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

That was fast. Too fast for them to have relocated those assets from elsewhere- clearly they had them watching her waiting for the “go” order.

 

Part of me hopes that they're there to protect the lady and just massively misread the situation, but her last bit of dialogue suggests she's was as surprised to see them as the rest were.

 

Maybe, but the TV Tropes entry for this story isn't always accurate.

Thank you, corrected.

Also, mildly disapointed that no one came up with the name of the episode where Starscream said it.

They thought they had eight minutes.

 

So, is there any chance they are actually an (un)official protection detail for the person OL is trying to talk to?
I mean this is someone who was censured for War Hound related activatism, and now War Hounds come barking busting in after OL and Company show up, attacking them first.
...
Like imagine if this was a high status civil rights advocate back in the era of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Then someone strange and glowing with power shows up out of nowhere, and suddenly the demographic she was advocating for come barging in... and go after not her, but the people confronting her.
...
Any chance OL was not the only one who thought she might be a likely assassination target, and these War Hounds were on preemptive lookout for an assassination team showing up, and OL looked like a probable would be assassin when he suddenly showed up?
...
Like...
*On stakeout and bored...On stakeout and bored...OH SHIT A SPACE MERCENARY JUST TELEPORTED IN!, Everyone, start hauling ass, because we need to move in NOW.*

 

Supervillains tend to do the darnedest things.

At this rate wonder if members of the secret supervillain society from Wanted will slip up and do something as stupid as kidnapping Paul, (or one of the superheroes or other associates that he's given VERY constructive advice to), from the universe of Earth-16.

After the whole fiasco with The Crime Syndicate, I can't really see him being as tolerant or accepting of "The Fraternity" AT ALL.

Finding out exactly HOW they manipulated reality to get rid of every superhero on their Earth could also be helpful in finding out how to prevent such an absolute horrific event from EVER occuring on Earth-16.

 

The part I find interesting is how quickly these guys showed up. Were they actively monitoring her with a kill team prepped?

And as mentioned the question of if shooting Guy in the shoulder was intentional.

Maybe bodyguards, but if so stupidly trigger happy.

 

Her father is a plutocrat with a history of getting a warhound bodyguard at least once, who survived at least one assassination attempt on himself and his wife got murdered.

So yes, these being bodyguards hired by Daddy Warbucks to protect his little girl is certainly within the realm of possibility.

 

So....Their snipers got two shots off before Guy could react and still didn't get through his environmental shield? So....are they running, surrendering, or stupid?

That seems unlikely. Paul was there long enough for her to get changed and then she let Guy in and exchanged a bit of friendly conversation before the snipers and warhounds struck. That would be a pathetically slow response for any kind of protection detail. Like "your services are no longer required" slow.

 

That settles that one. Yes they are an assassination team that was given the order to "kill her ASAP" because the higher ups thought they had eight minutes to do the deed and order their assets to likely self terminate... The team didn't receive counter orders when the time frame shortened dramatically.

 

Eh, the warhounds did start out barehanded, so it looks like a capture attempt.
Then again, they did open by sniping Guy.

I kind of assume that whoever is in-charge here just assumes that their supersoldiers can handle anything, and sending three warhounds to take on two enemy combatants and one civillain is overkill.

So, basically they have no idea what a Lantern is capable of.

 

They probably do. Sector Green Lanterns are killed with surprise attacks all the damn time (remember how Jack said how high the turn over from rookies is), its only the veteran sector green lanterns that you have to always be worried about... They probably believed they could handle things before Guy and Paul got there, and when Guy got there (they may have not known Paul was already there due to greedportation being a very advanced hard to detect technique) they distracted Guy while the three warhounds would hopefully have the seconds they would need to tear the female civilian apart... However Paul was already there so their attempt was ultra fucked.

 

Interested --> Interesting.

A side-effect? No Paul, that's what the Reach want you to think.

 

Well. We finally have a motive for hee mother's death and Xor's situation.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Classic "they knew too much" scenario.

 

She inadvertently created the perfect boyfriend?

 

So Xor was framed for her murder and then sent off-planet. That's actually kind of odd for an oppressive government. He was so badly framed for it that everyone on this planet who hears it was a War Hound who supposedly did it realizes there's something not right.

So depending on the kind of person her mother was this was either an attempt to "Kill someone horrible, frame someone no one would actually believe did it, and get him off-planet." or she was actually a good person and this was all a massive series of extremely bad decisions by an oppressive government.

 

That's… Interesting. There are ways to...

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Not about what?

The kind of suicide that involve high-velocity personal weaponry to the back of the head...

Interesting that her father called her right then.

I hope you were jamming...

In other words, they failed the "Don't make me come over there" challenge.

Interesting that he chooses not to use Xor's name. Keeping the lady in the dark?

The problem with giving those who benefit from the laws the power to write them...

Guy's outrage growing... And ours too.

Now I see why you laughed at my mention of refusing bad orders...

In other words, what those in power fear most: people with reason to rise up.

And there's a possible reason for her death...

This just gets more and more twisted... One time when I hope OL leaves the place a little more shaken up.

 

Should that be uncooperation? (Still an uncommon word. Search corrects me to "uncooperative" which certainly doesn't fit.)

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Just watched the most recent episode.

Apparently, Metron 16 stole credit for inventing Mother Boxes.

 

So the corrupt got entangled in trying to keep up a veneer of righteousness and it finally got out.

Welp, time for OL to implode another society.

 

It certainly makes the frame-up job look less half-assed. Did Xor not know, or was this just more tunnel vision? I suspect the latter but not strongly.

 

Does he have a tardis?

 

Well, normally you would have to have long internal moral debates about reordering someone's core values before you do it. But sometimes I think just being fair is sufficient. If they are value hacking the War Dogs children, accept that as a tacit admission if their acceptance of value hacking as legitimate. This sounds like a problem that could be solved by branding everyone tangentially related to the affair, and their bosses and bosses until you reach the top. Give everyone branded the War Dog Honor Programming (minus the blind spot about someone giving you orders possibly being dishonorable) the orphans got.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And hopefully, just maybe stamp out some of the pervasive corruption. Seems like it would have some high potential payoff for a low implementation cost.

 

Since exactly what the War Hounds are and how they were created has shifted over time, when exactly on that slippery slope did the Lanterns evaluate and judge the practice?

 

It could be he actually did do it in this setting, with the normal inventor being cut out due to being too obscure of a character to be included in Young Justice.

 

I was under the impression that she called him. I guess that wasn't stated though.

 

Does this episode also possibly influence possible romantic storylines with Kaldur? Because I actually do like the idea of him and Canis together once the latter learns to be a bit less Apokaliptish.