"Everything I Needed To Know In Life..."

[Wolf]

You would.

[Timothy]

Today in Intro to Psychology, we discussed the effects of various poisons on the central nervous system... Poisons that included the venom "Curare", which, incidentally, was both the name of a villain and episode of "Batman Beyond"... Do I get bonus points for also wearing my Batman Beyond t-shirt today? ;D

[Wolf]

^...No. This one I actually attribute to the Riddler: Never underestimate the power of a good riddle presented to people of one track minds. They will be adequitely distracted while you do whatever it is you need to do. And from the Batty side: Nothing stumps a Riddler like a quick comeback to a riddle that is supposedly unanswerable. They'll either slip up and tell you the answer or they'll be so surprised they're speachless and dumbfounded for enough time to turn the tables. My examples of each: the first=my honors gov. class. You stump them with a riddle it's all that's covered for the rest of the period. the second=my friend Heather trying to stump me and me stumping my other friend Jennie. Heath slipped up and told me (I wasn't really trying anyway, but hey, FREE ANSWER). Jennie tried stumping me with the woodchuck riddle and was left speechless for five minutes trying to take in the fact that I had a semi-logical answer. It was priceless.

Yay Batman/Riddler conflict!!!

[Timothy]

I understood the Freudian concept of the id simply by reading Justice League of America comics contained in a trade-paperback

[Timothy]

We were discussing in my psychology class how sociopaths have no conscience and use people as objects prior to tossing them aside. I then described the six-minute IMAX clip of the Joker robbing a Gotham Bank from The Dark Knight, along with how he encouraged the six or seven armed hoods accompanying him to kill each other for higher profit.

[fr3ak]

Alright, so this one isn't as specific as most posts have been (I have sadly left the majority of my comics back at the folks' house), but here's my sole stroke of comic-inspired classroom brilliance.

My Geometry teacher once asked the class whether there was an iron-clad method to solving a maze. One smartypants in the front row gave the 'correct' answer: "Hold out your left hand and follow the wall."

I'm hopelessly lost on which comic this might have been from as it was at least ten years previous, but there was a scenario where our hero was placed in a maze via some clever finaggling from his sworn nemesis. Our hero was confronted with the same problem - how would he get out of the maze?

Here's where life threw me the middle finger and turned my attention to the fact that I didn't have the follow-up issue. So I'm left with our hero calculating madly an escape plan, and the villain's jeering certainty of the hero's impending doom.

Years later, I remember our hero's maze-related pickle and begin to wonder if the hero knew about the 'hold-out-your-hand' technique. At this point I think, WWVD? What Would Villains Do?

Fancying myself the conniving sack of diabolicality (I've made it a word) I sometimes am, I came up with a design for a maze that would fool our poor Mr. Hero.

I constructed a multi-sectioned maze that, no matter which side of the wall he followed, he would never find his way to the exit. Why? Because my maze had two key parts: an outer ring and an inner ring. Our hero would start at the outer ring, but be prevented from reaching the exit inside the inner ring because no walls connect the two sections.

I should totally draw a diagram sometime, it's tragic.

Years later and back in Geometry class, I throw in the summary my fatal little design and get extra credit for...well, for being a smartass.

Long-winded anecdote aside, I suppose what I learned from comic books in this instance is that there is no sure-fire way to get out of a situation. Situations are just what the word implies: situational.

I'm extremely tired so if this doesn't make a lick of sense I'll correct it when I get back on!

[Wolf]

My latest comic book caper: randomly inciting mass singing of the Batman theme. It's fun ^_^