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Have been “Sax_R”, “ndp1701”, and “McGrooda” in the Other Places. I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.

Brandon Routh reprising his role as Superman from “Superman Returns”, reborn as the Kingdom Come Superman at the end of the Arrowverse “Crisis On Infinite Earths”.
Picard, from the awesome TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, when he has to whisper to Captain Garrett that “The war is going very badly, far worse than is generally known.”
Marinette transforming into the Miraculous Ladybug, in the movie of the same name.
Pike in Strange New Worlds saying: “I've seen my future. Let me show you yours. Our conflict also started with a fight for freedoms. We called it the Second Civil War, then the Eugenics War, and finally just World War III. This was our last day. The day the Earth we knew ceased to exist. What began as an eruption in one nation ended in the eradication of 600,000 species of animals and plants, and 30% of Earth's population. Global suicide.”
A screenshot of overcast showing a podcast title and episode name. Link in post!
"Let us take up the problem of the moment, then. For the first time, the Foundation has been faced, or perhaps, is in the last stages of facing, civil war. Till now, the attacks from without have been adequately beaten off, and inevitably so, according to the strict laws of psychohistory. The attack at present is that of a too-undisciplined outer group of the Foundation against the too-authoritarian central government. The procedure was necessary, the result obvious." The dignity of the high-born audience was beginning to break. Indbur was half out of his chair. Bayta leaned forward with troubled eyes. What was the great Seldon talking about? She had missed a few of the words. "—that the compromise worked out is necessary in two respects. The revolt of the Independent Traders introduces an element of new uncertainty in a government perhaps grown over-confident. The element of striving is restored. Although beaten, a healthy increase of democracy-" There were raised voices now. Whispers had ascended the scale of loudness, and the edge of panic was in them.
A partial screenshot from Strange New Worlds season 3 episode 6, showing the ruined hull of the antagonists ship. The US flag, circa 2050s, is there - revealing the alien threat’s true origin.
The bronze medal meme, with Han and Luke from Star Wars being the dick celebrating despite coming in way behind multiple characters from Andor.
Excerpt for Ian Dunt’s column on the Trans Supreme Court case. Reads: “A Strasbourg ruling against a UK Supreme Court decision on trans rights would be politically dangerous. It is as if someone combined the most toxic debates into one poisonous brew: trans rights and the European Convention of Human Rights. If the court, as is likely, found in favour of trans rights, the clamour from the Conservatives, Reform, and the right-wing press to leave the Convention would be deafening. If it succeeded, our departure from the Convention would unravel the Good Friday Agreement and blow open the Northern Ireland peace process. It would throw Britain into European isolation once again just as we were starting to return. It would be like a new Brexit. Trans issues seem distinct from Europe and Northern Ireland. They are not. They are connected.”