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Date: 2011-01-27 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:27 am (UTC)Certainly better than making a vague reference to being a good guy to someone he's having tortured.
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Date: 2011-01-27 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 08:44 pm (UTC)pantsmind, he certainly seems to be.no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 05:15 am (UTC)Maybe at the end it'll turn out that he actually IS acting in the Greater Good, but if they don't put the gun on stage in the opening acts, nobody buys it when there's a gunshot just before the curtain =p .
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Date: 2011-01-27 09:14 am (UTC)That said, this is a bit telling of his character - he's genre-savvy enough to know that the good guys always win, but not genre-savvy enough to realize that he's the bad guy.
Re: Not a good guy
Date: 2011-01-27 10:59 am (UTC)As it is all he's known for is murder, the other guys are known to save the planet and individual people on a fairly regular basis, him saying "I'm the good guy here" just plain doesn't work without SOMETHING more to back it up.
Re: Not a good guy
Date: 2011-01-27 09:50 pm (UTC)In his mind, the fact that he was able to control Superman at all is proof that someone else can do it, and therefore he is justified in trying to kill him and all others like him before that happens. It's not a very good justification, but it's good enough for Maxwell Lord.
Re: Not a good guy
Date: 2011-01-28 01:45 am (UTC)Basically he's on the wrong side of whatever universe balancing force there is, no matter what they officially are.
Re: Not a good guy
Date: 2011-01-28 09:18 pm (UTC)Yes he is on the wrong side, but has thoroughly convinced himself that he's not.
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Date: 2011-01-27 01:43 am (UTC)I do not like you at all.
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Date: 2011-01-27 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 02:04 am (UTC)Not a bad wank with the self-reinforcing mindwipe, but I'm still not buying it.
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Date: 2011-01-27 02:19 am (UTC)Thanks for the correction. :D
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Date: 2011-01-27 02:30 pm (UTC)It's like every road on the psychic plane leading on one individual. With guideposts, and free maps on every stop.
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:33 am (UTC)Superman/Ultraman, Batman/Owlman it doesn't matter if they set out to do good, evil or evil for the sake of good. It's these special individuals that always triumph.
The realites themselves don't have an alignment they have protagonists.
These protagonists always win. So in worlds where the protagonists are paragons of virtue it can apear that good always wins but this is just an illusion.
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 06:27 pm (UTC)Hence Max being able to restrain Blue Beetle with a few c-list helpers, despite Jaime being theoretically more than a match for a kryptonian or green lantern.
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Date: 2011-01-28 01:01 pm (UTC)In other universes, we've seen that the mantle is more important than the individual, probably because those characters are the ones who get involved in the world-shaking stuff. Superman has saved multiple realities multiple times. Snapper Carr has...been around Superman when he's saved the world.
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:15 am (UTC)The Reach Infiltrator Scarab isn't like other powersuits, it has it's own initiative, can act when Jaime is unconscious or even misinformed, and has some pretty horrifying weaponry that Jaime refuses to use. The damn thing was preparing to try and fucking kill The Spectre using some kind on ontotechnological magical weapon out of a kind of pre-programmed panic before Jaime stopped it.
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 08:23 am (UTC)Then he had a bunch of G.I ROBOTs carry him back to Checkmate base, where I guess whatever's he's hooked up to is probably neutralizing it in some way or form.
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Date: 2011-01-27 09:06 am (UTC)Ah well.
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Date: 2011-01-27 08:42 am (UTC)"Definitely fatal. Possible theological implications."
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-27 10:14 am (UTC)Max's "just business" line reminds me of the film Taken where the main dude that runs the sex trade thing tries to use that excuse right before he gets a bullet through the head from Liam Neeson.
Also, I said this in a Generation Lost post before, but I'll say it again. Max, you need to stop being hot to me. Look at you with your tight shirts and your little smirky face and your biceps. STOP IT. It makes it harder to hate you.
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Date: 2011-01-27 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 01:38 pm (UTC)1) You are currently employing criminally insane sociopaths. Professor Ivo? Really?
2) There's 'you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette' and then there's 'I'll needlessly endanger lots of people because I'm lazy, indifferent or insane'.
3) Taking advice from a supernatural being that tells you that other supernatural beings are bad (but hey, trust him, he's not like the OTHER supernatural beings) is a bit specious.
4. You seem to split hairs in an awfully weird way. Someone's a superhuman when he disagrees with you, regardless of whether he actually has powers or not. And you don't seem to mind employing superhumans when it suits you.
5. You are a murderer. Who MURDERS people.
Seriously, dude....if your idea of protecting people is to randomly select people and forcibly transform them into robotic police servitors...you're doing it wrong.