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Post by badwolf on Dec 1, 2022 12:40:44 GMT -5
Didn't they send villains to another planet in a series a little while back?
Ahhh right! I couldn't think of the name, although I did recall it was related to one of the Criseses.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 1, 2022 15:20:35 GMT -5
Isn't that, like... Australia? Turned out fine in the long run!
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 1, 2022 15:24:24 GMT -5
Isn't that, like... Australia? Turned out fine in the long run! Sing along with me... "Now all my young Dookies and Duchesses, Take warning from what I have to say: Mind all is your own as you toucheses Or you'll find us in Botany Bay."
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 1, 2022 15:29:03 GMT -5
(...) Or you'll find us in Botany Bay." Wait, what? Botany Bay?!
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 1, 2022 15:36:01 GMT -5
(...) Or you'll find us in Botany Bay." Wait, what? Botany Bay?!
Teed it up for ya...
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 1, 2022 17:56:20 GMT -5
Hiya, kids. I've just returned home fro 48 hours lying on a gurney in a side hallway of the Tacoma General Hospital emergency room. I couldn't be left home alone with my COVID symptoms worsening by the hour but there was nobody left to take care of me, everybody being either already sick or living with immuno-compromised family members who can't afford to catch this damned thing. The ER was the only viable option. But I've been in touch with my caseworker and we've arranged for a caregiver to fill inb for Kay until she knows her prognosis and the likelihood she can come back to work at all. This has taken a huge load of stress off of Kay, which is what mattered most to me. Now that she knows I'll be taken care of, she can focus on taking care of herself.
Cei-U! I summon the little cups of lime Jell-o!
If I sound a trifle glib about these last few days and the subsequent seismic impact on my life, well, it's because my sense of perspective was restored after learning of cody's loss.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 1, 2022 21:53:22 GMT -5
Hiya, kids. I've just returned home fro 48 hours lying on a gurney in a side hallway of the Tacoma General Hospital emergency room. I couldn't be left home alone with my COVID symptoms worsening by the hour but there was nobody left to take care of me, everybody being either already sick or living with immuno-compromised family members who can't afford to catch this damned thing. The ER was the only viable option. But I've been in touch with my caseworker and we've arranged for a caregiver to fill inb for Kay until she knows her prognosis and the likelihood she can come back to work at all. This has taken a huge load of stress off of Kay, which is what mattered most to me. Now that she knows I'll be taken care of, she can focus on taking care of herself. Cei-U! I summon the little cups of lime Jell-o! If I sound a trifle glib about these last few days and the subsequent seismic impact on my life, well, it's because my sense of perspective was restored after learning of cody's loss. Just glad you are okay! Visiting hospitals in December is NOT the Christmas tradition with which I associate you most.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 2, 2022 7:14:34 GMT -5
I'm just shaking my head about the amount of people I know that are going through bad events. I'm praying for your recovery Cei-U! , as well as the welfare and health of everyone here. Right now I'm sitting in front of my Tv debating whether to go to work. I'm not feeling sick, but feeling kind of down. But I'm going.
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 2, 2022 8:13:21 GMT -5
Going to work when you feel like shit is the American way of life.
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Post by james on Dec 3, 2022 8:34:50 GMT -5
This may possibly be a new topic all together but who is one major villain that if they got killed off, I mean Incle Ben, Captain Mar-vell killed off, that you would be actually ok with?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2022 8:51:55 GMT -5
This may possibly be a new topic all together but who is one major villain that if they got killed off, I mean Incle Ben, Captain Mar-vell killed off, that you would be actually ok with? Green Goblin (Norman Osborn version). For real this time. He deserves it. There could still be a legacy of sorts.
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Post by james on Dec 3, 2022 13:13:00 GMT -5
This may possibly be a new topic all together but who is one major villain that if they got killed off, I mean Incle Ben, Captain Mar-vell killed off, that you would be actually ok with? Green Goblin (Norman Osborn version). For real this time. He deserves it. There could still be a legacy of sorts. I agree and I'd go so far as to say the whole Green Goblin mythos, I am being very biased I know and speaking like an old man but The original stories from the 60's through the 80's just were so perfect, many of them at least, that anything now just seems Bleh to me The other would be Flash's Rogues Gallery. Now I have not read a lot of Flash but it seems to me that in every other storyline they are the main villains. NO interest in any of them
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Post by Marv-El on Dec 4, 2022 14:18:43 GMT -5
IMO, Joker is an extreme example of this trope because of the adjacent insanity/mental health aspect to his character. Yes, he's a stone-cold murderer but you can't simply throw him into a cell, lock the door and throw away the key. No, can he be rehabilitated? Can he be saved? That aspect lends to more story/drama potential but it also heightens the cliche of his escaping/evading any form of true justice that we as a society may crave.
Now, the part of this trope that I find more annoying, as it concerns your regular Joe Shmoe super-villain, is the inevitable prison break. Someone's always escaping from Stryker's, Ryker's, the Vault, where ever. How often does this occur in real life? I mean, other than your occasional prison break whose circumstances used and criminals involved somehow warrant sensational news coverage?
It's not just that super-villains evade any form of true justice but even when captured and/or convicted and incarcerated, the system is woefully inadequate in containing them. Thus leading to more elaborate prison designs and schemes and even more elaborate methods employed to escape from them.
Heck even the Phantom Zone isn't as infallible as Jor-El thought.
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Post by tonebone on Dec 4, 2022 18:32:58 GMT -5
This may possibly be a new topic all together but who is one major villain that if they got killed off, I mean Incle Ben, Captain Mar-vell killed off, that you would be actually ok with? Joker.
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Post by beyonder1984 on Dec 18, 2022 9:35:02 GMT -5
Doomsday should have been a one-shot villain.
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