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

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Mr Zoat said:
"…first time she's brought anyone 'round from America." Missus Hutchinson is washing the breakfast cutlery, having rejected my offer to do it for her. "You here for anything special?"
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She probably thinks he's a Briton who emigrated to the USA, but I like to imagine that she thinks he's a full-on American who is putting on a comically English accent to 'fit in'.
Mr Zoat said:
"Sort of-. I like to think of the Justice League as a nice-to-have thing. I don't like the idea that our entire civilisation is carried on the backs of two dozen people. Like… We're not really doing anything that other people couldn't do, we're just going it a bit faster."
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'doing'
I.. assume he's talking more about rebuilding civilisation, not superheroism in general? Because I don't think a lot of the stuff they do could be done by other people. Not without many years of technological and social advancement.
Mr Zoat said:
"Because he thinks that he should because he's very strong and clever and he has a bit of trouble with the idea that those aren't the only determining factors. But he was pretty much immune to the Anti-Life and he's also… Very good at evaluating macro-level factors and monitoring the wide scale effects of our work."
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So if someone stronger and cleverer came along he'd think they'd have more right than him? Or would he just see them as a rival to overcome?
Mr Zoat said:
"He also struggles to comprehend humans and humanity."

"Of course he does. It's only natural, isn't it? He's a robot."
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Bigot.
 
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Duke Long said:
'doing'
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Thank you, corrected.
I.. assume he's talking more about rebuilding civilisation, not superheroism in general? Because I don't think a lot of the stuff they do could be done by other people. Not without many years of technological and social advancement.
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[Looks around at our world built entirely without magic or superheroes]

No?
 
Mr Zoat said:
Thank you, corrected.

[Looks around at our world built entirely without magic or superheroes]

No?
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How many alien invasions have we defended against and how many evil maths have been used to damage the psyche of humanity and how many time travelling space elves have invaded us?

That's some super heroism we couldn't possible do.
 
Mr Zoat said:
[Looks around at our world built entirely without magic or superheroes]

No?
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Well yeah, that's the point; we are in a world that doesn't have magic or superheroes. They don't exist. The situation is fundamentally different when they do exist. In a world where a guy can do a ritual to blot out the sun or separate children from adults, and the majority of nations aren't anything like good enough at magic to do anything about it, the world is doomed without superheroes. Given enough time, sure, governments can obtain their own magicians and make their own supersoldiers, but clearly they aren't doing it fast enough, and these apocalyptic events are happening now, not fifty years in the future.
 
KharnTheBrotrayer said:
How many alien invasions have we defended against and how many evil maths have been used to damage the psyche of humanity and how many time travelling space elves have invaded us?

That's some super heroism we couldn't possible do.
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Ah, sorry, I misread your comment. In that case the best I can do is point to the sixty or so year gap between the JSA shutting down and the JLA starting up and note that human civilisation managed alright.
 
Chojin Patriarch said:
Or worse, everyone on Earth but him could be experiencing a blind spot about the implications of the League having that much authority... 🤔 Makes him look panicky and hesitant about having too much power. Might not be, but you never know...
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I believe Anarky knows nothing is seriously wrong with the legislation, but used it as a memetic weapon tailored against OL, as a perfect means to fluster and distract the greatest threat towards Anarky's current agenda of secrecy.

Remember, Anarky is stupid-smart, and is certainly walking a path of suicidal-genius that he would be stopped from completing if anyone had even the slightest clue what Anarky's end goal is.
 
Mr Zoat said:
"No, not really. I think they can be trusted. And I don't think anyone could really stop Superman anyway."

"I-. Could-." Not the point.
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hoo hoo, OL getting a bit big for his britches. now, i'm not saying that it's impossible or that OL wouldn't put up one hell of a fight... but c'mon, Supes would come out ahead one way or the other, no?
 
BartlettMagic said:
hoo hoo, OL getting a bit big for his britches. now, i'm not saying that it's impossible or that OL wouldn't put up one hell of a fight... but c'mon, Supes would come out ahead one way or the other, no?
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He was already able to defeat his Earth 12 counterpart.

Granted, he had the element of surprise, but he'd still probably be able to do the same to the Earth 16 version.

He can transmute the surrounding environment into Kryptonite, make devices that can shoot red sun radiation etc.
 
I mean, he did give Superman that radiation shield. So neither kryptonite or red sun radiation should work very well…
But he used Majestic Orange Presence before the demon ball was a thing, and while he wasn't as elegant as Lantern Gozzi, he was also perfectly capable of warping space. And his AI automatically transports him whenever the JSI kryptonian attacked him.

Ultimately, he's a local reality warper a xenotech hypercomputer helping him dodge. In a fight between him and Superman, even without the Ophidian? Even if he doesn't normally match Superman's raw brute force and speed, he's got enough of both to survive him (see: Klarion's starro tech), and enough hax that he could kill him if he felt it was necessary - and that's assuming that he can't hack the shield and shut it down.
 
Are we looking at an "Evil" Batman or something else… that's the question.
 
BartlettMagic said:
hoo hoo, OL getting a bit big for his britches. now, i'm not saying that it's impossible or that OL wouldn't put up one hell of a fight... but c'mon, Supes would come out ahead one way or the other, no?
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Keep in mind that all Kryptonians outside of Kara 3 are heavily nerfed in Mr Zoat's story.
 
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