When that day arrives...

Also Sprach Zarathustra plays as the colossal FREEM! descends upon the city, crushing all beneath its Cyclopean sans-serif might.

An epic battle of legendary proportions. Take the top 20-or-so characters who took part in it and add them to the lore somehow, either through a finale comic miniseries or some mention/plaque/statue in the next game.

The "Storm" Mender Silos talks about? Yeah, turns out he's not lying this time. But since people believe he is, the massive dimensional twisting that the Storm entails alters the histories of Marcus Cole, Stephen Richter, Belladonna Vetrano, Raymond Keyes, all of them such that none ever had any sort of unusual power. Paragon City, the Rogue Isles, and Oranbega blink out of existence, so that nobody knows them as anything but a work of fiction invented by a game company called Cryptic Studios...

I would want you all to bow down to me and praise me as your master..... >.> What?

What I'd like to happen on that day is "nothing." I still hope that if and when that day comes, they'll simply re-sell the game as a single-player standalone with classic multiplayer (and I'll buy that in a heartbeat) so I see no reason to wreck everything.

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All the signature heroes are called to meeting by Statesman, as it begins they are all suddenly held helpless in a stasis field. Statesman “powers down”, what he’s a robot?!?!

Lord Recluse enters the room, takes off his mask and laughs manically – What? He is Statesman, we’ve been lied to all this time and now his plan is complete. The world will never be the same again.

The streets are empty the citizens have all fled the city in terror, dark clouds rumble overhead, only the lesser known heroes are left to tackle forces which they cannot hope to defeat…

…COH2!

Why does everyone keep suggesting apocalyptic downer endings? Why can't heroes put an end to all crime in their city and live idyllic lives until the sequel?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

In a word...retcon. Rularuu reforms in the Shadow Shard and begins attacking Primal Earth. All of the Signature Heroes and Villains are quickly killed leaving it up to the players to defeat Rularuu. We of course defeat him but then discover that he is a vital part of the COH multiverse and with his removal that multiverse will reset itself.

COH2 launches set in the new multiverse where everything is familiar but everything is different. All the old characters and groups are there but their storys are retold with new twists and continuity errors are fixed.

I definitely would go for a good ending as well. Maybe through the use of the dreaded 'cutscene' mechanic, it would show a longish series of events reflecting Taskforces that put an end to each significant enemy group with climatic finishes, ramping up to the biggest threats like Rularuu and Nemesis for the final showdown.

Essentially I would like the end of City of Heroes to end as such that superpowered crime is suppressed or eliminated from Paragon city. And with their job done, the heroes of paragon go into retirement, and while it wouldn't be a utopia, maybe the PPD would actually stand a chance against crime without the need of Kheldians and powersuits anymore.

Perhaps it could be a bitter-sweet ending too. Statesman and Lord Recluse would clash one last time, leading to a mutual phase-out/elimination a la Captain America & Red Skull fashion. The Freedom Phalanx disbands or reforms and Arachnos goes bust (Might impact Ghost Widow's attachment to the world) so that the City of Villains becomes a true rogue state instead of a dictatorship.

In true heroic fashion, evil will never be gone forever, but you can 'finally save the world' for a temporary peace until the sequel starts where a new evil has arisen and super powered heroes would need to come back to fight it.

The saga of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles ends as the kid reading the comic turns the last page, closes the cover and carefully returns the colorful book to its storage bag and backing board...



... in the bargain bin.

One final enemy, be it Nemesis (if it ever happened, he would be behind it. Am I right?) or who/whatever. All of the heroes and villains would be forced to work together and get rid of this ultimate evil. Maybe even Lord Recluse gone haywire with power, taking out Heroes and Villains in the process. Eventually when everything is done, there would be lots of damage done to the world. But in the midst of the destruction, all would unite in rebuilding the cities.

Since everything is at peace now, the supers would no longer be needed and go into retirement. The ending sequence would be a woman being surrounded by a large mob of nonsuper thugs. She would then clench her fists and punch one of them back into a wall, proving even if everyone is retired, they can never leave their past behind.

-sighs and closes book-
The End.