#doomed to be in thor's shadow

[just-trying-to-fangirl-in-peace]

hi, it's @sansaorgana ! I just had a thought -- maybe that was being discussed already so I m sorry if it was -- but rewatching scenes from Season One, they explained the need to forge Three Rings for the Elves because "one will always corrupt, two will divide" and it made me wonder... because evil!Reader and Sauron want to have two rings that would rule over the rest. do you think there is a possibility of these two rings dividing them? perhaps not completely but to some extent? they are both very power hungry and I can imagine that being in charge of such huge amount of power could kinda turn them against each other. perhaps they would start competing. on the other hand... if the hunger for competition would not be too strong and treated as a foreplay??? the whole Middle-earth would be doomed even more as those two lovers in charge of them are competing in cruelty one against another just to end up hate-fucking in the end lmao

I imagine with the Two, at first it’s gonna be absolutely great. Like, their bond will grow even stronger and all the good emotions will be heightened and the sex is gonna get even better (if that’s even possible at this point). Those two will be fucking for days, high on the power of the Rings, and if anyone dares interrupt it’ll be the last thing they do.

But then when the bad stuff comes, that’s heightened too, and we know how bad the bad stuff is for everyone involved. And their mental proximity was already aggravating things when they fought before, but now it’s gonna be at a level where it drives them insane. Like, imagine being stuck in the tiniest closet with someone you are furious with and you keep screaming in each other’s ears and there’s nowhere to go. That’s what it’s like in their heads.

And maybe they find some remedy for that but overall yeah, the Two are just gonna make everything messier. It’s a possibility in my mind that actually somehow that leads to reader’s (temporary) death at the end of the series.

I was rewatching the Galadriel/Sauron duel in the last hobbit movie and I was thinking, what if Galadriel is actually trying to stop Sauron from resurrecting evil!reader in that scene (Sauron who returned in Charlie Vickers form somehow cause I can’t bear to part with him😩). And reader emerges from the shadows Hela in Thor Ragnarok style, ready to fuck shit up again. She had to wait for him for centuries, so he should get his turn to be without her for a while and desperate to get her back at some point I think🤭

[scienceninjaturtle]

ULTIMATES #1

Written by DENIZ CAMP

Art by JUAN FRIGERI

Cover by DIKE RUAN

Following blockbuster series launches with Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Black Panther, and Ultimate X-Men, the highly anticipated next title in Marvel’s new Ultimate Universe arrives this June—the ULTIMATES!

Directly spinning out of the very foundation for the new Ultimate line—Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli’s Ultimate Universe #1—ULTIMATES will be written by Deniz Camp, known for his thought-provoking and socially relevant work on titles like Children of the Vault and 20th Century Men, and drawn by rising superstar Juan Frigeri, known for his acclaimed work on Invincible Iron Man. The series will introduce the all-new super hero team that will usher in the next chapter of bold storytelling within the new Ultimate Universe.

Months ago, Tony Stark sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man. Since then, Iron Lad (Stark), Captain America, Doom, Thor and Sif have begun to do the same for other lost heroes, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change… Now they must band together to destroy the Maker’s Council and restore freedom and free will to a world ruled from the shadows!

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

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Epilogue for Sweet Treats AU: by character | chronological | epilogues

Warnings: these drabbles will include dark elements such as noncon, control, intimidation, violence, death, suicide, and other stuff that may not be specified. Take this as you chance to scroll by.

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You open your eyes. It's grim and grey. The world is just as heavy as your body. You try to move but it hurts too much. You drop your hand back to the bed and stare at the green canopy.

You don't remember how this happened. You were in the kitchen, now you're here. You groan, your mouth is dry and sticky.

There's movement in the shadows. You flinch and tense as you squint into the dark. The lamp flicks on and illuminates a familiar face. She smiles, her eyes swollen from her tears, and squeezes your hand.

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep."

You don't say anything. You couldn't if you tried. You give a strained look as she pets your knuckles.

"He's gone. Thor. For now. I told him... I'd be good if he let me stay."

You stare at Muffin. That makes you sad but you don't know why you would care if he's gone. He's not done anything to you.

"I didn't mean for him to hurt you."

Your eyes round and you cough. You squeak as it thrums in your bones. Why would he hurt you? What did you do?

"I decided that if it means I get to see you, then I'll talk all he wants me to."

You nod and squeeze her hand back. You don't have strength to do more than that. You wish she wasn't stuck with him. You wish you didn't know exactly the dread that edges her tone.

"He killed my father," she utters, "Just like... just your mom. But I didn't know."

You give a sympathetic grimace and tilt your head. She never speaks so much, she must be really upset.

"Sorry," you croak and nearly on your arid tongue.

"No, I'm sorry. I was stupid. Just like those other girls."

You furrow your brows and blow out. You shake your head slowly, "not stupid--"

"Yes, very. They're not going to get away. Not forever. They can't."

"Muffin," you murmur.

"I'm done with hope, aren't you?"

You seal your lips and your eyes sting. You don't know what to say. Muffin was always the happy one, she always made you feel better. She is the light in the tunnel and now it's all caving in.

"That went... a long... time... ago," you eke out, little by little.

She laughs into a sob and covers her face. She cries, her shoulders heaving as her despair consumes her. Your own tears trickle out. Your head pulses from the base.

"There's..." You raise your hand and point to the green chest nestled against the wall, "in there. Bottom, pouch..." the words are hard to piece together, "brown with golden string."

She looks at you in confusion. She sniffles and gulps. Slowly, she stands as your arm falls limp. That was your plan, the one you never could bring yourself to follow through on. That makes your chest pit and questions if it's all so bad.

She goes to the chest and lifts the lid carefully. She bends and stirs through the depths. You hid it there with the spare blankets because Loki never deals with all that. You make the bed, you cook the meals, he merely walks upon your freshly mopped floors. Still just a god with his head in the clouds.

She finds the pouch, the little bag once storing one of many necklaces gifted from your avaricious husband. In which you hid the tablets secreted from Tony's cabinet during that chaotic party. You could always get some wiggle room if you gave Loki what he wanted.

"There's not enough.... for both..." Your head lolls and you give and acidic smile, "didn't think..."

She comes back to you and looks inside the sachet. Her eyes flick up and she gives you a dire look. You let the doom numb you.

"You can... have them," you turn your head. "I could.... couldn't."

She doesn't say anything. She stands there, unmoving. Maybe she won't do it. Maybe she'll put it back and stay with you.

"I'm a coward," you confess, "but... you're not."

She sits on the bed again. You look at her through a wall of grief. She won't look at you.

"Can I lay with you?" She asks at last.

"Please," you reach for her hand and grip it firmly around the pouch, "you'll just... go to sleep. I will too."

Again, she hesitates. "What about you?"

"What about me?" You sigh, "I'll find another way... maybe."

You let her go and she dumps the pills into her hand. She stares at them, her throat constricting, and then she pours them into her mouth. She holds her palm against her lips and gulps loudly. She chokes a little and coughs it out. She gives a blech at the taste.

She tosses the sachet and stretches out next to you. You drape your arm over her shoulders as she puts her head on your chest. She slings her arm over your middle and you turn your gaze to the ceiling. Misery loves friends but your only friend does not deserve this misery.

"I love you," she says with a yawn.

You move your hand in front of her face and sign back to her; "Love you forever."

---

This is goodbye to Darling and Muffin. Thank you all for sticking around.

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

yippie!!

ok so one day i was hangin out and thinking about how jinx and murie are both my favourite little sad wet guys in my two fave medias of all ever *And* at the same time SO far apart on the spectrum personalitywise

and it took me listening to this to flip the switch on the Autism Blender and want to just fucking mash them together like a coked up toddler making Slime out of fish guts and hayao miyazakis mothers ashes because thats what i do thats my job💅👌so theeeen it comes out pretty reminiscent of my first muriel au that also sprung up from a song i like, just- a bit to the left? like, moving along on the scale from The OG not liking violence and being involved in it whatsoever, to AU 1 where i pictured him going "yeah ok fuck it this is what i do i guess" and revengy motives to his whole thing that i now connected with him more thru the song lmao it just made me realize the vision of like. jinxies "murderingmurderinmurdering 💕fun✨" aspect + his potential desire to still do good things despite being doomed to be a machine made for destruction (ignore the fact of that desire being nonexistent in his canon form because of how he perceives himself as a thing unable to achieve performing any good ever under any circumstance) (but still refusing to actively cause harm as he isolates himself to prevent any situations arising that would lead him to do so) (ignore all that) (were yassifying him a little were allowed its fine ive already lost the plot here anyway were wildin) so a vigilanty type beat and also ~my axe is my buddy🥰 we both cry with the trees😔✊ /me & my axe will bring the devil to his knees (✿◕‿◕ )~ goes hard as phUCK

so then all that led to This new V.3 mutation where hed be actually having fun with it........ so I kinda start turning him over in my brain some more, forgetting about jink by now and at first I go Huh this is kinda. him but lucioey a lil bit. and THEN i go hm. Well this ground is awful soft n ready to dig

so with all that out of the way i can now present!: Brand New Vague Shadow of a Concept of an Idea that ill Never Do Anything with

and I really don’t know how to verbalize this very well at all mmjfdh but like. Ok bulletpoints activate

Muriel:

From a badass warrior tribe

Didn’t get booted out cuz theyre fine this time oopsie no genocide

Hes in there way chillin way awesome way good at fighting everybody loves him

Hes like. Way himboey in this one. SO jock. Smiles a lot <3 <3 <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Like okay if i was actually serious about writing this I think id need a fucking lucio consultant because I really know zilch about that bitch but like okay you know how lucios kinda all scary n cunty and cunning and fancy and seems like hes got shit figured out. Until he *starts talking*? Muriel here is like that but hes just really fucking scary until he starts talking BUT not like normally where hes adorable just has resting bitch face, its just like. that part of him that came thru in the reversed ending at the very end, yknow. but make it less depressing ihjhsrfbjs hes like full letterman jacket highschool bully core total kurt & ram vibe, like ok youd see him on a battlefield ABsolutely WRECKIng some fools into a pulp with his bare bear hands and immediately after that he turns around like WOOOOOOO THAT’S what im TALKIN ABOUT LETS GO GUYS WHO WANTS A BEER *cut to him chugging an entire keg over his head with da boys around losing their minds* like think college frat but they raid villages for fun and profit. Pretty orc coded. Kinda thor coded. Actually exactly thorcoded wow that really is what I was going for. I was wondering why I couldn’t help imagining him with a australian accent, I guess that’s a mystery solved. anyway

Maybe his parents got killed in some other battle im not sure how to weave around that in detail yet BUT- ok so check this I thought ill have to give him some motive to wanna reach the devil somehow for,,.,,… something right. to make him fill an antagonist role So this might be stupid a lil I just thought of this and it needs to cook for sure but what if he just rolled up into vesuvia as the magic capital or something whtver, to figure out how to get to talk to the devil, cuz he just like, really wants his parents back cuz they got valhallad in some glorious combat, and they were cool and he misses them and they could fight some more cool fights together and pillage n chill jhbsfvjgzdc beCAUsE hear me out im rolling with the swap inversions opposites motive here right, so the thing that popped up in my head was- Lucio had the “I wanna kill my parents bcause I hate them and so I can rule and get what I want” thing goin at the start right, like that is basically what started it off he got his dad he didnt get morgha SO what IF I gave murie a “i wanna conquer this place and use it to get my parents back. cuz I missem :(” like fully turned it around idk IDK IT SEEMS MESSY IDK IS IT CUTE IS IT DUMB IT MAKES ME FEEL DUMB BUT IN THAT WAY THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT ITS ACTUALLY WORKING BUT I DONT KNOW *screaming with no air*

But overall yeah hes khal drogo but more noticeably himboey but not in a likeable way cuz were switching them so I cant make him likeable for myself hnjdgfgb leaning into popular dumb jock trope

UnLESSSS i DID combo it with murdermuriel au 1.0 some more and made their tribe like. Not murdery somehow like what would be the opposite of the og scourge roaming around ruining shit. well that was the og kokhuri but now I gotta do some fucking triple axels here to make it make sense so how the fuck do I make this version of kokhuri more warriory in culture than the original but still nice like robinhoody style jhbfsvhjbs this is falling tf apart might need to scrap it bc on lucios end itd be even harder wouldn’t it. Spartan cunts but they don’t kill people that’s a nono lmao

now im thinking some more about the aspect of lucio being, you know. a pretty shitty leader right, and how to incorporate that here, because i have no idea if im following an actual set rule here regarding whats swapped and how even, theres barely a theme im straight up just

but yeah so now i figure it could be murie tryna get his folks back because they were the actual defacto leaders of their tribe, he was just kinda still following along and doin his chores in being the uhh the face, the charisma, the one to kinda like. get the people on board easier with whatever decision they made for them and hyping it up as the best possible choice anyone could ever make and maybe even actually believing it too cuz theyre actually that tightknit and he trusts them with anything aw. is this too onedimensional or can i give my boy some good nice facking family relations at least in an alternate life ghhkjkfdh hes their pride n joy and can do no wrong but yeah the point is he himself hasnt actually made any decisions without them before, isnt very good at actually leading and strategizing and planning and knowing how everything complicated works and he knows it, so he sees his only solution in bringing them back to not let everything fall apart

SEE I BROUGHT IT AROUND I CLEANED UP NICE WITH OG LUCIO SETTING OFF FROM THE POINT OF FEELING LIKE HES THE BEST AT EVERYTHING AND SHOULD B RECOGNIZED AS SUCH AND TRYING TO GET RID OF HIS PARENTS TO GET IT AND MY BOY HERE ENDING UP EXACTLY OPPOSITE. GO SHAWTY GO SHAWTY IM SO SMART am i fucking up lulus backstory i feel like i am cuz im like wait what the fuck did he kill his dad for again. demonheart. deal. thing. whatd he wish. like he wasnt already running for count n shit yet he did want to climb up the ladder in his own tribe right i have no idea yell at me in comments thank you

I also don’t know if the first (last) scourge battle wouldve happened or nah

Lucio/Montag

Oh my fucking god what if I figured out an alternative L moniker for murie so theyd get to switch letters in their namesssssssss like lucio is a made up name he made it up so like UAGHASHG L.,,,...,, Lion ofthe,... south NO he HAS to be bEAR CODED AAFYFFHG BUT LUCIO HAD LEOPARD IMAGERY N SHIT RAAHAHHGH IM FITIN FOR MY LIFE HERE

Anyway he lives in a forest somewhere cuz his tribe threw him out fully voluntarily bc he sucks ass (or at least for their standards cuz I guess he would be way younger than 18 here for this) (Like a spartan type deal ur too weak we don’t want you *drops you off a cliff*  *but theres 4 feet of snow under it so he survives*  *that’s so fucking goofy hjbsfbj kinda suits him*) so uhhhhhh i don’t know where hed be currently chilling for an mc to meet him ever but yeah hes kinda Floki Vikings™ type of vibe at least visually that’s what came to mind first to picture him lol

look at this little blond rat bastard. adorable. becoming increasingly obsessed. picturing lucio with this exact hairline. moving on

and his thing is hes still insecure as fuck but worse at ignoring it and hiding it and hes a lil nervous bundle of sticks and always talking bc of it, kinda Bruno Madrigalesque type vibe julian but a pitch more pathetic who knew it could be done yknow? opposite of The OG The Mountain The Stone Cold Silent The Muriel The Scourge The Kokhuri The Third and also me when writing and not stopped in time

oh oh what if he was totes in denial that his tribe kicked him out and in his view hes on some super intense convoluted secret mission (lasting from. age 7 to now apparently) and as soon as hes done they’ll totally come back for him kdfsgjffd I thought it could either be his own copium or he took it from some last interaction with someone who took pity on him as a kid and wanted to give him some comfort, or something he misunderstood entirely

hm. They both have canid familiars idk what to do with that. muriel with two wolves tho. thats hot shit righ there if i do say so myself

oh now im toying with the idea of taking away muriels SUPPOSED YET UNCONFIRMED AS MY VERY CONTROLLED ACADEMIC STUDY HAS SHOWN COUGHCOUGHJHBSRGJBHF talking to animals buff, i dont wanna just take it and give it to lucio tho, but like. what the fuck else do i give him. astral projecting to tie into his ghost era? sounds dope actually alright lets do that lmao

ok its 1 30 am i hope this is comprehensible to anybody anywhere im zonking out now khbsfhbfk love u

@tetsuooooooooooo I've missed your essays, this was such a treat to log in to!!!

And WOW, thorcoded Muriel is not something I ever would have thought of on my own but oddly enough I feel like the AU you're coming up with could really work, goodness me. And the way you've inverted Lucio's character too!! I'd love to see how their interaction dynamics invert as well!

Always good to hear from you friend, hope you're doing well!

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[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

something that keeps coming up if you look at the games’ stories is wily’s accomplishments. or, rather, the lack thereof. the truth is, Wily's actually kind of a shitty roboticist!

he's not very good at making robots, he's much better at modifying robots. i know the series (and a good chunk of fanwork) likes to hype him up as a mad genius of robotics, but he's actually kind of a complete phony. a tremendous hack. a huge fucking fraud. he's the brutal doom of the megaman-'verse, only famous because he used other people's work as a stepping stone. just like angry birds, he’s all about seeing someone else’s successful work and putting his own reskin on it so everyone else associates it with him. he’s not a developer, he’s a modder with delusions of grandeur.

the idea that his work all culminated in Zero and Zero’s the coolest bestest most awesomest robot ever is, frankly, completely laughable when you look at the track record of how many robots he’s actually made and how they’ve fared. his strongest work that’s come the closest to seriously threatening Megaman has never really been his own work. with Bass, Shadow Man, Ra Thor, and the Stardroids, he’s always had something else as a base and modified it to be stronger. even popular fanon is that Roboenza is based off MM8′s Evil Energy, which makes sense.

ironically enough, he does his best modding with weird alien shit. my personal theory is that Zero’s a modified Terra+Sunstar hybrid, utilizing his knowledge of making Ra Thor as a basis, powered by Super-Bassnium. the canon is that he’s based on Protoman, of all fucking people, but that’s completely nonsensical on so goddamn many fronts.

however, he is a fantastic designer. he's much better at making areas that adhere to an aesthetic! he has designed a lot of mini-bots specifically for the sake of complimenting an area, and he's revamped areas multiple times before to have a theme that compliments the Robot Master. even his own castles themselves, he has a clear skull motif that applies to everything and he will be fucking DAMNED if he doesn't see it through. even in megaman 11, we see him complete with a fucking set of skull jammies in a skull bed. the man fucking WILL NOT LIVE without his skulls. he probably wears skull underwear, the fucking nerd.

he’s not a roboticist. he's not even a good programmer, he's an artist. he's a mad artist angry over how his stuff never got views as opposed to that fucking Dr. Light's work, and he spent a lifetime trying to game the algorithm only for this fucking upstart to take it all away from him and get quadruple the subscriber counts in half the time. and now he's making it everyone else's problem.

[paragonrobits]

Freya after the events of God of War Ragnarok probably: There is a question that has been haunting me ever since I started thinking about how closely I came to letting everything go wrong. Mimir: Oh, aye? Freya: I started considering it after Atreus came to me and revealed to me that, so far as he knew, he was the last of the giants. That they were all dead, and that his true name was Loki, destined to carry doom to the enemies of the Jotnar. Freya: And after I almost killed Kratos, and Loki went mad with rage and became a bear, I realize how little I truly understood of the situation. And of Loki himself, and what he might became. Freya: If he could have been more dangerous than his father, in the wrong circumstances. Mimir: You see certain... trends, you might call him. Echoes in the world. Hints of how things might go, or WILL go, in other situations. The kind of destiny he might have became no matter what, if things were different. Mimir: So you want to know if, you'd killed Kratos, if Loki would be as bad as him? Freya: Yes. If Kratos had died there, what would have happened? Mimir: I love the lad, I do. I care about him, and I know he cares about me. But I can't say that I don't look at him and think I know WHY Odin was so interested in him; the lad could be so much like him. Mimir: I've seen the prophecies. I see the fate curling around that lad. I've seen what he might became, what he's ALREADY made. Mimir: Jormungandr, the serpent who was Thor's only equal. Garm reborn as Fenrir. They're his creations; the giants thought Jormagundr would be born from his hate and rage when his father was killed, y'see. In a sense, they are his children. Mimir: Monsters, I suppose you'd call 'em, if you had a mind to be unkind. And they're made in his image. Mimir: You want to know if Loki would be as bad as Kratos? Mimir: Oh, Freya. I love the lad, I do. But I promise you, if it came to it, he would be WORSE. Mimir: I can see it in him. He's a father of monsters, and he could be so much worse if he weren't determined to be better than that. Kratos told me once, about a terrible beast meant to usurp Zeus in the cycle of the gods of his homeland, a thing named Typhon. A living natural disaster and father of the most fearsome monsters in the land, and when he spoke about him, I saw a shadow of Loki in those stories. Mimir: Generational stories. Monsters driven to be worse by pain and loss. 'Spose we dodged a very, VERY lucky bullet, yes? Freya: ...I suppose so.

[bronzemettle]

Thunderer Hammers

Mjolnir:

The original hammer, created by Sindri for Odin, given to Thor, then claimed by Jane Foster.

You know what this one looks like.

Enchantment Engraving: - "Whosoever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."

You know what this one can do.

Worthiness is based on humility (without delusion or self-villification), compassion for all things (even your enemies), the Will to do good, and a passionate, revelrous warrior spirit driven by a burning sense of justice.

Stormbreaker:

Created by Eitri at the request of Thor for Beta Ray Bill so that he could continue to protect his people when Thor took Mjolnir back from him.

A round, flat, blunt striking surface on one side, a wedge-like sharp edge on the other, and a short spike at the top.

Enchantment Engraving: - "Any who act according to the will of their people, a protector in time of need, may wield the power of Thor."

Nearly identical powers to Mjolnir, with an additional translation enchantment that allows the wielder to speak and understand nearly any language fluently.

Worthiness is based on the cause that someone holds in their Heart as they wield it, and whether the people (cannot be the wielder) that the intent is meant to benefit would also see the honor and wisdom, or undeniable neccesity, in it being done.

Thunderstrike:

Created by Eitri at the request of Odin for Eric Masterson, then wielded temporarily by Steve Rogers until the Secret Empire incident, after which it was locked away and then stolen by Kevin Masterson.

A solid, blunt, rounded, irregular pentagonal prism shape, with a slightly longer handle that has a chain attached to the pommel.

Enchantment Engraving: - "The worlds still need heroes. Overcome vice and glory and you shall strike with the might of Thor."

Temporarily modified engraving during Secret Empire: - "The worlds still need rulers. Overcome all who oppose you and strike with the might of America."

Grants very little divine or magical power, no control over the weather, only small shocks of lightning. Primarily grants the godlike physical strength and durability to the wielder.

Worthiness is based on humility, freedom from personal shame or acts that Odin would consider shameful, and selfless motivation to protect or help others. (Temporarily modified to be based on being a goddamn fascist, but it's back to normal now.)

Stormcaster:

Created by Sindri at the request of Loki for Storm. She gave it to Thor after he became worthy of Mjolnir again so that Jane could keep Mjolnir. When Ragnarok comes, will be passed down to Thor's daughter Thrúd.

Similar to Mjolnir, except with a pointed wedge on one end instead of a flat striking surface.

Enchantment Engraving: - "For those who prove worthy of the trust and worship others bestow, wield the divine magic of Thor."

The opposite of Thunderstrike. Grants primarily divine and magic power, perhaps even moreso than Mjolnir itself, but only enough physical might to comfortably wield it (still superhuman).

Worthiness requires being worshipped, idolized, or otherwise upheld as a role model, unquestioned leader, or figure of faith by others, and is based on how well you live up to that vision people hold of you.

Lightbringer:

An alternate universe Thor's hammer who was killed by Doctor Doom during Battleworld. It was secretly found after the restoration of the multiverse by Storm and Dazzler, and has been locked away since.

Almost identical to Mjolnir except in a lighter color, and with more intricate decorative engravings which glow with lightning when it's used.

Enchantment Engraving: - "Whosoever is worthy, shine unyielding with the sound and fury of the god of thunder."

Only somewhat less physical might than Mjolnir, similar magic, but grants some sound manipulation, illusion, and light/shadow manipulation powers which the main universe's god of thunder has never had.

Worthiness is based on overwhelming, bottomless perseverence ("Never give up, never surrender"), even in the face of deeds that by all reason should be impossible, because what's Right is Right to fight for, forever, whether it's achievable or not.

Warcrusher:

Created by Sindri at the request of Heimdall and given to Red Norvell to remain in Asgard and attend to the local duties of a god of thunder so that Thor would be free to spend more time on earth.

A much longer-handled square warhammer.

Enchantment Engraving: - "For the good of Asgard, until the day it burns, a loyal god of thunder you shall become in service."

Nearly identical powers to Mjolnir, plus an additional connection to the branches of Yggdrasil that allows the creation of interdimensional portals independent of the Bifrost.

Worthiness is irrelevant. Upon volunteering to become the wielder of Warcrusher, Red Norvell was mystically bound to the lifelong service of the good of Asgard whether he likes it or not.

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Sapphires And Silver Linings | Catalogue

A collection of all my current work.

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Madness is the Color Green

Fandom: The Avengers

Pairing: Dark!Loki/F!Reader, Thor/F!Reader

Summary: Despite your feelings for Thor, you can’t deny your pull to his brother, Loki, who is being kept in the sub-basement prison of the Avengers Facility after stealing the Tesseract from Asgard and returning to Earth for the Mind Stone. Unfortunately for you, you get far more than what you could have ever bargained for.

Tags: Slight Fluff, Hurt/No Comfort, Smut, Abuse, Sexual Assault

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The Betrayer

Fandom: Resident Evil, Dead by Daylight

Pairing: Albert Wesker/F!Reader, Chris Redfield/F!Reader

Summary: In 1998, while searching for your fellow S.T.A.R.S. members after they went missing in the Arklay Mountains, you are swept away by an unknown force and placed in its wretched world of mock-death and suffering. Now trapped in this horrific reality with your teammate, Chris Redfield, and former captain, Albert Wesker, you struggle to balance residual feelings for an old flame with the kindling heat of something new. Between that, desperately trying to survive, and searching for a way to escape this living hell you’ve been sucked into, however will you manage?

Tags: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Smut, Violence, Death

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Half-Life

Fandom: Resident Evil 4 Remake

Pairing: Plaga!Leon S. Kennedy/F!Chubby!Reader

Summary: You're a paranormal investigator searching for the elusive "Escorpion", a cryptid lurking in an abandoned Spanish village. Imagine your surprise when you meet the mutated version of a man that supposedly died ten years ago.

Tags: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Smut, Violence, Body Horror

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Fandom: Dead by Daylight, Resident Evil

Pairing: DBD!Leon S. Kennedy/F!Reader

Summary: You and Leon have some time alone in a closet.

Tags: Fluff, Smut

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Tend The Light

Fandom: Dead by Daylight, Alan Wake 2

Pairing: DBD!Alan Wake/F!Reader

Summary: A chance encounter with your fellow survivor, Alan Wake, leads you to make an offer he can't refuse.

Tags: Fluff, Romance, Pining, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Smut, Infidelity

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Essential Avengers: Avengers #291: Shadows of the Future Past!

May, 1988

Let’s Party!

Fancy dress? Someone punching Dr Druid? Sounds like a party to me!

Joking aside (or is it?) Thor wielding Mjolnir while in fancy dress makes me laugh for some reason. Who can say why things are funny.

I gotta laugh at the cover because I have a bad feeling about the contents. I remember... something. Secondhand rumor of Marrina and Monica...

Well! We’ll get to it when we get to it! Maybe sooner, maybe later!

Let’s just enjoy Dr Druid getting punched!

So the broad strokes last time on Avengers: the Masters of Evil taking over Avengers Mansion was a black mark on Wasp’s otherwise very successful run as chairwoman. And even though she handled the aftermath well, she decided it was time for her to take a vacation. The senior Avengers on the team like Captain America and Thor were too busy with their own personal biz to devote the necessary time and energy to leading the team so with encouragement, least new of the new Avengers, Captain Marvel Monica Rambeau became the new leader of the team.

She’s done a good job!

She’s led the team through several high stakes situations and proved herself one of the heavy hitters.

And then for whatever reason, Mark Gruenwald, the editor that had overseen the book when Monica became the chairwoman and led the team successfully several times decided he wanted Monica to be out of her depth and incompetent so that Captain America would come take over. Writer Roger Stern objected so now he doesn’t write this book.

So for the past bit, Monica and everyone around her has been bemoaning that she sucks, actually.

I might be being a little uncharitable with this read but I’m not feeling charitable based on the last story arc where Monica was entirely unable to do nearly anything the whole story and had to sit in a bubble and wait for Captain America to bail the team out.

ANYWAY.

Dr Druid has a sex dream.

AN OMINOUS SEX DREAM.

He has some sense of a terrible thing coming that he and he alone must face. And also a sexy blond woman makes out with him and places a crown on his head.

OMINOUS. SEX. Dream.

He doesn’t really remember them when he wakes up. Leaving only that foreboding feeling and possibly apprehensive morning wood.

Dr Druid doesn’t have a lot of time to dwell on it this morning though because there’s a loud CKRUUNCHH! outside the window as She-Hulk and Black Knight clean up the mess by Heavy Metal’s attack on Hydrobase.

Black Knight slices rubble with his extremely cursed sword into manageable chunks and She-Hulk throws them onto a barge.

We have a new writer on this book, Walt Simonson. And I don’t know if he really... gets these characters?

Or at the least has gotten only the most cursory of cliff notes.

Black Knight is sexist now.

When She-Hulk tells Dr Druid to come out and help them clean up, Black Knight decides this is an okay thing to say about FUCKING SHE-HULK.

Black Knight: “Yes, Dr Druid, this is unseemly work for a woman’s hands.”

She-Hulk just flicks his helmet to bounce his noggin and tells him

She-Hulk: “Listen, buster. Knighthood may have been in flower 800 years ago with the crusaders in Jerusalem... But if you don’t manage to pull yourself into the 1980′s, I may just pull you up by the roots!”

C’mon, Simonson. Geez.

Dr Druid practically pulls that “they don’t know” meme on his fellow Avengers as he walks off to meditate on the beach.

‘They don’t know about the palpable sense of menace in the air’

But then he thinks wait what if the sense of impending doom is just me being too mixed up by ominous sex dreams?

So he meditates and has a vision of the sexy blonde faceless woman saying that meditation will “restore you to that which you seek so desperately. Come hither to me, doctor... and know me better.”

Oh god, its upgraded to an ominous sex daydream.

Back at the rubble cleanup, Captain Marvel shows up and decides to help by blasting the rubble.

Since this is the character assassination era, this was the wrong thing to do and She-Hulk berates Monica for making the job harder and Monica flies away berating herself for fucking up yet another thing.

Captain Marvel: “Ever since I became leader, everything I touch seems to go wrong, no matter what I do!”

This is why I’m not charitable with this book.

Because. Look. The first two panels would be a funny gag if the constant refrain wasn’t “Monica is terrible at everything.” On its own, it could be funny.

I’d be reminded of the humor back in Shooter’s run, where he wasn’t afraid to make the Avengers look silly and fallible sometimes. Like when Donald Blake transformed into Thor in a restroom and then had to awkwardly walk out the front door because he didn’t want to punch a hole in a restaurant.

Namor and Marrina KER-SPLASSH out of the ocean and are being That Couple this morning. The couple that’s all about the PDA.

Black Knight, because Simonson I guess thinks he’s actually from the Crusade times, grumps “such public displays of affection should be more restrained.”

I swear, I don’t remember him being quite so much of a fuddy-duddy earlier.

She-Hulk tells Dane off as the stuffiest hero she knows because heck Namor and Marrina are a cute couple. But even she gets a little sick of how gooey Namor and Marrina are when they go off for a morning swim together and Marrina says “To cleave the waves with you, my darling, is all I could ever desire.”

Thor shows up, yawning, and She-Hulk teases him for sleeping the morning away while she and Black Knight were cleaning up after Heavy Metal and from damage caused when Grog the God Crusher invaded Hydrobase looking to god crush Thor in #390 of his book.

Fun fact: That’s the issue where the Captain America lifts Mjolnir for the first time.

Unfun fact: Even in another book with a different writer and a different editor, Monica is still doing the ‘geez I suck, the Captain America should be in charge.’

ANYWAY.

POINT BEING.

She-Hulk razzes Thor for not helping clean up when his book contributed to the damage. But Thor argues he was doing the most important task of all.

Telling Jarvis to make them all breakfast.

Okay. That sounds bad.

He was getting Jarvis from the hospital and bringing him to Hydrobase so he can get back to work.

Okay, that still sounds bad.

I swear its heart warming.

Everyone is happy to see him, he’s happy to be back. Its great. Its Jarvis!

I’m happy to see him.

After breakfast, Monica Marvel returns from her pity party with good news.

She decided to work on improving the Avengers’ PR and she got the team an invite to an exclusive party!

A fancy party will surely improve team morale and make them look good. Provided nothing catastrophic happens! Ignore the cover of this book!

Pfft. Fancy dress Avengers is a wonderful thing. Monica and Dane being the only one wearing little masks because they’re the only ones on the team that have a real secret identity.

I forget sometimes but Dr Druid was kind of a celebrity before joining the Avengers. I wonder if he still takes time to make tv appearances.

Also, Thor in a suit! Just like I wished for back during the Trial of Yellowjacket! Wow. That was so long ago...

Anyway, the Avengers spread out to mingle. This is about boosting their reputation with the public. Or at least the narrow slice of the public that got invited to this party.

So there’s a lot of cool snippets of conversation that we see the Avengers subjected to. Some dude tries to convince She-Hulk to do endorsements for the International Federation of Body Builders. Despite Namor’s potent ‘don’t talk to me’ face, some guy expresses wonder that Namor functions in both fresh and salt water. Some lady tries to convince Thor that the Avengers should move to Tulsa so that property insurance rates in New York will drop. And some dude tries to convince Dr Druid that the world would be better off without superheroes. Some guts on that dude. Dr Druid is, technically, a superhero.

Anyway, Dr Druid thinks he sees his Sexy Ominous Dream Girl in the party and walks away from the conversation to speak to her but it turns out to not be the Sexy Ominous Dream Girl at all.

Black Knight is still being written as if he’s fresh from the Crusade times as he comments “I should rather face a company of Saracens... than meet the reporters who wait in ambush without.”

GOD DAMN DUDE.

It’s been like six years and almost seventy issues since you came back from the past-times. This is not who you are!

Thor gets ambushed by a bunch of women who are simply agog that he is not married and suggests maybe he’d like a nice Earth girl to show him the town.

Thor: “You have my gratitude, fair ladies. But though I have no spouse, I am not without a keeper of my heart.”

Party lady: “Wouldn’t you know it! Just like every other man in this town!”

Thor at least takes the conversation in good humor judging by his little smile. Same can’t be said of She-Hulk as she deals with some dude who tries to recruit her to lead the department of consumer affairs.

Some dude: “Are you kiddin’, honey? You’d be a natural! The She-Hulk in charge of the consumer affairs department! ‘The Big Green Machine is on your side to save your green!’ You’d knock ‘em dead!”

She-Hulk: “You have no idea, ‘darling’, how close you are to being right about that!”

Try not to kill anyone in public, Jen!

I probably didn’t need to spill this many pixelated ink about party banter. But you know what? We should appreciate the silly banality of the Avengers having small talk made at them.

Y’know. Given what’s about to happen.

Which is this:

Another some dude who works at the New York Aquarium tries to convince Namor and Marrina to come visit the aquarium some day. Partially because the guy wants Namor to look at some of their exotic specimens.

Namor isn’t enthused about the idea because he’s one of those dudes who hates zoos except aquariums in this case.

Marrina just isn’t paying any attention to the conversation at all. Instead she’s grabbing a goldfish out of a fish tank and just scarfing it down.

It’s not the snack that smiles back.

Namor tells her maybe don’t do that at a party but she starts screaming about needing food. She smashes the fish tank, scarfs some more fish, and then runs out of the party.

He chases after her but she goes all monstery when he grabs her arm and punches him off of her.

The behavior apparently reminds him of how she acted in Alpha Flight #40 when she was... drawn to her genetically predetermined mate or something?

She’s an alien fish lady.

But aforementioned mate is dead so she shouldn’t be having this reaction. For no reason. Out of the blue. At a party.

While the Avengers run off to see what’s going on, a party-goer snarks that “this wouldn’t have happened if Donald Trump had thrown the party!”

Now there’s a line that aged badly.

Namor chases Marrina to a dock. She’s glowing, radiating heat, apparently transforming into a turtle judging by her head right now.

She jumps into the water and despite making a little splaash! when she jumps in, her swimming away creates a massive SCHLOOSHHH! that threatens to capsize a ship.

Namor jumps into the water as well and swims after her because dammit, she may be turning into a monster but she’s the woman he loves!

You know what? You’re an okay guy sometimes, Namor.

The Avengers arrive just in time to see Namor jump in after Marrina. And also just in time to see Marrina’s quick exit capsize a container ship.

Thor thinks fast and tells She-Hulk to help him push back on the ship so it doesn’t roll over onto the dock.

Of course, this is the character assassination era, so Monica bemoan that she didn’t think fast.

Captain Marvel: “Once again, the leadership of the Avengers seems to slip further and further away from me without conscious effort. It’s as though I seem incapable of taking command!”

Uuugh. In a way, it’s going to be a relief when the trigger gets pulled on Monica because at least then I won’t have to be putting up with the constant self-deprecation that has to be designed to to undermine her appeal.

Speaking of undermining.

Monica does think to turn into her light form to search the waters for Namor or Marrina. But it’s so dark and dirty in the New York Harbor that Monica starts to lose cohesion.

HUH.

NOT A PROBLEM SHE SEEMED TO HAVE BEFORE.

>=[

Fuck sake. Even if her light form was losing cohesion, she can turn to other energies that are better at penetrating water. She can turn into any form of energy or radiation! She can turn into neutrons!

Bah!

Anyway. Monica returns to the surface so that Dr Druid can suggest everyone regroup at Hydrobase and Monica can unconvincingly say she was about to suggest the exact same thing.

Bah!

Somewhen else, this is suddenly a Kang story.

I thought we were done with that dick.

And since this is Kang, I don’t even know which Kang this is.

Wiki says its Kang from Earth-123488.23497.

There’s an infinite amount of universes. Why do we have to decimalize them too?

Anyway, A Kang.

Kang-123488.23497: “While my companions were slain, I concealed myself in the hidden corridors of time! Now the temporal displacement charge has expired and Kang the Conqueror, master of time, returns home! You might have destroyed me, Immortus, but you are a fool! For Kang still survives and you have much to fear!”

So I was wondering if he was a Kang that survived judgement and execution by the Council of Kangs by hiding with a temporal displacement charge. But he names Immortus as involved and nobody but Cape Kang (Prime Kang?) should know Immortus was involved because he was pretending to be a skeleton. So is this the Kang that absorbed every Kang’s memories and ran off screaming into Limbo, but the time one not the demon one?

God. Kangs just make things complicated.

Anyway, Kang-123488.23497 finds his base in shambles. And also finds himself under attack by someone hiding in a time dislocation and shooting a thermal lance.

Kang-123488.23497′s armor holds up but its failing under the assault so Kang-123488.23497 MacGyvers random laboratory junk into a molecular sealer that can shoot a quark beam across a “variable time net.”

Anyway. He smites his assailant. Smites him good.

And is surprised to find the dead, deceased body of a child dressed in Kang armor.

How weird!

Kang-123488.23497: “A child? Who has dared to mock the king of time?”

Lady Kang: “No mockery, my Lord Kang. Only an orphan of time, now an orphan no longer! But they do say the child is father to the man.”

Kang-123488.23497: “Who -- ?”

Lady Kang: “Or woman!”

Okay.

But what does any of this mean?

The lady Kang then mocks the dead, deceased child, calling him Kanglet and saying he lacked patience. But that the Kang she just seemingly disintegrated is an excellent substitution for the child that just died.

Lady Kang: “He may make a welcome addition to the great council! But we shall see.”

Another Council of Kangs? Wasn’t the last one just a ruse to kill all the other Kangs? APPARENTLY IT DIDN’T DO A GREAT JOB.

We just got rid of an infinite amount of Kangs and now we’re lousy with Kangs again. At least they’re more interesting than “Kang”, “Kang with a cape”, “Kang but he’s old and sad.”

We’ve got a lady Kang and a child Kang! ... Had. Had a child Kang.

No, but, seriously, why are we kanging again? We were just here twenty issues ago.

But back to the A-plot - where A stands for Avengers.

A ship sailing south of the Canary Islands runs afoul of A SEA SERPENT

Its many spinal spines rip open the underside of the ship and it sinks.

In other ocean-related disasters, a tidal wave just smash the shit out of Barbuda.

Here’s a downer, children explicitly die. Although its not shown.

Well. We did see a child gunned down a couple of pages ago so maybe that was easing the way into mass child death.

I’m just saying. This book sure has a lot more dead children now that Walt Simonson is writing.

Over at Avengers HQ Hydrobase, it’s been two weeks since Namor and Marrina disappeared into the ocean. The sea serpent wrecking a ship and a tidal wave wrecking Barbuda are just two of a trend of unexplained marine disasters.

Captain Marvel has searched the world in those two time-skipped weeks but hasn’t found either of the missing Avengers or a cause for the spate of disasters.

(I’m sure that the two points could not possibly be connected)

A news report comes on the giant technological television reporting that there’s rumors of the Biblical Leviathan in the Bermuda Triangle.

Because the Avengers are always getting their best actionable information from the news.

Since the news reader also says that “some fundamentalists are claiming this is the first sign of the impending Judgement Day” Monica complains that its impossible to separate the truth from the bullshit.

Dr Druid suggests she go look into it anyway because she can move the speed of light and it’ll take her like a few seconds.

Because this is the character assassination arc and Monica can’t do anything herself. She even complains that she has to let Dr Druid do her thinking for her.

... Which. Is dangerous with a mind guy. Monica. Don’t let a mind guy do your thinking.

After Monica leaves (briefly), Dr Druid has some thoughts.

Dr Druid: “Captain Marvel continues to seem unsure, unable to come to grips fully her role as the leader of the Avengers. And now, more than ever, I fear that the trouble I have foreseen approaches without warning. The stars themselves speak of some global disaster, something so devastating than all the super-beings of Earth may not be enough to forestall our total destruction. And if this is truly the beginning of those events, perhaps someone else might be better suited for the chairmanship here.”

I’M ONTO YOU, YOU DICK.

Anyway. As Dr Druid said because Monica doesn’t know how her own powers work, I guess, it only took her a few seconds to search the area so she’s back and with news! News that she spotted the sea monster!

Captain Marvel calls a Condition Red! Avengers Assemble! Specifically in hangar one! So they can take a Quinjet to the Bahamas!

Monica flies outside the Quinjet. She does move at the speed of light, after all. Flying in a Quinjet will only slow her down. She’ll fly ahead and emit radio waves so the Quinjet can use her as a homing beacon.

 She leads them to the sea monster which just bulldozes through a small, “apparently uninhabited” island.

Geez.

The Avengers realize that this sea monster is clearly the cause of all the sunken ships and floods and tsunamis.

Black Knight: “It’s time for the Avengers to do what they do best! Defend the living... and avenge the dead! Let’s ride!”

But as the Avengers fly out of the Quinjet under their own power or on a cool Atomic Steed, a defender flies out of the water to protect the sea monster.

Namor: “NOOOOOOO!! He who first strikes the Leviathan does so only through me!”

The Avengers are confused why Namor is stopping them from Avengersing until first Captain Marvel and then Black Knight realize...

The sea monster is Marrina!

DUN DUN DUN!

And she’s headed right to wreck up Florida!!

DUN DUN DUNNNN!

Quick, Bugs Bunny! Saw it off and push it somewhere else! Bamboozle the Marrina kaiju!

Follow @essential-avengers​ even though this arc is not giving me a lot of hope. Like and reblog because I’m pushing through anyway. Comment, if you have thoughts!

[aces-and-kings]

Locked in Shadows: An Rp Summary

During this rp Thor enters the lab where he finds Smoke locked in a cell. Smoke informs him that the doc is sadistic and has been torturing a man to death. Thor is shocked to discover that the lifeless body lying on the table is his dear friend Red, and the victim of Semex's experimentation.

The doc's actions infuriate Thor, and he decides to take matters into his own hands. After going to retrieve serum intended for Thor, Semex returns to Smoke throwing a shiv at him, causing a serious injury, but sparing Thor from the doc's injection of doom. Thor then confront Semex, venting his anger and seeking revenge. Smoke suggests brutal methods of torture and Thor readily agrees.

As Semex's suffering intensifies, Thor's emotions become a mix of grief and rage. The doc realizes his impending demise and takes his own life with a cyanide capsule. This leaves Thor contemplating the consequences of his actions and the haunting memories Semex has left behind.

With the ordeal behind them, Thor walks away without engaging in further conversation with Smoke. After retrieving his belongings, Smoke tails Thor to a nearby tavern, The Forgotten Knight, to seek solace in alcohol. Thor's thoughts are unraveling as he struggles to process the events that transpired in the lab.

[geekcavepodcast]

Marvel Comics Announces "Ultimates"

Spinning out of Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli's Ultimate Universe #1, Marvel Comics has announced Ultimates from writer Deniz Camp and artist Juan Frigeri.

"Months ago, Tony Stark sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man. Since then, Iron Lad (Stark), Captain America, Doom, Thor, and Sif have begun to do the same for other lost heroes, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change… Now, they must band together to destroy the Maker’s Council and restore freedom and free will to a world ruled from the shadows!" (Marvel Comics)

Ultimates #1, featuring a cover by Dike Ruan, goes on sale on June 5, 2024.

A sneak peek of Ultimates can be seen in Free Comic Book Day 2024: Spider-Man & The Ultimate Universe #1, available on May 4, 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Dike Ruan's Cover of Ultimates #1)

[scienceninjaturtle]

ULTIMATES #1

DENIZ CAMP (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • Cover by DIKE RUAN

VARIANT COVER BY BRYAN HITCH • ULTIMATE SPECIAL VARIANT COVER BY INHYUK LEE

VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN

VARIANT COVER BY JONAS SCHARF • FOIL VARIANT COVER BY IBAN COELLO

THE ULTIMATES RETURN TO GREATNESS!

Spinning out of Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli’s ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1, rising stars Deniz Camp (CHILDREN OF THE VAULT, 20th Century Men) and Juan Frigeri (INVINCIBLE IRON MAN) assemble an all-new team of ULTIMATES in a series that kicks off the next chapter of the new Ultimate line.

Six months ago, Tony Stark sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man.

Since then, Iron Lad (Stark), Captain America, Doom, Thor and Sif have begun to do the same for other lost heroes, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change…

Now they must band together to destroy the Maker’s Council and restore freedom and free will to a world ruled from the shadows!

40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99

RETAILERS/CONSUMERS: PLEASE INQUIRE REGARDING FOIL PRICING.

[ragingphantom666]

All the projects I have on my shelf

Note: I only work on the fandom I'm currently very interested in.

DC Dimensions

Aquaman: Bloodline [candidate for being scrapped]

Artemis: The Last Amazon

The Atom

Batman

Batman Beyond

Bloodsport: Santa Prisca

Blue & Gold [candidate for being scrapped]

Blue Beetle [candidate for being scrapped]

Blue Devil

Bluebird

Catwoman

Cheetah in the Wildlands

Cheetah's Curse [candidate for being scrapped]

Creature Commandos

The Creeper: Twisted Mind [candidate for being scrapped]

Cyborg & Beast Boy

Dark Trinity

Deathstroke

Donna Troy [candidate for being scrapped]

Doom Comes For Us All

Doom Patrol: World's Strangest

The Flash: Abigail Akana

The Flash: Runs in the Family

The Flash: Wally West

Frost

Gotham: Urban Legends [candidate for being scrapped]

Green Lantern Corps

Hawk and Dove

Hiro

The Hellblazers

Jonah Hex

Katana: Exile

Kung-Fu Fighters

Lobo [candidate for being scrapped]

Martian Manhunter [candidate for being scrapped]

Men from A.R.G.U.S. [candidate for being scrapped]

Metal Men [candidate for being scrapped]

Nightmaster

Nightwing

Plastic Man

Razer

Realm of Dragons

Red Tornado's Neighborhood [candidate for being scrapped]

Sandman: Dreams & Nightmares

Shazam [candidate for being scrapped]

Sideways

Static

Steel

Supergirl: Daughter of Krypton

Superman: New Dawn

Swamp Thing

Wild Dog

Wonder Woman: Legacy [candidate for being scrapped]

Grayskull Universe

Catra: the Feral Princess

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

She-Ra of Etheria

Vex Astro

Marvel Worlds

Ant-Man

Armored Adventures

Black Rose

Black Widow

Captain America

Carnage

Cyclops: Age of the Phoenix

Deadpool

Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hawkeye

Knights of Wundagore

Loki: Exiled Prince

Morbius, the Living Vampire

Prowler

The Punisher

She-Hulk: Next Gen

Silk

Silver Sable

Spider-Man: Parker Industries

Spider-Man 2099: The New Age

Solo: Rogue Soldier

Thor

Venom

The Wasp

Wicked World

Witchcraft [candidate for being scrapped]

Wolfsbane & Hrimhari

The Wolverine

The Wolverine: Heir

The Wolverine: Kirika

Mutant World

Alopex

Kinoko

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Usagi Yojimbo: Reborn

Sonic World

Amy Rose

Babylon Rogues

Chaotix

Dreamscape

Gemerl

Knuckles

Sally Acorn

Shadow the Hedgehog

Silver & Blaze

Sonic the Hedgehog

Surge

Tangle & Whisper

Trip the Sungazer

Transformers: War Zones

Anode & Lug

Arcee

Bumblebee

Dinobots

Elita-One

Exodus [candidate for being scrapped]

Hot Rod

Knockout & Jetfire

Tales to Amaze

Note: If you have questions about any of these, feel free to ask.

[theowlhousetf2undertalewehaveall]

Worlds Collide: Prologue

Odalia looked at the scroll of truth. The scroll contained a list of all the people that could stop her plans of total domination. The scroll read:

Gaston, Perry the Platypus, Mowey the Mower, Dr Robotnik, Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Donkey Kong, Lego Deadpool, Tangomangle 2, the last Riolu, Heavily Armed Waddle Dee, Senator Armstrong, Megamind, Waluigi, W. D. Gaster, Mine Turtle, Dr Fox, Wooper, Spider-Man, Silver, Morshu, Mettaton, the last Scope Primid, Gotta Sweep, Sody Pop, Colonel Sandurz, Melvin Sneedly, Saponza, Villager #4, Vengeful True Sun God, the octopus that was given boots before being sent to North Korea, Entrapta, Charles Calvin, the Shopkeeper Tem, M Bison, Wario, Chara, Beta Wooper, Mario, the Terrorist Corgi, Barry Steakfries, Sephiroth, Worf, the Temmienator, The Ice Climbers, Orcane, Master Wu’s pet chicken, The I Like Trains Kid, Serial Designation N, Derek Baum, Heavy Weapons Guy, Squidward, He-Man, Yzma, Jerma, Catra, Marquaad, The Daladas, Fox McCloud, Tom, Steve Irwin, Dan the Man, Wooly the Talking Sheep, Colonel Sanders, Ganondorf Suavemente, Robin, Pengu, Riggy Runkey, Alex Fierro, The last threepeater, Sans, Rex Dangervest, Dio, Count Dazzlewether, baby with a gun, King, Blue Shirt Guy, Ralsei, The totem Flareon, Killpuddle, Keith, Rouxls Kaard, Freya McCloud, Keith, Twice, The first Big Shot, Master Hand, Joker, Q, Big Jack Horner, Bill Cipher, Scary Larry, Lord Garmadon, Daisy Kaboom, Doom Guy, Monkey D. Luffy, Peely, Star-Lord, Dirk Dinkum, The sports master Matt, Om Nom, Woshua, Chris McLean, Victini, Luap, Paul Jr, Martin The Warrior, the orb, feesh, Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog, Johnny 5, The totem Flareon’s umbreon mate, One-Shot Wren, Prisoner Bakon, Shadow Midas, Sam I Am, the annoying dog, Denki Kaminari, Leonidas, The Nug, Pomni, Disco Zombie, Ronin, Pepsiman, Thor, Deadpool, SpongeBob, Scratch, the last two red pandas, Mega Man, Henry Stickmin, Arthur Reed, Shrek, Micro Manager 95, the stranded cube fiend, Sonic, Brian the Barbarian, Wes, Browncoat, Tabuu, Ail-mint, and Boshi.

[thevindicativevordan]

Comics this week?

Action Comics #1057 - If this is the last arc for both the way I suspect I'm going to miss Sandoval just as much as PKJ. Like Sampere and Federeci he's an artist who could be a generational Superman creator but may be getting snatched away too soon. This issue is mainly just an interview between Clark and Norah, and in the hands of a lesser artist it would just be boring talking heads. Sandoval's portrayal of Clark using his powers to detect whether Norah is lying during the interview keeps the tension high, loved how he depicted Clark's x-ray vision and superhearing. Pretty obvious that Norah is an infiltrator sent by the Empire of Shadows (the evil Dark Multiverse Batfamily from the Batman/Superman & the Authority one shot that PKJ did). If this is the ending arc for PKJ, the Superfamily vs. the Evil Batfamily is a great idea for an ending.

Flash #1 - Good first issue, sets up an interesting Speed Force plot even though I've felt worn out on the Speed Force. Been out of the loop with Flash for a while and this did a good job of getting me up to speed (heh). Dedato art isn't a great fit with a speedster - conveying motion is something he's bad at - but it does suit the grim tone. Spurrier is a writer who loves to pack his issues with as much words as he can, which has the upside of making the issue take longer to read. Seems the comic industry is switching back to compression after two decades plus with everyone trying to ape the Bendis decompressed style. It's a welcome change because if you're going to charge me $5 an issue, it damn well better take me longer than 5 minutes to read.

Detective Comics #1074 - Probably my favorite issue of the run thus far, Nguyen is a treasure. Watters needs his own Ten-Eyed Man mini.

The Penguin #2 - The lesser King work with WW on the stands but still good!

Unstoppable Doom Patrol #6 - Burnham draws the hell out of the fight scenes and it was great to see old Morrison characters like Quiz. Kinda the perfect counter to Jane having every superpower ever just doled out to different identities.

Blade #3 - Slows down a bit but the Adana is such a cool bad guy and I'm loving the buildup to Blade's fight. Plus Blade keeps being the coolest motherfucker in the MU.

Immortal Thor #2 - Not feeling the new Loki design and Ewing is struggling with writing fight scenes as always, but man is that art gorgeous otherwise. Thought bubbles are such a perfect choice here because they are the equivalent of Shakespearean English for comics in terms of conveying "this is old school storytelling". Compliments Ewing trying to write a Thor run in the vein of the actual myths.

Avengers #5 - At this point it's a solid run, but not as great as his Strange book. Need to cut back so I'm dropping this.

Ultimate Invasion #4 - Oh boy do I have thoughts! So many I need to bullet point them!

Hickman has flipped the plot from Ultimates 2. Here the 6160 Ultimates are positioned like the 1610 Liberators in that they are going to be fighting to destroy the status quo, with Capitan America presumably leading the charge. Or maybe it will be Black Panther as the leader since he presumably will be housing the Ultimates in the one place not under the Illuminati's control: Wakanda.

Nothing gets erased via time travel which surprised me. For better or worse, this is what the new Ultimate Universe will be. No traditional take on Ultimate Fantastic Four ever since Ben, Sue, and Johnny are all dead and Reed is a good version of Doom. Reed will be on the Ultimates because Hickman can't leave his boy on the sidelines for long. Clearly Hickman will be writing Ultimates since I can't imagine anyone else wanting to write that kind of lineup with this weird a status quo. What the hell an Ultimate X-Men book is going to look like is anyone's guess.

Hickman has three big plotlines seeded here: The Illuminati carving up America and the Ultimates fighting back. The Maker, Kang, and Howard all trapped in the City which is sealed now but will open again one day. Tony Stark is "Iron Lad" which is meant to make us believe he is also Ultimate Kang, whether that's a red herring or a destiny Tony must face one day remains to be seen.

Other big plot thread is that one day the 616 Illuminati are going to make their way to 6160, likely with the help of Miles and that card Maker gave him.

No tease for Spider-Man, maybe that will come with the Ultimate Universe one shot. Either it's going to be Peter Parker because Marvel demands at least one relatively "normal" book to serve as anchor for all this weirdness, or it will be someone entirely new. Saw someone suggest Harry Osborn and fuck that actually could work! I don't think that's ever been done either. My guess is that USM will be a book about either Peter or Harry having been groomed to join the technocrats in ruling the world, but they end up rebelling against that. Most of Spidey's traditional foes are either mad scientists (Norman and Otto would easily fit into this as sub-bosses under Howard who are pissed because the Illuminati stripped them of their old privileges) or science experiments lashing out (Lizard for example).

I see what Hickman is going for here. In our world the techbros wield power equivalent to heads of state, Hickman just flat out made them the actual heads.

It's an interesting setup, but it's weird. I dunno if Marvel fans will get on board with this, it's so utterly at odds with well, everything. It's not 616, it's not the MCU, and it's not 1610. Everything here is taking full advantage of being an alternate universe, and I don't know how Marvel fans will react to that. Another problem is this Ultimate Universe already carries a lot of baggage. Don't know who the Maker is? You're going to be utterly lost with what the hell is going on. Original Ultimate Universe lasted as long as it did because it was easy to get into for newcomers and featured streamlined reimagining of the classic characters for oldheads. Hickman said his new UU would be an inversion of that and he didn't lie.

I'm concerned that approach is going to make this new Ultimate Universe short lived. Say you're one of the countless people who will presumably jump in on Hickman writing Spidey without having read all this beforehand. If Spider-Man is as changed as Iron Man or Reed are, that's going to be a turn off for people because they'll reject how different he is from what they expect.