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

I want to see a Barbershop Quartet of Danner enhanciles. They could call themselves "The Dapper Danners".

 

Hmm... starving them wouldn't work because they can farm, they just don't right now to avoid detection. But if you took a hostile act like trying to starve them they would start farming, or they would all come and smash their way to your food, and the League would probably be on their side in that action since all they're fighting for is to not starve. The problem of not having technology isn't starvation, it's stagnation. The outside world isn't going to just sit still while you continue being only as strong as a Danner-enhancile. One day you're going to come out of your village and find that someone's declared your habitat a nature preserve and built a Wakandan shield wall around you that even your strength can't break. And then another day you're going to find that the political body that did that has been replaced with another that no longer cares to have you on their land. And you'll go to fight them, confident in your superhuman strength, speed, and endurance... and their shouldermounted purple death ray autoturret will start taking down fifty of you a second, because their tech didn't stay stagnant.

 

Sustainable in the short term sure. But if everyone's a Danner enhancile, then people only die of extreme old age and maybe the occasional disease(and these people know how medicine and disease works so that's a big blow to the danger of sickness). Unless they engage in population control, their population will never stop growing long term because there's nothing in their environment that could kill them. They pretty much will have to engage in farming eventually, so that even if they don't "embrace technology" like OL likes they pretty much have to grow out of being tribal hunter-gatherers because it's just not sustainable for a population over a set size.

So yeah, even if they reject things like industrial and post-industrial technology(and even that's an if considering that OL has been hard at work removing them more negative footprints of advanced technology and even helping magic become mainstream, plus the influence of those indigenous tribes that have had closer contact with the "civilized" parts of Brazil and the fact that advanced technology is starting to reach the point where even being a Danner enchancile doesn't make you invincible) and stick to "traditional" methods, you'd still just end up seeing a revival of the old Amazonian river civilizations(now with super strength and possibly better magic thanks to OL's efforts) engaging in mass agriculture and cultivating the forest just like their ancestors did rather then sticking completely to tribal hunter-gatherers.

 

Wikipedia has Conduit as its image for Kryptonite Man. So yes it is the same character with a different name.

That only works until the next plague outbreak. And yes those have been happening a lot in real life. Recently in China and a few years ago in Brazil...

Danners DON'T have a better immune system when it comes to diseases.

 

What tipped you off? I followed your link to your original comment, but you didn't expand on your reasoning at the time.

 

No, but these ones do understand how vaccination and disease work. Modern medicine is going to be one of the things they definitely keep up, as would adopting better mystical cures and spells for disease outbreak. The Amazon River basin used to be home to a widespread and interconnected civilization of around 3 million people, possessing towns and even cities. Then Europeans arrived and European diseases decimated the region as badly as they did the rest of the Americas, reducing a thriving civilization to a collection of small tribes and villages.

What happened to the original Warriors of the Dawn wasn't the first time European diseases fucked over the natives and I highly doubt the leaders of this group are all that keen to see history repeat itself a third time in a row.

 

Same way any battery powered device does.

Beryl knows exactly who he is.

 

What I'm wondering is what killed Arnold Munro? Danner enhanciles a are pretty damn tough. So, yeah, illness can kill them, but wouldn't Hugo know and seek treatment for anything that made him feel bad? So, wouldn't "finding his corpse" be like finding a murder victim after the fact?

Edit: Fixed the name. I didn't mean Hugo...

 

In the book? Bolt of Lightning.

In DC? I didn't even know he was a part of it really.

 

I honestly thought that Hugo may have been in prison after OL had that talk with Fire about using magic to increase her powers.

 

If you look at when I edited that post, it was after zoat did the latest chapter.

 

The setup works by using a building-sized device (the Central Battery) to create a dimensional tap through which energy corresponding to a particular part of the emotional spectrum can be extracted. This energy is then broadcast across the galaxy to a microwave sized relay/charging station (the Personal Lantern) which in turn charges the wearable device (the Power Ring) which actually generates the constructs. Each device requires the presence of the corresponding emotion in its operator(s) to correctly function, but does not deplete or alter the character of that emotion as part of its normal operations.

A Power Ring can generally only hold a finite amount of emotional spectrum energy at a given time. Some ring variations also include the ability to recharge itself directly in the presence of the corresponding emotion, but this is slow compared to using the dedicated recharging infrastructure and doesn't supply enough energy for high intensity use or use in areas without that emotion being constantly present.

 

What made you pick that particular post?

 

Wikipedia doesn't. Superman wiki doesn't. DC Database doesn't. Comicvine doesn't.

Even if they had, the DC Database lists a red saturnian as a martian and even gets his name wrong, wikis are sadly not infallible-D'all. No such character, his name is Dall, he's the Prime Minister of the Red Saturnians, not MM's father in law.

You're assuming that Dr Monroe was a Danner enhancile.

 

Wasn't expecting the perspective flip, but that answers that question.

 

You might want to remove "using".

Change "no" to "not".

Is it "Beto" or "Beta"?

Change "the" to "that".

Change the first "American" to "America".

Change "hands" to "hangs".

Change "He" to "The".

 

So it is the original Danner and Lexxy got him out.

I must say though that right now I am far more interested in the Equestrian excursion.

Can't eait to see Ponies deal with Grayven.

Also Sunset showing of her knew knowledge and friends.

 

So he was in prison.

Wonder if this will give OL the incentive to be more thorough in the future.

 

Hmm, a flashback to how Lex found the good doctor? Unconventional. I take it this is the end of the day of the Rhelasian Peace Conference, am I right? (Can't remember the dates...)

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Surprisingly detailed... Though Lex doesn't need all the details right now...

'Tougher than an exploding shell' indeed.

Quite a bit, yes. Though only a part of it would have been effective against a man-sized target. It's just that the forces involved usually result in people becoming, to borrow the phrase, Chunky Salsa.

And less than likely to work anyway. Superman's toughness is more than just physical.

Anything smaller than said artillery shells would barely phase him. It might sting a little, which would do wonders for his temper...

No exaggeration needed, Lex...

Ah, Lex...So short-sighted...

Oh-ho, not killed in action. More evidence!

As if. Not when he could still be useful. Say, making supermen for the Brazilian government. Not that I expect he was all that co-operative.

Ah, he used the Shadows to track Hugo down, eh?

And there's Dawn Warrior.

Now, now, Lex. Let's not jump to vivisection or dissection yet.

And the sheer size of the bribes needed would be distinctly large, making them more likely to be noticed.

Bobblehead Malware and shitty training. But Lex doesn't know that. And 'future cooperation'? Hilarious in hindsight.

Ah, Lex looking into the mystical side of things that OL mentioned.

"Let's not ask the Boy, though. I doubt he'd have any useful information..."

Three days? Lex moves fast when he's motivated!

No doubt some useful recruits for less savoury endeavours down the line.

Ha! Of course the old administration buried his info. Wouldn't want their successors learning they had a man who could make supermen in prison...

Again, bribes will grease those wheels if needed.

That's a big risk, no telling how Hugo would react. Though I don't doubt he has a personal forcefield or two hidden about his person.

I suspect those stains would be a bitch to get out. Easier to burn it.

Ah, he's sunk into catatonia. Probably from knowing he got so many children killed with his stupid plan...

And he carts our guy off to India, drops him off in a state-of-the-art facility to create more formula for Human testing and possible post-natal augmentation methods, where the team met him as Arnold Munro... I'm impressed Lex moved so fast on this. He really wants that super-formula, doesn't he? Probably a big ego boost and profits ahead if he ever makes it work.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

He committed suicide in All-Star Squadron. Edit-Young All-Stars rather.

Jumped into the smokestack of a factory which then shortly went boom.

So I'm not sure if he took it better or worse here.

 

I really have to wonder how 1950's Brazil kept somebody of that level of power locked up.

 

The death of all those children could have mentally harmed him and made it easy to keep him locked up.

 

Especially since he likely thought of them as kinda/sorta HIS children and hen you combine that with how his attempt to take over Brazil came crashing down around him...

 

Seems a bit weird that it takes less than two weeks to go from being so depressed that he sat in a prison that couldn't possibly hold him for sixty years, straight to seamlessly pulling off a clever deception in which he poses as his own son in a lab in India.

 

having your lifes work be appreciated can do that to a person.

 

Should that be 'is'?

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The viewpoint switch to LL is interesting... His motivations are always fun.

At one point I speculated what might happen if the 'good' LL escaped from/survived the (Time Trapper/Legion) Superboy universe, say as a mind copy loaded into a Superboy robot (or, for real fun, a Krypto the Superdog robot)... And, what he'd do in a mainstream DC universe.

 

If Orange Lantern does nothing with regards to Lex... then what’s the point ....

 

Thank you, corrected.