#scroops comic

[glassshine]

Conducting research

[eliavraay]

I wonder which of his enemies Scroop hates the most? And how does he feel about Jim, Silver, Arrow and other positive characters?

The people he really hates are the raktirans who raised him as a slave. And Viica who didn’t free him, but kept him as a pet.

As for Jim, Scroop thinks he is dangerous and at the beginning has some hate towards him. Mainly because Jim “stole” Silver. Scroop thinks the Silver who was brutal and got the jobs done should be how Silver is. But Jim pushed him to his more merciful side, which Scroop thinks as weakness. So Jim is dangerous, because he makes people become their better self, but in Scroop’s world, being nice means that you will be taken advantage on and being killed. But he is also impressed a bit by Jim survining Treasure Planet and becoming a captain. Later he starts trusting him, because Jim doesn’t give up on him and this is something he never had. There is a small scene in my head, that Jim actually teaches him to read, because Scroop can’t and it becomes a bit of a setback during one of the missions. Scroop hides it of course, but he is thankful for it.

Silver and Jim actually switched places in his head, because now he hates Silver more. He spent all his adult life being with Silver, after he freed him from Viica’s ship and cut off his slave collar. At the beginning, Silver tried to be nice to him, but Scroop started “healing” his traumas by being brutal to everyone, just as his masters were to him. Silver eventually gave up on him and became more annoyed and angry that Scroop is stuck with him and became his little demon aboard, who constantly forces Silver to solve things mercilessly. Scroop realizes, that Silver gave up on him, when he evesdrops on his encouraging speech to Jim. That’s when things switch in his brain and Silver becomes a target. Because he is abandoning him after all those long years.

Scroop is also pissed, that he didn’t get what Silver promised him - the ship. Their agreement was, that Scroop doesn’t want anything from Flint’s treasure. He wants the ship as his reward so he can get his own crew and use his freedom to start torching and pillaging the raktiran planets he was a slave on. Because those are the people he really hates and he would dedicate his remaining life to bring death on them.

[lannistertwinz]

"You loved me then what right had you to leave me?" - the parallels between Jaime/Cersei and Wuthering Heights

"There's a dialogue that goes on through the years and over the centuries where you read someone else's work and you're inspired by it, sometimes infuriated by it, and you say 'No, that's not quite right, here's the way it would be' and then you write your own twist on it, your own answer to it! There is this conscious playing with tropes, replying to other authors and making a reference or an homage in some cases… but there's also unconsciousness. Those are are rife, sometimes you read a book and you haven't looked at it for twenty years, but it's still there buried inside and suddenly someone points out 'this seems just like this' and you go 'Oh my god! It's right, I forgot about that!'. So it works both ways." - George R.R. Martin, Trinity College Dublin

“The first books I read besides comic books were cheap paperbacks which cost 35 cents back then. There were no bookstores in Bayonne so I got my paperbacks from a spinner rack and all the books in that were mixed up. There were science fiction books and fantasy books, which I liked, but there were also mystery novels, romance novels, nurse novels, gothics, spy novels and, of course, there were classics of literature mixed in with that: Shakespeare, Dostoiévski, the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, etc.” – George R.R. Martin, Gamer’s Haven Podcast

As pointed out above, George has (whether conscious or unconsciously) taken inspiration from other works to create his own characters, and with this post I’d like to explain as to why I believe A Song Of Ice And Fire specifically plays with Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights through Jaime and Cersei’s dynamic.

To briefly explain it to those who have not read it, Wuthering Heights is essentially the story of Heathcliff’s revenge on the Earnshaws and the Lintons for the discrimination suffered at their hands and their involvement in his estrangement from his friend and lover Catherine Earnshaw (aka Cathy) and, at it’s core, it is a novel about intergenerational abuse and family dysfunction.

Shaped by these circumstances, we have at the forefront of the book the toxic romance between the foster siblings Heathcliff and Catherine who, like Jaime and Cersei, develop a very intimate bond early on in their childhood:

She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him. – Nelly, Chapter V He could never bear to be long apart from his twin. – Jaime, ASOS

‘I was a child; my father was just buried, and my misery arose from the separation that Hindley had ordered between me and Heathcliff. I was laid alone, for the first time; and, rousing from a dismal doze after a night of weeping, I lifted my hand to push the panels aside: it struck the tabletop!’ – Catherine, Chapter XII Though Cersei often slept alone, she had never liked it. Her oldest memories were of sharing a bed with Jaime, when they had still been so young that no one could tell the two of them apart. Later, after they were separated, she'd had a string of bedmaids and companions, most of them girls of an age with her, the daughters of her father's household knights and bannermen. – Cersei, AFFC

We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed in the arch of the dresser. I had just fastened our pinafores together, and hung them up for a curtain, when in comes Joseph, on an errand from the stables. He tears down my handiwork, boxes my ears, and croaks. – Catherine, Chapter III "Sometimes as a lark we would dress in each other's clothes and spend a whole day each as the other." – Cersei, ACOK

I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dogkennel, vowing I hated a good book. Heathcliff kicked his to the same place. – Catherine, Chapter III The dank and dismal fortnight Cersei spent at Greenstone, the seat of House Estermont, was the longest of her young life. Jaime dubbed the castle "Greenshit" at first sight, and soon had Cersei doing it too. – Cersei, AFFC

Miss Cathy had been sick, and that made her still; she leant against her father’s knee, and Heathcliff was lying on the floor with his head in her lap. – Nelly, Chapter V "Care for a bath, Brienne?" He laughed. "You're a maiden and there's the pool. I'll wash your back." He used to scrub Cersei's back, when they were children together at Casterly Rock. – Jaime, ASOS

Additionally, in both cases, the female characters have, from early on, a clear influence over their male counterparts:

His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph’s religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination. – Nelly, Chapter V “Father will never consent,” Jaime objected. […] “Is it a rock you want? Or me?” He remembered that night as if it were yesterday. […] By morning Casterly Rock seemed a small price to pay to be near her always. He gave his consent, and Cersei promised to do the rest. – Jaime, ASOS

‘He’s considering he’d rather I’d come to him! Find a way, then! not through that kirkyard. You are slow! Be content, you always followed me!’ – Catherine, Chapter XII She rose, her eyes brimming with tears. “Is it truly you?” She did not come to him, however. She has never come to me, he thought. She has always waited, letting me come to her. – Jaime, ASOS

And there’s an element of adoration as well. In Wuthering Heights, at the end of Heathcliff’s life, Nelly refers to Catherine as his “departed idol” and Heathcliff describes Cathy as “so immeasurably superior to everybody on earth”. On the other hand, in A Song Of Ice And Fire, Jaime puts Cersei on a pedestal as the figure of “The Maiden” and describes Cersei’s flame in his weirwood dream as “the only light in the world”. Furthermore, the two claim to have suffered through hardships solely for the sake of these women and that their love is the ultimate factor that drives them:

‘I’ve fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!’ – Heathcliff, Chapter X When morning came, he made himself eat. They fed him a mush of oats, horse food, but he forced down every spoon. He ate again at evenfall, and the next day. Live, he told himself harshly, live for Cersei. – Jaime, ASOS

‘Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!’ – Heathcliff, Chapter XVI Beside Lord Tywin stood his sister, pale and beautiful, a torch burning in her hand. Her torch was the only light in the cavern. She turned to go. “Stay with me,” Jaime pleaded. “Don't leave me here alone. Don't leave me in the dark!” – Jaime, ASOS

However, the most striking similarities arise from the way that Catherine and Cersei perceive their relationships with Heathcliff and Jaime respectively. Catherine, though far from being the worst person out of the cast of characters present in the novel (certainly Hindley and Joseph and even Heathcliff himself are more morally reprehensible), is the one that possesses the most traits stereotypically ascribed to narcissism: she’s very duplicitous and self-absorbed, she has a completely delusional opinion of herself and consistently projects her own flaws onto others, she’s often contemptuous of the weaknesses of those around her, she has a very explosive temper and reacts with aggression when crossed, she flips situations on their head to make herself look like the victim and she certainly sees her relationships as transactional, including her relationship with Heathcliff:

‘And should I always be sitting with you? What good do I get? What do you talk about? You might be dumb, or a baby, for anything you say to amuse me, or for anything you do, either!’ – Catherine, Chapter VIII

It is also frequently mentioned that Catherine enjoys being in control and does not take well to being contradicted:

It was nothing less than murder in her eyes for anyone to presume to stand up and contradict her. – Nelly, Chapter IX Cersei is as gentle as King Maegor, as selfless as Aegon the Unworthy, as wise as Mad Aerys. She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. – Tyrion, ADWD

I observed that Mr. Edgar had a deep-rooted fear of ruffling her humour. He concealed it from her; but if ever he heard me answer sharply, or saw any other servant grow cloudy at some imperious order of hers, he would show his trouble by a frown of displeasure that never darkened on his own account. He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed. Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it. – Nelly, Chapter X His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. – Jaime, AFFC

And this leads to a point of contention when Heathcliff returns a changed man from his time away:

‘Don’t vex me. Why have you disregarded my request?’ – Catherine, Chapter XI Why does he insist on vexing me? – Cersei, AFFC

‘Oh, you see, Nelly, he would not relent a moment to keep me out of the grave. That is how I’m loved!’ – Catherine, Chapter XV “You swore that you would always love me. It is not loving to make me beg.” – Cersei, AFFC

All of this, combined with the particular way in which Catherine describes her feelings for Heathcliff, led critics of the book to accuse Catherine of perceiving and thus loving Heathcliff as an extension of herself. And, surely, most of these things she privately confesses to Nelly could have easily come out of Cersei’s mouth, who has been confirmed by the author to being written as highly narcissistic.

In chapter IX, Catherine says that her love for Heathcliff is a necessity and throughout the series Cersei’s sentiments for Jaime are frequently displayed through that same lens:

The wench had the right of it. He could not die. Cersei was waiting for him. She would have need of him. – Jaime, ASOS They rode hard the next day, at Jaime's insistence. His son was dead, and his sister needed him. – Jaime, ASOS “Jaime, you're my shining knight. You cannot abandon me when I need you most!” – Cersei, ASOS “I need you with me. In me. Please, Jaime. Please.” – Cersei, AFFC “Why would Cersei need the Warrior? She has me.” – Jaime, AFFC She licked her lips, shivering. “Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once.” – Cersei, AFFC Jaime, I need Jaime. – Cersei, ADWD

Of course, in Cersei’s case, she “needs” Jaime because he is, in her mind, the brawn to her brain (“He was meant to be my sword and shield, my strong right arm.”), her protector, her agency in a patriarchal society… but she also needs him because she does not feel like a self-realized autonomous human being without him as she believes her own personhood has been split into two entities. And the same goes for Catherine:

‘I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?’ – Catherine, Chapter IX “Jaime and I are more than brother and sister. We are one person in two bodies.” – Cersei, AGOT

‘Supposing at twelve years old I had been wrenched from the Heights, and every early association, and my all in all, as Heathcliff was at that time, and been converted at a stroke into Mrs. Linton, the lady of Thrushcross Grange, and the wife of a stranger: an exile, and outcast, thenceforth, from what had been my world. You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!’ – Catherine, Chapter XII “I was lost without you, Jaime. I was afraid the Starks would send me your head. I could not have borne that. I am not whole without you.” – Cersei, ASOS

In fact, both women go as far as claiming their partners’ identities as their own:

‘Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.’ – Catherine, Chapter IX “You are me, I am you.” – Cersei, AFFC ‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am.’ – Catherine, Chapter IX

And from this idea of a shared existence and a lack of purpose when apart comes the desire for union in death and the mythologizing of these relationships:

‘If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.’ – Catherine, Chapter IX “If he were dead, I would know it. We came into this world together, Uncle. He would not go without me.” – Cersei, ADWD ‘She’s dead! I’ve not waited for you to learn that’. – Heathcliff, Chapter XVI

‘We’ve braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come. But, Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I’ll keep you. I’ll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won’t rest till you are with me. I never will!’ – Catherine, Chapter XII I cannot die while Cersei lives, he told himself. We will die together as we were born together. – Jaime, ASOS ‘I wish they may shovel in the earth over us both!’ – Heathcliff, Chapter XXIX

What’s interesting about Wuthering Heights, though, is that, other than codependency, there is an inherent selfishness and possessiveness to this. In chapter XV, when Catherine is effectively dying, it is clear that she does not want Heathcliff to outlive her and she’s terrified by the idea of him moving on and finding happiness elsewhere:

‘How strong you are! How many years do you mean to live after I am gone?’ – Catherine, Chapter XV “Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, ‘That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I are going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!’ Will you say so, Heathcliff?” – Catherine, Chapter XV

Indeed, Catherine goes as far as telling Heathcliff that she wishes he would just die (and suffer) alongside her:

‘I wish I could hold you till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do!’ – Catherine, Chapter XV ‘I’m not wishing you greater torment than I have, Heathcliff. I only wish us never to be parted.’ – Catherine, Chapter XV

And Cersei does something comparable when she (in her delusion) asks Jaime to be her champion in a mortal combat knowing he is likely to lose for his handicap:

“My queen,” said Qyburn, “have you . . . forgotten? Ser Jaime has no sword hand. If he should champion you and lose . . .” We will leave this world together, as we once came into it. “He will not lose. Not Jaime. Not with my life at stake.” – Cersei, AFFC

Heathcliff and Catherine don’t die together, however, and, despite what happened in Game Of Thrones, I’m still highly sceptical that Jaime and Cersei will die together in the books either. Yet the impression that Wuthering Heights leaves is that the unhealthy nature of Heathcliff and Catherine’s bond is at the root of their own self-destruction and tragic end:

Ere long, I heard the click of the latch, and Catherine flew up-stairs, breathless and wild; too excited to show gladness: indeed, by her face, you would rather have surmised an awful calamity. – Nelly, Chapter X ‘Mrs. Linton is now just recovering,’ I said; ‘she’ll never be like she was, but her life is spared; and if you really have a regard for her, you’ll shun crossing her way again. […] Another encounter between you and the master would kill her altogether.’ – Nelly, Chapter XIV ‘You have killed me and thriven on it, I think.’ -  Catherine, Chapter XV “’Nay, it’s enough that he has murdered one of you,’ I observed aloud. ‘At the Grange, everyone knows your sister would have been living now had it not been for Mr. Heathcliff. After all, it is preferable to be hated than loved by him. When I recollect how happy we were, how happy Catherine was before he came, I’m fit to curse the day.’ Most likely, Heathcliff noticed more the truth of what was said, than the spirit of the person who said it. His attention was roused, I saw, for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs.” – Isabella, Chapter XVII ‘She might have been living yet, if it had not been for him!’ was his constant bitter reflection; and, in his eyes, Heathcliff seemed a murderer. – Nelly, Chapter XXI

‘I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer but yours! How can I?’ – Heathcliff, Chapter XV ‘It was a strange way of killing: not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope through eighteen years!’ – Heathcliff, Chapter XXIX

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, ‘Let me in let me in!’ ‘Who are you?’ I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. ‘Catherine Linton,’ it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton) ‘I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!’ As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child’s face looking through the window. - Mr. Lockwood, Chapter III The following evening was very wet: indeed, it poured down till day-dawn; and, as I took my morning walk round the house, I observed the master’s window swinging open, and the rain driving straight in. […] I peeped in. Mr. Heathcliff was there laid on his back. His eyes met mine so keen and fierce, I started; and then he seemed to smile. I could not think him dead: but his face and throat were washed with rain; the bed-clothes dripped, and he was perfectly still. The lattice, flapping to and fro, had grazed one hand that rested on the sill; no blood trickled from the broken skin, and when I put my fingers to it, I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark! – Nelly, Chapter XXXVI

And I wouldn’t be surprised if A Song Of Ice And Fire were to go in the same direction:

It is raining again, he thought when he saw how wet she was. The water was trickling down her cloak to puddle round her feet. How did she get here? I never heard her enter. She was dressed like a tavern wench in a heavy roughspun cloak, badly dyed in mottled browns and fraying at the hem. A hood concealed her face, but he could see the candles dancing in the green pools of her eyes, and when she moved he knew her. – Jaime, AFFC I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. – Jaime, AFFC The Stranger represents death and the unknown, and leads the dead to the other world. Whilst referred to as male, he is neither male nor female. The Stranger's face has been described as half-human, concealed beneath a hooded mantle. – A Wiki Of Ice And Fire

“Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds. And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.” – Maggy The Frog, AFFC “Tyrion is the valonqar. Do you use that word in Myr? It's High Valyrian, it means little brother.”  - Cersei, AFFC “He came into this world holding my foot, our old maester said”. – Cersei, AGOT “The Imp is no longer my brother, if he ever was.” – Cersei, AFFC A man stepped into the lantern light, and she saw his cloak was white. “Jaime?” I dreamt of one brother, but the other has come to wake me. – Cersei, AFFC

So, in conclusion, I find it plausible that George might have simply taken the narcissism, the violence and the “twin soul”/“other half” connection present in Wuthering Heights to it’s even more extreme by creating the chaotic mess that is the incestuous relationship between twins who are mirror images of each other... And there's a decent number of parallels to at least make a case for it!

Tag: @faintingheroine

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Disney Villain Bracket

basically how this works is we have brackets a, b, and c. c is a tricky one, hopefully ill explain right

it’s basically a bracket and a half, and the villains in the half bracket will go across and meet in the middle, and the winner of that goes against the two villains on the bracket above

once we get to the middle two in a and b and have that vote, and once the double elimination in bracket c happens, the three villains will all go head to head… to head. it’ll be the three winners of each bracket in one final poll

am i explaining correctly? oh well, y’all will see what i mean when we get there

im sure a lot of y’all have opinions on how this was put together but keep in mind ive never done this before and i did my best. so

also! voting criteria is you picking your favorite of the villains in each poll. not the movies or shows or whatever they’re from, im talking about the characters themselves

i will be posting the polls on the left side of bracket A first, on Monday, April 17 at 12 PM CST! after that, i will post the left side of bracket B the following day at the same time. then the left side of bracket C the next day. the day after that, i will post the right side of bracket A, then B, then C. you get it

hope y’all have fun with this poll!!!

here’s a breakdown of the brackets below the cut, with the names and fandoms of each villain:

Bracket A:

LOVEMUFFIN (Phineas and Ferb) VS Randall Boggs (Monsters Inc)

Derek (Milo Murphy’s Law) VS The Core/Darcy (Amphibia)

Dr. Drakken (Kim Possible) VS Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)

Magica de Spell (Ducktales) VS Malleus Draconia (Twisted Wonderland)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) VS Prince John (Robin Hood)

Professor Z (Cars 2) VS Oogie Boogie (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Prince Hans (Frozen) VS Governor Ratcliffe (Pocahontas)

Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) VS Shan Yu (Mulan)

The Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus) VS The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)

Emperor Belos (The Owl House) VS Zira (The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride)

Mother Gothel (Tangled) VS Assistant Mayor Bellwether (Zootopia)

Charles Muntz (Up) VS Constance Hatchaway (The Haunted Mansion - Disney Parks)

Due (PKNA) VS Kalabar (Halloweentown)

The Walt Disney Company VS The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Tusk (Club Penguin) VS Edgar Balthazar (The Aristocats)

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) VS Morgana (The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea)

Bracket B:

Cruella deVil (101 Dalmatians) VS Man/The Hunter (Bambi)

Turbo “King Candy” (Wreck it Ralph) VS Hopper (A Bug’s Life)

Queen Narissa (Enchanted) VS Clayton (Tarzan)

The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) VS Lotso Bear (Toy Story 3)

Madame Medusa (The Rescuers) VS Lord Hater (Wander over Yonder)

Maestro Forte (Beauty and the Beast: An Enchanted Christmas) VS The Horned King (The Black Cauldron)

Tamatoa (Moana) VS Second Dimension Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension)

Captain Hook (Peter Pan) VS Captain Hook (Hook)

Scar (The Lion King) VS Chick Hicks (Cars)

The Underminer (Incredibles 2) VS Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

Hades (Hercules) VS Captain Gantu (Lilo and Stitch)

Madam Mim (Sword in the Stone) VS Dr. Facilier (Princess and the Frog)

Villain Recruiters (Disney Parks) VS Tina Harwood (Ice Princess)

Harrison Hightower III (Tower of Terror - Disney Parks) VS Professor Parenthesis (The OWCA Files)

The Sea Witches (Festival of Mystique - Disney Parks) VS Marina Del Ray (The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning)

Janet Smythe (Best Friends Whenever) VS Meredith Blake (The Parent Trap)

Bracket C:

The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) VS Scroop (Treasure Planet)

Chernabog (Fantasia) VS Jafar (Aladdin)

Toffee (Star VS the Forces of Evil) VS The Blot (Epic Mickey)

Syndrome (The Incredibles) VS Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)

Phantom Blot (Disney Comics) VS Sa’luk (Aladdin and the King of Thieves)

Trauma (PKNA) VS The Beagle Boys (Disney Comics)

Royal Pain (Sky High) VS Demona (Gargoyles)

Yzma (Emperor’s New Groove) VS Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) VS Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)

Commander Rourke (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) VS The Headless Horseman (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

Emperor Zurg (Toy Story) VS Miles McDermott (The Even Stevens Movie)

Professor JT Wu (The Nightmare Experiment - Disney Parks) VS Henry Ravenswood (Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Disney Parks)

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Matchups for v2 round 1

(polls drop July 15 (or so))

Tengen/Rengoku (demon slayer) vs Natsuo Todoroki/ Shigaraki (bnha)

Ochaco/Kirishima (bnha) vs Anakin/commander Fox (star wars)

Ichigo/hollow Ichigo (bleach) vs high school bicycle racing club polycules team (yowamushi pedal, wind breaker)

Mitski/Mirko/inko (bnha) vs odasaku/yosano (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Hinata/Haku (Naruto) vs Mrs White/Yvette (clue 1985)

Asuma/kakashi (Naruto) vs dave/tavros (Homestuck)

Zabuza/kisame (Naruto) vs tenjouin fubuki/manjoume jun (Yu-Gi-Oh GX)

Yor (spy x family)/Haru (fugou keiji) vs rabi ray Rana/sabal (far cry 4)

Curator (the stanley parable)/administrator (TF2) vs medic (TF2)/medical officer Danby (Subnautica)

Yor (spy x family)/morinozuka (Ouran) (academy au) vs matmodean (wheel of time)

Tsume/Tsunade (Naruto) vs Mario/donkey Kong (Mario movie 2023)

Robert chase/chi park (house md) vs winter schnee/Robyn Hill (RWBY)

Phina/linde (fire emblem) vs mal Cobb/eames (inception)

Fierce deity/ghirahim (the legend of Zelda) vs Tamika flynn/Janice palmer

Joseph/god (Christianity) vs garet/the wise one (golden sun)

Isaac/the roof of his house (golden sun) vs ichika/kanade (project sekai)

Jazz/prowl (the transformers) vs Bellamy/Bartolomeo/Cavendish (one piece)

Leon/kazuichi (Danganronpa) vs johnny/the fridge guy (Johnny the homicidal maniac)

The original char aznable/casval daikun (Gundam) vs vera misham/wocky kitaki (ace attorney)

Setsu/yuriko/raqio (gnosia) vs Cecil Gershwin Palmer (wtnv) Carlos Ramirez (Dresden files)

Anna/Daniel (FNAF AR:special delivery) vs Sam (fantasy high)/aelwyn (the seven)

Luis/ness (FNAF AR: special delivery) vs all of the Beatles (irl)/light yagami (death note)/penguins of Madagascar minus skipper (penguins of Madagascar, etc)

Hellucard/guardian angel (eddsworld) vs Danny Fenton (Danny phantom)/randy Cunningham (Randy Cunningham ninth grade ninja

Rincewind the wizzard/twoflower (discworld) vs calendar man/condiment king (dc comics)

Queen ripple/drawcia (Kirby) vs John silver/scroop (treasure planet)

Dante (Devil may cry)/Raiden (metal gear) vs Sesshomaru/hojou (Inuyasha)

Jon connington/Myles toyne (asoiaf) vs lazy/shoji (dairanger)

Gaon/zyuran (zenkaiger) vs jade/terezi (Homestuck)

Tumblr/Reddit vs anzu/tsukasa/junta (romantic killer)

Anzu/saki (romantic killer) vs Peter Parker (spiderman (specifically toby MacGuire)/Spencer Reid (criminal minds)

Captain smollet (treasure planet)/Jane (Disney Tarzan) vs hope/echo (the 100)

Atsushi/Yanagida (Osomatsu-san) vs junta/makoto (romantic killer)

[the-weirdos-mind]

Twisted Wonderland OCs

Name: Oscar Maldición

Age: 16

Species: Human

Class: Freshman, Class A

Dorm: Diasomia

Homeland: Land of Miracles

Appearance: Curly shoulder length black hair, brown eyes, bags underneath his eyes, tan skin, green jacket over his uniform, Diasomia uniform, pen with an emerald green magestone in his jacket pocket, 5’1

Personality: Shy, quiet, fun to be around once you get to know him, cares about his friends, comical, loyal, gets nervous easily around others, more enthusiastic when he warms up to people

Signature Spell: See the Future, let’s him see into the future for 10-30 seconds

Twisted from Bruno Madrigal from Encanto

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Name: Minzhe ‘Min’ Shi

Age: 17

Species: Red Panda Beastman

Class: Sophomore, Class E

Dorm: Savanaclaw

Homeland: Bamboo Forests

Appearance: Short bright red hair, light brown eyes, pale-tan skin, Savanaclaw uniform, red panda ears on head and tail from behind, tail is bushy, pen with yellow magestone in uniform pocket

Personality: Loud, outgoing, social, confident, carefree, reckless at times, a bit anxious, and smart

Signature Spell: Become the Panda, allows him to turn into an eight foot tall red panda

Twisted from Meilin Lee from Turning Red

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Name: Vito Scroopien

Age: 60

Species: Human

Occupation: Assistant Principle

Appearance: Shoulder length gray hair, black suit with a red dress shirt and purple tie, brown bandanna on top of his head, purple belt, yellow eyes, 6’1, sharp canines similar to fangs, a bit muscular, hunches a little

Personality: Strict, cruel, devious, intimating, manipulative, mysterious, and cunning

Twisted from Scroop from Treasure Planet

[princessofanimationblr]

You’ll Never Believe What Happened When I Watched “Treasure Planet”

So, I was working stories for @outta-my-mind2018 while watching “Treasure Planet”, and while I was working, I hear a door creaking.

Naturally, if you fellow “Treasure Planet” fans know me, I am terrified of Scroop (no thanks to my arachnophobia). So I thought that he was the one who caused the creaking door to happen.

Hearing this, I was like, “Scroop, I know you’re out there. Don’t go near me. I do not want my family to come up and see that my office is a literal bloodbath with my brutally murdered body that you killed.”

Like, I mean it, Scroop really scares me to death. Everytime I watch “Treasure Planet”, I get shakey because of him. He scares me more than any other Disney Villains that people deem as the scariest, like Maleficent, Gaston, Queen Grimhilde, or even Lady Tremaine. And that’s just my opinion, not fact.

And can you believe that Blair’s pet spider in my comic is actually inspired by that spider psycho?!

[rattlethestarsandsolarflares]

Love the comic scene between Silver and Scroop

everyone who hasn’t watched treasure planet yet, go do that! or rewatch it, it’s a fun time!

do not erase the caption, use or rePOST my art (reblog ok)

[entervoidex]

via VOID

[thealmightyemprex]

Top 10 Scariest Disney villains

I have talked about which moments in Disney movies scared me .....Lets talk about the villains who freak me out

1.The Headless Horseman from the Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad

The scariest one to me .An unstoppable ghost who just wants to decapitate anyone who crosses his path

2.The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Specifically in her witch disguise .Her sinister grins ,cackling voice , and unsettling animation have made her an unforgetable bringer of nightmares for generations of kids .Standout scene is her laughing about the idea of Snow White being buried alive

3.Chernabog from Fantasia

Someone put Satan in my Disney movie

4.Professor Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detective

Professor Ratigan is for the most part an entertainingly flamboyant villain ,very hammy while basking in his evilness ......But underneath there is this monstrous rage ,that he tries to unsucessfully hold back until the end of the movie where he drops his facade of sophistication becoming the monster he truly is on the inside .Special props toVincent Price who drops the eloquence ,with his voice beoming an animalistic growl

5. The Coachman from Pinocchio

This creepy weirdo turns kids into donkey's ,hire gorilla monsters ,freaks out the other villains in the movie , pulls the king of nightmare faces and GETS AWAY WITH HIS CRIMES.....Hell yes this guy is on the nightmare fuel list

6.Stromboli from Pinocchio

Yes I have two from Pinocchio .....This is a creepy movie . He has his comical moments but The size of this guy ,how Pinocchio looks TINY compared to him (Should be noted he was animated by Bill Tytla the guy who animated Chernabog ) ,his explosions into rage , and stating once Pinocchio has outlived his usefulness he WILL CHOP HIM UP INTO FIREWOOD .This is another classic nightmare fuel villain

Sykes from Oliver and Company

As a villain I am split on this guy ,but one thing I am sure of......He's terrifying .Rober Loggias gravelly voice is intimidating ,and he's a realistic threat ,a coldhearted criminal .He's a loan shark ,kidnapper and killer who implies he feeds his dogs PEOPLE

Scroop from Treasure Planet

Big spider dude who is a sadistic killer with the raspy voice of Michael Wincott .....THATS A WHOLE LOT OF CREEPY RIGHT THERE

The Horned King from the Black Cauldron

Robed corpsey dude with a raspy John Hurt voice and red eyes when emotional .He isnt higher cause the film he is in holds him back

Shan Yu from Mulan

Cold blooded killer with no sense of levity

@marquisedemasque @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @filmcityworld1 @ariel-seagull-wings

[cornofthebreads]

Here is the first pages from a competition with prendergast, sadly I lost, but these comics helped me learn a lot about what I need to improve on! My opponent Scroop and talbot would go on and win the tournament but I am proud of what I did in one week.

[glassshine]

Scroops and Scales

PART FOUR

I also made a webtoon so its more accessible

[eliavraay]

Question since I really love your comics: How did Scroop join adult Jim's crew and why did he accept?

After his fight with Jim, Scroop was carried away by a cosmic current and weeks later an acturian ship found him barely alive. Since this nation has a very strickt law against pirates, Scroop is sent into one of the arcturian prisons. He spends 5 years here, since the arcturian law dictates, that his EVERY crime must be brought up against him on trial. That way they can call it a fair execution.

During these 5 years, Jim makes a name for himself, graduating the Navy academy and taking part in the Battle of Procyon. He becomes a war hero and he can have his own ship, which he names the "Solar Fire". As he becomes a captain of the Navy, he gets access to their databanks. With a little light of curiosity and wanting some closure, he tries to look up what happened to his father. He learns, that he was part of an expedition, trying to map an uncharted sector of space. The place is called the Scyllian Nebula and is famous about not being mapped, because all tech fails in the cosmic cloud. Nobody knows, what's on the other side, since no ship ever came back. Jim's father disappeared with the last ship going in.

So... Jim just can't help himself and wants to find out, what happened to him. He assembles a very specific crew of individuals the Navy is not too fond of having under their flag and doesn't mind if they disappear. However they do care about the ship and Jim, so the Admirals only allow the expedition, if Jim recruits someone at least vaguely familiar with the way to the nebula. And Scroop is one of three people in the Etherium, who knows that region. The moment Jim sees his name on the list... he just accepts it as fate and rolls with it. Thanks to his heroic efforts as captain, the arcturians release Scroop into his custody.

Of course, Scroop tries to escape immediatelly, but then he faces Jim's crew. And this is the moment this crew starts to shine, since any of them could take on Scroop individually, anytime. They are all dangerous and has their little quirks. Scroop and Jim eventually make a pact, that he won't escape until they reach the destination. Jim also promises him freedom and even some money to start anew, so Scroop accepts. Thou he starts to wonder, what to do with that freedom and money, since he really wants nothing. He tries to avoid the crew, but they are not stopping including him, so... eventually he just accepts them.

[desichan]

Decided to do one of these for once! It’s crazy to think, that I changed my art style so recently, haha. (September is a drawing from when I tried to do a animation meme, but then realized I couldn’t find a good free animation program, so I just have 30 drawings for no reason, for that. ^^’‘‘)

November picture contains @cat-saavy ‘s oc, Cadenza, who is the girl in the front! December’s picture, contains @baderror ‘s oc Scroop! I need to post more here haha, I’ve been drawing a lot... Just... Not posting art. XD I’m working on like so many collab comics rn lol.

[anonymously-roseish]

Voltron x Treasure Planet

Okay, so probably somewhere, at some time someone did this but I’m new to the Voltron fandom and recently rewatched Treasure Planet (2002 Disney). During the movie I thought, “What if there was a crossover where the cast of Voltron played in Treasure Planet?” 

So a couple of these are a long shot, but hear me out (Contains spoilers for both Voltron and Treasure Planet)

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Keith as Jim Hawkins  Okay, come on, I feel like this one was a bit of a give-away. Impulsive teenager who makes brash decisions that tend to get him into trouble with a snipping attitude to boot. As Jim does have a human mother, his father did walk out on the family. Keith was missing his mother during his childhood who was Galra. We don’t know what happened to her yet, maybe she returned to space? Either way, both of them grew up with a single parent showing a likeness to their pasts.

Shiro as John Silver But Tangerine, you say, wasn’t he the antagonist? Wouldn’t Zarkon be a better fit? Well, did Keith see Zarkon as a fatherly figure in the absence of his own? No, I believe Shiro played that role. As did John Silver for Jim. John Silver also posed as a great leader for the pirates with a tough voice. Shiro knew how to wield command with diligent thought but is known to make on the spot decisions that could be contradictory. John Silver ordering his crew to turn on the ship just after giving a speech about waiting; Shiro deciding to launch an attack onto Zarkon’s home base to save Princess Alurra after saying it was off-limits until they had more allies and resources. They are both good guys who just went through some rough times. And cyborg

Pidge as Dr. Delbert Doppler Beautiful, adorable, dorky genius who has sparkling eyes at miraculous science stuff. Anyone remember Dr. Doppler’s excitement once they discovered the mathematically elegant sphere showed the way to treasure planet, meaning space travel. Dr. Doppler saving the ship’s butt and stepping up to the plate with his calculations. We all know Pidge has the mind to save the voltron team, they have multiple times. A good instance was in episode one of season 2, when they built a makeshift radio tower when lost in space to contact the castle, inadvertently saving the castle from the time-looped worm hole and then rescuing the rest of the team after? Yeah. 

Lance as B.E.N. Hello, comic relief! I’m sorry, I do wish more for Lance and he is important to the team, but it hasn’t been developed clearly yet. Both are bit on the crazy, eccentric side and have a friendliness about them. As B.E.N. actually liked Jim, the feeling wasn’t mutual and how Jim treated him reminded me of how Keith would behave around Lance. And in desperate situations, I wouldn’t doubt Lance would grab Keith by the boots and shout “I’m not leaving you behind!” until he gets a nasty glare from Keith and follows his own words with, “Unless you look at me like that.”

Hunk as Morph Anyone who was Morph was going to be a stretch. But a friendly marshmallow overall who is beloved by all? Both seem to fit that. They also kind of just, got dragged along into adventures? I mean, John Silver stated that he just found Morph on a planet while exploring and has been with him ever since. Hunk went along with his team and just, kind of, ended up a paladin. And if he had to choose between Keith and Shiro, he’d probably melt from anxiety too because their both his friends. Tbh, Rover might have fit better but--- Hunk.

Princess Allura as Captain Amelia Kick-butt, space mom, ship captains who isn’t exactly motherly with pointy ears. She knows what’s going on in the Universe and has a sharp voice about what she thinks. That sounds like both Allura and Amelia. However both ladies can sometimes play the one who needs to be protected by their friends when trying to protect them. Allura had to be saved by the Paladins after being captured when she attempted to protect Shiro. For Captain Amelia, she is piloting their trio to safety when shot from behind, thus for the rest of the time on planet, is resorted to writhing in agony and trying her best to give commands.

Coran as Mr. Arrow I’m sorry, Coran, please don’t die. Second in command of the ship, second command of the castle. Completely devoted to their captain and knows their duties. Very honorable and tries to take care of things. Of course, Coran also serves more comic relief but I mostly focused on position on the ship for this choice.

Zarkon as Captain Nathaniel Flint he’s basically dead now anyways Alien antagonist who plagued the universe with their greed and stories were told about him as he sits on his throne.

Prince Lotor as Scroop Okay, we don’t know much about how Lotor is going to be presented in the new series. He could be written like his 1980′s self or he could be given a re-write. Either way, he is most definitely going to pose a villainous force. With white hair. And we all assume golden eyes. (Like Scroop) My personal imagination drifts to painting Lotor to be quite the dark antagonist with a sharp impulsiveness. So my headchanon for Lotor fits Scroop. I understand if others don’t agree.

Slav as Billy Bones I mean, just imagine Slav tumbling out of a space ship gasping for air, grabbing someone’s shirt as his neck stretches saying, “He’s a’coming, I can hear ‘im. Those gears and gyros clickin’ and whirlin’ like the devil ‘imself.” then being told he hit his head pretty hard. This was more of just a bonus that I’d see.

The crew? Probably all Galra soldiers or somethin’.

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...Now I wanna write a crossover fic for this... No! I have projects due! I can’t get sucked into this!

[londontheatre]

Pravda: Photography by Ruth Anthony

Pravda, David Hare’s warning about the death of Fleet Street and the coming of Murdoch, is now 30 years old. While some at least of what Hare predicted has not come true the play retains its bite.

The Tower Theatre Company’s new production delivers some good moments but overall is less successful than it could have been. The production lacks pace at times and, while the simple set is effective – a stage covered with newspaper print as a metaphor for how LeRoux and his real-life counterparts walked all over the traditional press – there is much that could and should be improved. Scene changes that should take place behind brief tableaux of “press” activity instead take place in front of the audience. There are telephone-related malfunctions on stage, which generally cannot be helped, but several curtain-related ones in the wings, which simply shouldn’t happen and suggest the stage manager should tighten discipline.

On the positive, the cavernous space of the Bridewell is used well for the multiple scene changes and the lighting and sound are effective. As Lambert Le Roux, a reptilian newspaper magnate, Max Fisher is properly menacing but his accent, while rightly and successfully played for comedic effect, is at times impenetrable, no more so than in the final word of the play. As Le Roux’s protégé, Oliver Ferriman conveys well the moral dilemmas that come with dining with the devil but, as his wife, Hannah West has little to do in a part that feels very underwritten. Ciara Robley is outstanding as the wife of Le Roux as is Nigel Campbell, playing an editor who falls foul of Le Roux’s machinations.

Among the wider ensemble too, there are other very good performances – Bill Boyd as the Bishop of Putney and Madeline Gordon, who demonstrates excellent comic timing as a bemused journalist and a drunk princess, while Michael Mayne is thoroughly convincing in various roles and David Hankinson plays a corrupt MP as if he was born to it. However, there are weaknesses too with some of the cast seemingly unsure how far over the top they should go and others whose acting falls short of the Tower’s normally high standards.

Pravda is an excellent play, and the Tower has timed its revival well, but this production needs a little more polish.

Review by Louis Mazzini

It’s 1985 and Lambert Le Roux is a South African press baron who dominates the British newspaper industry. He headhunts Andrew – a young, inexperienced journalist – to run his most recent acquisition, but it’s only a matter of time before Andrew’s conscience collides with what Le Roux is asking of him. Will integrity triumph over ambition?

Winner of the 1985 Evening Standard Best Play Award, Brenton and Hare’s biting comedy still asks pertinent questions thirty years after it was first performed. Pravda (Russian for “truth”) shows us what happens to the news before it reaches us.

Cast List Andrew May : Oliver Ferriman Lambert Le Roux : Max Fisher Eaton Sylvester : Nick Mouton Michael Quince MP : David Hankinson Elliot Fruit-Norton : Nigel Campbell Rebecca Foley : Hannah West Bill Smiley : Calvin Crawley Sir Stamford Foley : John Chapman Hamish McLennan : John McSpadyen Harry Morrison : Robert Orchard Cindy : Ciara Robley Moira Patterson : Madeleine Gordon Dennis Payne : Nigel Oram Lord Ben Silk : John McSpadyen Bishop of Putney : Bill Boyd Cliveden Whicker-Baskett : Robert Orchard Mack “Whipper” Wellington : John Chapman Larry Punt : Christopher O’Dea Doug Fantom : Ian Hoare Leander Scroop : Nigel Oram “Breaker” Bond : Michael Mayne Princess Jill : Madeleine Gordon Donna Le Roux : Ciara Robley Ian Ape-Warden : Nigel Oram Hannon Spot : Michael Mayne Bert : Ian Hoare Ensemble : Julia Collier, Jill Ruane, Madeleine Gordon

Production Team Director : Louise Bakker Set Design : Lisa Castle Costume Design : Kathleen Morrison assisted by David Taylor Lighting Design : Laurence Tuerk Sound Design : Rob Ellis

Stage Manager : Kat Newbould Assistant Director : Julia Collier DSM : Stephen Brasher ASMs: Karen Hope, Hindatu Yvonne Comma Lighting Operator : Rob Hebblethwaite Sound Operator : Kaushal Ginige Fight Director : Richard Kirby Voice Coach : Jessica Hammett Set Construction and Get-in : Keith Syrett, Dom Ward, Zahra Mansouri, Nick Insley, Stephen Ley, Colin Guthrie, Rob Irvine, Martin Mulgrew

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