They all had the use of their fingers. Just like that cheesy story about people feeding each other in heaven – they could easily have taken the tape off each other.
That’s a good question actually. Dina taped herself up so I assume she could escape at anytime. Maybe she freed them? Or maybe these two are really incompetent and either they are their equally incompetent hires don’t know how to tie people up with duct tape.
abacuswizard
Also she has sharp teeth.
Sirksome
Also also, basically from the moment they were thrown in this storage area all of their hands were behind their back so they could’ve been working on this all this time.
Regalli
Dina still had the roll on her tape. She probably unwrapped herself, got whoever was closest (I think Dorothy or Sarah,) and they just all set to work on the others. Much easier to work when someone has actual use of their thumbs.
And apparently Blaine was too distracted in realizing how badly he’d fucked up for Toedad to come out of his daze without him noticing, so I’m guessing they had a couple minutes.
SuperFroakie82
She still has her hands in that same weird position as before, I think she’s actually still has them tied up.
Spriteless Girl
She’s in velociraptor mode.
Geneseepaws
I agree.
thejeff
I think they had some unobserved time earlier. While Ross was letting Amber go and when Dina first appeared. Blaine had already left, Ross was outside with Amber and some of the goons.
I’d guess they got loose then and were just waiting for the right moment.
It looks like Dorothy still has a loop of tape around her right wrist, and it appears a strip of tape is falling to the floor in front of her…. almost as if she Hulked out and pulled her arms apart, and the duct tape never stood a chance.
Thanatos
My guess was, they ripped the tape partway through. This way it kept their hands together to preserve the illusion they were bound, bit it would only take a minimal effort to rip the rest of the way.
I’d also allude to the scene in Conan The Barbarian when that guard with the warhammer went after Conan and totally failed to faze him. But I’m not that good about it.
We’re not talking about Ross, or even his brain. Just his skull. Dem bones did a good job and we will remember their service to this comic strip.
Regalli
Also, maybe Becky inherited the ‘strong enough skull to survive a hammer in the head’ gene, which we’ll totally take!
(The nicest thing we say about the personal familial Blaine is an appreciation for his genes when they’re unattached to Him Specifically. The rest of that side of the family are quite pleasant human beings by and large. I’ve gotten used to the ‘credit where credit is due, your genetic material isn’t garbage, that’s all you.’)
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Who have we seen from Blaine’s side of the family other than Amber? Only one I recall is Faz. Or is Faz a stepson?
(mostly a reference to the self-preservation advice you hear in job trainings and see on safety posters at schools and such. but then, I live in the US where random acts of violence are heavily normalized and almost expected)
You are likely in the minority on that opinion. Honestly, Blaine killing him is the best possible outcome in my book. He’s dead, but nobody has killing him on their Conscience (Blaine clearly doesn’t have one anyway).
I’m curious how you feel about his being put into a coma.
Aeromechanical Ace
Acceptable, but it’d have to last a minimum of 5 years, so that Becky can cover her tracks and prevent him from finding her again.
Jamie
I’d rather she attain enough power that she could reliably deny him access to her, but yours works too.
Regalli
The coma’s to let her gain that power. I think given her long-term goal is actually ‘be a fucking scientist’ and not politics (unless that’s changed recently, and she is so very young,) covering her tracks is entirely doable and wouldn’t be a huge sacrifice on her end.
Deanatay
If Becky runs now, she’ll never stop running. She’ll be looking over her shoulder for him every day of the rest of her life. She needs to face him, take him down, so she can live the rest of her life without fear.
Personally, I’d like to see him realize the err of his ways and then sit in jail for a few years with his guilt. He goes to court, tells the entire truth of what he did, and accepts the sentence given to him. He signs all documents to give legal authority of his estate to Becky as a show of regret and reconciliation. He makes a public apology and Becky takes a long time before visiting him in prison so she can get hear head in a healthy place first.
The difference between Ross and Blaine is, while Ross is bullheaded, self richeous, and won’t accept the possibility that he is wrong, he does have the capacity to care about someone other than himself. Blaine is just has ice in his veins
Debateable, honestly. He certainly cares about an IDEA of Becky, but it’s entirely contingent on breaking her and forcing her into a mold that’s divorced from reality. I don’t know if that really qualifies as caring about her on a practical level.
I still wouldn’t say he deserves DEATH, mind, but only because that’s a pretty big judgment I don’t feel qualified to make.
Jamie
There’s a possibility that Mra was talking about Becky’s mom, Bonnie.
Reltzik
It’s worse than that, I think. Ross does care about Becky… and that genuine caring has been hijacked and deformed by religious dogma, twisting it into something evil. I’m not going to say he’s the victim, because he’s his own person and his choice to blindly embrace the dogma was his own evil act (just as Joyce’s choice to reject that dogma was a good act), but he seems to have the potential to transform into a decent person with just a few changes.
What is DESERVED here is a “go from Jesus” moment, so to speak, where he breaks free of that sickness. I’m not talking about a redemption arc, since it wouldn’t be about whether we should view him as good or bad. It would be about what would be best for everyone involved, both in terms of their happiest and well-being and also in terms of how they could be their best selves.
As I have said before, my headcanon on Ross is that he wasn’t nearly as bad before Bonnie died. When she died he decided God was punishing him for not being extreme enough.
NotPiffany
Joyce’s dad seems to have always thought he was a jerk, though.
Ross himself prefers to die if the world will not conform to his idea of it, so the end result is clear. Credit to Willis for making us to be sad for it even when we dislike him so much.
Blaine obviously didn’t learn how to be a decent villain. I know toedad isn’t that smart, but if you lie to him about your plan, and he acts in accordance with that plan, you can’t really blame him.
Blains is just stupid. He wears a mask when people already know him. He complains about his daughter being weak and not fighting back but gets angry when she defeats him. He is the kind of villain you can point at and say “haha” like Nelson from The Simpsons does.
They don’t know it’s him … Only Amber did, and she wouldn’t tell them who it was.
TemperaryObsessor
She didn’t but the info she gave might give them an idea.
Agemegos
They heard him ranting about his daughter, and the words he exchanged with Amber. Unless the detectives who interview them are unbelievably bad that is going to put them on to interviewing Blaine and checking his movements. And then they’ll observe his injuries and find his limousine on traffic cameras, and get a warrant for his fingerprints and DNA, not to mention noticing that he has injuries corresponding to the description of Captain Ball-Peen.
Blaine’s only hopes are:
(a) that the police are as bad as Sarah and Mike think, and let him off for being a mobbed-up white man;
(b) that he is able to swing a plea bargain in which he sells out Asher’s gramps for a place in Federal witness protection; or
(c) that none of his victims or accomplices tells the police what they saw.
I’m guessing Dina freed them, while she tape herself up, her hands being infront of her and still having the roll attatched put her in a more flexible position to free herself.
You can actually get free of a duct tape wrap like that pretty easy. You just raise your hands over your head (as far as you can) and sharply swing them down to your sides. Should sheer the tape right apart.
That sort of thing sounds like something at least one of them knows. Dorothy or Amber probably knows how to do it.
Unless you’re super flexible, how do you raise your hands over your head when they were behind you?
Lexi
You should be okay just raising your hands as high as you can. You’re welcome to try it out yourself if you have someone with you while social distancing, but mostly, duct tape doesn’t really do well with that kind of lateral stress and just rips.
At the very least, it should stretch the tape enough that it’s easy to slip out of. ? Duct tape isn’t really meant to hold up to that sort of force anyways. Give it a google, the top result I found, the guy just sorta wiggles his arms and bam, there’s enough give that he’s freed in seconds.
Needfuldoer
Duct tape is shitty. It doesn’t last long before the glue degrades into sap-like goop, and it’s not even good for ducts! (No, seriously it’s terrible for ductwork. Use aluminum tape on those instead.) I think it’s just an arts-and-crafts meme at this point.
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Ana Chronistic
well, they DID have a guy with an insanely thick skull (no hyperbole) on Stan Lee’s show back in the day, so this is believable
ReFlex76
https://youtu.be/AphxyjrH4SE
Cattleprod
I’d been hoping for this clip to be appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMIpVrz7v9k
(From the movie Game Night, a character acts halfheartedly upset by a villain’s horrible death)
JessWitt
Love that movie.
Yet One More Idiot
AVENGERS! ….assemble.
Shariku
You uploaded the wrong clip. Correct one here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5n28hpMFBE
Doctor_Who
Freshmengers!…Assemble.
Deanatay
The Dad-Puncher!
Bat-woman (currently sans bat)!
The Voice of Reason!
The Savage Raptor!
(and Nightguy)
Deanatay
“Uh, guys? They’re distracted, and we’re free, we should get out of here… WHY IS EVERYONE ATTACKING???”
(No one ever listens to The Voice Of Reason)
Chris
I have to admit, those are spot on. Well done!
HeySo
“Punch Girl” makes for a more amusing reference. 😛
ValdVin
Dina has her pointy teeth in. Always a good sign for our heroes.
Dean
How do you think they got the tape off?
Chris Phoenix
They all had the use of their fingers. Just like that cheesy story about people feeding each other in heaven – they could easily have taken the tape off each other.
Sirksome
That’s a good question actually. Dina taped herself up so I assume she could escape at anytime. Maybe she freed them? Or maybe these two are really incompetent and either they are their equally incompetent hires don’t know how to tie people up with duct tape.
abacuswizard
Also she has sharp teeth.
Sirksome
Also also, basically from the moment they were thrown in this storage area all of their hands were behind their back so they could’ve been working on this all this time.
Regalli
Dina still had the roll on her tape. She probably unwrapped herself, got whoever was closest (I think Dorothy or Sarah,) and they just all set to work on the others. Much easier to work when someone has actual use of their thumbs.
And apparently Blaine was too distracted in realizing how badly he’d fucked up for Toedad to come out of his daze without him noticing, so I’m guessing they had a couple minutes.
SuperFroakie82
She still has her hands in that same weird position as before, I think she’s actually still has them tied up.
Spriteless Girl
She’s in velociraptor mode.
Geneseepaws
I agree.
thejeff
I think they had some unobserved time earlier. While Ross was letting Amber go and when Dina first appeared. Blaine had already left, Ross was outside with Amber and some of the goons.
I’d guess they got loose then and were just waiting for the right moment.
Bicycle Bill
It looks like Dorothy still has a loop of tape around her right wrist, and it appears a strip of tape is falling to the floor in front of her…. almost as if she Hulked out and pulled her arms apart, and the duct tape never stood a chance.
Thanatos
My guess was, they ripped the tape partway through. This way it kept their hands together to preserve the illusion they were bound, bit it would only take a minimal effort to rip the rest of the way.
Bagge
Always a bad sign for ToeDad
NinjaNick
Dino-mode!
Stephen Bierce
When the Lightning Strikes!
Stephen Bierce
I’d also allude to the scene in Conan The Barbarian when that guard with the warhammer went after Conan and totally failed to faze him. But I’m not that good about it.
Sirksome
Turns out we all should’ve trusted in Ross’ skull! Who knew it was the hero these hapless kidnappees deserved!?
Vukodlak
He’s not the hero they deserve or hell even the one they need but right now he’s all they got.
Jamie
We’re not talking about Ross, or even his brain. Just his skull. Dem bones did a good job and we will remember their service to this comic strip.
Regalli
Also, maybe Becky inherited the ‘strong enough skull to survive a hammer in the head’ gene, which we’ll totally take!
(The nicest thing we say about the personal familial Blaine is an appreciation for his genes when they’re unattached to Him Specifically. The rest of that side of the family are quite pleasant human beings by and large. I’ve gotten used to the ‘credit where credit is due, your genetic material isn’t garbage, that’s all you.’)
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Who have we seen from Blaine’s side of the family other than Amber? Only one I recall is Faz. Or is Faz a stepson?
NotPiffany
I think Faz is Amber’s half brother.
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abysswatcher1993
Asgore broke the Mercy button again.
Jon
They threatened Becky.
Joyce and Dina, at the least, will fight. And I wouldn’t bet against them.
Cybersnark
And if Little Sister is fighting, Sarah’s in too.
brumagem
(mostly a reference to the self-preservation advice you hear in job trainings and see on safety posters at schools and such. but then, I live in the US where random acts of violence are heavily normalized and almost expected)
OtterBoy1
I’m really not sure how I feel about Ross at this point. Like, he should be in jail, yeah, but I don’t want him dead
Aeromechanical Ace
You are likely in the minority on that opinion. Honestly, Blaine killing him is the best possible outcome in my book. He’s dead, but nobody has killing him on their Conscience (Blaine clearly doesn’t have one anyway).
Jamie
I’m curious how you feel about his being put into a coma.
Aeromechanical Ace
Acceptable, but it’d have to last a minimum of 5 years, so that Becky can cover her tracks and prevent him from finding her again.
Jamie
I’d rather she attain enough power that she could reliably deny him access to her, but yours works too.
Regalli
The coma’s to let her gain that power. I think given her long-term goal is actually ‘be a fucking scientist’ and not politics (unless that’s changed recently, and she is so very young,) covering her tracks is entirely doable and wouldn’t be a huge sacrifice on her end.
Deanatay
If Becky runs now, she’ll never stop running. She’ll be looking over her shoulder for him every day of the rest of her life. She needs to face him, take him down, so she can live the rest of her life without fear.
Thanatos
Personally, I’d like to see him realize the err of his ways and then sit in jail for a few years with his guilt. He goes to court, tells the entire truth of what he did, and accepts the sentence given to him. He signs all documents to give legal authority of his estate to Becky as a show of regret and reconciliation. He makes a public apology and Becky takes a long time before visiting him in prison so she can get hear head in a healthy place first.
Mra
The difference between Ross and Blaine is, while Ross is bullheaded, self richeous, and won’t accept the possibility that he is wrong, he does have the capacity to care about someone other than himself. Blaine is just has ice in his veins
James
Debateable, honestly. He certainly cares about an IDEA of Becky, but it’s entirely contingent on breaking her and forcing her into a mold that’s divorced from reality. I don’t know if that really qualifies as caring about her on a practical level.
I still wouldn’t say he deserves DEATH, mind, but only because that’s a pretty big judgment I don’t feel qualified to make.
Jamie
There’s a possibility that Mra was talking about Becky’s mom, Bonnie.
Reltzik
It’s worse than that, I think. Ross does care about Becky… and that genuine caring has been hijacked and deformed by religious dogma, twisting it into something evil. I’m not going to say he’s the victim, because he’s his own person and his choice to blindly embrace the dogma was his own evil act (just as Joyce’s choice to reject that dogma was a good act), but he seems to have the potential to transform into a decent person with just a few changes.
What is DESERVED here is a “go from Jesus” moment, so to speak, where he breaks free of that sickness. I’m not talking about a redemption arc, since it wouldn’t be about whether we should view him as good or bad. It would be about what would be best for everyone involved, both in terms of their happiest and well-being and also in terms of how they could be their best selves.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
As I have said before, my headcanon on Ross is that he wasn’t nearly as bad before Bonnie died. When she died he decided God was punishing him for not being extreme enough.
NotPiffany
Joyce’s dad seems to have always thought he was a jerk, though.
woobie
Flawed he is, but I’m sure Becky would be devastated if he was killed. Especially like this.
thejeff
Exactly. Back in the car chase, one of the things terrifying Becky was the idea of him dying in a hail of police gunfire.
Sombrero
Ross himself prefers to die if the world will not conform to his idea of it, so the end result is clear. Credit to Willis for making us to be sad for it even when we dislike him so much.
Needfuldoer
Ross dies, Blaine is denied bail because it’s a murder.
Win-win!
Katherine
Blaine obviously didn’t learn how to be a decent villain. I know toedad isn’t that smart, but if you lie to him about your plan, and he acts in accordance with that plan, you can’t really blame him.
abysswatcher1993
Blains is just stupid. He wears a mask when people already know him. He complains about his daughter being weak and not fighting back but gets angry when she defeats him. He is the kind of villain you can point at and say “haha” like Nelson from The Simpsons does.
Azhrei Vep
The mask isn’t for them. It’s for him. The mask is freeing. It’s fucked up, but not really stupid. It serves exactly the purpose it’s meant to.
… Everything else is definitely stupid, though.
Dunedon
They don’t know it’s him … Only Amber did, and she wouldn’t tell them who it was.
TemperaryObsessor
She didn’t but the info she gave might give them an idea.
Agemegos
They heard him ranting about his daughter, and the words he exchanged with Amber. Unless the detectives who interview them are unbelievably bad that is going to put them on to interviewing Blaine and checking his movements. And then they’ll observe his injuries and find his limousine on traffic cameras, and get a warrant for his fingerprints and DNA, not to mention noticing that he has injuries corresponding to the description of Captain Ball-Peen.
Blaine’s only hopes are:
(a) that the police are as bad as Sarah and Mike think, and let him off for being a mobbed-up white man;
(b) that he is able to swing a plea bargain in which he sells out Asher’s gramps for a place in Federal witness protection; or
(c) that none of his victims or accomplices tells the police what they saw.
Raen
…wait, what? Why are they suddenly free?
Mra
I’m guessing Dina freed them, while she tape herself up, her hands being infront of her and still having the roll attatched put her in a more flexible position to free herself.
NelC
Especially as Dina’s hands are still in the position they were when she taped herself up. Did she release everybody, then tape her hands back up?
Alopex
Dina slipped in with her hands taped in front. Everyone else had their hands behind them.
Lexi
You can actually get free of a duct tape wrap like that pretty easy. You just raise your hands over your head (as far as you can) and sharply swing them down to your sides. Should sheer the tape right apart.
That sort of thing sounds like something at least one of them knows. Dorothy or Amber probably knows how to do it.
King Daniel
Unless you’re super flexible, how do you raise your hands over your head when they were behind you?
Lexi
You should be okay just raising your hands as high as you can. You’re welcome to try it out yourself if you have someone with you while social distancing, but mostly, duct tape doesn’t really do well with that kind of lateral stress and just rips.
At the very least, it should stretch the tape enough that it’s easy to slip out of. ? Duct tape isn’t really meant to hold up to that sort of force anyways. Give it a google, the top result I found, the guy just sorta wiggles his arms and bam, there’s enough give that he’s freed in seconds.
Needfuldoer
Duct tape is shitty. It doesn’t last long before the glue degrades into sap-like goop, and it’s not even good for ducts! (No, seriously it’s terrible for ductwork. Use aluminum tape on those instead.) I think it’s just an arts-and-crafts meme at this point.
Gaffer’s tape is superior in every way but cost.