At that moment, Schiller realized a problem: if he truly had to confront Laughing Man's endless preemptive predictions head-on, what would be the best approach?
Theoretically, there was no solution. No matter what you did, Laughing Man could always pop out at the end and say, "I foresaw everything long ago." Ignore the mountain of nonsensical explanations, and it was really just forced divine intervention.
But if such a phenomenon existed, if Laughing Man was the god being dropped in, then someone had to be performing that divine intervention behind the scenes. That meant some existence stood above the entire world, able to fling shit everywhere without even bothering with logic.
Since such things existed, they had to exist within some universe or dimension. To solve Laughing Man's problem, he could not simply deal with Laughing Man. He had to deal with them as well.
But that was far too difficult. If they really were higher-dimensional beings, then for characters within a story to deal with them would be no easier than for a computer file to jump out of the computer and beat up its owner.
But following this line of reasoning, there was another, somewhat easier solution.
Laughing Man might have been a bigger pile, but he was still a computer file. So far, he had not displayed any Fourth Wall-breaking traits like Harley or Deadpool. Therefore, it could be assumed that he could not see the world outside the computer either.
Then, if a new file were created in the world outside the computer and transferred into the computer, Laughing Man would not know what that file was. Since it had been created in the real world beyond the computer screen, if Laughing Man could not see beyond the screen, he could not know how it had