With the Multiverse saga bleeding into everything, we’ve lost the stakes. If anyone can come back from the dead via a timeline variant, why do we care about the villain?
You are not a pessimist. You are a realist who has seen the source code of reality —and it's held together with #ifdef hacks, undocumented fallbacks, and one retired sysadmin's cron job that nobody understands but everything depends on. geek crack