Everything was going according to plan.
Like most DC detectives, Deathstroke excelled at observing details, and human expressions fell within his scope of observation as well.
Watching Susan's furrowed brow finally relax and the frequency of her blinking gradually slow, he knew he had achieved his preliminary objective.
It had taken little effort. He had merely taken advantage of Susan's joy and inner conflict upon learning that she had been saved. This counted as an alternative application of the Suspension Bridge Effect.
Once Susan's issue was handled, Fantastic N's problem would effectively be resolved as well, and it would push the Timeline in a favorable direction.
In his previous life, whenever many people thought of Marvel's female characters, they thought of Black Widow, Phoenix, Wanda, and the like. Yet Susan, who never drew much attention, was actually the strongest female character.
The source of that strength was extremely subtle, but easy enough to summarize: a mother rose through her children.
As everyone knew, Marvel had nearly infinite Parallel Universes, and the stories of the Otherworld Variants varied enormously. Yet Su Ming had discovered a bizarre fact from the intelligence of his previous life: what changed and what remained unchanged about Susan.
Take Earth-616 and most Parallel Worlds, for example. Everyone knew those stories well.
Susan married Reed and gave birth to a son, Franklin, and a daughter, Valeria. Both children were quite powerful.
On Earth-1610, the Ultimate Universe of Trepan Reed, Susan married Ben, the Thing. Yet her children remained unchanged: Franklin, who still died young, and Valeria, whose name was never mentioned.
On Earth-15513, Susan married Doctor Doom. Though the children bore the surname Doom, they were still Franklin and Valeria.
On Earth-772, her husband was Aquaman Namor, and the children were still those two.
On Earth-42777, she married