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It'd be a bit more complicated, yeah, but I don't think he'd attack them. In the show he was, like, programmed to attack them. Here it's more like he's just woken up to find strangers in his bedroom.

I think that's exaggerating Luthor's importance in his upbringing. Luthor really didn't have any part in forming who Match is. He only placed his own programming on top of what was already done by the scientists. It's a way to control Match, but that's all. Match isn't a son - he is a weapon, a tool, and it's Luthor's programming that made him that way.

The scientists made a person, and Luthor made that person into a weapon, so what he does is going to be seperate from who he is. When he first wakes up, there's only Match.

Of course, he won't have memories of using his powers or even having them. He will be aware that he has powers and their nature, but that's a really base thing, deep down. It's like... something that's his own, like reality is to us. And all his years of experience will be like a dream that he remembers when he wakes up. Inside the dream he has no awareness of anything but the dream, but the instant he wakes up he'll be aware that it wasn't real.

Maybe... MAYBE this will cause him such anguish that he will kick the a** of everything in sight.

But only if that's what you want.

Are you implying that metaphobia is genetic? XP

Yeah, Match has some Luthor in there. It's the way Luthor will control him.

But remember: he has even more Superman.

Yes, of course, that's exactly how Superman controls him.

I don't even know how Luthor did it. I just assume there's some kind of device like a controller or a console that we can smash up, someone can deprogram Match offscreen when the arcs done, and that way we don't have to worry about far-reaching consequences. I don't want him to somehow become the focus of every arc, cuz that's silly.

I don't even know. The important thing is that this is going to have a beginning and it's going to have an end, and all this stuff is just going to be happening on the side and ending as quickly and efficiently as possible, while tying all appropriate loose ends, because I do NOT want there to be too much time for everyone to actually think about what's going on.

:: You know, all your arguments have really made me think.

It might make sense if Match were to have some pre-disposition toward bigotry. But rather than against metahumans, it would make more sense if it were directed against EVERYONE ELSE. Since Luthor is human, naturally he identifies with humanity against metahumans, but since Match is a metahuman it would be far different.

It would be such poetic justice if Luthor created the weapon that led to his downfall.

I believe so, yes.

Ah, character development! =D