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Being throw into a volcano sounds like a pretty bad ass way to be buried, the next most bad ass thing I can think of would be for my corpse to be put in the drivers seat of a car filled with explosives then thrown off a cliff so it explodes when it hits the ground.

I mean, why not both? If you're lucky(?) your corpse will even trigger an eruption!

Some days it's indistinguishable from a bot. All days the particularly contentless ones warrants a hypnotoad. The train is on, now, it only stops at ribbity death.

The fact that they have had contact with us without subjugating or eradicating us means they know how to interact peacefully.

Well, either that or they're just real good at one or the other and we just haven't noticed that they've already managed it. The former is often proposed by conspiracy nuts... the latter I haven't seen as much, but the proposition that the current course we're on in regards to global warming (i.e. severe reduction in population and/or capability, or outright extinction) is being influenced by hostile aliens fits right into that.

Hell, it wouldn't even take much effort, just time. Few technological nudges to encourage us towards self-destructive technology, little bit of push here and there to keep the social landscape tore up enough to prevent sufficient mitigation efforts... if you're looking for low personnel investment global xenocide, it could look a lot like our current situation.

It's almost a shame we don't actually have hostile extraterrestrials to blame for us own-goaling our species, heh. There'd at least be some respect to be given there for a well performed engineered extinction event.

Quick check suggests Doom was kicked out of his university prior to graduation, so it's possible he doesn't actually have a doctorate. Fairly unlikely, though, what with the whole "rules a country" thing -- I'd be wildly surprised if Latveria didn't have at least one accredited university willing and able to give either an honorary one, or work with him to properly graduate.

Doctor Bong actually canonically achieved a PhD in psychology, so. Doctor Bong really was... though after becoming a supervillain, so he wasn't for a bit but eventually took time off to graduate.

At least one of the Fates probably was, too -- Nelson, at least, was both a physician and archeologist at one point or another, so it's fairly likely he actually did have a doctorate, maybe multiple. There's several doctor fates, though, so it's entirely possible any particular one wasn't.

Round 0 - Hypnotoad.

wait, does that mean celestials have blue skin due to silver overdose

I'unno, there's parts of christianity that debate whether or not Jesus actually existed, nevermind smaller issues. There's probably some denomination or another that either directly says animals have souls, or are amenable enough to the concept they don't disagree when someone else holds to it.

e: as in, like 5 seconds of googling will pull up mention of straight up popes (John Paul II back in the 90s, for one example) saying animals do, in fact, have souls, so. Yeah, there's actually debate among christianity on that one.

e2: the pope after Paul 2 held otherwise, the current pope seems to be in the "all dogs go to heaven" camp, there's a history of debate and different positions on animals souls probably going back longer than most of us have been alive