70: Occupant Sin 4 - li. Showdown at Sunrise

Page Notes

Episode published on Sunday 13th of May, 2012.

Saddler's line in the equivalent scene from Resident Evil 4 is actually about "the American prevailing" but obviously I've had to update the line to reflect Pain. It's well known that British people make for the best villains, especially if they have a posh accent and can affect a particularly smug demeanour.

I believe the line "more like 300" was strikingly relevant back when I first wrote the script, along with a subsequent kicking reference on the next page as the film had just came out. As it took several years to get to this point though, it lacked relevance by the time I got to drawing it.

There's something cathartic about drawing Ben's violent escapades.

Tagged: Ben Nevis, Bono, The Captain, Location - Burdener Island, Location - Spain, Lord Almond Burdener, Mara Kyler, Max Valerion

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Transcript

Title - 70: "Occupant Sin 4"
Subtitle: li. Showdown at Sunrise

(Pain and the Captain are outside, looking up at the view of a large, metalic platform built on top of a cliff face. Pain, looking pleased, points at it whilst the Captain stares at him, nonplussed.)

Narrator: Outside-
Pain: Ahahah! A big open space! Just what we need!
Captain: For what?
Pain: To get seen. Come on!

Narrator: And so-

(The boys emerge from a lift. The Captain has his guns drawn and is aiming infront of him. Pain watches him, amused.)

Pain: You seem a little tense.

(There's a close up of the Captain as he examines the open space, training one of his guns on whatever he is looking at, the other ready in case anything jumps out from behind them.)

Captain: A little. Last time I stepped off a lift some prick drop-kicked me right in the stomach*.
*Footnote: See episode 57.

(The boys look up, Captain swinging his guns up with his gaze. Pain smirks as Samada hangs by her tied wrists in the foreground, a rope looped around her waistline.)

Samada: Aw, crap!

(Samada is hanging from a crane. An intersecting panel shows Pain's reaction to her appearance. He's smirking at her, amused.)

Samada: I was hoping you wouldn't notice me.
Pain: How's it hanging?

(The Captain aims a gun at the rope Samada is hanging from. Pain, panicked, leaps to stop him. An intersecting panel shows Samada yelling at the Captain. She's angry.)

Captain: 's alright. I'll shoot you down...
Pain and Samada: NO!!!

(The Captain looks confused as Pain eases the gun down so it's no longer pointing at Samada.)

Captain: Why not?
Pain: It's not that we don't trust your complete inability to aim.

(In the background, Samada falls to the floor with a "CLANK", landing in a crouched postion. She is wriggling herself free of her restraints. In the forground, Pain adjusts his glasses as he takes on a stern expression. The Captain looks annoyed.)

Pain: Oh wait, that's precisely the reason.

(Samada approaches the boys, her wrists bent at painfully odd angles. She smiles innocently at them as they notice her approach. Pain wears an amused smirk as he gestures towards where she had previously been hanging.)

Pain: I bet you could've let yourself down anytime you wanted.
Samada: Sure! ...On a completely unrelated note, could you be a lamb and pop my wrists back into their sockets?

(Pain does as she asks with a loud "CRACK", facing away from the camera. We have a good view of her face as she smiles at him.)

Pain: So how are my accounts doing?
Samada: Well, you were a little in the red last month-

(She quickly turns away from him, looking sheepish as she rubs some feeling back into her wrists. Pain has a subdued smile as he watches her.)

Samada: Er, at least that's what I'd say if I was your accountant.
Pain: Sure.

(Lord Burdener appears, chuckling to himself.)

Burdener: Hahahah!

(The trio all raise their weapons at him. Pain's confused, Samada looks annoyed and the Captain's indifferent.)

Samada, Captain and Pain: What's so funny?
SFX (guns): CLICK CLICK CLICK

(Burdener smirks at the group, finger raised.)

Burdener: Oh, I think you know. The Englishman prevailing is a cliché that only happens in Hollywood movies!

(Pain balks at this statement.)

Pain: ...What?

(He approaches Burdener, prodding him in the chest. Burdener is irritated by this.)

Pain: What bloody films do you watch? Everyone knows that the British bloke is always the villain!
Burdener: ...Oh?

(Pain and Burdener are centered in the background, Pain absorbed in his rant whilst Burdener looks irritated. Samada and Captain are in the foreground, the Captain lighting up a cigarette and Samada looking on at the scene in fron of her, stunned.)

Pain: Well you had Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Jeremy Irons as his equally if not more-so cunningly evil brother Simon Gruber, Alan Rickman again as the Sheriff in Robin Hood, Jeremy Irons again in The Lion King, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Charles Dance as Benedict in The Last Action Hero (that's a personal favourite), John Cleese did the voice of the evil British cat in an American Tail 3, there's the bloke in Rush Hour, Gary Oldman in Lost in Space, Bob Hoskins in Unleashed, and Christopher Lee in basically every bloody film he's ever made. And that's some of the obvious ones, don't get me started on less popular choices like Malcolm McDowell in Tank Girl...
Burdener: ...
Samada: ...Huh.
Captain: Yup.

Narrator: Meanwhile...

(We cut to a montage of Ben beating up Burdener's soldiers. He pulps one's head in his giant fist, stamps another flat with his heel whilst lifting a third up by the ankle, and then rips the parasite out of a fourth's chest with his bare hands. These events take place over three short panels.)

SFX: CRUNCH SPLUTCH RIIIIIIP

(A close up of Ben's face - he looks annoyed as he's surrounded by yet more soldiers. Ben raises his fingers to his lips and whistles.)

Ben: Aww, bugger this for a game of soldiers!

(Behind the wall of enemies, a misshapen silhouette is attacking the soldiers at the back of the crowd. Ben is calling to it with his arms outstertched, beckoning it towards him.)

Ben: Here, boy!
SFX: SPLUTCH GRAAGH!

Narrator: Meanwhile...

(Back on the platform, Pain is still droning on about actors, his speech barely visible behind an aggravated Burdener. Burdener is clutching at his head with his eyes tightly shut and his teeth tightly clenched. He looks like he has a headache. Burdener, eyes now wide open and glowing red with barely contained rage, turns and spits with anger as he yells at Pain.)

Burdener: ENOUGH!!!

(Next panel has Burdener at a low angle, the reader looking up at him. He is still glowing as he speaks, shaking as he tries to regain his composure.)

Burdener: Do the three of you really expect to defeat me? You know what I am capable of!

(Pain strokes his chin as he grins in amusement, one brow cocked.)

Pain: Three?

(Pain waves off Burdener's comments whilst looking very smug. Samada and Captain stand either side of him. The Captain's expresionless whereas Samada's looking just as smug as Pain, hand on her hip. Behind the trio it's revealed that an army of various Detulux henchmen are arriving, sporting various assault rifles and shotguns. Military grade helicopters hover above, depositing more henchmen via rope ladders. Behind them, the sun begins to rise.)

Pain: More like 300.

(Henchmen rally behind Pain and the Captain, Samada suspiciously absent. The Captain nudges Pain's shoulder with one hand, nonchalantly holding his cigarette in the other. Pain looks annoyed.)

Captain: Actually, it's more like sixty-
Pain: Shush.

Episode tagline: There's nothing worse than a fanboy on a rant.