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And then came Austin Powers. Yeah, baby!

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What's next? Russia doesn't look so powerful anymore while China looks very intimidating. My spidey sense is a power shift towards Asia.

More important question: why does Spider-man have a dash while Superman is dashless?

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Great question, and I just read that Stan Lee made the call in order to differentiate Spidey from (especially) Superman. Neat!

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Who would win in a fight? Dash power or dashless? Maybe if Dash from the Invincibles teamed up with Spidey they could take him

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On the basis of Superman being way, way more powerful, I'm tentatively going with no dash. Let's see if there are contradictory examples. Ant-man and Batman are two, but we might need a third category for the likes of Iron Man.

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jic you haven't seen these https://youtu.be/HgzuMSyo4Io

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I had not yet seen that one! Not bad.

Ever watch "The Boys"? I think they got to make this joke a few times.

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Took me a minute to get the joke 🤣🤣🤣

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And if the US takes Canada and Greenland, it can be a Super-Superpower. What's the term for that?

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Hyperpower. It's what insufferable people have been calling the US since the end of the Cold War.

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That's an appropriate moniker for many reasons!

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We just can't sit still!

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