| “ | Well... you got us. Was it... worth it...?
|
„ |
| ― Reginald Copperbottom's last words |
Revenged is one of the sixteen endings in Completing the Mission and is the only ending that can be connected to The Betrayed from Fleeing the Complex.
In this ending, Henry takes revenge on Reginald for his betrayal. Having first entered into battle against the Right Hand Man and subsequently reaching Reginald Copperbottom, he carries out his revenge by killing him and destroying the Toppat Clan. In the end, Henry dies from a wound that Reginald inflicted.
This ending happens with the events Rapidly Promoted Executive and The Betrayed endings.
Plot
Intro: Resurrection
Ten hours have passed since Reginald Copperbottom betrayed Henry and left him for dead during his supposed rescue from The Wall. Henry's body is recovered by a scientist named Dr. Vinschpinsilstien. Onboard her ship, she revives Henry and patches him up with a cybernetic spine and left arm.
Seeking vengeance against Reginald, Henry transmutes his cybernetic spine into a jetpack and departs from the hospital ship. Locating the Airship, he ambushes Reginald-- now the reinstated Leader. Reginald is immediately joined by his Right Hand Man, who is now also a cyborg. The two engage in a fight where Henry can choose from the following options:
- Spirit Forme (fail): In a lengthy battle, narrated in Japanese, Henry summons his spirit, Reference, to help him fight the Right Hand Man, who also has his own spirit called Time in a Bottle[1], which allows him to control time. Reference briefly gains the upper hand by punching the Right Hand Man into an alternate timeline where he never met Henry, and thus was never outfitted with his cybernetic enhancements. But since Time in a Bottle was never attached to his cybernetics, the Right Hand Man uses his spirit to freeze time, before proceeding to draw a gun at Henry's head. (Message: That doesn't seem right, but I don't know enough about anime to dispute it.)
- Gun Forme (fail): Henry shifts his left arm into an energy Gatling gun, but the Right Hand Man, using super speed, dodges the shots. He maneuvers behind Henry and disintegrates his cybernetic spine with an energy blast. (Message: Not bad, kid... You made me use almost 10% of my power.)
- Blade Forme: Henry shifts his hand into a lance, while the Right Hand Man transmutes his hand into a colossal blade.
The two engage in a blade battle in the cockpit, with the Right Hand Man initially gaining the upper hand before Henry uses his blade to pierce through the Right Hand Man's cybernetic eye. In the process, Henry's blade breaks. As the two of them are now on the roof of the airship, the Right Hand Man becomes frustrated and prepares an energy ball to decimate Henry for good. Henry can use the following options:
- Absorb (fail): Henry attempts to absorb the energy blast with his hand, which overwhelms his cybernetic spine, causing him to explode. (Message: Wow, that's gotta be [Play of the Game.][2])
- Baseball Bat (fail): Henry shifts his arm into a baseball bat and knocks the energy blast away, much to the Right Hand Man's surprise. The blast however continues to orbit Earth and eventually returns to the Airship, hitting Henry from behind. The fail screen pops up before Henry takes the ball to his backside. (Message: Homerun?)
- Y-Type Move: Henry's "Big Blast" attack not only counters and penetrates through the Right Hand Man's energy ball, but it creates a gigantic explosion that scorches the Right Hand Man and cripples the airship at the same time. Henry then kicks the immobilized Right Hand Man's crisped body, breaking it apart.
With the damaged airship descending, Henry returns to the cockpit, where he and Reginald fight each other one last time. Overpowering Reginald, Henry can decide what to do with him from the following options:
- Airship (fail): Henry grabs Reginald, flies with him to the Toppat Orbital Station, and holds him up by the neck until the Airship crashes into them both, causing a huge explosion and destroying (presumably) the entire Toppat jungle base, along with everyone in it. (Message: [PogChamp] [PogChamp] [PogChamp])
- Drop (fail): Henry drops Reginald out of the Airship the same way Reginald dropped Henry. Unfortunately for Henry, Reginald saves himself with a parachute from his hat and calls for reinforcements to the cockpit. Henry is then gunned down by Hambag, Mac Dandy, and Blueberry. (Message: Wow, his hat has undergone some upgrades!)
- Staple: Using his cybernetic hand, Henry staples the Toppat Leader to the wall of the doomed aircraft to guarantee his demise.
Reginald retaliates by shooting Henry's cybernetic spine, incapacitating him. With both men stuck on the doomed airship, it crashes into the docked space station at the launch base, destroying both vehicles in a massive explosion. Henry ultimately survives the collision and finds Reginald mortally wounded. Reginald concedes defeat before asking Henry if his victory was worth it, then dies.
The damage to Henry's critical life-sustaining cybernetics is significant, rendering them disabled and unusable. A weakened Henry crawls out of the wreckage, at one point using a stick as his a crutch, and onto a hillside, resting on a boulder. Looking up into the sky, he finds solace in having finally exacted his revenge. With his mission completed, Henry dies silently as his cybernetic augmentations shut down, sitting peacefully on the hillside.
Characters
- Henry Stickmin - Protagonist
- Dr. Vinschpinsilstien - Deuteragonist
- Reginald Copperbottom - Main Antagonist
- Right Hand Man (Reborn/Human) - Secondary Antagonist
- Unknown Dark-Brown Toppat
- Reference
- Time in a Bottle
- Mac Dandy
- Hambag
- Blueberry
- Captain Hubert Galeforce (Flashback)
- Ahnoldt Schwarz (Flashback)
- Wilhelm Krieghaus (Flashback)
- Sureshot Sherman (Flashback)
Italic text indicates they only appear in this ending.
Underlined indicates they only appear in fails in this ending.
Trivia
- This ending and The Betrayed (formerly) are the only endings in the entire series that end with Henry's death.
- This ending, the Toppat Civil Warfare ending, the Toppat King ending and the Master Bounty Hunter ending are the only endings in Completing the Mission to have the airship, excluding the flashbacks.
- This ending, The Story Begins, The Betrayed from Fleeing the Complex, and Valiant Hero and Toppat Civil Warfare from this game are the only endings that end badly for Henry. Although he got his revenge on Reginald for betraying him by killing him, Henry himself died from a shot in the back from Reginald wanting to take him down with him. To make matters worse, Henry died alone with no friends or allies to mourn him.
- Most of the route is viewed in the 21:9 aspect ratio, making this pathway the only true cinematic route in the Henry Stickmin series.
- When Reginald calls for reinforcements to kill Henry and during the scene when Henry got shot, the view in the 21:9 aspect ratio is gone for some reason as it returns to the original view from the rest of the routes.
- This is the only RPE-chosen pathway that does result in the Toppat Clan being made defunct.
- This is the only ending where the scene doesn't cut to a picture with the name of the ending, but rather the name will appear right before the scene ends.
- This is the only ending in the entire series where the ending is named with 1 word.
- This is the only CtM ending with Rapidly Promoted Executive as one of the ItA Ranks that does not contain "Toppat" as the first word.
- This ending has the shortest confirmed time spent between the end of FtC and the start of CtM, with only about 10 hours passing since TB.
- This ending has the least fails out of all of the endings in Completing the Mission, with only six. And by extension, this is the only branch in the whole series where Henry dies in every fail.
- This is the only non-Pure Blooded Thief ending branch where Right Hand Man can be seen without cybernetic enhancements, excluding the flashbacks. This occurs when Henry uses his Reference spirit and the Right Hand Man gets punched into an alternate dimension at the cost of his cybernetics.
- This is the only pathway where Henry dies no matter what choice he makes.
- This is the only ending that doesn't show "Voices (This Path)" during the credits (along with all the endings in first five games), thus Reese B isn't credited for voicing Dr. Vinschpinsilstien.
- It also doesn't credit the list of songs used in the pathway, instead just crediting it as Ockeroid.
- This ending, along with Capital Gains and Toppat Civil Warfare, are the endings with the shortest paths to accomplish in Completing The Mission, with them all having 3 successful options.
- These three endings are the only endings where Right Hand Man died in his cyborg form.
- This is the only ending in which both Right Hand Man and Right Hand Man Reborn's bio can be unlocked at the same time.
- To unlock RHM Unreborned's Bio is when Reference punches and sends RHM to the alternative dimension.
- The achievement icon for this ending likely symbolizes the death of every member of the Toppat Clan's airship division.
- The Helicopter Hat option from the Toppat Civil Warfare pathway could foreshadow that the Drop option that appears in the last wave of choices will fail.
- This is the only RPE path in which Henry does not wear the Toppat Clan leader hat.
- Most, if not all of the music in this ending is from Ockeroid.
Music
| Link | Track | Composer/Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎧 | "Revival" | Ockeroid | Opening theme. |
| 🎧 | "Da Vinci Overdrive" | Ockeroid | Main battle theme for Henry's fight with the Right Hand Man. |
| 🎧 | "Bizarre Funk" | Ockeroid | Henry's theme for the "Spirit Forme" fail. |
| 🎧 | "It is I..."
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Ockeroid | The Right Hand Man's theme for the "Spirit Forme" fail. |
| 🎧 | "Slay of the Game" | Ockeroid | Played during the Play of the Game easter egg. |
| 🎧 | "Falling" | PuffballsUnited | Played during the "Drop" fail. Reused from Fleeing the Complex. |
| 🎧 | "Vindicated" | Ockeroid | Ending theme. |
References
- ↑ The Right Hand Man audibly announces his spirit as Time in a Bottle, however, it is subtitled as Bottled Time, a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure localizations.
- ↑ Clicking on the blue text that reads "Play of the Game" in the fail message will lead to a cutscene from RHM's point-of-view as he defeats Henry, a reference to the video game Overwatch. This awards the "Play of the Game" achievement.
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