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Nightmare Fuel / Attack of the Mutant

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The book provides examples of:

  • The Masked Mutant, a sociopathic shape-shifting comic villain who is hellbent on killing his biggest fan. To this end, he takes on the form of an attractive young girl to get close to him, graphically disintegrates his own henchman on page, and finally tries to kill the boy by melting him in acid. It's also worth noting that the book never explains just what he is or how he became real. It gets worse when you consider the Fridge Horror of The Masked Mutant: He impersonates a teenage girl so flawlessly that Skipper still believes "Libby" was on his side right up until the moment that The Mutant reveals the deception. In short, he can not only shapeshift, but he's a fairly skilled actor too. Imagine what someone like that could do if they had a motive beyond "kill my biggest fan": The mutant could have impersonated any number of influential figures and seized a great deal of political power. He'd be a regular Barty Crouch Junior.

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