Quote:"If you can't beat'em, make 'em join you," sort of thing? (I always prefeered the variation form The Four Post-Men's song, _Whatever Happened To The Chainsaw Juggler_ myself - "If you can't beat 'em, let ME beat 'em!") Given that it's generally harder to recover from being evil (in fiction, I make no claims either way for the real world) than to start, having a song that turns him teporarily into a demon might indeed be a VERY VERY BAD THING. On the other hand, if iher hand, if it didn't have that much mental effect, it might be just the ticket to sne for a few minutes' worth of stealth to get a good-guy team foot in the door of some demonic stronghold.
This might be a very interesting option for the 'opposing team'... We know Doug routinely wears his Tuneplug to avoid accidental activation of his metapower... supose someone dispatched an Imp of the perverse to cause it to fail at, of course, the worst possible moment.
Thinking about it some more, the most likely literal wording effect for 'Time is on my side' would be for Doug's personal timeframe to speed up, making him able to operate really fast, for as long as the (also speeded up) song lasts, at least. It would be like that one episode of Batman The Animated Series where Tempus Fuget the clock-obsessed villain gets his hands on some little clip on thingies that do the same thing, and at the end he and Bats and Robin have it out in a grey, frozen world - then the effect wears off, and all the secondary effects of it happen to the world, blasts of wind, splashes across the water where one of them pulled a Flash and ran over it, explosives going off in odd (safely remote) places, etc. Alternately, it might be one of those songs where he can tell something's happening, but not what - and what it's doing is making sure no time altering effects are happening in the neighborhood (not like you could tell this, unless facing a time-bender of some sort) or paging Sailor Pluto/the Norns/Dr. Who/??? and whoever it is just hasn't been in the same reality to notice, or hasn't deigned to answer. If it's The Norns, then a note that he got a bad feeling about trying it too often and stuck it in the list of songs that he doesn't play would probably be a good thing to include - but when the local Norns are the AMS versions, that could be a more useful/less dangerous thing.
Uh, yeah, so anyway...
- CD ...and as they stormed the mountain and kicked him to death, he said one more thing! He said "OW! Stop kicking me! Aargh! Not in the skull! Stop kicking me! I'm dieing!"
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