AzureSkyCiel

While nuclear weapons are indeed viable threats, even in a world of super heroes, I never could help that the OP is right, and I feel this is one of the major failings of City of Heroes.

We live in a world of super powers, but everything is so damn normal. Why aren't the Steel Canyon Star Scrapers with things like Buddhist temples or an arbitrary rural house? Where are the buildings that have garden terraces and grass top roofs with trees growing out of them? Why is the military so woefully plan in it's technological capabilities compared to the guy who's been building a suit of powered armor in a cave with a box of scraps? Why aren't the tanks equipped with high-powered railguns, capable of hovering off the ground (with jumping abilities), and armed with anti-aircraft missiles and miniature versions of the GAU-8 Avenger Gatling gun? Why do we have these dumb rotor-based helicopters and not more jet engine VTOLs like the Sky Skiff or Longbow Chaser?

I suppose, as pointed out, it's to try to keep players from disconnecting too much with the reality the game is set in. If things were too super, it would seem less like a super powered earth with everyday magic and super-science and more like some alien world with poorly planned thematics.

In addition to some of the others mentioned, I would like to nominate a revived Clockwork King.

Simple enough for him to get his body back, we could even make it an SSA: Crey needs help stepping of their Reverent Hero project and decide the Clockwork King would be easy pickings, first they start by working with Malta and player villains to try to drive a wedge between him and Penelope Yin, heroes have to try to keep the two on more stable grounds, but the wedge still manages to become just enough of a divide that they both blow eachother off for awhile.

Crey swoops in, takes the clockwork king and lock him up and prep him for the Reverent Hero Project. Malta backstabs Crey to try to take the clone, villains take advantage of the confusion to have a technological shopping spree (loot dead malta sappers: get sap stick temp power!) while heroes are just trying to find out what happened to the King.

They find his dying 'body' next to his cloned one, Penny appears, distraught and guilty, but tells you she can transfer his consciousness into the clone, but as she's doing that, ambushes spawn, heroes trash the mooks, fight a boss, the Clockwork King is back, with a new body, and a much more stable mind.

As a gift and since villains would get a King's Standard buttload of temp powers from this, Clockwork King and Penny even things by rewarding heroes with a few temp powers.

Roll credits, we now have a new Phalanx member, and Penny and CK's relationship is now...

Freakier actually, because if my estimates were right, the clockwork king died when he was 14, sixteen at the most and Penny is about 22 now.

you know, it actually looks a bit like what some of the Seers wear. Given Penny's psychic POWER LEVELS and still comparatively little experience, it may be a limiter to keep her from accidentally destroying things in a panic or similar bad situation.

or it might help her focus her psychic powers into other abilities, like given it's attachment to her back, maybe it enhances her synaptic connections with whatever psychic foresight she might have to enhance her reflexes.

The problem is that I don't think Fusionette is in AE.
Nor is a high level Flambeaux.

it's sort of an interesting list to read and look over it amongst my villains and heroes in comparison.

For example, a majority of my villains fall into "noble demons" or even just heroes on the wrong side of the fence. They're not out to cause problems for the world, they've often just lost hope that they can make a positive difference and instead have resolved to fortify their small lots in the world. anyone who's trustworthy and loyal can join into this lot and gain protection.

On the otherhand, my true villain is not all about killing randomly, but he is a huge troll in many respects, he pisses people off just because he can afford it, and despite the former mentioned about killing, he has no qualms about it, indeed, it's the end result of many of his objectives (mind eating).

As far as Penny's costume is concerned, she's at least better protected from the elements than some OTHER psychics in New England climate that could be named.

*cough*SisterPsyche*cough*AuroraBorealis*Cough*Ser afina*cough*

Okay, the latter could be justified since she's not human, and as a friend of mine pointed out, they're all powerful psychics, so chances are they have a sort of personal climate control thing going on for them. Especially reasonable for Psyche who actually does have forcefield powers.

And Penny's supposed to be more powerful than Psyche, she wasn't so bad in the LGTF aside from being low on the hit point scale. So what are we looking at here? Is she going to be an example of being an Incarnate Equal without actually being an Incarnate?

Randomly, something I would have loved to have seen was for all three Clockwork Kings to merge into one and become insanely (possible extra emphasis on the insane) powerful force, not unlike the Dragon Ball Z Super 17 saga.

Edit: I'm sorry, it was Dragon Ball GT

I get it now! Penny's costume looks like it does because she's a fan of Testsuya Nomura, the dothack franchise, and likely other Asian pop culture shows.

Also, I kind of wished Penny had joined WISDOM, that's a group that seriously need more members, especially members that appear in-game, or maybe have WISDOM merge with the Phalanx, because seriously, there might as well be only two people in WISDOM right now since Rose Star and Spark Blade never even get mentioned in-game.