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Bruce Banner and Skaar (in his puny form) have their father-and-son bonding moment.

Incredible Hulks #614, 2010

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I like to baby 40 year old men in my free time

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I mentioned this briefly in passing during my last serious Fallout kick, but it's striking to me how much Caesar resembles the median protagonist of an Edgar Rice Burroughs outing, as experienced by everyone in that guy's way. A learned man from "modern" civilization embarks on an expedition to parts unknown (with a couple plucky sidekicks along for the ride.) He gets captured by the natives, wins their respect by applying his knowledge of "modern" science and military strategy to their local conflicts, leads them to decisive victory over all their rivals, kicks ass to the top of the local political totem pole and reshapes society as he sees fit. He's David Innes, he's John Carter, He's Hank Morgan, He's Travis Morgan, He's Alan Quartermaine, he's the successor to any of the slew of stories about an American or European overtaking and surpassing the natives at their own game, in contexts historical, subtropical, subterranean or extraplanetary.

Where it splits off, of course, that it's aware of the fascistic-slash progressive-eugenicist undertones of that entire character archetype and the zeitgeist that produced it. Rather than following the script in lockstep his plucky sidekicks peel off one by one-Bill Calhoun out of moral horror at the overreach of his imperial project, Joshua Graham after flying too close to the sun in embracing a power fantasy that only has room for one true protagonist. A slightly more involved knowledge of military strategy specifically doesn't translate into enlightened philosopher-king status; the "new society" he's trying to create is a sham, informed more by his myopia and personal hangups than it is by anything that made Rome-as-it-actually-existed a successful polity. But this isn't the kind of genre where the Hero receives pushback on the sustainability of his power fantasy. And it isn't sustainable; he built a political machine that reproduces his initial successes at scale, but that's all that it can do. In the referent stories, it's not uncommon for the protagonist's forced departure to cause their grand ambitions to unravel in their absence (gotta make room for a sequel somehow! We're getting paid by the word.) In New Vegas that prospect is presented with a sigh of relief rather than framed as a tragic regression.

All of this feels fairly deliberate; gesturing at a space in pulp fiction even if it isn't dropping names directly. New Vegas, more than any other game in the franchise, is Doing Genre as part of its commentary; in addition to the usual B-movie sci-fi extravaganza it's a spaghetti western, it's a gangster flick, it's a war story. Burroughs and the Burroughs-adjacent are a corner of the pulp lineage that's severely fallen out of the zeitgeist compared to those first three, in no small part due to how they were cannibalized for parts by many of the more immediately recognizable science fiction and adventure subgenres that Fallout is pulling from. But Caesar's brand of power fantasy is still in there- you are what you eat. There's still room for his archetype. It's just that that archetype functions most intuitively as an antagonist once we're a century-removed from a zeitgeist that can spin amoral empire-building as a cracking good time for hot-blooded youths.

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Batman (1940) #563

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i think anyone who’s every used the internet has seen this picture at least once

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I have the kind of brain disease where my reaction to shrooms is “I have an idea for a Garfield comic”

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame + Natural Lighting

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Right now more than ever when people make jokes about trashing the entire south or being embarrassed of us etc etc yall need to fucking say something. It’s reaching the point that hating the southern US states is just siding with the fascists.

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Admin POV

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i think the big trend next year should be shagadelic summer