Wednesday, October 29, 2025

"Break."

Back in the Walt Simonson Fantastic Four issues with the Time Variance Authority, there's a reference to a void where leftover stuff from deleted universes gets tossed, and there's what appears to be a Supergirl in there: a bit of a jab at DC and their assorted Crisis events. (Not to be confused with the comic of the same name, which is really well done and also often a downer.) Thrown into the void-hole would probably be a good place for Monarch, except McFarlane just gave him a figure! I don't love their 7-inch scale, but fudge it for bigger characters like him. 

There was a local Target, that for a long stretch, had a ton of Waverider figures. If they had been 6-inch, like the old DC Universe Classics or Marvel Legends, I probably would've bit; but instead I held out for them to go down in price and they seemingly just disappeared: maybe the timeline changed and bip! Gone. Anyway, you guys probably know Monarch's history, and I did have an Armageddon 2001 tag...that I had to update a bit, but there's an old post where I wanted a DCUC version! Well, take what you can get, and I did say there I didn't want an unmasked one, since Monarch loses any gravitas he had without it. Also, I think McFarlane has an Extant figure coming (from Zero Hour) and that's just Hawk/Monarch in a third identity, isn't it? I keep hoping for classic Manhunter, but I doubt it'll happen.  
"Unctuous Robot" is a They Might Be Giants song, but I kinda figure Death's Head might not be the most popular employee (or freelancer) at the TVA. And Black Cat charming her way past Monarch: everyone seems to think security breaches are all guys typing frantically at keyboards, when it's probably more often a pretty smile getting waved through a checkpoint! Also, Kurt does rattle off a lot of actual X-Men continuity: they did fight a lot of robots.


2 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

Yeah you best me to it, as there are A LOT of classic X-Men lore (not to mention video game lore) references you managed to cram into this one man. So much so that you could’ve turned this week’s skit into a drinking game, perfect for the cold weather, not so much for your liver & kidneys.

I’ll see your Unctuous Robot & raise you an Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss

https://youtu.be/89tgpzE4qkY

That’s a pretty good Monarch figure honestly. And you’re right, this time the 7inch scale is actually pretty accurate for the guy.

H said...

Honestly, I don’t think Monarch’s that sharp in any of his identities so- probably not that hard to get past him. Kinda like the Department of Bureaucracy in Futurama, which is appropriate. Nice to see Cat flirting though, I will admit.

I doubt they’ll run into anybody, even knowing Sat’s basically off the hook. It’s just too big a place and I don’t think that Mobius is that much of a bigwig. Even if DH shows up, he doesn’t really have any reason to beef any longer so that’s no problem.