I think I remember them complaining how insanely expensive redoing Kirk's Enterprise bridge was, and how in the end they could only afford to do one half of the set.




Meanwhile, New Zealand actually asked that the Hobbiton set be left in situ. The farmer who owns the land has done quite well out of it.

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Lara was born with hers. As you might be able to guess, though, it didn't manifest when she was very young simply because she was too young to realize it, and too small to be a decent battery. Around pre-teen or so, she started to realize she can make sparks, but hid it from everyone. Shortly after, started blowing circuits in her family home by touching live wires, and being surprised it didn't harm her. Around 15-ish was the first time she managed a powerful electrical discharge, and by 16-ish she had the power to kill someone by accident her first time out with her new super team.

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The power *was* given to her, but at birth, to develop along with her.

So the scientific mechanism is biological? Effectively a mutation like an X-Man, whatever the external cause of that adjustment?

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What the Hood needs, as will become evident next issue, is a stubborn battery who won't back down.

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She's also a stubborn battery with an attitude, but as long as he's honest with her and not a complete jerk, she'll be cooperative. And she might be even more cooperative if he uses a logical plea instead of a threat.

Trust the Hood to know which levers work best.

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I suspect that by now the Legion has come to terms with how hard it is to take down most of their regular archvillains when those baddies aren't "in the act". There's that tricky chain-of-evidence thing. And right now, the Hood et al aren't exactly in their jurisdiction.

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Lara has always believed that there's no point in making trouble for herself unless it's necessary. See the side note below for more.

Thinking about their legal status, I don't believe there are any charges outstanding against the Hood, Magenta, Dreadeyes, de Soth, or Screwdriver. The Baroness received a full pardon for her crimes, I believe. I'm not sure about whether there are warrants for Dr Moo; her sister is a ferocious attorney. Thighmaster claims dipomatic immunity. Vrykoulakas is not generally known to mortals.

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A side note to that is Lara believes that friendship is what changes people; not beating the snot out of them and tossing them into a cell. If she had the opportunity, she would have the audacity to bring cookies to a meeting with the Hooded Hood, and try to chat with him about his past.

I'm sure the Hood would accept the cookies but shift the topic of conversation to something different.

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That freedom was enshrined in "The Caph Accords" after the Parody War, when Emir Kiivan ruled Caph and Galactivac was repulsed. Shazana Pel took over the last effective Pigeonwarrior force and, at Plxtragar's invitation, based it there to insure the planet against further agression. The place has effectively become Geneva. The war-shattered planet could have turned very dark but has instead becomne a beacon of light.

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That's a lot like the history of why the Trading Alliance is so against fighting a war. In its "future", which is where the Traders novel I'm working on takes place, that costs them dearly as one of their member worlds with a very high and rapidly expanding population becomes aggressive because they need to spread out.

Keep working.

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Now, adding replies for today's stuff:

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Chiaki would hurt Vinnie badly if he chose to side with these destroyers of the Parodyverse. Then again, she might not have to; she would remind him of the extremely tiny likelihood that these entities are doing this purely for the good of the Parodyverse. That they have to have another motive.

It was hard to think of any offer that would credibly make him consider his loyalties, but this one probably does. When you consider the apalling options of mass murder vs multiversal genocide it becomes all too hard to shrug off the possibility.

There are doubtless many historical parallels one could draw, but perhaps an instance might be the decision to use nuclear bombs on Japan to save more lives that additional years of war might have cost. Many innocents died because the grim mathematics of war suggested that it would still be the least costly way forward. Even now it is a debatable decision, but nobody doubts that the original debaters had a tough choice to make.

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Then she would appeal to his heroic side by warning him that she'll take them on herself, if she has to, whether he helps her or not, and that she doesn't care if she dies in the process. And it's not a bluff.

The Fairly Great Old Ones are the Parodyverse's silly analogy of Lovecraft's elder mythos, filtered into the Paridyverse from beyond like cancer infesting an organism. As per the original sources, these ancient and terrible powers will one day awaken and inexorably rewrite the entire Parodyverse to suit them. Celestians, pantheons, office-holders et. al. have not been able to purge them, only stave them off. Nobody has stopped them.

What the person speaking with Vinnie is offering is to use the present changes in the Parodyverse as a kind of spiritual chemo, the first and only solution Vinnie has ever encountered that might work. So he has to make a tough choice.

Unfortunately, whichever of the two options available to him will have deadly consequences for many people, one option more immediately than the other.