The Many Ming Heresy

If I ever run my Flash Gordon game again, you should all know that there are 2 great heresies on Mongo among Ming loyalists, who are trying to account for the fact that HIM The Emperor has always been able to bounce back from seemingly certain death:

the Many Ming Hypothesis posits some source of clone Mings, maybe even a Ming factory or vault: new Mings are deployed as needed. Proponents of this hypothesis point out that there is often a short delay after an apparent Ming death when the Klytan guards restrict citizens’ movements. Extremists say that multiple Mings are always active, which is how he can get around the empire so fast;

the Doctrine of the Necessary Ming assumes that there must always be a Ming, so that whenever the position/continuation of one becomes untenable, another is spontaneously generated elsewhere in Mongo. Imperial propagandists flirted with the Doctrine until it was pointed out (by Ming himself!) that enthusiasts might be tempted to try to assassinate HIM in order to prompt a state visit to “their miserable, scabrous little reptile holes.”

[HIM: His Implacable Mercilessness]

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