Personally I'm hoping for these things:

Norman Osborn that can lose it and become Green Goblin mid-dial.
Iron Patriot that can become Norman Osborn end-dial.

Basically Norman has both an orange starting line and a special power.
Green Goblin has an orange starting line.
Iron Patriot has a special power.

That way you can play as a full-on Green Goblin, or a slightly insane scientist millionaire who becomes a slightly weaker Green Goblin, or the Celebrity Dark Avenger, who becomes a crazed Norman Osborn once his armor is destroyed.

Plays with all the events we've seen Norman do over the years.

Wouldn't Norman Osborn, theoretically, be cheaper than Iron Patriot? I can't see Normie being more expensive than Normie-in-armour. So an Iron Patriot turning into Norman Osborn would be... odd, by the standards of the AE's we've already seen.

Have you heard that they are not in the set?

Sorry I don't hate good characters. Just the dumb overused ones. Coughdeadpoolbatmanlukecagecough

First Appearance Spidey? I suppose he fits well.

Norman's Double AE is fricken sweet.

Deadpool has me curious, there's so many ways to do him.

Rulk? Really? BAH!

Doc Ock looks cool, but his dial will obviously be compared to the SI one.

Iron Man War Machine Duo! COOL!

My thoughts in simplistic format.

im hoping for a lazarus pit'ish trait. god only knows what else they could FIT into the dial.
to quote the new black widow- "HE IS IN PLANE!"

Something like this:

Iron Patriot has 8 clicks of life.
Green Goblin has the same 8 clicks of life.
Norman Osborn has 5 clicks of life.

On his Second and third clicks Norman Osborn can turn into the Green Goblin with 3-4 clicks of life left.
When Iron Patriot has taken 5-6 clicks of damage, he has the power to turn into Norman Osborn with 2 clicks of life left.

Norman Osborn himself is mostly about Enhancement and Outwit.

Green Goblin is similar to the FF version, with "upgraded" stats, and more late dial outwit.

Iron Patriot starts with Outwit, but in the late dial is mostly about dealing physical damage.

That way you can upgrade from a support piece into something that can deal damage as well, or if you need someone with support powers you can get outwit by changing Iron Patriot into Norman, so that Venom and Moonstone don't have to worry about Spider-Man's Senses when they attack?

And in each case you get an extra click of life or two in the process.

I hope this is the case. What a wonderful way to fill out a characters history.

Ace idea but what we really need is a Hank Pym who can transform into any of his alter-ego's from older sets!

There is a lot of different ways they can utilize the Alter Ego mechanic.
Have Peter Parker turn into symbiote Spidey or armored Spidey from Civil War.
Tony Stark turn into Iron Man of War Machine (dont forget, he wore that suit first in the comics).
Hal Jordan-Green Lantern/Parallax

That will be interesting, maybe it will be a double alter-ego, cool!

ooooh combine that with my idea for symbiote turning into spider-man or venom...

multiple branching paths for AE's to possible have. confusing for some, but them's options baby!

Characters get used roughly in correlation to their popularity. If people didn't like Deadpool, Batman, and Luke Cage, they wouldn't get used as much. People demand them, so the companies supply more.

You're comparing Batman to Deadpool now? :speechles

They are just about the same. =)