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Johnny Turbo (Comic Book)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Okay, quiz time. To effectively market your video game console when it's struggling against two well-established competitors, what would be the best course of action to take?If you answered C, you may have been working for NEC in the early 90s as a marketer for their console the TurboGrafx-16, because that's exactly what they did: they presented multi-page ads in gaming magazines centering around a "computer expert" named Jonathan Brandstetter, better known under his alias Johnny Turbo, and his loving sidekick Tony in their quest to teach gamers the completely unbiased truth about the TG-16 compared to NEC's self-appointed rival Se—err, Feka.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Episode 43: The Master Plan! — Johnny learns that Feka is marketing a CD system as "the first of its kind," and this simply will not stand. Johnny takes out the Feka goons who were selling the CD systems, and more in the shadows promise their revenge.Episode 44: Let 'Em Dangle! — See aboveinvoked, only this time, there's a great focus on the more recently released TurboDuo, which combined the TG-16 and its CD addon into one unit, a capability which the Genesis and Sega CD lacked at the time. Because everybody who wanted the Sega CD obviously didn't own a Genesis at the same time.Episode 45: Sleepwalker — Johnny's sidekick Tony gets A Day in the Limelight. And he has one hell of a dream.Today, Johnny stands mostly as a curious and forgotten footnote in the history of a company which was losing ground in the US to Sega and the Big N, but thanks to the internet and webmaster Sardius, you too can experience the entire saga of Mr. Turbo here, along with Atop the Fourth Wall, which you can view here and here. They have also been turned into motion comics in this video. The first two "issues," as noted above, are fairly typical gaming attacks, with Feka presented as a faceless man assisted by identityless goons, but then the third one — most likely an utter last-ditch attempt for NEC to just make some sort of impact on the average gamer's mind — got... weird. Very, very weird.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Seriously, read the whole thing. It's much more amusing than it should be.Interestingly, Brandstetter has decided to keep using the character since the founding of his new company, Flying Tiger Entertainment, as part of a series of Data East arcade-to-console conversions known as Johnny Turbo's Arcade. Johnny is also a playable character in the crossover puzzle game Crystal Crisis. | |
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Dream Weaver | |
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Dream Weaver: Johnny is somehow responsible for the dream Tony had in Issue 3 | |
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Goggles Do Nothing: Even though Johnny wears them, they don't seem to have a purpose. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Feka goons selling their system on a street corner in the first issue are very obviously made out to resemble drug dealers, including giving away free games to hook customers. Also, pretty much all the Homoerotic Subtext innuendo in the third issue. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: "... I just can't contain myself! JONATHAN!!!" | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: The Feka goons. | |
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Propaganda Machine | |
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Propaganda Machine: Feka is apparently the devil incarnate for persuading kids to give them their hard-earned allowances. So how does Johnny/NEC fight this? With more propaganda. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Despite the second issue ending with FEKA plotting to take down Johnny Turbo, the third issue is devoted to promoting the TurboDuo through an odd dream sequence. Since that was the last story of the series, the FEKA plot went unresolved. | |
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Unknown Rival | |
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Unknown Rival: NEC seemingly chose to make Sega their primary enemy in the Console Wars for no other reason than they were the only other major video game company selling a CD console at the time. If Sega even knew about the Johnny Turbo campaign, which is doubtful, they didn't feel the need to respond with a smear campaign of their own. According to The Other Wiki, other side of the story has just recently been unearthed, and it turns out that Sega again started this mess by launching a series of ads that only aired in NEC'S trial market areas mocking the TurboGrafx-16's CPU when NEC announced the launch of the console. NEC was only responding in kind. Unfortunately for NEC, Sega actually had a point, as when gamers talk about word size, more often than not they were referring to the word size of the CPU. | |
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Rummage Sale Reject | |
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Rummage Sale Reject: Johnny. Full stop. | |
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Strawman Product | |
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Strawman Product: The TurboDuo has the arcade feel! And Feka's pack-in shooter gamenote Sol-Feace, for those wondering doesn't even compare! to Gate of Thunder! But of course, at the same time, Sega was doing the same thing to Nintendo in their own ads. | |
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Un-Installment | |
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Un-Installment: In spite of the episode numbering, there were only three of these comics ever made. The previous 42 installments of Johnny Turbo do not exist. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Johnny Turbo is who your average fanboy would be if he stopped being an Internet Jerk and started actually assaulting those who hold opinions he doesn’t like. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Johnny is heavily implied to have caused Tony's dream sequence in the final issue, although it's unknown how he managed to accomplish such a feat or why he felt the need to subliminally shill the TurboDuo its biggest fan. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: Instead of trying to promote the TurboDuo or its games, the comic spent most of its time insulting Sega or making asinine assertions that the Sega CD was inferior simply because it came out after the TurboDuo and needed the already super popular Sega Genesis to work. | |
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Acrofatic | |
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Acrofatic: Johnny is very fat and stout, but he's also incredibly strong. | |
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Ambiguous Robots | |
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Ambiguous Robots: As the page quote shows, the FEKA goons aren't human. However, it's not clear if they are Ridiculously Human Robots, some sort of demon, or something else entirely. | |
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Homoerotic Subtext | |
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Homoerotic Subtext: To the point where by the third issue, it might as well just be called Homoerotic Text. | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers | |
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Unusual Chapter Numbers: Starts at 43, then goes to 44 and 45. | |
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Iconic Outfit | |
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Iconic Outfit: Everybody's, since they almost never appear in anything else. | |
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Not Even Human | |
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Not Even Human: The big reveal for Feka goons. And it's a good thing, too, or Johnny would have been guilty of assault and battery at the very least. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
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Obviously Evil: Feka's doing a really bad job of hiding their true nature, what with their evil gloating, creepy grinning, and shadowy boss figure. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: The plot involving FEKA is completely dropped in the third and final issue, even though the Big Bad's last appearance has him preparing some kind of evil plot against Johnny Turbo. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham: There's no shortage of excitement and melodrama over the CD console wars in the world of Johnny Turbo. | |
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Big "OMG!" | |
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Big "OMG!": Several, among them the page quote. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
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Dirty Communists: The person in charge of FEKA is known as the FEKA Czar. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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The Second Comic advertises about how "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out: "What better way to fight propaganda than by portraying your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like Captain Planet Villains!? What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!" | |
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Stealth Parody | |
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Stealth Parody: Interviews with real-life employees of NEC at the time, coupled with the downright bizarre direction "Sleepwalker" took, suggest that the artists and writers were using the comics to make fun of people in the company, as Jonathan Brandstetter really does exist. As does Tony, if he's the same person as Tony Ancona. | |
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Single Tear | |
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Single Tear: A random boy's reaction when a Feka goon gloats about how he'll need to spend another $100 for the main Feka console in order to use his shiny new CD system. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: Again, Feka's boss. The goons hide theirs with their Sinister Shades. | |
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Demonization | |
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Demonization: They portray their rival company as being evil robots. | |
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Off-Model | |
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Off-Model: Whoever drew these comics seems to have gone to the Rob Liefeld school of comic artistry, and not just because of Johnny's infatuation with belts. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: For no good reason, the JT ads chose to focus exclusively on (admittedly very good) Shoot Em Ups Gate of Thunder and Lords of Thunder as being the Killer Apps of the TurboDuo. Even the most casual Sega owner could probably name more games than just Sonic the Hedgehog at the time. It also counts for the fact that, as mentioned below, the entire campaign was basically a giant Take That! towards Jonathan Brandstetter and Tony Ancona (both of who are real people). Until recently, nobody outside NEC really knew this as neither Brandstetter nor Ancona were seen that much in the public eye. | |
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Retool | |
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Retool: "Sleepwalker". Feka is out, freaky Homoerotic Subtext-saturated dreams are in. | |
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Megaton Punch | |
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Megaton Punch: In "Let 'Em Dangle!", Johnny somehow uses a running uppercut to send a Feka goon flying. He punches another goon clear out of his shades, leaving them hanging in midair, undamaged. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: If you assume that "Feka" is pronounced similar to how "Sega" is, it makes the name of the company "Fake-uh". And the name itself is an anagram of "Fake". | |
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Face Framed in Shadow | |
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Face Framed in Shadow: Feka's boss. | |
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Emphasize EVERYTHING | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_b7b1e990 | comment |
Emphasize EVERYTHING: Whenever Johnny dons his "superhero" get-up, the exclamation points and boldface text just can't stop flying. | |
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Knight Templar | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: Johnny is quick to resort to violence against the Feka's "evil" ways, even before he knows they're robots. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: Feka must not be a very well-run company, if their members feel the need to do this in front of paying customers. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Johnny's beloved Lords of Thunder was eventually ported to the Sega CD. And if you got interested in it because of the comic, this was probably the ROM you downloaded, unless you purchased the Wii Virtual Console port (itself further irony, as both NEC and Sega eventually lost the console wars to Nintendo). Also, NEC did end up making some games for Sega. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c59cfa2e | type |
Felony Misdemeanor | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c59cfa2e | comment |
Felony Misdemeanor: Feka gives away games for free! How evil! | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c5f0119c | type |
Insane Troll Logic | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: "The Master Plan!" consists entirely of the argument that the Turbo Duo is automatically better than the Sega CD just because it was released first. How exactly this equates to having better games isn't mentioned. Linkara has stated that this argument is analogous to an elementary school kid taunting their peers by going "Na na na na na, we did it first!" | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: "Sleepwalker" takes its splash page almost straight from Star Wars: A New Hope's poster. Sardius is only too quick to point out that Tony is occupying Leia's position in the pose. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6 | type |
Charles Atlas Superpower | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6 | comment |
Charles Atlas Superpower: Johnny has no superpowers other than his surprisingly impressive strength. Although the third issue suggests that he may also have some sort Dream Weaver ability. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_cbe3d017 | type |
Damned by Faint Praise | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_cbe3d017 | comment |
Damned by Faint Praise: Johnny's heroic claim that the Turbo CD got Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (one of the earliest FMV based games) first comes across as this nowadays. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_cc136f37 | type |
Common Fan Fallacies | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_cc136f37 | comment |
Common Fan Fallacies: Johnny uses these exclusively, in lieu of reasoned arguments, when convincing the kids that the Turbo Duo is the better game system. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d01b1c12 | type |
Opaque Lenses | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d01b1c12 | comment |
Opaque Lenses: Johnny's goggles all of the time, Tony's glasses most of the time. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d148b019 | type |
Mundane Made Awesome | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: Tony has a fricking orgasm over the Classic Cheat Code to unlock Bomberman in the TurboDuo's included 3-games-in-1 disc. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6 | type |
Hypocrite | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: The Second Comic advertises about how "Johnny Turbo continues the fight against the deceptive propaganda of FEKA Inc.'s Master Plan!". As Linkara points out: "What better way to fight propaganda than by portraying your business rivals as hideous, demonic creatures, who laugh about how evil their plans are, like Captain Planet Villains!? What a WONDERFUL way to fight against propaganda!" FEKA is portrayed as being deceptive for offering free games along with their CD system, despite the fact that the Turbo Duo was doing the same thing with their 3 in 1 pack-in game. Claims that the TurboGrafX 16 is the first 16-bit console and that “FEKA” is lying about how their consoles are the 16-bit ones. Except that technically, the TG16 had a 8-bit CPU note It’s the graphical subsystem that is 16-bit, but most people count the word size of the CPU when referring to a console, not the word size of the GPU. Which means, Sega is technically correct that it’s MegaDrive is the first console with a 16-bit CPU to hit the market, at least in the US. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d687ba2a | type |
Guest Fighter | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_d687ba2a | comment |
Guest Fighter: In Crystal Crisis. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_dfb77c08 | type |
Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_dfb77c08 | comment |
Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Jonathan being a computer expert could mean anything, really. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_e1da40 | type |
The Bear | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_e1da40 | comment |
The Bear: Johnny. To Tony, at least. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Johnny and Tony. Taken up to eleven in "Sleepwalker" in as much as could be shown to kids. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_ed6c791a | type |
Too Many Belts | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_ed6c791a | comment |
Too Many Belts: Johnny. | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_f6db5b1e | type |
RidiculouslyHumanRobot | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_f6db5b1e | comment |
Ridiculously Human Robot: Feka is discovered to employ these not-even-humans! when Johnny fights a bunch in "The Master Plan!" | |
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Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_f6db5b1e | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_f8c8175a | type |
Malicious Slander | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_f8c8175a | comment |
Malicious Slander: The comics show FEKA trying to scam customers to purchase the CD console, without telling them that they need to get the 16-bit system for it to even work... despite this information being clearly advertised on every Sega CD box; Sega never tried to lie about that! So, the comic was accusing Sega of things they weren't even doing!? | |
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| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_fe0de947 | type |
Moral Luck | |
| Johnny Turbo (Comic Book) / int_fe0de947 | comment |
Moral Luck: Johnny's preemptive attack on the Feka goons for allegedly ripping off customers could have sent his reputation into a nosedive. Thankfully, they turned out to be robots. | |
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