Warlords are typically somewhat more stable and reasonable people than supervillains, as if a warlord is completely unhinged they tend to come down with a sudden case of knife in the back from one of their more reasonable subordinates.
Explain? This sounds amusing.
World Cup semifinals, on Wednesday, England vs Argentina, England was 1-0, and they "turtled in", went all defense, also called "parking the bus". Argentina is a high offense team , they had good control of the ball and kept fighting for the equalizing goal. Argentina won 2-1...
Better to lose with dignity, than to "win" needing cheating refs, and a rigged system. Better than a lack of skill that requires such bullshit.
All of this except the scandals are really old news at this point. Their doctrine has changed many times since then. They went from polygamy to just forbidding caffeine. It's the close knit cultural structure resembling an MLM and the way they form actual MLMs that are weird, as well as the cultish behavior that contributes to in some towns, like in the recent Bricks N Minifigs scandal where among other possibly more egregious things it turned out their chains aren't licensed LEGO distributors. Also, some of them write weird somewhat misogynistic fantasy that's inspired by their religious beliefs like Twilight and whatever Shad of Shadiversity wrote, but that mostly just gets them a sideways glance.
Lots of people smile like that around you.
Be careful Paul, if you keep poking him you're liable to make a hole and he'll start deflating.
Oh no, too late!
I suppose Bir Tiwali is feeling a bit crowded with all the orange Lanterns on site, awkwardness of the ladies' misunderstanding aside. And Justice Mountain always has such a homey feeling, even with so few people present.
Good, that explains the 'school' joke Shayera made. So, then, a new generation of the team. Wonder how many kids from the canonical season 2 will appear.
At least he's not likely to get killed by the Joker even if he does become a cape.
Ala 'Justice League unlimited'? Smaller field teams of five to seven, drawn from suitable mission-related skill-sets? It does mean the Thanagarian shuttles will see use at least.
I'm sure Red Tornado has been busy with other matters.
Heh, this is going to be an interesting experience for Ollie. He's not used to kids, is he? Especially super-powered ones, where every little thing is so much bigger.
For that matter, how many students at a time are they going to be managing?
I can assume Zatanna will be training rookies in magical recognition and defence procedure.
That would be an easy source of young and rookie heroes looking for more advanced skills than what the Alliance can provide.
Try to hold back the satisfied chuckling until after you're out of earshot, OL.
Ah, that relies on the world's governments being able to take up the slack sooner rather than later.
And Ollie's already having misgivings about this idea, isn't he?
It could be worse, you could be posted to Justice League Antarctica.
Why not?
True, standing as Earth's guardians in the eyes of the interstellar community does kind of carry that weight.
Around OL, you've got to really be careful with your wording...
But he didn't stick around to implement them, did he?
The problem is expansion, though. There's plenty of comics stories where someone infiltrates the team during a recruitment drive or publicity affair. And recruiting from government-backed superteams comes with the issue of said capes retaining loyalty to their nation first.
And thus it all works out thusly.
Thank you, Obi-Wan. And sadly, most of the League still don't really seem to have internalised the facts...
Hey, she's gone along with OL's plans before, is this so surprising?
The problem is they're neither trained in how to manage it, nor particular interested in doing so except out of civic responsibility.
Ah, thank goodness, moving on from the hard questions.
It'll expose them to plenty of different routes for heroing, From Robin's detective thing to OL's... Everything...
He's really wondering if he made the right choice accepting this position, isn't he?
...Really, OL?
Thank you, corrected.
We're not a continent. And I'll take unergonomic teeth over government mandated paedophile adoption, Germany.
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Eh, there's only two more to go.
OK, that sounds familiar, but I'm blanking on which episode it's from. Help?
... what. Can this be explained without going into Rule 8?
I had been wondering why they would encourage OL, who is very far from a model league hero, to be part of the teaching staff. Now it is clear that Batman decided OL was perfect for teaching the new ruler-heroes and didn't bother telling the rest of the league about the curriculum.