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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
- Location
- North Carolina
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- He/Him
We can make a big Island, middle of the ocean and put in there
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Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest
- Thread starter King crimson
- Start date
- Superhero
- Location
- Singapore
We just wait for Bane to leave Santa Prisca and get arrested by Batman. With the inevitible usurpation/coup d'état, we will send Serial Peacemaker to step in and "restore democracy" ie. prop up a puppet government.
After that, we copy Disney and take over the economy by building Ozzyland with a Dinosaur Park as part of the theme park.
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
Not a guarantee when the Serpent Society is a thing that exists.
Also, Aquaman doesn't like us, so that's a bad plan.
We helped set Bane up as El Presidente in Santa Prisca. He's shown no inclination towards leaving.
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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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- He/Him
What is the Serpent Society? Atlantis is the middle in the Civil War, we can help Black Manta assassinated Aquaman and make it like an accident and put someone better in a throne that would be good for us
Gumiho
Reach heaven through violence!
Bane wishes to claim Gotham for himself by personally defeating Batman.
Fight Club 20
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KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
The Serpent Society is a well funded terrorist group of reptile themed supervillans.
They're a JSA enemy.
They have the money to just buy a plane, get to an Island, and fuck everything up.
As to Atlantis, political strife isn't the same as civil war. The cities aren't actually fighting Aquaman right now as far as we know.
And we passed on contacting Black Manta, remember?
I feel the need to point out that there is already a dinosaur island
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
This too.
There's also a plataeu in South America with Dinosaurs. Home to the very first modern metahuman, Hugo Danner. . .
Fight Club 20
1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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Really? I did not know about this.
- Location
- Singapore
But those are not our property, they are more like wildlife preserves.
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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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Is there a spell to talk to ghosts, because that be useful.
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
Most people don't, it's related to teams like the Challengers of the Unknown who nobody's given a shit about since the 60s. . .
Yes, it's even a relatively common spell.
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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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- He/Him
We should learn the spell, it would be useful in the future
Yeah and we kind of already have a way to get there, the Sword of Fan, which we have an action to look for, supposedly allows it's wielder to command the dinosaurs and is kept on their island
They're not yet but the island easily could be, nobody knows it exists and we could easily buy it before anyone finds out
Especially if it falls into Japanese waters
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
We don't know magic because the DC for Lex learning it has been consistently too high.
- Location
- Singapore
Japanese waters or Disputed Waters? Because if falls into a 4-way diplomatic shitshow between Japan/China/Philippines/Taiwan, it will not be worth it.
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- North Carolina
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I mean, we can use magic users to help us better for DC.
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
We've tried that.
DC is still too high.
The QM has told us that learning Magic at Lex's age is usually impossible.
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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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But how mirror master have magic got it out random, and he is adult. And Not us
KnightofTempest
The Man who would be King
- Location
- Chicago
Take it up with the QM.
That's the reason he gave for the DC being so high.
Also, Mirror Master doesn't exist because we hired Captain Cold and his Rogues before they made their debut. None of them have their tech/powers.
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1# You do not talk about Fight Club
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- North Carolina
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I know, but I forgot his name.
King crimson
Confusion Will Be My Epitaph
- Location
- Los Angeles
The Serpent Society is a Marvel comics entity who aren't really terrorists but do use reptile themed villains
You're getting them confused with the Kobra cult, who are a snake themed terrorist group who also make use of non-snake supervillains and are DC characters
I'd like to tone down the statement from "usually impossible" to something a little less harsh (for example Sam learned magic and he's of a similar age) but it's exceptionally difficult for Lex Luthor because of who he is and the way he grew up and views the world.
Lex specifically has a harder time with magic than most people would because of his mindset.
Edit: that's not to say most adults would have it easier but someone who was raised from birth in a culture that believed that magic was real and could be tapped into in a set way because of some reason would have an easier time than those raised in a skeptical society. People like Bruce Wayne, Victor Fries, Selina Kyle, Barry Allen, Sinestro, Mr. Frost, Veronica Cale and Lex Luthor would all have a harder time learning magic than lunatics like Jervis Twitch, Murmur and Humpty Dumpty and then all of them would have a harder time learning magic than a true believer in magic and then a true believer in magic would still likely have a harder time learning magic then a sufficiently openinded child.
TLDR: multiple factors are at play to make it harder for Lex to learn magic.
Sam got it because he fundamentally didn't understand how mirrors work. Sam fundamentally misunderstands how reality works and uses magic to bend reality to match his misunderstanding.
Lex fundamentally cannot do the same thing because he knows how the world works and because any attempt he'd have in using magic, causes him to look for underlying principles which aren't there, thus causing him to view magic as an "impossibility made manifest" which in turn makes it impossible for him
Edit: the reason why most magic users need to learn magic as children is that their mindset is more malleable. They have a lot more latitude to reject mental schemas of reality and compensate with magic to make their own than adults do. Lex inherently needs to combat his own way of thinking about things in order to use magic and that's very difficult to do.
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