Awards Extravaganza!

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A camera pans over a vast audience of super-heroes and super-villains from all walks of live, orchestral fanfare playing all the while, before the camera and the stage lights come to focus on the main forum, and its red velvety curtains.

An announcer's voice booms: "Live, from Bob Kane Memorial Stadium - designed, drawn, and funded by Bill Finger - it's the Second and a Half Annual Ambush Bug Presents Awards Extravaganza!"

The curtains part, giving way to the night's emcee - Ambush Bug, dressed to the nines in a sharp tuxedo. A sharp, orange tuxedo.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Ambush Bug Awards - the Schwabbies, as they are popularly known. This is our second and a half annual ceremony, and I hope we can continue the fine tradition of dignity and aplomb that we have maintained all these years. But - what's this?"

Ambush Bug looks towards the rafters, where there is suddenly a glow.

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Best Gritty Revamp

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The stage is cleared once more, and the emcee returns.

"And now - prepare to get grim. Prepare to get fierce. Our next category will rattle your bones, and fill you full of hot lead. That's right, it's.. Best Gritty Revamp!"

He gestures once more to the center stage.

"Please welcome your hosts .. Charaxes, and Killer Moth!"

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The demi-demonic Charaxes drops to the ground behind the podium, having been hidden in the scaffolding. He hisses a greeting to his more-human counterpart, who arrives through more conventional locomotion.

"Been a while, Moth."

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Cameron van Cleer is visibly taken aback.

"Aren't we the same person? I mean.. what the hell?"

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"Don't worry about it. Continuity is hard. Congrats on the Infinity Inc. job."

Charaxes steps forward to begin.

"Our first nominee for Best Gritty Revamp is the perennial laughingstock of the DC Universe, Aquaman. Going from an orange-scale shirt and talking to fish to a beard and a hook hand may seem mostly cosmetic, but no one's laughing now, are they?"

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Killer Moth still seems a little nervous about this.. other him, but gamely continues.

"Next, we have my Infinity Inc. colleague, Catman. Blake's really cleaned up his act and whipped himself into shape - he was as much a laughingstock of the underworld as Aquaman was in the surface world, but now people actually get a little nervous when you say the name 'Cat-Man'."

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"Only if they mis-hear it as 'Bat-Man', I think."

Charaxes chuckles - a raspy, hellish rumble.

"Third, we have Brainiac Five. In the latest incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, everyone's favorite Coluan has gone from a churl to a borderline sociopath, indulging in casual manipulation of his colleagues, whom he deems vastly inferior. Good for him."

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Killer Moth keeps looking back and forth between the teleprompter and his co-presenter, deeply unsettled.

"O-our fourth nominee is .. Wonder Woman. While few overt changes have taken place, there's no doubt that her brutal execution of Maxwell Lord in the core DC Universe has turned a page in the life of the Avenging Amazon.."

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"Man up, Cameron. Your knees are knocking. That new armor come with a waste collection pouch?"

Charaxes leans forward to speak in a harsh whisper.

"Our final nominee has been cutting a swath of bloody terror through the underworld of the DC Universe. No chains can hold him, no wall can contain him. His savage battles with Darkseid's legions are legendary, and many a postman has reconsidered his career after being confronted by.. Rex the Murder Dog."

He picks up the envelope, slicing it open with a talon and sliding out the card within.

"No surprises here. Eviscerating his fellow challengers is the bloody and terrible Rex, the Murder Dog."

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Rex hops up on the stage, and reaches up, placing his paws on the podium.

"Uhhh.. guys, I don't remember any of that, really. But you know, I made a bad deal via my agent, so it's entirely possible that there are some stories floating around that aren't true to my image. I told him to ask for creative control, but I did get a lifetime supply of steak out of the deal, so I've got that going for me."

Rex pants, looking around the audience for a moment.

"Well, anyway, I'll keep this short. Thanks, and god bless!"

He grabs the statuette in his teeth, and trots off of the stage.