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-}}In [[Reality Z-25 31-H]], [[New York City]] bon viveur '''Armstrong Fatbuckle''' was dubbed '''the Worst Man in the World''' for his rude, superior, offensive disposition. Following his death in a car accident, he proved too infuriating for even [[the Devil#In Reality Z-25 31-H|the Devil]] to deal with and he was banished back from [[Hell#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Hell]] to the land of the living in the form of a talking, walking skeleton some nicknamed “'''Boney'''”. The resurrected Armstrong continued to enjoy a life of wild partying and, indeed, ended up mellowing down to an extent.
+}}In [[Reality Z-25 31-H]], [[New York City]] bon viveur '''Armstrong Fatbuckle''' was dubbed '''the Worst Man in the World''' for his rude, superior, offensive disposition. Following his death in a car accident, he proved too infuriating for even [[the Devil#In Reality Z-25 31-H|the Devil]] to deal with and he was banished back from [[Hell#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Hell]] to the land of the living in the form of a talking, walking skeleton some nicknamed “'''Boney'''”. The resurrected Armstrong continued to enjoy a life of wild partying and, indeed, ended up mellowing down to an extent and joining [[the Odds]].
 == Description ==
 === Physical appearances ===
 At the time of his death, Armstrong Fatbuckle was an ordinary-looking middle-aged Anglo-Saxon, slightly portly without being truly fat. He had short, fair hair and light-coloured eyes. After his resurrection, he appeared as a clean white skeleton, whose skull's facial features were capable of contorting to form lifelike expressions. He decided to forego wearing any clothes, no longer possessing any attributes which modesty might require him to conceal. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'')
 === Personality ===
-In life, Armstrong Fatbuckle was rude and superior to everyone he met, not only spending his life attending expensive and decadent parties, but also doing his level best to ruin them for everyone else, a mocking, drunken smirk on his face. It was only after being resurrected as a skeleton that Fatbuckle mellowed down somewhat, remaining a ''bon viveur'' but becooming a positive presence for those around him, such as loose women of [[New York City]], to whom he became a kind of protector. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'')
+In life, Armstrong Fatbuckle was rude and superior to everyone he met, not only spending his life attending expensive and decadent parties, but also doing his level best to ruin them for everyone else, a mocking, drunken smirk on his face. It was only after being resurrected as a skeleton that Fatbuckle mellowed down somewhat, remaining a ''bon viveur'' but becooming a positive presence for those around him, such as loose women of [[New York City]], to whom he became a kind of protector. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'') He had a folksy cunning, able to trick villains into their doom. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Redistribution (comic story)|Redistribution]]'')
 === Powers & abilities ===
 Following his resurrection as a living skeleton, Fatbuckle displayed the ability to continue controlling limbs even after they were separated from the rest of his body. This gave him a certain edge in a physical fight, although he had no special strength or skill as a fistfighter otherwise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')
 == Biography ==
 === Life and death ===
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 === Facing the Legion of Light ===
-[[File:Armstrong vs Red Vicious.png|thumb|right|220px|Armstrong Fatbuckle fights [[Red Vicious]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')]]Armstrong's first opportunity to do good did not take long to arise as the night-club was attacked by the self-righteous, bigoted [[Legion of Light]], latter-day knights in armour who held a [[Magic Sword of the Legion of Light|Magic Sword]]. Believing Armstrong to be a [[demon]] when he leapt to the girls' defence, the Legion used their sword to summon “another” demon, [[Red Vicious]], to fight Armstrong. Although initially managing to use his ability to keep moving detached limbs to his advantage, Armstrong was overwhelmed by the red demon, only for the thankful strippers to help him fight him off. [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]], [[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|“Jenny Everywhere”]], [[Merv the Griffin]], [[Professor Madison]] and [[Rodney Rabbit]] then crashed the now-largely-figurative party and helped finish routing the Legion and apprehending its members. Once it was clarified that despite his foreboding appearance, “Boney” had been on the right side of this fight, Evening and his friends took him back to the Captain's home, where they painstakingly reassmebled Armstrong's skeleton. They then offered him the opportunity to join the [[The Odds|growing superhero team]] coalescing around the Captain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')
+[[File:Armstrong vs Red Vicious.png|thumb|right|220px|Armstrong Fatbuckle fights [[Red Vicious]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')]]Armstrong's first opportunity to do good did not take long to arise as the night-club was attacked by the self-righteous, bigoted [[Legion of Light]], latter-day knights in armour who held a [[Magic Sword of the Legion of Light|Magic Sword]]. Believing Armstrong to be a [[demon]] when he leapt to the girls' defence, the Legion used their sword to summon “another” demon, [[Red Vicious]], to fight Armstrong. Although initially managing to use his ability to keep moving detached limbs to his advantage, Armstrong was overwhelmed by the red demon, only for the thankful strippers to help him fight him off. [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]], [[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|“Jenny Everywhere”]], [[Merv the Griffin]], [[Professor Madison]] and [[Rodney Rabbit]] then crashed the now-largely-figurative party and helped finish routing the Legion and apprehending its members. Once it was clarified that despite his foreboding appearance, “Boney” had been on the right side of this fight, Evening and his friends took him back to the Captain's home, where they painstakingly reassembled Armstrong's skeleton. They then offered him the opportunity to join the [[The Odds|growing superhero team]] coalescing around the Captain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')
+=== Among the Odds ===
+[[File:Armstrong Fatbuckle in Redistribution.png|thumb|left|235px|Armstrong Fatbuckle goes on a date with [[Armagedda]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Redistribution (comic story)|Redistribution]]'')]]Armstrong officially became a member of [[the Odds]] alongside [[Merv the Griffin]], [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|the Captain]] and “[[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny]]”. Their first case together was that of the “reverse robberies” happening all over town, which turned out to have been organised by [[Armagedda]] in a confused effort to destroy humanity. The group's attack on Armagedda's lair did not amount to much, but after they were captured, Armstrong improvised a deception, claiming (in reply to a supercilious Armagedda's questions about why they were resisting against the inevitable) that they simply hoped to let humanity survive long enough to pass on its “greatest cultural achievement”, which he named as “the all-American date”.
+With Armagedda reluctantly agreeing to go on such a “date” with him, he got her to shed most of her powers and take human form. The two enjoyed an evening out, including dining at a restaurant and going back to “Armstrong's place” afterwards, while the Captain, Merv and Jenny planned their next move. Armagedda (unlike Armstrong) didn't much enjoy the date on the whole, but it served its purpose: coming back from it to her lair, she was knocked out by Merv while still in human form and then forcibly [[shift]]ed by Jenny to [[Universe (Redistribution)|another universe]] using the [[Magic Sword of the Legion of Light]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Redistribution (comic story)|Redistribution]]'')
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