The mole is revealed! (Invincible Iron Man 516)

[blackruzsa]

Oh damn it. Right in the heart. That hurts.





Also, another cherry top to this whole debacle:




 

Comments

[kd_the_movie]

Spymasters tears are so manly they went thru his helmet

[elwood]

Ha! I did not notice that until you pointed it out..... Nice!

[elwood]

I don't read this book. Can someone explain why he quits this time?

[blackruzsa]

Well, and I still think it was a stupid decision despite all his arguments, he allowed Hammertech to be attached to his armor to keep track of his alcohol levels >:/ State-sanctioned. And so, his armor is pretty much useless now that Hammer can turn it on and off.
And he's sort of hostile against the Avengers... idk if it's a plan or him breaking down...

[crabby_lioness]

Fraction, again.

[littlepunkryo]

Basically my entire reaction. I know he's apparently written good stuff but every time I open IIM, I'm just like, "Oh, it's still Fraction. Lovely."

[brooms]

... someone should put together a post with scans of scenes where X person tells Z person they love him/her while stabbing them, shooting them, decapitating them, setting them on fire, kicking their ass, etc.

i feel like there's a lot of that. i can only think of two examples rn, but i feel like there are more. much more.

[blackruzsa]

I know right? What's the other examples you can think of, incidentally?

[icon_uk]

And another gay Marvel character bites the dust.

[beoweasel]

Yup, that's what I was thinking when I read that too.

[lascoden]

Another? Oh no, who else did we lose this week?

[blackruzsa]

Indeed.

[leoboiko]

it’s like a variation of Women in Refrigerators.

[sinisterlink]

Dude, did you really need to stab him to death? Couldn't you have knocked him out or done something that would have put him into a temporary coma or something? Yeesh. Reminds me of those movies or shows where some guy is yelling about how much he loves his wife while he's in the process of beating the crap out of her.

The sad part is that there are lots of people who would see this and be like, "Well yeah, he killed him, but he was really upset about doing it and didn't really want to! Poor baby." I have learned this from my adventures in other fandoms.

[blackruzsa]

I'm half hoping he didn't hit any major organs or parts and someone will come rescue him.

.... I'm optimistic.

Hate that he had to be killed. What, no knockouts?

Anyways, I don't think it was a crime of passion so much as it was a practiced move... I mean, if he's Spymaster then his whole identity is dependent on being Spymaster, so much so that no matter how happy he is with his handle, he has to drop it and purge everything that could compromise him.

Sucks that love apparently goes one level down from the job, but it also makes a sad bit of sense ):

[darkknightjrk]

"Dude, did you really need to stab him to death?"

Even if the guy did have to die, aren't there different ways where it would be even less likely he would feel any pain? I mean, surely snapping the neck or even shooting him in the head is more likely to be quick and painless than stabbing him in the chest.

[mrstatham]

He's a corporate saboteur. Leaving the guy who just discovered that hey, you're fucking Spymaster, alive - well, that'd be an idiotic move.

[janegray]

The sad part is that there are lots of people who would see this and be like, "Well yeah, he killed him, but he was really upset about doing it and didn't really want to! Poor baby." I have learned this from my adventures in other fandoms.

Quoted for truth. It's incredibly depressing D:

[thanekos]

I love that Spymaster was wearing a mask the whole time, because it kind of justifies how plastic-y his skin as Pimacher looked.

Doesn't quite help everyone else (though, really, it's only bad when they're under sources of light).

[lascoden]

My god, they're all Spymaster!

[shadowpsykie]

i'm not sure how i feel about this... i think gay characters can be villains too.. but.... :(

is he actually dead?

[blackruzsa]

Not sure yet! Here's to hoping ):

[wizardru]

Note to self: Spymaster doesn't really understand the definition of 'Love' in the way that most people apparently do. As everyone else has noted, if he really did love him, even if the mission comes first (whatever the mission is, exactly), he could have chosen more humane ways of killing his love.

Not feeling bad that I gave this up over a year ago. Clearly, my investment of time simply wasn't worth it. It's not even badly written, it's just...I don't know. It feels so...suspended in amber. Like I haven't followed the title for over a year with anything resembling regularity and it looks like NOTHING has changed, other than Pimacher and Cababa were living together.

[blackruzsa]

Spymaster doesn't really understand the definition of 'Love' in the way that most people apparently do.
True.

I'll be honest, there were only three reasons I still followed this arc:
1) I like the way they talk. The speech, Fraction's good at, and that's enough to keep a comic afloat to some degree even when the storyline's still iffy or worse.
2) I'm on Resilient watch. I like Stark Resilient... *ehem* liked, I suppose. Past tense.
3) Because it is one of the few Marvel titles I followed before and with Daken and X-23 and such gone, I'm trying to hold on to a lifeline. *sad*

[r0b666]

gee, do you think Tony is going to keep secretly being Iron Man but act like he's not?

For you know, the billionth time.

[blackruzsa]

Eh, as long as it works :/

MASKS.

[jlroberson]

Why does Spymaster wear a mask over his mask? Underneath is there an even smaller mask maybe?

Maybe Spymaster had his own face removed to fool his enemies and now, he is more mask than man.

Also, would it kill Salvador Larocca to spot a black at least once in a while? All this shiny shiny. Everything looks like jello. Every time I read this, I think: these images need to look thicker and heavier. He almost got there when the Grey Gargoyle forced him to.

By the way, I assumed this guy was the mole ever since he had that clever idea about using Electro's electricity against him and the Sandman. That was not a techie's idea.

Re: MASKS.

[blackruzsa]

Tony also assumed Pim was a mole around that time, when Pepper told him he could hold his own.

I actually thought it was meant to mislead readers. Turns out, it was a real suspicion that led to truth.
So sad.

[ian_karkull]

I was kind of wondering where Spymaster is in all of this. Now we know, I guess.
I wasn't too invested in this pairing because "handsome young asian gentleman/slightly gross older white dude" is kind of a bad stereotype/cliche I don't care for too much, but it's still sad.
I'm somewhat inclined to give it a pass though, provided this facet of Spymaster's personality is explored more in the future, I'Ve been lamenting the utter lack of gay villains for years.

[blackruzsa]

This would make a good starting point for his personality exploration, definitely.

I felt really sad about it, though. I liked their very limitedly shown relationship. As far as I could gather, Pim annoyed Tim a lot in the past and their relationship was sort of silly in a fun way... until we found out it was romantic, at which point it got sweet.

Too bad it got sour like this. Fraction, I am disappoint with your Filipino fridging.

Gratuitous and unneccessary Fridging

[capt_satellite]

And in the kitchen, no less! Wouldn't it have been a more interesting choice for SM to come clean, stash C in secure location through Hammer's resources, and to release C after he had done his business? Nope. They went for the cheap Psycho-killer move. Sad.

Re: Gratuitous and unneccessary Fridging

[blackruzsa]

;_; If only!