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(Reference humor) A Rock.
Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)
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OverReactionGuy
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One better, an indestructible goat simulator goat!
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I don't remember what did it was from, but Armsmaster approved those and very quickly regretted not reading what he was signing.
FaerieKnight79
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The branded panties are from canon. Armsmaster musing about how he regretted not reading what he was signing might have been a fanfic.
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Exactly what I meant.
Kinsfire
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I remember that fic. It was a fanfic, though, and not canon. Given his efficiency kick, he may have assumed that others had vetted them as a good idea and signed off on them.
Although I'm a little surprised that the members of the Wards and Protectorate have ANY say in their merchandising. It's a fairly common issue in the real world for a celebrity to deal with a stupid decision that their management made on what to market. If the money to ridicule quotient is heavy enough on the money side, then no amount of fighting will get that off the shelves. If it goes the other way, they launch a PR campaign to half-assedly explain it away.
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Most Superhero genre world's and fics swing between all the say and none of the say depending on the writers. Mostly depending on how much individualization various groups work with.
Legitimate, as in not just make-work while Taylor/Hive/automation handle things for real in the background. Or more specifically, she actually let someone else have a say in things.
...ignoring that she's doing her best to ensure that she doesn't have to be involved at all because most of this "ruling" thing was accidental on her part and she'd prefer to have nothing to do with it.
There are multiple ways to look at it. My choice here boils down to it being a bad idea to intentionally piss off superpowered individuals by not getting permission.
Sure, a lot of parahumans would probably not be a major problem if they took offense. But others are just as liable to blow up a few PRT/Protectorate buildings as the opening move of their rampage.
So you play nice and ensure that the parahumans sign off on things, at least when they're old enough.
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She's trying to turn governing into 'make work' so they will never need to bother her.
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- Georgia
That said, celebrity children in general, or their parents at least, get a lot more say in what uses their child's likeness is put to, and judges tend to side with the parents if it isn't simply a matter of the parents getting stupid/greedy. Some are known for deliberately setting the punitive costs to the marketers high enough to counter the profits they made off their poorly thought out marketing. The Protectorate gets more into "don't poke the bear with a stick, especially when they're defending you from other bears", but I'm sure there are plenty of law firms that have a branch specialized in Ward and Protectorate law. It's bound to be too lucrative for them to pass up.
Especially in a setting where Accord is considered to be one of the nicer ones, and he has murdered people for things as innocuous as forgetting which spoon to use in a formal dinner(I don't know if this particular one has shown up, but either it has and they're now very careful, or they noticed this tendency before and now they're very careful). Though Accord is not a hero, he's also potentially the sort who would take lethal offense of a marketing blunder of that sort, even if it's not him who's getting shafted. At least if I understand his general characterization correctly, which I might not.
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Worse, arguably he IS a hero. He sees villainy as a way to fund his heroic initiatives. Parahumans who aren't even trying to be heroes? You'd be lucky if they only killed you. And your marketing team. And everybody who happened to be in buildings beside where they found you.
He deals with slavery. I know this story has fluffed out several characters that are better off dead, but at the end of the day he's still scum, no matter where he started from.
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I think that's more a point about what about the villains with less restraint. But I could be wrong, I'm bad enough at reading people in person.
FaerieKnight79
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Everyone is the hero in their own story. Nobody except maybe Jack Slash looks in the mirror in the morning and says "yup, I'm a villain. Let's go do something villainous."
Sandy River DL
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Eh, the Butcher too. Or at least most of them are 'what shall I do today? LARP being a Mad Max villain!'
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- Georgia
As I read the canon setting, a great many villains are fully villains in their own minds. Most do the, "At least I'm not as bad as X" dance, with the exceptions like the S9* and Butchers instead doing, "I'm not as bad as X? Time to step up my game!"
*Riley is an arguable exception, as she is a villain purely via a Master effect that keeps her from working out that she's being anything but a "good girl." Mimi stayed in that psych ward voluntarily, I think, but has no self control when near an open flame. The others were full fledged villains.
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There is a reason people call it "grim-derp" and it has everything to do with Wildbow's nihilism bleeding into every part of the story. It's the same reason the story is so popular with fan fic authors, honestly. The setting and characters could be so much better if they weren't so busy being assholes at every moment possible.
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The S9 and Teeth would have been just fine as villains of a brighter story, but instead of providing contrast, their purpose is to reveal how easy it is to turn even heroes into villains and how emo the setting really is. I agree that the most flawed IPs tend to make the best fanfiction.
Accord was part of WEDGDG, but decided to go villain after all his bosses refused to even look at his plan to end world hunger.
He was thinking he would get the money by hook or by crook to implement his plan.
A classic case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
Also it was indicated his OCD got worse as time went on.
Technically with canon Worm, that list of "better off dead, end of the day they are ultimate scum" is literally every human being on the planet - any time someone in the comments for the story as it was being posted mentioned "hey, character X seems like they might not be the most evil person in existence", Wildbow would counter with an interlude explaining that no, that character kicks puppies and eats babies in their spare time. Most of the hate [random character X] gets is the result of those interludes.
Kinsfire
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And most people don't realize that if parahuman powers exist at the end of Ward, then it means that the Earths in that multiverse ARE STILL DOOMED. Zion might not be in charge any more, and the other plans have failed, but I got the impression that 'The Mission' is sort of hard-coded in, so they're STILL looking for their magic reset button.
Worm was Wildbow wanking off to his nihlism fetish.
Ward was Wildbow filming a 3-d porno to his nihlism fetish, with him getting off every time it fucked over anyone people actually _liked_ from Worm (e.g. Amy).
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Is the Casey that Suzy visited 2 chapter ago and that Suzy and Hanna are talking about in the most recent chapter a de-powered Circus?
I feel like there was a scene many chapters ago where Uber or leet called Circus to ask if they want to leave earth bet with them, but circus said no and asked to be deported we found out their name was Casey.
I feel like there was a scene many chapters ago where Uber or leet called Circus to ask if they want to leave earth bet with them, but circus said no and asked to be deported we found out their name was Casey.
M. H. Fuzzball
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The name Casey first appears in 191. Circus was last mentioned in 148, after they were depowered, but no real name was mentioned.