u/MaxvellGardner

That doesn’t mean the government will literally be able to do anything about it, but all that extra attention, preparation, and prevention could still make things harder for “Smile” Genius plan or should the demon tone down its ambitions?

My argument MAYBE falls apart at the end, but maybe he underestimated how heartless she was and thought she’d have a hard time sacrificing the man she loved.

But otherwise, cut off your leg? Okay. Extract a specific amount of “bone something”? A couple grams short? Death anyway.
And cut pieces out of your own brain.

Maybe that’s exactly why he showed them his face, because he never planned on leaving them alive.

It’s perfectly normal and natural that he’s just not that into her. He likes Nikki. If he wanted to, he could be with Sarah, but he doesn’t. He’s letting you have her. So it doesn’t really make sense to say, “You idiot, happiness is right in front of you!”

GUARD: Marv. Harry. You’ve got a visitor.
HARRY: Who…?
MARV: Maybe they’re making a documentary about the Wet Bandits? Hehe

They enter the visitation room and stop.

MARV: Jesus Christ…

Kevin smiles.

KEVIN: Hello, guys.
HARRY: Kid… is that you?
MARV: You got old.
KEVIN: And you two look like mummies.

They sit down.

HARRY: So… what brings you here?
KEVIN: I wanted to see for myself. I’ve heard things. Helping the younger inmates, community work, actually doing something with yourselves…
HARRY: We’ve had a lot of years to think.
KEVIN: So have I.

Kevin pauses.

KEVIN: I went through some rough years. Things are better now. And I guess, after everything that happened…

Harry and Marv lower their eyes.

KEVIN: …I realized I don’t want to carry it around anymore. I forgive you.

They’re genuinely caught off guard.

MARV: Damn, kid…
HARRY: We don’t even know what to say.
MARV: Thank you.

A brief silence.

HARRY: So what do you do these days? How’s life?

Kevin stands.

KEVIN: Don’t push it.

He starts toward the door, then stops.

KEVIN: I heard you’ve got another parole hearing coming up.

They look at him.

KEVIN: I’ll tell the board I don’t oppose it.

Kevin opens the door.

KEVIN: Merry Christmas.

He leaves.

If Lincoln says in the letter that he’s proud of the dear Marquis’s military successes, then obviously the correspondence took place before his capture and before the fire. So in theory they could have been friends, but of course they weren’t. Mannix simply drew the wrong conclusions.

If I understand this correctly, if a being with a divine spark went to Ao and said, “Hey, cooking is a huge part of life. Everyone eats, everyone cooks, it’s a major sphere. Can I become the god of cooking?”, then after weighing the pros and cons, could Ao make that being the god of cooking?

But here’s the part I’m really trying to understand: would Ao do that because this sphere actually needs some kind of regulator or administrator? Or simply because any sufficiently large and important phenomenon or activity CAN have a god associated with it if a suitable being asks for that portfolio?

Is there any actual necessity for such a god to exist, does the god regulate, channel, contain, or somehow manage that sphere?
I’m excluding obvious cases like a god of death, who has an actual cosmological function involving the souls of the dead.
For example, would anything fundamentally change if nobody occupied Bhaal’s position? Or does Bhaal hold that portfolio essentially because, “Why not?»

Must be incredibly interesting when they’re all godlike beings who can erase universes, and they’re basically all the same, so it just comes down to whoever’s more powerful destroying the multiverse. Please, let’s get more creative, no Molecule Man and his friends.