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The Joker x Reader - “A.N.N.I.E.”

A.N.N.I.E. (Artificial Non-Neurological Intelligent Entity) is an outdated android model that emerged on the market two years ago. The Joker purchased her as a toy for his son not knowing she will become the recipient of desperate attempts to keep Y/N with him. After the woman’s unexpected death, experiments meant to transfer her conscience inside Annie failed yet The King of Gotham couldn’t part with the only thing that reminded him of someone he actually cared about.

“Can you fix her?” The Joker asks the two programmers that have been assessing the android for the past 15 minutes.

“Hard to tell sir, but we are trying to determine what triggered the malfunction,” Zariah points at the 4 laptop screens simultaneously running diagnostics. “Recently there’s been a spike in flaws regarding A.N.N.I.E. models; after all they were released 2 years ago. I would recommend acquiring the most current technology…”

“No need to!” J bitterly cuts him off. “Just fix her!”

“We will do our best, sir!” Mickel reassures The King of Gotham: his wretched temper might interfere with today’s agenda and the two hackers simply can’t afford it.  

“Your best is not enough,” The Joker growls. “She cornered my son last night and almost crushed him against the wall. I had to use manual override to shut her down. That’s not typical machine behavior, is it?!”

“No sir, although I’ve heard of similar incidents in the past months. If it continues, Annie prototype will be pulled off the market soon,” Zariah informs.

“Her name‘s not Annie,” The Clown Prince of Crime interrupts the unwanted advice. “Her name’s Y/N!”

Awkward silence and Kase’s voice resonates from upstairs.

“Daddy?... Daddy?...”

“My son’s awake; I’ll be back,” J abandons the two men in a hurry and stumbles on the numerous cables connecting the laptops to the cyborg on his way out.

“Goddammit!”, he huffs through his clenched teeth before vanishing around the corner.

“That was fucking weird,” Mickel whispers. “What does he means her name is not A.N.N.I.E.?! Am I crazy? Is this not Artificial Non-Neurological Intelligent Entity sitting in that chair?!”

“Of course it is,” Zariah confesses in low tone. “He gives me the creeps too how he thinks she’s in there.”

“What do you mean “she”?” the obvious question follows.

“Check those cords,” Zariah urges and continues: “You noticed he corrected me with the name for the pile of rubbish.”

“Yeah,” the other guy begins typing a bunch of configurations while listening to the scoop.

“Y/N used to take care of his kid. Nobody can say who she really was: some believe she might have even been the mother, that her and Mister Joker were together. Others swear the little boy called her auntie; maybe she actually was Mister J’s sibling. Who the hell knows? She was a strange woman and she looked… different also,” Zariah’s gaze circles the premises to make sure their employer is not eavesdropping.

“No shit!” Mickel frowns at the statistics popping up on the monitors.

“Yeah, I saw her a few times, gave me the creeps. Something was off with her, you just could tell. Mister J always had jerks working for him and I guess they clashed with Y/N quite often: it got so bad they dared planning a prank that ended horribly. Do you know the warehouse on 14th street? The 6 stories one?”

“No.”

“Well, supposedly it happened there: Mister J was out of town and had no clue about the scheme plotted without his consent. The crew took his son on the roof and threatened they will toss him off the building if she doesn’t jump instead.”

“And?!” Mickel halts his typing, intrigued.

“She jumped… … they didn’t think she would.”

“Holy crap! I had no idea!”

“Dude, it was a disaster!” Zariah shrugs depicting the facts. “Y/N splattered all over the concrete, broken to pieces… Despite the severe injuries, she didn’t die immediately: she was in a coma for almost a month before passing away. Mister J had Annie already, he probably bought her as a toy for Kase when it first emerged on the market. The rumor is that while Y/N was in a coma he kidnapped scientists and forced them to work on a senseless project: transferring her conscience inside Annie.”

“You’re shitting me!” Mickel exclaims at the insane disclosure.

“Nope.”

“Can’t be done; it’s impossible!”

“And who’d dare explain the obvious to him, huh? Not the researchers he killed the moment she stopped breathing if you get my drift.”

“That’s messed up!” Mickel forcefully exhales, infinitely more nervous about being at The Penthouse for the moment.

“Do you remember the serial murders that shook Gotham 3 months ago?” Zariah has more gossip for his partner. “It was Mister J hunting down every single person that was on the roof the day Y/N jumped.”

“We shouldn’t be here,” the anxious Mickel shrugs. “Maybe we should abandon our mission.”

“Bulshit! They’ll pay us double over anything he offers so don’t be a pussy! Speaking of, you should assemble the guns prior to his return!”

Mickel is reluctant to the whole scenario, yet he compiles the two guns out of items resembling computer parts scattered in their suitcases: that’s how they were able to deceive security.

“Done,” he stashes one finished weapon under his jacket, offering the other to Zariah.

“Remain calm and we’ll be ok,” the latest mumbles. “Let’s pretend we’re here to repair this junk.”

A couple more minutes pass by and The Joker’s presence alongside his offspring makes the two guys cringe.

The little boy hides behind his father’s legs, shyly glancing the android’s way.

“Don’t be scared,” J grumbles. “She’s in power saving mode, it’s fine.”

“Yes, it’s perfectly safe,” Zariah winks. “We are almost done extracting all the data,” he gestures at the laptop’s screens.

Kase giggles and rushes to climb on Annie’s knees, excited to see her after she wasn’t allowed to sleep in his room last night which is understandable since the robot went bonkers.

“Hi Y/N,” the child softly pulls on her long hair. “I want waffles pwease.”

The hackers exchange meaningful glares and The Joker replies:

“She can’t for now,” he mutters. “She’s defective. Frost will take you out for breakfast, alright?”

“Does it hurt?” the 5 year old pouts at his parent’s affirmation: he doesn’t comprehend all the words and it’s difficult for a kid to process the concept of transference.

After Y/N died, The Joker told Kase she moved inside Annie: he wasn’t delusional about his failed experiment but it was easier to make his son cope with the loss of the woman that raised him. J doesn’t literally believe there’s any trace of Y/N in the machine: how could it be? Several months passed and nothing proved what he tried to accomplish succeeded: a twisted concept originating from a distorted mind was doomed from the start.

“It doesn’t hurt,” The Clown Prince of Crime sighs. “She’s resting.”

“Sir, I think you should see this,” Mickel gets his attention.

“What am I looking at?”

“You used voice command to lock down the android?” Zariah pinpoints at the monitor to his left.

“I did.”

“That’s not what turned off the system: see the numbers flowing borderline with the  central matrix, the tiny squares? She wasn’t locked down by external command, she was terminated from within.”

“What do you mean?!” Mickel scoots over in his rolling chair, baffled.

“Somebody trespassed the firewall,” his accomplice utters the obvious.

J is less than happy with the random discovery still he requires confirmation of his suspicion.

“Meaning?”

“Annie, I mean Y/N is the recipient of a cyber-attack: she’s been hacked.”

“Hacked?” J scoffs. “What for? She’s just a companion android, it doesn’t make any sense.”

“Not sure, sir…” Zariah lifts his shoulders up, baffled.

“Can you find the source?” the green haired individual suggests.

“Analyzing the algorithm shows puzzling results: these numbers should be repeating themselves every so often, yet they don’t; never seen anything like it and I’ve been dealing with computers for a long time,” Mickel adds. “The most interesting detail is certainly challenging our expertise: tracking the root of the signal is pretty much unachievable. We should see input bouncing around from different servers because this is how hackers disguise their trail; but… this particular livestream happened simultaneously from various servers around the country.”

“There’s practically 0% chance for such abnormal hacking with today’s technology!” Zariah scrunches up his face at the baffling discovery. “How in the world was it done?!”

“You’re the experts!” The Joker barks. “I hired you based on strong recommendations from others that used your skills. Can you fix her or not?!”

“Of course, sir.”

“Yes!” the two associates ease The Clown’s doubt. “We’ll unplug the cables, we already removed all necessary info.”

Kase watches them detach the cords from Annie’s access ports, the child sulking at their action.

“Y/N, does it hurt?” he asks and hops off her lap. The empty shell doesn’t respond since the robot is in power saving mode.

“It doesn’t hurt,” The King of Gotham duplicates his earlier statement. “Frost!” he addresses the henchman entering the living room. “Take him to our restaurant on Madison Avenue for breakfast then he can play at the property on Foster Creek until we are done here. I want a 3 cars escort.”

“Yes, boss. I’ll call in advance and tell them not to open the place until we’re done.”

“Good,” J agrees with his henchman’s proposal. “Kase, go and eat!” he urges the offspring having a few more secrets to share with Annie. “Come on, let’s go!” the impatient father encourages.

The 5 year old obeys and kisses Annie’s cheek, whispering:

“I’ll bwing you beck’fast auntie, ok?” and he rushes at Frost’s side screaming up a storm. “Byeeeee daaaaaddy!!!”

The programmers are so absorbed by the mystifying enigma they stumbled upon by accident they don’t pay attention to the little nugget’s promise: even if they would, Zariah and Mickel wouldn’t be able to untangle the convoluted riddle of Y/N’s true identity.

She wasn’t The Joker’s girlfriend nor Kase’s mother: Y/N was nothing less than The Clown’s younger sister.

The woman protected the only family she had like a hawk, thus she didn’t hesitate to give her life in exchange for her nephew’s.

Too bad she had no idea those jerks were mocking her when she ended up on that accursed roof.  

Too bad her brother didn’t guess their intentions and extremely regrettable he was left alone without the only person he ever trusted.

Too bad she died granted J’s desperate efforts to keep her with him.

And so sad he didn’t know how much Y/N meant to him until she was gone.

“Isn’t it weird someone breached my android in the same time it was malfunctioning and closed her down?…” J stares outdoors on the terrace. “Why would anyone go through the trouble?... What’s the purpose?”

The familiar click of safety being taken off a gun awakens The Joker from apathy and he turns around: it’s not easy to surprise J but he’s stunned to notice the two experts he recruited pointing guns at him.

“What the fuck are you doing?!”

“Cashing in a huge payday, sir,” Zariah sneers. “It’s not often you become a legend for murdering…”

The Joker is not listening, his attention diverted by the strange phenomenon occurring behind the two hackers threatening his life: Annie is standing up from her chair and that’s clearly not possible; she is in power saving mode!

The android grabs Mickel’s arm and twists it to 90 degrees, using his own pistol to blow his brains out. Before Zariah can react he’s knocked to the ground with such violence J starts backing out, unsure on what to do when Annie steps on the man’s neck.

The sound of fractured bone plus the cyborg’s attention clearly directed towards him now makes him shout:

“Code 71345, emergency override!”

“Access denied!” the robot approaches still calibrating its joints and electronic synapses.

What the hell is wrong with this thing?!

“Code 71345, emergency override!”

”Access denied!”

J wants to make a run for it but he’s aware Annie is faster; why is she glitching like this?! 

“Code 71…”

“Why are you trying to shut me down when I tried so hard to come back to you?” the cold voice halts the rest of his sentence.

The Joker takes a strenuous breath, dumbfounded at the shocking revelation:

“Y/N?... … Is… is… that you?!... …”

The android tilts its head to the left while an eerie smile flourishes on the plastic lips:

“Missed me?”

 Also read: MASTERLIST 

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FINAL DESTINATION Continues to Cheat Death After 18 Years

I hope you don’t have a flight to catch today, because if you were superstitious like me, you’d cancel it! March 17th marked the anniversary of a movie that made everybody not only weary of planes, but a little weak in the knees for Devon Sawa as well- Final Destination. The film hit at the perfect time, capitalizing on the fear and paranoia people felt after a year of Y2K theories. Created by Jeffrey Reddick, Final Destination boasts one of the best horror movie premises of all time: a group of students cheat death after one has a premonition of his classmates’ fiery death. Now, Death is coming after them in the form of a gorey, Rube Goldberg-esque “accident”. Some thought the 90’s were a dark time for horror, but the new century was kicking off with a bang. How subversive to have a movie with Death himself as an invisible slasher.

Final Destination was a massive box office success, generating $112 million dollars on a budget of $23 million, spawning 4 sequel films. The best part? The sequels are just good as the first! It is rare to see a film franchise with the consistency of the Final Destination series, as they stay true to their roots. The five-film franchise would go on to develop a cult following and rake in over $665 million dollars worldwide, making it one of the most successful movie franchises of all-time. In honor of Final Destination’s 18th birthday, I re-watched all five movies and have ranked them from best to worst. How does the underrated franchise hold up over the years, and more importantly, how do you rank them? Let’s take a look at mine to start!

5. The Final Destination (2009)

Coming in last place, The Final Destination. The fourth installment in the franchise is unanimously the weakest film, mainly because of its laziness. Final Destination 3 was actually supposed to be the last film of the series, but in 2009 3D was just becoming a big thing so the franchise decided to capitalize on the new-again fad and head back into theatres. The result was a lackluster effort, with protagonists you didn’t care about at all and a bland premonition sequence. For the most part, all the kills are pretty forgettable. Every death scene was worked around 3D effects, which didn’t add any depth or enhance the film in any way. Die hard fans were not happy, but luckily this lead to one last film, and a proper send-off. Even as the worst film of the series, still a fun drunk watch that helps break up your ill conceived 10-hour movie marathon.

Best Death: The pool scene, and it’s not even close. Talk about your worst childhood fears come to life. I think we’ve all been worried about getting sucked into the bottom of the pool, at one time or another. This scene also gets extra points for featuring the very underrated 2009 hit Corona & Lime by Schwayze in the background.

  4. Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 2 surprised me the most during my re-watch. Tragically, it does not hold up as much as the others. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still great. The use of practical effects mixed with CGI was still in its early days and I still get nervous in traffic behind semi-trucks transporting logs. But the rest of the film doesn’t hold a candle to that scene. The biggest detriment to the film was the dynamic between our protagonists. This film tried to band the survivors together, which only ends in soap opera style bickering. Final Destination 2 also sees the return of Clear Rivers from the first film, which felt like the result of a rewrites/reshoots, because she stuck out like a sore thumb. Later films would return to focusing on one or two of the main survivors, rather than the whole cast. Still an entertaining watch with creative kills, nonetheless.

Best Death: When Tim is crushed by a glass pane. It’s a fantastic bait-and-switch. He almost dies during his dentist appointment so we think he’s safe, only for poor Timmy to get smashed on his way out. Also satisfying because that kid was super annoying.

3. Final Destination (2000)

Sitting right in the middle is the one that started it all, the OG Final Destination, if you will. The first film holds up incredibly well, most likely because it’s the closest to a straight forward horror movie in the series. It operates like a typical slasher movie, except we can’t see the killer. People tend to lean to this film because it’s the least-indulgent of the franchise, with the majority of it’s kills based in tension rather than shock and awe. Heartthrob Devon Sawa is at the height of his powers, giving a very entertaining performance. I think the only reason I have this one further down is because I enjoy the Final Destination films a bit more when they are having fun, where this film is the more serious one. But as the original, Final Destination is still a solid film regardless, and with right argument, could still land at the top of any fan’s list.

Best Death: When Alex’s best friend Tod dies in the bathroom, giving the appearance that he killed himself.. This was the first death of the film and not only set the bar for the film, but the franchise as a whole. Devon Sawa also sells the scene fantastically with his reactions.

  2. Final Destination 5 (2011)

It’s rare for a series to go out on a high note, but Final Destination 5 was the cherry on top for fans of the franchise. After fans and critics alike were left with a bad taste in their mouth after The Final Destination, the team decided to add one more installment. The fifth movie was a return to top-form as we got all the best parts of previous films rolled into one. A protagonist that we cared about, the most intense opening scene of the franchise, and some of the most bloody, intricate kills. Final Destination 5 had it all! 

I think we can all agree that the most impressive part of the film was justifying it as the final movie. Director Steve Quale pulls a fast one on us and (Spoiler Alert) it’s a surprise prequel that loops back to the very first film. How they managed to keep this a secret still amazes me. And clearly, I wasn’t the only one impressed. Final Destination 5 is the highest reviewed film of the franchise, sporting the only positive Rotten Tomatoes rating at 62% Fresh. I like this one more and more each time I watch it, and it was extremely close to claiming the top spot.

Best Death: the gymnastics kill is a masterclass in tension, I still clench my fist through the whole routine and then the final image of her mangled body… *shudders*

  1. Final Destination 3 (2006)

  Starting off my list with a little controversy, as I’ve heard people call Final Destination 3 the worst film of the bunch. I disagree wholeheartedly. Much like the Saw franchise, everybody has a different favorite and watches them for different reasons. For me, the third installment gives us the best of both worlds of what the franchise has to offer: the more serious mystery aspect of how to stop death and the bloody campiness. In this one, we get a protagonist that we care about in the form of Mary Elizabeth Winstead in one of her first movie experiences. The roller coaster opening is brilliant because, what is scarier than meeting your bitter doom while having the time of you’re life at an amusement park? Oh the irony!

But getting down to business, what would these films be without its kills? The tanning bed death, the gnarly drive-through accident, and an insanely bonkers third act make Final Destination 3 the most wickedly fun film of the franchise.

Best Death: the scene where the macho football guy won’t stop working out when being warned about his imminent death, only to have his head crushed by the machine. 

  “There are no accidents, no coincidences, no escapes. You can’t cheat death.”

  And that is my ranking of the Final Destination franchise! I’m sure your list looks a lot different than mine, but that’s the fun of this series. I truly do think the this franchise doesn’t get the love it deserves. The original film was so innovative as a highly realistic supernatural horror. The franchise has literally changed the way we look at the world when we get on a plane or even just walking down the street. 18 years later, and these films are still being watched. The Final Destination team understood its fan base and it’s identity, crafting one of the most entertaining franchises in horror.

To celebrate it’s adulthood, why not marathon the movies yourself! Just be sure to check all your doors and windows, because (in the words of William Bludworth portrayed by horror icon Tony Todd), “there are no accidents, no coincidences, no escapes. You can’t cheat death.”

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