Riverdale has its first supervillain.
Oh, Percival Pickens.
Somehow, you’re proving to be more annoying than your name.
Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa, and Cole Sprouse on ‘Riverdale’.Bettina Strauss/The CW
This week’sRiverdalesaw Percival and his powers of persuasion start his takeover of Riverdale in a major way.
One citizen at a time, Percival started brainwashing people.
It seems this guy has a superpower of his own and it’s not unlike a vampire’s compulsion.
He can … make people do things?
And then there’s the added problem that Jughead can’t read his mind.
As our recent superheroes eventually deduce, they’ve got their first supervillain on their hands.
This week, Percival’s main target is Toni.
Toni’s actually kind of into the idea?
Or at least a version of it.
Did I mention that Percival is a cop now?
Welcome to Riverdale, here’s a gun and a badge!
Good thing they can explain away this madness with his mind control abilities, whatever those are exactly.
But the problem is that most people hate how Betty now wears sunglasses inside, so they say no.
(He convinced a patron to commit suicide.)
Cheryl/Abigail, however, wants nothing to do with the ancestors of her murderers.
Sitting down to talk in a full latex dress, she swiftly sends them away.
Although, if light hurts Betty’s eyes, she should really move into Thornhill.
That place is allergic to light.
Oh, she also wants to kill Fangs.
BUT she succeeds at absolutely none of it!
More on that later.
And when they go to check on him, Anthony’s missing from his crib.
Long story short, the Ghoulies have him.
And here’s where I should mention that Abigail is a Ghoulie now?
Thankfully, our boy is invincible, so he survives.
Translation: Cheryl is back!
While all of that was going on, Toni was working to get Anthony back.
Thankfully, the only thing that could work against Percival’s mind control was Toni’s smartphone!
(What a message that sends, amirite?)
She pulled out her phone and instantly started a livestream.
As she put it, “The whole world is watching.”
Girl, calm down, how many followers do you even have?!
As for the Ghoulies, the police killed everyone except Twyla in the raid to get back baby Anthony.
And did I mention he took Toni’s spot on the town council?
Just what Riverdale needs!
It seems he has a bit of a gambling problem, and Reggie doesn’t want to address it.
And that brings us to the end of our latestRiverdale.
