#jesse kane

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The DC Extended Universe has come to a close. This past December, Warner Bros. released Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, a sequel to the box office juggernaut Aquaman (2018) and the final canonical installment into the DCEU. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom continued the story of Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry as he assimilated to the Atlantean throne and clashed with longtime rival Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Aquaman and Black Manta's bad blood began back in the first film, as the water-based hero is responsible for his father's death, consequently leading Manta to vow vengeance.

Aquaman 2's Cancelled Flashback Plans Revealed

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom nearly included more exploration into Black Manta's backstory.

Speaking to ComicBook, Michael Beach, who portrayed Black Manta's father Jesse Kane in Aquaman (2018), revealed he was pitched a return for the sequel but scheduling got in the way.

"They actually talked to me about shooting a couple of scenes in Aquaman 2, obviously flashback things, but we weren't able to do it because of scheduling and stuff," Beach revealed. "Instead, they just put a couple of clips from the first one in there to remind the audience as to why Black Manta hates Aquaman so much."

Beach appears in Aquaman (2018) in one of the film's opening scenes, leading a raid on a submarine. Aquaman eventually interferes and Jesse is killed in the process, sparking Black Manta's quest for revenge.

"Even though my character doesn't have a whole lot of screen time, I think the setup of Manta's hatred for Aquaman has to be shown in my relationship with him. I think we pulled that off in the little time that we had," Beach added. "We have to build this relationship in order for the hatred to carry us through to not only the first film but the second film."

That relationship is both told and shown. One of the pair's first encounters sees Jesse gift his son a knife that belonged to his father before him, a man that fought in World War II and was nicknamed "Manta."

"The scene where I actually give him the knife, that was not in the original script," Beach continued. "James wrote it maybe two or three days before we shot it."

Despite being unavailable for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Beach looks back at his time in the DCEU fondly.

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DC cast

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DC Pride Uncovered #1 (2024)

by Joshua "Sway" Swaby

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First Look | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3

Source: Official clip - July 27 2024

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DC Pride (2024) anthology wraparound variant cover by David Talaski

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS CAST + suits

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Happy Pride Month!

[yuriinadress]

The DC Book of Pride PREVIEW

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back after my hiatus (recently saw a fence post and was like “i think….i miss my wife”)

i forgot how much fun it was to make these — i already have my next dump half done

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call 911 there's been a gay on gay crime

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DC Pride 2024 cover featuring Batwoman, Midnighter, Apollo, Dreamer, Jackson Hyde, Connor Hawke, Jess Chambers, Xanthe, Tim Drake, Circuit Breaker, Aerie, Nubia, Io and Poison Ivy by David Talaski

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flamebird designs

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hello fence fandom

i present to you: a bad meme

based off of this panel:

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Strange New Worlds cast at Star Trek: Las Vegas 2024

The cast took a great family photo at STLV, Star Trek's largest convention, on August 4 2024.

Anson Mount was joined by Melissa Navia, Christina Chong, Ethan Peck, Carol Kane, Jess Bush, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn and Celia Rose Gooding.

This was Carol Kane's first convention appearance ever!

Source: Melissa Navia Instagram - August 9 2024

[leoruby-draws]

Decided to post some more random, mostly minor characters from the DC universe, mostly ones that seemed they would be fun to draw. I guess technically these drawings are all based in my TrWh au, as always. Here they are:

Wanted to draw heroes with wings, I draw Vanessa quite a bit so I had to learn wings and feathers. Still working on it, but its fun. You can see Vanessa there at the bottom middle, looking a little menacing.

The girl with red wings is called...Redwing aka Carrie Levine. I thought she was a sweet kid, so her ultimate fate was pretty sad. Wonder if she'll come back to continuity at some point.

The guy with the mohawk is Northwind aka Norda Cantrell, part of Infinity Inc the earth 2 version of a Teen Titans group. He honestly didn't get a whole lot of focus in Infinity Inc, like the writer didn't know what to do with him. Maybe they should've made him into the magic fighter of the group, almost felt like thats what they were going for him before they wrote him off.

The girl in yellow is Dawnstar, part of the Legion of Superheroes. I haven't read much of LoSH, mostly some 90's issues. But her design is soooo pretty I had to draw her, her costume here is a mix of her various outfits.

Lastly, here's Bluejay aka Jay Abrams again, part of Justice League Europe. Kinda thought JLE was a bit of a letdown, I mean the team's made up of mostly americans not europeans! I think Crimson Fox was the only european, I thought her set-up of being two people was cool.

Little extra Infinity doodle, here's Hector Hall (Silver Scarab) hating on poor Norda, with Lyta Trevor (Fury) looking on with confusion. Hector's just a hater (tho there's reasons for it ig), an archetype you see sometimes in some superhero groups, like Roy Harper or Guy Gardner. The plot-line of Hector's resentment of Norda was kinda interesting, but like with most things in Infinity it didn't get the focus it should've gotten. Speaking of Infinity, here's some more doodles:

There's Rex Tyler (Hourman 1) with little Rick Tyler (Hourman 2), enjoying some father-son time. Apparently Rick's first costume isn't well liked (so says reddit). I thought it seemed cute but maybe it works better as a kid's or sidekick's kinda costume?

In the middle is Jack Knight (Starman) suffering as he interacts with Sylvester Pemberton (Skyman, formerly the Star-Spangled Kid) and Courtney Whitmore (Stargirl, actually she should still be S-SK but whatever). In my au he actually joins Infinity Inc, since everyone becomes heroes earlier he's actually around when the team's still running. I suspect his dad (Ted Knight) forced him into it. Also Courtney doesn't respect Jack at all, he's so annoyed at this. Look at her mini-staff, I presume Ted made it for her.

Also there's Beth Chapel (Dr. Mid-Nite) and Jesse Chambers (Jesse Quick) looking cool. Jesse also joins Infinity Inc in my au, will there be a love triangle going on between Beth, Rick and Jesse? Don't think Rick's gonna survive that, aw well.

Look at baby Jade and Obsidian, Alan is overwhelmed by their antics.

In another post someone asked if I could draw more of the Relative Heroes, a super obscure hero group. So @draculaura1660, this one's for you. Here they are:

I kinda had a hard time drawing this group, cuz their costumes are so complicated! I wished there was a reference/concept art for them cuz it was a struggle trying to figure out the details, the comic art did not help matters at all. You might have noticed I changed details anyways, I tend to simplify costumes for my au both to make it easier to draw and also to signify their younger ages. It's just fun to play around with costume design ig.

Some more characters!

Jinx, who looks very different between her comic and cartoon self. I did like her pink hair, so decide to see how it would look on her comic self. There's Kole, who also has different designs in comic/cartoons. I think her comic costume is so cool, esp that color pallet! But I love her pink hair in the cartoon, so she's got pink hair here! Just like pink hair a lot lol.

The other pink haired girl is Laethwen, love interest of Ray Palmer in Sword of the Atom. I think I made her hair more pink to better differentiate her from Starfire, also, again I just like pink hair. I wished she and her little kingdom didn't die, in my au Ray saves them! Maybe he relocates them to his backyard or something?

Little Donna and Vanessa doodle, did you know they never once interacted on panel? The closest is when Donna brings her stepsister Cindy to talk to Vanessa instead. I wonder how they would even interact, I know Vanessa wanted to be wonder girl (and resented Cassie for 'taking' it from her). Did she look up to Donna, or wanted her out of the way? Funnily enough Donna wasn't even Diana's sidekick when post-crisis started, due to both their origins being reworked and contradicting each other's timelines. It's all very confusing.

Anyways, some bonus doodles:

Had fun making a new outfit for Laethwen, I imagine she took some inspiration from indigenous groups from the Amazon, seeing as that's where her people crashed into.

Kole's costume is just so beautiful but so complicated, maybe that's why she got killed off so soon in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Lastly, here's Bette bugging Dick with Barbara being super amused about it. I said in my post about her that I didn't really care about her crush on Robin, which is true, but I still wanted to doodle something making fun of it. Poor Dick is doesn't know how to get outta of this social situation.

Well that was a lot, hope you liked all that.