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

Thank you, corrected.

Jay Garrick went missing after a mission. In Trinity, that was because he was massively disillusioned with the JSI.

Ted Knight.

 

This is extraordinarily stupid of LePaul given he doesn't know the tech level of this Universes Dominators.

 

On the other hand, they have no idea on what an Orange Lantern can do, and Paul can do massive damage if he really wants to.

 

So, the solution is to actually talk to him, and ask for help. Communicate and be proactive. Guess what many comicbook supers are bad at?

(I mean, they've done that on occasion, but apparently not often enough, even after he repeatedly showed how bad an idea it is to just leave him to his own devices all the time - e.g. the recent incident that started with Paul finding out that Zeus had been unusually assholish to Diana, eventually resulting in Hephestean. There was a cool scene in there that I've forgotten which posts it's in where Paul reminds a couple of people on the JL how dangerous he is and that they really do need to talk to him ASAP.)

 

Ahh, procedures everywhere. Gotta love bureaucracy, though of course wanting a readout could also be helpful for all of those who weren't right in front of Paul. Only good reason to stop him is if Commander Alan still isn't trusting Paul, which fair enough.

But hey, Jade and Obsidian! I can't wait to see them.

The HTML seems messed up here, unless that was the point.

 

Unless this website actually has a proper cough code that I don't know about, yes.

 

Lets go with "he is a nerd and just said pseudo-BBCode out loud".

I mean, I did read that, but it is choke-full of werewolf cocks. Like pre-purge tumblr.

 

I'm more surprised how he managed to speak in HTML tags.

 

There, the cough is outside of the speechmarks.

 

Google isn't showing me a furry Catwoman or a Felis Serum.

 

What are the Heywood Corps? I can't seem to Google any results for that.

 

A cyborg force of soldiers that work for the JSI.

 

Given from an operational standpoint, the above fucks with his credibility and consequently his efficiency given that others seem to not take him as seriously, you would think OL would give some thought to managing his reputation better.

And perhaps trying to remedy the wrong impressions others have which serve as obstacles to him actually accomplishing his aims on a broader scale.

 

No, Jay was right by Carter and Alan's side as the leaders of the JSA, it was Barry who left the JSI to form the Justice League.

Unless I was misunderstanding you and that's what you have set up here, in which case it is of course author's prerogative.

I just reread the series. I don't think I had read the issues with the Amazo-Sentinels, which explains why I didn't remember them.

I'm not surprised, it was only a brief appearance in an alternate timeline.

Her head looked like that old mask pre-crisis Catwoman wore, she wasn't the traditional catgirl but basically a cat head on a human shaped body.

Spoiler

Her flesh and blood cat head was smaller, and she wore her now ubiquitous spy catsuit, but that gives you the general idea.

Catman looked like a shirtless guy with long hair and fingernail claws, so apparently her felis serum runs from "Do you want to bath by licking yourself and chase down small dogs for lunch" to "You want superhuman senses and ten knives at the end of your hands."

Her MO was apparently to dose people with the felis serum that turned them into animal minded pantheroids and let mayhem ensue. Maybe she had the ability to command them, I'm not sure.

Heywood is the name of Commander Steel, the cyborg member of the Justice Society.

Oddly enough Heywood was like the 6 million dollar man, looking completely human while being stronger, tougher, and faster.

The JSI's heywood corps? Well if Victor Stone were a member of the Heywood corps, he'd be the wussy who only allowed the JSI to cut off all all four of his limbs and half his face.

 

The screw-ups in continuity bug me more. Turns every storyline into a fanfic of the original. For fuck's sake, write down a fucking summary for the next guy yanno?

In most versions they still have/can build spaceships and/or have bots that can make it into space under their own power. If you can get into space, building huge solar arrays and whatnot is something that can be done with our tech level, never mind cybertronian level.

Energy from a nuclear power plant can be converted into electricity for electric cars easily, or even used to maufacture hydrocarbon fuels for conventional cars with a bit more work.

In most continuities, cybetronians are not shy about blowing up critical infrastructure to deny it to the enemy. That would certainly cause energy issues as your power plant doesn't make much power as a pile of rubble. Half of the G1 cartoon episodes had them finding something useful and then blowing it to hell so the cons wouldn't get it. I dunno if that's a result of being at war for millions of years or a quirk of being so good at building stuff that they never developed an aversion to destroying it.

Usually it's the war rather than overpopulation that screws things up. Relying on something manufactured isn't a problem when just about your whole planet is your manufacturing base. During the "golden age" they were at least a 1.0 on the Kardeshev scale, or possibly a 1.5 including their space-based assets.

In the Prime series, I think energon could act as a catalyst and make more of itself from surrounding materials if buried in a suitable mineral deposit. Takes a very long time to do it though and the deposits on Earth were the result of having been seeded thousands of years ago. Probably at the same time they were using it as a place to hide those advanced cybertronian artifacts with the seeding activity as a cover.


IIRC maximals and predacons could actually live on organic food when they had to. I don't know if that was a general thing or something that was added when their stasis pods reconfigured them for functioning on primitive Earth.
I don't know if their vulnerability to large amounts of energon radiation was a side effect of their energy efficiency, but I suspect that's the case.

 

I do believe that part of the problem is later writers just not giving a shit.

The Kate Spencer manhunter series established that the Manhunters were the result of the US government creating a supersoldier project with manhunter tech. I find it hard to believe that neither the writer nor the editor remembered the entire Millenium event which established the Manhunter cult worked for the alien manhunters and were responsible for the Manhunter superheroes.

I'm pretty sure that Morrison knew full well what he was doing when he did that "one true darkseid" horseshit that claims that Kirby never actually wrote a story that actually included Darkseid.

I think there is a natural tendency in writer types to be like Zoat looking at Young Justice and say "I can do better."

Unfortunately, when editors don't do their jobs and let every new writer do this it quickly becomes nonsensical gobblegook, and sometimes the writer going "Eh, I can do better" is in fact mistaken.

 

Both of you, go and read Trinity.

No, you're right, I was misremembering.

I don't think he is. In the one panel he features in, his cybernetics look quite different to theirs.

 

Well... Yes...

But it would suck for LePaul a lot more if he teleported in and then his ring randomly exploded because the Dominators here have Power Ring exploding tech.

 

...The only Trinity I know is that woman from The Matrix.
I am going to need more information to Google that.

 

Trinity 2008 is the storyline that inspired this storyline, 52 issues long. Tarot magic is used to remove WW, Supes, and Bats from DC history which somehow causes the JSA to never disband despite that happening before WW, Supes, or Bats were even born.

I was just using him as a hypothetical. The only other famous DC cyborgs I can think of are full conversion cyborgs like Metallo and Robotman.

I thought of using Star Trek's Borg since the typical Heywood corps member seems to have less flesh than a Borg drone, but I decided against it.

 

Trinity

I think I read it but can't for the life of me remember much of it, besides the "divine" designs of WW, Bats and Supes, and that there was an Enigma with half a mask? I think he might have been the Enigma from the Crime Sindicate universe turned bad or something?

All that period leading to and including Final Crisis was a mess to me and I think I might have supressed those memories.

 

I wouldn't say bad, per se, but desperate.

His ex wife was dead, his face was burnt, and his daughter was left as a literal ghost in the machine.

It was pointed out to him that returning his daughter to life in an evil universe was no blessing, and that she'd always be an alien in another universe.

So he was hoping to gain the godlike powers to go back to the Crime Syndicate universe and make it a better place. A place where his daughter could be happy, where people wouldn't have to be afraid.

And even then working with the likes of the Joker or Morgaine Le Fay left a very bad taste in his mouth.

Paul will probably see him as Grade A prime Orange Lantern material.

 

He met a him when he went to the Crime Syndicate universe and he seemed determined to defeat the Syndicate for good.

He may not be pleased to see Paul again.

 

Also one of the more insane minds.

Is this Shockwave asking?

Because it would be hilarious!

 

Quick question. Can you charge a power ring on the allspark?

 

Ok I really hope we get part three of this to see the results of prayer also logic fu nice

 

Can you charge an Orange Lantern using the White Light Entity?

That's what you just asked.

 

I realise what he says makes sense, but also I can't help but imagine him treating it using those old "Oh gosh I'll pray for you" platitudes.

"But how can I heal myself? The technology has been lost, the techniques no longer exist!"

"I'll pray for you fam."

Also quite liked using the contradiction to talk his way out.

"I have thought about it and made the calculations, and my cold, ruthless,and logical mindset is more valuable to my cause."

"Cool, cool. And the brain you used to determine that your mind is more valuable this way, is that the same brain that was literally reprogrammed by your enemies?"

"..."

"So, what you're saying is, is that you think the high council programmed you to be good at fighting the high council?"

"...Fuck."

 

Cybertron is literally the recumbent body of their creator-god. That makes it a little different, culturally speaking.

No. If it were Shockwave, they wouldn't be aiming over his head and they would have fired.