that the survivors are just the pieces. ("The Other Woman")
• The interactions between Ben and Widmore are governed by a set of rules. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
• Jacob's conversation with his nemesis in the beginning of The Incident suggest that the two are playing by the same rules. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")

Games as a metaphor

“

"I like to use the baseball metaphor which is, you can go to a baseball game and if you don't know a lot about baseball, I think you can enjoy it on one level as a casual viewer and you can enjoy it on a much deeper level as a regular viewer". -- Carlton Cuse in the "Lost Survivor Guide"

”

• Operation: Locke told Jack "I'm removing the driest pieces to minimize our risk transporting it. You ever play Operation?"

  Metaphor: The removal of the dynamite was compared to the tenseness of the game of Operation.

• Mouse Trap: Locke said "One by one, you build the trap - shoe, bucket, tub - piece by piece it all comes together. And then you wait 'til your opponent lands here on the old cheese wheel. And then if you set it up just right, you spring the trap."

• Metaphor: Locke's description of Mouse Trap mirrored the con Locke's father orchestrated to steal Locke's kidney, and in a more general sense, the ongoing con of Locke by Jacob's nemesis, giving him faith in the island in order to occupy his body and kill Jacob.

• Poker: In "Lockdown", Jack pretended to have a great poker hand, but Sawyer didn't believe him. In the same episode, Ben told Locke that he typed in the Numbers into the Swan Computer.

• Metaphor: Jack's bluffing in Poker was mirrored in his successful ploy to outwit Sawyer, and in Ben's ploy to lie to Locke

• Baseball: Christian Shephard told Sawyer "You are suffering. But, don't beat yourself up about it. It's fate. Some people are just supposed to suffer. That's why the Red Sox will never win the damn series."

  Metaphor: The futility of Sawyer trying to end his own suffering was compared with the futility of the Red Sox trying to win a World Series. (see also: Irony)

The Numbers

The games have references to the Numbers:

• The objective of Connect Four is to get 4 discs in a row on a plane of 42 holes.
• Backgammon consists of two sets of 15 checkers. There are 4 sets of six playable spaces. A die has six numbers on it, the same amount of Numbers there are. The doubling cube has the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32 on it (which is 23 backwards). The most number of spaces (without being taken out of play) a piece can move if the player is not yet able to take their pieces off the board (which requires all the player's pieces to be in the last six spaces on their side is 23.
• Each player in chess starts with 16 pieces on an 8 by 8 grid.

Black and white

Several games are depicted or described as black and white:

• Locke specifically describes the pieces on a Backgammon board as "One side is light, and one side is dark". The playable spaces on the board also alternate with one being light and one being dark. The dice are white and the dots on them are black.
• The pieces on a chess board are black and white.
• The crossword puzzles are depicted as a grid of black and white squares.

Producers' commentary

• In an interview[6] with Entertainment Weekly, writer/executive producer Damon Lindelof defended writing decisions for the show using a game-based analogy:

“

I feel like we're playing a chess game. In the first six moves, we've lost our queen and two bishops, and the audience is saying 'They are the worst chess players in the world!' What they don't realize is that we're nine moves away from checkmating you. If we lose, we lose. But that's the play, and we're standing by it.

”

See also

• Counter-Strike: Source map
• The Lost Experience
• Myst
• Outside references to Lost - by the games: PvP Online's Lost Role Playing Game, Ctrl+Alt+Del's parody of Command & Conquer 3, The Impossible Quiz web game, the game "Desert Island" in The Office, Half-Life 2

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Risk is a commercial boardgame produced by Hasbro under its Parker Brothers boardgames imprint. It involves turn-based strategy on a world map for two to six players. It was invented in 1957 by the clever fleshling Albert Lamorisse, to allow his fellow meat creatures to pretend they were conquering the world. Little did these primitive sentients know that they were but grain before the thresher of mighty Megatron.

Merchandise

• RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition (2007)

Here is what many Transformers fans have been waiting for for years (decades for many of us), a chance to participate in the Great War! Transformers RISK is a themed version of the old boardgame with a little Cybertronian flair.

For any fan of the boardgame RISK it's common knowledge that holding the bottlenecks, and therefore the "continent", is the key to victory. Hasbro's newest version changes the rules slightly with the ability to transform. The Cybertronian version of this game has characters (leaders of armies) who can change from their robot form to their alt. mode as well as entire territories (zones) that turn, open, and even crush whole armies, creating new strategic opportunities instantly. While the characters are obviously from the live-action movie, the areas of Cybertron draw primarily from the comic book continuities, and players can even occupy Unicron and Primus themselves, or, presumably, just zones named in honor of them. The game has limits to its fun in the form of a 6 "day" time limit, but this is easily modified by just ignoring the counter on the side of the board. A variation from standard RISK that's harder to ignore is the use of the cards one gets from successfully invading another's territory during your turn. Instead of the regular card with a army type on it accompanied by a territory, which could be exchanged for reinforcements once three of a kind were collected, the Transformer's RISK cards contain the ability to transform territories, provide offensive/defensive enhancements, or add an extra army or two, depending on the choice of the player who plays it. Gone are the days of massive reinforcements with which to scour the planet if one massive march.

The winner of the game is still primarily decided by the dice, which shine luck indiscriminately and often thwart even the most capable war planner. Still, the game is fun and encourages creativity in the field of All-Things-Transformers. Now all fans need in a software version complete with graphics and sound bites...

External Links

• TF Risk review with pictures