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She said: “It's only when they've been numbed and they see the actual device coming out and they feel it prodded in their skin, do they realise what's actually going on?”

But for Freeman, it was a concoction of adrenaline, relief and gratitude that — at least for a little while — mostly numbed the pain in his badly sprained right ankle.

She recalled that during the procedure, she was given "a few puffs of ether" which numbed parts of her body but she was not under anesthesia.

“After months of creating a dominant-submissive relationship, plaintiff was numbed and acted without thinking and it went from there with Alvarado-Gil establishing her ability to dominate him,” the lawsuit states.

Is it strange to suggest that, 35 years on, after becoming numbed by synthetic superhero kinetics, Woo’s brand of over-the-top now feels more grounded?