Make sense
Make sense verb - Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Make sense is an antonym for stop.
Both terms in one sentence
- Since he's in the same verse as The Spectre and The Phantom Stranger, it didn't really make sense and was retconned into being that Doctor Thirteen's very presence makes magic stop working.
Source: Science Destroys Magic - What doesn't make sense is that, also unlike Swiper, telling the Bobo Brothers to freeze makes them stop, even in midair, to apologize (Oops. Sorry!).
Source: Swiper, No Swiping! -
Lampshade Hanging: A portion of this shows humor derives from them hanging lampshades on things that don't make sense, such as characters asking why the power to stop time affects everybody but them and the villain, or why Oliver's clothes changed size when he got older and younger respectively.
Source: Series / Mighty Med
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