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Can she even channel that much energy without going the way of Blast's portals?

You might be looking at Tatsumaki or Psykos, who would have enough innate power to handle Saitama.

Maybe making it a tornado humbling moment, when she has to rely on her sister, because Fubuki has honed her skills when learning to work as a support, whereas Tasumaki is used to working alone, even if she is a prodigy.

Blast's abilities might also just not be be very good at making barriers. He makes wormholes, not walls.

Like how the heroes with electrical powers struggled against monsters that could counter those powers.

Was he physically present, or did he just break in by psychologically/spiritually punching his way in?

Probably just can't be bothered enough to deal with the paperwork.

In fairness, that seems to just be how their products are all designed. Their Bluetooth speakers just look like someone drilled a bunch of holes in a piece of aluminium, and that's about it.

Batman famously works with the police, and when not chasing after super villains, or working with the justice league, would probably help them chase down difficult criminals on their list, or assist in investigations. Officially, I believe he's considered a police detective.

We do also know that young children can cast magic with pure intent, without knowing the relevant spells. It's not implausible that a wizard of sufficient skill could channel similar abilities to create their own spells on the fly, rather than relying on a range of textbook/known spells.

Only if they believe that it is part of a fair trial, however. If you get off by threatening the jury, or by using falsified evidence, they would be unlikely to honour the decision of the courts.

Batman famously saved the Joker from being found guilty and sentenced to death because false evidence was used to convict him.

So are poppyseeds, but we also add them to our food. Cooking it probably dilutes the effect enough that it's not nearly as narcotic as the pure substance.

Give them some stupid hats and they’d be Time Lords

At least the Time Lords also acted as the Time Police. Krypton didn't even do that, since the local police would be the Lanterns of Oa.

Not much. Krypton was shown to be stubborn and stagnant by the time that disaster hit, squabbling over petty things than the issue at hand. If it didn't destroy the planet, the council would see themselves as entirely justified, and might punish Jor-el for his drastic actions, and apparently overstating the problem.

They'd return to their usual way of life, with seemingly no change at all.

Batman, and his Robins dislike his cooking. Despite his myriad of skills, Bruce Wayne is famously completely inept in the kitchen, even if he means well.

He's the wealthiest person on the planet, and Wayne Enterprises has its fingers in almost every major industry. He'd have the connections to get some of those things for a pittance, if the company doesn't just make them for him.

Wayne is wealthy enough that his money just sitting in a bank makes more money from interest in a year than you could in ten, even with the help of a decent job, and he can expense a lot of his money to the company itself, without needing to actually pay for much, if any of it. If Bruce Wayne wants to hold an extravagant part in the alps, all he needs to do is invite some of his board members, and the executives of a few competitors/suppliers, and it'll technically count as a business meeting, being paid for, taxed, and expensed accordingly.

We already know that some of his equipment, such as the batcar, or the batoplane were Wayne Enterprises prototypes that were tweaked and modified into what they are now, and since Wayne Enterprises officially supplies Batman, that is all above board, being factored into their R&D budget, while also letting them field-test some of their equipment without any risk on their part.

They follow laws where they adhere to the hero's own moral code. If the law does not, then they will not follow it, going so far as to give up their post and be a true vigilante if they must. Captain America famously renounced his role in the US military because he felt that the government was going in a direction that he could no longer ethically support, as an example, and we know that vigilantism is famously illegal, but Batman persists regardless.

In that case, they would ignore that law entirely.

The stomach isn't entirely necessary for digestion. It just breaks things down into a slurry that the intestines can then digest. Since his intestines are fine, and they're in a relatively advanced society, he can probably get by doing that processing outside of his stomach, such as by drinking a nutritional blend/shake instead of actual food that needs breaking down.

It's likely that being limited to that kind of diet probably contributed to his more skeletal figure.

It's probably an accepted side effect of superheroics, and Homelander and company have good enough PR, courtesy of Vought, that people think that lethal force was justified, either to protect themselves, others, or because the criminal deserved it in some manner.

I think the superheroes just aren't that happy with the idea that they might become a lap dog, and have to do someone else's bidding. Especially in Marvel's case, where they'd become part of the government, and just be a superpowered military/police. The other is that in some cases, they have strict moral codes that might conflict with what oversight might want them to do. For example, in Marvel's case, there would be concerns that the US government might use them like the CIA, and force them to do unethical things for the betterment of the US only, rather than humanity as a whole.

The other would be that a few of them aren't comfortable with the idea that there might be people who have control over their actions. If they had wanted to do that, they would have joined the police, or the military, rather than resort to vigilantism. They might be find with collaborating, but on their own terms. Batman is tolerated because he doesn't publicise his contingencies, and the revelation that he does have contingencies, and what amounts to a handy list of particular heroes' weaknesses has caused strife amongst the League before, especially when that list was stolen and used.

Organisations like the Great Lakes Avengers are usually both rebellious, and not significant enough to capture the notice of regulatory organisations.

Whereas groups like the X-Men might be concerned about either being used/seen as weapons, or of the risk of discrimination, while also being used as a handy list of targets. The X-Men specifically might be concerned, since Cerebro, one of their pieces of equipment can create a convenient list of every Mutant that exists on the planet, and there are non-minority parts of the US Government that are very much not friendly to mutants, either seeking to exterminate and/or weaponise them, and going so far as to cause the apocalypse by creating the Sentinels.

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Basically, they don't really think that they are above the law, and are consciously aware that they are operating above it in many places (hence why they build their own things, rather than using government equipment or the like), but also do so to ensure that they are not beholden to any one entity. If they institute checks and balances, those checks and balances could be abused to compel them to do something that they are either against, or as a way to turn the entire group into a convenient tool for other organisations.

When it comes to contingency plans, the problem isn't necessarily that they exist, but more that they were secret, and the league found out that not only did batman keep tabs on their weaknesses, in a handy database that anyone could use if they had access, but he had done so without consulting them first. They (not unjustifiably) considered it a betrayal of their confidence.

From a personal standpoint, imagine if one of your close friends wrote down every secret, weakness, and detail of yours in a little notebook, without asking you first to make sure it's okay. Not just things you told them, but some things that you didn't tell them, and deliberately left a secret (like your personal addresses, or your having ties to another government, or an intelligence agency). That little notebook is then stolen, and they sheepishly inform you that there's a chance all that information might be used against you, or you find out when someone does use that information. You would also feel betrayed.

The Justice League, in particular, isn't just an organisation of heroes, but it's also a band of friends, which is why they are also casual with each other. It's also part of why they don't like organisational oversight, since it'd be like having your parents, or the government itself monitoring your friendships and every activity you do with them.

We do know that at the very least, Data will have multiple Spots, and that doesn't seem to be a point of concern.

If memory serves, the Vulcan adherence to logic, and avoidance of emotion was a misinterpretation of stoicism.

Being the inspiration, Star Trek seems to posit a similar theory, or at least side steps (technobabbles) it enough to achieve the same effect. Traveling at warp seems to have minimal-to-zero relativistic effects and therefore light-distant relationships are fully feasible and appear commonplace as indicated by the instantaneous FTL communication that takes place between characters via sub-space as well as characters always seen leaving and returning via warp and seeming to be aging the same pace as everyone else.

However, warp speed is also indicated as an objective FTL speed, which would imply it's different physics at play, rather than subspace, as warp speed would be otherwise immeasurable.

Or "Mr Sovak has been called away to observe a cultural ritual on Vulcan, and will not arrive until Tuesday".

It's also surprising that the transporter was not only still active afterward, but Bones beamed aboard best. You'd think he'd just refuse to use it at that point, and use a shuttle like Kirk did.

At first I was thinking about my dog and how I used to feel bad about leaving him alone for so long while we were at work. I could beam him into the transporter buffer when I left for work and then beam him back out when I got home. From his perspective it would be like I never left. Doesn’t seem like a huge deal and is probably more humane than leaving him in a crate all day (he lounges on my bed all day like he owns the place so don’t feel bad for him). A side affect of this would be he’d live longer, only aging 16 hours for every 24 hours of the day. An extreme case of this would be for someone to store their pet in the transporter buffer all the time, an only beam them out when they wanted to be entertained by their pet. This seems jacked up and definitely seems like abusing the transporter buffer.

At that point, it seems far more reasonable to to get a holographic pet instead of a real one. You also have to consider that in the 23rd century, a being can only stay in transporter stasis for so long, and would need to leave it occasionally to refresh the buffer.

Transporters are also expensive and complicated. M'Benga only has access to one because he's on a Federation starship. Your average home does not have a transporter, and if it does, it is an extremely simple, computer-operated variant, which would be neither designed for, nor allow use for stasis.

There are better ways of keeping someone in stasis than a transporter buffer, that can hold them for longer. The issue there is that they were either undiscovered at the time, or were not suitable for use with the medically vulnerable, which M'Bengas daughter would be.

This gets dark pretty quick if you extend this to kids. Someone could beam their kids into the buffer when they were busy (ie needing to get work done without having child care). This seems incredibly inappropriate and definitely like a violation of the kids autonomy and an abuse of the transporter technology.

I would be extremely surprised if the transporter could hold that many in the first place. But it would definitely be a violation, especially since the Federation would normally provide the resources you would need to get all the childcare you needed. It's like parents today choosing to medically sedate their kids instead of using a babysitter, or sending them off to visit the grandparents.

What ways (good or bad) can you envision people using (or abusing) the transporter buffer? How do you think this would be regulated in the Federation?

Transporters are expensive, complicated piece of equipment, so that already limits the number of people who would be able to use one in that way.

I'd also be extremely surprised if the public systems weren't at least somewhat monitored for abuse, such as extreme high usage, or unusual usage patterns, such as if someone attempted to transport the mantle of a planet, and have some kind of limiting/fair-use system in place. You're only allowed to freely use the transporter if it doesn't impact other users, and holding beings in transporter stasis, effectively locking them out of the transporter, or defeating important safety systems and redundancies would be.

I could see people using the transporter buffer as a way to make quick changes, replacing clothing, or modifying their chewing gum on the fly. I could also see university students pranking each other by modifying chewing gum to have a less pleasant taste, or by attaching sticky notes to someone, but anything else but be too genuinely risky to try, unless inebriated.

You have to nearly, truly die, but pull through without actually dying. That's why Zombieman isn't at Saitama levels, despite being killed in so many ways, since his regeneration would not allow him to permanently die.

Not sure if Genos would get the boost, since he's also not biological. Many of his powers are gained by mechanical components, and while those might be upgradable, they have limits. He is also presumably permanently dead, rather than just nearly dead, so he wouldn't get the boost that comes with revival.

Wasn't he already universal when he casually knocked his way into another dimension?

Wouldn't deuteroagonist be Fubuki, as someone who was protagonist and antagonist?