BlueBattler

Actually I'd say that Devoured Rikti would look like the normal Devoured we see, so there'd be no way to tell. The Devoured don't seem to retain their speech patterns once they are changed: a Troll DE would sound the same as a Crey Scientist DE.

As for Rikti Ghosts ... it depends on what ghosts are. If you have to have some kind of personal magic to manifest as a ghost then it's no surprise there are no ghost Rikti ... or if they don't believe in an Afterlife maybe they just dissipate upon death.

At least some Rikti have learned magic from the COT ... though I think the ones who have done so are transformed humans ... still there's no reason to assume the COT could not take possession of a Rikti Magus ... (given the Rikti weakness to magic I am not convinced they could expunge a possessing COT from a Rikti.)

I always thought a neat solution to Nick Fury would be having Nick Fury in WW2 be his dad. No reason to assume that Nick I would be incapable of having a biracial marriage ....

I pondered that too, and decided against Peggy being Tony's mother for the exact same reason.

Howard marrying late-- or more than once-- is entirely plausible. Rich men can often have children quite late in life.

I wonder if they will touch on Steve knowing Tony's dad in the movie.

Manti: "Now Shalice I just need you to sign this pre-nup..."

Sister Psyche: *does the waggly finger confuse thing* You don't need me to sign a pre-nup."

Manti: I don't need you to sign a pre-nup...

Oh, I'm sure that BABs is going to be perfectly safe. I would be REALLY surprised if the Devs DID kill him-- or any of the Freedom Phalanx or the Vindicators-- off.

I guess it doesn't fit my mental image of BABs that he'd let his city fall while he still had breath left to defend it.

Maybe Shalice realizes its a lost cause and mind controls BABs to make him leave for his own safety. Maybe he's knocked out. Maybe he suffers injuries in battle that prevent him from being able to stave off the disaster.

IMO, there should be some kind of loss to the Fall of Galaxy ... and NOT just generic "Oh thousands of no name NPCs died and the city was made into a wasteland" sort of way.

When DC Comics had Coast City be destroyed by the Cyborg Superman, it appeared that everyone that Hal Jordan knew or loved happened to not be in the city. He didn't lose a single person that mattered to him ... (though I think it was later retconned that Kari Limbo, his former fiancee, died.)

Maybe we'll see BABs with cybernetic limbs. Maybe his bio will be tagged with a line about how he's dealing with the tragic loss of Galaxy.

Maybe we'll find out that all the Galaxy City contacts perished in the destruction. (And given that one of those contacts is part of the cape mission I am curious about how that will revamped. Oh, and Shadowstar ... can't forget about her.)

I don't know the mechanics of the game. I don't know if the Devs could simply replace BABs with, for instance, Miss Lberty (Megan's mom) or it would take far too much work to make the changes that'd be required to deal with the death of a major NPC.

But if Galaxy City is destroyed and it makes NO difference to BABs or the rest of Paragon then what's the point of doing it in the first place?

Unless your character has never read a newspaper or watched a television broadcast, I'd argue that BABs level of fame in Paragon is high enough that you'd recognize him, even if you came from somewhere else in the United States.

He's been active in Paragon since the 1970s. Most of our characters aren't born at the moment of creation ... they have a life before they started fighting evil or against justice.
I find it unrealistic to assume they don't know who someone like BABs, Positron, or Statesman is.

Fusionette, Doc Buzzsaw-- someone on that level I could easily assume they are unknown to the general public.

Granted, not ALL characters would necessarily know who he is-- the PC might be from another time or world or country, but IMO it's PLAUSIBLE they would know who he is.

I have to admit that my mind/fire Dom developed quite the crush on Katie. As a Psi in Praetoria himself, he was very sympathetic to their cause ... and I was pleasantly surprised he got to say goodbye to her when he left.

"Oh, Wretched Man" is an awesome story. Nothing like seeing Ghost Widow call out your name as you are about to put the beatdown on her captors.

And Paolo's story is just so sad ...

Every time I do Jenni Adair's arc I run my hardest to save my double's life even though I know I'm doomed to failure. I have managed to land near him before the place goes up. That's the best I've done.

I have to admit that's a story I sort of wish we could have played from the other side as a Praetorian-- you come to Primal Earth, do the rescue Jenni Adair mission, thwart the invasion ... but for the Praetorian version YOU live while the Primal version dies saving your life.

That could be all kinds of neat.

(Aside from the mechanics, I can see why the Devs would not want to do that as many people made a Praetorian version of their Primal characters and wouldn't appreciate having one of their characters "killed" ...)

Of course the Battalion could have been from another dimensional Earth as well.

The best thing about that mission is that you can fail it and let the timer run out. I almost always do that because of the souvenir you get from that.

And if it makes you feel better-- or worse if you are a villain-- I think there's a tip mission where a hero rescues her.

Generally writers tend to forget the heavy gravity aspect of Superman's powers.

(I do remember a Legion story that Jim Shooter wrote back in the 60s where the Dark Circle used a heavy gravity plate to nullify his super strength, but in general they assume that he's a totally normal human without the yellow sun.)