Cleanup in aisle fourteen
on December 10, 2021 at 1:01 amChapter: Same Planet, Different Dementia
Location: Shortpacked!
Continuity nerdery! Here Head Alien II learns to set up his mind to download into another body in the unlikely occasion of his death. But what he forgets to specify is, uh, which Head Alien mind gets downloaded, resulting in Original Head Alien popping into Dorothy’s noggin during the Joyce/Walky Wedding.
and, uh, “uh oh” is right
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ROBIN SMASH
Finish him, Robin!
R.I.P to Head Alien 2
again
FUCK YEAH!
That look on Robin’s face.
That is a look that has never been seen on Robin’s face before, and probably never will again. The moment that she has more to lose than ever before. That realization that Leslie could very well die, right here and right now.
Speedsters are usually comedic characters, it seems— because at some level, they kind of have to be. Few things are more terrifying than someone who can and will kick your ass faster than light can travel to your eyes to let you see it.
I wanna say I’ve heard there’s a story where Batman admits he has no contingency plans for the Flash going rogue— because there’s nothing he can do. Nothing anyone can do.
This may be Leslie’s story, but this is Robin’s moment.
the flash’s reign of terror would end with the sight of the first crying child and he knows it
In the JLA storyline “Tower of Babel”, Batman’s contigency plan for the Flash is a gun that gives him seizures. You might say that wouldn’t work because it has to hit him first, and you’d probably right, but the Flash is always just slow enough for the story to work.
(I mean, on a day-to-day basis, he’s at least moderately challenged by a guy who throws boomerangs.)
I suspect a genuine threat to anyone else Robin truly loves – maybe even Roz – would get the same look.
I vaguely recall Wonder Woman being the one batman has no plan for, but that might have been some fanon thing I’ve passively absorbed because it’s fun.
I like to think that uh oh is because HAII has, in all his time hopping universes and killing abductees, NEVER seen that particular look on a Robin’s face, and it cannot possibly be good given the known tendency for abductees to be Really Fucking Scary when enraged.
NOW YOU FUCKED UP
NOW YOU FUCKED UP
NOW YOU FUCKED UP
YOU HAVE FUCKED UP NOW
The look of complete and utter fury on Robin here? Classic.
So yeah, HAII isn’t gonna get a chance to kill everyone in this universe (or at least this Shortpacked) as revenge for stranding him here with the drama tag. Because Robin is about to kick his ass into orbit.
Beware the goofy ones. When they get mad, they get MAD.
Yuh dun goofed!
I love Walkyverse Robin. HA II is screwed now.
It was at this moment, he knew he fucked up.
Was just thinking about the long link between all the stories leading to this and it’s basically the story of Head Alien since ya know, all the characters are new’ish’ but HA is still around causing a rukus for folks. Plus HA wasn’t part of the first part of shortpacked.
Technically, this HA is also a pretty newish character. 😛