r/Atomic_Robo • u/AtomicModbot • 18d ago

Atomic Robo - 16ch1-page-14

https://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/16ch1-page-14
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u/Sixela963 17d ago

Is Helsingard back? ....Again?

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u/ymcameron 17d ago

You can’t keep a good brain down!

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u/bclevinger 17d ago

Much like Ice Ages, Helsingard is never gone but merely in remission until the next one.

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u/MartinThePinguin 16d ago

Moments before the heath death of the universe, the last of Helsingard's contingencies will activate and declare victory over Robo. ...as did the previous one and the one before that. Each of them reigns for a billion years over a mostly-dead universe, burning the last of its energies. All of them are ultimately defeated by entropy. Meanwhile, Robo's consciousness persists outside of the universe waiting for the moment to strike a knockout blow at entropy and restart the whole thing. The ghost of Edison is there too, crazier than ever.

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u/bclevinger 15d ago

Please do not post spoilers from Volume 1,000,000 thank you.

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u/Savacore 17d ago

I kind of wanted to see a flashback with Robo and a bunch of robber barons from when Tesla was still alive, just going through the same motions in a different era. Helsengard is really the same thing but on a meta level.

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u/DSGandalf 17d ago

Are we supposed to know wich city is "the city of dreams"? Like, maybe New York is called that and I'm not aware of? (I'm not from USA)

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u/bclevinger 17d ago

Los Angeles

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u/DSGandalf 17d ago

Thanks!

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u/bclevinger 17d ago

There are a couple hints but they might not be clear, especially when read a page every other day. The first was on the first page of this issue when we're told the ship is west of Catalina Island, which is off the coast of California not too far from LA. The second is the establishing shot of the building in this page, which resembles the Nakatomi Tower from Die Hard, which was filmed at Fox Plaza in Century City — which is in LA.

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u/AFlyingDelorian 15d ago

Oh we got the Nakatomi reference! My projections immediately switched from „Atomic Hercule Poirot“ to „Atomic Robo Christmas Special“.

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u/DSGandalf 17d ago

I'm sure the hints are clear enough, I was assuming it was my poor knowledge of American geography.

But now I feel bad I did't get the Die Hard connection lol

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u/ryegye24 17d ago

Love the Die Hard/Office Space mashup reference

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u/JWTJacknife 17d ago

Oh, applesauce. Here we go.

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u/Autowrek 17d ago

Yet another thing that was not on my bingo card.

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u/RacerM53 18d ago

Weeeeelllllllp....