Originally posted by OneDumbG0
[b]1) Black Lightning and Tattooed Man called it a circuit. They never called it "circuitry." A circuit can mean a region enclosed by a line or a path/route, e.g. racecar circuit. It does not necessarily mean electrical circuitry, which is presumably the connotation you would like to imbue it with.If it's a circuit, as in a path/route accessing the Life Equation, then calling the Life Equation that would comfortably fit. Additionally, Mr. Miracle called it an alphabet from the language of the New Gods. Metron called it knowledge. Both of those terms denote the Life Equation much more comfortably. And a motherbox clearly does not. I'm going to take Mr. Miracle's and Metron's clearer terminologies over your strained speculative use.
The reason being, you simply cannot support that when they said "circuit," they meant "electrical circuitry" of a motherbox. As Allankles and I have now clarified, Mr. Miracle's bodysuit pattern definitely resembles the pattern (which is wholly separate from his motherbox) and he is the actual avatar of the Life Equation. It can't represent a motherbox.
2) As for Tatooed Man destroying the forcefield, I have no idea how you came up with this idea. Why would Tattooed Man destroy the force-field that was protecting the Hall of Justice? It never slowed down the Justifiers either, Ollie slowed them down. All the heroes were simply arguing that Tattooed Man had to leave because he held an important key to winning the war on his skin.
3) As for "We need to get Ray back to Earth with that circuit of yours," they are referring to their plan to have Ray go back to Earth while possessing the circuit so that he could draw it all over the place. Which he in fact does in Final Crisis #7. You must remember that Ray, under his own power, was transporting himself all over Earth delivering supplies and the Daily Planet newspaper. He also used his power to teleport all the heroes (bar Ollie) to the JLA Watchtower. He didn't need the circuit for any of that.
4) Mr Miracle has a bodysuit pattern that clearly resembles the top half of the Miracle Machine, but that patternry is definitely a representation of the Life Equation because, it bears repeating... he is the avatar of the Life Equation. And Mr Miracle was neither responsible for it's design, nor getting it to Superman. So we have at least one person that has a partial Miracle Machine design on him that has nothing to do with Miracle Machine directly. The Miracle Machine is based on the Life Equation, which is represented by the patterns. You want to have it the other way around, where the patterns are based on the Miracle Machine. That just wouldn't make sense with respect to Mr. Miracle. He's not the avatar of the Miracle Machine. [/B]
👆 I was getting circuit and circuitry mixed up. I agree with Mr. Miracle is the avatar of freedom and the letter of the New Gods on the Tattooed Mans head is the Life Equation. The Miracle Machines symbol I was talking about it being Metrons symbol on his chest, which I think everyone agrees with. I can see what your saying about Ray now. The part with the force field looked like he was messing with it somehow but I can see now that he didn't bring it down.