I've talked several times with a villainous colleague, Dark Aleph, about taking over the world. It's not something I plan to do, but she has some very specific ideas - usually centered around bio-terrorism. I don't think she can succeed, but I humor her. That said, I do think it'd be helpful for new villains to understand why taking over the world isn't something that supers can easily do. Then I'll talk about a group that disagrees with me.
What it means
"Taking over the world" means two things from a practical perspective: eliminating sources of opposition, and guaranteeing compliance with your agenda.
Eliminating sources of opposition requires that you basically destroy the command and control centers of every major world power. And the first step of that process means total nuclear disarmament.
You start with the sovereigns, aka the "nuclear club": the United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, the United Kingdom, and France. Nukes are also stored in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Italy. Just to be safe, you want to sweep the former Soviet republics. Theoretically these were all transferred back to Russia, but to believe that you'd have to trust the Russians. You also have to scrub Germany, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, Taiwan, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada, all of whom are the proverbial screwdriver's turn away from having nukes.
Why nukes? Because no super has survived the blast of a multi-megaton detonation, and it's very likely that no conceivable super could do so. I know one who survived a kiloton blast, and she was intensely unhappy with the experience. If you really become a global tyrant, someone will find a way to get a suitcase nuke to go off in your face, and that's the end of that. So: no nukes.
Any country on that list is also a country that could mount a significant military opposition to your plans, so at that point you're done. After that, you mostly worry about the intelligence services of Russia and Israel, and the special forces of Germany, Britain, and South Africa.
Oh, and while you're at it, you have to kill every significant superhero out there. Good luck with that.
Guaranteeing compliance with your agenda requires that you subvert the dominant political groups active in a region, or change the culture enough that people will accept you as monarch. The former is far easier in a democracy - you take over the Parliament or the Congress or whatever, install a figurehead from the local population, and go to work. The latter is very difficult; cultural changes happen over generations, not years or months. So my advice is to follow the example of the Romans, who put local leaders in charge and just rolled in once a year to collect taxes.
Overall, you'll find this a very hard sell in democracies where the culture of freedom is strong, like America. Natives of the US will violently resist any outside attempts to control them. You find similar veins of strong nationalism in the UK (look up "euroscepticism" sometime for examples) and elsewhere.
Why it won't work
Essentially, there are too many moving parts in a real government, much less a dozen or more of them. One nuke, one assassin, one crucial betrayal, and it's all over.
Some hardcore bad guys prefer the simplicity of the alternative: depopulation. Kill 90% of the planet, they reason, and you've eliminated 90% of the opposition. Ethical considerations aside, the remaining 10% will include the leaders of government and heads of the military and intelligence apparatus, who have been planning for exactly this sort of attack for years.
The US recently released details of "Project Cycle", a set of operations that were put together between 1962 and 1972 as contingencies against a superhuman uprising. Their planning has certainly gotten better since then, and there's no unclassified reports post-1972 to figure out just what they have up their sleeves.
Even assuming you also killed off every hero that's out there - somehow - it's not like new heroes aren't being born daily. Down the road, you'll be facing someone younger and more determined than you, and possibly tougher.
Who's trying it anyway
Persistent rumors in the villain community talk about an organization known as "the Pact". These guys supposedly are working on a plan for world domination, and they have an unbeatable selling point. "Work with us," they say, "and we'll make you immortal". Don't scoff - according to the rumors, the Pact has some sort of way to resurrect the dead, provided they've been through some sort of initiation process. Even if you commit suicide in a jail cell, they say, the Pact could bring you back.
If true - and frankly, it's so incredible I don't see how it could be - then they represent probably the only group capable of true world domination. But again, it's just a rumor.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Wavelength Posts: Agartha
This is by far the funniest topic I've read in awhile. Some of these posts are old, but who cares? As usual, my comments are italicized.
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THE THEOSOPHIST WISDOM OF AGARTHA
In ancient Hindu texts, and in the knowledge seeking of the Theosophists, we learn of the Agarthi, or endless interior Earth, where the devas and the asuras do battle. Today we would call these superheroes and supervillains. The tunnels to Agarthi are found under Tibet. The Tibetans have always honored the primal wisdom and kept these dangerous secrets sealed from the outer world.
More truth about Agartha emerged last year. A John Doe patient - for those of you in the United States - was admitted to the Heath Hospital in Cardiff. He was badly dehydrated and showed small puncture marks across his body. He was hallucinating and babbling, in English and two other languages. The attending doctor prescribed what medication she thought appropriate, then sat down to puzzle through this mystery.
The subject experienced moments of lucidity, during which his story came out in fragments. The doctor and one of the nurses called in a psychologist to help make sense of the man's mental state. Together these three pieced together the thread of narrative.
The man, a native of the north, had been exploring the mountains near his home. He had slipped and fallen into a crevasse. The doctor found no evidence of broken bones, so he was presumed to have survived that accident relatively unharmed. He had a light and used it. He must have tried to find a way out - any sensible person would - but the only thing he felt the need to talk about in his delirium was going further into the darkness.
The crevasse was the entrance to a cave system. There was nothing but rock and darkness for what felt like hours, but he reports seeing a faint glow that wasn't his torch. The light led to a bioluminescent fungus - and a flowering, fruit-bearing plant he had never seen before. Hungry, he threw caution to the wind and ate. This was the beginning of what the doctor concluded was the start of the hallucinations - the plant was undoubtedly some local specimen that had taken root and was not suitable for consumption.
The hallucinations took a strange turn. An unspecified amount of time later, the man reported hearing voices echoing from the tunnels ahead. He describes a pair of beautiful humanoid figures, male and female, who glowed with an inner light and found him slumped against the wall. They carried him, as though he were lighter than a child, through the tunnels and emerged into a magnificent underground grotto.
He stayed for several more hours. The strangers fed him, garbed him in robes of light and song, and showed him the wonders of their world. His descriptions of this period of recuperation are exceedingly confused, but he was clear on one point: the strangers had to take leave of him for a time, in order to rescue fallen comrades, who they said were at war with other similar beings elsewhere in the grotto.
In time they judged him healthy and escorted him to the surface. The man professed no memory after that. He had been found alone in the mountains and airlifted with a helicopter to the local hospital, which found its facilities unsuitable to treat his condition.
He stayed for several days. During that time, the doctor found something significant, something she omitted in her report at first. John Doe's brain was infected. The infection wasn't a natural organism - it was a sort of synthetic nanomachine, of the same sort that was reported in the brains of animals the supervillain Beast-Boss reportedly put under his mental control. John Doe had shrieked in pain at one point during an MRI, and was found to be sensitive to strong magnetic fields for several days after. The nanomachines slowly washed themselves out of his body, and the doctor collected numerous urine samples that contained their remains.
Could John Doe have really entered an inner Earth? The doctor believed something else: John Doe had taken part in a shared hallucination, a dream world created by someone or something that had transmitted information into his brain. How much of his experience was real? Only the Agarthans - if they exist - may truly know.
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THE THEOSOPHIST WISDOM OF AGARTHA
In ancient Hindu texts, and in the knowledge seeking of the Theosophists, we learn of the Agarthi, or endless interior Earth, where the devas and the asuras do battle. Today we would call these superheroes and supervillains. The tunnels to Agarthi are found under Tibet. The Tibetans have always honored the primal wisdom and kept these dangerous secrets sealed from the outer world.
More truth about Agartha emerged last year. A John Doe patient - for those of you in the United States - was admitted to the Heath Hospital in Cardiff. He was badly dehydrated and showed small puncture marks across his body. He was hallucinating and babbling, in English and two other languages. The attending doctor prescribed what medication she thought appropriate, then sat down to puzzle through this mystery.
The subject experienced moments of lucidity, during which his story came out in fragments. The doctor and one of the nurses called in a psychologist to help make sense of the man's mental state. Together these three pieced together the thread of narrative.
The man, a native of the north, had been exploring the mountains near his home. He had slipped and fallen into a crevasse. The doctor found no evidence of broken bones, so he was presumed to have survived that accident relatively unharmed. He had a light and used it. He must have tried to find a way out - any sensible person would - but the only thing he felt the need to talk about in his delirium was going further into the darkness.
The crevasse was the entrance to a cave system. There was nothing but rock and darkness for what felt like hours, but he reports seeing a faint glow that wasn't his torch. The light led to a bioluminescent fungus - and a flowering, fruit-bearing plant he had never seen before. Hungry, he threw caution to the wind and ate. This was the beginning of what the doctor concluded was the start of the hallucinations - the plant was undoubtedly some local specimen that had taken root and was not suitable for consumption.
The hallucinations took a strange turn. An unspecified amount of time later, the man reported hearing voices echoing from the tunnels ahead. He describes a pair of beautiful humanoid figures, male and female, who glowed with an inner light and found him slumped against the wall. They carried him, as though he were lighter than a child, through the tunnels and emerged into a magnificent underground grotto.
He stayed for several more hours. The strangers fed him, garbed him in robes of light and song, and showed him the wonders of their world. His descriptions of this period of recuperation are exceedingly confused, but he was clear on one point: the strangers had to take leave of him for a time, in order to rescue fallen comrades, who they said were at war with other similar beings elsewhere in the grotto.
In time they judged him healthy and escorted him to the surface. The man professed no memory after that. He had been found alone in the mountains and airlifted with a helicopter to the local hospital, which found its facilities unsuitable to treat his condition.
He stayed for several days. During that time, the doctor found something significant, something she omitted in her report at first. John Doe's brain was infected. The infection wasn't a natural organism - it was a sort of synthetic nanomachine, of the same sort that was reported in the brains of animals the supervillain Beast-Boss reportedly put under his mental control. John Doe had shrieked in pain at one point during an MRI, and was found to be sensitive to strong magnetic fields for several days after. The nanomachines slowly washed themselves out of his body, and the doctor collected numerous urine samples that contained their remains.
Could John Doe have really entered an inner Earth? The doctor believed something else: John Doe had taken part in a shared hallucination, a dream world created by someone or something that had transmitted information into his brain. How much of his experience was real? Only the Agarthans - if they exist - may truly know.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Wavelength Posts: Cyborgs and Super-Science
Today's collection of Wavelength weirdness concerns high-tech topics like super-cyborgs. As far as anyone knows, nobody has cracked the secret of superpowers, but that won't stop our intrepid troupe of truth-seekers on the Internet. That said, significant strides have been made in incorporating super-tissue into existing systems. For example, the American mercenary Cloud has a sort of bio-radio or bio-radar built into his cells, and he's used radio rebroadcast equipment to extend his own range. So who knows.
As usual, my comments are in italics. Here goes!
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SUPER CYBORGS A REALITY
CONFIRMED SIGHTINGS are coming from an Army base in the Midwest about a new project undertaken by THE MILITARY. They have a super in a laboratory and have grafted several artificial systems onto his body. IS HE A VOLUNTEER SOLDIER, OR SOMETHING ELSE...?
This individual's superpowers are being ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED and REGULATED through the secretion of hormones and neuroelectric discharges. His body's powers can be amplified and driven BY COMPUTER, used in whatever fashion his MILITARY MASTERS SEE FIT.
Yeah, and if you TYPE IN ALL CAPS, it has to be true. Lowercase is for liars.
A highly placed source has provided my newsletter with tech specs, photos, and more information about this BRAVE AMERICAN whose body is now the plaything of his SOULLESS SUPERIORS. At this time, we are unable to release the information due to concerns about being shut down, but we all agree that something needs to be done.
The individual's capabilities are said to be at Stage 4.5 and combat testing is expected to commence within the week. Our source also confirms that this is only the FIRST OF MANY SUPER CYBORGS.
My source confirmed you need to cut the crap. Stages aren't fractional - if I was feeling charitable, I'd say the author meant "Stage 4 but more awesome".
THE DRAFT FOR SUPERS??!
I know a Stage 2. Are we looking at the re-institution of the draft for American supers? Are we going to be sending super-cyborgs to Iran or China? Someone tell me what to tell my friend!
How about "Wavelength is full of shit?"
PROJECT EQUINOX - MILITARY CYBORG EXPERIMENTS
The cyborg program under discussion is called Project Equinox. You can download a complete PDF from my secure site. Here are the details:
As usual, my comments are in italics. Here goes!
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SUPER CYBORGS A REALITY
CONFIRMED SIGHTINGS are coming from an Army base in the Midwest about a new project undertaken by THE MILITARY. They have a super in a laboratory and have grafted several artificial systems onto his body. IS HE A VOLUNTEER SOLDIER, OR SOMETHING ELSE...?
This individual's superpowers are being ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED and REGULATED through the secretion of hormones and neuroelectric discharges. His body's powers can be amplified and driven BY COMPUTER, used in whatever fashion his MILITARY MASTERS SEE FIT.
Yeah, and if you TYPE IN ALL CAPS, it has to be true. Lowercase is for liars.
A highly placed source has provided my newsletter with tech specs, photos, and more information about this BRAVE AMERICAN whose body is now the plaything of his SOULLESS SUPERIORS. At this time, we are unable to release the information due to concerns about being shut down, but we all agree that something needs to be done.
The individual's capabilities are said to be at Stage 4.5 and combat testing is expected to commence within the week. Our source also confirms that this is only the FIRST OF MANY SUPER CYBORGS.
My source confirmed you need to cut the crap. Stages aren't fractional - if I was feeling charitable, I'd say the author meant "Stage 4 but more awesome".
THE DRAFT FOR SUPERS??!
I know a Stage 2. Are we looking at the re-institution of the draft for American supers? Are we going to be sending super-cyborgs to Iran or China? Someone tell me what to tell my friend!
How about "Wavelength is full of shit?"
PROJECT EQUINOX - MILITARY CYBORG EXPERIMENTS
The cyborg program under discussion is called Project Equinox. You can download a complete PDF from my secure site. Here are the details:
- Stage 2 soldiers are being screened and recruited.
- The program artificially progresses them to Stage 3 or Stage 4.
- Candidates have titanium and ceramic implants introduced into their bodies, grafted onto bone.
- Implants are electronically controlled and siphon power from the Stage 2/3/4 mitochondrial proton-motive force, the same thing that augments ATP recycling in the body.
- The implants provide a far superior control system for many powers, allowing candidates to choose from a menu of preprogrammed options or devise their own.
- The implants also stimulate the cells' mitochondria and synthetic symbionts, allowing new applications of existing powers that the natural Hashmal process didn't provide.
There are eighteen candidates in the program, found in bases around the world. They are being prepped for counter-terrorism, not S.O. or assassination.
Now I'm a little worried. If this guy is talking shit, it's convincing-sounding shit. Every so often, Wavelength does get it right.
The biggest obstacles in the Equinox program are technological, but they also have a simpler problem: how do you keep your soldiers from retiring or going AWOL with a billion dollars worth of state secrets in their bodies? Implanted bombs, brainwashing, or similar techniques are likely, but I haven't been able to learn more.
And this sort of thing is why I hate the military.
I did download this guy's PDF. From the illustrations, the implants are about the size of a grape each and clustered throughout the body. There's no metal-plated Terminators here - the cyborgs he's describing could easily hide in a crowd, which makes sense. I'm not saying I buy into this story, just that it's better than 75% of what appears on Wavelength.
I did download this guy's PDF. From the illustrations, the implants are about the size of a grape each and clustered throughout the body. There's no metal-plated Terminators here - the cyborgs he's describing could easily hide in a crowd, which makes sense. I'm not saying I buy into this story, just that it's better than 75% of what appears on Wavelength.
CYBERNETIC POWERS FOR EVERYONE
I heard a rumor that they're able to do "cross-specimen grafts" and give normal people superpowers now. Any truth to this? If not, could some of these implants do it?
Cultured tissue has been successfully grafted onto supers, but the body has to be able to cope with the resulting rejection problems, same as blood transfusions. A Stage 0 receiving a Stage 2 graft would get very sick. A Stage 0 receiving Stage 4 tissue would probably die. It's conceivable someone could encapsulate such tissue into an implant and give it to a mundane, but that's a huge expense for little gain.
SUPER SCIENCE
How much of these physics-breaking superpowers have been replicated in machinery? How soon until I can buy a force field belt?
Unlikely. Study of superpowers has let us make great strides in theoretical physics, chemistry, and other fields. As yet, we haven't been able to translate those into meaningful inventions. That won't be true forever, but that's how it is today.
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That's it for another dive into the pit of rumor we call Wavelength. Go forth and have fun.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Wavelength Posts: Undead Edition
I want to collect the best (or worst) of posts to Wavelength, the popular (?) board for super-related gossip, weird stories, and far-out theories. It's not that I particularly give credence to these ideas. But a lot of newbie villains think having powers makes them awesome. Attention you guys: there's shit out there that will make you run screaming, so get some perspective.
With that, let's start with the undead posts. I've added some commentary where appropriate.
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ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AVERTED IN BERLIN
DEVELOPING - Researchers at a prestigious university in Berlin averted a potential cataclysm that could have engulfed the human species. Their research subject: an actual zombie. This creature was born with a Lilith-type meta-gene. The mutation concentrated all metabolic activity into the bones, creating connective tissue and muscle out of some sort of carbon nanotubes, similar to the American superhero Brawl and his carbon alchemy.
Yeah, "meta-gene". I smell bullshit coming. There's a true story here, but it's not a zombie apocalypse.
As the creature's body became less and less dependent on flesh, tissues and internal organs necrotized and started to fall away. Researchers were forced to wrap the creature in heavy bandages - not because it needed them, but because it expressed a horror at what was happening to it. Eventually even the bandages were not enough, and the mummified zombie was little more than an animated skeleton. Researchers were baffled at the ability of the creature to think and perceive despite a complete lack of nervous system, brain, or sensory organs.
I feel really, really bad for this poor sad son of a bitch.
During the mutation cycle, it was discovered that the adaption was contagious, like a vampire's viral infection. Researchers were quarantined until the infection could be halted. But for the diligence of the German authorities, this plague could have easily spread, until zombies were overrunning the globe!
Uh, go Germany, I guess.
The worst part of the story is this: as the subject was losing his own tissue, he started expressing a growing hunger for the flesh of the researchers, and actually attacked several of them. Although nobody was killed, it confirmed our worst fears about zombie cannibalism. This is real, folks.
He didn't try to cannibalize anyone. The guy was going mad from his ordeal and he flipped his shit. You would too.
LICHES AND THEIR PHYLACTERIES
The ancient Egyptians stored their dead rulers' internal organs in canopic jars. More recently, we read about the "lich" - a powerful undead mage - and his phylactery, a repository for his soul. We have discovered that the zombie above has actually transformed himself into a lich and escaped from Germany. He even has a phylactery! Read on for details...
He didn't escape, he was moved to a secure - and anonymous - containment facility for his own protection and mental health. By Thor, these people get some weird ideas.
Studies of shape- and size-shifters produced a very interesting question: where does the brain go, when there's no room for it? Well, it turns out that supers with such powers develop a micro-miniaturized "backup brain". In the case of the zombie, he advanced a Stage during his incarceration. His backup brain is now fully in control of his body, and he can pull it out of his skeleton and conceal it anywhere.
This "backup brain" theory is highly controversial. I don't have one, for example. My control of the electro-weak force means my body stays structurally the same, just that the spaces between atoms changes. Still freaky, so I don't think about it.
As long as this phylactery stays intact, he can stay conscious, regrow himself a body, or anything else he pleases. He is immortal, unkillable, and a danger to the human race.
Nobody actually knows what happened to the guy, so this is all speculation.
QUESTION ABOUT ZOMBIE MAN
Does anyone know if his powers include real magic or mind control?
No, they don't. Idiots.
ZOMBIE MAN MOTIVES
We've known for a long time that vampires and werewolves are real. Good vampires like Edward Cullen, or evil vampires like Dracula, are all real. So what about good and evil zombies? Maybe he is a good guy and doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Twilight? Real? Say it ain't so.
GHOST OF ZOMBIE MAN
If Zombie Man rots away completely, maybe all that'll be left is his ghost. Do we have any confirmed evidence of other super-ghosts? Maybe he will be the first.
On Wavelength, "confirmed evidence" means "sufficiently uprated posts". Caveat emptor.
GHOST EVIDENCE IS ON ARXIV
Paranormal researchers have uncovered evidence that human consciousness can be preserved in the "backup brain" described earlier, even if the only physical remains are a few living cells. For example, a haunted hotel was found to contain trace amounts of a dead super's blood and nerve cells. But this was enough - his consciousness was still distributed among the cells, and his gravitational powers gave him the abilities of a poltergeist. He was quite mad, of course. Go do the research, people, this is real.
The paper in question was retracted after serious issues with its methodology, data, and personnel were raised. Go do the research indeed. Downthread, some of the more astute people commented "we can't find this paper" and someone predictably replied with "THEY don't want you to know", so yeah.
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So yeah, undead are sort of real? There's some truth to some of the things talked about here, but even "Zombie Man" wasn't dead, just.. not as fleshy as before.
With that, let's start with the undead posts. I've added some commentary where appropriate.
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ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AVERTED IN BERLIN
DEVELOPING - Researchers at a prestigious university in Berlin averted a potential cataclysm that could have engulfed the human species. Their research subject: an actual zombie. This creature was born with a Lilith-type meta-gene. The mutation concentrated all metabolic activity into the bones, creating connective tissue and muscle out of some sort of carbon nanotubes, similar to the American superhero Brawl and his carbon alchemy.
Yeah, "meta-gene". I smell bullshit coming. There's a true story here, but it's not a zombie apocalypse.
As the creature's body became less and less dependent on flesh, tissues and internal organs necrotized and started to fall away. Researchers were forced to wrap the creature in heavy bandages - not because it needed them, but because it expressed a horror at what was happening to it. Eventually even the bandages were not enough, and the mummified zombie was little more than an animated skeleton. Researchers were baffled at the ability of the creature to think and perceive despite a complete lack of nervous system, brain, or sensory organs.
I feel really, really bad for this poor sad son of a bitch.
During the mutation cycle, it was discovered that the adaption was contagious, like a vampire's viral infection. Researchers were quarantined until the infection could be halted. But for the diligence of the German authorities, this plague could have easily spread, until zombies were overrunning the globe!
Uh, go Germany, I guess.
The worst part of the story is this: as the subject was losing his own tissue, he started expressing a growing hunger for the flesh of the researchers, and actually attacked several of them. Although nobody was killed, it confirmed our worst fears about zombie cannibalism. This is real, folks.
He didn't try to cannibalize anyone. The guy was going mad from his ordeal and he flipped his shit. You would too.
LICHES AND THEIR PHYLACTERIES
The ancient Egyptians stored their dead rulers' internal organs in canopic jars. More recently, we read about the "lich" - a powerful undead mage - and his phylactery, a repository for his soul. We have discovered that the zombie above has actually transformed himself into a lich and escaped from Germany. He even has a phylactery! Read on for details...
He didn't escape, he was moved to a secure - and anonymous - containment facility for his own protection and mental health. By Thor, these people get some weird ideas.
Studies of shape- and size-shifters produced a very interesting question: where does the brain go, when there's no room for it? Well, it turns out that supers with such powers develop a micro-miniaturized "backup brain". In the case of the zombie, he advanced a Stage during his incarceration. His backup brain is now fully in control of his body, and he can pull it out of his skeleton and conceal it anywhere.
This "backup brain" theory is highly controversial. I don't have one, for example. My control of the electro-weak force means my body stays structurally the same, just that the spaces between atoms changes. Still freaky, so I don't think about it.
As long as this phylactery stays intact, he can stay conscious, regrow himself a body, or anything else he pleases. He is immortal, unkillable, and a danger to the human race.
Nobody actually knows what happened to the guy, so this is all speculation.
QUESTION ABOUT ZOMBIE MAN
Does anyone know if his powers include real magic or mind control?
No, they don't. Idiots.
ZOMBIE MAN MOTIVES
We've known for a long time that vampires and werewolves are real. Good vampires like Edward Cullen, or evil vampires like Dracula, are all real. So what about good and evil zombies? Maybe he is a good guy and doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Twilight? Real? Say it ain't so.
GHOST OF ZOMBIE MAN
If Zombie Man rots away completely, maybe all that'll be left is his ghost. Do we have any confirmed evidence of other super-ghosts? Maybe he will be the first.
On Wavelength, "confirmed evidence" means "sufficiently uprated posts". Caveat emptor.
GHOST EVIDENCE IS ON ARXIV
Paranormal researchers have uncovered evidence that human consciousness can be preserved in the "backup brain" described earlier, even if the only physical remains are a few living cells. For example, a haunted hotel was found to contain trace amounts of a dead super's blood and nerve cells. But this was enough - his consciousness was still distributed among the cells, and his gravitational powers gave him the abilities of a poltergeist. He was quite mad, of course. Go do the research, people, this is real.
The paper in question was retracted after serious issues with its methodology, data, and personnel were raised. Go do the research indeed. Downthread, some of the more astute people commented "we can't find this paper" and someone predictably replied with "THEY don't want you to know", so yeah.
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So yeah, undead are sort of real? There's some truth to some of the things talked about here, but even "Zombie Man" wasn't dead, just.. not as fleshy as before.
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