#krypto noble

[pomegraniter]

dance noble dance

[saintfromkrypton]

💫 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝.

Clark Joseph Kent is a Pulitzer-winning reporter for the Daily Planet. Hailing from Smallville, a town as eponymously small as its name, Kent is a farmboy first and a writer second. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, Clark is a beloved member of the Kent family.

Secretly, Clark is an alien from another planet, Krypton, and he's empowered by the Earth's yellow sun. He dons a cape and suit, and flies around, assisting those that need his help as Superman.

𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.

𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: 💫Clark Joseph Kent (human) 💫 Kal-El (Kryptonian)

𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: 💫 Blue, boyscout, Supe (@/gothamsaved) 💫 Star (@/sifonie)

𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐬: 💫 known to the world as his alter-ego, Superman

𝐚𝐠𝐞 💫 36, will always appear to be in his 30s-40s due to Earth's yellow sun

𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 / 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 💫 225 lbs, 6'3" - healthy muscular build w/ no muscle dehydration

𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 💫 black, with slight brown undertones in the light

𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 💫 blue with a slight green ring around the pupil

𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 💫 fair and very tanned from farm work & the fact he has to be in the sun to recharge

𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 💫 ambidextrous

𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 💫 taken by @/gothamsaved

𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 💫 cisgender to human standards: (he/him)

𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 💫 gay

𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 💫 February 29th (on Krypton); found on June 18th in 1989 as a three-month old infant.

𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 💫 farmer 💫 reporter 💫 superhero

𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞(𝐬)

💫 Metropolis 💫 Smallville

𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬

𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐊 💫 Soft-spoken, clumsy, withdrawn, doubtful body language, stuttering, soft & airy laughs. Often compared to a wolf or a bear hunkering down as if to appear non-threatening. 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍 💫 Confident, loud, assertive. Open body language with an emphasis on placing his hands on his hips. Still, it is noticeable that he is restraining in how he moves because he has subtle gestures with his hands, mouth, jaw, and nose that denote stress, such as tensing hands or clenching the jaw.

𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌

Tom Welling

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 💫heights, losing his loved ones, losing his powers, not fitting in, hurting others 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 💫 self-loathing, stubborn, lies often to protect his secret, can be quick to judge at times, attempts to always find the good in people, he does not believe in killing someone even if that person can cause millions of deaths, he always attempts to find what he calls "a better way," even if it kills him, impulsive, has a temper, habitually late 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐬 💫 selfless, compassionate, strong, heroic, kind, very idealistic and morally good, noble, very smart, inquisitive, hopeful

𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘

𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 💫Jonathan and Martha Kent. Adoptive human parents. (alive) 💫 Jor-El and Lana-El. Kryptonian birth parents. (deceased) 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬/𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 💫Kara Zor-El. Cousin, who is very much like a sibling to Clark. (alive) 💫 Ryan, an adoptive sibling who had telepathy from a brain tumor. (deceased) 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 💫 N/A, but always willing to adopt. 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐬 💫 Krypto the Superdog

template for this heavily inspired by @/gothamsaved.

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

Krypton

Krypton is one of the noble gases. A picture of krypton gas would be pretty boring, because it basically looks like air (which is to say, it's colorless and transparent). Like other noble gases, it lights up colorfully when ionized. Solid krypton is white.

The name is derived from the Greek 'kryptos', meaning hidden.

[daydreamerdrew]

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2021) #4

[thevindicativevordan]

Third: Would you make Kandor have a bigger role on the modern myth of Superman? There is not too much done with them in several years, outside Superman '78.

Kandor is a tricky beast. The problem is that Superman having access to an entire city of Kryptonians who still practice Kryptonian culture takes all the punch out of Krypton blowing up in a way not even Kara or Krypto or the Phantom Zone prisoners surviving does.

Having those small bands of survivors works because 1. There still isn't enough of them to recreate Krypton by themselves, and 2. Kara was a member of a noble House and the Phantom Zone criminals were the worst that Krypton had to offer. They can't really help Kal know what it was like to live on Krypton any more than the holographic simulations he has access to in the Fortress can. They can't encompass the whole of Krypton given the vastness of Kryptonian society, and Kal wants to know everything about his birth planet. Kara's memories will be colored by nostalgia and homesickness, the memories of the prisoners by hatred and despair. But an entire city of Kryptonians? Well that pretty much let's you reconstruct at least one large part of Kryptonian life, and that robs the sting of Krypton's loss for Superman.

I think the best way to use Kandor is actually the current status quo for Kandor: Kal has access to Kandor and it's libraries, but the people are trapped in stasis. They can't interact with him, they aren't even conscious right now. He can walk through an intact Kryptonian city but it's like walking through a mausoleum, only ghosts exist in Kandor for the moment. Much as Kal appreciates having access to the Kandorian archives, which are a treasure trove of Kryptonian culture and technology, he'd give those up in exchange for being able to revive the Kandorians. To be able to have a conversation with one of them is the impetus for his experiments in freeing them from Brainiac's imprisonment.

Williamson actually had a great idea for using them in his Batman/Superman run: Make reviving them be Zod's main quest.

Building a New Krypton is Zod's goal in life. When he learns that Kal has an entire city's worth of Kryptonians, easily enough for them to actually rebuild the Kryptonian race, Zod is going to make their restoration his main priority in life. Zod doesn't share Kal's morals, he's going to pursue any potential lead that offers the hope of reviving Kandor. You could get a lot of stories out of Zod trying various methods to revive the Kandorians, with Kal having to mitigate the worst of Zod's risky experiments. Eventually if the Kandorians were revived they could join Zod's New Krypton and potentially cause problems within the United Planets down the road. Even could do a second attempt at having Kal or Kara joining New Krypton and trying to guide them into becoming better than the denizens of Old Krypton.

[thewordwideweb]

It's element-ary. Noble gases

Periodically, I use this space to introduce you to a Word of the Day. Periodically. Hmm, that reminds me of the periodic table of elements, which we all learned about in high school (if we weren’t cutting classes. I’m not naming names, but you know who you are.) So today’s Words of the Day will come from the periodic table, and specifically, the group of elements known as the “noble gases.”

The six naturally occurring noble gases – helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon – share certain important characteristics. They are colorless, odorless, tasteless (not sure who figured that out by tasting them), and not flammable.

You may be wondering what, exactly, makes them “noble.” It has to do with another characteristic they all share: just as kings, queens and other high-born “nobles” don’t usually interact with the unwashed masses, the noble gases don’t usually interact with other elements to form compounds. (It can happen, so the gases are not “inert,” as you may have been taught, but you have to really force it.)

Since this is supposed to be about words, not chemistry, let’s look at the names of the noble gases and see what they tell us.

Helium: This is an easy one. Helium got its name from the Greek name for the sun (“helios”), because it was first detected in the spectrum of the sun’s corona during an eclipse in 1868.

Neon. A couple of clever British chemists, William Ramsay and Morris Travers, conducted an experiment in 1898 in which they separated and captured the various gases that make up the air we breathe. They found, among other things, nitrogen and oxygen…and another gas no one had identified before. It was something entirely new. So they named it “neon,” after the Greek “neos,” meaning – you guessed it – “new.” But “neon” wasn’t actually the first new gas they discovered in their experiment. We’ll get back to Ramsay and Travers in a second. But first, we have to talk about…

Argon. A hundred years before Ramsay and Travers, the brilliant English scientist Henry Cavendish – who discovered hydrogen and figured out how to measure the density of the Earth – separated the gases that make up the air we breathe. He came up with a lot of nitrogen and a fair amount of oxygen, but there appeared to be a third, non-reactive gas left over that he couldn’t identify. It took another century before William Ramsay (him again!) and Lord Rayleigh improved on Cavendish’s experiments and discovered the third most plentiful gas in the air we breathe. Because it didn’t react with other elements, they called the gas “argon,” from the Greek “argos,” meaning “lazy.” Now fast forward four years to our old buddies Ramsay and Travers.

Krypton. When Ramsay and Travers did their experiment with plain old air, they were probably surprised to find this other noble gas hiding there, so they named it “krypton,” from the Greek “kryptos,” meaning “hidden.” Decades later, a couple of twenty-something comic book writers, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, would use Krypton as the name of Superman’s ill-fated home planet. But I digress. Back to Ramsay and Travers, who weren’t done yet. In their amazingly successful experiment, they also discovered…

Xenon. There wasn’t much of it; maybe one part in eleven million, which I guess Ramsay thought was pretty strange, because he coined the name “xenon,” which is Greek for “strange, foreign.” For their work in discovering all those elements, Ramsay and Travers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Radon. Hey, Ramsay and Travers couldn’t discover everything. Depending on which source you want to accept, radon was either discovered by Ernest Rutherford (“the father of nuclear physics”) and Robert Owens in Canada in 1899, or by Friedrich Ernst Dorn in Germany in 1900. They were all studying how various radioactive elements, like radium and thorium, decay. Radon is emitted as a product of that radioactive decay, and is itself radioactive. (And so, if you inhale too much radon gas, you can get lung cancer.) It was called by a lot of different names at first, including William Ramsay’s coinage of “niton,” after the Latin word for “shining.” It got the name “radon” from “radium emanation,” around 1918.

By the way, there’s actually a seventh noble gas (please save your “passing gas” jokes), but it’s synthetic; that is, it doesn’t exist in nature. It’s called “oganesson,” and it was named (in 2016) in honor of Russian-Armenian nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, who led the discovery of a bunch of super-heavy elements on the periodic table. He’s not the only scientist to have an element named for him, but he’s the only one who’s still alive (as I write this, anyway. He’s 88 years old). So I guess he’s pretty noble himself. Personally, however, I think Sir William Ramsay is getting screwed, because no elements are named for him.

[wonderly-li]

Hey guys! Guess what I'm coming up with a small business of creating:Earrings, Bracelets&Anklets,Keychains, Standup figure acrylics, pencils and/or pens with figure on top with or without the feathers on it, possibly hair clips & hair accessories, pins & buttons,and Stuffed animal plushies of The entire Batfamily, My batfam OC:Darrian Catalia Wynn(like wine 🍾 ) al ghul Wayne(including her supe outfits:Oriole, Owl feather, Batknight, and BatQueen), My Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss Alastor's Dead Air Doll OC:ChriStephane-Eve Lucillilith Magne(or to just remember my character more she part of my animation project called:UNDERWRAPS, The two I listed about batfam oc and hazbin hotel/helluva boss oc they are her 2nd&3rd life The first one is her undertale multi-dimension life with all the sans &papyruses.) My hoaxpatality OC YuleGoat Jolly jingles daughter of krampus and holly the Christmas elf,rainbow Batman and from comics to introduce on the holidays!🎄🎆🎉, Arkham Asylum inmates, Talia and Ra's al ghul including a few of their noble ninjas, Dick Grayson pet and Damian's pets, Batman beyond and his villains including the future batfam of Batman beyond from the comics including the future Gotham villains, Legion of super pets with Krypto the super dog and his villains, Harley's babies:Bud and Lou, and Marvel felicia hardy(Black cat) and Emma frost.

I'm gonna make them into 3 category plushies:

•Humans

•Cats

•Bunnies

I'm also gonna create a batfam(all batfam, including Alfred)and cat themed(Catwoman, Dc Cheshire, Marvel Blackcat) make up palettes🦇🐈, Makeup sponges(for batfam it'll be a bunny and/or court of owl Owl shaped, and for cat themed it'll be bird and/or mouse shaped I'll pretty much end up doing both so you all can have a backup makeup sponge😁😊) ,and cute brushes. (Also gonna include my own Hazbin Hotel/Helluva boss dead air doll make up palette probably shaped like charlie's hotel in honor of and supporting her cousin/sister, and her makeup sponge will be shaped like a little devil like the emoji, as for my oc:yulegoat jolly jingles she'll also have makeup palette will be the shape of a Christmas tree or a yulegoat, and for her makeup sponge it'll be shape like:an elf).

Batfam include:

•Bruce Wayne a.k.a Batman

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•Alfred Pennyworth

•Dick Grayson

(1st Robin the boy wonder, Discowing, nightwing red and blue, Court of owls, Agent 37,Junior Malone,and more).

•Jason Todd

(Arkham knight, Redhood, iceberge lounge crime boss redhood, young justice ninja Jason, 2nd robin, Spanky, and more).

•Tim Drake

(3rd robin, Red robin,Carolin Hill, and more).

•Stephanie Brown

(4th robin I'm counting her as one, Batgirl, Spoiler, pink bunny suit, and more).

•Damian Wayne

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I'm also gonna pretty much include:Flatline, Respawn, and Host Mother Soul all from Lazerous island.😁😁😊 Can't wait to show everyone!! Also for whichever plush bundle or make up bundle you get I will include a plush of the weapons that you can attach and remove from them, including some cute bunny eggs that has cute trinkets inside, and possibly more.

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I'll come up with the prices later.

[denzhe]

Krypton (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptos "the hidden one") is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas that occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. With rare exceptions, krypton is chemically inert.

[lapuslazulli]

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Autistic Sherlock Holmes, Chemistry, Drug Use, Case Fic, Don't copy to another site Series: Part 18 of Periodic Tales Summary:

Krypton

From the Greek κρυπτός kryptos, meaning "the hidden one", Krypton is a colourless, tasteless, odourless gas, inert for most practical purposes. Noble gases are typically highly unreactive except when under particular extreme conditions. The inertness of noble gases makes them very suitable in applications where reactions are not wanted.

The Holmes brothers are feeling the pressure, their hidden vulnerabilities are being tested.

[zombiesbecrazy]

Home is Where the Ring Is

Summary:  The Green Lanterns of 2813 have two jobs that they take very seriously - serve their sector admirably and protect their most treasured and endangered citizens with honor and valor.

Note:  Once upon a time I read a fic (that I can't remember the title of) about how the Green Lantern Corps was very protective of Kryptonians because they were considered an endangered species. This weird cracky fluff spun out of that and me wondering who would be responsible for looking after them if that were the case.

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It was silly, feeling homesick like some sort of child.

In the grand scheme of the universe Farthlé was not that far from home, not really, especially when you were able to travel quickly through space whenever you wanted with the help of a glowing green ring. Fylip was only one sector over, but he was three months into his six month rotation and all he really wanted right now was his mom’s homemade lufdenheim for dinner. He didn’t even like her cooking when he was home, because it was positively dreadful and left a heavy feeling like rocks in his stomach, but he missed it none the less.

Searching through his kitchen he tried to figure out if he had the right ingredients for chicken tetrazzini, one of his Earth favourites, or if he’d have to make a trip to the store to satisfy that particular craving. He had really grown to like the food here. There wasn’t pasta back home. Or cheese.  So many different types of cheese. On most days, the cheese alone was worth the station.

It was lonely sometimes. Being an alien on a strange world. Being without his friends and family. Being a Lantern in the wrong sector. Sure, 2814’s Lanterns always invited him when they got together on Earth, it wasn’t the same as hanging out with Somar-Le back in 2813.

His sworn duty was worth it, but he was having a hard time remembering that today.

The destruction of Krypton was a sad mark in history for the Green Lanterns of 2813. The defenders at the time had arrived too late to help and were only able to watch the devastation from a distance as it had been decimated. An entire planet gone; a catastrophic extinction right before their eyes. It wasn’t the first time that it had happened, nor would it be the last, but the sector’s Lanterns mourned it as if it were their own world. They had lost one of their charges.

Until one day they discovered that the Kryptonians were not extinct, only endangered and there was one on Earth. And then another. And then it was a full family pod of there, as well as the bottled city of Kandor. They were small, yes, but they were still Kryptonians contained safely in the glass walls.

The species they had thought were lost had survived and 2813 would not fail them again. Never again. They had a new mission to uphold.

Since that day, one of the Lanterns from 2813 always stood guard over the Kryptonians of Earth, ensuring that they were safe and protected from harm. The Guardians had tried to tell them that it wasn’t necessary, that this mission was above and beyond their call of duty, as had the Green Lanterns of 2814, who all called Earth home and said that they include the Kryptonians in their protection, but the 2813 Lanterns declined. Arrangements had to be made because of this, and once it was realised that the 2813’s mission was permanent. With the Guardians, they decided that if a solo Kryptonian appeared another sector, it was the duty of the Lanterns of that sector to protect them. The Earth pod was the largest settlement in the universe and if it was 2813’s sworn oath to look after them, it was their responsibility even though they were residing in 2814’s jurisdiction. For the most part, Farthlé and Somar-Le stayed out of 2814’s business unless one of Earth’s Lantern’s asked them to assist, and likewise they left the Kryptonians well being to them, unless one left the pod to go off planet. General rule was then that Farthlé stayed with the pod and the travelling family member was then the responsibility of the sector they were in. Kal El was pretty good at texting before going off world so they were alerted to the situation. He was fortunate to be close enough to his sector that he could assist if needed, and in that case he alerted Hal or John that he needed to be away and they cared for his Kryptonians.

There were a lot of rules and contingencies in place for a very small collection of people, but it was worth it and it usually worked out well for everyone.

It was strange to be looking after essentially four people instead of an entire sector of space, crisscrossing between insanely easier and infinitely more complicated all at the same time.

Farthlé and Somar-Le had decided that they would split the duties of who would spend their time on Earth with their most precious charges, rotating every six months, while living in an apartment they shared in Metropolis. It was only fair to split both the burden and the honour of this revered task. It was a sacred and noble act and one that he was proud to follow the tradition of, even if the Kryptonians poked fun at them for it.  They kept insisting that they didn’t need a special guard detail, but it wasn’t really up to them to make that call. The rings of 2813 taught them the importance of the as soon as it attached to their fingers for the first time. It was part of their history almost as much as it was the Kryptonians.

Sector 2813 will always take care of its own.

Over the years, Farthlé had taken to treating the pod in the same way as most Earth family units seemed to when they did not live together, keeping most of his tabs on them with their telecommunication devices. Noting that he didn’t have any chicken for the meal he had hoped to make, he closed the fridge and decided to make his standard rounds, pulling out his phone and texting the same group he did every night.

Farthlé: Daily check in. Everyone still alive?

Dots appeared on the screen as he waited for a response. Probably Kara. She was always the first. He wasn’t overly concerned today. It had been a slow news day in general on the planet so he had no reason to think that anything had happened to any of his charges. He had done a fly over in the morning to peek in on all of them and they were all fine, but he still needed the reassurance that he hadn’t missed anything as they lived their regular lives. He found it fascinating, the way they had seamlessly assimilated. Despite the responsibility of the duty, for the most part he stayed uninvolved. The last time he had to step in was because of Zod and ended with banishing him to the Phantom Zone. At least he knew where that Kryptonian was tonight.

Kara Zor-El: I’m alright. I broke a heel.

Farthlé sucked in a breath and transformed into his uniformed appearance, green glow filling the room. How had Kara injured herself in such a fashion? Kryptonite, surely, but he needed more… wait. She had indicated that she was fine. He tried to calm himself, resisting the urge to open the window and fly towards her location without more information.

Farthlé : How?

Kara Zor-El: It got stuck in a grate when I was running to catch the subway.

Farthlé gritted his teeth and powered down before taking a few deep and steadying breaths. She was going to be the death of him some day, he just knew it.

Farthlé: You mean you broke the heel of your shoe.

Kara Zor-El: Oh, yeah. Sorry. Stop panicking. I can hear your heartbeat from here. Though if you want to buy me some new ones, that would be sweet.

Farthlé : The Corps are not buying you new shoes.

Kara Zor-El: But I need them. I’m a poor orphan without shoes. Help me, Green Lantern.

Farthlé : No.

He knew that would be the end of the conversation with Kara. She wasn’t one for chit chat with him over text but she did like to meet up in person from time to time to chat about their home sector. Farthé had never been to Krypton, but she had been to Fylip as a child as well as some of the other planets and he was really the only person she could talk to about it. It was nice, the connection that the two of them shared from home. She often made him feel less homesick when he was feeling down, but he didn’t like to intrude. He was mainly an observer and didn’t want to disrupt the life that she had built for herself on Earth.

Jon Kent: I’m good, but my dad isn’t home yet. How are you today? I miss you!

Farthlé smiled at young Jonathan’s words. He had recently got a phone of his own, and as far as Farthlé knew, the only numbers stored in it were for his family, Robin from Gotham and himself. Jonathan had called him his fairy godfather last time he had seen him. It must rather seem that way to a child.

Farthlé: I’m very well. Thank you for asking.

Jon Kent: Can you do my math homework?

Farthlé: You must learn math, Jonathan. It is important on all planets.

Jon Kent: But there's just so much…

Farthlé: Even if I were able to help you in that way, I could only do half because you are only half Kryptonian.

Jon Kent: Does that mean that if I were dying, you would only half save me?

Farthlé: Well, no. I am still not doing your homework.

Jon Kent: Fine, but I’m telling my teacher that a Fylipian Lantern ate my homework.

Farthlé: You are welcome to try to use that as an excuse however I don’t believe it will work.

There were a few minutes of silence from his phone, hopefully meaning that Jonathan had returned to his studies. There were still two more to hear in from. The general rule of thumb was that if he didn’t hear back from them within thirty minutes that he was to start to investigate.

A new bubble popped up.

Kon El: The other person you are only going to half save is also alive and well and thriving. Krypto and I are chilling.

Farthlé: Very good. Give Krypto a pet for me. He is a good dog.

Kon El: Will do. Question – do you save me to a level less than or equal to Jon? As a clone-hybrid am I only like… 25% saveable?

Farthlé sighed. Were all Kryptonians this insufferable? He shook his head when he realised that about 90% of all Kryptonians alive in the universe were in this group chat, so it was rather easy to infer that, yes, all Kryptonians were like this.

Farthlé: I will save anyone with Kryptonian DNA with equal measure, regardless of the percentage.

Kon El: My hero! My future 12.5% Kryptonian children are so lucky!

Another twenty minutes passed and Farthlé started to wonder if he was going to have to contact one of 2814’s Lanterns. He knew that Kal El was off world on a Justice League mission, but he had been due to arrive back earlier in the day. He had not heard of any delay in their return but it was known to happen. If something had gone wrong, he would have been contacted. He was tapping out a message to Hal Jordan that he wasn’t entirely sure if he was going to send or not, because Hal would just accuse him of being a mother hen when a notification came through.

Kal El: Jon, ask Mom for help with the math. Conner, you are just as Kryptonian as any of the rest of us. Kara, you are an adult with a job, buy your own darn shoes. Farthlé, I arrived safe and sound on the Watchtower and am heading home soon. I’m fine. Kyle took very good care of me. Sorry that I forgot to check in earlier. My phone was dead.

Tension released from Farthlé’s body as he read the words. He knew that it was hypocritical, but he didn’t like it when one of his charges left the planet. There was a sense of safety when they were on home. Everywhere else for them just felt so… alien. He laughed at his own foolishness as he typed back.

Farthlé: You are not a house plant that I asked Kyle Rayner to water, Kal El.

Kal El: Then why do you never ask Guy to follow me when I go off planet?

Farthlé: No comment. Thank you for letting me know you are home once again.

Seconds later, Farthlé’s phone was ringing. It was not an unexpected call.

“Do you have dinner plans tonight? We’re having lasagna if you want to join us. I’m going to call Conner and Kara too. Big family meal sound good?” Kal El sounded good. Happy. The mission must have gone well.

It wasn’t uncommon for Kal El to invite him to dinner and it was a usual occurrence when he returned from off world missions. It was like he knew that Farthlé was practically itching to see him in the flesh and ensure that their longest charge was all in one piece, just has he had been when he left Earth days before. He was trying to make his job easier. While his insistent Lantern guardians amused him, Kal El always did his best to include them into his life and tried to make them feel welcome on Earth. He knew what it was like to feel like a stranger in a crowd. Farthlé was lucky, being able to blend in with the humans and Kryptonians and that it was much harder for Somar-Le to venture out in public without a concealment charm disguising his avian like visage, but he was still an outsider no matter how much time he spent on Earth.

The dinner invitation sounded like it always did. Perfect. It wasn’t home or his mom’s food, but it was the next best thing when it felt like he was a galaxy, and not just a sector, away.

“I would love to. Thank you for the invitation.”

After all, it was easier to keep an eye on all the Kryptonians if they were there together. Dinner together made strategic sense.

The pasta and cheese combination was just an added bonus.

[incredibly-cold]

Idk if anyone wants to hear some cute shit but there’s this boy that I’m basically dating and he doesn’t like dogs, but I LOVE dogs and he’s started agreeing with things I say. We were talking about krypto the superdog and I said “Is there any more noble creature to have as a sidekick?” and he just kind of looked at me with this sweet little smile and said “You’re right” and it just killed me. Like I just forget he doesn’t love them, and when we made eye contact I remembered, but he just rolled with it and it was so pure and I love him

[neon-city-nightrideofficial]

The first main character of Neon City Nightride! Meet Enkrypton (erroneously spelled as Encrypton here.) The leader of the Nightriders, and one of Neon City's most wanted android. He carries a laser pistol with him wherever he goes, and rides a sleek, futuristic motorbike.

Enkrypton is usually a lax, easygoing soul, though he has his moments of emotional turmoil. Partnered up with his team of Ethereal, XFAAL and M1-PP0, this hero is certain to free the people- both human and botkind- in the efforts of this grand prix!

The name "Enkrypton" comes from a few elements: "krypton"; a noble gas once used in lasers and florescent lights- a light source, "encrypt"; to do with his technological nature, and "krypto"; meaning "he who stays hidden".

[yarnzipangirl]

And now, from the rewatch of Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition because I love myself):

-I am reasonably certain that Clark’s emotional state during 98% of this movie is just ‘WHY THIS?’ with a dash of ‘CAN YOU NOT?’

-I can understand people who are annoyed we had to watch the Waynes die AGAIN, and yet, I cannot imagine this movie without this scene in it.  Because this movie is the very first time I feel like a Batman-having movie actually made Bruce’s motivation have any true meaning outside of kind of excusing why a man with that kind of resources would be Batman.  It makes it clear that the equation isn’t “boy loses parents, decides to fight crime”; it’s “boy loses his whole world, decides to fight LOSS” and that is a vital VITAL difference, especially for this movie.  

-also this is the most beautifully shot thing, and again I applaud Snyder’s tendency to reintroduce the importance of the mother in this situation.  Also that shell casing hitting the ground gets mirrored later and it kills me.

-and that Bruce’s father dies after curling his fist, dies in anger when he was a doctor, sworn to do no harm, feels like foreshadowing, like a warning; when a good man breaks his vows, goes darker, nothing good comes of it.  (And yes, I understand he was defending his family, totally reasonable, but we’re talking about this moment as metaphor, as how Bruce REMEMBERS it).

-oh god, I forgot Jimmy Olsen was Grant Gabriel on Smallville.  *FACEPALMS FOREVER*

-hey Bruce, when TEENAGE GIRLS are afraid of you, perhaps time to reconsider your life decisions.  The fact that he doesn’t even try to take care of them or comfort them says SO MUCH about where his head is.

-I feel like if there was justice in the world, every time someone described DCEU Superman as an ‘unfeeling god’ they would have to watch the 10 seconds where Clark comes in to see Lois bathing with his goobery little glasses and his grinny face like she hung the moon and his little bag of groceries to make her dinner and the flowers just for her and how he’s literally just so in love with her he can’t stand not stepping into the tub to kiss her Right Then.  Still didn’t get it?  Again.  Nope, you don’t get the abs.  You don’t DESERVE the abs.

-Alfred deserves all the scotch.  All of it.  And a raise, if only for dealing with this betta fish of a human being we call Batman.  I feel like Clark should have been able to hear Alfred screaming ‘fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck’ the entire movie at registers too high for others to hear because that is definitely how he feels.

-I will defend this Lex Luthor to my dying breath because this motherfucker scares me.  And he scares me because unlike the other kind, I’ve MET this motherfucker.  This motherfucker ran a company I worked for.  All douchbro and open door policy and casual workplace until you don’t give him what he wants and then the knives come out.  And I think the reason why he doesn’t work for a lot of people is that we’re still in the era where this kind of businessman villain hasn’t been villainized properly yet.  We have the mental templates for the oil tycoon or the 90s environmentally disastrous CEO, the 00s real estate-stealing asshole, and now the 10′s Wall Street wolf, but THIS kind of monster is the one we’re still getting a feel for.  The (I hate to make this comparison) Mark Zuckerbergs, the tech moguls who are increasing human suffering in less direct, less easy to define ways while always pretending to help us.  In ways that to some degree people still admire.  Lex Luthor as a competent-Donald-Trump analogy is easy and familiar in comparison.  This is one step forward and while I wouldn’t say it’s without it’s faults, it’s brave as hell and real as hell.  This is OUR monster, folks.  

-Following up on the ‘Perry totally knows’, I’m pretty sure Perry gave him the sports piece to try and take his mind off of All The Terrible and was fighting him because goddammit, son, you can’t take on the world, it is KILLING YOU.

-I was absolutely livid with the original cut, I’m gonna be honest, and the reason boils down to (well, the parts where the plot literally doesn’t make sense re: blaming Superman but mostly) the fact that without Clark investigating the Batman, meeting people who are scared, who feel cornered, who have lost a husband and a father to that brand... Clark would never actually fight him.  Clark doesn’t GET angry at personal slights or personal threats.  He gets angry because Innocent People Are Living In Fear From This Asshole, that innocent people are dying either because the Batman hasn’t noticed that his brand victims die or DOESN’T CARE.  Without these pieces, Clark’s rage makes literally no sense and even his ‘civil liberties’ argument makes so little sense since ‘how would he know?’

-Clark’s little smile as Lois is Lois at him, basically going ‘why yes, I’m going to throw myself into this pit of snakes to find a needle in the haystack UNDER these snakes’ mixed up with his concern and just UGH these two UGH

-the little sound clips of the world engine at various points, like when Bruce is going to the grave in his dream.  *SHAKES FIST TO THE SKY* AAAAAART

-and the angel in the stained glass with a blue tunic and a red cape.

-Okay, Bruce? Comparing Superman to the Joker is like... just flat unfair.

-Lex and Bruce both leave that little threeway meeting with purpose while Clark is just so clearly like ‘...what the fuck just happened?  What the- WHY ARE RICH PEOPLE LIKE THIS?”

-The amount of loathing Bruce has for the Bruce Wayne act conveyed purely through face acting is FABULOUS.  Bathroom excuse bathroom excuse OH MY GOD KILL ME I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS JACKASS I APPARENTLY AM.

-*insert me crying about How Unhappy Clark is re: all the people around him treating him like a savior and the whole reference to the skulls thing and just Clark, honey-*

-Clark needs to watch some cartoons.  Someone should just like... set his dial permanently to happy joyful things because the news is just Not Good.

-Once again, those people with the ‘unfeeling god’ nonsense, what with this unfeeling god calling his mother because he’s feeling lost and confused and he doesn’t know what’s the right thing to do.

-Bruce trying that Selina and Talia line on Diana: LOL.  Diana’s response: ALSO LOL.

-ngl, after certain things happened in GoT, I cannot imagine Clark standing in the flames at the capitol building without the subtitle of ‘...dammit Cersei’

-I will never understand how they ever thought cutting Clark bringing bodies/survivors out of the Capital Building was a scene they could cut.  It is So Vastly Important.  

-Alfred’s just... gonna stand here and watch Bruce become literally everything he hates, yup, up, this is great, this is Scotch scotch scotch scotch scotch scotch scotch and I Don’t Blame Him.

-Back to the ‘Perry White Totally Knows’ comment, that look at Lois while Lois begs for a helicopter?  Right after referencing that Superman is CLEARLY at the ship?  Hell yeah, Perry knows.  Also Perry is the man.

-I will also defend this fight to my dying goddamn day because Snyder knows how to do some beautiful things with cinematography and this is the ugliest, most brutal, painful fight to watch and it GODDAMN SHOULD BE.  Because heroes fighting heroes is ugly, because Bruce is ugly at this point, Clark is so lost and there is nothing really noble or ‘good’ in this fight.  Even Clark who’s fighting to try and save his mother is giving in to his frustration at everything, at the world, at this GUY who’s a giant douche to him in person and hurts people to make them do what he wants and doesn’t care when they die.  And I feel that’s a huge portion of this fight, that both of them feel the other one is apathetic to suffering and it makes them ANGRY.  

-...though I snerk every time at Bruce realizing the Kryptonite’s worn off.  Yeah.  Yeah, buddy.

-Also this most recent rewatch honestly completely changed my view on the Martha line.  I have, since the beginning, thought it was a good, meaningful scene that worked in the context of the movie, but I always thought it was clumsy.  It’s only now, watching it again, really taking in everything around it that I realize it DOES in fact make absolute sense, and it works perfectly.  Because Bruce has just been TALKING about Clark’s parents.  He doesn’t CARE that Clark has parents, doesn’t care that he has a mother and father.  Clark doesn’t say ‘save my mother’ because Bruce is That Far Gone.  But Clark called Bruce by name, KNOWS who he is: he doesn’t just say ‘Martha’ to save his own mother, he says ‘Martha’ because this is literally Clark’s last ditch effort to appeal to the human being named Bruce Wayne inside that batsuit.  He is trying to snap him out of this.  And he is trying to make his mother into a random bystander for Bruce to save so he WILL save her.  He is pointedly disassociating himself from his mother to try and save her; he is saying ‘fine, kill me, but you have to save this innocent woman’.  And it’s only the combination of these things that actually breaks through the 18 months of obsessive hatred.  Honestly, Lois telling him it’s his mother’s name is just icing on the cake, a quicker end.  Clark might have been on his back, with a spear in his face, but Clark Wins That Goddamn Fight because he pulled the play that made Batman into Batman again.

-you know, I’ve been looking forward to Clark coming back and seeing Martha see him and Lois and Bruce but DAMN if I can’t wait for Lex Luthor to see Clark returned to life.  *insert gif of Jason Momoa with the folding chair* 

-Martha waves to the Batwing flying away and that is adorable.

-You’d think the US government was dating Superman considering how many times they decide to fuck him.  FFS, guys.  Let him throw the monster into space without shooting him in the back just ONCE.

-Best. Enter. Player. 2. Moment. Ever.

-Watching Batman play ‘hoooooly shit, dodge dodge dodge dodge’ with Doomsday feels like a kind of karmic return like.  Look, asshole, THIS is what a Kryptonian monster who wants to raze the entire Earth is like and you are SO not even remotely prepared for that fight.

-...I forgot he actually pulls the spike in deeper so that he can stab Doomsday properly because I needed that heart, you know?

-Bruce trying to cover that hole in the suit as he bundles Clark up, totally not thinking about another suit in a glass case in his house, not thinking about the woman he just saved so she can bury her son.  Nope, nope, nope, Bruce Wayne is JUST FINE, thanks for asking.

-The Worst (read most painful) Look Ever between Lois and Diana and you know there’s a part of Diana that’s like ‘at least you get to bury him’.

-AND THERE GO THOSE SHELLS HITTING THE CONCRETE AGAIN, thanks symbolic things that hurt me down to my soul.

-you know, in the comics, Bruce REALLY REALLY hates Lex, like enough to be all right with helping to murder him (yeah, legit) but imagine, if you will, how much he’s gonna hate him NOW.

-Still a goddamn hopeful ending even if it breaks my heart.  ‘Men are still good’.  UGH.  UGH THIS UNIVERSE.

[pw-wp]

Super Women- The Winding Road of Portrayals of Female Heroes in the Comics

One would not be far off in assuming that we are living through a cultural sea change of the portrayal of superheroines in American Culture. After some 70 years, Wonder Woman is finally appearing in her own movie, long-time male comic avatars are being replaced with female characters, and the industry of comics itself is finally, in fits and starts, looking in the mirror and starting to reconsider the way women in the art form are represented. It’s been a long journey from the wild west days of Fantomah and Miss Fury, one that today’s blog entry seeks to briefly examine.

The Pioneers: Wonder Woman and the First Superheroines

IMAGE: Early Wonder Woman and Fantomah Representations.

Women had a tough row to hoe from the very beginning in comics. The first known superheroine characters to be published, including Fletcher Hank’s Fantomah, were certainly unique, but they were like needles in a haystack. Jon Morris (2015) writes that Fantomah might very likely be the first female superhero (p. 50). She has recently been rediscovered and brought back to some form of prominence, mostly due to the bizarre nature of her powers and her creator’s notoriety. The first major heroine, and the only one to stand the prolonged test of time, Wonder Woman, wasn’t even featured on the cover of her first appearance. Daniel Wallace recounts how she first appeared off the cover and inside All Star Comics in 1941 (p. 40, 2014). All things considered, it was a miracle she was published at all.

Conceived by William Moulton Marston for DC comics in 1941, many leaders in the field were less than thrilled with the introduction of a female hero, even as a back-up feature. Lepore (2014) notes that when the character joined the Justice Society of America following feedback from the readers, writer Gardner Fox made her a secretary and wrote her out of the action whenever possible (pp.210-211). The bizarre nature of some of the early Wonder Woman stories (anybody like bondage? Lots of bondage here) didn’t help matters. Still, they didn’t hurt much either, as Wonder Woman served as a beacon for all comic heroines to follow and was one of the few comic heroes, along with Batman and Superman, to survive the implosion of superhero comics in the early 1950s.

Wonder Woman would also have one unique trait shared by only a handful of DC characters (including Black Canary and Saturn Girl) and a larger number of Marvel Comic Heroines (The Wasp, Marvel Girl, Black Widow) for the next several decades: she wasn’t a gender-swapped clone of a male hero.

Turning Women into Girls and Swapping Genders- Silver Age Heroines

For most scholars and writers like Chris Sims, the “Silver Age” of superhero comics is generally considered the time period between the late 1950s, with the re-introduction and reformatting of the DC comics character the Flash (2016), and early 1970s that saw the renaissance of superheroes and the emergence of Marvel Comics as the first real competition DC had ever seen. This time period saw the addition of a plethora of male and female characters in the comics, but unlike Wonder Woman and others from the earlier Golden Age of comics, most of the heroines introduced here had some frustrating handicaps. The most popular heroines were either female clones of popular male heroes, like Supergirl, Mary Marvel and TWO Batgirls or were, well, labeled as “girls” instead of “women”.

The “girl” issue is a bizarre aspect of this story. Many of the new female heroes introduced in the 60s and 70s were either girl friends, fiances, or rookie partners to male heroes. Hence names like “the Invisible Girl” (later changed to “woman”), “Marvel Girl”, and the aforementioned Batgirl and Supergirl.  Characters like The Wasp and Big Barda were beaus to characters like Antman and Mister Miracle, respectively. While there was nothing intentionally “lesser” about these portrayals, it was no surprise that Desta (2017) notes that feminists like Gloria Steinem  held up the original superheroine Wonder Woman as the prime example of characters to follow.

IMAGE: The 1960s DC Comics “Clones” Super Girl and Bat Girl.

The clone concept of heroines is an ongoing trend to this day, pursued for both noble (lifting up female perspectives in popular books) and less than noble (laziness and copyright purposes) purposes. The two most famous examples were done to cash in on trends. Supergirl, first appearing in 1959 was part of a trend of making “Super” spin offs that lasted for almost two decades. Kistler (2015) relays that Superman’s cousin joined the pages graced by other “super” characters like Krypto the Super Dog. The second Batgirl (Barbara Gordon- the one you’ve heard of) was introduced in the comics after Yvonne Craig originated the role on the Batman tv show during the 60s. Daniels (1999) notes that the tv show executives actually asked DC comics to put the character into publication (p. 115). These two characters have transcended the clone stigma in the following years, but it still boggles the mind that they occupy the top three spots in terms of popularity when it comes to DC’s heroines. In terms of design, these characters were fundamentally gender-swapped versions of the male characters they were fashioned off of, with small aesthetics changes like hair color, skirts instead of pants, or slight palette variations in their colors.

IMAGE: The 1970s Marvel “Clones” Spider-Woman and She-Hulk.

Copyright issues led to the production of several clone heroines at Marvel Comics in the late 1970s. Howe (2012) relates that Marvel realized they had to control certain copyrights, so POW!, here’s a Spider Woman comic (p.193). Universal might create a female Hulk for the 70’s t.v. show that they’d own? POW! Here’s a She-Hulk comic (p. 220). While these would eventually turn into individualized characters, it would take a few decades, and about three to four iterations of Spider-Woman. Still, as you can see below one should give Marvel some credit: each iteration of Spider-Woman had a unique costume, with the second one even serving as inspiration (at least, in storyline) for the second most famous Spiderman costume.

IMAGE: The first and second characters to use the name “Spider-Woman”.

The Rough Years: Weird Anatomies, Revealing Costumes and Women in Fridges

If one had only recently gotten involved in looking at superhero comics and the way they portray women, they could be forgiven for accepting the stereotype promoted by the Simpsons of comic book fans being overweight, sarcastic shut-ins who are incapable of talking to women. The representations, especially the most popular ones, could be troubling. Some major examples include the depictions of women in the work of Frank Miller and the general artistic aesthetic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Frank Miller is widely regarded as one of the Godfathers of modern comics, through his revolutionary work on characters like Daredevil and Batman. Over time, some of his work has proven controversial. His portrayal of women has especially drawn controversy. In some of Miller’s stories, characters like Catwoman are turned into dominatrixes and others, like Elektra, are created to much acclaim only to be murdered as plot devices to motivate the male heroes. Daniels (1991) notes, but does not really comment on, the fact that Elektra is “killed by another criminal and died in her blind lover’s arms” (p. 190). To be fair, Miller did bring the character back to such acclaim that she has sometimes trounced Daredevil in terms of popularity. These characters are also drawn in a very sexualized manner by Miller, especially in his later work. An example of this would be the character of Carrie Kelly, a female Robin first introduced in “The Dark Knight Returns” (Miller, 1986). Portrayed as something of a tomboy in the original story, Miller draws the character accordingly. Fast forward to the early 2000’s, when Miller revisited the story in the sequel “The Dark Knight Strikes Again” (Miller, 2001). Carrie has moved from the Robin persona to one based on Catwoman, complete with skin-tight latex. The depiction is more controversial, and the case for balance or excuses for Miller is undercut by the inclusion in the story of protest leading faux superheroine strippers and a naked news anchor. Cultural change might justify the changes, but the depictions remain somewhat controversial.

IMAGE: Miller’s drawings of Carrie Kelly in the 1980s and again in the early 2000s.

It would be extremely unfair to present the example of Miller’s work as an outlier. Indeed, looking back at the comics of the time, his representations were modest. The late 80s and early 90s brought in bodybuilder bodies for male characters and hourglass, supermodel frames for women. To go through and list all of the examples would take forever and a day, so we will use the magic of images to show a brief sampler, and then focus on one particularly flamboyant and infamous example of sexualization.

IMAGE: Examples of female representation from 1980/90s superhero comics.

Illustrators like Jim Lee, Rob Leifeld, Todd McFarlane and others lead the way in stylizing characters to the extreme during this time period. A visual look at the drastic changes wrought by these trends can be seen in the Fantastic Four’s Invisible Woman (no longer a Girl). As Sanderson (2000) points out, the Invisible Woman’s designed was updated by artists over the years (p. 39). The decades passed and as we hit the 90’s, her costume goes from essentially a jumpsuit, to a body sock, to a bathing suit, complete with a cutout 4 over the bosom. This apparently was so drastic a change that it only lasted a handful of issues before converting to a more conservative dress once again. This is an extreme example, but such occurrences were everywhere.

IMAGE: Invisible Woman Costume updates over the years.

This state of affairs continued during the booms and implosion of the comics industry in the 1990s. The visual elements continue to this day, though they are not nearly as dominant as they once were. There are, of course, many, many comics getting published at any one time, and many different representations and styles going into them, but the trend was not subtle and set the stage for what would happen in the new millennium.

In 1999, comics writer Gail Simone set up a website called “Women in Refrigerators”, which kept a running tally murdered, raped, or otherwise afflicted superheroines in comics. The term references a Green Lantern story where the titular hero’s girlfriend is killed and shoved into his refrigerator. The point of the moniker was to point out the degradation that several female heroes in comics were exposed to. The fact that they were often used simply as props for the male heroes or “depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator” (Simone, 1999) was pointed out vigorously, which related to how female superheroes were being represented at this time. This was a fairly revolutionary statement and website to create, and seeded the ground for debate as the 2000’s rolled in.

CHANGING TIMES and FEMALE FANS: Modern Developments

IMAGE: Modern female heroes Captain Marvel and Squirrel Girl

As we move into the present day, publishers began to wake up to the need to update how they represent women in the medium. Thanks to things like Women in Refrigerators and Gamergate, DC, Marvel, and others started presenting female heroes differently.

Examples of addressing the problems in the past interpretation of women include efforts by Marvel to replace male leads with female leads and intentionally take off monikers like “woman”, “she-”, or “girl”. As Khal (2016) notes, Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, and most famously (and for the second time, oddly enough) Captain Marvel monikers were all passed on to women. No “girl” monikers were affixed to the new titles. Captain Marvel was actually an example of a clone character seizing the mantle of the original character, and has completely eclipsed the original space policeman who originated the name. She has proven so successful in recent years that Eisenberg (2017) reports she will be the star of the first female-lead titled Marvel Movie.

Marvel has also been actively promoting new and/or obscure characters that harken back to the rebel spirit of characters like Wonder Woman and Fantomah when they first came out. Marvel Characters like Squirrel Girl are quirky and have a distinctly millennial tilt. They are drawn in a modern style that doesn’t rely on gross exaggerations or conservative staples of the years before. These new characters and the updated usage of others have coincided with somewhat mixed reactions (Hibberd, 2017) but a much more diverse audience.

DC has been busy updating characters as well. Revolutionary takes on characters like Batgirl, who has been popular enough to spark work on a new solo film by Joss Whedon (Foutch, 2017), have similarly brought in new readers and more positive representations of female heroes. Granted, the exploding popularity of characters like the often abused and forgiving Harley Quinn, as seen by the plethora of merchandise based on her appearance in the film Suicide Squad (Amazon, 2017) can sometimes be seen as a step backward. Regardless, there has been noticeable improvement within the last 10 years.

Over time, it’s been a matter of two steps forward and one major step back for superheroines in comics, both in how they are written and how they are portrayed on the page. While it’s taken a few too many decades, it is a positive sign that so many new characters and exciting developments have been happening so recently. Hopefully this trend continues into the future.

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Crisis On Infinite Earths: DC Comics Crossover Explained

The 2019 Arrowverse crossover Crisis On Infinite Earths stands poised to forever alter its reality, and challenge the rules regarding what can and cannot be done with superheroes within the context of several television series. Fans who are only familiar with the TV shows may not know the story of the original Crisis On Infinite Earths comic books, which inspired the event and had a major effect upon DC Comics and the comic book industry at large.

To call Crisis on Infinite Earths revolutionary would be an understatement. While some historians argue that Marvel's Secret Wars was the first major comic book crossover event, it lacked the scope and scale of Crisis on Infinite Earths, focusing on only a handful of characters and originally being conceived as a tie-in comic for a line of action figures. By contrast, Crisis On Infinite Earths was intended to showcase every character DC Comics' had ever created, and was meticulously planned over the better part of a decade.

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While it remains to be seen how closely the Arrowverse Crisis will follow the story of the original comic book storyline, it has set itself up in a similar vein by introducing the mysterious Monitor. It has also established similarly high stakes, with Oliver Queen destined to die as part of the coming battle, after he bargained with the Monitor to save the lives of his friends. The event is also borrowing the tagline from the advertisements that promoted the original comics: "Worlds will live. Worlds will die. And the universe will never be the same!"

What Crisis On Infinite Earths Was All About

Crisis On Infinite Earths came about for two distinct reasons. The first was a desire to streamline and simplify the DC Comics' line of books so that it could be made more accessible to new readers. The second was to showcase everything that made DC Comics unique, as a way of celebrating the company's 50th anniversary.

The planning for Crisis began in 1981, after writer/editor Marv Wolfman received a letter from a reader asking why a character didn't recognize Green Lantern in the most recent issue, when the two had met before in a different comic published 3 years earlier. The letter exemplified the reasons why Wolfman felt DC Comics had been slowly losing their audience for years; it was too hard for new readers to become attached to a series, due to the sheer size of the DC Comics multiverse and the different versions of popular characters that existed. For instance, one Superman book might depict Clark Kent as he was in the Christopher Reeve movies, while another showed him as an older man with graying temples, happily married to Lois Lane.

Wolfman pitched a revolutionary story that would allow the whole of DC Comics' multiverse to be condensed into a single reality. After DC Comics' top brass approved the basic idea, Wolfman began to lay the groundwork in the comics that he wrote. At the same time, DC Comics hired a professional researcher to go through every book DC Comics had ever published and catalog all of their characters, so that they could all appear in Wolfman's proposed story.

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This undertaking took two years, by which point it was decided that the story should be delayed until 1985, so that its release would coincide with the 50th anniversary of DC Comics' foundation. During that time, Wolfman's frequent artistic collaborator and co-creator of the New Teen Titans, George Perez, heard about the project and requested the assignment of drawing the 12-issue maxi-series be given to him. With Perez and executive editor Dick Giordano assisting him on the plotting duties, Wolfman began to shape the story of Crisis On Infinite Earths.

What Happens In Crisis On Infinite Earths

Wolfman lay the groundwork for Crisis On Infinite Earths with the introduction of the Monitor - an alien who appeared throughout the DC Comics' multiverse. At first the Monitor seemed to be an intergalactic arms-dealer, supplying supervillains with advanced alien weaponry. Yet the Monitor was also depicted engaging in noble acts, such as saving a young girl called Lyla Michaels from being lost at sea. Between his ill-defined powers and the seeming randomness of his actions, the Monitor was an enigma for many years.

The opening chapters of Crisis Of Infinite Earths explained the Monitor's actions, if not his background or the limits of his powers. A physical manifestation of the positive matter multiverse, the Monitor had come to learn of the existence of a being of pure evil who was his equal and opposite - an Anti-Monitor who ruled over the anti-matter universe. Somehow, the Anti-Monitor had discovered that the destruction of positive matter universes expanded his realm and increased his power, leading him to start destroying the multiverse in a bid to become all-powerful.

Steadily weakened by the destruction of the realities that empowered him, the Monitor hit upon a bold plan. He would build an army of heroes, forged from the mightiest beings across the multiverse and set them upon the Anti-Monitor. To that end, he began empowering the evildoers of the multiverse as a means of testing the heroes. Beyond building his army, the Monitor also empowered two champions to act as his agents.

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The Monitor transformed Lyla Michaels, whom he had come to raise as his own daughter, into the heroine Harbinger, giving her the power to spread her consciousness throughout the multiverse in a series of clone bodies. It was Harbinger who gathered those champions the Monitor had found worthy of joining his epic crusade. The Monitor also gave immortality and invulnerability to a scientist he dubbed Pariah, who had accidentally developed a connection to the Anti-Monitor after his experiments opened a portal to the anti-matter universe, leading to the destruction of his Earth. The Monitor used Pariah to track the Anti-Monitor's movements, as Paraiah's connection forcibly teleported him from reality to reality, arriving in a universe just before the Anti-Monitor and his forces began destroying it.

The Aftermath Of Crisis On Infinite Earths

In the end, the Anti-Monitor was defeated, but only thanks to the sacrifice of many heroes. The most notable among these were Barry Allen, The Flash of Earth-1, and Kara Zor-El, the Supergirl of Earth-1. In the end, only five Earths survived the Crisis: Earth 1 (home of the Justice League), Earth-2 (home of the Justice Society), Earth-S (home of Shazam and all the heroes once owned by Fawcett Comics), Earth-4 (home of Blue Beetle and all the heroes once owned by Charlton Comics) and Earth-X (home of Plastic Man and all the heroes once owned by Quality Comics).

These five Earths merged into a single Earth with a single shared history, dubbed New Earth. The heroes of Earth-2 and Earth-X, who had existed during World War II in their original timelines, were now the first generation of superheroes on New Earth. The heroes of Earth-1, Earth-4 and Earth-S constituted the new generation of heroes, operating in modern times.

Most of DC Comics' major titles were rebooted, with new origin stories being commissioned to explain the heroes' origins on New Earth. The Superman mythos were changed so that Kal-El was the sole survivor of Krypton, with no Supergirl, Krypto the Super Dog or Beppo the Super Monkey to assist him. Batman's background remained largely the same, but the editors of the Batman titles pushed the idea that Batman no longer operated in the open and was considered an urban legend by most of the people of Gotham City. Black Canary became a legacy character, with Dinah Drake having served in the Justice Society and her teammates acting as an army of uncles to her daughter, Dinah Lance, who went on to become a founding member of the Justice League as the second Black Canary.

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How Crisis On Infinite Earths Will Be Different On The Arrowverse

The creators behind the Arrowverse have been building towards producing a live-action version of Crisis on Infinite Earths for years. The first hints were dropped in the pilot episode of The Flash, with a newspaper from the future describing how The Flash disappeared during a crisis where the skies turned red and shadowy demons stalked the streets of Central City. These events matched the Crisis On Infinite Earths comics, where the skies turned red during the event and the Anti-Monitor's followers included shadowy demons.

While the Arrowverse has grown to encompass dozens of worlds, it has not become as unmanageable as the DC Comics' multiverse of 1981. With the exceptions of Supergirl (which is set on Earth-38) and Black Lightning (which was only recently established as being a part of the Arrowverse), all of the Arrowverse shows have been set on Earth-1. As such, there has been no indication that there will be a single, solitary universe once Crisis on Infinite Earths comes to a close, though it has been announced that there will be one new Arrowverse show starting up in Fall 2020.

Given that, Crisis On Infinite Earths could be just the thing to shake-up the Arrowverse and streamline the whole line-up. It would be far easier for Supergirl and Batwoman to have team-ups if they were living on the same Earth. It would also simplify things for the benefit of new viewers if the new universe were to eliminate some of the excess characters and leave Caity Lotz as the only Black Canary. With infinite Earths in play, literally anything is possible.

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