#worm leet

[artbyblastweave]

The beat that always stuck with me in regards to Uber and Leet was when Taylor mentions that they beat up sex workers on livestream while LARPing Grand Theft Auto. Uber and Leet get a lot of mentions before they actually show up, and the drumbeat is that they're pathetic, they're fodder, "as incompetent as supervillains can be while staying out of jail." Leet is the butt of a rom-com gag where Brian gives Taylor pointers on how to choke a man out more effectively. But they made money by beating up sex workers on livestream. That's a non-negligible number of potentially ruined lives! That's not softball fun-and-games! It's like textbook misogynistic violence against the marginalized! It's awful!

The narrative doesn't really dwell on this, because it's told almost exclusively from the perspective of people who have the firepower necessary to get away with treating Uber and Leet like jokes. But I think that it's a useful reminder that if you aren't one of the initiated, so to speak, then an encounter with the C-list, D-list, Z-list supervillain can be life-altering if not life-ending. The dumbest listicle-fodder DC or Marvel villain you've ever heard of has probably ruined at least one person's life over their handful of appearances, if not more. And it's an early indictment of the broad concept of the unwritten rules as advanced by Lisa, where she calls out Uber and Leet as the textbook example of villains kept in circulation because they're "amusing but harmless." This is within parameters? This doesn't merit heroes and villains putting aside their differences to clean house of problematic elements? Of course it doesn't. Both examples that Lisa gives of that dynamic in 3.6 involve a cape transgressing against another cape.

[lemurlord]

Were Leet trans, she'd be fucked. Her past self already wasted all the biological tech on life-sized goombas and what-not. So she has to jury-rig herself a pussy out of teleporters and hard-light projectors and frost gauntlets.

[heart-shaped-pupa]

Brocton Bay’s worst rap duo

[estavionpira]

due to behemoth leveling rio de janeiro, argentina was able to conquer all of brazil in 'the argentining.' therefore, the typical refrain 'leet died in brazil' is factually incorrect, bolstered only by the USAmerican state department's continued refusal to accept territories acquired during 'the argentining' as part of argentina. the real saying should be 'leet died in the contested territory that some people are calling argentina and other, different people are calling brazil but it's really complicated and the geopolitics of the region are fucked'

[resplendent-chungus]

I've been re-reading Worm and God the part starting with Coil bombing the mayoral debate and ending with the heroes coming for Taylor in school (or Noelle's death, if you're picky) is such an insane run of arcs. Just banger after banger after banger.

It's got everything; Taylor being blinded, Coil pretending to free Dinah, Taylor fighting her way out of Coil's trap, the Undersiders thinking she betrayed them, Coil finally biting the bullet and Dinah going home, and then boom! Noelle time, and everything that comes with it!

It's by far my favourite part of the book. I honestly think Gold Morning is the only thing that can compare to it. It's an absolutely insane decision to have the two cathartic things we've been building to since before Leviathan (Dinah being freed and Coil exiting stage right) happen in the middle of that shitstorm, and even more insane to make them work so well.

[crawl-laddy]

I like to imagine that Uber and leet are the equivalent of lol cows on earth bet and that at least half of their audience think their pathetic give them super chats to encourage them to do stupid things that will get them in trouble or die horribly. Maybe the chat shits them in a way reflecting their trigger event making them more powerful

The PRT could easily shut their steam down but for some reason a contesesa path dictates it must stay up.

[ganurath]

If you subscribe to the headcanon that Taylor Hebert's classmates, Sparky and Greg Veder, were secretly gamer villains Uber and Leet (respectively,) then Greg Veder Died In Brazil.

[aruliart]

Various WIPs

Cauldron yearly office photo.

The scene in arc 4 where Taylor chokes out Leet and grue just casually swings by to give her pointers (rereading it I had such a vivid image of it in my head. Goofy)

Alexandria, Parian

[victoriadallonfan]

Uber and Leet had minions???

I feel like Worm sort of abandoned the idea of casual minion joining (as in, sort of open secret) until the S9. Which makes sense, because joining a supervillain to help them commit crimes is, uh, illegal and you wouldn't want that spreading around. Which makes it odd to see it here so early

[imaencuru]

I do think that people tend to overstate the influence of the conflict drive, that it's less pushing the hosts buttons to generate fights and more picking targets that would engage in conflicts anyway, then giving them a loaded gun during the deepest trauma of their life.

[dryococelas01]

UBER is in the reblogs

Inspired by me remembering elon musks elden ring build and all the other dumb gaming shit he's done.

[artbyblastweave]

Heroify Uber and Leet

Uber and Leet are rogues tap-dancing on the edge of being independent heroes, but not to the extent of being able to reap the reputational benefits of really committing to it. They're principally entertainers- using Leet's engineering and Uber's skill-copying to attempt to do [popular media] IN REAL LIFE! style of clickbait, and they're actually pretty good at it- except that since many of the weapons are fully functioning, they constantly have to relocate their studio and workshop because villains keep jumping them mid-shoot for their metaphorical lunch money. The first time they really got mad about it and livestreamed their retaliatory attack on one of their robbers, their subscriber count tripled; they still mostly do the clickbait item reproduction thing, but it's kind of an open secret that they're deliberately courting more raids from villains so that they can reap the viewership boost from a tit-for-tat, and people who pay enough attention to the underlying dynamics at play think that they're pretty gross for doing so.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Worm hbomberguy violating the unwritten rules by doxing Über and Leet

[heart-shaped-pupa]

“Leet’s final invention… Death. It only works once.”

[lemurlord]

Uber and Leet, the blowjob bastards.