… live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
- Ye Thuza: Bye, Sandra. And remember: A good relationship always consists of give and take.
- Richard: Very… true.
- Richard: Now… let’s… buy… Cloud’s… family… a… new… fifty… inch… TV.
- Ye Thuza: Nooo! You’re not supposed to say it!
- Sandra: Gimme that manipulator!
- Ye Thuza: But I’m one of the good guys!
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Well, you’re not acting like it Ye Thuza. I’d run a little faster just in case….
Sorry Ye Thuza, but your “good guy” status is on incredibly shaky grounds these days.
Only 50?
Taylor Hebert didn’t die a villain (according to the author there was a real chance of that but her roll of the die allowed her to survive) so she lived long enough to become a hero. 😀
With great power comes great responsibility. And unforeseen consequences.
David: Must.. not.. touch.. remote.. control.
Cloud: It.. could.. explode.
Ye Thuza: ^_^
Yuna: *removes TV remote control with remote handling gear* *destroys it with controlled detonation* We are safe now! 🙂
Ye Thuza: D-:
>:=)>
Commentary Ver.2.72 wrote:
Its gotta fit in the house.
Feh. Chaotic neutral, at best.
Her shirt is magically not all white anymore.
Rookie mistake Sandra, going after her without a lead lined hat.
I can see Ye Thuza allowing Sandra to get hold of the device, but she has reversed the polarity like in Doctor Who…
@ Commentary Ver.2.72:
There is a point of diminishing returns with TV size, beyond which the value of the “movie theatre” experience is outclassed by the overbearing presence of a big ugly monolith in one’s room. With a 65″ tv, I often think I’ve passed that peak point, to be honest. Huge TVs are, I think, for those without a sense of aesthetics – or crazy rich people with a dedicated viewing room (who’ll probly be comsidering projectors anyway).
Sooooo, the guy that said that she couldn’t have possibly used it, I point this following comic to you. So thus, Ye Thuza is philosophically and practically evil since she has been demonstrated to commit what amounts to a serious and damaging crime to an innocent individual.
Now, now, Ye Thuza. For maximum hilarity, that should have been a seventy-inch plasma screen TV.
I dunno, I think Ye Thuza just doesn’t cut it as a villain. An anti-hero, in the sense that “one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist”, but she’s got too much heart to be a villain.
Her daughter Yuna, on the other hand…
Her status as a “good guy” went up in flames the instant she used that for selfish purposes. Not that she had much sympathy left, considering all the stuff she did.
So Ye Thuza has a manipulator! I was wondering how they got Than Shwe to sign that order dissolving the State Peace and Development Council!
@ PrincessJake:
And the patterns on it seem to change based on where her arms are, seeing as they change from across the arm to along the arm.
Leads me to conclude that there’s a slight issue with the image, as that doesn’t seem intentional…
Panel 3 is the same grin as Sandra in “Silence is Silver.” It is very amusing to switch tabs between that comic and today’s, especially since both grins happen on panel 3. It’s like Sandra and Ye Thuza are grinning at each other!
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/07/26/0397-silence-is-silver/
PrincessJake wrote:
Never was; the brainwave manipulator is powerful.
It got us all, but the effect only lasted only a few days.
@ Ilmari:
+1
Big TV looks terrible in small room.
Also, iimpossible to enjoy if sitting too close to it.@ Magnema:
Moire effect.
I think of Ye Thuza as this really cool, really badass person who is generally speaking on the SIDE of the good guys… but is herself, at best, morally gray.
She has shown, on multiple occasions, that she has little to no respect for other people’s agency, and considers herself entitled to getting her way, always. City hall does something she disapproves with the playground? She goes and “fixes” this, because she knows best and other people’s decisions don’t MATTER, even when it comes to public property. Cop who seems like a fairly decent guy tries to stop her? She blackmails him into doing her dirty work, breaking the law and risking his job, smirking all the while. She wants a new TV? Mind-control a friend into buying her one.
I feel like this is more a prank that she’s playing on Sandra than anything really malicious or nefarious. Whether Richard is actually in on it is yet to be determined, and probably won’t be as it’s a throw away gag anyway and the points don’t matter.
Her Dad doesn’t seem to be freaking out anymore. This whole thing seemed way to easy. Best explanation, the TV isn’t the only thing she used the gun on him for. I think Sandra should just be thankful for that and look the other way about the TV.
Maybe this means I’m a little evil too!
@ Me:
Since when was Richard freaked out to begin with? Sandra’s grandpa was, but there’s no sign Richard ever was.
Anyway, Ye Thuza is definitely not “good”. She fits at best as “neither good, nor bad” if she has done enough good deeds in her past.
PrincessJake wrote:
It needs time to gain energy so all the stripes can be horizontal.
One of the good guys, LOL.
That, Ye Thuza, has just become very debatable. =_=
Am I the only one who noticed the subtle dig at the American NRA? The second ammendment folks usually make a point that since the “bad guys” (muggers & worse) usually don’t give a darn about the law they are armed whether or not they have the legal right to bear arms so it makes sense to allow the law abiding “good guys” to carry guns to protect themselves. Now in her attempt to keep Sandra for taking her brain wave manipulator, Ye Thuza borrows the argument and says that she has the right to use a brain wave manipulator because she’s a “good guy!”
““Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Action
@ AurigaNexus:
Considering she has made mention of making people disappear, then she isn´t in the good or even neutral category.
Ye Thuza is really beginning to remind me of the Lord Action quote. Making people disappear, blackmailing a public official (the police chief), using a brainwave manipulator on a family friend, using a brainwave manipulator on her own husband?
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
The power the author has given her to get away with things has corrupted this character. Her power may make her “great” but she is becoming a bad person.
knowing what Ye Thuza is capable of, I’m doubting that a 13 year old will run her down, but go get her Sandra.
Pity the fool who earns the ire of her, Yuna and Larissa all at once.
@ Darwinskeeper:
Take guns away from people because merely having them is a corrupting influence? Wait where is this argument even going? To prevent corruption people should be powerless? ‘Your freedom to speak will one day get you in trouble. So to prevent that everyone will now be given cue cards with the safe things to say on them.’ This idea is full of peril.
@ mato45:
No, because there is a difference between having a gun, and the freedom of speech. Talking to someone won´t kill them, but using a gun on them can. However the point of this matter is clearly that she isn´t using said power responsibly, but abusing it – thus she should not wield it.
@ Darwinskeeper:
Sounds like a stretch to me
Ye Thuza’s face in the last panel just reminds me a LOT of Yuna. Like we didn’t already know where Yuna gets her trouble-making genes from~
@ Greenwood Goat:
Or as Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater says, “With great power comes great opportunity to abuse said power.”
Oh Thuza XD
I just read this entire thing from the very first one to this one in 24hrs. I’m hooked.
Darwinskeeper wrote:
Life member of the NRA here, and I think that’s a reach.
@ Brett Bellmore:
Definitely a reach.
To be fair, its not the weirdest thing we’ve seen in the strip. Although, most of the other stuff is from Yuna doing Mad Science.
@ mato45:
I think you’re mixing up two very different comments that I had made.
In the first, I noted that Ye Thuza’s comment about being “one of the good guys” was similar to an argument used by the NRA. I am mostly in favor of the right to bear arms, though when it comes to “concealed carry” I believe there should be a permit which involves training. My argument is that we don’t let people drive automobiles or fly airplanes without proper training, and I don’t see why we should allow people to legally carry concealed firearms without training. I don’t know what Oliver and Powree think on the issue but I felt that it could be a subtle dig at the second amendment movement.
The comment about power corrupting involves Ye Thuza’s behavior in general. She is usually clever and lucky enough to get away with anything she wants to do and I suspect that this power has corrupted her to the point where she used a brain wave manipulator on both her husband and a friend of the family. This second comment was intended to be specifically about Ye Thuza and NOT about firearms or the second amendment.
That clear?
Ye Thuza looks like she had a race lift in panels 2 and 3.
The looks as surprised as Sandra constantly does.
mato45 wrote:
Certain people seem very keen on the idea, currently…. Like Google.
Swear I hear this during the last panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILpjFqlOak