Back Alley Brawler dies

According to Zwillinger, the in-house nickname for this storyline annoys Positron.

I've been expecting Statesman to be the casualty for some reason.

Some of my theories:

1. It won't be Psyche because she is the only living female. I think they may setup the entire arch and make you think it's going to be Psyche but at the last minute Manticore sacrifices himself to save her.

2. Citadel. He barely does anything, he is one of the most forgotten characters in the group. My guess is they could easily kill him off and replace him with BABs at almost every point. He only served as a diversification. Their options were robot, alien or monster. Plus he is tech based but we have Posi and his tech suit for that.

3. Synapse. I think back to when another comic company killed off their main speedster and it may be an nod to that epicness.

4. If it is BABs, he will go down extremely epicly. He will end up saving the city by sacrificing himself.

5. Won't be Statesman. Too big. Well I should alter that a bit. It could be Statesman IF afterwards, they have Ms Liberty join the Phalanx. She would then be able to continue his work and finish up any unfinished stories that Statesman didn't, for example the fight against Recluse. This would add more depth to another character and really make Ms Lib pop.
Plus it would add another female to the group, since there is currently only 1 living female right now.

6. Could be Numina. She was player created if I remember right. She could sacrifice her immortal soul to save the city. Which is an even bigger sacrifice then simply being killed since in a comic book world, the destruction of your soul means no after life, heaven, hell, purg, nothing.

I think no matter what, it won't be as simple as the bad guys killed him. At least on the hero side, it'll be a self sacrifice.

Plus, if she dies, there isn't a member of the Phalanx with rez.


7. If it is Positron, it'll end up being epic in the following. My guess would be, fighting villains he pushes his powers to their limits and his armor is damaged. It goes beyond that which happened during the rikti invasion, where he became energy, and he is going to go nuclear. So he flies up into space or the atmosphere and explodes.
The benefit of this also would be, because of the fall out in space, it opens up storylines that could occur on the moon base they have been wanting to make for quite some time.

8. Maybe Ms Liberty? She isn't a member now but she could be promoted and die during the series.


Also the character may be removed from the game as living, but there will be major reference to him, just like Atlas or any other fallen hero, if not even more so.

Plus, while he will be dead in the ingame world for sure, I can easily see the DEVs developing Ouroboros more with a cool story arc that features you going back in time and teaming with this hero.

I'd say BABs is too obvious and if it was BABs, I would not play it on any of my main characters. I wouldn't want him phased out. Plus they just put in Street Justice, so they NEED to recode BAB's melee powers to that.

I think Psyche is safe and she won't be killed off at all. Every group needs their psychic. Its one of the staples of their group.

I just don't think it'll be Synapse. Not unless the story gets some heavy Crey involvement. It just seems like the perfect way for him going out is fighting some terrible Crey threats.

Positron (being a dev and all) would be the one to surprse me. But, if it was him, he can have his TF become BAB's TF!

Pfft. War Witch. Again.

My official guess: Statesman is the one to die and our character is the one who kills him.

I'm not going to think about it too much. I'd prefer being pleasantly surprised over being vindicated.

So this is all I'll say. Folks, don't take it for granted that CoH: Freedom was in the works for a long time before we were any the wiser. Any number of art assets and marketing materials could have already been produced, allowing any sort of big surprise to occur in the blink of an update. Any sort.

When seeking a fitting end to an epic tale (in which a much-hyped death occurs), a good writer does not ask himself how to approach this problem as mundanely as possible.

I'm just sayin'.

Kind of doubt it's Brawler at this point, now that we know who the antagonist of the story is. Brawler has very little link to him at all (less so than other members of the Phalanx), and hasn't had any role at all in the story up until the epilogue of the latest arc. For that matter, neither have Positron or Citadel (which, IMO, rules them out as well).

For the death to be at all meaningful and resonate with the story as it has developed thus far, it's got to be one of the main characters in the story, IMO- either Statesman or Manticore. The two of them are the major impetus of the arc as it's developing, and the crux of the antagonist's plans hinges chiefly on the divisions created in the Phalanx as a result of their relationship (and its deterioration).

At this point, I'm guessing Manticore is going to fake his death for some reason.

"And by dead, we mean they’re gone from the game. We’re going in and taking them out from missions and zones. There will be a major ripple effect that’ll affect the world once the death occurs. Even if you don’t play the Signature Story Arcs, you’ll still experience the repercussions. "


for the full article

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=27870&storypage=2

but on that note - my vote is to kill Synapse and delete his task force

BaB is one of the few surviving 8 who turns up the most in story arcs/tfs isnt he? Personally i would have thought it'ld be harder to get him out of the game than majority of the others

Oh and . . . . NOW i remember who Ultimus was all those months ago lol, threads like these ^_^

Aside from any story reason, killing BAB would attract far too much publicity to the game of the wrong kind.

One of the few ethnic signature characters being killed off would encourage many negative vibes.

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Here's an interesting note from David Nakayama in response to one of my comments on dev:

Quote:

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.