Not much would happen, as he's effectively done that for himself, at least as much as he would want to.
Dr. Balewa has a strong accent. He learned English only relatively recently. He's actually better at speaking Roman Latin than English.
The 'they'd sue us' thing wasn't a serious observation.
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It hasn't happened yet. The SI will pop back to set things up either at the end of this episode or the beginning of the next one.@Mr Zoat How did Alan's date with Queen Artemis go? Is he now king of her world?
The Renegade's soul was made by Father Box, not his ring. And it's a standard New God soul, not an orange light soul.
Yes and no.
This should be "grand total".
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This sort of makes me wonder how well this version of Paul would do in a version of X-Force. He's already more willing to kill than most of his teammates, and he can hack most databases that don't have exotic protection.
Honestly this is probably the worst way to go about it. A better way would be to either establish friends of humanity as a terrorist group or go after them for "inciting violence" which is 100% illegal and not free speech like Reddit is currently learning.
"I shouldn't blurt out peoples personal medical information-"
"-ah, never mind. It's fun to spread the goss."
"And then the easily provoked violent fascists, who attack mutants regularly, will likely attack us. At which point I can self-defence them with impunity."
And to be fair, outside of 'mutant affairs', the X-men of this universe haven't had much contact with the more interesting aspects of superhero culture on this kind of world. Vigilante laws, the way some people approach 'polite' visits, that sort of thing... Perhaps that'll change as Paul nudges them into closer relations with other Heroes.
Maybe they should lay off the M-word, even? Use something more generic for empowered humans, whatever their origins. Marvels, perhaps.
Again, it goes back to definitions of 'mutant' and 'enhanced'. Ancient alien mucking about in the human genome has left a lot of little quirks in it.
I can't imagine people would like him more if he used the M-word.
Only in very rare cases. Most people do just get cancer, or die outright in extreme doses.
Especially in the cartoon's origin, which was still the 'developed a special bomb for the government, got zapped when a teenager snuck onto the testing ground and he went personally to save him'.
I assume with the bomb about to go off, the security personnel were in their own bunkers...Sadly, the study of managing it in adult humans is somewhat hampered by fears about 'evil Genetic Engineering'...
The exact positioning of which varying greatly in some depictions.
Honestly, the genetic meddling in Marvel humans probably saved a lot of people from that sort of unpleasant fate...
Seriously, given how many different groups fiddled with early humans... It's a wonder Paul fits in at all.
Given how big a deal Paul made of it, I suspect he was a little nervous about it.
I suspect if Hank were there in the room, he'd be nodding along.
...That's a worry, but I suspect there's a measure of alignment with the person's 'life energies' that might filter that sort of thing out.
Though if it were safe, and the donated blood stayed present independently of his dupes, it could be useful, depending on his blood type.
Yeah, that's one of those weird pseudo-science things the early Marvel era tended to rely on... Cyke's eyebeams aren't purely light, after all, so why would a piece of crystal impair the imparted force? Especially something that would probably be artificial in nature, as Quartz doesn't really come in Ruby.
And this is why you don't think too hard about superhero stuff...He's getting closer to the real problem, good. Scott always was a smart cookie.
...Or they really want to go full mad-science experiment and see if blood transfusions from empowered people gives the non-empowered their abilities. I wouldn't put it past some nutter to do that.
I wouldn't be surprised to find there are government research labs doing exactly that sort of research. Even if it's as part of some 'find a way to identify mutants' program...
And now you understand why Paul was in such a rush earlier.
Ironically, a Power Ring makes that kind of research so much easier, especially the Orange one's 'just do it!' functionality. Make a bunch of random mixtures of Madrox and other people's DNA, see if there's any consistency in his absorption, and whether dupes can also trigger it or not.
You do seem to be forgetting about Jean, too. She'd also be there to protect the kids. And while she isn't full phoenix here (No Phoenix Saga due to the M'kraan thing, eh?) She's still nothing to sneeze at power-wise, being a high-order telekinetic and telepath.
Might be safer than the comics' attempts, like Utopia off San Francisco, Magneto's Asteroid M projects or the later Krakoa thing...
Yeah, remaking a planet seems a bit extreme, especially since the worldwide population of x-gene-positive people is fairly small at this stage (in the thousands, at most?)
Heh. Sidestepping the whole hero/villain conflict by taking the legal action route. It could work, some famous criminals have been caught out on technicalities before.
Plausible deniability and all that. If he's forming a team, best to look for people who aren't associated with the X-Men.
At least he has an edge in information gathering abilities.
I'm reminded of the quote, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."
I reaslise that the term has lost a lot of its original meaning, but as far as I remember the Friends of Humanity are never established as being fascists. In particular, the way that their charasmatic figurehead leader is removed is quite contrary to the way normal facist groups work.
My understanding is that it's more due to the fact that our current technology doesn't let us precisely choose which genes get removed, so trying to remove faulty genes also results in healthy genes getting removed. You don't get cured so much as a reroll on your congenital disorder.
No, she's still technically possessed, but the phoenix is effectively in a coma due to losing its link to the crystal.
I think it was his dog. And as far as I remember the next line was 'and he was hanged the next week, and not for the dog'.
Oi! Rule 8!
I think people like Peter are called mutates.
Maybe they should lay off the M-word, even? Use something more generic for empowered humans, whatever their origins. Marvels, perhaps.
I'm guessing this should be district attorneys.
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Why would someone calk Peter?
Are you saying they're secretly one person?
