Toph: I’ve been banned from every major city’s transportation system except Omashu
Toph: I don’t know what their limit is but I will fucking find it
King Boomie, having exactly zero limits:
Unstoppable object meets immovable force
[Toph eventually slips up and is captured by the city guard force. Instead of being imprisoned or exiled, Toph finds herself being given audience with the King of Omashu.]
Bumi: Well, well, well. It seems I have finally met the troublemaker who has been causing such chaos with my rail systems.
Toph:…
Bumi: I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with your earthbending abilities. You remind me of myself when I was a lad.
Toph: Get to the point.
Bumi: I see great potential in you, Toph Beifong. I want you inherit my title once I am no longer fit to rule.
Toph: Wait what the fuck
Why wasn’t this Toph’s future instead of becoming a freaking cop. This would have made so much more sense.
My favorite part of this is “when I am no longer fit to rule” because
1. Implying Bumi was fit to rule at any point
1.1 except maybe in the sense that he was completely shredded
2. That he has no plans to die, (nor would death necessarily make him unfit to rule), but that he apparently intends to like. Tuck his arms and legs into himself and just roll off into the sunset.
3. Given that the Earth Kingdom has an actual ruling family that causes some drama in LoK, Toph continuing to cause monarchy confusion is both 100% in character and fucking hilarious.
Toph takes over as King Bumi the second and everyone is like “no that’s not how inheriting works” and Bumi is like “No no she’s right, I did say “inherit my title!”
When toph is no longer fit to rule, she instills bumi (Aang’s son) as her heir and he is known as bumi 3.
Her first act as ruler is to ban herself from Omashu’s transportation system, thus fulfilling one of her life goals.
this isnt necessarily good news but i hope we can all agree that if you are attacked by a puma and you kill it with your bare hands it should be socially acceptable to wear the pelt wherever you damn well please
spoken like a future puma victim
….why didn’t he shoot the mountain lion?
lol what are you, a gun cuck? cant kill a large predator with your own hands?
I’ve been cackling about this for like five minutes now
He’s absolutely right.
Also, the Joker started killing innocents for fun and profit in Batman #1 (published April 24, 1940) and has been killing his henchmen since at least 1975.
(He poisoned a former employee named Dubek with a rare tropical disease. By the way, Dubek was in prison and was refusing to tell the prison administration squat about the Joker. So Dubek was completely loyal–out of fear, granted, but still loyal–and the Joker murdered him anyway.)
Don’t forget that in B:TAS, they weren’t allowed to show him straight-up murdering people, so he also canonically uses motherfucking nerve gas. Which is HORRIBLE AND INTERNATIONALLY ILLEGAL TO THE POINT THAT HAVING IT IS A WAR CRIME. Not even using it! Just having it!
Like. Your best-case scenario as a Joker henchman is that, when facing down the motherfucking Batman, you start crying and telling him you were trying to pay off your student loans, and he sends you home and the next day you get a phone call from Wayne Industries with a job offer. And then you have to hope the Joker doesn’t fucking find you.
Meanwhile working for Lex Luthor is basically just an Amazon job with a slightly higher chance of getting lightly shoved by Superman, which you could probably get a company insurance payout for if you pretend you’re actually trying to fight him first
NGL I feel like if you started crying because of your student loans while dealing with Superman he’d be like “hit me” and you’d be like “….what” and he’d be like “HIT ME, that way you can claim it’s a workplace accident” and then he’d knock you out.
Like he would 100% be onboard with helping you pay your loans. (And then he’d call Bruce and be like “I have somebody in Metropolis who needs a job….”)
Lex luthor I thought was supposed to be a decent person just anti superman?
Come on now, you should know by now that rich business man = super evil person.
Ehhhhhhh it strongly depends on the continuity and the writer, but I’d say on the whole he’s definitely not a decent person. There are a couple where Lex is legitimately a good guy but is a villain on account of being incredibly paranoid about Superman. There’s probably even more where he’s an out and out cackling mad scientist. If I had to pin what I’d call his defining characterization, it’s someone who thinks of himself as a champion of humanity, but who in reality is quite self-centered, is willing blithely sacrifice people to advance his goals, abuses whatever power he has, and who acts out against Superman primarily because of an inferiority complex. The movie version of All Star Superman captured it pretty well:
Luthor, to Superman: “If it wasn’t for you, I could have saved the world!” Superman: “If it had mattered to you, Luthor, you could have saved the world years ago.” Luthor: “…You’re right.”
Lex Luthor: Man of Steel is another comic which I think does a beautiful job of building up and them brutally demolishing the “Lex Luthor is a decent guy to everyone but Superman” idea.
I seem to remember there was a comic at some point where the atmosphere was flooded with kryptonite so Superman had to leave for a year. When the kryptonite was gone he came back and went to Lex and was like “Okay, I was out of your hair for a year. Where are all the improvements to the human condition you said you could get done with me gone?” and Lex just didn’t have an answer because he’d still been doing supervillain stuff all year.
I don’t know what comic this was but I definitely remember this scenario happening?
SUPERMAN 653:
For context, in this story Lex is trying to destroy Metropolis because they don’t appreciate him anymore. But it’s all Superman’s fault. Sure, Lex.
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