Scythus

"Behold, I am Venture, complete arbiter of right and wrong. Thy character concepts are meaningless and thy should accept all limitations without question. I, the mighty Venture, have spoken."

So is Westin Phipps, but yet we can still run missions with him.

Perhaps you're forgetting that half this game is Villains? Some of us are tired of pushing our villains through the same content that we do on our heroes because of some "greater evil." Villains are bad guys, ne'er-do-wells, not darker colored heroes with ill adjusted social skills. Some of our villain characters WILL be complete monsters.

Sir, I have no clue what you're talking about. What's a Kheldian?*

*Yes, that's sarcasm. Please don't actually answer that.

Too bad Venture doesn't seem to be getting this.

You make it sound like the HAL 9000 or VIKI.

No you didn't, see:

I was referring to the characters themselves, NOT THE PLAYER.

No one said it was. I was speaking from the point of a story. If you have one guy doing something here, then across the world another guy doing something else, Person A and Person B are not going to know what's happening to the other. Seriously, what you're expecting is say, myself, knowing what's happening to you right now.


And he's sharing his Incarnate powers with them.

Wow, the point just flew over your head, didn't it?

Villains don't encounter Maria Jenkins. At all. There is no Praetorian content villainside. Powers Loyalists that went with the likely Rogue Isles option and stayed there are not going to know about the friggin' Olympian Guard and its ridiculous to expect them to. Yes, we the players know about it, but that's metagame knowledge. A character isn't going to know it.

And if Cole's plan is to really replace all superbeings with clones of himself, why the hell is he keeping the Praetors around, eh?

Thanks for the tip if I ever decide to do another one of those Hunt Council in Boomtown missions again.

Characters that went and stayed redside aren't going to know that.

Huh? Did you even READ that last morality choice?

Considering that they're already color customizable, adding in new animations should be rather simple as well as the code is already there from scratch.

The 5th Column are Nazis, the Council are Italian Fascists with an alliance with alien fascists.

This. It works.

Yes, make the devs cry.

Yeah, I'm kinda waiting for it as well. Also, for those making reference to TV Tropes in its summation, remember Tropes Are Not Bad.

Yeah, the search function was my guess too.

No it wasn't. The first three episodes dealt with the air problem, period.

The next was "We're going to die! But wait, we're wrong? Holy ****, literal solar power! THIS IS AWESOME! Wait, did Rush already know this?" It was all suspense. They never were actually in danger like they were in the first three episodes.

The next one was just needing to find a resource, water, which they found quickly enough by the way. The actual concern here was Lieutenant Scott getting stuck in a crevasse and the sand bugs drinking all of the water.

After that it was the SGC trying to do something stupid (which in itself was refreshing as otherwise their plans almost always work) which Rush knew was going to NOT work and he staged an explosion to get rid of them. Once again, just suspense, no danger.

After that, not only was there a disease but actually trying to solve the riddle of the time traveling Kino. I actually found that time traveling Kino to be the interesting part of the episode

Is that your only point on this stretch, is the time travel episode? Dear god... One episode! Nevermind that they threw in a riddle to make it more interesting than other time travel episodes. Nor did I deny the existance of time travel episodes.

You can't follow an argument can you? Look at which episode "summary" I was replying to. The crashed ship that Young and Rush had their fist fight under. Do you have ADD or something?

Oh, I'm not denying murder trial episodes exist, but I was pointing out the BIG difference here. Most murder trial episodes (please READ and not skim) entail good evidence implicating the accused or feature a kangaroo court. Concerning O'Niell (with two Ls, and no As), they had footage of him as the gunman. Turns out NID was using hologram technology to frame him.

And he actually committed it.

Kangaroo court.

Finney, it turns out, faked his death to frame Kirk.

I really don't give a ****, as like its even crappier sibling, Enterprise, it was a breeding ground for reused plots.

Impersonator, like O'Niell above.

This murder plot; however, for once had extremely shaky evidence. A gun that anyone could have put in the grill and that everyone touched. The "trial" didn't even last the episode like other murder plots. Like I said, it was set up for Young getting pissed enough to maroon Rush.

Great, you just declared invasions in general as unoriginal plots. Good work.

Oh you cannot be this stupid.

I don't recall SG1 ever tying up General Hammond and taking control of the SGC for themselves. That is a mutiny.

What you're thinking of is insubordination.

SG1 was on numerous occasions insubordinate, but not once did they ever mutiny. Neither did Sheppard's team.

Typical troll response is "U mad." Thus my point stands.

And no, you're not right.

In the end, as a libertarian, I find Praetoria to be a repugnant concept, but I despise Scott's methods as well. Nevertheless, the writer in me likes to get into a character's head and find their motivations. Cole has great potential to be something beyond a two-dimensional mustache twirler. I doubt he sees himself as the villain, unlike a certain spider fetishest that does everything for the EVULZ. He believes himself to be doing the right thing. I have given you his possible reasonings, so you can either take it or leave it.

Look what got the Devouring Earth all riled up... an atomic war? Then of course there's this crazy Resistance that threatens to destabilize his little oasis in the world of man-eating monsters by blowing up hospitals and gassing neighborhoods. Does the Resistance even have a plan to deal with the Devouring Earth after they've removed Cole? I don't think they've even thought that far. Calvin Scott clearly hasn't, as he's gone off the deep end into Cuckoo Cloud Land.

Marcus Cole, in the Praetorian world, has seen the worst of what people can do and its consequences. Clearly, he doesn't want it to happen again.

You see, it's this kind of depth that makes a good villain like Magneto or Doctor Doom.

Well, the Devouring Earth should be seen as a starting point to work from to answer these. Perhaps Cole is being truthful that Primal Earth "struck first" in some way and he considers us a threat to the stability of his world and its struggle to survive the Devouring Earth. He may fear that we'll destroy everything he's built so that Hamidon can feast on mankind again and thus has decided that he must destroy us before that happens.

Edit: Did anyone hear a winkie go "Wahnk wahnk wahnk wahnk wahnk" and Charlie Brown reply, "Yes Ma'am"?