Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27242792-20131222000402/@comment-14250-20140320203144

Not to mention 3) that her name is Maria.

Since I don't watch the episodes in order (just whatever my PVR records of PBS) I now have to find every appearance of Energy Monster occurring after this episode and analyze it...

Like, the polite thing to do would be for WordGirl to call Energy Monster by her name, Maria. It kind of seems... utterly cruel and traumatizing to keep calling her 'Monster'. Two-Brains used the name, and he said it in front of WG, so she would know what it was...

Simply letting the helmet remain destroyed is callous for any superhero, but it's especially disturbing for WG to do it considering her whole motif is the power of words. She delights when villains learn the vocabulary she teaches... but Maria never gets a chance to show that she has...

I was kind of able to tolerate the Grimdark of Two-Brains, knowing Ice King prepped me for it. WG isn't a brain surgeon so there isn't exactly much she can do to help her friend... But surely she could negotiate with 2-brains a way to allow Maria to retain the power of speech so long as she doesn't break the law or harass 2-brains.