#blackheart

[orengejoshi]

Heaven

[pixelsproject]

『VS. Series』 Secret Palette Swap Characters

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VS. Series (Arcade) backgrounds uploaded by @the2dstagesfg (Tumblr)

VS. Series (Arcade) character sprites uploaded to Emu Gif Animation (emugif.com)

[moonlit-imagines]

Rio Vidal - Green Witch

[gavillain]

My thoughts and theories after Agatha All Along episode 3. Read no further if you haven't seen the episode yet.

SHARON NOOOOOOO :'( Honestly, with the way Agatha brought her along essentially to be a meat shield, it's not surprising that she died so early on the journey down the Witches' Road, but I was still surprised that they killed off the comic relief this early. But I caught that they didn't add Sharon's hair to the antidote when brewing the potion, and I think that'll be discussed next episode. The show definitely had to establish the stakes of the Road as life or death early on, and Sharon was the only character who they COULD kill off since she was the only one without a mystery to solve. Still, sad to see her go.

In more important news, though, MEPHISTO GOT NAME DROPPED. HE'S COMING ASDFGHJKL; Listen, after all the speculation we were all doing during WandaVision about Mephisto showing up, to hear him get referenced makes me EXCITED to see if that's just going to be a world building detail or if he's going to be relevant in the story.

Agatha giving up her son, Nicholas Scratch, for the Darkhold was established as a part of her reputation in this episode. The trailers confirm that it's a bit more complicated than that, so I'm curious to know the full story. Right now, I'm theorizing that the hair in the locket is Nicholas's, and, if you remember from WandaVision, she plucked that locket off of her mother's corpse after stealing mommy's powers. So, I'm fairly certain Agatha sacrificing Nicholas is tied in with why her mother tried to have her executed back in the 1600s, and maybe Mama Harkness did something that resulted in her grandson's death? I dunno, but I wanna know! I think Nicholas Scratch IS still alive, though, and I think he's going to be the twist Big Bad of the show.

Teen is pretty obviously Billy Kaplan, and it's so obvious in fact that I wonder if it's going to be a bait and switch and he's somehow Nicholas? But like... maybe I'm overthinking it and it's only obvious that he's Billy to us comics fans. For normies watching this with only WandaVision and Multiverse of Madness for context, him being Billy WOULD be a really interesting twist, so we'll see! Regardless, he's the only person on the Road who I am reasonably certain is going to make it out alive.

The hallucinations for Lilia, Jennifer, and Alice were all interesting, though they left more questions than answers: *Lilia saw what looked like Russian royalty taunting her saying "they're all dead" as they took on more decayed and corpselike forms. I joked to my boyfriend that it was the Romanovs, but that's honestly not necessarily out of the question. Lilia in the comics is the "queen of the gypsies" in Scarlet Witch's childhood, so maybe in this verse, she was a part of the Sokovian royal family before their dynasty was killed off by revolutionaries that led to the political turmoil of Sokovia that we saw in Age of Ultron. Being a psychic, I'm willing to bet Lilia survived because she saw the massacre coming but no one else believed her, sort of a Cassandra figure. I could be WAY off base, but I like my theory.

*Jennifer is the one who I have the least read on her hallucination with the weird man trying to drown her. We know that she is bound, unable to use her powers, so is this man maybe the one who bound her? Or is he someone else tied to the events that led to her being bound? She's been bound for a little over a hundred years, and the man's clothes seemed to be from that time period. In the comics, she's from Florida and was an ally of Man-Thing, so maybe something in her story is going to tie back into Werewolf by Night? We'll have to see!

*Alice's hallucinations are the most straight forward, she saw her mother weeping because her grandmother had passed away and the mother felt it. We know her mom was a witch, and we can pretty safely assume that the grandmother was one too, I think. The mother mentions that since whatever killed the grandmother got her, now it's after her, and since we know Alice's mom is dead in the present day, that would mean that this mysterious force is now after Alice too. What is this force, though? Alice tells Teen that she has a tattoo that wards off a curse that plagues her family bloodline that her mother made her get, so is it just this curse that's after her or is it connected to something else? In the trailer, we see Alice exploding with fire as a demonic entity emerges from her. I doubt this is Mephisto, since I think if Mephisto has ties to anyone here, it'll be Teen or Rio, but maybe some subordinate of his? In the comics, she and Wanda worked together to defeat a being called Dark Tongji. I think it's likely that he's the being hunting her bloodline.

Then a few notes from earlier:

1. The Salem Seven - I went back to WandaVision for a refresher, and, not counting Agatha's mom, the coven that Agatha murders and drains of their magic in her backstory numbers at seven and they were in Salem... I'm putting money that the Salem Seven is what's left of Agatha's old coven hunting her down, or at least their descendants.

2. Rio keeps getting hints that keep lining up to hint that she's a genderbent version of Blackheart, which has me excited! I don't know if they're actually going to go this route, and her being a "Green Witch" kinda makes it a bit weird. But they keep reiterating "black heart" in relation to her and now they've referenced Mephisto, his father. So I think if Rio isn't literally Blackheart, she's at least possessed by him. We'll have to see. But I do love the crackship of Agatha Harkness/genderbent Blackheart for lesbian Marvel villain lovers. That tickles me XD

Overall, SUPER into this show thus far, and I LOVE that there's so much mystery and intrigue to piece together! I CAN'T WAIT FOR EPISODE FOUR, I NEED IT NOOWWWWWWWWWW

[blinday]

Ambrosius: so... this means you really do like me.

Ballister: ...we are literally on the same bed.

Ambrosius: DO NOT TRY TO DEFLECT WITH FACTS! I NEED A SOLID ANSWER BAL!

[ricalleynejr85]

I really wanted to post this for the fans of both Marvel and Capcom. Artwork of most of the characters used for the intro of Marvel Super Heroes from Capcom. Enjoy this post right here. Credit to Marvel, the artists and Capcom.

Note: Sorry I don't know the artwork of Shuma-Gorath in the intro. I know he's from Marvel Comics but maybe someone from Capcom did the artwork, maybe not from a comic.

[hawkaye]

Wes Bentley as Blackheart - GHOST RIDER (2007)

[lucianalight]

I see people are wondering about who the backheart in Agatha All Along is. Rio, Billy or Sharon? I think the answer is all three of them.

Here's a gifset that highlights Mrs Hart's connection to the symbol.

We all know the scene that connects Rio to it.

And the blackheart appears again in the latest episode in connection to Billy.

The blackheart is supposed to specify the green witch of the coven whose skill is earth magic so we can say the element is connected to nature. And each of the characters symbolize an aspect of what a living organism goes through on earth.

Birth: Mrs Hart and her beautiful garden and her green thumb

Growth and change: Billy and what he is going through to find and know himself

Death: Rio and the bodies she take when they die

It also represents the three aspects of the tripple godesses: maiden, mother, crone.

I think it was a great decision to write a symbol instead of names for it. And it makes the coven having seven members just like the salem seven, Agatha's original coven.

[smbhax]

Marvel Super Heroes flyer from Museum - Gallery in Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (PC/Steam)

Most of the illustrations here appear to be by Jim Lee with Scott Williams.

Session: https://youtu.be/J4ChjzIWJ7k

[2b--frank]

they'd get along

self indulgent little doodle

[pixelsproject]

『VS. Series』 Palette Swap Bases

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SOURCES ↴ VS. Series (Arcade) backgrounds uploaded by @the2dstagesfg (Tumblr) VS. Series (Arcade) character sprites uploaded to Emu Gif Animation (emugif.com)

[cloudykink]

Cigar baddies are on the way. This little devil is talented in more ways than one.

[artvann]

danny and his fucked up cat

[alex-leweird]

"Cradle"

Sometimes I think about Blackheart seing rosebushes like something familiar, even maternal for him.

[melongraph56]

had a nimona au stuck in my head for months ever since my friend lent me the graphic novel to read before I watched the film adaption when it premiered

will most likely redesign their outfits, gotta make Zoeya more metal!!

[why-i-love-comics]

Marvel Unleashed #2 (2023)

written by Kyle Starks art by Jesus Hervas & Yen Nitro