#cheers to the tin man

[digitalwizard01]

[quartings]

I needed closure after the latest episode

Bonus:

[nachtfaust]

"Someday I'd like to be reunited and see my boys. The boys of Easy Company, sir."

[jeremyfuscaldo]

Cheers to the Tin Man.

RIP GI Robot (maybe??)

[strawberry-chai-mee]

GI ROBOT SCREEN REDRAW

for this screen redraw i am just a bit mad that i made him too golden but hey at least i finally drew again

[stereowerewolf]

first doodle on my new drawing tablet how we feelin

[rose-does-valve-games]

Nothing Valve related but I think I found a new character to attach myself to

[thingsasbarcodes]

Creature Commandos 1x03 - Cheers to the Tin Man

[techno-cat8]

Cheers for the Tinman buttons will be available soon 🫡✨ Two different variants because sometimes you just can’t be too careful. These are also free with every Dr. Phosphorus preorder.

I’ll probably make pins of everyone else in the coming days.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 This machine kills fascists <3

[digitalwizard01]

Ok, so here's where I stand on the Clayface theory at this point. I do think it is still possible, though less likely now. If Ilana was Clayface, you would think that she would use some of his abilities to defend herself when she was alone with the Sons of Themyscira, no survivors, no risk of being caught. There was also no one else in the room with her at one point, and she was still acting afraid. Why would Clayface do that with again, no risk of discovery. So that goes two points in the not Clayface category. However, Circe seems like she at least thinks she's in the right for wanting to kill Ilana, so there must be some reason behind it, which could be that she knows something about Ilana is wrong and dangerous, and potentially that she's not herself. Also why would she leave The Bride and Nina alive? Why did she fix The Brides arms? There's something sus going on I know it

[nachtfaust]

[void-lioness]

🫡🫡🫡

[themuskrater]

"No, officer, I didn't shoot him. It was a Texas farewell"

"A car bomb? You misunderstand. All I did was give him an Irish oil change"

"Arson? Don't be ridiculous, you've never seen a California sunburn?"

"What's this about an assassination? I heard it was a Confederate intermission"

[quaint-ignorant]

me at 2am before a school day bawling my eyes out tears wetting my pillow hands shaking and heart hurting after re-reading "cheers to the tin man" for the hundredth time

[comicweek]

At the climax of Creature Commandos third episode “Cheers to the Tin Man,” after getting the go ahead from his C.O., GI Robot gets to do the one thing he has been wanting to do for 74 years and 24 days: Kill Nazis. Or, at least, their inbred grandsons: incels. What follows is your typical montage of over-the-top gun violence as Robot’s torso unhinges from his lower portion and begins floating above the battlefield in 360 degrees of spray and pray. The Punisher (Ray Stevenson) does something similar at the start of Punisher: WarZone (2008), but with better mood lighting. Both sequences capture a certain jouissance experienced as they execute a massacre. The needle drop of “Coin Operated Boy” by The Dresden Dolls, helps to heighten sequence on its surface to a more comedic tone but in retrospect highlights the tragedy of GI Robot in this episode and ties back to the Bride’s origin seen in "The Tourmaline Necklace". “Cheers to the Tin Man” is a better articulation of the dynamic and structure of the series with tighter thematic and nuanced ties between past and present.

As Task Force M rescues the Bride and Nina GI Robot flashes back to his time in World War II with Easy Company and Sgt. Rock. In some smart tie in work, this this is the DC comics version of the battalion that was subject of Band of Brothers so no randomly jarring Jimmy Fallon cameos. While the sequence is incredibly violent, E company walks into a trap laid by the Nazis and are only pulled out of it because of Robot’s stilting abilities. It is in this act of bravery that Robot finds his first family and brothers

While Robot is very good at keeping time such as counting the seconds until he’s gotten to kill Nazis with friends, the flashback structure of this episode shows how queer his temporality is. GI Robot moves through time but the nature of his consciousness and the ability to shut him down creates distinct end points and gaps in his waking time and unmoors him from a linear flow resulting, due in part to his limited programming directives, to constantly be in a state of war and looking to kill Nazis. After a less than glowing trip onto the talk show circuit in the 50s, the Government gives him to the Metal Men’s William Magnus as research fodder, before he eventually finds himself turned on in the living room of Sam Fitzgibbon and it’s the 2000’s. Fitzgibbon, a military otaku, makes the mistake of bringing Robot to the local meeting of the Hub City National Socialist Club. The disjointedness of his experience is captured in the montage set to “Coin Operated Boy” that ties the back third of this episode together. The montage flattens and unifies time as he is visually shown experience-reexperiencing these events all at once. As the camera pans right in the present showing the Sons of Themyscira being riddled with lead the image morphs into his massacre of the Hub City Nazis, a maneuver that is also the best use of animation in the season thus far.

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