No one had ever managed such a feat before.

Never before had there been a person like him.

Not that he seemed particularly extraordinary. Neither his name nor his appearance seemed anything other than generic, average, mediocre - if he was special, it was only in how completely, utterly, /plainly/ ordinary he was in every way.

Nobody expected it, and perhaps that’s why it happened how it did. No one intuitively expects for extraordinary things to have ends that are anything other than extraordinary themselves; so perhaps it was fitting that something so great as this would be fated to have the only truly unexpected ending.

No other finale would have made so much sense.

Nobody other than Jim Smith could have ended life on Earth.