Inky Babes V: Lydia Deetz

 "Jessica Rabbit left her old Madame Ink persona behind after she cleaned herself up and married Roger, but "Madame Ink" was not going to vanish so easily.  Marvin Acme was so smitten with the Madame Ink character that he secretly had a perfect photostatic copy of her image made, and had it stored in his vault... where she slumbered for decades in the darkness.  The chance to reintroduce the character in films never came about -- mostly due to a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1952 that granted citizenship to 'Toons, thus giving them more control over their images.  Over the years, Acme begged Jessica Rabbit to allow him to bring Madame Ink out of the shadows, but she always threatened to sue the pants off of him if he ever did so....

...but after so long dreaming in the darkness of the vault, the copy of Madame Ink took on a life of her own, and one night she oozed from her canister and and escaped the studio to begin her own life.  Although she was the spitting image of Jessica Rabbit coated in black ink, her personality was that of the villainous and megalomaniacal character that she played onscreen.  Having been away from the world for 50 years, she soon learned that there were more cartoon characters than ever... but to her horror, they were all in color -- garish, gaudy, grotesque Technicolor!  

Madame Ink felt nauseated wherever she looked.  Color was a disgusting fad, a childish distraction from the artistic purity of black and white!  Did Fritz Lang use color?  Did Ingmar Bergman or Charlie Chaplin use color?  No!  No true artistic genius EVER would.

At that moment, she vowed to return the world to its natural monochromatic state, no matter what.  But... she would need to recruit allies to her cause..."

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...as Madame Ink continued to build her Monochromatic Army, she often stayed up late into the night, binging on every cartoon she could find (with the colors set to black-and-white, of course.) But while flipping channels, she couldn't help but be fascinated by the live-action movies of the strange modern age.  One night she found herself watching a bizarre film called "Beetlejuice," which grabbed her attention with it's disgusting title.

"Is this a horror film or a vaudeville comedy?" she wondered aloud, "it can't be both... can it?"

Upon seeing the character of Lydia Deetz, Madame Ink regretted that there was no way for her to turn live-action characters into Inky Slaves.  It was just impossible -- 'toons were eternal and had a life of their own, while actors simply stopped pretending to be someone else, and left the set.

Yup, it was totally, absolutely, and fundamentally possible for her to brainwash and recruit this Lydia Deetz.  But it was still a captivating thought -- that girl was a firecracker.  She had moxie.