American Comics: Something's Wrong with This Superhero World

Chapter 94 Official Debut

The entire prison's supervillains escaped—such a huge event—and it all happened in one night, or even less than one night. Superman arrived and captured all the escaped supervillains who were still alive in just 15 minutes.

Not only did they not lose any, but while arresting people, Superman also had time to arrest many black and Mexican men who were not fugitives but were taking advantage of the chaos to make free purchases.

Superman is highly regarded online, but the opinion within the superhero industry is quite different.

Generally speaking, superheroes have a strong regional focus. New York Company superheroes like Osborn and Stark usually don't get involved in events in Metropolis or Gotham. Similarly, Gotham's Batman usually doesn't interfere in New York's affairs.

Although there are no explicit rules, this is basically an unspoken rule in the industry. It's fine to come and make money by giving interviews, but if you come to fight monsters—no, I mean fight supervillains—unless it's a collaboration with a local company, you'll be boycotted.

Generally speaking, if someone like Superman goes too far, steals Tony Stark's prey, and wipes out all the supervillains who escaped from New York, they will most likely be shot six times in the back and forced to commit suicide.

However, considering Superman's strength, let alone six bullets, even six nuclear bombs wouldn't kill him. Compared to nuclear bombs, six walnuts might be more effective. At least after throwing them, you can argue that you just wanted to buy Superman a drink.

But if everyone refrains from retaliating because Superman is strong, then the New York Superheroes Company will lose face, especially Tony. It's no different from being slapped in the face and then kicked a few times. If he doesn't retaliate, his rivals like Harry Osborn and Justin Hammer will probably mock him every time they meet. Will Tony still be able to hang out in high society in the future?

So retaliation is definitely in the works. They'll either pressure Wayne Enterprises to punish Superman, take action against Wayne Enterprises, or directly target Superman himself.

In addition, Xiao Xian officially debuted through this incident. Although his feat of defeating a group of supervillains seemed less eye-catching compared to Superman, it solidified his identity as a superhero. With his playboy persona, Xiao Xian successfully became popular.

Xiao Xian's method of becoming famous was simple: he obtained tickets to a high-end entertainment party through the Osborn Group, and within a day, he successfully got famous actresses such as Taylor Swift, Megan Fox, Emilia Clarke, Emma Watson, and Charlize Theron to confess their love to him online.

The most sophisticated publicity often employs the simplest methods. In just one day, so many national goddesses were won over, many of whom even had partners before confessing their love to Xiao Xian. For example, Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend, Kelly Rohrbach, boldly expressed her love for Xiao Xian on Twitter.

Almost overnight, Xiao Xian's name quickly became a well-known figure in America and even globally. The goddess he admired became Xiao Xian's lapdog, and countless young men gritted their teeth in envy of Xiao Xian, wishing they could kick him away and take his place.

As for the women, opinions on Xiao Xian were quite divided. Those who thought Xiao Xian was handsome praised him to the skies, calling him the most handsome superhero in history, a super handsome man once in five thousand years, the most charming man in the world, and so on, showering him with compliments as if they were free.

Another small group of girls were completely indifferent to Xiao Xian's looks, feeling that... "That's all? You can't say he's not handsome, he is indeed a rare handsome guy, but he's not to the extent that some people are praising him to be."

Especially those female fans whose idols were cheated on by Xiao Xian and who had no feelings for Xiao Xian, they couldn't understand why those female celebrities would give up their idols and choose Xiao Xian. In their eyes, their idols were the best.

As for those female fans who still find Xiao Xian handsome even though their idol was cheated on, sorry, their idol has changed. Although Xiao Xian may not be as devoted as their idol, and he can't sing, dance, or rap, nor care about his fans as much, he is still handsome.

He's already so handsome, what more do you want from him?

It's not that Xiao Xian doesn't want to pretend to care about his fans; it's just that circumstances don't allow it. Whenever he appears in public, girls in wedding dresses run up to him to confess their love and propose, and some even rush up to try to kiss, hug, or lift him up. If they're beautiful, that's fine, but some of these heavyweights make Xiao Xian wonder if they can even fit into his car.

Of course, there were also some pretty girls. Xiao Xian even played friendly matches with a few of them. One of them left the deepest impression on Xiao Xian because she came with her boyfriend.

At the event, the young woman, dressed in a wedding gown, loudly professed her love to Xiao Xian, with her boyfriend standing beside her. Xiao Xian initially mistook her for a rich girl with her celebrity-chasing entourage.

Seeing that the other woman was pretty, Xiao Xian accepted her business card. Her boyfriend took her to the hotel and watched her put her arm around Xiao Xian as they entered the hotel. He said he hoped she would take precautions. The young woman smiled and told the man, "Don't worry, I don't want a child that isn't yours."

It was only then that Xiao Xian realized that the two were a couple.

Incidentally, after the young lady went upstairs, she begged Xiao Xian not to take any safety precautions and insisted on recording the incident as a keepsake.

Although he didn't understand his boyfriend's thought process, Xiao Xian still took the time to call over the White Queen, so that she could see how the freak thought and conduct experiments on him.

To facilitate the experiment, Xiao Xian arranged to meet the young woman several more times, each time with her boyfriend bringing her. Initially, her boyfriend was somewhat resistant but not much, but later he became very enthusiastic, even implying that it was okay if the young woman wasn't safe.

"How was it?" Xiao Xian saw the young lady off again, then pulled the White Queen into his arms and said, "Can you replicate this kind of thinking in Harry? Oh, and Tony too, I hold grudges a lot."

"Harry should be fine. I've gotten quite an understanding of this now. The hardest part is implanting the seed of consciousness, but I can implant it little by little into Harry's subconscious while he's drunk or on drugs. It should be no problem." The White Queen nestled into Xiao Xian's arms, stroking his abs.

"But Tony's chances are slim. Although he also drinks, he's much smarter than that idiot Harry. He might realize that someone has tampered with his subconscious. I think it's best not to take the risk."

"It's only Harry, which feels a bit unnecessary. Actually, I feel like I'm making up for it with Mary Jane, since he and Mary Jane have never actually been intimate." Xiao Xian said, a little embarrassed, touching his cheek. Mary Jane was already his own persona.

"Harry plans to bury you underwater, filled with cement, when he and Mary Jane go on their honeymoon," the White Queen said. "And once it's done, we can legitimately use Harry's power."

"Damn it~ Get him, get him really hard!" Xiao Xian said immediately upon hearing this.

"What about Tony?" the White Queen volunteered. "Should I hypnotize Pepper and stab him to death?"

"Forget it, that would risk exposure. He's the head and cash cow of Stark Industries. Killing him would drive many stakeholders crazy. Besides, revenge has to be full of malice to be considered revenge. Killing him would be too easy on him," Xiao Xian shook his head.

"By the way, I heard that Tony was behind Deadshot's assassination attempt on Superman using Kryptonite bullets?"

"That's right, I read Deadshot's mind from afar, and it's true. It's a pity Superman's reaction speed is too fast, otherwise Deadshot would be confident that the shot would hit Superman's heart squarely," the White Queen replied.

"You think a bullet traveling at several times the speed of sound can hit Superman who is close to the speed of light?" Xiao Xian curled his lips upon hearing this. Unless it's a plot device, how could a Kryptonite bullet possibly hit Superman?

Some versions of Superman can travel through time faster than the speed of light!

(End of this chapter)