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Yes. Now, question is if Arthur can deal with using so useful agent on something with this low priority.

Wrong meat. Right. Everyone knows that cows don't fly, you need different animal ...

Yeah, the situation has just changed from "I don't have much time" to "I have NO time." DGB agents equipped and ready for serious magical trouble will be stepping through those doors literally any second now, if Magus is still in line of sight when they do he's risking capture. They PROBABLY won't be coming out throwing spells ... but Magus doesn't know that. His experience with DGB includes this. His most logical course of action now is not even looking which window he flew from. Trying to cast relatively complex spell on someone who may or may not be looking from that window, while maintaining maximal escape speed, doesn't sound like good idea.

I don't think those two are qualified to at least carry the bags of team which should be solving this. Hardly empty. A place like that would sport a 24-hour guard detail always ready to respond. Also, I highly doubt such a place would exist solely for the benefit of a decoy storehouse. It would more likely be linked to several similar value sites and so economise with the involved forces. However, the question if the usual team will respond or if Arthur managed to warn them and now special team is being ready - and if it IS already ready - remains. I think he's in SO big rush he won't even zap Ellen. Dan is not good in being evil and his scale might be skewed. Even short talk with Ellen is likely to mean Magus would not zap her, but if the talk would change the zapping, I think Dan would say it differently. Or maybe not, because he seems to work hard on being vague ... Very unlikely. Also, not particularly interesting. Compared to her now being part dragon especially.

I'm rather afraid that they will try to return Kevin to storage. They may not consider him safe to have running (or floating) loose. Or maybe they just want to keep public irritation levels down. It would be expected reaction from DGB and possibly even from Ashley. But story-wise, I suspect she somehow ends with him long-term, so I wonder how ...

He knows Grace, but does he know Grace is a shapeshifter? I don't remember him discovering that, and I don't have time to trawl half the archive to find out tonight. :-( In canon continuity he obviously doesn't know, so the question would be about GENERAL shapeshifter and only we know that Grace would fit that role. Out of continuity, however ... isn't it him here? He MIGHT noticed some of Grace's experiments with change blindness ...

Probably. Although in current situation, Arthur is probably glad someone activated the alarm and allowed the doors to be formed, if, as Dan implies, it wouldn't be possible otherwise ... (Before reading the comment, I also considered the possibility the doors will be formed but noone arrives as the usual team would be declared not good enough and Arthur would still be preparing better team ...) Well, so far Arthur doesn't have any reason to assume he will need hostages to ensure Tedd's cooperation, so ... nothing? It's not like they tried to steal anything, the uteronc is only artifact which left the building and it's obviously still there ... and they are registered and Edward can vouch for them saying truth ... I do, however, wonder how will Ashley manage to smuggle Kevin out (or would it be how Kevin manage to smuggle himself out with Ashley's unintentional help?). Maybe they would focus too much on the possibility of other dangerous artifacts activating?

Still. It would have to be an insanely sensitive device to determine it with that kind of certainty so fast. I am with Dr. Bashir, I must admit. I would normally be with Dr. Bashir too. But ... considering McCoy also have a pill capable of regenerating kidney in likely around 10 minutes, just randomly in pocket ... I wonder if he didn't steal better-than-23th-century-federation technology somewhere. Or maybe got some god-like powers like Gary Mitchell.

I believe that the original "He's dead, Jim" was an attempt at humour. To wit, a comment on the absurdity of Dr. McCoy declaring a person dead after a cursory inspection that does not even involve use of a med scanner. Your own post indicates how difficult this can be even for forensic specialists with a lot of time yet McCoy did this all the time. He was TYPICALLY doing it after using his medical tricorder to check, at least according to this list. But ... it's not what the trope is associated with (tvtropes link warning). And Dr. Bashir doesn't consider tricorder to be reliable at this ...

That was in fact part of what I counted. Cessation of breath and pulse may usually be considered a reliable indicator of death. As to detection of blood circulation, well, a pulse is usually a requirement for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_syndrome https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/waking-morgue-death-janina-kolkiewicz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation And that's for PEOPLE, who are warm-blooded mammals and also the same species as the one checking the pulse. For biological enemy of unknown species, checking if breath and pulse really ceased might be very hard. Also, checking breath and pulse can rarely be reliably done at distance, which in the "make sure it's unable to continue fighting" situation is quite important. You're dead, Jim

Well, if they were mostly cotton it is possible that he could have been cleaned up by a swarm of ravenous killer moths. Cotton is biodegradable. Polyester is not.

When they really were in fight, there sort of wasn't time for calling Edward. Now, sure, they might want to call Edward now, but they already know Magus doesn't want to be their enemy and it might be better to talk with him before Edward to not cause any misunderstanding. (And, obviously, there is question if they have their phones.) Now, remember that the panels with Arthur were flashback, possibly hour or more back. Edward might've already be informed about the magic reset problem and his answer to that first couple of sentences would be "get the hell out of there". Probably not that much worse ; seems that the urteronc would used up the power quickly anyway and durability alone is not good long term fight strategy ... Not if Magus destroyed the memory ... however, maybe it was not ONLY urteronc left? Another urteronc operational would be another reason why to bring that history up ... I suspect that Battle Mage training doesn't cover the topic of sentience in any detail ; however, he IS likely to deal differently with other humans. (Dragons themselves might be sentient. I'm sure he's trained to doubletap THEM.) Neither is true for biological enemy. Unless you count stuff like blood circulation, which you probably wouldn't be able to detect, not moving doesn't mean dead. If it's mostly hollow with fragile looking parts connected by cables inside, you disconnect the cables, then put the bigger most fragile looking parts with most cables from them into those separate containers. There is big chance one of them would be power source and another CPU. If, however, it looks mostly homogeneous, including the parts which were moving, even putting into more containers is unlikely to help and you should try to ensure chemical change of the material (burn it to ashes ... with fluor if oxygen doesn't work). The usage is not exactly correct, but you can see the idea from the tvtropes page ; sounds quite likely Magus will do such mistake, after all, how did he learned English? (Unless English is his native language due to alternative universes using same languages ... in that case, yes, he should know better as he was likely TAUGHT this.)

While from some point of view you can say Tiffany is the good twin and Susan the evil one, the implications are rather unfortunate. Of course, Tensaided doesn't know it, but Diane could easily do this in canon with simple hair dye (which she can get from Susan) ... and Grace can do it whenever she wants to, and whoever gets hand on Susan's form (as watches or TF gun) too. We already addressed the evil twin hypothesis, now the mind control is sort of true although reached by magic and not technology ... ... although I'm surprised he didn't included the Polywater intoxication in his list, which would also be sort of true.

For the most part. We are still finding remains that have been left thousands of years ago. True. Also, it's possible his clothes were not biodegradable.

Agreed. Still, it's a little disappointing that whoever did this didn't at least deposit the corpse in a dumpster. Ah well, maybe they were in a hurry. At least human body is biodegradable. Do I understand correctly they were asking if anyone of LOCAL people (who are very unlikely to be anywhere near) saw anything?

Nope. Nope. Nope. It was an otherdimensional doppelganger who had escaped from some sort of prison for supercriminals. Assuming the trial was fair, that would be another pretty good argument for her being evil. Clear complete retcon is acceptable. Or, for bonus points, just creating alternate universes. Problems with Marvel (and DC) is that they are doing PARTIAL retcons. They even did the alternate universes thing and then COLLAPSED them just so they can say "that version of hero you really liked is totally dead so you MUST watch the new one". Result is that the reboots makes number of contradictions and inconsistencies HIGHER and not smaller. Also, if they really tried, they wouldn't have so many contradictions and inconsistencies to start with. Sure, change of author can cause some inconsistencies even if he tries to not make any, but how it works in Marvel doesn't look like the authors are trying. Case in point, Excalibur, the parts I quoted from wikipedia. "Unknown person, possibly a player of Magical Gatherings, took a Mulligan. Case closed." Seriously, I do think they work on it, but they have to prioritise. Admittedly littering is against the law, but there could be more important work drawing on their time. Yes, I would think that littering is more important than catching the one who killed this human garbage.

If the double was true copy and not different version with different character, it might qualify as suicide. It was Excalibur, which was one of the many, many offshoots of the X-Men. And I agree. Claremont alone was infamous for leaving plot threads dangling, I really doubt this one was the worst. It just happens to be the one I personally resent the most. Possibly because it is such a splendid example of Women in Refrigerators. Hmmm ... Claremont left with Excalibur #34 (1991) ... In a jarring transition, Captain Britain was lost off-panel ... Revisions made under Warren Ellis included reverting Britannic back to Captain Britain ... I don't think Claremont was only one responsible for state of Excalibur. He may be (in)famous for leaving plot threads dangling, but I still think most of the mess around X-Men is management decision.

Or, perhaps Grace has gotten counseling, but it was "off-camera"....might explain how well-adjusted she is about certain things, and/or her insights into how others feel and what sort of support they need.... She DEFINITELY didn't get any before hammerchlorians. Also this. There are some things which are unbelievable to not happen even in absence of in-story mention, there are others which we can believe happened, but Grace getting counselling is NOT one of them. That REALLY requires being mentioned. Although I would be satisfied if someone would note how hard is getting counsellor with hight enough clearance, to prove they TRIED. Did Chris Claremont forget or the evil double? And was she really evil? Anyway, I'm sure it wasn't most confusing thing happening in X-Men (it WAS X-Men, right?). There were whole forgotten UNIVERSES.

Luckily, I usually completely miss such anniversaries. ... still remember the disappointment when I finally got a transformer toy and it wasn't transforming so nicely as in the advertisement ...

Only 2 years before I was born. I'm also younger than Star Wars: A New Hope.

I'm pretty sure his flying is spell , and he possibly used some spells for enhancing durability or faster speed. But yes, his combat style is mostly physical attacks (compared to alternatives like throwing fireballs or lightning based attacks) in which strength definitely helps. That, however, doesn't mean he's "not as good as he think he is" in spell on spell battle. First, he may just enjoy this style or consider it more suitable against golem, second, he may be aware of his limits. Definitely seems he doesn't need to shout attack names. It's possible that Dan already has plans for Elliot getting back into training. What with Magic being what it's become and the possibility of the gang getting into more situations, Elliot's twice commented on how he's not an effective fighter while flying, Susan has also commented on the need to learn how to use a sword. So it would make sense that, after all is said and done with the current arc, the two of them might find time to learn some techniques. Maybe some mini arcs could be done, Elliot, Nanase, Justin, Ellen and Grace could all train with Greg, while Susan could spend time with greatxwhatever grandpa Adrian learning how to sword fight. It would definitely make sense. (And yes, I would like to see Susan learning sword fight AND magic from Adrian ... maybe Susan and Diane can be learning together ...) Unfortunately, it would also make sense and was commented multiple times for Grace to get some counselling ... and she still didn't. So, like, I don't think contacting Dan was bad idea. Although personally I formulated it as a question (and used tumblr ask form).

I was thinking chest, specifically where it was already heavily damaged, would make sense to focus on that crater that's already got substantial cracking around it. Also thinking chest. And yes, unless the chest contains some critical system ... however the golem does seem to be mostly hollow, which can mean it's internals are much more vulnerable. And the blast from a god-like entity was what allowed Magus to take it down - he didn't do any NEW holes in him, just further damage of parts already damaged before.

Yes. And it's totally self-defense. Also, seems that we already have A crater. Not particularly large and probably not hard to explain (gas leak?), but Arthur sort of predicted that.

We are rooting for "Magus wins but is too tired to cast anything else", obviously. But even if we don't get this ideal result, well ... Magus can be argued with and in worst case, Tedd can change Ellen back. The golem doesn't speak english and Tedd doesn't have resurrection or raise dead spell yet ...

Please note that Noah couldn't hurt the dragon either. If this was meant to show how tough Noah was, it failed. It was Greg and Grace who ended up saving the day. Noah killed the dragon. Sure, it didn't STAYED dead but it was more than what Elliot done. And Greg and Grace didn't fought the dragon at all. It's not a huge problem. It is a problem, however. And having just one fight a year won't help when every fight is problematic - like, it will help the comics, but not to the fights.