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    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 25 09:40:23 2018
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    Following her debut in Cloak & Dagger‘s second episode, Detective
    Brigid O’Reilly has made quite the impression on Tandy Bowen. Unlike
    most people in Tandy’s life, O’Reilly wants to help her, for no reason
    other than it is the right thing to do. However, O’Reilly’s pure
    intentions may not stay that way for long. If her history in the
    comics is any indication, she may find herself a super villain — or,
    at the very least, a vigilante with gray morals — before long.

    O’Reilly entered the scene in 1983’s Cloak and Dagger #1 as a
    decidedly anti-vigilante detective. Though she shared a goal with
    Cloak and Dagger, they had decidedly different methods. Cloak and
    Dagger were comfortable using any means necessary to clean up the
    streets; O’Reilly, however, worried about the rule of law and the
    possibility of innocents getting injured in the crossfire.

    In her debut scene, O’Reilly interrogated a handful of drug dealers,
    who were the victims of Cloak and Dagger. After learning Cloak and
    Dagger’s MO, she was able to track a handful of their other attacks,
    leading her to contemplate their methods. She quickly arrived at the
    idea that, while their intentions were good, they were going about it
    all wrong.

    Soon, O’Reilly found herself in Cloak and Dagger’s crosshairs. After
    following two teens who were swooped up by drug dealers, O’Reilly
    burst in one one of Cloak and Dagger’s stings. When the drug dealers
    saw Cloak and Dagger, they immediately opened fire; Cloak was able to
    absorb some of the bullets in his interdimensional cloak, but a stay
    bullet struck one of the teens, instantly killing him.

    When the dust settled, O’Reilly told them they were under arrest,
    since they were “partially responsible for the death of this boy.”
    While Tandy was distraught over the casualty, Ty showed no remorse,
    calling himself a survivor. This enraged O’Reilly, who said they were
    “no better than the scum you punish.”

    Nevertheless, when Cloak and Dagger came to her for help stopping a
    murderer, she obliged. Thanks to her intel, the vigilante duo tracked
    the murderer down — and got to the scene before she could. In the
    ensuing fight, Ty sucked the man into his cloak, much to O’Reilly’s
    dismay. Though Ty insisted he brought the murderer to justice,
    O’Reilly had a different word for it: “Horror.”

    Cloak and Dagger fled the scene after this confrontation, but that
    didn’t deter O’Reilly. She decided to go after the vigilante duo with
    a handful of silver bullets. After a quick visit to Father Xavier
    Francis Delgado, though, she confessed she “was glad he got what he
    deserved, but that’s why the law exists… to make sure one objective
    notion of justice supersedes all of our individual ideas of
    retribution.” Thus, she believed it was up to her to bring Tandy and
    Tyrone to justice.

    Page 2:
    O'Reilly Has a Change of Heart

    On her mission to stop Cloak, O’Reilly stumbled into a robbery — of
    Father Delgado’s church, no less. Cloak appeared just in time to stop
    the would-be robbers, while O’Reilly observed from a confessional. The
    ensuing fight led her to question whether she truly wanted to stop him
    and, when she emerged from the confessional to arrest the robbers, he
    took their bullets for her and saved her life.

    When the fight was over, Cloak admitted that the hunger of the
    darkness inside him sometimes overcame him. In a show of good will, he
    ejected the murderer he had absorbed. As a result, O’Reilly found she
    had no reason to arrest him, as Cloak hadn’t killed him after all.
    Then, after learning how the vigilante duo were imbued with their
    powers, O’Reilly decided to drop their case altogether.

    In Cloak & Dagger‘s 1985 maxiseires, O’Reilly’s story took a strange
    turn. In the very first issue, she discovered corruption within her
    department. As it turned out, some officers in her department had
    struck a deal with local crime rings, where these corrupt cops would
    provide a heads up if the police were about to make a sting. Armed
    with this knowledge, she made it her personal mission to uncover every
    last corrupt cop in her precinct. She was warned this would make her
    “a lot of enemies,” but she forged on regardless.

    Even as she dealt with her department’s corruption problem, she
    continued to perform her regular duties. This put her in Cloak and
    Dagger’s path once again, as they were both after the same shipment of narcotics, which was set to arrive in New York by boat. Thanks to some
    meddling by Spider-Man, the shipment got away, infuriating O’Rielly
    but certainly not dampening her drive to serve justice. However, it
    did inspire her to use some unorthodox methods, up to and including
    beating information out of a suspect.

    Unfortunately for O’Reilly, some of her people were also corrupt.
    During a bust at a warehouse in issue #5, they led her right into a
    trap. When she discovered a piece of evidence in plain view, she
    approached with two other cops, only for a plastic cage to emerge from
    the floor and trap them inside. What’s worse, the plastic cage turned
    out to be a gas chamber. Gas immediately seeped in through the floor
    and, despite a few valiant efforts to escape, all three officers
    suffocated to death.

    Nevertheless, this wasn’t the end of O’Reilly. Cloak and Dagger
    discovered her too late to save her, but Dagger tried to resuscitate
    her anyway. Dagger’s efforts brought something back, but it wasn’t
    wholly O’Reilly. O’Reilly transformed into a creature with pallid skin
    and pupil-less green eyes; what’s more, she now had strange new
    abilities, including the power to emit venomous gas from her pores, a
    scratch that paralyzes and flight.

    Page 3:
    The Birth of Mayhem

    “As the gas spread through my system, Cloak swept me into darkness and
    Dagger filled me with her light. All the elements combining in that
    instant caused me to be reborn as Mayhem,” she explained to one of her betrayers, just before paralyzing him. According to Cloak, “Her love
    of the law died with her… Mayhem and we are now sprung from the same
    mold,” to which Dagger added, “Mayhem’s form of retribution leaves no
    room for rehabilitation.” Following her transformation, O’Reilly
    abandoned all the principles she clung to as a cop, becoming “the
    ultimate vigilante.”

    Indeed, Mayhem was willing to put Cloak and Dagger down on her way to
    her revenge. She came to blows with them and eventually caused the
    death of her betrayer, crying, “We both served the law once, Falcone!
    Now neither of us do! I was your victim — now I am your judge, jury
    and executioner.”

    Nevertheless, Mayhem eventually joined forced with Cloak and Dagger to
    stop the drug shipment once and for all, thus completing her quest for
    revenge. With her help, Cloak and Dagger were able to publicly uncover
    a crime family and stop the narcotics from reaching their intended
    sellers. The vigilante duo subsequently left New York to find the
    source of the shipments, while Mayhem opted to stay behind in New York
    to terrorize evildoers. She has not been seen since.

    In the show, of course, O’Reilly has shown shades of her comic book counterpart. As in the source material, Freeform’s O’Reilly has pure
    intentions and a proclivity for upholding justice. For instance, she
    realized something was off about her stabbing case and saw Tandy as
    someone in need of help, rather than condemning Tandy without digging
    into the circumstances. She will also likely tackle the corruption in
    her department, since she immediately picked up on Detective Connors’
    shady behavior. However, it’s yet to be seen if she will suffer a fate
    like her comic book counterpart. If the comics are any indication,
    though, her future is Mayhem.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Mon Jun 25 08:17:51 2018
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    In article <20180625-134023.541.0@Ubiquitous.news.giganews.com>,
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Unfortunately for O’Reilly, some of her people were also corrupt.
    During a bust at a warehouse in issue #5, they led her right into a
    trap. When she discovered a piece of evidence in plain view, she
    approached with two other cops, only for a plastic cage to emerge from
    the floor and trap them inside. What’s worse, the plastic cage turned
    out to be a gas chamber. Gas immediately seeped in through the floor
    and, despite a few valiant efforts to escape, all three officers
    suffocated to death.

    So the bad guys are using a gas chamber that utilizes inert gas that
    displaces oxygen instead of just something, you know, poisonous?

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to anim8rfsk@cox.net on Mon Jun 25 13:54:40 2018
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    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Unfortunately for O’Reilly, some of her people were also corrupt.
    During a bust at a warehouse in issue #5, they led her right into a
    trap. When she discovered a piece of evidence in plain view, she
    approached with two other cops, only for a plastic cage to emerge
    from
    the floor and trap them inside. What’s worse, the plastic cage
    turned
    out to be a gas chamber. Gas immediately seeped in through the
    floor
    and, despite a few valiant efforts to escape, all three officers
    suffocated to death.

    So the bad guys are using a gas chamber that utilizes inert gas that >displaces oxygen instead of just something, you know, poisonous?

    Isn't that how poisonous gas works?

    I assume they weren't going to use something like mustard gas or
    sarin.

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  • From Wouter Valentijn@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 25 20:21:26 2018
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    Op 25-6-2018 om 17:17 schreef anim8rfsk:
    In article <20180625-134023.541.0@Ubiquitous.news.giganews.com>,
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Unfortunately for O’Reilly, some of her people were also corrupt.
    During a bust at a warehouse in issue #5, they led her right into a
    trap. When she discovered a piece of evidence in plain view, she
    approached with two other cops, only for a plastic cage to emerge from
    the floor and trap them inside. What’s worse, the plastic cage turned
    out to be a gas chamber. Gas immediately seeped in through the floor
    and, despite a few valiant efforts to escape, all three officers
    suffocated to death.

    So the bad guys are using a gas chamber that utilizes inert gas that displaces oxygen instead of just something, you know, poisonous?


    Without oxygen it's game over.

    Unless they can hold their breath really really really long. :-)

    --
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    And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

    Manic Street Preachers

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