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Tweak says, "So you sacrifice everything?"

arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-09 11:53:00

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creator: landry walker, creator: mark waid, publisher: boom!, title: the incredibles

The Incredibles: City of Incredibles, Pt 1
The new story arc, "City of Incredibles," begins.

When Jack-Jack gets infected by an alien virus, he starts trasmitting superpowers to others...

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	thokstar 2009-10-09 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Obviously, he should be handling the baby; Ninjas can't catch the baby while he's on fire. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-10-09 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	All he needs now is a knife eye attack and he'll be set! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-09 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	the pervasiveness of Mr. Hasting's oeuvre never fails to amaze me. (Reply to this)

	sailorlibra 2009-10-09 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	Larry doesn't seem particularly evil for a villain. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-10-09 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, he's not evil. He's a henchman. It's a living, you know? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-10-10 01:32 am UTC (link)
	Minion With An F In Evil (Linking to TV Tropes, on the other hand, is worth an A+.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blakeyrat 2009-10-10 03:53 am UTC (link)
	In Venture Brothers canon, henchmen are mostly just complete losers. You know, the kind of people who can't get a better job than being yelled at by psychopaths and putting themselves in constant danger. On the other hand, at least they have a good union. Heh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lpetrazickis 2009-10-10 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	Considering that the "evil" plan in the original movie was to give everyone on earth superpowers, I'd say that the Incredibles universe has an odd definition of evil. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kamino_neko
2009-10-10 05:57 pm UTC (link)

No, the evil plan of the original movie was to murder every superhero, then thousands of ordinary people to make Syndrome look like a big hero when he (being the only 'hero' left) stops the dangers that he set out in the first place.

Syndrome spouts some bullshit about how 'once he's finished having his fun', he'll give his technology to regular people, but even if he does plan to do that it's not to raise ordinary people, it's to 'lower' the Supers (who, if Syndrome had succeeded, would all be dead, anyway), which is just another example of Syndrome's fucked up worldview.

If Syndrome really wanted to give everyone superpowers as his actual plan - whether that was for the selfish reason of tearing down those that already have them, or the selfless reason of raising ordinary humans - he'd just do it, he wouldn't waste his time, energy, genius and money on supervillainy, then mock superheroics.

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	janegray 2009-10-10 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, so much motto. The guy murdered many innocent people just to get ego-stroked. How the hell is he not evil? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	milleniumrex 2009-10-11 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Pixar's villains are usually pretty mild (Sid was only evil if you totally accept the movie's narrative, Randall was your standard office schemer, AUTO was just doing his job, etc.), but Syndrome and then Charles Muntz were really a step up. They were more like the hardcore traditional Disney villains, who killed people and plotted real evil. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-09 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	Do Larry's fire powers actually burn anything? I mean, obviously, he'd be immune, and Jak-Jak's...Jak-Jak, so he probably eats fire for dessert. But he doesn't seem to be doing anything to the surroundings, either... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	his_spiffyness 2009-10-09 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	It apparently burned off his nose... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-10-10 04:40 am UTC (link)
	More problems need to be solved with "this awesome baby I found." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-10-10 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timgueguen 2009-10-10 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	You could change this into a Kim Possible story without much effort. Just change alien virus to Doctor Drakken screwup and the baby to Hana Stoppable. (Reply to this)

	vignettelante 2009-10-11 12:32 am UTC (link)
	I'm reminded of this arc from Antihero for Hire. (Reply to this)