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Superman: Secret Origin (Comic Book)
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Superman: Secret Origin (2009-2010) was a six-issue retelling of Superman's origin as presented as canonical in the post-Infinite Crisis DCU written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Gary Frank. Much like the last origin retelling tale, Superman: Birthright, its only real differences are that Secret Origin fits in with the Johns run of Action Comics, the New Krypton storylines and Adventure Comics, and that it takes some cues from Smallville, though the miniseries notably reinstated Superman being the original Superboy in his youth when the previous two origin retellings went with Clark Kent not donning blue and red tights until adulthood.After being rendered non-canon by the events of the New 52, the DC Rebirth storyline Superman Reborn restored this story back to continuity. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Gary Frank's Superman is clearly based on Christopher Reeve, to the point of it being a reverse Ink-Suit Actor. The teenage Lex Luthor resembles a young John Glover, who played Lex's father on Smallville. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Lois has a less than desirable relationship with her father. While she honestly doesn't care if Sam approves of her career as a journalist, she still wishes he would back off and stop insisting he knows what's best for her. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: You should have a sense of the John's run of Superman stories to fully get all the injokes and such. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: Krypton, as always, gets blown up. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Suicide | |
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Bait-and-Switch Suicide: After a nasty moment with Luthor, Superman comes up to the Daily Planet roof and finds Jimmy Olsen standing on the edge, his head down. Supes flies toward him, shouting, "Don't jump!" — but then it turns out that Jimmy wasn't planning on jumping; he was just saying a final, depressed goodbye to Metropolis before his planned departure. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: Lana does this to Clark in issue 2 when she tries to start a relationship with him. | |
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I Own This Town | |
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I Own This Town: Luthor has a stranglehold over Metropolis and is so used to always getting his way and being venerated by the public that it really gets to him once Superman's arrival and Lois being emboldened towards holding him accountable change that. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Clark's high school clothes are similar to the ones he wore in the early years of Smallviille. The second issue includes modernizations of Adventure Comics stories The Legion of Super-Heroes! and The Super Dog From Krypton when Superboy meets both the Legionnaires and his Kryptonian dog. In issue 3, Superman saves Lois from a falling helicopter much as in the original movie. The LexCorp remote control exoskeleton from issue 3 is a spitting image of the modern battle armor. And it's made of Metallo, a synthetic metal made by LexCorp. In turn, this is likely a reference to Superman: The Animated Series, as that series opened up with Superman fighting Corben inside Lex branded power armor. That, in turn, was likely a shout out to the first Metallo, who was a guy in a power suit. Fractal mythology gags! Dr. Emmet Vale, the original creator of the super-villain Metallo briefly appears as the inventor of the "Metallo" alloy. Chloe Sullivan has a signature on Pete Ross' arm cast early in the first issue. Images of Zod, Ursa and Non, Brainiac's ship and Doomsday appear as holograms in issue 1. Luthor and Clark go to school together, and his father is named Lionel. Also the sometimes canon story of Luthor murdering his or one of his parents is present. The very different depictions of Kryptonian clothing in the Golden and Silver Age comics, in the Christopher Reeve movies, and in John Byrne's The Man of Steel are all referenced for this origin's version of Krypton. | |
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Self-Proclaimed Love Interest | |
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Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: John Corben wants to think he's Lois's boyfriend, instead coming across as a Stalker with a Crush. He keeps sending her flowers which she immediately throws out, doesn't understand why she does after reexplaining they only went out once, is contemptuous of her career and thinks he knows what's best for her, and grabs her when starts ignoring him. Thankfully, Lois (and Clark) refuse to accept any of his behavior. | |
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Eyes Never Lie | |
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Eyes Never Lie: Lois is able to tell the integrity of someone by looking into their eyes. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: Per usual, Luthor is depicted as a narcissistic prick who considers everyone not as intelligent as he is to be beneath him. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: General Lane wants Lois to give up her career and marry John Corben, but not because he cares about her marrying a good man, but because he sees Corben as the son he never had. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: Luthor inverts this in issues 4-6, as his actions have a hand in the origins of Superman's enemies Parasite and Metallo. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength: Clark at the very beginning of the story. Justified seeing that his powers are just beginning to emerge. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: The entirety of Metropolis stop being a bunch of Jerkasses when they see Superman save them and he tells them to try helping each other instead of fighting over Luthor's lottery. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: The Establishing Character Moment of Clark's arrival in Metropolis has him accidentally bump into a rude older woman who makes a confused, snide remark about his idealistic nature. By the end of the last issue, another new arrival to Metropolis bumps into the same woman, who is now far nicer and polite. This is an indicator about Superman's effect on Metropolis. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Issue 2. Most of Clark's friends have left him alone, except for Lana, but the Legion of Superheroes are Superman's new friends and Krypto arrives to be his companion. | |
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Dynamic Akimbo | |
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Dynamic Akimbo: When Superman lets Jimmy take a photo, he initially adopts a "hands-clasped-in-front-of-him" pose, but Jimmy suggests he put his hands on his hips instead, and that's the photo the Planet ends up running. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Clark, on discovering he's not from Earth. | |
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Clark Kent Outfit | |
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Clark Kent Outfit: Lois lampshades this as she analyzes Clark’s whole getup, from the bad suit, the oversized glasses and the seemingly modest and bumbling nature. She then flat out asks him, “You want to be underestimated, don’t you?� | |
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Adoption Angst | |
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Adoption Angst: Clark is horrified when he learns that he's an alien from another planet and flees into the fields above his parent's wishes. When Jonathan manages to catch up to him, Clark says he just want to be his son. The Kents assure him that he is their son. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Luthor is behind the the Daily Planet's near bankruptcy and attempts to follow through with it in the final issue when his ego is being crumbled. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Jimmy Olsen apparently carries more than one camera. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Rudy Jones is depicted as being overweight, manipulative and greedy. Even after becoming Parasite, he has a noticeably huge gut. | |
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Only Friend | |
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Only Friend: At least in a certain area. When he's leaving after his chat with Jimmy Olsen on the roof, Superman says it would be a shame if Jimmy left town because he'd lose the only friend he's made since coming to Metropolis. | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: Issue 3 takes place on Clark's first day in Metropolis after issue 2 ends with Clark still in school. | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: As in the Silver Age, Clark's glasses in this continuity come from his spaceship and absorb his heat vision. | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance: As far as continuity was concerned beforehand, Metallo and Parasite made their debuts sometime after the Crisis. Here, they came about during the early years of Superman's career, much like their Pre-Crisis counterparts.note Although the Pre-Crisis Parasite was Raymond Maxwell Jensen. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: In the first issue, Martha and Jonathan are much younger in the interior pages than the cover. Also Clark isn't so young looking. | |
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Almighty Janitor | |
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Almighty Janitor: Averted with Rudy Jones. | |
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Arms Dealer | |
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Arms Dealer: Luthor supplies the U.S. military (and General Lane) with weapons and scientific aid. | |
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Origins Episode | |
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Origins Episode: The miniseries served to establish Superman's origin as of the Post-Infinite Crisis canon, notably restoring Superman's experiences as the original Superboy in his youth to continuity as well as establishing new takes on his first encounters with Lex Luthor, Metallo and the Parasite. | |
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Attack Its Weak Point | |
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Attack Its Weak Point: This is how Superman manages to defeat Metallo. While Metallo is a Man of Kryptonite with the powers that can easily weaken or injure Superman, his kryptonite heart is also on open display and Superman takes advantage of this by flinging a sewer lid at Metallo, melting that sewer lid into hot molten liquid with his heat vision in mid-air, and once that molten metal hits Metallo, his kryptonite heart is covered up, allowing Superman to dispatch him soon after. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: Luthor, per usual. This story has him offer a "Luthor Lottery" were one lucky Metropolis citizen can get their dreams come true through Luthor's money. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Rudy Jones mutates into the Parasite as the result of eating a donut that had been contaminated by spilled chemical waste at LexCorp. After he had been shown to be a greedy and manipulative jackass, it's impossible to feel bad about his plight. John Corben more than earns his fate of having to become the cyborg Metallo to survive as well as his severe beating from Superman due to his lecherous and entitled behavior towards Lois Lane. By the end of the miniseries, Lex Luthor learns that everyone's stopped paying attention to him to instead praise and admire Superman, which he really has coming because of his efforts to punish every news outlet that doesn't speak of him favorably, his petty attempts at discrediting the Man of Steel and convincing everyone that he isn't to be trusted and generally being a narcissistic dirtbag and bully prone to forcing people into letting him have his way and whose humanitarian act is completely insincere. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: To all the post-time skip bad guys. | |
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Patricide | |
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Patricide: It is heavily implied that Luthor killed his own father. | |
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Beware the Superman | |
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Beware the Superman: Luthor tries to pull this in the later two issues. | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Stay in the Kitchen: Sam Lane and John Corben both try to invoke this trope with Lois, being dismissive of her career and insisting it's in her "best wishes" to marry Corben, have kids, and settle down as an army wife. Lois is not appreciative that they won't take a hint. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted and subverted. The "Luthor Lottery" as people of Metropolis call it, is where Luthor uses his wealth to change the lives of one lucky person a day. Subverted when It's revealed that Luthor uses it to bribe his way from the authorities and turn Rudy Jones into Parasite solely to fight Superman. It's also pretty clear that the main reason Luthor does it isn't to make a difference in the lives of the people he picks, but because he clearly gets off on being worshipped and adored like some benevolent deity come to Earth to distribute blessings to the masses. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Lois Lane's father General Lane and Lex Luthor's father Lionel Luthor. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Rudy, eat a donut that just fell into a strange bio chemical. You're lucky you only got mutated horribly from doing that. | |
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Ink-Suit Actor | |
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Gary Frank's Superman is clearly based on Christopher Reeve, to the point of it being a reverse Ink-Suit Actor. | |
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So Proud of You | |
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So Proud of You: Jimmy laments to Superman of his "Well Done, Son" Guy status with his family, and how they didn't expect much of him when he left for Metropolis. This causes Superman to remember when he left Smallville and the exchange he had with his parents. | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: Subverted. See Bait-and-Switch Suicide. | |
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Evil Former Friend | |
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Evil Former Aquaintance: Luthor. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: Young Clark is despondent about his powers, feeling that they isolate him. The Legion of Superheroes are quick to show that not only will he not be so alone anymore when he grows up, but he'll embody this trope for future generations of superheroes. | |
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Crushing Handshake | |
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Crushing Handshake: Sgt. John Corben does this to Lois Lane's new co-worker to intimidate him, but considering this is Clark Kent, it doesn't work. Considering Clark easily resists the crush with a calm friendly smile really sells how outclassed Corben is. | |
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Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! | |
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Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Sam Lane and John Corben have no respect for Lois's career, repeatedly telling her she can't change the world as a journalist. She disagrees. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Lex Luthor take Dr. Emmet Vale's role in transforming John Corben into Metallo. | |
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No Endor Holocaust | |
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No Endor Holocaust: The big fights between Superman and Rudy Jones (Parasite) in issue 4 and John Corbin (Metallo) in issue 6. Lots of property damage ensues, including a tank in 6... but a less-cynical Metropolis apparently agrees with Superman that the Army had no business starting a firefight on the streets of Metropolis. | |
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Adaptation Origin Connection | |
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Adaptation Origin Connection: Pre-Crisis, John Corben was a reporter before becoming Metallo; Post-Crisis, he was a conman; here, he was in the U.S. military, serving under General Lane. | |
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Covert Pervert | |
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Covert Pervert: When people start asking questions about Superman after his public rescue of Lois Lane, Cat Grant has the audacity to ask Lois how "big" Superman is. | |
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Backported Development | |
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Backported Development: Previously, Sam Lane's hatred of aliens had developed after the events of Our Worlds at War, and he got on fine with Superman before that. According to this story, he hated Kryptonians from the moment he learned they existed. | |
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Villainous Glutton | |
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Villainous Glutton: Rudy Jones is established to have been a greedy glutton before he became the Parasite, with his Establishing Character Moment having him presumably lie about skipping breakfast to manipulate Clark into giving him his lunch. Incidentally, he ends up becoming the Parasite because he ate a donut after he dropped it onto the floor and it got exposed to some spilled chemical waste, with his transformation warping his insatiable appetite into a desire to drain everyone's life energy. | |
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Reverse Psychology | |
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Reverse Psychology: Lightning Lad diffuses Brainiac 5's arguments about the dangers of letting Superboy travel to their time by claiming no one could possibly figure out a way to ensure they could do it safely, stating it's impossible. When Brainy replies that nothing is impossible, Garth announces he's holding him to that and expects the 12th level genius to figure out a way to avoid damaging the time stream. | |
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