#Gadget Man

[noel-fielding]

[noel-fielding-web-page]

Noel And Gadget Man :)

[krinsbez]

BattleTech/Pulp Heroes Storybuilding: BT-ifying the Gadget Man

The overwhelming majority of you have never heard of this guy, but i read the third and final installment of a collection of all the stories starring him by Lester "creator of Doc Savage" Dent, and I am in love with this character, and I think y'all should be too, and I am BEGGING you to help figure out how to BT-ifiy him, because apparently this is how I show my love for characters now?

Anyways, the profile.

Clickell "Click" Rush is a man of average height, average weight, and seemingly average build (unless you look closely or get his shirt off, at which point you will observe that he has "extraordinary muscular development" of the wiry variety, frequently compared to a circus acrobat) with a face that is neither particularly attractive nor unattractive. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and favors brown in his sartorial choices as much as current fashion allows, to the point that simply wearing a black suit and grey hat can briefly constitute an effective disguise. He is a genius inventor and a two-fisted badass who in addition to physical prowess and martial skill displays a great deal of cunning, resourcefulness, and improvisational skill (i just read a story where he defeats a group of armed sailors in a running fight aboard a large boat or small ship whilst being himself initially unarmed via improvised and found weapons, starting with his own shoes. He has invented "thousands of crime-fighting devices"* and attempted to sell them to the NYPD, who sadly where not only unreceptive, but mocked him in the newspapers; later he ruefully admits they were probably right to do so, as his creations are almost invariably weird and not particularly practical if you aren't him. Salvation form financial ruin came in the form a of a foot-tall, foot-wide, two-foot long paper-mache toad containing a wireless transmitter, which activated produced a disguised voice (note that the method of vocal disguises periodically varies) declaring "My name is Bufa, I eat slugs and snails-of the human variety", and offered to pay Click $10,000 to investigate "unusual crimes" for him. Thus began Click Rush's never-ending torment, as Bufa continues to provide at best tiny amounts of cryptic information and refuses to allow Click to end their association, finding him no matter where he travels to or what disguises or aliases he utilizes, and forcing him to solve said crimes, usually by informing various involved parties (includes sometimes the criminals) that Click is involved, thus forcing the Gadget Man to solve the crimes in self-defense; more than once, Click becames aware he's been "hired" because someone tries to preemptively kill or frame him. All attempts bby Click to find out who Bufa is (so that he can beat the snot out of him) are as futile as his attempts to doge the toad, discovering only various irrelevant trivia, such as the fact that Bufa seems to have unlimited funds (which didn't stop him from demanding that Click turn over to him the $25,000 reward he received from case, and then somehow stealing it without Click's knowledge when Click refused) and a very odd and arguably sadistic sense of humor, which combines weirdly with his apparently sincere desire for justice and a self-admitted physical cowardice. *Notable examples include a a device for tapping phone lines, a portable x-ray machine, bulletproof vests (which didn't quite work), hypodermic syringes full of knockout chemicals "molded in foam rubber" mounted on his elbows that cannot be distinguished from his actual elbows, and a wide assortment of James Bond-esque devices for deploying tear gas, knockout gas, small amounts of explosives, blinding flares, and such like in innocuous objects, as part of his clothing, or discretely on his person.

Any thoughts on BT-ifying this?

[rottackk]

"How are you feeling? Like a king?"

"I feel like a carrot in a hotpot. Cheers!"

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[dashitjeeves]

Bonus:

Rare sightings of Richard Ayoade smiling

[galaxylover06]

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Mirage Mettle: pg 2

Page two is officially done! Thank you so much for your patience everybody especially those on my Kofi! Stay tuned for page three in the following weeks

[fun-twisted-tales]

(I am 18 and therefore an adult. I post darker things for shows meant for kids. If you are a kid, be careful as will I.)

[avoidmint]

Get yourself a man who gets you banned from the local Fair just to impress you with his amazingly situational gamer skills. 🎯

Gadget really can't take him anywhere.

[lobie-the-cartoonist]

GRAND DAD 💙🥼🧪🔧

[noel-fielding]

[bl3ul1m0n]

Forgot to post some sketches I did yesterday :) (Including some badget as well :0)

The entire thing of dumb sketches ...>

:3

[krinsbez]

Pulptober 2024 Themes Elaborated, Part 5, Days 21-25

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Once again, thanks to @maxwell-grant who once again helped me with assembling the lists of alternate examples. Characters who have a plus sign (+) next to their names were suggested by him. Characters with an asterisk (*) are ones where I have not consumed any source material (note that I'm including tie-in or revival media as source material).

Another day when they're fairly self explanatory.

21-The Domino Lady/Thrills, Not Kills. So a lot of Pulp Heroes take their work very seriously. A lot of Pulp Heroes are absolutely miserable all the time. Today, however is for Pulp Heroes who are, 99% of the time, having a blast and a half. Alt. Examples: Arsene Lupin, Nila Rand+*

22-Zorro/Hero Of The People. So, yeah, obviously many Pulp Heroes often end up fighting for the little guy, but these guys are doing so explicitly, even if they aren't necessarily recognized as such. Alt. Examples: Doc Thunder, Moon Man

23-The Spirit/Hero With A Harem. So, lots of Pulp Heroes will have a love interest. These heroes, however don't just have A Love Interest, they have many potential candidates, whether they like it or not. Chu Liuxiang*+, Steve Canyon

24-The A-Team/Team of Elites. Again, straightforward. Lots of Pulp Hero stories are about a guy who can do anything. These are for teams of guys who each are a specialist in a specific set of fields. Challengers of the Unknown+, Impossible Mission Force*

25-Luke Cage/Hero For Hire. Again, straightforward. They're heroes, but they need to eat, and so expect to be paid for their work. Gadget Man, Sherlock Holmes.

[kogglyuffs]

remake of art that i havent even posted before!

og 2020 art:

[gaillol-13]

Behold, it's a lil smaller than others but I'm proud.

Can yall guess my type? Because I can't 😀

[sushi-boy-69]

Been dead for like two billion years now.

Anyway random characters as Chao because I didn't know what else to draw after not drawing for so long.

First to last is oldest to newest so my motivation to do more than quick crappy sketches is at least getting a little better. Also got a new tablet I guess. That's been helping a little too.