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Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#11851: Dec 16th 2016 at 2:39:33 PM

Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
DatLonerGirl Gimme your desire... from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Gimme your desire...
#11853: Dec 19th 2016 at 7:27:01 PM

Woohoo, they weren't dead! And now Franz is no longer president. I think.

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Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11854: Dec 19th 2016 at 10:23:37 PM

[up][up]Damn, I can't see the alt text on mobile.

Ok, how and why did they get out now and couldn't get out earlier?

Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#11855: Dec 20th 2016 at 3:25:26 AM

[up] Doc went into the Negazone, then emerged with the president. That's Doc in the helmet still.

Victin Since: Dec, 2011
thebandragoness Since: Feb, 2016
Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#11858: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:04:12 AM

[up]The picture for Excuse Plot says everything you need to know about the video game Bad Dudes

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baddudes.png

edited 20th Dec '16 8:06:03 AM by Michael

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#11859: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:26:12 AM

Are we going to find out how he rescued the President, or is that not important to the scene?

Also, there is something horribly wrong with the lighting in that final panel, because all three faces in it are at approximately the same angle, yet Doc's is in such deep shadow that his helmet might be providing some kind of permanent magical darkness effect.

Don't tell me that the scene is backlit, either, because the President's face shows no shadowing at all.

edited 20th Dec '16 8:28:30 AM by Fighteer

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#11860: Dec 20th 2016 at 9:42:42 AM

It's because Doc Mc Ninja is The Faceless, so the Rule of Drama and Rule of Cool demand that his face will only be revealed when it's dramatic or cool enough. Until then, probability and the very laws of physics will twist themselves into knots to keep his face hidden. And that includes a deep shadow cast by a helmet that doesn't make any logical sense.

edited 20th Dec '16 9:44:24 AM by MetaFour

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#11861: Dec 20th 2016 at 4:09:39 PM

I don't recall. When did Doctor first meet the eagle? The big one in the pyramid.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#11862: Dec 20th 2016 at 4:17:42 PM

In that chapter where the President was poisoned with the pheromone thing that made everyone want to kill her. Doc jumped into the Negazone the second the Secret Service shot at him, and managed to talk his way out.

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Rotpar Always 3:00 am in the Filth (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#11863: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:23:02 AM

I'm thinking that Doc might claim to be somebody else to the President and Pedro, given that his face is never to be seen.

Maybe this is also the moment when Dr. Patrick McNinja ceases to exist and some unknown ex-Radical soldier goes on to make a new life after saving the president.

But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.
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#11864: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:10:21 AM

Huh. That was anticlimactic. I figured the eagle demon thing would start some shit.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#11865: Dec 21st 2016 at 9:52:48 AM

Next page:

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#11866: Dec 21st 2016 at 11:05:09 AM

Thanks. I found it and took a look at it. And I think maybe the eagle-thing let them out because they were neither villains nor insane, same as Doc. "Letter of the law, spirit of the law... You can go."

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#11867: Dec 21st 2016 at 12:16:21 PM

Sure, but if he was going to do that, why was he even holding them in the first place? If he's so willing to just let them go, they never should have been trapped there at all.

I was under the assumption that he was holding the President because, somehow, this was going to be his opportunity to escape. Referencing this.

But I guess he was just holding them because the plot couldn't happen if he didn't.

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NateWinchester Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
#11868: Dec 21st 2016 at 12:49:46 PM

Sure, but if he was going to do that, why was he even holding them in the first place?
They never asked him to let them out.

(I don't know, but if that turns out to be the answer it would all just be so perfect. And in keeping with the motif from the dino future and Dracula.)

edited 21st Dec '16 12:50:36 PM by NateWinchester

Rotpar Always 3:00 am in the Filth (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Always 3:00 am in the Filth
#11869: Dec 21st 2016 at 12:51:45 PM

The eagle spirit said her sold was fragmented. Either it needed time to sort out or Doc was able to intervene and assist.

But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.
Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#11870: Dec 21st 2016 at 3:53:32 PM

Yeah, he was never a jailer for the two of them.

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Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#11871: Dec 22nd 2016 at 8:24:11 AM

Still no face

I'm beginning to suspect that we're really close to the end, with Doc not getting his mask back and Dr McInnocentFace setting up a new surgery and living out his life as an innocent doctor.

shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
#11873: Dec 23rd 2016 at 9:53:13 AM

Guess that laser eye has a telescope function, too.

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#11874: Dec 23rd 2016 at 9:58:25 AM

Would need it for precise aiming.

Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#11875: Dec 23rd 2016 at 10:15:34 AM

Just some loose threads needing tidied up. Also a cord or two.


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