#mantis fancast

[janesemel]

Potential fancasts for Queen Mary I/The Lady Mary, for personal reference

Isabelle Adjani (Ondine, The Story of Adele H)

Tatyana Lyalina (The Terrible, Mantis Jump)

Morfydd Clark (The Rings of Power, Saint Maud)

Nell Hudson (Outlander, Call the Midwife)

[thisiswhatwereupagainst]

Obscure Marvel fancast of the day: Jade-Anh Ngo as Mantis! (Note: While Mantis is perhaps not “obscure” given that she’s appeared in the “Guardians of the Galaxy film series, her comic-book counterpart is significantly different than her film version, and seems to still be “little known” to most fans, so I felt she qualified!) Mantis's father is the German supervillain, Gustave Brandt aka Libra. Before he was Libra, Brandt served with the French forces during the Vietnam War. While in Saigon, he met and fell in love with a Vietnamese woman named Lua, and eventually had a daughter with her. However, Lua's mobster brother Khruul was enraged with the interracial coupling of his sister and a European man. He and his men attacked Gustav and his family with flamethrowers. Lua was killed in the ensuing battle, and Gustav lost his eyesight. He brought his daughter to a temple run by the Priests of Pama, who were a religious sect of the Kree aliens on Earth, and left her in their care. The Priests believed that the child might be the Celestial Madonna, a perfect human woman destined mate with the eldest Cotati (a species of tree-like aliens from the same world as the Kree) on Earth to become the mother of the Celestial Messiah, "the most important being in the universe". They trained her to become a master of martial arts, and, upon adulthood, wiped her memory and sent her out into the larger world to gain life experience. She became a bar maid and sex worker in Saigon. While working at the bar where she plied her trade, she met a Frenchman named Jacques Duquesne. Once the costumed adventurer known as The Swordsman, he was now a burnt-out wreck of his former self, and working for none other than her long-lost uncle Khruul, though they did not realize their connection at the time. After a raid gone wrong in which Jacques was shot by rival mobsters, Mantis took him back to her apartment and nursed him back to health. They began a relationship, and he took her with him when he returned to the United States to become a hero again, where the pair joined the Avengers in 1973. Mantis was a valuable member, and during her time with them she discovered the identity of her father and more about her own past, as well as developing an attraction to The Vision...despite being friends with the Scarlet Witch and still involved romantically with The Swordsman. She realized too late just how much she loved The Swordsman when he died to save her from Kang the Conqueror. The prophecy of the Celestial Madonna proved true. Mantis too The Swordsman’s body back to Vietnam, and buried him in the temple where she had been raised. SHe entered a mental communion with the eldest Cotati on Earth, who had been planted in the Temple. This Cotati-Prime reanimated the body of the Swordsman, who had been buried among its roots. He then possessed it, becoming a living man suffused by a green, glowing energy, and she agreed to wed him in this state and fulfill the prophecy. It was a double-wedding, with Scarlet Witch marrying Vision alongside Mantis and the Cotati-Swordsman. Mantis and the Cotati-Prime then turned into pure energy and flew into outer space. Mantis has since resumed physical form and returned to Earth to carry out her pregnany and give birth to her son Sequoia, Quoi for short, who is a human-plant hybrid owing to his mixed Cotati/Human heritage. She has also continued having many adventures. Mantis is unusual in that she is a Marvel character who has also appeared in other comics canons. After her writer Steve Englehart had finished the story in which she became the Celestial Madonna, he left Marvel to work at DC, where he wrote a Justice League of America issue where a pregnant Mantis popped up, though she called herself Willow. When asked where Willow came from, she remarked "this-one has come from a place she must not name, to reach a place no man must know." And when Englehart worked for Eclipse, who should appear but Mantis, now called Lorelei and having given birth to her son. And when he came back to Marvel, so did Mantis and her boy Quoi! Mantis has no known birth name besides Mantis, but has used the pseudonym Mandy Celestine while living as a civilian raising her son. Besides her formidable mystic martial arts skills, she also sports a pair of insect-like antennae and empathic abilities. It is unknown if this is due to being a mutant, the training she received from The Priests of Pama, or her destiny as the Celestial Madonna. After communing with the Cotati-Prime, she also gained the ability to communicate with plant life, control vegetation, and astral-project. Mantis has a notable speech tic in which she refers to herself in the third person as “This one”. For instance, she would say “This one loves you” instead of “I love you” or “This one would like to order a soda” instead of “I would like to order a soda.” Much of her personality and past (mixed-race Vietnam War baby, Asian prostitute, mystical Eastern martial arts mistress, etc) are racist stereotypes and products of the time she was written, but she still has the capability to rise above it in modern times, and is an interesting character nonetheless.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

My proposal for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3:

One major plotline is focused on Drax learning that his daughter is actually alive. She’s been moonlighting as an ally of the Eternals, under the name “Moondragon”. Part of the movie is focused on Drax reconnecting with his daughter and learning what she’s been doing since Ronan’s attack.  

Olivia Rodrigo plays Moondragon (a Filipino actor is playing Drax, so I chose a Filipina actress for the daughter role). 

The other major plotline is focused on the Guardians of the Galaxy trying to find 2014 Gamora. Turns out, Gamora has crossed paths with the newly born Adam Warlock, who was sent to kill the Guardians. Due to this being an alternate version of Gamora, she has no idea why she’s being chased by Warlock.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays Adam 

[dwtsforever]

Next, Pom Klementieff! Model and best known for being Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy. I think it would be pretty cool to have someone from the MCU on the show and I could see it being her.

[foulserpent]

METAL GEAR SOLID FANCAST

Ed Sheeran - Psycho Mantis

[sonic06apologist]

Jerry Seinfeld fancast with Kramer as both the sorrow and psycho mantis played entirely straight

make ur own damn metal gear movie then

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Fancast for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3″

Assuming the whole team (Peter, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, Mantis, Kraglin, and Nebula) return from Infinity War...

1) Rodrigo Santoro as Adam Warlock (introduced as a new hero that the Guardians must help. Not technically a Guardian, more like a business partner)

2) Doug Jones as the voice and mocap of the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence / Supremor (the bigger bad who supports the true main antagonist)

3) Rinko Kikuchi as Hala the Accuser, a Kree warrior who blames the Guardians for allowing Thanos’ rise to power. She goes after them, seeking justice. She also goes after Adam Warlock when the Supreme Intelligence gives her the order (main antagonist but more of an anti-villain since she has righteous motives) 

4) Mark Hamill as J’son of Spartax: Retconned as one of Peter Quill’s former associates and “uncle figure” since Ego is his father in this universe. Revealed to be helping Hala the Accuser (secondary antagonist)

5) Elizabeth Debicki returns as Ayesha but in a less significant role. She is only here to introduce Adam, who quickly leaves the Sovereign to forge his own path.

6) Jeff Goldblum returns as the Grandmaster. Only appears in the opening scene, where the Guardians accomplish a task that has nothing to do with the main plot (like taking down the monster in the opening of Vol. 2)

7) Ludi Lin as Nova Corpsman Josh Atwater: Appears as the reluctant ninth Guardian. He is assigned to the team by Rhomann Dey after the Nova Corps decided they wanted one of their own to “supervise” the Guardians. However, the Guardians don’t listen to him. Over time, they come to accept him as a member of the team, even though he leaves in the end. Josh’s true role in the movie is to hype up a Nova Corps spin-off focused on Richard Rider and Sam Alexander. 

8) John C. Reilly reprising his role as Rhomann Dey (see above)

9) Bill Hader as the voice of Wal Rus, a talking walrus and Rocket and Groot’s former ally-turned-occasional enemy. Appears briefly to help the Guardians, albeit reluctantly.

10) Ngo Thanh Van / Veronica Ngo as Hovat, Drax’s wife. Appears in a flashback sequence. 

11) Steven Ogg as J’Son’s lead henchman. He plays the type of villain who does the dirty work for the main villains and gets killed before the climax.