There’s easily way too many ways for Skin-Horse to realise it isn’t Tip. Unity might be able to smell the lack of tasty flesh, Sweetheart could smell something similar, Nick’s sensory arrays, Gavotte is a literal sentient swarm of bees (presumably that gives her an edge in detecting literal plants)… I bet none of them even notice he doesn’t have the collar, which he’s already mentioned to them AND has been lampshaded as the only way to tell the difference by the Knitting Ninja.
OTOH, if HT has made a list of all the many ways Skin Horse can identify Tip, then thought “But it probably won’t occur to them to do so, because they’re hilariously incompetent”, then the evidence does seem to be largely (but not entirely) on his side.
Logic dictates that your precepts are correct, sir. However, the laws of comedy (which may supercede any other considerations in this universe) require that to be the final realization that the team makes.
To be fair, there’s a potential hidden layer of humor in that Sweetheart is a dog and canine colorblindness would make it difficult for her to be certain he was blond, as she would struggle to differentiate that from something like a redhead.
Unity, of course, is long established to be scatterbrained.
Dogs are colour-blind. They’re just not completely colour-blind (i.e. everything is not just greyscale). They see mainly yellow and blue, and a little violet. All the other colours look like shades of yellow and blue.
So yes, a dog would have trouble distinguishing a blond from a redhead, because they would both look yellow.
I have been VERY disappointed in Unity lately, meaning, the LACK of Unity.
She could turn H.T. into a nice sash and fancy collar for Sweetheart, and justify her great abilities, which have lain fallow because nobody knows how to USE her.
I think I understand the authors’ problem with her; Klausewitz discussed it quite thoroughly.
Anyway, H.T. and his ‘Super-race’ hang-up are already foiled. Tip’s collar…..
In Sweetheart’s defense, dogs have a more limited color vision than humans, and Unity has always been scatterbrained when not topped up on brains. (Do they have a brain-o-mat in the building?)
I _do_ hope we don’t get a “gang too dumb/oblivious to realize the Tip clone isn’t Tip” gag that drags on – after all, he specifically told them about the swamp’s ability to clone people earlier.
The two Tips are totally and instantly enamoured of each other (because Tip is totally enamoured of himself). H.T.’s comment in the first panel is enough to break Tips gaze glaze so he realizes that something is wrong. Hence his response “What is this?”
We’ll have to conduct a full reconnaissance to make sure, though, as you could be cleverly camouflaging yourself, to fill our dossiers with false informa-
Yeah, but did they get the scent right?
They’ll probably assume it’s just perfume, which could be deliberate on Doppel-Tip’s part.
Nick has a sensor array that he used to check out Dr Lee so it’s not scent that’ll give PlantTip away.
There’s easily way too many ways for Skin-Horse to realise it isn’t Tip. Unity might be able to smell the lack of tasty flesh, Sweetheart could smell something similar, Nick’s sensory arrays, Gavotte is a literal sentient swarm of bees (presumably that gives her an edge in detecting literal plants)… I bet none of them even notice he doesn’t have the collar, which he’s already mentioned to them AND has been lampshaded as the only way to tell the difference by the Knitting Ninja.
H.T. really assumes too much of himself.
Also, isn’t Tip still wearing his earpiece?
OTOH, if HT has made a list of all the many ways Skin Horse can identify Tip, then thought “But it probably won’t occur to them to do so, because they’re hilariously incompetent”, then the evidence does seem to be largely (but not entirely) on his side.
Logic dictates that your precepts are correct, sir. However, the laws of comedy (which may supercede any other considerations in this universe) require that to be the final realization that the team makes.
Eh, sometimes jokes are clever sometimes it’s lazy.
To be fair, there’s a potential hidden layer of humor in that Sweetheart is a dog and canine colorblindness would make it difficult for her to be certain he was blond, as she would struggle to differentiate that from something like a redhead.
Unity, of course, is long established to be scatterbrained.
Oh dog’s aren’t really colorblind, that’s a myth.
Dogs are colour-blind. They’re just not completely colour-blind (i.e. everything is not just greyscale). They see mainly yellow and blue, and a little violet. All the other colours look like shades of yellow and blue.
So yes, a dog would have trouble distinguishing a blond from a redhead, because they would both look yellow.
I wonder if they got Unity a new body to attach her head to…
If they haven’t yet, I think they soon will.
Now I’m imagining unity on a Tip body and it worries me
I have been VERY disappointed in Unity lately, meaning, the LACK of Unity.
She could turn H.T. into a nice sash and fancy collar for Sweetheart, and justify her great abilities, which have lain fallow because nobody knows how to USE her.
I think I understand the authors’ problem with her; Klausewitz discussed it quite thoroughly.
Anyway, H.T. and his ‘Super-race’ hang-up are already foiled. Tip’s collar…..
In Sweetheart’s defense, dogs have a more limited color vision than humans, and Unity has always been scatterbrained when not topped up on brains. (Do they have a brain-o-mat in the building?)
I _do_ hope we don’t get a “gang too dumb/oblivious to realize the Tip clone isn’t Tip” gag that drags on – after all, he specifically told them about the swamp’s ability to clone people earlier.
I expect we’ll get one but it’ll turn out the Skin Horse team picked it up right away and were pretending to be fooled as part of their own plan.
I tend to favor the Just Plain Dumb Luck solution.
Am I the only one who feels the word bubbles in the first panel are in each other’s places?
No. Tip’s line should be read first.
Why? It reads just fine with H.T.’s line first.
The two Tips are totally and instantly enamoured of each other (because Tip is totally enamoured of himself). H.T.’s comment in the first panel is enough to break Tips gaze glaze so he realizes that something is wrong. Hence his response “What is this?”
“Doppelganger?” Must be the German in H. T….
Why must it? I’ve used that word plenty of times, and I’m not German.
Previously he said “duplicates.”
Fascinating. I’ve used that word plenty of times, too.
Well clearly you’re German then!
We’ll have to conduct a full reconnaissance to make sure, though, as you could be cleverly camouflaging yourself, to fill our dossiers with false informa-
Sacre Bleu! I must be French!
Hey, I say “Sacre Bleu!” all the time, too, so I must also be French!
But wait…
I also say “до свидания”, so I must be Russian.
And I say “Pocałuj mnie w dupę!” a lot, as well, which means I must be Polish (and actually I am).
Has H.T. read the last few chapters of Dr. Stone? Because he might appreciate the advice on not talking into an earring-based hot mic.
Also, without bleach Tip hair, is, what, brown?
“you want to say?”
“I don’t know, i can’t see in color!
Dogs aren’t completely colour-blind.