Give the poor narrator a break, he’s just trying to drama up the strip. I mean, before counting heads, it did feel like they were fighting about a hundred minions, right? Right?
“No quarter is asked, and none is given,” used to appear with alarming frequency in the pages of comic books I read as a kid. There is a long history of the phrase here: (https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/give-no-quarter.html), but I always used to wonder about which editor at Marvel decided that a fitting description of the savage nature of this conflict can probably be expressed using this 13th-century colloquialism. I mean, seriously, it would be like Wolverine is slicing up guys in a sewer and one of the goons yells out “Shall we have a respite so that we might continue this battle with fitting vigor?”
Speaking of anachronistic language choices, I highly recommend you take ten minutes to listen to this brilliant piece of comedy:
I’m not sure if this is a browser issue, but your code-fu does not work on Firefox. Edge isn’t showing it either. The link is valid, showing a Three Little Pigs comedy sketch.
The frame doesn’t display in Chromium either.
Yeah, this seems to happen lately every time I try to embed a video using YouTube’s code. Although if I include just the link, now it seems that WordPress automatically makes it into an embedded video, so I’ll stop doing that.
Note to narrator: the classical Hydra grew back two heads for each one cut off.
Ssssssh! Don’t tell Gen Z! (can’t let this get out..)
Well in D&D there are three different breeds of hydra, so it depends…