Penny and Aggie/Recap/20 2020 Pennies: Difference between revisions

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The most experimental of all ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' arcs, this storyline concerns Penny's decision regarding whether she should abandon the life she knows and join Rich on the road. Penny stands frozen, her inner voices alternating between telling her she'd be out of her mind to do so and affirming her love for Rich. The scene switches to a convention of twenty potential future Pennies, in the year 2020, gathered to discuss and vote on what the present-day teenage Penny should do. The "[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=571 twenty who represent trillions]" of possible selves, half of whom followed Rich and half of whom didn't, range from the realistic (author, defense attorney, homemaker) to the fanciful (nuclear holocaust survivor, "holosocialite and fashion vlogger," cyborg Starbucks assistant manager), and from the successful to the pathetic and in-between. Three out of twenty not only went with Rich but stayed with him permanently.

* [[Housewife]]: One of the Pennies is this character to a T (no pun intended), complete with sunny smile, polka-dot dress, matronly figure and cookies she's baked for her fellow attendees.

* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: [[Parodied Trope]] with one of the Pennies who travels to the convention this way, her takeoff setting fire to a "Stop using Jetpacks" protest sign.

* [[The Runaway]]: Penny.

* [[Ship Tease]]: The arc's ending.

* [[Shrug of God]]: Campbell has kept mum on the question of whether Penny's possible future selves are found only in her imagination, are metaphors for different aspects of her character, or exist within respective [[Alternate Timeline|Alternate Timelines]].

* [[What If]]

 

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