Captain_Photon

Bruce Willis was dead the whole time!

Sort of a nicer version of the "Hey, Marauder, turns out your girl was a traitor. No worries, though, I wasted her so you don't have to" conversation.

Really? 'Cause I have to be honest, I look at it in exactly the opposite way. If it had no connection to the TV storyline, so much the better. No cross-contamination. If it's rubbish, it's dismissable.

I don't know why you would say that; the last time they did a theatrical Doctor Who film with no continuity linkage to the television series, it was extremely successful. That would seem to me to be a lesson learned.

Seriously. After the second or third time Maelstrom did that to me, I wanted a mission where my character learns from this experience and works out a way to prevent it from happening the next time, then savors the look of shock on un-teleported-to-safety Eddie's face for a moment before smashing it in.

(Also, I want my player teleport to have his teleport effect. It's so much less lame.)

The only other statues in Paragon City that rival Galaxy Girl's, that I can think of offhand, are the one of M1 in Blyde Square (that Positron and Valkyrie are standing in front of), and there's a humongous one of Cassiopeia on one of the little islands around Peregrine Island (ISTR Crimson's standing in front of it).

And another one in Woodvale where she died. Not a lot of heroes get that. (Interestingly, one of the handful of others I can think of was Galaxy Girl's sidekick.)

Perhaps more importantly from a game-world-design perspective, they happened before the game started. Immediately before, but still - they're events that were used to define the starting shape of the game, not changes made mid-stream. There aren't players who remember teaming up with/rescuing/thwarting Hero One.

It's difficult to impose a change like that on a persistent shared world once it's going. You have to do it as part of a flag day, like the removal of Galaxy City; otherwise you get weird discontinuities. Characters whose personal timeline hasn't reached the transition point yet running across an overworld-level feature that reflects the change they haven't yet experienced. That's annoying and generally ought to be avoided.

I'm agnostic about it. I confess to a certain irrational attachment to some of the trainers, but the TF contacts - who are, apart from Brawler, the ones on the table here, IIRC - I'm not so bothered about. Except maybe Numina. That would just seem unfair, given that she's been killed twice already. I imagine she's getting rather tired of it.

Keep in mind that by that point in the series, he's pretty much gone entirely batcrap.

Well, there you run into one of the principal problems of operating in a persistent shared world. That would all seem pretty bizarre to the people who haven't played the mission yet.

And she's Ms. Liberty's mom, which, I mean, every hero who's ever been to Atlas Park should know Ms. Liberty at least in passing. Most of my heroes started there before it became the only choice. Hell, Captain Photon made a point of taking the sentimental journey back to her for his last level-up when he turned 50. So even if he had no other knowledge of Miss Liberty in any other context, he'd still be furious that this had happened.

Who are you, the Superman Returns Superman?

Yes. This.

To be fair, Pete isn't really a shoulder-shrugging, off-the-hook kind of guy, even when it isn't his fault. That's kind of his dharma.

Bah. He who is tired of Doctor Who vs. the Daleks is tired of life.

Slightly silly question, perhaps, but have you checked to see whether you're actually wearing the title you picked afterward, window behavior notwithstanding? 'Cause I seem to recall that message coming back occasionally when I was level 15, too, but if I turned on "personal player name" in the Options, there it was anyway.

I love that Numina is on that list. It's always struck me as funny that she's one of the "Surviving Eight" given that her whole schtick is that she didn't survive, but now they've gone it one better on the silliness scale by dangling the possibility that she May Be Killed to gin up suspense for WWD.

The character I've been playing a lot lately, the Torch of Victory, has never been on a sewer trial in her life, but she did draw so many sewer missions early in her career that she actually has a special costume just for them.

I don't think this means what you seem to think it means.

(looks around the Internet)

... since when?

I remain disappointed that the Huntsman in this film isn't the Huntsman.

I know, right? It's like that movie some years back that was basically Chick Cyrano de Bergerac, and we were supposed to believe that Janeane Garofalo was the Cyrano figure.

Al Yankovic tribute band.