He uses his power to create a number of duplicates of himself, including one that pilots a Candy Mecha , one who ascends to godhood and becomes Godhead Pickle Inspector GPI , and one that splits into time-traveling counterparts, with one that goes to the past to solve a puzzle for AD and one that goes to the future. PS is recruited by the Weasel King to draft a treaty that will end the war of the four kingdoms, revealed to have been started by the clowns and their agent, MK. When his diplomatic skill proves inadequate for the task, he uses a cheat code he finds in a GameFAQs walkthrough of Problem Sleuth to skip the treaty-writing and successfully end the war.
Its work with the four kingdoms completed, Team Sleuth returns its attention to MK, who is in his office fighting the now full-sized female alter egos. During the battle, the two ADs undergo physical transformations; one is bitten by a zombie and becomes Zombie Ace Dick ZAD , while the other returns to the still room to make and consume 5 alarm hot sauce, turning into the super-strong Fiesta Ace Dick FAD.
Simultaneously, PI is killed when he inserts a window into another window and causes a critical fractal reaction. The two slain detectives appear in the afterlife and challenge Death for the right to come back to life. PS and the ADs make it to MK's office and discover that their nemesis has built and entered a fort, preventing them from attacking him. The final battle begins between Team Sleuth and DMK, and the detectives receive reinforcements in the form of AD and PI, who have returned to the world of the living after beating Death, and PI's future-traveling duplicate.
In the first of his three forms, DMK's only weakness is his diabetes ; he becomes more vulnerable to damage the more his blood sugar level is raised. He preemptively counters this by donning a metal mask, preventing Team Sleuth from force-feeding him candy, but the detectives overcome this obstacle by sacrificing their guns - which, due to a strange gameplay quirk , turn into keys - to unlock the mask.
Meanwhile, HD and NB end up on the floating Whore Island , home to a sleazy brothel in the sky and PI's electric fan , which was enlarged and sent to the imaginary universe through a portal.
The two embark on a lengthy and seemingly pointless journey to shrink the fan's plug down to normal size and plug it into an outlet in the brothel. Though they no longer possess weapons, the detectives figure out ways to elevate DMK's blood sugar and damage him, allowing the bees to create three Impetus Combs. Upon entering his second form, DMK removes blood sugar as a weakness by curing his diabetes with streams of dextrose.
AD feels left out because he doesn't have a Gambit Schema, so he leaves the battle to go play the Game of Life with Death. At the brothel, HD and NB manage to resize the plug using portals that link between the brothel and trucks in the imaginary city, but they learn that the brothel's outlet is not powered.
Death is called away from the Game of Life to aid PS in battle, leaving AD alone in the game's world as he gets married to a woman named Wifehearst, has a son named Sonhearst, and gets rich from running various criminal schemes.
The universe is sewn back together by GPI using the fan's cord as thread and the Ham Needle from the imaginary city as the needle. HD and NB fight MM and kill her with a Double Comb Rave, allowing them to turn on the power; unfortunately, due to GPI's use of the fan cord, the electric current must traverse the length of the universe twice before it reaches the fan.
He kills FAD and continues to increase his mass, allowing him to easily shrug off attacks from HD, NB, and an increasing number of their allies, and strengthens his gravitational pull until he becomes the center of a supermassive black hole that threatens to consume the entire imaginary universe.
In the Game of Life, AD's life takes a tragic turn when Wifehearst is killed by thugs, his criminal empire is destroyed, and Bathearst Sonhearst after becoming a vigilante drowns during a covered wagon journey. Having lost everything, he kills himself, ending the game and returning him to the Chicago Overcoat.
His sad story increases DMK's emotional level, which turns out to be his new weakness. During the battle with DMK, ZAD performs an ill-fated combat move that causes him to fall into a prison , where he dies.
Meanwhile, Death has trouble trying to keep the increasing number of dead characters from leaving the afterlife through the exit door. The time-traveling PI duplicate further splits himself into past and future selves, both of which sacrifice themselves to perform the Temporal Replicollision Comb Rave and defeat DMK's second form. DMK regenerates into his final form, now vulnerable only to the righteous fires of charisma.
To defeat him, PS uses the eighth and final Impetus Comb to fuel the ultimate Comb Rave, Sepulchritude , transforming him into a diplomatic warrior with charisma powerful enough to fight DMK.
Sepulchritude wears off, leaving PS unable to attack the Seedpod before it and DMK are sucked into the ever-increasing black hole. Through an elaborate gambit involving the destruction of the moon, a bust of Snoop Dogg, and the fan which is now running due to the black hole's temporal effects on the electric current , PI is able to deal a near-fatal blow to the Seedpod, and PS sacrifices the precious candy corn he found at the start of his adventure to finally kill DMK.
The moon lands on top of MK and pushes him out of the Gravity Brassier, destroying the black hole and sending everything within it flying. PS is on the verge of death due to the effects of using Sepulchritude, but he is saved when HD kisses him on the cheek, restoring his will to live.
The detectives return to their office building, where AD opens the door and allows Team Sleuth to finally leave. With the afterlife's exit door now firmly sealed by a contrabass clarinet, MK is left forever unable to return to the living world. The four kingdoms celebrate a new era of peace in a ceremony observed by the Weasel King and his new wife, MM. Problem Sleuth is the third webcomic under the MS Paint Adventures banner, written by Andrew Hussie , and was arguably the one which first brought Hussie and his work into the limelight.
While initially presented as a take on the Film Noir genre, its strength is in how it parodies numerous point-and-click adventures, JRPG mechanics, video game tropes, and its ever-increasingly complicated story , which still eventually ties up all loose ends neatly.
Much like its successor Homestuck , it also demonstrates a very steady level of Art Evolution up until the end, evolving from relatively-crude static panels to increasingly-complex panels depicting Super Move Portrait Attacks , Summon Magic , and Wave Motion Guns galore.
Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. You answer the phone in a hard boiled manner. You explain to the woman gruffly that you'd love to help her out, sweetheart, but you're up to your neck in all this weird puzzle shit. You hang up. Hate to cut and run For instance, the seemingly idiotic and highly ignorable command "Build fort out of desk" lead not only to a short-term humorous payoff, but to an entire imaginary universe paradigm, and in a way, a whole gaming system which appeared to exist from the beginning, but only became manifest through the command.
You desperately bargain with Death, challenging him to any game you can think of for the fair damsel's life. You're here for two things: to fucking ruin someone's shit, and to play a friendly game of make-believe. You're here for two things: to rain unspeakable devastation down on the forces of evil, and to flail your limbs about in a playful manner. Sweet Jesus, that buttock.
You could ricochet a quarter off that buttock and kill a man where he stands. PS : Quit falling and land already! Once we have completed building your Impetus Comb , and all of its Jocose Honey has ripened and is sweet as can bee , that is when the fun bee gins!!!
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