Villain 101: The Need to Explain/Justify/Gloat/etc.
The true mark of a villain, as opposed to a mere psychotic killer, is the need to reveal their evil plan….ideally to the hero, but any random passing stranger will do in a pinch.
On St. Charlie,
There’s a deadly gas …
See the crew fall on
Their collective ass …
Bat-tle an-droid,
Deadly fate she will avoid!
With yogurt (yogurt),
Having some yogurt … yogurt!
Now Vi-o-let Bee
Has found a way to slay …
All the mad boys and girls,
She’ll send them all away …
Ru-by’s come back,
With Lac-to-ba-cil-lus snack!
It’s yogurt (yogurt),
Blueberry yogurt … yogurt!
No. But it does put you in an intersecting subset with Battle Androids…apparently.
Well, thanks for answering the question of exactly what she is, Jeff. Now, I wonder if she actually did find a way to have sex with an amorphous blob…might explain her fondness for yogurt.
Depends on the yoghurt. Black cherry yoghurt is worth eating for the delicious flavour.
I was wondering why Violet even needed to escape, given that she’s a remote controlled drone, and the actual guy is somewhere else. Then I realised that A-Sig cares much more about the safety of its state-of-the-art espionage equipment than its employees.
Me thinks that the poison gas was merely meant to take out the people guarding the engine room, allowing VB to sabotage the reactor. So being destroyed right now would leave Anasigma’s plan incomplete.
So Dreyfus’ plan of flooding the engine room with yogurt could have some merit. It might get in V-Bee’s gears (or whatever the equivalent is for her mechanisms) and prevent Anasigma’s takeover.
I imagine that trying to move through a room flooded in yogurt would be a difficult endeavour at best, so if nothing else it would certainly slow Violet down. And Ruby would probably be thrilled by a whole room of yogurt.
Maybe it’s not so much overthinking, as it is thinking outside the box. To quote a Superbowl ad “It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.”
One can wonder if the gas would work on the recently re-brained zombies — or, for that matter, on Unity. Both have nervous systems, but aren’t using them in the accustomed manner.
It wasn’t really explained. Best guess, he was able to affect synthetic brains as well as living ones somehow, and Ruby’s brain is contained within her head. Being remote was what made Violet and Nick (whose brain is a regular mark 1 human type, remember) immune.
Villain 101: The Need to Explain/Justify/Gloat/etc.
The true mark of a villain, as opposed to a mere psychotic killer, is the need to reveal their evil plan….ideally to the hero, but any random passing stranger will do in a pinch.
Or she’s just been infected by all the mad science around her. This seems like the right *place* for this sort of stupid behavior. 🙂
Eh, when in Rome…
Ah, so flooding the engine room with yoghurt *wouldn’t* help. Bummer. Neurotoxins are annoying.
Depends on what kind of yogurt. Jeff Wells can tell you all about how dangerous it can be when yogurt goes bad.
(TUNE: “My Girl”, The Temptations)
On St. Charlie,
There’s a deadly gas …
See the crew fall on
Their collective ass …
Bat-tle an-droid,
Deadly fate she will avoid!
With yogurt (yogurt),
Having some yogurt … yogurt!
Now Vi-o-let Bee
Has found a way to slay …
All the mad boys and girls,
She’ll send them all away …
Ru-by’s come back,
With Lac-to-ba-cil-lus snack!
It’s yogurt (yogurt),
Blueberry yogurt … yogurt!
Hmm, I like yogurt (although not just plain) so am I a Battle Android? 🙂
No. But it does put you in an intersecting subset with Battle Androids…apparently.
Well, thanks for answering the question of exactly what she is, Jeff. Now, I wonder if she actually did find a way to have sex with an amorphous blob…might explain her fondness for yogurt.
Depends on the yoghurt. Black cherry yoghurt is worth eating for the delicious flavour.
I was wondering why Violet even needed to escape, given that she’s a remote controlled drone, and the actual guy is somewhere else. Then I realised that A-Sig cares much more about the safety of its state-of-the-art espionage equipment than its employees.
Me thinks that the poison gas was merely meant to take out the people guarding the engine room, allowing VB to sabotage the reactor. So being destroyed right now would leave Anasigma’s plan incomplete.
Strawberry yogurt can be pretty good, too.
So Dreyfus’ plan of flooding the engine room with yogurt could have some merit. It might get in V-Bee’s gears (or whatever the equivalent is for her mechanisms) and prevent Anasigma’s takeover.
Or am I overthinking this?
I imagine that trying to move through a room flooded in yogurt would be a difficult endeavour at best, so if nothing else it would certainly slow Violet down. And Ruby would probably be thrilled by a whole room of yogurt.
Maybe it’s not so much overthinking, as it is thinking outside the box. To quote a Superbowl ad “It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.”
I prefer the peach yogurt myself
I thought of that one this morning, but for some reason could not post 🙁
If I were in the operator’s seat, I’d be worried that losing the remote might be grounds for termination.
Because when you’re trying to escape from a flying battle android, talking is more likely to succeed than running.
The narration from A-Sig’s footwear-policy video alone ought to be pretty debilitating.
One can wonder if the gas would work on the recently re-brained zombies — or, for that matter, on Unity. Both have nervous systems, but aren’t using them in the accustomed manner.
Mmmm… fresh yogurt-brains.
mnem
With mint frosting!
If she’s an android, how was she tricked by GODOT’s manipulation?
It wasn’t really explained. Best guess, he was able to affect synthetic brains as well as living ones somehow, and Ruby’s brain is contained within her head. Being remote was what made Violet and Nick (whose brain is a regular mark 1 human type, remember) immune.
I eat yoghurt for the flavour. Am I a battle android?
Also Terry.