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We'll see how many realise that ACA and "Obamacare" are the same thing.

I'm guessing she used data on inhuman powers that SHIELD had gathered (or Hydra via Fitz's mad science experiments) to replicate the blind teleporter's powers, and probably others' as well.

That's my take on it as well.  She (I guess we can call her she now) doesn't seem the type to accept a downgrade just to be able to enjoy smelling the roses.  If you're techno-magically building a living body anyways why *not* improve on the original design specifications?

I've done something similar to this (a ghost that could possess corpses) and I also went the multiform route - with Limited Power: Requires a Corpse on the 'ghost' form's multiform. Something like 'requires appropriate object' in this case.

It was weird building the base ghost form with more body and stun than the possessed form but it was needed so that when the possessed corpse was destroyed the possessing spirit wasn't knocked out/killed too (since damage follows you between forms).

Different types of objects to possess could just be different multiform you purchase with experience - a 'possessed car' multiform has different powers than a possessed rifle which is different than a possessed clockwork suit of armor... etc.

In a 400 point game this effectively lowers your  cost from the 262 to 80 + 5 per doubling of number of forms and would be a prime candidate for lowering the cost further with limited/conditional power, extra time, costs end or even time limit.

Punching heroes are cheaper on the SFX budget than blasting heroes? 

DC Animated: Batman vs Robin

It was better than I thought it would be after 'Son of Batman' which was one of the weaker animated entries IMO.

Whew.  Almost went a season without losing a black guy. Had me worried there for a second, writers.  

At this point I think Fitz is officially closing in on Miles O'Brien from DS9 territory for main cast designated victim.  

Well, they put on screen what fans of the show have been saying for years.

Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War

It's from a prog rock album/play of War of the Worlds, and it is fantastic.

Accurate, though. Saw the aftermath of nearly the exact same thing in junior high - a guy took a swing at another guy in a fight.  The second guy ducked out of the way and the first guy put his entire arm through a window.  He even ended up with a few cuts on his head pulling himself back through what was left of the window reflexively. His arm was absolutely shredded  even through his jean jacket.

I didn't see the punch myself - which I can't complain about - but I heard it and by the time I'd gotten to the hall there were half a dozen guys with their t-shirts off and a pair of teachers applying pressure with everything they had.  The guys scars afterwards were insane.

The rules exist for hitting 'spikes' or something on a barrier (like mentioned just convert the damage you would take to killing at the normal rate)... that said: 

Glass is serious business.  More serious than its body/pd would indicate by the rules.  I wouldn't treat it as just a barrier, per se - I'd treat it like a trap or damage shield (1d6 killing attack, triggered via movement through the barrier).

Mike Oldfield - Hibernaculum

Talosian.  Their entire race depends on it.

Let's take it more mainstream (by our standards)...

Battle of the Arcane!

Doctor Fate vs Doctor Strange

Everyone. Everyone knew.  Especially the silent majority of Republicans who plugged their noses or threw up into the nearest garbage can after voting for him but just couldn't pass up a chance to control the House, Senate, and Presidency.  

Poor Canada, though - after all that anti-Mexico rhetoric and praise for Canada they're the ones that actually get hammered by something more substantial than 'we'll build a wall - someday'.  (Unfounded rant against daily, a softwood tariff, and threatening to tear up NAFTA).

If they bring anyone out of the Framework I hope it's Mac's daughter. 

That or have him stay in the Framework as director of SHIELD for a world rebelling against HYDRA without ever telling him the full truth.  Have them learn that thanks to the Darkhold interference it really IS another dimension, for all intents are purposes, and that they *can't* shut it down.

Give the poor man a break. 

(I do like the idea of Ward coming back  - a story of atonement for acts "he" didn't commit  - but let's face it: the 'can we really trust <team-mate>' story horse has been beaten to death, resuscitated, beaten to death again, resurrected as a zombie, thrown through a  meat grinder, and turned into glue by now.)

Just try and resist the temptation to make Whale Guy the actual avatar of the Eldest this entire time... who gives up on his plot for world destruction because scratch-ies are nice.

Buy the vehicles as automatons instead of vehicles, specify their way of having their orders changed is via mind link, buy mind link on the main AI?

The AI wouldn't be using its own skill to pilot the automatons - that's built into their build - it would just be acting as a master controller telling each one what to do on its turn.

Barry's a better tactician than Wally - he wouldn't *try* to hurt her.  He'd try to negate her advantages and turn her strengths against her - such as by stealing the lasso and wrapping her up in it thousands or millions of times (since it's infinitely long).

Agreed. She can just muscle through most of his classic containment tricks and is resilient enough to weather his more conventional attacks.

The Netflix shows have several advantages over the network ones - the biggest of which is probably 13 episodes a year.  Both Agents and Flash could definitely do with tighter story-lines and 13 episodes a year would do that.

Even at 13 episodes, though, all four series have stumbled - it's just the over all quality is good enough to mask it. Live actions superhero shows are just hard to do, it seems.

Baby Groot.  Hulk finds him too cute to stay angry at and forfeits the fight.

Battle of the Beaten Up to Prove How Tough Something Is

Worf (Star Trek) vs Teal'c (Stargate)

It was worth it, though, to see Valorous instantly become interesting with his own knee-jerk reaction.  Sorry, Val - your limited interactions with the protagonist hadn't done you a lot of favours so far.

The flipside, though, is that the bad guys in Luke Cage immediately set out to *find* a way to kill him.

That type of 'unstoppable except vs x' atttude was part of the reason that everyone and their dog  (literally) had access to Kryptonite in Smallville.  Need him to be beat up by a middle aged coach? Kryptonite amulet.  An assassin hunting metas? Kryptonite bullet.

Grodd is surprisingly well done and holds his own every time he shows up ... but he's appeared several times now and been defeated every time.  I think a large portion of the audience (who only watch the show) might feel dissappointed if Grodd was used, even secretly, as the season villain.  "Alright, we finally get to see who's in control of the bad guys! Oh... it's the monkey. Again."

Which really means it might as well be the final.  If she beat one Flash she can beat another.

Spider-Woman.  She's like Black Widow only with super powers.

Battle of the hidden threats!

HYRDA (Marvel) vs Cadmus (DC)

I'm just glad that we don't lose more rockets to space-time continuum breaches for surpassing Mach 3 during launch.