#me core after watching deadpool and wolverine

[thatboisus]

me logging onto tumblr after consuming a new piece of media

[mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor]

This might be me thinking too much, but I'm honestly worried that Disney will take the well deserved boycott of next year's captain america movie as "proof" that movies with Black leads that aren't profitable when it has nothing to do with Sam Wilson at all.

I don't think its you thinking too much honestly. Its complicated tbh. Like ok I didn't want sabra in cap 4 either. and there was definitely pressure on disney/marvel to do reshoots for cap 4.

but the other side of it is that there's a couple of all white properties (deadpool & wolverine, agatha all along) that are doing GREAT. And before anyone comes at me with AAL not being all white I've only seen Aubrey Plaza trend from the show despite the fact that she's a transphobe and white/white passing. Not to mention if the theories are right about Locke's character being a son of Wanda he should be romani/jewish so he's been whitewashed.

Also other diverse marvel properties like The Marvels and Ms. Marvel (I'm talking about her show's rerelease on ABC after it had been released on Disney+) have failed miserably. There's just like no... self awareness from white fans who have gone to see dp&w several times in theaters. They don't care about the bds boycott.

I honestly feel like white ppl at large are very quick to pick up on sjw terms and boycotts to justify why they won't watch diverse properties. You can see it in the way that the marvels failed at the box office even though the strike ended around the same time it came out. you can see it in the way white girls are shipping dp/w and don't give a shit about the sapphic representation in Carol Danvers because her lover was a Black woman Maria Rambeau. Meanwhile the entirety of tumblr is obsessed with AAL because again a white gay ship is at its core.

I'm just so tired of this shit.

mod ali

[daftdrac]

If you were in a conversation, what topic would you like to talk about? :D

Something X-Men related, probably specifically anything deadpool or wolverine (Deadpool isn't exactly X-Men but I'm counting him cause he's also a part of this hyperfixation) anyways I LITERALLY GOT THIS NOTIFICATION WHILE IM WATCHING THE WOLVERING AND THE XMEN CARTOON LMAOOO Yeah I'm super into. X-Men shit right now because I watched Deadpool 3 and my brain said YES. THAT. I am absolutely taking this as an opportunity to rant by the way cause there is so much random shit about this show that has me giggling. Errrmmm spoiler warning I guess ?

FIRST OF ALL LOGANS VOICEEEEEVEVEVDBDBE 👹👹👹 I'm not one to simp for fictional characters (lie) but I'm down bad JUST because of the voice (also lie im down bad for a lot of reasons)

ALSO THE FUCKING AMOUNT OF LOVE INTERESTS HE HAS IN THIS. JEAN, (KINDA-ISH) WHO DOESN'T SHOW UP UNTIL EPISODE 23 OF 26??? SOME RANDOM JAPANESE WOMAN WHO'S MARRIED TO A SAMURAI?? SOME ALIEN-MUTANT-THING WOMAN WHO WORKED WITH HIM AND WAS HIS GIRLFRIEND BEFORE HE LOST HIS MEMORIES OR SOMETHING ?? Emma kinda but not really she's not an explicit love interest but you can kinda tell it's a little implied at some points. I definitely am forgetting a few my memory is still shit but A BISEXUAL CHARACTER AND NOT A MALE LOVE INTEREST IN SIGHT <3 thats why Cyclops is here. He's supposed to be kind of a romantic rival to Logan kinda (cause they both like jean or whatever idk it REALLY doesn't seem like Logan likes jean all that much but I guess he does) but it really just ends in them having tension that feels less like they despise each other and more like they're waiting for everyone to leave them alone so they can go at it so I'm counting Scott even if he isn't like OFFICALLY a love interest he basically is

Oh also gambit is a thing for like 2 episodes. All he does is cause issues which. Gambit core I guess idk much about him 💀 all I know is he is REALLY like. Cunning and confident and shit. Tryin to think of the word. CHARMING yeah he's charming. Or supposed to be I guess he looks a little funny so he just makes me giggle looking at him. Honestly if he wanted to fuck Logan he could probably convince him to buy he's in love with one of magneto's daughters or whatever?? That he met for like a few hours and kissed once?? Before being thrown in a cell for kissing magneto's daughter??? And then abandoning her after promising to take her away from genosha with him?? I don't even know man.

Anyways I'm a complete noob X-Men fan I literally didn't know jack shit about anyone but Logan before I started watching this. Already a hardcore wolverine/cyclops fan they're gay to be fr with you. I should read some of the comics huh. Anyways here's my live reaction to Logan and Scott interacting like normal people:

Also silly goofy images from this show no I'm not sorry 3/4 are Logan he's BABYGIRL in this okay

Here have a poolverine meme to end this post

[things-arent-what-they-seem66]

Hiya! It's me again, ya horn boi, that is just THIRSTY for your writing 😫🙏

I was wondering- when you're able and if this one shot idea interests you (don't write it if it doesn't, this is just my sick little mind needing some fuel because AO3 is down and I'm starting to tweak).

But I was wondering if you could do a little one shot set in the Deadpool x Wolverine au? Specifically Adam using his claws on Lucifer? (It doesn't have fo be stabbing or making him bleed if you're not into that, mainly just cutting his clothes off-)

They definitely start flatting together after the film, so I like to think that this takes place at the flat and Adams been drinking cause he's still depressed (if you've seen the film he has a perfectly good reason for this), so he basically spills his feelings to Lucifer, who then takes him to bed to sleep the alcohol off. The dirty stuff happens in the morning when Adam feel super embarrassed but Lucifer tell him he feels the same.

After been hated in his own universe, Adam just baths in Lucifers praises and touches.

They get a little rough but what do you expect from two immortals that have a pain kink-

So, that's basically it, just some soft love for Adam with a lot of filth mixed in.

I just need more beefy Adam with Logans cute hair ears- if Lucifer makes a comment on them I'll buy you a car for your 21st birthday-

Anyway- thank you! 🍳

I'VE FINALLY SEEN THE MOVIE!! I was waiting to do this one when I saw the movie and now I have.

Even though they had saved their world and everyone in it, Adam couldn't fight off the depression that still clawed it's way into his mind when the dust was settled and everything was over.

He was living with Lucifer now, really he had nowhere else to go he didn't know why he even bothered trying. It was still weird to him that the Adam of this world that died was the anchor being keeping it all together.

Adam wasn't that important, he could live in any timeline apparently.

Adam raised the bottle of whiskey to his lips and took a deep drink, he enjoyed the way it burned going down his throat. He wasn't sure now just how long he's been drinking but it's been enough to get a good buzz on.

Lucifer: Hey there- Woah, what's with the self inflicted pity party?

It was easy to see that Adam was drunk, that bottle was new but more than half gone already.

Fuck, that wasn't good.

Lucifer: Come on baby girl time for bed before we find out if you actually can drink yourself to death.

Lucifer gently reaches down and removes the bottle from Adams grip and sets it down before picking him up like he weighed nothing. Because to Lucifer he really didn't.

Adam held onto him and buried his face in Lucifer's neck.

Adam: You smell good.

Lucifer: Thank you it's called soap.

Adam: I ever tell you how much I love you?

Lucifer grinned: No, but why don't you tell me now?

Adam: I love you so much, but you've never loved me.

Lucifer was confused until he remembered the version of himself from this Adams world. So they had history there too....

Lucifer: I love you too.

Adam: You do?

Adams claws came out making Lucifer jump.

Lucifer: Woah! Watch the murder mittens cute stuff.

Adam giggled and that's how Luicfer knew he was fucking wasted. Adam never giggled especially over a silly joke he makes.

Lucifer laid him on the bed but Adam pulled him down and held him while he slept off his drunken stupor.

Lucifer: There are worse places to be than in between these perfect titties.

In the morning woke up to being held by Luicfer, his face got warm and he tried to get away.

Lucifer: What no morning kiss?

Adam groaned: Oh fuck me....

Lucifer: Well if you really want to.

He laughed nervously when Adam unsheathed one set of claws and it looked like he was going to stab him in the dick, but instead he used them to cut off his clothes.

Lucifer: Well this is a pleasant surprise.

Adam: I can change my mind.

Lucifer: Nope! Come here beautiful.~

The sex they had was a mixture of hard core rough sex and making love. Adam melted under his touch and soaked in all the praises that Lucifer showered him with as he pounded into him. The headboard was banging the wall like it was Morse code.

It could be heard throughout the apartment, good thing Charlie was out for coffee.

When they were done they laid there basking in the afterglow of their euphoric blissful state.

Luicfer: Addie.

Adam felt his eye twitch at the nickname: What?

Lucifer: You're my favorite person.

Adams face got hot again: Shut up.....

[alpaca-clouds]

Do Adults Remember Being Kids? Or: Adults that do not understand kids make bad kids media

A few days ago I had a discussion with one of those male crybabies in their 40s, who are very butt-hurt about media not always being made for them. But that discussion kinda got out of hand, with more and more people chiming in. And this got me to wonder: "Uhm, do people not remember being kids?"

For context. Someone posted the scene from Thor: Love and Thunder, in which Thor shares his power with the Asgardian kids. The person posted that was like: "Can we all agree that this was the worst scene in the MCU?" And one of my moots quote-tweeted this with: "Yeah, how dares the movie made for children include a power fantasy for children?" At which quite a few nerds got angry with them for daring to suggest that those movies, they love-hate so much, are for kids.

And they went like: "So you are saying that Winter Soldier is for kids?" Which I personally found hilarious. While normally I watch most movies in the evening, for time reasons back in the day I watched Winter Soldier in the afternoon in a full cinema one day after release. And my then roommate and I were the oldest people in the cinema who were not parents that afternoon.

Because yes. There is a reason why Disney makes a point of making all the movies (other than Deadpool & Wolverine) PG13 rated. Which means that 13yos can watch the movie alone, and kids younger than 13 can watch it together with their kids. There is a reason why there are a lot of kids toys for those movies. Because it is for kids.

Now, to be fair, I argued all those things, and one of these professional crybabies ended up agreeing with me after a while. So, I guess that could have gone worse.

However, I also tweeted about it myself and one of my followers also noted another topic where this shows: Folks claiming that Shonen anime are like totally for adults, while... you know... while the official core demographic is "boys between 8 and 14 years".

That is a lot of preemble, I know. But... Uhm, yeah, I don't know how to say this:

Children are absolutely able to deal with dark themes!

They love them in fact. Because they are kids, and they like cool stuff.

Will they get everything about those things? Nope. But is it for them and will they love it? Yeah.

I mean, I remember a lot of those shows I loved as a kid. The reason Digimon Tamers was my favorite Digimon season from the moment it came out, was that it was the first season that took me as a kid serious. It is still a kids show, but it allowed for themes like death and depression. It allowed also for adult characters to exist and to be important in the show, which gave it a more realistic vibe, wihtout ever destroying the power fantasy for kids.

Or another show that was fairly popular back then in Japan: Ojamajo Doremi. A show with a core demographic of girls between 4 and 12 years of age. And this show deals with death, suicidal thoughts, bullying, sickness, children dying of sickness, war and so many other shows. But... You know, look at this show and try and tell me it is not for kids:

I am sorry folks, but kids can deal with those topics, as long as it is not too graphic and are explained properly within the show.

And to get back to the MCU movies: I am sorry, none of them is actually all that adult. It being a thriller does not make it "adult". I mean, fuck, the MCU does for the most part not deal with death as a topic. Because nobody bloody dies and stays dead. Those movies are very, very kid-friendly. It is the equivalent of taking action figures and smashing them together.

Sure, in some of the movies there are topics that kids might not inherently grasp (like the parenting themes in the Guardians movies and the historical context for Black Panther). But those are in only a few movies - and you can still explain them to the kids!

[criticalpraisefilm]

Deadpool and Wolverine - first impressions

Previous Deadpool movies worked because the jokes are funny and constantly coming, but they make jokes to serve the story and theme. The movie is about something and the jokes are a bridge to the theme while keeping the audience entertained. This movie is about nothing.

Wade Wilson, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is trying to live a normal life when he is told by Mr Paradox (Matthew Macfayden) that his timeline is in danger. Believing that it can only be saved with the assistance of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Deadpool finds a version of him from another universe and sets off to save his world, opposed by the opportunistic Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).

I don't want to call this a bad movie. I was quite entertained while watching it. A lot of the jokes land quite well, and there's a lot of jokes. The action is quite well shot (save for one particular fight scene - sadly probably the most pivotal fight scene in the movie, the one that is trying to have the most thematic relevance is subject to some of the most egregious camera shaking I have ever seen in an action movie) and most of the actions kept me entertained. The performances are generally good: Reynolds is witty and excitable as ever; Jackman brings equal parts pathos and furious violence to his character; Macfayden is as slimy as his character demands; Corrin is clearly having a lot of fun playing a villain; and everyone else I didn't name because their appearance is meant to be a surprise is good.

But then comes the reverse side - the story is extremely meandering. Most scenes, while entertaining and having plenty of jokes and fun, don't seem to serve the story. It's strange to say that, since those scenes do advance the plot or the characters - it's the plot itself that's the problem, because one third into the movie the story finds itself veering off into what feels like it should be a side quest to get the story back to the main thrust, but suddenly this is the main thrust. The villain of the second act, the subplot that lets the characters and theme develop while we lower the stakes a little, ends up being the final villain, getting resolution and then getting pulled back into the plot because the movie forgot that it needed a climax. There's taking the main problem and recontextualising it to raise the stakes, but when the stakes were already high enough for the characters to be invested, raising them and making it bigger just serves to made the story less focused.

And that's really the name of the problem here. The story is unfocused. Deadpool's emotional journey...isn't. He has a problem, but that problem is solved by way of saving the world as a matter of course. Wolverine has more of an emotional journey, but even that doesn't feel satisfying because there's no real resolution to it: he refuses to lay out his emotional state and problems, finally explains it to a side character with the main character nowhere to be found, and the next time we see him he's reached the end of his character arc and decided to care again. A deeper level of this emotional problem is brought up in the next scene, but after that scene is over it's not really referenced again. This wouldn't matter, he's not the singular main character, but Deadpool has the same problem. He is very early on presented with a choice that ties into his somewhat contrived personal conflict, immediately makes the more noble and "right" choice, and it's never a problem again. If the emotional core of the story is solved within the first half hour, why is the rest of the movie here?

Not all of the jokes land, of course. There are a lot of cameos from characters and actors from previous Marvel projects, mostly from before the big Marvel Cinematic Universe. I get the impression that the movie is trying to mock the MCU for the tendency to introduce a shiny character from the comics and wait for the audience to applaud them, but satire requires clarity of purpose. If your way of mocking this tendency is do the same thing, except these characters are from movies or franchises that didn't expand into the biggest media franchise in the world, that's not mockery, that's just doing the same thing and expecting the audience to find it funny because you told them to. And considering how many actual barbs the movie throws at the MCU (one or two of which are even funny) the fact that the main form of comedy directed at it is so flat and uninspired is disappointing and deeply unfunny. It's nice to see some of these characters here again. But why are they here? What do they contribute? If their contribution is nothing more than showing up and being there for the audience to recognise, you're not making fun of the MCU, you're just doing the same thing you're trying to mock.

In theory it's a fun crossover adventure of two entertaining and interesting characters, and maybe that's enough. Like I said, I was entertained, and I don't regret watching the movie. But I cannot tell you what it was trying to do or say or contribute to cinema or the world other than "wouldn't this be funny". And that's okay for an entertaining movie. But it could have done more. And it's kind of a shame that it didn't.

[axo-wisteria5]

!Deadpool and Wolverine Spoilers!

I saw Deadpool and Wolverine yesterday and I need to get my thoughts out.

-I loved it so much! I have not loved a MCU film this hard since gotg3 came out. It was so fun and silly, and a real love letter to everyone who enjoyed the fox films. I really hope we get to have more content of these two. (I would love to see a Spider-Man film with these three. I don’t know if that is ever going to happen, but I do know that it would so funny.)

-That opening sequence went so hard

-seeing Chris Evens Jonny Storm on a cinema screen in 2024 truly shocked me. I thought he was going to be another cap variant but hearing him say flame on shook me to my core. Genuinely did not know how to react. The fantastic four films were the first ever marvel films I watched and fell in love with. So seeing him reprise that role, even if only for a few minutes, made me so happy.

-Deadpool’s and Wolverine’s relationship was great. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman play these characters so well and have a lot of great chemistry together. I love how they portrayed their dynamic, especially how much weird, aggressive, homosexual tension Deadpool and Wolverine gave off. (We all know that they did more in that car than fight).

-Hugh Jackman

-‘Why is Thor Crying?’ ‘Till Your 90’

-soundtrack was amazing

-loved Channing Tatum as Gambit

-the scene where Peter came to rescue Deadpool and all the other Deadpool variants stopped fighting because of him was one of my favorite scenes. It was so cheesy but I think that why I loved it so much. Also loved it when the TVA master and Peter were eye fucking each other and Paradox just yelled what the fuck is happening.

-When Deadpool and Wolverine walked out after being thought dead with Iris playing in the background I could feel my brain chemistry rewrite itself. I could not put into words how much I love that scene.

-so happy that they got their happy ending

-The end credit montage was so bittersweet. After the movie ended I was in a daze, but when I got home I just started to cry. I really love the fox marvel films. I know that a lot of people think or thought they were bad, however they have always had a really special place in my heart. The fantastic four movies were the first marvel movies I ever loved. And although I didn’t watch the x-men movies as a kid, my mom has always loved them and has always loved Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. So, when we watched them together when I got older I sorta already had this pre-established love for these characters. So, watching that end credit montage made me super upset, however I do think that it was a lovely ending for that era

[multiverserift]

Superman is boring.

This is what many people think. There's an easy explanation for this.

Most people get their superhero knowledge from cinema movies.

Superman didnt have a REALLY good movie for 40! years!

Superman II was 1980, that was 44 years ago.

Returns was okay-ish but nothing to bring you to the edge of your seat. Then came Man of Steel, which had its own problems. It was bland, and besides some Cavill hype culture, nothing really sticked.

Then came BvS, which sucked, Justice League, which sucked, yeah.

In the same time we had at least 4 decent Batman movies (and of course The Excellent Dark Knight), twice as many GOOD Spiderman movies.

And many movies about other characters like Iron Man, GotG, Dr. Strange, X-Men, even Deadpool and Wolverine.

Supes is a character that INSPIRES you. When I walked out of Tobey Maguire's first Spidey movie, I felt inspired. Which Superman movie after Superman II made you feel inspired? Yeah.

Then second base if you're not into movies. TV Shows. Let's stick to live action, because many people put animated stuff into the "for kids" drawer. Totally wrongly, of course.

Marvel totally won this with ace performances like Daredevil, Jessica Jones (the BEST show), Loki, Punisher, WandaVision (what a surprise! creative energy!), Moon Knight. I really liked Runaways. And if you didn't watch The Gifted, you really shoud.

Batman had Gotham (which I really liked). Superman got Krypton, which didn't include Superman. Well. Titans missed everything (except Krypto), so did Gotham Knights.

No Superman inspiration here. No. Because that is the core of the character. He should make you FEEL like YOU CAN DO THIS, and EVERYTHING CAN BE OKAY.

This feeling didn't get transported in the most important media for casual audiences. For MORE THAN 40 YEARS!

Of course people think "well he's boring", because they didn't experience the feeling.

Most people don't watch the animated stuff. Shame, really.

You want to know what the last good Superman moments for me were? In friggin' SHE-RA. Yeah you heard me.

She-Ra did for me what decades of superhero narratives couldn't do. She-Ra achieved a rare thing. It has an overpowered character, but in many situations, it doesn't help her. Many of her problems she has to solve with her mind.

And when she finally transforms, you very often feel INSPIRED.

Of course, Superman & Lois is a gem I will defend with my life. I saved this one for the last paragraph, because it's THE BEST. Seriously. Watch it. That moment on the cliff with Clark and Jordan. DAYUM.

But most people won't watch this. Most people go to the cinema and feel "yeah Superman, bland, boring, overpowered and still boring".

This is why we need DESPERATELY a good Superman movie. I have high hopes in James Gunn.

[allycat5543]

Babuska?

Warnings - Cussing, Gore, Wade being well wade, mentions of abuse physical and SA, ANGSTTTTTTT AND LOTS OF CONFUSION!

please all i ask is you give me the benefit of a doubt cause this was a random spur of the moment writing in the middle of the night after i have watched this movie back to back for the last week and a half now and im obsessed with it and NEEDED to get this out of my system.

Now you lovely readers are probably wanting to know how the sweet baby Jesus has this movie been rewrote yet again for another one of these silly little self inserts of a story to fulfill some little 25 year olds fantasy about some big hairy and sweaty man in a yellow wolverine suit and how its going to pull at your heartstrings but also bring a throbbing to your core down under well stick around and I will help you with all of that free of charge! Now onto the story!

“Wade what in the fuck knuckles have you drug my ass into this time I was enjoying my alone time in my new bed you fuck face and so help me god if I don’t get to go back to it I am going to rip your dick clean off of your body and shove it so far up your ass that you are going to be tasting your own cum for the next three months and then you’ll owe me more than 600 dollars for that shit you shit face mother fucker!”

Aspen Nightengale tone came out from her mouth and through her canines with a sharp tone that could slice through the toughest leather material due to the heat behind each word as she said she was in her new bed that she had spend a fortune on getting all of the right things for her to be comfortable enough to get a full blown rest for once in her life but right before she was brought into the sweet abyss that she was wishing for and dream up all of the hunky men that she had more than one fantasy about she got ripped out of the bed being dragged through a yellow tinted window of a portal by Wade Wilson or as everyone knew him to be is by his hero name the merc with a mouth Deadpool as he was now on the run from the TVA after making one to many district leaders angry with his use of Cable time travel machine and cleaning up timelines in his own words but that wasn’t what got him into this situation it was when he went and dig up the dead body of Logan Howlett or Wolverine thinking that it was a lie that he had been killed and died but the adamantium skeleton said otherwise before using it to take out a hoard of TVA guards trying to bring him back to headquarters to lock him up into a place called the void due to him not agreeing to help them with a undercover cover up to get their hands on a time ripper and take out one universe timeline after another and leave a single one known as the Sacred Timeline that was home to the Avengers and all of their stories and timelines.

But in the midst of all of this and dragging Aspen with him into the drama of it all after time hopping around on a hunt for another logan to bring to his timeline in order to restore the dead anchor being that was in his timeline and that was his logan that died due to his adamantium bones poisoning his body and causing his healing factor to give in slowly over the years before coming to a complete halt letting him die after saving X-23 from the mutant lab workers giving her a reason to continue on with her own fight and lead the new generation of mutants and x men to come with it.

After he came stumbling back into the TVA district headquarters with another logan of another time line he got laughed at in his face and called worthless for bringing the worst logan in all of existence into their timeline to try and fix it with him being nothing but a worthless no one that did nothing but make himself look like a failure and made a joke of the x men and mutants as a whole. After Paradox had a long laugh and cracked a joke or two about Wade being nothing but a nobody that didn’t matter to anything and then eating a sandwich to eat his feelings he got himself, Logan and Aspen got zapped into the middle of a garbage ridden graveyard of materials from a lot of timelines left to disappear into nothing but dust but also had figures inside that went against the TVA and their rules and wanted to make a mess of all of the timelines all together where they were all going to become food for Alioth or end up working for Cassandra Nova the twin sibling to that of Charles Xavier who was sent to the void before she was even able to walk let alone use her powers at their true and full ability.

Aspen upon coming out of her slumber from being zapped out of one universe into another she could see Wade and Logan going at it with one another with both of his katanas sticking out of logans chest and back and his baby knife stuck in his shoulder blade but before she was able to bring the fight to a close there was a convoy of vehicles heading their way and a man jumped down from one of the few towers in the area landing in a familiar type of pose to Aspen and Wade before removing the cowl on their head revealing someone that to Aspen would think was Captain America but he wore a different suit one that was stitched with only the number four on the chest and had the mouth of a sailor that could rival that of Wade himself before bursting into a human fireball flying around and attacking the oncoming convoy only for his flames to die out last minuet and leave him barreling down to the ground hitting his nuts on the large metal beaming of the tower and cracking his neck and back on the way down to the hard salt bed of the soil making a fool of himself in front of the three new comers.

“We don’t know him we thought we did but we don’t.”

Wade was quick to spill some sort of answer out of his guts before they spilt his in retaliation of everything going on but that only got more issues going on as Saber tooth got down off of the convoy squaring up against Logan ready to fight him to the death wanting to bring him into Cassandra’s grasp to try and wo him over to their side of the playing field to use his powers against the rest of the others in the borderlands of the void.

But there was no use in this either as the fight was over quicker than it even began as logan made quick work of his other timeline brother slicing his claws right through his neck beheading him and causing wade to go on a full blown gladiator type speech at the rest of the convoy only to get the three of them pulled into a giant magnet thanks to the metal on their body or in with the case of logan and Aspen and their metal bones.

Pyro gave out orders to the convoy and they got to work tying the four of them up into tight metal chains that they wouldn’t be able to break on their own and with Aspen, Wade and Logan being stuck to the magnet it meant that the three of them got tied together while johnny was all on his own. Wade wasn’t complaining about his situation as he was face to face down to the nose with logan as he mumbles things about Thor and the avengers the entire time before he came back to life out of his slumber earning a grumble and groan out of logan and Aspen as the entire time he was out in this state he had a raging hard on pressing into Logans thigh that even the work of his claws couldn’t get rid of only making it worse when he had tried to and on the other end of him Aspen was dealing with Wades hands fumbling around almost groping her the entire time that he was asleep thinking that he was having fun with Vanessa back in his room in his timeline.

“Oh, hi guys how long was I asleep for?”

Wade spoke in nothing but a confused tone not knowing why he was getting the death glare from both of his honey badger buddies as they let out more groans at him as he spoke.

“Not all of you was asleep you horny fuck.”

Logan grumbled out and Aspen gave a gruff huff in response with him before he offered to shake on it only for both sets of claws to impale through his thighs and the very tip of his very happy and loving penis inside of his suit wanting to be free thinking that it was vanessa pressed up against his back and butt making it even worse as johnny went onto explain in very vial details of what he thought about this Cassandra that ran the void and what he wanted to do to her body after he killed her earning a chuckle and simple oh out of Wade making even him go speechless which was a rare and hard feat to pull off for the merc with a never ending mouth.

The dragging went on for what seemed like hours but was less than that in reality as the convoy went through a gate made up of the body of Antman in his large form the skull still in tact inside of the helmet where the shadow started moving forward of Charles chair but it was quick to be revealed that it was in fact not Charles but it was Cassandra as they came to learn about going on a quip about not having a wolverine or lady wolverine in the void before using her powers to take the chains loose from the three of them but leaving johnny in his.

“Well, well well what do we have here? Deadpool’s are a dime a dozen around here in the void but Wolverines now that is a delicate find around here in the void and the two of us would be such a wonderful team I think I am going to enjoy this.”

Cassandra found herself smirking before motioning with her hands causing the chains to drop off of the three of them before turning to Johnny over on the other side of them still with his hands bound in the same metal.

“And I’ve been trying to catch this firefly for years now, johnny you picked the wrong time to try and make new friends, didn’t you? What have nothing to say to me johnny is that it?”

She let out little hums poking at his cheek smirking and giggling more as Wade started being Wade going on and tell her all of the vial things that he was saying about her in the convoy but him of course deny all of it and saying he didn’t even know what that stuff meant so there was no way for him to say it about her but it was useless as she was quick to snap her fingers and drag all the skin and muscle off of his skeleton leaving him standing there for a few measly seconds as his body registered everything in slow motion even blinking a few times before falling to the ground in a pile of blood and guts making wade let out a squeal of excitement before he was cut short by Cassandra putting her fingers through his skull to get to his inner thoughts as with her powers she had to be hands on unlike her other realm brother being able to do it with just a thought.

Aspen and Wolverine watched in horror as her fingers went in and out of his skull and the skin and muscle with it but no blood appearing anywhere as she prodded and started mumbling things to herself and clicking her tongue seeing everything that he had come to do before getting to the place that he was at now in the void.

“You will never fucking matter tch and you wanted to save the world how sweet, I almost feel sorry for you for thinking you would be able to pull that off in any world or realm truly Wade,”

Cassandra went on and on to the merc with a mouth and it seems that she had hit a nerve calling him out for not being able to save the world like he was wanting to and to get out of the void as he took out the baby knife from his side holster holding it up ready to go for her face before she made quick work of him and wolverine yet again with the flick of her wrist sending the knife down and sending wolverine under the ground and tossing him away leaving Aspen unscathed as she had yet to notice her being there in general as she was not of that much importance to her right now as she seen her not to have the best powers that could be used against her just like the wolverine.

Frozen she could only watch as everything went down before the giant smoke cloud in the distance grew bigger with flitz of purple lightning appeared being none other than Alios as Johnny had mentioned in his abridgment of Cassandra during the convoy ride to the base where they were sat up. Her mind was a mess of a puzzle before she got pulled out of it all as she could see Alios barreling towards them and the base before a pair of arms wrapped around her shoulder yanking her back and out of the daze that she was in with a low ruffled and graveled voice yelling at her with bits of spit hitting her cheek.

“GET A FUCKING MOVE ON DO YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS FUCKING PLACE OR NOT?!”

It was logan pulling her out of it as the two of them made a run for a large robot type leg on the side before throwing something at wade’s head to get him to get a move on for the leg and to get out of the base and make a move to get somewhere safer and give them time to figure out how exactly they were going to get out of the void and with the help of the renegade group that johnny was telling them about back in the convoy again before wade got him killed.

Clearing the path of the storm monster Alioth the boosters on the sential leg were starting to fizzle and give out causing their clear path to go off course sending them crashing into the ground of a mountain top that was over looking some rather odd other worldly buildings half buried in the soil from being there for a long time. Hitting the soil Aspen was sent flying off to the side as the other two ended up on another side on top of one another and if one who didn’t know the situation they would think that they were up with some risky business with one another but in reality Wade had gotten one of his knives jammed into the ass of Logans suit and he was trying to get it out so he could stand back up and get his footing back and all Aspen got out of their back and forth was wade telling Blake or something along those lines bringing more confusion into the air as she walked up to wade smelling a quest but logan was quick to shut him up pointing out a building saying he smelt food which was something of a miracle to Aspens ears as she was in fact starving right about now and needed something to eat and think over everything that has happened so far.

Trashing the little diner all they could find that was edible was that of some cans of spam while logan was quick to find a thing of pure rubbing alcohol downing it against the wishes of wade as he was asking about the suit and what brought him to wear it and all sorts of shit while Aspen got herself in the very end booth her back facing the two men arguing back and forth paying no mind to her as she gagged down the spam thankful for it but hating it at the same time.

“That’s a good baby girl choke it down like the good girl you are.”

Wade’s voice made her jerk and shove the spoon back against of her throat and ended up making her spit it out right onto his face to which he didn’t really respond much to just laughing and making a few faces and wiping the spit off of his face with logan in the background twitching his nose ever in the slightest getting a whiff of something other than blood sweat and spam but thinking that it was nothing or that it was wade being a weirdo again.

Being at a loss of words Aspen stayed quiet as the three of them packed up and left the little abandoned diner looking for a lead to go with to find the group of outsiders before the smell of Deadpool was a lot smeller to logan and even Aspen before the ugliest fucking dog to the point of being ugly cute. Wade was at a loss of words seeing the creature as it was adorned in Deadpool gear before running up and jumping right into his now unmasked face using its longer than normal dog tongue going to town on his cancer eaten skin wagging her stubby but long tail.

Watching in shock that there was a dog form of the man Aspen turned to find another Deadpool running right at the four of them now but this one was without a mask looking more than normal compared to the wade she knew talking in a very Canadian accent holding his arms in a namaste pose.

“Sorry aboot that Mary puppins gets away from you for one second and she’s on the hunt for a new papa, nice to meet you I’m Deadpool and looks like your Deadpool as well but here in the void they call me nicepool but the rest of the Deadpool corps aren’t as nice as me they will out right kill you just for the shits and giggles of it all.”

Aspen couldn’t find anything to say but logan and wade on the other hand were different telling him to shut the fuck up cause it was free or something along those lines but she was awestruck still at the fact that there was more than one Deadpool or logan now with all of this shit going on but she didn’t catch that the borderlands were only 12 clicks away to the west and the offer of a ride to get them there thanks to nicepool.

Following behind the skipping figure Aspen could feel eyes on her in the back of her head as she followed as she was in the front of logan and wade as her longer legs let her keep in pace with him even with him skipping and singing songs aloud the entire time through a maze of corn to a tarp covering a vehicle as he promised to the three of them but upon pulling it off wade was beginning to throw a tantrum over it being a Honda Odyssey and going on with why it was awful and all sorts of shit but was quickly shut up by logan punching him in the face and telling him to get into the fucking car and shut it before snatching the dog and giving it back to nicepool letting him make run for it back into the corn.

Aspen ended up in the back as wade pretty much shoved her to the back giggling and saying something along the lines of Pookie Princess gets the Passenger seat and that jealousy was a bitch but she didn’t say anything about it shrugging laying in the back seat humming to herself as logan started driving out of the corn and through the desert area of the void heading for the borderlands that were hidden in a forest type of area and just as nicepool said it looked like it was going to be a 12 mile ride to get to the very beginning of the area.

“I know this thing sucks ass but please god tell me the bastard has some sort of radio reception because I need some fucking tunes!”

Wade let out a huff to himself poking at the buttons of the radio getting nothing at first but Aspen hearing and seeing this sat up humming before leaning forward over the center console before punching it causing the music to start coming through the speakers all around the three of them in the vehicle making her do a little victory wiggle fist bumping wade before going back to laying in the back of the car while logan kept driving ignoring the two of them shaking his head.

For some time it was only wade singing along to the radio before it changed to a song that Aspen knew all to well as in her civilian life that she’s been living for years hiding her mutant powers she was a singer at one of the singing diners and hearing the tone of the song made her hairs stand up on the back of her neck as she got excited to hear it again and wade took notice of this reaction smirking underneath his mask.

“Oh, looks like we got a singer in the making in the back here logi poo~ I wonder if she actually has the skill to make something out of this song come on princess be a good girl and sing for daddy will ya?”

Aspen choked back on her own tongue hearing this out of wade again but logan let out a tiny chuckle at her reaction rolling his eyes keeping them to the road ahead or well form of a road but for once spoke up as the song had a long intro.

“Are you and this clown in a relationship or something or is he just really flirty with you or something along those lines?”

His eyes met hers in the mirror waiting for an answer as she sat up starting to laugh holding to her side and clearing her throat,

“Quite the contrary I am not really dating him nor will I EVER because he is in love with a stripper who dos- “

“Ok shut up pussycat he doesn’t need to know everything but what about you logan what is the first thing that you are going to do if the TVA can fix your world?”

Aspen felt her body get launched out of the leather seats in the back barreling to the front over the center consol hearing a deep and throaty growl coming out of logan whose face was turning red with anger and it was making her feel some kind of way just at the sight and the sounds good lord have mercy it was bad.

“What the fuck did you just say.”

His tone was deep and gravled and it was clear to all of them that he was BIG mad and wade knew he was in deep shit now as his brain scrambled for an answer to get out of this one as he and aspen could smell the piss coming from him as his soaked through his suit.

“Uh what are you- “

“No before that what the fuck did you fucking say.”

“If…. They can”

“YOU FUCKING LIED TO ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT YOU SAID THEY COULD FIX MY TIMELINE AND YOU FUCKING LIED!”

“I DIDN’T LIE IT WAS AN EDCUCATED WISH ALRIGHT!”

“Did you just say you made an educated. Fucking. Wish. Jesus fucking Christ the bald bitch was right you really are no hero fuck you can’t even get into the x men and they would take fucking ANYONE. You want to be a hero but can’t even hold a fucking relationship with a stripper really? You are fucking worthless, and I would say I wish you to die alone but its one of gods worst mistakes that you cant fucking die when all of that is left on US!”

Logans voice got rougher sounding and deeper with all of his screams of insults digging his claws deeper into the flesh of wade’s thigh and spit flying off his lip over the red material of his mask snarling more with each word before wade felt his heart drop and his mouth clamped shut.

“What got nothing to fucking say now merc?”

“I’m going to hurt you now.”

Aspen watched again as it turned to slow motion as his red fist hooked and connected with the adamantium bones in his nose causing blood to start pooling out of his nasal cavity against the stark yellow and blue of his super suit, the blood ran down the back of his nose into his throat before he was quick to spit it out against his red fabric mask and bash his head into the radio of the Honda making the music blare out again as it had come to a stop right before all shit hit the fan.

“At least put the girl outside of the car so she isn’t hit with any of this fucking shit and your big cry baby episode honey badger the readers wont like the girl getting drug into the middle of this if it isn’t consensual and a threesome and judging by the tags this shit aint for me big boy!”

Wade made motions with his hands towards aspen in the back pulling his claws out of his chest only for logan to look back and find her gone out of the car already giving wade a cheap shot to his face causing the fight to gain embers and grow larger and a lot more bloodier due to it.

….

The once blue Honda was now a dark shade of red due to all of the blood shed inside and outside of the vehicle but it was no longer at the same place in the woods as before as after the two men knocked themselves out from pure stupidity and anger another figure made themselves known and began driving off in the Honda driving and taking them to a hideout in the very back of the woods inside a overgrown sanctuary with statues of the Scarlett on the inside and other things belonging to old marvel heroes and x men alike.

Aspen was nowhere to be found on the inside when logan and wade came to only to be met with weapons to the face or cards coming from gambit for getting into his stash of liquor without asking but this only got a boo boo from logan as he got another bottle and started to down it.

“Uh where the fuck knuckles are our baby girl! LOGAN DID YOU LET THEM TAKE THE BABY?”

Wade was losing his mind after getting the weapons out of his face before another figure walked into the room but still not being aspen but that of x-23 or Laura as she wanted to be called showed her face glancing at logan a few seconds longer than normal for one to do.

“I brought you here don’t make me fucking regret it your our only shot at getting the fuck out of here or taking Cassandra down once and for all your friend is outside at the campfire didn’t want to be bothered by all of the chaos she knew was going to happen and I don’t blame her but I’m in for the fucking team up we will be leaving at fucking sun up and I don’t wanna hear any fucking bullshit about it either.”

Her voice was a grumble much like logans as she had been saved and raised in a way by the man before she watched him come to an end in her world which was the same world as wade but she was sent here all the same as he was due to her not wanting to come along quietly as she never was one to be silent.

Wade kept dancing around celebrating the team up of a lifetime and started discussing ideas with Elektra, Blade and Gambit for the following morning while logans ears twitched and he tuned into the sound of someone singing to themselves turning and taking his bottle of Jack with him he followed the sound of the singing curious and feeling a small feeling of familiarity with it.

“Have you heard about the lonesome loser? Beaten by the queen of hearts every time.

Have you heard about the lonesome loser? He’s a loser but he still keeps on trying.”

Outside a few feet from the hideaway aspen was sitting at the fire staring deep into it singing to herself low but with his hearing among the better he could hear it plain as day, stopping just outside he kept listening to her voice as she sang to herself and he could smell liquor coming from her direction but also salt as if she was crying but before he could make himself known and ask he could hear the sniffles from her nose giving it away.

“Logan, you staring at me isn’t going to help you know.”

Her voice turned quiet and soft getting his attention more as he made his way over to her taking a seat beside her at the fire spotting several empty once full fifths laying at her feet that would make a dent in his own collection if given the chance causing him to blink at how she was still sober enough to speak clearly let alone sing.

“Bub are you going through something mentally or something cause that. is a lot of alcohol and that’s coming from the alcoholic here, is it cause of the clown? Did he make false promises to you to cause right now he just pulled four more into a suicide mission in the morning.”

“Its five, I’m going sun up as well and I know I cant change your mind but I hope that you do to cause we- they cant do it without you logan wade was telling the truth about that with you that you know how to save people he just knows how to kill and get money out of it cause that’s all that he knows how to do and why I’m best friends with the fucking idiot as much as it gets me into trouble every. Single. Fucking. Time.”

Her knuckles turned white as her grip got tighter around the neck of the bottle in her hands but as she did this there was the ever so faint sound of a Schik trying to come through that logan knew all to well from his own self knowing and feeling that she was getting more and more upset.

“You gonna tell me your story with the clown?”

He took another shot of his own bottle watching her, his eye darting to the bottle in her hand and to her knuckles watching as she took in a deep breath to calm down and force her own claws back into their hiding spot.

“Sure why not cause I know I’m dying tomorrow more than likely, me and wade met around 10 years ago cause we both worked as mercs under the same company and we were pretty fucking good at our jobs with our records running up into the 1000’s with how much we made and our numbers in killing were getting to be up into the 100’s I was fucking happy I didn’t need to worry about anyone or anything cause me and wade were like a bonnie and Clyde type of team together he had vanessa and I had.., had a house or cabin rather in the woods for when I wanted a break from all of the killing. Hell I was working on a family to I loved him I really did yes the mother fucker was more stubborn than a mule at work on the farm but he was mine and the two of us knew that, he was a hero in mine and wade’s world everyone knew about him and looked up to him for it and all that he and his team did for us, I became a god damn merc and used my powers cause of him hell the first time he met me he tried to straight up murder me cause his team was sent out to take out a group of bandits that were kidnapping mutants to take back and use for their powers and breed more stronger mutants with their DNA. He thought I was one of the bandits which in reality I was cause I was paid to be one of the guards but when I see him I had to show my true self just to save my own ass that night, I was offered a new home with his team but when he wasn’t looking I made a run for it out into the night. I…  I wanted nothing more than to join him that first time but I was just to scared of being welcomed and accepted by anyone so I just ran like I always have I ran and didn’t look back but that mother fucker used his fucking nose and followed me and made sure I was ok and kept trying to get me to join him and his team… I loved him so much… but now he’s dead and whatever parts of him are still out there have no memory of me because I made a deal with dr strange to erase me from all of their counterparts cause I didn’t… I don’t want to be hurt again.”

At this point her face was soaked in not just tears but sweat and snot as she was crying her eyes out going on about her past and the love that came with it that she had lost while logan was silent watching her feeling the pain and passion in every word she was speaking as he could relate to her in a way.

“What was his name who was he rather?”

She went to speak before passing out as the alcohol took hold of her, finally letting her slump over onto her pillow and blanket she had with her wanting to sleep outside.

“You are one mysterious mother fucking woman.”

Logan mumbled to himself, taking a spot on the ground by the fire making his mind dowing the rest of his bottle and passing out for the night as well.

…

Grunts, clashes of metal, gargles. These were the only things one could hear if they were to enter back into the base in the void from before as Cassandra watched from the eye socket of the giant skull holding her little trinkets from past bodies of variants she killed and took their things for little trophies.

“Now you three getting away and escaping I could’ve learned to live with but coming back here with a group of hooligans with a plan on killing me now that I cant forgive you for in any manner now I have one chance for you, either you join me and be al la carte on my force or food for alioth or I just outright kill you right now where you stand.”

Logan, Aspen and Wade stared down at the woman while the rest continued their fight below at any means to get juggernauts helmet off of his head to use against Cassandra, wade having no patience with the woman anymore went to attack her just to be flung over to the side yet again leaving just aspen and logan in front of her causing her to smirk more.

“The great and grand wolverine a monster among men and mutants alike, you and I could really make a pair we would be untouchable to anyone… but I want to know what you’re hiding away in that darling head of hair.”

Cassandra smirked more walking towards him sending his claws into the ground to pin him in place so she would be able to dig her digits into the flesh of his skull and get deep into his mind but before her fingernail could make contact to the flesh another Schik rang off the caverned skull as three more claws made their way into her flesh of her hand making her blink and pause and for logans eyes to shift over to Aspen.

“Well, well if you so insist then lovely lets probe that head of yours shall we?”

Flicking her wrists now both logan and aspen were stuck kneeling in front of Cassandra before she used both hands, one on each head to get into their thoughts and find all of their hidden secrets.

It was snowing, bright red blood was soaking into the pure white of the snow gargling sounds echoing out with cries of agony ringing alongside it.

“MAKE IT STOP PLEASE MAKE IT STOP ILL BE GOOD I SWEAR!”

A small child was crying holding her hands as they were pouring the blood and an older man looking down onto her with a knife in his hands that was soaked in her blood as he had sliced open her knuckles trying to cut out the claws hidden deep below her skin but found no matter how many he had cut out they would only grow right back a never ending cycle of growth within her body.

“I can’t stop them so your going to use them for my liking or else I will murder everyone you love and care about, now listen and go do your job bitch.”

The voice shifted to another male as time passed and the girl grew up over time before she was standing on guard at a underground lab full of children that held mutant powers crying out for mercy as the men in the camp abused all of them and those who in their words “Old enough to bleed” got used in other ways mixing DNA in hopes of making a superior mutant that could take out even the strongest of the X-men.

She felt a twitch in her nose and hairs standing up on her neck before she seen and heard the Heli ship landing near the lab and a loud echoing Schik ringing out as the legendary and ruthless X-Men started storming into the lab looking for all of the mutant children to get out of the lab and to freedom making quick work of everyone in their path working for the lab core that’s when everything froze for her as Logan, the Wolverine appeared his face struck in nothing but anger and a hunt in his eyes looking for blood, ramming his way into the room she was guarding his head jerked up from the floor staring her down growling and holding his claws out to the side ready to take her down in one strike but shaking in her spot she drops to her knees and dropped her guard putting her hands up letting her claws fly out with blood soaking her bones as her mutation caused her pain every time she used her power due to the past abuse of her father messing with the growth of her claws at such a young age.

“Please I don’t want to be against you I was forced into this at the risk of my mother’s life I beg of you have mercy on me Wolverine.”

Her voice was shaky but nothing but truthfulness with tears brimming and threatening to spill out of her sobering blue eyes earning a grunt from the man before he just nodded his head to Jean behind him who was waiting to escort the mutants back to the Heli ship but instead of getting on the ship she made a run for it.

Shifting again it got to the girl older and much more familiar to the one we know now in this time line as she was sitting alone in a barn tending to a few horses giving them grain before there was a sound of a motorcycle rolling up to where she was and a familiar smell that came with it that she knew from the past.

“Why are you here, you know I’m not going to go back and join you on the team Wolverine your wasting your time here with me I wont go.”

“Bub just call me Logan, while yes it would be nice to have you on the team we can help you hone in on your mutations and use them for the better and keep you safe… you don’t have to be alone anymore you know we all need someone to talk to or just sit with and you can have that with me and the X men, Jean she would love to have another girl around to talk to with Storm hell even Scott would like it.”

“Logan I….  I got you”

Aspen broke out of the haze as wade slammed juggernauts helmet over Cassandras head giving way for her to move back away letting the two of them take over from there and let her get her breath back into her body and control her emotions living through her past yet again seeing him over and over again still thanking the gods that he was still safe from knowing that her deal with strange wasn’t in vain. Standing back she watched as logan growled out something to the woman before she could only chuckle and let a single tear fall before pulling out a sling ring out of her pocket that Aspen knew belonged to a variant of Strang as it has his stones on either side of the rings forming the one as she used it with ease opening up a portal her way out of the void with the two.

“You have about four seconds before you become Alioth next meal.”

Cassandras words rang out as wade and logan made a run for the portal Alioth closing in a very quick rate of speed sliding Aspen made a run for it with wade and logan as the three of them just made it to the portal before they were food and making a run for Paradoxes TVA location in the subway to put a stop to the time ripper and save their asses and their timeline.

But like the snake she was Cassandra had other plans as she got ahold of Paradox and learned about the time ripper and quickly changed her mind wanting all of the timelines to be gone off the plane and into the void as she wanted to be the only one able to play god in this timeline and any other that would come after it in the future if they’re to be another. And this time she brought backup as the portal stayed open and the first to come through was dogpool yet again running for wade licking all over his still masked face this time thankfully but nicepool was right behind yet again but along with him was about 100 other Deadpool variants with their guns and swords loaded and ready to fight. Moving off to the side aspen searched for the quickest route to get to the subway and get to the time ripper to fix this mess as she didn’t want to lose logan again as it would kill her even with him having no memory of her, finding and setting her eyes on it she took notice that nicepool had been shot to the point of no return and very much without a head seeing wade doing cpr on the dead body cursing and going on before logan berranded him for getting him killed and calling him gods perfect idiot for having the healing factor.

“Nice try sweet cheeks but you aren’t hiding from us either.”

A cocky gangster Deadpool pulled her out of her spot that she was scouting from smirking holding his gun up to her head starting to pull the trigger before 6 claws came out of the side of his face knocking his eyes out of his mask and a very annoyed logan at her side.

“Can we please just get these assholes out of the way and go kill that mother fucking bald bitch for the love of GOD!”

Aspen could only blink in response shivering before pulling on her mask tucked into the back of her suit matching with Logan making Deadpool squeal and jump around with dog pool before the three of them started mowing through all the other variants making their way for the subway getting bathed in bloods of all kind thanks to all the bodies they were tearing through and Like a prayer playing in the background all thanks to wade and his fucking weird ways for some god damn reason or another.

One wave was over quick before every single one of them started coming back to life having the healing factor making logan groan out heavily but it was brought to an end as peter came biking in wearing one of wades old suits that was busting at the seams for more than one reason from the looks of it but getting them out of danger and allowing them to make a run for the time ripper only to find that Cassandra was already hands on with it, paradox explained how they could end it after logan held his claws up real close and personal to his face to get the answers out of him before making a run for it underground wade and logan arguing back and forth about it leaving way for Aspen to rush past the two of them and get into the chamber holding both matter and anti matter inside knowing that she will die doing this but she didn’t care cause she wanted wade to have his family and friends back and get Vanessa back to him and for logan to have what he needed to be known and to be loved by someone that would show him the right way and not hurt him and prove that he was the best logan.

Breaking open the orange tube she used her claws screaming out in pain using them again and yanking the coils free from the inside dragging and pulling at them to get them to loosen up all while Logan and Wade were banging on the door trying to get it open screaming at her to stop being a fucking idiot and that this wasn’t in the script.

With anti matter running through her arm and her entire body her memories started flashing through her again while she was reaching for the other coil of matter.

“Darlin, you know you cant keep hiding out here and being a lonesome loser at some point you need to come back and be part of society with me and the rest of the team.. Scott is driving me nuts I’m starting to think he has a crush or something on you from all the times he’s asked how you are doing when he sees me coming back from riding cause he knows I’m coming to see you. Charles said you don’t even have to fight you can just stay at the mansion and learn things we all just want you to be where you belong sweet heart you know this so please for me?”

Logan spoke in a soft tone his arms wrapped around Aspens waist kissing the top of her head as he held her in their living room with a small fire going on in the corner stove.

“Logan I am a monster I killed for money before you all found that lab I am no better than all of those bandits ill just end up hurting the kids or worse one of the team just let me stay out here where I know I cant hurt anyone and just be to myself and be with you in peace. Please…”

Her voice came out as nothing more than a whisper as she leaned into his kiss on her head feeling the tears bubble up and over the rims of her eyes yet again as he would make her feel soft and like the only girl on the planet with a single touch of his hand, one side grew cold as he moved his arm up tilting her head up by the chin leaning down and kissing her sweet and soft not pushing it to be anything deeper than a sign of affection for her before moving his hand and taking off his dog tags hanging under his shirt and putting them over her head and tucking them into her own shirt with a smile.

“Well since you wont come home to the mansion keep these on so I can find you alright darlin? Promise me never to take them off no matter what?”

Letting out another sniffle she looked up to him with a teary smile nodding her head and putting a hand over the tags.

“Over my dead body.”

“BITCH IF YOUR TRYING TO TAKE MY SPOTLIGHT WITH HUNKY HUNK YOU ARE DEAD WRONG THIS AINT IN THE SCRIPT BITCH BUT ILL WORK WITH IT! NOW CUE THAT FUCKING TRACK YOU BEAUTFUL BASTARD!”

Wade had managed to get into the chamber with her in the last second before the time ripper killed all of them in the timeline slamming his hand into the coil and grabbing it to form a circuit between the two of them sending out a shockwave that knocks logan out sending him flying out of the area and back to Paradox and the team as they watched through a feed of the rooms.

Another shockwave after another came from the two coils of matter and anti matter the energy causing wade and aspens veins to light up as if they were on fire letting out more screams together in agony from the materials the materials of their suits starting to shred from the anti matter coursing in both of them now, aspens suit tearing a hole near the neck as two flashes of metal could be made out on the monitor lighting up more with the matter as the meter for the timeline went down to 0 before skyrocketing to 100 with a huge explosion knocking out everyone in the general area.

…

“I will grant your wish Aspen, I will take you out of the memory of every logan that I am able to locate in the multiverse on one condition as it seems to be a theme with all of your and his variants and that is if you take off those dog tags or they break in some manner all of this is going to be undone and it’ll be for nothing understood?”

“Yes I understand please I don’t want him to be hurt by me anymore just get rid of it all now please I’m begging you strange.”

…

“Mother fucker if you think you were going to get off of this Scott fucking free you are d e a d wrong~ now cause of your wanna be a hero moment with yours truly big bad honey badger over here REMEMBERS EVERYTHING YOU WHORE! Yah if the dog tags didn’t tell him enough when he picked them up and slipped them over your head to read them better with his old man eyes it all hit him like a damn shit storm after one to many tacos at fucking Taco Bell with extra hot reaper sauce on top of it all and a black coffee with 8 shots of expresso and protein mix!”

“wade.”

Aspen could only groan out his name once but he kept going on and on even as they were eating shawarma with the welcome back of dog pool but he just kept going.

“WADE WOULD YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP OK I GET IT HE KNOWS NOW SHUT UP BEFORE I SHOVE MY FUCKING CLAWS SO FAR UP YOUR ASS THAT YOU TASTE ADAMANTIUM FOR THE NEXT MONTH!”

“Damn Baby girl has been antsy hasn’t she. Maybe he will sort out your issues or something/”

Wade got cut short as aspen got up leaving him behind heading back to her apartment not having been able to look at logan let along speak to him since she came to and figured out her deal was broken with strange but he wasn’t making any move to chase or speak so she didn’t pay mind to it figuring he had his reasons.

Climbing the stairs she kicked open the door to her apartment and threw off her suit to the hamper staying in her underwear before collapsing down onto her bed and passing the fuck out with a bottle of jack at her side.

…

A heavy knocking came to the door days later along with the begging and pleading sound of wade on the other side of the door before it gets slammed opened by a very annoyed Aspen with her claws out ready to kill.

“Jesus easy there baby cakes no need for the dommy mommy right now I just want you to come and celebrate my party with me and blind al and you don’t even have to do a line of coke! Please I made your favorite cake and everything.”

She went to shut the door in his face but wade held it open with his foot begging in all means of the word to the woman and she knew that she wasn’t getting out of this one making her grumble more.

“Fine give me two minuets to put on something decent I guess.”

…

As much as Aspen dreaded it she walked back with wade to his apartment and the second she got to his door she could SMELL him waiting on the other side of the door along with some other questionable materials thanks to blind al more than likely. Taking in a deep breath she pushed open the door to the unit and as expected was met with logan dressed in his usual attire being that god forsaken white tank top and jeans bunched up in all the right places that would make her want to drool and bark like a god damn dog in heat but she held it together smiling at him and sliding past him inside of the unit with wade.

“God damn Chicka your have got the real fucky fucky eyes on that hunky mc fucky at least buy me a drink or offer me a tape of the aftermath cause Jesus h Christmas on a stick you two have got some unattended to millennial old sexual tension going on right about now.”

“Wade.”

“Yes, sweet baby girl princess pookie bear what can I get for you?”

“Just shut the fuck up and give me a god damn bottle of jack will yah?”

…

Everyone was long gone past their limit as it was late into the night and early morning hours, wade and vanessa had fucked themselves out for the night in his room and all over the apartment really and blind al was snoring up a storm for the rest of the place while aspen was cleaning up the leftovers and mess as logan was gone passed out on the couch as the alcohol took the best of him after one to many due to a drinking contest he started with Aspen.

Tossing all of the trash bags out to their proper location she made sure everything was alright before heading out and going back to her unit but as she was walking, she could FEEL him watching her every move.

“Princess, are we really just going to keep going with this whole thing like I don’t know everything now or are you going to woman up and admit that I KNOW everything? That I have smelt you this entire time with a burning need for you that I can’t even begin to describe or what?”

Logan cornered her at the door to her unit putting his arm beside of her head as she was putting her key in the door leaning down closer to her face his whiskers tickling her cheek up to her ears and his claws caging her in his arms.

“Uhhhhhhhh………. Babushka?”

[cherrrydragon]

hiya pooks, i wanted to get to know you more so i have a couple fun questions for you that include my personal answers! (i’m an oversharer)

1) fav media of spider-man?

i looooooove ultimate spider-man. i think it’s so over hated because the kids who watched spectacular grew up and were upset the next spider-man show was a kids show and not an adult show made for them. the fact that there just so much room for cameos from all other marvel media really helped me build a love for marvel as a whole. i wouldn’t know half as much marvel lore or characters without it since i never read the comics. (too poor to continuously buy growing up + can’t read comic panels over screen cause bleh. i think it was our first time meeting miles on screen too, which was awesome!)

it showed me who spider-man was at his core, a good person. and that’s what stood out to me. it also showed me that spider-man was super funny and always had a ‘quip’ lol. bonus points for ps4 spidey for being the first game i played of him and into the spider-verse for literally changing animation for the whole world. straight up best movie ever made.

2) fav media of dc?

gotta be the 2022 batman for me. i was so happy they finally got him right on the big screen! it took so long for people to realize that batman is only fear to his enemies, but hope to the people. they also count have picked a better catwoman! and the fact that the riddler is just some guy? mwah, perfection, amazing, incredible!

side rant; everytime i see someone mention how they thiugtt he robert patterson didn’t play a good bruce i wanna scream. how are we lacking so much media literacy nowadays that we can no longer recognize this is before he gets his whole playboy persona. he doenst even have financial stability! he’s literally just learning who he is. there’s deadass a whole scene dedicated to him trying to go into the club as batman and getting turned away vs being welcomed in as bruce and realizing bruce wayne has actual value to fighting crime.

3) fav non live action character?

sam anderson’s nova is so fun! he’s such a sweetiepie. i know earlier i said i don’t read the comics, but i do listen to them. i really wish they would put him in as teen trying his best with the guardians of the galaxy <3

klarion the witch boy is so silly (especially in young justice. his va is perfect for him.) he literally just terrorizes people for funsies. gotta love the lord of chaos and his cat.

hi hi! i just wanna preface this by saying a lot of media im a fan of i havent actually watch/read/played just because i cant truly sit down and consume content like i used to when i was younger. literally yesterday i watched the second deadpool movie after like, maybe 2 years since watching the first one (and i probably wouldnt have watched it if the new dp and wolverine movie didnt come out LOL) so i can't really answer these as efficiently as id like but ill try my best

fav media of spider-man?

before it would've been mcu spiderman simply because i havent watched the raimi or amazing spiderman ones, but now without a doubt i can say the spiderverse movies are my fav ones! all movies are pieces of art, but the spiderverse movies are truly by and for art kids. the animation and art is beautiful and i think the way it so artistically connects all things spider-man is really cool.

2. fav media of dc?

so... the last time i watched any dc media was when i was way younger LOL. i distinctly remember watching dc super hero girls, justice league unlimited, the flash (tv) and i think arrow (tv)? but like i said, i was young and don't remember much. ive seen from numerous people that the dc timeline is kind of a mess and that + the fact that there's so much content is what's keeping me from consuming it now. on the topic of batman 2022 there's literally nothing stopping me from watching it but i havent LOL i just cant sit down and watch it. i think the brainrot got to me rip.

i think what stops me from consuming content is the fact that i become a fan of it without actually participating. i read so much fanfic that i learn the plot of things through there, and because i already know what happens i dont desire to spend time and take it in. i might be cooked ngl. but anyway, no official favorite dc media from me

3. fav non live action character?

dude theres like way to many to name but one that comes to mind immediately is black cat (i dont think she's been in any live action from marvel yet?) something about those cat burglars man... LOL. i know this doesn't really count but i really like her portrayal in "Dark Matter" by mysterycyclone on ao3 (and amazing peter parker in gotham fic, highly recommend) i truly love the idea of the thief becoming friends with their crimestopper, because like catwoman, they aren't really hurting anybody (at least, from what ive seen)

as for dc... like i said i have not consumed enough media to pick LOL my bad 💔

[raevanmun]

✵ - Are there any other fandoms you’d like to approach?

This question is... well. A touch fraught for me. That said, yes. I would love to return to a couple of them that I have let fall to the wayside of the years. Before I became my anxiety’s bitch, I used to do a lot more real life sort of role play.Meaning, I table topped a lot and had a good circle of friends to do that with. I haven’t in years now and it makes me rather sad. Sad enough, that I ordered 200 bucks worth of the new VTM (Vampire the Masquerade) core books so that I might, given inspiration start an online game for those so inclined. I absolutely LOVE that gameverse. No sparkle vampires, just blood suckers all trying to figure out how to feed and keep themselves free. The new storyline is amazing, been updated to our current times and I really feel that I have a good idea for story.So, maybe after the new books arrive (I pre-ordered) and I get my mind wrapped around the new rule set and content fully, I’ll try doing something via discord. Otherwise, most of the fandoms I find attractive, I am in. There are maybe a few comic book things that I wish I were better versed in, but I just don’t have the attention span/dedication to go to the comic shop every week to buy the newest stuff, nor the money to go back and collect all the old things I’d need to get myself up on it all.That said, I do have a love for comics and I have favorites that while I haven’t read the entire bodies of, I have read some of and have a general working knowledge of. I grew up reading Fantastic Four, was a huge fan of Ben Grim as a kid. Marvel is still my favorite - of the mainstream comic world. I am unfortunately rather stodgy in my tastes and prefer X-men these days. I hated the movies, before anyone asks, just hated them. I had really high hopes and then found the first two so bad, I gave up on the movies all together. I should watch all the newer stuff, but I haven’t. Like none of it since the poorly done Wolverine origin movie that they later re-made. Wait, I take that back. I have watched Deadpool, because... well, DEADPOOL.I do have a lot of love for DC however, but only for very specific characters. I watched Suicide Squad. While a lot of people hated it, I loved Margot Robbie’s Harley. My DC’ness is very much Gotham centered, and Batman and his directly associated characters are my faves there. Not a Superman fan, and as much as I loved the mid 80′s reboot of Wonderwoman ( and I do own every single issue of that series) I didn’t see the movie. So much controversy. I won’t argue the fine points of comics though with folks. I don’t keep up well enough to do so. So, I guess it sort of counts. hahahaha.Thanks for Asking! @smith-hadeon

[cosmicpopcorn]

Deadpool 2 (2018)

So, your favorite crazy ass pansexual assassin/mercenary...antihero...whatever the fuck he is (let’s just go with fucking awesome)...has returned in Deadpool 2 ready to kick ass, take names, and make us laugh with the crudest of jokes. Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead return with him, while the X-Force, Cable, and Firefist are introduced.

Before he made it to the big screen, Deadpool had a humble beginning when he first appeared in the comic book series, The New Mutants #98, cover-dated February 1991. Your girl Domino also makes her first appearance in this issue as well. The New Mutants series is a spin-off series from the X-Men franchise - it centers around a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training. In issue #98, Deadpool has been hired to kill The New Mutants and Cable...such a wonderful way to meet your favorite neighborhood assassin/mercenary, right? He then began appearing as a regular character in the X-Force series and went on to make guest appearances in several Marvel comics such as The Avengers, Daredevil, and Heroes for Hire. After getting a couple of his own miniseries (The Circle Chase and Deadpool), he eventually got his own ongoing title/full series in 1997. Now this fool got two movies...he’s finally got a piece of the pie!

In the 2004 comic book series Cable & Deadpool, Deadpool describes his appearance as “Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar-Pei.” And since 2016 (if you don’t count Ryan Reynold’s appearance as Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Ryan Reynolds has taken on the task of being our beloved Deadpool and he’s pretty damn good at it. It was clearly meant to be. In Deadpool 2, starring alongside Ryan Reynolds, we have Josh Brolin as Cable (yes, that’s the same dude who did a fucking fantastic job as Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War), Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Julian Dennison as Firefist, Zazie Beetz as Domino (guess who I’mma be for Halloween?), T.J. Miller as Weasel, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Stefan Kapicic as the voice of Colossus, Deadpool’s wonderful friend who puts up with all his bullshit and possible love interest/sex buddy? (I’m just saying - even Vanessa told him not to fuck Colossus when she spoke to him in the afterlife, so clearly something may be happening there).

Before we get into the pros and cons for Deadpool 2, let me just say this: I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies lately and I gotta be honest, they have set the bar high for not only superhero movies but movies in general. At this point, even the most “average” Marvel movie is gonna have great acting, writing, and special effects. This makes it hard for a nigga like me who is trying to find something to critique when writing these reviews because who the fuck just wants to read about me fangirling over a movie (e.g. my Avengers: Infinity War post). I don’t even enjoy writing fangirl posts, which is why the one for Avengers was as short as it was. So unless Marvel starts randomly fucking up their movies for no damn reason - which I doubt is ever gonna happen - I’m not gonna have half as much to critique as usually do. 

Anyway, let’s get into the pros and cons:

Pros:

From what I know about comic book Deadpool (antihero characteristics, humorous - especially crude humor, breaks the 4th wall, pansexual), the movie Deadpool appears to be a pretty accurate representation of him. They didn’t try to make him kid/family-friendly, I definitely see them playing on and/or hinting towards his pansexuality (if anything I swear he flirts with men more than women - the only woman I really see him flirt with is Vanessa), and movie Deadpool is crude as fuck. They even have movie Deadpool continue to break the 4th wall (in case you didn’t know, breaking the 4th wall is when a character is aware that they are a fictional character and may actually interact with the audience) and you can check out this Deadpool 2 trailer for an example of him breaking the 4th wall - he actually interrupts the trailer to discuss the special effects. You’re never too sure if a sequel is going to actually be just as good as the original...or good at all. Another concern is whether or not the sequel continues to build on the character while remaining true to the character’s essence/core personality and this is especially concerning when a movie is an adaptation of a comic/book. Deadpool 2, if anything, continues to emphasize Deadpool’s core personality while building upon it at the same time. 

Going off of the first pro, Deadpool 2 emphasizes his core personality traits (humorous, individualistic, sexual) while attempting to give him more emotional depth. The first half of the movie has us watch Deadpool experience grief after the death of Vanessa. Even before her death, watching him interact with her and plan a family allows us to see the side of him that desires stability, commitment, and family. This first half is important because it shows us that while Deadpool is securely individualistic and doesn’t necessarily need a team like the X-Men or The Avengers, he does still desire family and companionship. It lets us know that even the Merc with a Mouth isn’t beyond the basic human desire to connect with others. In the second half, while more fast-paced and action-packed, we still get to see more of Deadpool’s sense of morality and belief in the goodness, or potential goodness of others when he fights to save young Firefist from Cable. In fact, I would say that Deadpool has an even stronger sense of morality than Colossus - Colossus was willing to leave Firefist in the hands of the headmaster even though it was pretty obvious he was being abused because he refused to play “judge, jury and executioner,” while Deadpool was so sure of how wrong it was that he started killing the orderlies immediately. We also get to see him try to form his own family with the creation of the short-lived first version of the X-Force. 

Ryan Reynolds was made to play Deadpool. Makes me forgive him for Green Lantern and almost makes me forget it even happened! By the way, that post-credits scene of Deadpool shooting Ryan Reynolds in the head while he holds a copy of the Green Lantern script is PURE GOLD.

Zazie Beetz does an awesome job as Domino - she makes a big impact on the audience even though she may not have as many lines or scenes as some of the other characters. The directors and writers also did a really good job of showing the audience Domino’s power of luck - a power that seems so abstract and would be believed to be difficult to display well in movie format.

Cable is a character that I feel you can empathize with and who I actually kind of liked by the end. I really enjoyed how at first he was portrayed as the villain, only for things to be switched up and for us to find out the real villain was the chubby kid from New Zealand (aka Firefist). 

While being hilarious and action-packed, Deadpool 2 does take the opportunity to give you something to think about if you pay attention. First, they have Firefist point out how there are no chubby superheroes. It’s no secret that our society often discriminates, shames, and is prejudice against those who are larger. In media, they are often portrayed as the butt of jokes, being romantically and sexually undesirable, lazy, unhealthy, not athletic, etc. So, is it really a surprise that there are no chubby or plus-size superheroes? I love that Firefist is not skinny or unrealistically built and that he points out how there aren’t any superheroes who look like him (Fun Fact: In the comics, Firefist is a white, skinny, blonde kid from Tulsa, OK, so I’m digging the changes they made - both to Firefist and Domino, whose comic book version was a woman with chalk-white skin).

Second, Deadpool himself points out how the name X-Men forgets that there are female mutants in the group...this is why he chooses X-Force, a gender-neutral name for his group of superhero misfits. The language we use in a patriarchal society is often masculine - for example, we tend to say mankind instead of humankind or things like, “come on guys” to refer to an entire group of people who may not all identify as male and it’s because men are seen as the default. Deadpool’s jokes and commentary in this movie sometimes calls out societal biases that have also made their way into our comics and superhero movies and I’m here for it. Not only that, but Deadpool does not look like your typical hero - his skin is scarred and disfigured, despite him being fit and we still see him being a sexual and romantic being and I think that’s powerful when you have nothing but a bunch of super fit and conventionally attractive superheroes running around.

The soundtrack for the movie is perfect and they perfectly match the songs and scenes. 

All the references are so fun to pick up on - if you’re really into comic books, superhero movies, and honestly just a TV and movie junkie in general, you will love picking up on all the references they throw at you. 

Cons:

So, while those references are great for TV, movie, comic book, and superhero junkies, they’re not-so-great for those who just watch movies here and there and aren’t necessarily fanatics. I’ll go as far as to say if a person isn’t really into comics, superheroes, and doesn’t really know a lot of television and movie shit...a lot of stuff is going to be lost on them. Some movies are made for everyone and some movies are made for fans or at least those with a strong interest - Deadpool 2 is one of those movies and unfortunately that may alienate other viewers/audiences.  

Deadpool’s humor can be hit or miss - at times, the jokes didn’t really hit and weren’t really funny. The first half of the movie’s humor wasn’t as good as the second half of the movie. At times, I found myself laughing just because I knew I was supposed to and the humor and crudeness felt forced. 

Overall, Deadpool 2 is a fun, fun movie that poses some important questions about morality and makes commentary on aspects of society. Ryan Reynolds not only starred in but was also one of the writers and producers of this movie, and his talent shines throughout the entire 1hr and 59min of it. I’m proud of him, and I’m sure Deadpool is too.

Rating: 4.5 Caramel Popcorn Pieces 

[staarknaked]

Hello! I have been watching the marvel movies and tv shows for a while now but I’d like to read the comics too. Any idea how to start since there are so many and have been there for so long (as in which comic from what year)? Thank you in advance!

I’m sorry for how long this is, I tried. Once you find where you want tostart, it gets easier to narrow down and follow timelines and full story arcs,sort of, I promise. Also, Wikipedia is your friend. Marvel starting doing a lot of events after CivilWar. You can skip them and just read summaries. Save your sanity. If you have any questions you can msg me off anon too and I can walk you through it because Marvel comics are a shit show I’m so sorry I don’t make the rules.

Projects:

-Civil War (2006-2007): This is on the list because this is where I jumpedinto Avengers comics, and it’s honestly their most iconic events. It has a tonof main titles for multiple characters and is a really good way to get into howthey think and who they are, but it is fucking huge. After reading the core book, the tie ins and theCap/Iron man books are great. Really gives you history and scope of the Marveluniverse and its original players. This will take a while.

-Avengers Disassembled (2004-2005): Probablybigger than civil war? I have the hardcover of this and it is massive. But again, iconic if you wantto do the work and read it. Scarlet Witch is a key player and it pretty coversbackground for a whole variety of previous material. This will also take forever. I have the entirely of it in a hardcover and I’ve only gotten through 2/3rds of it.

- House of M (2005): Wanda Maximoff. Right here. If you want toknow what comics Wanda is like, and why mutants are the way they are in comicsright now, House of M is it. House of M preludes some of the best x-men stuffpost Phoenix era and leads to a ridiculously intense storyline that leads towhere the mutants are now and why they are the way they are. The core book isshort, and good as a one shot, but if you go further it gets crazy.

Movie Characters in Comics

I haven’t readAnt-Man, Black Panther, or Thor solos except for the all-new thor where it’s JaneFoster but they are re-booting Thor in 2018 I think. And I don’t read Dr.Strange, he’s kind of an asshole.

-Black Widow (2014-2015): The art is amazing and Natasha adopts a cat.That’s all you need honestly. Doesn’t tie into the MCU at all but really great.

-Hawkeye (2012-2015): The Clint Barton we deserve tbh. Fraction andAja’s run is iconic and legendary. Also not MCU related but widely recognizedas one of the best comics runs.

-Planet Hulk (2006-2007): One of themore iconic Hulk runs and also where parts of the Hulk’s story in Thor: Ragnarokcame from.

-Scarlet Witch (2015-2017): Really good art, Wanda is trying to fix witchcraft, and it I think goes into a little bit of her backstory with Vision. They are no longer together in comics, but this I think deals with some of the aftermath and gives glimpses into her history. I have it, I haven’t gotten around to reading it.

-Invincible Iron Man: Extremis (2006): Ended up influencinga huge part of the original Iron Man movie, and updates Tony’s everything. Thearmor from this book was the basis for the armor in the MCU.

-All-New All-Different Invincible Iron Man (2015): This is a newerTony Stark, and this line eventual leads to the Riri Williams line I think? It’sa modern take on Tony Stark.

-Captain America: Winter Soldier / Captain America(Vol 5.) (2004-2011): Ed Brubaker is the mastermind behind bringing BuckyBarnes back as the Winter Soldier. This Cap line runs forever, and covers allthe major events of the mid-late 2000’s, including civil war, death of SteveRogers, and Bucky picking up the Shield. Really good run, it’s the only soloCap stuff I’ve read any part of. The Winter Soldier stuff starts in 2005/2006if you want to skip right to it.

-Captain America (2017): Starting atissue # 695, this is Steve’s redemption arc from the clusterfuck that wasMarvel’s Secret Empire. Getting into Cap here and then backtracking would be mysuggestion.

- Guardians of the Galaxy (2013-technically ongoing): this is a pretty long run and was launched whenthe movies started bringing new readers, and it’s really good. It does crossover with the O5 X-men business briefly, but it’s also where they reallyintroduce Angela Odinsdottir, Thor’s kick ass stolen sister.It’s been re-branded a couple of times due to events.

Team Books

-The Ultimate’s: Super Human (2002): The Ultimate’suniverse inspired the movies. It’s a close universe separate from marvel 616,which is the marvel universe where all the other comic recommendations arecoming from. Ultimate’s is grittier, darker, and changes backstories but isstill really really good. Gets weird, and is definitely not close to themovies, but a lot of the inspiration for the movies came from this universe,and you’ll see it if you read it.This is the kick off book, but the Ultimate ‘verse is pretty straight forward.

-Avengers Assemble (2012-2014): This wascreated for the movies. It has the movie team line up, and was meant to be thestepping stone from the fledgling MCU to the Marvel 616 comic verse!

Netflix/Hulu/Marvel TV

-Runaway’s (2003/2017): If you watched the Hulu Runaway adaption, these arethe comics to read. The 2003 run will not have the same characters or romancesas the show though, and the 2017 ones kind of bounce off the original omics andthe show. I’m not the biggest fan of the Runaways but my best friend read themwhen we were younger so I know this by association.

- Jessica Jones: Alias (2001-2004); Jessica Jones (2016): The netlfixshow was based off the Alias comics, and its Bendis and Gaydos back on the 2016run as well, making Jessica one of the most consistently written characters inMarvel. Very similar to the show

-The Defenders (2017): A reboot of the Defenders line to hype the neflixshow. I love danny jess and luke any and every time they interact. Jess andLuke named their kid after danny okay I love anytime these assholes teamup and I believe this is similar to the show as well.

Deadpool + Friends Deadpool is in a lot ofshit. He was in Deadool and Cable in the 90’s and early-mid 2000’s and then therewas a point where everything he was in was shit for a while, and now he runsaround the marvel universe and teams up with everyone from spider-man to thenew wolverine.

-Uncanny X-Force (2010-2012): This one is a wild ride, and only recommended ifyou really liked the Deadpool movie. Wolverine and X-23 with Deadpool and twoothers mutants. Lots of stabbing. Dark. Moral conundrums. Excellent andabsolutely amazing expose of Deadpool’s character and what his morals are like.-Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016-ongoing): I can’t speak for the laterstuff, but the first bit was pretty funny.

New Kids onthe Block These are “new” heroes that were meant to be youngand fresh. They’re fully established now, and definitely worth a look.-Nova (2013-2016): I love Sam. I do. He’s a spazy Hispanic teenagerwith cosmic space powers by accident basically. He’s one of the kids thatkicked off the dad!tony thing in comics. Has appearances by the guardians, anddeals with cosmic space stuff-Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart (2016-ongoing for now): This iswhere Riri Williams takes over the Iron Man title as weird shit happens to TonyStark. Black, 16, smarter than Tony.-Ms. Marvel (2014-ongoing): Kamala is just really sweet honestly,though I’ve only so far gone through the first 2 or 3 trades.

-Spider-Men(2012): Blends the spider-man of 616 with ultimate spider-man and gives areally good jumping point to the Miles Morales as Spider-Man when he comespermanently into the 616 universe.

-Spider-Man(2016-ongoing): Miles as spider-man. He and Nova, and Kamala get mentored by Tony Starkin some of the all new-all different avenger’s books but each also has a solorun.

- Hawkeye(2016-2018): The only Young Avengers to get her own series, Kate Bishop as Hawkeye.Helps keep Clint Barton from dying, pretty great all around. Kate isn’t newsince she came around in 2005 but she was horribly underused until she showedup in Fractions Hawkeye and then got her own solo.

LGBTQ and fucking AWESOME but not MCU related at all:

- Young Avengers (2005) and YA: Children’s Crusade (2011):Children’s crusade has more Wanda, YA is the first teenage superhero group thatalso had one of Marvel’s first gay on panel kisses.

- Angela: Asguard’s Assassin (2014) and Angela: Queen of Hel(2015): a transfriendly lesbian love story with fierce fucking femalecharacters.

- Fearless Defenders (2013): Valkyrie and a ton of kick assmarvel women team up, boot all the men off the Defenders team and then showthem the fuck up also there are Lesbians and Valkyrie is a fucking goddess.

And that’s where I’m going to stop. If you put any of these titlesinto google with the dates, it will show you what you’re looking for! There aresites to read comics for free, and there are programs that you can use to readthem digitally. But honestly, once you find what you like, head to your localcomic book shop (if you have one) and browse their titles. Most places wlilorder things in.

If you’re into X-Men, I can do an X-men specific list, butX-Men aren’t really MCU so I didn’t include them. X-Men is kind of my tried andtrue for marvel though tbh. There are a lot of new X-men series being launchedright now and they just resurrected Jean Grey, so if you want that, let me know,it’s its own list.

[roguedeck]

Dear FFG, please make a Boom Boom card

I’ve been way into the Marvel Champions LCG recently.

As a long time Netrunner player, I’m always ready to check when FFG puts out a new LCG. This was especially true for Marvel Champions when I found out that Michael Boggs was one of the lead designers. His stuff at the end of Netrunner made him someone to watch.

As good as the game is now, I’ve bought it on spec. Sure, I’m excited to play Spider-man, Captain America, and Captain Marvel. But one day, they will get to the X-Men, and I would be morally and legally obligated to go back and get everything from the beginning.

Who knows when the X-men box is coming. But I’m sure we can count on Wolverine, Cyclops, Iceman and the other heavy hitters. You know Gambit is going to get his own pack.

But what about the other guys. The second stringers. The fan favorites. Sure they probably won’t be anchoring their own hero deck. That’s fine. But as packs are developed, and allies are selected, let’s not forget about the true believers on the bench.

Who is Boom Boom?

To quote the scribe Warren Ellis, Boom Boom has the mutant power to blow things up and steal all your stuff.

As an 80s kid Boom Boom popped up in X-Factor, along with Rusty, Skids, and Rictor. These kids eventually got lumped in with the rest of the New Mutants, and militarized themselves in the pages of X-Force.

X-Force got really eXtreme. Boom Boom changed her name to Boomer, then Meltdown, then realized that was dumb.

She showed back up in Warren Ellis’ Nextwave where she blew more stuff up (tick tick tick), discovered the bad guys’ secret plot, and defeated Forbush man when he couldn’t use his mind control powers (as she had no mind).

"The little guy did something to your heads. I gave him the explodo because I am clever." - Boom Boom

Other stuff happened that most people don’t care about in the early 2000s.

The next time she popped up on my radar was in the excellent New Mutants: Dead Souls mini. Among other things she got to play with Dr. Strange’s ghost dog.

Then she popped back up in Dawn of X’s New Mutants where she drunkenly blew up stuff to help rescue Beak from a drug gang.

She’s also somehow a super hacker. Yay comics.

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Can she support her own hero deck?

As much as I’d love to see a “Plasma Bomb” power card, or a “Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom” upgrade, there is no way Boom Boom gets her own deck. She’s an ally through and through.

What aspect would she appear in?

Could you imagine a protection Boom Boom? Me either.

Aggression. 100%.

What hero pack would she show up in?

Boom Boom isn’t going to make her way into a main team X-pack. Wolverine is going to pack Jubilee and Colossus. Our best chance is to get some side team support.

Cable and Deadpool are popular enough to eventually get their own hero packs, so I could plausibly see 90s X-Force getting some love. She’d be perfect in a Cannonball pack (even though there is no way Sam is aggression), but I doubt he has the cache to carry a deck on his own.

There’s also a world where we want a New Mutants movie tie in. I’d love a Moonstar/Mirage pack, or more plausibly a Magik pack. Boom Boom could potentially be a second or third ally there.

My guess is if she ever shows up, it’s as part of a Cable pack. She wouldn’t be a core Cable ally. That probably goes to Domino. She’s probably not even in his core aspect deck. But could she be one of the additional aspect card? Man I hope so.

What would she do?

Boom Boom is definitely aggressive, but not for one-on-one combat. She’s going to hit wide instead of hard.

And she is definitely not going to thwart.

Boom Boom should be a 2 Attack, 0 Thwart ally with the ability, Response: After Boom Boom attacks reveal the top card of your deck. Do 1 damage to each enemy for each [MENTAL] resource on that card.

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Hey, friendo! I was wondering if you could shed some light on which main comics to read about the Punisher! XDD Like in which order and which ones are more relevant or important so I can truly grasp Frank Castle's character. Because I feel like I'm doing wrong by just knowing him from the show. So can you please inform me? Please and thank you!

OH BOY CAN I?? i know of a lot of comics you can read about frank that has him at his truest state, but y’know just watching jon bernthal’s rendition of frank is pretty good in itself too. i also recommend ray stevenson’s frank as well! so there’s no reason to feel ashamed of that! but of course, the comics provide a bit more insight to frank’s character as a whole. there are a LOT that are important, but i’ll just jot down the comics i feel really nail frank’s character.

THE PUNISHER: YEAR ONE. this is the one that jon bernthal is closest to, as well as the next three comics below. i feel like this really showcases frank and how he officially came to be the punisher and explains it in a way that the show didn’t really explain it.

THE PUNISHER (1987). this is the longest one out of the original trilogy for frank, but it’s still as good. fair warning with any of these issues in the trilogy, though -- if frank has a ponytail, just skip the issue.

THE PUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL.

THE PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. war journal and war zone are practically the same thing, but take note that at the end of this trilogy the issues mix together. like the punisher could have one part of an arc and the war jounral could have another part of an arc. i know one of these don’t label their titles, but you can easily look it up and see where the parts are exactly. but this original trilogy is the very core of frank castle.

PUNISHER: THE TYGER. although this is technically set in an alternate universe, i still like it very much! it tells you the story of when frank was a kid and when he was first exposed to crime and all. it’s very interesting and a good read into what frank was like as a kid and how his family was like!

THE PUNISHER (2004). also referred to as punisher max. this is a very good series by garth ennis and it does showcase a lot more gore and more grittiness to frank. it’s an alright serious if you wanna see blood and everything, and it’s a good look on old man frank.

THE PUNISHER (2011). this is personally my favorite punisher comic ever. it was the first one i read and it’s what got my hooked onto frank in the first place. the art style is fucking beautiful, and the story -- although it lacks that signature narration from frank’s POV that is so dire to the punisher comics in general, i think greg rucka really nails frank in this.

ummmm ... i think that’s pretty much it if you don’t wanna go and read every single comic there is. even i haven’t read everything but those series i’ve listed for you are the key series that has stuck out to me and personally these are the series i use to reference how i rp frank in general. if you do want to go on and read more punisher comics after these, here’s a list of comics to avoid:

punisher max vol 2 (written by jason aaron and illustrated by steve dillon). no seriously. fucking avoid this issue like the plague. it’s awful, it instills this fucking shitty look on frank’s character that isn’t accurate at all -- and if you’re a true fan of frank you’ll understand why it’s god awful.

deadpool vs the punisher. honestly, i would advise not reading anything that makes frank go up against another character. you can read something like doctor strange/the punisher: magic bullets because they aren’t going up against each other. you can also read wolverine/punisher, but by god do not read deadpool vs the punisher. it tries to push that viewpoint that jason aaron came up with in punisher max vol 2 and it isn’t fucking funny. at all. or accurate. so avoid this comic, too.

the punisher vol 4. frank gets caught up in supernatural shit and overall it’s fuckin stupid.

the punisher vol 8. franken-castle. need i say more? they clearly just had no idea what to do with his character around this point in time.

thunderbolts volume 2. or thunderbolts in general that has frank in it. i don’t agree with frank willingly getting tied into a group. at all. he works alone, and even if he has to work with someone, it would only be one person or two. for one mission, more than likely. you can read it, if you want, but i would just steer clear of it.

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Cinematic Comic Characters Ranked! (Year 2009) Part Three

It’s rough coming right after a fantastic year of movies (2008) but 2009 did pretty well for itself. Terminator Salvation is our only sequel and we also get an X-Men spinoff with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Kids favorite shows come out with Astro Boy, Dragonball: Evolution, and G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, and we got a couple of thrillers with Whiteout and Surrogates. We also get the debut of the controversial Watchmen! Let’s get started with numbers #40-21!

*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALL HIGHLIGHTED MOVIES ABOVE*

40. President Stone/Peacekeeper (Astro Boy)

"Declare war! This is gonna get me re-elected."

How did this guy even get elected in the first place? He's an idiot who thought the only way to stay in power was through violent technology. It's his arrogance that gets Toby killed and it's his arrogance that puts the whole city in danger when he still decides to use the red core energy. He ends up getting absorbed by the Peacekeeper and starts a city-wide battle with Astro that only ends when Astro sacrifices himself and connects the two cores. Stone is then arrested by his own men and taken away.

39. Delfy (Whiteout)

"They don't make them like that anymore."

Delfy was just a regular pilot who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He's the one who first discovers Weiss's body out on the ice and contacts Carrie. Afterwards, she makes him her personal pilot as she sets up an investigation. This new job ends up nearly killing him twice: Once when he gets buried under fifty feet of snow with the others inside the Russian plane, and another when Haden breaks out and stabs him. He recovers and ends up bonding with Pryce and Carrie for six months until the winter is over.

38. Abel Shaz/Breaker (G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra)

"Is that Double Bubble?"

Although he isn't the only brains on the team, if anyone needs advice on technology, Breaker is your guy. I will always enjoy the member of the squad who understand gadgets like no one else can yet doesn't truly understand most jokes that said. With the nanobite warheads being the most dangerous pieces of technology known to man, Breaker comes in handy in helping the team stop Cobra from bringing whole cities down.

37. Agent Zero (X-Men Origins: The Wolverine)

"It's funny how innocent people tend to die around you!"

For some reason Wolverine and Agent Zero DID NOT get along with each other. Everyone would be joking along with everyone else then all of a sudden they're both threatening to kill each other. The years after Logan leaves Stryker's team doesn't cool off the tension because those two are ready to pop off again when they reunite. It's a pointless rivalry though because we all knew Logan would come out on top, and it's not because he's the main character either. I mean, yeah, Zero is really good when it comes to shooting bullets and jumping over high fences but bullets don't do anything to Wolverine especially once he gets the adamantium in his skeleton. So when the two clash, Agent Zero ends up exploding in a helicopter and Logan...remains unharmed.

36. Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre (Watchmen)

"I don't hate him because he gave me you."

The original Silk Spectre and one of the few remaining heroes alive from the Minutemen. Sally Jupiter is retired now and totally missing the game, so much that she trains her daughter to be the next Silk Spectre. She reminds me so much of those pageant moms that now live through their daughter's lives to fill young again. Although I'd really like to know why, it's never really explained, only assumed, why Sally goes back to sleep with The Comedian, who tried to rape her previously. The result of their one night stand is Laurie, who ends up coming to terms with it by the time she finds out and confronts Sally about it.

35. Chi-Chi (Dragonball: Evolution)

"Just because my name is Chi-Chi doesn't mean I'm an idiot."

I liked Chi-Chi and I'm pretty sure the only reason why they didn't have her in the movie more was because they knew I'd rank her higher than Goku if they did. I mean if I were in the group hunting Dragon Balls I would have totally added her in once I saw her fighting skills but it never happens. Instead we just see her every time we need someone to flirt with Goku.

34. Maggie Greer (Surrogates)

"It's better this way."

Maggie is Greer's wife and together they lost a son before surrogates became globally used. This causes her to mourn in a unique way where she locks herself in her own room and just lives her life through her surrogate. Even though she cares for Greer, she ignores the distance between them instead for the new fun life she has as a surrogate. When the surrogates are destroyed, she almost kills herself but ends up connecting with her husband again in their child's old room.

33. Dr. Bill Tenma (Astro Boy)

"You're still my son."

It took me a very long time to like Tenma, and I was starting to believe that he was a lost caused until he pulled through in the end. First he completely ignores Toby when he was alive, treating him like a unbothered teacher would a student instead of a father, then goes into a huge depression after he dies. Because of this, he creates Astro, a robot version of Toby but then completely abandons him shortly after and then aids President Stone in capturing him and shutting him down. It isn't until after he removes the core from Astro that he finally accepts him as his son, returning the core and bringing him back to life.

32. Goku (Dragonball: Evolution) 

"Kamehameha!"

With Dragon Ball being a Japanese anime I was glad that there was a lot of Japanese influence in the movie. The setting, the background actors, even some of the core cast but you know who wasn't? GOKU! Like I don't understand the reasoning as to why they thought casting a white guy as Goku would be a great idea when Grandpa Gohan was clearly Asian! But besides that, Goku was lame! He wasn't exciting to watch, which is a huge shame because I loved the watching the show with my older brother when I was little.

31. Bulma (Dragonball: Evolution)

"Everybody has a price."

Bulma was my favorite in the movie. I loved the guns, loved how she handled herself with the boys, and loved all her cool technology that basically was the reason they got around (her compact motorcycle) and found the Dragon Balls (Her D.P.E.). Her interest with Yamcha was fun and flirty and when it came down to business she was ready to help any way she can. She definitely should have been Asian, but at least her character wasn't as bad as Goku's.

30. William Stryker (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

"Welcome to the war."

Our mutant-hating government official is back and now we get to see how his connection with Logan came to be. On a mission to create the strongest mutant weapon for the government, Stryker creates a team of mutants, including Logan and Victor, to hunt down adamantium. When this costs the lives of innocents, Logan's out, which is bad business for Stryker since Logan's he key to his secret weapon. He creates an elaborate plan, staging the death of Logan's girlfriend, Kayla, and pinning him against Victor to bring him back so he can put the adamantium inside him and successfully create, Weapon X. Of course, everyone that's a mutant figures out he's playing them all and his plans go down the drain with the death of Weapon XI. His adamantium bullets are what cause Logan to lose his memories and they're eventually what kill Kayla, but not before she can control his mind and send him away for good...at least until he turns up again.

29. Cora (Astro Boy)

"Didn't your nanny-bots teach you not to sneak up on people?"

Cora accidentally ran away from Metro City to the surface world where she becomes a sort of leader to the orphan kids Hamegg takes care of. She's the first one to discover Astro and quickly befriends him and he proves he's a kind person. She's the only one who feels betrayed when it's revealed he's actually a robot, but she quickly gets over it and helps him save Metro City from President Stone. After everything is done, she's even able to reunite with her parents.

28. Edward Blake/The Comedian (Watchmen)

"This is a joke. This is all a joke."

The biggest asshole in this movie BY FAR. Like even though everyone had their faults and definitely weren't saints, The Comedian was straight up a bully working for the government. In his worst moments, he beats the shit out of citizens protesting, attempts to rape the original Silk Spectre, and ends up murdering a Vietnamese woman carrying his child! For some reason he suddenly cares about being a father when he wants to get to know his other daughter, Laurie, but ends up just drinking his life away until Adrian shows up to murder him. Even though he dies in the beginning of the movie, his bad punchline of a life haunts everyone throughout the film.

27. Wade Wilson/Deadpool/Weapon XI (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

"You whip out a couple of swords at your ex-girlfriend's wedding, they will never, ever forget it."

Wade Wilson is very conflicting because even though he's missing his signature costume, he was absolutely spot on when he worked on Stryker's team. He's deadly with the sword, has the same healing abilities as Logan, and will never shut his mouth. Then things got weird. Somehow Stryker is able to gain control over Deadpool and turn him into everything he's not by giving him powers of previous mutants Victor has either killed or kidnapped. Mouth sewn shut, Deadpool becomes Weapon XI and is such a threat it takes both Wolverine and Sabretooth to take him down.

26. Kate Connor (Terminator Salvation)

"I'm a doctor, not an engineer."

I don't know why, but I kind of expected Kate to have a bigger role? Not that being one of the only doctors in the resistance isn't important, because it is, but I always thought she would be like what Barnes was, a second in command. Still, she was fiercely loyal to her husband and was his support when he needed her. He especially needed her towards the end of the film, as it was her hands that operated on him to save his life.

25. Dr. Lionel Carter (Surrogates)

"My son's death will not have been in vain. Not if it heals mankind."

Lionel Carter created surrogates because he wanted people with disabilities, like himself, to live a better life then his partners and company took it to a global scale and by 2017, ninety-eight percent of the world population used a surrogate for basic every day activities. After his son dies for being mistaken for him, Lionle decides enough is enough. Using all his resources he gets a hold of the weapon that killed his son to return the favor to the man responsible. He also creates the ultimate virus that will destroy all the surrogates and kill everyone attached to them. Thinking his plan will never fail, Lionel takes a cyanide pill before seeing his plan come to life.

24. Dr. John Fury (Whiteout)

"I never meant for anyone to get hurt, but Haden got greedy."

I'm not gonna lie, I felt some type of way when it was revealed Doc was working with Haden to smuggle the diamonds. He probably had the closest relationship with Carrie and their personal conversations were some of my favorite scenes in the movie so when it turns out he was working with Haden, the guy who cause Carrie to lose two of her fingers, I was shocked. I guess the silver lining is that once he was caught he didn't fight it. He explained why he did it then walked outside to the deadly snow storm, killing himself.

23. Ana Lewis/The Baroness (G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra)

"Do it. You already killed me once."

I'm so glad it was revealed that Ana was being brainwashed to act as The Baroness the whole time because I just could not accept her willingly participating in the death of millions all because Duke disappeared after her brother's death. No one is that dramatic. Still, as The Baroness she was a force to be reckoned with. She killed all of the men in Duke and Ripcord's old unit, gave Scarlett her first fight, and she helped nearly destroy Paris. Good thing for the Joe's that Duke's gorgeous puppy-dog face broke her out of her mind control and she was able to free him and help stop her evil brother once and for all.

22. Dr. Elefun (Astro Boy)

"Everybody has their destiny, Toby."

Out of all the older males in the film, I truly believe that Dr. Elefun cared the most about Astro. He never saw him as just a robot that can be used for his own personal gain (President Stone, Hamegg) and he definitely didn't think he was a mistake that needed to be destroyed (Dr. Tenma). He really took his time to get to know and bond with Astro, who was still trying to come to terms with himself. I think in the future Elefun will morph into a huge father figure to Astro.

21. Remy Lebeau/Gambit (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

"You miss me?"

Gambit has been the mutant everyone wanted to see on the big screen ever since the first X-Men came out. He's always nearly made it in the previous films but was cut out at the last minute. Well now he's here and he was a little bit of a let down. He wasn't horrible but he had such a minor role. He's a mutant that escapes Stryker's island before going back to his thief lifestyle in New Orleans. His fight with Logan was cool because we saw his signature staff and kinetically charged deck of cards, but after that he just remains in the background. He takes Logan to the island then is the first one to talk to him after he loses his memory, going his own way shortly after.