#the Antagonizer

[artbyblastweave]

What's effective about The Superhuman Gambit, right, is that the AntAgonizer and the Mechanist are modelling a very 1950s superheroic paradigm basically to a T. The question of why you need a superhero around- the gag that superpeople do nothing but pointlessly fight each other for the sake of it- has been the number one criticism that basically every non-parodic piece of superhero media published after 1986 has attempted to pre-empt. Contemporary superheroes might encounter and defuse high-stakes crises at a completely unrealistic rate, but within the logic of their stories, contemporary superheroes pull their weight- by authorial fiat, their worlds would constantly be suffering mass casualty events if they weren't out there doing their thing. In the 1950s, though, all of this shit, by editorial mandate, was completely siloed from real stakes, even a lot of forms of real crime that were considered too risky to acknowledge as a thing in that political climate; it was all cops and robbers, themed heists, superdickery, nothing of substance, because the entire medium was declawed by the Wertham Scare.

A superhero isn't any more of an outlandish person to have in the Fallout Universe than the kinds of people that are the protagonists of these games. Moreover the actual powersets on display aren't even particularly stupid. Being able to control giant ants with your mind is the kind of thing that nets you feudal territorial holdings if you take it seriously, stupid costumes or no- ditto for being able to field an army of battle-ready robots. Canterbury Commons is very pointedly the site of the one group of people in the game who are trying to get, like, an actual economy going. They're the economic analogue to Project Purity. If either of these assholes threw their personal armies behind that project, the setting would look very very different by the time you climb out of the vault. But they aren't allowed to be the kind of superheroes who notice that, or apply themselves in that way, or really meaningfully engage with the world at all, because, again, they're specifically 1950s superheroes. And this all dovetails really well with my read that Fallout 3 is largely a game about people burying their heads in the sand, immersing themselves in a nostalgic past as a way to avoid thinking about the horrors of the present.

[stoat-party]

Fallout + Text Posts pt. 4: Minor Character Edition

Pt. 3 Pt. 5

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: Superhuman Signature

Were you previously aware that if the player is wearing The Mechanist's or The AntAgonizer's Costume after completing The Superhuman Gambit, a unique random encounter is unlocked?

A Child will approach the player and ask for an autograph!

After the encounter, the Child will run to Canterbury Commons and remain there for the rest of the game. You can check out the page for the Random Encounter here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Gee_Mister,_You_Look_Super!

[gamingladies]

“So, Mechanist! You’ve come to throw yourself on the mercy of the Ant Queen?”

The AntAgonizer in Fallout 3

[slocum-dodson]

New Outfits

First things first. I killed the woman whose robots were making my life harder. So, when she died, I took her sweet costume. But I found this other costume.

Now, my lovely husband is the AntAgonizer. We decided to wear the costumes and play games with one another.

Sometimes it's playfighting on the beach in front of my employees.

Othertimes it's rough lovemaking.

[ciil]

what makes us any different?

[yasbeych]

he keeps trying to disrupt the peace treaty signing. he’s finally been caught

[twigsyy]

i watched through all of fim a little bit ago and my only wish is that they kept starlight a little evil, like comically

[pangur-and-grim]

alright, so Belphie's a bit of a shit

[raycatzdraws]

The true botw shrine experience. I don't think Four approves!

The full comic page and some colorful Fours can be found under the read more!

A meme redraw based on something I did in a playthrough lol. Out of arrows? Throw your sword!

I love Four so much aaAA

[somewhereincairparavel]

To the people saying "Jason wouldn't have jumped into tartarus for Piper, like Percy did for Annabeth" as a way to demean him. Jason, plunged into the sky from the grand canyon to catch Piper in the first few pages of the lost hero without even knowing who she was, and without the knowledge that he could fly. so he basically jumped to his death attempting to catch her. In the first few pages of his journey, he didn't mind dying to save Piper, and ironically, that's also what he did in the last few pages of his journey. Y'all just be making the most out of pocket claims abt jason fr

[loveyourhate]

cat rat fight

[magicicephoenix]

They locked me in a room a rubber room

You don’t want to go in time out, do you?

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[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: The AntAgonizer

“So, at last you've penetrated the court of the AntAgonizer, Queen of All Ants! Were you sent by that meddling Mechanist? He'll learn that no one can stand before my royal regiment of fighting ants!”

- The AntAgonizer, Fallout 3

You can read about The AntAgonizer, AKA Tanya Christoff, here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/The_AntAgonizer

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

I made this and put it in a reblog but I'm still chortling so I'm giving it its own post

[ducklesmcfuckles]

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm obviously addicted to these screenshot redraws... I'm especially in love with this one because its a *triple threat*

This time I managed to get two people in on it, as follows:

Joseph + the background: c'est moi

Polnareff: @camo-9

Jotaro: @nat20220

I'm in looooooooove thank you two so much for enabling my crippling addiction (it's a good addiction this time, instead of dope I'm just drawing dope ass Jojo art)