Jophiel

Pretty much. I have a mute character, Ragdoll, who is basically a cloth golem. "She" is sentient but has no method of, or interest in, speaking or using sign language/notes/mime/etc. I treated her forced dialogue like I treat "you run your fingers through your hair" -- retcon it in my own mind to my satisfaction and ignore the "reality" in favor of enjoying the rest of the game.

Eagleman?

(1) Who on earth would use "mayor" for that rather than "king" or "emperor" or "lord" or anything else?
(2) The Tsoo are pretty low on the Paragon City totem pole, even back when the game capped at 40. This isn't Nemesis we're talking about. This leaves us with the question of why Founders Falls, for example, will be under the Tsoo boot (sandal?) just because they push the Warriors around.
(3) They already treat the law however they'd like.

But setting aside that stupidness, the arc itself is boring. Street hunts, FedEx missions and then a string of "Bust Leader & his Crew" missions where you wouldn't even guess there's anything special about them except there's a couple guys doing the fighting animation. No special text, no NPC dialogue beyond the stock "You suck!", "No YOU suck!" from the fighters... just beat up the boss and move on to the next one. The last mission inexplicably has hostages in it after your contact told you that the buildings are "empty right now, which makes them perfect meeting places for the Warriors." When you rescue the hostages, they just say "Wow, those guys are crazy!" are run off. Haha, don't you know it, Mr. Guy Who Wasn't Supposed To Be Here Anyway! Say what you want about Roy Cooling, at least the arc has some interesting mechanics. Tsoo Coup is vanilla even by launch standards. Oh, and when you finally finish, you're told that a hit's been put on you by Tub Ci but everyone is too afraid to take it. So that was rewarding closure.

It's not just a bad arc, it's a painfully bad arc that goes out of its way to insult your intelligence and mock you for wasting your time on it.

I have an easier time imagining single-word iconic names splashed across a comics cover than other ones. You won't need to point out any examples of the latter, it's just a personal preference. Even on Virtue, almost all of my names were of the "single image-provoking noun" variety. I just had to bust out the thesaurus to find those nouns.

I found it interesting because the common conceit in "name wipe" threads is that there's no consensus on what's a good name. Since "good" is subjective, I'll agree there but I think there's evidence on what style of name is the most immediately popular. Not just in this thread but having sat around AP on launch day and spent time watching the swarm of gray spandexed men popping in and out.

Also, picked up Chicago Fire showing that there's exceptions to every rule

At over $300, it's just as out of reach for me as it would be otherwise. I guess what bothers me most is the whole "VIP" thing. I'm paying the VIP premium now but I'm not VIP enough unless I drop hundreds of dollars whereas before I could pay my monthly and buy boosters for ten bucks? This is supposed to be the new and better CoH with more options? I've gone from skeptical to just plain deciding to quit the game when my six month runs out because "VIP" isn't really and I feel like my monthly subscription is worth less than it was prior to "Freedom". I didn't want to play for free or premium or whatever, I wanted to be able to pay my $15 and have my experience remain as it was and that isn't an option any longer with $300 gates between me and my supposed "VIP" content.

The only "significance" it has is to say "I have a lot of spare cash to drop on a costume set". And I don't begrudge anyone for having or spending that cash but that's the only thing it says. It's not as though you have to save a baby or wrestle a gorilla for it, you just need to open your wallet wide enough.

Agreed. It's cool but not a couple hundred dollars worth of cool (man, I can't even type that with a straight face). I miss buying stuff as boosters rather than having it dangled in front of me. "VIP? Yes, but not VIP enough!"

If I gave a list of every insane OCD thing they did to save money, I'd be here all day. Apparently, the three pennies every two years in saved electricity costs was worth it to them.

Kind of like humping across Steel Canyon to sell my magic/natural DOs

Well, then they wouldn't be SOs, now would they? They'd just be... "Os"

I still do, memories of days when I was scraping for every influence and a costume contest win was 10k still in my mind. These days I have billions of influence but I'm like my grandparents who lived through the Depression and spent the rest of their days with the refrigerator light bulb unscrewed to save money.