My friend, who is a CW superhero: <stomps into she shed> Penelope I just had the weirdest encounter Me: <waves iPad> says here you got strange matter particles on you Friend: ...How do you just know how to check for that Me: when you're a superhero's one friend it just happens
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Friend: but you're just like a twitter shitposter. How do you design all these special gadgets and stuff Me: I have no agency other than to occupy the negative space delineated by your need for plot devices to solve your problem du jour. And be unthreateningly socially awkward.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I like how the amount of effort it takes to figure out you're in a multiversal crossover is inversely proportional to how important your universe is in that crossover
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Like it was a whole big plot arc in the Arrowverse the first time they did it Whereas when Black Lightning gets roped into the Crisis it's just his nerdy friend looking at his iPad all "Hey it seems there's an infinite number of alternate realities being consumed by antimatter"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"Wait, how the hell do you know that --" *Black Lightning is sucked into portal, universe is immediately consumed by antimatter*
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy
The way he gets involved in the Crisis is so ridiculous and has so much old school comics energy
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*poof* "What happened?! Where am I?!" "Everyone you've ever known and loved just died when your universe was destroyed, you're in the only universe that's left, we summoned you because we need someone with electric powers to charge up this device"
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"But - my wife - my kids -" "Dead and gone forever. Listen I'm only allowed to do the summoning as an emergency deal so we're on a schedule here, can you cope while you charge"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"Look if we keep you here too long your universe's Big Themes of fighting racism and bigotry will invade our Thematospace and suddenly all the awkward undertones of our war against nondescript "criminals" will bubble up like crude oil. This has to be a split second thing.
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It's theoretically the same universe now, we'll see how that works out
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