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Right, 'cause that worked out so well for Robespierre.

I want to reiterate that my clone had two defensive powersets. Or, in in-game terms, my clone was too stupid to swing its arms. It could walk... and that was it.

While, yeah, I laughed at it, I laugh at Johnny Knoxville, too, for basically the same reason. If I weren't laughing, I'd have to recognize how utterly pathetic it was.

How's that line from House go, again?

"...Yeah, you're as pure as driven snow."
"Only if the driven snow likes being on top."

Or something to that effect. Just a thought.

I've got a /Regen build floating around that's maybe, maybe 200 million, if you're buying it nao! Otherwise, it's probably somewhere between 100 million and 150.

Is it softcapped? No. Does it achieve anything special at low levels? No. But the average player can build it without too much trouble, and that's something that makes me happy inside.

Yeah, I'm not buyin' it. I think we might need photographic evidence, or something.

...Please?

Maybe we could get them to fight? Like, with Silver Mantis, and everything?

Word. I'd enjoy playing another City of Heroes game, sure, but only if I was playing it. If it wasn't my characters, my powers, and my way of playing, I really don't see much value. The Freedom Phalanx don't interest me terribly, except as they interact with my characters.

On the other hand, can you imagine what a Mass Effect-style game in the CoX world would be like? And, maybe, a combat system from Ninja Gaiden? Yeah, that I'd play. I'd play that a lot.

That's circular logic.

But, more to the point, just because something is used does not make it overused.

Or, since the words 'trope' and 'convention' seem to be giving you a bit of a hiccup, let's put this in terms of cliches. Merriam Webster defines a cliche as

1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace

Tropes, on the other hand, are just things multiple people have used. So, yes, "multiple people" can be a such a staggeringly high number that everyone and their child has seen the trope before in numerous permutations. If it's gotten to a point past expectancy, and is now thoroughly mocked, it's probably a cliche. Though, as noted previously, there is no definite line. We can only look at these things retrospectively and call them one or the other.

Another thought to keep in mind, is how broad and general some tropes can be. A guy walking around in black leather and fighting with a pair of katanas is completely cliched. But the concept of people fighting, in and of itself, is simply a trope, and is, I think, far too general to become trite and overused.

I have a teenaged mutant character who was kicked out of his house by his parents when they discovered his mutations, on account of being fundamentalist religious nutjobs. I'm not actually sure how the kid managed to be raised by fundamentalist religious nutjobs without turning into one himself. Foster care, maybe? Any ways, yeah, I've done that bit, too.

A cliche is something overused, trite, and expected. A trope is a convention or commonality between stories. So, a trope can easily become a cliche through overuse or misuse, but it is not inherently one, and it does not start as one.

Did either of you see the February FanArt Contest submissions? You, ah, might wanna check 'em out.

They're monomolecular blades. Why the haft of a bow needs to be one molecule thick, I've no idea, but there's the answer for ya. Do with it what you will.

I don't suppose I can get Bug Hunter from that?

I completed that one, once, on an eight man team. The leader was far more concerned with maintaining group dynamics than he was finding hostages, and so with twenty minutes left, we still had a third of the hostages to find. I and one other teammate stealthed around the map and managed to find the last four. Our final hostage was found with less than a minute on the clock, and saved in the single digits of seconds left. God, I hate that mission.

Not terribly. Webnade is an immobilize, which is about as soft a control can be without being actual soft control. Shuriken's a mediocre ranged attack for an AT with low ranged modifiers. You're much better served taking powers that improve survivability, unless it's a concept power.

Poor soloing power, which is what Sam did state, does not equal underpowered. However, it seems that a certain amount of snark is being treated as arguments, which seems less than helpful.

Um, with She-Hulk? Yeah, it's probably safer to wait.

Actually, with all the peoples she's known, it's probably safer to just not.