I can't think of any reason there [i]would[/i] be a real bomb there, even a pragmatic one, unless Pariah's aiming for the League to potentially wind up with no recruits on the first day and for it to be shut down pending a major international incident.

Also kind of agree that this has both dragged on a little too long and become kind of excessive. Experienced enough to pull punches might work in some cases but it's still maybe a bad thing when you have as many dangerous injuries and in your initiation trials as you do in the live-fire, actually fighting super-villains thing.