[Video] Arrival - warning for potential spoilers

[mysterioisthetruth]

[The man that appears on the screen is dressed in what seems to be high tech superhero armour, complete with glowing chestplate and a fancy burgundy cape. He addresses the network with a smooth, quiet confidence.]

I am new to your world and I have been briefed on what is happening and why I was brought here. This country needs heroes to step up and I intend to do all that I can to defend against our enemies.

I am known as Mysterio, a name given to me by the people of Earth-616. I worked with The Avengers and I have travelled across dimensions and fought for multiple Earths. I, personally, am from Earth-833, a world destroyed by monstrous creatures known as The Elementals. But do not fear. If they appear here, I will deal with them as I defeated them on Earth-616 but they may still move through another dimensional rip - or find their way through your Porter. Where there are the elements of earth, air, fire and water, they always may form to cause havoc and destruction.

This is a warning and a caution, for that which may come.

But rest assured, good citizens of this Earth. I, Mysterio, will be the hero that you need.

Comments

[lootsnshoots]

Kickin' a lotta ass and looking good while doin' it.

[mysterioisthetruth]

It seems you've been programmed with personality.

[lootsnshoots]

That'd be because I'm a human consciousness uploaded to a shiny robot body. Once upon a time I had bones and organs and all that fun squishy stuff.

[mysterioisthetruth]

So you're more of a cyborg.

[lootsnshoots]

I'm not usually this guy, the 'gives a damn about particular words' guy, but I'm gonna be that guy here for a sec:

Cyborgs are a mix of organic and synthetic so like, if you got a friend who lost a leg and uses a prosthetic? Technically a cyborg. There's no meat in me. Aside from what I had for lunch, but like. None of my own meat.

[mysterioisthetruth]

Technically, I know that. But you're not a technology I'm familiar with.

However, I'd like to learn more. Do you really need to eat?

[lootsnshoots]

Uh ... maybe? Look, all the nitty gritty details of the Exo project were lost a long time ago, and what we do know are bits and scraps of the shiny PR version of the truth, which means you can trust it about as far as ya can throw it.

[mysterioisthetruth]

The Exo project?

[lootsnshoots]

The project that developed us, the Exos.

[He shrugs.]

If I had more to tell ya about it, I would. But it's lost to history.

[mysterioisthetruth]

That does make it sound like you are a very old being.

[lootsnshoots]

Depends on how you're counting, I guess? I was dead for a few centuries, but like. This body's been around since before the Collapse.

[mysterioisthetruth]

Interesting.

This has been quite the welcome.

[lootsnshoots]

You're tellin' me. I just wanted to gush over the cloak.

[mysterioisthetruth]

[He seems to relax a little, chuckling and glancing at where said cape is resting over his shoulders.]

It's very heavy but it has its purpose.

[lootsnshoots]

Hull patch, pressure seal, bandage, tourniquet, picnic blanket ... a good cloak's got many uses.

[mysterioisthetruth]

And flight.

[lootsnshoots]

[With a gasp:]

Ohmystarsandgartersthatisocool

[mysterioisthetruth]

Is that unusual here?

[lootsnshoots]

A little? But more importantly, it would annoy certain folks back home in a way that I would find really funny.

[mysterioisthetruth]

Why is that?

[lootsnshoots]

Because Warlocks have kind of a monopoly on the flying thing and a cloak that makes ya fly? Hooo boy, that would be a devastating volley in the great sartorial struggle between Hunters and Warlocks, my friend.

[mysterioisthetruth]

It isn't only the cloak but that does aid with balance and the flight itself.

[lootsnshoots]

Still, it's the principle of the thing.

[mysterioisthetruth]

If you say so...