Tempest vs Crystal

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This is a DynaMic Network Podcast. Hi, welcome to
the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we

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review superhero films and debate the
superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing

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their characters in stat-based battle
simulations. I'm Johnny DC and I'm his twin

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brother Marvelous Joe. And in this episode we are
doing a duel between the characters of Tempest,

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formerly known as Aqualad, and the Inhuman
Crystal. And this of course is in lead-up to our

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Wildcats vs. Inhumans team duel that we will be
doing next week. Yeah, I've been dying to get to an

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Inhumans team duel. I'm a big fan of the Inhumans,
not a big fan of the show that they put together on

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ABC. But don't let that piece of shit, poor excuse,
attempt for a series detract you from learning

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just how awesome the Inhumans are. The internet
never forgets. I neither will I. Before we get to

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the duel, we're going to break down the comic book
movie news from the past week, of which there were

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two news items, one being the Peacemaker Season 2
official red band trailer, and the new one being

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the Marvel Zombies series release date. As
always, we list our segment times in our episode

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description, so feel free to check out the show
notes if you want to skip ahead to a particular

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topic. Guys, our artificially intelligent duel
simulator, AJ9K, has a quick message for our

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listeners, so listen up. Thanks AJ9K, and thanks
to everyone who supports the podcast, including

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Josh Hayward, who had a birthday this past week.
Happy birthday, Josh. Also, Zachary Hepburn, two

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of our patrons actually had birthdays this past
week, and I believe they both turned 35. Great age,

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you guys could both be a president, or at least Josh
could, because Zach's Canadian. And because

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you're Canadian, Zach, for your birthday, if I
could get you any gift from DC, it would be Captain

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Cold's cold gun, because it's cold up in Canada,
and that's all I really know about it. In the

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winter, it's cold in Canada, right? You've been to
Vancouver, haven't you? Yes, and it was cold. And

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for the Marvel guy, Josh Hayward, if I had to give
you a gift from Marvel, it would be the Falcons

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wingsuit. Why? I don't know. Probably because I'm
looking at an image of the Falcon right now, and

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that's the first thing that came to mind. Happy
birthday again to both of you guys, and thanks for

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supporting the show. Be sure to tune into the other
shows on the Dynamite Podcast Network this week,

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including the console Combat Podcast, where
hosts John and Dean simulate battles between

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popular video game characters. In yesterday's
episode, the two determined who would win between

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King K. Rool from Donkey Kong and King Hippo from
Punch Out. Great matchup. Over on the Max

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Destruction Podcast, hosts Scotty and Gilly pit
your favorite action heroes from film and

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television against each other. They are taking a
hiatus during the month of August, so be sure to get

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caught up on their latest episodes. On the Sinjo
World Podcast, birthday boy Zachary Hepburn

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speculates on fights between fan-favorite anime
and manga characters. In his next episode, Zach is

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going to reveal who would win between Akuto Sai
from Demon King Daimo and Amos Voldigoad from

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Misfit of Demon Academy. Visit
dynamicpodcasts.com or click the link in our show

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notes to listen to all the shows in the Dynamite
Podcast Network. Boat that out of the way. Quick to

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the No Prize! A No Prize is an award that Marvel used
to give out to fans. Our version, the Dynamic Dual

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No Prize, is a digital award we post on Instagram
for the person that we feel gave the best answer to

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our question of the week. Last week, or two weeks
ago actually, we asked you guys, what was the best

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live action Spider-Man suit and the best live
action Batman suit and why? We got a few answers for

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this one, not nearly as much as I thought we would
actually, but let's go ahead and run down the

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honorable mentions and the No Prize winner. Our
first honorable mention goes to Alex Albro, who

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said, Hey guys, I think Toby's black suit was the
best. I can remember the way the action figure felt

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in my hand even 20 years later and seeing it come on
to him in the movie with a webby black virus looking

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thing was a really cool visual. As for Batman, I
think George Clooney suits the best. You know,

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it's the most anatomically correct, you could
say, and it just fits the tone of that film. I never

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once questioned it as a kid and also it's got the
best Robin suit in that film. Thanks guys. Yeah,

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the Toby McGuire Spider-Man suit is really good.
Definitely like the raised webbing look and the

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symbiote suit that he wore from Spider-Man 3 was no
exception. They basically took like the sleek

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shiny black webbing portion of a suit and applied
that to everywhere as opposed to just the webbing.

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And I thought that was really cool because the
symbiote, you know, is supposed to be black and

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shiny, at least venom is, you know. I still
remember the first look we got at the black

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Spider-Man suit from Spider-Man 3. It was a really
cool poster of Spider-Man just like kneeling at

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the edge of a building like a gargoyle in the rain.
And it was just all black and white. For some

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reason, the photo was so striking. I thought it
looked really cool. And as for George Clooney

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suits, what? Eww, bro. Nipples. You don't like
nipples? Everybody's got nipples. Come on. No,

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no. I don't want nipples. You don't want nipples?
No. Great answer. Alex, our next honorable

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mention goes to Daniel Alonso. Who said? Alright,
the best Spider-Man suit hands down is the Toby

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McGuire one. I mean, the raised webbing, the best
spider on the front and the back. The eyes are

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amazing. And then it all has this underlying
checkered pattern throughout the fabric. Its

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colors are fantastic. It's just the best suit. And
best Batman suit? Probably Batterson. I think

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it's the most menacing, the most realistic. He
just looks like a tank. I love that one. Yeah,

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another shout out for Toby McGuire's Spider-Man
suit. I really think that that was the suit that

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brought superhero costumes into the modern age. I
mean, before that we had the X-Men, but they didn't

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really quite nail the suit in a way that I think was
satisfying for fans. Nobody was complaining

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about Toby McGuire suit when that movie first came
out because it was literal perfection.

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Everything from the material to the design, the
eye design, as Daniel mentioned, it was flawless.

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Do you think that the Toby McGuire Spider logo was
better than Andrew Garfield's though? Or maybe

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Tom Holland's? It's a great question. Honestly,
my favorite Spider emblem is probably Andrew

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Garfield's, I think. That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, yeah. I would agree with that. As for

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Banson's suit, it's definitely the least comic
book accurate, but you're right. With the steel

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plating, he almost looks like a knight in his
armor, just wearing a cowl and a cape. He looks

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badass. I really, really want him to be part of the
DCU. I'm not going to stop saying it until it's like

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official official. You're going to try to
manifest it? Absolutely. Like until James Gunn

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announces the casting for his Batman, I'm still
going to insist that it should be Robert

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Pattinson. If that does happen, though, I would
probably insist as a fan that he get a more comic

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accurate bat suit. No, no, I'm fine with it. Great
answer, Daniel. Our final honorable mention goes

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to Scott Camacho. Who said? Scott Camacho here. If
I had to pick a Spider-Man suit, it would be Toby

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McGuire. He was our first introduction into live
action Spider-Man and his suit was pretty much on

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point. And I'm a big fan of the black suit. And for
Batman, it's Ben Affleck's Batman. It's

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everything we wanted from the Dark Knight Returns
put into silver screen. It was awesome. Yeah,

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we've already spoken at length about Toby
McGuire's suit, but let's talk about Ben

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Affleck's bat suit. I would also say that this is my
favorite bat suit on screen. I'm not counting like

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the armored version from the Dark Knight Returns
when he fought against Superman. Even though that

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was fantastic. I'm talking more about his
standard Batman suit from Batman v Superman, Dawn

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of Justice. Extended Edition. Yeah, that one is
the most comic book accurate. That one was

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straight from the page. I loved how buff he was. It
was very Frank Miller. It was awesome. I didn't

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really like Ben Affleck's bat suit in Justice
League. Oh, no. Yeah, his best one was definitely

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in BVS. I would agree. And then his bat suit that was
in the Flash movie fucking sucked. We don't talk

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about that. Shut up. All right. Great answer,
Scotty. But the winner of this week's No Prize is

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Lorenzo Valdez. Who said? This is Lorenzo Valdez.
You guys actually referenced my favorite

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Spider-Man suit, which is the Amazing Spider-Man
2 suit. It doesn't hurt that that was the suit that

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Spidey was wearing when Gwen died. So it has that
extra emotional impact for me seeing that suit. As

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for my favorite Batman suit, that would be the Dark
Knight slash the Dark Knight Rises suit because it

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improves on the texture of the begin suit and it
also has a better bat symbol. Clonifer, always

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bye-bye. Yeah, this is the first guy to not mention
the Toby McGuire suit as his favorite. And I may

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agree. I definitely think that the Spider-Man
suit that was in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 worn by

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Andrew Garfield was the most comic book accurate.
I mean, because I've never seen a version of Spidey

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in the comics where like this raised webbing look,
it doesn't look quite as homemade as it were, even

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though it looked spectacular or amazing as it
were. But Andrew Garfield's looked like

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something that somebody could conceivably
create that wasn't, you know, a fashion designer,

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but it also looks very true to the comic books. It
had the larger eyes. It had great color, had a great

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like spider emblem design. It was just
perfection, in my opinion. Yeah, the only thing it

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really didn't have was Tom Holland's lenses, like
the thick Steve Ditko lenses. But yeah, still

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really cool. Now, we will admit that the Christian
Bale Batman outfits are actually my least

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favorite onscreen Batman suits. But of all of
them, my favorite is actually from Batman Begins.

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I loved his cowl the way it made him look almost
panther-like. When he upgraded to his new suit

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where he was able to turn his neck. Yeah, I get why
that would be good for a crime fighter. But I also

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thought it kind of gave him a bobble head. I think
that Robert Pansen's outfit is actually a pretty

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solid upgrade to the Dark Knight suits. You like
the Joel Schumacher Batsuits more than Christian

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Bales? No, I guess I misspoke. Yeah, those ones are
way worse. So I should say that, well, I slightly

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disagree with you, Lorenzo. They're not terrible
suits. They're just not my personal favorites. I

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like the functionality of the Christian Bale
Batsuits, especially as it was explained in

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universe in those films with like the special
hardening cloth when you would run an electric

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current through it. Things like that make it
better than Robert Pansen's suit, who just uses a

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weird ass basic squirrel suit, you know. Bale had
better shit in general. Yeah, well, Bale had

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Lucius Fox as his cue, so he had better tech
overall. What about the bat emblem, as Lorenzo

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Bale does mentioned? You know, I never really
cared for like the straight, flat top emblem. I

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like a little bit of curves in my Batman logo, you
know. Well, great answer, Lorenzo. You win this

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week's No Prize. If you're the listener, want to
shot at winning your own No Prize, stay tuned to

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later on in the episode when we'll be asking
another question of the week. And now that that's

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done, on to the news. OK, with the premiere of
Peacemaker Season 2 coming up soon, HBO Max has

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released an official red band trailer for the
series, which I thought would delve more into the

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story, but it was really just a showcase for how
raunchy and violent the series is going to be.

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Like, I forgot how raunchy James Gunn can get until
this whole trailer starts off with a friggin orgy

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in Peacemaker's house. And vigilante
complaining about how he wasn't invited. I'm fine

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with the no story stuff, though. I don't want to
know too much about the story as we go into it, but

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this trailer did remind me basically just how much
of a good time I'm in for watching it. Because the

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first season was hilarious and I was laughing my
ass off during this red band trailer. Yeah, after

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we learned that Rick Flagg Sr. is looking for
Peacemaker because he has a dimensional portal

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similar to Lex Luthor, we just get a series of
jokes, including this creepy looking alien that

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steps through one of Peacemaker's portals and
just refuses to say hi. And Peacemaker's like,

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fuck you then, you cryptkeeper looking bitch. So
good. It is interesting that they are addressing

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the fact that Lex Luthor had his own dimensional
portal and that Peacemaker's dad, the White

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Dragon, also has one. It's strange because it
seems like White Dragon's portal is better and

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more stable than Lex Luthor's. Seemingly, yeah.
So does that make White Dragon smarter than Lex

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Luthor? I don't think so. I know we'll be getting
new versions of White Dragon and maybe in some

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other universe there was a version that was
smarter than Lex Luthor. And he just happened to

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create portals for all of the other White Dragons
and all of the other multiverses. That's just my

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guess though. But I would agree that it definitely
looks more stable. It looks like there's going to

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be a lot of action in this season, lots of
explosions, bloody explosions it looks like,

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including an explosion where tomatoes get
flicked in the face with a nail or something like

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that. And eagerly rips a dude's eyeball out. Yeah,
that was wild. Or a finger or both. Yeah, it looks

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like he just shreds the guy. Of course, at the end of
the trailer, we get a callback to the dick alien.

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Not too much more to the trailer other than that. If
you guys haven't watched Peacemaker Season 1,

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watch it now so you can get caught up in time for the
show's release. It debuts this Thursday, August

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21st on HBO Max. I can't wait for the show. I love the
writing. I love the cast. But speaking of the cast,

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that brings us to our question of the week. What is
your favorite supporting cast in a Marvel or DC

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ensemble series and why? Yeah, every television
series based on a superhero usually has a cast of

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characters that support the main hero titular
character. We just want to know which cast of

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characters is your favorite. Record your answer
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include you on the podcast. We'll pick our
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duel no prize that we'll post to Instagram. Be sure
to answer before August 23rd. And in Marvel News,

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we learned this past week that Disney Plus has
moved up the Marvel Zombies release date so that

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instead of debuting on October 3rd, it's going to
now debut a week earlier on September 24th. The

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season is going to be four episodes that are going
to be released weekly. So all the episodes will be

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out before Halloween, but still close enough,
which is appropriate for a horror animated

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series. I forgot that this show was even coming out
this year. How could you forget? This is going to be

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amazing. The What If episode that included the
Marvel Zombies, which was called What If Zombies,

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that was back in 2021, I believe. That was one of the
best episodes of that season. And Marvel Zombies

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is a really enjoyable story. It really grew some
written by Robert Kirkman back in the day, but this

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is going to be a new version of it. I made for screen
adaptation that started with that What If

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episode. Really excited to see where it goes. If
you guys want to learn more about the Marvel

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Zombies universe, definitely check out our
Deceased vs. Marvel Zombies Team Duel episode.

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Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I heard that in this
upcoming Marvel Zombies season, we're going to

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get other characters that weren't in the previous
episode, including Moon Knight and Blade and

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Shang-Chi's also going to be there. So yeah, it's
going to be a big blast. Wait, is Blade going to be

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voiced by Mahershala Ali? That I do not know. That
would be interesting. That would be fantastic.

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Really looking forward to it in just over a month.
And I hope you guys are too. We're not going to be

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reviewing it for this show. I guess depending on
how people react to it, we'll determine whether or

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not I take the time to watch. You're going to be
watching. It's only four episodes. It's going to

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be a quick, easy watch, perfect for the season. I'm
definitely going to be watching. You're

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definitely going to be watching, motherfucker.
And if you don't, I'm going to make you. I don't know

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how yet, but I will find a way. Yeah, bro. You don't
scare me. Why not? Your face? I don't know. It's too

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much like mine. Both all the news out of the way. Now
let's get on to the main event where we find out who

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would win in a matchup between Aquaman's former
sidekick Tempest and the inhuman princess

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Crystal. Okay, Tempest versus Crystal. Now both
of these characters are elemental manipulators,

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I guess you could say. Yeah. Crystal controls all
four of the elements, whereas Tempest controls

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more temperature of water, but he could generate
water through Atlantean sorcery. And like

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Crystal, he's also royalty. He's a prince of
Atlantis. Crystal can generate water too,

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through chemistry. Okay, but can't she control
the temperature of that water? Yes, she can by

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controlling its molecular movement. Too shane.
But we know that Tempest has some magical

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abilities in addition to his hydrokinesis, and
Crystal also has some inhuman physiology traits

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going for her. So we figure the characters kind of
balance each other out. It'll be interesting

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really to see how this matchup goes, considering
they have very similar powers, especially when it

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comes to water. Basically, who will control the
water the best is what we're asking Kare. Oh, easy.

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Tempest. Oh, you think so, huh? Okay. Yeah, I do. In
fact, you mentioned earlier. That Crystal was in

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the Inhumans TV series that was gosh awful.
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If you remember, he was in the Titan show. Was he? I
don't remember that. Yeah, he was blond in that

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though. Trying to remember him. He died in the
second season in like a flashback. I see. Okay.

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Well, in the Inhuman show, Crystal was played by
Isabel Cornish, and I remember she never really

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got to show off her powers too much, largely due to
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think. One of these days, we'll get a good Inhuman
show or movie. We're moving on to the duel to

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explain the methodology behind our duels. Let's
go to our sentient duel simulator, Alfred Jarvis

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9000. AJ9K, tell our listeners how you go about
determining a winner in our duel matchups. Yes, of

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course, sir. The way I determine a winner between
the contestants is by running 1000 Monte Carlo

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simulations using the characters statistics. A
Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic model

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used to determine outcomes through random
sampling. In this case, I randomize the

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statistics along a normal distribution as a way to
simulate the many variables that can occur during

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battle. The stat parameters are based on the
official Marvel power grid from which the DC

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characters statistics are extrapolated.
Additional stat categories are included such as

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range, damage potential, versatility and
perception in order to create a more detailed and

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accurate simulation. The results of the 1000
simulations provide a percentage of wins for each

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character. The contestant with the higher
percentage is declared the victor as they have a

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higher probability to win any given battle. In an
equitable pairing, neither character should win

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100% of the matches. The comic book stories have
shown that there's even a way for Batman to defeat

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Superman, so the confidence rate of my method
falls in line with the precedents that have been

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established in the source material. My
mathematical simulations are without

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subjectivity or bias. Feats are not the sole
consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for

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determination of the winner. Thanks, AJ9K.
Before we run the simulations though, we like to

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break down each character's histories and
abilities before improvising a scenario on how we

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imagine one of the 1000 simulations would play out
beat for beat. And I believe it's my turn to go first

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with the Marvel characters backstory, so let me
tell you all about Crystal. Crystallia

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Immaculinn was born in the hidden city of Adolan to
Cwelyn in Amber, members of the Inhumans race, a

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people whose ancestors were genetically altered
by the alien Kree. As the younger sister of

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Medusa-Lith Immaculinn, later Queen Medusa,
Crystal belonged to the Inhuman Royal Family.

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Like many Inhuman children, she was exposed as an
infant to the Tarogen Mist, a substance for people

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used to unlock powers. And she gained control over
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You can learn more about the Inhumans and
Tarogenesis in our Shazam vs Black Bolt dual

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episode. When Crystal was young, her cousin
Maximus seized power and forced the Royal Family

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out of the Great Refuge. During exile, they
searched across Asia, Europe, and America for her

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missing sister Medusa, living in hiding along the
way. They found her in New York City, where she had

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joined the villainous Frightful Four while
suffering from memory loss. You can learn more

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about Medusa in her duel against elongated man. In
New York, Crystal met Johnny Storm, the human

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torch of the Fantastic Four, and the two began a
romance. Maximus later trapped Adolan inside an

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impenetrable barrier, separating Crystal from
Johnny. When the barrier finally fell, the Royal

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Family explored the outside world. Crystal
helped the Fantastic Four rescue Mr. Fantastic

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from the negative zone dimension and fought
beside them against the invader Blastar. She left

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Adolan for an extended stay in New York and became
part of the Fantastic Four's daily life, running

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communications and supporting the pregnant Sue
Richards. When Sue went on maternity leave,

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Crystal earned a place on missions as her stand-in
proved herself by defeating their villain, the

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Wizard, on her own, then battling foes such as Dr.
Doom, the Mole Man, and the Alien Scrolls. You can

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learn more about the Fantastic Four in their duel
against the Justice Society. Over time, Earth's

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pollution, which is toxic to many inhumans, began
to harm Crystal's health, and she set out to return

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to Adolan. On her journey back, the alchemist
Diablo captured her and tricked her into

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believing she was the Mayan goddess Ishal. After
the Fantastic Four freed her, Crystal

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encountered the mutant Quicksilver, wounded
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Choosing him over Johnny, she married
Quicksilver in the first recorded union between

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an inhuman and a human mutate. You can learn more
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When Adolan was later moved to the Moon, the couple
lived there and welcomed a daughter, Luna, who

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showed no special abilities. Quicksilver wanted
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powers, but Crystal refused. Life in Adolan
strained their marriage. Quicksilver's temper

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and his effort to prove himself as a commander in
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Lonely, Crystal began an affair with a human real
estate agent, subtly mentally influenced by

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Maximus, who sought to increase the marriage's
tensions. When Quicksilver discovered the

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affair, he fled Adolan and the marriage
fractured. Crystal rejoined the Fantastic Four,

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though her lingering feelings for Johnny made
life in New York tense, especially since Johnny

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was then married to a woman later revealed to be the
Skrull Imposter, Lygia. Duty soon called Crystal

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back to Adolan to help with a crisis involving
Medusa and Black Bolt's child, and there she and

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Quicksilver tried again to make peace. Their
troubles soon expanded beyond Adolan when Luna

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was kidnapped by Magneto's acolytes. Crystal
called on the Avengers to rescue her and soon

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joined the team herself. She moved with Luna into
the Avengers mansion. With the team, she fought

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the alien brethren, villainous alternate
universe Avengers, and the Kree Star Force during

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a war between the Kree and the Shiar empires.
During this period, Crystal developed feelings

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for her teammate, Dane Whitman, the Black Knight,
especially after he saved Luna from the Star

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Jammer's and later saved Quicksilver's life.
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but she would not pursue it while still married.
Fellow Avengers Cersei of the Eternals also saw a

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relationship with Dane, and Cersei and Dane later
vanished to another dimension altogether,

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ending the possibility of a love triangle. You can
learn more about Cersei in her duel against

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Firestorm. While battling the Bloodcursed
Warrior called the Bloodraith, Crystal was

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transported into caverns beneath Adolan where
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dwelt. Recovering the Black Knight's Ebony
Blade, she was briefly hailed by the Alpha

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Primitives as ruler before returning to the
Avengers. Soon after, many heroes, including

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Crystal, sacrificed themselves to stop
Onslaught, a world-threatening psychic entity

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you can learn more about in his duel against
Parallax. Crystal and the others were not truly

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killed, but reborn in a pocket universe with no
memories. There, Crystal again drew close to

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Johnny Storm until they all returned to their
original reality. Back on Earth, she reunited

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with Quicksilver, and a brief attempt by Maximus
to control Pietro's mind was exposed and stopped,

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though he and the Black Knight still quarreled
over Crystal's affections. A later reality shift

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by the Scarlet Witch depowered most of Earth's
mutants, including Quicksilver. Desperate he

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stole the Tarogen crystals from Adolan,
kidnapped his daughter Luna, and exposed her to

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the Mists, which granted her empathic abilities.
The Inhuman Genetics Council annulled Crystal's

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marriage at that point, changed Luna's last name
from Maximoff to Immaculin, and returned the

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child back to Crystal. When human authority
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the Inhumans declared war on the United States.
During this conflict, Quicksilver submitted

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himself to Black Bolt's judgment for his
betrayal, and Crystal took part in clashes with

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Shield and the mighty Avengers. The royal family
soon took Adaline into space and turned against

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the alien Skrulls, who had abducted Black Bolt.
Seeking support, the Inhuman Royal Family

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approached the Kree Empire. Ronin the Accuser,
the Kree ruler at the time, welcomed an alliance

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with the Inhumans if Crystal would marry him.
Although the match began as a political bargain,

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Crystal came to respect Ronin and the stability
their union could bring. The wedding was

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interrupted when the Shiar Imperial Guard
attacked, with the Inhumans being killed. During

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Vulcan's invasion of Kree space, Ronan was beaten
nearly to death in the assaults, and while Crystal

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visited him in recovery, she helped rally the Kree
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commoners. The scenes broadcast across the
empire earned her the nickname, The People's

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Princess. Black Bolt later sought to spread
pterogen across the galaxy using a bomb,

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believing it would make all beings equal. Crystal
judged the plan dangerous, and with the inhuman

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teleporting dog, Lockjaw, she reached the bomb
and neutralized the pterogen qualities inside

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the device. A final battle between Black Bolt and
Vulcan caused the bomb, now just a normal

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explosive to detonate, and both rulers were
believed dead, making Crystal's sister Medusa

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queen. In time, Black Bolt returned, and the
inhumans and the Kree supreme intelligence

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agreed to a truce that separated Crystal and
Ronan's marriage for the arranged marriage had

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grown into a genuine bond. Back on Earth, Medusa
appointed Crystal as an ambassador. She

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commanded the royal inhuman vessel with a team
that included her cousin Gorgon, the stealthy

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Naja, the geokinetic Flint, and the technopathic
Grid. Crystal worked to protect nations touched

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by the drifting pterogen cloud that was released
by Black Bolt, which could awaken powers in latent

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inhumans. The cloud however was harmful to
mutants, and she secretly coordinated with them

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to help those who were threatened by the cloud.
Crystal's crew then carried out relief missions

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around the world. In Sydney, Australia, she
confronted protesters who had captured a newly

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formed inhuman. She used measured force to
disperse the mob, freed the captive, and added new

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recruits to her ship. Crystal remained involved
in wider disputes among Earth's heroes, like when

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the inhuman named Ulysses gained the ability to
foresee potential futures. Crystal and Medusa

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introduced him to leading heroes to debate
whether his visions should guide crime-biting

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actions, and a clash followed with Iron Man over
Ulysses' custody as tensions later rose between

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heroes debating the ethics of preemptive
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Powers-wise, Crystal has the enhanced
physiology of an inhuman granted to her through

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pterogenesis. This includes greater strength,
speed, and durability than any normal human. She

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also has the psionic ability to manipulate the
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Crystal's like the Avatar, the last airbender,
and that she can control the size, shape,

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intensity, and molecular motion of these
elements. She can use her power over air to fly,

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create tornado-level gusts, and create force
barriers. She can also control and generate

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lightning by manipulating the electrical charge
of the air. Crystal can combine oxygen and

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hydrogen gases in the air to create water, which
she can also control, even dropping its

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temperature to form ice and freeze things. She can
also compress the oxygen in the air to ignite

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existing hydrogen, or dust, and create a
spontaneous combustion of fire, which she can

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also control. Lastly, she can control the ground
and rock beneath her for various effects,

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including creating seismic tremors. Crystal can
combine elemental effects to also control things

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like dust storms, typhoons, steam clouds,
firestorms, and lava. She also has limited hand

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combat training. And that's Crystal. So were her
powers initially just like the four Hellenistic

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elements that later evolved to basically the
whole periodic table? No, she can't control the

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periodic table. She can control the gases in the
air, some of which are oxygen and hydrogen, which

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she can then manipulate further to create
elements that she can also control. But she can't

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control something like xenon or something like
that, you know, that's not naturally found in the

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air. The electricity thing is a little weird,
because even since her inception, she was able to

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like throw lightning bolts, which didn't make
sense considering electricity is a part of the

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four classic elements. And they kind of kept it in
more modern iterations, rationalizing it as her

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ability to control the electrical charge of the
molecules she's manipulating. I get it. I mean, if

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you think about it in avatar terms, lightning is
just kind of like another version of fire. Not

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really, but sure. I mean, once you said she's like
the avatar, I was like, okay, I got it. A good

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matchup would actually be between Ang, Inc.,
however you pronounce it, and Crystal, Inc.,

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yeah, whatever. I never watched the show. Okay,
we're going to stop recording right now, so you can

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watch the whole show because you need to do that.
I'll watch it eventually, maybe after the podcast

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ends in January. Yeah, that should be the first
thing you do with your newfound free time. But it's

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been a while, I feel like since we've found some
interesting connections between the characters

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that we paint in duels against each other, there
are definitely some similarities between

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Tempest and Crystal beyond just their power set
and the fact that they're royalty. But let me go

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into that in Tempest's origin. Garth was born to
Queen Bera and King Thar of the Idolists, a

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mystical offshoot of Atlanteans who dwelled in
the Hidden Valley for over 4,000 years. His birth

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marked by the rare sign of violet eyes considered a
symbol of great magical potential came during a

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time of political turmoil. Fearing that Garth's
birthright ritual could inadvertently free King

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Thar's banished brother, the Necromancer
Slyzath, Idolist radicals executed King Thar,

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exiled Queen Bera, and condemned Garth to death.
Labeled genetically inferior by Atlanteans

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unaware of his true heritage, Garth was abandoned
on a remote seabed to die. Surviving against all

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odds, Garth was secretly nurtured by the
Atlantean sorcerer Atlan who taught him basic

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survival and language skills. Eventually he was
discovered by Aquaman who took him in as a ward.

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Adopting the name Aqualad, Garth became
Aquaman's sidekick and served Atlantis

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faithfully. When Aquaman ascended to the throne,
Garth was acknowledged as a prince by adoption,

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though his presence remained controversial due
to lingering superstitions. Seeking

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companionship and purpose beyond Aquaman's
shadow, Garth became a founding member of the Teen

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Titans, working alongside other young heroes
such as Robin, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl. You can

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learn more about the Teen Titans in our Titans vs
X-Men Teen Duel episode. Over time, he began to

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grow apart from his mentor, especially following
the birth of Aquaman's son. The death of Garth's

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longtime partner Tula, known as Aqua during the
Crisis on Infinite Earths, devastated him,

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pushing him to sever ties with Atlantis and rejoin
the Titans, where he continued to forge his own

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path as a hero. After years of service as Aqualad,
Garth's life changed forever when he encountered

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a tribe of shark-like merpeople and was drawn into
another dimension by Atlan. There, Atlan

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revealed Garth's royal lineage and trained him in
the arcane disciplines of his idolist ancestors.

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Garth learned to control the temperatures of
water, unleash mystical energy blasts from his

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eyes, and tap into elemental forces beyond
traditional Atlantean science. To unlock his

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full magical potential, Garth was required to
complete a ritual in the Hidden Valley, a rite

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leaked to the prison of Slyzath. Returning to the
capital, the idolists, he found it overrun by

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undead creatures and was confronted by a
resurrected Tula, whose form had been twisted

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into a trap by Slyzath. Betrayed mid-ritual,
Garth overcame the deception, destroyed the

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false aquagirl, and re-emprisoned his uncle.
Emerging victorious, Garth shed the Aqualad

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identity and claimed a new title, Tempest. As
Tempest, Garth assumed greater leadership in

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Atlantean affairs. He served as Atlantis'
ambassador to the United Nations and stood at

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Aquaman's side during global and
interdimensional conflicts. Their bond was once

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again tested when Dolphin, Aquaman's former
partner, fell in love with Garth. She and Garth

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eventually married and had a son, Sirdian.
Seeking stability, Garth stepped back from

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frontline heroics to focus on diplomacy and
family, although he briefly rejoined the Titans

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to assist in critical missions. During a cosmic
upheaval, Garth attempted to use Atlantean magic

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to undo a spell that had altered the Atlantean
Queen Mera's biology. The spell attracted the

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wrath of the Spectre, who attacked Atlantis. The
city was nearly annihilated and Garth was

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presumed dead. You can learn more about Mera in her
duel against Invisible Woman. Garth was later

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found alive but a Misiak in Sub Diego, the sunken
San Diego, having lost his powers and abilities to

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breathe underwater. Those magical and physical
abilities eventually returned, his wife and son

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were lost in the destruction of Atlantis, both
presumed dead. Haunted by grief and guilt, Garth

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crowned himself King of Atlantis in the absence of
Aquaman, believing it was time for new

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leadership. Though his reign was short-lived,
while attempting to relocate Arthur Curry's

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remains with Mera, he was ambushed by reanimated
Black Lanterns, Dolphin, Tula, and Aquaman

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himself. Garth was killed and reanimated as a
Black Lantern, though ultimately destroyed when

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the emotional spectrum was restored. Following
the Flashpoint reset of DC's continuity, Garth's

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timeline was restructured. Once again, he was
depicted as an exiled Atlantean child, cast out

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for his violet eyes. Rescued and raised by
Aquaman, he became Aqualad and helped form the

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Teen Titans alongside Robin, Dona Troy, and
others. Though he once forgot these events due to

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mystical interference, the return of Wally West
helped restore his memories and reawaken his

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bonds with his teammates. You can learn more about
Wally West in our Flash vs. Speedball duel

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episode. During this time, Garth enrolled in the
Silent School, Atlantis' elite College of

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Sorcery. There, he studied advanced magical
disciplines and fell in love with a fellow student

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named Sira. When a magical experiment caused her
death, Garth blamed the school's leadership,

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particularly the headmaster, Locke, for
encouraging unsafe magical practices.

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Disillusioned, he swore off magic and joined the
Drift, a Black Ops Atlantean unit specializing in

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covert aquatic missions. When Aquaman was
declared a traitor and hunted by Atlantean

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forces, Garth was enlisted to capture his former
mentor. Though loyal to Atlantis, Garth retained

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his sense of honor and justice, ultimately siding
with Aquaman when he became clear that the true

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threat came from another dimension. He fought
alongside Mara, a new Tula, and Aquaman to repel

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the invading realm of Thule and helped stabilize
Atlantis in the aftermath. His connection to the

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Titans was rekindled during an alien invasion.
Joining the new roster alongside Donutroy, Beast

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Boy, Raven, and Miss Martian, each of whom you can
learn more about in their respective Duel

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episodes, Garth helped lead a strike against
alien warships, poisoning Earth's oceans and

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mutating its people. In the climactic battle, he
sacrificed himself to hold off the alien god,

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Drogue, allowing the others to escape. Though
presumed lost, Garth later returned, having

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survived the encounter. He eventually supported
the formation of Titans Academy, mentoring young

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heroes and protecting them during times of
crisis. When Red Axe attacked the Titans Tower in

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San Francisco and magical forces threatened
Earth, Tempest defended the students and battled

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alongside his former teammates. Recently, he
stood with Earth's remaining defenders against

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Deathstroke's corrupted army, reaffirming his
role as a steadfast protector of both Atlantis and

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the surface world. The powers-wise, as an
Atlantean, Tempest possesses a range of

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superhuman traits, including enhanced
strength, durability, and speed, optimized for

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survival at extreme ocean depths. He can breathe
underwater indefinitely through microscopic

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pores in the skin and sees clearly in darkness and
murky environments. His hearing and sense of

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smell are also heightened to adapt to aquatic
conditions. While capable of functioning on

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land, he does require periodic exposure to water
to maintain peak condition. Garth's magical

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abilities surpass those of most Atlanteans,
stemming from his royal idolist lineage. Trained

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by the sorcerer Atlan and educated at the Silent
School, he can project destructive eldritch

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energy from his hands or eyes, summon and
manipulate water and rapidly heat or freeze large

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volumes of liquid. He can construct mystical
barriers, perform astral projection, and open

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dimensional portals. His hydrokinesis allows
him to shape whirlpools, geysers, and title

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surges at will. He shares a telepathic link with
marine life, enabling him to communicate and

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command sea creatures, like his mentor Aquaman.
Lastly, he is also a seasoned combatant trained in

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Atlantean martial arts and armed combat. And
that's Tempest. If he could speak to marine life

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like Aquaman can, then he just seems way better
than Aquaman considering he can do everything his

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mentor can do and more. I think there would be more
inclined to honor the king of Atlantis over Garth,

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but yeah, that's probably the only person they
would listen to over him. Seems like the trainee

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has become the master. I like that. Oh, that's more
than Aquaman now. Considering I always thought

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like Aquaman's ability to speak to fish was his
like unique defining characteristic. Well, it is

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in a way. It's sort of like his metahuman ability,
whereas Tempest has to do it through magic. And six

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one way, half a dozen the other. I don't know what
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Well, now that we've got their histories and
abilities out of the way, let's speculate on how

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one of the 1000 simulated matches will go. The
winner is determined by simulations, not the

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speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fight
could play out. AJ9K, what are the rules over

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speculation? Well, I should say there are no
rules, other than the characters have no prior

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knowledge of the other going into the fight. All
they are aware of starting out is that the other

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character is a threat that needs to be eliminated.
For the speculation, the contestants will begin

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approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript
environment that will have no bearing on the match

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itself, as no environmental statistics are
considered in my simulations. The contestants

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must earn victory on their own merit. Alright
then, let's get into it. Tempest and Crystal meet

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on the battlefield? Who goes first? I'm gonna say
that Crystal starts off by igniting some

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fireballs in her hands and she just hurls them at
Tempest, she throws like six of them and they just

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melt his face right off. Yeah, except that those
fireballs are blocked by magic, you know, this

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glowing energy shield that he puts up, which is
then going to shoot out like a handful of purple

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magic energy shards right at Crystal piercing her
under vital organs. These shards are magic and

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they come from his magic shield? Sure, yeah. Okay,
Crystal dodges the shards, she's gonna lift into

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the air with a gust of wind and while she's hovering
in the air, she is gonna form the wind into this like

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mini cyclone and she feeds it with boulders from
the ground that's below them and she sends the

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tornado over at Tempest and it just envelops him
and he gets smashed among all the flying boulders

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within the mini cyclone, just knocked around like
he's in a clothes dryer. Okay, well as the tornado

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is coming at Tempest though, he's gonna open a
magic portal at its base and that's gonna cause it

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just to fill with water. So this water's gonna
quickly spread throughout the tornado and

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Tempest is gonna freeze it. Okay, so you have this
like frozen tornado and he's gonna shatter it into

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a million pieces and send those hurtling right at
Crystal just like this hail storm directed right

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at her like a wall of bullets. Crystal doesn't give
a shit about that, she's the avatar, okay, she just

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lands back on the ground and she neos that shit like
Neo from the Matrix holds up her hand and all the

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hail just stops right in front of her freezing
midair and then she's just gonna vaporize all of

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that water into a thick fog that covers the
battlefield so that Tempest can't see shit and

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he's looking around for Crystal when all of a
sudden he gets sucked into the ground like he just

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stepped into quicksand and sure he can breathe
underwater but like we can't breathe that well in a

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dust storm so he suffocates in the earth and dies.
But you've forgotten that Tempest has enhanced

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senses. He can see at the bottom of the ocean so he
could definitely see Crystal through this fog

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this whole damn time and I mean I guess that
wouldn't necessarily help him from the quicksand

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but that's fine because Tempest is just gonna use
his magic to flood the quicksand with water

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turning it into like a whirlpool portal which he's
just gonna fall into and he's gonna drop through

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that portal down through another one that he
formed right behind Crystal right like a badass

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assassin and he's going to grab her from behind
conjure this magical energy dagger and just

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assassinate her right there. Okay so he teleports
out of the quicksand? Yes. Okay now if he even lays

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his hands on the Crystal he's gonna just combust
into flame okay so he tries to assassinate her but

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he's too busy burning alive screaming like a
maniac and that fire is gonna like desiccate all

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the moisture in his body so he's just gonna be a
dried out husk. Oh shit okay um as Tempest is

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probably on the ground gasping for water he's
going to inscribe atlantian magic runes into the

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ground and suddenly a tidal wave just comes out of
nowhere and crashes onto the battlefield

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Crystal's gonna be smashed into the ground and the
whole environment is going to be flooded with

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water and as she's bruised and broken underwater
that's when she's gonna see Tempest's glowing

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purple eyes and his right hand glowing with red
energy as he boils the water around her. Alright

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yeah she's battered from the wave but to keep from
burning she creates an air pocket for herself in

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the water so she doesn't get touched by the boiling
heat and from her bubble air bubble she ionizes a

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portion of that air and shoots a lightning bolt
into the water that just electrocutes Tempest. Oh

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shit okay Tempest he's probably gonna be stunned
by that or or actually Tempest's body magically

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converts the electricity into his own magic what
he's going to use to fuel an attack he's gonna swirl

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the water around them into a massive just
devastating hurricane like the biggest one on

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record a Tempest and that's going to overwhelm
Crystal and as she's trying to like make heads or

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tails of the environment that's when she's gonna
get blasted with this massive beam of magical

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eldritch energy just completely disintegrating
her so the match is over. Can he do that can he

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convert electricity that's running through his
body into magic dude he's learned all kinds of

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magic tricks studying with atlan and the silent
school if an electric eel can do it i bet he could an

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electric eel can convert electricity into magic
i'm calling bullshit on that and you're made up

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magic it's magic bitch i do what i want. Magic is
stupid okay say Tempest creates a hurricane that

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doesn't matter to Crystal okay she's the master of
these elements he can try to disintegrate her with

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a magic beam or whatever but before he can even do
that Crystal is gonna raise a small volcano out of

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the ground beneath Tempest okay and it's gonna
shoot out this geyser of liquid hot magma all over

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him and he can't get out because she forms the lava
into a sphere around him and she hardens the

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outside of the sphere into obsidian so he's
trapped in this stone prison that's burning him

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alive and he like no marine animal like an electric
eel or whatever can survive that so he's dead yeah

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Crystal wins well i say none of that happened
because Crystal's dead for magic all right we'll

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go ahead and leave the scenario there one of those
two things happens either Tempest gets burned

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alive in a lava prison or Crystal gets
disintegrated by magic energy blast let's go

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ahead and input the character stats run the
simulations and come back with a winner a g9k hit it

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inputting data running calculations processing
results simulations complete all right that was a

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really fun match i really like these two
characters they're pretty cool yeah for some

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reason i thought that crystal would have the
physiological edge here considering that she's

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inhuman and so she has enhanced physicals but then
you reminded me that Tempest is atlantic and so his

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physicals are even more enhanced like crystal is
durable Tempest is more durable than that crystal

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is fast like Olympian fast or maybe even faster
than that considering she can carry herself on

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gusts of wind but Tempest is known for teleporting
and for being super speedy in the water also

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Crystal's just not physically as strong as
Tempest and she's not as good of a fighter as he is

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because he's been trained in the atlantic and
military well crystal has been trained but you

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hardly ever see her fight in hand to hand combat i
will say that her damage potential is off the

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charts sources say that she can control air around
her in a 30 mile radius that's massive that's on the

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level of a city and if she can do the same with other
elements like create a massive earthquake on that

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level then she can easily topple a city if she
wanted to i have seen her raise atlant from the

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ground just using her powers so Tempest i don't
think he can really match that also we have to

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consider that crystal can control the element
that is Tempest's weakness as it were you know heat

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that can dry him out and burn him alive so she
definitely got the edge there yeah we also

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downgraded Tempest's damage level somewhat
considering there was nothing besides magic

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really that he was able to do to hurt her like
conjuring any kind of water whether it was boiling

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or freezing she was just going to be able to
counteract that yeah it might hurt her for a time

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but she would be able to defend herself like if he
put her in a boiling pool or something like that

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she'd get boiled for a second before she cooled it
right magic was his only leg up they were matched

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when it came to evasiveness range and perception
the letter of which actually surprised me because

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you know Tempest has enhanced senses just by
nature of being an atlantian but i guess she has

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full like spatial sense of all of the elements yeah
she has elemental awareness basically another

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thing that surprised me was that she ended up being
more versatile than Tempest which i guess really

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shouldn't have surprised me because well he
controls water she controls all of the elements

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yeah although we did say that Tempest was more
intelligent considering he's one of the most

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learned sorcerers and all of atlantian history
and crystal is smart you know she's she's fine

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she's okay she's not as studied as Tempest with all
that said Jonathan who's taken the win here pretty

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sure it's Tempest i'm not 100% on that but
instagram agrees with me as of this recording 60%

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of people voted for Tempest to win they don't know
you don't know the only person that knows right now

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is AJ9K who has the results so AJ9K the results
please here you are sir all right the winner in the

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duel between Tempest and Crystal is Tempest yes
that does it for this episode i want to thank our

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executive producers Nana what's the one
percentage out of 1000 simulated matches Tempest

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won a lot of them he actually won 752 matches
whereas crystal only won 248 so it was 75.2% over

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24.8% that is wild i did not think he was gonna get a
win rate that high it was the physicals and it was

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the intelligence Tempest is actually pretty
impressive statistically uh whereas crystal you

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know she has a lot of potential she's very powerful
but she just can't match the overallness of

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Tempest that is awesome i love that freaking go
Tempest and suck it in humans no the inhumans are

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gonna be pissed about this result and they're
gonna come out with a fury like the wild cats have

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never seen in our next episode because of this loss
they're not fucking around clearly you don't know

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the wild cats i don't know anything about the wild
cats no actually neither do i um i'm gonna learn all

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about them this upcoming week in preparation for
this team duel yeah definitely can't wait for that

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but that does it for this episode h a9k close us out
thanks for listening to dynamic duel visit the

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show's website at dynamic duel dot com and follow
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website don't forget to listen to the other shows
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destruction senjo world and console combat all
right as we just said our next episode is going to be

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the wild cats versus the inhumans this is a team
duel determined by our executive producers and

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hopefully it's good and by good i mean hopefully
the inhumans win because i'm kind of pissed right

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now but that does it for this episode we want to give
a big thanks to our executive producers john

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steroski zackary heppern destin belcom miggy
mattengian nithaniel wagner levi yatan austin

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wisalaski aji dunkely nikobanto scott kamacho
gil kamacho adam spes dean meliski devin davis

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joseph curseding josh liner mike williams oscar
galvez and paul graves for helping make this

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podcast possible we'll talk to you guys next week
up up and away true believers well i control the

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fifth element love