#namor nation

[comicavalcade]

[namorweek]

Welcome to Namor Week 2023! The 4th Annual Fandom Event for Namor Nation!

So much has happened in Namor Fandom this year with Namor & Talokan’s debut appearance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever! We welcome all new fans to the fandom and hope you can join in this year’s Namor Week on April 24 - 30!

The Themes

Day 1 - Talokan / Atlantis Will your work be set in the fantastical Talokan or the mystical Atlantis? Maybe have a crossover? Create to your hearts content and expand these worlds!

Day 2 - Mother / Memories Princess Fen is Namor’s mother and a very important figure in his life! Showcase a work that involves Fen or choose your other option and focus on a Memory. You can also focus on mothers or memories of other Talokan/Atlantean characters such as Namora, or Attuma, etc.

Day 3 - Whump / Fluff  Are you here for the most heart wrenching Whump? Or are you yearning for some Fluff? Any topic goes for this theme so long as it incorporates Whump or Fluff!

Day 4 - Alternate Universe  What if Namor was a Pirate? What would happen if Namora was Queen? What if Attuma finds the love of his life? What if? and AU’s are the lifeblood of transformative fanwork and we are ready for your ideas! Choose a Canon AU or make up your own! 

Day 5 - Mercy / Revenge  Every choice has a consequence so what will yours be? To have Mercy for those who have wronged you or to take revenge on your enemies? Perhaps the best Revenge is Mercy. Create a work that centers around these prompts!

Day 6 - Sirens / Mythology Sirens lure their victims to their doom with their haunting songs. Mythology and Sirens play a huge part in folk stories around the world, so create your own work that focuses on the idea of Sirens or choose another aspect of Mythology to work with!

Day 7 - Free Choice Anything goes! Maybe pick a topic you have a lot of passion for, or if you missed a day then share it now! It’s fan’s choice of what to create and we look forward to all you have to offer!

The Rules

No sign ups, no checks, just create whatever you feel like creating! Please read and follow all rules to be a part of this event. Types of fanworks accepted: Fanfiction, Fanart, Podcasts, Edits, Playlists, Podfics, Aesthetics, Gifs, etc. you may commission work to be submitted but it must be created for this event, so no reposting an older work for this.

All work must be submitted on the day of the prompt, late works will be accepted up until end of the week. You may add your works to the Namor Week Collection on Ao3 if you wish. 

All Fan Works must be original works created or commissioned for this event and it must focus on Namor or any of his supporting characters in the Talokan or Atlantis universes, examples but not limited to; Lady Dorma, Namora, Attuma, Fen, and more! Choose from MCU or Comic Canon, but it must be a canon character and the work may not use Namor or his supporting characters as background for other non Sub-Mariner characters or fandoms. 

Fanworks must be tagged with #namorweek in the first five tags & you must tag @namorweek so that it can be featured on this blog by end of day, and unless otherwise stated then fanworks will be linked/cross posted to the Namor Week twitter. If you wish to participate on twitter and post there then simply @ the namorweek account there! All works will be rounded up in a master list.

Tag appropriately! If you have heavy themes, tag what your work contains!

Any fanwork*, ship, canon, canon divergent, or non-canon, romantic or platonic, welcome. however this is a character(s) week and not a ship week, so please remember to keep focus on Namor, Atlanteans, Talokanil. - Original Characters welcome. - Namor x Shuri welcome. (to make it easy since there are multiple tags for this ship, it will be tagged as #nashuri > changed from namuri) *see banned content

Ship and let Ship & Don’t like? Don’t Read is in full force. 

Banned

Racism, hate work (fanwork created to bash on characters), and other forms of hate are not tolerated or accepted. Including Anti Ship or Shipping Wars. Don’t create something just to be a jerk to other fans or shippers. 

Pedo/Incest works are not accepted.

NamorSue, Namor/Susan in a romantic ship are not accepted. (Platonic Namor & Susan Storm is accepted.)

Namor x Reader, x Reader, Character x Reader, all works with x Reader or Character Imagines are not accepted. 

Good Luck with Creating and see you in April & if you have any questions please send an Ask! 

[imperiuswrecked]

gotta say once more that Namor Haters are just so weird bc Namor fans are not out here harassing people or anything, and the character is literally fictional but the way I hear the haters talk about Namor it's so insane, because to them he's the worst thing ever created, lmao.

like that is lines on a paper, he's not gonna hurt you, promise.

[namorthesubmariner]

Comic!Namor isn’t a christian and wouldn’t celebrate christmas or thanksgiving, yes he’s been in a santa suit before but he doesn’t celebrate the holiday, he’s Atlantean and his religion is as a follower of Neptune & Cleito.

MCU!Namor isn’t a christian and wouldn’t celebrate christmas or thanksgiving. He would follow Mayan gods of his people. So while I get people making headcanons, fics, and holiday art, I do think more people should understand that when it comes to MCU!Namor there is a real life representation that shouldn’t be ignored.

[imperiuswrecked]

searching for namor fans, will report back when I find them

are there any namor the sub mariner fans on the planet earth. do they exist

[etnikangel]

Kukulkan and his wife enjoying a late night swim… and I’m not sorry.

Been away 🌊🌊🪼🪼🪼🌘💙

[comicavalcade]

SUBMARINER SUMMER SPECIAL: 85 years of Namor, 85 years of Marvel

Hello #NamorNation! Today is the 85th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, the very first Marvel comic! Of course, this also means it is the 85th anniversary of the very first official appearance of Namor, the Sub-Mariner! So today, because no one demanded it, I rant in a special Submariner Summer 85th Anniversary Special!

(Marvel Comics #1, 1939) Namor was first slated to appear in a special promo giveaway for movie theaters named Motion Picture Funnies Weekly. The giveaway apparently never happened and the comic was unreleased. Bill Everett, the creator/writer/artist, then sold the material to a new comics publisher named Timely for their first flagship title, Marvel Comics, using the material from Motion Picture Funnies Weekly plus some additional pages which introduced his childhood friend and later love interest and eventual first wife, Lady Dorma.

Marvel Comics #1 had several stories in addition to the Sub-Mariner, including of course the original Human Torch, who featured on the cover and was an artificial man, The Angel (no relation), The Masked Rider, and interestingly, Ka-Zar, one of the few Marvel characters to get a DC-style Silver Age reboot, and who is still around in the Marvel Universe today, usually in the Savage Land.

Namor, though, was unique in several ways. For one, his people had a grudge against the surface, and specifically the U.S., because they had suffered a mass catastrophe at the hands of its explorers. So Namor was not just willing to kill, he was urged to by his grandfather, Emperor Tha-Korr, and his mother, the Princess Fen. Still, Namor would continually stop to save people along the way, and in Marvel Comics #3 had his first taste of the upcoming war when he disabled his first Nazi submarine and handed it to the Allies. This complexity of story lends him the status of superhero comics' fist antihero.

But that's not his only first. Superman had already debuted by now, of course, and was a roaring success. But as the famous refrain says, he was super-fast (Faster Than a Speeding Bullet!), super-strong (More Powerful Than a Locomotive!), aaaaaaand...could super-jump (Able to Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound!). It would be years before his status as a flying hero was cemented. Namor, on the other hand, is described right away as "An Ultra-man of the Deep...lives on land and in the sea...FLIES IN THE AIR"! (emphasis mine) That's right, true believers, NAMOR IS THE FIRST FLYING SUPERHERO! As he demonstrates in Marvel Comics #1, flying to catch up to a seaplane with his trusty winged feet.

And last but not least...he was in fact the first underwater prince in comics. He may not always be the most well-known today, but he was in fact the first undersea royal to grace the funny books with his super feats. Nothing against any aquabros, of course.

Namor would go on to great popularity in the Golden Age of Comics, getting his own comic (Sub-Mariner Comics) as well as continuing to appear in Marvel (Mystery) Comics, and later in All Winners Comics. He is a character with eight and a half decades of history, in thousands of comics, hundreds if not thousands of stories. He's had his own solo titles not just in the Golden Age, but after being revived as a character in the Silver Age, would again have his own solo, which continued into the Bronze Age, get another in the Iron Age, and whatever Age we're in now if that's even a thing anymore, to say nothing of a veritable horde of mini-series. But that's not all! He's also a core character in team books the Invaders/All-Winners and the Defenders, and had notable runs with the Avengers and X-men. The first flying superhero, the first comic book antihero, the first sea king. There's just a huge amount of material with the character and immense historical significance.

[Covers of #1 issues from his series in 1941 (the character had already been around 2 years at that time), 1968, 1990, and 2012]

[Founding member of the Invaders/All-Winners and Defenders, member in notable runs of the Avengers and X-men] Now, you MAY ask...why the X-men? OH, well...funny story. He actually has one more notable first: First Mutant (as that last solo book up there clearly states on the cover). But how could that be? Easy! Fantastic Four Annual #1, in which Namor leads an invasion of Manhattan, was published in July of 1963. In it, Namor receives this description:

The first known MUTANT (emphasis theirs!) of our time! For reference, X-men #1 was released that same month; in tried and true Marvel fashion, an existing character in their most popular comic at the time (Fantastic Four) was used to pave the way for the new kids on the block, the X-men! And so, Namor was in fact the first mutant character published by Marvel. And just so there's no misunderstanding, he goes ahead and appears not long after in the pages of X-men itself, namely issue #6:

So his roots with the X-men actually go back farther than many might think. Frankly, I could go on and on with the many key stories and moments and actions Namor has performed and participated in over the decades. He has other firsts, other moments of historical significance. But I will wrap up by saying this: the Test of Time is a longstanding idiom for a reason. Not many things are able to maintain the necessary longevity to withstand it. There certainly aren't very many 85 year old comic book characters around. And while Namor is not as popular today as he once was, his presence is still undeniable; a version of him appeared in the MCU in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in 2022, and there's a Namor miniseries being published right now. His appearances are still significant, in destruction and salvation, an antihero, the antihero, who stood before the rest, and flew before any other.

Godspeed, Sub-Mariner. Here's to 85 more. 🎉🎊🥳

[namorweek]

Thank You, Namor Nation!!!

Thank you to the fans who created all the amazing fanworks this year, and thank you to the fans who boosted, shared, and engaged with the creators! Our community is a great place to be, and I love seeing the support we share with each other.

We hope that you've had a great time creating and enjoying this year's event. We will continue to accept any late work for any prompt, and be checking tags for up to a week.

Hope you all have a wonderful year and see you next year!

[imperiuswrecked]

Yeah it’s either we get people who woobify Namor or demonize him, there’s no middle ground for either group.

Namor is one of the most morally complex characters and they just want to put him in one box regardless of character.

Today I found out that there's a certain group of fans who defend Namor killing Queen Ramonda by saying "well maybe he didn't mean to kill her". And holy shit that is hilarious.

Folks, he literally said "if you do this thing I will kill you." Ramonda then did the thing, and one of Namor's people died. So he killed her.

It actually kinda irks me because it's taking away the complexity of his character, you know? It is no better in my opinion than the people on the other end calling him a villain. He is neither hero nor villain. Antagonist yes, but not a villain. There's a difference. The only true villain in the story is that US government bitch stirring shit up.

[imperiuswrecked]

Having spent years obsessing over Namor and reading/learning all I can about the characters means when someone speaks of a specific thing then I usually have it tucked away in some corner and just pull out a comic panel or link and go “SO THIS?” and it’s just very fun to be able to share stuff with other fans and then they bring up interesting points and ideas and it’s so great.

[rei-ismyname]

Magneto doing weird shit

Ominous + Logan hair

Kinda looks like he's frying an egg

Astral projection baby! To visit Namor no less.

This one isn't so weird, but I wanted to demonstrate that he's perfectly capable of clothing himself at will. He's done this from residual ferrous particles before.

So why are you naked here, old man?

'Michael Xavier'

Is surprised by a dramatic security system he'd forgotten - to get the last word lol. Completely in character, of course.

Chuck attacks his brain and he attacks back somehow, while also undoing the screws in his chair.

And off he goes!

[circusdraw]

“You are safe here, Princess.”

[namorthesubmariner]

Yes, Namor says “Imperius Rex” in Yucatec Mayan both times if my hearing is right for the time just before he threw the water bombs at Queen Ramonda and Riri, it’s translated in English subtitles the second time.

Imperius Rex being put in as a nod to the comic fans was confirmed by the Production Designer, Hannah Beachler (source)

Fan close up photo of Namor’s spear (source)

From Namor Nation a fan gave this translation

CH'A TOH AJ TEPAL! (IMPERIUS REX)

Ch'a = Bring Toh= watch- alert/awareness  aj= lineage Tepal= prosperity/good governance

So to me that could possibly read as “To bring watch/awareness/ to my lineage for prosperity/good rule” ?

I go into details about Imperius Rex in the comics

Imperius = Empire Rex = King

So that could be viewed as “For the Empire and King” because in the comics Namor was not the first person to say “Imperius Rex” and before it became known as only his catchphrase it was constantly used by all the Atlanteans. We know this changes when there is a female monarch because the phrase then becomes “Imperius Regina”, Regina = Queen. Sometimes in the comics (and fans) spell as Imperious but that is incorrect because that spelling was only used a few times in the 90s comics, any other time including the first appearance of the word was always Imperius.

It was very exciting to see Namor say “Imperius Rex!” on screen! Here is a video taken by NamorCosplay of Tenoch saying Imperius Rex for Namor Nation at the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Premiere (source)

However personally I feel “¡Líik’ik Talokan!” = “Talokan Rises” has taken the place of Imperius Rex as a rallying cry for all Talokanil in the mcu universe as Imperius Rex was a rallying cry for Atlanteans in the comics universe.

This phrase was actually because of Alex Livianalli who felt that the Talokanil needed something of theirs that matched the intensity of “Wakanda Forever” so the Mayan Teacher, Josué Maychi, (who plays The Shaman in the movie) came up with the words and the gesture. (Source one, two, three ).

After viewing Wakanda Forever again, I think Namor says his catch phrase "Imperius Rex" twice. I could be wrong. But he yells something before throwing the water bombs at Ramonda and the caption just says "speaking Mayan" but I think it's the same as at the end with Shuri.

Can anyone who speaks Yucatec Maya confirm or deny?

[mikilavellan]

Latines have won Hollywood

[zukosadvisor]

i am of firm belief that namor and shuri were not having Diplomatic Discussions when they were in the cenote 🫦 here's some fanart, nashuri nation, ily 💗

[comicavalcade]

Not gonna lie, Mera is hell of a match, but I stay loyal to my king.

Let's go Namor Nation

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