Five-Headed Dragon

The crossover nobody asked for; but they are gonna get anyway

BONUS DOODLES

Because I believe in every universe Mark survives the blood ocean and curls up in Ryan Gosling’s arms

Bats cuddle up to each other while they’re sleeping by instinct

And wolves are pack animals, which means that instinctually they would want to have somebody nearby before they fall asleep

And Netflix is now showcasing its commitment to Diversity by attacking the livelihoods of transgender creators who point this out:

Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...

He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.

Star Trek did lot of espionage and spying episodes prior to the introduction of Section 31. They went behind enemy lines and did spy-and-counterspy all the time. Chief O'Brien goes undercover into the Orion Syndicate and betrays a man to his death! What is that if not operating in the shadows.

But apparently for a lot of people, it only gets interesting if the Federation has a War Crimes department, and that War Crimes department is not presented as a ghoulish criminal conspiracy that the franchise instructs its viewers to find appalling (DS9 was not subtle about this! Julian Bashir gives speeches to the audience multiple times on the subject! They are didactic and direct!) but is presented as "these people are necessary."

It's worth noting, by the way, that Kurtzman has always had a mile-high hardon for for this sort of thing. Guy helmed Alias and Fringe, both of which are pretty disgusting on the point.

The context in which Section 31 was invented was still only a few years after Oliver North and his people pulled off Iran-contra, and not so much farther from when G. Gordon Liddy and his White House Plumbers pulled off Watergate, and that sort of thing is what Section 31 was referencing. Groups that aren't just secretive in the sense that some agencies do a lot of classified stuff, but are 100% illegal and are literally just groups of public servants running crime syndicates out of government offices.

The problem is that in the post-9/11 era, any kind of distinction like that is just gone, and people (pop culture especially) have completely absorbed the mindset that lawless and unaccountable is just how the entire intelligence/security community is supposed to be. You wouldn't want Jack Bauer to not be able to torture people, would you? That's how he saves the day! You wouldn't want Jack Bauer to have to answer to elected officials, would you? All politicians are corrupt and then he'd be working for Charles Logan!

Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...

He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.

okay so we all agree that futurama is an isekai but what about an overly long and dumb title?

(clean version under the cut)