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I think the thing that hit me the hardest in the Pibby trailer was this scene towards the end. In the bottom left corner, Muriel from Courage has joined the fight, but she isn’t wielding her iconic rolling pin — she’s fighting with Eustace’s mallet.

I obviously don’t need to explain what that implies, but just that small detail makes this hit so much harder. Even just the fact that SHE’S the one who survived instead of Courage. Muriel, the sweet nonviolent grandma that we all adore, who’s put up with so much shit from her husband and the rest of the world, from literally being prepared to be an ingredient in a stew to getting amnesia and being tortured by a psychopathic duck to even just thanklessly slaving over a hot stove — she’s lost everything, and she’s finally fighting back. But she isn’t fighting with something we recognize from her character — she’s fighting with her asshole husband’s weapon of choice. Muriel really does love Eustace, and she’s gonna get her family back even if it kills her.