Ahaha! I continued rereading 2.6 after finding that one quote about Justin Bieber, and I came across my first reaction to the name “Empire Eighty-Eight”, back when I was blissfully ignorant of the connotations of the number:
Empire Eighty-Eight… let’s hope they’re not 88 villains, that’s a bit much. Maybe they’re a bunch of retro villains who love 1988?
That sounds like a pretty fun AU!
Consider also Empire ‘78, led by Kaiser, Emperor of the Discoteque, and his ex-wife, Purity, who shoots multicolored strobe lasers.
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