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In DC Comics’ Justice League of America #119 (June 1975), by Elliot Magin and Dick Dillin, Hawkgirl is revealed to be affected by a lab-engineered illness referred to as the Equalizer Plague. The germ robs every sufferer of their particular person traits and abilities and thereby reduces whole populations to a homogenous, mediocre common.
It’s intriguing, in addition to a bit of bit scary, to understand that whereas this may have meant a decline in talents for half the inhabitants the opposite half would have skilled a marked enchancment. But, it’s understood, not less than inside the world of super-hero comics, that an society isn’t going to advance very a lot if everybody and every thing in it’s simply the identical beige shade of meh. The Plague is one thing to be resisted and cured.
Such a world would even be boring as hell. Baseball followers would appear well-positioned to know the dangers of an Equalizer Plague.
It has been a dozen years for the reason that major-league season ended with out both a 100-game winner or a 100-game loser in a full season. In 2014 the Angels, of their ultimate playoff season up to now, topped the American League at 98 wins. The Nationals, with a dominating pitching workers and a model of Anthony Rendon who was nonetheless into it, led the Nationwide League with 96. Flip the telescope round and you’ll barely understand the Rangers with 95 losses and the Diamondbacks with 98. These had been unremarkable groups in an unremarkable season, and it was becoming that the World Collection between the Royals and the Giants was a matchup of Wild Card groups. The Collection even went seven video games, with the seventh determined by one run, as if nobody was fairly able to declaring themselves the winner.
