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When you say Kevin could glance at Charlie's Beetle and figure it out, is that because he just knows what genuine parts of a classic car should look like or because he took an extranet course to recognize Cybertronians in alt-mode?

The former, though I'm sure by now he's read up on Cybertronians and would put two and two together fairly quickly.

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Oh no it's confirmed. Youtube Keldor becomes Skeletor. It's a pretty cool scene

Noted!

(side note: I think this is the first time I've heard "Youtube" as a verb :P)

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Hi Dart, I wanted to ask you if the villagers know about the existence of the Celistiales and the Werbrums (the carnivorous squids from dead planets) have a similar role to Galactus

I guess they operate on a similar principle, but weblums exclusively consume dead planets, and the recycled Quintessence ends up becoming new star systems billions of years later, whereas Galactus has no predilection for any singular type of planet, and his purpose is to consume everything in the universe in order to one day end and restart it. Similar purposes, but very different scopes, timescales, and end results.

I don't know what villagers you're talking about, sorry.

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A silly grayghost identity reveal for dannymay day 13 truth!

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How far have you gotten into Code Lyoko, and what are your thoughts on it?

I'm about 15 episodes in! Having a blast with it, it feels so nostalgic even though I never watched an episode (though I definitely did see ads for it back in the day).

The premise hooked me like, immediately - I was aware of the digital world element, but the real world XANA shenanigans and the time travel/reboot elements completely took me by surprise. I feel like the junior high school drama would ordinarily annoy me a little bit, but IDK, I see the ancient CGI animation and the blurry 480p standard def picture and it just kinda feels correct. I never would've known if you guys hadn't pointed me to it, it feels almost laser-guided towards my particular interests haha.

Definitely excited to watch more, though the 100+ episode count did take me by surprise. I'll probably take little breaks here and there and work on other shows on my backlog, like I did while watching Digimon.

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Could Thanos mount a direct attack on either Xandar or Hala?

He definitely has the forces for it, but it'd be an all or nothing sort of deal if he goes in without the Infinity Stones. Also, Xandar and Hala are "just" the capitals of their respective empires, the rest of their member worlds/colonies wouldn't just sit on their hands if he went for broke. It's possible, just very strategically unsound without some major boosts and/or handicaps in place.

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jedi survivor is one of the best games of all time because with its character customisation and saloon-people-collecting mechanic it's basically like an animal crossing game where you can kill fascists with a laser sword

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Inspired by this post

but I'm too lazy to draw their avatars

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evil pong

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I am really loving this hypothetical Grievous-kverse situation. If, hypothetically, it ever did come true, would he more likely interact with the GotG or Castle Voltron? Also, which faction would receive his hate? He's a creature run largely by spite afterall. Would the Nova Corps remind him of the Republic, would the Kree manage the (very easy) feat of getting on his bad side, or would he come across a Decimated world and actually reflect back on the state of Kaleesh? Or maybe all of the above?

I think he would despise them, but I could see him hiring the Guardians for a particularly difficult job. I think he'd see the Voltron Alliance as hopelessly naive idealists, but it'd be hard not to at least respect their power as wielders of one of the most powerful weapons in the universe.

I think he'd despise both Kree and Nova in equal measures but for very different reasons; the Nova Empire, as you say, because they'd remind him of the bloated and woefully ineffective Republic (though I'd give the Nova a bit more leeway there), and the Kree as inflexible zealots.

I do lean a little bit more towards him still having some of his freedom fighter streak somewhere in his cold, sorta undead heart, so I could see an argument for him actually taking the fight to the Black Order, but there'd have to be a reason that would override his extreme focus on self-preservation and his ego as a conqueror and warrior.

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Agebinium

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Does Genosha accept any non-mutant citizens if they are related to a mutant? And what about mutates or folks that have supernatural powers that make others mistake them as mutants?

Full citizenship does require an active X-gene, but it is possible (if admittedly pretty bureaucratically demanding) for non-Mutants to immigrate to Genosha, whether they are related or not, though most non-Mutants living on Genosha are immediate family members of Mutants - parents, siblings, children.

That being said, most Mutants who resettle in Genosha come alone - in many cases shunned by their family, alone to begin with, or sometimes as part of families who can't or won't upend their lives to join them there. Most non-Mutants who don't cut contact with their Mutant family members on Genosha prefer to visit, instead, and the Genoshan government facilitates those trips as much as possible, subsidizing the trips for example.

Assuming non-Mutants do decide to immigrate, and assuming they're approved (cleared of any possible anti-Mutant bias or links, first and foremost), they're granted partial citizenship, which...probably sounds a little worse than it actually is. The big thing they miss out on is access to Mutant exclusive spaces and facilities, such as Xavier's school, which is at least ostensibly more for their protection than due to an official exclusionary government policy. Most non-Mutants who move to Genosha and aren't family members to Mutants do so for economic reasons, or for research into the Mutant phenomenon.

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How open can R&D be in their manipulations of added elements? Like if TFA was brought over, would Doom barter the location of the AllSpark in exchange for Autobot services? (As in would he be allowed to because he'd defo hold the future of an entire species hostage to mildly convenience himself)

There’s no real limit to their ability to meddle (and it is in fact an integral part of their modus operandi) but they do need to be careful about any potential ramifications, particularly edge cases that may not be contemplated by their simulations.

You’ve already kinda seen consequences like that; recruiting Hercules, while evidently useful in dealing with power players like Thor and the Hulk, backfired on them because they underestimated his inner heroism, buried under so much scorn for his mortal and divine lives that their models considered the possibility of him siding with Olympus (technically, through Nico) to be negligible. As a result of Hercules’ betrayal, the heroes not only disrupted their operations, they forced Doom to sacrifice (and thus reveal) a Doombot, bringing the Avengers much closer to an ultimate confrontation - you might perhaps say, ahead of “schedule”.

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If Wonder Girl was around, would Zeus send her to Camp Half-Blood?

I would imagine he intended to do so after claiming her at age 13, but Cassie strikes me as someone who's very precocious and gets in trouble all on her own. I picture her accidentally coming into her powers ahead of schedule and getting rescued by Wonder Woman (whom I assume would be around, in this more integrated universe, would be kinda bizarre having Wonder Girl if Diana's not here). Maybe they'd try to have her join Camp Half-Blood, but I imagine she'd end up having to stick with the Amazons - given her power set, I don't think the Camp would be equipped to handle her.

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I know that all the Power Rangers series are in a shared universe, but if you had to pick a specific season to solely add to the kverse, which would be your top choice?

Mighty Morphin' (up to at least Green With Evil, but probably including up to Lord Zedd and the White Ranger stuff), with some elements from the Boom comics (particularly the tone and the more modern depiction) and even a little bit from the 2017 movie (supplementing some of the 90s characterization, for the most part).

(I've actually been workshopping it behind the scenes haha jury's out on whether I actually include it or not still)

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If there's Lena, is there a Lex out there?

Not in the Kverse, no. You might say he's back home!

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Sorry if the SW asks are getting too frequent or annoying, but is there an actual chance of getting some elements or characters into the story?

Don't worry, I'd let y'all know if I wanted to avoid answering those kinds of questions!

I think, as with everything I love, there's always a chance of it getting into the Kverse. It's pretty low for Star Wars, I won't lie to you - even if I exclusively go with the new canon source material and/or stick to a single "era", that is an extremely dense universe to try and fuse with the established status quo, to the point that the easiest way to do it would be to have the SW galaxy be its own separate one in the Local Cluster, which I'd prefer to avoid (going forward, I'd like to keep things "in-house" in the Milky Way except in very specific circumstances). If I had to put a number to it, I'd say there's like a 10%, maybe 20% chance of it ever happening - which is to say, I would not expect it if I were you.

That being said, I'm absolutely not opposed to writing about it on a Multiverse basis. Like, just in the (relatively) short term, there's gonna be an...event...that throws several characters out into the Multiverse temporarily, and I intend to use it to feature universes that are just really unlikely to ever be included for some reason or another. Star Wars would be on the table there, for example, and the door would be left open afterwards for further crossover shenanigans, even if they aren't part of the fused setting. I also wouldn't be opposed to handling it like I did with Kara, having individual characters or small groups transplanted with little to no actual integration. End of the day, it'll always come down to what I feel like writing, y'know?

Feel free to keep throwing hypotheticals at me, I don't mind them, just be aware that they're very unlikely to ever come into fruition!