She’s a nanomachine swarm designed as a bioweapon inhabiting an amalgamation of rotting corpses. She’s selfish, stupid, and violently psychotic. Just because she’s friends with a talking dog doesn’t mean she’s cute – especially when said dog is in turn a mad scientist’s living doomsday weapon.
Everything about this most recent arc has demonstrated just much potential for being absolutely horrible people the Skin Horse team has. Their mirror versions are all monstrous people who are literally responsible for the apocalypse – but the point is that they’re only one or two steps removed from the “standard” versions.
This is the sort of thing Quintin Tarantino would make a movie about so that he could privately laugh at getting audiences to applaud and cheer for demonstrably awful people.
Unity is cute because she’s innocent – she punches the ‘little kid’ buttons that make people instinctively love her and want to protect her.
Trouble is, unlike little kids, she has the power to put her whims and tantrums into deadly action.
But the violence is all silly cartoon violence, so that’s ok – unless one is the sort of person to get all riled up over silly cartoon violence, as opposed to really grotesque and horrible cartoon violence, which is also a thing, and actually I’m not sure how to describe the difference so I’d better stop typing.
True there is a lot creepy about Unity when you stop and think about it, but in general her personality is pleasant, if unreliable. And yes she does some bad things here and there, but she usually comes through when it counts. Considering her nature and her past, she does pretty well. At least, so far… Good point in that this dimension’s Unity does provide an excellent example of what could happen if home dimension Unity ever decides to go back to her old self.
You know, I’ve always read Unity as black (possibly because in the comic characters usually show their right side to the reader) but she does look weird in the last panel.
Nowheres near as weird as white!Biomass!Unity, though. D:
Actually, as the initiator of the bits-thievery, plant!unity is the character originally played by travolta and then by cage. Our Unity is technically travolta with cage’s face, but in terms of actual character then they’re more the other way round – same actors, but post face-swap.
… or a bit later, depending on how attentive the audience is, as Shay and BarGamer point out below. Well, Keaton’s movies were pretty broad. Also, NEEERRRDS! Feel shame for paying attention! I’m not exactly sure how that logic works, but it works for me.
The narrator below mentions how, if you can’t see it, then it didn’t happen. The whole piece is great, partly for the analysis but mainly for the film clips.
…Would it mess it up if I pointed out that the art in the second panel gives away the third’s twist? Since under normal circumstances, the right side of one Unity’s head and the left side of the other would look the same.
(Not that the average reader would realize that before moving on to looking at panel 3, so the joke still works on an instinctive level, since “reversed” is still ingrained in the readers mind. Still found it striking.)
It’s a reference to a movie – Face/Off (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), starring the above named John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Travolta is an FBI agent, Cage is a terrorist, faces get swapped to enable the fed (now played by Cage) to get info on the bomb plot, the terrorist (now played by Travolta) breaks loose, creepy suspense hilarity ensues.
The biomass panels certainly must make for extra effort. I like the attention to detail – like the sense of atmosphere from the light to dark shading change as you move upward in panels 2 & 3. The highlights along the leaf veins really adds pop.
Yep, I think white-ponytail Unity brain is evil, and black-bunches Unity brain is punchy. The two mixed Unitys’ character differences are down to which brain-half was dominant.
Now all-black Unity is all punchy, and all white Unity is All Evil. With extra Muahahahaaa!
I’m not so sure about that. When she took over animals their brains had some effect on her mental functions (understanding them, being able to use the body etc.) so there’s some cross-talk between unity and the host brain – with living brains, at least. With dead brains, who knows?
But, frankly, since none of this makes any sort of scientific sense at all, we can all believe exactly what we like, and chances are we’re all right. Or all wrong 😀
Stupid mirror Unity! Give back the parts that don’t match! We like Unity as she is!
I agree with his theory!
She’s like Two-Face now! Split personality! If she flips a penny and it lands copper side up, she punches something.
Stop making my wifu un-cute!
Nothing about Unity has ever been cute.
She’s a nanomachine swarm designed as a bioweapon inhabiting an amalgamation of rotting corpses. She’s selfish, stupid, and violently psychotic. Just because she’s friends with a talking dog doesn’t mean she’s cute – especially when said dog is in turn a mad scientist’s living doomsday weapon.
Everything about this most recent arc has demonstrated just much potential for being absolutely horrible people the Skin Horse team has. Their mirror versions are all monstrous people who are literally responsible for the apocalypse – but the point is that they’re only one or two steps removed from the “standard” versions.
This is the sort of thing Quintin Tarantino would make a movie about so that he could privately laugh at getting audiences to applaud and cheer for demonstrably awful people.
Unity is cute because she’s innocent – she punches the ‘little kid’ buttons that make people instinctively love her and want to protect her.
Trouble is, unlike little kids, she has the power to put her whims and tantrums into deadly action.
But the violence is all silly cartoon violence, so that’s ok – unless one is the sort of person to get all riled up over silly cartoon violence, as opposed to really grotesque and horrible cartoon violence, which is also a thing, and actually I’m not sure how to describe the difference so I’d better stop typing.
True there is a lot creepy about Unity when you stop and think about it, but in general her personality is pleasant, if unreliable. And yes she does some bad things here and there, but she usually comes through when it counts. Considering her nature and her past, she does pretty well. At least, so far… Good point in that this dimension’s Unity does provide an excellent example of what could happen if home dimension Unity ever decides to go back to her old self.
Cute is subjective
Unity should run for public office.
With or against Trump?
Do you mean with Trump as Veep?
But but but what about all the other skin-tones in the various patches? Are there little mini-UNITY’s running around with the rest of her skin colors?
Maybe the Biomass has fine enough control to extract and transfer pigments and she just gave our UNITY most of the melanin? *shrug*
SHAZAM!
(Well,that was unexpected!)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Unity had SUCH a cool design GIVE IT BACK HEATHEN
You know, I’ve always read Unity as black (possibly because in the comic characters usually show their right side to the reader) but she does look weird in the last panel.
Nowheres near as weird as white!Biomass!Unity, though. D:
If I was gonna humanize Unity, I’d probably make her black with vitiligo. You’re right, though, it DOES look weird.
That makes sense. And vitiligo is really pretty so I’m fine with this.
That is… a surprisingly difficult question to answer, plant-Unity.
Actually, as the initiator of the bits-thievery, plant!unity is the character originally played by travolta and then by cage. Our Unity is technically travolta with cage’s face, but in terms of actual character then they’re more the other way round – same actors, but post face-swap.
Look on the bright side, Unity — Now you’re up to 50% less likely to get sunburned!
Well… this is gonna be.. awkward when she gets back
Unity is gonna hafta raid quite a few cemeteries to get adequate replacement parts, ain’t she?
In a castle, in a canyon, where the sun refused to shine
We stole noses and some toeses, lots of parts for Unistein.
But until then, she might not be as welcome into the Zombie Rights campaign, the Lurch for the Cure drive, Skin Horse itself’s new security…
Unity respects Buster Keaton’s rules. She doesn’t see the face swap until the audience does.
… or a bit later, depending on how attentive the audience is, as Shay and BarGamer point out below. Well, Keaton’s movies were pretty broad. Also, NEEERRRDS! Feel shame for paying attention! I’m not exactly sure how that logic works, but it works for me.
Buster Keaton’s rules?
The narrator below mentions how, if you can’t see it, then it didn’t happen. The whole piece is great, partly for the analysis but mainly for the film clips.
…Would it mess it up if I pointed out that the art in the second panel gives away the third’s twist? Since under normal circumstances, the right side of one Unity’s head and the left side of the other would look the same.
(Not that the average reader would realize that before moving on to looking at panel 3, so the joke still works on an instinctive level, since “reversed” is still ingrained in the readers mind. Still found it striking.)
I noticed and got as far as thinking, “Huh, coloring mistake?” before I got to the third panel and realized it wasn’t a mistake.
I noticed it in the FIRST panel. Unity Prime usually has a “white” right fist and a “white” left elbow. But in the first panel, she’s uniformly brown.
And Unity Prime, for all her uniform brown-ness, is Travolta. The planty stealer of things while people are unconscious is Nic Cage. 😉
The question in the last panel doesn’t make sense to me, because now they’re even more distinct than they were before.
It’s a reference to a movie – Face/Off (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), starring the above named John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Travolta is an FBI agent, Cage is a terrorist, faces get swapped to enable the fed (now played by Cage) to get info on the bomb plot, the terrorist (now played by Travolta) breaks loose, creepy suspense hilarity ensues.
This week is reminding me yet again how beautiful Pancha’s color work is, and how much it adds to the story.
The biomass panels certainly must make for extra effort. I like the attention to detail – like the sense of atmosphere from the light to dark shading change as you move upward in panels 2 & 3. The highlights along the leaf veins really adds pop.
It is good that Skin-Horse is now colorized, and that Pancha does such a good job. Thanks for bringing the subject to our attention, Manifesta.
Nanite war in progress?
Nope, we’d know because unity would be punching herself in thinkspace.
Now, this ain’t right at all.
I note in passing that Biomass Unity took all the white parts—at least the ones outside the clothes.
Yep, I think white-ponytail Unity brain is evil, and black-bunches Unity brain is punchy. The two mixed Unitys’ character differences are down to which brain-half was dominant.
Now all-black Unity is all punchy, and all white Unity is All Evil. With extra Muahahahaaa!
I think it was only the skin, not the brain.
Unity’s ‘brain’ is a swarm of nanomachines suspended in the black fluid that she has instead of blood.
I’m not so sure about that. When she took over animals their brains had some effect on her mental functions (understanding them, being able to use the body etc.) so there’s some cross-talk between unity and the host brain – with living brains, at least. With dead brains, who knows?
But, frankly, since none of this makes any sort of scientific sense at all, we can all believe exactly what we like, and chances are we’re all right. Or all wrong 😀
Bearing in mind that Unitys’ bodies (and/or brain-meats) have a lot of cloned bits of Mell in them…
…why wouldn’t they both be evil *and* punchy?
THIS IS ALL WRONG!
Actually, though, it’s completely in character. It’s just that Unity without looking mismatched just looks WEIRD for some reason.
Biomass Unity is Harley Quin – Poison Ivy.
I had a feeling something like this may happen the moment i noticed they were inverse
I suppose they could’ve made a Greater Unity…four arms, four legs, two heads…extra naughty bits…all that stuff.
Which one do I shoot now? I’m color blind at the moment!
Did Plant-Unity take away Unity’s Zombie powers? Is she fully human now? Will I ever look at Kale the same way again?
Maybe,too, the Biomass has absorbed Cage and Travolta, by now…so Evil Unity *is* all of them…
One decent actor and one that isn’t… You pick.
Nice Face Off Reference.
Of the actors presented, I choose Randolph Scott!