Despite Gert's cynical attitude, she rarely argued with Nico's decisions and was usually prepared to stand by her friend.

Gert's cynical view on her parents ( and adults in general ) also carries through the first and second volumes, where her belief her parents killed her pet pig becomes stronger.

After the Pride's demise, Molly is sent to X-Corp for foster care, but breaks out with Gert's help and runs away with the rest of the team.

Gert had had a strong dislike of her parents because of an incident involving Gert's pet pig, which the Yorkes hated ; after Gert had been playing with it, she had briefly left to answer the phone, and when she returned, she found it had been gone.

Gert's untimely death sends Nico into the arms of Victor Mancha, with whom she reveals she has a habit of running to people when distressed.

Old Lace was unconditionally loyal to Gert, even to the point of fighting against the team ; Old Lace once lashed out at Nico without Gert's orders when Gert and Nico had their brief falling out.

Throughout the second volume, both Victor and Nico started harboring romantic feelings for each other, but neither expressed them until after Gert's death, when they began a physical relationship.

Heavy flood damage was observed along Gert's path throughout Central America and Mexico, and thousands of people became homeless after road networks were severely disrupted.

Nico experiences survivor's guilt after Gert dies, knowing that Gert's murderer Geoffrey Wilder had initially meant to kill Nico.

Old Lace makes her first appearance after being discovered in a secret compartment in Gert's basement.

In issues # 18 -# 24 of volume 2, Chase distances himself from Molly and the rest of the Runaways to deal with his grief over Gert's death.

Gert's relationship with Chase softened her somewhat, though she didn't entirely lose her sarcastic edge.

She bluffed some details about Chase's past to keep Geoffrey from sacrificing Chase and Geoffrey fell for the bluff, but plunged his dagger into Gert's stomach instead.

Because it avoids pitfalls associated with other dominant ethical theoretical approaches ( such as deontology, utilitarianism, contractarianism, and virtue ethics ), Gert's moral theory " provides what many people are looking for ".

Like every member of the original Runaways, she is the daughter of evil villains with special abilities ; in Gert's case, time-travellers.

Before leaving, however, Gert discovers a dinosaur in a hidden room in her basement that has a telepathic bond with Gert's mind, meaning it obeys her every command.

Their relationship was often defined by bickering-Chase's dim-witted moments often clashed with Gert's sarcastic and intelligent quips.

Gert's telepathic bond to Old Lace allowed her to directly communicate with the dinosaur and command it to do anything she wished.

Soon afterwards, Molly begins hearing a disembodied voice she believes is Gert's, and follows its instructions to help revive Victor.

Her parents were still magicians, but posed as wealthy antique dealers ; this cover story was ultimately used for Gert's time travelling parents.

After Gert's death, Nico tells Victor ( while crying ) that Gert had set her My Little Pony dolls in the forest because Gert thought they should be free, and Nico had knit a purple scarf for Gert's thirteenth birthday, prompting Gert to dye her hair that color.

After Gert's death, Molly asks the Leapfrog, the group's transport, if Gert went to Heaven, but it cannot reply since Heaven is not on any of the maps in its database.

Gert's loyalty did not go unrecognized, as Nico requested that Gert take over leadership if something should happen.

* Gert's homepage at Dartmouth

On Gert's view, the bases for morality are rationality and impartiality.

On Gert's conception of rationality, it is irrational to fail to be averse to harm.

On Gert's view, there are several reasons to act morally.

* Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi, eds., Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critial Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Following Gert's death, Stretch checks himself into a mental health facility, and Hunter joins the Peace Corps to atone for the " blood " on his hands.

As the series progressed, Nico found alternative ways to make herself bleed, including brushing her gums for extended periods of time and having Gert's deinonychus Old Lace bite her arm ,; during her monthly menstrual cycle, Nico does not need to cut herself to evoke the Staff.

She suffered survivor's guilt regarding Gert's death.

The pair maintain a strong respect for each other despite often disagreeing over major group decisions, including Gert's burial site and allowing Victor to join the team.

In 2008, Marvel. com named Gert's death as the sixth out of ten best deaths in Marvel Comics history.

Clueing a holographic message featuring Gert's parents and the fact her basement is full of rare antiques, the Runaways conclude Gert's parents are actually time travellers.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

The film portrays General Allenby as cynical and manipulative, with a superior attitude to Lawrence, but there is much evidence that Allenby and Lawrence respected and liked each other.

Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland ( Ginger Rogers ).

* Peter McVries-Peter McVries is a well-muscled and athletically fit young man with a sardonic sense of humor and a cynical attitude.

Mitchum's cynical, mischievous attitude through his career had led him to shrug off fame as a fluke.

In 1498 ( fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France ), Commines's work was completed ( first published in 1524 in Paris ), and is considered a historical record of immense importance, largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed.

With its explicit language and cynical attitude to politicians, it roused one British Member of Parliament's ire at the magazine's partial funding by the British Arts Council.

Starring Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach and Gwen Verdon in her last Broadway role, it suffered from a cynical attitude, which contrasted with the record-breaking popularity of A Chorus Line.

Sihanouk's attitude toward the left was often cynical.

The frequent exposure to death and hardship often leads to a cynical and callous attitude as well as a character trait known today as post-traumatic stress characterizes many hardboiled protagonists.

Clifford's attitude to McCloud became one of cynical antagonism, bordering at times on extreme rage, but usually tempered with a grudging respect for McCloud's ability to solve the most difficult of cases.

The usual subject matter of the group includes: environmentalism, poverty, anguish and family troubles, as well as the denouncing of consumerism, exploitation, state-controlled gambling, cynical government attitude and political apathy.

Despite this cynical and childish attitude, Beetlejuice prove to be a profound and insightful person, frequently reciting quotes of philosophical and humanitarian importance ( but of course, Beetlejuice rarely follow his own lessons and lectures ).

In his anti-Napoleonic pamphlet " De Buonaparte et des Bourbons ", published in 1814, he criticized the cynical attitude towards recruits, that prevailed in the end of Napoleon's reign: " On en était venu à ce point de mépris pour la vie des hommes et pour la France, d ' appeler les conscrits la matière première et la chair à canon " — " the contempt for the lives of men and for France herself has come to the point of calling the conscripts ' the raw material ' and ' the cannon fodder.

Iyall was observed by Mother Jones to be among a new group of female fronted rock bands that displayed a " tough, wry, street-wise, cynical " attitude and sought to redefine the role of women in rock music.

Fleming also displayed a somewhat cynical attitude to the business community, dismissing appeals to the common good with the remark " the end of every private merchant is not the common good but his particular profit ".

Greek frappé coffee | Frappé coffee is often a symbol of a cynical attitude.

Although he opposed The Beast, Spider is not loyal to any political party or organization, and his initial support of The Smiler was tinged with contempt at his cynical attitude and false altruism.

He also has a significantly gruffer and more cynical attitude, partly because, as the villain Rebel insinuates, Damage was left badly scarred, but alive, by Zoom.

The film's amoral characters and cynical attitude toward violence ( including a scene where Lancaster's character threatens to murder child hostages ) were considered shocking at the time and influenced future Westerns such as The Magnificent Seven, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, and the films of Sergio Leone.

Always acting cool, his cynical personality and his " always get the job done " attitude can make him seem like a very cold and dark character.

She grew up with a neglectful, alcoholic, adoptive mother and a sexually abusive, alcoholic stepfather which gave her a cynical attitude and a pessimistic view on life.

Kaori has a cynical, no-nonsense attitude to life, which many students interpret as a cold nature.