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** More concretely, he made contingency plans in one arc to take each member of the ''[[Justice League of America]]'' down should they go crazy. Of course, they [[Gone Horribly Wrong|fall into the wrong hands]], and work remarkably well on all the heroes. |
** More concretely, he made contingency plans in one arc to take each member of the ''[[Justice League of America]]'' down should they go crazy. Of course, they [[Gone Horribly Wrong|fall into the wrong hands]], and work remarkably well on all the heroes. |
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** Even those plans are sometimes criticized by readers. The plan against Flash, for example, relies on him vibrating through a special bullet, instead of just, y'know, moving out of the way. |
** Even those plans are sometimes criticized by readers. The plan against Flash, for example, relies on him vibrating through a special bullet, instead of just, y'know, moving out of the way. |
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*** Wasn't there an extra layer in that tactic, where firing the bullet ''looked'' like an attempt to get Flash to jink to the side and thus step on a pre-prepared trap when instead the bullet actually was the trap? |
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** In several stories, it's later expanded to note that every single one of the Justice League members have at least some vague plan to take out their team-members in case any one of them goes rogue. They vary in effectiveness, though. [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]]'s contingency plan shows one of his own moments of [[Popularity Power]] - his plan to defeat Batman was to create a jetpack, strap it to him, and shoot him as far away as possible to be sure. Despite certain obvious flaws, his plan ''worked''(even if it was entirely unnecessary for a guy that can casually exceed the speed of light and destroy planets without trying). |
** In several stories, it's later expanded to note that every single one of the Justice League members have at least some vague plan to take out their team-members in case any one of them goes rogue. They vary in effectiveness, though. [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]]'s contingency plan shows one of his own moments of [[Popularity Power]] - his plan to defeat Batman was to create a jetpack, strap it to him, and shoot him as far away as possible to be sure. Despite certain obvious flaws, his plan ''worked''(even if it was entirely unnecessary for a guy that can casually exceed the speed of light and destroy planets without trying). |
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** The entire issue is parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501182937/http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000745.html this] ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' strip. |
** The entire issue is parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501182937/http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000745.html this] ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' strip. |
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