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That's because Dinah, the most powerful precog known to the PRT, sold him a bill of goods on that one: In hindsight, it was obviously a big blunder, but at the time, it almost certainly seemed like the best option.

I know that this is getting somewhat off-topic, but, is it? I even took my time re-read the Cell arc, because it has been a while since I read Worm, and I have to tell you, I don't see it. At no point were Tagg's actions truly excessive or unreasonable, given the context. Perhaps it's just me...

A lot of the fanon characterization in Worm is badly biased as a result of how Taylor interpreted things in canon. In extreme cases, this results in the kind of protagonist-centered morality where Taylor and the Undersiders can do no wrong, and everyone who opposes them is clearly an...

The Doylist explanation for Path to Victory's limited effectiveness is obvious, if Contessa were actually capable of winning using her power, she would be the protagonist of the story, instead of that troubled teenager from Brockton Bay with the ability to control bugs. (Honestly, I would...

As far as I remember, the Worm never really went into detail as to what exactly motivated the Endbringers to do what the do. Interlude 28 came the closest, being a secondhand view into the Simurgh's thoughts, but it leaves a lot up for interpretation. It really depends on the author of the...

Honestly, I just assumed that the Alien Broadcast was to blame, since it would be an external influence on the world, something that the Shards didn't take into account in their simulations of the world. But this explanation actually makes a lot more sense, and also explains why the various...

Very true, but Taylor and Hive have been able to operate interplanetary almost from the start. Remember, between the two of them they have access to more or less the complete resources and capabilities of the various Shards Hive absorbed. And Shards, given how they are depicted both in canon and...

Which makes a lot of sense from a world-building perspective, since the whole point of Parahumans is Shards stress-testing and optimizing their functionality, and there is a limit of what kind of technology 20th/21st century human civilization can reasonably produce, never mind a single...

And what practical, ethical options did they have, exactly? It has been a while since I read Worm, but I do remember thinking that Cauldron, and humanity as a whole, is so badly screwed in the Worm-verse that the fact that they survived at all is kind of a miracle. The truth is that 20th / 21st...

Given that in canon Emma was a major influence on Sophia, and they presumably never met in the world this story is set in, chances are that even if Sophia is still around, she's not the same person, and she most definitely wouldn't care about Taylor -- that obsession was all Emma's influence...

Well, she arguably did get caught because she didn't think things through, and things only worked out for her though pure luck -- if she hadn't miraculously managed to tinker up a functional shield generator, she would have been more or less screwed. That said, it's not that I don't get where...

I'm not all that familiar with the Mass Effect setting, but from what I understood, the Element Zero is primarily used to alter the mass of any matter under its influence, right? Would an effective way to shield a star-ship from projectiles, debris, etc. not simply be to reduce the mass of...