Kid, you just saw a half-deranged humanoid cat pull a lit grenade from his underwear. Unless you wanna end up tied to a giant rocket, Wile E. Coyote style, I suggest you keep the quips to yourself.
While Alan doesn’t exactly have the traditional heroic personality, he does seem to act decisively when the chips are down. Bashing through a pair of steel doors when they were being chased by monsters and saving the young girl here are good examples of him acting quickly in dire situations.
I don’t think he’s about to faint, I think he’s about to perform another act of heroism. Maybe the final act in the story arc of an unlikely hero, which is self sacrifice. It remains to see, whether he’ll take the zero-knife and cut the hand off himself, or…
Sadly more likely – argue, that unless the wound is cauterized immediately, he’s likely to lose consciousness and slow the group down, therefore they should go ahead without him. Whichever the case, he’s become one of the characters that shine bright in the dark world of Endtown.
Marx could have placed them anywhere in the multiverse, but he chose this place that’s being erased from existence. I wonder what he wants them to do there… Get the other people out?
No pressure or anything…