Ultimately, she's an Ops and Espionage S-lister, with an arbitrary amount of tools in her box, but the more she tries to use at once, the less effective they presumably become, because a lot boils down to Experience being the god stat, and it doesn't matter if you have a toolkit full of Every Tool if you don't have the time or inclination to master any of them.
I'd say the Experience component merely gets shifted onto the puppet master's skill at plotting. There is a lower barrier to getting a clone team to coordinate their power usage according to a particular vision compared to getting a team of regular metahumans in sync, which usually takes an extended period of fighting together and getting to know each other.

Having disposable S rank powers, particularly utility ones, unlocks possibilities that didn't exist before. And although the individual quality doesn't compare, there is something to be said about having more than 3 charges of Wolong's power. So I would shudder to think what Socialite Butterfly could do if she could make Augur clones. And as with the Moon River mission, sometimes you really do need raw tonnage in the power department.

Not to say that I disagree all that much with what you wrote, just that there's a reason power copiers are hunted down.
 
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I mean, why wouldn't Socialite Butterfly have clones of Crusade? They're her groups unwitting pawns and she got New Dawn during their big reveal. Picking up most/all of them would be easy.
 
So one note: i don't think SB can really do algernon types. She can duplicate them just fine, but they don't come with the requisite knowledge, and I suspect due to their nature as her clones they don't, uh, process information properly in a useful way. So they are basically normal people for her purposes.
 
I mean, why wouldn't Socialite Butterfly have clones of Crusade? They're her groups unwitting pawns and she got New Dawn during their big reveal. Picking up most/all of them would be easy.
Also I Fully believe she has them I don't think that she deployed them here for the same reason she wouldn't have used new Dawn if they were here

She has a cover she wants to keep
 
If someone wants to Yoshikage Kira it up over being an evil Overlord why not let them live a quiet life of luxury? :V
 
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Honestly I'm just wondering what her limits are. Because by this point if she didn't have significant limits she'd have completely taken over the city by now.
High. Extremely high. She's a top tier.

The biggest limitation seen is the clones don't have much independence, and presumably don't have the originals knowledge. They also apparently have a short lifespan.

However, I'll note that she was able to have clones of parents around for a while, and if they forgot everything managing them would be a massive chore. So I'm going to guess that clones either pass on their knowledge to future clones, or flat out share it in a hivemind if there's multiple of the same person.

The big unknown for me is: how long does it take her to produce a clone, and how long do they last? While she could have a limited number of clones active, I think it'd be more likely she can only produce so many while also doing other stuff.
 
High. Extremely high. She's a top tier.

The biggest limitation seen is the clones don't have much independence, and presumably don't have the originals knowledge. They also apparently have a short lifespan.

However, I'll note that she was able to have clones of parents around for a while, and if they forgot everything managing them would be a massive chore. So I'm going to guess that clones either pass on their knowledge to future clones, or flat out share it in a hivemind if there's multiple of the same person.

The big unknown for me is: how long does it take her to produce a clone, and how long do they last? While she could have a limited number of clones active, I think it'd be more likely she can only produce so many while also doing other stuff.
Right, I'm just trying to figure out she can't like... make 20 King clones at the same time, right? Because if she *could* do that...
 
Right, I'm just trying to figure out she can't like... make 20 King clones at the same time, right? Because if she *could* do that...
1) King seems to be constantly on the move and we don't know long they've had Lantern to track him.
2) King is mentioned to be the strongest due to his skill with his power. Depending on how much the clones inherit and Kings power, its entirely possible that the clones are too dangerous/indiscriminate for regular use. Great if you want to obliterate an area and don't care about the attention, poor otherwise.
 
Imagine never been around king for one

1) King seems to be constantly on the move and we don't know long they've had Lantern to track him.
2) King is mentioned to be the strongest due to his skill with his power. Depending on how much the clones inherit and Kings power, its entirely possible that the clones are too dangerous/indiscriminate for regular use. Great if you want to obliterate an area and don't care about the attention, poor otherwise.
King was just an example. The point is she probably can't just spit out infinite clones of an S or even X ranker.
 
King was just an example. The point is she probably can't just spit out infinite clones of an S or even X ranker.
See I think the real secret is basically most of the heavy weights are only really good with the power because of their adaptability to it the clones don't have the necessary flexibility to them

Like I imagine mona vs king is basically a hard fight but Mona vs 20 kings is inversely exponentially easier.

I think that's part of why she hides is that her clones only have an overwhelming advantage on their own if you don't know about them.

That's why she brought crusade in they are meant to be the X factor to cover for us knowing about the clones ( I imagine she knows we know either because we are meeting with yara and she knows or guesses her sister told JU)
 
Given how much we discuss them, it's hilarious that JU doesn't actually know their significance at all (well, beyond Towarri's mention. which does not capture the scale of their activity).
 
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