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1st May '13 7:47:49 PM Kalaong

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* Executions and body disposal are a pretty wasteful use of time travel; naturally altering the past can have disastrous effects, however the first thing the mafia would ask when presented with such technology is "How can we make money with this?" The answer? Money laundering. Precious metals are sent back in time as 'payment', but are exchanged for currency, putting the gold and silver back into the mob's hands, thirty years in the past. The kicker is the money is, like the hits, effectively untraceable; it seemingly has no origin or paper trail. Considering the metals are 'bought' from the Loopers for current-day value (or possibly less) and will accrue value in the intervening years, the mafia will make quite a tidy profit from that alone.
**To say nothing of the potential manipulation of the precious metal stock market. Sending all that silver back in time makes it common, meaning it's practically worthless in their present. They're paying for a valuable service in ''WorthlessYellowRocks.''
*** On top of ''that'', the time period they're targeting is in a depression. There's nobody to stop them from screwing with the precious metals market.

14th Apr '13 1:53:14 PM andu

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1st Apr '13 10:36:53 PM masterzora

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8th Mar '13 7:04:44 PM Daanando

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Pointing out the problems with the Kid Blue = Abe theory.

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26th Feb '13 4:16:30 PM masterzora

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5th Feb '13 5:16:25 PM CompletelyDeluded

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1st Feb '13 6:10:18 PM CompletelyDeluded

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* When explaining the Rainmaker, Old Joe says that he's rumoured to possess a synthetic jaw. Later in the film, [[spoiler: Old Joe opens fire on Cid, grazing his face in the process; assuming Young Joe's prediction of the future was accurate and Cid really would have escaped onto a passing train, it's likely that quite a while would have passed before he sought out medical attention... resulting in an infected wound. Taking into account [[CrapsackWorld the nature of this setting]], he probably wouldn't have found anyone willing to help him for quite a while, allowing time for his injury to turn gangrenous; either he used his telekinesis to threaten some BackAlleyDoctor into treating him, or he got taken in by a crime syndicate who'd be willing to pay his medical bills in exchange for his loyalty- either way, his jaw probably ended up being amputated during the surgery. Thirty years on, a superpowered homeless man/psychic assassin with a rather distinctive facial prosthetic takes revenge on the world.]] Guess that rumour might be a bit more accurate than you thought, Old Joe...

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