#marvel call me

[pennyplainknits]

Fantastic Four, again

Seeing the new set pictures for the umpteenth Fantastic Four (hi JQ! Disney, why do you suck at wigs) is reminding me of my one unshakable belief for any FF film which is:

If it's an origin story, it should be a period piece.

The FF is considered to be the start of Marvel's Silver Age of comics, and basically invented the 'Superhero family/team' concept at Marvel. It's ideas and tropes and structures are foundational for pretty much every super hero comic that came after it. But they are also deeply tied into a very particular 1960s 'atomic age' understanding of the world. Even more than the X-men, it's attached to a very particular point in time. You have the Space Race (the first FF comics came out in November 1961. The first manned flight to space was only seven months earlier). You have the Cold War setting and all the paranoia that entails. You have the fact that at least one member of the team fought in WW2 (Ben Grimm was a test pilot in the airforce). You have Science as something that is transformational, utopian and linked to the idea of a triumphant 20th centuary. And they are all foundational to the beginning of the series as well as to the historical setting.

(And then later with the Silver Surfer and Johnny's flight you have the flipside of 1960s optimism, the loss of innocence in Vietnam)

And I think that's why modern - day origin stories for the FF don't really work. They seem tired and hokey because they are lacking that historical context, and because we're so USED to the ideas that the FF introduced that now they look stale. But making it a period piece-like X Men First Class- would solve all that. It would also make it stand out in a slate of identikit MCU movies. Can you see my vision?

[agent-44mc]

fanfiction curse is real.

Picture this. You get a notif that your favorite fic has updated after a slight delay, excited, you immediately click and read the A/N. They'll apologize for taking so long etc and their excuse is always outrageous.

"My house burnt down" or "i'm in the hospital" or "grandma died" or something else off the wall.

WELL.

Since I've started writing fanfiction, during important moments while writing, something crazy has happened.

Whenever I first started writing, my "boyfriend" broke things off with me.

Whenever I finished the first draft, my mom got in a car accident.

Whenever I finished the second draft, my cat ran away.

Last night, I started writing again, and my house almost burnt down.

Like, what?

Thankfully, whenever I published it, nothing bad happened. I was actually kind of worried that someone would d*e. No joke.

And that's my experience with the fanfiction curse.

Plz read it i didn't go through all this for nothing.

[iamteamponcho]

[jay-wasstuff]

So no one was going to tell me Logan calls Wade daddy instead of bub/ba in the spanish dub?

[rainbowstickersandunicorn]

that look when she realized she's being called evil

[brainrotcharacters]

deadclaws badassery where it's revealed Wade and Logan tested the distance on Logan's hearing.

Watch them hundreds of feet away from each other in the battlefield and all it takes to set Wolverine loose is for Deadpool to mutter "Logan."

gif credits to original owners!

[underthemexicansun]

Grumpy Bucky in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.

[hijinxinprogress]

I need Billy thinking he’s so great at hiding things (and he is) no one knows he’s like fucking eight but they are pretty sure he hates like half the league

Like I need Billy getting along with everyone but he’s kinda stiff around flash and Batman but it’s get worse after most of them have revealed their secret ids and the jls so confused

Billy 100% thought Batman had all these fucking gadgets bc he was like some high up government official and then he found out no Batman’s just some rich guy and he’s like god no why is that worse

Batman just doesn’t care (he does 💀 he’s so fucking offended esp bc Marvel used to call him Mr. Batman sir but also bc he thought it’d be easier to get marvels secret id and weaknesses) as long as it doesn’t affect missions but Flash is kinda concerned bc ‘I’m pretty nice to him…does he think I don’t like him?? Did I offend him?? Do speedsters like set off the magic balance or whatever??’ 

They decide to pair up flash, Batman, and Captain Marvel to make sure their issues won’t affect team cohesion so after they’re done rescuing these kids that got involved in some supervillains masterplan Batman and flash are doing the usual spiel of ‘the laws exist for a reason,’ ‘you can trust the police’ and ‘there’s no good reason to turn to crime’

These kids want nothing to do with that shit and they’re trying to edge away while making excuses ‘thank you sm!! But no this is so safe, I know this area so well! We can get home ourselves!’ as soon as Batman starts asking about their parents so captain marvel just grabs Batman and flash and starts flying in the opposite direction ‘do you see that?? No guys seriously look at this cool thing!!’ and Batman’s growling about ‘childish to a degree that’s entirely unprofessional’ and ‘needlessly endangering civilians, civilian children at that-!’ and flash is trying to mediate but batman is shoving documents in his face ‘They were runaways, they don’t have anywhere to go and now they’re on a hitlist’ the ‘you fucking imbecile’ goes unsaid but they all hear it so marvel takes them back to villains lair and grabs a henchman at random and goes ‘This guys a cop…you can check that with your fancy equipment, right??’ and batman checks solely to prove him wrong but that guy is a cop and so are about 60% of the henchmen they took out then marvel goes ‘So they wouldn’t have been safe even if you took them to a hospital or child services’

Before the id reveals there’s a mission where the police are involved and flash mentions something about police protocol and marvel is so concerned bc ‘you’re still undercover? How long have you been under cover dude??’ and flash is confused bc ‘you know I’m not undercover right?? That is my actual real life day job’ and no one believes him when he says marvel shot him the most disgusted look you can imagine and edged away from him 

Batman tries to hold a meeting to address how marvel deals with the police and it goes no where bc marvel is fucking menace and goes ‘don’t you do that too?? And technically I’m also a vigilante sooo’ and batman is scrambling to get the jls attention back like ‘marvel hits cops 62% percent harder than other criminals and is 43% less friendly when interacting with the police in any capacity’ but they don’t care bc they want to know why marvel considers himself a vigilante 

They start letting Marvel be the one to approach children and notice that he’s advising them on how to make food last longer and maintain good hygiene while taking care of themselves and a jl members like hey wtf?? and Marvel says some bullshit about how ‘he’s lived many lives and not all of them were charmed’ and it gets back to cyborg who starts a rumor that he was dracula bc he can’t believe marvel had the balls to look WW in the eyes and lie to her fucking face

[mobius-m-mobius]

#just a wizard gentleman and his butler 🪄🎩

[herb-sherry]

Some Maddie and Nathan stuff

[mourn-and-watch]

on the one hand, i think merrill should be in datv because lore-wise her arc perfectly intertwines with the narrative of the veilguard (elven history, gods and magic are her thing; not to mention that we're literally going to travel primarily through eluvians), and also perfectly fits the main theme (there is so much in merrill's story that has to do with regret). on the other hand, i think merrill should be in datv because she'd love to hang out with bellara and davrin and also she's always wanted to pet a griffon

[haveihitanerve]

That scene- where Clint makes more trick arrows… 😭 please just imagine for me Tony Stark and Clint Barton, the two insomniacs of the avengers team, huddled in the lab at four in the morning, Tony leaned against Clint, half draped over him, laughing at something he’s said as they both fiddle with tech, cracking jokes and coming up with more and more outlandish trick arrows to create, toasting marshmallows over the small fire they accidentally started and sharing thoughts and space and… just Clint and tony friendship for me please 

[agent-44mc]

being a writer who likes marvel is like a girl being in love with someone who is notoriously a bad person.

"I can fix him. no really, I can."

[windybluebelles]

I don’t think, as a fandom, we have utilitiesed the concept of immortal Alfred along side the Fawcett time bubble.

Now, I know for a fact that it canon Alfred is not immortal and has intact died, I also just don’t give a shit

I’m also fairly sure that time bubble fawcett has never been canon, and at the very least isn’t anymore, I still don’t care.

Just picture, Itty Bitty Billy Batson (orphan whos entire support system from when he was younger is just entirely gone) hears a familiar voice coming through Batman’s personal comms, and just kinda thinks,

Holy Shit that’s Uncle Al

Now he’s obviously very confused, last time he heard anything about his Uncle Al was approximately in like 1954, and he was around the same age as his parents who I imagine couldn’t be any younger than like 30. So how tf is he not brain dead and being fed through a tube by now? (I’m sure there are some very functional 90 year olds but like… what are the chances?)

I imagine that Billy would eventually figure out that Alfred works for the Wayne family in Gotham (I also imagine that he now vaguely know Batman’s identity but he’s also like 12 so why would he care?) and finds a way to get there as soon as possible.

I’m picturing just like, Tim or someone opening the door to this tiny little boy whos holding a box full of pictures and letters and is politely asking if he can ‘Speak with uncle-err, Mr Pennyworth?’

[kyuyua]

Nerds nerding

[yellowwwcrayon]

Look at that power couple go. Oh and Steve's there too.

Cover of DEADPOOL (2012) #15