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2013-03-01

by shaenon on March 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. History_PhD
    March 1, 2013, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      March 1, 2013, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      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. 🙂

      • wizard4169
        January 28, 2021, 9:36 am | # | Reply

        Eh, when in Rome…

  2. Anderson
    March 1, 2013, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    Ah, so flooding the engine room with yoghurt *wouldn’t* help. Bummer. Neurotoxins are annoying.

    • jdreyfuss
      March 1, 2013, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      Depends on what kind of yogurt. Jeff Wells can tell you all about how dangerous it can be when yogurt goes bad.

  3. Eddurd
    March 1, 2013, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    (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!

  4. Klyfix
    March 1, 2013, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, I like yogurt (although not just plain) so am I a Battle Android? 🙂

    • Dewy
      March 1, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      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.

  5. Daibhid C
    March 1, 2013, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • Saberbeam
      March 1, 2013, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • Shadowmehr
        March 1, 2013, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

        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?

        • Saberbeam
          March 1, 2013, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

          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.”

      • bigbearseviltwin
        March 1, 2013, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

        I prefer the peach yogurt myself

    • Norman
      March 1, 2013, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  6. Konrad
    March 1, 2013, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

    Because when you’re trying to escape from a flying battle android, talking is more likely to succeed than running.

    • Tetra Valent
      March 1, 2013, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

      The narration from A-Sig’s footwear-policy video alone ought to be pretty debilitating.

  7. Mental Mouse
    March 1, 2013, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  8. mnementh
    March 1, 2013, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

    Mmmm… fresh yogurt-brains.

    mnem
    With mint frosting!

  9. jbevan70
    September 13, 2014, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

    If she’s an android, how was she tricked by GODOT’s manipulation?

    • WJS
      September 25, 2017, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  10. JET73L
    February 28, 2015, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    I eat yoghurt for the flavour. Am I a battle android?

  11. MyaApplesauce
    May 13, 2019, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

    Also Terry.

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