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theromanticscrooge · 2 months

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The Shipping Corner: Voxman, A Balm for Capitalist-Induced Angst

Note: I'm sorry this took as long as it did. I've been in a pretty bad slump recently and am just now coming out of it.

Lord Boxman is the black sheep among his peers. This is first established with Professor Venomous' initial distaste towards him and the later reactions he gets when he unexpectedly shows up at Billiam Milliam's villain yacht party. The only kinds of relationships Boxman has with other villains amount to strictly business transactions to create their robot minions. The shareholders that directly fund Boxmore are especially skeptic of Boxman's destroy the Plaza side venture and see this as a misguided, Snidely Whiplash-esque escapade. He's just a Saturday morning cartoon villain and they're the respectable big leagues. When Boxman funnels so much time, effort, energy, and resources towards the Plaza attacks, it takes precious time away from robot production; the one thing he does they consider valuable or worthwhile. They threaten to cut off their support if Boxman's production doesn't increase and then gladly replace him with Darrell when the opportunity arises. Darrell fits the exact mold they need for a CEO: he focuses exclusively on production.

There's no respect. There's no interest in or concern for Lord Boxman as an individual. The dislike is mutual. Of course Boxman doesn't get along with other villains. Most of the known names and faces on screen hold the purse strings and by extension, the fate of Boxman's entire operation. He feels like he has to put on his best face and performance to keep his business afloat. Without Boxmore, he seemingly has nothing and loses everything material. After Boxman was fired by the shareholders, he becomes absolutely depressed and floats around for awhile until Venomous finds him in his trash can. As much as he hates answering to corporate interests, he's locked in as a "robot manufacturer" as much as an Average Joe is stuck at a 9-5 job because of bills, a mortgage; and most frustratingly, how easily someone can fall into the trappings of letting a job define their self-worth or sense of self.

When Professor Venomous gets introduced, he's partly in Boxman's mental bucket of shareholder/necessary business relationships. Boxman goes to great lengths to hide K.O., Rad, and Enid after accidentally booking his business dinner on the same night as an antagonize the Plaza event. He's scared that his 'hobby' would dissuade Venomous from buying any more of his robots and break their already tenuous business deal. Instead, Venomous starts to see Boxman through literal rose-tinted glasses and becomes interested in Boxman's ongoing Plaza rivalry but uses the robots as a continued excuse to check in again on this weird, intriguing man.

Another interesting precedent is that Boxman is more fond of Venomous from the jump. When interacting with other business partners, Boxman is over-the-top and eager to please in video calls and plays the oblivious idiot in casual settings, but behind closed doors, he's bitter towards them. Boxman won't hug his own children and scoffs at open displays of affection. Yet he wants to touch or hug Venomous as often as he can reasonably get away with. Part of his behavior is the same eager to please facade he gives other interested business parties, but the bigger part is a legitimate interest in developing a more personal relationship with Venomous.

The pink shoujo sparkles and elevator eyes Boxman has for Venomous are a blatant indicator he finds him attractive. That's a surprisingly huge part of what kicks off his interest. Look at how he reacts to Dr. Blight in the Captain Planet crossover. Boxman initially shows skepticism and disinterest towards her crazy plans, but the second she flirts with him, the flip switches. The promise of romantic interest grants her access to the full power and force of Boxmore. When she leaves at the end of the episode, Boxman is disappointed. He wanted to continue their partnership, especially their potential interpersonal one.

In Venomous' case, he gets extra points for joining in the fight after the Plaza brats interrupt dinner. He asks about the design and Lego brick-esque connectivity of the Boxbots. He's not above participating in the Saturday morning cartoon skirmish. Rather, he misses that kind of fight and yearns to experience more exploits like it. Venomous is the only on-screen character outside of Boxman's kids that shows a willingness to listen to, try to understand, and engage with Boxman in a more personable, intimate way.

Professor Venomous fell into villainy after he lost his powers and realized how overbearing he found the moral code heroes have. Being a villain comes naturally to him; he likes the fruits of his labor in the vast amounts of wealth, prestige, and material power that he could gain. Fast forward to present-day in the series and he's the picture of a successful villain. He figures out the easy button for amassing stupid amounts of money by threatening a Congresswoman with a death ray. He's sought out for deals involving his scientific prowess. He's respected and liked among other villains to the point he's invited to Billiam's parties. Though while he has a comfortable position, he's become jaded.

Enter Lord Boxman. Compared to the villains Venomous is used to, Boxman dances to the beat of his own drum. He's more interested in defeating the Plaza than an endless vie for prestige, wealth, or power. He says he doesn't care what the other villains think of him and how he does things. No matter what happens, he's going to carve out his own path as a villain and do what he wants to with his life. Somehow, Venomous got tied up in a new, different kind of bureaucratic process as a villain. As a hero, he felt like an outcast and a loser everybody looked down on without super powers. As a villain, he has everything he thought he wanted but it was more of a means to make up for what he lost. It was more compensating and filling in an existential hole vs actually taking meaningful control of his life. In stark contrast to that, Boxman knows exactly what he wants and puts his all into every pursuit, consequences and obstacles be damned.

Collaborating with Boxman is an epiphany. Dreaming up new schemes and plots to challenge the Plaza is fun. It's fulfilling and satisfying to Venomous in a way that heroics and solo villain ventures weren't. There's one scene in particular after Boxman and Venomous join forces for the first time and lose spectacularly. Both of them are smiling; it's joyous. Boxman was down and out without Boxmore, but building Fink's attack trike was a spark of hope that he can rebuild even if its from the ground-up. Venomous just lost his nice house and all of his current material possessions because Boxman blew everything up. But then Boxman turned around and presented the exact existential solution Venomous didn't know he needed by suggesting attacking the Plaza. It's the dinner party attack, but this time, Venomous was a full part of the planning phases. He gets to share in and fully experience the devil-may-care and more whimsical parts of being a villain he thought were long gone.

Venomous offers to buy out Boxmore and root out the shareholders. Finally, Boxman is free of one of the bigger obstacles between him and his all-time favorite venture. Not only does Boxman have free reign, but also the equal partner he so desperately desired; someone that's on his same wavelength and as invested in his kind of villainy as he is.

Another important dimension to Venomous' character is his destructive spiral as Shadowy Venomous. Finding that 'missing piece' in Boxman and Boxmore respectively isn't a magic solution. There's significant baggage in how much emphasis Venomous placed on his need for power. This was such a huge quest and chunk of his life that its difficult to give up on the idea entirely. Its similar to how some people spend so much time chasing after a specific job title or promotion that this elusive thing becomes an important part of what defines them or contributes to their sense of self worth. Venomous left Carol because of a gross misunderstanding that she saw him as weak. He was missing the value he assigned to super powers for so long that every new solution was always a band-aid or a stop gap.

Someone can find a thing or circumstances that significantly improves their life, but they need to see and recognize this psychologically too for it to be completely effective. In other words, Venomous needed to recognize the real-time changes and results from joining Boxmore, then figure out how to weigh those continued changes with his own self-discovery or improvement.

Boxman started improving on being a more proactive parent. Unfortunately, Venomous started getting lost in his own head and pulling away from his other responsibilities or general life. A change as big as a new partner, surroundings, and blended family would be enough to kickstart depression; especially because Venomous hadn't appropriately addressed why he needed this abstract concept of what it meant to be the 'most powerful being.' Success and self-actualization weren't included with the previous accolades he achieved as a villain. It wasn't obvious and forthcoming with Boxman either. The lack of introspection and vulnerable talks with Boxman or anyone else is exactly what led to the wind-up and eventual "I'll destroy everything if it means getting rid of the years of resentment and frustration."

Both Venomous and Boxman have some sort of adult trapped in the shitty corporate world element to their character writing. In a nutshell, Boxman struggles with the existential threat of losing who he is to one specific job he performs; Venomous finds villainy gratifying as more of a hobby or extracurricular activity vs a full-time job. He's successful at it but the version he's successful at is more of a distraction or a means to fill in a missing part of himself than true interest in his corporate role. Boxman's approach to villainy is considered juvenile and worthless. Venomous still loves villainy but he wants the freedom to have fun and go all-out without worrying about reputation or meeting the specific standards that comes with his current position.

In 2024, after the various rise of corporate buzzwords trying to guilt employees back to pre-pandemic work standards and inflation vs stagnant wages, there's new weight to the Boxman and Venomous character allegories respectively. These two are that success story of Boxman giving the middle finger to a crappy boss and Venomous making that leap of faith from an empty, soul-sucking job to the more wild, out of pocket thing. Venomous' ill-obtained funds becomes that treasured pile of "fuck you" money that so many people dream about having and using to take a risk on something personally, meaningfully valuable to them. Or just having a window of opportunity to enjoy life the way they want to without having to worry about bills and necessities.

More importantly though, while they describe themselves as business partners, it's two single, lonely men building a life and trying to healthfully blend their families together. Part of this life is making space for someone new that makes the other man want to work on becoming a better, more thoughtful person. Regardless of where a person sits in their job hunt or even at the height of personal achievement, the most important part is the support network they come home to or regularly interact with.

Thematically, Boxman and Venomous are the opposite side of the coin to the more straightforward found family K.O. builds and maintains. It's a reminder that no one has to be lonely. They can and will find someone that brings meaningful, valuable things to their life; someone that makes them want to change and grow. While this is about an explicitly romantic pair, the message applies whether that hypothetical person and relationship is romantic, platonic, or a new addition to a found family.

#voxman #ok ko voxman #ship analysis #ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko #ok ko professor venomous #ok ko lord boxman #character analysis #ship discussion #shipping analysis #shipping #the shipping corner #theromancescrooge #i'm back bitches

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thewildsophia · 3 months

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OK KO, Let's be Heroes!//KO x Older Sibling!Reader

A/N: I can't believe this hasn't been written before omg. I had the thought of an older sibling reader to KO rolling around in my head while watching the series and was shocked to find no fanfics with the premise. So I did it myself.

NOTE: The Reader's powers are basically Portgas D. Ace's from One Piece. If you aren't familiar, I've attached a few gifs to give you an idea of what it's like.

Word Count: 2026

"Read More Link" placed due to length.

So I can’t think of a realistic way for Reader to be a biological older sibling to KO considering the timeline of what happened.

Soooooooo…You took on the role of KO’s older sibling, even though you’re not related by blood.

[Insert tragic backstory here] and Carol had found you when you were a young teenager wandering about without a home to go to. When she found that out about you, she couldn’t in good conscience leave you alone, so she…adopted you basically. There wasn’t any paperwork involved so you just unofficially become her second child.

Carol was SHOOK when she found out about your superpower (and that’s putting it lightly, she was freaking out--).

It happened when she failed to light the fire underneath her stove a few days after you came to live with her and KO. Not thinking much about it, you held your finger up and lit the fire yourself. When she turned and saw the small fire burning on the tip of your finger she freaked tf out thinking you were hurt.

A one-hour explanation later, she was now on board as to what power you have: You’re made out of fire and can set other things on fire just by looking at them. You even showed her some of your moves the next day faaaaar away from anything flammable.

Carol encouraged you to become a hero and with her help you eventually did. You became a decently high-ranking hero at a young age, clocking in at level 6.

There were a LOT of companies trying and failing to recruit you, but you chose to stay home with Carol and KO (no Carol is NOT crying-).

KO was quite young when you were “adopted,” being around 3 or 4 at the time. Because of that, he always assumed that you were his older sibling by blood and it wasn’t until one day between ages 6 to 11 that Carol told him the truth.

My boy was shocked, but it didn’t change anything between your dynamic.

In fact, you became even more of an inspiration to him on his path to becoming a hero!

You helped Carol a lot at the fitness dojo until Carol got KO a job at Gar’s, to which Carol also had you hired to keep an eye on KO. Not that she didn’t trust him, she just knew that he could get in over his head sometimes and wanted to have someone be there to protect him.

Talking about Gar’s, Rad and Enid absolutely ADORE you. You’re the unofficial manager appointed by them truly because you are a few levels higher than them.

At first, when they heard they were getting two new coworkers, they didn’t think much of it. You and KO seemed nice enough so they didn’t mind having you around.

It’s not until the Darell robot for the day comes busting into the plaza that their opinion changes.

Just ask KO is about to get absolutely decked by Darell, you zoomed onto the scene in a blaze of fire and punched the bot, setting it on fire while also hitting it with enough force to send it back to Boxmore with KO nestled into your other arm.

“Nobody ever touched my little brother.” You muttered under your breath while wrapping KO into your arms further to soothe him. You walk past a stunned Rad and Enid as you enter the store and get back to work.

That day, Rad and Enid also became your younger siblings. Pestering you with questions like “How did you get so strong?” and “Where did you get that power from?” Considering you’re a year or two older and much stronger you embraced the title with honor.

You actually became a little bit of a local celebrity after working at Gar’s for a while. People, locals really, would occasionally come in a ask to take a picture with you. Abashed, you said yes every time because you really couldn’t say no. Real Magic Skeleton even has a picture of you on his site with a small bio (You blushed so hard when you found out you thought you were gonna explode).

Speaking of which, KO LOVES to flaunt you around and hype you up, much to your embarrassment. He says stuff like, “Look at my cool amazingly strong older sibling!” and “My older sibling could beat up your older sibling!”

KO means well, but he embarrasses the shit out of you.

MAD PROTECTIVE. If Carol is protective then you are on another level entirely. If someone even says something mean about KO it’s on sight. People learned very quickly that you are KO’s older sibling and that you will not hesitate to DIE to protect him (KO prays that it never comes to that).

I could see a rude customer coming in and harassing KO about Cob knows what and you just come up behind them and punch them out of the store. When Mr. Gar confronted you about it, you held your ground and stated proudly what you had done. He was honestly surprised at your resolve and didn’t punish you at all, saying “You should stick up for yourself and the ones you love.”

Lord Boxman even became a little weary about attacking the plaza knowing that you worked there and you are a pretty strong defender. That doesn’t stop him, of course, but he does strategize to combat you better.

Professor Venomous encourages Boxman to capture you and “convert” you to villainy since your power is something that could be very useful to them. You’ve heard people throughout your life make comments about how “villainous” your power is, but you never let it get to your head since you know who you are and that’s all that matters.

Taking. Naps. Together. Seriously, if KO ever doses off during one of his shifts, you’re quick to follow him. You’ll scoop him up into your arms and sit down somewhere in the corner and fall asleep with him. Rad and Enid think it’s absolutely adorable and have several pictures of you two.

Rad and Enid will even join your cuddle pile in the break room when time permits (or when they make the time themselves).

KO will even occasionally crawl into your bed at home and sleep with you there. He says that your bed is more comfortable than his, but you really know he gets lonely sometimes.

Piggyback rides! KO loves to lounge on your shoulders and back and will often hang off of you as he does with Rad.

You’re also just used to the feeling of holding/carrying KO that it sometimes feels weird when you haven’t for a while.

When you met TKO for the first time you kinda panicked like many of the other plaza members. It was an especially stressful time in your life (and probably much more for Carol).

TKO wasn’t that fond of you either which made everything 10x harder to deal with. He didn’t actively dislike you, it was more like he wanted nothing to do with you.

Once KO came out of that initial swap between himself and TKO, you didn’t really think much about it.

When he mentioned some “Shadowy Figure” though you immediately began to do as much research as you could on the guy, you were determined to beat the crap out of this guy (if not kill him-).

Listening to KO cry into your and Carol’s arms blabbering about, “I’m so sorry!” and “I don’t know what he did to me!” You honestly thought this man had touched KO (I know I’m not the only one…right??). It took a lot of coaxing, but you eventually managed to understand what happened when KO told you the full story.

It’s not until Dendy begins to monitor KO and TKO that you start to give his alter much thought. You encourage KO to pursue research into his darker ego, assuming he’s okay with it of course, and offer to be someone he can talk to about it if he isn’t comfortable talking to anyone else about it.

During some of these talks, you open up about yourself a bit to KO to make him feel better and let him know that the negative emotions he feels are normal.

During some of the more intimate conversations, you tell him how you used to hurt people and even kill at times before Carol took you in.

KO doesn’t believe you at first. How could someone so kind and loving have killed in their life? You use that to help you explain that good people do bad things sometimes, but that doesn’t make them a bad person.

You teach him that TKO isn’t something that he should be ashamed of and cage up in the back of his mind, but could instead be someone to rely on in times of need.

He feels a lot better after you tell him all of this.

Hugging and holding KO close to you during nights when he feels really bad about himself. Where he doubts his ability to become a good hero and to be able to harness TKO’s powers.

You’d rock him back in forth in his bed while quietly soothing him over his crying. He asked you not to tell Mommy and you promised him that he had your word.

I could honestly see Reader lying to cover up KO’s tracks. Like KO is caught doing something he absolutely should not be doing and instead of immediately admitting fault, you would come up with some realistic yet unfeasible lie that only works about 50% of the time.

KO loves to spar with you! He learned most of his physical skills from you, stuff like punching, jumping, kicking, and all that fun stuff. You’ve never used your fire powers against him though.

There was one incident where Boxmore accidentally found out what your weakness is, that being water. A Shannon bot had thrown you into the little kiddie pool Rad and Enid had set up before the attack started.

When you jumped out of the pool soaking wet and unable to start a fire, the stupid sibling trio laughed and mocked you. Enid was quick to come in with a kick to Raymond’s head and you soon found your footing.

Boxmore learned that day not to underestimate you as even without your powers you’re still a physically strong hero.

However, it would seem that Boxman and Professor Venomous stored that data about you since some of the bots they send are equipped with water guns. You’ve gotten pretty good at dodging them, so that’s kinda cool.

You do remember one time after KO had gotten a handle over TKO where you had been drenched with a bucket of water and right as you were about to get socked by Raymond, KO had pushed you out of the way and dodged the punch himself.

You had never been more proud of KO than in that moment and you made that known to him after the fight. You ran up to him and cradled him in your arms talking about how proud you were and that he was becoming such a fine hero (that last one got him to blush a little).

Rad and Enid definitely took a picture of this and then proceeded to print out a copy and put it in the break room.

When you and KO found out that your mom was dating Mr. Gar, you both were a little unsure about how you felt. When Rad and Enid asked about it, they asked the two of you together and then asked you separately.

Seeing as you’re the older sibling they thought that you would have had a better idea of how you feel about the whole arrangement and were bummed out when they realized that you really didn’t know how you felt.

After the date you four hosted for Carol and Mr. Gar, both you and KO see how happy Mr. Gar makes your mom and decide that if she’s happy then you’re happy as well.

KO is honestly one of the best younger brothers you could ever ask for. He’s kind and selfless and wants to help others when he can. And in return, you are the best older sibling that KO could ever ask for.

Sorry the format looks off in some places, Tumblr just makes booty juice decisions like limiting the character limit per block to 4096 words...

#ok ko #ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko x reader #ok ko let's be heroes x reader #KO x reader #Enid x reader #Rad x reader #Radicles x reader #carol x reader #sibling reader #thewildsophia writes

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yahoo201027 · 2 months

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Day in Fandom History: February 26…

After learning that he’s a robot while getting a haircut, KO learns about the origins of Mr. Logic as one of Boxmore’s robots and how he became good through meeting Mr. Gar and rebelling against his creator. “Lad & Logic” premiered on this day, 6 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #6 Years Ago #OK KO Let's Be Heroes #OK KO #Season 1 #Episode 49 #Lad & Logic #Cartoon #Animation

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k4pp4-8 · 10 months

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any particular OK KO headcanons you have? I love your art, btw!!

Thank you!!!💞💞 I actually had alot of headcanons (most of them are about boxmore of course🤭) so here's a lil' list of the ones I can remember :

•the reason why we barely see mikayla is because she's very lazy and spends most of her time sleeping :3 she falls asleep in the most random places in the factory so the others always have to watch their steps bc if you wake her up you WILL regret it

•also her hobbies include watching anime and chasing random ppl on the street

•fink doesn't call veonmous her dad because she was scared that he doesn't see her as his "real" kid, that's also why she hates KO so much

•after darrell saw a pic of young boxlad in his sailor uniform he begged his father to buy him one so he could dress like boxman

•darrell and fink both love halloween for different reasons. Darrell loves the costumes and fink loves scary things (she always makes the bots watch horror movies)

•jethro, shannon, raymond & darrell love karaoke

•compared from ernesto and darrell, the robots dont really do alot of work in the factory

•darrell got a harmonica for christmas but he's terrible at playing it so the others always try to get rid of it but he somehow always find it

•after sibling rivalry raymond & shannon started bonding bc they realized they have alot in common. This actually made darrell jealous bc he's used to being the one who hangs out with shannon the most

•darrell can't swim!! if you take his floatie away he'll sink like a rock

•venomous enjoys talking with ernesto the most because he's much more calm and mature than his siblings

•fink called boxman "boxdad" by accident, he cried

•fink and darrell are still sharing a room

•foxtail is like an aunt to KO, she often comes to the plaza just to see him and she tells him stories about his mother's hero days at P.O.I.N.T

•shannon dyed KO's hair blond once (he looked even more like carol than usual)•darrell kept the bodega vest (that's one more costume for his collection!)

•shannon secretly has a deep love and appreciation for darrell (THIS ONE IS CANON I JUST WANTED TO POINT IT OUT!!!)

•the "oldest" to "youngest" robots according to me based on vibes : mr.logic > ernesto > raymond > darrell(barely) > shannon > mikayla > jethro > boxman jr

•rad's parents & enid's parents are literally bestfriends. They hang out together, they always call each other, and they always show baby pictures of their kids to each other.

•Ofrang & theodosia often babysit boris and icky

•bernard's a house-husband

•enid & rad play a shit ton of dance dance revolution

•boxman & mr.gar used to be childhood bestfriends who had a falling out and became sworn enemies (ok this one is based on nothing i just thought it would be a fun and interesting concept (also I wanted an excuse to draw gar and boxman as kids)

•darrell was a surprisingly great employee at the bodega (especially for someone who spent every day of his life trying to destroy it)

•he actually doesn't hate the plaza, he doesn't even dislike it he's just attacking it to make boxman happy

•boxman & venomous rebuilt boxman junior

•all their kids actually really like jr except fink and darrell who absolutely hate him. They often conspire to get rid of him.

•Junior hates KO more than anything in the world

•The boxbots wanted a pet so boxman built them double beat so they'd stop annoying him, he actually became the one who loves her the most and he spoils her alot

•drupe and raymond became besties after season 3

•the first time shannon worked at mr.logic hair salon she tried to cut a customer's hair with her buzz-saw

#thats all i can recall rn but i know i have sooo many more hc i cant remember #thank you for this ask!!! now i have an excuse to ramble about ok ko :)))#alot of these are actuallt ideas i wanted to draw (but i got lazy lol)#asks & answers #ok k.o.! let's be heroes #ok ko let's be heroes

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autismhellhole · 2 months

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LORD BOXMAN!!!!!!! 💣📦😡💰

Hello, LOSERS. 🖕🖕🖕. Unfortunately the circumstances are DIABOLICAL. ⚡💢 So I'm STUCK HERE, TIED UP, WITH A BUNCH OF POOP-BRAINS. 🪠😡👎

Let's make this QUICK 🤣🔥. He/She pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️(YES. I KNOW WHAT PRONOUNS ARE. I'm not a DUMB IDIOT.) 🖕I don't care WHAT YOU CALL ME, just PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME! 👑✅. I OWN Boxmore with my SEXY HUSBAND. 💜😍 (He's currently erh.... Not here. 😓💧.) I am a PROUD FATHER of 6 CHILDREN. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦💗 (AND ONE CAT. 🐱). I specialise in ROBOTICS. 🤖🔩.

Please do NOT annoy me. Especially before my morning coffee 🤣☕.

- Lord Boxman 📦

#lord boxman #boxman #ok ko #ok ko let's be heroes #AHH #AHH Lord Boxman

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loser-jpg · 1 year

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i wanted to talk more about professor venomous shadowy figure and shadowy venomous.

So shadowy figure was created as an alternate persona while professor venomous was trying to regain his powers, but SF and PV have nothing in common. SF is obsessed with power, thats his whole thing. There is not a single episode with SF that does not have him obsessing over power. The main example being his obsession with glorbs. Glorbs literally ARE power in the ok ko universe. Glorbs can be sold or traded because they are so sought after, they can be used to power machinery, or they can be used to even give a person a temporary power up. Shadowy figure almost in every appearance goes after them. Most of the time manipulating KO to get them. Another thing SF seems to care so much about is TKO. He continuously tries to get KO to unleash TKO, telling him to "unleash his true power/potential". SF does not care about TKO the person, but the power TKO has.

This is not only different but contradictory to PV, whose whole arc is abandoning the climb for power. At first he stops trying to regain his powers, something he cared about so much, when he goes to villainy, but then again when he joins Boxmore. Most of PVs early appearances he seems depressed and bored with villainy, only excited when Boxman is around, fighting heroes. Boxmans version of villainy is different from the other villains PV knows, the other villains also obsess over power, but Boxman simply wants to attack the plaza and fight heroes. Boxman has no wish for power, even using a large amount of glorbs carelessly only using them to build his machines. PV finds this version of villainy much more appealing and abandons power AGAIN, by merging Voxmore. PV has no real interest in power, which shows the difference between him and SF as SF even has a higher pow card number.

These contradictory goals and ideas make it impossible for PV and SF to be the same person. And although the show never claims this to be the case, it does claim that PV is Shadowy Venomous, and SF is too. SV is supposed to be a merge of PV and SF, but any characteristics SV shares with PV are characteristics SF has. And SV shares many similarities with SF that PV does not have. The main thing being once again power. One of the first things we see SV do is get KO to bring out TKO. But does SV want to meet TKO because he's his son? No. He wants TKO to make a deal with him, a deal for power. SVs main plain is to get all the glorbs that are underneath the plaza, he does this but first, he and TKO destroy not only the plaza, but all over. This isn't something PV would do, but it is something SF would do. SV also has no respect for TKO, getting mad at him when he doesn't do what SV wants, but PV has lots of respect for KO. When KO brings PV to the glorb tree, PV doesn't take a single glorb. Fink does, but once KO tells PV not to take any, he just turns away from them. PV also never pressures KO to do anything evil with him. Always willing to do what KO wants, even if thats hero stuff. Thats a major part of PV that both SF and SV lack, his care for those important to him. PV cares for Fink deeply, but SV ignores her entirely. PV and Boxman act as a unit, pretty much a married couple, since the Voxmore merge, and PV is shown to have so much respect for Boxman. But SV makes Boxman leave after being very cruel and mean to him. He also kicks out the robots, which is something PV wouldn't have done as the robots are important to Boxman and PV respects him. There are just too many differences between PV and SV for them to be the same person.

Another point I want to bring up is KOs relationship with TKO vs PVs relationship with SF and SV. People in the show treat TKO the same as KO. This makes sense because they are the same person. KO says this himself, "You're a part of me and I'm a part of you." TKO is just KO but angry and more powerful. People treat SF and SV completely differently than PV. Fink ignores SV in the same way she ignores SF and even teams up with Rad and Enid against him because "He took away my boss," referring to PV and SV as separate people. Boxman also treats SV different as he seems upset when TKO and SV team up, almost scared, and he gets angry at SV and tells him to leave, in a way he would never talk to PV. At the end of the show SF is even removed from PV, getting rid of SV entirely. At the same time, KO and TKO join together not to make something new, but to just be KO, because thats what they are.

There is nothing that proves that SV and PV are the same person. But there is so much that proves they are different people and that in fact, SV is just SF. What most likely happened was that when PV tried to get rid of SF he accidentally made him more powerful or made a deal to leave the others alone that backfired and gave SF control. It's also likely that SF simply recovered from his fight with Fink and KO and just took control again. After this he probably pretended to be PV to gain KOs trust, then lied about joining with PV to make SV to get TKOs trust, and make a deal with him. Further proved by Fink avoiding him even while he looks like PV.

sorry that this is pretty much an essay just to explain every point i have that shadowy venomous and professor venomous arent the same person but i really wanted to say this

#ok ko #professor venomous #shadowy venomous #shadowy figure #boxman #tko #voxman #voxmore

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shanedoesdoodles · 5 months

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Voxman Week Day 6- Favorite

I headcanon that Boxman loves old shitty robot-related horror movies and watches them in the private movie theatre thing in Boxmore. This time he brought Venomous along and info dumps about it to him!

#voxmanweek2023 #voxman #ok ko lord boxman #ok ko professor venomous #shanedoesdoodles #shanes doodles

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201xs · 3 months

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i will never get over how much i love this building design its so insanely good. i love how you can tell which parts are built by boxman and which are built by venomous. its got such an intimidating vibe like you know there's some insanely shady shit going on in there. i love how they leaned more into the "mad scientist" part of professor venomous in late season 2 and season 3 what with all the bio-weapons and creepy tentacle experiments and goo clones and whatever the hell happened with carl that one time. i love that part of his character and i bet we would have seen even more evil scientist shenanigans from him if s3 hadnt been cut off so early. the stuff we do see is dope though. hes genuienly insane and fucked up like he goes into saw trap levels of psychological torture at one point which is such a harsh contrast from the goofy robot hijinks from boxmore. anyway voxmore i love you

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boxbots-au-hell · 10 months

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Raymond canonically being good at “every single sport” is insanity. there are supposedly 8,000 different documented sports out there and he’s good at every single one of them

depending on the amount of time passed in the canon series he’s only been consciously alive for like ? a year? 2 years maybe? At most?

If we were being generous and assuming that he’s been around for a solid two years and dedicated every second of that time entirely into practicing sports then he would only have around 2.19 hours to practice each sport in existence.

And he has not done that because the majority of his time has been spent working at Boxmore and attacking the plaza

So Raymond more or less is just good at them by virtue of them being sports and for the fact that he’s supposed to be a sports robot

Which begs the question of whether not this could apply to anything at all

If cosmic control over all of space and time became enlisted as an official sport then would Raymond become god ? Just on account of it being a sport ?

Imagine

#ok ko #ok ko raymond #me being too silly again

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invaderdoom78 · 3 months

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Rad likes robots Radmon version

It had been storming all day and it led to Rad, Enid, and Ko being incredibly bored at work as no customers had been in all morning, the most business they'd gotten was when Brandon and a Real Magic Skeleton stopped in to get some snacks for their own boring work shifts.

"This sucks!" Rad groaned, flopping on top of the counter that Enid was sitting behind scrolling through her phone as Ko mopped up the wet foot prints Brandon and RMS left behind "I'm so bored"

"Eh," Enid shrugged, not looking up from her phone, glad that no customers were in the store

"I wonder if Boxman is planing to attack the plaza today?" Ko asked, wringing out the mop

"Why would he?" Rad asked "even robots hate going out in the rain" as if on cue the alarm went off and from the sky came two Boxmore boxes and a single oversized rose landed in the parking lot. Rad sighed, as much as he liked fighting villains he didn't want to go out into that rain "great"

"Let's get this over with" Enid sighed, putting on her jacket

It was not a fun fight as the hero's had figured the Boxbots weren't waterproof and the rain was going to mess them up, but they were and were even using the rain to their advantage.

"Rad!" Enid exclaimed dodging every punch Raymond made at her

"Enid!" Ko yelled bearly dodging Darrell's attacks "guys, I need help! And my hair keeps falling in my face"

"Of course these jerks would choose to attack in the middle of a thunder storm" Enid grunted as she struggled to keep Raymond in a choke hold only for him to slip away a moment later

"Yeah" Raymond said after he'd kicked Enid in the face

"You look a little… under the weather" Shannon taunted as she fought Rad "let me get you… a blanket!" Her body flattened out so she could wrap around the blue alien "now that you’re tucked in, I’d better put you to sleep!" Rad gasped for air as the metal around him constricted "not feeling snuggly, eh?" She released him and jumped away "well, how about a change in the forecast" she transformed into a tornado

"Beautiful form sister!" Raymond praised

"Nice one, Shannon!" Darrell said right before Ko kicked him in the face, blinding the robot with his muddy feet

Now that the young hero was free he ran over to his friend to help him, power punching Shannon into a nearby tree.

"Thanks, bud" Rad said

Shanon groaned as she shook the leaves off her head "I'm gonna get you, you little brat!"

Raymond noticed the dark clouds above the tree's and heard the faint rumbling of thunder along with some small flickers of light. Assuming that lightning was about to strike the tree he activated his penalty box, planing on using it to knock his sister out of the tree but instead of striking the tree the lightning was drawn to him sending enough electricity through his system that it shut him down for a few seconds. When he rebooted the first thing he saw was Rad and he felt the circuitry in his chest warm up. Shannon managed to pull herself out of the tree and activated the buzzsaw's in her hands and feet, fully intending on using all four on the alien hero but someone shoved him out of the way before she could strike.

"Wha—" Rad was confused when he saw that Raymond was on top of him and realized that he was the one that saved him “huh? Ra-Raymond? Did you just… save me?"

"Oh," Raymond blushed just now realizing what he'd done "I… I guess I did"

"Why?" Rad asked, trying to suppress his own blush

"… I don't know"

The alien and robot starred into each others eyes, nether one sure what to do, until Ko and Enid grabbed Rad while Shannon and Darrell grabbed Raymond so they could pull the two apart.

"What's wrong with your robot?" Enid demanded

"What's wrong with your boy?" Darrell retorted

"I don't know" Enid growled before whispering to her friend "Rad, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothin'!" Rad mumbled looking embarrassed

"Okay," Darrell started as he and his sister started backing up "well, this is weird and we're gonna leave"

"Right," Enid said as she and Ko also started backing away "let's just go and figure this out separately, in our own area's"

"Agreed. We'll finish this after"

The two groups made it back to their respective buildings Rad giving Raymond a small wave when he noticed that the robot was waving at him, feeling a tad guilty when he noticed the sports bot looked upset that they were being separated.

"So what happened out there?" Enid asked, relaxing behind the counter

"I'm not sure" Rad said, stacking some green cans, he didn't need to but he wanted to find something to distract himself "he must've just caught me off guard is all" he let out a startled yelp when he realized he'd stacked the cans to look like Raymond and, without thinking, used his power to knock them over as he fell

"Dude," Enid started, "what's wrong with you?"

"I have no idea" Rad groaned

"Well knock it off 'cause you're weirding me out"

"Maybe you should take a break" Ko suggested

"I'm gonna go sit in my van for a bit" Rad sighed getting up

Thankfully the rain had stopped and the only thing he had to worry about were the puddles. Pulling open the door of his van Rad flopped himself onto the blankets and pillows he kept in the back. Taking out his phone he started scrolling through his social media planning on just looking at some cute cat pictures and before he realized it he was on Raymonds profile; he was really handsome but Rad would rather jump straight into rush hour traffic than admit that out loud.

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Once the Boxbots got back home Raymond couldn't stop himself from pacing in the common room while Darrell watched him from the couch and Shannon was looking at her phone on one of the beanbags.

"So, why'd you save Rad anyway?" Shannon asked "he's such a dweeb"

"Hey," Raymond shouted "he is not a dweeb!"

"Wow" Darrell and Shannon said looking at the other

"Oh, why do I want to feel his warm fleshy arms wrapped around me?" Raymond mumbled bitting his knuckle, thinking it was quiet enough that his siblings couldn't hear, but they did

"This is getting kinda outta hand don't you think" Darrell whispered to his sister

"Yeah" Shannon whispered back "should we, like, talk to him?"

"Yeah," Darrell said getting up "hey Raymond! Don't you think we should get back to fightin' those lame goody two shoes?"

"No" Raymond sighed "I don't want to fight Radicles and I don't want you guy's fighting him either"

"But! But!" Darrell stammered "you know you can’t just go around with a Hero! He represents everything we’re against! When Daddy finds out he's gonna be so mad at you"

"You should just reboot" Shannon suggested "that lightning probably fried your circuits. Let's take a look" she got up and grabbed her brothers hair so she could look inside his head "yup, these are done for"

"Hey," Raymond said slapping his sisters hand away "get out of there!"

"Yeah!" Darrell exclaimed happily "just reboot yourself into a new body, and you’ll be back to normal. I do it all the time for funsies!" He pushed his reboot button and blew up only for his new body to reapers a few seconds latter "see!"

"Yes," Raymond sighed "perhaps I should" but he didn't want to. He couldn't quiet explain it but he liked these feeling. He's never denied to himself that he thought Rad was hot and he did enjoy the rivalry they had together "I need to think about somethings"

"What's there to think about?" Darrell asked

"I don't know" Raymond sighed, growing frustrated at his siblings "I just need to think!"

With that he stormed out of the room, shoving past the other two robots, and went straight to his room. Maybe he could distract himself by reminiscing about his past sports accomplishments by looking at his wall of pictures. Someone had taken pictures of him and Rads dance battle at the Plaza Prom and he'd originally printed them out because whoever had taken them had done a magnificent job of capturing his good side but the alian was also in all of them and suddenly he was second guessing his reasoning for hanging them up. Has he been having these feelings for a while and just not realized it; after all that had been one of the most exhilarating fights he's ever had.

Oh what was he to do? His siblings were no help, well maybe Ernesto would be but he was always so busy, and he couldn't talk to coach dad about it as he'd surly be discontinued for being attracted to a hero. Dropping onto his window bench he sighed dramatically, slumping against the window so he could look out at the plaza's parking lot. Wait, maybe this was his chance to get things sorted out. Getting up from his seat the sports bot knew what he had to do, poking his head out into the hall to make sure neither of his siblings were out there before sneaking off to the Plaza.

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This was stupid, Raymond thought to himself as he stood in front of Rad's van, fist raised ready to knock on the door. You don't know what to say to him you didn't think of a plan before coming over. Lowering his arm he was about to run back home when the vans door slid open.

"You!" Rad exclaimed, stumbling back into his van at the villains appearance "what're you doin' here?"

"I, uh," Raymond was frozen on the spot, unsure of what to do now "well, I uh"

"Did you come here to finish our fight!?" Rad asked, getting ready for a fight

"No, of course not!" Raymond exclaimed holding up his hands to show he's not a threat

"Really?" Rad asked not bothering to hide his suspicion

"Yes, I think I came here to talk"

"You think?" Rad asked

"Yeah," Raymond said, grabbing his arm "I've been pretty confused since our last fight and I can't talk to my siblings or dad about it"

"So you think talking to me is going to help?" Rad asked, sitting himself on the edge of his van floor his feet planted on the pavement so he could rest his arms on his lap

"Maybe"

Rad sighed "Well, you might as well have a seat then"

"Thank you" Raymon smiled at the alien

What Raymond didn't know was that his brother and sister were watching him from their bedrooms a choir of daddy ringing out as Darrell and Shannon ran to Boxman's office.

"What!?" Boxman demanded, slamming his fists on his desk

"Raymond has a crush on one of the bodega dweebs" Shannon said

"And he won't reboot to get rid of it" Darrell added

"Ok and?" Boxman asked

"You're not mad?" Darrell asked

"No, why would I be?" Boxman asked, getting back to what he was working on before his children interrupted "it's just a phase and it'll go away on it's own"

"But..." Darrell started

"Look the more you try and fight it the more he's going to want to defy you by actively attempting to date him"

"But, but" Darrell stammer out "how do you know for sure?"

Lord Boxman's human eye quickly darted away from his children for a second "Trust me on this, besides I'm going to be sending you three out to attack the plaza soon so if it is just a fluke in his programing then you can let them reboot him"

"Well," Shanon started "can we attack them now?"

"Sure" Boxman shrugged "why not"

Once his robotic children were gone, Boxman swiveled around in his chair so he could see exactly who his son was crushing on, but he didn't have a view of Rad's van from his office window.

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"You really think he'd discontinue you because you've got a crush on a hero?" Rad asked

"I'm not sure" Raymond sighed, laying back on the vans floor

"I don't think he would" Rad said, leaning back on his hands "you're the best fighter out of all your siblings so it'd be pretty stupid to get rid of you"

"You think I'm a good fighter?" Raymond asked, sitting up so he could see Rad's face

"Uh, well, yeah" Rad said, avoiding looking at the sports bot

"You know. You're a pretty strong fighter yourself" Raymond said, gently nudging Rad with his shoulder

"Th-thanks" Rad said, blushing pretty hard

Had they always been sitting so close together or was he just imagining the closeness. Turning his head Rad saw that Raymond was looking at him with half-lidded eyes and a small smile; if his face wasn't completely purple before it was now.

"The inside of your van is really nice"

"It better be" Rad tried to hide his fluster behind his usual bravado "I reupholstered this baby myself" it was half true as his dad had helped him

"Tell me Radicles" Raymond said resting a hand on the hero's shoulder "how comfortable is it inside"

Rad didn't get to answer as a Boxmore box landed in front of the van.

"What are you doing here, Raymond!" Shannon growled

Scoffing, Raymond rolled his eyes "What'er you guys doing here?"

"Dad, wants us to attack the Plaza" Shannon said, crossing her arms over her chest "and that includes your little boyfriend over there"

"Hey," Rad protested, shooting to his feet "he's not my boyfriend!"

"Yeah, right" Shannon said, rolling her eyes "that's why your hanging out together in your van?"

"He just showed up here"

"Thats true" Raymond said also getting up "it was simply a coincidence that we ran into each other"

"Bull," Shannon said, activating the buzzsaws in her hands

"Rad" Ko yelled as he and Enid ran out of the bodega

"Don't worry man" Enid said "we're coming" she saw how close Raymond was to her friend and assumed that he was planing on attacking Rad "get away from him!"

"Enid wait" Rad said, trying to stop his friend from attacking the sports bot, but he wasn't quick enough and Raymond was knocked down by her Power Foot Fireball

"Hey!" Raymond exclaimed, glaring up at the ninja "what was that for?"

"What was that for?" Enid asked "you're attacking the Plaza!"

"He wasn't actually" Rad said, helping Raymond up "we were just talking about what had happened earlier then those two showed up"

"Really?" Enid asked looking confused

"Yes," Raymond scoffed, dusting himself off "I have no desire to fight you guys"

"Excuse me!" Shannon yelled "don't ignore us"

"Yeah!" Darrell exclaimed activating his arm cannon "so step away from Raymond so we can fight" he took aim at Rad

"No!" Raymond exclaimed, pushing his crush out of the way only to be taken out by the blast

"Oh wow" Enid said, surprised at the robots sacrifice

The guilt of destroying his brother overtook him and he crumbled in front of the smoldering remains of Raymond, a waterfall of tears coming from his eye.

"Oh wait" Darrell said, stopping mid cry "this means he'll be back to normal! Let's meet up with him back inside"

"Looks like you losers get to live another day," Shannon chuckled, running back to Boxmore with her brother

Kicking down the door the two Box Bots found Raymond sitting in his room, brushing out his hair since it always got messed up when he was rebooted.

"Raymond!" Darrell exclaimed, happily running up to his brother

"How do you feel now?" Shannon asked

"Fine" Raymond sighed

"You still have a crush on Rad?" Shannon asked

"No, of course not" Raymond sneered

"Good" Darrell said, walking Raymond over to the window where Rad, Enid, and Ko talking outside of the van "because they're still out there if you want to get back to the fight"

Oh no. When he saw Rad again Raymond realized the feelings were still there, maybe not as strong now, but at least now he could act like he still hated the hero.

#ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko #radmond #rad x raymond #ok ko rad #ok ko raymond #ok ko ko #ok ko enid #ok ko shannon #ok ko darrell #ok ko lord boxman

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