new pet theory about #TheBoys: there is a supe whose power is super-intelligence, and we will never see them on camera, nor have any evidence of their existence that doesn't have a different, more parsimonious explanation
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Replying to @chaosprime
this is like my pet Worm theory that 90% of capes are high level Strangers who no-one can remember, and this explains the discrepancy between the WoG rates of people getting powers and the actual number we see in action.
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Replying to @WrappedInThFlag @chaosprime
"The main problem with Worm is that it doesn't introduce enough characters"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @chaosprime
more like the main problem with worm is that the chicago wards team that exists for a time skip that no one bothers to remember should have 100 people, not a dozen. yes, the bit that makes the story bad would be made worse by the worldbuilding being more consistent.
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90% of triggers just get imp's powerset(her shard is involved in all triggers for the memory wipe thing) and just never bother doing costume shenanigans. all other powers are side effects. any plot or setting problems are a byproduct of an army of people invisible to everyone
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Replying to @WrappedInThFlag @chaosprime
That's a nice working Watsonian explanation. The Doyleist explanation fits better - it's hard to think up a hundred-fold more unique powers, the author is good at some things but isn't capable of running a simulation of hundreds of thousands of capes across multiple realities
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @chaosprime
eh, really he just threw out horrible numbers in WoG. chicago is like 10x the size of BB, so having a Wards team that's only twice as big is kinda believable, given BB being a more cape than average shithole. this creates doyleist bounds, and he shouldn't give WoG outside them
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this is like the thing where he says there's dozens more capes in BB than there are, it's just a stupid thing to say if they don't do anything and there's no room in the story for them, even as background
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The author seems to have a "there are no background characters" philosophy - he won't put a character in the background without a thought out way to make that character the main character.
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