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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9622730" data-attributes="member: 18">Assuming - they said absolutely nothing at all about the ownership of the diamond (which itself was interesting), but there's no possibility someone who owns a truly gigantic cut-but-un-set diamond like that and does nothing with it is less than a significant multi-millionaire, so let's not pretend. Also they explicitly say it's worth $1.8m (and that's presumably the black market value - the legit market value would be much higher, possibly as much as 10x higher based on real-world cases). And one simply doesn't acquire massive chonkers of diamonds like that through fully-legit and above-board means ("colonial exploitation" not being "legit" to be clear). It just doesn't happen. Especially not ones you then hide away in a bank vault (it's not even smart as sort of "if things go bad I can sell this" tool - a big chonker like that is far less possible to liquidate than a lot of smaller diamonds and less fungible than gold or the like).Also, let's be real, they were sent there by a crime boss - the odds are pretty good the diamond belongs to another criminal of some sort (quite possibly the guy they were supposed to getting the money for).Yeah I was wondering about that. Muse seemed to be like, 80% as good at melee combat as Matt, and very "damage-resistant", neither of which trait seems to go naturally with "serial killer" or "artist"! I understand they're a comics character, but I'm not familiar with them.Oh that's it! That's why I knew "sword-fighting guy" the moment I saw him! Okay thank you! I feel a little less crazy.Re: epee - yeah I am sure. You can re-watch the video, it's in the second part of the BB segment immediately after the recap. 100% that is a straight "fencing" sword, it even wobbles in the way an epee does (though lol you could not take people down like that by batting them - rather than poking them - with an epee, not even a "live" one, but that's presumably artistic licence). Definitely not a sabre, I was a sabre fencer and I'd recognise one in a heartbeat (also they're curved and this sword is straight). Maybe he just uses a variety of "fencing-style" swords now? I still think it's odd they didn't go with his medieval-style sword from the comics given that's part of what separates him visually from El Aguila (well, also not shooting lightning!).I mean, it's clearly not abandoned, there's literally a train going through it, but apart from that, that makes sense.I mean, I think we did see superior strength/endurance and we definitely saw superior agility given some of his twists and spins. His bizarre behaviour certainly has Inhuman vibes, but I rather doubt that'll come up sadly.</blockquote>

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