lol guess who's going to die at the start of your game? (theoretical spoiler?)

It's very cliche from them.

Our best hope is daddy being missing.

what to shock little old me?

People speculated that Anderson would die in the opening of ME3, and he held out until the very end when the writer's felt the need to inject some arbitrary tragedy. Nihlus, Jenkins and Wilson all died shortly after being introduced, but the latter two were just redshirts and the former we didn't know or care about enough because we only talked to him once.

Hackett was another character that could have been easily killed in ME3. Imagine that for the first half of ME3 we got briefed by Hackett who is grim and serious, but also sympathetic and cooperative. Then something terrible would happen to Hackket and for the rest we're stuck with some nobody admiral, or even worse, a Promoted Mikhailovic.

I hope so, I don't want to have my dad on the same ship that I will bang everyone who will be available lol
I also hope that I will be able to loot his body for his tight armor
But seriously, I think it will make perfect sense if he dies at the beginning of the game, I mean we probably need better motivation to go on after all

I hope they keep him alive. Sure, have him MIA for the bulk of the story so that Ryder can shine... But bring him back and let him survive the first game at least. Let us become attached to him! Then kill him later when it's actually meaningful.

Ugh - please no. 

I was thinking, who are all these old guys dying like flies in recent Bioware games?  Well, there was Duncan (not that old) of course but DA2 was Bethany/Carver (not old) and DAI was everyone except you and Cassandra, more or less.  Then ME1 was Jenkins/Nihlus (neither of them old), ME2 was Shepard herself (shrug - also not old) - oh and that whassisname, the one Miranda shot and ME3 was that effing kid - who would have done better to stay bloody dead.  Little shit.  What were we talking about?  Oh yeah - anyway, old-ness is not a defining feature as far as I can see.

Duncan's was the best handled death, I think, nearly everyone liked him (but then DAO was a stand out game).

Given his profile I doubt he will go prancing with the puppies...

Bioware confirmed Dad Ryder wouldn't be an antagonist, didn't they? If so, he'll likely be captured, put in stasis, or whatever other form of removing him from his job. Being killed is also a possibility, but to me, that is a little more difficult to happen.

As for him being used against us, that's also seems unlikely to me, since they want us to sympathize with the Kett.

If even one separatist group kills my father, I'll be out for blood against the whole race. Just saying... 

I totally disagree OP, it's not obvious in the slightest - it's even partially dismissed even.

Alec is narrating a scene that's obviously the Hyperion in disarray, 20,000 souls aboard, power is on the fritz, she is going down on Habitat 7 by the sounds, marooned.....reminiscent of the Deluxe Edition cover art.



The pre-release material has all sorts of Alec related hijinks going on, he's in the trailer in a vault (Cinematic #1) opening a door, he's blowing up Kett in Guerilla style warfare (Cinematic #1) and he's now narrating a juncture in the story where the Hyperion is in bad shape: if it was the whole AI, then it's not 20,000 souls marooned, it's a frakking wack load more than that...it's more like 100,000 (if the Nexus was part of this disarray, he wouldn't be phrasing it like that).

We've also seen him dropping guys off rooftops (the Krogan with him isn't Drack) in leaked footage, I'm thinking this is post-crash/marooning also: there are human pre-fabs involved.

It's far too obvious to me to kill him off from the get-go, obviously this is subjective though...but to me it doesn't feel right that someone is being killed off that's already confirmed in cinematics to be all over the show doing all sorts of shit: surely he doesn't perform all these feats within the first hour, he's not Blasto haha.

Would be a waste of having Clancy Brown if they're going to body him so quick.

I think he's going to be in at least a quarter of the game and go MIA. I feel like he's the new Anderson, so I see him sticking around. That's if Bioware plans on making direct sequels with the Ryders.