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Andulusi
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Posted on 2021-06-28 14:27:50
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That doesn't seem like something a brainwave scanner would do, but who am I to argue with eighties(?) comic book logic?

notanotheralias
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Posted on 2021-07-02 22:27:45
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Andulusi said:
That doesn't seem like something a brainwave scanner would do, but who am I to argue with eighties(?) comic book logic?


Right, made this pool last week and then got distracted by things. I'm going to make comments just in case anyone cares. Anyway, this was the early '90s, the "GI Joe Ninja Team" arc of the original comic.

The Brainwave Scanner was originally just this memory reading machine that was supposed to really painful that was created to be a feature in the toy playsets. It gave Cobra lairs a "toruture device" that wasn't actually any kind of kid-unfriendly torture. Later on in the comic it was upgraded to be a kind of generic brainwasher and/or to have weird mindscape scenes. I've been going over some of the old comics, and I guess there were actually a lot of mind control-centric plots.

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