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[–] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Gotham like city, called 'Paradoxolis', builds an alliance with Trolleyman by creating an institution called 'The Altar', filled with 'undesirables, criminals and suicidal people' ready to die at a moment's notice.

Paradoxolis raises the 'Trolleyman' signal in the air accompanied by an extremely loud railway horn ... Trolleyman arrives ... they sacrifice one of the people from 'The Altar' and Trolleyman instantly gains his powers

Crisis takes hold of the city as The Altar starts to run of out people to sacrifice so they start grading people across Paradoxolis according to a 'worthiness scale' and start sacrificing people according to an arbitrary 'worthiness meter'.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    "... It was a broken system that still managed to work in spite of itself. For months, families complained, but no one really cared. Lives were being saved. That was still the only metric. That was the only metric that ever hit the news.

    Then the mayor's daughter went missing. Her face showed up after a week, automatically added to the Alter's 'Wall of Honor' one day. In fact, the day after a group of 4 burglars were saved by Trolleyman from being killed by a millionaire's overzealous security team.

    That day the mayor quit. He walked out of the Paradoxolis City Hall, and devoted the rest of his life to killing Trolleyman."

    Bro, the story writes itself.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not directly related, but psycho pass is an excellent show about a dystopia with a sort of kind of precog system for identifying criminals. Bad guy does bad guy stuff to show the system is broken, good gal cop has to try to stay idealistic.

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