Comic book characters who should be thankful this holiday season
By Mark Lynch
Teen Titans for This Awesome (and Ridiculous) Song
Comic book project: Teen Titans Go!: Chapter Four: The Night Begins to Shine
Teen Titans Go! is known for being silly; maybe more than some people would like. Nevertheless, it’s a fun show with some incredibly random moments. Maybe none as much as Cyborg saving the day by playing The Night Begins to Shine by B.E.R.
The Teen Titans were kidnapped, and it was up to Cyborg to save them. With this 1980s song playing, Cyborg rode a motorcycle horse (at one time a horse with wings) and saved his teammates. Maybe the best part was the Titans’ transformation. Seriously, Cyborg grew flowing hair when the song played.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe for a rat
Comic book project: Avengers: Endgame
The universe may have been saved by Tony Stark snapping his fingers, but there was one being that doesn’t get credit — a common rat. Scott Lang’s van was impounded with some of Hank Pym’s Quantum Realm technology after Lang was trapped in the realm and the Pym/van Dyne family was snapped out of existence. A rat would eventually run across the machine, starting it back up. This brought Scott Lang back to Earth and set Thanos’ defeat in motion.
That’s right, everyone. The MCU should be thankful for a rat and a ton of luck. Things may have turned out differently if Scott’s van would have ended up somewhere else. That rat should be allowed to do whatever it wants from now on.