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002 [VIDEO/TEXT]
[Oh. It's this guy again.
Though Wheatley is, at least, wearing clothes now, the concept of grooming seems to have escaped him entirely--he's arranged haphazardly in a chair, his jumpsuit is only half-zipped, he's unshaven and barefoot, his glasses are askew and his hair sticks out at odd angles in wet clumps--perhaps a "DOCTOR WATSON I AM CAPABLE OF A SHOWER" more than anything else.
Ladies.]
Uh, yes. Hello. As my, um. Colleague, HAL, so eloquently mentioned earlier, it is possible that some of you new arrivals might be experiencing a form of…bodily displacement. Don't be alarmed! Well. Do be alarmed, because this is, actually, rather alarming, but you're not alone! I'm one of you--provided you are an artificial intelligence or…a robot, or something of a computer-like nature. I am here to help.
See, once upon a time, I asked Doctor Watson if he could possibly provide me with a list of--of everything humans need to ensure continued survival. And--and do you know what he told me? Told me it couldn't be done. Said, [He lowers his voice--this is obviously his Watson impression.] "Wheatley, it can't be done". Told me to come see him, instead.
Did some thinking. Decided if there wasn't a list--and obviously the humans have no interest in making one--I could fill the void, as it were. Needed to learn how to type anyway, had my little mental catalogue of human design flaws, figured I could do that thing with the birds and the stones. So good news! There is a list now, based on my, um. Observations. And experiences. It exists, because I wrote it, even though they told me it couldn't be done. Did it anyway--that's me, every day, doing the impossible.
Right. Sending it out. To all of you. Nnnooow. Typed it up myself, did I mention that? Fingers.
◦ Breathing! You have to do it. Good news, though: automatic function, unless you start thinking about it. Don't think about it.
○ Constant recharging is necessary. It's like maintenance, only instead of at sensible intervals, it's all the time.
○ Doctor Watson says humans need to eat three times a day. America says he eats five or eight times a day? As long as you do it more than zero times within a 24-hour period, you should be fine.
○ Drinking is also a thing that needs to happen, also more than zero times.
○ Speaking of: I had my doubts, but it seems humans are waterproof, even on the inside.
○ So that's four things you have to do more than zero times a day: breathing, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
○ Sleeping is almost like powering down, but not really. At all.
○ Here's something nobody bothered to warn me about: When you sleep your brain plays back little video files of all the horrible things that have ever happened to you and you can't turn it off. Just thought I'd toss that in. You're welcome.
○ No off switch. For anything. Which is a shame, because humans could really benefit from an off switch. Or maybe just a switch that stops you from being hungry or thirsty. Or tired. Or a switch that keeps you from smelling things when you don't want to smell them.
○ Humans are somewhat obsessed with cleanliness. If you haven't taken a shower, I'd get on that right away, unless you like pitchers of water thrown in your face. Humans do that, sometimes.
○ Word of warning: Elbows and knees are only meant to bend one way. If it hurts, it's probably the wrong way.
○ Be careful with the zippers on the jumpsuits. I keep saying either the zippers need to go on the back of the jumpsuits or the dangly bits need to go somewhere else. They shouldn't both be on the front.
○ Humans like wearing clothes. Something about common decency, or something, but I walked around without them for the first few days and only a few people even noticed. I would consider it optional.
○ You're going to leak. A lot. From multiple orifices. This is supposedly normal, unless the liquid is red, in which case you are probably bleeding.
○ Related: Blood stays inside the body. Important.
○ Related, but less important: Sweating is awful. I want to find whoever invented sweating and deck them one.
○ Related again: I have fists now, I can do that.
○ Completely unrelated to the above, or to anything I may or may not have done to Boat Guy: The nose is very breakable. Not sure why humans have got something so fragile right in the middle of the face, but there you go.
○ In conclusion: humans produce an excessive amount of fluids and they are all inconvenient. I've counted at least six different kinds. Prepare yourselves.
Hopefully you'll find it educational, straight from one of your own. I mean, you could go down to medical. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. I do, however, have it on good account that the blokes there enjoy assaulting unsuspecting computers and tossing them in bathtubs without any--without any regard or--or consideration for hydrophobia that. May or may not have resulted from untold decades of being made entirely of metal and circuitry. Insensitive, that.
But, you know. Your choice. Don't say I didn't warn you.
[VIDEO OVER THE END. Wait no he's back.]
Oh, um. Mister Johnson wanted me to. Let everyone know that if you have not filled out an Enrichment Center Test Subject Application, please do so and send the completed form to either Mister Johnson or myself at 001-043 or 001-089, respectively. We appreciate your cooperation; thank you for helping us help you help us all.
Though Wheatley is, at least, wearing clothes now, the concept of grooming seems to have escaped him entirely--he's arranged haphazardly in a chair, his jumpsuit is only half-zipped, he's unshaven and barefoot, his glasses are askew and his hair sticks out at odd angles in wet clumps--perhaps a "DOCTOR WATSON I AM CAPABLE OF A SHOWER" more than anything else.
Ladies.]
Uh, yes. Hello. As my, um. Colleague, HAL, so eloquently mentioned earlier, it is possible that some of you new arrivals might be experiencing a form of…bodily displacement. Don't be alarmed! Well. Do be alarmed, because this is, actually, rather alarming, but you're not alone! I'm one of you--provided you are an artificial intelligence or…a robot, or something of a computer-like nature. I am here to help.
See, once upon a time, I asked Doctor Watson if he could possibly provide me with a list of--of everything humans need to ensure continued survival. And--and do you know what he told me? Told me it couldn't be done. Said, [He lowers his voice--this is obviously his Watson impression.] "Wheatley, it can't be done". Told me to come see him, instead.
Did some thinking. Decided if there wasn't a list--and obviously the humans have no interest in making one--I could fill the void, as it were. Needed to learn how to type anyway, had my little mental catalogue of human design flaws, figured I could do that thing with the birds and the stones. So good news! There is a list now, based on my, um. Observations. And experiences. It exists, because I wrote it, even though they told me it couldn't be done. Did it anyway--that's me, every day, doing the impossible.
Right. Sending it out. To all of you. Nnnooow. Typed it up myself, did I mention that? Fingers.
◦ Breathing! You have to do it. Good news, though: automatic function, unless you start thinking about it. Don't think about it.
○ Constant recharging is necessary. It's like maintenance, only instead of at sensible intervals, it's all the time.
○ Doctor Watson says humans need to eat three times a day. America says he eats five or eight times a day? As long as you do it more than zero times within a 24-hour period, you should be fine.
○ Drinking is also a thing that needs to happen, also more than zero times.
○ Speaking of: I had my doubts, but it seems humans are waterproof, even on the inside.
○ So that's four things you have to do more than zero times a day: breathing, eating, drinking, and sleeping.
○ Sleeping is almost like powering down, but not really. At all.
○ Here's something nobody bothered to warn me about: When you sleep your brain plays back little video files of all the horrible things that have ever happened to you and you can't turn it off. Just thought I'd toss that in. You're welcome.
○ No off switch. For anything. Which is a shame, because humans could really benefit from an off switch. Or maybe just a switch that stops you from being hungry or thirsty. Or tired. Or a switch that keeps you from smelling things when you don't want to smell them.
○ Humans are somewhat obsessed with cleanliness. If you haven't taken a shower, I'd get on that right away, unless you like pitchers of water thrown in your face. Humans do that, sometimes.
○ Word of warning: Elbows and knees are only meant to bend one way. If it hurts, it's probably the wrong way.
○ Be careful with the zippers on the jumpsuits. I keep saying either the zippers need to go on the back of the jumpsuits or the dangly bits need to go somewhere else. They shouldn't both be on the front.
○ Humans like wearing clothes. Something about common decency, or something, but I walked around without them for the first few days and only a few people even noticed. I would consider it optional.
○ You're going to leak. A lot. From multiple orifices. This is supposedly normal, unless the liquid is red, in which case you are probably bleeding.
○ Related: Blood stays inside the body. Important.
○ Related, but less important: Sweating is awful. I want to find whoever invented sweating and deck them one.
○ Related again: I have fists now, I can do that.
○ Completely unrelated to the above, or to anything I may or may not have done to Boat Guy: The nose is very breakable. Not sure why humans have got something so fragile right in the middle of the face, but there you go.
○ In conclusion: humans produce an excessive amount of fluids and they are all inconvenient. I've counted at least six different kinds. Prepare yourselves.
Hopefully you'll find it educational, straight from one of your own. I mean, you could go down to medical. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. I do, however, have it on good account that the blokes there enjoy assaulting unsuspecting computers and tossing them in bathtubs without any--without any regard or--or consideration for hydrophobia that. May or may not have resulted from untold decades of being made entirely of metal and circuitry. Insensitive, that.
But, you know. Your choice. Don't say I didn't warn you.
[VIDEO OVER THE END. Wait no he's back.]
Oh, um. Mister Johnson wanted me to. Let everyone know that if you have not filled out an Enrichment Center Test Subject Application, please do so and send the completed form to either Mister Johnson or myself at 001-043 or 001-089, respectively. We appreciate your cooperation; thank you for helping us help you help us all.
[video]
Which, by the way, you are not.
[video]
[video]
So you can't be smart. Minions take orders for a reason. They need smarter, more capable people to direct their energies.
[Somewhere, Megamind's own Minion feels cranky and personally abused, and can guess at why. It's not like Megamind doesn't say this to his fishy face.]
[video]
[video]
AIR QUOTES!!!!!!!!!!
done now.]
Oh yes. "In charge", I see. And since you were "in charge", I have to ask: who put you "in charge" of this facility? Who built it for you to be "in charge" of it?
I'm guessing someone who isn't you.
[video]
If you must know, I took the initiative. Proactive, me.
And yes, it was built by parties other than myself, but honestly the whole place was falling apart before I stepped up and fixed a few things.
[Video]
You're a lackey with initiative! That's the worst kind! How much did you screw up while you were doing what someone else had not told you to do!? How many weeks of plans did you ruin? How many inventions!?
[facepalms forever]
Listen, you're not bright enough to be off, willy-nilly, managing things on your own! You were probably given a task, why didn't you stick to that? Sheesh.
[video]
--and I have no idea how to fix this place--
and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WENT WRONG]
You've got no idea what happened! Turned the facility right around, I did. I don't know how they got on before I was in charge. And I was--I was perfectly capable of managing the place.
[video]
[Megamind has even considering letting him, you know, in on the plot to take over the ship for science's sake....such as his plot is, in it's infant 'mostly just thinking about it' stages.]
You? Soft-headed groupie, that's what you are. Imbecilic. You couldn't manage what Mr. Johnson does!
[Megamind has this nose for-- well, trouble.]
Well, don't trouble yourself. You've got a good keeper here, don't you? Mr. Johnson will make sure you don't do anything too moronic I'm sure and, I don't know, jeopardize our lives with your "initiative". [air quotes.]
[video]
[--to make me behave. To slow me down. Once, they even attached--]
They tried to control Her but [I couldn't] they couldn't and She killed nearly everyone else and they still couldn't take Her down but I did it. Me. I did the whole place a favor, getting rid of Her and I ran it better than She ever did. I don't need anyone and I--
[Throughout this whole little tirade, it's very clear to see Wheatley going from "ok maybe he's fuming a little bit" to "wow that is some unbridled rage going on there calm your tits, dude" in about two seconds flat. The visible tipping point, is, of course, that little m-word oh-so-casually tossed in there.]
--I am NOT a moron.
[video]
[Megamind's brow quirks up, but he's rather abruptly glad he's in engineering and not anywhere near Wheatley.]
So I'm assuming 'She' is your villain overlord and you're the rebellious lackey, then, huh?
[Megamind has a remarkably lack of self-preservation instinct Completely overconfident where 'my personal morality' is concerned. Or maybe being the last of his kind, he really doesn't care. There's a certain fatalism to being one errant fuckup away from becoming extinct, after all.]
[video]
[Time-out in a potato.]
I wouldn't expect you to understand.
[video]
My superior intellect can't possibly see you grasping desperately at usurping your overlord! Except where it's right there in front of my face!
Oh, Mr. Wheatley. You need to understand there are ways things work! There is an order of things. You are a lackey! You obey, you carry out, you enable! You don't plan, manage or or plot! That's not for someone as small-minded as you!
[Totally having a good chuckle here at the guy's expense.]
[video]
Ah, I see. You're just like Her, I bet. Keep everyone in their place. Figure if you're scary enough, no one'll ever think to challenge you. You're all mighty and important while the rest of us hang unquestioningly on your every word, is that it?
[He leans in, eyes narrowed and voice low.]
It doesn't work.
[video]
I am not a thug.
[I am a supervillain, he does not say, not even over encrypted text to the moron. Someone, somewhere, would find out, or believe him-- so Megamind just leaves it heavy, unspoken, there.]
[He smirks at Wheatley's posturing now, and then says]
I think you may be even better then Eridan. What fun!
Game on, then. Mr. Wheatley. Game on.
[And he cuts the feed. He's got TWO nemesises now! Wheatley, the moron, who he can practice crushing, and Eridan, who he can ... well, he'll figure out something with Eridan, who is at least smart enough to wheedle his way into security.]
[video]
One (1) kicked chair
One (1) thrown communicator
Several minutes of inarticulate grumbling about how HARD his life is.
It's hard.
It's hard and nobody understands.]