#the crime syndicate

[harveydont]

confused about the syndicate relationships? easy diagram here

[wanderingmind867]

I just made a post mentioning how Rick Riordan made some evil amazons for his books, so here's an old idea of mine where I stole some of those ideas (but made them possibly darker). Presenting Superwoman of the Crime Syndicate, the Anti-Matter Universe version of Wonder Woman.

Superwoman (Bellona of Themyscira/Priscilla Rich): The amazons of the anti-matter universe were founded by women like circe and medea, powerful warriors and sorceresses who hated men and loved to torture them and drive them in fights to the death. Also, the amazons of the anti-matter earth have way more roman influence than greek. Hence their worship of the war gods mars and bellona. Bellona especially, since she's a female deity who wikipedia told me represented bloodlust.

The anti-matter island of themyscira is a horrible place to live, unless you're one of the amazonians. Because the amazons are fierce slavers. Years ago they led fierce incursions against man's world, kidnapping men to be their slaves. They then used those men as breeders and servants, forcibly having sex with them to produce more male slaves and/or female warriors.

It was into this world that princess Bellona was born, a child of the amazons queen, the evil enchantress known as Circe. She was named for her patron, the roman goddess of bloodlust and war. For years, Circe taught her daughter the ways of the warrior and of the magician, training her to be the perfect princess for this kingdom based on misandry and violence.

Bellona probably would have stayed on themyscira and continued on as her mother's pride and joy, but then a US aircraft crashed onto themyscira. Inside it lay pilot steve trevor, a US soldier brought down in the fight against Ultraman. When Bellona looked at him, she felt no love. But hearing about a world of men beyond themyscira…that intrigued bellona. So she begged her mother to let her go out and enslave man's world. Her mother agreed, after bellona proved herself in combat against all the other amazons.

So while steve trevor was left on themyscira to become one of the kingdom's many slaves, bellona headed for man's world. Landing in New York City, Bellona killed and promptly stole the identity of the rich socialite Priscilla Rich. And using this assumed name, bellona began writing propaganda to encourage the women of america to enslave their husbands and train themselves as warriors. She used Priscilla Rich's vast resources to monopolize certain sectors of the global economy.

Building an army of millions of bloodthirsty women (and having a stranglehold on world monetary policies), bellona became known as Superwoman to the people of man's world. Recognizing her talents as a propagandist and warrior (and seeing as she's one of the world's most preeminent terrorists), Ultraman formally invites her to join the Crime Syndicate and take over the globe with him. Bellona haughtily accepts, but makes clear her contempt for him and his masculine ways (bellona hates every single member of the team. Alongside the Aresian Barbarian, she's one of the most power hungry and cruel. She regularly dreams of killing Ultraman and taking his position as leader for herself).

[indiebyrdn7]

Chapter 21 is up

“Stand down and you won’t end up like this fool,”

            I pointed down to the pile of ash. A few of the men muttered to themselves. Weighing their options as if they had one.

            “What’s in it for us?” 

            I looked over to Selina’s top bodyguard, Ollie, who had taken a step forward from the rest of the crowd. He wanted out from under Selina’s titan grasp. Whether the Canary did, didn’t matter, he wanted out. Though I owned the building, the Cat’s Den was Bruce and Selina’s brainchild from Gotham. I had a bargaining chip to play, loosening Bruce’s hold on my assets.  

            “You want to leave this place with your little birdie, don’t you?”

            Ollie raised his eyebrow. 

            “Don’t listen to him....” one of the men behind Ollie said.

            “I am a generous man to those who serve me and my cause,” I continued. “Walk away now and I’ll extend an invitation to you to join me directly. You and your little birdie will have a safe place under my roof and the power that it entails...”

            Ollie lowered his gun. The men behind him looked shocked.

            “Traitor…” one of the men shouted. 

            Ollie swiftly shot the man in the face without looking back.

            “Well then, let the fun begin…”

 Ollie slipped another round into the barrel of his gun as the men behind him rushed us. The first man that reached me, I grabbed hold of his arm. Ripping it out of its socket, arm still in hand, I cracked the skull open of the man behind him. Ollie was head-shooting men left and right. While I ripped Selina’s men, limb from limb. After a few moments, we were surrounded by a pile of broken bodies and blood.  

            “We make a pretty good team…” Ollie started to say, but I was already running down the hall.

            After a few seconds, I was standing behind Selina. She had slammed the door to her office. I could hear the Amazon screaming from the other side. Rage filled me. 

            “Selina!” I bellowed. 

            She reached for her gun and turned to face me. She shot three rounds into my shoulder. Ping, ping, ping. They bounced off my body, ricocheting into the walls around us.

            “DIE”

            “You first,”

            I unleashed hellfire from my eyes into her face. She barely made a sound as her flesh melted. Even the walls around us were singed. Rushing through her burnt body, I slammed into the door. It didn’t budge.  Suddenly, a rumble of thunder emanated from inside the room. I needed to get inside. 

            I rammed into the door a few times to no avail. Bruce’s doing, for sure. He wanted to keep his whore safe from me. Sadly, it didn’t work. It, however, was going to get the Amazon taken. Where was J’onzz?

            “J’onzz...  J’onzz…” I called out.

His absence frustrated me. He should have been here by now.

“Where the hell are you...”

Crackdoom…. Thunder clapped once more from inside Selina’s office.

            “She’s doing that,”

I heard J’onzz’s voice beside me. Out of the corner of my eye he phased into view. 

“What are you talking about, you green bastard?” I hissed. “Why are you just getting here?”

Crackdoom….

“Oh, I’ve been here,” J’onzz said as he pointed up to the heavens. “I’ve been observing her....”

J’onzz looked at me with a gleam of wonderment in his eyes.

“...She’s causing it, the thunder. I knew she was powerful but this is fascinating…”

“Fuck your fascinations, J’onzz!” I snapped

J’onzz rolled his eyes as he pointed to the right of the door in front of us.

“I’d blast over here,” he said. “He’s got her pressed up against the door….”

I tried to look through the door, but it was made of lead. I was able to make out two figures. One was smaller with their back to the door, the other was taller, broader. It was caressing the smaller figure’s body.

“Mine…” I thought.

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[kurotaurus17]

You can keep your big blue Boy Scout…meet MY Superman! 🙌🏾 “Ultraman”

[farshootergotme]

Wait, how tf did I miss this.

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #7

You're telling me Forever Evil happened in this universe? You're telling me SPYRAL happened in this universe? I'll have to hope that everything went down very differently because otherwise there's a lot to unpack there that clearly this comic isn't ready for.

[celaenaeiln]

Dick Grayson's talent for manipulation literally brings the world to its knees.

Part 1 post

My absolute favorite trait about Dick aside from his craziness is his ability to control every single person in existence. The best part is, he's so clever in the way that he does it that people almost never notice.

Bart Allen

"Oh! Ahh..you're trying to get my DNA sample. You need my spit! Ha! That's such a Dick Grayson thing to do."

Bart knows!! Dick's brilliantly sly okay. Honey catches more flies that vinegar? He takes it so far that breaks he the ceiling with it because by the time he's done, people don't even know they've been manipulated. And if they do, then what can they do about it? He always wins.

With friends and family he does it to make them feel better without being so overt and discomforting them.

Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis

Jon came to him when he was feeling lost and upset and Dick set up the perfect conditions to encourage him and pick him up. He's just so good at doing what he's doing but he does it for all the right reasons.

But the extent Dick can go trick and manipulate someone is off the charts. A virtuoso.

In a Titans comic, Dick literally spent MONTHS acting depressed and weak after Donna, Wally, and Garth were kidnapped to another dimension by a villain just so he could trick the villain into thinking that his career was over and bring him into the same dimension so Dick could take him down.

He fooled everyone.

Teen Titans: The Silver Age TBP 2 Part #1

"Batman taught me how to be a totally convincing actor! So if the only way you could send me here with your ring was if I filled my brain with evil thoughts, I just faked it! My facial expression was pure evil-but my mind remained pure good." MONTHS.

He planned, pretended, and calculated every single fiber of his own mind and body until the whole world was fooled by his acting. He tricked an interdimensional being who had psychic access. That means he was so extraordinarily manipulative, he can control his own thoughts inside his head to trick someone else. Voldemort's legilimens has nothing on Dick's talent.

Like Bart, sometimes his allies are aware of this like with Selina-

Gotham City Sirens Issue #23

Selina's literally having a mental breakdown trying not to fall for Dick's manipulation and tricks.

But even if they know he's manipulating them, they still are forced to fall for it anyway.

Gotham City Sirens Issue #23

"Damn it."

Like a goldilocks mad scientist - he does it just right.

His acting is just so on point that he outschemes the schemer.

When the Crime Syndicate (Superwoman, Ultraman, Owlman, Power ring, etc) arrive on Earth to take it over when Dick is Batman, Dick needs to do something fast. But to make things worse, there's a being that's so powerful, that both the Crime Syndicate and Justice League combined have a snowball's chance in hell of defeating him.

So what does Dick do? He runs the game.

Justice League of America (2006) Issue #52

Justice League of America (2006) Issue #52

"Of course he had a plan the whole time. He's Batman. He always has a plan."

Justice League of America (2006) Issue #52

He tricks everyone.

Justice League of America (2006) Issue #52

And in the end, the Justice League wins and Dick saves the world.

Justice League of America (2006) Issue #52

I love how they characterized Owlman as a snake because that would make Dick a mongoose since mongoose eats snakes. And do you know what Mongoose represent in folklore? Action, adventure, boldness, fearlessness, impulsiveness, independence, optimism, rebellion, resistance, resourcefulness, speed, adaptation, agility, quickness, intelligence and wit. All characteristics that define him.

He plays the world like a chessboard, always five steps ahead.

He always has an ace hidden up his sleeve.

His thoughts are always masked behind a disarming smile.

He has mastered the art of manipulation.

And that's while he's outright fighting. His subtlety is just so seductive.

Take a look at the way he smoothly evades answering in this panel -

Grayson Issue #9

He's so smooth. She's constantly on the watch but she instantly fell head over heels for his charms in a half a heartbeat, that's just how good he is.

Grayson Issue #10

He's a master manipulator who knows exactly what to say and how to act to always end up winning.

It's seriously such a shame that one of his greatest skills and talents isn't talked about more because this man?! Flawless.

He's the spy everyone on TV wishes they could be. He's the type of spy people read about in history books and marvel at the ease, grace, and legendary story he leaves behind. He's the spy that everyone knows and dreams of in their fantasies.

Nightwing (2016)

And oh how they so are.

He can just get people to do whatever he wants.

There's a reason why Batman's only contingency plan against Nightwing is "Let's hope he fucks up." Because with his intelligence, skill, power, charisma, and raw talent - he's goddamn unstoppable.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 342

Danny reincarnates, y’know, as some realms beings who have previously died will do. He doesn’t choose a dimension or a perfect life or anything, he just misses being alive in a way that’s starting to grow unfamiliar now y'know? 

So he reincarnates, most memories gone and those not easily dismissed as dreams and imagination. He even gets a baby brother in this life, a tiny thing with bright blue eyes and a good grip on his fingers. He loves his baby brother. Adores him. Would do anything for him. 

Or, Danny incarnates as Thomas Wayne Jr, Bruce Wayne’s older brother. 

[bludmd23]

Love putting different clothes on my favs like it’s a dress up game

[cyanbeetle]

I love earth 3

[conceptofjoy]

i always notice striders being the protags of some mafia au on ao3 shut uppp jane is right there

[harveydont]

"I guess it can be kind of peaceful up here, sometimes...Ultra?"

Ultraman design belongs to @hermannco

[al-norton]

How do you tell your friends you’re here to kill your girlfriend’s blonde beautiful rich and powerful new husband

[indiebyrdn7]

“You going to answer my question?” he asked.

“And what was that?”

“Darkseid?!”

He raised his voice a little too much. Slamming the glass down on the table, Bruce’s hand began to bleed. Bringing his bloodied hand to his lips he pulled a piece of glass out with his teeth.

“So it is about the girl,” Bruce spat, spitting the piece of glass onto the floor. 

I shrugged.

“Maybe,” I replied. “Hence I need you to look into him…”

“Maybe?” Bruce asked as he raised his eyebrows. 

“Did I stutter?”

Walking past Bruce, I pulled down on a candelabra on the wall behind him. A piece of a side panel popped out of the wall. Pressing inward, the panel revealed a hidden passageway.

“This isn’t a laughing matter, Clark,” Bruce said with a hint of shock. 

“And I didn’t laugh,” I replied. “You are coming?”

Stepping into the passageway, I followed it deep underground. Not as grand as his cave in Gotham, this was the center of his spy operations in Metropolis. Bruce soon followed suit. Rushing to catch up, Bruce was breathless. His heartbeat tripled the closer I came to his private hideaway.

“He’s never messed with us before and we’ve never messed with him,” Bruce shouted from behind me. “The only thing different now is the girl... What does she have to do with Darkseid?”

“She’s beautiful,” I replied. “What more does a man need to want to take something?”

When Bruce finally caught up with me, he jumped in front of me. Breathless, he placed his hand out to stop me from moving forward. 

“So, you want to start a gang war with a man with more power than us, over a woman,” he said in between trying to catch his breath. 

Swiftly I grabbed Bruce’s wounded hand, digging my thumb into his open wound. He grunted in pain. A sound I did enjoy. Probably more than I should have, but I took great pleasure in silencing his big mouth. 

“This has nothing to do with her,” I lied.

I pushed him back into the wall behind him. Leaning my mouth to his ear, each word from my lips burned in his ear. Bruce’s resistance to my grip faded.

“Lie to yourself, but not to me,” he said as he licked my lips. “Tell me, did her body fold into you like this...”

He pressed his body into mine, I felt him pressing against me. Hard as always.

“I wouldn’t know,”

I avoid his gaze.

“Now, now Clark, who’s lying,” he cooed. “This has everything to do with ‘her’.”

 I ran my thumb over his still-blooded lips as his eyes closed. 

“And what if it does,’ I replied.

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[task800]

this fandom pairs gavin and the rk900 dude like theres no tomorrow, which is lovely, follow ur bliss, happy for you. i want that same energy for north and kara. they are sampling from parallel water wells, they are running on similar batshit frequencies. north like 'what if we blow their ass up' (iconic of her) and kara like 'i'll run straight into high-velocity traffic man i'll fucking do it' (and then she did it) like these two women. repeatedly exposed to apathy, violence, cruelty. repeatedly wiped of their memories to keep them passive in the face of constant abuse. what if they met and held hands and raised alice to be their madmax pipe-bomb slinging baby . anyone.