#talking ;; adam / marvel

[captainmarvelbillybatson]

What if, in battle against some monsters, where he is begrudgingly working with Black Adam because Adam isn’t going to let the oaf save his country, Billy detransforms due to lack of energy and throws his body in front of a civilian child, shielding her from a blow that he’s convinced will kill him

Only for Black Adam to go feral?

Black Adam doesn’t like the Captain, that is true, however, in that moment he flashes back to his days as a slave, when another slave whom he cared for shielded him with their body, taking the lashes and ultimately dieing from their injuries. And the sight of a battered and broken child trying desperately to be a human shield for a crying child curled up in a ball, trying desperately to soothe them as Billy prepares to be injured and possibly die?

That’s too close to home.

He doesn’t care for the Captain, has no trouble fighting the child turned champion, but this- this isn’t how the Captain is allowed to die.

The monster is obliterated. Billy wakes up being treated by medics under direct orders from Teth Adam not to let him leave and to treat all of his injuries.

After Billy is brought back to Fawcett, they never discuss it again.(And if Billy occasionally asks Black Adam to join him when fighting human traffickers? The general public (and the Justice League) don’t have to know.)

[me-uglypretty]

carol “I have nice abs so of course I’m gonna wear cropped tops” danvers.

[tamayokny]

accidentally called captain shazam by his previous hero name (captain marvel) so i had to explain to my boss about the history of shazam and the character lineup

[gwydionae]

Rewatching through the old X-Men cartoon has reminded me that if Nightcrawler is onscreen for more than 30 seconds and hasn't yet jumped into a sermon, it must be an imposter.

[aew-regression-cove]

watchin' tarot (2024) with mama

[adamwarlock]

★ The Magus in The Infinity War I am truly unique in this or any reality. There is no denying this truth. My dreams are beyond containment.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Mmm

Ugh. Writing is on the wall for this one folks. I'm trying to remain positive but I will be surprised if Adams stays on the Flash series after the Flash #800.

[tin-can-iron-man]

GOD sometimes it genuinely irks me that stories like Orpheus and Eurydice or even Adam and Eve are criticized under a purely logical and heartless eye. "Why did Orpheus turn around" because he loved her. "Why did Adam eat the fruit" because he loved her. They both chose love over God. And they were punished for it and eternally cemented as fools.

Do you really think that Adam doesn't know what the one goddamn thing he's not allowed to eat LOOKS like? Do you really think that Orpheus would feel better if he hadn't turned around only to find Eurydice's cries for him were real? These stories are about pure love. They're about being punished for the sin of a love that conquers all else. They're both about forsaking God(s) to that end.

TLDR: If a God is going to forsake you for love than they are not a loving God. And they are directly to blame.

[abuddyforeveryseason]

More art. See the itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot one piece? Yeah, I mean, that's what guys like.

This is an old drawing! I actually drew it using the extended monitor as a canvas, which I used to find better for full-body sketches, as opposed to the main horizontal monitor, which works for talking heads and whatnot. But nowadays I think the main monitor's better cause I can make the art more detailed. Hmm...

Speaking of talking heads (psycho killer, fa fa fa fa fa), I was talking about Mousevel yesterday, and how the movies developed the same problem as the comics - i.e., being too convoluted.

That is one thing I don't love about Marvel comics, or superheroes in general - the obsession with continuity and the shared universe saps the drama out of them by having characters with different power levels and realities interact. Why should I care about Spiderman having trouble fighting some goons to retrieve aunt May's medication, when Adam Warlock can just make the goons disappear by blinking? If that's the point of the Adam Warlock character, why does he need Spiderman to join him in the fight against Thanos and Nebula on that floating space rock with Death's faces carved onto it?

And more importantly, there isn't much of a point of keeping something a mystery in the Marvel Universe because there's so much magic floating around. A more grounded superhero story might milk some tension of Spidey finding out there's like, a supervillain secretly hanging out at the Daily Bugle, for instance (I dunno, I can't think of interesting Spiderman ideas), but in the same world where Thor can come back from the dead every fifteen minutes, it's not too surprising to find out Norman Osborn ressurected too. It's like that H. G. Wells quote, 'If anything is possible, nothing is interesting.'

Another issue with Spiderman comics, as much as I love them, is the paradoxical relationship they have with plot development - Spiderman books in particular, and Marvel being led by their example, made sure to never let the story get to stagnant. Circunstances had to change with a certain frequency - Peter graduated high school, got a different girlfriend, got dumped even, moved away from aunt May's, had supervillains find out his identity, had a girlfriend die, changed jobs, changed powers, turned into a monster... and so on, too much happened during those first forty years for me to count.

But the story changed so much, it prevented the character from evolving. He got a girlfriend, but she died, so he didn't marry. He got a new place, but the Green Goblin destroyed it, so he had to move. Aunt May got a job, but Dr. Octopus manipulated her into a marriage, so she quit. Got a new costume, but it turned out to be a living creature so he got it back.

Even the Mary Jane marriage, which lasted over a decade, had to be abandoned, just so Peter Parker could be the same loser he was in the sixties. The story changes so much all it means is nothing good can ever happen to the character. Character development doesn't just mean bad stuff.

That's kind of a similar problem I have with Game of Thrones-type fantasy, where, in an attempt to portray a medieval-era fantasy accurately, the creators end up making a hellhole where joy doesn't exist. Even though the characters themselves don't know how much better the real world is, they know they're missing out on something.

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Headcanons that can and will make up how I write the Marvelous Bats AU I’m trying to actually write

Everyone has a minor upgrade or addition on the powers they have. Eugene has his technokinesis, Pedro is physically stronger than Billy even though they have the same blessing, Darla is faster, Freddy has some minor telekinesis and is better at flying in practice, and Mary’s courage is infectious to the degree of getting people out of being scared frozen in an emergency and getting them to rescue themselves and have the bravery to help others along the way.

Billy and Mary are still twins, she’s adopted by the Bromfields and Billy is newly fostered by the Vasquez’s but they all work and spend time together as a family unit despite the separate home lives

Billy knows how to make portals anywhere with doors, the place just needs to have a door. (He has tried getting the Batcave that way but apparently the car doors of the Batmobile don’t count)

Yes all the Bats know the Marvels identity’s and vice versa, the rest of the League? Nope. Just think Batman mellowed out in his crusade to learn Caps identity

Yes Bruce wanted to adopt Billy, Billy said screw that and Jason pointed out how bad of an idea it would be to have a kid named Batson in the public eye of Gotham. “The Joker can and will try to make a bad joke out of the kid Bruce.” “Yeah Batman, you want me to die in a robin costume of all things?” Bruce just stayed silent for a moment and almost started crying (it’s was only a week later Jason took a good look at the kid and realized Billy is a mini him and Bruce probably didn’t like the Robin comment)

Damian, Darla, and Jon are the true kid hero trinity. Their mission? Chaos

Freddy just about passed out when he met Barbra, the super amazing Batgirl is the super cool lady behind the monitor that’s one of freaking Batman’s most essential teammates? Oh the feeling of finally seeing a super like himself

Tim met Billy and Mary’s parents through his own when he was little, the 3 of them had a very long discussion about cool archeology stuff for a good few hours

Because his hero form is his “full potential” and is very big Pedro asked Jason to help him get from how he is now to his hero form, seeing as his body type was closest. Now they work out together every Tuesday and Friday (school and vigilante work permitting) half of it is actually working out and the other is building Pedros confidence

Batman and Captain Marvel make a point to block and argue heavily against any other Marvel joining the League, Billy is the only one until the rest of the family does meet the age requirement they have. Billy does the heavy lifting expected of the actual Champion of Magic and his siblings enjoy the small town hero life and look out for Fawcett and the Rock when he’s off world, Mary is the defacto leader when he’s gone.

Like how every Bat has their designated Super and sometimes Wonder, they all have a Marvel they hang out with more than others. Mary and Dick hang out and bond over being the unfortunate voice of reason siblings, Darla is the childish influence making Damian act more his age and love doing it. Billy and Bruce are the respective “heads of the family” and Bruce checks in a lot on how Billy’s life is going with the occasional leadership tip thrown in to help with hero work. Jason tutors Pedro when they’re both visiting, if they cross paths on the job they’ll talk sports a lot. Freddy and Eugene talk a lot about strategy’s, games, gadgets, and superpowers with Barbra and Tim.

Tawny and Alfred are golfing buddies, they also build miniatures of flag ships together and talk about their weird family of supers over tea

Eugene has hacked the Bat-computer on multiple occasions, each time to make an edit to any files Bruce makes of the family, mostly something childish like adding “the amazing” or “the super awesome” before their hero names in the files. But one hack he did was into his contingency plans files, which nearly gave Bruce a heart attack thinking there was going to be another accident that would almost kill his friends.

The hack was the change of “Further research needed to figure out a strategy for neutralization, for now the best strategy is to trick or force them into using their trigger phrase to de-transform before incapacitating them” to “let their siblings deal with the situation”

The Justice League’s first introduction to Captain Marvel was during a “Superman is being affected by Red Kryptonite” situation. By the time they caught up to him in Fawcett their resident hero was helping the man up and panicking over how much he hurt him trying to wrestle the Kryptonite off him, they offered him a seat with them by the end of the week after satellite imaging showed that he led Superman into the air after he knocked down a building and delt with him without further damage and Superman’s account that he broke his arm and bruised multiple ribs trying to stop him. Billy was 9 at the time and only had his powers a few months at that time so he had no idea how much he needed to reel his strength in and was panicking too much to properly do so either way in that fight.

Damian was jealous that Billy got into the league so young and Bruce still won’t let him on despite his capabilities but realizes Billy only got so far because of a lie of omission and one event where he severely harmed Superman, he’d call his father an idiot if he hadn’t tried to keep an eye on such a worrying individual

The Vasquez’s know their kids visit the Wayne’s every other day, as do the Bromfields, but only Vic and Rosa know about the superhero part of it all. The Bromfields just think Mary is visiting a girl friend and having sleepovers every so often, they aren’t entirely wrong since she does hang out with Cass and Stephenie but they don’t need to know her whole superhero life. It’s framed as a mentorship so that their kids can do their best with the powers given to them with a healthy amount of encouragement in still being kids and attending school, it’s mostly just the two families spending time with eachother though.

Black Adam used to antagonize the Marvel Family but after a fight with Billy 1v1 he saw he was a child and stopped trying to actively kill him, he’s now their weird uncle figure who pops by to show them some fighting moves and try to tell Billy to stop being the champion until he’s older.

Black Adam is closer to the movie version solely for the purposes of expanding the family size, he looks like his classic comic self but has to shift in morals and backstory he had in the movie

The fight happened in a empty patch of dessert outside Khandaq when Billy was 11, no one on the League knows why they suddenly stopped fighting or why Cap officiated the guys wedding but their happy he figured something out so his city didn’t get torn up every month by their fights anymore.

The hero names and nicknames for the Marvel family are as follows

Billy Batson —> Captain Marvel (Cap, the Captain)

Mary Bromfield —> Mary Marvel (Mary)

Freddy Freeman —> Lieutenant Marvel (Lieu, Captain Marvel Jr. (by one annoying reporter))

Pedro Peña —> General Marvel (The jolly green giant, Greenie)

Eugene Choi —> Chief Marvel (Chief, Master Chief (self proclaimed, never used))

Darla Dudley —> Ms./Princess Marvel (Ms., Missy Marvel, Missy (Used for professional purposes) Princess (Used every other time as her choice of code name))

Adriana Tomaz —> Isis (/got the amulet of Isis as a wedding gift from Darla from the Rock, she didn’t know what it was but is happy she got cool powers with the rest of the family/)

Amon Tomaz —> Horus (/name changed from comics to coincide with the change in family dynamic between him and Adriana from siblings to parent/child/)

Theo —> Black Adam/Khem Adam

Shout out to @thefantasmarex for reminding me how much I love these two families together

[confinesofmy]

one of my ancestral peoples' origin myths says they came out of a cave in the ground 150 miles from me. and it's, like, a very real cave, that literally exists. isn't that crazy. like aren't the implications of that so so crazy. i can travel there with relative ease. to the place that my distant ancestors are said to have emerged from over a thousand years ago. and i'm right over here. what are the chances. how lucky is that. wow. like, isn't that so lucky. i live right near it. it's been 1,500+ years. less than a week's travel by foot. i'm still right here. so much has changed. but i live right here. wow. isn't that sooo cra—

[allistardust]

Gam woke up and chose ✨️violence✨️ 🗡

[kakusboyfriend]

Look I'm a simple man. If the source material doesnt have an m/f couple i can weasel my way into, i do not want it

[hauntingblue]

They fucking!!!! Killed Maria Hill!!!!!!!!!

[fungi-maestro]

I do think that the Question most likely to become a DC live action character is Renee, mostly because she's already in Birds of Prey (and Suicide Squad? I forget). I also just think that she tends to have a more solid writing style in modern comics than Vic does. Obviously there's stinkers in both but I generally think there's been some fantastic Renee writing out there in the past 10 years. Now if they would only remember that she isn't a cop.... A third reason I think that she's pretty likely to become the first live action Q is because she's pretty well known compared to Vic. When I bring up The Question to people that are into DC, you get 2 camps usually; Those that know Vic from JLU and those that know Renee from recent comics. Idk. I find it kind of interesting and cool in a way. There's something to be said about the characters and why they have this kind of public reputation that I might go into some other time. But yeah I wouldn't be surprised by a Renee Montoya Question live action appearance in the next decade (if DC ever decides to make movies that don't stink)

[heartman]

Me? Listening to the Shrek soundtrack while writing a Kang The Conquerer/Adam Warlock fic after seeing Quantumania? It's more likely than you think