Tiny Tim Beyond Space and Time (and age of consent laws) will, of course, have space roaches in it, but they'll be gangbanging Tiny Tim, at the behest of Pip and the cruel Miss Havisham, while Joe Gargary fucks Estella in the next bed over. Things are very much not right at Sadie House.
As horrifying as this imagery is (Joe would
never do such a thing), it was a delightful in a very bizarre way and made me think of how easily Pat would fit in a Dickens novel as a perfect villain. I read
Oliver Twist as a child, and I am sure many Kiwis have as well, given most Kiwis have probably read more than Pat ever has. I can see the many parallels of Pat as Mr. Bumble, who is named after the term "bumbledom", which means "the meddlesome self-importance of a petty bureaucrat," which fits Patrick amazingly well. Had to jog my memory on a few things with a summary or two, but Pat fits so many Dickensian villains to a T, but Mr. Bumble I find very fitting. Mr. Bumble is described as "A fat man, and a choleric ... Mr. Bumble had a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance." Again, Pat fits well within this description. Mr. Bumble is a
FAT and piggish man who lords over the orphans in the workhouse and orphanage, which is amazingly more power than Rick has ever had or ever will. He schemes to marry a woman who is the matron of the workhouse and owns property, hence he wants to marry her to inherit it. He is now the Master of the workhouse but his wife is tyrannical and brow beats him constantly, which doesn't fit with Niki (that we know of) but a fitting punishment for our pig. He is the character in the famous scene who after Oliver dares to ask for more food, tells an orphan child all host of horrible punishments that will be afflicted upon him and essentially sells him into slavery with a cruel master, which in turn after some fights, leads Oliver to run away. Mr. Bumble enjoys berating those beneath him for follies he commits himself (very Pat coded) and lies about Oliver's character to people to make him out to be a bad child. Eventually, Mr. Bumble's lies, and cruelty catch up with him and he is sentenced to work in the same workhouse as the paupers he once viewed as barely human. I doubt Pat will ever have to work in a workhouse (though he is very impoverished and living on Big Nicholas and his mother's earnings), but he is in a cage of his own making for everyone to throw rotten vegetables at and laugh at.
Bonus: There is a character in
Hard Times named Mr. Choakum
child, who is described as an ogre, and schoolmaster and "chokes" the imagination out of his students
and grinds them into pepperoni.
Pat is a Dickens villain and like most Dickens villains, has no idea he is one.
Thank you for saying it, first thing I thought of.
