5th Floor Common Room, Friday afternoon

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Just a few weeks left in Fandom and still so much for Bruce to do. He'd spent many sleepless nights over the course of the semester mapping out sketchy places on the mainland where he could pick fights for some group fight practice - warehouses that served as bases for gangs, unruly bars, a couple dark alleys... - where he wouldn't be causing any issues that didn't already exist. Well, aside from broken furniture, perhaps, some broken faces, and maybe broken crime rings. He'd have to play it smart, but maybe with a little help he could get some good training in.

Of course, plotting this out only worked while there were no distractions. And there on the TV was a terribly compelling movie called, simply, All Animals vs. All Humans. Normally Bruce could have ignored this kind of science fiction animal attack movie, but the concept seemed compelling. All animals versus all humans? The stakes were high. And he happened to look up during a scene in which a duckbilled platypus venomous-foot-spurred a man to death. And how could anyone look away while that was happening?

Planning be damned, there was a giraffe on the screen now, and she looked angry. Bruce was hooked.

[OOC: What has two thumbs and got out of work early so he decided to post a CR like three hours earlier than he would usually be able to and based it around a Hodgman reference? THIS GUY.]

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[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, it's an herbivore," Bruce said.

[wrongkindofsith]

"And they didn't go into its territory or threaten its young?" Cara ran through the reasons a herbivore might attack a person rather than just running away.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Nope. All animals are just attacking all humans," Bruce said. "And yes, that includes insects."

[wrongkindofsith]

"But that doesn't make sense." You'd think by now Cara would have accepted that sense and television narratives didn't always go together.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Not really," Bruce said. "But it's not really a movie that cares about logic."

[wrongkindofsith]

"So I gathered," Cara said. "I hope at least the humans aren't too stupid to figure out how to kill them."

That was probably hoping too much.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's an assault of all animals," Bruce pointed out. "The humans don't have a chance against a coordinated assault like that, even with all the intelligence in the world. The most unrealistic part of the movie is the thought that it lasts two whole hours."

That was an exaggeration, but not much of one.

[wrongkindofsith]

"But animals aren't capable of that level of coordination." Again with the wanting things to make sense. "Not even herd ones. The predators would go for the prey because they'd be easier to kill than the humans."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"This movie takes place in a world where that's not the case," Bruce said.

[wrongkindofsith]

"It's a stupid world then."