#it's mid july ffs

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What if I play Here Comes the Sun non stop for the foreseeable future, would that make the actual sun come around these parts ever I wonder

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Fant4stic: A Fantastic Failure (Part 1)

As I���m sure many of you are aware, this past Valentines Day, Marvel Studios released a poster promoting their upcoming Fantastic Four film, releasing about a year from now in July of 2025.

This has gotten people cautiously interested.....

Keyword: cautiously.

It's no surprise that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been on a major decline since Avengers: Endgame.

Largely due to ridiculous quantity of projects they've been pumping out a year.

Plus that fact that a lot of these projects quality-wise have been either mid or just straight up dog-shit.

This has led to the ongoing trend known as Marvel Fatigue.

Not helping any of this is some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that was revealed over the last few years.

From having their projects being helm by people who have little to no knowledge or care for the characters and the source material they're working it.

And we all know how well that turns out....

To more infamously, overworking and underpaying their VFX artists.

And given some of the shit they've had to animate, they NEED to start getting better pay....

Yes.....what you just saw was a real scene from a Marvel movie.

And just to add salt to the wound, in addition to the declining interest, is that these recent Marvel films have not been performing well financially.

Hell, The Marvels (their latest film) ended up being a box office bomb, only grossing $206 million worldwide against production budget of $274.8 million. Not only that, but it now holds the record for being the lowest grossing film in the franchise's history.

So yeah.....

Although the casting is pretty decent, the inclusion of H.E.R.B.I.E. was quite the surprise, and the 60s aesthetic/vibes are pretty cool, people still have their reservations for this film given the MCU's track record lately.

However, one thing everyone does seem to agree on is that this film can't be any worse than their last cinematic outing.....

The Fantastic Four have had, funnily enough, have had four feature-length adaptations.

The very first film adaptation of Marvel's First Family was the legendary 1994 film from Roger Corman.

Although it was completed and ready to release, it famously never got released (which I'll touch a little more on later).

However, copies of the film have been circulating since May 31st, 1994.

Over a decade later, the Fantastic Four would get their technically second but first true feature-length film in the form of the 2005 film, directed by Tim Story, and released by 20th Century Fox on July 8th, 2005.

This film would also get a sequel just two years later with Rise of the Silver Surfer, directed again by Story and released by Fox on June 15th, 2007.

And finally, after almost a decade away from the big screen, the FF would return with their fourth and until the MCU film releases, latest film, the 2015 film, or more commonly known as Fant4stic, as that's how it was abbreviated...

A Fantastic Nightmare:

In August 2009, Fox would announce that they would be rebooting the Fantastic Four film franchise.

The reason why is because although Rise of the Silver Surfer did fairly well, grossing $301 million worldwide against a $120-130 million budget, the total gross was notably lesser than the first movie, which grossed $333.5 million worldwide.

And although there were plans for a third movie and a spin-off film focusing on The Silver Surfer, Fox feared those films could possibly be money sinks and opted to reboot the film franchise as a whole.

For the next three years, not a whole lot of progress was done with the planned reboot, apart from the hiring of producers and writers and the consideration of actors.

But the production of the film really started rolling in July 2012 when Fox hired Josh Trank, who was fresh off his directorial debut, Chronicle, to direct film.

And accompanying him was Jeremy Slater, who was hired to the screenwriter for the film, alongside X-Men: First Class writers Zack Stentz and Ashley Edward Miller.

And this where everything went to shit....

If any of you even know about Fant4stic, you'd probably know that it has one of the most turbulent production histories in the last decade of filmmaking.

Before we start actually looking into the production itself, first we need to look at the reason why it was even made in the first place.

And this point brings me back to the 1994 film.

Both that and this film were created for the exact same reason: copyright hoarding.

In 1983, the other producer of the 1994 film, Bernd Eichinger met with Fantastic Four co-creator and the Marvel legend himself, Stan Lee, in Los Angeles to explore obtaining an option for a movie based on Marvel's First Family. The option was not available until three years later, when Eichinger's production company Constantin Film obtained it for a price the producer called "not enormous" and which has been estimated to be $250,000.

Eichinger's initial plan was to have the movie be a full-on blockbuster directed by Chris Columbus, complete with a cast full of big name celebrities.

But despite some interest from Warner Bros. Pictures and Columbia Pictures, budget concerns precluded any production, and with the option scheduled to expire on December 31, 1992, Constantin asked Marvel for an extension. With none forthcoming, Eichinger planned to retain his option by producing a low-budget Fantastic Four film. In September 1992, he teamed with B-movie specialist Roger Corman, who agreed to produce the film on a $1 million budget, to be released by his distribution company New Horizons Pictures.

But we all know how that ended....

Essentially, the entire of that movie ended up in a one big legal loop-hole that only benefitted Eichinger, leaving dozen of people's lives played with and their hopes and dreams crushed.

And in the case of Fant4stic, it's essentially a tragic case of history repeating itself.

Fox only produced Fant4stic not because they were genuinely interested in doing another film based on The First Family, they only did it to use it as an excuse to latch onto the film rights.

As when the 2010s rolled out, Fox's time with the Fantastic Four were about to come to an end as eventually, their film rights would've been reverted back to Marvel, and to that extension, The Walt Disney Company.

But if they had made another Fantastic Four project pretty soon, they would be able to extend their time with the film rights.

And from what I've heard, it seems like Fox wanted to get this film rolling as quick possible with the approaching deadline to the rights.

That's probably the reason why they hired Trank out of all people that could've directed this film.

Which for a film like this, you would think that Fox would go with a director that's a bit more experienced since remember: upon his hiring as director for the project, Trank was fresh off his very first directorial film.

Though you're probably wondering what I meant when I said everything went to shit upon Trank's hiring, well....

There have been plenty of cases where the productions of films have been absolute chores for one of two reasons.

The director or producers just being infamously difficult to work with, like David O'Russel or Michael Bay.

The studio constantly meddling in the production, like....basically every film studio to ever exist.

But Fant4stic is one of the rare cases where both the studio and the director made the production a living hell.

Starting off with Fox (as funnily enough, they did the least amount of damage to the production), they were guilty of....

Forcing constant rewrites

Giving Trank a much-lower budget than initially promised

Hiring a prominent special effect expert for the film, then firing him and not telling Trank about it

When production finally wrapped on the film, they were so unhappy with the finished product, that they ordered massive reshoots, including the film climax

Upon finishing the reshoots, they locked Trank out of the editing room and finishing the theatrical cut of film without him

As for Trank.....Hoo boy! Where do I even begin?

He was guilty for......

Constantly butting heads with the studio executives

Treating the cast and crew like absolute shit

Not showing up to the set on time

Usually showing up completely hammered

Frequently hiding himself from everyone on set

Constantly getting into fights (verbal and even physical) with the cast and crew

Letting his dogs loose and causing $100,000 worth of damage on the set

Constantly fighting with the screenwriters about what the tone of the film should be like

And writing a now infamous tweet on Twitter just the day before the film's release, only to be instantly deleted the next day

And remember, this was the second film that Trank directed....

I've heard of Hollywood getting to people, but it usually takes a couple of years. But in the case of Trank, it practically happened overnight.

And funnily enough, a lot of this behind-the-scenes drama was revealed to the public even before the movie had an official trailer.

So expectations for this film were not particularly very high....

But now that we got that out of the way, let's talk about the actual movie itself.

The "Story":

Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter since youth, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored research institute for young prodigies. Reed is recruited to join them and aid Storm's children, scientist Sue Storm and engineer Johnny Storm, into completing a "Quantum Gate" designed by Storm's protégé Victor Von Doom.

The experiment is successful, and the facility's supervisor, Dr. Allen, plans to send a group from NASA to venture into a parallel dimension��known as "Planet Zero". Disappointed at being denied the chance to join the expedition, Reed, Johnny and Victor along with Ben use the Quantum Gate to embark on an unsanctioned voyage to Planet Zero, which they learn is a world filled with otherworldly substances. Victor attempts to touch the green lava-like substance, causing the ground they are standing on to erupt. Reed, Johnny and Ben return to their shuttle just as Sue brings them back to Earth and Victor is seemingly killed after he falls into the collapsing landscape. The Quantum Gate explodes, altering Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben on a genetic level and granting them superhuman abilities beyond their control: Reed can stretch like rubber, Sue can become invisible and generate force fields, Johnny can engulf his entire body in fire and fly, and Ben acquires a rock-like hide which gives him superhuman strength and durability. They are then placed in government custody to be studied and have their abilities tested. Blaming himself for the accident, Reed escapes from the facility and tries to find a cure for their changes.

One year later in 2015, Reed is now a fugitive and has built a suit that helps him control his ability. Hiding in Central America, he is eventually found by the United States military with Sue's help and captured by Ben, who has become a military asset along with Johnny and Sue. Johnny and Sue have been outfitted with specialized suits designed to help them control their abilities. Reed is brought to Area 57, where Dr. Allen conscripts him into rebuilding the Quantum Gate in exchange for giving Reed the resources to find a cure. Arriving in Planet Zero, Dr. Allen's explorers find Victor, who has been fused to his spacesuit and now possesses telekinetic abilities, and bring him back to Earth. Believing that Earth needs to be destroyed to protect his new home world from future invasions, Victor kills the scientists and soldiers in the base, including Dr. Allen and Professor Storm, and returns to Planet Zero using the Quantum Gate, with Ben, Johnny, Reed and Sue in pursuit.

Now dubbing himself "Doom", Victor activates a portal on Planet Zero using the Quantum Gate and begins consuming the landscape of the Earth using a structure he created from the rock formations in Planet Zero. He is confronted by the four and, after a short battle, Ben punches Doom into the portal's energy beam, disintegrating him while Johnny closes the portal. Returning to Earth, the group is rewarded by the US military for their heroics by being given a new base of operations known as "Central City" to study their abilities without government interference. They decide to use their powers to help people and adopt the mantle of the "Fantastic Four".

Yeah, I basically just copied and pasted the premise of this film from Wikipedia.

The reason why is because there really isn't a whole lot to talk about.

The plot is paper thin, and the execution doesn't do it any favors.

In terms of adaptation, this film doesn't really adapt any notable Fantastic Four storylines.

The closest thing to this is that it's a loose adaptation of the first volume/arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four.

You can see this with elements such as.....

The Four themselves being depicted as teenagers/young adults

Reed and Ben being childhood best friends

Franklin Storm actually being a major character whereas in the 616 universe, he's largely irrelevant

The Baxter Building being turned into The Baxter Foundation

The reason for them getting their powers being a teleportation experiment gone wrong

And Doom being involved with the experiment as well and his famous armor being his actual skin instead

However, that's as far as it goes. They don't really bother to adapt the actual story of that arc, which has the team facing off against The Mole Man.

But one of the strangest story choices with this movie is in the case of Planet Zero.

Planet Zero is reportedly suppose to be Fant4stic's version of The Negative Zone.

Why they didn't just call it The Negative Zone, I have no clue.....

But as most of you know, The Negative Zone is famous for being the realm of one of the Fantastic Four's most prominent foes: Annihilus.

And with their version of The Negative Zone, you would think they would probably feature Annihilus in this movie.

But no! He doesn't appear at all nor is he even alluded to. In fact, Planet Zero is depicted as being a lifeless wasteland, with no living organisms in sight.

The Sucky Tone:

In contrast to the previous 3 FF films, this one is far more darker, serious and grounded.

This was because Trank wanted the tone of the movie to be, in his own words, "gritty, serious and as realistic as possible".

And it's safe to that Fox also encouraged this tone as well.

From the early 2000s into the mid-2010s, a good chunk of superhero films relied on taking superheroes and making them darker, gritty and more grounded than they were in their source material and other adaptations.

This can be largely attributed to the X-Men films, which were more serious and grounded than the comics and their other adaptations.

This was done because after the failure of Batman and Robin, comic books movies were briefly seen as cinema poison.

The X-Men films, Daredevil, Elektra, The Dark Knight trilogy, The Amazing Spider-Man duology, and even the first few films of the DC Extended Universe all prided themselves on being more dark, gritter and grounded than their source material and sometimes even predecessors in film.

And while most of these movies are still fondly remembered, I'm gonna have to come out and say this....

I'm not a fan of these films.

Apart from some of these characters just not fitting with a darker and gritty tone, the biggest reason why I don't like these films is because a lot of them reek of this sense of embarrassment and contempt for the source material they're adapting.

Like, some of them are not even being that subtle about it.

I am so glad this was finally made fun of in an actual Marvel project.

And in an age where a lot of producers and directors working on a projects based on long, established properties have been open about either not caring or straight up disliking the properties they're working with, its made many of these films age kinda poorly.

However, there were some superheroes films from the 2000s that didn't fall into this trap.

Undoubtedly the biggest is in the case of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy.

Those films were unabashedly campy, and were obviously made by people who legitimately cared about, understood and loved Spider-Man.

That's why despite of a having a few faults, the films are still talked about in high regards, even after two decades.

And notably more so than the films I just mentioned.

But back to the film itself, to the Fantastic Four having a dark, gritty and grounded tone.

Most people, myself include, would have to say....

Fantastic Four, while having their dark and serious moments here and there, are some of the most light-hearted characters in Marvel.

Trying to make them dark and gritty just feels incredibly tryhard.

And as for being grounded and realistic.

That's completely antithetical to the Fantastic Four.

They're adventurers and explorers. And many of their adventures have taken place in space, other dimensions, and alternate realties. It's one of the core appeals of the team.

And as you would expect, this tone did not do the film any favors.

Fant4stic is so. Fucking. Boring.

It is deathly serious with no sense of levity or humor to be detected.

The music is bland and generic, the color grading is dull as hell, and the performances....

Dear God....the performances.

I think this actually perfectly segways into the biggest and most important part of this post:

The "Characters":

One of the strongest draws of The Fantastic Four is, well, The Fantastic Four themselves.

All of them are very likable, charming, interesting and endearing in their own way.

And does Fant4stic capture anything that made these characters so great?

Let's start off with Reed first.

Reed in the comics and in just about every other medium is a genius, a polymath to exact.

In fact, he's tied with another one of the main characters I'll be talking about soon as being the smartest person in the Marvel Universe.

But besides being intelligent, Reed is also curious, adventurous, charismatic, level-headed, kind, and most importantly of all, passionate.

Reed is passionate about two things:

-His love for his family

-And his love for science and adventure

And while he can be little over-analytical, a little reserved at times, and have a bit of a one-mind track (so much so that he's been headcanon by just about everyone to be autistic), Reed overall is a very kind, caring and compassionate person.

Hell, he (along with the rest of the four) are some of the most morally righteous people in the Marvel Universe alongside Spider-Man and Captain America.

Now let's look at Fant4astic Reed....

Apart from being intelligent, level-headed and maybe curious, has none of the traits I just listed.

He's not adventurous.

He's not shown to be all that kind.

He has all the charisma of a funeral service.

And worst of all, he's not very passionate.

In the comics, Reed loves science and is always down to learn something new.

But the way Reed approaches science in the movie, it feels more like an obligation rather than something he's actually passionate about.

Next we have Sue.

Sue is pretty much the mother figure of the four.

Warm, caring, kind, mindful and responsible.

But she's also incredibly terrifying.

Sue's the most powerful member of the four and has proven to be a force to be reckon with for anyone who cares to hurt her family, especially her children.

Now let's look at Fant4astic Sue....

Well, how do l put this in the kindest way possible?

Yeah. Apart from being introverted, she's also shown to be incredibly sarcastic.

Like, modern animated adult comedy levels of being sarcastic.

And needlessly so.

Apart from still being responsible, Sue shows none of the traits I just listed.

The only character see isn’t needlessly sarcastic to is her and Johnny’s father, Franklin.

This version of the character is the walking definition of a killjoy.

Next we have her brother Johnny.

Johnny is the little brother of the group, since he’s the youngest.

He’s cocky, brash, hotheaded, a bit of a prankster, and kind of a showoff.

But in spite of that, Johnny is also a very kind and loyal individual.

The dude has been show that he’s willing to die for those he deeply cares for.

Now let’s look at Fant4stic Johnny.

Johnny is really the only character who somewhat resembles his original comic counterpart.

But even then, it still feels somewhat subdued.

Plus he has the same issue as Sue with him being needlessly a dick to people.

Like, Johnny had his dickish moments, but wasn't a massive asshole.

And plus, I should probably address the elephant in the room.

As you could probably tell for yourselves, Johnny here is African-American, making him and Sue adopted siblings.

And this would be the very first (and so far only) iterations of the Storm siblings who weren't blood-related.

And in all honesty, I'm not a fan of it.

Having Johnny and Sue not being biologically-related just feels wrong.

That would be like having Mario and Luigi not being related.

Or Goofy and Max.

Or Dante and Vergil.

Sometimes, you can't alter an important familial relationship.

As for why Johnny was made black while Sue wasn't.

Well....

Apparently, the Storm Family were all gonna be black, including Sue. But the higher-ups were not really onboard with Sue being black (I'm not even gonna try to make sense of that). But they were allowed to make Johnny and Franklin black. So thus, Sue ended up being adopted by the Storms.

And I must ask....

Why?

Why did they want to make the entire Storm family black?

I'm guessing it was to give a new fresh take on the characters.

But that's kind of debatable when we get to a point I'll bring up a little later.

And in terms of casting a black Johnny Storm, I don't think Michael B. Jordan was the best choice.

He just doesn't look like how most people would see Johnny as being black.

I think there's two reasons for that.

The hairstyle. Johnny has usually been depicted as having spiky hair. I think if had Michael those upward locs, then I could see him passing for a black Johnny.

The age of the actor. In fact, this applies to all the actors of the four as well. In the film, the four are said to be teenagers, specifically fresh out of high school age. So basically they would be around 17-18 years old. It's hard to see any of them as being around that age range when the actors who played them were, at the time of the film's release, two of them were 28, one of them was 29, and one of them was 32! Did they really just not bother to look for actors who were like college-aged?

Now we come to Ben.

Ben is undoubtedly most people's favorite member of the Fantastic Four.

While gruff, tough and a tad pessimistic and grumpy due to his circumstances, underneath Ben's rocky exterior beats a heart of gold.

He deeply cares for his friends and family and will go out of his way to protect them no matter what.

Now let's look at Fant4astic Ben.

Ben, being only rivaled by the next character we'll be talking about, is the character who barely resembles his original counterpart the most.

First, there's his appearance. Specifically before he became The Thing.

Out of this already not-good cast, Jaime Bell was probably the most miscasted of them all.

For starters, he just doesn't look like Ben Grimm at all.

Like, take a look at this guy and tell me that he looks remotely like the pre-Thing Ben in the comics.

Basically, Jaime suffers from the same problem that Topher Grace had when he played Venom.

He's too short. Ben, even before becoming The Thing, was usually depicted as being pretty tall, 6'0 to be exact. Jaime is 5'7. The dude is literally no taller than me (and I'm 5'8).

He's way too skinny. Once again, even before becoming The Thing, Ben is usually shown to be a pretty muscular-looking guy. He is canonically a skilled brawler (due to him being part of a street gang during his youth) and played on the football team in high school.

Essentially, even before becoming The Thing, Ben looked like a guy who could and can beat your ass.

This Ben looks like the guy who YOU would be beating the ass of!

Then there's his characterization.

This Ben has none of the traits I just mentioned.

Apart from being kind, he's typically portrayed as being soft-spoken and somewhat meek.

Which just don't fit the character of Ben Grimm at all.

But I think the worst part of his characterization is that he doesn't even have a Brooklyn accent!

Yeah! He doesn't have a Brooklyn accent! Despite it being one of the most famous elements of his character.

I'm the guy who think that a character should have their accent intact if they originally had it.

I'm one of the few people who find it kinda annoying that Black Widow doesn't speak with a Russian accent anymore despite speaking with one all-time in her appearances pre-MCU.

And I'm sure that I'm the only guy on the planet who actually wants Magneto to speak with a German accent.

But Ben not speaking with a Brooklyn accent feels both disgraceful and just plain wrong.

But perhaps the worst thing about this version of Ben is with his trademark catchphrase: It's Clobberin' Time!

In this film, they decided to give the catchphrase an origin.

Because we all know that what's the fans were certainly asking for it....

But anyway, in the Fant4stic continuity, It's Clobberin' Time was what Ben's abusive older brother who regularly beat him, would say right before kicking his ass!

Why?

Why was this added?

Who thought this was a good idea?

It adds nothing to this already nothing story.

Having Ben's catchphrase being the result of abuse from his older brother comes off as both incredibly fucked-up and like the rest of this cursed movie, unnecessarily tryhard.

The people who thought that giving this iconic catchphrase a gritty reason for existing need to get repeatedly smacked in the face.

But like I mentioned before, there's only one other character in the movie that rivals Ben in being the biggest spit in the face to their original counterpart.

But I'm gonna save that for next time.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to end this post right here since I'm pretty close to reaching the media post limit.

So this is gonna be a two-parter.

Wasn't the original intent, but hey, you can't win them all.

But tune in next time where I finish looking at this terrible movie.

And beware....I'm not gonna be very kind.

[avnj0gia]

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Tagged by @just-a-pole-sir

1. 3 ships - Billy and Stu, Gomez and Morticia, Sciles

2. first ever ship - I think it was Aladdin and Hercules based off a single crossover episode of their cartoons

3. last song - Snakes On A Plane (Bring It) by Cobra Starship

4. last movie - The Shining

5. currently reading - Off Season by Jack Ketchum

6. currently watching - The Morning Show, The Simpsons, trying to give the Scream tv show another chance but uh…yeah…

7. currently consuming - Cinnamon raisin bagel

8. currently craving - Cold weather, it's mid-October ffs it still feels like July I've had enough

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[alottamoney]

Hey @perfectpoetryfest

I am that anon and I'll definitely remain anonymous coz I don't want a deranged jikkr like yourself coming anywhere near my blog.

I already said that this dumb thing doesn't matter to me at all but since you all have been coming to our blogs with these pics I thought I'll just let you know that those two aren't sitting together. Repeating this is making me feel dumb coz how is this so triggering for you that you've left 10+ comments arguing with admin??

I said that they aren't sitting together bcs jk's pic, which is clearer than that really blurry pic, where you all have pointed to a person who has a paper infront of his face as jk. The people surrounding jk are different than the ones sorrounding jm and that sheet for face person. Those were my only observations coz that's the most that you can observe from that microwave quality pic.

Didn't we get that very clear 59 and 60 pic yesterday? They are standing together in it and no one's denying it coz it's clear. They have enlisted together in a place where they know no one, it's only been 10 days, they are obviously going to stick together. I had already said this but you seem to have gotten stuck on the not sitting together part.

You didn't answer the admin's question as to why this is so important to you. Can you please answer this instead of skirting the que and asking a counter question? Why is this dumb thing so imp to you jikkrs that you are roaming around arguing with people over this? Everyone there is sitting with someone else, does that somehow prove that they are dating?

This is only the first batch of pics though. I am sure there will be more, clearer ones. You should put a hold on the gloating till then, although I will never understand what in these pics is even worth gloating about, even if they were sitting together these wouldn't even have been mid imo.

It's not like I don't know that tkkrs don't visit jikk blogs to gloat, we have our own set of shippers with similar mindset as you, we still have better things to gloat about. Speaking of pics worth gloating, did you not see that very clear tkk strip from jk's listening party? It was thankfully posted by jm first or your side would've jumped on the "tae is attention seeker" bandwagon again. Or that shirtless facetime one?

Did you not hear that jk wanted to join sdt as well? Said so himself with a very sad expression btw. Or that he sings "love songs" for tae? Or that he went out with not just tae but even his close friends? Goes on trips with tae(that pic where tae said they dressed each other) and his friends, that snowboarding one. He doesn't even need bh camera crew for those trips. You all desperately tried to paint that July sighting as a lover's retreat when we were pointing out at the clear presence of cameras and mics and it really turned out to be bh content after all.

Did you not watch that last bb? He wasn't even aware that jm still hadn't shaved his head. Now that's not very coupley of them is it?

This whole solo era has given us so many offcam (talking about bh cams here) interactions that tkkrs have made a whole calender out of them while jk and jm barely interacted for two mins outside of official setup. Your ship is nothing without bh. It was created by BH, is being relentlessly promoted by them and will def end the day they leave bh coz they were nowhere near each other without cameras the entire solo era . Jk even shared his solo with tae first.

Also, stop romanticising their military service ffs. Use some logic while thinking about this, I know it's a foreign concept to a lot of jikkrs but try for once. No queer couple in their right minds would want to go together in such an extremely homophobic place. Do you think a couple whose relationship is that old will be able to hide it for 18 months when being from BTS has already put a spotlight on them?

Wow I wrote quite a lot here huh 😳. perfectpoetryfest please do read it all. I am a 100% sure that you will not agree with anything I said here but atleast I am writing about tkk on a tkk blog, what are you jikkrs trying to do here anyways?

Oh boy. They're currently occupied but I'm sure they'll get to you, anon. You're also gonna have to take responsibility for the incoming deranged rants. lol

[najuwu]

FFS CAN PEOPLE PLEEEEASE TAG TEARS OF THE KINGDOM CONTENT CORRECTLY I WILL FUCKING GO INSANE IF I SEE ANY MORE SPOILERS CONSIDERING ALL THE TROUBLE IM HAVING TO GO THROUGH TO AVOID ANY AND ALL CONTENT RELATED TO IT UNTIL I CAN PLAY THIS FUCKING GAME IN MID JULY

[theshadowsong]

Earth will remember you

I'm bored so I wrote something today which is not totally crap.

Aloha! I had a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff fanfiction idea for Black Butler while reading another ff where the reader got sucked into the anime… and I will try to write for it :D I'm not quite sure what I want to do with romantic and platonic relationships, but I'm sure there will be something. This will take place in 2023 and the 19th century (probably just before the Jack the Ripper murders begin) and will also bring some non canon characters with it ^^

First chapter, someone meeting our favourite mortician <3

1. One Hero's Journey

It was cold the day it first happened. It had rained the night before and the road, trees and meadows were shrouded in a wet haze. There was a church slightly elevated on a hill, and if you tried a little you could see the lights of London through the thick veil of mist. It was still quite early, about 9 o'clock in the morning. People had gathered to say goodbye. To her, Fay's mother.

There were flowers in front of the altar and in the center was a plain coffin made of dark wood. It was closed, but behind it was a large portrait with a beautiful woman on it. She had long wavy hair as orange as the sunset and bright blue eyes. She smiled confidently at the camera, her eyes shining with the joy of life. Fay remembered the day. She was thirteen and had been to the Red Sea with her mother and father. It was a colorful sea, in stark contrast to the harsh, rocky landscape of the Sinai. Not to mention the few palm trees. Her mother wore a white dress of thin linen and pretty ornaments at the shoulder and collarbone. Fay herself had inherited her hair from her mother and unfortunately also the quickly developing sunburn of her pale skin. The honey-colored eyes, however, she had from her father.

The latter stood silently beside her while the priest addressed his words to the people in the church.

"Jesus Christ says: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."

Fay let her eyes wander around the room and stopped on a small figure. Not far away, she stood holding the shoulders of an even smaller figure. Prim and her little sister Julie. Fay could see that her best friend had tried to tame her sister's wild dark curls, more or less in vain. Prim smiled at her and she suddenly felt a little better.

The priest's funeral oration went on for quite a while, but Fay felt unable to listen properly. She could feel the stares on her when he got to the point where he talked about the daughter and husband she left behind and leaned slightly against her dad, who immediately put an arm around her.

She still couldn't quite grasp what had actually happened. Two weeks earlier, her mother had received a phone call, claiming to be about a sick cousin she had never heard of. Esther, Fay's mother, packed a few things and assured her not to worry and that she would be back soon. Her daughter was used to her mother leaving important things out about her life. That she didn't even talk to her father about it, but she had never disappeared like this before. So Fay was all the more surprised by the news that she had supposedly died in a car accident. And she couldn't believe it. No, she was actually sure it hadn't been a car accident. The autopsy had revealed little to nothing, and neither had the witnesses to the accident. Fay sighed. Some things about her mother's life she would probably never know…

She could no longer hear the priest speaking and looked up. She hadn't noticed that the speech was over and with a quick glance at her somewhat confused father, she noticed that the priest had stopped speaking in mid-sentence. He stared into the air and seemed so shocked that no more words would come out of him. Fay followed his gaze and then many things happened at once. The first thing she noticed was that she couldn't see what had frightened the priest so much as she got goose bumps all over her body. An unnatural heaviness was in the air, but most of all she could hear a loud bang. Someone had shot? Then screams and Fay was pushed aside, she could see her father standing in front of her as another shot rang out and there she saw him. An older man, he had a black hat pulled low on his face so she couldn't see his eyes, but he was aiming a pistol right at her... and fired.

Everything happened so fast. Fay cried out and raised her hands in front of her face as she dropped. Adrenaline coursed through her body as she fell hard between the pews. For a moment she was freezing while at the same time the frightening voices around her died away. For a moment she just lay on the cold floor trying to catch her breath, eyes closed and shaking all over. It was silent. Too quiet.

She mustered all her strength to open her eyes and stared into a gloomy, dusty church room. Faint light streamed through the stained glass windows and made little dots of light dance on the dirty wooden floor. Orange curls fell into her face, some clips had come loose from her hairdo and her hair was now flying around her in a tangled mess. Fay took a quick breath before she managed to pull herself together. Half sitting between the pews of the church, she stared in confusion at the face of an elderly lady who looked at her in disgust and then turned away from her, shaking her head. What had just happened? And where were all the people? Her mother's coffin was also no longer where it should be. Instead, a few candles were burning at the altar.

Fay let her eyes wander back to the woman who was gathering her dress to stand up. Gathering her dress? Fay gasped as she looked closer at the strange clothing. It was a cream-colored long dress that seemed to come straight out of the 19th century. Lots of adornments and extravagant skirt with lots of ruffles. She wore a fat pearl necklace with it. She looked as out of place in the dirty, dark church as Fay felt.

"Have you no decency girl?" The woman shouted at her as she passed her on her way out. Fay was still half lying on the floor in the dust. She looked down at herself in confusion for a moment, still wearing black knee length dress for the funeral with a thin jacket around her shoulder and black ankle boots. When she looked up again the woman was already gone. Swaying slightly, she stood up. Her knees were a little wobbly and the adrenaline still hadn't quite worn off. What was going on here? With a few uncertain steps, Fay followed the woman outside and was blinded by the unexpected sun. It was still quite fresh, but the fog had lifted and there were only a few small clouds in the sky. The first thing she noticed when she got outside was the view over London. Fay's breath caught in her throat. It was definitely London, but there was a dark smoke over the city and she could not make out the London Eye, the Gherkin or any of the other modern buildings of the capital of England.

Everything told her how impossible it was, that she had just hit her head or maybe even been shot and she was in a coma in the hospital. Yes, that definitely had to be it.

"You seem a little lost, dearie." Fay winced, prompting only a soft chuckle from the speaker. She had only just noticed the man standing very close to the entrance of the church, next to a tombstone. And he only made her confusion greater than it already was. He had long, gray hair and long bangs that hung down his face and a large, clearly visible scar. He wore a black coat with sleeves long enough to cover his hands. „…Undertaker?“

"Oh?! Do we know each other?" He wore his typical wide smile as he scurried closer to get a better look at her. Maybe a little too close. Instinctively, Fay flinched back a little as he stopped just inches from her face. "No, I don't think I've seen you before." He poked her cheek with one of his long fingernails.

Fay did not want to, no, could not finish her thought. Because if she admitted to herself what really happened, she would surely burst into tears immediately. She was in the 19th century and the man in front of her was Undertaker. A man she thought was only fiction and yet here he was, standing right in front of her. "Are you all right, dearie?" He asked her with a slightly worried under tone. "No." Was all Fay could say before she exhaled audibly. She hadn't even realized she'd been holding her breath. "This is crazy." She avoided the Reaper's gaze and instead stared at the view in front of her. How the hell was she going to explain this? He was from a story. This wasn't Real. A thousand thoughts buzzed in her head as one stood out clearer than any other. How did she get back? She instinctively grabbed her chest where the gunshot should have hit her. "I got shot." She spoke more to herself than to Undertaker.

"Oh, God, my dad! My friends! I don't even know what happened to them." She whirled around and ran back into the church. Leaving a slightly puzzled mortician behind. "Come on take me back!" She shouted to no one in particular. "You've got to be kidding me." She hissed angrily as she heard Undertaker's footsteps and turned to face him. He just stood there looking at her with interest. At least she thought he was, because she couldn't see his eyes. "I don't think he hears you, dearie." He chuckled, pointing to the cross on the altar. "What?" Fea was still so confused… "Oh." she just said, realizing he meant God. "I'm not really religious." This made the Reaper laugh: „You are an interesting one aren’t you?“ This was the strangest conversation she had ever had.

"I just want to go home." She murmured. Undertaker put his long fingers around her shoulder. Fea sensed that he was trying to reassure her. But his touch made her realize that she was standing alone in a dark church in the 19th century with a man she knew not only to be a Shinigami but also to be running a secret necromancer's ring. She stiffened and took a deep breath, the Reaper immediately letting go of her. When Fay looked at him again, he tilted his head, put his hand to his face and made a thoughtful gesture. So he looked a bit like confused puppy and Fea couldn't help relaxing a bit. "You seem quite uncomfortable, dearie. Would you like some tea?"

Unable to think of anything better, she nodded silently, earning another grin from Undertaker. "Perfect. Come on little one, I don't bite." He chuckled and gently pushed her out of the church. This was all so absurd, she thought.

„By the way, whats your name dearie?“

[capoteera]

Sorry it’s long

A few things:

I thought she is the wife of his best friend.

mid: No. now enough about these people.

Capt: No that’s Julie anon

Dude Chelsea wasn’t even his friend. She’s TARA’S friend. Trash was taken out months ago.

Just shows you how little they know and they have no MA sources. Chelsea is married to Chris’s oldest friend, one of the tight 8 and was even at their wedding as is Julie married to one of the tight 8.

Oh yeah she was also at MA and PT wedding. Didn’t know Tara could invite her friends 🤣

Why are you people mentioning these people? Tara and Chelsea haven’t done shit in months either . Ffs we’re on Tara . She’s not involved

You don’t think maybe it’s because of all the abuse that has been thrown at her that she doesn’t post Chris and she only ever posted him about twice a year🙄

He’s her golden boy because he pays for everything including her theater. He’s a typical mamas boy for a reason.

First he and his siblings grew up in the theatre. His nephews, niece and sisters are involved. He is on the advisory board so when the company needed a new home he stepped in and brought them an old church. (Actually it was done anonymously but everyone knows who it was) He didn’t do it just for mummy. He gave back to the place that fueled his love for acting and his family is still heavy involved it. He helped secure a base for the many kids that have/will and in future attend it.🤦🏻‍♀️

Snakes that aren’t even actually friends with Evans? Shocker. Mark should pick better fuck buddies.

Nichelle is now Mark’s buddy. Hope someone told his long term partner who he works with and is also friends with Nichelle.

And for the record Jamie is married to Bryan who Chris has been friends with for over 20yrs 🙄

I told you all a long ass time ago he cut people out. He’s not even close to mark. That’s a business partner.

He’s known Mark since 2010 when they worked on a movie they are friends. Mark was the one he could advise from for ASP and then Mark and Joe got on board. You just don’t randomly go to someone you hardly know to do that. Also Mark was at the MA wedding.

The Gp isn't going to sit there and try and figure out when the picture was. It's serving a purpose and t hat's that. not like the Gp is really looking at any of this because they were checked out long ago

As for JA posting an old pic they do realise outside the few following JA no one knows he the hell he is so wouldn’t be watching or care anyway.🙄

Funny TMZ found Lana Del Ray’s marriage license before her wedding but they still haven’t found Chris’s, I wonder why that is. LOL

If they found it before the wedding it means it was send to them. You normally can’t found the marriage licence before the wedding only after it’s registered. How Lisbon wedding looking or have we forgotten about that🤣🤣

And I see the BUA is coming soon - that window is fast closing🤣

Perfectly summed it all up!!! I hope that window slams on their heads lmao

[glitterndissolution]

Why cant I get below 184 ffs ... I'm starting at a new gym today so hopefully this ramps up my weightloss . I have clothing that NEEDS to fit by mid July

[madelinetess]

Nothing better than consuming christmas specific media in any other time of the year. Mid july? Christmas movies! Late spring? Christmas themed ff!

[alexalblondo]

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[spoogliedoo]

a collection of my favourite friendly-fire incidents, in no particular order

14–18 August, 1944: During the march to close the Falaise Pocket, the South Alberta regiment of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division sustained over 57 casualties from six different strafing attacks performed by RAF Spitfires. Despite the smoke columns from their destroyed vehicles, as well as the deployment of yellow signalling smoke -- the designated colour for friendly ground forces -- the strafing runs continued. One of the regimental officers in the 4th Divison flew off the fucking handle, and ordered his entire battery of self-propelled Crusader Anti-Aircraft tanks to fire on nearby RAF aircraft. [1] 

2 January, 1966: An American Cessna O-1 Bird Dog flying over Bao Trai (now Hậu Nghĩa) was struck mid-air by indirect fire from an ANZAC howitzer battery, firing at a nearby NLF position. Like the fucking shells were falling, and this moron flew straight into the barrage and got hit. Mid-air. The tail of the plane separated from the airframe, and the pilot died on impact with the ground. [2]

10 May, 1940: A German Heinkel He-111 bomber took off from an airstrip to bomb the French city of Dijon during the Battle of France. However, due to some fucking insane calculation errors, they managed to fly back into Germany, and drop 69 bombs on the city of Freiburg instead, killing 57 German civilians. Of course the Nazis didn’t want to admit that their own city was bombed by the Luftwaffe, so Hitler blamed Churchill for “Coordinating terrorist attacks”. It’s also of note that the bombing occurred somewhere in the afternoon/evening, and visibility was good enough that the bomber crew identified landmarks on the ground -- they just mistook all of them for French ones. [3] [4]

 June/July, 1801: During the Battle of Algeciras Bay, the two Spanish Santa-Ana class ships of the line, Real Carlos and San Hermenegildo, were sailing the Strait of Gibraltar. During foggy, nighttime conditions, the British HMS Superb sailed between the two Spanish ships. While attempting to pursue the Superb, both Spanish ships mistook each other for the Superb, and engaged with cannons. Both Spanish ships were sunk, and 1,700 sailors died. The Superb sailed away without a scratch. [5]

31 January, 1915: At the Battle of Bolimów, the German Ninth Army launched the first-ever gas attack of WWI on the Russian Second Army. However, upon the Ninth Army firing 18,000 bromine gas shells at Russian lines, it became clear that the Germans did not know how wind worked, and all of the gas blew backwards into German lines. There are no official casualty counts, but it’s suspected they were rather low due to the cold temperatures freezing the xylyl bromide in the gas. [6] [7] 

14 April, 1942: In an RAF demonstration of “tactical airpower” in Wiltshire, went awry when a Hawker Hurricane fighter mistook the audience of the demonstration, for the target-dummies he was supposed to be hitting. The pilot strafed the observing crowd with his machineguns and killed 25; injured 71. Unfortunately, this was a rehearsal the day before Winston Churchill was supposed to be apart of that crowd. Fucking lmao. [8] 

13 September, 1969: I don’t have a lot of details on this one, but apparently some British NCO stationed in Northern Ireland got shot in the face by one of his own men, while on the phone with his wife inside a British FOB. I can barely find anything more on this, but I will say that every account of FF I’ve found from the Troubles was dumbass Brits shooting each other unprompted, and I think that’s wonderful. [9] 

1 January, 1945: Due to Allied airpower in France following the Battle of Normandy, and the dwindling fuel reserves of Nazi Germany, the Luftwaffe took a largely defensive posture during 1944/1945. However on New Years Day, 1945, the Luftwaffe made a final attempt at gaining air superiority in Operation Bodenplatte. Of course, they managed to completely fuck up this surprise attack, as they completely neglected to tell any German Anti-Aircraft crews about it. So at 08:30, German squadrons took off and were almost immediately shot down by their own anti-aircraft batteries. Roughly 300 aircraft were lost, and only a fraction of those were from scrambled Allied fighters. This is the largest single-day loss for the Luftwaffe in the entire war [10] 

21-22 September, 1788: The whole Austro-Ottoman War was a shitshow, but the Battle of Karánsebes absolutely takes the cake; imagine a bar-fight with muskets. The Austrian army of about 100,000 men was making camp outside of Karánsebes, while a detachment of Hussars forded the Timiș River to scout for Ottoman soldiers. They didn’t run into any enemy during the patrol, but did run into a group of Romani merchants, who sold them schnapps. The Hussars start having a little party by the riverbank,  which attracts the attention of a number of infantrymen from the main camp. The infantry began demanding to have some of the schnapps, which the hussars refused -- then it all goes fucking sideways. A shot rings out in the crowd; one of the hussars has been shot by an infantryman. The Hussars return fire, and then someone in the crowd yells “Turks!”. The crowd disperses, the majority heading back across the river, towards the camp, where the Corps Commander thought they were under attack by Turkish cavalry, and ordered all of his artillery to open fire on the hussars. Thinking they’re under attack in the middle of the night, the camp garrison starts firing at each other indiscriminately -- even better, since the Austrian army was comprised largely of mercenaries and multiethnic groups from the Balkans, none of them understood each other, so they couldn’t tell each other they were allies. Shit, even the guys speaking German were misunderstood; apparently when the Corps Commander called for everyone to halt, he was misheard as saying “allah”. Oh, and the archduke of Austria got thwacked off his horse and fell into the river, fuckin idiot. The entire army, thinking they were overrun with Turks, fled the town and went into a full-retreat. Two days later, the Ottomans found the massacre and just occupied the town with no resistance. Final estimates on the casualties were roughly 150 dead, 1,200 wounded and 563 missing. [11]

Cited Sources Below

1.  Graves, Donald E. (1998). South Albertas: A Canadian Regiment at War. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941 -06-0.

2.  Bob Breen, Bob (1988) First to Fight: Australian Diggers, NZ Kiwis and US Paratroopers in Vietnam, 1965–66, Allen and Unwin, Sydney; ISBN 0-89839-126-1

3.  Gerd R. Ueberschär: Freiburg im Luftkrieg 1939–1945. Ploetz, Freiburg im Breisgau 1990, ISBN 978-3-87640-332-8

4.  Big Deal, Der Spiegel 17/1982

5.  Lettens, Jen. (2009, January 26). San Hermenegildo (+1801). wrecksite.Eu. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17094

6.Duffy, Michael (2005-12-22). "The Battle of Bolimov, 1915". First World War.com. Archived from the original on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-15.

7. Smith, Gordon (December 2000). "Military Campaigns of World War 1—Russia". Naval-History.net. Archived from the original on 2006-08-13. Retrieved 2006-08-15.

8. Frampton, Will (11 April 2012). "Memorial to be unveiled to personnel killed in Imber friendly fire incident". Wiltshiretimes.co.uk. Retrieved 20 August 2016.

9.  p.37, Operation Banner: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1969 to 2007, Nicholas Van der Bijl, Pen and Sword, 2009

10. Says:, S., Says:, S., Says:, M., Says:, C., Says:, B., Says:, T., . . . Says:, T. (2018, October 11). Fatal errors – the Worst friendly fire incidents of World War Two. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/19/fatal-errors-the-worst-friendly-fire-incidents-of-world-war-two/

11.  Mayer, Matthew Z., "Joseph II and the campaign of 1788 against the Ottoman Turks," Master's thesis: McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1997 ; see especially pp. 61–62. Available at: McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

[houseofglass]

School supplies popped up in the store yesterday. It's mid-July ffs

when i was a kid, absolutely nothing would piss me off more than seeing back to school commercials IN JULY lol

[chateautae]

hii just wanted to say I LOVEEE THE MID COUPLE SO MUCH 😭💞💞 i cant wait to read more drabbles this ff has had a grip on me since july 😭

HII MY LOVE!! ugh i'm so happy you enjoy the mid couple, and ofc there will be more drabbles, hehe i can never get tired of them either <33

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Avengers #233: The Annihilation Gambit!

July, 1983

“Up against... the BARRIER!”

Pretty cool cover!

So here’s the thing. This is a crossover with Fantastic Four. John Byrne even gets a credit for breakdowns and co-plotting.

I’m not going to completely cover the related FF issues but I’ll dip into the relevant parts of them.

For example, let’s discuss Fantastic Four #254 which coincided with the ending of Avengers #232. The thing with the fleeing crowd that didn’t know what they were fleeing and the invisible wall She-Hulk bonked off of? What’s the deal with that?

Allow me to summarize.

The Fantastic Four went off to explore the Negative Zone and had a series of weird and silly adventures. They left Alicia behind to babysit Franklin but Annihilus popped out of the portal and took them captive. This happened back in #251 so he’s had the run of the place for a while!

He’s been making modifications to the Negative Zone Access Portal and adapting the generators. For whatever reason, switching the machine on sends out potent fear waves which causes everyone to flee the area of the Baxter Building. There scene where She-Hulk and Wasp see the fleeing crowd and bonks off an invisible wall repeats.

And that’s all you need to know! Annihilus is messing around, potent fear waves, invisible wall, Avengers!

Now let’s get to the Avengers part of this crossover.

The Avengers issue of Avengers starts with Captain Marvel booking it over New York musing about what an eventful day she’s had as a full-fledged Avenger.

What with having to rescue President Reagan after he was taken hostage by soggy swamp men. Then Eros (Starfox) showed up and insisted on joining. Then Monica, Starfox, and Thor went off to catch Plantman who engineered the presidential hostage thing. All of that in only six hours!

Monica Marvel Rambeau is on her way to the mansion to give her report when she too bonks into something.

Captain Marvel: “It was as if I bounced off some sort of invisible wall! But that doesn’t make sense!”

Yeah, it really doesn’t!

As Monica herself points out, the wall is invisible ie light is going through it. So her light form should be able to go through it too!

Its a very selective invisible wall, apparently. And it gives her a weird ominous feel to touch.

But she’s not going to let sleeping walls lie and decides to try different energy forms to see if anything can get through.

Annnnnnd. Radios, cosmic rays, electricity, infrared, x-rays, and even gamma rays can’t get through. Although, Monica has the feeling that the wall gave a bit under the gamma, but not enough to matter.

Monica detours around the wall and heads back towards her original destination. AVENGERS MANSION!

When Monica arrives, cool team leader Janet the Wasp van Dyne is talking with the police. Obviously the police aren’t equipped to deal with an invisible dome.

At the least, though, Jan uses the NYPD data-link to figure out where the giant dome is centered.

Also, Wasp has another new outfit. This is the same day.

But its pretty snazzy black and purple so I won’t complain.

Monica tells Jan that Big Trouble is brewing and Jan is basically like ‘oh god now what’ but thankfully Monica and Jan are on the same case.

MEANWHILE, Steve Rogers’ modest Brooklyn Heights apartment. Where Steve Rogers is not having a conversation about his feelings with his girlfriend Bernie Rosenthal because his feelings are classified!

Steve Rogers: “In a way. It’s Avengers business!”

I’d mock this but what has Steve bummed and pacing like a caged bear is that Tony Stark, his good pal who he’ll never Civil War with, has quit the Avengers, gave Iron Man up to someone else, and is trying to drink himself to unconsciousness.

Which is very concerning! But also something you can’t really share the full details of without revealing a lot of secrets that aren’t yours to reveal! I feel like you could at least say ‘I think my friend is an alcoholic but won’t accept my help’ without spilling secrets but shrug.

At least Steve is open with Bernie. Yeah, she knows he’s Captain America!

Truly, the man is a role model. Not just as a superhero but also on dating.

Steve gets a BZZZT on his snazzy cool radio wristwatch, possibly the coolest thing to wear on one’s wrist ha ha don’t think about Avengers wearing Apple Watches.

Anyway, Jan updates Steve on the invisible - and expanding - dome. And that weirdly, there doesn’t seem to be anyone trapped inside because everyone ran away from it because its inexplicably spooky.

So Steve rushes off to Save The Day, stripping mid-run because that’s the kind of casualness and comfort you can have in a relationship where you’re open and honest.

See how Steve didn’t have to make up a half-assed excuse? Maybe think about that, Spider-Man. You’re not in this scene but maybe think about it.

Meanwhile again, the Baxter Building.

Where thankfully for people not reading Fantastic Four, we get an echoed scene where Annihilus motive rants at captive audience Alicia Masters.

Basically, Annihilus is feeling very bummed that Blastaar stole his Cosmic Control Rod in Marvel Two-in-One #75. For one thing, it really tied his whole outfit together. For another, without it, Annihilus isn’t immortal and he’s freaking out about dying. And not dying eventually, he’s apparently got Doom-level messed up face now from how he’s degrading.

So really the only real way to come to terms with mortality is to destroy two whole universes so you don’t die alone.

Annihilus broke Reed’s Negative Zone Access Portal and used its power core to power his own impenetrable NULL-FIELD. Which I guess is the invisible dome.

Annihilus: “How wonderfully ironic -- that a device which once produced a gateway between two universes should provide the power to utterly destroy them!”

I’m missing some middle steps here but basically invisible dome -> ??? -> destruction of the Negative Zone and the, uh, Positive Zone.

A MEEP MEEP from a computer which may be a roadrunner gets Annihilus’ attention and he sees to his shock that She-Hulk has planted her feet and is trying to bodily hold the dome back.

It’s not working but its slowing it almost imperceptibly and even that’s supposed to be impossible.

Annihilus: “What manner of creature is this?!”

I’d guess gamma-powered She-Hulk is having a tiny bit of luck against the dome for the same reason that Captain Marvel did when she tried gamma radiation.

Wasp, Captain America, and Captain Marvel show up to help She-Hulk.

She-Hulk tells the other Avengers that the invisible dome keeps “oozing over everything inanimate” but that she(-Hulk) can’t stop it.

Cap suggests using his shield despite the risk of losing it inside the dome.

Because, when Captain America uses his mighty shield, all who oppose his shield must yield. So maybe he’s onto something.

She-Hulk plants the shield in the ground in the path of the dome.

So good news/bad news.

The dome doesn’t swallow up the shield. But the dome just pushes the shield, carving a little furrow in the ground.

That cracks me up a little, I will not lie.

I don’t know why Cap’s super cool shield is exempt from getting schlorped up by the null-field but now they have a good idea where it is without having to bonk!

Speaking of bonk, Thor and Starfox come to join the party and Starfox runs right into the invisible wall.

Hee hee hee.

He also drops right into She-Hulk’s arms and they have a mutual banter moment.

She-Hulk: “Hmm! I’ve never had anyone fall for me like this before!”

Starfox: “I assure you it was totally unplanned... but rarely have I fallen into such open and inviting arms!”

If I recall correctly, they do hook up at one point and then years later She-Hulk beats seven kinds of shit out of him when the question arises of whether his powers influenced her into it.

At least Starfox is receptive and she’s not stalking Ben Grimm.

Anyway, Thor tries his hand at busting the null-field by shooting a bunch of lightning at it. Even though Captain Marvel tells him she already tried electricity.

Thor gotta Thor though.

And when the field stands firm against all the lightning, he gets pissed and hurls his hammer into it.

Mjolnir flies into the field, loses steam, and just pitches gently to Earth.

Bit confusing. I wonder why Cap’s shield can’t go through the dome but Mjolnir can.

BY THE WAY, THEY LEFT CAP’S SHIELD JAMMED AGAINST THE DOME.

They don’t comment on it but you can see it still gouging up the pavement. I guess they’re using it to mark where the dome is?

Amazing.

Anyway, Thor marvels at how Mjolnir left no mark on the invisible barrier and how its not returning to his hand like it should. Clearly there’s some weird property of the barrier interfering with Mjolnir.

Cap points out yeah thats interesting but isn’t there something that happens if you have Mjolnir out of hand for too long?

So Thor runs away and turns into Normal Doctor Donald Blake in an alleyway where nobody can see it happen.

Again: amazing.

Thor is basically out of the story because Normal Doctor Donald Blake can’t do anything to affect the barrier and he can’t get Mjolnir back while its up. So he’s just going to be twiddling his thumbs.

MEANWHILE, at Cross Technological Enterprises.

Hawkeye tries to cajole inventor Jorge to build some contraption for him but the man protests that he designed it in his spare time but if he builds a working model on staff, CTE will own the invention.

Unless someone approves a sub-contractor waiver that will let him keep the rights but who would do such a thing for him??

Hawkeye decides that as head of security he’ll do such a thing. I don’t know if head of security has any kind of sway like that but I imagine that won’t stop Hawkeye from insisting that he does.

Then Hawkeye hears about the Avengers dealing with the dome thing and gets sad that he can’t be out there with them.

Hawkeye: “Blast it, I oughta be out there with the rest of the Avengers! But, as long as my leg’s in a cast, I’m a liability to ‘em... until I prove otherwise!”

Maybe focus on letting your leg heal!

I don’t know what nonsense you’re brewing up and I know that months is forever in comic book time but maybe just take the time and let your leg heal up!

Back over at the Avengers, Cap and Wasp now justify to the others why Thor took off. Claiming that they sent him on a scouting mission. Captain Marvel objects that scouting is her specialty, what with the lightspeed dash, so Cap claims that brute force isn’t helping so its more important to have Captain Marvel’s versatility here.

Leading She-Hulk to snark that brute force not working doesn’t give her a lot to do.

Starfox has become instantly bored with the plot because he’s here for adventure dangit, so he wanders off to go flirt with an EMT.

Because Starfox.

A Quinjet arrives, because Wasp has put her true superpower to work.

The power of NETWORKING!

Aka, she placed a call to Vision and Scarlet Witch and they just showed up to help.

Wasp explains the situation and Vision decides he’s going to intangible through the field.

Vision: “Interesting. It does have an oddly unsettling ‘feel’ to it!”

Then he walks through and instantly collapses face first into the asphalt.

The Avengers’ bumbling attempts to deal with the null field are almost farcical really.

Scarlet Witch is alarmed by her robot husband faceplanting so tries to use her plot-resolving probability powers on the invisible barrier but to no avail.

OH NO HER DOES ANYTHING POWER DID NOTHING!

She bangs on the invisible wall yelling Vision’s name but Cap tells her “that won’t do any good!”

True but c’mon. Her robot husband just collapsed. Have some understanding.

Although I wonder what’s going on here.

The field goes over inanimate objects but doesn’t let Cap’s shield through. Mjolnir and Vision can go through it (although Vision does the intangible) but lose power shortly after entering.

Then again it is called a “null-field.” It probably does whatever it wants.

I’m just wondering whether Vision counts as an inanimate object or not. He’s very animate but he’s not strictly speaking biologically speaking alive.

Meanwhile, in the Baxter Building, Annihilus is laughing up a storm at the Avengers’ silly hijinxes. But mostly in the ‘they thought they could stop me’ sense.

Annihilus: “Lesser beings such as these are helpless before the genius of Annihilus! They do not deserve to live -- just as I do not deserve to die! I curse the fates which have robbed me of my rightful immortality! But even though life slowly ebbs from the dissipated body within my exo-skeletal armor, still shall I be Annihilus... still shall I be He-Who-Annihilates!”

And he pulls the Big Dramatic Lever.

Outside, Starfox is still flirting with the paramedic while she asks whether he should be helping the other Avengers?

Starfox: -squishes her face- “Alas, I am not a full Avenger. I am but a trainee, at the others’ beck and call! If they want me, they will call.”

And then he tries to make out but she’s distracted by the Baxter Building suddenly glowing with an awesome power.

And Starfox freaks out. He freaks out so much that he realizes that now is not the time for making out. That’s how alarming things suddenly are!

Paramedic: “Brighter than the moon... glowing like there’s no tomorrow...”

Starfox: “I fear your choice of words is most apt!”

And then he wanders back on over to the Avengers to tell them how messed up everything is.

Something occurs to me.

The Avengers don’t really have a Smart Guy TM currently. Tony left them in the lurch in that regard. And they tried to recruit Hulk again (apparently in Incredible Hulk #285).

Cap(tain America), Captain Marvel, Wasp, She-Hulk, and Thor are great. But they’re not people who can look at a thing and instantly jump to a correct conclusion about which technobabble will keep things from bad.

I think... Starfox may have become the Smart Guy TM of the team by default because he does have advanced space learning even though I’m pretty sure he napped through advanced space learning science class.

My god, the state of things.

Anyway, Starfox directs the Avengers’ attention over to the Baxter Building. Within the invisible field, there’s a second glowing field. And based on Starfox’s brains, the invisible field is a null-field (yes, that’s true) which cancels out all energy within, except at its focal point. Uh, sure. I think if all energy was cancelled out, we’d see way wilder effects but sure.

The glowing field is positive energy. And when the glow meets the invisible, it will cause the universe to merge with the Negative Zone AND THEN DESTROY THEM BOTH.

See, this is something that’s known on Titan. They just study ways to destroy everything apparently, nbd.

Starfox even mentions that his brother Thanos knows about this but “not even my brother Thanos was mad enough to test it!”

I dunno. I feel like Thanos is exactly mad enough to do that. I also feel like Starfox doesn’t know his brother was well as he thinks. So, yeah.

Hence, they’re all doomed. I mean, unless there was some way to penetrate the null-field BUT WAIT, Starfox says, didn’t Captain Marvel feel the field give slightly under gamma radiation? THEN THERE STILL MAY BE HOPE!

Yeah... Yeah. Starfox is the Avengers’ Smart Guy now. God.

Its like a reverse-Beast. He came to be a smart guy but the Avengers’ had plenty of those so decided to be the fun guy.

Starfox came out just to have a good time and he has to use his space brains to save reality.

(Also, its because of Same Face but Starfox even looks like Reed while he’s transitioning from doomsaying to figuring out the whole thing just by panicking and explaining things)

So after the Avengers do some calculations and preparations, Captain Marvel blasts off into space!

Cap(tain America) estimates that they only have twenty minutes and that a lot can go wrong.

Then a giant shouty bug man appears in the sky to shout.

Annihilus: “PEOPLE OF EARTH -- HEAR NOW THE WORDS OF ANNIHILUS! YOU ARE HELPLESS BEFORE ME! I AM YOUR DEATH!”

“The destruction of all that lives has ever been my goal -- but never have I had the means to kill so many! The time of universal death is at hand! I see among you those who are known as the Avengers... those who you would call heroes! Hah! They cannot save you! They are as helpless as the accursed Fantastic Four!”

“There is no hope for anyone this day! This is the day that Annihilus dies! And as I die, I shall reach out and I shall shake the very foundations of two universes! AND ALL SHALL PERISH WITH ME!”

Not gonna lie.

That’s a damn good villain speech.

You’ve got the villain head in front of an apocalyptic pink sky. You’ve got evil gloating. You’ve even got some dunks thrown at the superheroes because you just know that average civilians will be like ‘the Avengers will save us!’

Pretty good rant, Annihilus.

“Meanwhile, in the vacuum of space, the lightform of Captain Marvel has already flashed beyond the orbit of the moon”

Amazing.

Simply amazing.

Captain Marvel nyooms past the moon and traverses 93-million miles to go to the sun.

Which, even at lightspeed, takes over eight minutes.

A helpful reminder that even the ability to go as fast as light doesn’t necessarily mean you can get everywhere instantly. Cosmic distances are vast.

Captain Marvel nyooms around the sun, so close that even in the form of a light, she can feel the Sun’s gravity.

This is all some great stuff.

Then, Captain Marvel melds with a coherent light beam fired from solar satellite Starcore-One and transforms it and herself into a gamma ray laser beam NYOOMING right at Earth.

Blasting through the null-field just in time to interrupt more of Annihilus’ villain ranting.

Annihilus: “Prepare to make your final accounting, mortals! These are your last wretched moments of... eh?”

And then with a SKRAKATA SKRAKATA BOOM, the null field and positive energy fields are neutralized.

She-Hulk who was casually leaning on an invisible wall FLUMPS to the ground.

Wasp assembles the Avengers still milling about and tells them to move on the Baxter Building since Annihilus might still have tricks up his sleeve.

With the null field gone, the terrified crowds of onlookers are now just confused onlookers and want to get back to what they were doing before they started panicking.

Normal Doctor Donald Blake has to reach through the crowd of legs to grab Mjolnir so he can become Thor and rejoin the Avengers.

Y’know, before someone starts pondering why they haven’t seen him in a while.

Scarlet Witch notices sudden Thor and since everyone else ran off without paying any mind to Vision (geez, what the hell, the Avengers? He’s your good pal chum!) she begs Thor to help.

Scarlet Witch: “Thank heavens, you’ve returned! The Vision was injured somehow by that null-field! I... I can’t find any vital signs! His synthetic body is too different for the paramedics to do anything! Help us! Please -- !”

Thor slings Vision over shoulder exactly like you’d expect a buff Norse god to do and reassures Wanda that they’ll find someone to revive Vision.

At the Baxter Building, the Avengers very courteously go in through the front door because there’s just a lot of defensive systems that may or may not be active. And anyway, Wasp has a key to the special elevator.

Apparently, Wasp is such good friends with Sue Storm that she was given one of those special lasers incorporated into her new costume that opens the elevator doors.

I’ll have to check with my friend who liveblogs Fantastic Four to see if Jan shows up much. Because Sue has shown up a couple times in Avengers to build the idea that she and Wasp are good friends after their cool brunch but I haven’t heard of the reverse.

When the Avengers get to the 34th floor to confront Annihilus, they find that it’s been taken care of off in Fantastic Four.

The caption tells me for the full story to see that issue #256 and for once, I will.

(Interestingly, while Byrne got a co-plotter credit on this Avengers issue, Stern doesn’t get the same in the corresponding FF issue which really suggests who the driving force of the story was.)

Over in FF #256, the FF are stranded in the Negative Zone for reasons but have also noticed the null-field and positive field thing going on. Reed works to limit the effects of the fields merging to only the Baxter Building instead of the whole universe, which will also help the FF return home. He also hopes that someone on the Earth side of things “an Avenger perhaps” is also taking action.

Which, yeah. Captain Marvel’s whole thing where she launched herself at the Baxter Building from the Sun.

While she’s doing that, the thing that Reed is doing starts shorting out the circuity that Annihilus is using.

Then, Captain Marvel’s appearance causes the console Annihilus is working at to explode in his face, destroying his life-support armor.

Annihilus tries to activate the ‘destroy the universe’ thing manually but because of Reed’s machinations, the Fantastic Four get pulled back into the universe and Annihilus gets booted into the Negative Zone.

Its implied that Annihilus dies here but ha ha ha no he’s going to show up again without explaining how he survived. What a dick.

The Fantastic Four pop back into the Baxter building with the colors in their outfits changed because of technobabble. Reed instantly accosts Captain Marvel for being someone he doesn’t recognize but Thing tells him who she is and defuses things.

Thing runs off to take Alicia to the hospital, Sue runs off to look for Franklin, and Reed and Human Torch put out all the fires.

And that’s where the books sync up so back over to Avengers.

The Avengers meet up with the FF and compare notes and Reed starts trying to technobabble explain the change in uniforms when Wanda interrupts and asks someone to help Vision.

Reed examines Vision and comes up with some good news.

Vision is, more or less, okay. When he entered the null-field it drained his energy and disrupted his synapses but there shouldn’t be any permanent damage. The robot coma is Vision basically fixing himself up but Reed could speed up the process and help him recover faster.

And then Sue comes in with an unconscious Franklin.

Everyone drops everything to immediately rush off to the hospital, leaving Wanda and coma-Vision alone.

I mean. Kinda rude. Its entirely fair for Reed and Sue to run off. Its their son. And Johnny flies ahead to alert the emergency ward. But does the situation really need Starfox, Captain America and She-Hulk?

(The FF issue actually shows that Captain Marvel stuck around. She barely knows Wanda and Vision and she’s actually being courteous to them. Geez.)

I’ll give Thor a pass because he can turn into a Perfectly Normal Doctor. But really? Everyone is just leaving Wanda alone? Just like they left Vision just passed out in the street?

The Avengers are being dicks to Vision and Wanda today!

Follow @essential-avengers​ and like and reblog perhaps. Because I wouldn’t leave Vision lying passed out in the street and I haven’t even been his friend for years. Just saying.

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Thank you so much for the tag @blossomanarchy ! Love you Maud💙

Name/Nickname: Mercy, Mer by a few (reminds me of Grey’s lol)

Gender: Female

Zodiac Sign: Cancer♋️

Height: This is really embarrassing... but I actually don’t remember😭 It’s been forever since it’s been checked

Birthday: July 19th

Lucky Number: 7/13

When did you create this blog?: Late March or Mid-April 2020 I guess?

What do I post?: Choices, Taylor Swift, One Direction, and occasionally Grey’s Anatomy, Marvel, Percy Jackson, and a whole lotta bs

Last thing I googled: The WEH walkthrough on the Choices wiki

Do I get asks?: Yes. Bunch of lyric completions (love you @nikki-2406 💙), and Ethan Ramsey stuff

Why did I choose my URL?: I mean, it’s kinda obvious😅 ts- Taylor Swift, rookie- Ethan’s nickname, my two first loves (pun intended)

My current projects and WIPS: I’m sorry... what? If my incomplete school presentations count, then that’s pretty much it😞 But in all seriousness, I was working on an ILY fic till December, and I wanted to post it, but simply couldn’t complete it. So it’s just sitting in there😕

Favourite artists(s) atm: Taylor Swift, One Direction (solo careers included) and Little Mix. These three, forever and always💕

All time fav: The three I stated above (I’m not kidding, they comprise more than half of my 500+ songs playlist)

Favourite song of all time: Call It What You Want by Taylor Swift (lol maybe I should just put this on my bio😆)

Last movie: The reputation Stadium Tour

Last show: My Little Pony Game of Thrones/ Grey’s Anatomy. They took GA off Amazon Prime after I finished season 3, so I’m surviving on YouTube now.

Favourite food: Dosa, Pizza, Pasta, and basically almost anything chicken

Food I hate: BAN SPINACH FFS

Favourite colour: Blue, Fuchsia, White, Black and Red

Favourite animal: Puppies!

What I’m currently wearing: T-shirt and one of my favourite comfy pants. I’m gonna sleep after this.

Dream job: Still undecided, but I’m leaning towards a writer

Dream trip: A Taylor Swift concert, London, Paris, Rome, Australia, and maybe NYC? (Ya know, if Taylor still lives there) I mostly just wanna touch some fucking snow before I die GET ME OUT OF INDIA PLEASE

Currently reading: NCERT textbooks😒

Currently thinking about: The With Every Heartbeat soundtrack, and a fic idea I’m never going to write down

Fun Facts:

1. Maud I’m with you on the first one. I downright hate insects. Every single one of them. Even the supposedly pretty little butterflies

2. I have pretty bad mood swings all the time.

3. Avengers Endgame was spoiled for me two days after it’s release. I was sitting in the middle of the night doing my homework when some m*****f***** (look, I REALLY hate that person, okay?) on YouTube posted a video with the title “IRON MAN DEATH SCENE AVENGERS ENDGAME”. I’d only become a Marvel fan three weeks prior, and Tony was my favourite character. So you can guess what happened after that🥲 I spent two whole days walking around like a zombie, and cried in my room at any given chance. Tony Stark was the first fictional character who made me bawl my eyes out.

3. I can sorta sing?

4. I have a Taylor Swift pillow that I hug and kiss more than my family (I love them tho😂)

5. I once wrote a song. It wasn’t entirely crap, and I was even kinda proud of myself, but then the memories associated with it became way too painful to hold on to, so I tore it up and threw it in the trash. So there’s some sappy stuff about me.

6. ...I really love My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and I re watch it whenever I get the chance. Judge me all you want, but that show is so much better than some of my other childhood shows *cough* Winx *cough*.

Top three fictional universes: Choices, Percy Jackson, My Little Pony, MCU

Tagging @nikki-2406 @aworldoffandoms @oceanofsaturn @caseyvalentineramsey and basically anyone who wants to do this! I’d love to get to know more people here and I’m too sleepy

[party-of-rpg-muses]

A Look At Stuff You Probably Never Heard Of: Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals

Last month, I mentioned that Final Fantasy: Unlimited was the second Final Fantasy anime. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the first FInal Fantasy anime. And not just any anime, but one that serves as a sequel to one of the games. Today, we take a look at... Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals! For this one, I’m gonna have to talk about a few spoilers.

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals is a 4-episode OVA released from March 21st, 1994 to July 21st of the same year. It was animated by Studio Madhouse and licensed by Urban Vision when brought over the the US, where it was released on VHS in November 24th, 1998.

Taking place on Planet R, 200 years have passed since Bartz Klauser (referred to as Batz in the anime), Lenna Charlotte Tycoon, Faris Scherwiz, and Krile Mayer Baldesion defeated Exdeath (referred to as Exodes).

One fateful day, Queen Lenna Tycoon (the direct descendant of Lenna from Final Fantasy V) is informed that something is disrupting that crystals’ force. At the same time, Linaly and her grandfather, Hassam, set out to check on the WInd Crystal, being the descendants of Bartz. Along the way, they meet up with Prettz, Linaly’s longtime friend, who decides to tag along and accompany Linaly after an encounter with a monster leaves Hassam bed-ridden. But along the way, they’re beset by a fairly incompetent sky pirate named Rouge as well as her crew, but give them the slip and enter the Wind Shrine, where the Wind Crystal enters Linaly’s body.

Later, they encounter Valkus, the general of the Tycoon air force and captain of the Iron Wing airship, who accuses them of stealing the Wind Crystal. Later, the four come to realize they are the new Warriors of Light chosen by the Wind Crystal to protect the world from the encroaching darkness and the threat of Ra Devil, who has stolen Cid’s brain after his death to use his knowledge of the Crystals for his own evil deeds.

Despite the fact that Nobuo Uematsu didn’t write the music for the series, Masahiko Sato, the anime’s composer, took several cues from Uematsu’s work. And despite how simplistic the show can be, there are times where it becomes very fluid and even highly detailed.

And now, it is finally time for the FInal Recommendation: Never Let Go Of It||Get It||Hold Onto It||Try It||Consider It||Stay Away From It

Yeah, this show isn’t all that better compared to FF: Unlimited, but at least it feels more like Final Fantasy and the characters are certainly more interesting and useful. And some of the action scenes are pretty cool too. You can see the anime on YouTube.

However, the show seems to focus heavily on humor, leaving development heavily lacking; most notably with Valkus, as well as Linaly. And speaking of Linaly, there are a lot of panty shots at Linaly’s expense (ironically, Rouge in her revealing outfit has almost none) and they really don’t fit. There’s also the fact that when the Wind Crystal enters her body, her butt occasionally glows, thus bringing in another panty shot. They are incredibly bothersome, I won’t lie.

Funnily enough, many fans denounce this anime as a proper sequel, partially because it’s so absurd (and given it’s relation to FInal Fantasy V, the goofiest game in the series, that’s saying something), as well as the fact that Cid and Mid die some time after the defeat of Exdeath.

And I mentioned Valkus having lacking development. That being at the start of the story, he’s fiercely loyal to Queen Lenna Tycoon, but upon meeting Rouge, he falls head over heels in love with her and at the end, completely abandons his job to join Rouge as a sky pirate. Valkus can easily be compared to Adelbert Steiner from Final Fantasy IX, a comic relief soldier loyal to queen and country, but finds himself at odds with himself (and they butt heads heavily with the one of the other main characters). But the thing with Steiner is that he slowly learns that the world isn’t black and white and he doesn’t suddenly abandon his position out of nowhere, especially for love. Also, out of nowhere, Rouge is suddenly romantically interested in Valkus during the final episode.

Weirdly enough, despite Linaly and the Queen being descendants of Bartz and Lenna respectively, we know nothing about Faris or Krile’s descendants. By the way, the picture above is pretty much the only appearances made by the characters from Final Fantasy V. From back to front, left to right, there’s Faris, Bartz, Galuf, Krile, Cid (strangely referred to as Shido in the English dub), Lenna, and Mid.

And speaking of Mid, he appears as a major character in the anime, but as a ghost, having been killed by the main antagonist 200 years prior when Ra Devil stole Cid’s brain. Also, for some odd reason, Mid’s name is pronounced as “Meed”.

And one final thing I want to mention is that many voice actors involved with this anime would later voice characters in other Final Fantasy games, most notably X and X-2. Prettz is voiced by Matt Miller, who voices Clasko (the Chocobo Knight turned Chocobo Breeder) from FInal Fantasy X and X-2. Linaly is voiced by Sherry Lynn, who voices Shelinda (the young devoted Yevon acolyte) and the Shiva Fayth from X and X-2. Valkus is voiced by John DeMita, who voices Luzzu (the Crusader from Besaid who may or may not be killed by Sin), Barthello (Donna’s Guardian), and every Hypello (including Barkeep) in X and X-2, as well as Clarus Amicitia from Final Fantasy XV (Gladio and Iris’ dad). Ra Devil is voiced by Michael Sorich, who voices Galdes from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, as well as Barbarossa from the Bravely Default series. Queen Lenna and Rouge’s henchwomen are voiced by Barbara Goodson, who also voices Marle from the Final Fantasy VII Remake. Mid is voiced by Julia Fletcher, who voices Lady Yunalesca and Elma (the energetic Chocobo Knight) from X and X-2, as well as Judge Drace from XII (also, her son, Connor, voices Kytes in the game), and Orphan in XIII. Also, a lot of them were involved with the Tenchi Muyo series. Anyway, I’ll see you guys next month, with another double-whammy. This time, it’ll be with two short-lived cartoon adaptations of live-action movies. I’ll see you then.