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1!![[Literature/{{Firefight}} Novel]]
2* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Dawnslight]]'s messages are extremely creepy, with him begging for help through fortune cookies, and sending a lot of bizarre messages besides.
3* Obliteration's powers. He can teleport as soon as he is about to be hurt, can appear near you at any time, can suck out the heat from anything, [[FantasticNuke and has melted three cities into nothing]]. Actually, most things about Obliteration count.
4* We finally hear an explanation of what the moral corruption is like, from an Epic's point of view. It's not a little voice whispering in your ear urging you to evil, it's a combination of a [[HairTriggerTemper being very easily annoyed]], [[ItsAllAboutMe completely self-centered]], and just a tad too apathetic to think of any solution that doesn't sound like [[MurderIsTheBestSolution "kill the people who have inconvenienced me."]] If that doesn't sound terrifying, then stop and think about the fact that ''everyone'' feels this way sometimes. The source of all the super-powered evil in the world is just a few perfectly human emotions plus superpowers.
5** As an example, in Steelheart, a minor epic, Refractionary, killed a family in a car for accidentally cutting her off in traffic! Basically, all those thoughts you have in a moment when you're annoyed that would usually cause you to curse or shake your fist at the sky? They cause murders when you're an Epic because, why not?
6*** WordOfGod actually states that his sudden anger at getting cut off in traffic is part of what inspired the series.
7* Obliteration ''melts half of David's body''. David only survives because of the power that Prof gifted him, which reconstruct his body and brain within a second. It's an intensely disturbing experience.
8* The implications of this quote:

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