Armstrong Fatbuckle: Difference between revisions

|residence= [[New York City]]<br>[[Hell (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Hell]]<br>([[Reality Z-25 31-H]])

Following his death in a car accident, he proved too infuriating for even [[the Devil (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Devil]] to deal with and he was banished back from [[Hell (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]]. During this superheroic career, he was sometimes referred to as '''the Living Skeleton''' ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014 (comic story)|Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014]]'', ''[[Symbiote Surprise (comic story)|Symbiote Surprise]]'') or '''the Human Skeleton'''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Road Trip Of No Return (comic story)|Road Trip Of No Return]]'', ''[[Symbiote Surprise (comic story)|Symbiote Surprise]]'')

[[File:Armstrong rises from the grave.png|thumb|right|200px|The Worst Man in the World rises from the grave. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'')]]Fatbuckle's soul ended up in [[Hell (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Hell]], where he was personally greeted by [[the Devil (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Devil]] himself. Despite the latter's attempt to scare him, however, Fatbuckle simply fell back on old habits, ignoring the Devil and behaving as rudely as possible; he mocked the demon with the fact that, already being dead and in hell, there was little the Devil could do to threaten him further. He went so far as to sleep with the Devil's consort, [[Mephista]]. This was the last straw for the Devil, who banned Armstrong's soul from hell and returned it to his now skeletal body on Earth as an undead. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'')

[[File:Armstrong resolves to be good.png|thumb|left|Armstrong takes a strange resolution while living the high life. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enter–the Legion of Light! (comic story)|Enter–the Legion of Light!]]'')]]Immediately after his resurrection, Armstrong Fatbuckle attempted to simply resume his old life of wild partying. He had one wild soirée, until he discovered the trick the vengeful Devil had played on him: finding himself alone with the woman he'd flirted with, he realised that as a skeleton, he utterly lacked the physical means to make love to her, at least in a way he would enjoy. However, his despair was short-lived, as he quickly decided that he still could party and dance away a night, and that, anyway, this fate still beat being damned by far. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hell Is Too Good For Him (comic story)|Hell Is Too Good For Him]]'') Indeed, he found his new life so heavenly that his thoughts turned to the possibility of redeeming himself sufficiently to be allowed to visit [[Heaven (Reality Z-25 31-H)|actual Heaven]] to see how it compared. Armed with this new heroic resolve, he constituted himself the ally and protector of the group of strippers he had been partying with. ([[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 (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]], [[Jenny Nowhere (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!]]'')

[[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 (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Captain]] and [[Jenny Nowhere (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”.  

[[File:Armstrong Fatbuckle in Shower Intermission.png|thumb|right|Armstrong apologises to Jenny for his carelessness. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Shower Intermission (comic story)|Shower Intermission]]'')]]Shortly after these events, Armstrong accidentally walked in on [[Jenny Nowhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Jenny]] in the showers of the [[Fortress of Evening]]. This seemed to cause her much distress, not for the obvious reasons, but because she had attempted to [[shift]] away the instant she heard the door opening, only to find that she couldn't: banishing Armagedda seemed to have temporarily sapped her shifting energies altogether. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Shower Intermission (comic story)|Shower Intermission]]'')  

[[File:Armstrong and Madison in Meanwhile, On Earth.png|thumb|left|Armstrong with [[Professor Madison]] at [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]]'s party. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, On Earth (comic story)|Meanwhile, On Earth]]'')]][[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 21-H|Jenny]], announcing that she had recovered her powers completely, [[shift]]ed the entire [[The Odds|Odds]] team, now including [[the Blue Knight]], back to the [[Fortress of Evening]] in an instant, with them appearing in [[Professor Madison]] and [[Rodney Rabbit]]'s bedroom. Madison began running tests on the Blue Knight while the other heroes freshened up in the Fortress's shower room. They soon had to leap back into action as Rodney informed them, based on what he was seeing on live television, that the ceremony where [[Captain Perfect]] was to be given the Keys to the City by [[Mayor Wilson]] was under attack by a giant robot called “[[Ultimatron]]”. The Odds rushed to the scene, but only succeeded in distracting Perfect, who was knocked out by the robot. They tried to defeat Ultimatron, but had little luck, with [[Centennia]] soon arriving and dispatching it herself.  

After it transpired that the entire attack had been staged by Captain Perfect as a publicity stunt, he was punched into the distance by Centennia. Impressed, Captain Evening asked Centennia if she would consider joining “the Odds”, and she seemed to agree. To celebrate their victory and Centennia's joining, Captain Evening organised a party at the Fortress, inviting “all his hero friends” — including the Odds, the [[Terrific Two]], [[Glow Girl]], [[Mysto the Space-Wizard]], [[the Big Bad Wolf (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Big Bad Wolf]], [[Red Riding Hood (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Red Riding Hood]] and [[Terry Tornado]]. Armstrong decided to sunbathe on a deckchair on the roof, incongruously wondering partway through if he had “put enough lotion on”. Later, he clinked glasses with Professor Madison as the assembled heroes watched the sunset from the Fortress's balcony. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, On Earth (comic story)|Meanwhile, On Earth]]'')  

[[File:Armstrong and the Blue Knight realise Jenny Everywhere is gone.png|thumb|right|300px|Armstrong and [[the Blue Knight]] stare at [[Jenny Nowhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Jenny Nowhere]]'s discarded [[Jenny Everywhere]] disguise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, In Queens (comic story)|Meanwhile, In Queens]]'')]]At some point, he stumbled into a strangely unaggressive [[Armagedda]], back on Earth at full power. They ended up going on a second date, and he even went back to what she told him was “her place”. Still unsure of her intentions, Armstrong finally told the other Odds about the encounter and led them to the base in question, where it turned out that this had all been a trap to lure all the Odds in the lap of the alliance of villains created by [[Evil Cloak]], who revealed herself as their very own Jenny — who was not an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere as she'd led them to believe, but of [[Jenny Nowhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Jenny Nowhere]]. In the subsequent battle, Armstrong was knocked down by [[Jesse Brain]], and didn't manage to collect his bones together again until after Nowhere had been killed by [[Gazoom]], putting a rather abrupt end to the fight. After the Odds returned to the Fortress of Evening, Armstrong announced his intention to take [[Merv the Griffin|Merv]] and [[the Blue Knight]] on a road trip to show them sights of 21st century Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, In Queens (comic story)|Meanwhile, In Queens]]'')

[[File:Cosmic Solution disassembles Armstrong Fatbuckle.png|thumb|left|The [[Cosmic Solution]] knocks Armstrong to pieces. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Journey Out Of Misery (comic story)|Journey Out Of Misery]]'')]]However, the project had to be postponed when a robot known as the [[Cosmic Solution]] began attacking [[New York City]] (having actually been sent by the [[Cosmic Order]] to carry out the destruction of humanity following [[Armagedda]]'s failure). Although [[Robot Madison]] had summoned as many heroes as she could, meaning a small team including [[Mysto the Space-Wizard]], [[Terry Tornado]], [[the Big Bad Wolf (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Big Bad Wolf]], [[Red Riding Hood (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Red Riding Hood]] and [[the Human Tree]] got there first, [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]] soon answered the call, leading most of the Odds into battle on his [[Skycycle]].

[[File:Armstrong Fatbuckle in Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014.png|thumb|245px|right|Armstrong dancing with [[Gertrude]] and [[Brunhilda]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014 (comic story)|Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014]]'')]][[The Odds]] (now joined by the [[Jenny Everywhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|real Jenny Everywhere]]) were offered a vacation by the mysterious [[Mr Montibar]], and flew to the equally-mysterious, magical [[Kokotomo Island]], where dreams could magically come true for a limited period of time. In Armstrong's case, this allow him to party wildly and merrily with the [[Valkyrie]]s [[Gertrude]] and [[Brunhilda]]. He then returned home on the same plane with the other Odds, save for Jenny and Centennia, who decided to stick around on Kokotomo. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014 (comic story)|Tales To Behold Halloween Cameo Caper 2014]]'')

[[File:Armstrong Fatbuckle in Chasing Shadows.png|thumb|right|285px|Armstrong fared badly in [[the Odds]]' first confrontation with [[the Shadow Queen]] and her armies of evil living shadows.  ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Chasing Shadows (comic story)|Chasing Shadows]]'')]]When [[the Shadow Queen]] attacked [[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]], [[the Odds]] — including Armstrong, [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Captain]], [[the Blue Knight]] and [[Merv the Griffin]] — responded almost immediately. Despite their speed, they did not fare well in their first battle against the Queen's shadow-warriors, who were intangible when they tried to punch them, but very much capable of dealing damage to flesh-and-blood — or, as the case may be, bone — opponents. Only the setting of the sun brought an end to the fight, forcing the Queen to retreat lest her shadows dissolve into the darkness of the night. However, the Captain managed to hurl a tracking device at her.