History of the Bride is crazier than I'd have guessed.
Last time on Creature Commandos,
we met the team. Needing a group of metahuman prisoners to do a cover ops
assignment, because that’s all Waller knows how to use, but being unable to use
Meta criminals like the ones that traditionally make up Taskforce X, Waller
went back to the drawing board. She assigned General Rick Flag sr. to command
Taskforce M, aka the Creature Commandos, to protect US ally Princess Ilana
Rostovic from an invasion being led by evil sorcerous Circe. The group is
comprised of The Bride, the literal bride of Frankenstein; GI Robot, a Nazi
killing robot from WWII; Dr. Phosphorous, a man that gives off radiation so
intense you can see his bones; Weasel, an anthropomorphic weasel; and Nina
Mazursky, a fish lady. The group heads out to Pokolistan and get acquainted
with the royals. Ilana takes a liking to Rick Flag and tries to seduce him, but
he somehow refuses her advances and flees. In the night, the Bride leaves the
castle, Nina following to try to convince her not to go and ending up tagging
along. At the same time, Dr. Phosphorous tries to steal the remote that turns
on the group’s shock collars, but Flag catches them and the two fight. They end
up destroying Rick’s room and ending up in the kitchen, where Flag gets the
controller back and yells at Phosphorous for being so STUPID he’d risk the
punishment Waller would dish out to him even if this hairbrained plan
succeeded. The Bride and Nina arrive at the Bride’s destination, castle
Frankenstein, and go inside. A woman watching the building gets out her cell
and calls up Frankenstein’s creature, telling him that the Bride has returned.
He’s very emotional about this. Enough recapping. Let’s get to it, shall we?
We open on the dismembered body
parts of a woman in 1831. Frankenstein’s creature insists to his maker that
Victor needs to make him a bride, despite Victor’s misgivings. Victor tries to
convince his creature, dubbed Eric, to wait just a bit longer. He claims that
he wants more time to study Eric and get a better understanding of him before
attempting his necromantic science again. Eric tells Victor that if he doesn’t
do this for him, Eric will kill Victor’s wife. Victor calms his son and tells
him that he is going to do it, he just wants to have a dialogue with Eric about
what to expect. He has Eric assemble a bride like he’s in a build a bear, the
creature selecting the head that he dubs the face of his true love.
In the present, the building is in
ruins and Nina is quite surprised to learn that this is where her new coworker
was born. Reborn? Reanimated. Nina asks why they’re here now.
Back at the palace, Rick is sitting
on the toilet getting his battered face and hands looked after by Ilena while
the robot and man members of his team watch, clearly on edge. His finger itches
towards the shock button, but before he can do anything Ilena pushes the door
closed. She asks about the device and tells her how it sends a painful shock to
their brains if pressed. Ilena gets his shirt off to clean his wounds and asks
more about the controller. Rick promises that he’ll get his team under control
and they’ll help protect her.
Back at the Frankenstein manor, the
Bride looks over the ruins and a painting that shows the Frankenstein’s. It
looks like Victor, possibly his wife and two daughters. Nina asks if those are
her family. The Bride tsks at that, and after Nina tells her she’s being rude,
she elaborates that this castle was for Victor’s work, the family house was up
the road. They travel deeper into the castle. Nina is shocked by the machine
Victor had used to create her. Nina says her father was a scientist, but she’s
never seen technology like this before. The Bride says that Victor was a
renegade if nothing else.
We flashback to her creation. We
see her scream in absolute agony as Victor uses his device to turn the
inanimate pieces of her stitched together body into The Bride. Erik watches
with a bouquet of flowers in hand. When the process was finished, she puked up
blood. Erik tries to walk up to her, but Victor holds him back. He spouts off
some philosophical ideal that in natural birth, a child knows their mother’s
womb first and that is their tether to life and the world. The Bride didn’t
have that, so she doesn’t have the slightest idea of what’s around her, she’s
just a cluster of fears and impulses. Victor calms her and tries to talk to
her. Erik presents her the flowers, but seeing his stitched together face
causes her to scream anew.
In the present, Nina says that that
sounds horrible. The Bride shrugs and says that’s birth for ya. God’s gift is
letting you forget, but science isn’t so forgiving. Nina mentions that she
‘isn’t human,’ but the Bride disagrees. She claims that Nina is the only member
of their team that is. She claims everyone else is a monster, but Nina is just
a human with gills. Nina says that the world doesn’t see it like that, but the
Bride shrugs and asks, “when is the world ever right?” about stuff. Nina asks
what the Bride is looking for, as she’s worried Flag is going to notice they’re
gone soon and shock them again. The Bride says she’s looking for a Tourmaline
Necklace.
We get a flashback to Victor
teaching her various things. Eric is getting impatient with how much time
teaching her is taking, but Victor counters by asking him “You want a bride who
can talk, right?” Victor ends up showing her the Tourmaline necklace and asking
her what it is. She calls it pretty, and he agrees but tells her it is called a
necklace.
In the present, Nina asks if they
can leave when they find it. The Bride agrees, saying that Nina’s bitching and
moaning is worse than listening to the jarhead. Outside, a Son Of Themyscira
reports to the others that two of the commandos are in the old manor and the
others must be back at the castle. They tell Circe, who tells them to get the
address.
Ilena tries to seduce Rick again,
asking about his various scars. Rick tries to hold off but she insists and the
two of them end up doing it in the bathroom. Ilena’s guard Alexi arrives and
wants to talk to Flag, but Phosphorous, Weasel and GI Robot try to buy them a
little time. There’s an uncomfortably long time of grunting and moaning as the
group stands there, waiting for them to finish so Alexi can tell him the other
two Commandos left the grounds.
At the old castle, the Bride is
still looking around, having flashbacks to when Erik tried to be close to her,
but his touch still freaked her out to no end. He tries to force her to
reciprocate his feelings, but she just keeps screaming. Victor tries to get him
to stop, but Erik just drops the Bride and strangles his creator. He says
Victor failed, as she was made for him but refuses him, before throwing Victor
aside and running off in tears. The Bride goes to look after Victor, and he
says that he’s fine. In the present, the Bride cries as well. Nina finds the
necklace and brings it to the Bride.
She has another flashback to Victor
teaching a bunch of things and the two of them bonding. They laugh over a bad
joke about a fake mustache, and almost kiss, before Victor gives her a present.
After explaining what that is, she opens it and finds the necklace. He gives
her the necklace, saying that it belonged to one of the cadavers, so he felt it
was fine to give it to her. In the present, the Bride takes the necklace.
Before they can talk more, outside they see Circe flying and powering up a
magic blast. She hits the bride with it and the screen goes dark.
Back at the palace, Flag yells at
Phosphorous for wasting time and keeping Alexi from telling him about the Bride
and Nina leaving. Phosphorous insists he was just trying to be a bro and do him
a favor. Flag tells him to not go there as a few hours ago Phosphorous tried to
kill him. Sensing hostility GI Robot asks if Phosphorous is a Nazi and if he
can kill him. Flag says no, disappointing GI, and they dogpile into Alexi’s car
to get to their team.
Circe fires another magic bolt,
this time at Nina, but the Bride shoves her out of the way. The Bride throws
the fourposter bed at her as the Sons sneak into the castle. The Bride shatters
the floor, and she and Ina drop down below. She walks through a bunch of the
sons, her inhuman strength and near invulnerable body protecting her from their
guns. They run through the castle and escape before Circe lets out another
magic blast. The Bride lands on a Son, steals his gun and kills the whole hit
squad. She ten shoots at Circe, but she turns the bullets into butterflies and
then turns them back into bullets as she hurls them back. She and Circe fight,
being thrown around the castle and ending up back in the lab. It’s during their
brawl that we learn that she and Victor ended up doing it on the lab table, a
depressed Eric watching from nearby. Circe gets her on the ground and says that
she needs to take a message back to the US government. The Bride stabs her legs
and hurls her outside. They fight some more, but Circe rallies and turns the
Bride’s arms into tube men before throwing her from the balcony. Nina tries to
run and warn Flag, but she’s attacked by more of the Sons. She runs back as the
Bride falls, her helmet getting shot and Nina gasping for water.
The Bride flashes back one more
time to when she found Eric with Victor, the latter having murdered the former,
believing he was an obstacle to their love. The Bride pummels Erik,
accidentally starting a fire that consumes the lab and Victor’s body. The Bride
runs, and what starts is a century and a half chase. Erik follows and catches
up to her in 1850, 1880, 1895, 1912, 1923, 1941, 1964, 1991, and a few more
eras they don’t give numbers to. He keeps trying to woo her and she keeps
beating on him. In the present, The Pride apologizes to Nina and Nina tells her
to go screw herself. Then a son knocks them out with the butt of his gun.
Huh, ya know when I started this show I wouldn’t have guessed that their version of Frankenstein’s Creature would be this inspired by the novel. Granted, he clearly takes some elements from the Boris Carlov movie version, with those bolts in his head, but this creature is eloquent and soft spoken by nature, which makes his sudden bouts of rage all the scarier. And they kept his love of biblical imagery and verse. Weird. And it was fun to see the Bride rejecting Eric, which was one of the fears the original novel’s version of Victor had when his experiment demanded Victor make a companion for him. Shock of shocks, a woman doesn’t respond well to something with the Creature’s looks and demanding personality. The reveal that Victor and the Bride banged one out was a bit surprising. I guess I’m not surprised with this version of Victor, as he’s very tender with the Bride while teaching her and she responds well to him. Though considering how dependent the Bride had become to Victor, I do see that possibly factoring into Erik’s delusion that Victor was hindering his relationship with the Bride. Plus, it’s got a weird ‘banging your dad’ vibe to it. Just saying. Similar to Ilana insisting on screwing Rick Flag. It feels weird when a woman throws herself at an older man that feels like he’s got a more paternal vibe to her is all I’m saying. I’m intrigued by this idea that Nina isn’t as monstery as the others despite her appearance. The face screams fish, but I suppose she could be a Meta with just an unfortunate mutation. I’m sure we’ll get more on it later. This was our first real look at Circe and damn is she cool. She’s got all the magic power I’d want from a goddess in human form and a flair that’s really cool. The Bride cursing magic as they fought was a fun touch, especially after Circe morphed her arms. She’s clearly going to be a tough opponent for this group, as they didn’t bring a designated magic counter. That is unless Dr. P’s radiation cancels out magic or Weasel is magic proof, I suppose. Guess we’ll see where the fighting goes now that two of the commandos have been captured. See you tomorrow
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