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[WP] Your superhero name is The Underdog. The more unwinnable a fight seems, the more powerful you become. Unfortunately the reverse is also true, and today you face your toughest task yet: helping an old lady cross the street.
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[WP]You are denied entry to heaven because you have done unspeakable things. You are denied entry to hell because you did those things to very evil people. Unable to place you, Heaven and Hell sweep the paperwork under the rug and you continue your work.
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[WP] Instead of playing the lotto, you started befriending and assisting lonely elderly people to scam your way into their wills. Years later you're doing ok, completely oblivious to the fact families recommend you as the most affordable, most professional in-home care available.
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[WP]The invaders won, humanity is extinct. But the aliens found a new and more powerful enemy. Turns that all human religions were true and the gods come to avenge their creations. All of them.
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[WP] "Its about time the humans discovered FTL travel and entered the galactic stage... they didn't discover FTL?... What do you mean they moved their ENTIRE solar system??"
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[WP] Saint Peter won't let you into heaven because he views videogame violence as real violence, but Hell follows the same logic and won't let you in because your favorite videogame was Doom.
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[WP] When he was 8 years old, Bruce's parents took him to play a baseball game. His team lost badly. The memory marked him so he dedicated his life to the study of baseball. Until one day he returned to be a symbol for Gotham, a master, genius baseball player. He became the Batman.
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[WP] You can see everyone's Deaths following them, arriving to offer their hands right as they die. Today, you saw something new; someone chasing after their Death, who is fleeing at a dead sprint.
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[WP] An adolescent who believes they were "born in the wrong era" meets a ghost who lived and died in that era. The ghost proceeds to explain why that era wasn't actually all that great...
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[WP] Aliens have captured you, and injected you a concentrated chemical to keep you binded. After all, humans always talk about how a rush of it makes a man lose capacity to think rationally. Little do they know, they are doomed, for they injected you concentrated adrenaline, and you’re pissed off.
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