Worm WORM/Parahumans: Explaining, Discussing, Complaining. Lets do one or another!

[Agent23]

It's written by someone who thinks he's far cleverer than he actually is; it's meant to be a deconstruction of the superhero genre and does have some fairly good concepts (hence its enormous popularity as a basis for fanfiction), but itself falls apart on examination because there's enormous plot holes in the setting itself.

Yes, as I said, retarded

 

[ShadowArxxy]

This is false. It was a resounding success.

> Authorities organized. Swept through boston. Arrested ALL supervillains with overwhelming force. Put them in super prison you CANNOT escape from ever.
> Supers from other cities had a gang war over the now "free" territory". And now boston has more super criminals than before.
> Lesson learned! Never again will authorities arrest the gangs. any time someone asks in universe why they are told about the lessons of boston.

Except... this is utterly and completely retarded.
Because the numbers of villains in the USA WENT DOWN. meaning it was a stunning success.

Yep. The "nice" thing about how BS Cauldron is is you can put things like this down to Cauldron fuckery; that's exactly why I'm such a fan of the idea that Cauldron actively wants to bring about parahuman feudalism for their own benefit, and are simply lying when they say they believe it's naturally inevitable. Because it's far, far more consistent with their idiot ball influence on the world than their supposed "actual" goals.

Nothing terrifies Cauldron more than the actual rule of law.