Fridge / Midnight Crew

• The Felt album. Listen to all of the songs, then listen to them in REVERSE
  • Care to clue me in?
  • They're full of backmasking and samples that have been slowed down or sped up. The album is about a group whose gimmick is time manipulation.
  • Also listen to "Time on My Side". Then listen it 4/3 (=> 413) faster (WARNING: Any love for the original song may fucking pirouette off of a cliff. You have been warned.)
• All of the members of the Midnight Crew correspond to one side of the troll romance, which also has to do with the symbol they represent.
  • Why is Hearts Boxcars such as avid Tavros/Vriska shipper? Because he has a heart fetish!
  • Why does Spades Slick hate everything? Because he represents the "kismesis" side of the romance, visceral hatred.
  • Why is Diamonds Droog always trying to convice Jack NOT to kill everything? He represents "Moirallegiance".
    • Also, 'Droog' is a Russian term for 'friend', which is the closest human approximation we've got for moirallegiance.
    • In addition to that, "droog" is often used in A Clockwork Orange among a group of teens for their gang members.
  • Why does Clubs Deuce stop the fight between Liv Tyler and WV? Because he acted like a "Auspistice" between those two.
• After Jack becomes the Sovereign Slayer, he's referred to as an Ace to fit with the poker-card theme. In Blackjack, an Ace and a Jack beats a King and a Queen.
  • He could always beat them. A Blackjack beats every other hand.
• Why does Jack become a Spade? It may have something to do with his friendly yet hate-filled relationship with Karkat (and EVERYONE). Although Karkat does not feel the same way.
  • I think it's more that during his time as Jack, he's playing up his difference from the chess motif by referencing a blackjack motif (Jack NOIR= Jack Black= Blackjack), whereas by the time he's Spades Slick, he's just one of the suites forming the midnight crew. His chance to be the Ace had come and gone.
• Most likely, when you saw this page you thought to yourself, "Wow, what an out of character thing for an omnicidal maniac to do." But, when he put on the ring, he prototyped himself with all the first tier sprites, specifically John's Harlequin. So, he did it because he's part clown.
  • "Wow, what an out of character thing for an omnicidal maniac to do." I thought that it had alreadybeen established that Jack is a bit of a Cloud Cuckoolander?
• In the past, Bec Noir has tried to teleport to wherever John and Dave are and kill them. In a way, he succeeded. Recently, it's revealed that he also tried to kill Jade by this method, but couldn't bring himself to do so. So what about Rose? We haven't heard from her in a while...
  • Except that we know that she's still alive when the Rift happens.
    • Actually no, we most certainly do not know that. Her timeline and her timeline alone specifically goes black long before anyone else's does and no one can explain why.
    • The reason Rose's screen goes black is because she pretty much just went grimdark. Vriska said that she couldn't see John when he flew into the Blackout, which is the same reason Kanaya can't see her. It's too dark in there.
    • A way of interpreting this last thing is that if the time windows can't see Rose, neither can Noir.
    • Well, from this page we know that Rose is still alive at some point in the future, and from what Dave says it sounds like it's pretty close to the full 24 hours. But we don't know exactly how the timeline aligns.
• Since being prototyped with Bec, Big Bad Jack Noir has gained decidedly lupine features. What colour is Aradia's god-hood?
  • Also, What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
• Spades Slick hates clocks and all matter of things to do with time. Who ends up stopping his counterpart Bec Noir in his tracks? The Maid of Time.
• When confronted by a prototyped PM following Cascade, Jack immediately falls in love. Although he has been shown to respect her, this is never even hinted at before now. What changed? Why, her species.
• Spades Slick's obsession with scottie dogs is Hilarious in Hindsight considering his counterpart Jack Noir's final form once Bec is prototyped.
• According to Hussie, the Midnight Crew Intermission was supposed to allow the readers insight into the mind of the comic's main villain, initially revealed to be the Beta Session's Jack Noir. With Lord English being played up as the True Final Boss and a more major villain overall in Act 6, the above statement began to seem like a red herring... and then THIS happened. If that update means Lord English is actually : Jack Noir possessed by Caliborn's soul, rather than an older Caliborn himself, Jack Noir may end up being the main villain of the story two times over, and Hussie's statement is still truth. Even if not, hey, Jack's still gonna be a major player from the looks of it, so that's probably gonna be good enough.
  • Also, this was the first time Lord English was mentioned in the comic.
• Bec Noir only seems to be concerned with killing. He's kind of a one-dimensional character, isn't he? Maybe that's because he's only 4-dimensional, to his counterpart's 12.
  • That idea falls apart when you realize that counterpart was never prototyped. Spades Slick was exiled before he could get the Queen's Ring.
• The conversations the kids and trolls have with each other are shown exactly, because they're typed - the logs are automatically created. The Midnight Crew's speech is paraphrased in the frame captions because they're communicating via radio, and no exact record is made.
• Crowbar is the only member of the Felt who can keep all 15 of them together. His hat is shaped like a triangle.
• Karkat's defeat of Clover should have been impossible, due to Clover's incredible luck...except that back in Act 5 Act 1, Karkat triggered a curse that would ensure everyone he ever met would have terrible luck. The curse overrode Clover's luck, allowing him to be defeated.

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