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

[NightmareWarden]

This Paul (Babylon 5 Paul) might have had a rather different run of things if he'd given the masked superhero experience a try. Being open his heroism and willingness to intervene, but cagy about his identity.

Most of the Pauls with a secret identity don't really have a private life though, hmm? There's the Leprechaun (Guardian) Paul-Knight from the Roswell cartoon, there's Suicide Squad angel Paul (involuntarily), uh... Gold Ring Paul COULD have a secret identity since he doesn't need to use the antithesis ring's "slave name" anymore, but his face would be somewhat public knowledge.

Uhh, it's hard to recall any other Pauls with secret identities.

 

[BR549]

Yeah, giving Delenn the full details of the project that produced Ironheart is going to be a nasty surprise for Psi Corps in the future, because you know that once Sheridan arrives and he and Delenn get together, he's going to know about it, and the last word you use to describe Captain John Sheridan is 'subtle'. Unless prefixed with 'emphatically not'.

Meanwhile in the more immediate future Mayan is going to get an absolute earful from Delenn...

 

[Vaermina]

Her eyes harden and her presses her ring-. And suddenly I weigh a good deal more.

I adopt a meditative pose and float into the air. And then I wait patiently.

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Oof... He doesn't have his ring set to auto block/dodge gravity weapons? He's very lucky Delenn only went for minimal power there.

I'm not sure Kosh really understands what the Ring is and can do, either. But it's the way of the Elder races to play mysterious...

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He sat in front of a Vorlon dreadnaught for several minutes and was scientifically examined by an actual Vorlon, they would have complete scans of the rings internal mechanisms.

Heck, they might have even pulled a reverse Orange Lantern and ripped a copy of its database and AI.

 

[Tzeentch]

"You do not understand the power which you wield."

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A phrase usually stated by people who tend to become a victim of said power at some point.

Talkative Vorlon Orange Ghost-Construct GET!

 

[teikan]

Hey Paul!" Eris waves as she heads in our direction

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I got the impression that she was avoiding him out of shame about the situation with the angels.

You want to carve my brain out of my skull!"

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I am for carnage!

"…obviously not going to work, but at least it will be over."

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From a narrative standpoint, it's a shame she agreed to have her memory erased.

I hear the cry of a bald eagle, and

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It would be funny if they emphasized that this is actually the bird's real cry, not the one Americans always use.

It's a shame the lantern never became American in this arc. Just imagine everyone's reaction to him eating a burger, applying for US citizenship, and changing his glow from orange to the US flag.

 

[Darko]

Gold Ring Paul COULD have a secret identity since he doesn't need to use the antithesis ring's "slave name" anymore, but his face would be somewhat public knowledge.

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Not necessarily.

He seems to have mostly focused on the League of Shadows, who he usually killed, and his only two public appearances were when he stopped those supervillains from rampaging and when he stopped some assassins, so his actual appearance may still be a mystery.

Oof... He doesn't have his ring set to auto block/dodge gravity weapons? He's very lucky Delenn only went for minimal power there.

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You do know that power rings are absurdly powerful enough that what Delenn did, even at full power, wouldn't strain the thing?

He sat in front of a Vorlon dreadnaught for several minutes and was scientifically examined by an actual Vorlon, they would have complete scans of the rings internal mechanisms.

Heck, they might have even pulled a reverse Orange Lantern and ripped a copy of its database and AI.

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Except the Maltusians aren't primitives that make it easy for others to scan their tech, so the most the Vorlons may just know is that it's a psychic weapon, but not the finer details.

 

[RichardWhereat]

If a poster posts in a forum, and no one reads it, did they really post at all?

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Yes, because I saw it before he deleted it.

 

[Ardy]

Planetary shields do indeed exist, but they require a lot of infrastructure that Earth doesn't have, and... It would be like building a force field which blocked ultraviolet light in a country that was undergoing a famine. It's not that it's not useful, it's that you've got more urgent things to deal with.

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Then it's a good thing he hasn't done something fucking stupid like tell the reach all about how interesting his home world is and also what it's called, that would be insane to let the reach, which he's acknowledged multiple times can get through the periphery to wherever they damn well please, know about earth when they want to destroy it rather than attack another yellow lantern like he already did to get Batman's ring in the first place

 

[Mr Zoat]

Then it's a good thing he hasn't done something fucking stupid like tell the reach all about how interesting his home world is and also what it's called, that would be insane to let the reach, which he's acknowledged multiple times can get through the periphery to wherever they damn well please, know about earth when they want to destroy it rather than attack another yellow lantern like he already did to get Batman's ring in the first place

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Do you think that the Reach has a list of every planet in the universe, with the names the natives call it?

 

[Ardy]

Do you think that the Reach has a list of every planet in the universe, with the names the natives call it?

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When they've done business with the free lancers, who have been to earth and auction info to the highest bidder? Yes.