Reaper 1: Pussyfooting (Stop, GO)

“Stop trying to hit me and HIT ME!”

{ “Reaper” is the creative animus for Sucker Punch AΩ: Episode III. The forecast is grim; we reap what we sow. }

The “Pacifist” is a recurring xbox achievement gamers can unlock by completing a level without firing a shot. It’s in HALO and Call of Duty (and probably many more games). In COD World at War it’s actually called “Kamikaze.” Here it is:

“You Were Crazy Enough to Try It” — Call of Duty: World at War
Complete a level on Regular difficulty or higher using only melee or grenades — completed a mission without firing a single shot.

Friends, there is not a single firearm in Episode II. And I’ll accept every praise with love, for making that disciplined choice knowing our world was on the brink. (To hell with it now).

Achievement Unlocked🔓💠 Here it should be called, “Enter The Dragon.” In honor of the ‘slappers only’ 1973 Martial Arts classic (review inbound). I laugh like a hyena inside knowing that no matter the success my series achieves, it will merely be a side story about the girls on Han’s island who fluff Bruce Lee before the tournament.

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Slippers and makeup— doesn’t quite scratch the itch in 2026 does it? Regardless, we cannot proceed further in this story without getting our hands dirty. Baby Doll’s auxillary weapon is an M1911A1 pistol, and it’s integral to her development.

In Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) Baby Doll’s pistol represents the opportunity she squanders in the very beginning of the movie, to stop an evil man from inflicting further harm upon her, her sister and other innocent people. She pulls off an impossible maneuver to obtain the gun, catching her abusive stepfather off guard. She has him dead to rights but lacks the constitution to pull the trigger. She drops the weapon and flees, and by doing so re-doubles his power over her, which he of course uses to silence her permanently.

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Baby Doll, this is is The Wise Man speaking to you. Can you hear me? Baby Doll, it’s 2026 and you are a lobotomized vegetable living in a permanent black mirror episode. Your friends and family are all dead or enslaved. You’ve been used and abused in every way a person can be abused. Your body is broken and your soul vanished. What advice would you give that teenage girl back in that sleezy halfway house? The younger version of you.

Baby Doll: (grumbling) “Take the thought! Ew puthy ath bith!”

Experience Film🤷🏽