Dr. MID-Nite

So we got our stimulus checks today....and...they're gone. They paid for exactly one of our monthly bills. Any attempt to make this seem like more than a bribe for votes seems hollow. My views haven't changed. I hear bribes are all the rage in the world of the 1% though.

The movie Scanners from 1981. Yeah...there's some complaints that Stephen Lack underplays his role, but as he was supposed to be playing a character with zero social skills I'd say he's basically spot on. Most people remember this film for the exploding head and other jaw dropping effects, but it's really got a lot more to offer. It really is a "people with powers" story. These characters aren't superheroes and most of the time...their powers are a negative. Others try to use these "metas" in real world ways. Patrick McGoohan and Michael Ironside are also excellent in this. The presentation of these powers was also done in clever and inventive ways. This was Cronenberg's biggest hit at the time in the States and this is what got him the director's chair for The Fly(I still think this film is superior). This film also boasts a powerful score by pre LOTR fame Howard Shore. Can't say enough good things about it. A favorite of mine for sure.

Get Smart (1965-1970). Brilliant satire of the super-spy genre, with Don Adams playing somewhere between James Bond and Jacques Clouseau; and Barbara Feldon as many a young man's fantasy girl.   Fans always looked forward to the recurring practical gags: the multiple doors and 'phone-booth elevator in the credits, the shoe 'phone, the Cone of Silence, Agent 44 hiding inside some inanimate object. And absolutely everyone in the mid-Sixties was using the show's catch phrases:
"Sorry about that, Chief."
"Would you believe...?"
"Missed it by That. Much."
"And... loving it!"
"This is KAOS! We don't ____ here!"
 
IMO none of the movies based on that property, with or without Don Adams, recaptured that magic.
 

Well...Spirit of 76 it is. Now to figure out how this hodge podge is going to work. lol
 

Well...Spirit of 76 it is. Now to figure out how this hodge podge is going to work. lol
 

I'll draft Madcap.

I'll draft Madcap.

I choose Sinestro!
 

Seeing my chosen location, I find myself obliged to draft Radioactive Man.

I think I will take....Plastic Man.

I'm taking....Foxbat!

I'm taking....Foxbat!

As long as you're at it, could you make it 2015?

Have the players figure out next crime the shapeshifter will do. Then have the Heroes show up [maybe with  a invited reporter]. And of course you have to have to have the "shoot him" / "no shoot him" scene.

Perhaps the original character has a bodily feature the shapeshifter doesn't know about or can't duplicate, even with his powers.  A birthmark--a tattoo--a scar--a missing or deformed toe--things like that.  Ask the hero and his duplicate to expose where the feature would be--the one who has it is the real hero.
 
Alternately, the hero could use it as a bluff.  "So--your left middle toe is missing, after all.  That's interesting--because my friend has all his toes intact!"
 
Hope that helps.

A confession from the villain?
The materials/equipment used by the impersonator seized?
 
Or...
He doesn't clear his name, and has to start over with a new Hero ID?

By confession I mean arrogant confession: "I totally fooled you all, so ready to believe your paragon had fallen, so quickly duped." Or the Wonder Woman rope trick would work too.

Considering America has more or less tossed aside the "workers" candidate in favor of the "status quo" one, they apparently like their current situation. "shrugs"

I stated it before, but I just can't get over this surge for "status quo" Biden. Bernie at least was a vote for change. At this point in my life, I'm totally sick of business as usual...and it looks like another fours years of that. I definitely have a better appreciation for how the French and Russians felt prior to their revolutions. Basically, all anyone cares about is getting rid of Trump...which means the power elite's plan has succeeded. We'll let all the BS from the last 4 decades slide just because Trump's clown show has been such a great distraction. I can't be the only one sick of the oligarchy, but it sure feels like it...

I take the support for Biden as a sign that America is fine with the status quo of the 1% running everything and not giving a damn about the country or its people as a whole. People constantly complain about it, but when given a chance for significant change, they run like scared rabbits and prove once again how lacking we are compared to other First World democracies. Bernie is unlikely to run again and thus we'll have lost the most significant proponent for true change in this country for a long time. We deserve whatever happens at this point.

I take the support for Biden as a sign that America is fine with the status quo of the 1% running everything and not giving a damn about the country or its people as a whole. People constantly complain about it, but when given a chance for significant change, they run like scared rabbits and prove once again how lacking we are compared to other First World democracies. Bernie is unlikely to run again and thus we'll have lost the most significant proponent for true change in this country for a long time. We deserve whatever happens at this point.

I take the support for Biden as a sign that America is fine with the status quo of the 1% running everything and not giving a damn about the country or its people as a whole. People constantly complain about it, but when given a chance for significant change, they run like scared rabbits and prove once again how lacking we are compared to other First World democracies. Bernie is unlikely to run again and thus we'll have lost the most significant proponent for true change in this country for a long time. We deserve whatever happens at this point.

I take the support for Biden as a sign that America is fine with the status quo of the 1% running everything and not giving a damn about the country or its people as a whole. People constantly complain about it, but when given a chance for significant change, they run like scared rabbits and prove once again how lacking we are compared to other First World democracies. Bernie is unlikely to run again and thus we'll have lost the most significant proponent for true change in this country for a long time. We deserve whatever happens at this point.

I take the support for Biden as a sign that America is fine with the status quo of the 1% running everything and not giving a damn about the country or its people as a whole. People constantly complain about it, but when given a chance for significant change, they run like scared rabbits and prove once again how lacking we are compared to other First World democracies. Bernie is unlikely to run again and thus we'll have lost the most significant proponent for true change in this country for a long time. We deserve whatever happens at this point.

I have to say pretty much over, as we all know if the other candidates have their say given their endorsements, they will go to Biden, if convention is brokered.  Sanders would pretty much have to pass the threshold on his own.