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

Who said that and why?

A suspicious word.
Edit: also "do't", lol.
I wonder if those "alien auxiliaries" even can contact their families at all.

 

Given the aerial capabilities of Thanagarian soldiers, it may well be both. I expect anti-air guns are a standard part of the castle's defences... At any rate, good to see she's modernised her little corner of paradise. Bet it torques her mother right off...

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Hmm... Wonder what she'd make of Warhammer 40,000. Think she'd play Eldar or Tau?

Ah, the friendly teasing banter. You just know they bonded nicely on their shopping trip.

Sure it's fine to talk in front if the little guy?

...Wait, did something happen between chapters or are they just talking about the whole 'compassionate relocation' plan?

'Grey Moult', huh. I can imagine exactly what that involves for a reptilian race.

They can't be effed to do anything more than donate to charities or the like. Hard to overcome institutionalised discrimination...

Sure. But I bet it's real hard to qualify, unless they need warm bodies to throw at the enemy.

Yes, there's a good recruiting slogan: "At least it's better than living Downside."

Much less need, eh? Interesting that she talks about her race's fellow denizens of their homeworld like that. 'Aliens', huh?

Heh. One of the best exports Humanity can offer: Fiction.

Thus stripping them of any possible support base for rebellion, huh?

I expect that's a biological thing. Lizarkons don't need Nth metal to reproduce, do they?

Ypu, thought so. I assume there's still subtle methods used to ensure loyalty, though.

A tale as old as time. There's that subtle control, too. Maintain divisions so that they don't gang up on the much smaller third party.

Discrimination and inequality are universal, alas. No matter how some would wish otherwise.

Well, we know he does go and do that eventually. Maybe it's a working holiday for him.

Not as long as we'd like. Another thing for OL to look at 'fixing' someday...

Now, when you get into the abnormal folks, things get more impressive. Silly, even, in some cases. Born in the fourteenth century or so, still going strong when last seen in the Sandman series.

Yes, that may be his birth name, but it's damn hard to pronounce.

You're lucky she likes you too much to Gibbs-slap you.

As for Jade, well... Would he stand by if she didn't want immortality?

Ah, the best motivator for people with a deficit of compassion: Profit.

Upside or Downside? Or maybe a little of both?

Yes, that'll set the cat amongst the pigeons... I can imagine Bleez's the intelligence service bosses sweating in their seats already, wondering what'll explode this time. And if word should happen to spread amongst the disenfranchised who will benefit most from this, well... Thanagar was starting to get a little stagnant anyway.

 

Vril Dox is going to kill him for this...

 

That may not be the case here.

During the Manga Khan incident, Paul told the UN that cultural items, like art, books and other such things, aren't really sold on the market due to the fact that different races would have different standards of art and some of the subject matter may be incomprehensible to some species.

Though the 4th season did it.

 

On the other hand, various works of fiction will likely appeal to various species given the very wide variety humans have to offer and the wide variety of often monocultural alien species out there. Many of which are quite humanoid like Ol'Lefty's people.

 

The 4th season also made him a much more nuanced and interesting villain then the two dimensional version here.

 

Eleventy-eleventy-one! A speech! A speech!

 

should that be "eating some sort of"?

then -> the

 

Reference acknowledged. Nice catch.

 

Vandal Savage: "I want to sink the capital of my magitech empire in order to activate the metagenes of the residents and enable them to survive under water so that they will conquer the oceans in my name!"

Klarion: "Neat idea, but we can dream bigger."

Klarion: *sinks the entire continent instead*

Vandal Savage: "More than I intended, but I see fish people which means it worked~"

*years later*

Vandal Savage: "Man, it sure does suck that my generals don't obey me as a living god."

Klarion: "'Sup best buddy, how's it hanging?"

Vandal Savage: "Perfect timing! I need you to get me a threat big enough to force them to obey me again!"

Nabu: "Dad, that's a really horrible idea."

Vandal Savage: "Not now boy, I have plans!"

Klarion: "And I have a star fish!"

Klarion: *summons Starro*

Starro: *overruns and nearly destroys Savage's empire*

Nabu: *fucking dies*


All Season 4 has done is proven that Vandal Savage has always been a supervillain and has been sharing a braincell with Klarion for 50,000 years.

 

Bleez, who as Crown Princess can't quit or get fired.

Her mouth was full.

It's not Detroit! It's not Detroit!

Not really. He lives in a setting where everyone has bargain basement immortality in the form of souls, and anyone who wants to put the effort in can already live indefinitely. It doesn't really need a top down solution.

Bleez doesn't really have bosses in the usual sense.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Please never change, Paul.
(I'm talking to both the SI and Zoat, here)

"than"

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Ambassador Klus, nervously joking: So, who's funeral is it?

Paul, looking him dead in the eyes: I haven't decided yet.

 

I suspect that ParaPaul wouldn't say that unless he was very angry, because even as alien as his mind has gotten, he'd know that they'd take him seriously. Grayven, on the other hand, would say that just to be a troll.

 

No matter how intelligent he may seem and how sophisticated he becomes, Vandal will always be just an up jumped caveman that never learns from his mistakes.

And that kinda makes sense given his immortality.

Think about it, with his immortality he faces virtually no consequences to his actions since he can always survive anything that befalls him, thus he does not need things like wisdom or good sense the way mortals would need it since if they make a mistake, they may never be able to fix it.

If they do something wrong then they can die, be injured beyond healing, or whatever they've built will be destroyed and they will not have enough life or time left to rebuild, so they need to approach situations with things like wisdom or intelligent thought because if they don't then they're finished.

Savage doesn't need any of this.

He can't die, he heals from virtually everything, and he doesn't age, so he can be as stupid as he likes because at the end, it won't affect him in a way that's impossible for him to recover from.

Meeting Klarion and Darkseid probably reinforced this since he managed to survive and even in a way gain control over these two godlike beings through making deals with them, so his ego, which would have already been enormous, has now skyrocketed.

Savage is a poster boy for why being ancient and immortal does not guarantee being wise.

 

Comparing the story's version of Vandal Savage and this guy brings me immense joy.

I haven't seen season 4 but I do know that this omake was funny and features one of my favorite line, *fucking dies* will always be hilarious to me. Thanks for the laugh.

 

I've been halfway wondering if this arc will end with the Sinestro Corps attack on Havania. You know, the one that actually introduced Bleez in comics? We've had build-up that Sinestro has been up to something, looking for recruits, for a long time now.

 

What now?

Since when?

 

The Seven Devils were ancient Thanagarian gods that were eventually banished.

Given Paul's usual luck, I can't help but think that they'll single come back.

That was his original name.

He's had a lot of names over the millenia.

 

Sinestro is nowhere near ready for something like that.

 

Mr Zoat, I can't remember if you already answered this, but where does Match live in the Paragon timeline? He stays at Mount Justice in the Renegade timeline because he's a member of the Team. Was he also adopted by Diana in the Paragon timeline? If yes, does he stay at the Themysciran embassy, or is he living with the Kents instead as a second son due to Superman being more present in his life from early on?

 

I haven't thought about this in much depth. Probably.

Yes.

 

Shows us

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Though he's probably staying with the Kent's.

Clark is more willing to be in his life but he let Diana adopt him since if he suddenly had a son then it would look very suspicious, but Match also needs some legal protection.

And he may be staying with the Kent's instead of say Clark's home since it would also be less suspicious.

 

"When we reach da end of da whole world, we'll turn around and march back." (x)

 

I always preferred Morglum Necksnapper.

 

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That's a neat trick!

I'd have said: "Not on any planet where we are known or likely to cross again."
Live a little Paul!

He'll you wanna spend time without work invading? Go contract up a yacht, sail out to the rings of [insert planet name here] then go fishing with her. Construct rods and everything. let the rings AI handle the fish generation.