does freakazoid work like the mask where you have control what you do or like the hulk where it just does whatever?

>>149205631 (OP)
Either way

It's kind of ambiguous. In some episodes it seems clear he's Dexter, just taking on a different and more confident personality after transforming. In another episode Dexter is shown living in Freakazoid's head, as if he's given up control. It seems he spends most of his time as Freakazoid either way as time goes on.

>>149205631 (OP)
Freakazoid always seemed like a completely different person from Dexter. I feel like Dexter didn't control him at all, he'd just call on him and hope for the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGL0Om6-yNA

>>149205631 (OP)
From what I remember he just appears and takes over Dexter.

In one episode it is said that Freakazoid just waits inside Dexter's mind whenever he's not transformed

>>149205631 (OP)
The fact that Freakazoid seemed to have his own life separate from Dexter implies they were different identities.
Freakazoid has his own friends, possessions, daily plans. Dexter is never connected to any of this.

>>149205666
In some episodes he refers to Dexter's family as his own, and in another he refers to Dexter as his "real name".

>>149205631 (OP)
I don't think anyone can control Frekazoid not even himself.

>>149205715
I'll take your word on that. It's been a very long time since I watched it. It just doesn't seem much like Dexter controls him at all, as far as I can recall.

>>149205631 (OP)
Ehhh Dexter kinda gets written away, I’d say it’s more like Freakazoid is a madness that takes over. Truthfully though it’s a comedy and they never went into that much detail about it. Early on they had Dexter able to freak on and off, than later they make a joke about How Cosgrove gives away Freakazoids secret identity to Betty and Freakazoid gets a little pissy. So yeah I go with the madness theory and Freakazoid taking major control.

>>149205631 (OP)
Hulk rules, but Dexter can reason with Freakazoid.
Freakazoid isn't unreasonable, just childish. He's not trying to ruin Dexter's life, even if occasionally messing with him is amusing. Like imagine having to share your body with The Tick.

>>149205842
The Tick deserves better than me.

>>149205856
You may say that but consider the Tick still being forced to share your body, and having to see every aspect of your life that puts you in the circumstances of your current situation. This will probably cause The Tick to have some degree of sympathy for you and encourage him to attempt to improve your life. Especially considering how you being happier and leading a better life also improves his conditions when The Tick takes control.
That's what Freakazoid deals with. That's what Freakazoid's daily life is like.

>>149205780
>I’d say it’s more like Freakazoid is a madness that takes over
I like this theory, that's basically how I see it too. He still considers Dexter his secret identity, but the Freakazoid persona has basically taken over. The idea of him being a completely separate entity also depresses me a bit.

Plus it's more inline with Gutierrez's transformation. For whatever reason he's just able to maintain his normal personality more.

>>149205964
>>149205856
>Too bad chum, every ingredient matters even if you don’t like the start of it together we make chum and with that we feed the sharks of Justice and the fish of liberty!
>Without people to save what good is a hero? The ecosystem of the hero needs to lift those up so save me by letting me save you and let’s get in the bucket to be chum together!

>>149206031
... That's Beautiful Anon.

>>149205842
What did /co/ think of Amazon Tick? I liked it but I never read the comics, just watched the cartoon and tried (and failed) to watch the other LA one with whatshisface

>>149205964
All of these shows (except The Mask) were cancelled abruptly in November of 1996. And in each case they didn't even finish showing every produced episode.

>>149205964
Tick also broke out of an insane asylum. He is also a little unhinged like Freakazoid.

>>149206102
The tick wouldn’t let a hypothetical host down.

>>149207519
I don't buy into the idea that she would have been Steff. She was more of a joke regarding damsel love interests than an actual character.
>"Dat was quit a jolt, Freak!"

Whatever's funny

>>149208037
Kind of like how Roger Rabbit couldn't get out of those handcuffs until it was funny?

>>149205631 (OP)
He's more like Ermac from Mortal combat. Dexter's voice is in there, but it's drowned out in the sea of other voices of every other internet user.
That said, unlike Hulk or the Mask, Freakazoid considered him and Dexter two sides of the same person, and will actively avoid ruining Dexter's life, for the most part.

Freakazoid is on DVD yeah?

>>149206014
There's a degree of "Mad with power" that the freakazoid state induces. For a timid nerd like Dexter the change is more obvious, but Gutierrez was already somewhat mad with power before his transformation so it's less of a change.

>>149209815
Yeah, the first season is like $15, but for some reason I can't find the second season for less than $100

>>149205631 (OP)
>Freakazoid possesses all the knowledge of the Internet

Poor Dexter

>>149210033
The insane part was that that included all the information about his own show.

>>149210033
>If Freakazoid were rebooted this would either need to be changed or Freakazoid's core personality would be heavily meme based

>>149210315
Yes and no. Memes would definitely be a big part of his personality, but it wouldn't just be modern memes, it would be all of the from throughout the history of the internet, so a lot of his humor would end up being seemingly random gags that are actually just outdated references, so he wouldn't change all that much in the long run.

>>149210315
They already tried, but internet gas just don't hit the same as a full Internet immersion!

>>149211126
Jesus that’s terrifying, at one point he’s stretching his asshole out to force you into a void of rapture Jesus and cock mongalers the next he’s firing his baaa! And when you think you can get close enough he asks you English or Spanish and you freeze you’re not memeing he honestly freezes you in time. Than to rub salt in the wound he walks up to you and says you just lost the game.

>>149211300
No wonder why he drives the villains crazy

>>149211339
Well, he's a lunatic...

He's a separate entity who spends his off time in Dexter's head, dreaming of conquering Switzerland and getting all its chocolate.

>>149211126
Yeah but "The internet empowered him" is such a weak origin for his reality warping powers. You can tell it's written by guys who didn't fully understand the technology that was so new and changing the world at that time. It's like Frankenstein's monster coming back to life just because you zapped it with enough lightning because electricity was new and scary when it was written.
Although I will accept the possibility they deliberately wrote it that way as an injoke in the writers room that his origin story is ironically tech-phobic.

If you were rebooting Freakzoid and planning to insert stealth lore to the show you could probably keep the original backstory for Dexter and pull off a nice reveal as a season climax when everyone finds out the whole internet thing was just a smoke screen and the powers were delivered from a different source.
Best I can think of though would be cross-dimensional rift to a looney toons world that gave him toon force powers. Maybe if you started it as a Dial H for Hero spin off where Dexter just has a permanent link to all toons in that reality bending dimension.

>>149211450
What if it was Dexter getting into an argument with a powerful elder-god in an online Japanese cartoon forum and upon installing a new piece of hardware in his tower the Elder god was finally able to track his IP address through the internet and "curse him" with all of the knowledge of the internet and the ability to warp reality, as a punishment for being a "know-it-all".

>>149211239
Thank you for the opportunity to post this.

>>149211450
Yes and no. Freakazoid's powers come from cyberspace, the virtual reality in which the internet and all video games exist. While the contents of the internet blasting his mind with all the information know to man is what caused his insane personality, it was cyberspace itself that gave him his powers, not the internet. When Dexter first enters the code he enters cyberspace as his normal human self, but becomes transformed by the core, the center of cyberspace from which all virtual reality is generated before it is programmed with properties. This is the source of his reality bending powers, as it turned him into a blank slate which he can alter the properties of on the fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_n6_Ndx3Q

>>149211359
how did the joker encounter go?

>>149211858
Harley gets raped, maybe just some light molestation.

>>149211858
>>149211908
Oddly enough there was no rape required on Harley's part. Can't say the same for the Joker after he met Cosgrove.

>>149211858
>Hey Freakazoid, wanna help me rape a clown?

>>149205661
I remember one episode where the two argue and morph back and forth because Freakazoid doesn't want to go into the sewers to pursue a criminal and treats him freaking in/freaking out like changing between two different people.

>>149212129
>I ordered a double clown meaty meat and I’m gonna take a double.

>>149206014
ye season 2 uses a lot more "mask" like configuration than a more "hulk" like configuration

>>149212129
>>149212869

>>149205661
>>149205666
>>149205715
Freakazoid is mentally a sperate entity but since he share the same life with Dexter up to the point of the first transformation they are basically divergent versions of the same guy sharing a body.

>>149209459
Yes, EXACTLY like that.

>>149211450
One of the earlier origin pitches was an accident with the garage door opener. It was such a low priority to the writers.

>>149214762
Uncle Handman is disappointed.

>>149205631 (OP)
The Mask doesn't have control though. The user just acts upon his desires without any inhibition. You're not in control if you can't stop yourself.

>>149209801
Full pic?

Did we ever figure out why candlejack always solves the captcha and hits post before h

>>149217907
Well maybe Candlejack has a 4chan pa

>>149207542
>>149207519
You think that's mysterious, look up Weena Mercator as the Hopping Woman.

>>149205631 (OP)
Split personality. Dexter is too timid to be so outgoing, so he has another personality doing it for him. They do interact with each other regularly, so there's no question of control, Freakazoid just does with Dexter would do if he weren't so shy.

>>149205631 (OP)
What incarnation? The movie Mask has nothing to do with Big Head from the comics. Big Head is a demonic supernatural parasite who gives you the illusion of control at first but the more you wear him, the more you just become a vessel and skin puppet. It also functions like Ryuk from Death Note where you have to keep entertaining it and feeding it desire and hatred or else it gets bored of you and goes to someone else.

Besides his own moral code, was there anything stopping Freakazoid from taking full control of Dexter and just never switching back?

>>149205780
>>149206014
That is scary, it means Dexter has disappeared and only Freakzoid exists now.

>>149205631 (OP)

freak is the hyde to dexters jekyl. its why even though hes so manic he and cosgrove fit to a T.

>>149213029
Nobody could do Cosgrove's deadpan delivery like Ed Asner.

>>149219263
You could trick him into saying "freak in"

>>149218922
Dude your not supposed to say his name

>>149219691
Why, it's just a name? How could saying Candlejakc possib

>>149205631 (OP)
>mask where you have contro
See: >>149219771
You have control as the mask???
The cartoon has deep lore where you are not really in control of the mask proven when the psychiatrist and pretorius the science villain put on the mask.

Also the old bully puts it on. There is no real control. Not like you understand it. And the cartoon was VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT THIS!

>>149209801
He's such a likable goofball but sometimes he can look off putting

>>149219515
>>149213029
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfIWxAvqg1o
Cosgrove had a lot of great lines. But overall it was the fact he could be just as effective as Freakazoid without any powers.

>>149219842
Some people like VENOM just can't handle the power of MASK.

>>149220891
Wasn't a big fan of season 2 because I thought Cosgrove worked better in small doses than as a sidekick.

>>149205631 (OP)
I always thought that it worked on Hulk rules, but since Dexter and Freakazoid started out as the same person, they don't see the swap as an issue so much as time away from dealing with either Dexter's shitty family or superheroing after a particularly annoying fight

>>149205631 (OP)
It works like the Mask where it brings out the real you, the weirdo you truly are deep inside, and makes it a separate entity that you can release on command.

>>149214762
Uh oh, FOTM powers tingling. Musst...fight...urge...to draw....lewds!

>>149206289
I dunno what /co thought but I liked it.

>>149206289
I liked it wished it layed longer but easily the best live action tick.

>>149220787
Sometimes he looks as crazy as he is.
>>149217635
Thats it as far as I know

>>149222314
this is the EXACT pic that was on my mind when I said that, he looks wrong man

>>149205631 (OP)
Whatever works for a joke

>>149222381
What do you expect? His mind not only contains all knowledge on the internet, but also the knowledge that his own reality is fictional, and only through keeping the attention of inter-dimensional viewers can he keep his universe from being canceled.
I'd look pretty unhinged too.

>>149222574
it doesn't help that in that particular pic his build is definitely different, he has a bulkier mass and it almost looks like he has a hunchback with how his head stretches from the middle forward and his hands open almost like claws, way less friendly looking and more like a serial killer or villain that Batman would fight

wait if he knows what the internet knows, does that include AI?

>>149222608
That was also one of his earliest drawings, back when he was taking more inspiration from The Creeper

>>149222665
figures
I knew it had to be a prototype of some kind, it was too different, and even then Freakazoid can still sometimes look too bizarre, many apparently got scared of him as kids
i guess it's his eyes and grin because even Creeper isn't that...well creepy

there is no way the Incredibles didn't have some inspiration from him
not even just the suits, Syndrome looks almost one to one

>>149222661
AIs can only learn information that is on the internet so anything an AI could know he would know. However the only AI he's actually interacted with is Al G Rhythm, who banished Freakazoid from digital media when AI became a prevalent thing.

>>149222738
yeah I meant like, would he be able to sort of have AIs in his mind calculating with hi or something if he wanted? The concept itself is messed up, the guy wouldn't just be wacky, he would be mumbling to himself

>>149222727
It's possible, but it could also just be lateral thinking, since they were both meant to be "iconic yet generic superhero" designs.

>>149222769
He's not shown to have a live connection to the internet within his mind, it was just blasted with all the information currently on it when he went to cyberspace. While not entirely out of the realm of possibility for him to do (very little is), it is implied his human mind is not well equipped to handle or catalog all that information, hence his insane personality.

>>149222857
have the AI do that shit and he would be sane by comic book logic, unless his mind cant withstand the AI itself