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Reminds me of that news story making the rounds right now where the family dog died shielding its child owner from a fire but the little girl is still in critical condition with severe burns.
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I half expected that to end with a smoke alarm advertisement.
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Infinitum posted:"And how will you be paying for all these alarms sir?" Luckily the hardware store owner, being Not An Idiot, has insurance that covers superhero-related damages - as basically every insurance policy in a comicbook universe must allow.
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"In back?" Wally West confirmed for secret British.
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Lurdiak posted:"In back?" ...no. That's a VERY American phrasing. I can't think of a part of the UK where you'd phrase it like that. Maybe "in t' back" in Yorkshire or something.
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He looks a little different in live action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8vXbsvxWCc
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Gaz-L posted:...no. That's a VERY American phrasing. I can't think of a part of the UK where you'd phrase it like that. Maybe "in t' back" in Yorkshire or something. We say in "the" back. You guys say "in hospital". Checkmate.
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Infinitum posted:"And how will you be paying for all these alarms sir?" I think at the time Wally West was literally rich but I may be misremembering.
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ImpAtom posted:I think at the time Wally West was literally rich but I may be misremembering. Probably got that money from a get rich quick scheme.
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ImpAtom posted:I think at the time Wally West was literally rich but I may be misremembering. Easy to be rich if you're allowed to empty entire stores of their merchandise without paying.
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Gavok posted:Probably got that money from a get rich quick scheme. 
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Guys, come on, isn't it obvious? Flash credit card.
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Boogaleeboo posted:It also had a bit where she died and they brought her back to life and she had severe PTSD and all her retarded friends thought she must have been in some insane hell dimension or something, but no it's just that they took her out of heaven where everything was perfect and she felt loved and at peace and put her back in this lovely world. Like nobody even considered that a generally decent person that gave her life helping others would end up there, or maybe they just thought the world was so poo poo that there wasn't a heaven to begin with. Rhyno posted:They assumed she went to one of the hell dimensions Glory opened in the S5 finale which was that unreasonable. Especially since she died while literally falling through an opening portal to one of the dimensions in order to seal it. And the last time someone in their group was sacrificed in order to close a portal to a hell dimension, they ended up trapped in that hell dimension.
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Idran posted:Especially since she died while literally falling through an opening portal to one of the dimensions in order to seal it. That was slightly different, as he was also the one who opened said portal.
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Gaz-L posted:That was slightly different, as he was also the one who opened said portal. Fair enough, but even with that I think it's a pretty natural assumption. Especially with the first point. 
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ImpAtom posted:I think at the time Wally West was literally rich but I may be misremembering. That issue is from the time period where Wally was working as a mechanic for the police and hadn't been rich for years.
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Gavok posted:Probably got that money from a get rich quick scheme. I also don't understand why he couldn't just reboot and wipe his flash memory.
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The JL has a billion dollar space base, they probably have an expense account.
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I love how the card says that it's good Forever. The bank of Batman, too big to fail.
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Rhyno posted:The JL has a billion dollar space base, they probably have an expense account. That's probably why the turned up. Someone was going through the statements and noticed there were thousands of dollars charged charged to hardware stores minutes apart.
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I'm suddenly picturing them all turning up to glower Very Disapprovingly at Plastic Man for charging hundreds of bucks to the expense account for Pay Per View porn or for shopping at Spencers or something equally inappropriate.
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Ashcans posted:That's probably why the turned up. Someone was going through the statements and noticed there were thousands of dollars charged charged to hardware stores minutes apart. "We're very disappointed, Wally. Only 14% of those fire safety products were Wayne-tech. It's like you weren't even trying."
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Infinitum posted:So anyway. This got posted on Imgur earlier, and imma crosspost it here because it's real good Reminds me of the arc from Waid's early-'90s run where Wally is evacuating people from a mall that's been smashed and set on fire by a supervillain. He pauses for a moment and asks a firefighter, is anyone left in there? Firefighter: "No, I think you got everyone out!" Wally: "Okay, then I won't search," and he runs off to do other hero stuff. Six months later, Wally finds out he's being sued. Because there was one person left alive and trapped in the flaming wreckage, and she was close enough to hear him say "Okay, then I won't search," and now she's crippled and hideously scarred. Eventually there's a scene where Wally's lawyer is tearing into him on the witness stand, and asking him, well, come on, how did you deal with this in the past? You've been a superhero before, what happened in previous cases where you had to choose between who to save? and Wally bursts into tears. "Don't you get it? I never had to choose before!"
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Y'know, it's not that any of those scenes are bad... but I'm also reminded of Ennis' issue of Hitman where Superman doesn't save the astronaut and well.... DC writers, I'm glad you understand the value in showing your heroes as fallible and limited, and mourning the civilian lives these limitations have cost them... but could we stop making it a loving virginity thing? Like yeah it has "extra" resonance if the "heroes of our youth" are suddenly shown to have tarnish after all.... except that drum has been thoroughly beaten and making every time they find a dead kid or fail to save someone the "very first time this has ever happened" looks less novel and more amateur. I don't even mean that from a grognard "I've been reading comics too long" perspective, I mean even the casual audiences by this point are very very used to the idea that superheroes aren't the Superfriends anymore. Find a new beat.
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Parahexavoctal posted:Six months later, Wally finds out he's being sued. Because there was one person left alive and trapped in the flaming wreckage, and she was close enough to hear him say "Okay, then I won't search," and now she's crippled and hideously scarred. Wait, she was close enough to hear the Flash and one of the firefighters having a conversation, but was somehow unable to make any kind of noise to let them know she was there? That seems odd.
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W.T. Fits posted:Wait, she was close enough to hear the Flash and one of the firefighters having a conversation, but was somehow unable to make any kind of noise to let them know she was there? That seems odd. She saw an opportunity to get a huge payday and took it.
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Lurdiak posted:She saw an opportunity to get a huge payday and took it. A true American.
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I'm kinda reminded of the Kingdom Come version of the Flash, which the novel explains better, that as an amalgam thing (created by the speed force, combining all the Flashes into one person) where he's so guilt stricken about people he hasn't saved that now he constantly patrols all of Central City constantly at top speed, and he cannot stop. Like, the slowest he would get would be to let a little girl register his friendly face when he rescues her cat from a tree.
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Choco1980 posted:Like, the slowest he would get would be to let a little girl register his friendly face when he rescues her cat from a tree. Unfortunately, that's not quite as comforting as he thinks it is. 
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W.T. Fits posted:Wait, she was close enough to hear the Flash and one of the firefighters having a conversation, but was somehow unable to make any kind of noise to let them know she was there? That seems odd. Less cynically, she was unconcious and only found out after the fact.
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Lurdiak posted:She saw an opportunity to get a huge payday and took it. that's what Wally thought until he saw that she was a horribly scarred amputee. http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Flash_Vol_2_89 (also her lawyer was working with Abra Kadabra)
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You'd think out of the league, Martian Manhunter wouldn't be giving Flash the stink eye for buying fire alarms, of all things.
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"I had just opened a bag of Oreos. This had better be important."
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*huff puff* "Okay we're all here, lets pose angrily..." "We just missed him by 5 seconds, he's 4 states over now." "Goddammit"
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I like how they're all floating, just for the sake of it
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Choco1980 posted:I'm kinda reminded of the Kingdom Come version of the Flash, which the novel explains better, that as an amalgam thing (created by the speed force, combining all the Flashes into one person) where he's so guilt stricken about people he hasn't saved that now he constantly patrols all of Central City constantly at top speed, and he cannot stop. Like, the slowest he would get would be to let a little girl register his friendly face when he rescues her cat from a tree. This sounds super sad. Can someone post it?
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Infinitum posted:This sounds super sad. Can someone post it? Mate 
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Yeah, Flash in Kingdom Come is really overlooked in favor of the Trinity. He pushes himself constantly, if you think about it his city must be suffering terribly from complacency when he joins Supes' new league. But he's still awesome, being extradimensional enough to see into The Spectre's shade, and he's on pretty much every page of the big battle if you're looking. Unfortunately in Ross' version of things (not Waid's) his story only ends more tragic.
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