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Waching daily Jul 9 2017

ELSTON: So, exactly how does this work?

What? Do you get a call from some yahoo with something to prove?

Jump in your costumes, grab some weapons, head out, and do battle?

Do you have different battle plans depending on the situation?

Like does someone shout out "Buttonhook Combo 5"

or "Junction Box Fake Out" or something?

What is the usual protocol?

What? I got something on my face? -What are you talking about?

-How often do you guys go out on these high stakes, kick-ass missions?

-This isn't something that happens.

We don't just like do this all the time. We're not like a crime fighting team.

This isn't a secret sanctum.

This is our tiny, little apartment and those are my roommates.

They should not be out fighting cri-- Why is the bad guy calling us in the first place?!

That's comic book stuff.

There's not supposed to be any big, bad villains

that call you up to tell you where to find them.

Criminals don't announce what they're doing. At all.

Especially not to hobbyist crime fighters. Why would they?

What's the upside? It only introduces a more distinct possibility

of their criminal plans getting disrupted.

None of this makes any sense.

-Unless its only plan is to get the powers they have.

Then it needs to be in a room with them.

-How is that a plan? How does it get their powers?

-By taking them over.

Like your friend, the one that splits herself, the one they think they're going to save,

is being controlled by some smoke monster-looking thing.

-What is that thing? -I don't know. An alien or something.

-Whaaaaaat?!

-It says it doesn't have a word for what it is.

-An alien?

-I don't know!

You've seen it. You've seen what it can do.

If it gets in your friend's mouth,

it attaches to their brain, it kills them, and it becomes them.

It wants their power and they're heading right for it.

-Can it do anything? Does it have like an alien space ray

or like magic spells or something?

-It kills them and it takes over your body. That's its whole thing.

It finds people it wants and it uses them to get whatever it can out of them.

It's not space magic, but it does the job.

-And it can move in stopped time. How does it do that?

-I don't know. I didn't invent the thing. I just work for it.

-Well, then maybe your friends will be fine.

Its like only move is to jump in their mouth.

It's not like they're defenseless. -Yeah, but we don't do this.

JONAS: Donald's done some stuff, but it's all like street crime.

And the girls have gone out a few times,

but it's not like they have any battle plans or anything laid out as a group.

The only thing the four of us ever sat down and mapped out was who gets which section of the fridge.

How are they going to deal with this thing?

Apparently, Donald's even faced off with this thing before and it got him.

-It got him? But he looks fine.

-Time travel.

-For real? Is it wormhole-based?

It's got to be her, right?

The time stopper-- BRIAN: If you're so worried about them

you need to go with them. You are the variable that shifts the equation into the plus column.

-What does that mean?

-System check, man. What's your error code? Abort, retry, or fail.

Are you scare? -Kinda.

-You should be.

-I wouldn't go. -And he's not going, so I can't go.

-What? You want to go?

BRIAN: I feel like we're getting off track here.

-Well, we'll go if it's important to you.

-It wouldn't be safe. For you. So...

-What if I can't help them?

-Getting shot in the face slowed you down for like three minutes.

I just saw you disintegrate two dead bodies into nothing.

You can control matter.

-But I can't always control how I control it.

-This isn't like anything you've dealt with before.

-But we haven't dealt with ANYTHING before! I...

I just feel like you're not hearing me.

DAMON: Look, they'll bugs here any mint.

Are you raisin, Precious?

-Ah yeah. PAP, PAP, PAP! Yeah, I'm ready, man.

-Is the sanction on that thug?

The uh... saison...

-Is the safety on that thing?

-I don't know. Where is the...

-You had to be the loyal one, huh?

Stop pointing it at me.

DAMON: And put the pigs in the ribcage.

-Yo,

why do you think he didn't put any of that possession-smoke up in my flossing hole?

-You do realize that I am him, right?

-Yeah...

No.

What?

-We're the same person.

It's like one book, two different covers.

What are you trying to ask me?

-Why didn't he put the murder-smoke down my hatch?

-Because you're all we have left, Precious.

And if I've learned anything from Damon's brain, is it doesn't matter what you do,

it's how many people you have doing it for you.

So, if we absorb you, it's just us. We have no one else to lead over.

I don't know why the others weren't smart enough to stick around.

-Because you killed them. I mean, they died...

-They weren't listening to us.

Now, do you know the plan?

-Yeah, I got this burner right here and a pocket full of bullies.

-Okay.

Remember, we really just need to kill one of them.

If one goes down, the rest are gonna lose it,

and they'll be ours for the picking.

-I wish Carl was here. -Yeah. We all do.

-I wouldn't go for anything.

You're friends are crazy. Superpowers or not.

-Oh, man.

-I call catchphraser.

-Catchphraser?

Yeah, I get to say a catchphrase before we finish off the bad guy.

Something like: "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

or "Yippee ki yay, mo--"

-You have a catchphrase?

-No, but this is my first real showdown.

My chance to go full McClane. Do some catchphrasing.

-Maybe focus on getting Fox Four back rather than worry about your catchphrase.

-I'll do both.

-Okay, but prioritize Fox Four.

Looks like they found a spot. We'll be watching.

-This might come as quite a SHOCK.

Prepare to be re-VOLT-ed.

-Don't go the pun route. -We'll see.

BRIAN: You're logic does not compute, man.

Trust me, I'm a computer. I ran all the simulations,

and if you go with them, the odds will be way better.

-Oh, man.

CARL: Nobody should have gone.

-But they did and without him, they will be picked off one by one.

And if it gets their power, what do you think its next move will be?

-Strip club probably. -Well sure, but after that.

-I don't know. It's the middle of the night, so I guess whatever drive-thru is open?

-White Castle's open 24 hours. BRIAN: It'll come back here to collect all four.

And then we'll be outnumbered.

-You really think it's coming back here?

-Of course.

I know you're trying to save them from your power,

but wouldn't you rather go now and fight with your friends,

than wait and fight against them?

Oh. Okay.

-What was that? What just happened?

[ROCKIN' SUPER THEME PLAYING]

SEBASTIAN: Are you okay?

-So far.

SEBASTIAN: You're not dead? I heard you were dead.

-I'm talking to you.

-Yeah, but some guy with no eyes told me that you were dead...

-Stow the chitty chitty or there's gonna be some bang bang!

All right, listen up. We're gonna trade.

This one for the time stopper.

Where is she?

-No

-That's the way it is.

-Yippee ki yay-- -You're forcing it.

-'Kay.

-That's stupid. We're not giving you our friend.

-What about you? You want to trade for yourself?

-We're not giving you anything, dude. We're here to get her back.

So, hand her over or I'm gonna punch your face.

-I ain't playin'!

[TIME FREEZE SOUND]

-There's a guy on the roof who just dropped something over Donald.

My portal will get you there, see if you can grab it.

I'm going to try to get to Donald.

Does your portal lead to the gun?

-Yeah. -Good, let's go.

-It's here! I've got it!

[SHRIEK]

VIRGINIA: Two?!

FOX TWO: There's one up here.

-Do you have it? -Barely.

-Can you get the briefcase? FOX TWO: No!

-I'm losing it!

-Throw it off the roof, Two!

VIRGINIA: Cover your mouth, Three!

[TIME START SOUND]

-Whoa.

-Duck!

[TIME FREEZE SOUND]

[TIME START SOUND]

-Move!

-Whoa.

-Donald! Thing!

-Yeah!

-Oh no. Oh no! Gross! Gross!

-No!

-Whoa!

Oh, I didn't mean it! I'm sorry! -Damn it!

-I didn't mean--

-Whoa, yo! Hey? I--

Business!

It's just business!

No! Do--

[WORRIED MOAN]

SEBASTIAN: Cover your mouth!

DONALD: Ha! You got no mouth-game, Cloud Monster!

VIRGINIA: You okay?

-Sebastian...

He shot our hand.

-Cover your mouth, Three!

-Uh. Uh!

Oh my God!

It's in my hand! How do I get it out of my hand?

-Hold it! Don't let it go!

-What do I do? What do I do?

VIRGINIA: We need something to put it in.

-Like a trunk of a car?

VIRGINIA: What?

-It's a parking garage. I can pop a trunk.

-Something smaller.

-Okay, I'll keep looking.

-Right, it's in my arm, you guys. It's in the arm!

It's climbing!

-Donald... FOX TWO: DO SOMETHING!

-TAKE THE ARM!

-Oh, God.

DONALD: Are you okay?

-Yeah, thank you. I much prefer this.

-Do you want to join your arm?

No. I want to see how this plays out.

It doesn't hurt that much, just kind of a throbbing... oh no!

There it is!

-Oh, OW! Yeah.

There it goes.

FOX DARK: Oh, come on!

-Get out of her and give her back.

-FOX DARK: You let me out of that briefcase.

-Absolutely not.

-Fine.

-What are you doing?!

-You think I care about this body? You do. I hate the damn thing.

All it cares about is books, pizza, sleeping in, and that boyfriend.

I'm sick of living in it. So, let me out of the briefcase!

VIRGINIA: We can't. FOX DARK: This is it. Right now.

-No. -Fine.

-Don't!

-Which one of you can do this?!

-It's still in there? -You can fly?!

-Yeah, it's still in there. -How can you fly?

-I move matter. -And that makes you fly?

-I am matter.

-So am I. Make me fly!

-Can you get that thing out of her?

-Fly me right at her.

-What is this? What's happening?

-I... can't move it.

-Why not?

-I don't think it's matter. -What the hell is it?

-What do I look like, Johnny Answers?

-So, maybe you should just fly me right at her. Yeah?

-Having a rough time over there?

-I can move her, though.

-Nope! -What?

-I can't do anything. It's not made of matter.

-Didn't work. Coming at you!

JONAS: I can't seem to get a bead on-- -Cover your mouth!

-WHOA-OOOOOkay.

-Holy shit.

-Jonas?

-This is the guy.

-Do you know what this body can do?

[DEEP RUMBLING]

-Oh, you guys. This is gro... This is gross. This is really--

Get out of--

How 'bout this?

VIRGINIA: Jonas!

Sebastian, is he breathing? SEBASTIAN: Jonas?

VIRGINIA: Sebastian?

SEBASTIAN: He's breathing, but he's a mess.

-What happened?

I found a trash bag.

[MANGLED MOAN]

-Catchphrase.

Oh. Okay.

All right.

Oh, God.

I got him!

[MUFFLED NOISE FROM BAG]

-Um, this is still talking.

VIRGINIA: No, come on.

-The chopped off head in this bag is still talking.

VIRGINIA: Okay, you got that. Hold it tight.

I'm going to freeze time. -Okay.

[TIME FREEZE SOUND]

-Yippee ki yay.

[TIME START SOUND]

-Where'd it go? -They're gone.

-Where'd you put it?

-Nowhere. I threw them into nothing.

-Nothing? Is it coming back?

-I don't see how.

-But where did they come from? Are there going to be more of them?

-Hold on.

-No!

She's not in there.

I pulled her in, but...

she's dead.

Open up a portal. I'm going back. She can't be dead.

VIRGINIA: How far back are you going?

We don't know how long that thing's been inside of her.

-I don't care. I'll go back a month.

VIRGINIA: You're gonna undo a month?

-Open up a portal right now! You did it when we killed Donald.

VIRGINIA: Sebastian, I'm not trying to stop you. I'm obviously gonna open up a portal for you.

Let's get Jonas to a hospital first.

SEBASTIAN: This first. VIRGINIA: Jonas is hurt.

SEBASTIAN: Four is dead!

VIRGINIA: So, she's not in any immediate danger.

He might need help right now.

SEBASTIAN: Then freeze time. His condition won't change if you freeze time.

VIRGINIA: Right. Good.

[TIME FREEZE SOUND]

Look, it's been months and months

since that thing came through a portal in Roxy's basement.

-You know where that thing came from?

-I thought I stopped it from coming through Pentameter's portals.

-Who's Pentameter?

-A guinea pig that Roxy was testing her superpower serum on.

-And it worked? Where is this guy?

-Like a guinea pig. Like the pet.

-I don't care where it came from. We have to stop it from killing Fox Four.

Look, she was fine when she left us, so we're just going to take a portal back to then.

DONALD: Wait, wait. Hold up.

For the past four days, Jonas has been harping at me about portals.

If you've ever been through one you're not going to be able to change anything

your past self does until they go through it.

It's very confusing.

-I've never been through one.

-Never? Not even when you've been fighting crime?

-No. I mean, I get to move around in stopped time,

but every time I get near a portal she becomes a time travel chastity belt.

What do you think I've been complaining about?

-Look, just make sure she's not possessed already, okay?

BELLA: Hello?

-Hey. It's Sebastian.

BELLA: Hold on.

Hey.

-No hug? BELLA: Really?

-I was just checking.

-Can we make this quick? Bella doesn't have a twin sister.

-Look, I have to talk to you about something really important. It might take a few minutes.

Is Frankie home?

BELLA: A creature from you don't know where?

SEBASTIAN: Yeah.

-And I die? -Yeah.

-Dead? -You're dead.

-And this conveniently happens right after I get my own place?

-Well, I wasn't there when it happened,

but if it's anytime around when I stop being able to feel you,

then it's in like a month.

-You can feel me?

-Yeah. -Well, stop it.

-You know that you're apart of me? I don't choose to feel you,

you're just part of who I am.

-Listen, you've gotta go.

-You have to come with me.

-I don't have to do anything.

-But you're going to die.

-No, I'm not.

-I pulled you in. You were dead.

You were dead inside of me.

-If you're telling the truth and something comes for me, I'll deal with it.

-You don't deal with it! You die!

I've seen the way you deal with it! By dying!

You have to come with me!

-No.

-Then just get out of here.

-I'm not leaving Frankie.

-Fine. Take Frankie.

Just leave town. Get out of Chicago.

-Sebastian, I can handle myself. -Are you kidding me right now?

-I've made it very clear that you do not get to make decisions for me anymore.

I have a life here.

-Oh my God.

-Please leave.

-Look, I wasn't trying to tell you what to do.

-Good job.

-I'm just trying to help.

-You did. Okay?

Look, I get that you think I'm in trouble.

I'll be on the lookout. I promise.

But I am not coming with you.

Hey--

How many times are you going to try that?

-You don't understand!

-No, you don't understand!

No, Sebastian.

I'm gonna make you understand.

You always thought our right side was our best.

I'm not done yet, Sebastian.

This is what it's like

when somebody thinks they can make decisions for you.

You try it again, I'm going to start collecting those cute little freckles from under our eye.

-Dark roast? -Yeah, dark roast actually has

less caffeine in it than light roast coffee.

-I think I knew that. I think I read something about Finland--

What happened?

-She's not coming.

VIRGINIA: What happened to your face?

-Can we go home?

-Are you okay?

-No.

-Okay. Hold on to something.

[TIME START SOUND]

[GASPING]

-Yep.

Just gonna leave that closed.

Sure.

Whoa.

Oh no.

Hey, hey. Hey? Hey?

Sebastian?

Sebastian? Sebastian?

Oh my God. Virginia. Virginia? Virginia?

Oh no. No. Hey? Hey?

Hey.

No.

[LAUGHTER]

-Hey.

Those are friends of ours.

[LAUGHTER]

-Yeah, okay.

[CREAKING]

[CREAKING]

-Hey.

-Hey.

-Hey, Two?

-Yeah? -Do you need something to do?

-No, I'm good.

-Maybe other than that?

-Oh.

They tell you what's wrong with him?

-It's called a vegetative state.

-When's he going to wake up?

-We don't know.

-So, it's like a coma.

VIRGINIA: It's not a coma.

And he's breathing independently, so that's good.

-You know, if it was anyone else lying here, he could just look in their brain and see what was wrong.

-I hate this.

-Coma Jonas?

-We, as a family, killed three people last night.

-Yeah, one of them was already dead though.

-Okay, but he was still moving and we

threw him off a building and chopped his head off.

And we killed killed two real live people.

-But would you have rather have them kill us?

-I'd rather be getting ready to go the work. Or going to the movies.

Or taking a walk.

Do you know where killing people and dragging my vegetative friends to the hospital ranks?

-Like... fourth?

-Neverth. I hate everything about this.

Is this what our life is going to be like now?

I don't want it.

-Yeah, but you did awesome.

-Hate. It.

-Yeah.

-You want to head home?

-No, I don't want to see her.

-Four? -Yeah.

-Have you ever thought about going off on your own?

-No.

-Why?

-Because I'm not my own.

None of us are. That's why I never understood Four.

We just wanted her to do her part. We didn't want to control her.

We're a team.

If one part of the team is gone, what are the rest of us supposed to do?

Didn't work out so great for her anyways.

-Hey! At least one of you survived.

Oh.

Too soon.

-There goes another security deposit.

-Yeah, they definitely wouldn't have cared about the bullet holes.

-Where are the other bodies? -Vaporized.

-Good. When Jonas wakes up he can do her, too.

-Hey! I don't want him to do her.

I don't want her to be done at all.

-What happened to her? Where are the other two?

-They're at the hospital.

-The hospital?

-We have to do something with her.

-We can't vaporize her, Donald.

It would be like she never existed.

-We can't keep her.

Freezer isn't big enough.

-Donald! -Well...

-Can't we bury her?

-We have to tell Frankie.

-Who?

-Bella's boyfriend.

He probably doesn't even know what happened to her.

-Oh God.

-You're going to tell him that she's dead?

Does even know about any of you?

FOX THREE: No.

-How do you think he'll react if someone who looks

exactly like his girlfriend comes over

and says that his girlfriend is dead?

-We have to tell him something.

He's just going to be wondering forever.

-So how you doing?

-Meh.

-Yeah. It's been a while. Didn't know if I'd see you again.

-You don't spend a lot of time anymore digging around in your subconscious.

-Oh, I don't need to. Our phones all have games now.

But now I can't seem to get out.

-Do you know why that is?

-Yes. I burned out the part of my brain that that thing was trying to attach to.

Hope it worked.

-You're still here.

-So are you. -Yeah.

You haven't been able to get rid of me, but could you give me something else to wear?

-I've only ever seen you wear that.

-I wonder why.

-I thought maybe you were warm,

because you're in a bikini drinking a milkshake.

-C'mon. To have a Girl with a Milkshake, all you need is a milkshake.

You've just been using this to distract yourself.

-Why do I need a girl with a milkshake?

-I don't know. What are you trying to tell yourself?

Thanks.

-Jeez!

Hey.

You're not dead.

-I thought I was supposed to do something.

-Yeah. You and the girls went off to fight Carl's monster.

Did you not... Did you hit your head?

-The monster's gone.

-Nice.

-So, now what?

-How about some breakfast?

-I thought I was supposed to do something. Something special.

Because of what I can do.

-Haven't you though?

I've seen the news. It looks like you're doing some good.

DONALD: Yeah.

-Isn't that something?

DONALD: No one can do what we can do.

I thought we were given powers for a reason, but we weren't.

It's just you.

No purpose, no reason.

We don't even have superpowers.

Supernormal facilities.

ELSTON: Who cares what they're called?

-There's not destiny. No big plan.

-So what? -So, what did you make me for?

Every time I found a new way to fight crime, I thought it was another piece of the puzzle.

Time travel, heroes, damsels;

I thought there was a grand design.

Where's your grand design?

What am I supposed to do with all of this?

-Whatever you want to do, man.

-Don't I have a responsibility?

-No.

-There has to be more.

-Why?

-There has to be a reason, it can't just be chance.

Now, tell me. What is your real plan for me?

-Why should I have a plan? I've done my thing.

You're here. You've got some nice abilities.

Take some responsibility for yourself. Make with your own plan.

-Give me back the change.

-You never give me a vanilla one of these.

-It's got to be chocolate.

-Well, there you go.

-So, am I stuck here?

-Do you really want to go back?

[KEYS TURNING IN THE LOCK]

-Bella!

Are you okay?

-Yeah. I just came for my stuff.

-What? -I got a new place and I just need my things.

-Wha-- Last time I saw you, two guys dragged you out of here with a bag over your head.

-I dealt with it.

-I tried to report you missing. They said there was no Bella Solo.

-Let me go, Frankie.

-What happened to you? I thought you were dead!

-Let me go!

I'm fine.

I just...

don't want to be with you anymore.

I don't need my stuff. I gotta go.

-Bella?

I don't care what your real name is.

-So I'm stuck here?

-Don't have to be.

-How do I get back?

-Might be easier just to let go.

-Like,

die?

-Maybe it'd be better.

Do you know how much damage you did to your brain?

-No.

-And you wouldn't have to worry about that body count anymore either.

And the Jonas reign of terror would be over.

-I'm not gonna kill myself.

-You already did the hard part. It'd just be letting go.

-It's not like you never thought about it.

-What do you know about it?

-Me? Probably nothing.

I just live in a place where you stick your regret and shame.

-Well, then your perspective is probably a little skewed.

-What about mine?

-Yeah. Yours might be a little, too.

-How can it be? I don't even know all the bad stuff you've done.

-No, she doesn't, but

the truth's at least as bad as whatever she's imagining.

-So, why not put a stop to it?

You obviously don't trust yourself.

Just let go. You can stop worrying about it.

What would you even go back for now anyways?

Like I needed to ask.

-Watch. 'Bout to see her for the first time.

So, I quick-scanned her. Looked back through her short term memory.

-To see if she checked the mirror when she got out of the shower that morning?

-To see what kind of person she was.

And I lucked out 'cause she stopped time an hour earlier to get a seat on the el'. Watch.

So, I scanned her brain. Not content, composition.

And it turned out it was different from everyone else's.

It has like a weird chemical signature in the brain tissue.

And that's when I knew I wasn't the only one.

And once I found her,

it was just a matter of scanning for people who had the same kind of chemical signature in their brain.

It wasn't hard once I knew what I was looking for.

We lit up like heat signatures on a thermal scan.

As surprised as I was to find other people with powers,

I think I was more surprised that we all had minimum wage jobs.

Figured one of us would have figure out how to turn superpowers into some kind of money.

After that, it was simply a matter...

Do you want to get tacos or anything while we're here?

-I mean, we're here.

-Get a chorizo tostada. Those are the F'ing mack.

After that, it was simply a matter of finding an apartment big enough to hold all of us.

When I did I rented it, put the idea in their minds that it was time to move,

and pointed them towards the Craigslist ad.

Yeah, they all thought it was kind of weird that we

lived in an apartment and had superpowers

when all that business came out,

but there we were.

Donald put it in their minds that it was destiny.

So, it's supposed to be "meant to be."

-Sure.

So, did that help you?

-What?

-Telling me all that stuff I already know?

I'm part of your subconscious, I was there for all that.

-Oh, sure.

-So, did remembering your friends make you want to go back more?

Help you forget all the damage you've done?

All the damage you could still do?

-What do you think?

-Did you get 'em?

-How'd you know who was coming?

-Electricon?

-Yeah.

-I didn't,

but "did you get 'em" was my safest opener no matter who it was.

I figured it Damon killed you all and was coming after me and I opened with

"did you get 'em," I could pretend it was all part of a plan to help him get you guys.

Buy me enough time to figure out my next move, at least.

-Nice.

-So, did you get him?

-Yep.

-Precious?

-He's alive.

-Good for him.

-He seemed like kind of a douche.

-He's all right.

-He shot Fox Three.

-Is she okay?

-Yeah.

-It all worked out then.

-So, in your time with this group

you didn't happen to run into any other big

criminals anywhere, did you?

-We pretty much hung out in a dilapidated warehouse waiting for him to kill us.

Wait, you're not looking to find more crime already?

Didn't you just get back from a huge battle?

Take a morning, man. Get some sleep.

-I hardly did anything.

My electricity couldn't affect the Cloud Snake.

I spent days just sitting around,

time travelling so that nothing would happen to me,

knocking you guys out in the courtyard, which took no effort.

Then when I finally found a big battle,

I spent most of it frozen in time.

Sure, I did chop his head off, but let's face it,

gravity did most of the work on Damon.

Virginia ended up getting rid of the thing.

-You chopped its head off?

-Everything's the worst.

I don't have a super villian or any way to find other crime.

-Well, you could be blind.

-Yeah.

Sorry about that.

-I was trying to choke you out. So...

-You probably would have let me go if I shocked you anywhere.

I didn't have to go for the eyes.

-So you think somebody could give me a ride home?

-Yeah. I got you.

-Thanks. -C'mon.

-Do you remember this little ritual?

Emily Hawthorne. Freshman girlfriend.

She made the mistake of breaking up with you.

There was no body to find.

They had to bury her baby blanket.

-Yeah.

She was really good about the break-up, too.

She still liked me.

She just wanted to go out more instead of staying inside all the time.

I couldn't go out.

I collected too many headstones being out in the world.

-You still went to school though.

-Thought I had to. Kids go to school.

-You saw her at her locker on the arm of Brad Jeffreys.

-He was nice, too.

-Where's his headstone?

-Across town. He's Catholic.

- Do you think anything you've done has made up for any of this?

-Do you think anything I ever do can make up for any of this?

Look at how many flowers that kid is holding.

Donald likes to think that because we can do these things

we're supposed to be some kind of superheroes.

How heroic is it to sit in your room hiding out for your whole entire life?

-A real hero would have ended it.

Pulled the plug.

It's the only way to ensure there's no more baby blankets being buried.

[HEART MONITOR BEEPS FRANTICALLY]

-There's nothing heroic about that.

-No?

-Talk about running away. It's the ultimate form of giving up.

Why do you think they call it cashing in your chips?

It proves that you don't have what it takes to stick it out, go all in.

-I'm not talking about a turn of phrase, dickhead.

I'm talking about parents standing at graves

of kids that aren't coming home.

-You think I forgot?

I stood in every corner of this graveyard, I listened to every eulogy,

I felt every one of them.

-Aren't you the nice guy.

-Can I help, hon'?

-The monitor's beeping weird.

-Oh God. -What's going on?

-We're just going to have some people come in, guys.

Would you mind stepping out into the hallway?

-Why? What's going on?

-We just need a little bit of room around the bed to help your friend.

Please step out.

-Where are we? -Fibrillation.

-Get the Lifepak. I'll take over compressions.

You're on the mask.

-You know it's the way.

You know. Deep down you've always known.

-I've been better. I can control it.

-I guess Donald's head just exploded from over-enthusiasm, then.

-He was shocking us.

-There's always going to be an excuse to hurt one more.

There's only one way to stop this.

Then everyone will be safe.

All the strangers.

All your friends.

Donald.

Sebastian.

-Virginia.

Come on.

Come on.

-He's going tachycardic.

Would you two wait in the hall, please?

-Charging. -Stand clear.

JONAS: I could still help them.

VIRGINIA'ISH: They don't need your help anymore.

JONAS: Well, then I won't help. We'll just hang out.

VIRGINIA'ISH: You think Virginia wants to hang out with you, knowing everything that you've done?

Come on.

-I don't know.

-Here.

-Here?

-Now.

-Let go.

[FLATLINE TONE]

-Code. One milligram epinephine.

-Let go?

-Yeah. Let go of everything.

You don't have to feel responsible.

You don't have to feel frustrated, angry, sad.

You don't have to feel happy.

You don't have to wonder why you don't feel happy.

You don't have to feel anything.

You don't even have to breathe.

You've been breathing for every minute of your entire life.

Even when you're sleeping. Can you imagine how much energy you've spent breathing?

Aren't you tired?

You don't have to feel tired anymore.

You can just stop.

[FLATLINE TONE CONTINUES]

-Take over on compressions.

-Excuse me.

-Hey! Get out of here.

-Just let go.

-Gotta go.

-Booch!

-Did I die?

Did I almost die or did I die?

VIRGINIA: I think you were dead, dude. DONALD: You were dead.

-Can I go?

DONALD: So, how was being dead?

JONAS: Kind of depressing. My subconscious is kind of a dick.

DONALD: So, you didn't see angels or anything?

JONAS: I saw a chorizo tostada.

[MARIACHI MUSIC]

-Nothing like Mexican food after an all nighter.

You only got one tostada?

-Yeah. Just racked up kabillions of dollars in hospital bills.

-You don't have insurance?

-You think I can afford Obamacare?

-Why don't you just light up the old sparklers and go like erase their file?

-No, no, no. We're not going to keep blowing up apartments we can't afford.

They did their job.

I'm just going to have to pay them off in installments for the rest of my life.

Actually, you guys should help me pay for it because you took me to a hospital in the first place.

-Um, unresponsive vegetative state.

-If you'd just kissed me in the alley,

we'd have saved a lot of time and kabillions of dollars.

-Excuse me for trying to save your life.

JONAS: You're excused, Adrenaline Lips.

-Hospital Hoochie Mama.

-Awesome.

-Trying to do something with EKG.

E-Kissing-G?

I'll keep working on it. -Okay. Okay.

-Actually, even if I did want to rip off the hospital,

I'm not sure what I can do anymore.

Kind of broke part of my brain getting that thing out of my head.

-Broke your brain?

-Broke how? You have amnesia?

-I'm not sure I would know.

-What does EKG even stand for?

-Try it. -What?

-Float my burrito.

-I don't know. I already made out with Virginia today.

Are we exclusive or can I float Sebastian's burrito?

-Guys.

-Electro Kissing Gamma ray?

-Float it, Sparkles. Right into my mouth.

- Now you're trying to make it sound dirty.

-No, what I'm trying to do is christen the airship burrito,

and all you're flying is the stall tactic flag.

-That's a mouthful.

-Not yet it's not.

-Guys.

-Energetically Kissing Grandma.

-Do we have to do the whole circus right now?

-I may have lost the thread here.

-Nights like last night are exactly why I wanted Roxy to get rid of our powers.

Can't we get through one meal without somebody's head exploding,

or brains breaking, or eyes glowing?

I have my tacos.

You have your tacos.

Isn't that enough?

-It's enough for me.

-Yeah right.

You are the captain of the crazy charge.

You're always getting everyone riled up.

-I would actually like to know where I stand.

VIRGINIA: Taco!

-Just real quick.

-Float it.

-Oh, that's not how that usually feels.

-Okay. Taco time.

-That should do it. -You're welcome.

-Okay. -It's not floating.

-No. No. That was the mind reader.

He's still working on EKG a little bit,

you're just a loop of chomping on a floating burrito,

she's still thinking about that kiss.

-I'm thinking you're an idiot.

-I had to go three levels down, but it's there.

-E-K-i-s-s-i-n-G.

-Son of a bitch.

-Can you make me do stuff?

-Used to. You want to try?

-Make me eat the burrito.

-No. She wants to do that already. Make her give me half.

-No. -Okay.

-No!

-Wha--

I can read you. You're scared 'cause you want the other half of your burrito for dinner.

-Damn right, I do.

-But...

I can't get ahold of you.

-Dinner burrito lives.

-Dude, that thing's going to be cold by the time you get around to it the first time.

-So, you can't float it and you can't make me give it away.

What can you do?

-I can tell you're thinking about it.

-That's not super impressive.

Pretty sure her instagram is filled with burritos she's eaten.

-And burritos I'd like to someday eat.

-Huh.

-So you can't make people do things anymore?

-I guess not.

-And you can't control matter?

-Blew your whole burrito game.

-I'm going to try with the floating one more time.

-Oh my God! I knew we shouldn't be messing with this.

Oh! Oh, hilarious. Mess with the easy target.

Who knew a coma would make you funnier.

JONAS: Dude...

-Virginia, isn't this great? You don't need any Roxy formula.

Not for me at least. I diffused my brain. There's no more landmine to step on.

-That is great,

but I've been up all night and I'm a little tired of getting scared every five minutes.

I just need to go home and get some sleep.

-I don't see what's so great about it.

You totally lowered the stock of our super group.

-We don't have a super group.

-There's not much point now, is there?

Every time things got too intense, we had you up our sleeve to roll out

and blow everybody up. Where's our A-bomb now?

-I don't care, man.

I spent the last fifteen years hiding in a cave

and the door just got thrown open.

-Least we still have Virginia's portals.

-I really don't want to do this anymore, Donald.

I've been fighting crime for a few weeks and it really sucks, man.

-Think about all the people you helped.

-Yeah, that part is great,

but it's all this stress leading up to that that sucks.

-How much more damage do you think that cloud thing would have done if you didn't throw it into the void portal?

-That thing came from the portal, Donald.

I've spent the last twelve hours having one heart attack after another.

It's like living in a constantly escalating state of panic.

Why do I have to be the one to do this?

-Because you can and other people can't.

You can help people.

-How much does it have to hurt me before I can stop helping them?

-Why are you both like this?

You're throwing away something amazing.

JONAS: Don't yell at her, man.

This is the same old Donald diatribe.

We're almost in our thirties. Don't you think it's time to lay some of this angry ambition to rest?

How can you say we have any responsibility at all now that you know where we came from?

We were created by curiosity and a series of half realized hunches.

We weren't chosen by anything but chance.

-I still feel chosen.

-Who chose?

-I do. I choose.

I give this meaning because I go out there and use my powers.

It doesn't matter how we got them. It matters how we use them.

And they only have meaning if we use them.

You can talk to me about the "same old Donald diatribe" forever,

acting like you know everything from the safety of your little crawl space.

You know how many speeches you've given me

about how I'm wrong for doing anything?

How about you just stop sitting around telling me what I'm doing wrong,

and help me do something right.

I mean, damn it. We have superpowers and all we do is sit around and talk.

What the hell, guys?

-I want you to have your meaning, Donald.

But I want to want a glass of wine.

During my many peaceful nights at home.

-Can you at least still let me use your portals to go back and find crimes?

-Time travel is not a fix all, Donald.

Opening portals all willy nilly is what let that cloud thing in in the first place.

All it did for Sebastian is change her drivers license picture for the rest of life.

-Chicks dig scars.

-Certainly didn't help Fox Four.

-Oh. Yeah.

Now, that Jonas can't dissolve matter anymore,

we have to do something with the body.

-Do you guys want to say something?

-Bye, Four.

-I went to your place to say goodbye to Frankie.

So, he won't be waiting for you to come home forever.

Like I did.

You were my favorite, Bella.

Even though you left us and left our name.

-And cut our face.

-Yeah, and that wasn't awesome.

But you can't pick your favorite. Your favorite just is.

I'm gonna like to world a little less now that you're not in it.

I'm gonna miss you.

-I'm sorry I didn't see you.

And I'm sorry you're in an unmarked grave.

But I wish I got to know you and the life you made.

-Thanks for that night in the tub.

I know that you were using me, but

it was still really cool.

I still need to figure out how to find crime.

JONAS: You'll figure it out.

You always do.

-You talking to me?

Are you ta... Are you talking to me?

You must be talking to me.

I'm the only one here.

You're not using our stove to create new life or anything, are you?

-Turkey tacos.

-Don't burn yourself.

-I'm watching him. -Save me some.

-I will when you start pitching in for ingredients.

-What did we say about knives?

-Looking to go out?

-I ain't dressed for dancing.

-I'll pull up Google Maps.

-Looks like we got a couple of guys who think they're gonna rob a gas station.

DONALD: Is anyone going to get hurt?

-Meh.

-Well, if there's nothing else.

-Ooh. This could be bad.

Home invasion and the family is home putting the kids to bed.

DONALD: Are they already in the house?

-Almost.

-Sebastian! You coming?

-To crime.

-Got it.

-All right. They're coming in through the kitchen in the back.

Looks like the one in front has a gun and is a little drug edgy.

[TIME FREEZE SOUND]

-Okay. My portal should get you somewhere in the vicinity of the dining room.

You guys have fun. I'll give you a minute to get situated

and I'll wait for your text. -Okay.

-I'm about to start time back up.

You want to play some Bananagrams?

-Sure. -After you call the cops.

-Yep.

-Hey!

-That's my line.

SEBASTIAN: Three of you, huh?

Fight night.

-We just want whatever's in the safe.

-Hey, keep it down. They're trying to put the kids to sleep.

-Back up!

What is that?

What is that?!

-We're getting them out of here. Cops are on their way.

Ready to go? -Yeah.

-That all you got?

-Well, we would have had a blender, but that guy broke it with his face.

-Looks like they're planning a TV dinner.

Texting Virginia? -Done.

[GROANING]

-All right. Settle down and think about what you've done.

-This is your stuff.

You got to press charges, okay?

Come on, Virginia.

-Stay down! Stay down!

-Down! Get down! -Get down!

[DOPE ASS END CREDITS MUSIC]

[CAPTIONS BY JASMIN GENTRY!]

[LAUGHTER] It's the Platoon of Power Squadron.

-Boom shakalaka!

And then there were two, bro.

All right. Hey, you have any experience making one of those job resumes?

I think I'm gonna need one now that I have managerial experience.

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Hello once again everyone, and welcome

back to 'One English Tip in One Minute

for Speakers of Chinese (and its many

language varieties)'. As you probably

know by now, each week I discuss, in

detail, one common English mistake made

by Chinese speakers...and this is video

number 37.

Yeah, the usual: I think it's very cool,

I think it's very smart and it's also

clearly very practical that you are

working to try to improve your English.

Keep it up. In these videos I show you

a slide, and on the slide there are two

sentences: One is the correct way that I

as a native English speaker would say it,

the other is the wrong way that many

Chinese speakers say it. Your task is

to decide which one is correct. Do

that now. Read the sentences, listen to me

read the sentences, pause the video, think

about your answer and I will discuss the

answer in the slide that follows this slide.

If you, like thousands

or even millions of people out there, got

this wrong -- or you took a wild guess and

got it right, but don't know why you got

it right -- then it only means that you

need to start studying this more. It's

a very simple beginning, but to start you

off on that learning path I've given you

three sentences to study from. As always,

study the sentences in their entirety --

review, review, review them -- and put into

practice what you've learned through

speaking or writing or both...and

eventually over time you'll perfect this.

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5 Creepy Cartoon Network Characters | Darkology #20 - Duration: 25:18.

Imagine you're headed into the dentist's office.

Your old dentist has retired and this is your first time seeing this new one.

You never cared much for the dentist's but at least they're playing Cartoon Network in

the waiting room.

Your name is called.

The nurse leads you to the chair and tells you to wait for him, leaving the room.

A few minutes later, a tall man opens the door, eyes locked on you.

His hair is stringy and he smells funny.

He greets you with a cold, deep and steady voice.

Something about him makes you uncomfortable.

He's smiling, but something's not right.

He hasn't broken eye contact a single time since he's entered.

You never did like yellow eyes.

In that deep, unnerving voice, he tells you that he'll be putting you to sleep now.

You realize with horror that his mouth wasn't moving.

The gas mask is pulled over your face.

The subject of creepy characters is a rather interesting topic in pop culture.

Cartoon Network has been home to some of the most memorable and nostalgic shows on television.

One of the things that made these shows so memorable, was their tendency to feature at

least one character that could be seen as a creepy villain of sorts.

When we think of creepy, these characters tend to have a few traits in common.

The way they speak is strange and unnatural.

The way they behave, with a perpetual stare or an unending smile, is unnerving.

In today's Darkology, we'll be exploring 5 characters from 5 different and beloved Cartoon

Network originals- some glaringly obvious- others more obscure, and just what makes them

so creepy.

Kicking off this list is a character from

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

The very cartoon itself had many creepy undertones.

It was notorious for being a wacky hybrid of Spongebob Squarepants, Courage The Cowardly

Dog, and Ren and Stimpy.

Frequent use of hyper-realistic close ups blended with an overall macabre tone that

could well be described as... unsettling.

How this scene got approved as kid-friendly is beyond me...

"Hey there cutie! Aren't you beautiful?"

"I think I know what you waaaaant..."

"STRING!"

The show was packed full of some of the creepiest characters to ever grace the network.

"I see you're not yellow, fellow"

"But I don't wanna make ya blue, so get a clue..."

"You need to grow up!"

"Grow up? I'm 38-years old!"

Take Peppermint Larry for example.

His obsession with his Candy Wife raised some serious questions: was this inanimate object

made of candy really moving and telling him to do things when we weren't looking, or was

Peppermint Larry suffering from some serious delusions?

We'll return to this idea with a similar character from another cartoon later, but

for me, when it comes to Flapjack, no character captured creepy quite as best as Dr. Barber.

"Ah... customers... What can I do for you?"

As his name suggests, his occupation was that of a barber and a doctor, with an obsessive

proclivity for surgery.

He could also be considered a mad scientist of sorts.

His unusual tendency to say "yes" and "hmmm" between sentences was rather discomforting.

He also collected fish heads and the hair of his customers, feeding them through a hole

in the floor to the creatures living in his basement.

And then there was surgery.

"Do you have any stories?"

"Surgery?"

"Nope, just stories."

"Ah! So there's these two guys, and they think they want... a story- but what they really want... is surgery."

"They drink some of Dr. Barber's tea, and fall asleep, and when they wake up... SURGERY."

"Would you like some tea?"

He may have been inspired by real life instances of barber-surgeons during medieval Europe.

Barber-surgeons were an especially common profession during wartimes, though since most

of them lacked any medical knowledge- the surgeries often resulted in death.

So it's pretty obvious why we would find his obsession with subduing patrons for surgery

creepy, but what else is there?

Dr. Barber shares a certain facial feature that is common with the characters in Flapjack:

a wide, gummy smile.

Why are too many gums and teeth creepy?

According to Laura Murcko, spokesperson for the Academy of General Dentistry,

"A smile serves as an individual's most powerful tool.

A great smile can make a great lasting impression, boost a person's self-esteem and confidence,

as well as improve their overall health."

A gummy smile can be caused by a range of factors including small teeth, excess gum

tissue, and a short upper lip, all of which are genetic.

Studies that assess smiles have surveyed dentists, plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and the

general public.

In general, people find that a smile with two millimeters of exposed gum is largely

deemed as a "normal smile", whereas four millimeters is "noticeable", with anything

more than that being considered "too much".

The presence of too many gums in a smile may indicate to some that a person is smiling

"too much", which is usually an unsettling sign to most.

There are some who have even gone so far as to have <surgery> on their smile to reduce

this effect.

A surgical procedure known as a gingivectomy works to remove extra gum tissue.

Recently, some have taken a step away from surgery, opting for a lighter, more temporary

procedure in the form of botox.

Injections of botox into the upper lip effectively paralyze it and keep it from rising when the

patient smiles, leaving the gums covered.

However, some people might go overboard with botox and end up with a crooked smile.

How about teeth?

A study from the University of Minnesota found that smiles that were too wide, to highly

angled, and that showed a lot of teeth were not the best at creating a positive impression,

falling more on the scale of creepy and fake.

The survey of 802 people revealed that pleasant and genuine smiles are perceived more when

a mouth's angles are between 13 and 17 degrees, and have a width between 55% and 62% of the

distance between the pupils of the eyes.

Also, we're generally able to discern between a genuine smile and a fake one, especially

by looking at the eyes.

Hyperdontia is the condition of having additional teeth to the regular amount.

But perhaps simply exposing too many teeth alone, creates an unsettling effect.

Perhaps the true psychology behind what makes a smile creepy stems from the context and

situation it's presented in.

Take for example a surgeon smiling after the death of a patient.

Or a politician smiling in response to being called a liar.

Francis McAndrew and Sara Koehnke, authors of "On the nature of creepiness" an empirical

study in "New Ideas in Psychology" from 2016, say that creepiness is

"what we feel when we think someone might be a threat, but we're not sure - the ambiguity

leaves us "frozen in place, wallowing in unease"

Remind you of anyone?

Dr. Barber is often shown smiling, even when there isn't an apparent reason to be doing

so.

This is one of the biggest reasons why he is seen as so creepy.

Especially since we assume that he's secretly thinking about performing nonconsensual surgery

or collecting hair and feeding it to the strange creatures living in his basement.

Dr. Barber's monotonous speech pattern is also a trait that is rather unsettling, one

that he shares with the next feature on our list:

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4.

The Delightful Children From Down The Lane - KND

Typically, when someone is speaking calmly and clearly, and doesn't change their tone

too much, we find it very reassuring.

However, this isn't exactly the case if the speaker is talking too monotonously.

But what is it about talking monotonously that's so creepy?

Perfectly monotone speakers who lack any variation and don't stress any words or syllables

sound unnatural.

It could indicate that the speaker is either crazy, being mind-controlled, is an impostor,

or is being threatened against their will.

The cartoon Kids Next Door featured a villain that talked exactly like this: The Delightful

Children From Down The Lane.

...even the name sounds creepy.

Like Dr. Barber, the Delightful Children From Down The Lane spoke in a very monotonous tone,

as if they were dead inside or masking an insidious agenda.

And what's worse, they all spoke as one being- like a hivemind.

They were the antithesis of the Kids Next Door, succumbing to the pressures of their

perceived society and striving to grow up as fast as possible to become "boring adults".

Indeed, it wasn't just the monotonous way they spoke, but the idea that they were being

controlled by something far more sinister.

What most people find haunting about a hivemind is the idea of the loss of individuality and

freedom for control.

Independence and individuality are highly valued concepts in our culture- especially

in western culture.

We strive to live our own lives and be in control of ourselves.

There's something both sad and concerning about seeing a person you know change into

a shell of their former selves in pursuit of becoming part of "the hive".

And in the case of The Delightful Children From Down The Lane, this unified mentality

was the result of *SPOILER ALERT* delightfulization- or brainwashing.

In the KND film Operation Z.E.R.O, it's revealed that they were the former members

of the missing "Sector Z".

They were so irreversibly mentally damaged, that even being "cured" of their brainwashing

only had a temporary effect.

But perhaps it isn't so much the mind-controlling influence of their evil boss, known in the

show as "Father", that torments The Delightful Children From Down The Lane.

Perhaps it's a much deeper condition of mental illness connected to a fragmented perception

of reality, as with our next case.

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3.

Plank - Ed, Edd, and Eddy

Ed, Edd, and Eddy was one of Cartoon Network's original Cartoon Cartoon lineups that featured

a slice-of-life format.

It followed a group of kids living in a cul de sac and their wild adventures in pursuit

of typical childlike desires like candy and quarters.

And for the most part, this show didn't have too much in the realm of creepy.

However there was one character who I thought had a strange attachment to a certain piece

of wood.

A certain 2x4 with a happy face drawn on its surface.

That's right.

I'm talking about Plank (insert title card at this sentence).

<cut to Snuffbomb commenting something along the lines of: "Oh c'mon.

PLANK?!

That's ridiculous.

We all know it was just a piece of wood."

*proceeds to talk to his inanimate object buddy*>

I know.

It sounds ridiculous.

This one doesn't exactly scream creepy on the surface.

But hear me out:

Jonny often talked about Plank like he was a real person.

He would get upset whenever Plank wasn't acknowledged by the rest of the cul de sac kids and they

would usually roll with it, leaving skeptics like Eddy in bewilderment.

He'd even claim that Plank told him things and often talked to the 2x4 as if it were

a loved one.

Plank is implied by Jonny to be a bit of a prankster and a wiseguy.

Jonny's so immersed in the world of his best friend, that he even created parents

and a friend for Plank out of other pieces of wood that were lying around.

What's rather chilling about this are the questions it poses:

Was Jonny suffering from serious delusions?

Or was "Plank" really speaking to him?

I think it was both.

But to better understand where this goes, we'll first need to take a look at hypnotherapy.

The mind is like an iceberg: most of it is below the surface.

We each have many experiences after we're born, and over time, a lot of them become

buried out of sight.

Memories that we ourselves can't remember because they're buried so far deep down

in our unconscious mind.

Hypnosis is looked at by some as a method for unlocking the subconscious mind, and in

some cases, the unconscious mind.

This'll be relevant in a second I promise.

So back to Plank:

Like dolls and mannequins, inanimate objects with faces have a tendency to make us think,

"am I being watched?"

Danny Antonucci, creator of Ed, Edd, and Eddy, has confirmed that Plank is nothing more than

an inanimate block of wood, though in the episode "All Eds Are Off", Plank is seen

moving throughout the school campus without Jonny's assistance.

In the same episode, Jonny is shown to have a hard time making decisions without Plank

nearby, and couldn't even last a day separated from him.

This indicates that Plank may have some direct influence over Jonny.

One rather peculiar and telling instance from the show was an episode where Eddy acquired

a hypnotizing wheel from one of Double D's psychology books and went around the neighborhood

hypnotizing the kids of the cul de sac.

Almost everyone fell victim to Eddy's scam, but when they got to Jonny, he wasn't affected.

More interestingly, Jonny ran away in horror exclaiming that they'd turned Plank into

a mindless zombie.

Why would Jonny perceive that Plank was hypnotized while Jonny wasn't?

Well what if Jonny and Plank are both parts of the same person?

What if they're two very distinguished personalities living in the same body?

Could it possibly be that Jonny suffers from a form of dissociative identity disorder,

a condition formerly known as multiple personality disorder?

Perhaps the "Plank" personality was the one watching the hypnosis ring during the

encounter with Eddy?

While we've all seen the theatrical stage version of hypnosis performed on an audience

member, hypnotherapy in real life is more like a state of heightened suggestibility.

The most frequent clinical uses of hypnotherapy include: breaking bad habits, overcoming insomnia,

recalling forgotten experiences, and as an anesthetic for managing pain.

Some even believe that hypnosis can be used to help those who suffer from dissociative

identity disorder or DID, though this has become a controversial subject.

Some have argued that hypnosis might actually trigger situations similar to clinical DID

in a healthy individual rather than "cure" DID in those who have it.

What I found creepy in this revelation was the mystery surrounding this unseen "Plank"

personality.

Just who is Plank?

We've seen similar mysteries in other places throughout pop culture.

Minor spoilers ahead: Teddy Daniels from Shutter Island, Malcolm rivers from Identity, Mort

Rainey from Secret Window, Gollum from Lord of the Rings, Tyler Durden from Fight Club,

Norman Bates from Psycho, and most recently, Kevin from Split.

These "other" personalities are often portrayed as mischievous and looking to cause

trouble.

In real life, DID has been used as a controversial reasoning for a handful of criminals in court.

These include the likes of Billy Milligan who under another personality, kidnapped,

robbed, and raped three women in 1977, and Juanita Maxwell who also under another personality,

murdered a 72-year old woman in 1979, and later robbed two banks in 1988.

Psychiatrists believe that DID might be a sign and the result of childhood abuse.

A splintering in personality might be a way of coping with a severe trauma and a way to

protect the "main personality".

And what's most concerning about Plank is that since he isn't ever seen taking full

control of Jonny's body, we don't really get to hear what mischief he might be whispering

to the "Jonny personality".

"Plank" and other real life situations like him, continue to remain an enigma.

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2.

HIM - Powerpuff Girls

From subtly creepy with Plank, to the profoundly creepy with our next character, we continue

on with our list this time delving into the world of The Powerpuff Girls.

Some of us will remember the distinct feeling of dread that washed over us as children,

watching the debut of this villain, as the announcer himself cowered in fear at the very

sight

of him.

<insert clip>

According to creator Craig McCracken's scale of The Powerpuff Girls villains, HIM is at

the top simply because he's the most evil.

And that's pretty apparent from his appearance alone.

The guy looks like The Devil himself- and while this wasn't the first time a devil-like

character appeared on Cartoon Network <insert the red guy from cow and chicken>, he was

memorable for being especially creepy and sinister.

With HIM it wasn't necessarily his evil deeds that made him creepy.

The powerpuff girls had tons of villains that were up to no good- and I wouldn't necessarily

call Mojo Jojo or Fuzzy Lumpkins "creepy".

What made HIM particularly unnerving, was the way in which he talked and behaved.

He spoke in a very polite, falsetto voice that echoed- and depending on what he'd

be saying, would abruptly switch back and forth between that and an enraged masculine

voice.

Another thing was his seemingly perpetual smile.

Even in the face of defeat or being wailed on, he often eerily smiled back, maintaining

that freaky falsetto pitch.

And what really brought it home was despite this overly false positive demeanor, the content

of his speech was often dark and violent.

It was the complete opposite of his cheery facial expression, twisting the whole message

being conveyed to the viewer.

As we've learned before, an out-of-place smile raises a couple of eyebrows.

Just like an evil clown masking its true agenda behind a misplaced smile, HIM was unpredictable-

and it's that uncertainty with him that made him creepy.

You never really knew when he was gonna pop, and so his presence on and off screen was

felt with utmost dread.

His method of attack was often psychological, preying on weaknesses like fear and trying

to get the Powerpuff Girls to fight amongst themselves.

And what's more, unlike the other villains who all wanted something in return for their

evil deeds- be it fortune, fame, or power, HIM didn't have an apparent reason for why

he did bad things.

He just seemed to enjoy chaos.

But it doesn't stop there.

One of the prime characteristics for HIM is a trait that he shares with our final feature...

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1.

Freaky Fred - Courage The Cowardly Dog

There was no way I was going to make a video about creepy cartoon characters on Cartoon

Network and NOT talk about it's creepiest show.

Creepy happenings are integral to the premise of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

The intro literally phrases the words, "Creepy stuff happens in nowhere", and boy did they

ever.

Our unlikely hero had to encounter some of the most nightmare-fuel villains the likes

of which many horror movie villains wish they compared to.

And to be fair, there were too many great choices to choose from.

So here are some honorable mentions:

Kitty (The Mask) - "All dogs are evil." and watching Muriel from the window.

King Ramses - "Return the slab."

The Blue Thing - "You're not perfect."

and a helluvah way to end the show guys.

Katz - "I wish you hadn't done that."

The Violin Girl - "AAAAAAAH."

<INSERT> "Hello new friend.

My name is Fred."

That's right.

Muriel's estranged nephew and perhaps a relative of Dr. Barber too, Freaky Fred.

From a creepy and perpetual smile, to that chillingly deep voice, to those terrible yellows

eyes and questionable sanity, Freaky Fred encapsulates the creepy elements of all the

other characters in this list.

What fascinated me most about this episode was how endearing Fred's character was,

despite his eerie narration throughout.

The way he rhymed every sentence made his story even more interesting.

It was like listening to a serial killer talk about his past and how he began killing.

There's even a subtle hint of remorse as he reflects on his most recent victim, that

is until he turns towards his current one.

Not longer after his arrival, we learn that he's not just visiting, but has actually

escaped from the mental hospital.

Seeing Courage notice that tag on Fred's wrist gave me a surge of goosebumps.

So what can we learn about Freaky Fred's appearance?

What trait does he have in common with HIM?

Well a perpetual smile for one- but what can we gather from looking at his eyes?

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul after all.

In Darkology #14, we learned about the psychological properties of the colors blue and red.

That is to say, how certain types of the electromagnetic radiation of light can affect our mood and

behavior.

Where red is physical and blue is intellectual, yellow is emotional.

The yellow wavelength is relatively long and essentially stimulating.

And since this stimulus is emotional, it's the strongest color, psychologically.

Yellow in a positive light can be seen as representative of optimism, confidence, self-esteem,

extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, and even creativity.

But Fred's eyes aren't quite yellow- they're more of a sickly off-yellow-green.

And his whole color pallet seems to be tinged with this color.

The wrong tone of yellow or too much of it, can symbolize irrationality, emotional fragility,

and depression.

Most of all, it can give rise to fear and anxiety.

And what about green?

The psychological property of this color is balance.

Green is supposed to represent harmony, equilibrium, and peace.

So perhaps, an off-coloration of green might represent unbalance.

If we look at fiction <insert screenshot of TV tropes>, a yellow sclera usually hints

that a character might have a rather unscrupulous nature, that is to say- they aren't very

honest and probably shouldn't be trusted.

It gives us a sense of uncertainty- uncertainty itself being a prime contributor to the "creepy"

attribute.

But what else is it about yellow eyes?

This thought may have been inspired historically by canines, felines, reptiles and birds of

prey, which often have very large irises in shades of amber, yellow and orange- irises

so large, they're sometimes mistaken for scleras.

These species are known for being conniving, clever, and wise.

And when we look at reptiles especially, they are often seen as villainous.

Perhaps there's some biblical influence?

<insert serpent from Adam & Eve>

In real life, a yellow or brown sclerae in humans is unhealthy and usually a symptom

of allergies or jaundice, and could also be a sign of alcoholism.

So what's my point here?

How does Freaky Fred having yellow eyes have any different of an effect than say, Katz

having yellow eyes?

Well- the truth is, it doesn't.

This uncertainty around characters with yellow eyes isn't unique to Freaky Fred.

The effect is the same.

He just creeped me out the most.

It's a trait prevalent in many villains scattered throughout cartoon network as well

as in other facets of pop culture.

And it isn't just unnatural eyes.

Certain details can go a long way in changing how we perceive a character.

From a smile, to a voice, to a splintered perception of reality.

So now viewers, I ask you:

Who's a cartoon character you found creepy?

And why did you find them so?

Let me know in the comments below.

If you'd like more nostalgic cartoon content, be sure to checkout 11 Banned or Forgotten

Cartoon Characters over on Blameitonjorge's channel.

I'll be presenting some of them over there.

Oh and special thanks to my friend Snuffbomb for agreeing to make a short cameo here.

Both of their channels are in the description- it would mean a lot to me if you showed them

some love!

And as always, thanks for watching.

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