#to see humans be the fucking badguys

[bl00dh0rs3]

Watching someone play afop and im so. Oh my god. Oh my GOD. It's literally just a fucking showcase of all the Exact type of shit that has been happening to indigenous people and people of color have been dealing with for Centuries at the hands of white supremacy and imperialism. Like its literally just Showing all that Shit from the perspective of a Na'vi in universe. So it "demonizes" the RDA accordingly. And uet so many fucking reviewers are joshing on it and calling it Boring and Slow and Uninspired and that it makes human's 'cartoonishly evil' LIKE YOU PEOPLE HAVENT LOOKED AT A SINGLE FUCKING CURRENT EVENT IN YOUR LIVES. Oh my god im so mad at all these fucking reviewers now. The fucking AUDACITY to look at something this fucking Honest about the cruelty humans are capable of, while living during the fucking day and age with all this Knowledge we have at our fingertips -- the fucking audacity to look at this game and what the character goes through and not being able to muster up ANY other fucking emotion besides "ubisoft never was great at story anyway so idc lol" fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. Like actually. You can't even fucking ATTEMPT to connect to this story emotionally? Not even a fucking Smidge? Jesus fucking christ people need everything to be spoon fed to them these days. God forbid a piece of media actually ask you to meet it in the middle for once.

[m43d4y]

Mfs be like "Ky can't be gay he's married to Dizzy!!!"

My brother in Christ that bitch is

8 years old.

Which is worse? Some old man gear tiddie in his face every once and a while or BEDDING A FUCKING 8 YEAR OLD?

I get that she's not human and ages differently but still I wouldn't see Sin like that either. Man doesn't know what sex is.

Sooo like Idk I'm gonna take Sol Badguy. Plus they got a better relationship. ❤️

[val-badgal]

I yap about Happy Chaos’ Arcade Mode

I played against some of the AI and most of his arcade mode to see some unique interactions, and I’m gonna ramble about them here.

For starters, I fucking hate stage 9 Nagoriyuki. I beat up to stage 8 in Happy Chaos’ arcade mode because I heard he drops some interesting lore bombs, and we’ll get to those in a sec, but JESUS FUCK is stage 9 hard. I beat stage Nago 8 by cheesing with pauses and throws, and it took about 20 attempts. Naturally, I lost all faith in living when I learned that stage 9 was the same thing except Nago started with blood rage (I quit after 5 attempts). How about that lore though, eh? Well, Happy Chaos basically goes on a whole exposition after beating I-No a second time that “Demi-humans” (Nago and Slayer) basically transcend their universe and can travel to ALTERNATE UNIVERSES and basically just dumb themselves down for everyone else to look like they’re not breaking reality. They don’t have “IDs” in the backyard, either, which is how they’re able to travel through universes since they’re basically not a part of the rest of existence. The existence of AUs in Guilty Gear is an interesting one, and I’m curious if it’s how they’re going to justify Lucy from Cyberpunk crossing over when she’s released. Maybe it’ll even play into the next game? I mean, at the end of Strive’s story mode, Sol loses his gear powers, Ky gives up the throne, and Axl gets his girlfriend back. The three main characters of Guilty Gear’s basically all finish their arcs, and it makes me wonder if they pull something in the next game where it’s like “this is Sol Badguy from another universe where he keeps his powers!” so they can still have the same main cast as the other games. It’d be kinda stupid if they did, and I think Daisuke probably wouldn’t do something so cliche and lazy for his main characters, but it’s an interesting possibility to discuss.

Happy Chaos mentions Bedman in the same exposition, saying that he also managed to negate having an “ID” in the backyard. He says “Bedman”, not “Romeo”, which is probably just to make things easier to understand for the majority of the audience who doesn’t know Xrd Bedman’s real name, but it still got me thinking about what it could be in reference to.

It could be Bedman’s dream world. Bedman says right before he dies that he could always make the Absolute World on his own, but my guess with this new information is that his access to both the Absolute World and Dream World are actually existing worlds, and him “creating” the Absolute World just brings him to an alternate universe that already existed with the properties that would let him revive the people he’s killed, save Delilah, etc.

Him negating the “ID” system could be why the character of ‘Bedman?’ exists. Somehow, when Bedman died, he didn’t actually die, but rather figured out a way to reincarnate in the bed itself due to his lack of an ‘ID’ that would allow him to cheat the system. Then again, I’m pretty sure Bed’s Strive theme is about him going to the afterlife, so this one is really just me being hopeful since Xrd Bedman is my favorite fighting game character.

After I gave up on Stage 9 Nago, I googled the ending cutscene to see what other lore there might be. There’s not a lot, but it’s kind of exciting what’s there. Happy Chaos basically tells Nago why he’s returning to the world, which is to protect it from destroying itself from its self-destructive nature. This almost implies that Chaos is willing to play the hero if needed for humanity’s survival, which is a possibility that’s also very in character with how Chaos acts.

I recently discovered that Sin and Chaos also have unique dialogue when fighting each other, and while one of the exchanges are a cute little interaction about sugar water and milpico, the other one frames Sin as the “hero” of the metaphorical show Chaos is always talking about, which would make sense since the upcoming anime is starring him and now that Sol and Ky both stepped down Sin being the next protagonist makes a lot of sense. Considering that there’s hints of both Sin and Chaos being protagonists in the next game and they already have unique interactions with each other, maybe we’ll see them working together in the future? I’m very excited for the future of Guilty Gear lore, lol.

Anyway. I’ll suppress my autism and shut up now, and maybe go draw Sin and Chaos hanging out drinking each other’s favorite beverages while I’m at it. Thanks for reading and I apologize if this makes no sense. I’m happy to clarify my theories in the comments <3

[jupiterjunebug]

I love how glowingly complimentary taiji will be of dudes. Just finished rewatching bosj w ronan and they didnt believe me so i started pulling up his tweets about how awesome his bosj opponents are as human beings. Then he'll go out and just start yelling so we remember hes a badguy but half the yelling isnt even mean like the crowd will still be clapping because hes just going OI SHUT UP FUCK YOU I AM SUCH A GOOD WRESTLER AND GOOD WRESTLERS WINNNN!!! and everyone goes "woohooooo so trueee".

Hes like when a dog in a movie is making growling noises but you can see his tail wagging. Lover of the game AND little bitch

[agoddamn]

Finally got into the Engage groove. Sat down and went from 10 to 15.

Something about MC's "I can't do this without you!" at the Emblems is really funny. Big waifufag energy.

Again, another point where I wish the Emblems were original characters. You could actually do something interesting with Alear having some kinda mildly codependent relationship with the Emblems in spite of them not being truly alive if they weren't cool iconic FE characters that need to be objectively good and admirable at all times.

Heck, you could address the unsettling idea of the Emblems not being truly alive in the first place! They identify themselves as Emblem Name, which means even they see themselves as a derivative. Are they trapped in a hell of undeath, watching everyone around them age and die? Do they still feel the human need for interaction? They get used as weapons against their consent-- isn't that an awful existence? Why would they want to become an Emblem in the first place? They're like the cookies from Black Mirror...nightmarish.

Interesting characterization glimmer from Alcryst. His boss convo with his dad has him saying that he wants to be the one to kill dad in order to spare Diamant having to do it. Damn, son

The sad piano music on the retreat chapter is nice.

I don't get why localization did that with the shitenno names...they're supposed to be colors. Mauvier and Griss are recognizably colors, but the girls are weird. Zephia = Sepia, Marni = Maroon (or maybe Marron, the French version).

Fogado feels like the character the fandom wanted Claude to be lmao

Also not sure why they renamed his sister? She's Misteria in Japanese, the siblings are fog and mist, that's the joke.

...dragon badguy kinda sexy. Forehead clit is a turnoff though

I like how Hortensia wigs out thinking Ivy is dead and everyone just chooses not to correct her

Kingdom 1's name theme is French, 2 is rocks, 3 is flowers, and 4 is...not sure, actually. Jp had the fog/mist thing, but English...

MERRIN IS MY WIFE

Oh, the gay bandits again. Wait...do they both call one another little brother in their death lines??

Solm palace is very pretty. Easily the nicest-looking castle interior

RIP to whatever localizer got handed Fogado's fratboy retainer lmao there are plenty of things I'll drag the localization on, but the party peep lingo is so bizarre to translate. I won't even touch it. They did their best with that shit

Kagetsu has gotten str level after str level. He's terrifying. Complete animal.

Kagetsu and Zelkov feel like weird AU cousins of Odin and Zero...Koyasu voicing Kagetsu only hammers this vibe home even harder

Starting to suffer on supports. As of chapter 15, MC doesn't have one B support. They took away support-building on the enemy phase and two-space supporting, which makes it a massive pain in the ass to get support points. I've been doing arena and cafe after every battle, too! Squeezing as many support points as possible outta this, but it still ain't much

Reclassing ends up being kind of an odd beast thanks to how Emblem-dependant it is. Losing your initial batch of Emblems takes away your ability to spread weapon proficiencies around, which hobbles your ability to reclass for several chapters. Compounding that, it's a good while before you can buy Second Seals, and money is very tight. If you have a unit who starts off in a class not suited to their growths (Jean, Clanne) they're kinda just fucked. What's the point of designing a system with so much flexibility only to take away your ability to use it for most of the game? I would have preferred the system be more stripped-down and actually usable.

Goddamn, do I feel the money crunch. Buying gifts? In THIS economy?

[tillman]

hi tillman 🫵 i was wondering what ur thoughts on sol and eddie’s dynamic

In canon and not my beautiful dream world in which eddie is friends with everyone and talks about their feelings together out of a desperate need to put themes into words I think they would be in that like nightmare awkward space of Understanding but unable to cope with each other. Eddie has some sort of respect for him for a few reasons namely his connection to dizzy and his ability to Hide his status of gear from the rest of the world. I dont think sol would possibly give enough of a shit about eddie to like Care about him beyond “dizzy knows him. Hes attached to a guy I want to kill.” But I think out of like some sort of sympathy of Someone Hurt by gear cells hed begrudgingly give him distance.

I think they have similar ideas on the whole being weapons for the sake of someone else thing but go about it in very different ways. They both kind of seem to give into their role very easily and embody “if im a monster im a Monster. I have no time for humanity” while both seeming to crave genuine connection and for someone to see them as human which is funny. I can see them getting along specifically if dizzy acted as a buffer to the whole. Them both having genuine physical urges from their dna to kill the other. Honestly I think the best result of their dynamic is a sort of Distant Respect. I wont hurt you because it would hurt someone who slipped through my facade of A Bad Guy. Kind of thrown out the window when zato is involved cus sol seems to genuinely despise him (rightfully) but I dunno. I think they have very similar ideas about their forced situations but kind of end up being water and oil when actually facing each other. Doesnt help their first meetings were when eddie was so desperate for a new host he just tried to kill anyone so sols idgaf attitude has already stuck… but this is my beautiful world…

In my beautiful world dizzy introduces them through a door and they get beers and bemoan life together every so often. Perhaps kick the shit out of each other for catharsis (whatever fuck it give in to your brain telling you to tear the other guy to shreds- youre both kinda immortal weapons. It probably feels pretty good.) the natural eddie jealousy of how come u as a weapon get a family. And sol badguy kicking his ribs to pieces going idfk go make one. All that shit. Not that eddie has ribs but its the thought that counts. Maybe theyre zatos. Idk.

[recusantchicky]

irl pol tw

i'm adamantly anti the read of sote that it's about "the cycle of violence" because 1: that's a story that sucks and i hate and 2: it's abuse apologism, not the empathetic nuance ppl want to act like it is.

it sequesters the crime into the victim who had to have deserved it anyway and they are the one who is broken and needs to be run out or corrected to fix the problem because challenging power itself can't be allowed, because then someone else can challenge *ME* and that's not fair or legal and social order dissolves!!

people are not compelled to genocide because they were genocided. the "timely and topical comparison" with isrl bcming the nazis isn't "cycle of violence" "hurt people hurt people sora" shit my friends.

it IS a cogent comparison but because isrl is filled with american xtian evangelists who just want to murder people for fun as part of the great western colonization project that has destroyed the world to extract juicy juicy sap from the spilled blood and burned trees of innocent people just trying to live.

like the HOLOCAUST, people were CONCENTRATED into a TARGET ZONE and KILLED EN MASSE BY PURGING FLAME.

you walk in with your eyes showing you are a fucking baby sniper tank rolling over people still alive driver and go "see how bad they are? they threw rocks at me. they organized to kill me."

people are scrambling back and forth to justify frenzy as fine actually to make the hornsent the badguys in the abyssal woods but it's fine when marika did it, i mean, it burns away soul. even torrent was afraid.

but marika was using soul burning flame against those who were not willing to enter her tree simulation. if i can't use you, i will annihilate you. nothing is sacred and the human soul is dead so we're quite fine and happy with droning sick babies from space so we get ocean side condo property but if you really don't know: that's fucking evil.

you aren't about life and love if you're willing to do that to someone just because they aren't you. you're evil actually. i know i can't change people's hearts if they think that any amount of burning babies is worth theirs getting into a good school and having the best brand of shoes or whatever but if you want a good world for your children you should want a world in which no children are burned.

[getmemymicroscope]

Approaching the End of This Season of Arrowverse (My Viewings, Not the Live Season)

Supergirl's alien badguy has mind control over all humans. So Supergirl's very human sister comes up with a brilliant plan: "I'm going to help her, no matter what."

Of course, not only does she get J'onn J'onnz killed (or near-killed?), but she almost immediately falls under this mind control and is thrown into combating Supergirl. ... Man, if literally anyone had been able to see this coming...

What a stupid, stupid decision. Of course, I guess these shows absolutely live on people - especially those closest to the heroes - making the stupidest decisions ever. Honestly, all these superheroes just need to find better people to surround themselves with.

...

After seasons of people telling him (or me yelling at him) about needing to take a step back when it comes to matters involving family, Green Arrow finally decides to tell this to John Diggle when Diggle is in a similar boat (not that I expect Oliver to actually understand this - next time family/friend is in trouble, he's clearly going to do exactly this). Unsurprisingly, Diggle doesn't listen. Unsurprisingly, Arrow wasn't wrong. And now, because of this unwillingness to take a step back when family is involved and their judgment is clearly clouded, Laurel Lance is dead. Good in terms of decreasing the annoying number of "acting stupidly when family is involved" and in decreasing the number of full-on annoying characters, bad in terms of keeping the Arrow's team together.

...

But honestly, this inability to take a backseat when they're too close to something is like a staple for television/movie/book characters - and it is annoying as fuck. Like, I get it happening every now and then, but like, especially in these CW-ish shows, it just happening. ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME. and god is it annoying. (It's also why I had to give up on, for example, Castle.) Like we've got 400 different superheroes, and yet, every single time, the one closest to the problem is guaranteed to not only not take a back seat, but also making a fucking stupid decision that was not only entirely preventable with an ounce of common sense (or a single sensible thought), but also 100% predictable to everyone. (See, for example: everything with The Flash and his actions whenever his mom, or dad, or Iris, is involved.)

...

There needs to be some superhero oversight committee that is just like "you're too close, take a seat." And when the superhero doesn't listen, because of course they won't (I think the number 1 criterion to become a superhero is to have the critical thinking skills of a dead plant), this committee just seals them up in some sort of inescapable cell (sort of like the ones underneath S.T.A.R. Labs) until the issue has been sensibly dealt with. Just imagine the number of insanely bad decisions that would be prevented, and the number of lives saved as a result.

[dumbassalex]

Yeah the McFarlanes art is definetly an aquired taste (i had my own issues going through it due to the art), i think the best looking human character he does is Mary Jane, but god his Peter is...something.

I feel like overall it isn't a bad story, it tackles the idea of how media can cause general panic and paranoia, how people resort to violence first chance they get, the corrupt authorities and how they often hide monsters, the struggle of reporters trying to write the truth but also wanting to write great stories that gets them the front page and alot of sales and money.

And overall i like Logan in this book, he's angry because not only is there another Wendigo, one that's a target of a monster hunt due to prejudice and exoectations of seeing a "monster" with a body of a decomposing child, but also because the townsfolk is killing dozens and dozens of innocent animals due to mass hysteria.

But yeah, his voice isn't perfect because...90s.

There is one BIG issue with this team-up tho...Peter genuinely is useless and does jack-shit through the whole 5 issues, he hides because "people can't see Spider-Man at the spot Peter Parker went to work to in Canada", fails and convincing people they're wrong about the whole story and Wendigo, doesn't really stop anything, Logan solves the mystery, Logan finds the badguy, Logan stops Wendigo, Logan stiches Wendigo up, LOGAN moves the plot forward while Peter is trying to peacefully work through the case while missing crucial details and doesn't do a single important thing for the plot to move forward.

Fact of the matter is that this is a Wolverine story that Todd propably didn't get the go-ahead to write and so he made it a Spider-Man team-up in his Spider-Man run while making Peter fucking useless.

Sci, have you read Todd McFarlanes "Perceptions" arc in Spider-Man from 1991, it's a 5 issue arc of Peter and Wolverine teaming up and looking for Wendigo and i was wondering how you felt about it if you read it?

i recognised it immediately from the first cover - that's an ass i don't forget.

i'll be real - todd mcfarlane might be my least favourite spider-man artist, ever. not for the way he draws spidey, naw. i love the way he draws spidey - but - man should never be allowed to draw human faces, ever.

i might barf too, peter. i might barf too.

i remember trying to read this one, unsuccessfully, because every single panel just reminds me how much i hate the 90s.

this man's mask? ridiculous.

i tried reading it again, @dumbassalex beloved, but i can't do it. mcfarlane's art is just far too off-putting for me. i've skimmed it - but i can't look at those pages for more than 5 seconds. hurts my eyes. a– oH MY GOD his HAIR is even more ridiculous.

dear... god... i hate the 90s...

from what i get from the writing, i don't really like it either. logan's a little too emotional, and peter – eh, he's a little annoying.

"i don't know why he's such a goody two-shoes" i read in a 12-year-old's voice.

yeah this wolverine is not the same emotionally mature guy we read in spider-man vs wolverine a few years prior. no sir.

i think that's the thing that grates me about both of their voices in this book - they sound like children pretending to be gruff grizzled adult men.

that's what a lot of stuff from the 90s sounds like to me. like they want to sound adult but it's actually like. what a kid thinks an adult would say. i think all comics in the 90s would be improved by being dramatically read by 10 year olds putting on their best batman voice

[zeravmeta]

since guilty gear characters never stay dead/gone im making up my own dlc plotline where after strive bedman and i-no ended up in the underworld hill where izuna is chilling after which when both of them are asking why they aren't dead izuna is like "oh well you're technically not human anymore so instead of death you dont really die when killed so youre like me now welcome to yokai furry limbo you have your choice of fox ears or cat ears" and when izuna gets the full story of what happened while he was gone he IMMEDIATELY ubers himself to the real world because not only has sol lost his gear powers but he also got a girlfriend and izuna needs to tap that before sol commits and since he needs wingmen he forcibly drags i-no and bedman out of their depressive spiral for the sickest grandpa yaoi roadtrip ever. they get caught on grainy 7-11 camera footage after which this leads to an incredibly huge comedy of errors where the pwab is trying to catch two worldwide war criminals and the weird furry grandpa (who they dont recognize as izuna because its funny) who keep evading capture through unknown means (izuna just keeps getting lost), axl keeps chasing them because the last time he spoke with i-no she was in a suicidal godhood kick and he just wants to make sure his bestie is ok (he meets with and like tentatively joins happy chaos who also wants whats best for i-no but axl is ready to pull the trigger piglet him at every moment, where happy is too thrown by the idea of saving i-no when shes right fucking there -points at megumi-), throw in robovenom getting accidentally involved as unintentional accomplices where bedman is forcibly adopted and drops his reddit style 'im not owned!!' cadence because robo ky is far more annoying and venom is embarrassingly flaming, which in itself also means that baiken delilah and anji (and therefore his boy best friend chipp) get involved because now they think that robovenom fucking graverobbed and kidnapped bedman. the moment izuna reaches sol he sees him having a fighting yaoi moment with asuka, at which in the same moment everyone breaks into sol's little cabin in the woods including sin and ram where sin is introducing everyone to his sort of grandpa/uncle. sol sees everyone enter his house and the sheer indignation makes not the flame of corruption or the scale of juno but a new weird 3rd thing appear inside him so now he's a gear again, which DOUBLES his anger and now sol badguy the guilty gear kicks everyone out into the rain dlc over daisuke you have my number call me

[malewifehenrycooldown]

i know i've liked. just disappeared for a large chunk of time, but I promised there is good reason for that. I've been busy writing up Griselda's profile, but I can share some details about her + their role in the series's story mode for certain games:

Spoilers for Guilty Gear and Guilty Gear 2 Overture

TW for some mentions of manipulative behavoiur and brainwashing (Griselda is the one being manipulated for the most part)

small notice: Griselda uses she/her, they/them and xe/xem pronouns!

Tagging: @teddybear-selfshipping, @gravistone, @szayelinx, @magnoliaeclaiir

Griselda was a high ranking magic user and member of the Holy Order and participated in the Crusades to defend Humanity against the overwhelming forces of Gears.

Her main weapon is a big giant fuck off sword that is infused with magic and can transform into any other type of bladed or bludgeoning weapon. It's called 'The Reznor'. [reference to Tre..nt Rez..nor of Nin...e In..ch Na..ils fame]

throughout the series her attire is somewhat based on/influenced by the gothic lolita fashion style that's popular in Japan - opts to wear dresses in the middle of a serious fight.

Bumped heads a lot with Sol Badguy when he joined the Holy Order. However as time went on, their hostility began to weaken and slowly began to become actual friends

Sees Ky Kiske as a younger brother, and while they do mostly get along, they don't necessarily view the world the same way. Ky is an idealist and optimist, Griselda is a cynic when it comes to the future (opting to view the future through the 'realistic' outcomes and events). Sometimes that clash of ideas can cause conflict.

She was sent out on a solo mission to destroy a specific Gear-Class that was weak to her magic, but xe never came back from that mission. There was a funeral in her honor, but some people believed that she's still alive but just took the mission to run away from the Holy Order (despite that being a very OOC thing for her)

Griselda does become part gear, although this occurs after being cursed by an individual who claimed to know the location of the Gear she was tasked to find and kill.

Becoming part Gear, gave her... many physical changes, particularly her hair changed colour and became blonde for some reason, but also gained some form of abilities that can be described as werewolf physiology, with a dash of immense physical strength, agility, stamina and heightened senses. She's also a lot more aggressive compared to when she was a human.

Like Sol Badguy's Dragon Infusion, she can tap into part of these powers that give her a more monstrous werewolf/beast like form. this is called 'Moonlight Infusion' for simplicity's sake.

Upon becoming part gear, and the fact that this is during the Crusades, Griselda ends up being controlled by Justice - and when Justice finds out that she can control a human-gear hybrid, she opts to make the measly human her 'Bodyguard' .

When rumors of Justice having a bodyguard (Griselda) go around, they refer to the bodyguard as 'The Golden Wolf'

When Justice was finally sealed in 2173, Griselda hides away to Ganymede and hides there, mostly in shame of her actions of assisting Justice and the destruction of her own kind.

Dr Paradigm is one of the few independent gears who does not look down upon the former human. he invites her over in a simple act of kindness, then she aids him in some science experiments or finding scientific research material from the human world. this routine would eventually become one of Griselda's long lasting and stable friendships.

In the first Guilty Gear game, when Griselda gets word of the Second Holy Order Selection Tournament and how they are offering the winner any wish they want, she attends the tournament, hoping to reverse the curse's affects and go back to normal.

However she gets beaten in the tournament, ironically being defeated by Sol. However when Justice is seemingly brought back by Testament, the commander-class Gear's orders kick back in and she faces off Sol again.

Something something, Sol puts the pieces together and realises that this part gear, part human is Griselda and is able to get through to her and change her mental state into one that's no longer under Justice's control. However after Justice is defeated again by Sol, Griselda is already gone as she heads back to Ganymede, not wanting to mingle with people from her past life.

In GG 2 Overture, the disappearance of notable Gears forces the roads of Sol Badguy's and Griselda's life to cross paths to confront and solve the issue of Valentine and The Cube in a place known as The Backyard. It is then the two finally confront each other, and finally Sol and Ky are given answers as to what happened on that Solo Mission Griselda took. Eventually they all work together to solve the issue at hand, and bring back the missing gears.

Ky offers Griselda a place to stay in Illyria, and offers her a spot on his political council as he believes that having someone who is human AND part gear could help him achieve or at least make it easier for Gears and Humans to co-exist together in harmony. Griselda is hesitant about this because they have for the most of their life been played as the puppet to a much larger more powerful figure - but Ky insists that he wants xyr council, xyr opinion on political matters even if they go against Ky's own views.

xe accepts his offer but under the condition that Sol Badguy is commission to make Griselda her own version of the Gear Cell Suppressor as to not just hide her physical characteristics that give her away as being 'a gear', but to also keep a lid/cap on her powers of which she still doesn't fully understand or know how to control.

Despite Griselda having been Justice's puppet, she does not hold any ill will against Dizzy. Dizzy is only trying to exist peacefully in a world that fears her.

[ojirocardigansniper]

yeag

sylen- like 12. technically i stole his name and basic look from edgy beautiful badguy oc i had age 11 allegedly lotrpilled but actually amulet graphic novel elves don't talk to.me ANYWAY hes baby he's half-fae but only ever known his human dad he's my little guy i love him. and he goes on an unconsensual roadtrip ("thats called kidnapping") unconsensual roadtrip

meng- human dad. has attracted magical problems his entire life and hasnt gained more than an ounce of sense about it. does it still count as poor impulse control if you fuck a mysterious guy three separate times or are those just decisions now. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SHOWED UP AND HANDED YOU A BABY? AND YOU TOOK IT???? yes it's a very cute baby NOT THE POINT

[name not settled]- meng's older sister, sylen's auntie, "witch" is a word you couuuuld use. has capital-s Sight very clearly and all the sense meng lacks. TOLD HIM TO STOP FUCKING THAT GUY. AND YET!!! Of Course Not. when the conses quence and sylen gets yoinked unceremoniously and meng is like "Obviously i have to go to talk and try to get him home" she goes Unfortunately for my sanity im coming with you or i am guaranteed never seeing my nephew again. or you but less of a loss there ("Hey") IVE BEEN GOING GRAY SINCE YOU WERE BORN. YOU SAY NOTHING

anri- some kind of minor fae lord i ALMOST don't care. this aint about him. (okay it is but not as much as some specific human perspectives of him) why was he in the woods being ethereally beautiful and mysterious on some kind of repeated journey Don't worry about it. why did he bring a child of human union Back to said human instead of keeping it DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. **Why** does he want that child back now Don't Wo hey you look like you're worrying about it. rapidly in his direction. hm

étrétta- another of anri's children, entirely fae tho. visited sylen some when he was a child, before auntie heard about this and went Absolutely Not, No Strangely Lovely Playmates From The Woods, Do Not Be Your Father. not heard from since. except as mentioned byyyy

muna- étrétta's uhhh wife, fae equivalent. was the one sent to pick up sylen for his unconsensual roadtrip. not enthusiastic about it. creepy :) apparently ate étrétta's heart in the intervening years as some form of. reproduction. trétta's ok she's uh. chillin. snow whiting it. again say it with me kids Don't Worry About It

so yea. kid on a spooky journey in the feywild with a babysitter that ate his sister and is bringing him to his mystery dad who he has been warned against all his life because fae can invoke ties and debts to fuck your shit up so bad and He Is A Living Embodiment Of Those Things. and chasing after them is his family who are dealing with the harrowing ordeals of fae and travel and siblinghood and failing to protect a child they love. and i don't have enough in my brain about the resolutions of this because >failed d&d campaign setup but NOW . my wise and smart ass (learning from beloveds al and barry) wanted to pick an oc to play bg3 with and decided on an adult sylen and while im not making the game events "Canonical" (you know. mainline story. How that works with little guys of your brain) i am getting juiced up to fill the gap and Resolve. there are thingssss. debts and family and doing the scary things. Which is all what it is all about forever . fuck me running ijust realized i started these guys six fuckinf years ago TIME ISNT REAL

idont think ive posted about meng anri sylen etc here before have i. failed d&d campaigns are so important you get so many fucking ocs. like "fairytale romance (Ironic)" and "if one of the fae hands you a baby and you accept the baby The Conses Are Going To Fucking Quence At Some Point, Buddy" and "weird dad sent his weirder daughter-in-law to kidnap me, waiting for normal dad to pick me up, straight up not having a good time"

[guiltygearofficial]

How did each of the Guilty Gear characters manage during tax season?

Sol evades his taxes. This takes no effort on his part, since he legally does not even exist and no tax collector is gonna look for a man named “Sol Badguy”.

Ky Kiske, Leo Whitefang and Daryl all do not need to pay taxes, due to being the kings of illyria. Ky however, still donates a chunk of his salary to be used to help homeless orphans. Leo donates exactly 1$ more of his salary than Ky does. Daryl uses tax payer money to buy pudding.

Johnny and the entire jellyfish pirates don’t pay taxes because they’re pirates. Pirates usually don’t pay taxes, unless they’re really uncool pirates that work for the government (See The East India Trading Company and Privateers from Real Life)

The assassin guild used to pay taxes back in the day, until Zato decided it’d be cheaper to just kill any tax collector that shows up at their door because they literally murder people for money already, may as well murder people to not lose money

Chipp does not need to pay taxes due to being the president. He has however been seen leaving the office with a comedically large bag of cash with a $ sign on it to meet with the ghost of Masashi Kishimoto to comission new chapters of Loruto (sequel to Boruto)

Faust diagnosed himself as allergic to taxes so he can’t do them, for health reason.

Axl Low tends to mysteriously disappear into different timelines during tax season, only to reappear later. He has been doing this for 200 years.

Whenever tax collectors show up at Kliffs place he tells them to fuck off, taxes are for people that haven’t fought Justice 17 times and for people that are still alive.

Testament lives in the middle of nowhere. The IRS would try to tax them if they actually knew where they lived.

Justice does not pay taxes because it is very hard to tax someone trying to wipe out humanity. Not that the IRS didn’t try, mind you. Their tax collectors simply got incinerated.

Baiken has been evading taxes for years now, it’s why she avoids the colony. Her entire mailbox is filled with nothing but warnings that she owes them money.

Anji does his taxes wrong, on purpose, to cause more paperwork for the people processing his tax report.

Jam has refused to pay any taxes since the IRS took more than 87% of the reward money she got for defeating Dizzy

Dizzy doesn’t have to pay taxes due to the combined reasons of being legally nonexistent and being married to the guy who runs half of europe.

For similar reasons, Sin, Ramlethal and Elphelt do not have to pay taxes.

Bridget doesn’t have to pay taxes because she’s 12. Lucky bastard.

Slayer is rich people and we all know rich people don’t pay taxes.

Zappa tries to pay taxes, but gets posessed by the ghost of Ayn Rand, spectre of anarcho capitalism, who insists that taxation is theft and eats Zappas tax return.

Robo-Ky was built by the IRS to collect taxes. You may say “Dear Daisuke Ishiwatari, creator of the Guilty Gear Series, incredibly handsome game developer and loremaster supreme, but Robo-Ky was built by the Post War Administration Bureau, not the IRS!” Well, I have news for you Dear Gearster, The IRS and the PWAB are one and the same.

Answer declared the “Answer doesn’t have to pay taxes” law on the 27th of June 2187, making it legally required for him not to pay taxes. He instead spends that money on more frogs.

Raven and I-no have both flirted with enough tax collectors that the IRS has chosen to simply not send people after them anymore because it’s honestly not worth it.

Potemkin pays his taxes because he’s an upstanding citizen of Zepp and the only character on the roster that actually pays taxes

[ilikelookingatthings]

The things that irritate me about Gabriel

For one....this guy’s plan is logical.

His wife got sick due to using the peacock miraculous where even with the book thye couldn’t figure out a cure. 

The guardian’s did not exist so he didn’t have professionals he can go to and he does not know about master fu. He feels the only way to save his wife is using the Wish so he needs the ladybug miraculous and the blackcat miraculous. So to get them to be activated he pretends to be a villian to create a threat that would force them to be activated(a.k.a stoneheart) so they could come out of hiding. his plan had been to get the ring and earings after that first time so he hadn’t actually planned for harrasing paris in the long term. and because he is playing villian he feels he can’t just ask for help because why wold they help someone who caused stoneheart.

he also has a set up where he made sure everyone knew he was the badguy in charge so people wouldn’t blame the akuma victims. Gabe also knows if he wins he can just reverse all the damage and set free his akuma victims and if he loses then ladybug will fix all the damage and the victims with her miraculous. So Gabe has a illusion at least that no one is seriousky getting hurt. It does not excuse what he is doing but from a logical standpoint his villian plan makes sense where he would not see the real danger since he knows what he wants is to save his wife and not take over the world. Even the missing mom theory implies its a opening for when they fix the mom to return.

Its frusterating because while it makes complete and utter sense for the city and the heros to fear and doubt hawkmoth because hawkmoth never tells them what he wants the miraculous for, and what he is willing to do to get them is really messed up so its undertsandable to assume worse case scenerios. But rather than pure evil its frusterating human for him to justify what he was doing as he had a reason to at least think no one was seriously getting hurt or in real danger.

And considering to use his powers he has to amplify his own negative emotions and connects to someone else with negative emotions and acts like he understads and supports them...so weirdly there is a parallel where both Gabe and akumas have justified emotiojs for why they are upset...but juts both end up trying to confront those issues in emotion based without logic ways. it twists it a bit were they don’t understand its not going to get them what they really want.

there a implication that Gabe using his miraculous for selfish reasons and amplifying hsi own emotions like taht all the time is making himself less and less focused and while also hyper fixated on his goal. there has been hints that Gabe is making himself worse and was not always like this.

Gabe IS terrible as a person no doubt...but him wanting to save his wife IS a understandable motive and isn’t evil in of itself. She is the mom of Adrien and clearly better at emotions....Gabe SHOULD steo up and be there for Adrien but Gabe thinks he is doing this FOR Adrien and the family because adrien would be better off with his mom being around. and he hadn’t actually planned for it to go on this long and we did see him feel guilt from hiding where the mom was from Adrien.

and through the lens he wants to save hid mom...alot of the time when he is being a deliberate Dick he is doing so with the idea to save teh mom by causing a akuma. On one hand that is fucked up on so many levels deliebrately messing with someone to create an akuma where he takes advantage of those emotions...on the other is does raise the implication Gabe isn’t alway naturally a asshat.

There HAVE been signs that Gabe does genuinely care for Adrien and others sometimes. his worry in startrain. him helping nathalie over going after the miraculous. How he tried to stop nathalie from continuing to be the peacock. Him bragging about his son to ladybug when hsi son was out of the room. him actually being impressed when chat ripped him a new one. How he did let people stay for teh christmas party and gabe had gone down to meet adrien for christmas eventually even if it took a bit. and gabe worry about adrien after collector and Gabe did own up that Gabe was in the wrong and he hasn’t taken adrien out of school since and admited some of his issues to adrien after collector. He did let adrien go to school. and did let adrien go exploring the city in shanghai. Gabe also was very undertsanding when mari returned the mircaulous book, not only answering questions but acknowledging it was brave of her to come forward and he didn;t shout at her about it. even agreeing to not tell adrien like mari had asked and answered Mari’s question on the book. Gabe did let adrien go to the music festival in the end. and Gabe did want the mom about the mom with adrien in the end. 

It doesn;t change that the other bad aspects overpower these moments as we HAVE seen worst case scenerio gabriel in those alternate futures where he akumatizes his kid after finding out he is chat andhow he messed iwth adrien’s love life. and gabe did basically act like it was dangerious for adrien to be outwhen gabe was the one making that danger. and everyone time we get a good moment with gabe potentially they find a way to give a worst moment to counter act it or  a different worst motivate at time.

but the thing that frusertates me the most is the show treating gabe as just a simple bad man most of the time. I LIKE the focus being on him being bad...and heck even bad people can care about people...but its like they try to stomp out any potential nuance at times...which I wouldn;t mind so much if they had more expliantions for why gabe was getting even worse...like him using all those miraculouses all the time or a sie effect from using the butterfly the way he was.

He has teh simple the undertsandable motive but sometimes it feels like they make him worst and more careless in otherways that muddy up that motive,...dude literlaly almsot cuased world war 3 when he messed around in newyork!

Now I don;t mind him not being the most senstaive toward other people...this is actually a slight parallel he has with marinette who when she has a goal can sometimes forget to factor in other people’s feelings properly even mari is clearly a better person.

but if they are going to make him a worse and worse person and put some set ups abot side effects of unworhy peple with miraculouses! then USE it and connect it properly.

Sometimes villians are just bad and honestly gabe does deserve to go to jail at this point. heck it is ALL too easy for the fandom to argue adrien should just throw gabe in the trash and feel nothing....but its frusterating as hell when he has all the buiding blocks of more nuance to him lingering around all the time...and espeically when he is a darkmirror to Marinette. and the theme aspect when it comes to akumas is that akumas are people who are lashing out and hurting but lashing out for help in the wrong ways.

Gabe is literally someone who’s motive is understandable and he didn’t really have other options to fall back on to get other help but maybe if he asked for helpthe guardians or others would have found a alternative by now. But Gabe thinks no one is going to help him and is stuck on his one idea on how to fix things.

I Hate him...but I’m so frusterated that the show basically gives me almost no room but to hate him. like the ‘right’ move is just for him to give up and let his wife die. We don’t even get to morally wonder about maybe it could be worth it as a tradeoff somewhere as instead of there being a specific trade off..like someone else going into a coma so she can come out of it...they literally just have the world impload and get rewritten. I can’t even fully tell if he knows thats the risk of the wish or not or if he thinks they are just trying to scare him off about it.

Adrien’s strongest mark is seeing that when people do mean things...most of the time its coming from some place of pain or misunderstanding that it will get them what they want...like Chloe with her mom and dad and her not really finding kindness coming naturally. and how if you don;t give people a chance to change then they are just going to double down.

I definitely dislike lila but we don’t actually know anything about her homelife so its not completely disproven that her lying doesn’t come from something seeking attention and adrien wasn’t wrong that Mari trying to out lila the way mari was originally going about it would make lila feel cornered and lash out back(and yes we know Mari agreed to leave Lila alone but mari never actually told lila that mari was going to let it go...even though it IS on Lila for jumping to conclusions and then later for choosing to continue to dislike when mari actually meant the olive branch that time).

Even Felix was taking out his frustration over his dad dying and using adrien as a target to vent despite it being gabe who made it so adrien couldn’t come.

Gabe even has a interesting backstory with how he built his brand from the groundup and he feels like new money even if he acts like old money sometimes. He has so many parallels with marinette that no one really brings up because they also right Gabe so terrible that no one would want to compare the two because Mari is clearly the better person.

I mean I know the man needs to be incompetent enough they can milk him as a villian for this long and he can escalate so we can worry....but damn it I wish there was something to work with to increase the tradgedy...because sometimes you do just get a trash parent like chloe’s mom for example...but Gabe feels different from that because his plan made logical sense...but what do we get,...astric just doubling down on him being trash! without any the parallels between gabe and marinette explored?

[digimonloving]

Thoughts on how Digimon keeps using the Royal Knights and Yggdrasil as badguys?

(I mean, I kinda thought for a season or two it'd make sense and be a bit of a twist since the Royal Knights aRE supposed to be the sort of "good guys" of the Digital World, but they're also very strict w/ how they go about things and all have their own thoughts on how to interpret Yggdrasil's Will which is also a whole bs too fhsdfh

I could also see why Yggdrasil might b like 'we gotta deal w/ humans RIGHT NOW' b/c, well, sometime things that happen in real world mess w/ Digital World and it's just a bit of bs sometime dfhsdf

Anyway. In some ways it can make sense, again cause all the RKs have their own ways of how they go about the Will of Drasil, but clearly some are less stubborn and wanna get along w/ ppl more than others so dfhsdfhs

it can b a toss up at times depending on how well they're used too. Anyway.

I sometimes enjoy it, but only if it makes sense as to what the fuck going on in the Digital World dhsdf

[popculturebuffet]

Darkwing Duck Quadruple Feature! (Beauty and the Beet, Whiffle While You Work, Jurassic Jumble, Something Fishy)

Welcome back! It’s been a bit since I visited St. Canard and my march to watching Just Us Justice Ducks by watching one episode, with the exception of Megavolt the first chronological appearances of, each member of the Justice Ducks and Fearsome Five. The Megavolt exception was so I could, by comission, cover the one and only appearance of the OTHER Negaduck if you were curious.So far besides Negsy and Volty, i’ve covered both of Morgana’s first chronological episodes, Liquidator’s and (SIgh) Gizmoducks. But with only 6 left to go.. I put the seires on hiatus to work on ride of the three cabs and my minty fresh retrospective of life and times. At the TIME it didn’t seem like a bad idea, I could get to this any time and what not.. but in hindsight.. yeah putting an almost finished project on hold till two much larger projects, that at the time of this review have 10 and 13 installments left, WHILE also starting two more projects... was not my best move, especially since I have a comission, and an episode needed to properly review that comission AND a valentine’s day episode to review.. all of which come AFTER Just Us Justice Ducks chronlogically and 2 of which involve Negaduck. So yeah I whiffed it bad on this one and this mini-marathon is my way of fixing that, finsihing up the last few episodes before the big event. The episode i’ve waited almost a decade to watch and one of the most loved in the series history: Just Us Justice DUcks, which is coming up next week. Then LIfe and Times will be right back where it was and I promise to get that out weekly. But yeah with logisitcs out of the way and 4 episodes to go, I don’t know how to go slow so let’s get dangerous shall we?

Beauty and the Beat:The Misplaced Batman the Animated Series Villian

We open with one of the first Darkwings I watched via my old Darkwing Duck DVDS, rewatched a while back and easily one of my faviorite episodes and the first apperance of my faviorite Darkwing Duck Villian, though Liquidator and now Quackerjack are giving him a run for his money. But yeah I love Reggie and part of it is he’s something far diffrent than what Darkwing normally fights. 

While he still fits in with the Rouges gallery: someone with either powers or a good gimmick whose intresting, engaging and most importantly to this show, Reggie is still diffrent in that he’s an inherently tragic figure. While the rest of the rouges have sympathetic qualities theier still not really good people: Quackerjack chose to lash out at what drove him out of buisness instead of starting over again, Megavolt is your standard wants money bad guy, and Liquidator was a massive asshole. And if you add in the other villians i’ve covered, Taurus Bulba was basically Marvel’s Kingpin as a bul and Splatter Phoenix while having a noble goal of funding her arts does so via framing an innocent child and stealing. They aren’t unsympathetic, some of them anyway, but they are still ruthless because they choose to be.  Reggie.. didn’t get that choice. We see from the start of this episode his life has just been being everyone elses punching bag: His boss dosen’t respect him, his cowowkers not only don’t respect him but actively bully him and only the newsest researcher has ever paid him the time of day much less told the two assholes, Gary and Larson, a nice shout out, to stop. And given I reviewed Wonder Woman 84 yesterday i’ts NICE to remember a version of a “geek becomes a supervillian’ story that’s.. actually good. This is basically the same sorry, a disrpsected scientest trnasforms and gets revenge.. just you know done right. 

And SOMEHOW Reggie’s life only gets worse as asshole one and asshole two sabotage his work, he gets fired and is forced to experiment on himself. While that’s a classic mad scientst and supervillian trope what’s notable is Reggie didn’t go immiedtly to world domination. He just wanted to cure world hunger and get some respect. He just wanted to be treated like a human being for once. Instead he got turned into a plant and despite this being a miracle.. he gets MOCKED by gary and larson and runs away, feeling like a freak. And since after that the transformation has clearly made his brain unstable.. he goes from a sweet, put upon guy who just wanted help to people.. to an obsessive plant monster.. who still just needs HELP. He needs therapy and a warm blanket and to turn his life around. And his motivation.. is just not being alone. While his kdinapping of the one scientest who liked him, and he assumes has feelings for him, is bad, and selfish.. it’s clear by that point Reggie is just not himself anymore. He’s Bushroot now. He’s lost himself and were this a diffrent show maybe he could’ve gotten the help he needed and some empathy.  But what adds to the tragedy is Darkwing himself. This episode really showcases one of Darkwing’s biggest weaknses: his inablity to see crime other than in black and white terms. To him it’s just a game of heroes and villians. Nothing more nothing less. Villians can become heroes, as he hopes for Morgana, but to him there’s just good guys ,him and bad guys, everyone breaking the law. For someone whose often seen as an outlaw himself.. he still can’t see things in any other terms. However instead of just being lazy writing... it’s a clever character quirk, at the center of this episode and our final one, as well as one that pops up a little in Stegmutt’s first apperance. It nicely parodies/deocnscruts the whole good guy badguy dynamic by making it clear that sometimes while the person may be doing bad things.. they have a reason for it and sometimes the law just dosen’t work. It’s something I do wish they’d dug into more but given this was more of a comedy, I get why they didn’t, but what they did with it is great and it adds to this episode tremendously: Darkwing just sees Reggie as another villian to stop and not as a very unstable man who needs his help, but also needs tobe stopped for his own good. It’s why this is such a good episode, besides some great comic set pieces: it has a really tragic and moving story that , with some tweaking woudln’t of been out of place in batman the animateds eires. It’s still a bit goofy in places, as it should be giving the show it’s in btu at i’ts heart it’s just a relaly godo really tragic supervillian origin story. 

Whiffle While You Work: The Saving Grace of an Okay Episode This one’s more of a mixed bag. For the good... Quackerjack is fucking awesome. While I already loved him from the comics, I hadn’t met his more lightehearted tv counterpart yet.. but boy was he a delight. From his it’s play time catch phrase which despite being repeated a LOT never got bored to his really invenitve use of toys. While a vilian with a toy gimmick is not new, Toyman has been around for.. 80 years? Damn. I should do some Superman TAS episodes this year to commemerate that. Point is between him and the joker the gimmick isn’t “New” but Quackerjack still feels unique from using actual jacks, to a motorized hula hoop, to a GIANT CRYING BABY DOLL TO FLOOD A CITY. Jackie is just a delight every minute he’s on screen, and his motivation is solid: wanting to get revenge at the Whiffle Boy video game and i’ts insuing phenmonin and merchandise deals for squeezing him out of buisness. It makes him mildly symathetic enough to be intresting but not enough to override his terrible actions. He’s just fun to watch, and Micheal Bell is phenominal in the roll. easily one of my faviorite vilians thus far and it’s easy to see why he showed up quite a bit. 

Sadly the rest of the episode.. is not very intresting. It starts with your standard “Adult gets child away from the video game only to play it” plot which is belivieble, my dad was a gamer back during my childhood and probably still plays games ocasionally to this day. He fucking loved Starcraft, Ultima ONline, Super Metroid, Warcraft II and III.. and swearing. He really loved swearing at the games. And the idea of the episode isn’t bad, Drake is jealous that Gosalyn is in the limelight for once.. the issue  being a grown man competing with his own daughter just makes Drake really unlikeable. He at one point tries to use his parental authority to take her out of the contest, lies about being in the competition, and dosen’t apologize or learn enough to make up for his being a dick about this. THe episode really suffers from Launchpad not being around to be a buffer between the two and as ssuch it’s just uncomfortable. Hell Gos threatens to reveal Drake’s identity to .. someone.. but she still comes off sympathetic as when Drake presses her on it.. it’s very clear she made the threat on the spur of the moment out of hurt. 

Also the whole Whiffle Boy game craize extending to a city is delightfully batshit, and plausable given i’m pretty sure if nintendo could afford their own city we’d have it over in japan and for a video game episode in the 90′s, this one isn’t all that bad. It actually seems to get games on SOME level, and seems based more on an arcade game, which drake plays whiffle boy on at one point and the 80′s arcade competition craze, and since arcade comeptitions were still a huge thing in the 90′s, it’s very clear this si written by people who actually know what a video game is and don’t just fear it as some strange doodad their kids are into. Trust me I’ve been around animation so long this plot has become tiresome. So not a BAD episode, just held back by drake being written even more dickishly than usual.  P.S. there’s apparently an ultima level to the game.. so either Lord British is finally putting Chuckles down or someone needs to know what’s a paladin. 

Jurassic Jumble: Two Great One Shot Characters that Taste Great Together Well okay Segmutt does get one more episode but this is still his only episode on his own just like Neptuina next, so I count it well enough. Point is this episode is pretty good. It does have some weaknsses: It starts with Drake not beliviing Honker’s theory about a recent theft of acountants, one he’s only on the scene for because he happens to really need help with his taxes because, contrary to what Wesley Snipes thought, Superheroes still need to pay taxes. He dosen’t belive it’s dinosaurs.. he dosen’t belivie it’s dinosaurs despite the foot prints, honker being smart and HAVING FOUGHT A DOG MADE ENTIRELY OF WATER. 

I just get annoyed when superheros in a superhero universe don’t hav ea logical reason for dismissing something.. or random citizens.. it was fine if reptitous in the stan lee days because it’d been 20 years, at the time, since superheros were active and people can be stupid but it gets grating when someone says somethin’gs not possible in a superhero universe. Given we’re currrently dealing with an outgoing president who refuses to accept an election is real and his followers who think masks are a polical issue i’ts not exactly unrelasitic, dosen’t mean it’s enjoyable to read or watch. 

Still it works here because it splits the plot nicely and Gosalyn’s disbleif is less grating as she just wants it to be martians and dosen’t bully her friend or anything over it, just makes a few snyde remarks. The episode also wasn’t helped at first by the fact there’s a really reptitive bit where Darkwing bungies down to investigate the crook he thinks is responsible, but is actually just chilling at his minium security prison. It’s just not funny and takes up too much of the episode. But the episode picks up towards the second half when we meet our dinosaur: Stegmutt, a dumb but kind and friendly child like former janitor turned stegasaurs, whose unwittingly kidnapping people for his “friend” Dr. Fossil, the professor who turned him, and genuinely is not a bad soul and likes gosalyn and honker. He’s just clumsy and destructive and working for someone he dosen’t know is evil.  Speaking of which.. Dr. Fossil is really damn awesome and i’ts a shame he never came back in the comics or cartoon and hopefully Frank does him better in the reboot. Seriously he’s enjoyable, a bit nebbish but delightfully insane, deciding to wipe out all non dino life because he’s tired of getting panicked screams in the street and of all the dino merchandise like those puzzles with the pieces missing. He’ sjust delightfully nutty, with his love of saying bin bang boom and his having to put up with Stegmutt’s antics, as well as the whole joke that he TURNED HIMSELF INTO A DINOSAUR, yet gripes about being a dinosaur and acts like it’s humanity’s fault , balking when Gosalyn suggests he just.. turn himself back. Plus Ptetrodacytl’s are awesome so tha’ts a bonus. Seriously his showing up turns the episode from okay to fucking amazing. Seriously bring him back for the reboot.. and get Rich Fulcher to voice him. Seirously Bob Fossil as Dr. Fossil... it’s too perfect NOT to do casting gag wise, and he frankly perfectly fits the charcter down to the nasily voice. Plus Rich does voice acting quite a bit, so he’s already likely in Frank’s Rolodex. 

Stegmutt himself is also not too shabby, your standard child like moron, but he’s got a sweetness and niceness to him and we get some good gags like his habit of breaking off handles, his opening sodas with his tail and Fossil getting rid of him by telilng him to check if he left the bathroom light on...

And the climax with Darkwing.. turning.. into this

I don’t get it either but i’ts still a fun climax. Also forgot to mention Dr. Fossil can do that blow you away by flapping his wings thing Storm Eagle can do. Neat. All in all while not the series BEST outing, it has some flaws holding it back, it’s a damn fun one and one I highly recommend. Okay one more. 

Something Fishy: The Better Submariner This is a simple but good one: St. Canard beach has gotten trashy.. literally there’s trash everywhere. And while Drake is ambilent to it, Gosalyn is taking up the crusade to take out the trash and the garbage people... and gets her dad beaten up over it by dumping trash on some guys head but frankly, he deserved it.  Things go up a notch though when some sea creatures invade and .. clean up the beach and beat up darkwing. And while they destroy some property.. they aren’t exactly wrong? This is where that flaw I mentioned comes in though. Drake just.. can’t see things in shades of grey and insits he must be the good guy and whoevers doing this must be stopped.  However it becomes clear when we meet the antagonist that while her methods are wayy to extreme.. she’s in the right. Neputina is an awesome character, easily one of the series best and esaily horribly underulitized. She was a simple fish who thought a toxic waste barrel was a new friend.. and learned the hard way by becoming a sexy fish woman. Yeah I said it. But her motive is understandable thanks to her origin and just how BAD it’s gottne, with piles of trash all underwater and the laws Drake cites agianst this sort of thing not doing squat. It’s a nice take on the old enviornmental message , something I dreaded going in as it makes a valid point; sometimes diong things the “right” way isn’t enough.. but it still dosen’t justify harming innocent people in the process, as Nep’s ultimate plan to flood the city would.  Launchpad ends up being the voice of Reason as drake is too caught in his games of good guy bad guy to get Neptuina ISN’T a bad person, just one fed up with people hurting those she cares about. Neptuina is a unique villan in that unlike Morgana, who while having a sympathetic motive was out for herself, Stegmutt, who didn’t reailze he was on the wrong side, and Gizmoduck.. wellll

Neptuina.. is just misguided. She has the right idea but the wrong methods and Darkwing’s too stubborn to admit it.. but he’s also seen as in the wrong with Launchpad realizing DW just.. isn’t the good guy this time, but in the best scene of the episode talking Neptuina down by pointing out innocent people will get hurt. It’s a good, nuanced episode about envrionmetnalism with a throughly charasmatic and intrersting, acted wonderfully by Sussan Silo, antagonist. Neptuina is a better version of Marvel’s namor the submariner: she goes against humanity.. but I don’t want to punch her and dosen’t have one of her constnat character traits as “I want to bank your wife richards BANG YOUR WIFEEEEE”

So overall.. a good batch of episodes. Only Wiffle While You Work was all that weak, and even it had it’s charms and Quackerjack. It shows the series overall quality: even the just okay episodes here are still really fun to watch. It’s just a solid show overall and whie not without flaws is a classic to this day for a reason. Next week we’ll wrap this up with JUST US JUSTICE DUCKS! Until then stay safe and goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.