Grrl Power #1025 – Military industrial simple
Maxima obviously did some googling before her visit. Certainly hit up the wikipedia page for Mozambique at the very least.
Deus feels that the major problems with your typical supervillain plan are threefold. One, the plans are of such scale that they force an immediate response, i.e., holding a city hostage with a nuke. Two, the plans are public. He attributes this to 95% of supervillains having deep seated narcissistic personality disorder. That is, they care more about notoriety than results. The authorities can’t exactly ignore the Joker when he’s taking over the airwaves. Three, they unleash 98% of their plans in New York/Metropolis or whatever Gotham is the analog of. Chicago? I assume Star City is Detroit for some reason. Again, people are going to take note.
But if you get the ball rolling in BFE*, or better yet, 2,500 miles south of E, then there’s literally no one of sufficient authority/military/political strength who can do anything about it. Even if he came out of the chute with the city hostage plan, the average American, European or Pacific Rim politician will probably hear about it in a briefing, but it doesn’t exactly jump to the top of the actionable items queue. Well, okay, if he does it with a rogue nuke, he’ll pull lots of attention, but a swift and conventional military coup seems like de rigueur for that part of the world.
An army that includes Supers, Aliens, and now Demons… well… That’s really pushing the cusp of attention garnering. It’s a fair bet every intelligence agency in the world has their eye on Galytn right now. The thing is, if he spends the next five years building roads and hospitals and schools and laying power cables and internet, a lot of people will probably unclench. The next time he makes a push, then it becomes a pattern, and he’ll probably need to start answering some hard questions.
* I keep forgetting that I have readers abroad and/or ESL readers, so I’ll try and explain colloquialisms when I think about it. BFE stands for “Butt-Fucking Egypt” which basically just means “the middle of nowhere” which is a pretty American, isolationist sort of expression. Egypt being the cradle of civilization, more or less excludes it from being “nowhere.” But it sounds funny, and almost any American knows what it means AFAIK.
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Eh, that’s How Alexander the Great built an empire, and later the Romans. Swoop in, kill some soldiers, ‘conscript’ the survivors, build some roads and maybe a nice shiny aqueduct or sewer, and slap a triumphal arch over the top of it all. The rest is all politics.
You did NOT go for the Deus Ex Machina trope by having Deus, with a scar shaped like an X on his face build an empire called Machina Industries. :’)
No, thats his actual name. Deus Eggbert X (like Malcolm X).
The problem came about when the clerk in the corporate registration office couldn’t read Deus’ handwriting (poor penmanship) and entered the company name as Deus Ex Machina Industries.
It was supposed to be Deus E X Machine Industries but once it’s in the system it stays how it was entered (ever tried getting a government employee to change personal data?)
y’know i can relate to that.
to create my account where i work, they had to have my name and my initials to create an account so (Last name).(initial)
problem is, i don’t have a middle name and my name starts with “B” and they HAD to add a letter because “reasons”
guess what letter they chose? and of course they could’nt change it anymore because it created conflict in the system software and none of the accounts ended up working so they had to revert to the initial “two letters” still a little sore about it. lol
Dont tell me your nickname in the office is now “bullshit”, ouch, for , B, {S}.
Your data entry guy is an smartaleck arsehole. My condolences.
Worse: B. O. :P
Could be worse, could be S.O.B.
“Who’s the S.O.B that did this?”
We don’t even know your last name, so….
How long did it take southern america and the tiger states to become decent nations after colonization ended?
0-50 years? I mean nations like Brazil, Infonesia and South Africa pretty became powers within less than a generation of indepencence.
How long have most parts of africa and asia been independent? 50 years? 100 years?
Seriously, there were no sand castles to kick over in most of todays third world. They came from tribalism, got 30-60 years of colonization and then returned to tribalism.
My observation is that there is a “Last guy” rule for these things. Barring revolution, warfare or other traumatic event, things don’t usually change until the last guy from the founders of the current regime dies off. give it another ten years for the last of the Castro cronies and their opponents to die off and the US and Cuba will probably normalize relations. There are always exceptions of course.
Not exactly a former colony took 142 year to become a superpower – USA 1776 -1918- and needed WWI …
Rome take centuries to become a superpower.
Japan took only 42 years to become a sizeable power – 1863-1905-
And frankly Brazil , Indonesia are not great powers , for exemple militaryly France, UK are more powerful with
less area and population – France is 248,573 sq mi 67,413,000 inhabitants ; UK 93,628 sq mi 67,081,000 inhabitants Brazil 3,287,956 sq mi 210,147,125 inhabitants , Indonesia – 735,358 sq mi 270,203,917 inhabitants – and diplomaticaly and for economy France and UK are G7 members ( USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan ) and permanet members of UN security council.
It’s not southern America, it’s SOUTH America. Almost as if they are two different friggin continents on two different continental plates. There is exactly NO continent called America.
Southern would probably include ‘Central’ America, not just the southern continent. Also, the rest of the world often refers to all of North America’s residents (and sometimes South America’s) as “Americans”, just like we group people on other continents as “European”, “Asian”, or “African”. All from “the Americas”, therefore “American”.
It’s really only we USAers who think “American” refers to us exclusively, but to be fair our other name options are pretty bad.
Oh crap, I just noticed the unfortunate implications: Deus, a white guy whose name means “God” in Portuguese annexed Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony in Africa. A honest error, really, but it can badly interpreted.
Linguistic quirk. His name is from a Latin translation of a Hellenic saying, and Portugal, like a lot of European languages, took the word for “God” from Church Latin.
No different from all those Latinos named “Hayzoos”.
I’ve heard of Butt-Fuck, Nowhere, USA. Never BFE
I’ve always heard it as “Bumfuck, Egypt”, with “Bumfuck” being the name of an imaginary small town in the middle of nowhere.
I’ve never heard of BFE before either. Only BFN. I’m almost 62 years old and I’ve visited every state in the USA except Alaska and Washington.
I’ve generally heard it “Bumfuck Nowhere” or “Bumfuck, Arkansas” or “Bumfuck, Kansas”
Ditto
I can really see Deus and Sydney becoming friends with Maxima being all the concerned older sister disliking her sbling’s friends
Likewise, I’ve heard of the Nowhere variant, but only from novels with military characters. Never heard the Egypt variant, and never heard either variant in the real world, only fiction. For context, I’ve spent significant time in Idaho, the Dakotas, and Alaska, including an Army Post and among various other service members.
Maybe it’s a coast thing?
Several years in the Army and Bum Fuck Egypt phase was very common. But as one Captain learned, never use it when you have an Egyptian lieutenant colonel in your class.
It’s so strange to see a ‘villain’ who enjoys administration. Read GRUNTS by Mary Gentle to see to horrors a conqueror faces after he wins.
I bet the Evil League of Evil totally rejected Deus’ application.
That Bad horse is a real stickler for doing REALLY evil things.
Speaking of colloquialisms, what does “AFAIK” mean?
(this is called a JOKE, so don’t answer me)
I’m not sure what ‘JOKE’ stands for… ‘Just OK Expansion’, maybe? Anyway, ‘AFAIK’ stands for ‘As Far As I Know’ — at least, as far as I know.
BFE stands for “bum-fuck east,” I believe.
I always heard it as “BFN” as in “Bum Fuck Nowhere”
Timbuktu also has the same connotations.
I’ve always favoured “Arse End of the Universe” for this sort of description.
which is ironic, cuz at one time in history Timbuktu had a thriving empire
Yes, in the middle of nowhere that still required a caravan to reach from the coast
All I know is that it’s a pain in the ass to get there.
I really don’t like Deus. Thus, I am forced to say that an extended storyline where the author praises everything Deus does and makes the universe itself align for him perfectly is kind of losing me. :\
IMHO Deus is clearly a super. The muscles are just the most recent sign.
At first I thought he had an information gathering power, and has used it to gather in other supers that also have information abilities.
Now I’m wondering if it’s broader than that. Enhanced Charisma and Information Gathering… “Makes the Right move”? I get the feeling if he knows he’s going to lose (and he has some way of foreseeing that), he doesn’t show up.
He’s certainly showcasing how hard it would be to deal with someone who doesn’t put on a costume and do dumb things.
imo that would make a lot of sence, combining it with the whole “doesnt have body hair” that someone else pointed out a few pages ago and you have the makings of a trully formidable foe
Careful about saying that around these parts: Pander is at least polite when it comes to ‘not seeing the glory {hole}’ that is SmugD, others? not so much
I’m sure Random Wanderer will eventually come around to the right opinion instead of his current wrong one, just as you will, G. :) The awesomeness which Deus brings to the comic cannot be ignored or misunderstood forever.
All praise Deus, amen.
I have to admit I like the part where we’re really not sure what his power even is. Information gathering? Charisma? Empathy?
He seems awfully informed about aliens and magic, could he be another eldritch abomination who is playing the long game and disguising himself as a super (and “good” for that matter)? With his bodyguard being that, it’s in play as an option.
I still suspect it’s time shenanigans, if anything.
I don’t think he is a super, esper, psyker, psion, channeler, gate, focal, or magic user of any kind… or anything that even a beginning level magic user like Gwen would be able to find out about.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-80-she-used-this-spell-to-scan-a-hotdog-once-once/
(panel 6)
And I don’t think he’s doing anything that Dabbler would be able to scan for either.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-102-dabblers-gunnin-for-kp/
(panels 8, 9, and 10)
It would either have to be:
1) Some sort of tech that’s beyond even Dabbler’s capability to scan
2) Something time-travel-related that wouldnt have any sort of reading possible (ie, David Xanatos-like or Layla from X-Factor Investigations-like)
3) He’s just naturally blessed by a higher power somehow
4) He’s Batman-like. And money and intelligence is just the best superpower, period.
Random Wanderer:
I don’t like him much either and I’m looking forward to his inevitable fall which I’m sure is coming.
OOF. These last couple comics have pretty unfortunate timing, considering what’s going on in the world right this second. There’s a lot of parallels that can be made between Deus’s justifications and Putin’s justifications.
Has anyone notice the bra color of the Alari Secretary changed all of a sudden in the last few panels also shes a lot more docile than before but still eager to persuade others to join.
Jessen! Are you staring at boobies again? … Good on ya, so am I.
In addition to having ass-sculpting technology, the Alari are masters of bra-color changing technology. All this and more can be yours and is possible if you pledge to House Deus.
Maybe it’s a Mood Bra
As one Wanderer to another… I’m fairly sure no one likes Deus (certainly not as much as Deus likes Deus).
But… grabbing power and building an economic and military infrastructure in Africa… is QUITE a brilliant stroke – IF he can pull it off. Virtually no nation there is a signatory to any treaty which will automatically pull in the major nations. In fact, few nations there can even be termed to be in a sphere of influence (though China owns quite a few mines there).
And money (prosperity, comfort, personal security, livelihood – whatever you want to call it) is the biggest lever there is… Archimedes lever moves the Moon – money moves the Earth.
Invading Mozambique was probably an error though, it has many ties.
From the wiki:
Mozambique is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Southern African Development Community, and is an observer at La Francophonie.
Invading a Muslim nation with Demonic forces no less. None of the various Arab states are any real threat to Deus militarily, but congratulations on jumping to the top of every Arab terrorist’s Most Hated list! Also, the Arab states, having oil, do have serious connections to major powers (if no actual Mutual Defense Treaties). Yeah, if this universe was even adjacent to our universe, Deus just ended his reign before it even began. I don’t expect that to actually be the case, and I won’t be terribly upset when it isn’t (other than my general ennui with everything involving Deus, least interesting villain in the comic). We are kinda Galaxy Braining real world implications that probably wouldn’t even occur to most readers, so I won’t be mad when Dave doesn’t payoff my imaginary Hezbollah retaliatory strikes.
“but congratulations on jumping to the top of every Arab terrorist’s Most Hated list!”
You realize you’re just making him look even better in everyone’s eyes by putting him at the top of that list, right? :)
“Also, the Arab states, having oil, do have serious connections to major powers”
If only Deus had access to better fuel sources than oil, or alternate oil sources.
Oh wait, he does. Also he probably has more pull than the Arab oil-producing nations would like to admit, which can hurt them a LOT more than they can hurt him.
“Deus just ended his reign before it even began.”
Yes because it’s well known that Alari require oil for their ships. No wait. They don’t. :)
Galytn under Deus seems to be quite ‘green’ actually. I wouldnt be surprised if he was using alternative power sources that are somehow better than oil. Much, much better. Deus doesnt seem like the type that would miss a flaw like that in his plans.
“(other than my general ennui with everything involving Deus, least interesting villain in the comic)”
I agree that he’s not an interesting villain. Because he’s not a villain. :) But he’s incredibly interesting.
I do think the most interesting VILLAIN is Sciona.
“Mozambique is a member of the United Nations,”
While Mozambique is a member of the UN, it has no actual power within the UN, and no real responsibilities. It’s basically a failed state.
“the African Union,”
The African Union is likewise rather meaningless and toothless. At least until Deus remakes it as an actually formidable economic force.
“the Commonwealth of Nations,”
The only thing the Commonwealth of Nations have in common is they all used to be former British territories. The organization essentially does nothing, and its decisions are non-binding upon its members, many of which are failed states in the first place.
“the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation,”
Outside of the middle east, this is again a largely toothless organization as a group, even if certain members are significant.
“the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Southern African Development Community, and is an observer at La Francophonie.”
Again mostly toothless and useless organizations to which Mozambique contributes basically nothing anyway.
Most of these organizations don’t exactly have mutual defense treaties with each other, for example. It’s not like an African version of NATO (and even NATO has been shown to be pretty toothless recently).
If Mozambique had an Amazon Prime membership, that might be more useful than membership in those other groups. :)
“It’s basically a failed state”
I disagree, Mozambique may have had to start from a pretty sorry state in the mid 90s, but they have done well in 25 years. They are anything other than a failure.
You apparently dont like wiki so I’ll link the CIA Worldbook
That has a fair bit of information about the current situation in Mozambique (in broad strokes anyhow)
They do a pretty good job but do miss a couple of things. Like how Mozambique has been legislating and enforcing anti-corruption legislation. That most of the 1.7 million displaced refugees had returned by 1995.
That some portuguese are moving to Mozambique from Portugal for a better economic future. That there is a lot of infrastructure improvements undeway in Mozambique, roads, rail, air and ports.
Mozambique has taken some hard knocks ever since independence in 1975. Civil War, corruption, HIV, floods, ISIS-Mozambique, Covid, but they are one of the success stories in Africa. Yes, a long way to go but getting there step by step.
As for Mozambiques international ties being of no use, the SADC, the EU, Rwanda and the US have been supplying military aid and troops (3000) to help combat ISIS. Mozambique has lots of friends who will stand with them in a crisis.
There are also a lot of foreign investments from countries like Brazil, South Africa, the UK and Scandinavian countries in Mozambique that they would be loathe to lose to foreign interference.
“I disagree, Mozambique may have had to start from a pretty sorry state in the mid 90s, but they have done well in 25 years. They are anything other than a failure.”
I appreciate your post, but in what way ISNT it a failed state? It’s pretty much a poster child for the concept of a ‘failed state.’
Its democracy is a sham. It’s energy riches are completely unused because of corruption and ineptness.
As far as corruption goes, it is one of the most corrupt governments on the planet, and has been since around 1975.
There is no free press.
The legislature and judiciary are not even slightly independent.
There is no strong civil society sector.
The per capita GDP is less than 1% of the United States, although admittedly some of this is because of companies like ExxonMobil and corrupt aid organizations like the UN Development Program.
When the Portruguese colonial authorities left the area, without doing ANYTHING to imp[rove the education of the local population, including giving even the rudimentary concepts of self-government, the Mozambique Liberation Front (aka Frelimo) which is a Marxist-Leninist guerilla group that fought for independence from Portugal had NO idea what to do.
The elections have been stated by both the UN and the EU as some of the most corrupt elections on the planet, chock full of ballot box stuffing, organized multiple voting, intentional invalidation of votes for the opposition, alteration of polling station results, and turnouts of FAR greater than 100% of the population.
I appreciate you not using a wiki as your source (big plus on your behalf in your post), but:
Transparency.org goes into detail about all the problems in Mozambique, ranking 147 out of 180 on the corruption index, with a pretty pathetic score of 26/100.
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/mozambique
You might also want to check out the GAN Mozambique Corruption Report, which details all the different problems of corruption that is RIFE within the government, police, and civil society in Mozambique.
https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/mozambique/
I also dont see the improvements to infrastructure that you mentioned in most of the nation. Remember, the GDP of the entire nation of Mozambique is only a little less than $14 billion. The average gross national income is about $480 a year. This is EXTREME poverty for the overwhelming majority of the nation. It’s scores on economic freedom is in the bottom percentage in sub-Saharan Africa alone, (32 out of 47 nations), and the GDP has only LOWERED since 2020. It’s literally one of the poorest nations on the planet.
Also, in addition to its GDP being under $14 billion…. it has a national debt of almost $20 billion. It is officially underwater financially.
It’s not perfect but it is improving, THAT is why it is not a failed state.
From the wiki, just to annoy you:
The World Bank in 2007 talked of Mozambique’s ‘blistering pace of economic growth’. A joint donor-government study in early 2007 said ‘Mozambique is generally considered an aid success story.’
“There is no free press.”
Mozambique had a PFI (Press Freedom Index) of 31.05 in 2017 (0 to 100, high bad). US 23.88, UK 22.26, Israel 31.01, Kuwait 33.61, Phillipines 41.08.
Not perfect again, but no North Korea 84.98 Here’s the link, Press Freedom Index
Yes corruption is definitely problem in Mozambique, as it is everywhere else. They are making beginnings on the problem in both the public and the private sectors trying to root out the entrenched tumour.
From a private firm Whatana Investments
Goverment Legislation, Boletim da Republica. You read portuguese dont you? OK here’s an english version Mozambique Corruption Legislation
I did read your links and I was especially taken by:
Former Tennessee Judge Casey Moreland is facing five felony counts in relation to trying to bribe and frame a woman who alleges he offered judicial favors in exchange for sex (Tennessean, Apr. 2017). Moreland is also accused of trying to bribe the woman with USD 6,000 in cash in exchange for her signing a statement that she never received special treatment (Tennessean, Aug. 2017). The case was still pending at the time of review.
Oh, I’m sorry, that’s from the US report. I read that one too.
“The per capita GDP is less than 1% of the United States”
1.99% actually, i.e. 2%, if you can lowball I can highball. FWIW Monaccos GDP per capita is twice the US, I guess that makes the US a failed state. boo hoo
Here’s another wiki for you:
In 2008, the Mozambique transportation minister, Paulo Zucula, stated that the government is planning on modernizing the Beira and more northern Nacala ports for an estimated cost of $900m; $500m and 400m respectively. The government has also stated that it plans on modernizing surrounding railway and highway infrastructure so that the port is better connected to the nation’s mines.
You obviously didn’t bother looking at the CIA stuff
Real GDP (PPP) in 2017$ for 2020 est $38.42 billion, slightly down but yeah 2020
Real GDP per capita in 2017$ for 2020 est $1200, slightly down but yeah 2020
Public Debt 102.1% of GDP 2017 est, yeah that’s not 20 billion and it’s DOWN 20% from 2016.
Still a lot, but they’re working on it.
Awaiting moderation, doh
Oh just a little hint to avoid moderation.
Always keep to 3 links or less.
If you’re going to do more, probably best to do one post unless you’re pointing to something in the comic in which case you can just say ‘Comic #whatever’.
Bum Fuck Egypt around here
AKA “Ass End of Nowhere”
Maybe its been asked and I missed it but what is Sydney playing with in panel 1?
It’s a petit-four from the plate in Deus’ hand. She’s tossing it becuse she forgot to pick up a toothpick… And it’s a tad greasy, and she doesn’t have a paper napkin, and… When did she last take her meds?
I am sure other people have said this but I get serious David Xanatos vibes from Deus.
As I understand, he was one of the inspirations.
I do too. At least post-heel-turn David Xanatos at the second half of Season 2 and into Season 3.
If we’re allowing time-travel shenanigans, Xanatos is probably an imitation of Deus. I’m surprised you haven’t picked up on it before. ;)
I -did- pick up on it. In fact, I’ve mentioned the Phoenix’s Gate episodes of Disney’s Gargoyles before and how David Xanatos used time travel to be a ‘self-made billionaire.’ Literally. His information was entirely gleaned from himself. Just…. himself from the future/present to himself in the past.
But it would be Deus being an imitation of Xanatos, since Disney’s Gargoyles came before Grrlpower. Disney’s Gargoyles came out in 1994. Grrlpower didn’t start until 2010.
But I don’t think Deus is an imitation of Xanatos. I just think IF David Xanatos was involved in the creation process, Deus was INFLUENCED by characters like David Xanatos. And since David Xanatos is one of the best-written, most three-dimensional, trope-savvy antagonists/deuteragonists in animated history as far as I’m concerned, it’s a very good character to be influenced by.
Right, which I find to be a compelling argument and quite viable theory. I was implying (facetiously) that Deus’s powers to travel beyond time and dimensions have allowed him to visit our IRL world in the past, and that Xanatos is the Gargoyles writers’ tribute to his glorious escapades.
haha. That’s funny.
Although I was thinking something simpler, like ‘at some time in the future, Deus figured/figures/will figure out how to send messages to the past, to himself, so that he can know all the things he knows and how to do things with such confidence that it will work out. Occasionally he misses sending certain information, but the general framework and key points are solid.
Just for the sake of clarity, “heel-turn” means turning evil. Xanatos was evil for all of the series up UNTIL the later parts of season 2. Then he underwent what would be known as a “face-turn,” meaning he turned good…ish.
Also, I liked Xanatos a lot more than I like Deus.
Also, there was no season 3 of Gargoyles. Period. Pay no attention to any reports that claim otherwise. Even the series’ creators have declared anything purporting to be season 3 is non-canon.
1) My bad on saying heel-turn instead of face-turn. While Xanatos was never outright EVIL, he went from ‘leaning to evil’ to being ‘leaning to good’ after the City of Stone 4 parter, and was ‘outright good’ by the time they had the fight against Oberon when he and the Gargoyles allied. Good catch. I apologize for the mistake.
2) When I say ‘season 3’ I don’t really mean that crap with Quarrymen (lame copies of the Hunters) of the last 13 episodes. I mean the second half of season 2, which was actually two seasons combined into one REALLY LONG SEASON. Season 1 was 13 episodes. Season 2 was 52 episodes. Because it was not meant to be just ONE season. It was meant to be two or three seasons. Then the non-canon season 3 was the Goliath Chronicles, which was 13 episodes and not written by or animated by the same people who did seasons 1 and 2. Again, my apologies for the confusion
Xanatos got a lot more screen time, and thus had more opportunities to develop as a character. He wasn’t nearly as smug, and suffered a lot more setbacks and losses that he handled very graciously.
He was also voiced by Johnathan Frakes.
“He wasn’t nearly as smug”
Oh Xanatos was plenty smug. But he deserved to be and could usually back up his well-deserved smugness. :)
“He was also voiced by Johnathan Frakes.”
A LOT of the cast of Star Trek were voice actors on Disney’s Gargoyles.
Michael Dorn (Cold Stone)
Jonathan Frakes (Xanatos)
Brent Spiner (Puck)
Marina Sirtis (Demona)
Colm Meaney (Dugan)
Kate Mulgrew (Titania/Anastasia Renard)
Salli Richardson (Eliza Maza)
Robert Ito (Dr. Sato)
Nichelle Nichols (Diane Maza)
Clancy Brown (Wolf. Also Hakon)
Matt Frewer (Jackal)
Clyde Kusatsu (Kai)
W. Morgan Sheppard (Odin. Plus a lot of miscellaneous other voices)
David Warner (the Archmage)
Frank Welker (most of the animal characters, including Bronx)
Paul Winfield (Jeffrey Robbins)
James Avery Sr (The Shaman)
Diedrich Bader (Charles Canmore)
Avery Brooks (Nokkar – the Easter Island Head guy)
LeVar Burton (Ananasi – the spider god)
Also John Rhys-Davies, who voiced MacBeth (and a few other characters), got the role mainly because Kate Mulgrew was a friend of his and asked him. John Rhys-Davies is a big name actor but also had a guest spot as Leonardo Da Vinci in Voyager
I didn’t know that. That’s neat. I’m not really great at recognizing voices. Or faces. But I watched a lot of Star Trek, particularly Next Generation, as a child, so I would think I would have recognized more of them.
Well… Deus already has answered a lot of the ‘hard questions’ that people would ask. He makes it clear that “Yes, I have intentions to control the entire world. No, I am not going to resort to nuclear weapons, Q-36 SM’s, etc. to do that! I will resort to ‘conventional’ war if I have to but I’d much rather work with you than have to fight you!”
Truth of the real world is that if the United States went with that policy, we could have taken over most of the world by now.
i dont know how to tell you this buddy
lol :)
> the plans are public. He attributes this to 95% of supervillains having deep seated narcissistic personality disorder. That is, they care more about notoriety than results.
In most cases, that’s not because of them being narcissistic.
Proper supervillains are like Founding Fathers or Lenin – while what they do is against the law and established status quo, they have significant sympathisers/minorities that support them and their goals, and that popular support is what is necessary for their plans to bear fruit.
Take, say, Magneto – he is able to be such a big threat because he has so many followers among the mutants that don’t mind his extreme approach. If he was less public, he wouldn’t have that support – and wouldn’t have most of his flunkies.
“Proper supervillains are like Founding Fathers or Lenin”
… how are the Founding Fathers supervillains? I read your post several times and have no idea on your reasoning.
SHshshshhshsh… Just leave them be. They’re happy. Like the Lotus-Eaters, they’ll just faaaaade awaaaaay.
From the British POV they are supervillains.
From the British POV they are absolutely Supervillains – stole massive territories, rised armies of flunkies to defeat rightful government and established themselves as their rulers.
I’m assuming you mean past tense since Britain and the US are not enemies and havent been for a while now, and the British havent seen the Founding Fathers as villains for a while either.
And… yeah well…. from Lex Luthor’s POV Superman’s the villain so I don’t take much stock in that. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZCNDwKgi7o
Actually, King George III viewed Washington as one of the greatest men to ever live after Washington voluntarily left virtually unlimited power behind after only 2 terms in office btw.
So… hardly what one would think of as a supervillain.
It didn’t hurt that the American Revolution cost France (Louis XVI) two arms and a leg to wage the proxy war. George and Parliament figured — in the long term — France had done them a favour.
Everyone knows Detroit is Millennium City.
That line about being treasurer made me laugh out loud.
What I am still not over is how he vanquished a souvereign nation 1.2x the size of Ukraine, with actual DEMONS and the world as his witness. And then ArcSwat comes over and gets a little demo tour through the facilities, and might leave afterward with a grim face and a handshake.
Deus is already so drunk on his power that a guy like Putin with his golden palace looks like a modest buddhist hermit monk in comparison… and ArcSwat is letting him go? If they let him go because Maxima can’t match his forces, she can as well sign up with his forces right now instead to wait for the official US capitulation.
The guy has created a colonialist superpower in what, three months? Six? If he’s lazy, his world takeover will happen in less than five years, given his huge industrial advantage over the US. Ten years if he’s effectively immediately excluded from any further deals in the Western world.
Well, maybe he’ll have trouble raising enough loyal lieutenants to conduct his business, but I don’t think this will be a concern in the comic.
The only thing that would prevent him from taking over the world, is shifting the world economy to a war footing right there, scramble to get all the alien tech from outside and start outproducing him.
I don’t suppose Halo has a brilliant strategy in mind that can convince Deus to abandon his New World Order dream.
It’s taken him about a decade, according to his interview and the news. Regardless, why should ArcSwat attempt to stop him? What justification do they have? If he made an actual military threat against the U.S.A., sure. But an economic takeover? I doubt any country in the world is really prepared to fight that.
I am from the USA and this is the first time I have ever seen the abriviation or term BFE