#rick stasi

[evilhorse]

The Crimson Avenger #2

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Wonder Woman by Rick Stasi

[jup1tersparx]

I have the Rick Rounds brain rot. He’s silly, he’s horrid, he’s sad, his actions are inexcusable, he’s a jock, he’s a theatre kid, he’s filled with guilt and has gotten past being too proud to acknowledge it, he wants to get better, he believes himself to belong in hell, he’s learning, he literally died before he sought self-help, he’s dead and also puts the dead back in the ground, he’s got mummy issues, he’s got religious trauma and homoerotic tension with the devil, he has media literally, he’s cringe fail, he at one point summoned a sword despite having no clue how to use one, he somehow mistook Tiff for an angle, his black water effect is a straight up metaphor for character growth and he used it to hurt people, his black water effect is a straight up metaphor for character growth and it’s slowly consuming him, he has flowers that change colours based on his emotions, he’s gay, he’s prone to violence, he has no idea who he is anymore but he’s slowly building his life up again.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH YES SO TRUE I LOVE HIM SM :DDD HES SO UNDERRATED FR

ADDITIONALLY:

- he was so miserable he convinced himself he MUST be suffering for Divine Purposes and was gonna be a saint and the star of a new religious text (he was not)

- hallowing tends to pick up on who the hallow-ee Truly Is/desires to be and emphasises that (eg: lady ethel mallory spiderification, big mikey. yk. big and scary, person from episode 18 intro) and RICK'S hallowing made him bloom flowers and ivy. and it terrified him!!!!! direct quote: 'I'd rather die Rick Rounds than whoever these thorns are going to make me." !!!!!!!!!

- furthermore: he was SO good at self-repression and channeling every emotion into anger and violerce he somehow managed to end up the fucking poster boy for neo-conservative america. girl

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ok i'm just gonna ramble ab unmortricken bc i have exactly ZERO COHERENT THOUGHTS AB IT

evil morty backstory - i rlly like that they just made him some random morty who rose above everything after getting sick of rick's abuse. it makes what he did feel even more earned and weighty. i think his motivation is a bit extreme still but i can't rlly blame him.

it's cool seeing infinity beyond the central finite curve. the jetsons inspired bit was v amusing bc i forgot about them lmao. but otherwise it seems absolutely wild west beyond the curve and i LIVE for that.

i also didnt imagine that we'd be seeing him again. i thought the way he left the show was perfect and if they brought him back it would just feel cheap but it DOESNT in this episode i love his appearance.

i rlly like seeing our morty be supportive of rick. he's literally trying everything to cheer him up and it's very important to me.

the prime decoys confuse me. like do they all share a consciousness? is prime just very very good at fucking with ppl that he's made all the decoys communicate w each other?

evil morty outsmarting rick is a great recurring theme in the episode. "filter for probability stasis" YEAH U TELL HIM LITTLE DUDE. we've never seen a morty like that EXCEPT for him and i think it's wonderful.

the exchange between rick and evil morty. "you're such a narcissist" / "literal glass house" / "you think you're better than me?" / "jesus i HOPE SO" SHITTING

i didnt initially like the decoy trap thing being full of loads of other ricks. it made me feel like our rick wasn't very important to this dude and rick just made an enemy of a guy who didn't know he existed. BUT i don't stand by that anymore. the rest of the episode made me change my mind very quickly with.

the omega device. holy fuck this is the worst reveal to come out of this episode. she wasn't just killed, she was ERASED by prime in every reality. like she is GONE gone. that's why we've never seen her, save in flashbacks and memories. she's gone.

and i'm pretty sure it's our rick's fault that he did that. we see his beth and his diane be killed by a bomb, not wiped from reality like slo mobius is later in the episode. so his family was killed BEFORE all the shit with the omega device. ik correlation ≠ causation, but it rlly explains why our rick in particular is so hungry for revenge. if he was the one that made prime kill diane everywhere then he had to be the one to make prime pay for it.

i like how the multiple monitors seems to be prime's signature move. it happens here and in the s6 premiere.

and oh fuck the parallels. "when i invent something it works, it's called being talented" in story train vs "when i make a weapon in works."

oh man the diane head weapon thing. it's interesting that it was programmed to mock rick sexually, but even on our rick who knows it's a trap, it still affects him seeing her face again. "god i missed that face." and then the blank stare when she asks for a kiss. pretty sweet and fucked up.

rick and evil morty having to work together to get their portals working. the contrast between our morty freaking out and evil morty blank staring.

the bit with the portal closing too soon. i know it happened earlier this season and i think it's so funny lmao.

I CANNOT STRESS TO YOU ENOUGH THAT I WAS SO MADE WHEN I WORKED OUT THAT INSTEAD OF YELLING WHILE GOING THROUGH THE CURVE THING IN THE MIDFLE OF THE EP HE WAS SCREAMING "PRIME" THOSE DIABOLICAL LITTLE BASTARDS AT ADULT SWIM.

prime calling rick the Wife Guy. hilarious. raises questions. makes me gnaw on my cell bars.

AND THEN the second incredible reveal of the episode: "Honestly, Wife Guy, I do miss when it was just us. The only two Ricks who actually invented portal travel." WHAT bestie prime bby girl u need to say that again. you guys were the ONLY ones who invented interdimensional travel, every rick's claim to fame. but no they just got the technology from prime who started a boys club of ricks who wanted to leave their lives behind that our rick refused.

but the reference to a time when they were closer, when it was only them - HELLO?? maybe i'm grasping at straws bc i want them to bang but holy shit.

the confirmation of the fan theory that rick based his AI voice on his wife. 10/10.

and then the fight scene. oh gods the fight scene. rick just screaming that he'll kill prime. prime regenerating constantly, looking unscathed as our rick becomes more and more dishevelled. it's too perfect i CANT. but otherwise they both seem pretty evenly matched w all the implants and stuff so without the regeneration i think rick would've had him. oh well.

rick like literally died during the fight.

the cool grandson/shitty grandpa exchange gives me breath. i LOVE how it's a morty that outsmarts prime. it's what he deserves.

prime still trying to be a smartass to evil morty, growing more and more panicked as it goes on bc he doesn't know what to do with the situation and control for once is not in his hands.

"what are u gonna 'aw geez' me to death?"

evil morty not even explaining his plan, just silently dragging in our rick and reviving him. saying "knock yourself out" with the intended double meaning. prime's almost scared expression as rick gets dragged in.

and then our rick has a choice. he can stop evil morty from keeping the weapon plans or he can kill prime. but that's a choice he made already. it's not even a decision. so his other enemy gets away.

the brutal brutal scene at the end when rick is just hitting prime. no tech, no implants, no gadgets. just fists. and rick beats him literally to a pulp as prime screams and laughs at him and taunts him further. it's meant to be sickening. it's meant to be personal. and it accomplishes that perfectly.

they don't even show prime's body in great detail. it's RIGHT in the background but we heard the sounds of the punches, we saw his nose break and his bloody teeth and haemorrhaging eyes and his brains coming out the side of it head and all we can make out is his fucked up swollen and broken face in the background as he sits still attached to the chair, a river of his blood pouring from the room.

but its not triumphant. they made rick's revenge hollow and bittersweet. its over but it destroyed rick in the process. who is he now that he isn't hunting prime? fucking no one.

then "look on down from the bridge" starts playing. we heard this in season 1 in rick potion #9 after morty had to bury a version of himself. he was struggling with the purpose of his life after switching universes. but he deals with it and overcomes it.

i think that scene is rick, for the first time in the entire show, struggling with his nihilistic philosophy. bc yes, he's shown to be an existentialist in the show (the difference being existentialists are "nothing matters but this matters to me" instead of "nothing matters so i don't have to do anything"). he had a drive. he had ppl he cared about. but now he's reached his goal he just feels empty and hollow. everything's meaningless and he's NOT okay with that. he never has been, but he has to grapple with that finally now he doesn't have a distraction. i don't think he can just bounce back and move past what happened.

ppl are saying this episode felt overstuffed and maybe it was but i'm very pleased with it and want to know where it's going.

i feel we still don't know the full story with prime. i'm predicting a flash back episode in the future explaining what the nature of their relationship was like before the bomb incident.

we also know that evil morty has this weapon that could destroy all ricks. so that is just a ticking bomb.

anyway i can't wait for angsty rick.

i actually watched unforgiven for this episode bc i'm a big fan of westerns anyway. the only real parallels i can see is they both have a group of three (two are already partners and the other one is the call to adventure) and an unsatisfying ending. bc that's the nature of westerns. they should NEVER end happily, and if u think so then ur wrong (/nsrs enjoy media how u want).

some things i haven't mentioned but enjoyed nonetheless

the schematics for the omega device is titled <SCHEMATICS BOOGER-AIDS-V2>

the arm/leg swap best in the fight

the comparison between the song at the end playing here and in season one shows with just visuals how the dynamic of beth and jerry's (and beth's) marriage has evolved since then.

everyone freaking out when indiana jones rick shoots and it ricochets off the wall and evil morty just stands expressionless until it hits his forcefield.

morty going to hug rick covered in blood, realising, hesitating, and then doing it later anyway to try and make rick feel better.

evil morty making a point to say that he doesn't want vengeful summers coming after him for omega devicing rick. not vengeful mortys, vengeful SUMMERS.

just evil morty in this whole episode was an absolute delight i need to see him more.

THE TEAR MARKS AFTER RICK EMERGES FROM BEATING PRIME TO DEATH

slo mobius' wife almost going down the same path our rick did only to find someone she loves and focus on that, saving her. makes me wonder if they're gonna try putting rick in a relationship.

this ended up being way longer than it should have. anyway. very pleased. this season is hitting all the marks for me overall.

also don't be too hard on me i didnt edit this 😭

[glitteringcrab]

Rick C-137 and Evil Morty

So, I'm wondering to what degree Rick C-137 can see through Evil Morty...

Initially, he says stuff like this:

Which, uh, makes sense. He is already familiar with the concept of a "cocky Morty" who is bad for everyone, and a Morty president sounds... pretty sus.

And, yeah, Rick's not surprised. He is quick to draw guns, quick to shoot, quick to call him "evil" again...

When he and Morty Prime are trying to escape, and Morty Prime is challenging Evil Morty...

...Rick glares at Evil Morty, going along with Morty Prime's challenge.

But, uh... after hearing Evil Morty's answer to that challenge (he's just leaving!!), seeing Evil Morty offer Morty Prime to escape along with him (!!) and being incapable of offering a better option, he actually advises Morty Prime to leave (which, let's be honest, is pretty selfless on Rick's part).

LOOK AT RICK'S FACE AFTER HEARING EVIL MORTY'S "THE SECOND SEAT'S A TOILET" LINE:

Morty Prime gets mad, and rightfully so... But Rick C-137 only stares at Evil Morty blankly, without saying a word.

And here's the thing that got me thinking:

If we can tell that the second seat was most likely not a toilet because it was fancier (and this is obviously a custom-made spaceship, Evil Morty made it specifically for this moment, and included a second seat in his long-term plans) and because Evil Morty having to wear a space suit while driving that thing means he literally cannot use a toilet...

...can't Rick C-137 also tell that Evil Morty was most likely lying, and that he actually wanted Morty Prime to come along, enough to (a) include him in his long term plans, (b) expose the citadel's horror to him and (c) wait around long enough for Morty Prime to meet him at the bottom before firing the weapon that would bring down the Curve?

I mean, Rick C-137 is more experienced at spaceships and breathing in space etc. Couldn't he decipher the function of the craftmanship from, like, a glance?

When we next see Rick C-137 and Evil Morty is mentioned, we get this:

Which, yeah, is extremely demeaning (you equate leaving a horrible, multi-dimensional prison to quitting twitter??? And committing a ton of atrocities to do so to "throwing a tantrum"???) but... it also can be read as Rick C-137 realizing that Evil Morty was not actually "evil". That he was just upset (uh, extremely so). The "tantrum" part also signals that Rick recognizes Evil Morty was young. Rick doesn't seem to hate Evil Morty for his actions.

When the two next meet, sure, Rick C-137 has prepared for the possibility of Evil Morty's return...

Which, on one hand, is an obvious attempt to bypass Evil Morty's forcefield...

...but it also sounds non-lethal, doesn't it?

He then tests Evil Morty's forcefield...

...but let's be honest here, Rick's not trying very hard to kill him, is he? Even when escaping the crumbling Citadel, Rick shot to kill twice, but never bothered to use any other methods to kill him (like the countless imaginative ways we've seen him kill various Ricks and aliens). Now, I'm sure Evil Morty was capable of countering plenty of them, but you don't know unless you check. Rick C-137 is not really trying to kill him.

And since in Unmortricken Evil Morty had the element of surprise (they had no idea he would show up!!) it would have been very easy for him to kill them both.

...But he just wanted to talk instead.

And wouldn't leave.

...I think Rick could tell almost immediately from the moment of Evil Morty's appearance that he didn't intend to be hostile and therefore was himself accommodating.

HE ACTUALLY GAVE A COMPLIMENT TO THIS KID.

He listened to Evil Morty's suggestion to filter for probability stasis...

Berated Morty Prime for wanting to kill Evil Morty...

Actually putting his gun away before suggesting to Evil Morty that they work together:

(which is, yeah, kinda meaningless considering he has a million other weapons implanted on his person, but I still read that as a peace offering, and I'm wondering if one of the reasons Evil Morty flinched when Morty Prime tumbled away from him was because he was too busy watching Rick C-137, wondering if Rick would turn against him in this new setting)

One of my favorite moments in this episode was this scene:

Sure, Rick doesn't forcefully pull Evil Morty through the portal to safety like he did with Morty Prime (let's be honest, Evil Morty would not like that), but he gave him his portal gun back immediately. Like they literally wasted time during which they could get fried just so he could give Evil Morty his portal gun back.

I remember wondering during this scene if Rick C-137 would try to hold Evil Morty hostage by keeping hold of his portal gun or something, or maybe taunt him over it... But he returned it immediately, knowing that what this particular kid wanted was not someone to manhandle him to safety, but independence and freedom and agency... And he fully respected these boundaries.

Evil Morty, in turn, respects Rick C-137's wish that his involvement in Diane's infinite death is not discussed nor revealed to Morty Prime:

Evil Morty only chastises Rick C-137 in a cryptic manner that is sure to fly under Morty Prime's radar:

At this point Rick C-137 trusts Evil Morty enough to leave him ALONE WITH MORTY PRIME, IN HIS HOUSE, UNSUPERVISED:

That trust is misplaced though. Evil Morty brings Morty Prime along with him for the Prime fight, and Rick C-137 gets mad, because he honestly did not expect Evil Morty would put Morty Prime in danger.

And I'm wondering if Rick's laser-y retort to Evil Morty's "I'm not worried about him, I'm evil" is another form of silent communication that these two seem to have:

It's the gesture he does afterwards.

Is it a "what-did-you-expect-I-now-hate-you" gesture, or is it a "what-did-you-expect-I-can-tell-you're-lying" gesture?

Rick is still mad at Evil Morty, which is pretty understandable:

...Then Rick does this:

...and screws everything up in my eyes, although it seems Evil Morty never became aware what had transpired.

And this:

I, uh... I originally thought if those two were to meet again the same positive vibes from the beginning of this episode would go on, but, seeing it all together now...

...I, uh, I'm not so sure. I doubt Rick C-137 would be able to forgive Evil Morty bringing Morty Prime along for the fight so easily....

[graysoncritic]

A (Negative) Review of Tom Taylor's Nightwing Run - Bibliography

Introduction Who is Dick Grayson? What Went Wrong? Dick's Characterization What Went Wrong? Barbara Gordon What Went Wrong? Bludhaven (Part 1, Part 2) What Went Wrong? Melinda Lin Grayson What Went Wrong? Bea Bennett What Went Wrong? Villains Conclusion Bibliography

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Williamson, Joshua, writer. Sampere, Daniel; Herbert, Jack; Camuncoli, Giuseppe; Sandoval, Rafa, illustrators. Dawn of the DCU. Dark Crisis on Infinite Earth no. 7, e-book ed. DC Comics, 2022

Willems, Patrick H. “The Secret Ingredient That Makes Raimi's SPIDER-MAN So Great (Season Premiere)” Youtube, uploaded by Patrick (H) Willems, 20 September 2022 

Winick, Judd, writer. Battle, Eric, illustrator. All They Do is Watch Us Kill: Part 3: It Only Hurts 

When I Laugh. Batman no. 650, e-book ed. DC Comics, 2006. Zdarsky, Chip, writer. Di Giandomenico, Carmine. The Knight Part 9. Batman: The Knight. 09, e-book ed. DC Comics, 2022.

[moonlitlex]

btw this tsats read has made me even more apprehensive of the percy annabeth grover book coming up. i do not trust that man with these characters. i think he forgot how to write them as soon as he finished last olympian. i don't want him anywhere near percy or annabeth or grover.

and like... the concept for the book isn't even good. like at least it's low stakes or whatever and he's not doing ANOTHER world-ending fiasco. but richard. you mean to tell me that percy jackson, after saving the world TWICE, needs a recommendation letter to get into demigod college (i would admit him without an application). and the gods send him on a quest??? to earn a recommendation letter??

bitch he just saved your asses and everyones asses on earth if i were percy i would fucking snap lmao that would be the final straw. imagine literally losing several months of your life bc hera puts you in stasis and steals your memories and then going on a world saving quest right after and you literally don't even get the college recommendation for free??? i would lose it i would be like yeah actually kronos was right none of yall deserve to live im going to kill you now

also like... who wanted this??? who asked for this??? who wanted rick to send percy on another extremely stupid quest??? no one fucking asked for this

something something beating the horse that lays the golden eggs something

[countlessrealities]

@mcltiples sent:

They hadn't known each other long, yet, but Rick insisted on getting things to a certain place. Even if it meant he would have to push himself onto his alternate.

Without a word, he approached the other, wearing a collar. Thin, pink leather with a white bow and a bell adorned on it.

Staring with a straight face, he softly purred and let out a "Meow."

{ To your Weird Rick from Rick C-151 // 🤦‍♀️ }

The last thing Rick had expected that night was to be interrupted while he worked on his latest weapon. After so many years of living alone, without the consistent company of another living being, he was used to having all the peace and quiet he wanted, whenever he wanted it.

The few live test subjects he kept with him didn't really count, especially since he tended to leave them in stasis when he wasn't using them.

So, his first reaction to hearing approaching steps was to reach for the gun he always carried on him. The moment his hand touched the handle, however, he was suddenly reminded that he these days he shared his lodgings with a new "buddy".

It also made him think about why he had ended up with such a living situation, but that was something he pretended to forget most of the time. It was easier on his pride.

Not that he would have had any time to be soured by the memory right now. The moment his gaze landed on his alternate, every other thought vanished from his mind.

Bright blue eyes widened, locking on the collar, and his mouth fell open, looking like it didn't know what kind of sound it was supposed to make. He was shocked, something that was very, very hard to achieve.

Then came that purred "meow" and suddenly Rick was snapped out of his stasis, his shoulders starting to shake as he burst out into laughter. This was fucking surreal and absolutely hilarious. Yes, also oddly endearing.

"What the fuck are you doing?" He asked, barely keeping himself from hiccuping snorts in-between words. He couldn't stop snickering, this was too good. "You really took that pet name at heart!"

Huffing out a heavy breath, as he finally managed to calm down his hilarity, he wiped the corner of his eye before sitting in his chair a little more straight. One glance in the direction of his unfinished project, and then he looked back at the other.

"But I can't deny such a cute display, can I?" His voice came out lower, almost echoing his alternate's purring. "If you want to be a good kitten so bad for me, then come here and sit in my lap while I work. I'll pet you.~"

[ariel-seagull-wings]

FICTIONAL CHARACTER ASK: EGON SPENGLER

Asked by @fleurviolettes​

@janeb984​

@spengnitzed @stantzed @bixiebeet @angelixgutz @thealmightyemprex @goodanswerfoxmonster @amalthea9 @themousefromfantasyland @professorlehnsherr-almashy @budcortfancam

Favorite Thing About Them: There was an excentric, always serious, socially awkward nerd character, played by a comedy actor who wasn't a big movie star like his screen colleagues Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis were, originally only meant to provide technological exposition, and he became the breakout character that audiences most strongly cared about. Egon Spengler showed viewers that just because we wored glasses, weren't muscular or trained in complicated martial arts, it didn't mean we couldn't be seen as heroes, even tough he initially decided to capture ghosts just hoping to earn a living like his friends. Also, while ocasionally awkward and a bit shy around women, he is never shown to be self hating. He talks with certainty about his scientificial knowledge, isn't much bothered by the teasing of friends like the more street smart Peter Venkman and Winston Zeddemore, and is shown that is because of his inteligence and seriousness that Janine Melnitz finds him atractive, without Egon ever needing to try becoming more "tough", "atletic", "cool", etc.

His lines about humans being like small bacteria are even complimented as romantic! There were moments where he would show an explosive temper, but its clear that its only in extreme circunstances where a dangerous treat is on the horizon and everyone's emotions are heated, and not before trying to present argumentations to better solve the problem first.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: Returning to a criticism I made on this post here, when the writers of Afterlife, a sequel made 37 years after the original film, decided to incorporate Harold Ramis death as a major plot influence, they also mixed the complicated personal life fact that Ramis was an absent parent to his second daughter for most of her life, wich was something he deeply regreted, into the character of Egon Spengler, using the cliche plot of a father who abandons his daughter without explanation (not even letting his friends know of her existence because she is suposed to be a "big reveal" even in universe) to fight the great scope villain, and get redeemed in the eyes of sayed abandoned daughter just because he is dead. That is not character growth, that is not a tribute to his creator, thaf is just cynical, unecessary melodrama (ignoring that the first was a comedy!) exploiting a complicated, painfull story of an actual, real family.

Three Things I Have In Common With Them:

* I wear large glasses;

* Like his portrayal in the live action movies and IDW licensed comics, my natural hair is dark brown and grows in agitated curls;

* I love chocolate treats;

Three Things I Don’t Have In Common With Them:

* I don't collect spores, molds and fungus;

* I alternate between physical and online books, so I would never say the phrase "Print is dead";

* I'm not born in the United States;

Favorite Line:

From the July 1983 Script Draft:

"I don't understand. What have I got?"

"And not a very precise one."

"I have trace PKE valences everywhere in the building and extremely high readings in the interior stacks."

"Good in what sense?"

"I'm patched into the Bell Labs computer in Boston. We should have an answer in a moment."

"I think we can catch one."

"I own an automobile."

"It's a 1957 Saab."

"Those are proton packs and that's a Nutrona wand. They're prototypes of new devices for putting proto-mater in stasis."

"It's 9.642.55 square feet."

"Not all of this is for the office telephones. I'm constructing a fiberoptic network to monitor microwave activity outside the commercial frequencies assigned to telephone and television transmission."

"This is amusing."

"What?"

"I think it's too early to tell."

"We're all animals, Venkman."

"Okay - It's ready."

"This is the proton pack."

"14.55 kilos."

"Thirty-two pounds."

"This is the Neutrona wand."

"I'm working on a self-contained version but for now we'll run off building current."

"Switch... ON."

"It's ready."

"I've heat shielded the entire pack and it's fully portable now. We'll each be capable of shooting an ion stream up to 12 feet. The stream will repel ectoplasm but have no effect in the physical enviroment. Ready?"

"Power!"

"Then we'll be virtually defenseless."

"Ecto-visors."

"GIVE ME TWO PURGES NOW!!"

"Don't worry. He isn't going anywhere. Now DON'T LET THE STREAMS CROSS BEHIND THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OR YOU'LL Q US ALL INTO THE TENTH DIMENSION."

"Easy... easy... open the trap now!!"

"DON'T LET THE PHOTON STREAMS GET NEAR THE NUTRONA BARS ON THAT TRAP!!"

"Watch it... watch it... now."

"It's getting crowded in there. We have to arrange some kind of spill-release system."

"I tought we'd be busy but I never expected this many. That's what bothers me. All my recent data points to something big on the horizon."

"I am Egon Spengler, human being of Earth, Master of Physics, Doctor of Philosophy. Greetings Vinz Clortho."

"Free him, Officer. I will speak with the Minion of Gozer."

"I like these dehydrated meals because they save time. And they have a long shelf-life."

"Could I ask you a feel questions, Vinz?"

"Vinz, how will Gozer come?"

"I want you to look at these pictures, Vinz, and tell me if you see Gozer or anything that looks like Gozer."

"If I were to deactivate the grid generator, the facility could no longer contain the high-concentration of valences inside. You can see what's inside trough the monitor if you wish."

"I've plotted the location of our 99 confirmed manifestations. Look at the pattern and where it fits. Over the tri-state region we have many heavy industries responsible for the destruction of ozonic and other atmospheric layers. The random mesh of microwaves from telephone and telecomunication senders acts as a lens increasing the focus of all the sun's dangerous gamma and U.V. rays which otherwise would be filtered out if the protective atmospheric layers had not been destroyed. These rays are being focused raw on a region under which there lies buried many thousands of tons of chemical and radioactive waste releasing stripped electrons into the atmosphere.

Finally, even a casual glance at the map reveals this region lies within an almost equilateral triangle having at its intersecting points the Indian River Plant in New York here, the Three Mile Island Facility in Pensylvania here, and the Sands Creek Reactor here... two of which we know are leaking hundreds of roentgens per hour."

From the September 1983 Script Draft:

"Oh! This is big, Peter. This is very big. There's definitely something here."

"Two reasons. First of all, I found trace PKE valances everywhere in the building and extremely high readings in the interior stacks."

"That was both of them."

"Incredible. She was stripping ions all over the place."

"We were right about the proton count, Stantz."

"Raymond and I are convinced that we can trap a ghost and hold it indefinitely."

"Just for your information, Ray, the interest payments alone for the first five years come to over $75,000."

"Print is dead."

"Is that a game?"

"I collect spores, molds and fungus."

"I think it's the food of the future."

"This is the Proton Pack, Peter. The only problem with it at the moment is that it could cause sterility."

"Yes, well, I'm working on that."

"Peter, trust me. We are about to make scientific history."

"Raymond, the plug."

"She's telling the truth - or at least she thinks she is."

"Or even a race memory, stored in the collective unconscious. And I wouldn't rule out clairvoyance or telepathic contact either."

"You're a Scorpio with your moon in Leo and Aquarius rising."

"I blame myself."

"We'd better adjust our streams."

"Something was definitely here."

"Were you recently in the bathroom?"

"The wet towels, residual moisture on your lower limbs and hair, the redness in your cheeks indicating..."

"When you were in the bathroom, did you notice anything that was yellow and unusually smelly?"

"Wait! Wait! There's something I forgot to tell you."

"Don't cross the beams."

"Trust me. It will be bad."

"It's hard to explain, but try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and finding yourself confined forever in another dimension."

"They're not guns. They're particle throwers."

"I couldn't do that. You might hurt someone."

"On Earth - no. But on Krypton we could slice him up like Oscar Mayer Bologna."

"Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning's PKE sample, the current level in the city would be a Twinkie 35 feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds."

"I just met the Keymaster. He's here with me now."

"Die in what sense?"

"I don't care. I see us as tiny parts of a vast organism, like two bacteria living on a rotting speck of dust floating in an infinite void."

"You have nice clavicles."

"Oh, shit!"

"If you don't shut up I'm going to rip out your septum."

"Of course! Ivo Shandor. I saw his name in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He started a secret society in 1920."

"After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive. And he wasn't alone. He had close to a thousand followers when he died. They conducted rituals, bizarre rituals, intended to bring about the end of the world."

"Sumerian -- not Babylonian."

"I don't believe in luck."

"Thank you."

"It's Shandor - the architect!"

"I think he's saying that since we're about to be sacrificed anyway, we get to choose the form we want him to take."

"Full-stream with strogon pulse."

"No! Them! Shoot them! Cross the beams. Cross the beams."

From the 1984 movie final cut:

"That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me."

"Ray, it's moving. Come on."

"This is hot, Ray."

"Raymond, look at this."

"Venkman, get a sample of this."

"I'd like to analyze it."

"I'm getting stronger readings here. This way."

"I wouldn't say the experience wasn't completely wasted. According to these new readings, I think we have an excellent chance of actually catching a ghost and holding it indefinitely."

"I'm always serious."

"I think this building should be condemned. There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members. The wiring is substandard. It's completely inadequate for our power needs. And the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone."

"I could look for the name Zuul in the usual literature."

"Tobin's Spirit Guide."

"Venkman, shorten your stream. I don't want my face burned off."

 "I looked at the trap, Ray."

 "I don't think he's human."

"Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for?"

"I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous."

"I'm warning you. Turning off these machines would be extremely hazardous."

"Try to understand. This is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the city."

"Clear the building!"

"Oh, come on!"

"Your mother!"

"The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space."

"It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building. Something terrible is about the enter our world and this building is obviously the door."

"Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes!"

"Art Deco. Very nice."

"It's Gozer."

"It's whatever it wants to be."

"Ray? This looks extraordinarily bad."

"Look out!"

"Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."

"I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate."

"We'll cross the streams."

"Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive."

"I feel like the floor of a taxi cab."

"We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue."

"Janine."

brOTP: His brother (Lionel in the novelization, Elon in the Earth Day TV Special), Eugene Visitor, Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, Dana Barrett, Tiyah Clark, Slimer, Buster, Louis Tully, Sherman Tully, Dytyllio, Walter Peck, Louise, Irena Cortez, Bryan Welsh, Kylie Griffin, Eduardo Rivera, Garrett Miller, Roland Jackson, Ilyssa Selwin, Jenny Moran, Dani Shpak, Lou Kamaka, Marie Laveau.

OTP: Janine Melnitz.

nOTP: Pink Mood Slime, Gozer.

Random Headcanon: Since Egon still consults literature about the supernatural (more famously Tobin's Spirit Guide) and the STEM fields, is believable that when he says the phrase "Print is dead", is not in the sense that he doesn't read anything and only uses TV and radio as sources of information (otherwise he would have failed academically) but in the sense that his only reading is preexisting titles for work research and he doesn't read new releases and/or literary fiction and poetry, compared to Janine.

Unpopular Opinion: As I commented on this post here, I don't imagine that his parents (specially his father) were complete cold monsters that despised the concept of love when prioritizing Egon and his brother's academic education. Maybe some fans mix his father's personality with Uncle Cyrus, an old, demanding and arrogang relative that appeared in the Real Ghostbusters animated series, but its more interesting to imagine that, while flawed, Egon's parents were still feeling human beings who genuinelly loved him and his brother and just tought that working hard to provide them with a good school education while sacrificing spending time with the children was their, understandable tough misguided, way of showing how much they cared.

Songs I Associate With Them:

Medic

The Gods Are Not Crazy

She Blinded Me With Science

Weird Science

I Believe in You and Me

Just The Way You Are

Time in a Bottle

Favorite Picture of Them:

Harold Ramis in the 1984 film

In the Real Ghostbusters animated series

 In the Extreme Ghostbusters animated series

In the IDW licensed comics

[evilhorse]

The Crimson Avenger #4

[saint-theophania]

Some highlights and notes from my sea of monsters reread:

This is so sad to me. Poor Tyson 😔

Not Olympus profiting off CHB 😂 I’m choosing to believe the ban on Cokes is from Dionysus specifically. Also love to think of the whole black market the Hermes kids have going on in there.

Love that they're all just one giant brutal dysfunctional immortal family.

More Perseus parallels!!

The Thalia/Percy parallels are immaculate. I really like that both of their journeys run parallel to each other. Thalia was a forbidden child of the big three, Thalia was intensely loyal to her friends (so much so that she died for it), both Percy and Thalia hold justifiable anger and an irreverence for the gods. But Thalia denies the prophecy and chooses to become immortal (to save her friends) while Percy purposefully chooses the prophecy and denies immortality (to save his friends). It's one of the reasons they clash so much in later books - they are way too alike.

I like to think about what monsters are linked to what chains in the Riordanverse. Do demigod kids have to fight off sirens everytime they go to Starbucks? What horrible monstrosity is McDonalds tied to?

Little does Percy know how badly he screwed Reyna and Hylla over.

I love this whole theme of demigods straddling both worlds and how it makes them more powerful than the gods even - they have a freedom that gods don't, they have the ability to choose.

This whole quote is like the basis for Rick's worldbuilding going forward - monsters, gods, and heroes all stuck in an endless cycle of death and rebirth, order and chaos. With heroes as the ones bearing the brunt of it, having to kill or be killed by monsters, having to go on quests for the gods as their champions. And the idea that gods can be changed after a millennia of stasis is truly radical, that Percy makes them swear to change and believes that they can - it's a nice bookend to the series and a nice way to tie the overall theme of the story - that then gets lost when every book set after TLO muddles the message and has the gods falling back into their destructive patterns - and ultimately making the idea that they can be better read hollow, but more on that later...

And just how great is that one line - "You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal."

Over all SoM is in my opinion the weakest of the five books, but its also the shortest and establishes a couple of scenes that are pivotal to the plot down the line (the fleece, Thalia, Annabeth's siren vision, Hermes + Luke).

rating: Sea of Monsters⭐3.5/5

[0rb0t]

FAST SHORT FORM THEORY:

Rick Prime invented portal travel

Rick Prime is the originator of Ricks

Rick Prime usually gives his gift to other Ricks

As long as there are other Ricks, Prime will always live and heal from things

Other Ricks(?) eventually devised a way to capture him

After he became attached to c137, the other Ricks got a lock on his location

when they parted ways, Prime was captured and put in stasis, and a bomb was dropped on c137's family to eliminate any chances of reconciliation

Also-

The pink explosion of the blast. The portal gun the dinos made for Rick was pink.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE DINOS WERE BEHIND THIS, BUT IT DOES SEEM INTERESTING TO NOTE. RICK DOESN'T LIKE BEING "HELPED" WITH PORTAL TRAVEL, BUT PINK COULD BE A BIT OF A TRIGGER, SUBCONSCIOUSLY. At the very least "person offering me portal tech + pink science = trigger"

[mx-mongoose]

Portal fanfic ideas I want to write but is to lazy and/or don’t have the time and energy.

Portal AU where instead of Wheatley finding you, it’s Space, Rick and/or Fact that wake Chell and wanting to escape with her. It can either be just one of them or all three because y’know never split up a trio. But anyways, y’know how in the musical they were kinda just wandering around aimlessly and with no apparent job besides like being henchmen?

I feel like it would make sense in game if the corrupted cores were just given the job of looking over the humans in stasis because that would put them out of the way and wouldn’t disrupt the actual important jobs.

I can also see them having a motivation to escape. Rick especially. I can totally see him wanting to get up to the surface and having an actual adventure for once and not having to lie about it. Like why wouldn’t he want to escape the confines of the facility when his literal purpose is to crave adventure? Also because the facility will explode.

For Fact I can see him thinking the facility is beneath him, feeling like he’s not appreciated for his “ superior intellect”. Either that or its literally just the fact that the facility is gonna fucking self destruct if he doesn’t get out of there.

For Space, its literally just because he wants to go to space. I feel like he wouldn’t even know the facility was exploding.

If somehow all three want to help you because tbh they are the trio ever, i feel like it would be fun if it were a choice on who you put into the chassis. Then depending on who you choose, that core is gonna betray you and take over the facility. While the others will be used to corrupt them in the finale boss fight as well as Wheatley.

Like it would be cool to see what would change if Chell got a different core companion

[mariogman25]

Hypothetical Opening to Sonic 3 (Spoilers for the Sonic 2 After Credits)

We open to the mysterious storage facility housing Shadow the Hedgehog, created by Gerald Robotnik. We see an intern jamming out to a song as he goes about his work, checking on Shadow and whatever odd things are stored there (other SEGA references?). The song in question:

May or may not be the instrumental, I just like the instrumental version personally. Either way the intern is fuckin' jamming out, maybe singing to it karaoke style. We see Shadow's ear twitch in time with the music, perhaps enjoying it while he has been in stasis. It seems like he's been listening to this type of music this whole time he's been looked after by this intern, which definitely informs his character. 

As the intern is jamming out, an Eggman virus invades the control computer to the area while the intern isn't looking. The virus forces Shadow out of of stasis slowly, glass cracking as small bolts of chaos energy hit it. Suddenly, the Tank explodes, the intern gets the shit scared out of him as he jumps away from the exploding glass, headphones falling off. Shadow jumps out of the tank and fog as he walks over and grabs the fallen headphones. He smiles in a vaguely evil fashion as he listens to the music and the song finishes, the scene fading to the title of the movie 

I envision the intern will be with Shadow for his the story as a sort of parallel to Sonic & Tom. But for a proper comparison it's kind of like The Hulk and Rick Jones. A guy who just kind of sticks around to be the character's conscience and friend.

[glitteringcrab]

Possible resolutions to the Freaky Morty Thing

1. (and the one I personally think is most likely) Morty Prime boots Evil Morty out.

We don't know yet how aware Morty Prime is of this whole thing:

a) His mind may be in complete stasis, like an asleep clone in a vat.

b) Or he may be trapped in Evil Morty's body inside Evil Morty's minecraft base.

c) Or his mind and Evil Morty's mind may be sorta merged, like Rick's and Jerry's did.

d) Or he may experience everything with a strong feeling of dissociation; admittedly, Evil Morty isn't having him do something he'd never do, he acts pretty normally. So it's possibly he currently can't even TELL he's being puppeteered.

e) Or he maybe getting puppeteered with FULL AWARENESS OF IT (which honestly sounds extremely traumatizing and I can't see how he could recover from it any time soon).

f) Or he's a willing participant, which I found EXTREMELY unlikely.

It appears that Evil Morty has access at least to some of Morty Prime's memories: he knew about the punchcard system and how it worked, he knew what certain specific adventures had been about, he knew the names of some kids and teachers from school. Admittedly, these could all be nearly identical experiences he has had in the past with parallel Ricks, but my guess is he has access to SOME stuff.

At the same time, he hadn't really grasped what Morty Prime's and Summer's relationship was like, and he even seemed uncertain (and hunched up) when he asked Rick C-137 if the auditors thing should count as Rick's or as Morty's adventure; like he wasn't sure how this whole thing worked and was looking at Rick for clues. If Morty Prime asked about it, I'd imagine him being more flippant. Not all hunched up. So I think Evil Morty doesn't know EVERYTHING from Morty Prime's life.

If we take into account Evil Rick's experience, it appeared he had at least some degree of autonomy at times (his "kill me, kill meeee" was definitely genuine, I doubt Evil Morty made him say that) and given that he tried to kill himself, he was aware of what was happening to him (also, it's obvious that resisting whatever Evil Morty has been doing was within the realm of possibility). At other times, it feels like Evil Morty was speaking through him directly ("Ricks don't care about Mortys") or forcing him to do stuff directly (like... bending 90 degrees backwards to shoot someone). So maybe it's kind of a spectrum. Maybe at times it was sufficient to give him a mental nudge or amplify an emotion he was already feeling or a thought he already had (as in: I'm the greatest Rick, therefore I could totally kill hundreds of Ricks). Or maybe it's ALL direct manhandling, and the "kill meeee" part was simply Evil Rick resisting for one last time (...it's probably that).

Whatever the case for Morty Prime may be, IF he is aware of what is happening to him and can communicate with Evil Morty directly, then it's also possible for him to challenge Evil Morty and force him to consider his actions. Honestly, I don't think it would take a lot to make Evil Morty mentally stumble: a simple reminder that the family he surrounded himself with does not really love HIM; that would they know the full truth they would turn against him immediately; a challenge to reveal the truth and see what happens; a suggestion that it's better for him to give up now rather than risk getting caught later after he's become more invested. I feel like Evil Morty would ignore all that initially, but won't be able to ignore it forever. Unlike the case with Evil Rick, when Evil Morty was detached and calculating, he's getting really emotionally invested right now, and is digging a bigger hole of disappointment for himself with every day that passes and brings him closer to the day the truth is revealed.

Also, you know, since Morty Prime is basically getting mind-effed right now, him having the strength to get back his autonomy sounds like a life-saver for him, and pretty balanced plot-wise.

2. Rick finding out (or someone else finding out and telling Rick) and Doing Something to make it stop

I have some issues with this option, mostly because I can't see Rick being able to do much anyway. After all, whether Rick wants to react to the reveal calmly or violently, the truth remains that Evil Morty currently has the Omega Device (schemes-- has he built it yet?).

If he tells Evil Morty gently 'please leave', Evil Morty may not take the rejection well and throw the whole family into the device.

If he starts yelling at Evil Morty about what a lunatic he is, Evil Morty may throw the whole family into the device (I mean, Evil Morty may also NOT throw the whole family into the device, but would Rick really risk it?).

Rick's best bet would be for him to secretly track down Evil Morty's omega device, destroy it, and then force Evil Morty to leave. However, as trucknoises wrote, having Rick's intelligence solve the emotional problems in the show would undercut it's entire theme.

3. Evil Morty getting fed up with Rick's abuse and leaving

I... like this one actually. Because even if Evil Morty has been discarded and beaten by dozen horribly abusive Ricks in the past, Rick C-137 is still abusive.

It doesn't really matter that he is not beating up his grandson or abandoning him every other week. That's a freaking low bar that we shouldn't celebrate Rick passing.

Rick still forces his grandson to sell drugs, still abandoned whole universes in ruin even though he could do something to help, still has nonchalantly killed strangers and manipulated his own family (and the only one in the family who really tried to stand up to Rick was Jerry lol).

I think that Evil Morty being all "hey, it's okay that he wants me to sell drugs because at least he's not beating me up" would quite undercut his character and motivations.

Up until now, Evil Morty is the only character REALLY forcing Rick to look into the mirror and pressuring him to account for his actions. Having that hand-waved away simply because Rick is nice sometimes really takes the kick out of the story, I think. Rick hasn't earned forgiveness by meeting baselines niceness standards.

(However, Evil Morty is so desperate for a sense of family that I can see him giving Rick C-137 a pass, at least at first. I can also see him trying desperately (and subtly) to force Rick to account for his actions as the story progresses, in the hope of Rick REALLY turning a new leaf and Evil Morty REALLY feeling safe).

4. The whole family finds out, everyone (except Rick who is terrified of the Omega Device) begs Evil Morty to leave

...and Evil Mory complies because he has grown to love them and wants them to be happy.

I guess this would entail the most character growth for him, and probably the best chances for a real, honest relationship with them (or anyone else) in the future.

[red-cant-fly]

New Rick and Morty ramble brought to you by my brother, who is an enjoyer of ✨statistics✨

We were thinking about Unmortricken, again, and in his words he described Probability stasis:

“Consider a simple probability model, where you sample without replacement. Your sample size is 10, comprising of 9 red marbles and 1 blue marble. When you remove a red marble as a sample of the population, the probability of sampling the blue marble increases. As Rick combs through infinity, he is sampling without replacement, but infinity-1 is still infinity. He was sampling under the assumption that the probability of finding Rick Prime increases as he samples, however due to the fact that infinity is endless, the probability will never change, so when Evil Morty tells him to “filter for probability stasis”, he is saying “no matter how you look at it, your chances are both the same and infinitesimally small.” And as soon as this takes place, Rick starts to get closer to Rick Prime, leading to the rest of the episode’s events.”

- my sibling, AKA, fellow nerd