Things being what they are this post is now legal
Illegalities, hyberbole and holes that cover Fangirl’s plan.
Part 1: The lolz that is the “miracle machine” plan.
Fangirl killed herself by showing scans. The miracle machine is a gift that the team is forbidden to access. Not like an avenger can just grab a Quinjet, or like the SHIELD could just pull some standard COMlinks. In order for Fangirl to have a prayer of a plan, you have to believe the ridiculous assumption that this device is “standard” for all legion members.
You have to believe that, despite Brainiac stating that they should never use it lest it make them lazy, despite them sealing the thing in unbreakable metal so it should never be touched, despite members of the team wanting to destroy the thing because it was too powerful, Fangirl relies on the judges buying that any league member could just pop on over to the machine and wish any whims they wanted. She NEEDS the judges to believe that using the Miracle Machine is as standard as a JLA teleporter, because, if it isn’t, it’s illegal. If there’s anything prohibiting League members from using the machine, it’s illegal.
I’m sure the Avengers would have no problem with Wasp dropping in to use a cosmic cube that they had in storage to wish herself a better husband. That’d be cool with them, no worries.
Don’t let the wool be pulled over your eyes, judges. Fangirl makes ridiculous analogies- comparing the miracle machine to something as standard as the JLA toilets- because otherwise, people realize that a machine with unlimited power isn’t standard at all.
And she needs you to believe this, because if you don’t, her entire prep goes out the window.
This is the lolz part though.
She didn’t do anything with the machine.
She granted a whole bunch of little powers to her team, and left them with little experience using them in conjunction, and left them with nothing that can even hurt us. We’re made entirely of any part of the EM spectrum that we want, and move as fast as the fastest of the opposing team. We’re more powerful, we’re more versatile, we can kill them as soon as looking at them. But she needs you to believe that by listing loads of completely irrelevant powers- weather control, able to shrink to two inches, spells that have to be prepared in advance, control of plant growth. She lists power after power, substituting quality for quantity, and hopes that judges will be wowed.
The fact is, we have all of those powers, and more. Using Nimrod’s limitless adaptability, complete with the genius of Reed Richards, Tony Stark and Mr. Terrific in its entirety. We have every machine they have ever thought of, and any power they can conceive, we can make. And this is in a body that is already starting with the abilities of a speedster that can keep pace with Jay Garrick, a body that’s stated by Juggernaut to be stronger than Hulk (with just as good durability and healing), and complete with a telepath that has punked Jean Grey and messed with Prof. X before.
We’re completely rounded out, and we are unmatched in every category. We even have tactics and coordination that shits all over theirs- Tony Stark and Reed played versions of chess that humans can’t even comprehend. Nimrod coordinates new blueprints for new weapons for threats he’s just detected in that little black line that occupies the space between panels. And we’re up against a team that’s been granted loads of useless powers and no experience using them in conjunction. We can have telepathically speedblitzed them the instant the match has started. They wouldn’t even be able to use telepathy and super speed at the same time.
So, in summary, the lolz part of her miracle machine plan is that it served to be completely useless to her, despite the exaggerations and hyperbole she had to employ to make anybody believe it was legal.
She had god’s power, and did nothing with it.
Moving on….
Part 2: The lolz that is her followup
First, Faust.
She wants to use power copying. This is illegal. It doesn’t matter that it’s only on her team, she wants to use power copying. She showed scans herself of Faust copying the powers of Hal Jordan and Flash. This was to support the notion that he could copy the powers of his team.
I happen to be probably the board’s biggest Faust expert, and I made the respect thread from which she’s pulling scans. I know that Faust’s specialty is soul magic, and that he derives powers from people’s souls. So, that’s strike to for Fangirl. I’d quote the rule where it says that power copying is illegal, but I can’t, for obvious reasons. But I’ll try to have Delph make a special appearance.
Now, though I trust the judges sensibilities, I’d like to touch on why it doesn’t even matter if Faust could copy powers, because the horrible extrapolation shown in Fangirl’s plan kinda reflects the sensibility shown in the post as a whole.
Faust did nothing impressive with the powers shown. Fangirl’s assuming that Faust took all of the powers at full capacity, with nothing to support this.
Faust has only copied two powers at the same time. Beyond that, he stole a lizard being’s appearance and a bit of Zatanna’s powers. But he has never copied the entire LEGION. Which is exactly what Fangirl proposes. She believes that he’ll be able to take all of their powers 5 times over. Not that they’d even stack, not that he could wield all the new power, not that it would affect the outcome of the match. But it’s lolz to think that she can extrapolate copying 2 powers to copying 205 powers. (41 members of the legion * 5 times).
And again, he couldn’t differentiate between powers.
On top of this, he assumes that Faust would have the power to do this. Throughout Faust’s entire history, his gimmick is that he can accomplish powerful things, but that all of his magic comes with a price. For this reason, he couldn’t affect Superman with his magic. And because of this, he’s always had a very ominous limit that he dares never breach.
But Fangirl has completely ignored that.
And so, despite him only having ever copied two powers, she’s decided that not only can he now steal 205 high meta level powers at once, he can also significantly power the whole team via their ability to amp (since the kryptonians can take in sunlight for extra power).
Faust barely has any amping shown on panel. Fractional.
The sun, on the other hand, produces more energy per second than humanity has as a whole, for our entire existence.
This is the power that Fangirl suggests Faust can casually expend. And that’s just a second of the sun being used, nothing compared to what Superman and Supergirl need to process in order to be noticeable.
So, lolz. Plan completely failed.
Second, Grunge.
Grunge has copied some sand, some air, some water.
Basic elements.
Now she’s trying to support the idea that Grunge can copy the properties of Diana’s magic lasso. One of the most unbreakable items in comics- you’d have to be a universal level reality manipulator to break it. It’s eons old, was created by beings on Odin’s level of power, and is completely one of a kind.
Somehow, Grunge’s ability to be able to replicate the properties of sand translates to his ability to reproduce incredibly powerful magic.
Could he copy Juggernaut’s durability by touching Juggs? Could he replicate all the powers of Mjolnir by touching it? What about Odin’s staff? Is that fair game?
This is all ridiculous extrapolation, once again, demonstrated by our opponents.
Anyways, the conclusion is that there’s not a single element of Fangirl’s prep that’s believable. And honestly, after the amount of dirt she’s tried to sweep under the carpet, it becomes pretty clear how much of her arguments are baseless fluff.