#losrh

[krixwell-liveblogs]

...fuckin’ tinkers.

[krixwell-liveblogs]

What are you talking about? Blindness and lasers are a good combo in the leauge of super reduntant heroes 99% of the time (see superredundant com/?comic=076-same-but-different), its just that the story follows the 1% where they aren't.

Ohh, right, that’s a good point!

You hear that, guys? You should totally go out shooting lasers blindly. It’ll make you the top hero in the multiverse.

[krixwell-liveblogs]

I posed my question about super sports on the @loreweaver-universe Discord server, and watching the discussion was a lot of fun.

Myself, I hadn’t considered the possibility of a separate superhuman branch, which makes a lot of sense. It would be quite a thing to watch! Also, I agree with Minda that how the powers were gained matters.

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[krixwell-liveblogs]

The potential for big money coupled with the number of eager-to-please mooks and henchmen made it the city to be for the villains in the late 90s. It took a few years for the hero presence to establish and organize themselves, but they did, and there was something of an equilibrium now.

Or it can go this way, with superheroes cropping up to defend against existing supervillains.

And see? Equilibrium. Clearly Wildbow understands how it has to work.

As far as cape population went, Brockton Bay wasn’t in the top 5 cities in the U.S., but it was probably in the top ten.

Oh wow, apparently supers are rather common in this 'verse.

Plot twist: Worm is in the same 'verse as LoSRH and #1 on the list is Shitropolis.

[krixwell-liveblogs]

This all contributed to the boom in the local supervillain population.

Naturally. I failed to mention it, but one of the last few posts got me thinking about the mechanics of superhero/villain balance. Basically, almost every superhero story needs a supervillain to pose a challenge to the hero, and if there are many heroes in one setting, you need many villains, or a few very strong ones, for all the "excess" superheroes to even really have anything to do.

That's part of what League of Super Redundant Heroes (which I was rereading earlier today because it came to mind back in chapter 1.1) takes up to 11 for humor - Shitropolis has a huge amount of superheroes, so naturally it also has not only a similarly huge amount of supervillains, but it's also frequently the target of threats like alien invasions, meteors, tidal waves, etc.

But yeah, point is: If there's a lot of heroes, there's got to be a lot of villains.

[echsellentlizard]

Where’s the League of Super Redundant Heroes fandom?

[echsellentlizard]

Alex + Buckaress, like if u agree