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two minute sneak peek of a new HB short was shown at the LVL UP EXPO 2025. The short is expected to release in late June. Looks like Loona's finally taking part in their missions again and them trying to kill his happy-go-lucky father. Loona hesitates to kill him because the father wanted to be with his kids one last time before they shoot him and she didn't want the kids to become orphans like her. It feels like a small rehash of Blitz not targeting the gay couple because it reminded him of his abuser—I mean, his near and dear, poor oppressed husbando, Stolas.
But I guess it's more justified considering it's Loona in this situation and not Blitzo, who couldn't care about the status of someone suddenly gaining empathy because he let his Stockholm Syndrome win over him.
Funny for Blitzo in this short to suddenly not care about a father and his kids. I guess as long as he doesn't know the father's gay or something, he's suddenly back to his assassination mantra.
Where was this attitude in Episode 2 or 6? It’s galling to see this, because what is their leg to stand on when both these characters have a body count higher than a porn star? Like, none of the Dhork agents Loona ruthlessly slaughtered had kids? None of the kids Blitzo murdered during Spring Break had parents or dads? The studio audience he went School shooter on didn’t matter? You can’t have a show about immoral assassins that don’t give a shit, and then try to give them a moral backbone halfway through the show, otherwise you just make the audience question this exact scenario. Why does this guy not matter, but the gay dads did? Are they going to bring up their past hits, and actually wonder if I.M.P. should persist? If the angels and dhorks show up, do they fight back considering that all these guys are trying to do is stop them? Or is it all going to be a half assed montage like in apology tour?
Funnily enough, the idea they’re going for could work, if the moral and ethical conundrum of targeting innocent humans was brought up day 1 and played straight, and not undermined by cannibal satanists and the police murdering everyone left alive. However, it requires at least one character with a hardline moral center, a ‘soul’ if you will, something that none of these sociopaths and psychopaths have, and the writers don’t have the wisdom/intelligence to just play their initial pitch straight like in It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia where yeah, these people are the worst, they will not change, and will continue to be the worst, as they bring out the worst in each other. They have their emotional moments, but let’s be real, those are only moments, they’re still the Gang at the end of the day.
I say the idea they’re going for could work, because I remember stumbling on a fanfic some time ago that might be able to square that circle of the moral, reluctant assassin, if done correctly. The thing is they made a key change that allows them to do so, one that’s subtle at first glance because of how poorly it could be done, but might actually have solid ramifications if the author follows through with the idea. (Bonus point IMO, the tags lack Blitzo/Stolas. Hopefully they keep it like that, but you know how this fandom is. That guy that got shot in the gut COULD survive, but don’t count on him making weekend plans.)
Also, is this going to be a thing that will happen to all the IMP members of the show? They don't want to kill someone since it relates too much to them? On the next hit, is Millie going to refuse to kill a pregnant woman?
Honestly, as stupid as it sounds, at least that one would sorta make sense. It’s a new change for Millie, she now can look at it in a way that she wouldn’t have prior. It’s not just the mom she’s killing, it’s a baby that has literally done nothing wrong. I still don’t know if they’ll have some abortion arc, high hopes, low expectations they just give the fans a baby to faun over, because fuck it, it’d be cute, and would avoid a shit storm, but at least that can tie into a new narrative, while the other ‘empathy’ moments are circumstances that should have been brought up already, if they planned to go down this route.