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And you ever seen one of those superhero movies where the superhero fights a bad version of himself?

Maybe it's not literally a clone of himself, but maybe.

Or maybe it's just somebody who has the same powers, but they're bad.

The message of these movies is the good guy and his nemesis.

They're two sides of the same coin.

The one cannot exist without the other.

And now they're going to fight, but neither of them can get ahead

because they have to have each other, I guess.

I don't know.

It doesn't make, I don't make the rules of superhero.

It's just that's how it goes.

And inevitably, they end up putting their main power right up against

the other ones. So like they both have punching power. They'll both go to punch at the same time.

And then they punch each other right in the fist. And it's like implosion. The universe couldn't

handle that. It doesn't work because some sort of weird notion of balance or something. Or if they have eye lasers,

so they'll both wind up and shoot eye lasers at the other one right at the exact same time.

And then they meet in the middle, which if you think that's weird, by the way. That means they

were both aiming directly for the other person's eyeballs, which is serious. But then they smash

in the middle and like the red laser guy will push

the blue laser guy back and the blue laser guy will grunt and bear down a little bit,

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