Twinshot's Arc is Brilliant. (MASSIVE SPOILERS)

They become lovers.

I'm glad I wasn't playing a squishier character...cause I got hit by all the bosses first...lol

Ouch, I was panicing trying to keep the Twit Squad from getting themselves killed.

I did come to really like Flambeau as a character after the arcs though. Ya, she's a brat, but she's just a teen trying to cope with having Amazing Powers.

So is Penelope Yin, and she's more mature and less selfish than Flambeaux.

She might have discovered it in a high school science class

I'd forgotten that trope, but are you even seriously asking? Twinshot is the Hero, Grym is the Lancer, Proton is the Smart Guy, Dillo is the Big Guy, and Flambeaux is The Chick.

We were discussing something similar over the weekend on Virtue United, and I opined that all of them but Twinshot are continuations of something Melissa Bianco did with Fusionette in the Faultline and RWZ arcs: "Don't be THAT GUY."

Fusionette is a parody of that annoying blaster we've all teamed with: the one who runs off away from the team, grabs tons of aggro, and then either leads it back to the team or dies there and waits to be rezzed. You find her annoying to team with? Good. Don't be That Guy!

In these arcs, Flambeaux especially, and to a lesser extent Grym and Dillo and Proton, are yet more forms of "Don't be THAT GUY:"

Flambeaux is one of the most common and most annoying forms of "bad RPer." We've all teamed with them, especially on Virtue -- the person for whom RPing consists of two things: reciting their backstory ad nauseum while the rest of us are trying to play the game, and telling us over and over again how sexy their character is. You find this annoying? Good. Don't be That Guy!

Grym is someone who basically imported his character straight over from World of Warcraft, a thinly disguised Worgen warrior (minus the very nice hat and the Cockney accent), or any other werewolf character from any other fantasy MMO; nothing he says makes any sense in the context of CoH or fits even minimally into the backstory, but he insists that it's all very important and all be taken seriously. You find this annoying? Good. Don't be That Guy!

Proton is, as others have said, Mary Sue incarnate. He's claims that he's super-smart, he claims that the ladies all love him, and he claims that he's an important family member of two of the most important canon characters, but we've never heard of him before. You find this annoying? Good. Don't be That Guy!

Dillo is the high-class version of the annoying RPer. He's someone who's fit his character into the game's backstory, and invented an entire alien dialect for his species. That he never quits using, even when discussing game mechanics. Which means that nobody on the team can ever tell what he's actually saying. You find this annoying? Good. Don't be That Guy!

This can probably be expanded; the main characters of the villain tutorial are probably somebody's idea of the five stupidest, most annoying concepts that RPers bring to super-villainy. I'm just a little too tired, this morning, to do the analysis myself.

Yen is in her twenties now.

Nobody ages in CoH

Isn't Flambeaux?

"Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
So where does everyone fit in the Five Man Band concept?
I'd forgotten that trope, but are you even seriously asking? Twinshot is the Hero, Grym is the Lancer, Proton is the Smart Guy, Dillo is the Big Guy, and Flambeaux is The Chick." (not up to proper quoting...)

And then add the PC perspective into the mix...

PC perspective:
You are The Hero, Twinshot's the Lancer, Proton is still the smart guy, Dillo is the Big guy, Flambeaux is the Dark Chick (though this is only with meta-knowledge of where he actions lead her), and Grym is the Sixth Ranger.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

That was discussed at length near the end of the open beta. A small legion of apologists defended it.

Manticore has been keeping an eye on you and the group - he knows the type of people he's getting his helpers to fight

Oh, look.

They also have a remarkably good collection of Arachnos weapons and armor, and do a remarkably good job of imitating Arachnos combat techniques.

If I'd been writing it, they would have been archers who were wearing Arachnos uniforms. But I suppose that would have given the ending of that mission away too early.

Only for people already playing the game, which isn't who the training arcs are aimed at

Not an excuse. He's using a live-fire scenario to "test" the Shining Stars. It's sheer luck (authorial fiat) that no one got their head blown off or otherwise hit in a way that prevented Medicom from kicking in.

That's just the way Manti and his Wyvern gangstas roll

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

Fix'd.

Oh christ, you too?! I thought it was a fluke, but no. The first mob that No Mind and I took down was fine, but then he ran, sprinted over to a completely different mob a hundred yards away.

Forget Fusionette. The new term is No Minding.

Hey, just coz I post twice (well now three times) in a thread isn't a reason to nuke it!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)