Dark Crow

The **Dark Crow** is a major protagonist in *LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures* and the deuteragonist in "The Good, The Bad and the Eggly!". While LarryBoy endeavors to protect the urban city of Bumblyburg from evil forces who seek to exploit the peaceful climate, the Dark Crow tries to help him as a classmate at Superhero College.

## His Good Ranking

### Debated validations

* He initially acted very cold and prideful towards LarryBoy when they first meet and gets angry at him for enabling "Lampy" to burn open the vault so Awful Alvin and Greta von Gruesome can steal the eggly and use it to dominate Bumblyburg, to the point he antagonizes him with a demeaning drawing in class and grabs him over his desk for calling him "seedless". However, I do believe he is justified. For starters, he was skeptical and cold towards LarryBoy for making dumb choices with heavy ramifications and has been a jerk to him even after he saved him from the pig mercenaries. However, he still agreed to let him tag along to finish what he started and even agreed to wear a paper bag over his head despite rightly doubting its intimidating design and gets him back by joking about his nonexistent feet and taking control of the Bunnybot 3000, the only weapon capable of resisting the eggly's power. In spite of everything, he warms up to LarryBoy gradually as they spend more time together throughout the episode and makes him realize they have been hypocritical in their treatment of each other and acknowledges as a team they should start spending more time together, eroding this corrupting quality if it was that at all..

### His Good Deeds

* He goes to Superhero College and studies there so that he may use Bok Choy's teachings to better himself so he can better humanity by protecting those who cannot protect themselves, such as LarryBoy's reporter crew, for instance.
* He is hugely implied to have righted many wrongs in his hometown, Lollihaven. He eventually makes an enemy of Greta von Gruesome, as the nasty monger recognizes him at once.
* He understandably is opposed to being viewed as cute but he scowls at the narrator (as to the fourth wall) instead of making any kind of rude comeback as LarryBoy doubtlessly would have done as proven in "Leggo My Ego", showing he has a thick hide.
* Despite LarryBoy insisting Bumblyburg is his so-called superhero territory, he still insists on keeping it safe because LarryBoy's arrogance and incompetence would have otherwise allowed Awful Alvin to prevail.
* He saves LarryBoy from pig mercenaries after the Larry-mobile is wrecked out of commission and correctly deduces they are a diversion, making LarryBoy realize where he should go.
* He is completely non-lethal in his fighting style, as LarryBoy inadvertently casts the pigs out of the sky and the Dark Crow only lets them finish their descent when they are hovering above water. When he realizes they cannot swim, he mercifully throws them inner tubes, leaving the exhausted mercenaries to lie there in utter bemusement. LarryBoy gives himself too much credit for his accident to which the Dark Crow wonders out loud if he can possibly be serious.
* He thoughtfully checks on LarryBoy while he is trying to fix his vehicle and encourages him to go and rest while he straightens things out.
* He proceeds to go to the science lab and demonstrates profound efficiency in peacefully silencing the conflict, unclipping the plug Awful Alvin wants to burn down the vault with, evading a blast of energy from Greta's cybernetic fingertips, and swiftly binds them. He is about to warrant their arrest and free the scientists when LarryBoy arrives out of the blue and ruins everything with his low intelligence while the Dark Crow looks petrified and begs him to desist.
* After his adversaries escape with the Eggly, Dark Crow proceeds to free the scientists while LarryBoy loudly complains about scientific goo trapped beneath his supersuit which he thoroughly ignores.
* He learns from the scientists that the Eggly is a machine that can transmute inanimate matter into overeasy eggs, and explains, albeit impatiently, to LarryBoy what "inanimate" truly means so they can be on the same page despite not being able to stand each other.
* He stays on the evil duo's case and hides in a sarcophagus to ambush Greta, and when Alvin humiliates him and LarryBoy when the simple-minded cucumber intervenes (again) by transmuting their super costumes, he insists he will stop them, costume or not. He is still unable to prevent their escape, which he rightly blames LarryBoy for. Despite this being the second time LarryBoy enables the adversary, Dark Crow agrees to work with him and even wear a paper bag over his head as a compromise. Despite being jaded by this, he agrees with LarryBoy when he assures him they don't have time to worry about fashion.
* He seizes control over the Bunnybot 3000 to rescue Vicki, a female reporter who he's taken an immediate fancy to, while LarryBoy awkwardly tags along, as he is into Vicki as well.
* He is about to detain Alvin and Greta when LarryBoy insists he wants to try out the Bunnybot, despite the inappropriate timing of his possessive demands. This results in Alvin incapacitating them both.
* Despite being bound in a death trap, he insists he can save them, despite Greta denying this, he is more annoyed and justifiably irritated than fearful at their predicament.
* After seeing Alvin and Greta childishly argue, the Dark Crow realizes that while LarryBoy has literally done nothing but slow him down and give the evil duo traction, he is still eager to protect the innocent and has the capacity to do better, as do they all. Hence, he realizes he's been a hypocrite for treating LarryBoy like unwanted vermin when that is exactly how Greta is treating Alvin. He points out that the bad guys would have gotten their way if they had been working together, to which LarryBoy says he's thinking what he's thinking as they should be better than their enemies, earning both of them Vicki's approval.
* The three prisoners proceed to work together to disable the "Lampy Laser" and free themselves. Once again, the Dark Crow shows his peaceful and non-lethal tactics by bumping the sarcophagus to bind Alvin and "Lampy" so the vicious onion and his imaginary friend can face long-due justice.
* Ensuring they work together to detain Greta, the Dark Crow activates LarryBoy's otherwise useless singular super-suction ear to cast her into a pool of water and corner her before she can crawl out.
* He proceeds to return the Eggly and help the scientists fix it and make sure they know he and LarryBoy and Vicki all did their part to keep evil at bay.
* Despite wanting to be Vicki's boyfriend, he ultimately accepts Vicki choosing LarryBoy over him as they go to the dance, assuring them he can teach them how to dance as that is a well-known passion of his.
* Returning to his studies, he smiles fondly at Bok Choy for acknowledging how he and his classmate stopped "three villains in one fell swoop", and while he doesn't volunteer to help out after class, it is only because the considerably more boisterous LarryBoy beat him to it.
* His act of saving an entire city from destruction means he genuinely crossed the Goodness Zone. As someone whose benevolence compels him to protect the weak, limit the influence of evil, and humbles himself before the bumbling protagonist and warmly befriends him, the Dark Crow is a fantastic cartoon character in spite of his minimal screentime.

### Why Doesn't He Stand Out?

* He fails the Admirable Standards to LarryBoy, who has defeated Awful Alvin and Greta von Gruesome on isolated occasions to mutate the Angry Eyebrows and save yoddlers, as well as thwarting the Alchemist and the so-called Cheese-Breathing Cow Dragon, making him considerably less active in his heroism.
* He used to be extremely arrogant to the point he claims he "needs help from no vegetable" despite LarryBoy ironically being a fruit, and while he becomes better after realizing how hypocritical he's been acting in his treatment towards LarryBoy, he is still full of himself to a degree.