Note: Below is a idea of a villain group I just came up with. Much like the ones I've submitted on the VO forums, I'm certainly not expecting the Devs to instantly pick up, but at the very least I hope it inspires the Devs to come up with a group or two and I know that even though at the time of posting the game is in a VERY early stage of development, I'd like to leave this here for the future if Devs are interested in trying to find villain groups to fill in certain level gaps they might have.

The Titan Slayers

Lore:

Originally splintering from a political group who have a growing resentment towards the super-powered vigilantes, this group continues to protest the existence of these super beings, arguing how they create more damage for the tax payers to cover and their presence inspires villains to emerge and cause chaos through-out the city, highlighting recent and past tragedies as the entire result of allowing these 'unstable' and 'unnatural' individuals to be allowed to run free with no repercussions to their decisions.

In the political space they take part in lawsuits aimed at these super beings and push for laws to unmask the vigilantes, reverse the law allowing costumed heroes to arrest citizens, defend citizens arrested by supers (no matter the crime. Even notorious crime-lords), segregation between supers and norms, supers to repay all collateral damage (including injuries, broken weapons and torn clothing) and castration of supers.

However, this group is more well known for their militant stance of forming militia, violently occupying buildings or streets along with stories of this group hunting down and killing supers who have either helped their city or destroyed it, though the heroes are often the more trusting and easier to capture. They have many ex-military members teaching it's newest members with weapon drills and tactical knowledge from anti-terrorist training.

Though the authorities have been trying to arrest any they have leads on, they continue to demonstrate in the street and have even been known to kidnap people to bring into the fold in the more dangerous neighbourhoods.

Minions:

Private Shooter/Slugger: The lowest ranking members of the group, they have trained themselves for combat and attack with basic weapons (brass knuckles, baseball bat, bare-fists, pistol and dagger) and are often used as the front-line grunts or to take place in anti-super protests.

Shock Trooper: The citizens who are kidnapped are often subjected to torture and beatings to create shock troopers to charge in with the plan to over-run the super and let the more experienced soldiers a chance to try and take down the supers. Unlike the followers, there is still hope for them with through deprogramming.

Lieutenants:

Explosives Specialist: Trained in use of plastic explosives they have no issues with hurling explosives at any supers they come across and make sure to set traps up at safe-houses or to sabotage an event. They are also armed with a sub-machine gun to help protect themselves.

Field Medic: Trained in medical triage, the Field Medic uses state-of-the-art medical technology, most likely stolen from military warehouses, to keep their troopers going and using adrenaline shots to bring any fallen member back on their feet .

Marksman: Specialist at ranged combat, the Marksman is equipped with thermal goggles to identify any supers who try to sneak past them. With their modified rifles they fire high-calibre bullets with the intent to either kill supers in one shots or at least weaken them enough for another few shots.

Bosses:

Arms Specialist: As one of the head trainers, the arms specialists inspire his comrades in battle and duel-wields pistols with impressive skills. They are often armed with grenades to assist in combat.

Combat Trainer: These trainers can inspire comrades in battle as they show off their martial arts combat skills and have been trained to take out huge numbers of soldiers.

Possible EBs/Villains:

Chris Jenkins: The head of the law firm that continues it's pursuits of legislation he is often seen as unlikely to be of any real threat in a combat situation, however what people don't know is that he is not human and possesses a great strength and psionics he often used to bend those with weak wills to his way of thinking.

Note: These above name is reference to the old CoH billboard that I had often seen in game sooo many times. Though I have not been very inspired with the groups minions, I quite like the idea of this group of hero haters who hate villains too.