So you’d condemn her without hearing her side of the story?
She told her side of the story. She said every single person in India had wronged her and was judged deserving of death, which she then supplied. That’s 1.2 billion people, by the by, just vaporized.
I’m sure she’s got a hundred different excuses, but no, I’m not really interested in hearing them.
“Netflix and chill?”
I would break down crying. Just fall apart. 90% of my family are still there, including some people I love very much. I think I might try to cultivate my own super powers just to get revenge. Radioactive spiders anyone?
I’m definitely letting it go to voicemail.
I would talk to her.
I live in a world in which super powers exist. If she’s calling to say that it wasn’t her – that there’s a super villain whose powers are shape shifting and orbital bombardment, and that I should have known she wouldn’t do any such thing – after all, since when has she had the power of bombardment? – I can at least listen.
Obviously, I would be interested in what evidence exists for her story.
Caller ID doesn’t work for international calls. So I’d know she was actually a telemarketer and ignore the call.
“Indira, what you did was wrong, wrong, wrong! I cannot condone such actions. However, since there’s no point to closing the barn door now, do you need a sidekick? I’ve got this list…”
Yes because America should really pay the price for the UK’s colonialism.
The OP is British anyway.
Um . . . bootlick? I’d like to think I’d take a Principled Stand, but honestly, if she can obliterate India, the US is small potatoes. Maybe “ally” myself with her, try to get as close as possible, then assassinate her. Or provide information to help the FBI/CIA/etc.
We get dibs on all of the erstwhile Bharat except the North East and Tamil Nadu. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka can have them.
This is a superhero we’re talking about?
So first we’ve got to rule out:
Holograms
Mind Control over the hero
Shapeshifters
Masters of Disguise
Illusions
Mind control of everyone else–we just THINK she obliterated India because some evil dude is mind controlling us.
Robot Duplicates
Alternate evil dimension versions
Evil twins
Evil Clones
Time traveling evil future versions
Superdickery–she didn’t actually obliterate India, she’s just tricking me into thinking she did so I’ll reveal whether I know her secret identity or some other goofy premise that exists only so the cover can show me sobbing “WHY? WHY DID YOU OBLITERATE INDIA?” with her smirking and saying “I HAD MY REASONS, LEMUR-BOY”, while the inside story bears almost no resemblance to the cover.
Since continental destruction seems not only out of character for her, but impossible based on what I know of her personality and powers, I think my first assumption is that someone else wore her costume and nuked India.
I would definitely pick up the phone and figure out what’s going on. If she did it, I’d probably do my best to 1) hide and 2) alert the authorities.
However, I might be unable to answer the phone, being emotionally distraught about American guilt-by-association for English imperialism and the possible implications of karma.
Oh wait, India was a British colony too. So they’re equally guilty for their own genocide and have paid the price for karma already. So, yes, definitely take the call.
It works fine on my cell phone.
She just destroyed India.
Fuck, yes. There is no “her side” of the story. I’ve never heard Pol Pot’s side of the story either.
I’d answer the phone and do my best impression of Anthony Freeman’s father. Let’s not antagonize the the nice young lady with her finger on the button of the doomsday device shall we.
Also as other’s have said it may be a doppelganger.
I’m surprised it took as many as 33 posts for someone to fight the hypothetical. You omitted the simplest alternative explanation: the meteor storm was a purely natural event and she just took advantage of it.
Probably take the call…as,
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Maybe there is some exonerating circumstances—i.e. “it was my evil counterpart,” “I was being mind controlled,” etc. Hey, superpowers are apparently a thing, so weirdness is conceivably still on the table.
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There might have even been justification for what she did—I mean, slaughtering millions upon millions of people, many or most of them apparently innocent would require a preeeeety big-ass argument to even be understandable, let alone condoned, but I know only that I know nothing—maybe they were all Skrulls, or infected with Solanum, or it was determined after careful calculation to be the only way to avert WWIII. All I know for sure is what I watched on TV, in my thoroughly soiled pants.
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I really don’t want to risk pissing her off. I don’t relish the thought of her leveling my continent in a fit of pique, or tracking me down and slowly removing and force-feeding me my own cytoplasm. I’d at least try and make it friendly and non-judgemental. “Hey…‘sup? ‘s goin’ on? Ol’ buddy?”
And, hey, maybe best (?) case, it’s actually just another superhero who found Indira’s phone, and they’re going through her contacts for clues on what happened, and how to stop her. Or at least to find “loose ends” she hasn’t killed, yet, and get them under protection. :eek:
Hang up.
Never communicate with her again.