#public domain avengers

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Public domain avengers type of story where a lot of famous literature characthers are actually a part of a mysterious vampire clan (and deeply belive their transformatiom has to have something to do with their literaly fame - with the exception of the couples Carmilla and her Laura and Jonathan and Mina Haker who just happen to exist in a vampite story).

Sherlock Holmes is not really their leader but is the only one still trying to investigate the turning conspiracy (with the help of vampire John Watson) while solving more general mysteries and everyone really respects him for it. They don't hate Connan Doyle (he was John's editor in this world and hated the books because he kept trying to make clear he was just an editor and read my real books and no one listened) but they deeply dislike the Doyle state.

Now they have the sexy, sweetheart of the group Dorian Gray. And while he is waay less of a dick than his literary persona, vampire Dorian Gray just makes so much sense no one really asks anything. I mean the story about a corrupted man that doesn't get old and how this leads him to his ruin? Very vampire coded. Except years and years later they are having a discussion about their "authors" and someone asks him why Wilde wrote him as such a dick and how they had met and he says he never met him and he actually is a trans guy from the 1920's that loved Wilde's work, had an emo/edgy phase and his surname happened to be Gray so it was all too perfect in his younger mind and he named himself after Dorian. He assumed everyone knew he was not actually the characther. Since he was in the clan for a long time and everyone liked him he remains in the group still as their only not actually a public domain characther.

They later discover that there is an actual vampire Dorian who just didn't want to join tbem before and so never crossed their path but he is a dick and they already have their Dorian quota so he isn't invited and he is very bitter over it. Might turn to whoever ends up beig the villain as revenge.

[skookworks]

Every nerd has a superhero universe swirling inside them. These are the protagonists of mine.

[pd-characters-of-the-day]

Here a public Domain superhero,The Avenger from Magazine Enterprises

[jensfreeheroes]

Marvel: Wasp

Public Domain: Tinker Bell

The fairy who's temper is as short as her size. She's helps Peter Pan on his adventures, but can also be a pain to deal with due to her quick jealousy of people around Peter. She's quick to judge people but she'll come around to them in time.

[therobotmonster]

22 Alternate Reinterpretations of Partially Public Domain Characters

For when "horror monster" is too obvious. As the public domain catches up with more and more of our media darlings' most inaccessible and irrelevant iterations, some variety is in order. Any B-to-D grade movie, game, tv or quick-service-restaurant style-studio/entity/cabal is welcome to use these as jumping off points.

Reinterpretation is the 'true story' that it is implied the still-in-copyright-media-franchise is based on, used as vehicle to criticize/parody megacorp owners through their supposed revisions.

Your collection of Public Domain players go all "Muppets _____" on an unrelated story.

They're furries now (The "Disney's Robin Hood")

It's a monster movie, but a kaiju monster movie.

Rock opera.

The Shonen or Shojo reboot.

We aren't doin' the 'and zombies' or 'vampire hunter' thing anymore? When did that stop?

Similar story, completely different historical time/setting.

Jason and the Argonauts, the public domain character(s) are there. The Argo was the ancient Greek Avengers and also your grandpa was there, so this one's actually like, literary.

Retired 1920s toon becomes livestreamer/tiktoker/whatever in misguided avenue to relevancy.

They're brand-safe pocket monsters.

They're exactly the same, the world is contemporary around them (ala Brady Bunch movie)

Straight-faced monsterfucker romance w' public domain character in the sexy fishman role.

Surreal office comedy.

The Next Generation AKA they have kids.

The Preadolescent Prequel, AKA they ARE kids.

Rule 63, all female, all male, all capybara, etc, reinterpretation.

90s XTREME retro style.

The Inappropriate Saturday Morning Cartoon Adaptation (Gatsby and Pals!)

Nigh-insufferable yet undeniably interesting Grant Morrison-y meta-fictional fantasy take.

... in space!

22. Full 1950s style musical with showgirls*.

*non-negotiable.

[opencharacters]

Copyright Smuggling: The Amazing Digital Circus

Often i just like taking a thing and figuring out public domain equivalence. Mostly just for fun and to showcase more public domain characters like I've done with The Avengers and Doctor Who

Ragatha - Clearly inspired by Raggedy Ann who is public domain

[ID: Image of a light browing plush doll in a flowery dress holding flowers using her dress. her hair is noodle and rope like and red END ID]

Kinger - Chess pieces are not bound by any copyright.

Jax - Theres no shortage of public domain bunny characters but I'm gonna go with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

[ID: Image of a black and white cartoon rabbit END ID]

Gangle: Gangle is based on the Comedy and Tragedy masks from ancient greece, which are not copyrighted

Zooble: Equivalent would be Mr.Potatohead

The copyrights for the original Mr. Potato Head were not renewed in 1980 after they had expired. While still trademarked and later versions arent public domain the above version is, you can swap out their parts if you so like or rename them.

Pomni - The Joker playing card

Caine - Obviously Cain from the Bible but also just the concept of an artificial intelligence really doesn't belong to anyone

Bubble - Soap bubble with teeth, go nuts i guess just eh design it differently.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Tumblr has a few really specific ideas of what should be the next Muppet movie (all good ones!) but I think we need to go further afield. Some Muppet adaptations I'd recommend:

James Bond - human villain

All For the Game - make the coach the only human

The OJ Simpson trial - human Judge Ito

The Avengers - keep Sam Jackson; Swedish Chef as Loki, bc Scandinavia is interchangeable

The Great Gatsby - Gonzo as Gatsby (I've posted this before I know)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - human cousin Charles

How has their not been a Muppet Sherlock Holmes with a patient Muppet Sherlock explaining Muppet logic to a human Watson (there was a comic tho). Especially now they respecting women is in the public domain

[werecreature-addicted]

I would like to recommend a monster lover film called "Lady Frankenstein". The main character is Dr. Tania Frankenstein, daughter of Baron Frankenstein. She is fascinated by her father's work. When the Baron's monster kills him and escapes, she works with her father's assistant, Dr. Marshall, to put Marshall's brain into a perfect body. That way she makes a creature that can avenge her father and satisfy her. This film seems to be in the public domain and is readily available on youtube. The 99 minute version is the best cut.

I will keep that in mind I really want to see it but I promised a friend i'd watch it with her so i am bound to that :3

[leihaddock]

Headcanon that one of the Avengers, upon it entering public domain as of yesterday, gives Steve and Bucky a copy/reprint/whatever of the first Buck Rogers comic They both roll their eyes because yeah we get it it's a pun. Then proceed to read that comic the way they woulda as children. It's hard to find something out of their time that still feels like it did back then but this does and it makes for a great evening of checking out what else they remember is now public domain

[rjalker]

1942 public domain werewolf movie

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

Edit:

There's a few flashing lights in the final I think 3 minutes of the film.

Unlike with modern films, it's not on purpose. Lightning strikes the house and a room catches on fire. They seem to be using real fire, and the comparative brightness of it makes the camera have trouble focusing on the darker areas and causes some flashes, but not a lot.

Also, the subtitles here are wrong on at least 3 occasions. Also the audio in general is very bad and quiet:

I forgot the first time the subtitles were wrong but the other ones were:

subtitles, paraphrased: to whom do I owe the honor?

what he actually said, paraphrased: What's with all the armament?

subtitles, paraphrased: You've been a good daughter

what he actually said, paraphrased: You've been a great comfort (to me?).

[nervarts]

Lilyana (II)

Hey everyone! I'm back and feeling better! 💖 I am here to share a second drawing of Lilyana, singing. I think it's about time I share her backstory. Beware, this is going to be a long read. 📖☕

Lilyana Aretha Napoles is a character I made for a Sci-fi RP with @Mamsey . She was born in the capital city of Khose, from a small planet called Accilles— which is located three worlds away from the primary globe. She was raised as an only child in a family that reached the noble status shortly before her birth. Her father worked as a politician and her mother was a socialite. At the age of four, they moved to Ziherilia, the main planet and the Emperor's domain. Lilyana was raised in luxury and privilege. However, her parents were strict and educated her in politesse. From a young age, her singing talent manifested. She was taught and praised by her teachers for her voice. She seldom knew of hardships or what occurred beyond high society. That was, until Frederika disappeared.

Frederika was Lilyana's childhood friend and the child of her mother's abigail. Despite their social differences, the two girls got along together and behaved like sisters. In their sixteen years, a conflict broke out in Yulea, her friend's home planet. Not long after, she and her mother vanished. When questioned about their whereabouts, the nobility had to take a vow of silence by order of the Bureau of Principal Legitimacy (which are more or less the equivalent of the Thought Police in 1984). No one could question, speak about the women, or the planet itself. Yet Lilyana became restless and tried to uncover the mystery of Frederika's disappearance. After furtive attempts and risky bypassing, the truth turned out to be much darker and disturbing than she could imagine.

An insurrection took place in Yulea against the Ziherilia, which was quickly and violently put to an end. The planet became a slave labor camp with a high mortality rate. All Yuleans royalty were imprisoned and potentially executed. The Bureau of Principal Legitimacy had changed the entirety of its history, erased any traces of a revolt occurring, and wiped out important names from the Counsel. It had been done throughout the Emperor's rule. Whenever there was opposition, the Bureau was there to intervene. No one was safe from its scrutiny. Discovering and unveiling secrets was considered traitorous and carried a severe penance.

From then on, Lilyana had sworn to avenge Frederika. She joined the revolutionary group behind closed doors— whose locations varied from planet to planet and its members belonged in different social statuses. A decision that would forever change her life. In the meantime, as the years went on, she cultivated her talent in a regime where music was restricted. She became favorable not only to the ruling class, but also to the common folk. As she gained attention from the Emperor, she was allowed to perform for the people. She carefully introduced herself to politics in order to work in favor with the public— thus cementing her status as a lady.

Currently, she is working covertly as both the intermediary and agent for the Rebellion while establishing her influence among the court and the Counsel. At the same time, she is a prominent singer. She tasks in growing her reputation and the forces of the other side while avoiding the jaws of the Bureau. Particularly its leader (which is @Mamsey 's character).

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Personality-wise: Refined and serene, Lilyana is described to be a cold jewel. Despite her congeniality, she maintains distance from people and avoids deeper relationships. As a result, there is an air of mystery around her persona. She would rather be addressed by her second name instead of her first. When it comes to diplomacy, she is silver-tongued and gracious. In truth, she holds passion for her beliefs and justice. She tries to resolve conflicts in her best judgment and help all those in need. However, because of her allegiance with the Rebellion, she is secretive and can be deceitful to anyone. Even those from her same class or higher. The young woman is aware of the consequences of her actions, yet she tries to remain as undaunted as possible.

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If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading! 🥹 Lilyana is my new favorite child to draw (I have no preferences, though). I have a couple of WIPs of her that I plan to post soon.

Also, I haven't done this in a while, but if you like my art and wish to see more, consider supporting me on Ko-fi! 🙏🏼💖

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I will never forget how a week or so ago I was looking for people's suggestions over how they would make their own League of Extraordinary Geentleman cause I love the idea of Public Domain Avengers even if not the way it was done.

And someone goes, well Dorian Gray, and like yeah, he is in the original and while I don't like how he is portrait it was a solid choice just like Mina. And I really liked what they changed about Dorian on their version compred to the LoEG Dorian.

But then when listing the villains for SOME REASON one of the tragic villains that is not the main villain but we think it is in the first arc is OSCAR WILDE. And he has no connection to Dorian. He also is like the only author involved. All the other villains and heros were public domain. I don't even remember if there was any other historical figure even. And I cannot stop thinking about it, is driving me insane.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Oracle of Nineveh

1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

2 A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

6 Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

8 But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.

10 Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

11 Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor.

12 Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

13 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.

14 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. — Nahum 1 | Literal Emphasis Translation (LET) The Literal Emphasis Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 8:1; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:6; Leviticus 23:2; Deuteronomy 7:10; 2 Samuel 23:6; 1 Kings 19:11; 2 Kings 19:36; Job 13:9; Job 18:17; Psalm 2:1; Psalm 107:14; Psalm 109:13; Psalm 118:12; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:7; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 28:22; Jeremiah 51:64; Ezekiel 7:5; Ezekiel 11:2; Matthew 8:26; John 10:14; Romans 10:15; 2 Timothy 2:19; Revelation 6:14; Revelation 6:17

Commentary on Nahum 1

[eira-kuso]

I think if the daredevil show is bad and the fantastic four movie is bad then its over for Marvel. I don't even care for the next avengers movie, it will have racist weirdo Robert Downey Jr as Doom so i will personally not watch them. But if the Daredevil show gets fucked with and the Fantastic Four movie maintains the tradition of the franchise and is bad, then Marvel is forever over with movies for me. I don't think they will ever do a Blade movie, Deadpool lost what made it funny two movies ago, the X-Men seem to be stuck in the past with no one trying to be happy with them, the defenders are almost all kind of forgotten.

I wish that Marvel lost the rights for all of their characters and they entered public domain. Because even then they will be treated wuth more respect than what marvel is doing with them. For a comic book adaptation to be good, it doesn't need to follow all of their beasts one for one. Its one of the reasons i liked Hellboy and the Crooked Man so much but i feel like you don't have to do it. But you have to follow the core aspects of what makes the stories and characters, and when you get rid of that, then we are just seeing a pale imitation of something just to be marketable and sell figures. I am so tired of Marvel watering down my favorite characters just for them to be """""better suited to marketing"""", i hatee how Ms Marvel has changed powers because her powers talk a lot about her body dysphoria and getting rud of thaf was so weird for that reason.

Marvel Comics are sich an ample and big universe, with numerous facets and levels and characters that could honestly be days only counting the characters. But the movies literally take all the zanny and interesting parts of the character, and bastarduze it. They tone it down to appeal for a more general audience whole allienating the original fans. I feel like Marvel punishes me for liking their characters and stories. I feel like they don't care about any of their history or the things they done, they only care about the capital. They don't care about the integrity of art. And i fucking hate this world we are living in then

[maurofonseca]

Are you working on any personal projects? Any comics from you on the horizon?

Hopefully!

I've got a main idea of comics I want to do, but I'm gonna take longer talking about it, so I'll first mention a couple others-

I've in the past drawn a lot of like, online meme characters. Not this exactly, but stuff like "Earth-chan". Lately been thinking about revisiting that, making them my own characters, changing designs and names, and working from that for small slice-of-life things.

I've got a friend I collab with on ideas, and I asked him ideas for short stories. Planning to draw a couple of his ideas, both for portfolio and because he does good stuff.

However, the main thing, of course, is my ideas involving my characters Lalla Shepherd, Jackie Pollard, Lily Rock, etc etc.

Gonna go on at length about it now, so putting it under a read more.

I've got a setting of characters etc I've nurtured for a few years now. It's a setting of cartoon animal people, adventure, fighting, etc. Very much trying to replicate the Disney comics I grew up on, stuff like Barks, Cavazzano, Gottfredson, but also stuff like Tintin, Indiana Jones, Sonic the Comic. It's set in a fantasy version of Earth circa the 1960s, by which I mean it's just Earth, but everything's been renamed for denial purposes, a layer of distance. If I want "London" to be the 60s but "Lisbon" to be the 80s, I get to do so, because it's not really London or Lisbon, it's Fumdon and St. Vincent, right? If I want there to be a war in the backstory, it can be WW1, WW2, Korean War, and Vietnam War all at once, because it's not really any of those, it's a fantasy one. Kinda what Pokémon does with its regions.

The idea is to do multiple stories, small stories, short stories, in this setting. Again, like the comics I grew up on- adventure stories of 10 pages, rather than epics of 1000.

You can read an early first go at an introduction to it here. It's kind of outdated, in aesthetics at least, but it's still overall matching what I plan.

The starting point is, there's these three characters- Lalla Shepherd, a racer and former soldier dealing with what happened to her during the War, Jackie Pollard, a girl with a mysterious past who appears in Fumdon looking for a job and with an amazing aim; and Lily Rock, a supremely confident fighter who's travelled the world and is sent to Fumdon to cover the upcoming Tournament. Said Tournament is going to be a combat tournament held in Fumdon but part of the culture of a separate small nation-estate, as a diplomatic move between countries. This is attracting weirdos and people with ill intent, so our three main characters get made into a team of sheriffs to deal with it in the months leading to the event proper.

The tournament is primarily just a plot excuse though- it'll be happening "soon" for as long as needed. It's a near-future event that excuses why any character would be appearing now and making their entrance in the public stage, no matter how weird they might be.

It's also about a bootlegging criminal in another country, whose wares get stolen by a wannabe gentleman thief, and how that drags a lot of other characters into that story.

Open and obvious about it, it's primarily made of me seeing characters and ideas in other stuff, and going "I want to make my own version". Very Alan Moore League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that sense- "I want to make fanfiction where James Bond fights The Avengers (the british spy team) and Mina Murray (from Dracula), but I don't have the rights for them, so I'll switch names around etc." Very cape comic books in that sense too- "we want to tell a story about Superman, but we're Marvel, so we make a Superman pastiche called Hyperion".

Part of it was influenced by the upcoming wave of public domain stuff in the US. As you can see by my drawings, it was planning to use specific characters like Mickey Mouse, but then I got confirmation that that's really really not gonna work internationally. Ah well.

Some of you might've been here long enough to recognise a lot of these ideas and characters were part of an abandoned webcomic I was doing before, 4QC. Well yeah, this is me trying to make that one work and avoid the pitfalls that killed it lol.

Dunno, hope that's enough context. I'm hoping I can get a new story of this, a remake of the old one I did maybe, out before the end of the year; and then to do a lot more next year, using the money I'm saving from Sonic work this year.

[gaytommykinard]

People really be out here having opinions on the avengers fighting each other film and meanwhile I'm like 'there was MCU after winter soldier?!' Truly unprecedented levels of wilful ignorance from my corner of the interwebs lol I refuse to remember anything that happened after til the end of the line

and then they lived happily ever after. the end<3

tbh what was i thinking adding this gif to my answer. now im looking at it and losing my mind all over again. man broke out of 70 years' worth of brainwashing because his bestie uttered their wedding vows. fucking insane. this (and ok, many other reasons), is why captain america: the winter soldier belongs in the public domain. movie of all time. no one look at me.