The Origin of The Shocker

[demonprawn.insanejournal.com]

This is my First Post so I thought I'd keep it simple and easy. I've read the rules and I hope this all goes right.

Here's the origin one of my (inexplicably) favourite C-list villains, The Shocker.

The Issue Starts with Spidey casually wall-crawling when it starts violently vibrating. He investigates the source and is greeted by the Be-quilted visage of The Shocker.





Spidey's arm is in a sling courtesy of the Lizard last issue.





Spidey fights back but in his injured state he is ultimately no match for Shocker. Later we get to see Shocker's back story through some traditional villonious soliloquy.








Spidey later, using his crack detective skills, overhears a conveniently present cop announce over a call box that the Shocker is robbing the federal reserve. (To Spider-Man's credit he does comment "If it had happened that easy in a movie, id say it was too phony") He's also been able to ditch the sling by this point.

Battle ensues and Shocker shows of his special brand of vibrator tricks...










There you have it. The battle is won by some thumb bondage and a well placed BTOK!

Comments

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

You missed the best part, the fact that "The Shocker" wasn't his original name. His name, as originally written was "The Vibrator", until someone pointed out to Stan Lee that this might be... misconstrued by parents.

Don't believe me? Check out his belt buckle, which they never redesigned, that's a honking big "V" right there.

[demonprawn.insanejournal.com]

A fact I'm sure he does not keep from the ladies.

And now the term 'shocker' has similar connotations.

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

I suppose that we should consider ourselves lucky that Stan never created supervillains named "The Terrible Teabagger," "The Cleveland Steamer" or "Dirty Sanchez."

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

And now the term 'shocker' has similar connotations.

Really? This I did not know...

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Google the name. It's quite common in the US.

"Two in the pink, one in the stink."

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

And to give credit to Bendis when it's due, he actually played with this in USM, when Ult!Spidey met Ult!Shocker, and said to him, "Who are you - the Vibrator?"

Of course, Stan himself has since done an episode of Robot Chicken in which he acknowledged the current slang behind the Shocker's name:

"The Watcher is called that because he WATCHES people," Stan said, before making the "shocker" hand gesture, "and the SHOCKER is called that because -"

"CUT!" one of the other characters yelled. :)

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I'd ask what the "shocker" hand gesture looks like but I'm not sure I want to know...

Certainly I've never heard of "shock" with a sexual connotation before. I clearly have more residual innocence than I thought... which, all things considered, is impressive.

*Donning my top hat and monocle to explain*

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

The "shocker" hand gesture is synonymous with the sexual move itself - the index and middle fingers extended, the third finger curled in, and the pinky finger extended, so that the first two fingers can penetrate a woman's vagina at the same time that the other finger penetrates her anus - or, as it's more informally known, "two fingers for the pink, and one for the stink." It's named the "shocker" because it's intended to give women an unexpected thrill during the course of normal digital foreplay, given that simultaneous vaginal and anal stimulation tends to be less common.

And lest you doubt my word ...

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

... It even has its own entry on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(hand_gesture))