AzureSkyCiel

Funny thing is, on the day the OP was made, I had had a dream the night before where I was in a new zone, I think it was a Blueside exclusive, but basically it was a new beach area, kind of gloomy with a military outpost, kind of like the Normandy shoreline in WWII, when the zone announcement came... In that zone and the Villains equating zone, the Council were unleashing their giant mechmen.
At first I thought, "okay, so we're getting a new GM for this zone, cool." Lord how wrong I was...

It wasn't a giant Mechman, it was TWO MASSIVE WARCRY robots. And I mean MASSIVE, everyone was suffering from targetting issues because of how huge they were, and we could see them coming from more than 800 yards off, in the end we got our vehicle temp powers to help bring them down as well as used the artillery placements, but I missed the end of the fight since I decided to flip to someone else.

As a joke in my head I once paired up Arbiter Sands and Nocturne based on a clue Sands leaves that mentions him needing to confront Nocturne about trying to kill him, and bringing a card and flowers as a backup plan.
It kind of went like this:

Sands: *Mutters* Okay... Plan B. *To flunkies* Did you bring the card and the flowers? And why are you dressed like the Beatles?

Flunkies: We're in a tribute band together, mind if we practice a little? Also, we couldn't quite find the right card so we just went with the next best thing.

Sands: Whatever, give it here.

*Silly little love song plays in the background*

Sands: Nocturne. *Hands her the flowers and card... Not knowing it's a romantic greeting card*

Nocturne: Sands, what is the-... *Trails off, sees the flowers, reads the card, listens to the music and blushes* Sands... How did you know?

Sands: ... Huh?

They get married (mostly because Sands is too afraid to say "no"), Lord Recluse dies of laughter, Statesman dies similarly after hearing of Recluse dying of laughter. And the world is a better place.

On another note, other random pairings: Scirocco x Ghost Widow... yeah, no imagination... Lady Jane x Fusionette (Kamikaze lesbians!), and every woman x Back Alley Brawler, because women love the BAB.

And you've done it again, Steel Claw, I wonder how the devs will react to this?

Ooooh! This would be great!

A while ago I had thought it would be really cool if there were special MA exclusive maps, and one was for a council or fifth column map with a functioning armory.

It'd be really cool to have a chance to raid villain armories and so forth in MA missions!

Nemesis's Japanese voice would be Norio Wakamoto

And randomly, anyone who could be played by Yuri Lowenthal?

Adding to this wonderful list:

The Orange Archipelago:
Would have made master minds way too powerful, possibly even given them the power to overthrow Arachnos. Also, reports indicate that any squad of Arachnos operatives sent in lost all competence to fulfill their mission. Jokingly referred to as "The Idiot Ball Islands" by some operatives.

I kind of like the idea of making the city feel more like it's being lived in, it would be nice to have things like this and see proper residential districts with houses and stuff, more unique looking buildings (one thing I had to hand to Champions was that I-don't-give-a-@#$%-City looked like an actual city, I live a little bit a ways from LA and I can tell you it looks NOTHING like Paragon, though that might be the difference between East coast and west coast cities), etc. etc.
But this isn't a pressing concern for me as a player because I know the devs do have other things on their hands, and I can note that the lack of cars is justifiable because one needs to consider that at least have of paragon can leap, fly, run really fast, run really really fast, teleport (I'm sure some civilians with super powered friends, relatives, or loved ones are afforded base teleporter access), and have access to a tram that's apparently seldom attacked. (Because then the villains wouldn't have any means to go through zones either!)

I think it would be cool if the booster were: "Call of the Wild" (Seriously, Jack London, that was the coolest name EVER)

The worst I really have Elder Machina: His basic concept is taking the idea that the Necronomicon is bound in human flesh and written in human blood to a different level that basically mean, he has human form and the secrets of the old ones would be read in his blood. Despite this, he tries to be a hero (partly because none of the villain powersets worked and if he wanted to be evil, he'd just give himself to any old insane magi and let them summon Chuthullu) though he still has problems...

Like his tendency to randomly bleed strange things (blood, oil, tears, insects), the fact that the eldritch machinery that makes up part of his body (I also based him off of an idea that said the Necronomicon was more of a machine than a book in our sense) cannot be stared at for prolonged periods without hurting your eyes, having a stroke, going insane, and then there's the fact that he doesn't "get up" it's more like he reshapes himself into an erect stance.
In general, a lot of his problems stem from the fact that he's made of alien geometries, impossible objects, and a little bit of squick.

This is an ukemi!

So I was randomly looking up stuff about spiders and decided to read into the spiders the various Arachnos units tend to be based off of (With the exception of Fliers, Fortunata, and Banes, who are all freaks of nature, but that's besides the point.) and got a few weird thoughts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider
Based off of some of the information in this article, wouldn't this mean that the cloak and attack styles of the Bane spider would fall closer to what Crab Spiders can do?

Also, why is there no Arachnos unit based off of or called "Birdeater"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-eating_spider)

And we've never been told if there's another name for the min subs Arachnos uses, would they be called Dock/wharf/fishing/raft spiders?

Should Wolf Spiders be able to basically use Gang War only with Spiderlings? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider)

Also, Jumping Spiders are cute, and apparently cute in nature. (Or it's just me): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Mystaceus.jpg

As further note, I don't think the two are related in anyway.

P.S. Praetorian is another example of a Classical reference. Oh hell, just read up on the Easter Egg/In-Game References page on the Wiki. Signs that the Devs Did Their Research.

Basically as the title says, I would like to see if we can get alternate animations for taunt/confront powers, this especially goes to ones that are not in a weapon powerset since the double handed finger curl seems a little... Dumb. Or just just doesn't work for the concept of some characters.

This isn't a pressing suggestion, mostly just something to point out to the Devs if they happen by to consider.
For the rest of us, how about some suggestions for what kind of alternate animations could work.

General:
I'd like to see the butt smack emote linked with taunt, if that doesn't say "nah nah! Come and fight me, loser(s)!" I don't know what does.

Or the bow for the more Eastern/martial arts inclined character, who chooses to begin all fights with respect and end with respect.