I find the way they handled Frederic really interesting. On one hand he was clearly a bit of an antagonist with understandable motives (becoming overprotective of Rapunzel to a fault after the trauma of losing her), lots of the stuff he did was p messed up. But it also kinda feels like they didn't go as far as they could with his character because they still wanted him to be likable. It's just interesting because it feels like his character is trying to be two things that don't go together.
That’s a nice hot take, for sure. Antagonist is the right word, because they didn’t want to portray him as a villain villain. But, to paraphrase Brooklyn Nine-Nine, cool motive, still trauma-inducing treatment of people and major invasion of privacy.
I’ve had people come to me saything that they can absolutely see where he’s coming from and in the same circumstance, they’d likely act the same way (at least towards Rapunzel, they weren’t really referencing Varian or Corona). And like, cool. On a technical leve, I understand it, too. But that doesn’t make me okay with it, I would not do the same thing in the same position, and making Rapunzel more attached to Frederic than Arianna throughout the series was really distasteful to me. I’m not saying that Air should have been more important than Fred (though that would’ve been a hell of a plot, focusing on the relationship between the kidnapped girl and her biological mother), but a 50/50 recognition of both parents would have been nice. Even 60/40 would have been significantly better than what we got.
But in “Happiness Is...” Rapunzel writes that letter to Frederic. Not even to both of her parents, just her dad. The implication is that she’s not missing Arianna as much, and I think that absolutely sucks and doesn’t make much sense.
A lot of my distaste for him stems not from everything he did in S1 (though that is a lot), but how his character is treated by Rapunzel as the more important parent throughout the show, which is because the showrunner painted him as the more important parent.
S3 was a complete backpedal on Frederic’s character (less so on Arianna’s, because we already had glimpses that she had that in her), and I feel like “The King and Queen of Hearts” worked wonders on turning them into the people we expected them to be from what we saw in the movie (with significantly more humor thrown in).
How dare you state you have a Sam and Max game idea and not share it? Please what is it? im very curious 👀
well buckle in fellas because its a long ride! i’ll put everything under the cut but heres a tl;dr picture before we get into it
well the picture says a lot; a common sam and max adventure in which they ensue a villain with a very powerful arsenal and not everything is fully explained or is even addressed within the plot.
its not 100% thought out, as most of my ideas are. but basically it starts out with mister commissioner giving our favourite two detectives a new mission; some woman has been kidnapped by an uber-crazy mother fucker and its the type of case that’s perfect for the boys!
and with every sam and max game, there is a bosco (well, there was one in hit the road and OBVIOUSLY one in the telltale games. i love that guy!) there is also an npc ally that’s sort of a mix between momma bosco from the telltale games and the geek from the show. no name yet but a sketch. actually, here’s a sketch below;
on the left, bosco; an absolute nutcase that hides his identity so that no one can tie his various illegal activities back to him.
middle is the smarty-pants; undertiminable age and gender. super smart and hasnt slept in many, many days. are those eyelashes or eyebags? no one will know!
and on the right, the originally kidnapped woman– which brings me to continue…
after some whacky hijinks of finding clues and talking to other people, you eventually track her down: tied up against a wall in a cell, with her own psychic power being drained from her as max and sam do who fucking knows what! once freed, it’s revealed she is a part of a long-lost civilization that has been in hiding for decades. they are the gatekeepers of the universe; in charge of keeping everything in line and in order. everything about them is very much kept under wraps– the knowledge that a small group of people are basically in control of all of space can very much bring alot of unwanted attention to them.
while trying to get her out to the safety of sewer tunnels that reek of shit, the main villainess of the game is shown. she’s the one who’s kidnapped the woman, and apparently doesn’t go down easy. she manages to slip away at the last moment, much to the anger of the kidnapped woman. apparently, they’ve tangled before– not face to face. with her pulling the strings in the shadows while growing despise for our two favourite freelance detectives.
however, the case isn’t solved. their perp is still on the loose, and sam and max aren’t basic bitches, yall! with the help of a new ally, they hit the road (reference intended)! smart fucker ally does some shit and gets them a new lead, with psychic now-not-kidnapped woman giving them tips and tricks.
everything seems to be going well until they actually seem to get to the height of the case; the confrontation. the villainess is a stone cold fucking bitch. sam and max enter the confrontation scene, ally(ies? undecided) waiting in hiding for if backup is needed. they come up on the other hostages and when sam goes to rescue, whoops, its actually a trap. he gets shocked (same voltage as a shock collar i’d think?) and whoops! dead hostages. yikes.
“the only one i need is her!” villainess shouts while entrapping ally lady who has psychic powers because im a bitch.
she monologues to the two fucking furries about how much she fucking hates them. like a little bitch. GOD i want to marry her.
now, there is one fact about the freelance police i love: they are always together. villains never try to separate them, it’s always sam & max, never just sam. or max. and i love that. we’ve all seen what happens when they do get separated as well. sam turns edgy and desperate. max tears apart time and space just to get to his partner.
but what if a villain tried actually tried to separate them? to really try and make them suffer the one way they know how– creating their worst nightmare in real life.
so, our unnamed villainess because im on the creative thin line right now, uses our psychic ally to tear apart a hole in the fabric of reality and creates chaos throughout all of existence. and, well… you can see what happens.
enter our two main alternate detectives.
throughout the hub-bub of reality being torn apart, our four detectives are mixed up;
our max is stuck with another sam, and our sam is stuck with another max. throughout trying to track down our villain.
you get to jump through different worlds as comedy ensues. you can play as either sam OR max– thats right you can play as the fucking lagomorph psycho.
there are two different roads you can take to track down our villainess, with sam going down the much more clue-filled path where you have to be clever. max, however, goes down the violently-interrogating-everyone path. unsurprising.
sam and max both meet our villainess at around the same time. now since it’s dimension hopping, there’s… obviously gonna be more than one villain. now we’ve already established she isn’t above murdering people.
sam is a calm person. at this point in the game he’s pretty much figured out this max is not his max. he’ll come in and try to arrest her, and by arrest i mean letting max decimate her before turning her in and surprisingly not getting arrested for police brutality. basically the same thing happens with our max as well but much more violently. and, well…
she points the gun at sam. she threatens to kill him in a gruesome fashion. she hates him more than she does max.
here is a picture of what i think their office would look like to break up the chunks of text. this isnt a fucking fanfic. actually it sort of is but fuck it
for our sam, other max is extra.. protective. and trigger happy. so he tries to jump her. and, well, she isn’t dumb. max kind of.. gets shot in the face. yeah. im an angsty angsty motherfucker.
for our max, is almost the same. max gets ready to jump at her, and as she moves to shoot max and max moves to try and rip off as many of her limbs at once, sam moves to cover his little buddy. and, uh, well im predictable.
so… watching their best buddy (or atleast another version of them) getting murdered right in front of your face without being able to do anything about it? that shit messes you up.
villainess would probably make a quip about the situation before disappearing, throwing our sam and max to rot in a timeless void of a pocket dimension. enter cutscene.
now, throwback..! remember new bosco and the smart ass person? smart ass is a smart ass for a reason. bosco is fucking insane and surprisingly his theory on space physics rings true.
they open up a hole for sam and max to jump back in through. they are still separated at this point. now max is trying to track down villainess and try and restore all of space. oh! i should have mentioned. the rupture in dimensional travel and space is kind of destroying everything. anyway, max is now tearing through space in a fucked desoto trying to find the villainess and definitely trying to murder her. sam, being all of max’s moral compass and control, is now (in his mind) dead and he needs revenge. now while sam is tracking him (trying to find his own max! d’aw) they’re doing more bad than good to the fragile lifeforce of space. psychic ally astral projects and tells them both that they’re fuckin up and making a mistake. max tries to shoot her. sam pleas. shes strugglin to even speak with them but she’ll do her best.
badabing badaboom, max drives through a wall and finds villainess’ headquarters. sam quickly catches up and is like !!!! little buddy!!!! boom boom fight or whatever the fuck. heartfelt reunion! people are saved. but how will they fixed the fractured existence of the universe? bang scavenger hunt (im not sorry i fucking love searching for shit in games i dont know why) so that allies can make cool thing and fix universe.
boom. everything fixed. villain is like dead probably. thats my game idea i hope its not dumb
lemme know what yall think. i cant think of any cool name other than “Sam & Max; Freelance Police (The FanGame)”
i desperately want new sam and max content in this day and age.
Hi, I'm trying to work on a cosplay for Krel from Netflix's series "3Below". What I'm having trouble with is figuring out his hair since 1. It glows and 2. It's not exactly hair strands, it kinda looks like a plastic crystal tbh. I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on what I could do?
Hello there!
For something like this, I would do two things.
One, is get a lacefront wig as a base that has the wefts sewn in backwards. This will allow you to get a nice base that can be spiked up, but will still have a natural hairline.
Two is to look at tutorials and WIPs from Land of the Lustrous/Houseki no Kuni cosplayers. You may have seen people either at cons or online with shiny, gem-like wigs – that’s the same series. The most common method of doing hair in that style is to attach clear (or iridescent clear) vinyl into the wig so that it still has a hair-like appearance and shape, but creates a more solid-appearing, translucent form. I’ve also seen clear Worbla used over a wig for similar effect, and that may be a great option here. You wouldn’t need to add the same iridescent highlights, but the technique of using clear plastic would be largely the same.
As for the lights, you will need a find a way to hide LEDs inside of the wig itself, near the scalp. You may need to distribute them over the head rather than putting them in one place. You can either leave an access point in the back where you can move some hair out of the way to turn them on and off, or wire them so that the switch is external to the wig so that you don’t need to mess with the shape. If you don’t have electronics skills, a strand of LED Christmas lights with a small battery pack would be perfect, since you could weave it throughout the wig and then hide the battery pack/switch at the base of your skull in the back. I’ve used these for a project before, and while the wire is a bit delicate, the battery pack is small and easy to hide.
@mint-stone Yeah it’s nice to have a little canon of Max having been to the camp before. It also really explains his and David’s relationship. Like.. They clearly know each other pretty well? imo? well enough anyway. Max even goes to pick on David pretty regularly when he doesn’t want to do what everyone else is doing!
I wonder what Chucky was like, if Max liked him enough to be missing him the next year?
