COIE: the Wavering Self-Doubt Game!

COIE Games: the Wavering Self-Doubt Game!

"I... I don't know if I can handle this game;
what if my mental powers are not up to the task? I'm so scared!"

As you'll recall, Wavering Self-Doubt is one for the four allowable types of statement in Marv Wolfman's Crisis on Infinite Earths. Without looking it up, can you figure out which characters spoke or thought the following examples of Wolfmanesque Wavering Self-Doubt?

1. "With all my powers ... I can't save any of them. I ... feel so useless."

2. "I use to revel in my powers, but when I need them the most -- they're useless. It's ironic, isn't it?"

3. "I can do nothing more than cry."

4. "Instead of saving the earth, I could be committing suicide!"

5. "It's begun and I ... I can't even help."

6. "Can I fight them? Or could they destroy me?"

7. "I'm way outta my league. So what in blazes do I do about it?"

8. "Monitor, why us? Surely there are others with greater powers!"

9. "How did this happen without my knowing about it?"

10. "Now I feel so useless, so helpless, so worthless -- and so very, very scared."

11. "I keep getting these feelings. Feelings that say bad things are happening ... and even if they never get any better-- they're sure going to get a heckuva lot worse!"

12. "But it's useless, none of us has the power to stop it."

13. "I ... I was useless before ... now I'm helpless, too."

14. "And I wonder, am I playing a game meant for young folk only?"

15. "It will take time to recharge ... I ... I can't do anything now."

16. "I ... I don't understand any of this!"

17. "I .. I haven't got long before I'm powerless to stop it. Trouble is, I know what's going to happen to me if I'm successful."

18. "I -- I feel like I don't belong on that earth. I belong elsewhere. I belong out here ... in the void ... in this nothingness."

19. "I'm using all my atomic force, but it's useless against him."

20. "You want me to absorb a sun's energy? I -- I don't know if I can."