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

[thebishop8]

I also just remembered that Amalak used to employ a coluan, Gozzi. If Brainiac is involved then that's ironic in the sense that he's responsible for both of their species recent woes and that they didn't they had that connection.

 

[Vaermina]

But I seem to recall Amalak did allow for the fact that, if it could be proven Zod wasn't responsible somehow, that he would turn his ire to ensuring the true perpetrator was executed instead...

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Maybe.

But given he's a revenge obsessed Zealot I feel like its more likely he just "no true scotsmen"s it and claims whatever proof Orange Lantern digs up to be too inconclusive to count.

 

[Mr Zoat]

I made a typo when searching for mentions of Brainiac, and found Zoat made the same typo once, only a couple of days away from a full decade ago:

'Braniac' to 'Brainiac'

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Missing speech mark.
'suggests'

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"convince"

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Thank you, corrected.

 

[CTrees]

We really have no idea what Timaron's legal system looks like, or if it has precedent covering claims of mind control, intelligence suppression, desire manipulation, and so on. "I was mind controlled" being a viable defense at trial causes all sorts of issues, and should hopefully require some reasonably firm proof beyond the word of the accused. But thinking about it from a real world, American legal perspective...

The intelligence suppression is really not much different to a defendant claiming involuntary intoxication. I.e., they did the crime, but they were unknowingly or unwillingly drugged by some third party, and they would not have committed the crime if they had not been drugged. The issues with Zod/Arnus using that as a defense are 1) proving Zod would not have otherwise done it, 2) proving his intelligence was suppressed for a long enough, ongoing basis for his genocide plan to be conducted, with no one noticing or stopping it (the intelligence suppression when he was released from the phantom zone is circumstantial evidence, but does not prove the effect was occurring before his capture), 3) proving that his intelligence was suppressed just enough to concoct his genocide plan but not so much that it would make him incapable of carrying it out on his scifi spaceship, which seems like a very narrow needle to thread, 4) showing who was behind the suppression and why.

 

[Frozen20XX]

Dunno about that. He looks good in orange.

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"Mongul of Warworld. You belong to the Orange Lantern Corps."

Heh. I doubt she'd even find any reason to bother Assimilating him. Perhaps bind him with a tailored 'it gets worse' Black Mercy (Black Anguish?) and let him rot in some hole on her surface...

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Which is more merciful? Death, Assimilation, or Black Mercied (Agurished?)?

 

[Lord Ernest]

Which is more merciful? Death, Assimilation, or Black Mercied (Agurished?)?

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If we are referring to Mother of Mercy's flowers, then Black Mercy. You will die eventually, but until then you get to experience a realistic dream where even your inner desires get fulfilled, even those you didn't know you wanted or wished for. I don't remember if I read the original comic, but from the example shown in the animated series, I don't think even Superman ever acknowledged that he just wished to live a simple farm life in an intact Krypton.