"It works by concentrating the incoming sunlight into a highly concentrated area." -voted quote of the year by the Redundancy Department of Redundancy.

"If they don't care to, at least they can keep their technicalities away from my brain, instead of deciding that they get to re-classify all berries."

Did they leave?

"nature tends to be rather parsimonious when it comes to these things, and isn't inclined to waste precious resources." -says the man with an appendix...

Are the stats specifically saying the attack would occur in a particular region, or anywhere in the world?

I guess technically, Hawkeye and Black Widow don't have origin stories... I wouldn't compare them with Wonder Woman, but I still think the general populace know OF her enough that they could get away without one for Justice League. They'll probably still need to do one for her spin-off though.

This was at least the third article today that I have seen with someone advertising in your comments. I have never seen any before, so this is three too many. Why does this keep happening, Gawker? :(

Is there an example where they skipped the origin and it didn't work?

Bill Nye is on the list.

Maybe my opinion on the matter is skewed... (I am an io9 reader after all), but I feel like Wonder Woman doesn't need much introduction? Who doesn't know at least a little bit about the five most popular superheroes? As it is, I was bored with the rehash of a Spider-Man origin.

In the future, Skynet's going to use CAPTCHAs to keep us out.

I thought everybody was investigated for being a communist in the 50s.

They did manage to correct for the concrete problem when they did the second Biosphere 2 experiment, but I mentioned, that one went to hell in all new and stupid ways, almost entirely the fault of the "scientists".

Ask if it's still pro-life if you're against supporting health care for the children and their families, if you're against the teachers who will educate the children, and if you're against welfare to provide food for the children and their families? Why do they want to make sure the child is born, but not make sure…

They also had problems actually being "sealed". As I recall, they had an ant problem. They had ants they brought into the biodome on purpose which were supposed to benefit the agriculture. However, a second type of ants breed local to the Arizona area got in, which wiped out the original intended type of ants. The…

changed actually to predictably

You had me at Rachel McAdams

Certainly seemed ironic when you take in the username...

hitigand jitigob! My god! It will take the NSA years to decode this! (i love it)

The four is the Universe's way of saying, "If you keep studying this, you will be alone FOURever."