Grrl Power #308 – Harem’s got some ‘splainin to do
This page is a little retread from one of the Dabbler’s Science Corners, but it’s the first time Sydney’s actually discussed this with Harem at length, as evidenced by the fact she didn’t even know her real name. Harem probably said it at the press conference, but Sydney was kind of fading in and out during it. Unrelated, but I am pleased that Sydney is rocking the “Imperious hands behind back” pose, but she’s still fidgeting and trying to scratch her foot through her shoe.
Harem can bring a battle rifle to her teammates, so she could obviously pilfer jewels and hard drives, USB drives, documents, even moderately large piles of cash, and there’d be nothing preventing her from making multiple trips. She’s also make a hell of an assassin, as would anyone who could wholly circumvent any detection, security, and even physical barriers. Of course she’s thought about all this stuff, anyone growing up with powers would. Many of us without those powers would. It’s almost surprising that the worst thing she gets up to (that we know about) is being a double (?) agent with Deus and the occasional prank.
Of course the problem with being able to teleport is alibi. Once it’s known you can do that, every case of something going missing from an otherwise secure location with no evidence of ingress or tampering with the security or vault, people would have trouble not considering you for the crime. Same thing with any locked door murder mystery. Unless you’ve got Johnathan Creek on hand to solve it, suspicion would naturally come your way. Really, it would be a bad idea to use any super power during the commission of a crime (ignoring the fact that it would make it an automatic felony and prompt the involvement of Archon) But if you can rip the doors off a bank vault, it’s a really bad idea to do that, because even assuming you didn’t leave your fingerprints in the steel, it still instantly winnows the lists of suspects down from 7 billion to a few hundred, tops. You can disintegrate stuff with your eyebeams? Guess who we think left this perfectly smooth hole in the side of Fort Knox, dummy.
Actually if you were a criminal with superpowers, keeping them a secret would almost be more important than if you were a hero with a secret identity – Assuming of course that you’re the kind of criminal that likes getting away with stuff and not the kind that likes to instigate brawls in parking lots. You couldn’t tell your crew about them cause they’d flip on you the minute they’re nicked, which means you couldn’t plan any heists that relied on those powers. Obviously there are exceptions. If you could telekinetically feel the position of the tumblers inside a lock, or see them with your N-Ray vision or whatever, you could get away with people just thinking you were a master safecracker, but if your powers left any physical evidence at all, you’d basically only be able to use them as a last resort.
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So any time a person uses a superpower to commit a crime and you happen to have the same superpower then you get harasses by these government lackey superhero wannabees? Talk about more abuse of power.
No more so than if you have the same type and colour car used in a crime: if you have done nothing wrong, and can prove it, then you have nothing to worry about, unless you give them reason
Heh, my parents had the same car model and colour as someone the cops were trying to track at one point, it was like clockwork that they’d be followed through starting at a certain part of the city, till information on their plates came back. Unnerved the hell out of my dad and he got the car replaced pretty quickly.
That’s flawed reasoning, the government often tries to justify overreach by ‘well if you’ve nothing to hide then we should be able to know everything about you’, and REALLY bad with the ‘hey as long as you can prove you’re not guilty you shouldn’t have anything to complain about’. Guilty until proven innocent isn’t the law (although too many still act like it is), which is why ’round up all the teleporters and get them to prove their innocent if they can’t arrest them’ would be illegal and immoral, just like ’round up all the black men standing around 6′ 200 lbs’ would be. They don’t have to prove that they’re innocent the government has to prove that they aren’t including prove they have reasonable proof that that particular teleporter is guilty.
Round up all the webcomic commenters!
Let them start with you, Pander.
Nah, I’m clearly an infiltrator.
Prove it, go first.
*your wallet disappears* I’m just a Tele-pickpocket!
Still not as bad as a telemarketer…
Too right: they steal your TIME 8-(
Wichita pocket did you get it from, I have many.
Go first what?
Internet commenters: threat or menace?
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I heard that internet commenters are the cause of climate change!
They are humans, and are making use of several high energy devices,* so yes. Just substitute ‘a’ for ‘the’, to avoid overstating it. They are one relatively small cause amongst many.
* Even if they are using an energy efficient device, they probably recharge that from a power grid, the energy of which has been created by power stations and the like. And those that are using renewable energy are using devices that took a lot of energy to create. Even worse for those that make no effort, to minimise their energy footprint, of course.
But even the best is still communicating across the internet. Every device involved in relaying that communication is drawing energy and contributing continuously to climate change. And the site they are commenting on is hosted on a server, which is doing likewise. The individual amounts are small compared to the total required to effect change, but it is contributing, none the less.
It’s significantly harder to incarcerate or even catch the teleporters though.
Come to think of it, all a Teleporter *really* has to do, is teleport to a country with no treaties of extradition and loose ethics and they’re home free. Particularly if their crimes involve generous donations to the government.
I do seem to remember that there is one country where you can buy immunity from extradition in exchange for one million dollars. This is an official policy they have.
But if you have the right powers then it just be negligent to not even to do a basic investigation.
Incorrect. A teleporter’s life would be a never ending hell. As every unexplained crime in the world would put them under investigation, using that logic. Unless there is something to link a particular person to a particular crime police should not be harassing innocent civilians!
They need to do their legwork first, and find some way to distinguish between potential suspects, before they start knocking on their doors or investigating individual’s bank accounts.
You would not like it if a cop stopped you just because you are a white person and a crime was committed by a white person. They need to have some evidence that makes it likely you were the criminal. For instance a witness who can identify that you were in the right area at the right time. ‘Being white’ is not a crime. Neither is ‘being a teleporter’.
There is no justification for a criminal investigation on that basis.
Now if you are a known active criminal, who can teleport, then they have a good basis to include you in an investigation. Whereas if you have a clean record, the police should not even have you on their database. In the E.U. it would be totally illegal to do that! The cops who did that would be the ones going to jail. America though lacks laws to protect its citizens from such abuses.
If they want to make a database of citizens, of a sort they did not like, they could do so. Making it nice and easy for them to round them up and execute them, should a suitable political climate allow that.
I mention the last not to be provocative but because it is one of the fundamental reasons why the E.U. is so very strict about collecting such information in the first place. I recall an interview with a Dutch politician, who regreted ever after, responding to a question from the gestapo. “Do you have any jews in your district?” At the time he thought ‘oh good, I can answer this, and as it is not endangering anyone.’ So he said “no”.
Only afterwards did he realise that he had personally helped the gestapo to narrow down which districts might have them. Thereby significantly lessening the time that they had to flee or get refuge.
And if he did not have a (paper) database with that information, in the first place, he could not have given the information so quickly or even at all.
There is a good reason to suppose that some future administration might want to round up and kill all teleporters. You must not co-operate with murder. Enter that record today and you have allowed them to find him and kill him at a future date.
Sometimes the cops don’t even need that much of an excuse. At one point, I was being stalked by a WA State Patrol trooper who was trying to find an excuse to arrest me for a string of gas station robberies in another part of the state, even though 1) the guy that actually did the crime was a clean-shaven, short-haired Hispanic guy in a white four-door sedan, and I’m a long-haired white guy with a mustache and short beard and was driving a beige two-door Pontiac back then (it since broke down and I had to get rid of it), and 2) the police in the county where it happened, south of the county where I was living in at the time, busted the idiot responsible the same day that Officer UNfriendly first started tailing me. I had to file a harassment report with the State Patrol HQ before this joker would leave me alone! (And before anyone asks, yes, the trooper in question DID insist that I was responsible for each of the robberies even though I didn’t match the suspect’s description or his picture on surveillance video at all, and he pulled me over four times in three days before I decided that he was indeed stalking me and reported him for harassment. And yes, the person I talked to at HQ agreed that the trooper in question was stalking me, and that something would be done about it.)
I can understand the police going after someone who potentially matches a suspect’s description, but deliberately going after someone who’s obviously not a suspect? Your tax dollars at work, right? {rolling eyes in disgust}
The key take-home though is that the system does have ways to deal with officers who abuse their power. And the same will apply for supers facing such harassment. Such is actually more likely for supers, I feel. Given that mundane police might resent their powers, or just be afraid of them, because they are different. Or simply lack the common sense to realise that more than one super might have a similar power, as raised above.
Hence why Archon have been given sole jurisdiction to deal with super powered crimes. But that would not stop regular police from harassing a super, for the reasons given, or due to the same kind of issue as you faced. So they will have to go through the same hoops, as you, in order to get the problem resolved. Sadly they might face that happening more often than your average citizen, if they are visibly super or otherwise readily distinguishable (such as if they are famous).
Barring, of course, comparison to those folks who regularly get harassed anyhow. Such as for ‘driving whilst black’.
My point in the comments about needing alibis wasn’t to imply that Archon would be kicking down the doors of everyone who could teleport every time something goes missing, just that it adds a considerable complication to some investigations. Obviously it could be inconvenient for people with powers like that, but motivation needs to be considered. If you have super powers but are living in line with your income level, chances are other suspects would be investigated first. Most people with powers in the Grrlverse get paid pretty well for their abilities in the private sector, so they don’t have a lot of motivation to try and clean out Fort Knox. If they suddenly bought a yacht to fit in the swimming pool of their much larger yacht, that would probably raise a few eyebrows.
I’ve definitely thought about that. What if I was a superhero but wanted to do something illegal with my powers every now and then? Throw the world’s nukes into the sun Superman 4 style; depose a dictator or two; burn my garbage instead of paying for pickup; depose a US senator or two; Float California out to see to boost my now beachfront Nevada property’s resale value… Y’know, reasonable stuff like that.
The answer is compartmentalization. Say I’ve got telekinesis, when I’m fighting crime I’ll use something ridiculously common like dirt, levitate that, and smack people around with it. When I’m committing crimes I’ll wear a different costume, levitate… I don’t know… people, and use ’em to smack vault safes open.
Dirt Man is adored by the public while The Vile People Person takes all the derision.
Could try using technopathy to do cyber crimes. Cyber crimes are hard enough to try and do and you could keep you’re powers a secret there by proving you’re just a good hacker.
Read my earlier comment on said abilities and use in gambling.
Something occurred to me the other night just as was going off to sleep
Regarding Daphne and her single mind slash multiple bodies thing
Does each body have to focus to do whatever they are doing and then stop focusing to re-integrate with the Core Mind? Or is it they have to consciously focus to re-integrate with the Core Mind?
Personally feel it would be the focus to do their thing and if they lose focus they slip into the Core Mind (like how early on, Kitty Pride had to focus to remain tangible, her ‘natural’ state was intangibility)
As per above, she only has to focus if she is doing similar things with different bodies.
That is so she doesn’t “cross the streams”.
A good example would be if one of Harem were trying to fix an electric alarm clock in one place, while another was trying to disarm the timer in a terrorist’s pony nuke somewhere else…
Thought of something else regarding Daphne
If she ever gets the ability to make another ‘copy’, and she uses, say, Abbey, would the new body look like a naked Abbey (complete with Abbey tattoos) or Berry (minus the nipple rings and tattoos)?
Berry. Nekkid.
Realization.
The gun that Harem teleported does not weigh as much as the self she had to close to teleport it.
Further, if she could close 3 or 4 selves and move that much combined weight, that wouldn’t be much of a limit. That’s … politely speaking … 500 lbs.
It thus becomes obvious to me that the more familiar the object, the less it costs her.
Being most familiar with herselves, those bodies cost her less to teleport.
The gun being something she’d not even fetched before, and as much unlike her body as possible, costs more.
Now, did I find plotholes and mistakes and line them up the wrong way, or did I guess something correctly?
DaveB explained it all at the time :)
I saw the explenation comic, there was nothing in there about her moving her bodies being more efficent.
she can only teleport a very limited amount of mass, including her body and clothes. The amount does increase as the number of bodies decrease, but not that much, I think Dave said if she only had one body she could take 50lb besides herself, but with 5 bodies out the limit is like 25lb per body. So she’s better suited to teleporting parts of a larger weapon than trying to teleport say an entire TOW missile system(missile,computer,tripod,targeting mount.etc) at once. For example she had to lose a body to transport the Barret during the Restaurant fight because it exceeded her carrying limit with 5 bodies, but with 4 she had barely enough capacity to carry the Barret as well as the other gear she handed out (which was mostly the glasses and a couple of the Marine’s rifles).
Indeed those are the clues I used to come up with my theory, yes.
A wide range of criminal actions can be detected with current tech. Pressure senors in the floor and to detect changes in the atmosphere of an enclosed environment, will catch most teleporters and invisible folks. Where you run into issues is with folks that can phase through objects no discernible change in weight on the floor since they don’t actually touch it and now impact on the atmosphere around them. You would need to rig a sensor to the item to protect it directly.
Shaddowrun books actually cover things like this.
One example is to prevent Astral Projectors from snooping into a place they have a layer in the walls, floors and ceilings of high security area just filled with some moss.
When it comes to phasing through things, if phasing only works on solid things, then having a grid of electrified metal in the walls could work.
Most of you are overlooking postcogs (who can see into the past) and those who can read psychic impressions the thief would leave behind.
A grid of electrified metal isn’t going to stop someone with phasing, not without that being a specific weakness for that person with Phasing. Electrons being traded around through the metal due to an electric current is still metal, it’s not generating a special energy force field to justify it somehow not being solid matter anymore.
Actually, it would be generating an electromagnetic field that, in theory, would interfere with the phasing abilities of a would be thief. And with small changes to the frequency in a cyclical manner, it would be an ever changing force field even harder to get past. It would likely have zero affect on a true teleporter, however.
Why would an EM field affect phasing through things? It’s not an uncommon weakness in specific works, but there’s nothing inherent to the concept that would mean an EM field would do anything.
The reason the moss worked against Astral Projection is because you cannot project “through” a living creature’s bio-energy field.
Two things that always bothered me about phase shifters are 1) If you are not currently interacting with the rest of the matter around you, how the hell are you breathing? 2) Unless you suddenly have the power to cancel gravity, why don’t you fall through the floor the instant you phase? (At least X-men had the forethought to give Kitty Pryde levitation)
Speaking of Kitty, she was actually limited to the time she could be phased in a object because she COULDN’T breathe (or anyone else she phased with her for that matter)
We’ve all seen the shows where characters accidently end up phased (for the duration of the episode, anyway). They have all sorts of holes:
1) If your lungs can interact with the air (necessary for breathing), there’s no way to stop your vocal chords interacting as well. You must be able to talk.
Oh, and if you can breathe, you must be producing odours as well. If your perfume or after-shave doesn’t attract attention, need I mention… farting?
2) If you don’t interact with gravity, then wave goodbye, ‘cos you’re going to drift into space. If you do, then you’ll fall to the centre of the Earth / out the bottom of the spacecraft (delete as appropriate). Assuming you are able to stand on the ground, then you can attract attention by stamping your feet (and communicate by tapping out some Morse code).
3) You can’t be invisible either. No interaction with light = total blindness (a problem with complete invisibility in general *).
If you allow some kind of ‘phased light’ that only you can see, more problems arise: artificial lights can’t produce it (else there would be an unexplained energy loss from all lamps, which their designers would have noticed), and it’s a strange kind of light that is reflected / absorbed by your surroundings (necessary for your surroundings to be visible) but doesn’t get absorbed by retinas or cameras, nor produce unexplained heating effects that aren’t due to normal light.
[Of course, intentional phase-shifters aren’t too worried about aspect number 1, but the others still apply.]
* I’m looking at you X – well, in your general direction…
i always figured that phasing was just your body becoming slightly out of sink with the universe or entering a subdimention that let you view our universe but not interact with it
Excellent use of rules lawyering. Earn 50 experience points.
The TV series “The Invisible Man” (the 2000 one) had a good explanation for how Darien Fawkes could see while he was invisible. The stuff he was surrounded by bent visible light around him, but ultraviolet shades got shifted down into visible light as it passed through, so he could see but he wasn’t exactly seeing with normal vision. (I assume it shifted back on the way out.) This became a plot point a couple of times. Nifty show, I highly recommend it! :-)
Sounds like someone who is unnaturally good at committing locked room heists would be Harem’s nemesis, always getting her into trouble.
Which Harem is the original? Does she even know? Does it matter?
No one knows. No. Not really, seeing they are still all ‘her’
Wouldn’t she know? Can she turn them off or are they always around? She should know which the original was as there should be memories of the others appearing.
It might matter if the original dies, would the others die too?
Look 2 strips back; it has been asked by reporters. She has no idea what will happen if one of her dies.
Dave mentioned she does not know which is the original her as she did not keep track at the start, and it may no longer exist
The bodies are each unique, not made each time they appear, so the original does exist. She just lost track. And I have to wonder how that happened. From how Daphne describes herself, that sounds like losing track of you left hand. Although all the ‘vorping’ may have something to do with it.
I think it would be like buying a chromebook and having four given to you and picking a random one to use each day. Since all the information is stored in the cloud unless you do something to differentiate them you soon won’t know which was the one you bought and which were given to you.
Also: I totally wish I had four friends willing to give me chromebooks as gifts. I could use a new laptop.
When each body is identical, and each one is ‘her’, and they obviously all have had turns being in ‘storage’, it’s easy to forget which one was first when they have been shuffled around for a couple years, that’s probably when she decided to start modifying herself, and she just picked Berry at random (or maybe the bodies at the moment had a chat to decide who staid ‘normal) to remain as un-modified as possible
Has she actually tried to put each and every version into storage in turn? If not, it could be an interesting experiment. If it turned out that one body couldn’t be stored, voila!, there’s your original Daphne.
All I know for sure is the one who has short purple and pink hair together has been ONE person, from one of the Dabbler’s Science Corners. The one with pink hair also mentioned un-vorping at least a couple of her bodies temporarily (though apparently not the blonde one, who was outside of Sydney’s shield watching Sydney be in mortal danger from Shadow Boxer guy at the time) in order to do some of the equipment run.
“Dave said she doesn’t know anymore.” That was the answer I was looking for. I didn’t want to read through all the responses on ALL the pages to find out if it had already been answered.
So any the bodies can be placed into storage, not just the created ones? Makes it a bit harder to keep track of who alpha Harem was. Also renders the question about the original dying irrelevant. All of the Duplicators I know about don’t work that way. Render the original unconscious/dead and the duplicates usually disappear.
Never mind the original questions. I read the cast page. She can make up to 5 implying that she can unmake them to get stronger. So she does know who the original is but may not be saying for safety. If she can make them, then it stands to reason that if the original dies they all might die. There is a chance that a copy could become the default. Up to the writer I suppose.
She doesn’t ‘unmake’ them, she puts them into ‘storage’
She doesn’t remember which one is the original, because for awhile, all of them looked like Berry, but that doesn’t mean that Berry is the original, just the ‘default’ appearance
Where exactly are you getting that at any time, all of them looked like the pink-haired Daphne?
Or by Berry, do you mean ‘strawberry blonde’ rather than ‘strawberry-colored’?
“Berry” is the one wearing the “Thing 2” shirt on the couch so long ago.
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IIRC Dave said her hair color didn’t come out quite right =P
You know, my only real comment here is Sydney’s hair.
I mean, look at it. She’s nearly upside-down and her ‘science defying- bangs haven’t moved at all.
That’s seriously just got to be registered somewhere, I mean obscurity’s on the definition or not that should totally be a power.
How does it work though? I mean, back in comic 243 a head tilt made them move, but nearly upside down does nothing. That power would be more complicated than death tolls.
her flight is a gravity control, so down is where she wants it. When not flying, gravity affects her normally.
It’s a function of the flight orb. The general consensus (which has not been disputed by DaveB) is that it works by creating a “personal gravity well” for Sydney, which allows her to move independently of other sources of gravity. Thus, no matter what her orientation to the viewer, her personal “down” (towards her feet) is still “down” to her, so her hair is hanging down, just only for her, not for you.
Max refers to her as flying in an annoying fashion when Sydney shows off her power for the first time. She also made Arianna dizzy.
I just love that pose that Sydney’s striking in the first 2 panels.
A most excellent “Imperious Leader”. If she could stop wiggling her feet.
If she lets go of the flight orb, will the shield be enough to break the fall?
Probably not.
Well, the shield might remain intact, but the contents may look like that episode of CSI when a body was placed in a human-hamster wheel and set rolling
Actually, I don’t think Sydney would be bothered by it at all since the shield absorbs all impact, she shouldn’t even feel a jolt, although hanging onto the shield orb might be a challenge once normal gravity takes over after the freefall stops. Like they say, it aint the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom. :D
Or, to put it another way:
You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving.
You need a parachute to go skydiving twice.
The shield resists all outside impacts, and apparently also is inertia-free (or when someone like Maxima or Vehemence hits it, it would MOVE at least, even if the person inside isnt harmed, so if she fell while still having the shield up, I doubt that she’d be injured inside.
While Sydney is inside the shield, she isn’t actually moving. Probably the same for anything or anyone within the sphere as well. So falling wouldn’t have any effect on her, and probably neither will anything being hit by the sphere as it hits ground zero, due to the absorption effect.
Interesting. When I read your comment at the bottom of the comic, my mind immediately went to the idea that she could give the expression “playing with yourself” whole new meaning. And right after that very sexual thought, I had a big series of completely non-sexual thoughts with that expression.
I thought of her playing poker. ALL of her playing poker…with each other. Just pictured the various Harems around a round table with their cards in front of them. Max comes along and asks what she’s doing (because Max knows the uselessness of her doing that) and she replies, “Playing with myself.”
When asked to expand upon that, Harem says that she’s basically practicing. Since doing similar things can be confusing, doing the same thing with each other is even more so. Makes for good practice. She needs it; she’s getting confused as to who has which cards (resulting in none of them having anything :-) ).
Good one.
Better one: strip poker
I approve. And that SHOULD happen. As part of each team member getting better at whatever their particular skills are. Such as Dabbler’s great skill with the sword that has resulted in her cybernetic hand and eye.
(And Maxima: you can throw what appears to be the rough equivalent of a small nuke. See this book of matches? Ignite the second one from the left in the back row. JUST that one.)
Then they need to role-play against each other’s powers – individually, group versus individual, group versus group. Plus any talents they don’t have but have encountered in someone else or can find described or simply invent.
Harem the naked thief. Sonds better plott then most hentai or porns.
A naked thief? Do I want to guess where they would be hidding the tools and loot?
for what tools would be needed given that she can teleport, taped to her body.
So, Harem is essentially a multi-core processor. Multiple cores handling different tasks, but all within a single processor. At least that’s how I make sense of it.
Daphne’s powers sound pretty similar to Array’s* abilities.
Anybody else bothered by the fact she said “Zoinks” and not “Jinkies”? Love the comic so please don’t misunderstand, it just seems odd to someone who’s been watching Scooby-Doo since about age 3.
But is it Harem doing the Velma explanation so she has to play Shaggy at the moment.
The brain is the matter and the mind is my thought, or at least that’s what I thought until I realized the mind doesn’t matter a whole lot.
It does cause one to wonder how Harem has managed to afford to feed five stomachs, wardrobe five bodies, visit 5 hairstylists, purchase numerous tattoos, a wide variety of makeup, and fund the smoregasboard of personal hobbies she has claimed to have done, all in her fairly short 19 years of live thus far.
She can’t have been with Archon that long; it’s a new agency, and she’s only been of recruitable age for less than two years. (This assumes, of course, Archon is willing to pay her the equivalent of 5 soldier’s pay. She’s incredibly useful, but probably the most expensive person(s) on the payroll.)
She either has very rich parents (who own a farm, apparently, so that’s possible, if it’s a really big farm) or she has “alternate sources of income”… or at least used to, prior to being hired on with Archon.
Both this hint on this page, and previously where we’ve seen her “Play Double-Agent” there are signs that Harem is not of Lawful Good alignment.
Of course some people just have 5 kids. Her parents only had one… or so they thought.
Judging from her hair while she’s semi-inverted, Sydney seems to either generate her own local gravity field, or she’s got some TRUELY impressive hair spray!
The former. If you look back at earlier examples, you will find you have spotted a consistent feature of that orb. It is misnamed it is not a Fly Ball it is a Grav Ball or possibly an Inertia Control Ball.
Suddenly, I’m remembering a fic called Bystander, where Lucretia got in trouble for that exact issue…namely, she tried to rip the door off a bank. While drunk. It did not go well.
But Sydney said “multibrain”, not “multimind”. That’s just as accurate as “multibody”. Why did Harem correct her?
Yeah, I should probably have had Sydney say multimind since that’s the least accurate way to describe Harem.
I suppose there’s also the fact that just because someone uses the correct term doesn’t mean they grasp the concept correctly. Harem probably just knew she probably had the wrong idea and felt that was a good opening to set her straight.
Second-last panel: I don’t see how they would be the same to her. She has to see where she’s teleporting to, so something locked in an underground vault would be just as difficult for her to infiltrate as it would be for the average person. Unless she was familiar with the inside of the vault. Or she used her five selves to unlock it faster, or something. Still wouldn’t be as effortless as taking them from a table out in the open. The only part that would be effortless would be the getaway, since she’d have no problem teleporting back out.
Eh, I know I’m taking her analogy too literally. Sorry, can’t help myself. I shouldn’t nitpick so much when I know what she’s trying to say.
“Obviously”, says the double/pentuple/decuple agent. Is “decuple” the right word for a group of five doubles?