Welcome back to Boomb Tube, Multiversity’s weekly column detailing the current Cape Cartoons scene. This week, we have a heavy case of continuity as we go back to a missed Teen Titans Go! and Agents of SMASH decides to do a really quick Thor: The Dark World recap. Spoilers ahead!
“Be Mine” opened with a flashback to an episode of Teen Titans Go! I pretty much forgot all about. Actually I’ve been pretty forgetful as this was supposed to be last week’s TTG! but due to an internet mix-up I ended up watching what would’ve been this week’s. However, this episode takes place after “Opposites” from last week so it looks like my psychic powers have kicked in. Granted, they’re based around cartoons but I’ve had sadder points in my life. Anyway, a couple episodes ago, Raven threw Terra into a dimension filled with trash and, with Valentine’s now around the corner, Beast Boy wants to see her again. After Cyborg lets slip where she is (and incredibly turns into a rocket and flies away), Beast Boy pulls Terra out of a trash which is a pretty good metaphor of what it’s like to get back with an ex. Terrathen immediately begins to plot murdering the Titans because of course.
Starfire, meanwhile, hasn’t even bothered with plotting and straight up gives Robin a human heart, tells him not to ask where it came from, and invites a baby dressed as Cupid into the room. This is honestly a lot worse compared to Terra who stomps around and says she’ll kill everyone. It’s pretty rough, but not as rough as Raven’s feels. Raven’s implied she has feelings for Beast Boy and is feeling pretty broken up about Terra’s return. At the Valentine’s party (where Jinx is there, imprisoned as Cyborg’s girlfriend. I TOLD you I was good with the chronology!), Beast Boy sings a song to Terra about how much he loves her which is an actual song written by BB’s voice actor for his actual girlfriend and is sweet if you like Train, I guess. Before anyone even has the five seconds to forget train, Raven bursts in, punches Terra and throws her back into the trash which Beast Boy jumps after her into.
Normally this would be the joke sad ending that Teen Titans Go! pulls off all the time where everything’s back together later but considering that Jinx is now Cyborg’s boyfriend and that Terra came back, I think we may now be finally experimenting with continuity. They might actually have a long form story revolving around getting Beast Boy back from Terra. I mean, I’d rather have ridiculous instances of dancing rather than an overdrawn plot from this show but yeah I’ll take it. Just goes to show we live in brave times, friends.
Final Verdict: 7.8 – Brave times, indeed.
Over on Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, The Agents end up helping Thor and the Warriors Three fight off some Dark Elves because this episode’s gotta start somewhere, right? Hulk says my favorite nonsensical line in the series thus far “NEVER BRING A SWORD TO A SLUG FEST!” if only because the image of a guy bringing a sword to a slug convention and being frowned at is incredible. Also, She-Hulk says “these frost giants look pretty weird” and I don’t know if I’m pretentious enough to call her racist. Malekith strolls in with more personality than his movie counter-part (which is easy when the latter is Christopher Eccleston frowning for two hours until someone pays him.) He says “YOUR DAY IS OVER! NOW COMES THE DARKNESS” because Thor: The Dark World and then literally makes the field dark. The Agents and Asgardians win because it’s the Dark Elves, not an actual threat.
Everyone journeys back to Asgard to party. There, Thor points out The Odinsword, tells everyone not to touch it, and appoints Skaar as an elite guard. It takes literally less than a minute for Loki to whisper at Skaar, causing him to pick up the Odinsword. Good hustle, team. The Asgardians immediately arrest Skaar because having been around Loki for a couple millennia isn’t enough to remind them that he’s probably capable of doctoring the hilariously obvious doctored footage of Skaar saying he’s totes planning to use the Odinsword to cause Ragnarok and rule Earth. Considering that his other dialogue has consisted of “AAARGH!” and silence, I find that evidence to be pretty inadmissible.
Continued belowThere’s no time to care though, as a breakout attempt by the Agents that starts a mini-war with Asgard is interrupted by the less interesting Malekith who gets into Asgard thanks to the Odinsword debacle. I don’t wanna underestimate you Asgardian guys, but if your Ragnarok is Malekith then you guys are fine as shown when the Dark Elves are defeated by Skaar picking up the Odinsword again and leading a beatdown on Malekith with it, because according to the Miami Heat’s own Chris Bosh (Heimdall), the only thing that could defeat Malekith was his source of power: The Odinsword.
Okay seriously, on a scale of one to Ragnarok, Malekith is like a solid lego piece on the floor. Annoying? Yeah man. Throw Skaar in prison? Nah man.
Oh and you know how Thor: The Dark World was basically Star Wars in Asgard? In an attempt to just rub it in our face at this point, they recreate the medal ceremony from New Hope, replacing Chewbacca’s yell with She-Hulk implying she’s totally going to make out with Fandral later. Huh. Good for her.
Final Verdict: 6.3 – Though I don’t think it was as good as Thor: The Dark World, it did have Malekith say more than eight words so that’s pretty cool.
