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[CW] For all their faults, humans are the one intelligent species in the galaxy that cannot be predicted reliably by A.I.. When other species have an A.I. problem, it is the brilliant and bungling humans who are called in to solve it. This is also why humans cannot make an A.I. for themselves.	140
[EU] There is a species that worship the Borg as part of their religion, and in their zealotry crave being assimilated. The Borg have seen a lot of planets and cultures, but this is the first time the hive mind has ever been legitimately creeped the fuck out	138
[WP] Nine times now the Sultan has tried to execute a powerful magician, and each time it has backfired spectacularly. The magician has warned him that he'll regret it if they try to execute him a tenth. You're standing in the crowd when the magician teaches him the meaning of regret.	125
[WP] For eons Death has gotten used to harvesting weak, awed, petrified humans. Death is so imposing that nobody has ever even tried to fight him. They all surrender to him, young and old, insane and lucid. Death is completely unprepared for a man who beats his head in with a tire iron	114
[WP] Satan faces the issues of being a single parent to the babies and children sacrificed to him	79
[WP] Much like The Doctor, the part of The Stig has been played by ten or twelve different men over the years. Every Stig eventually dies terribly in a mass of twisted metal and flames. For reasons unknown, this is actually one of the most closely guarded state secrets of the United Kingdom	73
[WP] A skilled magician is booked into the county jail on a drunk in public charge. It is freaking impossible to keep this guy in his cell	67
[WP] Batman has had powers all along. He's just been hiding them, because he's the goddamn Batman. Also because he knows the longer he hides them, the more it will mess with Superman when he reveals them.	66
[WP] Satan's favorite day of the year is his birthday. Every year on his birthday all the lawyers in hell get together and do something nice and bureaucratic for him: chiefly they overwhelm heaven's legal system because only three lawyers have ever gone to heaven	61
[WP] The devil loves law and litigation. Every year on his birthday all the lawyers in hell get together and overwhelm heaven's legal system with frivolous suits and petitions making odd demands of the almigthy	59

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