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[odditycollector]

Deep, Important Discussion on whether my interpretation of the Legion cartoon is the only valid one...

greenygal: Who knows? It's an alien race of sentient superintelligent mindmelding transforming robots. Anything is possible!
odditycollector: That is what I want! *decides* To see Brainy turn into a truck!
Carmen: He totally could!
Carmen: Well, unless he only has specific alternate forms. I don't think they've indicated one way or the other. It would probably be a weird-looking purple truck, though.
Carmen: But yes, phrased that way the Coluans do sound suspiciously like Transformers. Somebody needs to write that crossover.
Carmen: Or, actually, it would be simpler just to have Clark explain. And then Brainy can satisfy his childhood nostalgia by turning into a truck.
Karen: A *flying* truck!
Karen: With missiles!
Karen: And purple headlights!
Carmen: And Clark can sit in the cab!
Karen: I'd be surprised if he is *that* limited. He's got at least 3 different forms, and we saw him "grow" parts in that one where he totally loses his mind...
Carmen: (and his head.)
Karen: ( :p ) Maybe they are in Smallville, and Clark is worried Brainy will be conspicuous?
Carmen: What, in Smallville? Recipient of daily alien invasions and bizarre criminal happenings as they are?
Carmen: --okay, Clark would probably do this, I'm just saying.
Karen: Also Clark needs a truck, okay! Possibly to impress Lana!
Karen: This ends about as well as you'd guess!
Carmen: ...oh, man. Because it's canon how well Brainy deals with Clark having a girlfriend!
Karen: "Ow! Every time I sit down, I get an electric shock! I really should have used a dryer sheet."
Karen: "... Excuse me Lana, I have to have a word. With... my truck."
Carmen: "Brainy..."
"It was an accident."
"An ejector seat was an accident?!"
"*primly* She shouldn't have touched anything."
"She was trying to undo the seatbelt!"
"It's a very sensitive control."
Karen: Hahaha! ... suddenly the whole process of seat belts seems a bit euphemistic, however!
Carmen: "Superman, you're not wearing your seatbelt."
"I don't need a seatbelt. Invulnerable? Remember? Also, my truck is a transforming robot and probably isn't going to hit anything, right?"
"Yes, but...it sets a bad example."
"To all the people who aren't in this truck with me?"
"I just wouldn't want you to get into inappropriate habits."
"*sigh* Fine. *click* Better?"
"Ohhhh...yes. Yes."
Karen: I bet his seat has a vibrate option.
Karen: That... tends to go on occasionally, regardless.
Karen: So not much of an option, really...
Karen: The vibrating seat probably goes off a lot when Clark is driving Lana to the movies or whatever. "Clark, why are you squirming?"
"I... uh! My seat! Is set to massage!" And then Lana wants to give it a go.
Carmen: And Brainy will pointedly not cooperate, because he is not that kind of truck! Also he hates Lana. "I, uh, guess it's stuck?"
"But you said it was working five seconds ago!"
"It's very...difficult."
Karen: And then as soon as she gets up, it starts working again for Clark. "..."
"I guess I just have the magic touch?"
"I bet. ...Is your truck *purring*?"
Carmen: "No! No! *loudly and pointedly* It's just engine noise! Which sounds like the noises engines make!"
Karen: "...RRRRR VOOM VOOM VOOM..."
"Did it just *say* 'Voom'?!"
"... No?"
Karen: Of course, *after* the movie, Lana asks if *she* can try driving the truck for a bit! (It does look rather shiny, after all.)
Carmen: "I, um, I'm not sure that's a good idea...it's very temperamental!" Of course she turns the key and it obligingly starts right up. After that, though...
Karen: "Clark, you are such a *boy*. It's just truck! You'd think it was your girlfriend or something!"
Carmen: *at which the truck makes an extremely un-trucklike noise*
Karen: Clark more or less says "Fine!" and gets in, the better to totally avoid responding to that statement. Although his expression is magnificent.
Karen: At first the drive is smooth, except that the truck goes faster... and faster... "!!!!" "Take your foot off the gas!" "It IS!"
Karen: They get pulled over by a cop. Eventually. After Clark kicks it under the dashboard a few times and it deigns to slow down, vrooming innocently.
Carmen: And then Lana gets written up for speeding, while protesting that she would never do that! The truck was...uh...doing it on its own! Or something!
Karen: *eyes narrow* "Miss? Have you had anything to drink tonight?"
Carmen: *snerk* Fortunately for her, I don't *think* Brainy can unobtrusively arrange for alcohol to be in her bloodstream...
Karen: Well, he could probably 'talk' to the breathalyzer, but he wants Clark to speak to him ever again.
Karen: Getting Lana *jailed* is probably against the rules. Unless she does something to deserve it, like kill someone. Or litter.
Carmen: He probably dreams happy dreams about Lana committing a crime. Alexis was very obliging that way!

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