FFM26: Too Many Characters?

“Sorry, BeeWoman, you’ve been called back,” Director Fargle said. He wore a stunning yellow cape that swirled around him like a yellow tornado of pee. He would have said it was like Lemonade or gold bars, but it was well known he was a complete idiot. His cape was pee colored.

“What the hell do you mean, called back? This is War. I’m needed,” she said. She could see the explosions. People were dying.

“Too many characters,” he said, cutting off her protest. Again.

“Too many? What does that even mean?”

“TinyBugMan, you’re up,” Director Fargle said. The tiny, shrinking idiot cheered as he jumped off the bench. He wasn’t even the original TinyBugGuy. He was his replacement. BeeWoman had helped train him when they inexplicably decided it was too dangerous for her to handle the mission herself. They said something about her being too precious to her father to risk her life. After all, her mother had vanished years before and she was just an extension of her. Can’t risk the daughter when there’s a perfectly good untrained man around. A short montage can teach anyone karate and bug communication skills. BeeWoman still didn’t know why she listened to anyone anymore.

“You’re kidding me. We have almost the same powers. Why does he get to go? This is ridiculous,” she said.

Director Fargle shrugged.

“Tough break, sweetheart,” he said, “There’s just no room for BeeWoman.”

“BeeWoman was a founding member of the team---,” she said. Her mother had been in the starting roster alongside her father and MetalSuitMan and Captain-Uncle Sam. There was also the Bulk, a purple monster of a man who transformed when he got too happy. And then there was Sore, the mysterious god of toe pain. All of the originals (except for Father) were out in the field, fighting the good fight, saving the day…she even caught a glimpse of the super spy team, BowandArrowMan and SpiderSpyGirl.

“You weren't one of the founders. That was your mom, kiddo,” he said.

BeeWoman sat down beside the Incredible SheBulk and Captain UniverseGirl and WomanSpider---amazingly strong, amazingly powerful.  They’d all been pulled back too. BeeWoman felt better for a moment, knowing she wasn’t being singled out. Then she remembered the completely powerless BowandArrowMan and the rage was back. He was just a man with a bow and he got to run around fighting supervillains.  How was a bow and arrow more useful than super strength, comic energy blasts, spider agility and organic webbing, or the ability to shrink and grow at will while controlling bugs?

BeeWoman looked at her bench companions and all she could think about was drop kicking someone out of a window. There was no logical reason they were being called out of the field. It was madness.

“And besides,” Director Fargle said, “TinyBugGuy just got his own movie.”

The sound he made when she punched him out the window was glorious, sweet music.