#the iceman 2012

[shamrockqueen]

The summer of 85

Pairing : Robert Pronge x Reader (80s style)

Warnings : R18, Naughty behavior, caught him by surprise, smut, he hates to see you leave but loves watching you go

Word count : 3167

Chris Evans Masterlist

Robert didn’t particularly like this neighborhood, and he certainly didn’t care for the pressed-shirt types that populated it. But, the house wasn’t expensive, and it suited all of his needs. The way he saw it, as long as he kept his distance from all the white picket fence type of people, he’d do just fine.

He was working on a shitbox car in the attached garage—another cheap purchase, but it did just enough to carry him this far. The summer sun was cooking him in the un-air conditioned space, even with the garage door pulled up to allow the occasional breeze to come in.

Robert cursed upon catching his finger on a poorly placed hole near what he was sure was the carburetor. He jerked back, tossing an oily rag against the ground in a huff before nursing his sore finger.

He tried to take a breather, wiping his clean hand over his neck. Better to clear away the sweat that had built up on his skin before stepping away from the mess. He went into the driveway to catch that bit of breeze that rolled past the house, and it didn’t come alone.

You were riding past the house on your bike, hair blown back in the wind and the sun kissing your exposed skin. It was the first thing that caught his eye, with the last being your cutoff denim shorts tightly hugging your ass.

You had ole Robert turning his head just as you passed his trash bins. It was until you rolled your pedals back to brake, coming to a solid stop as your shoe hit the pavement. He quickly averted his eyes the second they connected with yours, leaving him to miss the small and mischievous smile that pulled along your lips.

You caught the moment he dared to look back at you, giving him a friendly wave. He stared back for a second, confused by any actual neighborly behavior, let alone from someone like you.

He waved back before you turned away, watching as you kicked back off the road and cycled away. You left him with just the short memory of your shapely figure working over a blue cruiser bicycle.

He tried to clear his mind by putting his focus back on the car, but he never made much progress. He was quickly admitting defeat after an hour of fucking around with it.

Tossing his tools back in their box, he reached for the pull cord to yank the door to the garage closed when he heard a familiar spin of bicycle spokes. He spared a glance out at the road and was surprised by a familiar face.

You were off your bike this time, choosing instead to roll it along the road.

He offered another wave, much like you had upon your first passing, only this time you spoke back to him in return.

“Hello”

Your voice sounded sweet, even airy, and it easily caught Robert off guard. “Uh, hey there.”

“What's your name?” You chirped back.

“Me?” He mouthed back, barely audible. You recognized the gesture all the same.

“Is there someone else in there with you?” You laughed.

He scoffs before answering the previous question. “My name’s Robert.”

“Do you have a bike pump, Robert?” You asked.

“What?” It was all he'd given back as a response, somewhat dumbfounded as to why the hell you were even talking to him in the first place.

“Do you..” you began to repeat, only to be cut off midway.

“I heard you; I just…why?” He finally spit out the question. Why?

Why were you smiling at him, batting your lashes in his direction? Why were you even giving him a second glance, let alone asking him for anything?

“My tire went flat.” You say as you roll your bike closer, crossing onto his concrete driveway and overstepping an invisible boundary.

Robert didn’t answer again, standing mostly agast with the garage cord still in between his fingers. He doesn’t know how to talk to gentle young things like you, and he gaped at the absurdity of the conversation like a fish out of water.

“You don’t want to help me, Robert?” You said with a soft pout as you dug the toe of your shoe side to side on the concrete.

He counters back quickly, although his words end up being fumbled. “No…I.” He had to think for a second, “I can help; just give me a second,” and with that, he pushed the garage door back up and turned back to look for the needed bike pump.

You follow him inside, rolling your bike alongside you as he disappears behind the car. It annoyed him a little bit that you didn’t just stay put; in fact, you seemed to linger just a little too closely for his own comfort.

You’re just a peach, and he’s anything but sweet.

Your skin was a little sweaty from your afternoon ride, giving you an unearthly glow. He, on the other hand, felt grungy from the perspiration that stuck to his clothes and hair after working with the car.

He’s digging for anything that resembles a bike pump. He had agreed without thinking about whether he actually had one. Yet, low and behold, just the right item was found buried within some unpacked boxes.

“So you’re new around here?” You asked, a sweet lilt to your voice as you ignored any of the negativity in his body language.

“Uh, yeah. Moved in a month or two ago.” He answered back as he tried to focus on the task at hand.

You bounded back over, nearly splayed across his shoulder, as you watched him examine the tire for any holes. He did find another reason for it to have gone flat.

“Shit, it looks like the cap for the air valve is missing. It’ll just run out of air aga…”

“Oh, here you go.” You quickly and conveniently pulled the little black cap from your shorts pocket, holding it out for him to take.

Robert is well confused as to why it’s in your pocket instead of on your bike, but as his brows knit together, he found he didn’t care to ask. He only wanted to get this shit done. It was hard enough to work while trying to keep an eye on the beautiful creature that had just invaded his space.

“So, what made you decide on this neighborhood?” You asked, rocking back and forth on your heels as you stood back up from your hunched position.

You toed around his garage as he pumped the bike tire out of his line of vision but not his mind.

“Uh, I don’t know. The house was cheap, I guess.” He answered back.

You ran your finger along the dusty lines in a small fridge at the corner of the garage as you continued to speak. “Meet any other neighbors?”

“Uh, no. Hey, I’m trying to do this, so if you could..yeah.” He couldn’t string together the precise words, but his meaning came through. He wanted you to cut out whatever the hell you were doing where he couldn’t see.

Not that you would actually listen, but you did give him a sassy “Sor-ry.”

“Thank you for helping me. I promise I’ll be very appreciative.” You said as you cracked the door open on the little fridge, feeling the cool air on your shins, before leaning down to look at its contents. The sound only just made him stop tinkering with the bike and toss you a glance over his shoulder. It wasn’t until he heard the ‘pst’ of someone cracking open a can of his beer that it spurred him back onto his feet.

“Hey, get the fuck out of there!” He yells behind his shoulder before fully standing. He watched, fuming a little, as you brought the open can to your lips for a taste.

He rushed across the small garage to rip the cab from your fingers, shouting out, “What the fuck do you think you're doing?!” before knocking the cab down instead.

It spilled out over the both of you, coating your clothes and his hands.

“Jesus, god damn it!” As he shakes the beer from his fingers as he sets the now empty can aside, trying not to just throw it at you.

You only gave a little “oh no” as you pulled at your now wet clothes.

He was already tearing at his soggy t-shit to pull it free from his body, not wanting anymore sticky skin. You followed suit, pulling your top over your head and letting your soft and unencumbered breasts fall free from the fabric. A cool breeze blew through from the opening of the garage, making your bare buds perk up against the chill.

Robert was at a loss for even a single thought at the sight of you. That breeze is the first thing to snap him back into reality. He’s at a loss as to what to do first: cover you up or shut the garage so no other neighbors could see the display you’d made.

He moves quickly now, jumping after the cord for the garage door and yanking it down until it hits the cement with a hard clunk.

He turned back as you began to unbutton your shorts to free yourself from the wet denim. He has to rush over and grab the hem of your shorts just to keep you from slipping them down your body and completely exposing yourself to him.

He shouts out at you with “What the fuck are you doing?”

“My clothes got dirty.” You say this as if it were a matter of fact, like this was something completely normal to do in the presence of a strange man.

“What?!” Robert was entirely confused, half certain that none of this could be reality. Surely he had passed out from the heat, and this was some gorgeous fever dream.

“You spilled beer on my clothes; I have to take them off.” You spoke softly, more demure as you slid your hands over his as he gripped your undone jeans. You were gentle, especially compared to the stiffening of his muscles as you ran your nails lightly up and down his arms.

When Robert wasn’t immediately responsive, you taped at the nose piece of his glasses, pushing them up his face as you taunted him. "Geez, you’re thick.”

You had gotten close, nearly tickling the tip of his nose with yours.

“You know, I was hoping to say that when I actually got your pants off.”

You were devious. You had never seen ‘Robert’ in the neighborhood before and you sure as hell hadn’t seen any moving trucks to signal a new neighbor's presents in your cozy little burb. He looked wild, messy long hair, wide shoulders and a thick air of aggravation around him. The muscles in his neck had tightened as he had fought against the inner workings of his car.

You had thought you had a shot, but he had seemed so unreceptive. You definitely didn’t account for the spilling of the beer you had taken, but you worked it in your favor.

He simply puffed out a sharp breath, looking down at your exposed skin and realizing the absurdity of fighting against you. It was the first time he actually stopped to ask himself why he was trying to stop you.

He let you take his hands in yours, helping him push the wet denim down your body until they finally fell to the dusty floor before you kicked them away.

His voice was much more subdued, almost weak, as you cornered him against the side of his car. “What the hell are you doing?” He spoke more in awe this time. He was never this lucky, so you’d have to excuse his consistent skepticism.

You smiled once his hands had left the hem of your shorts and spread along your bare skin. You nuzzled over his cheek, leaning in to ghost your lips along the scruff of his mustache and beard. Whispering lowly, “I think you know exactly what I’m doing,” before finally stealing a heated little kiss.

It was quick, even searing. Even within this sweltering garage, he made your skin flush even hotter. At first, he hadn’t been as receptive as you’d hoped he would be, but as he pressed into the kiss you knew he’d finally come around.

Robert completely switched, becoming more aggressive with the way he handled you as he dragged his teeth over your lower lip before sucking it between them. You smiled with a happy whine as his mouth tore away to pepper sloppy, desperate kisses over your jaw and along your neck and shoulder.

Your fingers spread over his wide shoudlers, pulling him closer until his chest was squished against your plush breasts. His hands gripped either side of your waist, holding on tight as if you could fly away at any moment.

His fingers didn't wander over the parts of your body where you needed them the most. Out of a little frustration, you basically had to grab his digits too harshly so as to guide him to drag them over your hip. His hand didn't want to leave your soft flesh, and you laughed as you forced it over your belly and down the front of your panties.

“C’mon, I need you to touch me, Robert.” You sounded impatient, but you were met with an equally needy growl of agreement as it rumbled from his chest.

His fingers kicked into action as soon as a tip touched one of your hidden folds. You hummed with joy, giggling against his lips as you stole another kiss.

His fingers wove through your lower lips to play at your entrance. You’re raking your fingers through his long hair as he’s dragging his thick digits through the soft petals of your soppy cunt.

His left hand traveled further down your body, sliding through the waistband of those lace panties. His right fingers pumped through your wet sex as he fought to gain purchase around the thin material of your underwear. His mind was too preoccupied with bumping his knuckles along your inner walls as he broke his lips away again to bite at your neck. The bruises he’d leave would bloom angry and purple by tomorrow.

An animalistic part of his brain became fed up with this last scrap of fabric as it stuck to your body, and his nails tore through it in protest before he ripped it with a sickening crack of snapping seams. It stayed stuck around the side of your other leg but fell to ribbons alongside the other.

His hands reached further, gripping your by the back of your soft squeezable thighs and hoisted you up so that your sneakers dangled a good 6 inches off the floor.

Your ass crashes against a shabby tool bench that helped to sandwich the two of you next to the car. It came with the house, and he was planning to just chuck it out, but somehow it became incredibly useful.

With you more or less safely perched at cock height, he began tearing apart his belt buckle so he could shimmy his jeans down to his thighs.

“Is this even fucking real?” He growls under his breath, moreso to himself, but you laugh anyway.

His hands were hungry, dragging and clawing over your body. It was as if he needed to memorize its shape, as if by some stroke of terrible luck you could disappear within an instant.

His boxer band is on display before he grabs a handful of cloth and denim to pull it down to his thighs. His cock is more alive than it had been in months, and with the option of real pussy on the line, it was throbbing, bobbing against his stomach as he pulled it free.

“Oh shit. Are you sure?” He still doubted, frustrating you just a little bit more.

You nod back, whimpering, “Yes, yes!”

“You’re not gonna turn back into a pumpkin the second I stick it in, will ya?” He chuckled, finally letting himself relax.

“Oh what, you think you’re fuckin funny all of a sudden?” You say as you wrapped your legs around his back to pull him flush against your lower body.

This time he’s taking the hint and aligning the tip with the soft pink opening of your flower. He nearly wanted to commit the image of it to memory, but for now he couldn’t leave either of you waiting a single second, and he pushed through your tight little opening.

Oh, what a beautiful young lady you were! You were practically flexing around his cock as he pushed further in.

“Fuck Me.” He gritted out as he ground his teeth together.

He fucks you just like that, bent over your splayed body, carefully pumping through your tight channel. He was eager now, paying no mind to your tight expression as he stretched your walls apart.

His hips started to piston back and forth, making the old wooden legs of that work bench creak in protest of the misuse. You were hanging off the edge, one shoed foot propped up by the heel on the side of the bench, and the other grazing against the cement floor in the hopes of balancing itself.

You whine at the tickling and the flutter of his cock dragging along your inner walls, stirring your pussy and making you cry. You sang his name—a tune he’d never thought he’d hear sung from such sweet lips.

The garage is humid, with thick and sticky hot air clouding over you both as he plunged in and out of your wet heat. Each slam of his hips sent a ricochet of something hot, like a satisfying burn shooting up your belly and smoldering against the back of your eyelids.

Each shot of that white-hot bliss built into a waiting inferno until it all burst apart. You nearly couldn’t breathe as you unraveled around him, and he ground his teeth together as his own end neared.

For as fuck drunk as you had made him, he still had some sense to pull himself free from your gushing flower before his cock began to seize. Instead, he spilled out all over your soft belly.

His cock continued to twitch, dribbling out a last few beads of white nectar before beginning to soften.

Robert was fighting to catch his breath while being suffocated by the cloud of heat the two of you had made in that small garage.

“Fuck.” He groaned as he pulled his shirt up to wipe the sweat from his face, pushing up his glasses in the process.

You had to push yourself to sit up before carefully hopping down. The cum was still thick and wet, threatening to drip down your stomach and between your legs from the change of position.

“You’ve made me all dirty.” You whined.

“Uh, sorry.” His eyes were lidded, barely registering your words other than those that required an apology from himself.

“Well, I’m gonna need a shower.” You spoke, but he wasn’t really listening anymore. He’s still so dumbfounded as you saunter right for the entrance to his house from the measly little garage.

It took him a minute to regain his bearings; only after taking a breath did he realize that the strange temptress that had bested him was now wandering through his house.

“Wait, a fuckin minute!” He shouted as he ran after you.

[thedrillerkiller]

the look I’m going for with my new glasses

imagining being chased down by mr. freezy. hopefully he’ll tie me up in the back of his ice cream van🫠🫠🫠

[siriuslysirius05]

Just Married!

…in spirit, not legal. Because, in 1990, gay marriage is not legal.

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: pedal to the floor on the slider one-shot this week

[lieutenantfloyd]

Hondo, to Maverick: When was the last time you let someone hug you? Maverick: *thinking* Maverick: 2012. Hondo: 2012…? Maverick: Yeah. I almost died and it really freaked Iceman out so I let him hug me.

[joe-spookyy]

part 2 comics and miscellaneous

comics

clint barton + kate bishop/hawkeye (marvel comics NOT mcu)

scott summers/cyclops (x-men)

bobby drake/iceman (x-men)

misc

rosencrantz and guildenstern (ragad)

like. everyone. (star wars)

vibes tbh (red dead redemption 2)

everyone (the magnus archives)

who gaf. here’s all my character/media playlists. i'm not into all of these anymore but i still think they're neat and i love to share.

part 1 tv shows

buffy summers (btvs)

xander harris (btvs)

willow rosenberg (btvs

daniel “oz” osbourne (btvs)

spike (btvs)

dana scully (x-files)

fox mulder (x-files)

aziraphale and crowley (good omens)

[gay-mike-wheeler]

leaked st5 scene /j

(redraw of the iceman coming out scene from all-new x-men 2012 #40)

i’ve never drawn el or mike before so if this sucks uhh please don’t tell me 👍

original under the cut

[dailychrisevans]

CHRIS EVANS as Robert Pronge / Mr. Freezy THE ICEMAN (2012) dir. Ariel Vromen

[beyondthefold]

CHRIS EVANS as MR. FREEZY The Iceman (2012) | dir. Ariel Vromen

[nightmareinfloral]

Eye-Boy: Where to Read?

Trevor Hawkins, also known as Eye-Boy, is a mutant whose entire body is covered in a total of 57 eyes. These eyes give him enhanced visual abilities such as telescopic, microscopic, night, and x-ray vision, as well as allow him to very accurately read micro-expressions, body language, and nonverbal cues. He can also emit blasts of solar energy. Below the cut is a complete list of Trevor’s appearances updated as of April 2024.

Wolverine and the X-men (2011) 19, 21-23, 25, 27-29, 31

A+X (2012) 4, 9

Wolverine and the X-men (2011) 32, 38-39, Annual 1, 40-42

Young Avengers (2013) 14

Wolverine and the X-men (2014) 1-2

Nightcrawler (2014) 1

Wolverine (2014) 4

Wolverine and the X-men (2014) 3-6

Nightcrawler (2014) 5

Wolverine and the X-men (2014) 10

Nightcrawler (2014) 8

Spider-man and the X-men (2014) 1-6

Storm (2014) 10-11

All-New X-men (2015) 9

Star-lord (2016) 1

X-men: Gold (2017) 1

Generation X (2017) 1-3

X-men: Gold (2017) 7

Generation X (2017) 4-6

X-men: Gold (2017) 14

Generation X (2017) 8-9, 85

Iceman (2017) 9

X-men: Gold (2017) Annual 1

Generation X (2017) 86

Iceman (2017) 10

Generation X (2017) 87

Venomized (2018) 1, 4

Old Man Logan (2016) 39-40

Iceman (2018) 1

Domino (2018) Annual 1

X-men: Black- Mojo (2018) 1

The Merry X-men Holiday Special (2018) 1

Uncanny X-men (2018) 9, 10

Age of X-man: Apocalypse and the X-Tracts (2019) 1-5

Age of X-man: Omega (2019) 1

New Mutants (2019) 7

Giant-Size X-men: Nightcrawler (2020) 1

X-Factor (2020) 1-3

X of Swords: Destruction (2020) 1

X-Factor (2020) 5

Excalibur (2019) 16

X-Factor (2020) 6

New Mutants (2019) 15

X-Factor (2020) 7

New Mutants (2019) 16

X-Factor (2020) 8

Women of Marvel (2021) 1

Hellfire Gala Guide (2021) 1

X-Factor (2020) 9

New Mutants (2019) 18

Excalibur (2019) 21

X-Factor (2020) 10

Children of the Atom (2021) 6

X-men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) 1

Marauders (2019) 23

X-men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) 2

X-men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) 6

X-men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) 3-5

X-men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) 20, 42

X-men (2021) 20

Love Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) 44

X-men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) 86-87

Marvel’s Voices: X-men (2023) 1

[ratralsis]

What is Mega Man about?

You're a kid in the 1980s. You've just gotten a copy of Mega Man for the NES, and, like all good kids getting an NES game, you pore over the manual. The manual is one of the best parts. A little book to tell you everything. And it does. It tells you what the game is about:

(Source: https://kobun20.interordi.com/2012/12/12/the-rock-manual)

It's MEGA MAN versus the powerful leaders and fighting forces of Monsteropolis -- that strange multi-faceted land of robot-like Humanoids.

Brilliant scientist Dr. Wright conceived the construction of fully-operational human-like experimental robots to perform specific everyday duties. Dr. Wright, and his assistant Dr. Wily, encouraged with their very first near-human robot -- MEGA MAN -- proceeded to develop six additional Humanoids, all programmed to perform prescribed rituals:

You read on about the six robot masters. Cutman is a lumberjack. Gutsman is a bulldozing character. Iceman is capable of human-like performances under extreme climatic conditions. Bombman is a real "blaster." Fireman melts and molds metal. And Elecman is planned for conducting electrical operations. You might not know some of the words, like "climatic," but it's fine. You get the gist of it. Then there's the last two paragraphs:

But, with the exception of MEGA MAN, all of Dr. Wright's near-human robot experimentation went awry. Assistant Dr. Wily turned disloyal, re-programming Dr. Wright's Humanoids, now bent on destroying opposition so Dr. Wily could control the world and its resources.

Resisting re-programming, MEGA MAN is chosen the defender of the universe and its inhabitants. MEGA MAN dares to single-handedly penetrate seven separate empires of Monsteropolis, eliminating the leaders and followers of these sovereignties.

Get ready for some very exciting challenges!

You definitely don't know words like "sovereignties," and you stumble a bit over "is chosen the defender," but you now know all there is to know of the story of Mega Man. You are the very first near-human robot, resisting re-programming, and you have to go penetrate seven empires to eliminate everything to do with them.

You might wonder how Mega Man resisted his re-programming. How were any of the other robots re-programmed? Did Dr. Wily have to plug a cable into them? And Mega Man just didn't have the right connectors? Did Dr. Wily try to get into Mega Man's code and discover that he just didn't know the old code style, before he and Dr. Wright standardized it for the other six Humanoids? Or was it some kind of radio signal that Mega Man was resistant to? And if so, why weren't the others?

You'll never know, and it doesn't matter. In truth, you never wondered about it at all. I only said you might. You simply took all of that as fact. "Okay," you thought. "Mega Man resisted re-programming. Now he has to get ready for some very exciting challenges."

The Japanese manual gives a slightly different perspective:

“Rock” was a household robot whom Dr. Right had always regarded as his own son. Now, in order to stop the 6 robots he had built with his very own hands and to recover each of their central cores, the Doctor has transformed Rock into the fighting robot “Rockman.”

You can imagine Dr. Wright however you'd like, though. Perhaps he sees Mega Man as nothing more than a tool. Perhaps it breaks his heart to send his beloved son out to destroy his other creations. Perhaps, when he first built Mega Man's Mega Buster, he apologized to Mega Man. Told him that he knew this was not a blessing. It was a curse. He ordered one of his creations to destroy the other creations.

But he didn't. He didn't do anything like that. Or if he did, you'll never know for sure. All you know is what the manual tells you.

You start up the game. You are Mega Man. You are the strongest fully-operational human-like experimental robot there is, and you are going to destroy the sovereignties of six other robots who dared go against humanity, and you are going to destroy Dr. Wily. The first thing you see is a stage select screen. CUTMAN is already highlighted. You choose that stage by pressing start.

You don't last long. You move slowly. Your gun fires small projectiles that are difficult to aim. Your enemies make short work of you. Your health drops. Eventually, Mega Man dies. He explodes in a flash of light. Or maybe you fall into a pit, and you don't even see that.

You start over. Maybe you make it a little bit farther this time, but you still die. Again, and again, until you run out of lives. The game is over. Mega Man has failed to even make it to the first Humanoid. So much for your exciting adventure. But you persevere, and you try again and again, learning how to make Mega Man move the way he needs to move, shoot the way he needs to shoot, and jump the way he needs to jump to make it past overwhelming odds. You make it to Cutman.

You realize, then, that Mega Man isn't very strong. Cutman tears you apart. He leaps across the screen, higher and farther and faster than you can possibly jump. His scissors take off many bars of your health, and your little gun can't compete. He kills you, but it's okay. You start right there at the boss fight. But he kills you again, until you have to start over from the very beginning of his stage.

Mega Man isn't the strongest fully-operational human-like experimental robot there is. He's slow and he's weak, and he can't compete against these monsters who are so much stronger than him. It's impossible! You know it is.

But what else are you going to do? You keep trying. You learn the patterns. You learn how to jump over some shots, run under Cutman's jumps. You get the timing down, and you shoot him out of the air. Eventually, through sheer determination and repetition, you learn Cutman's moves until you start doing real damage to him. You run him out of life, and he blows up just like you would have if it had been your life that ran out. You pick up the giant coin he leaves behind. The stage is over. You've done it. You've defeated one of the six Humanoids. Even better: you got his weapon.

You move on to the next stage. You try out the new weapon. It's exciting, seeing it there, but eventually you die again, and you're back to the stage select screen. There's a moment of panic as you wonder if you're going to have to fight Cutman again, but you don't. You can keep it and keep playing.

Time goes on, and you get better and better at the game by learning all of the ins and outs and little details. It's never easy when you find a new area for the first time. You don't know what to expect, and you're taken by surprise by spikes and dripping acid and flying robots that come from nowhere and blocks that appear and disappear. You write down passwords so you can come back another day, and another, and another.

You push through it all, each death teaching you something new, so that you can get one step further each time. Until, at last, you're face-to-face with the ultimate enemy. There he is. Dr. Wily himself. You're going to have to fight him, too, even though you're scared of what he might throw at you. Like every other boss, he kills you over and over again as you learn his moves. He has a pattern, though.

They all have patterns. That's how you win. That's how you always win. They follow rules about how they're going to move. When they'll jump. When they'll fire. When they'll run. You don't. You move however you want to, and you learn how to weave your way through all their patterns until you can beat them.

Dr. Wily is no exception. It takes you a long time, but you eventually blow him up, too. Dr. Wily leaps from his destroyed machine and begs you for mercy. You give it to him, whether you want to or not.

"MEGAMAN HAS ENDED THE EVIL DOMINATION OF Dr.WILY AND RESTORED THE WORLD TO PEACE," the game tells you. You watch Mega Man walk home. He sheds his armor and goes back to being a normal boy. Was he always like that, underneath? He makes it home. Dr. Wright is there, and a girl you don't know.

What you do know is that Mega Man is home. He was sent out into the world to destroy the six Humanoids, and he did it. He was the strongest robot in the world after all. All it took was practice, and hard work, for you to realize it. You learned, and you memorized, and you tried again and again and again until you knew enough and had fast enough reflexes that you could defeat every single one of those bosses just the one time that you needed to in order to beat the entire game.

It doesn't matter how many times they beat you. You only have to beat them once. That's all it takes, even if they're stronger, and faster, and tougher. You can lose ninety-nine times out of a hundred, so long as you win even once. And so, that's what you do.

It's what cartoons and comics and movies can never capture about a game like Mega Man. The constant and repeated crushing defeats. The moments of hopelessness, and shock. The feeling of a new obstacle you don't know how to overcome, until you figure it out, and you overcome it. No TV show is going to show Mega Man dying a dozen times in a dozen different ways, slowly chipping away a little more of his opponent's health bar each time, until he wins just once. No comic book is going to show Mega Man falling into pit traps or exploding when he lands on some spikes, only for him to keep falling into them and dying over and over. That's something only video games can depict: the feeling of failing your way forward, of losing and being defeated and clawing your way forward anyway.

Mega Man is the strongest robot in the world just once, after dozens, or even hundreds, of deaths that proved he wasn't. He's small and he's weak and he tries again and again until he hits upon that one-in-a-hundred strategy that works.

When Mega Man arrives home at the end of the game to see Dr. Wright again, Dr. Wright doesn't say "I'm sorry you suffered so much." He doesn't say "I'm sorry about all those times you were destroyed." Those deaths didn't happen. In the world of Mega Man, Mega Man won. That's the only thing that happened. In the world of Mega Man, Dr. Wright looks at his beloved son returning home, and he says, "I knew you could do it. I knew you were the strongest robot in the world."

And so, when Mega Man 2 comes out, you don't hesitate. You know you can do it again. You hear that there are eight robot masters this time, and they might be even stronger than the last ones. But that's okay. You know something that they don't.

You know that Mega Man is the strongest robot in the world, and he's going to win.

Eventually.

[scuddish]

CHRIS EVANS as ROBERT “MR. FREEZY” PRONGE THE ICEMAN 2012 | dir. Ariel Vromen

[lovecatsys]

Dark Wolverine #21 (2012) // Iceman #8 (2018)

[afaimscorner]

Liste der 97 besten X-Comics-Charaktere

Rogue (Anna Marie LeBeau) (1981)

Kitty Pryde (Shadowkat) (1980)

Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (1990)

Laura Kinney (Wolverine) (2004)

Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) (1967)

Dani Moonstar (Mirage) (1982)

Illyana Rasputin (Magik) (1975)

Magneto (Max Eisenhart) (1963)

Alex Summers (Havok) (1969)

Jean Grey (Phoenix) (1963)

Scott Summers (Cylops) (1963)

Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane) (1982)

Lorna Dane (Polaris) (1968)

Doug Ramsey (Cypher) (1984)

Storm (Ororo Munroe) (1975)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (1975)

Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (1967)

 Siryn (Theresa Rourke) (1981)

Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) (1982)

Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta) (1982)

Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter) (1987)

Northstar (Jean Paul Beaubier) (1979)

Husk (Paige Guthrie) (1986)

Blink (Exiles) (Clarice Ferguson) (1994)

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox) (1974)

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (1964)

Rachel Summers (Askani) (1981)

Mimic (Exiles) (Calvin Rankin) (2001)

Hellion (Julian Keller) (2003)

Elixir (Josh Foley) (2003)

Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (2003)

Warren Worthington III (Archangel) (1963)

Iceman (Bobby Drake) (1963)

Logan (Wolverine, James Howlett) (1974)

Tabby (Tabitha Smith, Boom Boom) (1985)

Karma (Shi’an McCoy) (1980)

M (Monet St. Croix) (1994)

Alison Blair (Dazzler) (1980)

Strong Guy (Guido Carosella) (1985)

Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (1965)

Nocturne (T. J. Wagner) (2001)

Betsy Braddock (Captain Britain) (1976)

Brian Braddock (Captain Avalon) (1976)

Mystique (Raven Darkholm) (1978)

Maddie Pryor (Goblin Queen) (1983)

Madison Jeffries (1983)

Jay Guthrie (Icarus) (1984)

Lila Cheney (1984)

Rusty Collins (1986)

Skids (Sally Belvins) (1986)

Domino (Neena Thurman) (1992)

Nate Grey (X-Man) (1995)

Pete Wisdom (1995)

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)(2002)

Noriko Ashida (Surge) (2004)

Heather Mac Daniel Hudson (Sasquatch) (Exiles) (2002)

Quentin Quire (Kid Omega) (2003)

Laurie Collins (Wallflower) (2003)

Santo Vaccarro (Rockslide) (2003)

Pixie (Meggan Gwyn) (2004)

Amor (Hisako Ichiki) (2004)

Layla Miller (2006)

Gabby Kinney (Scout) ((2015)

Hope Summers (2007)

Magma (Amara Aquilla) (1983)

Warlock (1984)

Mindee Cuckoo (2001)

Longshot (1985)

Chamber (Jonathan Starsmore) (1994)

Destiny (Irene Adler) (1981)

Empath (Manuel Alfonzo Rodrigo de la Rocha)(1984)

Emma Frost (White Queen) (1980)

Cecilia Reyes (1997)

Callisto (1983)

Caliban (1981)

Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (1964)

Snowbird (Naya Eason) (1979)

Oya (Idie Okonkwo) 2010)

Vulcan (Gabriel Summer) (2006)

Eva Bell (2012)

Goldballs (Fabio Medina, Egg) (2013)

Christopher Summers (Corsair) (1977)

Hepzibah (1977)

Moira MacTaggert (1975)

Mac (James Hudson, Guardian) (1978)

Heather McDonalds (Nemesis) (1980)

Aurora (Jeanne Marie Beaubier) (1979)

Daken (Akihiro, Fang) (2006)

Eyeboy (Trevor Hawkins) (2012)

Phoebe Cuckoo (2001)

Celeste Cuckoo (2001)

Trance (Hope Abbot) (2005)

Deadpool (Wade Wilson) (1991)

Gabriel Cohuelo (Velocidad) (2010)

Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) (2005)

Sabretooth (AoA) (Viktor Creed) (1994)

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee) (1989)

[jolikmc-thoughts]

I really need to do more reports regarding what I've been watching…

I recently finished watching Ultimate Spider-Man from 2012. It starts off kind of annoying, since it ditches the whole "Spider-Man doing his own thing" pretty early. It also kind of tanks in the middle of Season 3, but I'll get to that.

The initial premise is "what if S.H.I.E.L.D. made a team of teenage heroes and trained them to their 'ultimate' potential?" Well, Nick Fury does exactly that, tossing an eclectic team of Spider-Man, Nova, White Tiger, and Iron Fist head-first into training and being super. I wasn't on-board at first, since I kind of prefer how other series did Spider-Man and his day-to-day life, but it didn't take long for the other characters to grow on me.

Nova is a dork. White Tiger is pretty cool. But Iron Fist? He's simply the best of the team, aside from Spidey. He's the best of both a "surfer dude" and "zen martial artist" and is often the voice of neutrality when problems within the team pop up. He has his issues, of course, but he's just a joy to have around!

So, around the middle of Season 3, the series shifts dramatically and starts focusing almost exclusively on the "Web Warriors" of Iron Spider, Kid Arachnid, Agent Venom, and Scarlet Spider. And… the show quickly goes downhill from that point on. There are still a few good episodes here and there, but the shift to the "spider-clones" just makes for a really uninteresting and unappealing show, to me. Why they thought this was a good idea is beyond me. 'Cause it wasn't.

Anyway… while it's not as absolutely amazing as Spectacular Spider-Man or even Spider-Man (2016), it has its charms. For example, it absolutely loves… loves… to make shout-outs to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends from the 1980s. I was kind of surprised Iceman and Firestar didn't show up at some point, even if just for a cameo. They did bring back the worst villain from that series: Swarm, but made it way more interesting, so there's that. Beetle is there, too, though I don't think he originated from Amazing Friends. I digress, though.

Flaws aside, it's a pretty decent watch and I'd recommend it. Just don't let this very strange interpretation of Dr. Octopus turn you away too hard. It's… unique.

[fun-k-board]

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Marvel media included: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man 2012, The Amazing Spider-Man, Into The Spider-Verse, Across The Spider-Verse, Insomniac's Spider-Man, X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men '97, X-Men: Evolution, Fox's X-Men, Wolverine and The X-Men, Fantastic Four 2005-2007, Daredevil, Punisher, Moon Knight, Marvel Rivals.

The Spectacular Spider-Man

Alexander O'Hirn / Rhino

Curtis ' Curt ' Conners / Lizard

Edward ' Eddie ' Charles Allan Brock / Venom

Elizabeth ' Liz ' Allen

Eugene ' Fash ' Thompson / Venom

Felicia Hardy / Black Cat

Flint Marko / Sandman

Gwendolyn ' Gwen ' Stacy

Harold Theopolis ' Harry ' Osborn

Jackson W. Brice / Montana / Shocker

Mark Allan / Molten Man

Mary Jane ' MJ ' Watson

Maxwell ' Max ' Dillon / Electro

Otto Gunther Octavius / Doctor Octopus

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Quentin Beck / Mysterio

Ultimate Spider-Man 2012

Amadeus Cho / Iron Spider

Ava Ayala / White Tiger

Ben Reilly / Scarlet Spider

Daniel Thomas ' Danny ' Rand / Iron Fist

Eugene ' Flash ' Thompson / Agent Venom

Harold Theopolis ' Harry ' Osborn / Patrioteer / Anti-Venom

Lucas ' Luke ' Cage / Power Man

Mary Jane ' MJ ' Watson / Spider-Woman

Miles Gonzalo Morales / Kid Arachnid

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Samuel ' Sam ' Alexander / Nova

The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 - 2014

Curtis ' Curt ' Conners / Lizard

Gwendolyn ' Gwen ' Stacy

Harold Theopolis ' Harry ' Osborn / Green Goblin

Maxwell ' Max ' Dillon / Electro

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Spider-Man : Into / Across The Spider-Verse

Ben Reilly / Scarlet Spider

Gwendolyn ' Gwen ' Stacy / Ghost-Spider / Spider-Woman

Hobart ' Hobie ' Brown / Spider-Man / Spider-Punk

Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman

Margo Kess / Spiderbyte

Miles Gonzalo Morales / Spider-Man

Miles Gonzalo Morales / The Prowler

Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Noir

Marvels Spider-Man 1/2 and Miles Morales

Felicia Hardy / Black Cat

Harold Theopolis ' Harry ' Osborn

MacDonald ' Mac ' Gargan / Scorpion

Martin Li / Mister Negative

Mary Jane ' MJ ' Watson

Miles Gonzalo Morales / Spider-Man

Otto Gunther Octavius / Doctor Octopus

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Phin Mason / The Tinkerer

Silver Sablinova / Silver Sable

Yuriko ' Yuri ' Watanabe / Wraith

X-Men : The Animated Series / '97

Anna Marie Darkhölme / Rogue

Henry Phillip ' Hank ' McCoy / Beast

James ' Logan ' Howlett / Weapon X / Wolverine

Jean Elaine Grey / Marvel Girl / Phoenix / Dark Phoenix

Jubilation Lee / Jubilee

Kevin Sydney / Morph

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Lucas Bishop

Madelyne Pryor / The Goblin Queen

Max Eisenhardt / Erik Magnus Lehnsherr / Magneto

Ororo Munroe / Storm

Pietro Django Maximoff / Quicksilver

Piotr ' Peter ' Nikolayevich Rasputin / Colossus

Raven Darkhölme / Raven

Remy Etienne LeBeau / Gambit

Roberto ' Bobby ' Da Costa / Sunspot

Scott Summers / Cyclops

Wanda Django Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

X-Men : Evolution

Alexander Summers / Alexander Masters / Havok

Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla / Alison Crestmere / Magma

Anna Marie Darkhölme / Rogue

Danielle ' Dani ' Moonstar / Psyche / Mirage

Evan Daniels / Spyke

Frederick J. ' Fred ' Dukes

Henry Phillip ' Hank ' McCoy / Beast

James ' Logan ' Howlett / Weapon X / Wolverine

James Arthur Madrox / Multiple

Jean Elaine Grey / Marvel Girl / Phoenix / Dark Phoenix

Jubilation ' Jubilee ' Lee

Katherine Anne ' Kitty ' Pryde / Shadowcat

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Lance Alvers / Avalanche

Ororo Munroe / Storm

Pietro Django Maximoff / Quicksilver

Piotr ' Peter ' Nikolayevich Rasputin / Colossus

Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane

Raven Darkhölme / Mystique

Ray Carter / Berserker

Remy Etienne LeBeau / Gambit

Robert Louis ' Bobby ' Drake / Iceman

Roberto ' Bobby ' Da Costa / Sunspot

Samuel Zachary Guthrie / Cannonball

Scott Summers / Cyclops

St. John Allerdyce / Pyro

Tabitha Smith / Boom Boom

Todd Tolansky / Toad

Wanda Django Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

Warren Kenneth Worthington III / Angel

X-23

Fox X-Men Movies (All Timelines)

Alexander Summers / Alexander Masters / Havok

Anna Marie D'Ancanto / Rogue

Charles Francis Xavier / Professor X

Henry Phillip ' Hank ' McCoy / Beast

James ' Logan ' Howlett / Weapon X / Wolverine

Jean Elaine Grey / Marvel Girl / Phoenix / Dark Phoenix

Jubilation ' Jubilee ' Lee

Katherine Anne ' Kitty ' Pryde / Shadowcat

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Max Eisenhardt / Erik Magnus Lehnsherr / Magneto

Ororo Munroe / Storm

Peter Django Maximoff / Quicksilver

Raven Darkhölme / Mystique

Remy Etienne LeBeau / Gambit

Robert Louis ' Bobby ' Drake / Iceman

Roberto ' Bobby ' Da Costa / Sunspot

Scott Summers / Cyclops

Sean Cassidy / Banshee

St. John Allerdyce / Pyro

Warren Kenneth Worthington III / Angel

Wolverine and The X-Men

Anna Marie Darkhölme / Rogue

Emma Grace Frost / White Queen

Henry Phillip ' Hank ' McCoy / Beast

James ' Logan ' Howlett / Weapon X / Wolverine

Jean Elaine Grey / Marvel Girl / Phoenix / Dark Phoenix

Jonathon Silvercloud / Forge

Jubilation ' Jubilee ' Lee

Julian Keller / Hellion

Katherine Anne ' Kitty ' Pryde / Shadowcat

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Laura Kinney / X-23 / Wolverine

Lorna Sally Dane / Polaris

Mortimer Toynbee / Toad

Neena Thurman / Domino

Ororo Munroe / Storm

Pietro Django Maximoff / Quicksilver

Piotr ' Peter ' Nikolayevich Rasputin / Colossus

Raven Darkhölme / Mystique

Remy Etienne LeBeau / Gambit

Robert Louis ' Bobby ' Drake / Iceman

Sarah Rushman / Marrow

Scott Summers / Cyclops

Wanda Django Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

Warren Kenneth Worthington III / Angel

Fantastic Four 2005 - 2007

Ben Grimm / The Thing

Johnny Storm / The Human Torch

Richard Reeds / Mister Fantastic

Susan Storm / The Invisible Woman

Daredevil

Matthew Michael 'Matt' Murdock / Daredevil

Karen Page

Franklin Percy 'Foggy' Nelson

James Wesley

Benjamin 'Ben' Urich

Brett Mahoney

Francis David 'Frank' Castle / The Punisher

Elektra Natchios

Rahul 'Ray' Nadeem

Claire Temple

Benjamin 'Dax' Poindexter / Bullseye

Wilson Grant Fisk / Kingpin

Anatoly Ranskahov

Vladimir Ranskahov

Marci Stahl

The Punisher

Francis David 'Frank' Castle / The Punisher

David Lieberman / Micro

Billy Russo / Jigsaw

Dinah Madani

Lewis Wilson

Curtis Hoyle

Sarah Lieberman

Beth Quinn

Amy Bendix

Moon Knight

Marc Spector / Moon Knight

Steven Grant / Mr. Knight

Jake Lockley

Layla El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab

Khonshu

Taweret

Marvel Rivals

Adam Warlock

T'Challa / Black Panther

Natalia 'Natasha' Romanova / Black Widow

Steven 'Steve' Rogers / Captain America

Tyrone 'Ty' Johnson / Cloak

Tandy Bowen / Dagger

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

Groot

Clinton 'Clint' Barton / Hawkeye

Hela

Robert Bruce Banner

Hulk

Lin Lie / Iron Fist

Anthony 'Tony' Stark / Iron Man

Loki Laufeyson

Seol Hee / Luna Snow

Illyana Rasputina / Magik

Max Eisenhardt / Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

Mantis

Marc Spector / Moon Knight

Steven Grant / Moon Knight

Jake Lockley / Moon Knight

Namor McKenzie

Peni Parker

Sai / Psylocke

Rocket Raccoon

Wanda Django Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl

Peter Jason Quill / Star-Lord

Ororo Munroe / Storm

Francis 'Frank' Castle / The Punisher

Thor Odinson

Edward 'Edide' Brock

Venom

James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes / Winter Soldier

James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine