The Assistant. Um. How… unique I guess? 
Maybe they just want to surprise us and she actually has good mechanics? lol 
But, Christopher, don't you have … an Assistant ?
Bwahahahaha.
The late Sunday updated is highly appreciated Christopher.
I have no doubt that she's probably very difficult and has great mechanics... the story sounds like she's been dead, so maybe she flips into a Zombie Assistant?
Maybe she first acts in the shadows, as the traitor she is, and heroes have first to discover sha's behind their problems.
I begin to wonder if the reward Environment deck could be the Freedom Five's headquarters...
I am actually a bit surprised at how lukewarm her reception has been, but that's ok. You'll just have to trust us. *grin*
You should probably mention that she's the second-place finisher in the Villain contest (like you did on Facebook, which is how I know). Congrats!
That's not very surprising : "The Assistant, demure office worker" doesn't sound epic 
But I like the concept - no worse ennemy than a friend turned hater, who knows all your secrets and weakness, takes care of everything for you, and has your complete trust. Very good story for a comics. And probably very good ennemy. But not very "shiny" at first glance.
As a playtester I'm very worried, if she's anything like snip who has been kicking our collective behinds throughout playtesting. It's mainly due to the fact that if we snip we lose, or the fact that s/he's snip snip snip. Getting reamed so much by this villain is thematically appropriate, but also slightly embarassing. I have the nagging feeling the assistant will be the similar.
I personally think she sounds cool as hell, and i can't wait to see her mechanics.
I agree with broccoli - I'm looking forward to seeing how she beats us down! 
I find her starting side unengaging. I love her backstory. I'm very curious what her flipped side will look like. My guess is that she will only flip once and not flip back.
This type of villain is one of my favourites. She clearly is well versed in everything Freedom Five, so she could obliterate them stealthily, or make them turn on each other. I feel it wouldn't take too much to get Absolute Zero on your side for a bit. She knows how each team member functions, and sabatoge could be huge. Also, I don't see Legacy punching the living daylights out of his World's Finest Assistant either, so I wonder how she manages to keep that from happening while she's Demure.
No HP on the front? She’s not even a valid target until she flips!
Ps. Love how she is left-handed.
She's BOTH handed! Typing on a hard-light keyboard with the other hand.
And then I gave >G five more dollars.
Oh, no, actually I'm really excited to see what she's like. I feel like this is going to be a big twist, where she seems harmless...
But then she has everyone's addresses, goes and finds Mrs. Parsons/Tachyon's wife, and holds them hostage and whatnot. I bet she's going to be much scarier than we think.
She might have Clue cards in her deck that works like Trial cards. When the conditions are met, the hero acquires the Clue cards. When enough Clues are collected, the heroes expose The Assistant, she flips to become Resentful Office Worker and has 5 HP.
I think she is going to be awesome and loooved reading her story.
This is what i see so far
a) She is Timeline centric - She died and then came back in time by (i think) 3 years (Notice the mention of the coffee mug that had not yet had its handle cracked - yet being the key word)
b) She has a very interesting saying at the end "They had a choice - me, their devoted servant, who gave EVERYTHING . . . or five total strangers. "
and que the mmmmm. I have a feeling her opening mechanic will be something like - Search through her deck to find (H) 'Perfect Stranger' cards - and then as heroes we have to save them. Once saved, she flips and becomes targatble. IN the mean time she is doing things to handicap us. I can easily see a card named 'Missplaced Equipment' and a discard effect, or 'Stained Uniform' and we have to skip a turn. I think she will be a -very- controlly villian. Not a lot of damage per say, not at first, but very shut downt he heroes while little things plink away at them, or at an alternate loose condition (all (H) Perfect Strangers in the trash perhaps?)
I for one am super stoked about The Assistant. I think it's cool thematically to have one close to you turn on you, and the idea of such a mundane-seeming character ending up as a super villain is really amusing to me.
Also, I really hope she ends up getting a nemesis. I just want to know what kind of hero has curly brackets as their nemesis icon!
About the "five total strangers", I for some reason assumed that meant the Freedom Five. Of course, how does this make sense when it's the Freedom Five who saved them? Well, this new expansion is all about wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, right? Well, then - maybe they (the ones who get saved) were kids at the time, or in a parallel universe/timeline where they're not heroes, or something ;).