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Did Kingie put this guy up to attacking Tiff? WHY? The plot thickens.
Gosh, its getting complex now. I love it.
Reread the dialog, GG, I think it’s pretty clear that the King had nothing to do with the attack.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that Kingy would send his guards away and leave himself alone with a deadly, trained assassin in an unlocked prison cell. Even if the assassin was thoroughly disarmed, he’d still be taking a risk, at least of the assassin escaping – if it were anyone but Urtica. I think he’s demonstrated his bad-a!s credentials enough times for us to conclude he’s reasonably secure. Still, for him to want such absolute privacy with the assassin does raise some interesting questions.
Personal interrogation? ookay.
I debate the ‘assassin’ credentials if he is of the Theater and Urtica went in alone and ‘seemingly’ unarmed.
@Ambaryerno — I reread, and I get the same conclusion. Just because Captain Phi revealed that Smiley Face was an actor doesn’t mean that Urtica didn’t know the truth before Captain Phi’s revelation. In fact, Urtica’s remark in Panel 2 is very ambiguous; it could just as easily mean, “Sir Knight, I knew last night at dinner that Tiffany’s attacker would be an actor.”
In any case, Kingie doesn’t think the “assassin” is a danger to him. The “assassin” is an actor, except that Tiff didn’t know the “assassin” was acting. My conclusion: Someone (likely King Urtica) hired this actor to make a fake attack on Tiffany. If the actor’s employer was King Urtica, then why would he want Tiff tested like this? Given the king’s deviousness, I can think of several reasons, with none of them being what Chemiclord has cooked up.
I’m amused by the idea that “assassin” and “actor” are mutually exclusive.
> I’m amused by the idea that “assassin” and “actor” are mutually exclusive.
Of course they are. You think Stephen Seagal is actually capable of sneaking into someone’s house and murdering them? Actors have to know how to >look like< they're fighting. Not the same thing as having real combat skills, by any means.
You think “assassin” and “actor” are mutually exclusive, GrimGhost?
Three words.
John Wilkes Booth.
gotta say the king’s wardrobe is looking pretty boring…….all that white and gold and white and gold and white and gold and white and gold…… 😛
Wait, so “The Theatre” isn’t the name of a specific group of melodramatic, cliched, and outlandishly costumed assassins. Just the type of organization old machinating men would use to get back at having rocks thrown at them!
> You think Stephen Seagal is actually capable of sneaking into someone’s house and murdering them? Actors have to know how to >look like< they're fighting.
I'm more amused that you used Stephen Seagal as an example of an actor…
Here comes the yaoi.
I guess he was there to kill Tiffany, so maybe King Urtica knows for a fact that this man won’t make a move to kill someone he’s not sent to kill or something.
“I’m amused by the idea that “assassin” and “actor” are mutually exclusive.”
Is it, because an Actor cant be a Assassin or a Assassin cant be an Actor
Former is unlikely, the latter is more probable, IMO
I like the fact the word ‘theatre’ conjured up images of actors in your minds. My first thought for that word (probably due to my logophiliac, cruciverbalist housemate) was the military definition: A scene of action or field of operations; and also the ‘theatre company’ of Final Fantasy 9, who were thieves and kidnappers….
The problem with the lettering is that it’s all capitals, so we can’t easily tell if ‘theatre’ is actually a proper noun relating to a specific group of people, or just a place where they perform for an audience.
As for how Urtica knew already, the mask or weapons could be a uniform of sorts that he recognised, and we already know he’s a sly one….
When you capitalize a word, it becomes a proper noun, which removes almost all meaning from the word. ‘theatre’ has clearly defined meaning – a place where an event occurs, usually a show or play. ‘Theatre’, OTOH, could be the name of anything – Joe Theatre could be the patriarch of an esteemed family of bakers, for all we know. Need more context.
Well thought out arguments everyone. I simply assumed it was the name of the Assassins guild. Curiously enough, the word Assassin derives from Hassassin. A group in Persia that served only one master, The Old Man Of The Mountain. Probably the most infamous murder cult of all time, until The Old Man Of The Mountain got delusions of grandeur and threatened someone bigger and badder than himself. Mongke Khan sent the Mongol Horde, under the command ofKitbuqa, against the Hassassin and pretty much wiped them out. They regained their position but their power was broken and they didn’t last. No other army had ever seriously threatened them because their leaders weren’t fond of waking up with daggers stuck in the pillows beside their heads.
Thing is, it wasn’t the first group of assassins, nor the only one. We could just as easily be using Ninja (Japanese) or Црна рука (Serbian – translation “The Black Hand”) today, as we currently use Assassin. 🙂 And yes, I do find the history fascinating.
@ Doc Savage
their leaders never really needed to wake up as they were all on a power drug called “hashish”. It’s where their name is derived from. Hassassin literally means “followers of hashish”.
Thank you Angels & Demons 😀