Exposing him as a Toon would absolutely be a death blow to him, but I'm leery of usurping all his stuff. We only have so many national actions, and the more responsibilities we take on the less we can handle effectively.
Coyote for Mayor!
Nah. Clearly we need to build a robot doppleganger of Walt Disney.
Echo Creek is Toffees Territory, and he is one of the few kings i feel you can use the word for. Toffee controls the politics of that entire region through bribes and black mail.
Judge Doom the human is the CEO of Cloverleaf, elected Mayor and public anti-toon bigot. The Pistol Packing Possum (or whatever toon is under the mask) is not any of that. They are an evil imposter impersonating Judge Doom for nefarious purposes. The body of the real Judge Doom has yet to be found.
It would obliterate him, but I'm not sure if revealung the existence of a murderous toon would do more for or against toonkind in general. I suppose we could expose him as a toon without divulging how we know he's a toon, but that sounds like the kind of thing we'd need prepwork to pull off. Hence why I'm advocating for infiltrating Doom's organization sooner rather than later.
Bet already knows, IIRC.
Doesn't L.A. just have the weirdest luck when it comes to multiversal incursions? Why, if L.A. had a penny for each time a major extradimensional threat happened around it, it'd... Well, it'd have two pennies. Which isn't much, particularly for a city, but it's weird that it happened twice.
If LA didn't want to get ivaded every tuesday, it shouldn't have settled next to Burbank!
It's supposed to be nickel, I think.
I mean, I want to point out that doing that is probably the best method to actually expose him as a toon though? The Acme personal probably helps link things to Doom or his organization, Murderous Toon gives more insight to those by trying to figure out more about the toon that did it.
While I doubt we'd actually be allowed to do it, if we make a gun that put whoevers hit with in into their underwear we will be able to expose Doom. He is reliant on his completely conventional costume that covers his full body (including Glass Eyes hidden behind tinted Glasses, a Latex Mask, and a suit covered with formaldehyde) so if we if we could remove the costume we'd expose him.
The big ones are action economy and how the infiltration action works. It would take 3 actions to set up the infiltration via a doppleganger (one to profile, one to build, one to send); and a Tier 2 Infiltration requires a heroes direct imput to function. Not necessarily via adding them to the enemy hero list, but they need to oversee the spy network in the region personally (If we send Mez to San Fran, she isn't gonna be entering Sycorax herself do to the personal risk to her person it would present, same with Russ and Judge Doom). We can then remove them, but we get far worse rewards from the network.
Is it really gaming the system if we have to put in work proportional to the reward (i.e. getting an infiltration unit that's not as good as an actual hero, but better than normal corporate spies)?
Yeah that type of mentality "its gaming the system to do xyz" is part of why we've been so hesitant to do the write in actions that were apparently expected of us in order to do the cool things.
That, uh, that means the opposite of that, though.
Do you really need me to explain that with a better spy network, we could get what we want out of the network done faster and at a higher quality than with a worse spy network?
I was thinking of an infiltration-specialized Doppleganger as something like our assignable items or company bonuses that makes infiltration actions easier/have more bonuses when they are assigned than just using normal moles, without quite being a Hero themselves. Basically, a non-sapient AI doppleganger that is specced towards Hero-tier infiltration specifically, but is a grunt unit by all other metrics.
Define what we want, I suppose.
