Sure, Firestorm was just the most obvious example since it happens with him so often but again, a lot of your examples are related to the powers imbalance (loss of super-suit, super-powers, time travelling spaceship etc.) which is also sometimes between the team and their enemy.

Varnish ! Oh we'd have killed for a lovely nourishing pint of varnish. And legs to dance with.

Speaking for the rest of the world (I checked and they all nominated me to speak for them), we didn't ask for it so if he does bring you down can you keep it small scale please ? Something non-nuclear ish ? Cheers.

Good Question.

In fairness, that's because there's a real power balance problem with Legends (which to be clear, I really enjoy BTW, when they fully embraced the wackiness in season 2 it became one of the most fun shows on the CW IMO). On the one hand you have a nuclear powered superbeing that can shoot energy bolts, fly and…

This may be what you've got in mind anyway but there's already precedent for a lesbian character in the DC universe to quit being a cop and become the Question (Renee Montoya).

James was fine when Cat was around because they could set stories at CatCo but when Calista Flockhart moved to guest star and the main setting pivoted to the DEO HQ it became difficult to fit him easily into the stories (hence the heavily forced Guardian arc, which they seemed to be backing away from towards the end…

Spoilers ! But y'know, the second one.

How can we know who was editor of the News of the World at that time ? Nobody really knows.

#NotMyMorrissey

Oh today's Newswire is going to feature Morrissey I predict.

Well, not _every_ time, occasionally we actively overthrow democratic governments because they look a bit left wing and there's some money to be made:

No, ultimately the potential repercussions could make the whole thing worse so to me there's nothing wrong with worrying about it. The immediate horror is that people are dead, many of them children. The longer-term horror is that the idiots we've chosen to run things might use it to dismantle our way of life from the…

Yeah, people like that should become people you _used_ to know in short order. Unless they're relatives, in which case they become relatives you _used_ to talk to.

Nihilism is, in some ways, the most rational response to the universe we find ourselves in. Which is also why it just doesn't make any sense to think like that. Sure we all die and every work of human beings is ultimately pointless but so what ? We're not dead _yet_ and just _look_ at the universe we're lucky enough…

True but people are also not terrible which is why taxis were ferrying people from the Manchester arena for free, hotels were putting people up when they didn't have anywhere to stay etc.

I'm sure we have our share of them online but MRAs aren't much of a thing in the UK as far as the mainstream of wackos goes (to the extent that if this is them I virtually guarantee the top search on google.co.uk straight afterwards would be "what's an MRA") so i'd be surprised if this was them though you never know…

The idea of an "ancestor simulation" is roughly that if you accept that eventually civilisations reach a point where they're capable of building computers powerful enough to simulate minds (and would want to e.g. for scientific applications or perhaps as a form of immortality) _then_ at every time after that point in…

And an additional tiny wrinkle I liked but which I very much doubt is deliberate is that particle physicists at somewhere like CERN specifically would understand the value of depriving an enemy of data from repeated runs of their machine better than most (the LHC generates something like 600 million collisions a…

Yeah, Bill asks him what they're doing with the explosives and the scientist says "We're saving the world".