WARNING: This page contains unmarked spoilers for Meggy’s Destiny and Western Spaghetti.
''Virtual Abduction''
is a fan comic based on SMG4 made by Alex, aka Makerboy 10, as a request from CVGW James. It's designed to be somewhat of an alternate take on Western Spaghetti, with another character taking Meggy’s place. That character is the leader of Team Killer Ink, here named Iris.The comic begins with Iris mourning the loss of her teammates after a certain incident that killed them. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he’s kidnapped by One-Shot Wren, and is forced to live in his simulation as an Inkling cowgirl, who can’t seem to stop herself from dying, nor can she escape from the very humans she hates not having good intentions for her.
Virtual Abduction contains examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: Meggy, a normally nice and level-headed character, responds to Team Killer Ink’s racism by killing them, even if she regrets it later.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In Western Spaghetti, Wren went to a lot of trouble to get to Meggy, trap her in his simulation, and try to force her to give him what he wants: a rivalry. Here, not only does he leave Meggy out of it, but he calls Iris out for her racism towards her, making it seem like he’s partially defending her honor, even though he doesn’t handle it in a particularly good way… and neither does Meggy.
- Alien Blood: Iris bleeds blue blood at one point. Justified, as she’s a different species than human.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: What Wren does to Iris is definitely terrible, but let’s not forget about her blatant Fantastic Racism towards humans. There’s also how Meggy chooses to handle her situation with Team Killer Ink (see Adaptational Villainy). The only character you could call pure good here is Inkura, since she hasn’t done anything wrong… and even then, she only appears at the end of the comic with not much to talk about her.
- Breaking Speech: As part of his torment of Iris, Wren gives her a crushing speech.Wren: How does it feel? To be discriminated, shunned for being an Inkling, just as you and many others discriminated against humans, and against her after she changed? What became of your team… you brought it on yourself the day you opened your mouth and insulted Meggy for being a human. You could have kept quiet, you could have shown some respect, and it could have saved your team’s life. And yet, here you are, alone with only me. While the beanie girl who left before her reign as champion fully began never looks back. No one will help you. No one comforted you after your team was murdered after the results were announced. No one talked to you while chaos unfolded in the streets of Inkopolis. You have no friends, you have no team. You are alone for all eternity as you deal with the former king of Splatfests. And do you remember Inkura? Perhaps I can bring her here too, a little reunion of sorts… Now… Let’s draw!
- Compressed Adaptation: Iris’ Death Montage is shorter than Meggy’s from Western Spaghetti, though not by much.
- Downer Beginning: Iris walks forlornly down the street while grieving for her murdered teammates. Things only get worse for her from there.
- Downer Ending: Wren’s psychological torment of Iris works like a charm, with her happily shooting people as his brainwashed accomplice. Worse, Inkura is set to be Wren’s next victim.
- Foreshadowing: During Wren’s Breaking Speech, he considers dragging Inkura into this simulation as well. In the ending, we see that that’s exactly what he does.
- Grayscale of Evil: When flashing back to Meggy killing Team Killer Ink, the images depicting the deaths are framed in black and white.
- Named by the Adaptation: As a carryover from his other works, Makerboy names Team Killer Ink’s leader Iris.
- Original Character: Appearing in the comic with an import role is Roekel, an agent of Mr. Puzzles (then just called the TV Adware).
- Small Role, Big Impact: Roekel, an Original Character that Makerboy made to be associated with Mr. Puzzles (then just called the TV Adware), is only in the comic briefly, but his knocking Iris out puts her in the simulation taking the bulk of the comic.
- Tap on the Head: Roekel knocks out Iris by punching her in the back of the head.
- Villain Has a Point: It's hard to argue with Wren about Iris' discrimination in his Breaking Speech.
