Stupid mating customs
on September 13, 2021 at 12:01 amI noted back when Ultra Car and Monkey Master had their first showdown back in Hundred Dollar Theatre that I was clearly setting up a Round One for some triumphant Round Two to occur later. Monkey Master and Ultra Car were designed to be arch-nemeses back when I was a kid, before Monkey Master got subsumed into being Head Alien’s lackey and Ultra Car got subsumed into being, well, a toy store stock worker.
And so Round Two gets thrown right out the window, so to speak, as she neglects to fulfill her narrative duty. This is honestly more in character.
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I was gonna say, this fits so well
Not a very smart car.
Because getting involved in that would be the smart thing to do?
I mean what sort of fighting capacity does this model of Ultra Car even have? She dumps people in the Amazon pretty well but I don’t know if this mode was built for a straight up fight.
I’m pretty sure she has the pie-throwing-grabby hands. Also she can fly. Also, while abductees tend to be sturdy enough a car driving into them shouldn’t be lethal, it would probably be enough to slow them down (except for the ones who don’t have sturdiness, of course, and would be dead, which is an EXCELLENT roulette wheel to spin with a bunch of alternate universe kids from random pairings that may not be discernable offhand.)
Oh, also she’s Spider-Car. Possibly. Who can say?
Pretty sure Amber is Spider-Car.
I thought the Spider-Car torch was passed on to Lucy?
The thing about ramming things is that it tends to damage the thing doing the ramming too.
Also doesn’t work great in a confined space.
I really can’t help but wish that Ultra Car got to be there for the Fake Rachel reveal. It’d be an interesting change of pace to see her genuinely vulnerable for once, since her mother is one of the few humans she really cares about, and it’d make it feel less like “a female character was fridged to hurt a male character” and more “a female character was fridged to hurt her entire family”. Which, while still bad, would be at least… a little less bad, I guess? More interesting, at any rate, to see multiple characters affected. Hope we get to see her reaction at some point in this arc.
Agreed on all points.
But wouldn’t UltraCar NOTICE?? She can know very personal details about someone’s hygiene and health just by giving them a once over. I think she would have known as soon as they saw each other, if she only had visited her parents more often…
prolly not if the implication is Rachel Jackson never existed
WE know she did, but…
Honestly at this point Monkey Master is just late series Goldar. Shows up, acts imposing, is taken out with the trash within thirty seconds so the team can focus on the real problem.
I approve of this comparison.
If only Spider-Car was around!
“Man, that is certainly one monkey-shaped bouquet. I wonder who’s gonna catch it!”
Kinda love the quiet implication of Sal straight up punching a 100-tonne alien robot 40ft in the air and through a brick wall.
I’m kinda wondering how Monkey Master got inside that church building in the first place. It doesn’t look like any of the regular entrances would have been big enough for him to fit.
The other wall which HADorothy broke through to enter, presumably. Or that was the open wall but Monkey Master got kicked through an edge of it or something so there’s still more rubble.
I suspect the church billed them for incredible structural damage after this. Either that, or Abductee Insurance is a thing in this universe.
Bride of steel, groom of steel, church of Kleenex
Objectionist of steel, too!