> Would this third reality Legend is suggesting the Case 53s come from perhaps be Earth-Bet? Our world?
Are you thinking of Earth Aleph (revealed in 3.4 to have Star Wars prequels)?
Yes. Yes I was.
Some asks have called the Wormverse Earth-Bet, as a counterpart to Earth-Aleph, and I mixed them up. Whoops!
Congrats of finishing (what is considered by some) the book 2 of Worm!
Oh, this was the end? Well then. I… kinda wish this ask had been held until I knew what Colony was about, actually. I suppose that means Colony is going to be an Interlude Arc.
Anyway, thanks!
We have heard about The Number Man before, in a context that might explain some influence if Legend know of that other job of his. From 6.8 when the Undersiders met Coil face to face for the first time, “And before I forget, I arranged individual accounts for each of you with a supervillain banker by the name of The Number Man, as paying for tonight’s job in bills, naturally, was unfeasible.”
Oh! Yeah, it did seem vaguely familiar.
So this means Cauldron has (indirect?) ties to Coil and the Undersiders as well, even if the latter don’t know it. Interesting.
I suppose The Number Man – and by extension Cauldron, depending on how tightly he works with/for them – has the option of freezing the accounts of many supervillains at once if they feel the need to some day.
I also suppose The Number Man has a hand in making sure the payments to Cauldron aren’t trackable.
Legend and his fellows were already established as top heroes when Siberian first showed up. If he had a Nemesis, it wasn’t Siberian.
Right, good point.
I think, to the extent I actually remembered how the Nemesis program worked at all, I may have had it backwards.
So obviously we don’t get to know the mystery woman’s deal yet, but care to guess which singular power would be enough to deal with/delay the whole Triumvirate?
Maybe a selective AoE time-slowing ability? Except the woman seemed nervous, afraid she wouldn’t be able to take them on, suggesting she might not be able to get out in time herself.
Let’s see, what do we have among the Triumvirate… We’ve got flight/lasers/regen, flight/invulnerability/memory, flight/anything.
It could be a form of power canceling, but we’ve already had that power with Hatchet Face, so it’d need a new twist on it.
Ooh, here’s a fun one: Her power isn’t all that strong, she’s just a taxiporter, able to quickly the Triumvirate and herself to somewhere else in or out of the Cauldron compound, allowing the Doctor to escape. Her nervousness might be over the consequences of doing that for her.
May I point you towards Hero Cats of Stellar City?
Uh, sure. *googles*
Seems pretty neat! I think I’d like Rocco most. :3
You do not remember correctly. Kid Win’s age has not yet been stated. However, he’s a little younger than Taylor.
Oh. Alright!
I guess I was thinking of Gallant or Clockblocker.
What are you talking about? Blindness and lasers are a good combo in the leauge of super reduntant heroes 99% of the time (see superredundant com/?comic=076-same-but-different), its just that the story follows the 1% where they aren’t.
Ohh, right, that’s a good point!
You hear that, guys? You should totally go out shooting lasers blindly. It’ll make you the top hero in the multiverse.
So, is Legend the only good adult hero in Worm so far and do you think he is a better person than Taylor?
Battery was also pretty good.
I think Legend might be a slightly better person than Taylor, though Taylor herself would probably not agree with the “slightly”. I put a lot of stock on intentions, and Legend so far has only had pure intentions of wanting to make the world better with his presence and help people out. Meanwhile Taylor has had mostly good intentions but definitely had to make some shady decisions on her path.
Including the Decision – that was her deciding to go down a path of villainy for her own benefit (in the friendship department). The Decision was sympathetic and narratively satisfying, but I wouldn’t say it was morally good. But even so she did have some good intentions there too, what with Coil’s promises of a better Brockton Bay.
The “slightly” comes from our knowledge of the two. We know more about Taylor’s path, the decisions she’s had to make along the way, her intentions behind those decisions. Chances are Legend has had to make some of those himself, that we don’t know about yet, and maybe never will. So I think they probably come out as about even, short of some big secrets in Legend’s backstory.
Taylor, as mentioned, would probably disagree, because her philosophy is consequence-based. Failing to protect people, or causing unforeseen consequences that harm people, are morally bad in her eyes, and she’s done that a lot. I’m sure Legend too has had such days, but we don’t know about them yet, so it’d just be guesswork and extrapolation if I were to base this on that.
I was SO SURE the guy you linked a video of in your Stories of Norway post was some lost skit I missed from Joe Pera, one of the most unsettling and yet funny comedy character I know watch?v=Fm1RvzfPRh0
Hah, yeah, I can see the resemblance. Though the Ylvis brothers (the guys behind The Fox – through the miracles of styling, that’s Vegard Ylvisåker playing the man with the cup, architect Tor Kraft) are generally a bit more snappy with their humor than this guy.
Incidentally, the real Tor Kraft looks like this (on the right):
(Though this image was taken six years after the events of this scene from Stories From Norway.)
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