It is, all things considered, a very nice drawing room. Portraits adorn the walls and the heavy drapes are open to let starlight from the moonless night through. There's a table far too small for the large room with a pot of tea, a set of tea cups and an arrangement of cookies and fruit. Two oaken doors are firmly closed to one side, and to the other a single door is slightly ajar, the sound of sobbing coming from past it. Every once in a while it's possible to hear a page being turned in the other room as well. The drawing room on its own is silent, save for the ticking of a grandfather clock and then, with no prelude, an exclamation.
"I think they rather enjoy being the ones to do the naming... I could probably convince them to change it if I offered to be interviewed or something of that nature, I suppose?"
"I could do so via writing, but it doesn't seem very important either way. It also seems possible it's an appealing name to commoners, even if it doesn't match my sensibilities."
"Does it matter - to anything besides newspaper sales - if your codename appeals to commoners?"
"People might be more likely to trust Ton O' Iron with information about empowered criminals."
"The likely situation in which this happens is one where I show up to a crime in progress, the perpetrators escape, and the victims have useful information to tell me."
"I mean, it could be, but not very predictably? But since you don't have a great way to change your name it doesn't matter."
A glowing orb of light that burned anything it touched and weakened the powers of those close to it.
A giant two-headed pig which spawned smaller duplicates the size of houses, which spawned their own duplicates the size of horses, which spawned further duplicates, all the way down to ant-sized creatures. Also, several of the empowered got sick after the battle.
A living glass maze, including walls that appeared solid but instead led you to other portions of the maze, often used to redirect the attacks of empowered to hit other empowered. Additionally, a strange being made of bone haunted the maze. Or several such beings, it's unclear.
Maybe the ant-sized pigs spawned germ-sized pigs? Did they rule that out somehow or just assume that ants were the end of it?
Any kind of pattern to how the bits of the maze connected up with each other?
So probably none of them lead to his universe but, like, are there any that don't definitely not lead to his universe.