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Back when major news sites still had comment sections, any article about atheism almost always had at least one person asking "If you don't believe in God, what's stopping you from robbing, raping, and killing all the time?" Just because you're apparently a potential serial killer only kept in check by your fear of divine punishment, that doesn't mean everyone else also lacks the ability to form an internal moral code, even though believing that might make you feel better about yourself.

It reminds me of the Republican state legislatures that transferred powers from the Governor to themselves in the period between a Democrat being elected Governor and the Governor taking office.

The Red October BBS had a big selection of unique characters. The content of the site (and other material) is still available archived on Shelley Chrystal Mactyre's site.

It's illegal to make false statements to the House of Representatives, not in the House of Representatives. A complaint was also filed today asserting that the treasurer hired to handle his campaign funds, and legally required by the FEC, doesn't actually exist.

It also reminds me a little of Harness and Piecemeal from the various X-Book annuals back in 1991. A mysterious figure in powered armor was dragging an abused mutant child around the world, using his powers to absorb the remnants of Proteus' energy while verbally and physically abusing the child. Harness was eventually revealed to be Piecemeal's mother.

See also, for example, the times recently that a Republican state legislature has passed laws to strip power from their state's Governor and give it to themselves in the period between a Democrat getting elected Governor and taking office.

So was Trump in 2016. He won, but lost the Popular vote, so he insisted that millions of fraudulent votes had been cast for his opponent and he had actually won the Popular vote too.

This is likely to be our future now, thanks to Trump. A prominent Republican loses and they immediately start shouting fraud, demanding an investigation, filing lawsuits, etc.

Way back in the old "Gadgets" book from 1986 there was a Neutrino Beamer that only affected targets who had force fields, since the beam doesn't interact with physical matter. In that case, it was built as ALD (what it was called at the time) against Force Fields with the -1 Limitation that it only did damage against targets with Force Fields. Anyone without a Force Field was immune and someone with a Force Field could only apply that against the damage. Obviously that was multiple editions ago and the rules are different now, and I'm not sure how the concept could be applied to Life Support.

They didn't sufficiently embrace him and his policies. Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed.

She means underpopulated with the right sort of people.

I was going to mention this. One element is a female character being reduced to an object whose only purpose is to motivate a male character. Similar to BoloOfEarth's Genocide story, many years ago our GM sent us against the Seven Horsemen, from "Wrath of the Seven Horsemen". As written, Plague's signature attack was a Continuous Uncontrolled Cumulative Transform that caused a debilitating illness that imposed reduced CV and increased END costs for all powers and abilities. The GM decided to replace it with a Continuous Uncontrolled BODY Drain and almost immediately killed a long-running PC.

There was an old Adventurer's Club article that mentioned a team of villains that included a little old lady with a bunch of Invisible Drain and NND attacks based on her ability to mentally disrupt a target's biological processes. (The article was actually about the creative use of Presence attacks. When the heroes detected her and moved to stop her, she made a Presence attack on the crowd around her, convincing them that crazy heroes were about to attack a harmless senior citizen and they should protect her.)

Marvel is apparently publishing it themselves.

It was probably a retcon, but like I mentioned in my post, Enemies for Hire made them cousins.