[0704] Conduct Grade
└ posted on Monday, 27 July 2015, by Novil
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- Michael R. Douglas: “Yuna ably manages to win over her classmates with her charm and natural authority. At the same time, she regularly shows disturbing anti-social behaviors that instill terror in those who refuse to follow her–”
- Michael R. Douglas: Why’s the next sentence painted over with Tipp-Ex?
- Ye Thuza: I deemed it too… … personal.
- Ye Thuza: “This also applies to Yuna’s teachers who are overwhelmingly convinced that she will one day become a supervillain who puts all James Bond villains to shame.”
- Teacher: Please put in a good word for me and my family when Yuna makes short work of her enemies in the Night of the Long Knives!
I love that freaked out look on the teacher in the last panel! 😀
But I wouldn’t worry too much. As long as she doesn’t come home with a white persian cat…
What, so he thinks she’ll start the 4th Reich or something?
The things mothers will do for their kids.
@ abowden:
*5th FIFY
Cloud’s a hero. Yuna’s a villain. Brother and sister. Opposite sides of the board. Destined to challenge one another for the sake of their goals and ambitions.
That would make a really good movie…
This must have been the report card right after she explained why the pencil s mightier than the sword…
@ Mudsaur:
And of course if Yuna hired Larissa as her fire-wielding henchwoman, that’ll bring Sandra into the fray which would make an even more awesome movie.
Yuna: Master of the creepypasta. It’s not that she would write some of those but that she would Improve upon them and say this is how she Will do it, with the capacity and knowledge to back it up, that has the teachers scared witless.
The Night of the Long Knives? What has Hitler’s purge of the Stormtroopers got to do with this?
To be honest I think we all foresee Yuna coming out as a Supervillan, she’s just that evil! (Still haven’t forgiven her for smashing Clouds Figurines)
Robert wrote:
sometimes you’ll notice that our greatest webcomic author of all times here is German, and uses idioms that are more known in German than in English. Even though German wikipedia claims the idiom is used in English to mean “a variety of political events” I have never heard a native speaker use it in a non-third-Reich context.. Maybe “when she puts her enemies to the wall” would express the sentiment more neutrally, but I am not a native speaker of English myself.
I assumed correctly that Tipp-Ex was a correction fluid; but FYI in the U.S. it’s more common to say “White-Out” per the BIC branded correction fluid.
Actually, I don’t see her as a villainess (she is female, I think).
I see her more of the steadfast, crazy, over-the-top, mad scientist a villain has help him/her succeed with his/her latest scheme.
And when he/she is finally succeeded, Yuna takes over.
The Flaw in that evaluation is that the Teachers are Still Underestimating Yuna’s intelligence.
She is Smart enough to realize the Great Flaw in the whole “World Domination” scheme: Once you Succeed, you actually have to Run the place.
Which means Dealing with all the Idiots around you on a Daily Basis.
No One who Understands the Depths of Idiocy the human race can sink to would Ever want to subject themselves to that.
Yuna will find a way to accumulate enough Wealth that she can Shut herself Off from the Idiocracy and pursue her research in peace and quiet.
She will emerge on occasion and upset the apple cart with some new discovery that will make her even More Wealthy and fund More Research.
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Good to start young
The Night of the Long Knives might also refer to the Sicilian Vespers, the night in which the outraged Sicilian men rebelled against the occupying forces of Charles of Anjou and within six weeks butchered every French soldier and civilian on the island, even including monks and women who had been silly enough to marry French soldiers.
Oh gods… I think I am starting to like Yuna more than Larisa.
Whoop- Holocaust joke!
@ Mudsaur:
Huh, brother and sister as protagonist and antagonist… Maybe they should have been named after Breath of Fire characters…
And yet they had the guts to give her B in math because her classmate cheated?
Valkeiper2012 wrote:
And walk to the good guys and al the villains are dead or in prison.
abowden wrote:
MonsieurFrancaise wrote:
Judging from wiki’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich , she can create the 4th, 5th or 6th Reich, depending on how you judge the of the term.
A reckoning is coming. Embrace madness!
o_o … Instead of getting this kid a special tutor, I’d like to recommend putting her on psychotherapy to channel her less desirable urges into a creative outlet, first.
Smart man. He thinks ahead… 😉
Dammit Yuna, your mom left Burma to flee from the ravages of dictatorship. How do you think she’ll feel when she realizes she squeezed an evil overlord out of her own tummy?!
Ah well, if nothing else, she’ll probably have a lot more class than those third-world tinpot douchebags. Better get to work on those snazzy uniforms. Just don’t make masks mandatory, wouldn’t want any plucky rebels hiding their identity. 😛
Wow, her teachers actually think Yuna is a dangerous psychopath who will engage in mass murder? I know, it’s a web comic playing it for laughs, don’t take it too seriously. Part of me can’t though. Either Yuna has been doing truly despicable things we don’t know about and needs to be institutionalized, or those teachers need to be fired for telling a too-intelligent little girl she will become a monster.
Does no one think leaving this paragraph in might actually make him more likely to take her as a student?
Yuna Scorpio!
Well her major issue is impulse control, combined with the combat training her mother has given her. Which isn’t too odd for how old she is, the impulse control. However that likely needs to be addressed concurrently with tutoring in advanced physics.
MaxArt wrote:
Nobody ever said that the teachers were the most intelligent of people around. That said, maybe the math teacher is just particularly courageous… or on Yuna’s good side normally?
i have a feeling that the thing that was corrected said mother….
Sal wrote:
Only it isn’t.
The term “Nacht der langen Messer” which translates to “night of the long knives” is used among others for the purging of the SA in the Third Reich. But it is a general term, used for many other things as well. From the top of my head I can for example I can name about three movies with that name or incorporating it as a subtitle to it. None of which do have anything to do with the Nazi. Or even Germany in general for that matter.
And though it’s probably more common in German, I’ve heard or read the expression in English as well. From native speakers as well and usually (where I stumbled upon it) not in a Third Reich context.
So before people jump to conclusions because of a term used in the comic, you should remember that your own perception of language, even your native language, is by far not the one true form of it. That there are lots of variations, among native and learned speakers alike, as to the form and use of expressions.
“Do you expect me to talk?”
“No, Poopyhead, I expect you to die! There is nothing you can talk to me about that I don’t already know!”
But prior to that, imagine during the next school vacation, Ye Thuza and David are unexpectedly called away, so Cloud has to take Yuna to one of Larisa’s seminars…
@ nameless:
nameless wrote:
I’ve seen it used for other political purges. One such was a UK Government re-shuffle where few of the existing ministers retained office. None were actually killed or injured.
All hail Yuma. We have done way worse
GnarlyDoug wrote:
I have Known teachers who were Hostile to students who were “Too Smart”.
I’ve Had them.
And, when I was in high school, the day they posted the results of one of the major “Evaluation” tests, I was approached by a teacher who informed me that, by Scoring Too High on the test, I had deprived a More Deserving Student of a college scholarship.
That particular teacher I’d Never had a single class with.
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@ Lukkai:
The Cartoonist is German.
It’s IS a Nazi reference.
@ Robbini:
I was making a bad EU = Fourth Reich joke, sorry if that stank lol
@ Jerry:
The author being german does not really support your assumption that it is a nazi reference. Germany is not all about Nazis, Bratwurst and beer, you know? In fact, as a german native speaker, I can confirm that the expression “Nacht der langen Messer” is used for a wide variety of both historical and fictional events and generally discribes a surprising or stealthy move to get rid of many enemies or rivals at once, though historicans most commonly use the term to describe the ending of the “Röhm Putsch” (Hitler having Ernst Röhm and several other high officers of the SA murdered because they supposedly plotted to overthrow him). I do not believe that the author wanted to imply that the teachers fear Yuna will become the next Hitler. In Germany, it is widely regarded as terribly tasteless to compare people to Hitler (unless they are really supporting fascist opinons) or to make fun of Hitler in a way that might trivialize the atrocities the Nazis committed.
@ 1OldBear:
I am Sicilian, and I never heard the Sicilian Vespers being referred as “The Night of Long Knives”, especially because they went on longer than a night.
@ Lukkai:
According to Wikipedia: “The phrase ‘Night of the Long Knives’ in the German language predates the massacre itself and refers generally to acts of vengeance.”
I’m an American in America, and I’m not sure I have ever heard someone explicitly call something “a night of the long knives”… but I have references to it, such as “I don’t want to be around when the long knives come out”, meaning that the speaker anticipates some sort of unpleasant power struggle (for example, officers in a club kicking out some other officers of the club they don’t like).
Note that it is a metaphor and nobody actually expects literal knives to come out. (I feel I should add that disclaimer because of some of the comments in this thread, but not from anything in the comment to which I am replying.)
@ Valkeiper2012:
I thought i was the only one who saw her as the crazy scientest type. though I see her less as the villian helper type, and more as the type to build super weapons for the good guys, “to show those wimpy villians how its done” also she seems to much a leader to work under a villian to me.
OMG! Suddenly i want to become a teacher just so I can fill out report cards like this! ^_^
Question: How does the professor know the specific brand name of the liquid paper or “White-out” used on the report card?
That seems very weird. I had to Google it myself.
@ Hinoron:
Often brand names become synonymous with a product regardless of who makes the product. For instance, in the US things like Kleenex, Q-Tips, and White-Out, are sometimes used interchangeably when referring to tissue paper, cotton swabs, and correction fluid, regardless of the manufacturer.
Night of the Long Knives? Like the Trial of the Long Knives in the Inheritance Cycle?
@ Hinoron:
Genthar had the right idea. In Germany, Tipp-Ex is the leading brand of correction fluid and has become a synonym for correction fluid. A synonym that has almost completely replaced the general product name in colloquial language.
As a 17yo teen, I see Yuna as shcool president… Satsuki Kiryūin style!
All hail Yuna, queen of Europe, eternal empress of Asia, High Queen of Africa, Emperor of the Americas, all bow before her might, lest you incur her wrath.
The Night of the Long Knives sounds dreadful! I don’t want to be in it, one way or another!