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So. [Guess who has two thumbs and isn't going to be talking about the flood or anything else that's been going on lately? THIS KID.] How common, exactly, are superheroes or vigilantes and stuff a... thing in your world? Because we sort of just had the one back home, and it kind of seems like there's about fifty of them on the Barge alone.

[He hesitates a beat before continuing, because this is just fucking weird to be talking about, even though it seems like there are a lot of people who are pretty cool about the whole I can juggle cars/set things on fire/kill you with my brain thing on board.]

And if you don't have superheroes, then what about people with superhuman abilities? Or, I don't know, what's normal on your home planet, if you're not from Earth?

You don't have to answer if you don't want, I'm just, you know. Curious.

[Private to Bond]

[He doesn't really want to talk about this at all, honestly. Buttt he does want to acknowledge it and say thanks, too, so. Keeping it short and sweet. B(]

Thanks. For not telling her about why I'm here.

[Private to Oliver]

Seriously?

[YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, OLIVER.]

[Private to Alex]

So, I'm Spider-Man. [...] Which you probably guessed by now, but. I thought it was fair, considering, you know. [That truth flood. B(]

Sorry.

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In light of the war, yeah. I think after we won Vietnam, Dr. Manhattan's presence as a US resource sparked a pretty bad Cold War with the Russians. We just narrowly avoided nuclear war with them when I left. Nixon was giving up office after that incident. If what I've read in the library is true, Reagan's up next for President.

Sucks to be LBJ.

Lyndon Johnson? Yeah... It was just a bad time for Democrats to be in office. He was in for a year after Kennedy was assassinated, but Nixon won over him in '64.

Where're you from?

New York.

Yeah? What year? I'm guessing you're a little ahead of me. Crime rate still pretty bad there?

2012, and I don't know, I guess. Not as bad as it was in the 80's, I think, but I wouldn't really know. Obviously.

Well, if one guy can take it on, I'm guessing it can't be that bad. In my day, there were teams of vigilantes and that still wasn't enough to get rid of everything.

I'm assuming this Spider Guy is in New York, too.

Well, I mean, one guy and the cops and stuff. They're the ones who've been doing most of the work since like... before a couple months ago.

And then the Spider Guy showed up? Interesting, knowing how the city's changed. Are the cops okay with him helping out?

Not exactly.

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