Trying to Romance a Battle-Scarred Character in a Simulation City Makes You a Joke

This is a remarkable city on the West Coast.

Here, you can find an utterly useless mayor and criminals of advanced age.

It's hard to imagine that Gotham, the crime capital of the world, would lose to New York when it came to the rate of crimes committed by the elderly.

The protagonist watches his property go up in flames. His ID says he's a convenience store manager, but in reality he has so many identities that there's no room to list them all. He coolly puts on his sunglasses and can't even be bothered to say, “Oh.”

This is hilarious. A few buildings, emphasis on a few, are supposed to get me excited?

The store manager refuses to take off his sunglasses.

The store manager always thought his city was pretty normal. Sure, the mayor often built pointless, complicated, ugly roads and caused man-made floods that submerged the city, while the citizens mindlessly jammed up the left-turn or right-turn lanes.

But the store manager still thought his city was pretty normal. At least it had never been invaded by aliens or had a supervillain make some grand declaration.

Ahem. The store manager isn't calling anyone or any city out.

That is, until the store manager and Superman watched a burning building slowly but resolutely move toward the ocean and put out its own flames in the water.

Until Batman's grappling gun got stuck on the clipping-through-the-world rooftop of the police station.

Only then did the store manager admit that maybe his city wasn't all that normal after all.

Theme: Dare to fight back