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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

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Mr Zoat said:
"But the strategic planning part. I know that I argued for redundancy, and, yes, two people is an improvement on one, but it looks like we're building a system that's one unlucky dose of Smilex away from being run by someone who thinks that humans would be better off it they didn't have to waste time eating."
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Chojin Patriarch said:
Though most of the proceeds get donated to charity, I would assume.
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No, he doesn't mean that they charge more. He means that if you work out what it costs to keep the Justice League operating for that amount of time, it's almost always more.
Huh. That would be interesting, especially given that he'd have to commute form his world.
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Well, finally someone told him straight out, 'talk to Batman.' The question is whether that'll ease his worries, or give him new ones. As for involving Lex in League oversight... It might give him an outlet for his world domination urges. Or he might fool himself into being a backstabbing moron and working to undermine the League from within... And no-one will know which until he's offered the shot.
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In the comics, he actually sponsored Aztek with a view to putting him in charge of a version of the Justice League that he controlled.
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Thank you, corrected.
 
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Right now faith in government is at an all time low and faith in the league is high. But once the league is in charge everything wrong will be directly their fault so trust in them will start dropping off pretty fast.
 
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Turn the world into a police state? Not really. If only because we don't have the manpower."
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Did OL forget about Brother Eye in the comics? Lack of manpower isn't really a problem when Batman is sufficiently motivated and paranoid. And wasn't there just an OMAC (or OMAC-variant) like, a couple arcs ago?
 
CTrees said:
Did OL forget about Brother Eye in the comics? Lack of manpower isn't really a problem when Batman is sufficiently motivated and paranoid. And wasn't there just an OMAC (or OMAC-variant) like, a couple arcs ago?
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No...

But.

How many people actually remember the short-lived One Man Army Corp comic, compared to the mind control thrall robot version? Particularly given that the thrall version has already featured as being used by Owlman. And that version of Brother Eye was a covert anti-metahuman measure, which isn't what's happening here.
 
Isn't Dox the smartest person OL knows? What's his take on it? I think the last time they spoke was just after Atlantis emerged?
 
Mr Zoat said:
"-I'll talk it through with him. Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me."

"I think everyone on the League would make time for you, Paul."
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Lord Ernest said:
That's... really anti-complementary. Like grievously so, I think.
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You could take it as a slight against OL, but- I've been rereading the whole Antilife story arc, and I feel like there's something that's kind of slid through the cracks because no one made a big deal of it.

The SI saved the world. No one else had a plan against the antilife. No one even had an idea for a plan, as far as I can tell. The closest we see is the guy who wanted to make the giant mutated Tiger Shark fight Finality Man, which didn't work but at least it was an attempt. The SI swept in with his "gather one of every power ring color" plan, personally did the recruiting, brought in what was needed, and helped execute the mission. I know it's like, hah-hah, the Justice League saves the world all the time, but the Justice League was stuck!

I think Paul, but also a lot of readers in the thread, are underestimating the amount of goodwill Paul has banked right now. It's not just "oh hah-hah that Orange Lantern always causes trouble". People on the Justice League genuinely feel like they owe him bigly, and if makes a request or has something to talk about they will indeed make time for it. I mean, they also know he causes trouble, but he also solves trouble, like he's early Loki or something.
 
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