True, Citizen Storm does do that, but that’s hardly standard operating procedure for him. It wouldn’t make any sense for him to fight on the heroes’ side unless OblivAeon is around, IMO. I agree that Dark Visionary’s status is quite bizarre; I suspect that it was because C&A simply wanted her to be in the game in any form, and couldn’t fit in a villain deck for her for some reason (until Dark Mind, sort of), so they just made her a hero variant.
Fair, although the way I see things is more that Infernal Relics was split over several products: AA and Akas’Bhuta in the Core Set; NightMist, GloomWeaver, and the RoD in RCR, and now Apostate, the Ennead, and the Tomb here in Disparation. It’s fairly evenly split, really.
We discussed this above, but everyone is going to be covered in this set, and three people are going to be covered twice. There are fifteen variants, and we’ve already seen that, for example, Absolute Zero and Tachyon have two variants. We’ve also got most of the variants guaranteed at this point, plus three extremely strong probables:
The Freedom Six (Wraith, Bunker, Tachyon, Unity, Tempest, Absolute Zero)
America’s Boldest Legacy
Frostbite Absolute Zero
Ashen Heir Argent Adept
Inversiverse Captain Cosmic
Extreme Tachyon
(Probable) Eternal Haka, Redeemer Fanatic, and Ra of Two Horizons.
One total unknown
The three probables are because the environments and enemies that cause those variants are definitely in this set, and because all three of Haka, Fanatic, and Ra only have one variant each in Rook City Renegades and none announced in this set.
With those variants confirmed or strongly suspected, there are only four core heroes that don’t have at least two variants outside of their First Appearance - Argent Adept, Captain Cosmic, Legacy and Tempest. So our last variant is almost certainly going to be one of those four, and both Argent Adept and Tempest have existing variants from a Disparation universe that hasn’t gotten a variant listed yet.
I would be surprised if the last variant wasn’t Tempest. Of the four you list at the end, AA, CC, and Legacy all already have Disparation variants that we’ve seen.
Tempest definitely makes sense - he’s got a Freedom Six variant, but that’s a much closer alternate universe and both of our doubled folks have also been doubled with Freedom Six. In which case, Shockwave seems like the most likely option. I wonder if Shockwave’s variant could somehow have the Bounty keyword…
He confirmed a piece of Animal-verse content. I assumed that it would be an art piece on one of the Principles, not a full hero variant, but I could be wrong.
Okay, so all 4 Principles we’ve seen thus far have been adapted from Sentinel Comics RPG Principles. But we know that there will only be 30 Principles in Disparation, while the SCRPG has over 60. So the question becomes—what SCRPG Principles do y’all think will make it into Disparation, and which do you think won’t?
(There’s also the possibility of wholly new Principles, of course, but we don’t have much grounds for speculation on those.)
Am I the only one who dislikes the asymmetry of Boldest Legs’ costume?
Also, while we’re talking about his look, I’d like to point out that he’s a superstrong, flying hero who wears a blue skintight suit with a red cape and yellow accents. Now where have I seen that before?
Also, who is that at the bottom of Heroic Termination? Parse? The Visionary with hair? Someone else?
Boldest Legacy looks super strong. I’m happy we finally have a Legacy variant in DE whose innate power is more engaging than just refreshing a team buff.
I’m interested if we can gleam any details from the background of the alt-universe variants. Each of the ones we’ve seen are different, mostly showing weird distorted landscapes. Boldest Legacy’s shows someone; we can see an arm and a face, but I can’t tell who it is.
I love the flavor of heroes grabbing dynamite off the wagon and chucking it at their foes. That and the Saloon are already making Silver Gulch one of my favorite environments.
Reactive Plating is super strong. Looks like enemies with varied damage won’t be the bane of Omni-X anymore. Also the power uses the damage of the plate you discarded instead of the plate you’re wearing, so you no longer need to switch off of the melee-projectile-toxic plate to maximize your damage.
Little sad Pratt isn’t a supporter. I guess we’ll need to watch our fire around him, oh well.
Reactive Plating combined with Defensive Blast sounds pretty good, but does come with the trade-off of losing the AoE damage for the power. Hopefully O-X can still do something for more than single target damage. We’ve seen Gaussian Coil Blaster. Maybe there will be some version of Disruptive Flechettes again.
I believe that they said at one point that graphic design does all of the layout and background work, so it’s unlikely to me that there’s any major significance there.
I don’t remember where they said it though, so I could be misremembering.
@skywhale caught me over in the BackerKit comments: it’s not the North Star if that is the Big Dipper on Boldest Legacy’s chest. The two pointer stars at the end of the pan on the Big Dipper make an imaginary line that connects to Polaris, which is the end of the Little Dipper’s handle.
It’s part of what makes me not really understand the symbol. I know they were going for the “Follow the Drinking Gourd” reference, but the whole point is that the “Drinking Gourd” points to the North Star, which is what’s really important. It’s similar to Legacy being a “beacon”, and guiding a way, but has slightly different connotations. It leads the way to the thing that leads the way.
It’s entirely possible as well he decided to use the Little Dipper after their discussion in episode 217. Since the outfit discussion only occurred right at the end it’s probably worth sending in a question about for confirmation. Overall I like the design and regardless of big/Little Dipper being used the star on the shoulder works well.