Not really? Heck, there was a recent update about the cool stuff Kord & Io have been working on.
It's "mostly about Paul" because it's a first person story.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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It's "mostly about Paul" because it's a first person story.
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Think about it from a "Law & Order" perspective. Codified, duly enforced Law is one of the most important embodiment's of Order we have.
Like I have said before, Nabu is currently keeping Zatana kidnapped/enslaved. There are laws against this. Is accomplished this by leveraging Zatana's minor daughter as a hostage. There are also laws against that.
By being allowed to do this he becomes a special snowflake laws don't apply to, because his whims triumphed over the orderly agreed to consensus.
So, I am going to have to say Nabu is causing a much worse upheaval of the current order.
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Cool stuff that they're doing because of Paul. He's practically the only person that does anything.
Which is fine. The story is a self indulgent power trip, and that's okay. I knew what I was signing up for when I started reading it.
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fite me
Responding. Explaining why I feel discontent with the direction the story has taken, and, in doing so, understanding that discontent better.
Precisely.
Another thing: I've completely lost track of the other characters. The cast has become bloated, to the point where most of the characters don't have any impact on the plot at all. This includes the team that he originally cared a great deal about, which influenced how he used his power.
Does he hang out with them in his free time? Presumably. But I don't see why I should care about them anymore.
Except for Teekl, of course.
The Bushranger
In the Danger Zone
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So...you might say Paul will be thwartin' his plans?
I'm wondering if the Second Compulsion involves 'acting in the interests of Chaos'...
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Red.. isn't.. exactly rage. Rage is part of it, as is hate, but there's more to it than both. There isn't an entirely accurate single word for it in English. There is in Qwardian, and it translates into English as something like 'the certain need to unmake'.
Thank you, corrected.
No.
Backlash177
Certifiably Insane
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*Raises Hand*.
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I do have to say I agree with this. We are not seeing a lot of anyone else. Zoat even forgot Sphere had stayed with Grayven. And all his old teammates did not seem to have a problem dropping him as a friend once he returned the lantern.
On Paul's side, it is like the team does not even exist. They can be part of the slice of life segments as well.
I do not think it was for the lulz. He was testing his containment tech on Nabu. And I doubt he was expecting Wonder Woman to want to take the restraints off. He was still thinking/hoping the League was really intending to free Zatana, and just let Nabu join to keep him around until they had a plan. Instead of making a Body Thief a full member.
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well to be fair, right now paul is cosmic level strong, he's in the last stretch of his time on earth before moving out into the big bad universe. he's a bit outside the local weight class because he's about to move up a division.
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I think the word you are looking is Murderboner.
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Ganurath
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One order of "Lord of Order" and a side of "should'a taken the deal bub!" to go pls.
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I'm a little confused why Paul hasn't tried branding Nabu, and seems (at least on the surface) more intent on violence than branding him once he can pin him down in London. He had a chance at new years when Nabu was unconscious to see if branding would work, and he should know thanks to his empathic vision that Nabu is susceptible to orange light manipulation. And he knows thanks to Siskin that he's not super resistant to emotional manipulation.
It seems simple. Take his ability to teleport away, summon the Ophidian, brand him and order him off Zatara's head.
It seems simple. Take his ability to teleport away, summon the Ophidian, brand him and order him off Zatara's head.
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Lordamnesia
What are we doing again?
Actually, Paul has been planning on killing Nabu since he bodysnatched his teammate and refused to give her up. It's only recently that he stumbled on something that would allow him to not have to kill the Lord of Order.
As for not killing, that is what Paul tries to do, but very much isn't going to shed a tear if he has to, and he has, in story, and on screen before.
If Nabu was worried about it, I would agree. But he hasn't checked on anything Paul has been doing with magic, and Paul has been doing alot. And with some very Order aligned people as well. No, this is him refusing to give up a host. Maybe because of fear of them shelving him, maybe because he's super arrogant and doesn't believe anyone could make an artificial body for him, maybe because Paul is a chaos worshiper, and he refuses to trust anything he does because of this. We don't know yet.
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Destructesire.
shepsquared
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Because if it fails Nabu will take action towards him. He's saving the violence for the best possible time for him, when Nabu can't leave London, when Constantine and Teth Adom are on hand and prepared, when Batman and Wonder Woman can't order him to stop and possibly other preparations.
to be honest, it may be less that they dropped him as much as, with the League as a whole uncertain as to him goals, they are restricting the team's ability to interact with him. Aquaman and Flash for example may not be eager for their proteges to hangout with a potential supervillain. Batman knows he's undercover but won't mention that to anyone, even Robin (who doesn't trust Grayven to start with).
I recall Nabu mentioning (not to OL, just in his hearing) in a previous episode that he was was under some sort of minor mystical attack but was unable to track the source (due to Constantine's warding).
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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I don't actually remember that
I do. I don't really remember when, though.
Bailey Matutine
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He's plastic as in the state of matter which is solid yet malleable, like glass or ice.
BlackLantern2814
Hello darkness my old friend.
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You had your chance, Nabu.
Can't wait for OL to off him.
That.. might work. The question is do the other order lords see it like that or not.
Heavy READER
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Just cause you are a order sorcerer does not mean you are a good guy. Just cause you are a chaos sorcerer does not mean you are a bad guy. NABU IS EVIL!
EnygmaSoul
Company of Negotiable Virtue
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"Compulsive Nihilism?"
Jamie Roberts
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Seriously. At this point, Paul's offer to Nabu could only be more-obviously-a-trap if there were giant neon letters flashing TRAP over Paul's head for the whole conversation. Given previous instances of Paul's Ring doing things he didn't tell it to, there may well have been.*
*Somewhat unlikely after enlightenment, but amusing to thing of.
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A nihilist values nothing.
An ideal Red Lanterns values exactly one thing.
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