#i know heroic origins is controversial to some but i think it's cool how everyone is connected

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Animal {Avengers Cast x Male Reader}

Requested by: @gameloversblog Wordcount: 1715 Summary: You play a Marvel antihero who has a pretty bad pottymouth. You finally get your own standalone film and invite your castmates over to watch. Warnings: Foul language.

To say that you brought a new life to the controversial character that you were playing was an understatement. Ever since you were young, you wanted to play a comic book superhero, or perhaps more aptly, an anti-hero because you were always a bit naughtier than the characters you grew up with. You swore an almost unprofessional amount, but your charm and skill was enough for you to keep the roles that you had, you requested to do a lot of your own stunts for the thrill of it, and, well, you were a bit of a flirt with everyone that you came across. So when there was a role opening up in the MCU as an anti-hero with a bit of a potty-mouth, you called your manager and told her that she would receive a big bonus if she managed to get you that audition. Needless to say, she got that bonus, and when you got the role, you bought her a brand new car, complete with a big bow on top, and a cut out of yourself for the backseat so she wouldn’t get lonely.

Unfortunately, these were meant to be family movies, and you didn’t get to swear as much as you had initially hoped. You did continue with your language when you messed up, which would never be in the bloopers unless they wanted to get an R rating on their own, and it became a bit of a joke with your castmates. In one scene that you filmed with Chris Evans and Scarlett Johanson, you actually shocked Evans so hard with your language that you missed a fighting cue and genuinely got struck in the head. He didn’t let up about that for a good month, but it was all light-hearted.

The movie was incredibly successful, as you had hoped that it would be. The critics loved it, and there was even praise on the way that you accurately portrayed your character - but there was one complaint. It wasn’t completely true to the character as you hadn’t been able to swear as much as they did. You brought in a couple of ‘hell’, ‘goddamn’ and ‘what the f-’ before you were cut off, but that was the extent that Marvel would let you do. It was literally signed into your contract that you could not improvise.

But now you were all smiles to the press, though your publicist was always on hand to give you a stern look, or clear your throat if your language started to go downhill. “It was fucking amazing!” was something that you couldn’t help but say when journalists asked about your experience. During one particularly memorable interview, you spewed out, “It was so fucking cool, like have you seen this shit? There’s like explosions all the goddamn time, and those are real, they don’t just put that shit in during editing, it’s right there, like holyyy mother of God, there was a time when I was scared I was going to be actually on fire, because of how close it was. Fucking burning up hot like Rhianna’s newest cd, you know?”

That interview showed on TV and had more bleeps than an episode of COPS. And you know that to be true because Robert Downey Jr called and told you that he had compared them as something fun to do. That interview also ended up on some videos of ‘Most cringy interviews’ which you didn’t completely understand. You had a blast, you were being yourself - it was the show hosts who looked baffled.

Out to celebrate the success of the movie making millions in the box office, you and co-star Jeremy Renner decided to hang out at his house with a couple of beers. Now that most of the press was over, and you didn’t have to go to any more premieres, it was so nice to be able to just hang out with friends. You were lounging in his living room, bottle in hand, telling a story about a scene that you did when you were in an action-comedy movie with some other famous actors. “So Mark Wahlberg has that expression on his face, you knew the one, where he looks all confused, like he needs to take a shit and doesn’t know how to get it out?” You laughed, and Jeremy nodded, knowing what you were talking about. “So I took the chance man, I had to take it, I just blew into my elbow and it made the biggest fucking fart sound, I’m talking about camera breaking loud man.”

Between laughs you heard your phone ringing. When you saw your manager’s name, you were expecting her to come down on you hard for swearing in the interviews. You had no idea that your life and your career were about to make a huge turn for the better. “Yo and hello,” You said, smiling at your cheesy line.

“I’m not calling to bitch at you, believe it or not,” Your manager sounded excited about something, which peaked your interest.

“I would never use the word bitch - I’d more say it’s complaining mixed with nagging,” You started. “All of which I know that I deserve. So what’s up, buttercup?”

“You managed to get a starring role, and I mean, big time starring role.”

“Oh, is someone trying to get a big Christmas bonus? What a coincidence that this is happening around the oh so busy clusterfuck of a holiday. You know - I don’t even remember auditioning for anything lately. What is it, what is it?”

Your manager said the name of the character that you had just played, who was originally just supposed to be a one-off character. “You were recieved really well, so they want to give you your own film. With at least a Mature rating so you can use those words you love so much.”

“I can finally say shit, dick, asshole, fuckfest?” You said, growing happy. You legitimately got up from Jeremy’s couch and started to do a happy dance.

“To a degree,” Your manager warned. “We’re still in talks about who is going to do the script, so you might be able to have some say in it...”

“Thank fuck for that. Do you know how hard it was to say darn with a straight face? Who says darn anymore? I wasn’t playing Cap!” Jeremy snickered behind you and you shot him a wide grin. “I’ll even write the script myself if they can’t find the perfect person. I practically am my character, you know.”

“Yes, I know. Everybody knows.” Your manager sighed. “I’ll put in a good word for you, you know that. Just hang tight. They’ll be sending you an announcement soon enough.”

-

Just over a year later, you were sitting in the living room of your spacious home with your best friends and castmates all around you. You managed to get a copy of the film before the premiere, and managed to talk everyone into coming over and watching it. And you, being a devious little thing, created a drinking game.

“Alright, so here’s the rules,” You said, standing in front of the TV before the film started. Your friends stopped talking amongst themselves and looked at you. You grinned like a maniac. Some of the biggest names in Hollywood were hanging out in your house right now. Suck on that critics who thought you’d never make it this far. You were one of them now. “I don’t have enough alcohol in the house to make you all take a shot at every swear-”

You were interrupted by a couple of laughs, so you gave a wink to Paul Rudd who had been the source of a couple of them. “-So how about you guys just have to take a swig of your beer? And a double if you’re referenced in the film.”

“I guess that sounds fair,” Jeremy said, settling into your second-favorite armchair.

“Why do you want us to get so drunk?” Scarlett Johansson asked, raising one of her perfect eyebrows in your direction. You shrugged before taking your seat, the best seat in the house, your favorite overstuffed chair.

“Instagam, snapchat, facebook, tumblr,” You listed off the various social media sites that you could put their drunken pictures up on.

“I think my publicist would actually kill you,” Elizabeth Olsen chimed in, cracking open her own beer.

“Great! Think of the publicity that would generate for the film!” You joked with that same grin. “Marvel Superstar murdered by publicist of Elizabeth Olsen! The tragic story of a drinking game gone wrong! More details inside if you want to play along...”

“Alright, alright, we’ll play along but no cameras, okay?” Chris Evans said, opening a beer of his own. You couldn’t stop smiling. You absolutely loved when you got your way.

“Alright, ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for the best Marvel film in the world? Now presenting - me!” You pressed play and the movie started.

Almost immediately, your friends had to start taking drinks because of how often there were curse words. Nothing too bad, but just the usuals. Fuck, shit, damn. Not the overly offensive ones.

Your favorite part was slowly coming up. You kept shooting glances over at Chris Evans, which the others noticed, but said  nothing about. Chris was oblivious, paying more attention to the film rather than to the people around him.

“Darn,” A character in the movie said, albeit a young one.

“Language!” The camera whipped to your character, who was standing there in a heroic pose. Weapon in one hand, charming smile, looking good for the victim whom you just saved. “In this movie, we say fuck.”

The scene had the right effect. Everyone started to laugh, and Anthony Mackie was nudging Chris, encouraging him to take double the drinks.

“You know, I wasn’t in charge of writing that line, but I keep getting the flack from it.” He grudgingly picked up his beer and finished it off while the rest of the group cheered.

[pure-bakusass]

My adult kiribaku headcanons! 💥💪

Warning, this is a long ass post where I decided to write some of my favourite headcanons down. Mostly Bakugou but Kirishima is involved more or less. I love my adult pro hero husbands. I hope you enjoy!

1. The hero agency!

The formidable duo of Pro Heroes Ground Zero and Red Riot is known by public to be happily married and leading their own hero agency together. Their agency has quite a reputation and is one of the best in Japan. Being offered an internship there is considered quite a big deal. Your career as a future hero might really blossom there, if only you can handle the well known explosive temper of Ground Zero. But despite Ground Zero's lack of any actual patience for work with kids and often ending up scaring them, Red Riot does his best calming Bakugou down if needed and being the most warm and understanding teacher you could possibly have. Red Riot is just great with kids and with his husband. I'd say with people in general. His gentle approach softens the impact of Bakugou's behavior to the point people often end up forgiving and forgetting Bakugou's flaws.

2. Bakugou's tattoos!

Bakugou has some piercings and tattoo sleeves, not only because they look dope and he has always wanted them, but also to make a clear stand against the harmful cultural taboo there is in Japan. Tattoos, being strongly associated with criminal underworld, especially the gangsters, are now all over a pro hero's skin whether the public likes it or not. Bakugou himself takes pride in inspiring people not to give a single fuck about the opinion of others and encouraging them to do whatever makes them feel happy.

Ground Zero's tattoos were actually a very controvertial issue for some time on the media around the whole country, practically resulting in a revolution in that matter and causing a lot of discussions, mostly about whether it is appropriate for a pro hero to have tattoos or not. Specifically tattoos holding a vulgar or violent meaning like "shit happens", "sex bomb", "die", "fuck you" and so on. Ground Zero himself refused to take interviews and cut himself off the whole issue with making a public statement that he "doesn't give a fuck".

Without any interest from the subject of the issue himself, it wasn't long till the topic was worn off and the controversy faded away eventually. Still, it is pretty common for comments of strong disagreement to occur, for example:

"He looks more like a villain than a hero."

"Tattoos are not heroic, he should be ashamed of himself."

"He's clearly doing it for the controversy around himself so that he's in the spotlight. What a shallow attention seeker."

"Pro heroes should set a good example for our children, and so called Ground Zero is the exact opposite of what a pro hero should represent."

"Someone who wants to look like a criminal shouldn't be given a hero license because there is clearly something wrong going on inside his mind."

Bakugou, however, snaps back at those comments with more or less the same words.

"You want to know what's heroic? Minding your own fucking business."

Kirishima tried to persuade Bakugou into being a little more subtle with the public, however Bakugou said that "he didn't carry the bitch out of the collapsing building with those fucking hands so that she could disrecpect him like this" and he stands by it with every fiber of his tattooed being.

3. Bakugou and kids!

Despite Bakugou claiming he strongly dislikes children and can't handle them, Ground Zero is voted the most popular pro hero among teenagers. It's probably because of his rebellious, fierce attitude and his will to say and do anything he wants no matter what might others think, which is by teens considered very cool and brave, but by the parents of those teens - rude and inappropriate. A lot of adults don't think that Ground Zero is the best role model for their children, however nobody can deny his dedication, courage, skills and all the good he does for the society in general.

Once when a group of teens heard Bakugou throwing a sharp, savage comeback at someone who got on his nerves nearby, they high fived and yelled "Fucking roasted! Nobody messes with Ground Zero! He's the best!" Bakugou snapped at them to mind their fucking businesses. He wouldn't ever admit it but he was flattered and happy to hear them say it.

Despite saying it's useless and stupid over and over again, Bakugou never refuses to give autographs to any kid that asks. He knows what it feels like to admire someone to an extreme level, after all.

Once when he was asked for an autograph by this visibly shy and intimidated boy, he asked him what the fuck would he even need it for and got an answer: 

"You see, I'm being bullied in my school, so I thought maybe if I let them know I met someone as awesome as Ground Zero, like, in person, they'd leave me alone. But without an autograph nobody will believe me."

Bakugou smirked in response.

"You think that's gonna work? Pathetic. Like anyone would pay any respect to a piece of shitty paper. Tell you what, I'll pay a little visit to your school myself and make the bastards shit their pants, how about that?"

Needless to say the kid wouldn't belive what he had just heard and looked at Bakugou in pure bliss. Long story short, Bakugou stormed the school and yelled at everyone. Not just the bullies but the teachers who ignored the case too, calling them out as "fucking idiots doing shitty job" and threatening the whole school community in general. The media basically ate him alive because of that incident but it's not like he cares anyway. Ground Zero the chaotic good hero regrets nothing.

I think he may be willing to go this extra in the matter of bullying as a pro hero because of what he used to do in the past himself (to Izuku) and feeling ashamed of this whenether it gets back to him.

4. Kirishima's looks! (aka krbk being adorably domestic)

At some point of their adult life together Kirishima decided to grow a beard. Bakugou said that he didn't think anything could look more shitty on Kirishima than his dumb hair, and yet there goes his husband proving him wrong. Despite having a new topic for many mean jokes Bakugou doesn't really mind the beard, just like he doesn't really mind Kirishima's unbreakable crocs he wears around the house (and occasionally not only the house) pretty much all the time. He just can't really do anything about that and it's not like he cares enough to try.

What Bakugou likes especially about Kirishima's new pro hero look is his hair he decided to grow to quite an impressive lenght. It somehow resembles a lion's mane and looks intimidating and very manly, but still being soft and nice to touch and run fingers through.

Bakugou's morning routine includes helping Kirishima with brushing his hair. He complains about it every time but there wasn’t a single day he didn’t do it. He still stubbornly calls the hair shitty and will rather die than say he adores it out loud. Kirishima knows.

Bonus:

Kirishima buys all kinds of Ground Zero merchandise there is because he thinks it's cute. Bakugou gets mad at him for spending money on that useless bullshit when he has the original Ground Zero in his presence pretty much whenether he wants. Kirishima likes to remind Bakugou every single day that he's his biggest fan and he loves him very much. He usually gets an irritated but equally adorable “I love you too you damn nerd” back.

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For those of you who were determined enough to reach the very end, thank you sincerely for spending your time reading this. I was meaning to include an art piece for each one of the headcanons but I was too lazy to do art AND the post is already long enough I guess. You can expect my adult krbk artwork to appear in other posts though! They most certainly will appear.

[scarletwitching]

Who/what ruined the Ultimates/Ultimate Universe?

Wanda ruined the Ultimate Universe!! Sort of.

Some backstory: The Ultimate Universe was created back when Marvel had zero money and everyone thought the company was going to be shut down. Despite some good books being published during this time, there was a feeling that the convoluted and strange stories of the 90′s (Wasp was an actual wasp!!) had left 616 inaccessible and quite possibly irredeemably broken.

The idea behind the Ultimate Universe was to do a reboot that started from the beginning, so that new fans could jump on at issue #1 without needing any prior knowledge. These were then-modern reinventions done by up and coming talent, and they were very much of their time. Decompressed wide screen comics where every woman was wearing a crop top.

At the time, there was speculation that the Ultimate Universe was going to eventually replace 616, and a lot of people liked that idea. They preferred these takes on the characters. That stance wasn’t without detractors (616 loyalists are a dedicated bunch), but it wasn’t uncommon to see someone say it. Both the passage of time and the popularity of the much nicer versions from the movies have killed that sentiment, but it had its day.

What ruined the whole endeavor was the revitalization of 616 and the Ultimate Universe subsequently falling into disrepair. 616 was re-energized, in terms of sales, in the mid to late 2000′s by the explosion of big blockbuster events that sold huge numbers and caused a lot of fandom discussion (read: arguments on the internet). And who started this trend? It was Wanda!

But wait, there’s more! With so much renewed interest in 616, the Ultimate Universe felt superfluous. The old universe that had once felt stale was now going through huge, controversial changes. Even if you didn’t like what they were doing, you were engaged. You were worked up about it. And the Ultimate Universe, which had been so fresh and new, was accumulating continuity and a bit of dust. Its original appeal had been that it was a jumping on point, but that was less true several years in. Characters started to be 616-ized as later creative teams didn’t care about what previous ones had done. Writers and artists couldn’t remember what characters’ backgrounds were supposed to be. Two different versions of Wasp suddenly became white people out of nowhere. How did that happen twice? I don’t know.

...and then Ultimatum happened. Ultimatum killed off nearly three dozen characters, and everyone hated it. The Ultimate Universe had started to lose some of its luster with Ultimates 3, but this was much worse. It seemed like they were trying to kill the entire line without actually committing to doing so. They still put out books, Ultimate Spider-man kept chugging along, but the energy in the fandom was gone. The big event style storylines that made people interested in 616 again* had backfired on the Ultimate U.

Oh, and what set the plot of Ultimatum in motion? Wanda dying. #WandaKilledTheUltimateUniverse #ConspiracyTheory

Back to Ultimates 3 for a second, I think, in a pre-Game of Thrones world, the incest reveal had a lot to do with people turning on the Ultimate Universe. Millar’s Ultimates was embarrassingly “edgy” by 2019 standards, but even he had the sense to not make the incest text. And to not have a heroic character announce that everyone is cool with siblings falling in love now that it’s the 21st century. I see that reveal cited often by people as the point the Ultimate U jumped the shark, so again, #WandaKilledTheUltimateUniverse.

As for what killed Ultimates itself, most people would say Jeph Loeb (or barring that, the incest specifically), but I never liked that book so I’ll say Mark Millar trying too hard.

*In a predictable twist, they relied too heavily on events and did them too frequently, which has led to diminishing returns. Nowadays, 616 is plagued by event fatigue and Marvel promising not to do any more events only to immediately announce more events. #WandaKilled616

[fiddyshadej]

5 Things I Want Out of the New Terminator

I haven’t written a blog post in forever but this has been on my mind for a while now so I thought I’d fire up the keyboard get to writing!

Ok, so... If you know me then you probably know that “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” are among my favorite films ever. With that being said, I hate this franchise! Or more accurately what it became. The first two Terminator films are very, very close to being perfect watches. What came after those two films, however, are some of the worst films I have ever seen. I don’t think this is a controversial statement as most people (save for a few psychopaths) agree with this sentiment.

So why am I writing this? Well it has been announced recently that James Cameron is producing yet another reboot of the franchise and so I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would like to see out of that film. Now, chances are I most likely won’t get what I want because my views, more often than not, don’t align with the mainstream. It’s very likely we’ll get yet another Schwarzenegger lead Terminator 2 knockoff; but in the off chance we don’t, here are 5 things I want out of a potential Terminator reboot!

1. Return to Your Roots: I hate this phrase. Everyone says it. Everyone promises it. But studios hardly ever deliver on this promise. And it’s a tricky promise to keep! Because it requires one to sit down and think for a change instead of just funneling out explosions, catchphrases, and muscle men. Take a moment, examine why and how the franchise took off. What made it work? Now remember, Terminator 2 would not be here had it not been for Terminator 1. Do not misunderstand me. Terminator 2 is fantastic. It is brilliant. It is one of the best films ever made. But future installments keep trying to replicate its success to their detriment. They cannot make a better Terminator 2 styled film than Terminator 2. It’s that simple. So I suggest going back to Terminator 1. Now, I’m not saying to copy that film. No, no. I’m saying to look at why that first film worked; what made it iconic? Two things stand out to me about the first one that I feel the second did not deliver on. One, a beautiful neo-noir aesthetic. Two, simplicity. The first Terminator film had a simple plot. The characters are trying not to die. There it is. That’s all you need.

2. Move On!

Now I know I just said I wanted the series to return to its roots but for the love of God can we leave the Connors and time travel out of this! What made the original work so well is that it was fresh! We didn’t know how time travel worked, we didn’t know why the Connors were so important! But at this point both elements have been expanded upon to the point where I don’t care anymore! Time travel’s been overly complicated and I’m sick of hearing about John Connor! Let’s return to making it feel fresh! Let’s explore the future (and yes, I know Salvation did that but they still kept the focus on what we knew about the future i.e John Connor is cool dude)! And as sad as it is to say, I kind of don’t want Arnold back. Yeah, sorry. Nothing against him but people tend to think you need him to have a successful Terminator film but he’s successful because of Terminator. Not vice versa. He’s old. Let him and his catchphrases rest.

3. A Tight Budget/Scale:

Terminator movies have gotten complicated. Let’s dial it back a bit by changing perspectives; John Connor and Skynet are big and bloated at this point! Give me a smaller and more intimate story; maybe from a random resistance fighter whose stranded in an isolated location with a terminator and has to survive with limited resources. You can name drop John Connor but don’t put the focus on him or his family. Keep him as this faceless messiah figure we hear about but never meet. This goes hand in hand with returning to the roots since Terminator 1 was a smaller and more intimate film than its successors.

4. No Hero Terminator/Keep Him Evil: This helps to keep it simple and avoid copying T2 again. It also lets out new protagonist(s) fight their own battles and make it a genuine struggle while making the original model scary again. Also, if you have a heroic Terminator you have to make what he’s up against bigger and badder. They’ve tried that three times already with the T-1000, the T-X, and whatever the hell was in Genysis; with the only the T-1000 being memorable. Hell, you can keep Arnold in just make him the bad guy again and I’ll be happy. No fancy upgrades just a big tough to kill dude who won’t stop coming after you. Keep it simple.

5. Make it Good.

You can ignore everything on this list but if it’s a genuinely good movie then that’s all that matters to me.