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If I remember correctly that's was after Claremont era of comics, as he liked Kurt as a swish buckling hero type like an old Hollywood golden age cinema like hero (thus his Earl Flinn obsession) but he did make it clear that Kurt was Catholic. (Early to late 80's)

But religion kind of became Kurt's whole personality in the late 90's and hit a fever pitch in the early 2000's when there was a plot that tried to make him the Frist mutant pope (yes really). After that they put a hard stop on the whole religious aspect of his character until the mid 2010's

I just remembered that in the OG X Men cartoon Kurt is just a random monk in Germany that turns Wolverine Catholic.

Look I know the Claremont era was weird but why tho? Why?

In other news, I miss X-men: Evolution they were kinda cooking with their version of the Morlocks

#kurt wagner #nightcrawler #i cant tell how much i hated the pope story #like wtf #x men #i will post about my fav blue boi tho

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Hi there, I have a rant that this post has unlocked. Now I respect you and your thoughts but you have unlocked my knowledge of media adaptation.

One piece is not a parody but it actually follows a zig-zag approach to genre and tropes of shonen manga. As he does different things at any given time.

plays straight: basically this means Oda follows the tropes of the genre in earnests e.g. power of friendship, power scales, character that looks 'weak' (small, child, elder) is actually super powerful etc.

none of this is a bad as tropes become tropes for a reason and you can have a lot of fun playing in them, [insert every shonen]

2. inversion of tropes: This is most likely what you picked up on as inversion follows a trope to a point but switches something around. Kuina as a character is a great example of this, as the shonen trope is usually: male lead (often young boy) has a rival better than them (also boy) > boy hates them and challenges them all the time and loses> boy spends most of story aiming to beat them> They either can out right or its closes all the time (like it becomes a 50/50 change who will win at any given time).

Oda inverts a step by making Zoro's childhood rival a girl Kuina. But it does not stop there, the trope of the protagonist (in this case Zoro) inevitably beating the rival (Kunia) is played as a tragedy for Kunia not a victory for Zoro, as to her Zoro is not her biggest rival but time and to some degree her own body is. Oda makes Zoro understanding Kunia's pov as the main take away from their rivalry as that is the foundation of his character, not pure strength but loyalty and empathy. As his rivalry is now in some ways a show of loyalty to Kuina and respect for her and her strength but also empathy for her inner strugges as a woman in a mans dominated world (sword fighting in this case). Oda takes steps of these tropes and inverts them to make his story and characters compelling but still every much of the genre.

3. Subversion of tropes: if Oda like to subvert shonen tropes in his writing as well. Going back to Kuina her death is a subversion of the childhood rival trope (and another one but I'll get to it) as the rival often comes back once the protagonist has gotten stronger to test them a final time. But she died and in a house hold accident that anyone can die to. So Zoro has nothing to and no one to take revenge on (another rival trope if they do die) and just has to sit with death as it is rawest and realist form undiscriminating and unforgiving.

but another trope that Oda subverts is a little more subtle. Here's a trope from old school samurai movies, an old rival comes to a ronin and says something like 'I can only lead my house if I defeat you in combat as you are the only one I have lost to and I must clean my slate'. We all know this trope its not dissimilar to a western pistols at dawn trope but plays with past honor a bit more. Here's were Oda subverts this idea with Zoro and Kuina, since Kuina is dead Zoro can never challenged her and 'clean his slate' of her wins and what was their shared dream? to be the worlds greatest swordsmen so even if Zoro achieves this dream Kuina still keeps her win and in a sense also becomes the worlds best also. And Oda has shown that that is something Zoro would be alright with being the case through his inversion and subversion of Zoro as the lone ronin trope as his loyalty to Kuina would win out over any petty feelings.

Oda does this all the time in thousands of small and big ways through out one piece, the reason its so effective is because its so seamless with the story he wants to tell, a story about freedom and choice so how better of a way to show that then by that being his writing style.

op isnt thought of as a shonen parody but like thats fundementally what it is genre wise. its the shonen equivalent of a neil cicierega mouth album. its a parody people dont think of as a parody because good parody is good storytelling

#it's the fucking blender. #one piece #meta #like is is just one example from one character #oda does this shit all the time

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SUMMONING GOOD OMENS ARTISTS (and FIC WRITERS that includes you too)

may i present to you:

✨ GOOD OMENTOBER ✨

31 prompts, 31 days to create something super cool. pls tag me if you use it or use the tag #good omentober (optional) ^0^

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #good omentober

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for my money he is trying to alphabetises them (correctly) again because it is something he does when he is stressed. in the book he tries to sort his records only to realise he had already done it.

cause I think Crowley loves chaos in a "work satisfaction" sense but hates it in places he deems as his personal space (like his apartment, the Bentley and now the book shop)

okay but crowley darling, darkness of my life

why are you carrying books in the first place

#good omens 2 #good omens #crowley #the bro hates bring work home with him

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renaissance in the 21st century

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never posted this here :p (ineffable wives in the 60's)

#cute #good omens 2 #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley

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mAnflesh.

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the problem is that every single popular fanfiction trope could realistically happen to booster gold and ted kord and they'd just be 'well just another tuesday i guess'

#wheres the lie tho #boostle #booster gold #michael carter #ted kord #blue beetle

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Richard was born to be a Older Brother/Father

Nightwing #89 / Superman Son of Kal-El

By: Taylor, Redondo and Lucas.

#nightwing #dick grayson #batman #clark kent #bruce wayne #superboy #superfamily

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rhinoceros beetle

I’m not normally an admirer of tattoos.

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DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!

#x-men #marvel #art

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This is one of my FAVORITE things right now.

Source

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my dad took some ancestry tests and eventually found out who his father was (and that he has 5+ siblings who are also finding all of this out) and honestly it's been pretty bizarre and emotional so far, naturally

but one of the biggest changes for me is no longer having to give the whole spiel of "oh i know i'm racially ambiguos but hey there's a whole story behind it because this that and here's my father's backstory"

like no i... i just have a grandpa from Nigeria now

...that's way less mysterious >:(

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

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help

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