#hero has returned

[sinnful-darling]

[contrasting-realities]

Same Energy

[juniemunie]

You ever started reading a webcomic for indulgent isekai fun but instead get your religious trauma healed through a fictional saint twink

Anyways this manhwa is The Warrior Returns/Hero has Returned, very violent, take care when reading

[kurim-chis]

Spoiler on Hero has Returned!!!!

I just read a video about “Hero Has Returned” because i got curious, since my brother always said it was a very good and thrilling story, but i always passed it up since I heard a bit and wasn’t interested.

The video about an analysis of the Return Hero impressed me so fucking much. It’s like Kim Gongja going on steroids and eventually falling off the deep end if he didn’t have Raviel, though most likely it either would have happened YEARS later or he eventually finds a way to kill himself through the Tower.

However, there is ONE THING.

Since the Return Hero set up Lee Minsu by ruining his life, which included personally running over his mom, it would have been hilarious if Minsu’s mom had been isekai’ed and later down the road came back as a Hero. Cue to the Return Hero killing himself and then killing Minsu’s mom in another way other than Truck-kun and his relatives.

Return Hero is so goddamn meticulous, to the point Shield Hero was killed without being given the chance to emotionally affect Minsu, since her existence no matter the timeline seems to be a risk factor that COULD make Minsu repent on his sins. No matter the timeline, there’s just some things that will end up happening and for Return Hero it is Shield Hero’s effect on Minsu. Well, it’s NOT definite and depends on Minsu’s degree of madness, but the risk is always there.

So anyways, if he inadvertently made Minsu’s mom isekai, which could happen, he would delete that option.

Anyways. Hero Has Returned is so fucking fucked up. Lmao.

[ai-megurine]

The last time they saw each other 😭

[takkarulz]

My therapist: The Korean Homelander does not exist, Korean Homelander cannot harm you.

The Korean Homelander 30 seconds before killing me and everyone around me:

[walaranisiyabai]

To all the fictional characters that I've read, by far, Kim Min Su is the one that I feel great despise. Others are irredeemable assholes who deserves to die, but this bastard? This bastard is just so, I don't know if it's the right word to use, but he's just so annoying. I don't know why, but he's the first(?) fictional character I wrote a negative comment about.

Yeah, I get it, you're a miserable abused teenager with no one to return to. Your parents died searching for you and your aunt and uncle won't accept you because they blamed you. Your own country was a bitch towards you. But murdering everyone? Even innocent children just because everyone should feel misery as much as you do? Yeah, fuck you.

Anyways, good writing dear author. I hate this character so much and not your writing. That means you're a great author. I am rooting for Kim Min Su's demise. He deserves to die.

Spoiler alert:

I know he ain't the real villain because someone (a greater asshole), but as of the moment my blood boils because of him

[cockinator3000]

LOOK AT HIM!!!! he is SO cunty wjjshwjajjqjaja*+*£#¥×¥?×,#,*@

[arrgh-whatever]

a little comic about my (and Pauk's) Skyrim experience

[mirabel-on-a-bicycle]

smth about edwin escaping a red hot hell and meeting a boy blue to the nose with hypothermia.

smth about them clawing their way up the staircases to earth and the attic, dripping with gory blood and ice cold water.

smth about their afterlives being forever imbibed with the colors of each other's death.

[contrasting-realities]

A while ago I planned out a story called the Many Sides of Schrodinger's Coin, but I don't think I'll ever finish it. The reason why is because it was originally conceived as a fanmade Ace Attorney game but I don't feel like writing anything for AA at all, and Phoenix's perspective is instrumental to everything else, since that is the chronological perspective with the major plot twist and the other chapters covered the perspectives of everyone else as the plot unfolded.

The first chapter is up on AO3, but that's all there is, so I'm going to summarize it here since I like everything except the AA elements.

That chapter can be read here:

Spoilers for every fandom listed

First off, this story was a crossover between Ace Attorney, Shadows House, Hero Has Returned, Angels Of Death, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Devil Is A Part Timer, and the SCP Foundation.

The main plot was about Lee Seongjun turning Kate into a demon lord so that he could die since he and the entire multiverse is trapped in a time loop dependent on his return on death ability and a demon lord is the only thing that can kill him permanently. Hero Has Returned is about Isekai protagonists coming back to Earth and either going rouge or fighting against those who have turned to the dark side.

In Hero Has Returned, he turned another person named Minsu Kim into a demon lord since Minsu killed everyone he tried to turn into one and Seongjun killed him every time they fought. So, why did he use Kate instead?

Well, the first chapter has Minsu die at the hands of Edward who like Kate, is from Shadows house. Minsu dies because of a very specific weakness that Seongjun never discovered, he needs to use vocal commands to summon any of his weapons, armor, or blessings, and Edward has an ability that messes with sound. So, he used that on Minsu and killed him, but that wasn't who he was supposed to kill.

A month beforehand, Kate was banished to Earth with absolutely nothing to her name and a problem, retrograde amnesia that activated every three days. Eventually she met Minsu at a homeless camp and he effectively became her caretaker after the camp was shut down by the police. Minsu became very close with her as he had lost everything after coming back home, and Seongjun unfortunately now had to kill Kate since she was getting in the way of his plans.

That was until the night Minsu died, when he realized that she was incredibly close to turning into a demon lord, as in she would only need the negative karma from killing two people as opposed to killing several thousand. Edward called the cops on Kate though and got her arrested for 'killing Minsu' which is where Phoenix came in since Seongjun didn't know how Minsu died and didn't want to risk being unable to kill him again.

Seongjun adopted Kate after that incident so he could have better control over her, but someone else from Kate's world eventually came to kill her as well: Anthony.

Now I'm betting that you have a lot of questions, like why is Kate close to being a demon lord? And why is everybody trying to kill her? Well, in this AU Shadows House is just another world in Hero Has Returned that summons people from Earth to deal with their demon king, but nobody ever comes returns... under normal circumstances at least.

That's because the hero always becomes the demon lord after defeating their predecessor, who also is their summoner. It's been like this since the first demon lord tried to take over the first hero in a desperate attempt to survive their final battle, but died to the hero's will, they create a new shadows house and summon a hero to destroy everything and restart the cycle to minimize the impact the demon lord has on the world, since otherwise a lot more damage would occur since all realities aside from Earth must have a demon lord.

Kate began turning into one because she violated the rules of her world, which only the hero and demon lord are allowed to do, specifically that shadows can only have one 'face' (read: they can only possess one human body at a time). What happened is that Edward invited Kate instead of her Friend Louise. Invitation is the practice in which a shadow absorbs the body of the human (or 'living doll' as they're called), but Kate already had her own face due to having been born as a shadow/human hybrid. Edward was actually trying to kill her since he saw her as a threat to the house and overdosed her on a drug called Fragments of Grace which are used to help with unification. But Kate didn't die since she already had a face, since Edward didn't know this he kept giving her a stupid amount of the drug until she basically lost her mind. She became susceptible to brainwashing used on her doll, Emilico, which Emi chant a phrase which encouraged a shadow to take over the doll's body. Fragments of Grace also amplify the powers of shadows and can make them go out of control if too many are ingested at once, Edward eventually locked Kate and Emilico in a box for the unification and Kate eventually did try to absorb her doll. Normally, she would have died but all the fragments of grace gave her the power to actually do so and as a consequence, she started turning into a demon lord.

The current demon lord, Joseph, eventually realized what was happening and had Kate thrown into the canyon between the two halves of the shadows house, which interrupted her transformation. That canyon is actually a rift that leads out of the world of shadows and randomly switches destination worlds, and it's impossible to tell where it leads at the moment. They hoped that she wound up anywhere but Earth, but thanks to the power of one of the shadows who directly served under the demon king (aka the third floor) they learned exactly what they didn't want to hear. So, they pretty much told Edward off for what he'd done and also explained everything about the demon lord to him since nobody really knows about that aside from those who need to. Edward was then sent to Earth to make up for the damage he caused, but failed so they sent Anthony next.

Anthony, originally Christopher, is actually the current generation shadow hero, and ironically the only son of the noble house which Joseph took over and replaced. His father, Alfred, fell through the rift and into Earth alongside his friends and Joseph's daughter, who wasn't supposed to be at the house that day but she disobeyed her father, 60 years ago to 1960s America. Alfred had Anthony in 1997 with Joseph's daughter, she died soon after, and Anthony got isekaied in 2009 when he was 12. Alfred and his friends were looking for a way back to their original world since they got stuck on Earth and Anthony was always told that he would be the one to retake the house and save them, which is why he was given his original name. When he did return, he was pretty much a violent and entitled brat who just wanted to kill Joseph there on the spot. Joseph had some complicated feelings about having summoned the son of the man he betrayed, but he managed to explain why he did it to Anthony and over the years he calmed down and accepted his role as the next demon lord... before learning about Kate and Seongjun that is.

Joseph could see the area around Kate due to the ability which let them see into Earth being attached to her eyes and ears, he overheard a conversation between Seongjun and Phoenix which Seongjun said that he could see into the future and that he was also a hero. They used the same power on Anthony and told him that they would be sending him back to deal with Kate since they needed a hero to deal with another hero. Anthony had figured out by this point that Kate was his half-sister and he was pretty surprised once he learned about it, but accepted since a demon lord appearing on Earth would be a death sentence for most of the multiverse.

When Anthony did confront Seongjun, he realized that his intel was slightly wrong and that he couldn't see the future. He also realized that Seongjun was determined to turn Kate into a demon lord at all costs. So he stopped fighting and took a different approach and tried to reason with him, and it actually worked. Anthony got a lot of info out of Seongjun and told him the actual damage of what would happen, Kate, even if she was killed, would likely come back in 100 years and destroy the world. Then Anthony explained that he could potentially kill her permanently due to his powers as the shadow warrior, and then could kill himself before he became a demon lord so that fate could be avoided. Seongjun agreed to this since Anthony was offering to mitigate the damage and didn't intend to try and stop him.

After this, they started planning things out, deciding that Edward and a girl named Chiho Sasaki would be their targets. The first is obvious but the second is more complicated. Around midnight when Kate is about to lose her memories, she enters a suggestible state where she regains her abilities as a shadow and can remember everything that has happened to her since arriving on Earth. Their plan was to have Kate in this state kill their targets and then frame the murders on other people, with Phoenix being the one to do so thanks to his reputation of finding out the truth (Anthony messed with the memories of everyone they framed so that they believed what he wanted them to, he can do this because of his power to use the abilities of anyone he's absorbed). This is where Chiho comes in, Seongjun wanted to frame Gabriel (devil is a part-timer characters) for her murder since otherwise things would become more complicated. The SCP foundation is aware of what Seongjun is doing and of his situation, but have been unable to help him at all, so they tolerate his plans while trying to create a counter to the monster he will make. But they have their limits and will counter anything that is dangerous and unnecessary to ending the time loop. If Seongjun just killed Gabriel, and angel from another planet in the same universe as Earth, more angels would show up to either complete Gabriel's mission or take out the one who killed him, since he was supposed to take the demon king's second general (Ashiya/Alciel) and the hero (Emi/Emilia) back to their planet (Maou is just the king of demons, he is not the king of demon lord that could kill Seongjun, and their planet 'Ente Isla' also exists in the universe where there is no demon lord). This could result in an all out war which could end the world, and framing Gabriel without jumping through a few hoops would also be a pain because he has no legal identity on Earth, and would also likely break out of jail using his magic which would force the foundation's hand and they would kill him, leading to the above scenario. Just leaving Gabriel alone isn't an option either since by this point not all of the heros have returned yet and the South Korean government is going to be very hesitant to use them against the rouge heros, meaning that they and Kate will have a lot of time to cause damage to Seoul, early on in other timelines when Gabriel was unable to kidnap anybody this was prevented by Maou and Emi, but everyone from Ente Isla will leave to rescue Ashiya and Emi for a few months. They decided to find a way to limit Gabriel's powers and the make the angels think he brought getting stuck on Earth and out of the way on himself (i.e. getting arrested) so they don't realize what's really going on. Chiho was chosen because she is close to Maou and Emi but isn't from Ente Isla and has no notable powers and it would potentially be feasible to make up a story about Gabriel killing her to try and lure Maou's loyal general back to their world for revenge. (Maou was in Korea in the first place because the store he worked at was out competed by a rival store and upper management was pretty cruel about moving their low ranking workers to another country).

Seongjun had an idea of how to do restrict Gabriel's powers and planned on doing so while Anthony gathered information about Edward independently, but he ran into the person Seongjun planned on recruiting. Abraham Gray, from angels of death, was working at the jail Edward was staying at as a priest for some prisoners, but it turns out that he was also an old generation faith hero. He has a fascination with human belief and created an experiment where he would trap religious people in a building full of serial killers to observe how they would react. He knew what he was doing was wrong after observing the growth of Rachel and Zack as friends (He once thought that Zack was a pure being with no desires except a lust for blood) and decided to try and kill himself and destroy all the evidence of his crimes as a form of repentance, thinking that he would die having little to no power left, but he was wrong and was never implicated in the incident.

Gray agreed to help Seongjun and Anthony after he heard about the former's plight and the need for someone to help deal with the damage which would be caused by Kate and the rouge heros, it was also a way for him to repent by saving the world. Outside of his abilities to cause hallucinations and mess with people's heads, he can also seal the abilities of others away, which he did on Gabriel. Anthony and Seongjun then manipulated Kate into killing Chiho and framing Maou first while Anthony also controlled Gabriel so that there was enough 'evidence' that Phoenix could shift the blame onto him once the time came.

Edward was next, and the reason was very easy, Kate could be manipulated into wanting revenge on him. They decided that Lucy, another character from angels of death (she died in canon, but survived in this AU and was forced to change her identity by her employer because she tortured prisoners alongside another character named Cathy), because framing her would be easy. Around midnight, Gray manipulated some of the prisoners into starting a riot and during the chaos got Kate in there and had her kill Edward before framing it on a death row inmate named Lee Sookyung, who had been imprisoned for killing her abusive husband to protect her son, Kim Dokja (she was also cellmates with Zack).

Of course, Phoenix found out the 'truth' and Lucy was revealed as the 'killer' but more happened in that trial. Sookyung requested that Phoenix check up on her son since he had been moved from his relative's house to a psychiatric facility after somebody called the cops on them for abuse ('someone' aka Seongjun). Rachel also stayed in the same facility and had gotten somewhat close with Dokja, and Phoenix eventually realized that Sookyung was lying. She didn't kill her husband, Dokja did. He revealed this at some point during the trial to try and prove his client's innocence to disprove the notion that she was a killer. And Gray had to stop a double suicide between Zack and Rachel because Zack promised to kill her once they got out of Gray's experiment but both were on the fence on whether or not they wanted to die at that moment since Zack was already on death row and Rachel had started to recover from her issues.

Outside of Kate regaining her memories, there was one more thing Songjun had to do. A girl named Han Sooyoung was killed not too long after the trial and Kate was arrested for murdering her due to having seemingly broken into her apartment. At the same time, the web novel Dokja was obsessed with and which had given him hope when nothing else could stopped updating, with a final message being left by the author's killer. He nearly killed himself, but Rachel stopped him.

Phoenix came back to defend Kate again and figured out that Seongjun had killed Han Sooyong, but claims he did it to save the world, since the web novel being finished would destroy everything. All throughout this, the foundation has been helping Seongjun from the background and cleaned up after him, turning a blind eye to his actions. But in this case they had gotten involved to ensure Sooyoung's death since they are very well aware of what would have happened if that story was finished. Slightly before all this, Kate's friends figured out what happened to her and a shadow named John and his doll, Shaun, had both entered Earth to find her (They didn't know anything about heros and demon lords). Unfortunately, by the time they did Kate had been framed for killing Sooyoung and both were forced to stand as witnesses, which Seongjun insisted on because both needed to encourage Kate for her to successfully fight off her amnesia. The foundation didn't like this but were busy preparing for the inevitable broken masquerade scenario (the public becoming aware of the supernatural) that the hero crisis would bring. Both of these factors led Phoenix to realize that Seongjun wasn't really alone in this murder and that a lot of people were helping him (John's identity as a shadow was hidden, but eventually exposed by Kate and Phoenix).

This caused Anthony and Gray to break into the court room since Seongjun was broadcasting the trial's events to them. Anthony then explained to Phoenix that Kate had been responsible for the last two murders he had defended clients for, and provided evidence that they were telling the truth. Phoenix realized that all of it made sense but was in denial that it was real, John and Shaun had a similar reaction. In their first meeting, Phoenix noticed black psyche-locks around Kate when he asked about her amnesia, which he found out later with Dokja, indicated a secret stuck in someone's subconscious. He figured out how to break them earlier and tried to do the same with Kate, John and Shaun deciding to help him since Phoenix would need to come to her with answers and not questions. John and Shaun needed to be there so that Kate would resist the influence causing her issues and overcome it... which turned out to be Emilico herself.

Emilico died when Kate remembered everything and regained control over her powers, but Kate didn't want to lose her like she did with Minsu. So she diluted herself into thinking that Seongjun, Anthony, and Gray had trapped her inside her own mind and that none of this was real. That is when she fully transformed and blew up the courthouse. Seongjun had gotten trapped under the rubble and she begged him for an answer to why he did this to her, but he refused to give her a straight answer, so she killed him after telling him to go back and save Minsu, but he just died and the time loop was broken.

Phoenix had also gotten trapped under the rubble but was protected by a barrier made by Seongjun, John and Shaun also survived but were slowly being crushed by the weight above them. Nobody came to save them and John eventually lost his mind to hunger and tried to eat Shaun, leading to an unintentional unification that gave John the strength to get out of there (unified shadows have stronger powers than normal ones).

At the same time, the sorcery hero snapped and blew up another part of the city, before finding out about Kate and mistaking her for another rouge hero, not a demon lord, he played into her delusions and made her think that he was here to help her, with the other rouge heros doing similar while also looking up to Kate and sorcery since they were the ones who inspired their rampages. A certain SCP also sensed the awakening of a demon lord and broke containment in Japan to fight Kate, SCP-682 aka the old demon lord of the Earth.

Like before with some other interruptions, Maou, Emi and Ashiya went to try and deal with the threat, but realized that this was nothing like what they'd seen in Ente Isla and they were far more cautious with their methods, mostly Emi evacuating civilians while Maou, Ashiya and another demon general named Urushihara or Lucifier actually fighting the heros since their powers are based on the amount of fear around them, and obviously there is a lot of fear with isekai protagonists destroying everything.

Anthony and Gray escaped from Kate's rampage and met up with the foundation, who assisted everyone on the front lines while pressuring the Korean government to allow the good heros to help deal with the crisis. Korea refused at first because of their close ties to the Global Occult Coalition (A group similar to the foundation that focuses on destroying the supernatural rather than containing it). But the GOC eventually agreed with the foundation after taking a look at the situation, and the defense begins.

Gray eventually gets killed by Kate defending a ship of refugees from her, but he uses the last of his powers to create a weapon for Zack, who is still in jail with Sookyung, so that he can rescue Rachel and keep her safe, Sookyung goes along with him and saves Dokja as well. Zack originally liked and respected Sookyung a lot since she was extremely open about her crimes but that changed once Phoenix revealed that she was a liar, and Zack hates liars. But Sookyung argues right before the scythe arrives that otherwise her son would have been a social outcast for the rest of his life, and she tells him that not all lies are bad before they get interrupted.

Gray's body was absorbed by Anthony after his death so that he could use his 'face' to manipulate Kate, he did the same thing to Seongjun's corpse as well. The time hero, who uses his lifespan to power his abilities, had agreed to be absorbed by Anthony due to him only having 6 years left to live and Anthony being able to use his abilities more due to having multiple 'faces' with different lifespans. The shadows house also sent several shadows, both fused and not, to help Anthony gain power including one of Kate's friends named Patrick because he had an ability that canceled out the powers of other shadows.

Anthony does eventually fight and kill Kate once all the other heros were dead, and he absorbed and killed her before the other heros took him out before he turned into a demon lord. So basically, Hero Has Returned finally gets a happy ending.

Edit: Forgot to mention that Kate, in her delusions, mistook a boy named Jeongsu Park and his little sister Dabin for Minsu and Emilico, she saved them from the iron arm hero after killing their mother and then kidnapped them to keep them safe. Jeongsu is not pleased.

[juniemunie]

I was able to draw saint damian but i was too shy to post lmao

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 273

You know what? We need more Good parents Fentons. 

And you know what else? Technically, Jack helped Danny defeat Pariah via the use of the Ecto-Skeleton. And like, that’s his son, his baby boy. Sure Danny is and has always been a mommy’s boy, but it doesn’t change that fact. They’re both already feeling horrible about the fact they could have hurt him, they could have hurt their son- they have hurt their son, killed him with their inaction and never again. 

So when these oversized jello-eyeballs try to insist that their baby, their precious baby boy, take a crown? Become a king when he’s not even out of highschool, when he doesn’t want it? No. Hell no! That is his Danny-o, his baby boy who was terrified of his own parents! 

Which is how Jack, despite technically still being alive even if so-very ecto-contaminated, became the Ghost King. 

And for some reason there’s several ghosts rather happy about this- oh, these are his Danny-O’s ghost-parents? Not-ghost parents seeing as some of them have never been anything but a realm denizen? That’s really fascinating- y’know what, want some fudge and we can exchange childcare- Maddie dear come over and meet our co-parents apparently!  

Now it’s not all easy, but they’re trying their best, and that’s all that can be asked. 

…

Which is perhaps why it’s so exasperating- or as Maddie would put it, downright infuriating- that it is now, almost an entire year and a half later that the Heroes finally arrive to investigate. Well, at least he has plenty of fudge since it’s almost time for the council meeting. 

[ai-megurine]

Don't mind me, I'm just simping for Ye-Rin Ma from Warrior Has Returned, aka the second best character and my absolute fav from my favourite manwha, who happens to be the best I've ever read.

Look at my queen. She's so beautiful. She's so perfect. My girl is the "weakest" hero around and yet she faced not only one but two actual Demon Kings, and Kim Min-Su who was even stronger all the while calling them bitch because whoever decided that Magical Girl couldn't swear didn't account for my girl. And yet she calls herself weak and a coward 🥺 Anyway she's the best and I love her 💜💖

Also it was revealed to me in a dream that her dynamic with the others heroes must have been absolutely hilarious. How many times did she call Min-Su emo to his face???? I need to know. I need a webcomic about her infiltrating the Nine Warriors and bitching about them in her head.

[bi-focal12]

MHA tweets pt.12 ✨

[walaranisiyabai]

Spoiler Alert for Webtoon called "Hero Has Returned"

So with this information, it is canonically accurate to say Moses was a hero who got transported to another world and then came back to Earth.