Infinity War in Paw Patrol

In an overcrowded landscape with costly comic book adaptations produced live, Doom Patrol is distinguished by its clever way of choosing and choosing some of the best tropes of the genre, mixing them in a blender and turning them into a strange but harmonious mix of human emotional bows and outlandish and insane narratives. It's fun like that.

Eventually, all these cape performances come to an apocalypse that comes in one form or another that, conveniently, only the titular heroes can and can prevent. Generally, when we complain about the abuse of the apocalypse as a plot in superhero programming, it's because there's not so much of significant differentiation from one to the other (there is a kind of MacGuffin that must be destroyed or else everyone dies) – and, if we are honest, the apocalypses in the movie shoes and television rarely have emotional significance. It took Marvel 10 years, 20 movies and several TV series to succeed grand significant apocalypse, and even now we all know that most of the people killed by Thanos are probably coming back in Avengers: End of the game.

DC Universe Doom Patrol, a show that loves breaking the fourth wall, knows that all this is true for the apocalypse intrigues, but it also understands that it would not be a real comic book series if it did not give the story to the good old college to try … what he does with "Paw Patrol" (No relationship.)

Rather than turn Grant Morrison and Richard Case Doom Patrol from the non-written book cult to a story that lasts all season and ends in an epic battle to decide the fate of the universe, the episodes four ("Cult Patrol") and five ("Paw Patrol") treat the the test as a whole a monster of the week under cosmic steroids. It's a serious problem, of course, but it is a problem for which you will never really doubt that Doom Patrol will be able to defeat even if it is not synchronized with each other.

Even with the help of the charming magician of chaos (John Constantine imitation Willoughby "Kip" Kipling) interpreted by the pillar Mark Sheppard, the Doom Patrol will not prevent the cult from getting their hands on the Unwritten Book – a teenager named Elliot – and will use his powers to wake up the Decreator , a giant eye in the sky that … well, it destroys them.

What Thanos does with the Gauntlet and the Stones of Infinity, the Decreator does it with a gigantic wink and a piercing look that causes the dematerialization of everything he focuses on. Unlike Thanos, who is ultimately a person who strives to put his will into action according to a plan, the Decreator is actually a kind of weapon used by the Nuremberg Archons, two grotesque puppet-like puppet monsters, alike to harlequins, who live in what is essentially a pocket size in a snow globe.

While Rita, Larry, Cyborg and the recently returned leader (who will soon be abducted by Mr. Nobody after the end of their business that saves the world) strive to make sense of the presence of the Decreator and the To avoid her powerful gaze, Cliff and Jane cross Nurnheim in search of the Archons in the hope of seeing how to thwart their plans. Penny Farthing, an English alter ego with an English accent who has not yet appeared, and a chance for them to talk about the strange way they were victimized (like Hammerhead) were aggressive towards Cliff.

The paw patrol regains momentum after the Archons have proven that they are far too powerful for Cliff and Jane to physically fight, and so, shot down, Jane comes out of the castle with Cliff in tow. Although the episode talks about the current apocalypse, "Paw Patrol" also understands that to be a successful superhero television hour, the threat that lurks in the world can not really be the primary target, or even main. Instead, the episode is more like a dive into Jane's psyche and her past, which, coincidentally, touches Nùrnheim and Decreator.

Although she has been relatively at peace with her other characters lately, it has always been obvious that there was in the past a kind of trauma in childhood that could have played a role in the fracture of her mind and his vast metahuman abilities. In DC comics, the trauma is the result of Kay Challis, Jane's original personality, abused by her father and Doom Patrol has not gone yet in this direction, one of the Archons is able to bring Kay, here a child, to the surface of Jane's mind, which alarms her deeply.

Although the details of what happened to Kay are not explained, "Paw Patrol" is a good illustration of Jane's life in the years following her mental breakdown. The episode moves on different dates and finds Jane or one of his different personalities moving around the world in different ways. In 1976, a Dr. Harrison is tortured in a psychiatric asylum where she becomes the leader of a sect (with a nudge from Mr. Nobody), and in 1977, Jane fought on a punk show in New Jersey. In the present, Penny Farthing / Hammerhead are trapped in Nuremberg with a cliff cliff, and everyone outside is almost scared to see that the Decreator will watch them.

"Paw Patrol" begins to hint at the fate of the Doom Patrol to become a part of something much bigger and more central to protecting the existence itself, knowing that while being kept in a psychiatric institution Dr. Harrison began to lay the groundwork for a specific plan. that would eventually stop the Decreator. By persuading a handful of believers to stick to their faith in the so-called Recreator, Harrison is able to create an integrated security for the arrival event of the Decreator. In a way, one of Harrison's supporters has just … reported to Nuernheim, killed the Archons and their henchmen, and pointed Cliff and Jane to a bell in a tower that must be ringing.

Echoing the choice of Anne Ward's "Ring My Bell" episode, Jane rings the bell, steps out of the snow globe with Cliff and gives Kipling the last bit of magic he needs to Summon the Recreator with a dog that draws magical energy from the "book" of the cult). As its name indicates, the Recreator immediately begins to bring people and objects back to life. He embarks on an epic struggle with the Decreator. This could be the solution. Doom PatrolThe world is now.

The paw patrol is impressive in its narrative density while not feeling overworked. The world is in danger and is then saved in an hour, but by that time you see so much more that makes the characters in the team what they are and how they grow up in their new roles. Larry grabs the negative spirit, Rita becomes more confident in her leadership skills and her power, and Cyborg, well, her arm explodes into one of the most horrific scenes in the series. This is a moment of real terror for the team, reminding them how often their powers are difficult to live with and why, in the end, none of them are really comfortable calling themselves hero.

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