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Rothide Since: Apr, 2011
#776: Oct 5th 2016 at 10:17:52 PM

New to this comic but giving my two cents, starting with just this chapter, and reading it, she's basically proving her philosophy teacher right.

You are not willing to do the right thing, then I will MAKE you do the right thing.

Thus "a true tyrant"

Matues Impossible Gender Forge Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#777: Oct 5th 2016 at 11:07:33 PM

I'm gonna sit on the train with Badguy here.

Allison is become supervillian right now.

DeMarquis Since: Feb, 2010
#778: Oct 6th 2016 at 7:45:48 AM

Technically, she didn't threaten to kill him, but merely leave him "in the middle of the ocean", leaving open the possibility of a remote island. Also, consider that this is almost certainly an empty threat- Allison may say such a thing in the heat of the moment, but I doubt she could ever follow through on such a thing.

ashnazg Since: Dec, 2009
#779: Oct 6th 2016 at 12:28:16 PM

There's an amusing symmetry here, in that "learning you don't always get what you want" is something that both Max and Allison probably need more of. Though Max is certainly in much more dire need of that lesson. (Allison does have experience with things not going her way, but as she notes herself, her superpower and the privileged societal position it granted her have let her get away with much more than a typical person would.)

edited 6th Oct '16 12:28:37 PM by ashnazg

phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#780: Oct 6th 2016 at 5:47:48 PM

Oh I was muddling a metaphor "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" and she is doing something bad, probably for some greater good.

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Adannor Since: May, 2010
#782: Oct 7th 2016 at 5:53:05 AM

So. Final guesses on who's getting boosted?

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#784: Oct 7th 2016 at 10:50:41 AM

Wasn't Johnny Temple, the teleporting fashion designer from France?

On a side note, reading the comments, it's not the first time she's threatened to drop someone in the Atlantic.

edited 7th Oct '16 10:56:00 AM by FuzzyBoots

DeMarquis Since: Feb, 2010
#785: Oct 7th 2016 at 1:16:36 PM

No, no, the guy on the airplane, who went to work with some scientists.

Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#786: Oct 7th 2016 at 5:35:27 PM

Pintsize is a good guess, I agree.

StateOfBedlam Since: Jul, 2015
#787: Oct 7th 2016 at 8:06:51 PM

[up][up][up] Huh. That certainly puts things in more perspective.

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#788: Oct 8th 2016 at 7:20:36 PM

What puzzles me about this is that both Max and Alison have tears in their eyes...Max is looking at the fireballs, Alison is looking at whatever's in the foreground.

Mr.Badguy Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#789: Oct 8th 2016 at 7:44:33 PM

Max has been kidnapped and harmed by a violent lunatic.

Alison probably feels a bit bad about violating every single moral she's held to, as she should.

StateOfBedlam Since: Jul, 2015
#790: Oct 8th 2016 at 8:41:44 PM

[up] No, she's taking her established values and skill set to their logical extreme. She's used to aiding the common good with violence, and now she's fulfilling Gurwara's "the axiom of a tyrant" prediction. I don't see "violating every single moral she's held to" as the case here. She violated one moral principle as a means to satisfying other moral principles.

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ashnazg Since: Dec, 2009
#791: Oct 8th 2016 at 10:43:48 PM

A commenter helpfully pointed out this past strip. Oh, how far we've come from that first date...

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#793: Oct 11th 2016 at 6:42:58 AM

Hey, where there's demand...

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DeMarquis Since: Feb, 2010
#794: Oct 11th 2016 at 9:29:11 AM

So what do you guys think happened?

Mr.Badguy Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#796: Oct 11th 2016 at 10:55:45 AM

A commenter pointed out this strip: http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-3/page-59/

"I know you want to fix it so the day stays saved forever. But it might not shake that way, and until it does, the rest of us got helpin' to do. And guess what? If you do find the one-punch solution to all the world's problems, come here with a bottle of bourbon and a big-ass hamburger, and we'll do your thing instead."

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#799: Oct 11th 2016 at 3:51:31 PM

Starting there and going a bit further on, we get this. O.O

phantom1 Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#800: Oct 11th 2016 at 9:13:13 PM

How close they come indeed. So close she did.


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