The-real-supervillain

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the-real-supervillain

Title text: Thanks to the patreon typo squad for pointing out that the original version of this had given Bizarro the wrong skin tone. Nerds.

Votey

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Superman, are you familiar with "the hygiene hypothesis"

The idea is you have an immune system that normally fights diseases. But, you live in such a clean environment, there are no diseases for it to attack.

Hm?

So, it starts at tacking healthy cells instead.

One idea is that you might actually give people certain safe "decoy" diseases in order to calm

An overactive immune

Response.

What's your point?

Imagine you had a person who fought crime so effectively, there was none left.

But that person was still around still needing to battle still relentless. And very powerful

What you might do is create new "criminals" for him to target.

Because you're afraid hell take it badly and attack you. So, instead of coming right out

And saying it, you slowly increase

Why not just talk to him...

The ridiculousness

Of the fake criminals.

First, it's a smart guy who's bad. Then, it's mole people. At some point it's an alien from a planet called "apokolips."

Like, what does that even mean? Aliens have english phonemes and their planet is called apoca-lypse but they

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Spell it weird?

It's so obvious in retrospect.

I'm moving to mars to live alone and write bad poetry.

Purposelessness

Is the only real

Supervillain.

Damn, luthor is good

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Soon

I'm bored without him.

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