I love the idea of Robin doing a commercial while all this is going on Robin: Nabisco Oreos! They're delicious! Starfire: HOW CAN PEOPLE BE THIS HEARTLESS?! (emotional breakdown) Robin: Two chocolate cookies and a sweet cream center! Red Arrow: Nobody should go through what I've been through (emotional breakdown) Robin: Eat them with milk, or just dunk them in! Raven: MY MIND! I CAN TASTE COLORS! I CAN'T FEEL MY ARMS! (emotional breakdown) Robin: Oreo cookies are the ultimate cookie! From Nabisco!
Linkara, so I was working at a food vendor. A couple of kids bought some Pepsi's off of my aunt and she said (jokingly) that she felt bad about selling kids sodas to an older gentleman and, I kid you not, the old man said word for word your whole "first they start on the Pepsi, then they move to the harder stuff like Mountain Dew" joke. I am serious. I don't know if he was a fan, or it was a coincidence, but I was laughing on the inside. I could not believe it.
Oh! Scarface 1983. See, Tony was technically the villain, but his lavish lifestyle made him appealing to audiences which led some to completely miss the point of the film. It inspired a lot of drug dealers in the 1980s which cemented its popularity in hip-hop. Yes, even though the movie ended with Tony floating dead in his own fountain, people wanted to be him. I guess that's what happens when writers overestimate their audience's intelligence.
@@gregorymelissinos337I think the message of that was “don’t do drugs, or you’ll become the scapegoat for large plane crashes and serve life in prison even though you prevented a major catastrophe”
Can I just say the Speedy and Starfire exchange joke was one of my favorites from you? XD The fact it flowed REALLY well with the dialogue of the comic made it even BETTER.
I came back to this to re-hear about the legacy of a character that, any other time, I'd just laugh off and go "oh, comic books." But no...after reading more about it, I genuinely like the character of The Protector. The whole reason he became a superhero was because it was the only way to convince his little cousin to stop taking drugs. Little cuz got addicted, Jason Hart and family talked to him, own family talked to him, he didn't listen. But he loved superheroes. So Jason became The Protector to convince little cuz not to do drugs. This guy would eventually save little cuz's life, get on Nightwing's radar, and get training from Nightwing to fight crime better. Dorky costume or no...you don't mess with someone on Nightwing's good list. And then Heroes In Crisis happened. And what happened there is less "character assassination" and more "character whatever happens in a Junji Ito manga, pick one." They turned The Protector, the epitome of "don't do drugs," into a closet druggie. Who does all the drugs. Before he gets killed by the event comic's problem. Disrespectful. Totally disrespectful.
No matter how many times I go through your old episodes, I always end up finding something to make me laugh. "Those drugs killed him?!" "Oh, heck no. We're just a terrible hospital." Really speaks to the quality of your work.
“Im no snitch! You don’t understand!” You’re right. I don’t understand your loyalty to someone who only wants your money and clearly doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
like I said about a bit of fan art with pinkie wielding the infinity gauntlet: the multiverse is doomed (and yes, DOOM appreciates the pun around his name).
Gotta feel sorry for Linkara after a while. The Titans are what got him into comics... and yet it seems they're almost always involved in the worst of the worst he's had to review to varying degrees.
@@darthgriffin7741 I don't include books that just have the Titans in them. I mean just books that STAR the Titans. In, for example, Countdown, the Titans are incidental at best. In Graduation Day, they are key, so that counts.
11:22 Walking Superman: But, Starfire, you don't understand. The drug dealer will be Over There, and won't need to worry about it as Over There will have sort it out for themselves.
You know Linkara, the people coming up with these ridiculous names for drugs are probably high... So... You know... That's why they have such goofy names.
Or the “Thin Man” movies; Nick and Mora have super lovers to drink as much as they do. Granted, they at least have the excuse of being created right after Prohibition ended, so it sort of made sense at the time.
When I was a kid I found a copy of this in the basement of some friends of my parents. The protector thing confused me because I honestly just thought it was Robin in a different costume. Totally forgot about it until I saw this review. And yet it's still weird to me.
"Starfire sux!" I'm going to interpret that graffiti as the child that once owned this comic was able to look into the future and saw the Outlaws version of the character.
16:17 Uh...Tony Stark is pretty much an alcoholic in the Avengers movies. Not to mention the comics. Also, regarding movies: pretty much every movie that shows the hero drinking or smoking is sending a sublimial message, as much as we don't want to believe it. Thankfuly, everything is more moderated nowadays, but there have been commercials depecting said activities as fashionable or interesting. I´m not saying companies don't get to advertise their product, but a bit of media literacy in school wouldn't hurt anyone : /.
Well he stopped for a while then the axis event happened turned evil and started drinking again because he's evil and later on cause pepper showed everyone how much of a monster he had become.
Slinky actually sounds like a great & plausible name for a drug, you can even picture the drugs effects based on the name with the users limbs hanging eextended and the person making rhythmic snake like/ slinky movements.
Ah, the Protector. Revealed to have a drug problem and unceremoniously killed off in Heroes in Crisis for no reason. And people say that event did _Wally_ dirty.
9:47 The worse part is? I could actually see that happening in the original animated Teen Titans cus of how they pushed the team ditz trope with Starfire was at the start of it. Luckily, no Speedy during it so we were deprived of yet more PSA Hell
As someone who is pro-legalization of pot and a psychology major, people under the age of 16 shouldn't smoke it unless they're doing it medicinally. There is a statistically significant rise in cases of schizophrenia for people who smoke it under the age of 16. It's possible that this is due to self medication, and even if it's not I still think the risk/reward is far better than pretty much any other medication out there, but ya know, there's no reason to risk it just for kicks. Like, it shouldn't be illegal, but it shouldn't be promoted.
"Then we got the munchies and started eating Cheetos and the Cheeto dust got everywhere and I couldn't wash it off my hands it's like my hands were stained in with orange blood!" lol
I feel like this was a really good opportunity for DC to give Snowflame a cameo. Did he exist yet at this point in the DC timeline? Snowflame should be the go-to PSA character.
I don't think it's the actual use of drugs and alcohol that Cyborg was talking about being "sexy and glamorous", but rather the people and characters who are shown using them. To an impressionable kid, "drinking and smoking are both cool because James Bond does them and he's cool" is sound logic. The best examples that come to mind for me are characters like "Buddy Love" from "The Nutty Professor" (especially the original version with Jerry Lewis) and James Bond - suave and charismatic men who are automatically the coolest guys in the room without even trying, and usually shown with a drink or something in hand. Baseball players and chewing tobacco also come to mind. Hell, Speedy himself could have been an example in-universe had things turned out differently; if he were a superhero (like he is here and not the in-name-only kind of dick he was in Rise of Arsenal) and still a heroin addict, kids who look up to him might get the idea that "since our badass idol Speedy uses heroin, heroin MUST be cool and good!"
Granted I don't know much about Starfire except from the early 2000s Teen Titans, I like this Starfire, she reminds me of the innocent child like one from the show. I watched another review of yours where she was a lifeless, bored, bimbo, and it just left a bad taste.
Zinervawyrm The Marv Wolfman/George Perez version pretty much reflects Starfire like that. She has been imprisoned, and part of royalty beforehand so she was experiencing everything innocently for the first time, except in the comics, Starfire was a bit sexualized and was the babe of the group. She eventually got went out and got engaged with Robin. In this era everyone was 18ish as opposed to the TV show it seemed everyone was a bit younger so, I guess it was uncomfortable for everyone to be ogling a teen.
In the original Wolfman comics, Starfire was generally portrayed as innocent of Earth culture while also being a sex symbol. The difference there was that Tamaraneans were written as being a more permissive and emotional society: especially with the emotion of LOVE. as Linkara joked, their society was supposed to be based around LOVE, not having sex with any random person like a Frank Miller fantasy.
I'm pretty sure anything is better than GO at this point. I tried to watch an episode of that show... The keyword there being tried. I couldn't stand it.
And the sad thing is that some kids think that GO is the original. One of my friends was over at his little cousins' house, and they asked him if he wanted to watch Teen Titans. He thought they meant the original show. They meant GO.
China Cat is more than likely a name for LSD since it shares it's name with "China Cat Sunflower" as song by The Grateful Dead, who attended several Acid Tests hosted by Ken Keesey (author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
As someone who's a heroin user I just want to say that regardless of what you think of drug dealers (btw none of the hard drug dealers I know sell to kids), they don't want their customers to die. Because that's a terrible business strategy. I once got heroin that was cut with meth because the dealer thought that customers would die if they had pure heroin, since adding a stimulant like meth makes it harder to OD on heroin (meth is a drug I've used three times intentionally and never enjoyed for the record). In the hard drug world most users buy what's called a "point" (0.1 grams) of a given substance. Most of the other users in the scene will buy a point and simply inject water into the baggie containing the point and mix up everything inside at once before drawing it up through a piece of cotton filter for injection. Personally I don't do that because while I may be addicted, I do enjoy being alive. Users do that because the kind of heroin sold where I live is almost exclusively China white lion heroin which dissolves entirely in water without need for boiling and citric acid, and the heroin (if cut) is cut with sugar (which is water soluble so as far as cutting agents go: pretty harmless) or Meth as mentioned earlier (meth is also water soluble if pure, and if not pure, hopefully just cut with sugar). I've also commented on the "Rise of Arsenal" video sharing some information regarding my own experiences. In neither of my comments about my drug use should you take what I say as an endorsement. If you're a kid: don't do drugs. If you're an adult: I won't tell you what to do with your life, but if you're going to use drugs then please learn as much about harm reduction as possible; especially if you're going to inject. Any kids who sadly get caught up in the world of drugs against my advice should at least heed the harm minimisation advice so you have a chance to live through your drug use and get clean when you realise you should probably stop.
Oh, and for the record: While this PSA comic is not too bad as far as PSA stuff goes, there is no PSA which can really stop someone from using drugs. It's been known for years that *you can't punish an addict into recovery* . Whether people like it or not, once you're addicted the job becomes surviving until you have the desire and/or resources to quit. For opiates opioid replacement therapy with buprenorphine or methadone is a way to be tapered off opiates safely and in a way that reduces your chances of relapse and withdrawal.
I can name several things where drinking at least is portrayed as the most awesome thing in the world...but it boils down to two words: beer commercials! and in many older (and probably modern) movies and shows about the "high class" folk, they're almost ALWAYS seen drinking martinis and whatnot. As for drugs being seen as "sexy" and "glamorous," probably a bunch of stuff in the 70's at least did so.
The whole "his name is Speedy and he's a former drug user" makes no sense because he used HEROIN, an OPIOID, a DOWNER. "Speed" is commonly used to refer to uppers, mostly meth.
You know what this episode made me think about, and yes I know it’s random. I want Linkara to play a game on a stream or something where someone take out of context clip from his entire series, and he has to guess what episode they were from.
Speedy: what are you doing smoking this? *snorts a line* this is a bad cut! I’m gonna call a guy who can hook you up. Maybe get you a better strain of Mary Jane too.
Who here knows why marijuana originally made illegal. I want to see how common that knowledge is It was originally illegal because a man named Harry Anslinger who was the commissioner of the federal bureau of narcotics in 1930 had his funding cut. He started claiming not only that marijuana caused insanity, criminality and death when he spoke to the supreme court but also made Mexicans bloodthirsty to increase his funding. Later on under Nixon it was made a schedule one drug alongside things like heroin and morphine. They even admitted to knowing it was harmless and were just using it asa a reason to round up people they didn't like.
Many may laugh, but this was my introduction to the Teen Titans, including Starfire and Changeling. (Cyborg was on Super Powers Team and Wonder Girl and Speedy on the original Teen Titans cartoon). I was sorry the Protector didn't get his own series about a superhero targeting drug dealers, or at least a miniseries or more than just background cameos. Although as long as he wasn't used as superhero cannon fodder in some mega event it could be worse.
"We're complete assholes on this planet" That explains more than enough why i feel like i live in a prison planet, stuck watching the machinations of semi intelligent apes at eachothers throats.
16:42 I don't think that there have been any sort of movie or shows that have glorifies drugs and alcohol like Cyborg suggested, but boy was cigarettes the big thing.
14:06 me if I was in this PSA comic: "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU RASIST! Your friends brother just died! Show some respect and kindness!" "So starfire... I just defended your honour... Wanna go out sometime?" LOL
16:43 In hindsight, after a few years, I might be wrong but I'm PREEETTY sure Project X has something like that. I vaguely remember them making a scene that edits drug and alcohol abuse as being "party stuff" and totally acceptable and glamorous.
What’s ironic about the drug lord killing kids in a government anti-drug comic is how the government poisoned alcohol during prohibition so people who drank could die
I mean you are probably die Drinking prohibitionara alcohol even with it Wasn't poison because they tried to make stuff. Like rubbing alcohol, Drinkable I'm writing a paper on it
I love how you can tell the Protector was meant to stand in for Robin, because he's the one giving orders to the Teen Titans when he barely knows them.
so... did speedy get his name branded on his chest by a super villain? like... whats up with the cursive 'eed' on his chest? it doesn't LOOK like his chest hair
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall To be fair I'm sure I read it as "pop" and thought it was just another fancy drug name. I think pushers come up with them to hide what they really are, to the kids if not the victims.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall an alternate jokes for it being "pop" though. "the new drug, pop. First, Dr. Pepper, then you move on to Coke...a-Cola" or "Coke...and I don't mean Coka-Cola"
Friendship is Magic, while entertaining and surprisingly intelligent, is pretty trippy. We have colorful cartoon ponies fighting bad guys with rainbows and songs. Not to mention the furry confusion of some animals talking while some don't. And that's just the main series. The movies are even trippier when you see colorful HUMAN versions of the ponies becoming pony-themed magical girls. As you can well imagine, the show has a lot of fans in Japan. :P
Ironically, in the mini-series Heroes in Crisis. The Protector confesses in private that he is a drug addict who opposes drugs, so in short he's a massive hypocrite.
It's even worse if you know the origins of The Protector: His little brother loved superheroes but ended up becoming a drug addict, and so he decided to become a superhero to fight against drugs, and to be a hero that his little brother could look up to. It's honestly a really nice, wholesome backstory for such a small, minor character.
In retrospect, I think this comic really outed Linkara as a total square, since he thought pot, hash and hash oil are the same thing. Although this review did give me one of my all-time favorite lines so it evens out.
Since this is my favorite superteam (Period) and I'm actually AMAZED by the quality of this work I can only say this... BOOYAH!!!! Question: if the Teen Titans Animated Series was to be revived (correctly mind you) do you think they should do anti drug themed episodes every Red Ribbon Week?
16:55 James bond, several john Wayne movies, Monuments men, Rick and Morty, South Park, Cheah and Chong, Hellboy 1 and 2, The Watchmen, Star Trek (especially deep space nine and next generation), Mash, that 70s show, The Simpsons, Cowboy bebop, xxx holic, Family Guy, American dad
"It's fun being transparently evil, I'm gonna go kick a puppy." That's the best line ever!
I love the idea of Robin doing a commercial while all this is going on
Robin: Nabisco Oreos! They're delicious!
Starfire: HOW CAN PEOPLE BE THIS HEARTLESS?! (emotional breakdown)
Robin: Two chocolate cookies and a sweet cream center!
Red Arrow: Nobody should go through what I've been through (emotional breakdown)
Robin: Eat them with milk, or just dunk them in!
Raven: MY MIND! I CAN TASTE COLORS! I CAN'T FEEL MY ARMS! (emotional breakdown)
Robin: Oreo cookies are the ultimate cookie! From Nabisco!
Considering he knows The Protector. I can imagine it's him being told about this first but can't help out due to being busy elsewhere.
Linkara, so I was working at a food vendor. A couple of kids bought some Pepsi's off of my aunt and she said (jokingly) that she felt bad about selling kids sodas to an older gentleman and, I kid you not, the old man said word for word your whole "first they start on the Pepsi, then they move to the harder stuff like Mountain Dew" joke. I am serious. I don't know if he was a fan, or it was a coincidence, but I was laughing on the inside. I could not believe it.
Not long in till you become a supervillan and powered by Coca-Cola
@@plantainsame2049 SODAFLAME NEEDS HIS FIZZY SLIPPERS
Oh! Scarface 1983. See, Tony was technically the villain, but his lavish lifestyle made him appealing to audiences which led some to completely miss the point of the film. It inspired a lot of drug dealers in the 1980s which cemented its popularity in hip-hop. Yes, even though the movie ended with Tony floating dead in his own fountain, people wanted to be him. I guess that's what happens when writers overestimate their audience's intelligence.
Flight starring Denzel Washington. It implies drugs enabled him to save a plane full of people.
@@gregorymelissinos337 didn't substance abuse put them in danger in the first place?
@@gregorymelissinos337I think the message of that was “don’t do drugs, or you’ll become the scapegoat for large plane crashes and serve life in prison even though you prevented a major catastrophe”
Can I just say the Speedy and Starfire exchange joke was one of my favorites from you? XD
The fact it flowed REALLY well with the dialogue of the comic made it even BETTER.
I came back to this to re-hear about the legacy of a character that, any other time, I'd just laugh off and go "oh, comic books." But no...after reading more about it, I genuinely like the character of The Protector.
The whole reason he became a superhero was because it was the only way to convince his little cousin to stop taking drugs. Little cuz got addicted, Jason Hart and family talked to him, own family talked to him, he didn't listen. But he loved superheroes. So Jason became The Protector to convince little cuz not to do drugs. This guy would eventually save little cuz's life, get on Nightwing's radar, and get training from Nightwing to fight crime better. Dorky costume or no...you don't mess with someone on Nightwing's good list.
And then Heroes In Crisis happened. And what happened there is less "character assassination" and more "character whatever happens in a Junji Ito manga, pick one." They turned The Protector, the epitome of "don't do drugs," into a closet druggie. Who does all the drugs. Before he gets killed by the event comic's problem.
Disrespectful. Totally disrespectful.
No matter how many times I go through your old episodes, I always end up finding something to make me laugh.
"Those drugs killed him?!"
"Oh, heck no. We're just a terrible hospital."
Really speaks to the quality of your work.
“Im no snitch! You don’t understand!”
You’re right. I don’t understand your loyalty to someone who only wants your money and clearly doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
If Snowflame meets Pinkie Pie we're all doomed.
+William Blazkowicz the true meaning of hell
like I said about a bit of fan art with pinkie wielding the infinity gauntlet: the multiverse is doomed (and yes, DOOM appreciates the pun around his name).
Nearly did a spit take laughing at "Everyone knows it's slinky"
Gotta feel sorry for Linkara after a while. The Titans are what got him into comics... and yet it seems they're almost always involved in the worst of the worst he's had to review to varying degrees.
You can only be hurt by what you truly love
1. This isn't that bad.
2. He's only reviewed about 3 Titans books (not including the retrospective). Ever.
3. They're not in Holy Terror
David Spring well actually if you include events and such, there’s 24.
@@darthgriffin7741 I don't include books that just have the Titans in them. I mean just books that STAR the Titans. In, for example, Countdown, the Titans are incidental at best. In Graduation Day, they are key, so that counts.
Heroes in Crisis cackles in the corner.
11:22 Walking Superman: But, Starfire, you don't understand. The drug dealer will be Over There, and won't need to worry about it as Over There will have sort it out for themselves.
Starfire: “Superman, did you take some of those drugs by accident?”
You know Linkara, the people coming up with these ridiculous names for drugs are probably high... So... You know... That's why they have such goofy names.
+Kanashe Yeah a lot of street names are either euphemisms, puns or something it was sold as/in.
No I got something even stronger. GUN
No I got something even stronger. GUN
@@thewitchdoctors749 You made the same comment twice
An example of Drinking being shown as cool? seen by tons of people? Five words.
"Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred."
17:04 - The entire James Bond franchise? That made alcohol look pretty awesome.
Or the “Thin Man” movies; Nick and Mora have super lovers to drink as much as they do. Granted, they at least have the excuse of being created right after Prohibition ended, so it sort of made sense at the time.
When I was a kid I found a copy of this in the basement of some friends of my parents. The protector thing confused me because I honestly just thought it was Robin in a different costume. Totally forgot about it until I saw this review.
And yet it's still weird to me.
I found a copy of the comic at a comic book store in London for four pounds and I guess the Protector is kind of Robin in someway
"Starfire sux!"
I'm going to interpret that graffiti as the child that once owned this comic was able to look into the future and saw the Outlaws version of the character.
16:17 Uh...Tony Stark is pretty much an alcoholic in the Avengers movies. Not to mention the comics. Also, regarding movies: pretty much every movie that shows the hero drinking or smoking is sending a sublimial message, as much as we don't want to believe it. Thankfuly, everything is more moderated nowadays, but there have been commercials depecting said activities as fashionable or interesting. I´m not saying companies don't get to advertise their product, but a bit of media literacy in school wouldn't hurt anyone : /.
***** And how to forget the wonderful moment when he literaly peed himself...while wearing the suit...
Well he stopped for a while then the axis event happened turned evil and started drinking again because he's evil and later on cause pepper showed everyone how much of a monster he had become.
AngelicalSebastian Kids don't read comics, know the characters' backstories, etc.
Slinky actually sounds like a great & plausible name for a drug, you can even picture the drugs effects based on the name with the users limbs hanging eextended and the person making rhythmic snake like/ slinky movements.
Ah, the Protector. Revealed to have a drug problem and unceremoniously killed off in Heroes in Crisis for no reason. And people say that event did _Wally_ dirty.
That event did a lot of characters dirty. God freaking dammit.
Why? Because fuck you, a good person trying to look out for other people and get them off drugs is wrong and needs to be a hypocrite.
Who _didn't_ it do dirty?
They did everyone dirty.
No man I'm off slinking I can't go back.
9:47 The worse part is? I could actually see that happening in the original animated Teen Titans cus of how they pushed the team ditz trope with Starfire was at the start of it. Luckily, no Speedy during it so we were deprived of yet more PSA Hell
what's the most dangerous type of POP? Crystal Pepsi.
Don't let Cinema Snob see this. He apparently loves Crystal Pepsi.
For me it was chugging a can of monster, I felt like vomiting.
Crystal Pepsi's got nothing on Nuka-Quartz.
Eldritch yay crystal pepsi is sweet and if you want to get some free you can gets from rupter
Actually, Linkara misread the word, and said "POP", instead of "PCP".
The books on the cover were history books. Ancient History.
They were books on the evil that is...
ANCIENT EGYPT! (Dun Dun Dun Dundudun Dundudun)
As someone who is pro-legalization of pot and a psychology major, people under the age of 16 shouldn't smoke it unless they're doing it medicinally. There is a statistically significant rise in cases of schizophrenia for people who smoke it under the age of 16. It's possible that this is due to self medication, and even if it's not I still think the risk/reward is far better than pretty much any other medication out there, but ya know, there's no reason to risk it just for kicks. Like, it shouldn't be illegal, but it shouldn't be promoted.
"Then we got the munchies and started eating Cheetos and the Cheeto dust got everywhere and I couldn't wash it off my hands it's like my hands were stained in with orange blood!" lol
Damnit linkara how can i trust you now...Slinky pusher!
Hey want some gun
"Don't make Snowflame Love and Tolerate the Crap outta you"
|Oh god my Sides XD
Poor Protector. He deserved better than what Heroes in Crisis did to him.
Him and Roy Harper.
I feel like this was a really good opportunity for DC to give Snowflame a cameo. Did he exist yet at this point in the DC timeline?
Snowflame should be the go-to PSA character.
Bassicly, that will be like saying "Cocaine gives you SUPERPOWERS!!!".
THE PROTECTOR WAS REALLY A DRUG ADDICT IN THESE ISSUES! THANKS HEROES IN CRISIS!
Yeah, I seriously want to know what was the purpose of doing *that* to Protector.
Michael Acuna maybe as a sick joke
@@noahmagana137 i thank Dan Didio for that. God dammit
Apparently Protector still exists in the DCU since he just made a cameo in heroes in crisis.
I also saw him on a Variant Cover of Teen Titans Volume 3 issue 100...
Aaaaand then he gets killed...
I don't think it's the actual use of drugs and alcohol that Cyborg was talking about being "sexy and glamorous", but rather the people and characters who are shown using them. To an impressionable kid, "drinking and smoking are both cool because James Bond does them and he's cool" is sound logic.
The best examples that come to mind for me are characters like "Buddy Love" from "The Nutty Professor" (especially the original version with Jerry Lewis) and James Bond - suave and charismatic men who are automatically the coolest guys in the room without even trying, and usually shown with a drink or something in hand. Baseball players and chewing tobacco also come to mind.
Hell, Speedy himself could have been an example in-universe had things turned out differently; if he were a superhero (like he is here and not the in-name-only kind of dick he was in Rise of Arsenal) and still a heroin addict, kids who look up to him might get the idea that "since our badass idol Speedy uses heroin, heroin MUST be cool and good!"
Coming back to this after the protector was brought back and turned into a drug addict.
"Evil beware. We have patronising PSAs. But sadly no waffles."
Aww... :'(
Granted I don't know much about Starfire except from the early 2000s Teen Titans, I like this Starfire, she reminds me of the innocent child like one from the show. I watched another review of yours where she was a lifeless, bored, bimbo, and it just left a bad taste.
Zinervawyrm
The Marv Wolfman/George Perez version pretty much reflects Starfire like that. She has been imprisoned, and part of royalty beforehand so she was experiencing everything innocently for the first time, except in the comics, Starfire was a bit sexualized and was the babe of the group. She eventually got went out and got engaged with Robin. In this era everyone was 18ish as opposed to the TV show it seemed everyone was a bit younger so, I guess it was uncomfortable for everyone to be ogling a teen.
In the original Wolfman comics, Starfire was generally portrayed as innocent of Earth culture while also being a sex symbol. The difference there was that Tamaraneans were written as being a more permissive and emotional society: especially with the emotion of LOVE. as Linkara joked, their society was supposed to be based around LOVE, not having sex with any random person like a Frank Miller fantasy.
7:45 - LOL! This is one of my favorite AT4W moments in a long time.
This is probably one of my favorite Linkara episodes! XD
OH MY GOD! NOT *_POP!_* First they get you on the Pepsi, then they move you up to harder stuff, like Mountain Dew!
That was a pretty dark story. Still better than ''Teen Titans GO!'' though.
Cap Mar-Vell92 It's not hard to be better that that unfunny show
Spiderman doesnt make a deal with the devil 0/10 for this comic
I'm pretty sure anything is better than GO at this point. I tried to watch an episode of that show... The keyword there being tried. I couldn't stand it.
And the sad thing is that some kids think that GO is the original. One of my friends was over at his little cousins' house, and they asked him if he wanted to watch Teen Titans. He thought they meant the original show. They meant GO.
Give him some good Teen Titans comics, like the ones by Wolfman and Perez.
China Cat is more than likely a name for LSD since it shares it's name with "China Cat Sunflower" as song by The Grateful Dead, who attended several Acid Tests hosted by Ken Keesey (author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
As someone who's a heroin user I just want to say that regardless of what you think of drug dealers (btw none of the hard drug dealers I know sell to kids), they don't want their customers to die. Because that's a terrible business strategy. I once got heroin that was cut with meth because the dealer thought that customers would die if they had pure heroin, since adding a stimulant like meth makes it harder to OD on heroin (meth is a drug I've used three times intentionally and never enjoyed for the record). In the hard drug world most users buy what's called a "point" (0.1 grams) of a given substance. Most of the other users in the scene will buy a point and simply inject water into the baggie containing the point and mix up everything inside at once before drawing it up through a piece of cotton filter for injection. Personally I don't do that because while I may be addicted, I do enjoy being alive. Users do that because the kind of heroin sold where I live is almost exclusively China white lion heroin which dissolves entirely in water without need for boiling and citric acid, and the heroin (if cut) is cut with sugar (which is water soluble so as far as cutting agents go: pretty harmless) or Meth as mentioned earlier (meth is also water soluble if pure, and if not pure, hopefully just cut with sugar).
I've also commented on the "Rise of Arsenal" video sharing some information regarding my own experiences. In neither of my comments about my drug use should you take what I say as an endorsement. If you're a kid: don't do drugs. If you're an adult: I won't tell you what to do with your life, but if you're going to use drugs then please learn as much about harm reduction as possible; especially if you're going to inject. Any kids who sadly get caught up in the world of drugs against my advice should at least heed the harm minimisation advice so you have a chance to live through your drug use and get clean when you realise you should probably stop.
Oh, and for the record: While this PSA comic is not too bad as far as PSA stuff goes, there is no PSA which can really stop someone from using drugs. It's been known for years that *you can't punish an addict into recovery* . Whether people like it or not, once you're addicted the job becomes surviving until you have the desire and/or resources to quit. For opiates opioid replacement therapy with buprenorphine or methadone is a way to be tapered off opiates safely and in a way that reduces your chances of relapse and withdrawal.
8:25 take it easy man. You’ll get your new Soundwave toy. Promise.
9:49 You know...I can see Starfire going on a tangent like this, it's in character XD
I can name several things where drinking at least is portrayed as the most awesome thing in the world...but it boils down to two words: beer commercials! and in many older (and probably modern) movies and shows about the "high class" folk, they're almost ALWAYS seen drinking martinis and whatnot. As for drugs being seen as "sexy" and "glamorous," probably a bunch of stuff in the 70's at least did so.
The whole "his name is Speedy and he's a former drug user" makes no sense because he used HEROIN, an OPIOID, a DOWNER. "Speed" is commonly used to refer to uppers, mostly meth.
You know what this episode made me think about, and yes I know it’s random. I want Linkara to play a game on a stream or something where someone take out of context clip from his entire series, and he has to guess what episode they were from.
Speedy: what are you doing smoking this? *snorts a line* this is a bad cut! I’m gonna call a guy who can hook you up. Maybe get you a better strain of Mary Jane too.
Who here knows why marijuana originally made illegal. I want to see how common that knowledge is
It was originally illegal because a man named Harry Anslinger who was the commissioner of the federal bureau of narcotics in 1930 had his funding cut. He started claiming not only that marijuana caused insanity, criminality and death when he spoke to the supreme court but also made Mexicans bloodthirsty to increase his funding. Later on under Nixon it was made a schedule one drug alongside things like heroin and morphine. They even admitted to knowing it was harmless and were just using it asa a reason to round up people they didn't like.
Good to know anti-marijuana campaigns have always been super racist
the perks of being a wallflower linkara. my favorite movie ever but it does promote teen drinking, smoking, and drugs.
Love the final moments with Snowflame, he's always hilarious xD
The Marv Wolfman & George Perez run of Titans is what really got me into DC comics. I was a hardcore Marvel fan before that.
I know its PCP but I like the idea of pop actually being seen as a dangerously addictive substance.
Turns out the protector had/has a drug problem....and then he dies.
Thanks Heroes in Crisis
17:35 OH MY GOD IT’S JUST LIKE ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN!!!!!
Many may laugh, but this was my introduction to the Teen Titans, including Starfire and Changeling. (Cyborg was on Super Powers Team and Wonder Girl and Speedy on the original Teen Titans cartoon). I was sorry the Protector didn't get his own series about a superhero targeting drug dealers, or at least a miniseries or more than just background cameos. Although as long as he wasn't used as superhero cannon fodder in some mega event it could be worse.
"We're complete assholes on this planet"
That explains more than enough why i feel like i live in a prison planet, stuck watching the machinations of semi intelligent apes at eachothers throats.
18:57 this has to be one of the best crossover ideas I've ever heard.
16:42 I don't think that there have been any sort of movie or shows that have glorifies drugs and alcohol like Cyborg suggested, but boy was cigarettes the big thing.
I think that Jason Hart (Protector's real name) would work well in Rebirth. If they can fit him in.
This did not age well. Thanks Heroes in Crisis. I can't wait to see you get torn apart in Event Comics Month 3.
Answer to minute 17.
James Bond
14:06 me if I was in this PSA comic: "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU RASIST! Your friends brother just died! Show some respect and kindness!" "So starfire... I just defended your honour... Wanna go out sometime?" LOL
9:23 Oh my god! Raven’s tripping balls!
1:17 Is having Roy take center cover on a drug PSA intentional?
16:43 In hindsight, after a few years, I might be wrong but I'm PREEETTY sure Project X has something like that. I vaguely remember them making a scene that edits drug and alcohol abuse as being "party stuff" and totally acceptable and glamorous.
Ten years of teen titans saying no to drugs
When the mom said, "Every other word out of her mouth is a curse." Was I the only who thought he was going to make a Harry Potter joke? XD
Wolf of Wall Street is an example of drinking and doing drugs is cool
True, but this comic was released in the 1980s.
True, but this comic was released in the 1980s.
Not to mention literally any James Bond movie.
Why did I start on drugs? Eh, no reason...
Gasoline85 that comment is great with your current profile picture
What’s ironic about the drug lord killing kids in a government anti-drug comic is how the government poisoned alcohol during prohibition so people who drank could die
I mean you are probably die Drinking prohibitionara alcohol even with it Wasn't poison because they tried to make stuff. Like rubbing alcohol, Drinkable
I'm writing a paper on it
I love how you can tell the Protector was meant to stand in for Robin, because he's the one giving orders to the Teen Titans when he barely knows them.
And then the protector died in Heroes in Crisis
And it turns out he was on drugs the whole time! Thanks Heroes in Crisis
10:42 to 10:46- It's been a long time since I've watched this episodes, but I saw the joke coming a mile away.
14:52: Gee. What else is new?
Honestly this is not the worst PSA I've seen. It's on the better side
9:25 clearly Raven has never seen pop art... Or that music video by Phil Colin.
so... did speedy get his name branded on his chest by a super villain? like... whats up with the cursive 'eed' on his chest? it doesn't LOOK like his chest hair
10:43 And then she heads off proclaiming that she wants justi-
OH WAIT! Wrong comic.
11:25 Oh Linkara don't you get it? The drug dealers are "over there," and "over there" has to deal with it's own problems.
snowflame's a pinkie pie fan, eh? interesting. I'm personally torn between pinkie and twilight as my favorite ponies.
7:35-7:45 ''It Said PCP, not Pop!''.
Noticed that too.
oh hey 25:35 there's this weeks review, ...huh, has he reviewed all of these by this point? Only ones I don't recognize are the ones on the far right.
About six of 'em. I'm sure I'll do more later. =)
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall wow you weren’t kidding about “Every Comment” all those years back. Kudos.
Dude, I'd love sooooooooommmmeeeee slinky.
Did 90’s Kid get high and forget how he works?
8:46 Is that the Joker before his transformation?
Autobot Starscream Autobot Starscream, maybe the world may never know!
Linkara..."pop" is "PCP"...
David Spring David... read the episode ruminations in the video description.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall oh sorry.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall I have a feeling this will happen a good bit god speed man.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall To be fair I'm sure I read it as "pop" and thought it was just another fancy drug name. I think pushers come up with them to hide what they really are, to the kids if not the victims.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall an alternate jokes for it being "pop" though.
"the new drug, pop. First, Dr. Pepper, then you move on to Coke...a-Cola" or "Coke...and I don't mean Coka-Cola"
9:25 Wasn't paying attention and this had me in stitches.
18:00 And thus began the epic Titans/Baywatch crossover.
14:22 And that's probably my favorite joke in the entire review.
OMG, I have that comic. I remember getting it in school as part of the D.A.R.E. program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). Oh the nostalgia.
Friendship is Magic, while entertaining and surprisingly intelligent, is pretty trippy. We have colorful cartoon ponies fighting bad guys with rainbows and songs. Not to mention the furry confusion of some animals talking while some don't. And that's just the main series. The movies are even trippier when you see colorful HUMAN versions of the ponies becoming pony-themed magical girls. As you can well imagine, the show has a lot of fans in Japan. :P
Y'know what the difference is with animals in FiM?
Hooves.
The cows, buffalo, and sheep talk, along with mules and ponies. So it's hooves and dragons.
Kyman102 And griffins. :3
Kimi FW
Alright, point, hooves and *magical creatures*
16:34 Well, '50 Shades Of Grey' makes rape, and domestic abuse look 'cool', and gossip rags like 'E! News' should be punished for hyping such a movie.
20:38 I didn't know the Cobra Commander was in this.
20:55 "He's not your boss, your boss is busy doing a Nabisco crackers commercial!"
Really? where can I find THAT commercial? you got me curious.
Ironically, in the mini-series Heroes in Crisis. The Protector confesses in private that he is a drug addict who opposes drugs, so in short he's a massive hypocrite.
I reviewed Heroes in Crisis. I'm not fond of that moment.
@@AT4W I know, that's why I shared this fact for other viewers
It's even worse if you know the origins of The Protector: His little brother loved superheroes but ended up becoming a drug addict, and so he decided to become a superhero to fight against drugs, and to be a hero that his little brother could look up to. It's honestly a really nice, wholesome backstory for such a small, minor character.
Wow not only did Heroes in Crisis ruin other characters it also ruined a character made for a PSA drug comic
In retrospect, I think this comic really outed Linkara as a total square, since he thought pot, hash and hash oil are the same thing. Although this review did give me one of my all-time favorite lines so it evens out.
I had to google "China Cat". I'm not sure if I'm happy I didn't know what that was or if it means I'm naive.
16:41 Do the Cheech and Chong movies count?
15:17 Majurana can only have bad effects if you do it if your brain is not fully developed, otherwise it is completely safe.
Megamania 215 um....where did you get that bad information
man it's not so funny anymore going back to this after Heroes in Crisis...
It just isnt period
Since this is my favorite superteam (Period) and I'm actually AMAZED by the quality of this work I can only say this... BOOYAH!!!!
Question: if the Teen Titans Animated Series was to be revived (correctly mind you) do you think they should do anti drug themed episodes every Red Ribbon Week?
Rafael Jimenez The Titans are my favourite DC's team, followed by the Legion and the Green Lantern Corps.
16:55 James bond, several john Wayne movies, Monuments men, Rick and Morty, South Park, Cheah and Chong, Hellboy 1 and 2, The Watchmen, Star Trek (especially deep space nine and next generation), Mash, that 70s show, The Simpsons, Cowboy bebop, xxx holic, Family Guy, American dad
+Gwen Lovegood Cheers . No one got drunk , got into fights , or drove drunk and killed someone .
Stick to examples that would have existed at the time.