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[[4 figures are standing around a table-top crisis planning model. Two are wearing police-style hats; one holds a clipboard.]]
Figure 1: It's as long as a football field. Runs as fast as a cheetah.
Figure 2: Weighs as much as a blue whale.
Figure 3: Can we negotiate with it?
Figure 4: No. It has the intelligence of a two-year-old child.
By the time the Frequently-Made Comparisons Monster was finally defeated, it had eaten enough people to fill a stadium and devastated an area the size of Rhode Island.
{{Title text: It was finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.}}
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