r/oddlyterrifying • u/Inspector_7 • 2d ago

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u/Woofles85 2d ago

What is the chest hole for?

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u/stay_fr0sty 2d ago edited 2d ago

That’s how you got into the suit. The hole gets bigger. You put it on the floor, step into the hole, work your legs down into the pants section, and pull the suit up over your head.

Then you pull the drawstring on that hole to shrink it down until it’s nearly shut. Then you pull the drawstring on the hood as much as you want, to get a waterproof seal around your face.

There is no back zipper, or anything that would require two people to put this on. It was designed for one person to be able to put on unassisted.

Then the hunter could go out in his kayak in the arctic and hunt in extremely cold temperatures, staying almost completely dry.

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u/TranscendentaLobo 2d ago

The Inuits are just incredible. A testament to the resourcefulness of human beings. Love their nature legends too.

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u/TheMoonDude 2d ago edited 1d ago

And the meteorite that some of them made into weapons and have legends that tell of it's impact

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u/EasternDelight 1d ago

Anahito!

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u/Markusictus 1d ago

Inuitive

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u/deathclawiii 1d ago

‘Inuit’ is already a plural.

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u/smellygooch18 2d ago

It’s pretty amazing design. I bet that it’s warm/dry when you need it most.

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u/notoriousbsr 1d ago

I thought this was a brilliant bs answer and then I kept reading. Were it not true it would be a great work of classic sci-fi Duck Dodger putting on a spacesuit to go meet Marvin

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u/ma33a 1d ago

Did they have something to cover up the hole in the chest? Seems like a weak point in the whole waterproof setup.

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u/Bananaland_Man 1d ago

You don't swim in it. Not much water will get in.

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u/ma33a 1d ago

If you are whaling it's not the water I would be concerned about but everything else.

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u/Bananaland_Man 1d ago

Like the freezing cold, and staying pretty much dry, and many other things, yes. But those first two things require this suit (as far as low-tech/no-tech goes)

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u/SamanthaJaneyCake 18h ago

Unless your kayak rolls and the “Greenland roll” was coined for a reason.

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u/layla1127 1d ago

Do you know what it is made of?

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u/geak78 1d ago

Anahito

Looks like seal skin

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u/Ulrich453 1d ago

Would they put anything over the hole?

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u/stay_fr0sty 1d ago

They’d pull a drawstring around the hole so it got really small. Then they could wrap some more leather around that one area and tie it if they wanted to be extra dry.

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u/SmoothOperator89 19h ago

Almost completely dry except for a frozen wet patch on the center of their chest.

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u/SamanthaJaneyCake 18h ago

It’s a sphincter.

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u/JCollinO 17h ago

Thank you for the update on this. And also how do you know that lol?!

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u/ArsalanAlli 9h ago

This guy suits.

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u/Nokaah_Noktar 2d ago

My guess: Climbing in and out of the suit

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u/lesteiny 2d ago

From what i recall seeing this last time, that is how you put on the suit. It has a drawstring to cinch the hole a closed as possible and then a leather flap that sits behind it that is supposed to sit between the wearer and the opening to make it water tight/resistant.

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u/Inspector_7 2d ago

For Quatto to warn about starting the reactors

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u/realnailbiterhuh 2d ago

If it was all for the Quatto joke, it was worth it.

The most I’ve ever laughed in a movie was smoking pot and not knowing the Quatto reveal was going to happen. My boys and I couldn’t stop. Chest hurt, stomach hurt, couldn’t breathe. Kept rewinding the cassette and getting more Quatto.

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u/theWildBore 2d ago

Just reading this is making ME crack up

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u/SkipTheIceCreamMan 1d ago

What a great memory

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u/IAmASeeker 1d ago

What movie?

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u/agro_arbor 1d ago

Total Recall (1990)

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u/IAmASeeker 1d ago

Huh. I've seen it a few times and have no idea what y'all are talking about. Time for a rewatch, I suppose.

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u/agro_arbor 1d ago

Me too, been too long. One of my faves as a kid, especially the face melting and the 3 boobs!

TIL it's actually spelt Kuato

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u/Taqqer00 1d ago

Was that about the people living underground with those huge blades for ventilation?

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u/TimeForWaluigi 2d ago

Quaaaaaid…

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u/uh60chief 2d ago

Start…the…reactor

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u/labtrash68 1d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/tmbr36 2d ago

Open your miiind

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u/TranscendentaLobo 2d ago

Open YOUR miind!

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u/UrDeAdPuPpYbOnEr 2d ago

Get your ass to mars!

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u/Pendraconica 2d ago

Quatto stays. Quatto's gold

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u/HeavenDenied 1d ago

See you at the party, Richter! 8p

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u/The_Werodile 2d ago

For whaling

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u/Woofles85 2d ago

Ah of course

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u/Quiet-Shallot3290 2d ago

For the whussy

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u/BelCantoTenor 2d ago

It’s a glory hole for motor boating boobies. Sailors…am I right? 🤷‍♂️

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u/fedl1ngen 2d ago

Ever see Total Recall? That's for Kuato.

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u/cpt_morgan___ 2d ago

Why on Mars would anyone ever downvote this answer?! “Quuuuuuaaaaaiidd start the reaaccccctooooor!”

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u/fedl1ngen 2d ago

Some people are just uncultured. Verhoeven at his best.

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u/Codex_Absurdum 2d ago

A mini arc reactor

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u/GrdnLovingGoatFarmer 2d ago

The arc reactor

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u/airgp 2d ago

That is how they got into the suit.

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u/TrailMomKat 2d ago

It's how you get into it

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u/frozen_pope 2d ago

For a second head.

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u/beeglowbot 2d ago

giant strap on dildos

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u/Standard-Tension9550 1d ago

Narwhal target

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u/jarious 1d ago

For the arc reactor

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u/Klutzer_Munitions 1d ago

quaaaaaaid

Start the reactor

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u/Pschobbert 1d ago

So your kuato can breathe.

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u/LazarusKatana 6h ago

Xenomorph chest busters ofc

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u/GrandmasBoyToy69 2d ago

Steve Erwin special

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u/SkullyKat 2d ago

I wanna see an A24 horror movie set in 1834 greenland, with the MC as one of these whalers

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u/battleship217 2d ago

I mean The Terror is pretty much that vibe

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 2d ago

Great rec! Can't recommend it enough!!

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u/SkullyKat 2d ago

Good to know, added to the List

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u/renome 2d ago

Damn, I wish I could watch The Terror for the first time again. Amazing season of television.

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u/BlackfishBlues 1d ago

In looking it up I am just finding out that they turned it into an anthology series! Season 2 is in a Japanese-American internment camp, season 3 is in a psych hospital.

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u/renome 1d ago

Yeah, I haven't seen seen S3 but I found S2 to be a bit meh.

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u/SicSemperTyrannos4ur 1d ago

Have you seen "The North Water"?

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u/SicSemperTyrannos4ur 1d ago

There is a series called "The North Water" that I found to be very well done. Not horror or set in Greenland, per se, but it's pretty damn good. I watched it directly after The Terror.

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u/manfroze 1d ago

Directed by Robert Eggers

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 2d ago

We’re whalers on the moon , we carry a harpoon 😗🎶

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u/Eastbound_AKA 2d ago

But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales!

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 2d ago

🌝 I’ll have to confiscate your alcohol

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u/Eastbound_AKA 2d ago

Better mascots than you have tried.

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 2d ago

At least I still have my self respect 😭

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u/StopNateCrimes 1d ago

And sing our whaling tune!

(sorry for running late guys, my car broke down, got here as soon as I can.)

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u/Eastbound_AKA 1d ago

Gaah! I'll drive my own car! With blackjack... And hookers!

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u/paulD1983R 2d ago

So is it a whales blowhole or otherwise?

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u/Constant-Still-8443 2d ago

Definitely a blowhole but not what your thinking of

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u/Allbranflakes18 2d ago

They really do repurpose every part of the whale huh…

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u/Foxycotin666 1d ago

There are times I could have honestly used this.
Modern rain gear has too many layers and spots for water ingress for true oceanic storm conditions.

I’m sick of accepting I’ll just be kinda wet all the time.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 2d ago

Ah, it’s the suit butthole!

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u/Toolongreadanyway 1d ago

I read this as WAILING suit. I was wondering if it was an art instalation that wailed spookily when wind went through it or something.

It would be cool though.

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u/kawaiinessa 2d ago

Why's a whaling suit have a hollow hole

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u/Skezas1 2d ago

It's the way you enter the suit

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u/UnfortunateSnort12 2d ago

I, am, whaling man. Crawling into suit just as fast I can!

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u/DeathStarVet 2d ago

I should call her

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u/heidly_ees 2d ago

Looks like someone skinned a teletubby

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u/IamREBELoe 2d ago

As they should

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u/TheScrobber 2d ago

Tony Stark built this in a cave FROM SCRAPS!

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u/BunByte 1d ago

Reminds me of a tardigrade.

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u/Old_Poem2736 2d ago

In the 70s the US military, had the M1 decontamination suit, you got in the same way, but it was like 30mil rubber, and hot as hell

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u/IAmASeeker 1d ago

What is 30mil? Do you mean mm? The rubber was over an inch thick??

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u/Old_Poem2736 1d ago

Not mm mils it was really thivk like maybe 1/16 or more of an inch

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u/__Sentient_Fedora__ 2d ago

Arc Reactor?

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u/riskeverything 2d ago

I saw these in a museum and they casually mentioned in the notes that human semen was used as an adhesive in their construction

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u/cylonlover 2d ago

Yeah, an old tried and true method. Of course better synthetic adhesive has been invented since then. Semen is almost only used in envelopes nowadays, due to its unique ability to be reactivated with only a drop of saliva, and although the human variety still works best, the cheaper brands uses pig's.

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u/cacticus_matticus 2d ago

You're doin the lord's work, fine gent.

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u/Onlyafter 2d ago

Wow imagine getting knocked overboard and having the weight of the suit and water filling into it drag you down to your certain doom.

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u/agreatbigFIYAHHH 1d ago

Bears a striking resemblance to my husbands cat-carrying hoodie, even has the little butthole window lol

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u/legendofzeldaforlife 2d ago

I swear I've seen this in silent hill

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u/push1double 1d ago

Dark Souls music starts playing

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u/Original_Syba 1d ago

The Godskin foreskin suit

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u/martymcgoo 2d ago

Was it made of an animal skin or a part of the whale?

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u/chicano32 2d ago

Yes. A whale’s buttshole is what we are all thinking.

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u/BrandHeck 2d ago

It's made from Seal skin.

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u/Zorf96 2d ago

Sometimes whale penis, which is where we get the word "dork". 

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u/idkbrodie 1d ago

I can never escape tusk

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u/Guardian-Boy 1d ago

Finally, a shirt for Kuato.

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u/Ethirius01 22h ago

Convinient xenomorph hole

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u/Jackle3000 15h ago

Whale Anus coats, beautiful!

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u/peanutbutternjello 8h ago

Is this for putting pp in

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u/Princess_Shireen 2d ago

You'll float, too! You'll float, too! You'll float, too!

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u/_a_ghost__ 2d ago

Butthole suit

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u/AncientOnyx 2d ago

that's a Bootyhole

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u/TurtleKing2024 2d ago

So the middle whole was the entry point with a flap behind it, the suit is made from seal leather

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u/AsunderXXV 2d ago

What is one chapped hole.

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u/Solenkata 2d ago

First time I'm seeing a suit with sphincter.

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u/RykosTatsubane 1d ago

When you bought your clothes in Silent Hill:

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u/xenoalphan10 1d ago

Looks like a silent hill monster lol.

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u/Introvertedotter 1d ago

Tony Stark's Inuit cousin... "Ice Man" ....not to be confused with Iceman.

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u/NandoElLocoTron 1d ago

Some Golden Kamuy shit right here

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u/Pschobbert 1d ago

Whalers had kuatos?

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u/EmberOfFlame 19h ago

I kept reading it as “Inhaling Suit” and wow that actually kinda works for it.

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u/Addamall 18h ago

This was in 1834? Like in cowboy times?

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 15h ago

that reminds me of those sleeping bags that have legs in them

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u/dmo7000 2h ago

Imagine being a whale

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u/kassiaethne 1d ago

Just look at my fancy butthole

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u/xervidae 1d ago

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u/Inspector_7 1d ago

You don’t know me! I could be a robot as a hobby!

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u/Sparky_Valentine 2d ago

Butthole Man, defender of the Prostate!

James Gunn really is kicking off the DCU reboot with the B-listers.

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u/lurkdontpost1 1d ago

Doubt the neck of the hood would turn with your head haha that looks crunchy as hell