Because Carla is trans. For bigots, this overrides the family wealth, especially if they don’t actually know about Ruttech.
Cbwroses
I honestly don’t believe they paid attention to who lived in which room.
If they did in fact smash her tv because she’s trans, this would be the very first indication that they knew who anyone was.
RassilonTDavros
Yeah I thought it was probably something like that, but wasn’t sure.
Leorale
I think it was because they could, because I don’t think they had any idea who Carla is. If they’d known, they might’ve avoided the room of the scion of famously litigious billionaires.
I’m pleased that they’re gonna find out who she is (via sweet Carla revenge).
Sirksome
I don’t know if I buy the cops would know Carla is trans but not know she’s also the billionaire daughter of Ruttech.
Kim
Yeah… :/
For those that are doubtful the police would know who Carla is, I’d like to remind you that Carla is famous, and the fact that she is trans is as well. Dorothy alluded to this back when Joyce found out that someone was trans but couldn’t put together who it was. Dorothy’s response was something along the line of ”it was all over the news”, if I’m not mistaken.
So the fact that the famous Rithech billionaires have a trans-daughter is well known. And I bet Carla’s room is not discreet about whom it belongs to.
So yeah… the cance they knew exactley what they were doibg is pretty high.
Cbwroses
We’ve seen Carla’s room on two separate occasions (4-6 different strips) that I can tell.
Once when she was with Charlie finding out her family was involved in supplying tech for war.
And the other when she video called her parents.
Nothing seen then would indicate it was Carla’s room to a stranger.
Could there be something on a wall we didn’t see? Sure.
But considering what we did see, that seems unlikely.
As for Carla being on national news, if we assume that was the case Harrison, Jacob’s brother, worked on, the last time we saw Harrison, he said Carla was no taller than his shoulder the last time he saw her.
And that should have been the time she was on the news (assuming her image, as a minor, was on the news and not just her being mentioned as the subject of the case).
It’s either been some years since then or Carla had one hell of a growth spurt over the summer.
Regardless, Carla would look noticeably different than when her court case happened and her room, from what we can see, didn’t seem to have anything in the open that would readily identify her.
If the cops knew who the rooms belonged to, then it’s possible, even probable, that they did damage because she was trans, but, right now, I can’t see how they would know.
They didn’t act like they knew any individuals at the time, there was nothing visible (that I noticed anyway) in her room previously that easily identified her, and she herself wasn’t there when the raid happened.
There is the possibility that they didn’t know who it was, but in searching the room, they found something that indicated that whoever this room belonged to was trans.
shork
to add to the thread, I thought Carla’s door was shown in the whiteboard dingong bandit arc, and it is but not in the strip I expected it in: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/burst/
it says “ultra carla” as far as I can tell, so yeah, it’s identifiable
Opinion
The chance that they know enough about her to know she’s Trans but not enough to know her family name seems unlikely.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m fairly certain Carla has a big ass trans flag hanging from her wall (I think we see it the few times we’re there).
So they probably didn’t know who she was. just that she was trans.
Vanessa
There you go. They knew. Of course they also shifted through Joyce’s Sunday school crafts and just left her Bible on the floor disrespectfully, they aren’t good Christians either. Just jerks.
Leorale
Oh! I forgot a trans flag. Then, yes, they could’ve known she’s trans, without knowing just whose daughter they were messing with.
_
And Carla gets to wonder whether this was a crappy evil because-they-can cop style of thing, or if it’s that plusa hate thing.
_
I’m sure her parents could sue the cops off the map. But I await some cold, swift, and/or absolutely ridiculous revenge.
AMagicalDuck
I remember that too but I can’t find a comic where it’s visible
Searcher
Trans flag explains it, but I just want to jump in and say (if they didn’t know whose room it was) “they have a big fancy TV/this rich college kid has a bigger TV than me” is all the motivation a petty asshole needs to smash it.
(“This rich trans college kid has a bigger TV than me” is practically overdetermined.)
Considering she’s from an influential family, it’s possible there’s a subplot targeting her specifically. But it’s far more likely it was just a careless cop not giving a damn about collateral damage. Alternatively, a bigoted one saw a flag or other indication, and did it on purpose.
Leorale
When somebody wrongs you, it’s a small but distinct privilege if you don’t have to wonder, “Did this happen because I’m [marginalized group]…?”
It generally pales in comparison to getting wronged in the first place, but still, it’s an additional insult, when you have to wonder whether the crappy thing was also a hate thing.
Because they’ll have a listing of her as a trans student and these sorts of minds will have decided that she’s therefore the prime suspect to have taken them on and beaten them.
And so, even without proof, they made sure that she would suffer as revenge.
I figure it’s because the raid was as much about retaliation and intimidation as it was about finding the costume. If they knew the room belonged to a trans woman, that’s a bonus to them. But putting an elbow through something expensive sends the message that they’re prepared to indiscriminately make students’ lives miserable to retaliate against protests.
thejeff
I felt that way, but then we saw them searching and there didn’t seem to be any of that going on. They just seemed to be going through the motions.
Don’t trust revenge is probably the right takeaway here…..but I’m also happy Carla wants revenge because she’s like the only person here who could realistically get that.
Surely all the cops’ military surplus Ruttech toys have some kind of backdoor that could be exploited, right? She could make their armored personnel carriers do donuts until they run out of gas! Cops love donuts!
I think it’s implied the revenge is against the cops, but what sort of revenge would she be doing that would require plotting? A pie in the face wouldn’t be revenge. Suing cops wouldn’t require plotting. Breaking into cops’ houses and trashing their stuff, maybe. It’d be almost cathartic to read, but end up hollow.
Is this going to be revenge against the university administrators? State government? Her parents?
“Carla gets revenge against a cop for her broken tv” would be a disappointing use of the character. Revenge against the administrators, on behalf of every woman in the dorm, that’s got some meat to it.
what miracles?
if Reverend Martin Luther King Jr had anything to say about it, he’d remind us that ANY time is the perfect time to stop living by some mythical concept of time (-_-)
An arbitrary number on the Gregorian calender (or any other calender for that matter) dont mean jack. Remeber when we thought this would be “the future”? If 2020-2026 is anything, it should serve as a very sobering reminder that “future” does NOT automatically equal “better”, that progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. “Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.”
She can get it with a phone call preferably to a lawyer. She’s a high profile billionaire heiress and protecting the rich’s property is like the one thing cops actually have to hold any accountability over.
Not revenge on the cops. On the ones who called them in. Billionaire parents can always withdraw their multimillion donations from the Univ Admins who called the cops. Just sayin’. Do it where it will be felt – their endowment.
I feel like the fact that Carla is at Indiana University — and not at an Ivy League school or MIT or something — sort of hints that she’s less of a “nepo baby” and more independent than one might think. (Or…maybe her family is local to IU? Do we know where the Ruttens live? I guess I was assuming they live far away since they can just like, private jet or helicopter in whenever they want)
Oh God they look even more identical without color to differentiate. Good art, all yoto drops are a blessing, its just something i noticed in the first panel when Joyce’s eyes were closed. They’re like clones
That seems like a wildly disporporiante response, physicaly impossible (unless its a donut truck?), and likely to result in the death of innocents, such as the guy who just does data entry for the evidence locker and whoever they have in the drunk tank that morning. The real prank is just to send them powdered donuts, irrestiably delicous and yet impossible walk away from not looking like you just snorted Scarface levels of cocaine. Did I use that reference right, I’ve never seen that movie.
For a minute I forgot that powdered sugar exists and thought there was some sort of fully powder-based format of donut ingestion
Taffy
Are you familiar with an ancient cartoon show called Looney Tunes? If not, please familiarize yourself with it, particularly the shorts featuring the character Wile E. Coyote. And probably lose the bootlicking “won’t someone think of the data entry cop” mentality altogether.
We obviously can’t fight fascists in any way that matters because we might accidentally harm all the innocent people who wear fascist uniforms and provide direct material support for fascist violence by maintaining the infrastructure necessary for that violence but who don’t directly engage in violence themselves!
Hedge
Or the old lady who wandered in to a police station to ask for directions…?
Taffy
That old lady has a 19-year-old short guy stapled to the wall in her basement and she only feeds him popcorn shrimp. She had it comin’.
Dandi_Andi
@Hedge
Yeah, that’s why revolutionary violence is usually planned and not indiscriminate.
149 thoughts on “The damage”
NGPZ
Pigs better beware,
The Queen is coming, and she know that REVENGE is a dish best served with STYLE! ✌🏽👿
*plays “Killer Queen” on hacked muzak*
TrueSurvivor
Freddy Mercury, out of this world!
DJTsurugi
once again my strong desire for an upvote feature. ~<3
Lilith Rose
Planning revenge on prejudiced corruption and oppression is the best revenge.
IntangibleMatter
Revenge takes a while to plot
Rose By Any Other Name
Like a good jello, it must be boiled, mixed, and then chilled for several hours.
embe13
we have our next book title!
Bill Erak
I’d like to believe the cops were just stupid enough to think the costume could be hidden in the TV, but we all know why they did it.
RassilonTDavros
…Because they could? I feel like i’m missing something obvious here.
Jon
Because Carla is trans. For bigots, this overrides the family wealth, especially if they don’t actually know about Ruttech.
Cbwroses
I honestly don’t believe they paid attention to who lived in which room.
If they did in fact smash her tv because she’s trans, this would be the very first indication that they knew who anyone was.
RassilonTDavros
Yeah I thought it was probably something like that, but wasn’t sure.
Leorale
I think it was because they could, because I don’t think they had any idea who Carla is. If they’d known, they might’ve avoided the room of the scion of famously litigious billionaires.
I’m pleased that they’re gonna find out who she is (via sweet Carla revenge).
Sirksome
I don’t know if I buy the cops would know Carla is trans but not know she’s also the billionaire daughter of Ruttech.
Kim
Yeah… :/
For those that are doubtful the police would know who Carla is, I’d like to remind you that Carla is famous, and the fact that she is trans is as well. Dorothy alluded to this back when Joyce found out that someone was trans but couldn’t put together who it was. Dorothy’s response was something along the line of ”it was all over the news”, if I’m not mistaken.
So the fact that the famous Rithech billionaires have a trans-daughter is well known. And I bet Carla’s room is not discreet about whom it belongs to.
So yeah… the cance they knew exactley what they were doibg is pretty high.
Cbwroses
We’ve seen Carla’s room on two separate occasions (4-6 different strips) that I can tell.
Once when she was with Charlie finding out her family was involved in supplying tech for war.
And the other when she video called her parents.
Nothing seen then would indicate it was Carla’s room to a stranger.
Could there be something on a wall we didn’t see? Sure.
But considering what we did see, that seems unlikely.
As for Carla being on national news, if we assume that was the case Harrison, Jacob’s brother, worked on, the last time we saw Harrison, he said Carla was no taller than his shoulder the last time he saw her.
And that should have been the time she was on the news (assuming her image, as a minor, was on the news and not just her being mentioned as the subject of the case).
It’s either been some years since then or Carla had one hell of a growth spurt over the summer.
Regardless, Carla would look noticeably different than when her court case happened and her room, from what we can see, didn’t seem to have anything in the open that would readily identify her.
If the cops knew who the rooms belonged to, then it’s possible, even probable, that they did damage because she was trans, but, right now, I can’t see how they would know.
They didn’t act like they knew any individuals at the time, there was nothing visible (that I noticed anyway) in her room previously that easily identified her, and she herself wasn’t there when the raid happened.
deliverything
Those strips Cbwroses alluded to, showing Carla’s room:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/implausible/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/connecting/
Also 3 strips after the latter one, but it shows no part of the room that’s not in Connecting.
Maybe the cops just hate Ultra Car?
Shogeton
There is the possibility that they didn’t know who it was, but in searching the room, they found something that indicated that whoever this room belonged to was trans.
shork
to add to the thread, I thought Carla’s door was shown in the whiteboard dingong bandit arc, and it is but not in the strip I expected it in: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/burst/
it says “ultra carla” as far as I can tell, so yeah, it’s identifiable
Opinion
The chance that they know enough about her to know she’s Trans but not enough to know her family name seems unlikely.
Bill Erak
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m fairly certain Carla has a big ass trans flag hanging from her wall (I think we see it the few times we’re there).
So they probably didn’t know who she was. just that she was trans.
Vanessa
There you go. They knew. Of course they also shifted through Joyce’s Sunday school crafts and just left her Bible on the floor disrespectfully, they aren’t good Christians either. Just jerks.
Leorale
Oh! I forgot a trans flag. Then, yes, they could’ve known she’s trans, without knowing just whose daughter they were messing with.
_
And Carla gets to wonder whether this was a crappy evil because-they-can cop style of thing, or if it’s that plusa hate thing.
_
I’m sure her parents could sue the cops off the map. But I await some cold, swift, and/or absolutely ridiculous revenge.
AMagicalDuck
I remember that too but I can’t find a comic where it’s visible
Searcher
Trans flag explains it, but I just want to jump in and say (if they didn’t know whose room it was) “they have a big fancy TV/this rich college kid has a bigger TV than me” is all the motivation a petty asshole needs to smash it.
(“This rich trans college kid has a bigger TV than me” is practically overdetermined.)
Mravac Kid
Considering she’s from an influential family, it’s possible there’s a subplot targeting her specifically. But it’s far more likely it was just a careless cop not giving a damn about collateral damage. Alternatively, a bigoted one saw a flag or other indication, and did it on purpose.
Leorale
When somebody wrongs you, it’s a small but distinct privilege if you don’t have to wonder, “Did this happen because I’m [marginalized group]…?”
It generally pales in comparison to getting wronged in the first place, but still, it’s an additional insult, when you have to wonder whether the crappy thing was also a hate thing.
Furie
Because they’ll have a listing of her as a trans student and these sorts of minds will have decided that she’s therefore the prime suspect to have taken them on and beaten them.
And so, even without proof, they made sure that she would suffer as revenge.
Dandi_Andi
I figure it’s because the raid was as much about retaliation and intimidation as it was about finding the costume. If they knew the room belonged to a trans woman, that’s a bonus to them. But putting an elbow through something expensive sends the message that they’re prepared to indiscriminately make students’ lives miserable to retaliate against protests.
thejeff
I felt that way, but then we saw them searching and there didn’t seem to be any of that going on. They just seemed to be going through the motions.
Sirksome
Don’t trust revenge is probably the right takeaway here…..but I’m also happy Carla wants revenge because she’s like the only person here who could realistically get that.
Needfuldoer
Surely all the cops’ military surplus Ruttech toys have some kind of backdoor that could be exploited, right? She could make their armored personnel carriers do donuts until they run out of gas! Cops love donuts!
zee
Her parents are rich enough that the cops and university might actually face consequences
HueSatLight
I think it’s implied the revenge is against the cops, but what sort of revenge would she be doing that would require plotting? A pie in the face wouldn’t be revenge. Suing cops wouldn’t require plotting. Breaking into cops’ houses and trashing their stuff, maybe. It’d be almost cathartic to read, but end up hollow.
Is this going to be revenge against the university administrators? State government? Her parents?
“Carla gets revenge against a cop for her broken tv” would be a disappointing use of the character. Revenge against the administrators, on behalf of every woman in the dorm, that’s got some meat to it.
Holly
Carla and Tony, if the latter has indeed begun having some revelations about his own parent that he does not approve of.
Thag Simmons
Sadly this remains Great 2026 Energy, and absent a miracle will likely be Great 2027 Energy as well.
Thag Simmons
Actually gonna revise that and say absent many miracles, shit’s fucked
NGPZ
what miracles?
if Reverend Martin Luther King Jr had anything to say about it, he’d remind us that ANY time is the perfect time to stop living by some mythical concept of time (-_-)
An arbitrary number on the Gregorian calender (or any other calender for that matter) dont mean jack. Remeber when we thought this would be “the future”? If 2020-2026 is anything, it should serve as a very sobering reminder that “future” does NOT automatically equal “better”, that progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.
“Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.”
Dave Van Domelen
Unorthodox Economic Revenge.
thejeff
Hisss!
Astariel
There’s the Carla we know and love. Not sure how she can get revenge on the cops, but if anyone can do it, it’s Carla.
Sirksome
She can get it with a phone call preferably to a lawyer. She’s a high profile billionaire heiress and protecting the rich’s property is like the one thing cops actually have to hold any accountability over.
Jon
That’s not revenge, that’s just punishment. She wants vengeance.
Astariel
Well, yes, but I assume she has something more elaborate in mind. Just calling a lawyer or her parents wouldn’t take long to plot, after all.
J-Earl
Not revenge on the cops. On the ones who called them in. Billionaire parents can always withdraw their multimillion donations from the Univ Admins who called the cops. Just sayin’. Do it where it will be felt – their endowment.
Wraithy2773
…oh dear, the pigs pissed off the beloved daughter of gig economy billionaires.
clif
Oh, dear. They pissed off a creative and highly competent engineer with access to resources.
Leadsynth
I feel like the fact that Carla is at Indiana University — and not at an Ivy League school or MIT or something — sort of hints that she’s less of a “nepo baby” and more independent than one might think. (Or…maybe her family is local to IU? Do we know where the Ruttens live? I guess I was assuming they live far away since they can just like, private jet or helicopter in whenever they want)
Dean
“We should never have messed with Carla’s TV” -Note found on the locked door of the last police station in America, 2028.
Shiro
re: alt text, it’s fortunately/unfortunately also great 2026 energy
Elf grrl
Oh HELL YEAH! REVENGE PLOT!!
RassilonTDavros
And it will be a deadly vengeance. It will be the deadly vengeance of deadly revenge! Mwahahahahaaaaa!
Yotomoe
https://imgchest.com/p/pg738958z4r
I’ve gone on record that I’m not the biggest fan of Doyce. But I decided to see if I can convince myself to like it more by drawing them so here I go.
TrueSurvivor
That is very cute and well drawn to boot.
Astariel
As someone who is a huge Joyrothy fan, let me say that this is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing it.
Amós Batista
That’s gorgeous, Yoto.
Thank youuu
Dara
very cute <3
but also you drew me and anna
(i’m the cat)
Vanessa
That is adorable, you’ve really captured Joyce’s confident come-hither smirk.
Jeff K!
Oooohhhh, that’s so adorable! 🥰
And absolutely the energy of their last couple interactions.
Love it!
Rose By Any Other Name
Sooo… cute…!
**fierce nod of approval**
Amós Batista
Yotomoe, where’s your account? I forget where you put all your draws.
Yotomoe
Blusky mostly.
zee
Oh God they look even more identical without color to differentiate. Good art, all yoto drops are a blessing, its just something i noticed in the first panel when Joyce’s eyes were closed. They’re like clones
Bill Erak
Absolutely adorable.
Taffy
I know a really funny prank that Carla could pull on the cops, involving a box of donuts and about 1000kg of dynamite.
TrueSurvivor
That seems like a wildly disporporiante response, physicaly impossible (unless its a donut truck?), and likely to result in the death of innocents, such as the guy who just does data entry for the evidence locker and whoever they have in the drunk tank that morning. The real prank is just to send them powdered donuts, irrestiably delicous and yet impossible walk away from not looking like you just snorted Scarface levels of cocaine. Did I use that reference right, I’ve never seen that movie.
Random832
For a minute I forgot that powdered sugar exists and thought there was some sort of fully powder-based format of donut ingestion
Taffy
Are you familiar with an ancient cartoon show called Looney Tunes? If not, please familiarize yourself with it, particularly the shorts featuring the character Wile E. Coyote. And probably lose the bootlicking “won’t someone think of the data entry cop” mentality altogether.
Dandi_Andi
We obviously can’t fight fascists in any way that matters because we might accidentally harm all the innocent people who wear fascist uniforms and provide direct material support for fascist violence by maintaining the infrastructure necessary for that violence but who don’t directly engage in violence themselves!
Hedge
Or the old lady who wandered in to a police station to ask for directions…?
Taffy
That old lady has a 19-year-old short guy stapled to the wall in her basement and she only feeds him popcorn shrimp. She had it comin’.
Dandi_Andi
@Hedge
Yeah, that’s why revolutionary violence is usually planned and not indiscriminate.
zee
Lame, replace the powdered sugar with actual cocaine and maybe we’ll get somewhere. You don’t fight fascists with mild hijinks
Coked out cops would be a bad thing but I wanted to do something within the framework I was given