{"id":3509,"date":"2024-09-09T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:57:22","slug":"minor-super-villain-609-lucifer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 609: LUCIFER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scientist-adventurer Flip Falcon has a machine that allows him to enter the Fourth Dimension and come out, effectively, anywhere. He’s used it to visit various other planets and will use it to travel through time – it’s an adventure machine, basically. The fact that it can detect something as vague as “a disturbance somewhere” is both on point and completely meaningless – when you can go anywhere and anywhen, you can always<\/i> find a disturbance (he does sometimes let Adele come along, by the way).<\/p>\n

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This turns out to be Flip’s first adventure to take place in the Fourth Dimension itself and<\/i> the first time that the Fourth Dimension is suggested to have a supernatural element, as he encounters Lucifer himself! And his magical mouth!<\/p>\n

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Perhaps I gave the disturbance-detector too hard of a time, because the disturbance it somehow detected was Lucifer getting ready (did he finally accrue enough power or just make the decision?) to destroy planet Earth!<\/p>\n

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Lucky for the Earth and all who dwell on her, the trail of energy that Flip leaves behind as he travels not only functions as a lifeline to his home but in a bit of a deus ex machina<\/i> turns out to have anti-demonic properties! Flip securely ties up Lucifer and then… just goes home. It’s a very confident move, assuming that the Great Adversary, a being capable of destroying whole planets, will never escape from your improvised knot, and if he does (he does, we’ll be seeing him again) he won’t bother blowing up the planet out of embarrassment or something. And just because that’s exactly what happens is no reason not to ask questions.<\/p>\n

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