It would be interesting if Alan Scott was present in some future conversation on the matter to make that point. "You do know that we actually killed people, right? An invading army isn't a crook in a funny costume."
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Depends on media coverage I suppose.
Heroes played prominently in WWII and were willing to kill for their countries.
For some reason everyone seems to gloss over that.
It might be Adom and OL that dominate the news and get labeled dangerious anti-heroes. Rather then DC society reevaluating the threat level of all supers.
Silverias
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"Oh great. OL's gone nuts again...is there any lunch left?"
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True, true, they would have a pretty good grasp on what he's willing to do."Oh great. OL's gone nuts again...is there any lunch left?"
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And thanks! Actually signed up on SB to make a different comment on this story, about a week before the whole move.
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Hmm, I wonder if people focus on the fact that Paul's doing this because:
1) The President is attacking the rebels in the middle of a truce
2) He's killing civilians
3) He's using alien tech to kill, meaning he's sold out the lives of his fellow Kahndaqi to tyrannical aliens for a chance at retaining power
They better not do anything stupid, like focusing on how a C-rate Superhero's just castrated an entire national army.
1) The President is attacking the rebels in the middle of a truce
2) He's killing civilians
3) He's using alien tech to kill, meaning he's sold out the lives of his fellow Kahndaqi to tyrannical aliens for a chance at retaining power
They better not do anything stupid, like focusing on how a C-rate Superhero's just castrated an entire national army.
I wonder if this is a trap by someone who horribly underestimated what OL would do, or if it's led by some Apokoliptian who fully expected such a response and would have been more surprised by the standard superheroic no-killing behavior?
Also, if Queen Bee is involved I expect it's more as a pawn than as an instigator (although she'd be unlikely to admit it even to herself). This is an awful lot of fairly high end Apokoliptian equipment.
Also, if Queen Bee is involved I expect it's more as a pawn than as an instigator (although she'd be unlikely to admit it even to herself). This is an awful lot of fairly high end Apokoliptian equipment.
Also:
If he's putting out enough that he notices it under these conditions, it's probably quite a lot.
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Jamie Roberts
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I'm wondering if Zoat is trying to keep his cast list reasonably close to the same on both sides of the Paragon/Renegade divide. There's a good chance that someone angry and violent will blame her for the invasion.
Almost certainly, I'd say.
Getting better all the time.
Fairly good; extremely high if OL brands her, ask if she was knowingly involved in this and she answers yes.
lancelot
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Just what we always wanted a construct New God. Also if Paul is stalled by some New God or someone else powerful enough I can see him going Snake and then breaking every piece of Apokolian tech on the battle field.
Did Paul try to contact him, it seems like they are isolating Adom during the talks enough that he doesn't know this is going on.
Yeah, this sounds like Adom.
And it looks like the soon to-be ex-president of Kahndaqi has been trafficking with Apokolips behind everyone's backs. Probably through Desaad's patsies in Intergang, the guys who helped him kidnap the Forever People.
Desperate man, dangerous strategies.
I doubt Queen Bee had anything to do with this; she's smart enough not to directly associate herself with removing Adom from the scene.
Especially since Adom has demonstrated a willingness to take direct action.
I'm betting the Kahndaqi president used her as a patsy to ensure that Adom would be out of the city for the "peace summit" then sent in his troops/allies.
Then laid an ambush for Adom, to boot.
And since this is a civil war, the Justice League would not even have been able to intervene legally. Unfortunately for him, OL is not Justice League.
Well, he has sowed the wind....
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Well, that's a lot of murder. Wait, it's only murder if it's unjustified/unlawful, it seems. So. A lot of killing.
I mean, I can't really fault OL here - every bit of hesitation probably would have equalled more dead civilians. However, he's gone from BSODing from killing a clay monster to casual mass killing.
Except that OL doesn't believe separating acts during a war from acts during peace. He's definitely a killer.
I mean, I can't really fault OL here - every bit of hesitation probably would have equalled more dead civilians. However, he's gone from BSODing from killing a clay monster to casual mass killing.
Dangerous, since Mr Zoat has stated that assimilated a god assimilates their portfolio along with them. Also, he'd be much more likely to just kill or brand them.
Sounds kind of overly modern-colloquial for him.
None of that is casual.
Besides, defense of others is always a legal defense, even if it was in the US.
Here? Kahndaq would give him a medal, once they get rid of their current official government.
And it's not like OL hasn't made it clear to the Justice League before that he's perfectly willing to heap the bodies high if the need was dire enough; see what he did during the Alien Invasion Training mission.
Or what his Go To Hell plan was.
He's spent most of a year learning English from tutors.
You expect him to sound somewhat modern.
Besides, compare the speech patterns with those he used in Fawcett City; they seem similar.
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Sounds like a GL (they stayed behind), or the leader of this apo incursion.
Chaoswind
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He wouldn't call this massacre a party, its not in character for him to do so.
I think this will most likely end up being the New God of Dickish Invasions.
The Bushranger
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Actually, I rather think the speaker is this fine fellow.
"You see, there's no need to wonder where your god is! 'Cause he's right here. And he's fresh out of mercy."
GLs would have called OL.
Apokoliptian would not be talking about ENDING the party, as opposed to starting it up.
Besides, OL has planetary range Boom Tube detection, and has seen a Hush Tube work up close.
Nor do I expect one of Desaad's flunkies to risk himself against Adom; this is an essentially throwaway force, after all.
I suspect people underestimate Adom's capacity for cold fury.
If you were speaking in his mother tongue, I might agree.
This, OTOH, is English as he was taught it by a modern speaker.
We'll see, I guess.
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"It's not murder, it's only murder if the killing is unlawful. And the leader of Kahndaq fully supports my actions."
"And President for Life Muhunnad?"
"No longer qualifies for his title."
Character development. Recall, this is a guy who hadn't ever been in a serious fight before Earth 16.
But he's spent months now in a profession where fighting is normal. You can see it affecting his personality as the story goes on.
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