What's your favorite headcanon?

[The Jack]

Tech from another world isn't that different from tech from another country. When the best you had for transport were horses and then suddenly trains and cars arrive it may as well be spaceships.

And again patents wouldn't stop smart people from just reverse-engineering it, changing a few bits and then launching their own versions.

There would be a period of turnoil yes but overall things would turn up positive, in particular because the general population would greatly benefit from the tech jump.

Absolute nonsense.

There's a difference between a wheel or a gun or how to ride a horse and cracking an alien computer that's non binary, isn't coded in a known spoken language, isn't coded in a known code language and may not even work under our usual methods of electricity and magnets. What if they use organic tech, or work under principles we haven't even discovered? What if they use materials we don't know how to synthesize. You are grossly misunderstanding how complicated technology gets from the level we're at now.

[Lake Huron]

James Bond is a time lord.

[deuterio12]

Absolute nonsense.

There's a difference between a wheel or a gun or how to ride a horse and cracking an alien computer that's non binary, isn't coded in a known spoken language, isn't coded in a known code language and may not even work under our usual methods of electricity and magnets. What if they use organic tech, or work under principles we haven't even discovered? What if they use materials we don't know how to synthesize. You are grossly misunderstanding how complicated technology gets from the level we're at now.

Again, Bruce's parents managed to reverse-engineer kryptonian tech back when super man was just a baby and they weren't even anywhere close to super genius.

And DCverse has plenty of super human genius, and even nameless engineers from the evil corporations manage to make do with all sorts of alien tech all the time.

You grossly understimate human ability to copy and reverse-engineer stuff. It took millenia to create the first languages and codes and planes and computers, but from there you can teach new kids how to do it in a matter of years. Heck, the best kids learn it on their own simply by being good observers.

[Cikomyr]

Again, Bruce's parents managed to reverse-engineer kryptonian tech back when super man was just a baby and they weren't even anywhere close to super genius.

What tech?

[The Jack]

And DCverse has plenty of super human genius, and even nameless engineers from the evil corporations manage to make do with all sorts of alien tech all the time.
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This is your argument's only saving grace. Hypertech genius is at least one per corperation, but it's not like you'd be able to do it with normal people.



Related note. I remember watching some alternate history hub where the dude said we couldn't recover from 'independence day' and adopt alien tech because we wouldn't have the infastructure with some of our largest cities destroyed.
Given that there was a list of cities that were destroyed, I think not. Maybe where he's from large cities are everything and lesser cities aren't, but in much of the world non-capitals have good industrial production and scientific areas. If britain lost only london, it'd still have 20+ industrially adept cities. Hell, most of British manufacturing isn't in london. I'd imagine that's true for a lot of europe.
Then again, a computer virus would need years, so humanity would've lost that first wave anyway .




Best way to deal with Lex luthor is to assassinate him and blame it on communists. People will be very ready to believe that. Or, y'know, just wait for him to die. The guy does a lot of good for humanity and won't be round forever. I guess in comics that'll never happen, but I think that's too meta a thought process for the guys in the comics. Superman might be thinking 'his companies are doing a lot of good for humanity, his genius is of great value to them, if I just police him I'll be doing the best thing I can. He'll either grow out of evil or die of age."
Of course, superman doesn't know he's in a comicbook. He doesn't know that lex'll only age to be made younger in another issue. So it seems like a good strategy.

[deuterio12]

What tech?

There was a comic where it's revealed the reason why Bruce's parents managed to remain super rich in super-corrupt Gotham City while being honest people was because they lucked out in finding some bits of kryptonian tech that had fallen off from super man's ship during entry on Earth and they managed to reverse engineer it to get a big edge over the competition.

Hypertech genius is at least one per corperation, but it's not like you'd be able to do it with normal people.

Luckily, there's 7+ billions of us and growing. If normal Joe can't do it, some crazy genius will pull it off, and it only takes one to understand it to explain everybody else.

But luckily that's a moot point because you already said the Justice League would be filling patents on alien tech, and to make a patent on tech you need to explain the details of how it works.

[Sapphire Guard]

Without said tech in front of us, it's hard to say how imitable it is. But if anyone can reverse engineer Kryptonian tech, it's probably going to be Lex. I'm pretty sure he's already done that in comics, but maybe y'all can correct me.

[The Jack]

Luckily, there's 7+ billions of us and growing. If normal Joe can't do it, some crazy genius will pull it off, and it only takes one to understand it to explain everybody else.
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I meant in reality dawg.

[Cikomyr]

There was a comic where it's revealed the reason why Bruce's parents managed to remain super rich in super-corrupt Gotham City while being honest people was because they lucked out in finding some bits of kryptonian tech that had fallen off from super man's ship during entry on Earth and they managed to reverse engineer it to get a big edge over the competition.

It was the 50s. Probably just velcro

[khadgar567]

James Bond is a time lord.

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

[deuterio12]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

That's already official, 00 is just the highest level of agents and the next number is used to diferentiate them but when they die/retire their number is up for grabs. In particular during Forever and A Day James Bond is explicitly replacing the previous 007 that had been murdered and the other 00s have often been different people inside the story too. 009 was killed at Thunderball but an active 009 is mentioned at later movies for example.

EDIT: Ah seems like you're talking about the "James Bond" name itself, sure maybe each 00 comes with a more common name for use with other people.

[Fyraltari]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

Not as comical though. I got a good chuckle out of it...

[Androgeus]

James Bond is a time lord.

James Bond is an identity assumed by Rassilon when he needs a holiday away from Time Lord politics.

[LibraryOgre]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

That's already official, 00 is just the highest level of agents and the next number is used to diferentiate them but when they die/retire their number is up for grabs. In particular during Forever and A Day James Bond is explicitly replacing the previous 007 that had been murdered and the other 00s have often been different people inside the story too. 009 was killed at Thunderball but an active 009 is mentioned at later movies for example.

EDIT: Ah seems like you're talking about the "James Bond" name itself, sure maybe each 00 comes with a more common name for use with other people.

So, on Dragonsfoot, we had monthly contests for a while, and one I wrote was "Come up with a monastic order for your game." My entry didn't win, but the Brotherhood of the Bond had some obvious influences.

[Bohandas]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

This was explicitly the case in the 1967 version of Casino Royale

[LibraryOgre]

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[GloatingSwine]

here is much better head cannon James bond is the name each successor of 007 agent takes. which explains both Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan can be bond in the same time as they are all part of the infamous legacy of James Bond.

It's actually simpler than that. SIS keeps hiring otherwise completely unrelated people called James Bond.

It's actually a massive security flaw but they've gotten away with it so far.

[Aedilred]

This was explicitly the case in the 1967 version of Casino Royale

Hey, it was possibly the worst film ever made, but at least it upheld that unnecessary and nonsensical fan theory, so there's that.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Man, the MI6 really doesn't kid around: when they give the Bond name to a new 007 agent, they also create new identities for his entire family. Must be like going into the witness protection program.

Grey Wolf

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Man, the MI6 really doesn't kid around: when they give the Bond name to a new 007 agent, they also create new identities for his entire family. Must be like going into the witness protection program.

Grey Wolf

Like a reverse witness protection program, where they're trying to let baddies find your family.

[keybounce]

Geneticists do nothing for breeding. They just shoot the weak, and thin the herd.

[Fyraltari]

It's actually simpler than that. SIS keeps hiring otherwise completely unrelated people called James Bond.

It's actually a massive security flaw but they've gotten away with it so far.

I like this one.

Man, the MI6 really doesn't kid around: when they give the Bond name to a new 007 agent, they also create new identities for his entire family. Must be like going into the witness protection program.

Grey Wolf

They even mindwiped the old groundkeeper! Now, that's what I call thouroughness!

[The Jack]

Geneticists do nothing for breeding. They just shoot the weak, and thin the herd.

What? Thats just being wrong.

[keybounce]

Ever play "Trimps"?

[No brains]

Ever play "Trimps"?

Isn't trimping when the demoman from TF2 uses his shield charge and Loose Cannon weapon to fly around? I dig the pun, but that's not the canon we're talking about.

[Traab]

Ever play "Trimps"?

Awesome game.

[Lake Huron]

I'm aware of the other theory.

It's sober and reasonable and makes a lot of sense. Anything that reasonable could never be my favourite.

James Bond the time lord, though? Sign me up.

Actually most of my favourite headcanons are "X is a time lord"

[Rodin]

My favorite explanation for Batman-level super knowledge in every field is the one put forward by Dr. McNinja - clones! Dr. McNinja knows as much as he does because he was cloned dozens of times and attended university in every major at once. Then, once they all had their degrees, the clones all gathered and were subsumed back into the original.

Apart from Farmer McNinja. And I'll bet we've never had Farmer Batman either.

[archon_huskie]

Apart from Farmer McNinja. And I'll bet we've never had Farmer Batman either.

This is the internet. If you think it. It exists

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