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When I first heard of masterminds, thugs were the minions I thought off. I'm kinda hoping for the basic thug type attacking with baseball bats but it does seem unlikely.
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Ditto - for Thugs powerset I think we'll get Hellions/Skulls type gangers with pistols/uzis and baseball bats. What I want is Family type mafioso thugs with shotguns (and maybe have the 3 MM direct attacks use a sawn-off shotgun too).
I think Statesman said Pirates would be the next pet powerset (after Thugs), with Elementals/Demons and Carnies as future possibilities (i.e. so far in the future we'll probably never see them). I'd rather see Arachnos Minions (Wolf Spiders at L1/12/18, Tarantulas or Night Widows at L12/24, Crab Spider at L26) or Warwolves as pets though 
When I first heard of masterminds, thugs were the minions I thought off. I'm kinda hoping for the basic thug type attacking with baseball bats but it does seem unlikely.
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The way I see it there are a huge number of MM posibilities, the challenge is how to make them sufficiently different from each other. How will Thugs differ from other powersets?
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Would it matter if they weren't that different? Even if some sets were very similer I think it would be nice to have them purely for the visual differance.