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

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Gruntjerka said:
Is this leading up to crisis of infinite paul!lanterns?
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My thinking is that Ambush Bug tried to get rid of Paul 16, but all the different Pauls are interconnected for the same reason that the ROB behind Paul being an SI accidentally brought through most of them. So, instead of getting punched out of existence... Paul got his metaphysical slingshot yanked back. Release comes... in one week.
 
Ganurath said:
My thinking is that Ambush Bug tried to get rid of Paul 16, but all the different Pauls are interconnected for the same reason that the ROB behind Paul being an SI accidentally brought through most of them. So, instead of getting punched out of existence... Paul got his metaphysical slingshot yanked back. Release comes... in one week.
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Ambush Bug: I'll get rid of this SI, for sure!
ROB-Zoat: lol no.
 
Well I'm actually hoping we get some kind of meeting between the Paul's these glimpses are interesting and the differing dynamics and evolutions the characters are undergoing in response to their different settings is engaging.

Is it bad that I want their to be some big team up of the Paul's superhero teams? Young Justice Paragon meets Young Justice Renegade and both engaged in teeth clenched work with the Young Offenders and a Paul trained Super Duper.

the Culture clashes would be fantastic.
 
Murmur said:
Oh my lord. Oh dear. No, as mentioned above this is from The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson.

I mean, it could have been ... Worse(???). It could have been The Pro, though perhaps skirting SV's rules there. The Boys are getting pretty close, too. No chance of The Dicks, but possibly Kev ....
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Kev would put him in The Authority... at least if it's the Kev I'm thinking of. Not sure if that could be considered 'better' or 'worse' than The Boys. Depends on when he entered the universe, I suppose.
 
jcw3 said:
The exact opposite. A mean-spirited comic written by a man who hates superheroes.

EDIT: The Boys, by Garth Ennis. Please don't read it. Read Blue Beetle if you want a fun comic. Irredeemable if you want a genuinely interesting superhero deconstruction. Uber if you want a dark, grim war story about how superhumans can cause damage. Please don't read The Boys. You won't enjoy it.

Oh! Invincible, if you want all three of the above.
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thank you for the recommendations
 
Ganurath said:
The setting is The Boys. It's basically what would happen if PRT Director Emily Piggot wrote a comic book.
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No.
Piggot is actually competent, and while she bears a grudge towards parahumans in her universe, she actually is scrupulously fair when addressing them.

The Boys is just grimdark.
Jamie Roberts said:
I too am interested in knowing what the rest of Paul's sentence was about to be.
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Herogasm is some sort of retreat where Vought-American heroes(at least the Seven, possibly others) go off to carouse, use drugs and participate in orgies with paid sexworkers.
And given that superpowers are in play, there is a need for on-site medical attention for the casualties.

If I had to guess?
The bastards being referred to were spawn camping the medical bay to grab sex-workers as they were being healed after injury.

Murmur said:
I mean, it could have been ... Worse(???). It could have been The Pro, though perhaps skirting SV's rules there. The Boys are getting pretty close, too. No chance of The Dicks, but possibly Kev ....
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Objection.
The Pro is a much better world than that of The Boys.
The fact that the protagonist was a sex worker doesn't actually make it a bad place; their Superman-expy was a much better person than the Homelander.
Not that it's a high bar.
 
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Polokun on Spacebattles has a fairly amusing Let's Read of The Boys here, for the curious. It's probably better for the mental health than reading the actual comic.

GodKiller999 said:
Souls form through the metabolisation of magic. Well designed artifacts tend not to radiate, but Lazarus Pits get magic gunk all over anyone who uses one.
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If it's all it takes why did OL have to go through so much trouble to grow one?
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"I can get you a soul! First I kill you, then -"

"I'll...try John Constantine first. I bet that's not a phrase used often."
 
Dakkan Sall said:
Kev would put him in The Authority... at least if it's the Kev I'm thinking of. Not sure if that could be considered 'better' or 'worse' than The Boys. Depends on when he entered the universe, I suppose.
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It would at least be a comic owned by DC unlike the Boys. And Paul could come in when Kev is in a compromising position or is about to be killed by terrorists on opposite sides of a conflict
 
Mr Zoat said:
The remainder is Mister Stillwell's own observations, the most pertinent being 'Indigo Lantern is considerably more intelligent and capable than most superheroes currently in Vought's employ. I advise taking whatever he says seriously'.
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Yup, that's certainly unusual in this world.

Mr Zoat said:
"Visiting missionary for an alien religion. Have you heard the good news about the Proselyte?"
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BWAHAHAHAHA! That's just hilarious.

Mr Zoat said:
I'm not sure exactly what he was flying naked in the middle of a flightpath
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I think you might mean "why" here. Or you meant to include a "for" later in the sentence.

jcw3 said:
In ComicVine's defense, they also consider Attractive Male to be a power.
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It is a power. Not a superpower, but a power all the same. Like being rich. There's a lot you can do with that.
 
uju32 said:
Objection.
The Pro is a much better world than that of The Boys.
The fact that the protagonist was a sex worker doesn't actually make it a bad place; their Superman-expy was a much better person than the Homelander.
Not that it's a high bar
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You're not wrong.

Hmm, I'm actually surprised now that Dog-Welder or Bueno Excellente hasn't shown up in the main universe
 
Ganurath said:
This is speculation, but considering the clues in the dialogue, I'm guessing that Herogasm was some sort of massive sex party for heroes, with prostitutes filling out the ranks. Trouble is, The Boys is the sort of setting that would play Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex straight enough that such a party would require medical facilities. Ideally that would be provided by the hosts, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just sending the battered and broken whore to the nearest healer who wasn't busy locking hips with someone. In other words, Paul. I suspect that Paul is currently trying to gripe about how some of the party's guests were doing the sexual assault equivalent of spawn-camping at wherever the girls were getting healed.
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i laughed at this then immediately felt bad about it..... am i ill?
 
Having read the tvtropes, it seems like a very cruel but also very appropriate place to zend an indigo lantern. These people could really use some compassion...
 
Blue paul gets Crime Syndicate DC earth and Indigo Paul gets the the Boys. My condolences. Maybe they can open up a portal and help each other out.
 
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