#tgamm jinx

[cheesysocsandart]

Mr Chairman~ <3

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

One of my favorite moments from "Jinx!" is the moment right before Scratch gives Jinx a taste of her own medicine. His protective side when it comes to Molly is just precious.

Sure, he's scared when Jinx catches onto their plan, but the moment Molly gets scared?

All bets are off.

[crispytubes]

Disgusting ectoplasmic creatures I would put in my smoothie: a messy group drawing

I actually had a lot of fun with this drawing, tysm to mollycord for suggesting some ghosts for me :)

[tornrose24]

I finally did it. All the key TGAMM ghosts and wraiths in human form. This definately took awhile to do.

I didn't want to do all the ghosts. In one case, I stuck with Brighton specfic ghosts that we've seen in human form (though it was not easy getting/picking the right tones for Blair and Sonia.)

Something amusing that I did notice was that the wraith characters have brighter colors compared to the actual ghosts.

[drakkonyan]

got the urge to draw da bitch, so here she is

[tgammsideblog]

Tgamm Season 2: Fixing Jinx's villain arc

Of some of the main issues that fans have with Season 2 is how Jinx's arc was executed. She appears very briefly, only having two appearances before not showing up again until ¨Jinx vs The Human World¨.

The main complain is that there is a lack of build up in her character since, after the episode ¨Jinx!¨, she doesn't show up for the rest of the season. There isn't any indication of what her plans are going to be or how she is going to take over the Ghost World. On top of that, she doesn't represent a real threat before ¨Jinx vs The Human World¨. It could be said that it doesn't feel ¨earned¨ seeing her becoming the chairman in the double part episode.

So how could this be rewritten in a way that makes Jinx a better villain in this season?

Well, i do have some ideas.

First, i think she would need more episodes for her character. At least two for better build up for Jinx VS episode. As i mentioned, she only appears twice and then doesn't show up for half of the season, which feels really weird. I think she could have an episode in the second half and then one episode that builds up to Jinx VS. That way she could have a more complete arc and screen time.

Second, Jinx would need to become more threatening, which is a huge problem with her in this season. While ¨Jinx!¨ explores well her personality and her goals, it doesn't leave an idea that she could be a real threat for the protagonists. So to fix this issue, i think she could have an episode she learns how to power up the sobgoblins to that strong muscular form they gain in ¨Jinx VS The Human World¨ by eating joy.

It could be that Jinx finds out this by accident or by reading a book about sobgoblins. Maybe in the same episode she sends one or two sobgoblins as a test to attack Scratch but he somehow manages to defeat them. This could give context as for why she captures Molly and uses her as a joy battery in ¨Jinx VS¨ and make her a bigger threat as villain.

I think this idea could be the set up for the double part episode, with the episode being placed before it.

If i were to add another episode for Jinx's villain arc, i think it could be about her coming with a plan that is bigger and more serious than just jinxing Scratch like she did in ¨Jinx!¨. I think it could be a way for her to try to get the chairman robes, so she tricks both Molly and Scratch for that. This episode could show better her manipulative side and how far she would go to get what she wants.

I also would like her to be more serious in this episode and less ¨pathetic girl failure¨ than she is in ¨Jinx!¨. She can still be pitiful but maybe she realizes that she has to come up with more complex plans if she was to become the chairman. Her charactertization in ¨Jinx!¨ is funny but if she is an antagonist that should be taken more seriously then i think she has to learn to act more like it.

There are some fics that make her be more manipulative, extreme and serious that execute her role as villain better in that regard. I think she would need to have similar writing for her to work as main antagonist in Season 2.

This episode would take place between ¨Jinx!¨ and the episode she finds out about how to power up the sobgoblins using joy. I think it could be around episode 15 A-B or episode 16 A-B.

These are some ideas that i have that could fix Jinx's antagonist arc in Season 2. I'm sure there could be other ways to do it, this is just one way i think it could have worked better.

[sharkphobicz]

thinking

[sithvampiremaster27]

31 Faces of Darkness V 08: Jinx (The Ghost and Molly McGee)

[ghostietoastieroastie]

I drew Jinx in a chibi-esque style, nuff said.

[cheesysocsandart]

I have a new crack ship

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

Alternate Take from the final battle of “Jinx vs. The Human World”

Jinx: Any last words?

Molly: Just one… SHARKIE!!!

*Sharkie, in his full Ghost Shark form, attacks Jinx*

Scratch: Play nice with your new chew toy!

[nebulaquatic]

another redraw and also gasp I actually drew another character lol

[tornrose24]

.... Welp, round 4 of 'Scratch but human redraws.'

Some of these I meant to redraw for awhile, but the original version of the upper left one was what prompted the fourth round. ANd then @jackie-gremlin-ghost sent me the original version of the upper middle one.

I was starting to run out of things I wanted to redraw when I remembered the chibiverse shorts, and was reminded of how I wanted to see the chibi version of human!Scratch/Todd, so I picked two moments.

(And yes, I HAD to do the phantom mask screenshot, given those Phantom!Scratch drawings I did).

[carina240]

Some doodles :)

[tgammsideblog]

Scratch and Leadership

The season 2 episode premiere ¨The New Paranormal¨ explores the consequences of Season 1 finale ¨The Jig is Up / Molly vs The Ghost World¨. With the original Chairman getting destroyed, the Ghost World needs a new leader to fill the space that got left. Since Scratch is the ghost that ¨defeated¨ the previous ruler, he has to become the new Chairman.

In ¨The New Paranormal¨ Scratch gets tricked by the Ghost Council into becoming the new leader by having to use the chairman robes to scare the frightmares that were in the Mcgees house away. He gives the order to not cause any chaos to the ghost population, since ¨it brings trouble to him and he hates it¨. Scratch makes a deal to work with the Ghost Council considering they know how things work.

In general Scratch doesn't want anything to do with taking charge of his responsibilities in the Ghost World. He would rather do his best to avoid them or quickly be done with them and teleport back to what he was doing previously. He doesn't make much of an effort to learn how the system works nor tries to change it for the better. He feels like it is a role that was unjustly dropped into him without being able to make a choice in it.

A lot of this seems to come from Scratch feeling like he was stuck in a very repetitive job that made him miserable as human (Todd). Once he became a wraith/ghost he lost his morals of taking responsibility since it unconsciously reminded him of his depressive state when he was human. This could explain in part why Scratch avoids most of his chairman duties and responsibilities.

As the creators put it in an interview, Scratch's arc as chairman during season 2 is about this:

One of it was [that] a lot of people want to grow up and be in leadership, and something like want[ing] to be president. But then, to be president is really hard, and it takes a lot of responsibility, and you have to care about what you’re doing. So, it was sort of a little metaphor about [how] leadership is tricky, and it takes a lot of attention and care and thought. Again, he’s the leader now, right? He’s the guy in charge, and that comes with a whole raft of responsibilities. And we’re going to see, like Bill just said, being a leader is hard, and you got to be intentional about it. And Scratch is not. And that’ll lead to disasters coming down the pike. Many of them.

Source: https://www.nerdsandbeyond.com/2023/04/01/interview-the-ghost-and-molly-mcgee-creators-bill-motz-and-bob-roth-on-what-to-expect-from-season-2/

In multiple episodes we see Scratch making questionable decisions as chairman, like avoiding his duties, making others do the work for him, causing a mess in the workplace and misusing his power.

In ¨Dance Dad Revolution¨ he tricks ghosts into cleaning the Haunty Haunts club by making it look like a fun dance instead of doing it himself. He abuses his power as chairman, ordering others to do his duties as it was a game while he goes to sleep. At the end of the episode a mess is caused that leaves the room all dirty again and he is forced to clean it up himself.

In Season 1 there has been a few episodes that show how Scratch would be pretty authoritative, if not abusive, if he decided to take his role as leader more seriously. These episodes being ¨Goat Your Own Way¨ and ¨The Internship¨. During both occasions he was giving orders because he enjoyed the power that came with it and it was a responsibility.

¨The Ghost IS Molly Mcgee¨ also shows that he could be an effective leader if he put his mind into it when he decided to take Molly's place to be charge of a play. He threatened kids with using a hammer if they didn't follow his orders, making obey him quite quickly. In this example he was doing this to help Molly and for the sake of having fun, demostrating again that he cares about leadership if he sees it as a game.

As much of a disaster Scratch is as chairman, he does make some positive changes to the Ghost World: He doesn't use the Flow of Failed Phantoms as a punishment for ghosts, instead chosing to trap them in things like dolls and canisters if they are causing trouble for others.

He does give Lord Doom, one of the most dangerous ghosts, a second chance after he got cursed to be trapped into a doll. In Necro-comicon episode he is happy that Lord Doom is doing well with his new family. In ¨Unhaunting of Brighton Video¨ he is seen helping the team dealing with Blair and her unfinished business. He brings down the whole system of forcing ghosts to scare off humans and keep the Ghost World miserable since he doesn't feed off from misery like the original Chairman did. Ghosts now scare for fun like seen in the episode ¨Frightmares On Main Street¨. This allows them to be able to be more friendly with humans. In general he lets ghosts to have fun and be more free under his reign as long as they don't disturb other ghosts or humans.

He seems to have a lot of fans seeing in ¨The Afterlife of The Party¨ and ¨Jinx!¨. Not surprising considering he isn't as authoritative as the past Chairman and he is a lot more approachable. There is a crowd following him in ¨Jinx!¨ asking for his autograph and he gets invited to a popular ghost party in ¨The Afterlife of The Party¨. In contrast, when the original Chairman showed up in ¨A Very Hungry Ghost¨ in the Mcgees's backyard, all ghosts disappeared, being terrified of the Chairman.

The way ghosts act around Scratch in Season 2 resembles someone meeting a celebrity rather than a leader. Makes sense because Scratch doesn't take his job seriously and uses is for the status and fame that gives him. Still, most seem to like it regardless of that.

In ¨The Afterlife of The Party¨ he lies about being sick to Geoff so he is able to go to an elite ghost party, something he wanted to do all his time as ghost. Before becoming the new chairman he was always pushed around by most of the ghosts. He was happy when he got invited to one of these popular parties for once. Near the end of the episode he learns that the party was Geoff and Jeff's 100th anniversary of being partners. He apologizes to Geoff for lying to him and Geoff forgives him.

Scratch constanly misuses his chairman powers to throw random curses as a way to fix his problems. He uses curses to help Molly with her fears in ¨FONAA!¨ and to get a perfect day in ¨Perfect Day¨, only for the curse to end up backfiring. In ¨Alaka-Sham¨ it is shown that he used so many curses that the curse cabinet was as its fullest and, because Scratch refuses to do something about it, the cabinet ends up exploding on him and the Ghost Council and has to clean up all the mess. There is one occasion he used this in a way that was useful: In ¨All In The Mind¨ to find why his spectral body was having bubbles all around. He and Molly went inside his own mind and found a memory that was a childhood friend that Scratch had named Adia.

In ¨All Shark No Bite¨ he learns that he can create ghost creatures using his chairman powers and they obey his commands. He accidentally created a ghost shark that he later adopts as his pet and names him ¨Sharkie¨. Sharkie appears in some episodes after that, either in his small or big form.

In spite of having many followers, there is someone that doesn't see him fit of being a chairman. That is Jinx, who was a huge fan of the previous chairman and wants things to go back the way they used to be before Scratch became the new leader.

Jinx represents someone who doesn't like the idea of losing the power she previously had in the past status quo. She enjoyed being a joy hunter and feels like Scratch stripped that away from her. She doesn't consider Scratch worthy of being the new chairman, thinking that she would be better at it instead.

As petty as Jinx is, she does has a point of Scratch being lazy and irresponsible as leader. Jinx had to explain to him how jinxes worked, something she pointed out it is a thing the chairman should know about. She acts as a constant reminder for Scratch that he isn't a good leader for the Ghost World.

All Scratch's irresponsible behaviour culminates in ¨Jinx VS The Human World¨. This episode starts with Scratch leaving the chairman robe unprotected and unguarded, which Jinx takes advantage of and steals it, using to take over the Ghost World and almost the Human World. Scratch also makes the mistakes of accidentally getting Molly captured by Jinx when they look for her in the Ghost World.

Near the end of the episode Scratch comes up with a plan to stop Jinx. He suggest others to ¨spread out joy¨ and extra feeding the sobgoblins, making them explode as result. Sharkie gets summoned by Scratch and grabs the chairman robes from Jinx. The Chens trap Jinx inside the phantom canister so she can't cause any more trouble.

The ghost celebrate Scratch as their true chairman. This leads to Scratch to reconsider things and to finally admit that he isn't a good example of a leader. He uses his powers one last time to make the chairman robe select the person they consider the ¨most worthy¨ to be the new chairman. The robe fly away, looking for a new leader.

In the end, Scratch's arc as chairman this season gives the lesson that not every person is fit to be a leader and it would be better to step down and give that role for those who would be more responsible. While Scratch did bring some good things to the Ghost World, he was incredibly lazy and didn't take the job seriously, which end up putting both worlds at risk. He gives up his status, knowing someone should be in the position instead of him.

[sharkphobicz]

thinking about jinx