If things get bad enough the Tick stops talking...
He's sent up the Mountain.
Chandra puts a straw hat on his head. Yelena gets him working the garden. Cat is skritched. Both chins..
And the man with the damaged brain who thinks all supers are nuts sits there. And gets very mad the world was wrong to his crazy friend.
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Spider Jerusalem destroyed Roxxon's Chemicals division for dumping in the sewers. Because the Tick was sad Urchin got hurt.
I've previously suggested Daphne from Scooby Doo is Columbo's niece. I remember someone wrote a fic where Shaggy was a 'nam vet, that his eating was due to going into starvation out there.
There's a reason Frank Castle will at least listen to what Norville Roberts says. And every once and a while, Specialist Roberts deals with things.
Mystery Inc. Crew are mad respected. Fred was in Angel Grove on the Day of Destruction. People are alive because of his traps.
Some people think, oh, Street must be easy. You wanna score, go to Sesame.
The desperate get help. The wanna be power players? Grover ain't talking about his Grandma to them, I'm just saying. Sesame and the blocks around it are so protected, Osborn once snapped outta full goblin mode and cursed when he realised he was over it.
Second Muppet Theatre is near Sesame. Kermit's around a lot. You want to piss off the Frog? You want to be the guy taken out by an irate pig? Sesame is off limits.
Most people call her Miranda Zero. She heads up the Global Frequency. A collection of talent, weird people who form whatever ad-hoc team is needed to save the world.
Not many people get close enough to know the select few that call her Mom.
She's only given birth once. Her daughter was missing for years. Just in 2021, she showed up at the orphanage Miranda runs.
She had a new name and formed a crew to fight the good fight. Carmen San Diego made her mom proud.
I've always thought of Velma as the most Columbo adjacent.
Less glamorous to lull villains, more dogged.
It's not hard to imagine middle-aged Velma wearing down a murderer while talking about how she gave up smoking cigars for her wife.
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