Who is your favorite?

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Plus, von Grun gives out the Best. Temp Power. EVAR! BEES!!

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Try as I might, EVERY time I even hear about this, my brain IMMEDIATELY goes straight to this.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Plus, von Grun gives out the Best. Temp Power. EVAR! BEES!!

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Try as I might, EVERY time I even hear about this, my brain IMMEDIATELY goes straight to this.

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Heh. I don't think that would have been funny without the English accent...

Anyway, I always think of the episode of Catscratch where Mr. Blick says, "Gordon, bag of bees...", then Gordon says, "Aye... bag of bees...", shakes the bag of bees, then places it on Waffle's head...

Sadly, I can't find a clip of it anywhere.

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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:

Neat, a redname posted in my thread. I think that makes three times that has happened now.

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Neat, a redname posted in my thread. I think that makes three times that has happened now.

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Give yourself more credit. The mods have smacked your threads WAY more than three times

Anyway, for both heroes and villains, I'm going with the Faultline NPCs. Fusionette, Jim Temblor and Arbiter Sands come along early in your career and stay until near the end. Now that makes me feel like my characters are part of the story.

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Plus, von Grun gives out the Best. Temp Power. EVAR! BEES!!

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Try as I might, EVERY time I even hear about this, my brain IMMEDIATELY goes straight to this.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Ha! I now am picturing Eddie Izzard cast in the role of Vernon von Grun... which is actually pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

Hero: Three way tie:
Manticore/Blue Steel/Back Alley Brawler. I love naturals. Bad [censored] naturals.

Villain: Mako. He's awesome in a can. Also he's a shark.

For heroes, it is Blue Steel, easily.

For villains...Huntsman Ohanko.

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Neat, a redname posted in my thread. I think that makes three times that has happened now.

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Give yourself more credit. The mods have smacked your threads WAY more than three times

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Ohhhh? I think I only had one thread I started locked... because I asked Mod08 to do so. It got outta hand in that one.

I have sort of a soft spot in my heart for Nemesis ever since playing through that heroic arc in the 35-39 range. I forget the details, but essenitally you go to take down nemesis' organization and it only requires a single mission to apparently dismantle his operation. The obvious thinking is "that was way to easy", but the arc cleverly plays of the savy gamer's metagame thinking, since I (and eveyrone else I know) just assumed that the game develoeprs decided not to force you to play through six-trillion identicle kill-everyone missions, and that the plot hole was best ignored. It turns out fo course, that it WAS too easy - Nemesis was cleverly tricking you.

There are a lot of arcs in the game that try to decieve the player, but for whatever reason (cynical elitist that I am, I sometimes get the impression taht in trying to make sure that everyone, no matter who they are, can get in on the joke they make it painfully obvious to anyone with a modicum of intellect and an even basic knowledge of the game's lore... but I digress), they all tend to fail miserably, and end up feeling asinine as you are forced by the static narative to play through missions as if your character is stupid, while you, the player, know that it is actually a bad idea, and what the real score is.

This arc is the only one that actually succeeds (and indeed, its one of only 2 or 3 times Ive been fooled by any video-game plot), and I found it really went a long way towards proving Nemesis' reputation as genius, and master of manipulation, rather then just talking about it ad-nauseum.

There is another Nemesis arc in which you try and stop him from becoming immortal, but fail when he switches the "real" him with a cloned duplicate (and indeed, his access to that technology6 and bases across multiple dimensions would make it difficult to ever be certain you had killed the last copy of him in the multi-verse). This time the deception si obvious from about a mile away, but the arc is still notable in that it is, to the best of my limited recolection, the ONLY hero arc to date where you fail accomplish your objective, once again helping to make him actually FEEL like a credible threat who you shoudl care about, rather than just another sack of hit-points with lame dialogue.

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Ohhhh? I think I only had one thread I started locked... because I asked Mod08 to do so. It got outta hand in that one.

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I was kidding. Lighten up.

Villains - Requiem. The original big bad. Head of the Nazis, and the evil aliens from outer space. Has a flaming head. Guy is AWESOME! Our very own Red Skull

Heroes - Faultline. I really liked his story and it's awesome to see his presence in low & high level content. He's a lot less linear & one-dimensional than the other heroes in the game. He has clear motivations and is well written.

Honourable mentions:
Wretch, Tyrant, Hopkins, Col. Duray, Dark Watcher, Positron.

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Which story arc says that Mako wasn't just evil to start with?

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Not sure about story arcs, but there's info on the official website detailing his origins- he grew up in an orphanage and was treated terribly.

Think half of X-men villains.

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I looked around the history and enemy pages but can't find it. How do I get there?

Here, CEM.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite