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Constructive Body Disposal

When Disposing of a Body, you need a place where the body is unlikely to come to light again. One method is to find a site where a building or road is being constructed and bury the body in the foundations. Some murderers find a hiding place for their body where it will soon be covered up as construction progresses; others prefer to get hands-on and pour cement over the body personally.

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Failure-Induced Transformation

There are many penalties for failure in fiction, but by far the strangest is transformation. Here, the loser in a battle, duel, or contest is transmogrified into a new and usually detrimental shape — often automatically.

The reasons for the transformation are many and varied: maybe it's part of some kind of supernatural contest, with losing resulting in automatically being punished by transformation; maybe there's a magical contract that

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Otto Octavius

Otto Octavius is an absolutely brilliant scientist to the standards of any world, but he comes from a world that was more mundane than the Marvel Cinematic Universe, two decades in the past at that. As such, the new world he finds himself in is rife with geniuses that develop technology similar to or better than Otto's own. The Iron Spider's nanotech rather easily overrides the operating system of his tentacles.

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