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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)

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Xelloss said:
The phrase was originally : "No non-gender-specific sapiant individual can escape the Non-gender-specific-sapiant-individualhunters !"

But then most of said individuals escaped during the time needed to say it, so it had to be shortened.
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In all seriousness, it seems entirely possible that they were actually USING a word that meant that, and it's just the translator coming up with "man" there.
 
Coda said:
Why would the Manhunters communicate using an explicitly AMERICAN standard for information interchange?
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Because the only 'robot speak archtype' language I know of is binary. I was trying to get across that the Manhunters might just speak a robo language that gets roughly translated because it gets translated twice. Also, I tried to be a lil funny.

I failed.

Edit: Computer language->Malthusian Language->what language is actually heard
 
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GhostKing 666 said:
And as for the invasion, the invasion only left after Darkseid disappeared with Luthor after finally getting the Anti-life equation. They were only there because Darkseid willed it, with him gone they went back to Apokolips just like what always happens at the end of an invasion by Apokolips, no matter the medium(comics, tv show, movie, game). Take out the invasion's leader and the army will retreat, Apokolips tactics 101.
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In fairness "we beat your leaders to a pulp, now do what we want you to do and go away" is a very Apokoliptian attitude.
 
Avernus said:
The Justice League rescued the rest and dropped them off on New Genesis.
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Mr Zoat said:
The Justice League rescued the rest.
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Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that bit.

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There's more than one part of the Anti-Life Equation.
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well, yes, which is why I was assuming this is an Apokalyptian operation, but when Darkseid is personally involved it's usually Self=Null, isn't it?
 
It depends because for example when Darkseid visited Grayven he whispered into his ear this:
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He lays his right hand on my left shoulder, then leans forwards slightly so that his mouth is next to my right ear.
Self=Darkseid
"Life=Pain."
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So if Darkseid was directly involved it would have the effect, "Self=Darkseid" in Godspeak, of putting anyone exposed to it under his influence since the main reason he tries to figure it out is to use it to express his tyranny on the entire universe.

The only other time of seeing something similar is in episode 20: Half-Hearted part 8 onward, which is less Anti-Life equation and more Black Light of Death, and episode 37: Star, Crossed, Part 2 part 33 where Grayven finds Ace exposed to a portion of the Anti-Life equation "Self=Null" again in Newgod speak:
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it, but-
Self=Null
-any attempt I make.. to.. describe…

Father Box, what the fuck was that?
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So it could be any combination of Black Light and Anti-Life.
 
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Resurrectionists (part 2)
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    • 17th September
    21:03 GMT -5

    Jade watches the Gotham street life below us. Relatively few sirens this evening, and Richard and Mister Wayne are over in Granton at the moment. Seeing nothing that requires her immediate attention, Jade adopts a slightly more relaxed pose. "Who exactly am I going to meet tomorrow?"

    "His name is Alan Scott."

    She might be frowning; the mask makes it hard to tell. "Should I know who that is?"

    "Probably not. He used to live in Gotham. He.. ran the Apex Broadcasting Company?"

    "Didn't they collapse in the nineties?"

    "Something like that. He'd already retired, the mobs were becoming more powerful... Skulduggery suspected-. "

    "But never proven. So far, so Gotham. But that doesn't explain how you know him."

    "Come on, Jade. Why did the mobs-?"

    "The Green Lantern." She stiffens slightly, then turns to give me her full attention. "He used to prevent the gangs from coming into the open. After he left, they started acting openly."

    I nod. "Despite the Reaper's best efforts. Though… As he approached retirement age, he didn't actually get in all that many fights. It was more his reputation and visible presence that kept things stable."

    She nods. "Do you know why Dad brought us here?"

    "Be.. cause.. no one was looking for him here?"

    She starts.. not pacing exactly, but… Stalking a circuit. "He thought that it would be a good training environment for Artemis and me. Lots of gangs, lots of people who'd pay us to kill people no one would miss…"

    "And most of them well below your skill level."

    She snorts quietly. "And if they weren't then we'd deserve what we got."

    "Alan was in his seventies. And if he hadn't left-."

    "Dad would just have brought us somewhere else, I know. I wasn't blaming him… Exactly." She checks her environment again, then returns her attention to me. "How did you meet him?"

    "When I first arrived on this Earth, I had a ring but no lantern. My ring could locate other people's lanterns, and I found one in New York that no one appeared to be using."

    She tilts her head slightly to the right. "So you just flew down and tried to take it?"

    "So I knocked on the door and tried to buy it from him. He put in a call to Diana, and the rest is history." I shrug. "He's the man who introduced me to America's superhero community, and I've mostly forgiven him for that."

    "Your first mentor."

    I nod. "And a good friend and.. given recent events, there's a fair chance that we're going to end up as co-workers."

    She tilts her head slightly towards me. "And you… What, want him to approve of me?"

    "Um… Sort of. I mean, yes, obviously I want him to approve of you, but…" How to put this? "The only piece of romantic advice he ever gave me was 'don't marry a supervillainess', and.. yes, you're not in that line of work any more-."

    "What made him say that? Aside from the obvious?"

    "He married a supervillainess. A.. really unfortunate split personality case called Rose Canton. Also known as 'Thorn'."

    "Rose and Thorn. Creative."

    "Please don't make fun of it, it's a really sore point for him. She got caught, revealed, she went through therapy and the psychiatrists said that she was cured."

    "Only she wasn't." She nods. "So he thinks I might not be quite as rehabilitated as you think I am."

    "It's probably a concern. I want to put his mind at ease."

    She stands still for a moment, breathing slowly. "Paul… You do know that I-?"

    "Do you want to tell me anything I might have to lie to Diana about later?"

    Her hands twitch, as if about to ball into fists. "Yes. If you're actually serious about our relationship, there are things about me you need to know."

    "Okay." Now's as good a time as any. "Me too."

    "Why, did you kill a Justice League member?"

    "You can't kill that which does not live. But, no, not that. I've… I've been lying about my age."

    "This should be good." She folds her arms across her chest. "Artemis bet on 'sixteen'."

    "Anyone guess thirty one?" There's a noticeable twitch that she doesn't quite suppress fast enough to escape my notice. "Or did the whole team think I overstated-."

    "Overstated your age so you could skip school." She stands there for a moment. "Thirty one, huh?"

    "Thirty one now. I was twenty nine when I got here. Ah, sort of. The years don't.. quite line up so I lost a couple of months. Though since I've stopped ageing-."

    "I don't-. It's a bit weird, but I don't.. mind. And it does go a little way to explain why you were creeping on my mom."

    "Your mother is a very attractive woman."

    "Starting to mind."

    "Sorry."

    She tilts her head slightly to the side. "Were you being honest about being a virgin?"

    "Yeah, I… Wasn't the most social person before coming here." I shrug. "That was completely true."

    "Anything else I should know about?"

    "Hey." I frown. "Your turn."

    A quiet huff. "I've killed people."

    "I had.. rather.. been assuming that. I take it they weren't all criminals?"

    "Not all of them. I've killed twenty nine people. Twenty three criminals, and six… Not."

    "Jade, I've killed… Rather more than twenty nine people. As long as you don't plan on starting up again I don't really care, saving that it might create difficulties for you in the future."

    She regards me curiously for a moment. "You really don't, do you?"

    "No, I don't. You could blame the orange light-."

    "Did you ever think that maybe I do?"

    "Not for any length of time. Would you like to do something about it?"
     
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