Hero MM?

Apologies if this has been asked previously, but are there any plans to develop a MM-like archtype for the Hero side?

Yeah, bring your MM heroside when Going Rogue comes out. Other than that, no.

More specificically, since I wouldn't be surprised if you're a bit out of the information loop as a first-time poster, here's what the Going Rogue expansion will let you do.

- Take a Hero or a Villain into morally grey territory, becoming a Vigilante or Rogue respectively, who have access to the zones on both sides (but still use things like the Markets only native to their original side).

- Take a Hero or Villain all the way across to now being a full member of the other faction, with access to their markets and whatnot.

- Stick with your original faction, and earn extra rewards for doing so.

- Start any AT from either side as a neutral character in Praetorian Earth, and decide through the storyline whether they're going to become a Hero or Villain.

So no new pet-based ATs that we've been told of, or any New ATs at all for that matter, but All ATs are effectively going to be for Heroes and Villains both.

Hmmm, hero masterminds:

GI Joe
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
any bad turned good street gang
sports team?
Johnny Socko and his Giant Robot

I feel like they should add an AT as unique as MMs for heros (impractical, I know, but still).

Only one I can't really get is a necromancer hero. Sending wave after wave of mouldering corpses at people just seems inherently villainous. I guess they can claim nobody except bad guys are hurt in the process...all at the cost of a little bit of graverobbing and defilement.

Being able to control the dead doesn't make a person inherently evil. Think "Deadly Girl" from a movie called The Specials. Even though she summons demons, she's a superhero.

Also if you wanted to tweak an RP spin to raising zombies from the dead. Lets say a Gypsy Witch w/ a bag of enchanted bones. These bones are the bones of her ancestors and are enchanted to summon her family to help her fight evil.

Any primary with the right concept fits either faction with enough thought.

I mean look at Assault Rifle Defenders, could easily RP tweak that with no problem. For concept don't take flamethrower or ignite and say all the bullets are tranqs. Could still take the other two powers and claim to be "smoking out" the villains.

Personally, I've never felt raising people from the dead and using them as your minions to fight evil was any worse that draining the life force from victims and using it to feed yourself. Yet the Dark powers have been available to heroes since the game came out. If there's any power set that should be limited to villains it's those, but they aren't, and so any claim that some power is inherently "too evil to be heroic" seems disproved by that.

And really, the Marvel hero Cloak of Cloak and Dagger is a good example of a Dark power set being used for good. Cloak cannot really ignore his hunger for light, he's like a vampire, and yet he forces himself only to drain the light of criminals, and only enough to capture them, not kill them. It takes a lot MORE effort to use his power that way, which to me is what makes him heroic. He has "evil" within him, but he controls it to do good, and I think a heroic Necro MM would be the same way.

Of course, you might argue such a concept is more a Vigilante than a Hero, but Going Rogue has that covered too.

I always thought that the illusion control set was kind of mastermindish.

While I agree that goodie heroes would frown upon using dark arts like necromancy, I also think it's entirely possible for them to be heroic. A prime example is Diablo 2 where you use the remains of your enemies as allies. It's this very reason that I think defenders should get poison.

I can see a hero version of MM"s being "Army style" foot soldiers,special forces, and such or even a "civilian type" minute men, police, and S.W.A.T. also we could have generic heros with standard powers since we can now change colors to the powers (a.k.a color outfits on said heros),but those are a couple of thoughts that come to mind for hero MM's.

I've already rolled a bots/dark on freedom that's going hero the second GR comes out.

If you take something like the old British TV series the Avengers or New Avengers, or even Stingray and Thunderbirds, then you've got a perfect model for heroic type MMs.

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True, the Mission Impossible format from the 60s/70s TV series comes to mind. I despise the Tom Cruise movies.

I think they'll have to change the name and probably the look of hero mastermind thugs because basically you cant be a hero thug unless your staying in grey territory. Hmmm a hero that kills the villains around a hapless citizen so he/she can mug that person, that gives me a few ideas now!