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I don’t care if this idea for a superhero was received without so much as a “meh” from Will & Dayz; I like it, and continue to hone it on my runs, usually before I even reach Shoemaker. A low-brow small-time crook gets the jump on a scientist in his lab, and shoots him in his haste to make off. But before succumbing to the attack, the man unleashes a swarm of nanobots, which take up residence in his killer. There, they begin making improvements, upgrades like in that episode of The Outer Limits, bestowing superhuman strength, durability, healing, the works—catch is, they also make his brain work more efficiently, he grows smarter, and in turn, he understands the nature of his crime, becomes guilt-ridden with remorse, and assumes the mantle of do-gooder to atone. A little reminiscent of 악마를 보았다, too. But is it this the true course of the better person, or is it only the ghost in the machines that’s motivating him? There’s some conflict for ya. Will he use his now-photographic memory and advanced intelligence to recreate the incident and discover that his victim originally intended to inject himself with his inventions, and immediately benefit from them? Almost with minds of their own, they chose the host with more potential. (Or will he instead learn, as in Morrison’s Doom Patrol, that the whole thing was engineered all along, and he was deliberately chosen for the project? Meh.)

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