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.
Made enough to write.
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.
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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