a ☐ peg in a 〇 hole

goldheart used to have his hair tied back, huh. he looks waaay more of a jerk with it like that lmao

i like that his bedside "desk" is actually monitoring his body temperature and vitals (ecg monitor!), makes sense if he prefers to sleep in a cryo chamber more or less

even with the cryochamber the guy still gets 'usual' nightmares,,, or maybe he hasn't had any in a while since using it and had a dream, either way its interesting

i love all the plane paraphernalia all over the place (and what im pretty sure is the map that someone found out is the amount of plane hijacks he has likely done lmao)

AND 505'S DOODLES OH THE DEAR BEAR SON

IS THAT A NASA (equivalent, i like that its VASA for villain) bomber jacket??? and what im preeetty sure has to be that captain coat he had in the orientation video with a hanger cover lmao he's so meticulous

idk why but ive always thought that the cctv camera was black hat lmao, i think it was the red light that i assumed was him

i dont have a gif for this but its a really REALLY good introduction for black hat, i like it, i love my humble show dont tell

for someone who keeps breaking their phones, flug does give her phone covers that still fit her style

i used to take this for granted as exposition, but finding out that this is most likely from flug's extensive database of heroes and especially PEACE's heroes is very cool.

i like to think that the data is entirely his and not black hat's (why would he care about the details of ants?) and because fluh gives it quite freely to penumbra because they're friends, cuz think about it. information of heroes are pretty important and has to be treated like gold, and if blackhat had a say on it, penumbra would definitely have to buy it at an exorbitant price.

demencia had 100% right to be ticked off here, flug's arrogant petty ass was stupid not utilizing dementia's strength lmao its sad because despite her whining about his plans, she even seemed to actually expect to be tasked to do *something* (granted she probably wouldn't follow it either)

it genuinely seemed like sunblast was losing (really interesting!) and take a look at the crowd, it would not do well to his reputation if he did. its kinda a blessing that he went missing and presumed dead for chasing after the BHO crew because that at least leaves the fans with a noble memory of him instead of his defeat

i wanna say he could have done that move in shrunken rescue where he gets these sudden bursts/boosts in power but that was in moments of deep emotion for someone else and i doubt he had reached that level of desperation or relationship with anyone at this moment in his life to be a good catalyst

THIS IS AN ADORABLE SHOT oh 505 it is definitely not the time for cuddles

i love this entire sequence so much, flug's expressions are priceless and the WRINKLES ON HIS PAPERBAG YES his freak out after the call is music to my ears too idk why but pepe's delivery is just so well done to me he nails it so well

penumbra is so cute here WHY ARE YOU THIS ADORABLE, i love when black hat *has* to interact with clients he always seems to just *barely* tolerate them (penumbra even got to take whats probably the clearest photo we have of him and likely without his permission too)

i wonder what they were doing in the office (imagine penumbra introducing blackhat to instagrim KJDFBGSDFLKJDBSLK)

YESSSS I LOVE VISUAL JOKES (even funnier that flug had a lightbulb in his pockets this whole time)

i really like the implications of what Sunblast is saying here, you expect him to have always been this arrogant hero privileged from the get go but he says this in the episode you can easily take as a throwaway but its brought to attention again in shrunken rescue with him saying he was given a shitty apartment by PEACE, he used to be a NOBODY, and has a deep grudge with nerds. rlly interested with his backstory... actually, do we have Sunblast's real name? is this another Cecilia we have on our hands?

and of course his misunderstanding of Penumbra's condition and the other people like her is some form of minimizing that majority of the city believes but is easily broken when Sunblast has the time to see the truth

as you should dummy. i can see that he definitely used to be a solo villain

i love the delivery of this line its sooo KJSDBGLAKFJ (also dont think i dont notice you mimicking black hat's tendency to put his hands on his back you dork)

FUCK EM UP DEM

once again, there are implications with this episode. things left out that we have to piece together behind the scenes that is not touched on the mainshow because thats not the focus

it also hints that penumbra isn't really the villain that she says herself in the start even if she has to act like it at times, i love these two's story so much

(and is it really a coincidence that these are the first characters we are introduced; both of them have powers from the sun/dark and both come to an understanding in the end... now what would happen to both if BH's thing with an upcoming red eclipse perhaps happens 👀👀👀👀)

THIS EXPRESSION. TOP TIER. His cat's eye is always so cool to see

i love that its demencia that initiates this and also calls Flug doc, rlly nice way of circling to the theme of the story that as flug learns to use his team's strengths, demencia is willing to follow the plan skdfjbglk and even she knows BH's anger and has her limits