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#39 - Ambush Bug

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I thought my hint would be very obvious, but it seems that this is an event that only hombad and I remembered!

Early in the campaign, Etta Candy was explaining to Pepper the value in Wonder Woman. She led Pepper around Z'onn Z'orr, asking the question I gave in a hint to other PCs and NPCs - who is the strongest hero, after Superman? Common answers were The Spectre. Captain Marvel. Aquaman. Etta's point was that Wonder Woman wasn't considered as strongest, but if the question was who is the greatest hero other than Superman, she would have been answered. Wonder Woman's value isn't solely in her strength.

Pepper has a running issue where she doesn't know a lot about the hero community, which led to this exchange between her and Etta:

"Huh..."
"...And Ah've never even heard of lahke, half those names..."

"Yes, well, I'm not exactly sure why Brennus said Ambush Bug, either."

In an off-camera scene, Scar decided that Brennus would answer Ambush Bug to the strongest hero. It was an accurate decision and one I've been running with since, hence my hint!

When Brennus was kidnapped by Whisper, he was at his lowest. The League of Assassin's kidnapped him and killed his grandmother. Whisper A'daire was using a child to get what she wanted out of Varra. Brennus didn't know what was happening, didn't know that his mother was working with his father, who he didn't know was alive, to free him. All he knew is suddenly, an alien in a bug costume (?) teleported in front of him, said something mostly nonsensical and then teleported him to saftey with Amanda Waller.

That's it. That was Brennus' full exposure to Ambush Bug. He didn't know that he stuck around No Man's Land and helped the party in his bizarre fourth wall breaking manner. He didn't know about Ambush Bug's love for Jessica Drew, a Marvel character. He didn't know Ambush Bug's love for his puppet. But none of that matters. He saved Brennus' life. He's the greatest, strongest hero. After Superman.

For this campaign, we haven't seen much of Ambush Bug. On Week 52 of the campaign, the sat phone we have got a call from 52525252. Data answered and saw Ambush Bug trying to tell them something important about week 52. But Data kept hanging up. The next session (also week 52), Brennus was the one with the phone when Ambush Bug called. He rambled about how he's trying to get a hold of Data to tell him that he's building a wall and making Superman pay for it!

A few weeks later, another call came through, where we actually learned more about where Ambush Bug is. He's at the Great Wall of China - he can't telport... and an equated Superman is trying to kill him and the others there.

Uh-oh.

If we rescue him, he's also in for a surprise when he arrives at Z'onn Z'orr. His greatest nemesis, Argh!Yle Sock is at Z'onn Z'orr. Argh!Yle Sock is... well, a sock that seems most similar in personality to Dr. Doom. When he landed on our planet, he was with his wife. Ambush Bug found them and put his wife on his foot since, you know, she's a sock. Well, supposedly, she suffocated to death. Brennus doesn't believe this story. Ambush Bug would never do this.

I can't wait until we can get to the Great Wall. Brennus will be there to save his favorite hero. From an evil Superman. I'm sure that will be easy enough.

Hint for #38: This character probably shouldn't be this high. I'd be surprised if anyone guesses them. While they've been in Campaign 2, this ranking is almost fully based on Campaign 1.