#for the uninitiated klagen=catalyzed by failing to avoid tragedy

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I was reading the 1987 Speed Racer comics last week, for reasons, and there’s this one-off villain introduced in a random issue:

she’s a submarine scientist from MIT

catalyzes as a klagen after her submarine prototype is destroyed in an earthquake (or neid after her department drops her and husband divorces her for being too into submarines, @topquarkintown​‘s probably more justified theory)

discovers the ruins of atlantis

instead of telling anyone, sells all the artifacts she finds for more submarine money

runs out of submarine money again (submarines are expensive)

starts sinking cargo ships, killing whoever’s on board, and selling their cargo instead 

justified because Girl Power 

her villainy is kidnapping speed and his girlfriend to get him to show her how to make cars, because she just realized she might need to run from the government on land, and she only knows how to build submarines

anyway, i love her and had to draw her. most of the comics were ok, but issue #7 is a work of art and I highly recommend it.