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208.59.176.206: /* Transcript */

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172.69.194.115: /* Trivia */ What a silly point fo have a CN (and how silly to change it from the original long-form).

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‎Trivia: What a silly point fo have a CN (and how silly to change it from the original long-form).

162.158.33.140 at 10:05, 1 March 2024

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1234231587678: very minor edit

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very minor edit

JLZ0kTC5 at 15:30, 21 October 2022

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	[[Category:Fiction]]		[[Category:Fiction]]
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 ==Explanation==
-[[Cueball]] has acquired the {{w|intellectual property}} rights to produce a movie, but is unsure of how to make it appealing to a wide audience. An off-screen character suggests hiring {{w|Michael Bay}}, a director and producer well known (and occasionally criticized) for his style of film adaptation. Cueball is unsure that the IP would be a good fit for a summer blockbuster, but is dismissed.
+[[Cueball]]'s company has acquired the {{w|intellectual property}} rights to produce a movie, but he is unsure of how to make it appealing to a wide audience. An off-screen character suggests hiring {{w|Michael Bay}}, a director and producer well known (and occasionally criticized) for his style of film adaptation. Cueball is unsure that the IP would be a good fit for a blockbuster, but is dismissed.
 The following panels depict violent and gritty scenes from a spy thriller, starring an unknown and brutal female spy. In the last panel, she is revealed to be {{w|Harriet the Spy}}, the 11 year old protagonist of a bestselling children's book written by Louise Fitzhugh, as well as other spinoff books written by various other authors.
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 [[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]
 [[Category:Comics with blood]]

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 :Voice: ''NEXT!''
 :[Panel is inverted, white on black background.]
-:[Two men, played by Cueball-like actors are pointing machine guns at Harriet, played by a Megan-like actress. Harriet points two handguns back at them.]
+:[Two men, played by Cueball-like actors are pointing machine guns at a woman, played by a Megan-like actress. The woman points two handguns back at them.]
-:Harriet: They said if I were captured I should take my own life.
+:Woman: They said if I were captured I should take my own life.
-:Harriet: But I'd just as soon take yours.
+:Woman: But I'd just as soon take yours.
-:[Harriet jumps off a cliff carrying a spiral notebook and a gun, while the cliff explodes behind her. In the background is a helicopter, some mountains, and the sea.]
+:[The woman jumps off a cliff carrying a spiral notebook and a gun, while the cliff explodes behind her. In the background is a helicopter, some mountains, and the sea.]
 :'''BOOM'''
 :[Panel is inverted, white and red on black background.]
-:[A man played by a Cueball-like actor is tied to a chair. Blood is pooling on the ground below. Harriet stands in front, holding a bloody pipe.]
+:[A man played by a Cueball-like actor is tied to a chair. Blood is pooling on the ground below. The woman stands in front, holding a bloody pipe.]
 :Man: Stop! I'll talk!
-:Harriet: No, I know everything. This is just for fun.
+:Woman: No, I know everything. This is just for fun.
-:[Crosshairs follow a Cueball-like man.]
+:[At the top of the panel, crosshairs follow a Cueball-like man. At the bottom of the panel is a closeup on the woman's head and upper body.]
-:Harriet: I'll be watching.
+:Woman: I'll be watching.
-:[The panel is inverted color, white on black.]
+:[The panel is inverted color, white and red on black background.]
 :Harriet
 :the

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 ==Trivia==
-Apparently, ''Harriet the Spy'' was actually adapted into {{w|Harriet the Spy (film)|a film}} in 1996. Presumably{{cn}} it was more faithful to the novel than this xkcd.
+Apparently, ''Harriet the Spy'' was actually adapted into {{w|Harriet the Spy (film)|a film}} in 1996. Presumably it was more faithful to the novel than this xkcd.
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Trivia==
-Apparently, ''Harriet the Spy'' was actually adapted into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_the_Spy_%28film%29 a film] in 1996. Presumably{{Citation needed}} it was more faithful to the novel than this xkcd.
+Apparently, ''Harriet the Spy'' was actually adapted into {{w|Harriet the Spy (film)|a film}} in 1996. Presumably{{cn}} it was more faithful to the novel than this xkcd.
 {{comic discussion}}