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soarrenbluejay · 1 month

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Supervillains for a community. (Well, except those jerks over in Gotham, insular lot, but they’re they’re one problem) Of course they do- supervillains are a group defined by strong opinions and a willingness to see them through, often with a healthy dash of societal failures and trauma as a catalyst.

The fentons, while not active even on the online message boards, are well known and explosive when they do show up, full of fascinating insights and hours long rants on mad science on hair pin turns courtesy of that ADHD attention span. Bit of the cryptids you feel honored to bump into kind of deal. Besides, like a good quarter of the community as it aged, they’d settled down and had kids (not necessarily in that order) and taken it very seriously! Out in the middle of nowhere, where even the most fearsome government outpost members, the local branch of the IRS, quake before them in fear. Out of the way.

Reveal gone okay-ish, Danny moves to Gotham still to get some air bc now things are Akward and he landed that engineering scholarship which is loads better than any other college would give him with his track record. So- the mysterious Fenton children are finally crawling out of hiding! Everyone is psyched! And roll in to Gotham en masse to witness the fireworks!

Except Danny is Determined To Be Normal. He’s had enough of the throwing himself into harms way shit for a lifetime- he wants to be free to peacefully built Rube Goldberg machines and unintentional increasingly complex bombs to his hearts content. JAZZ, on the other hand- the coveted token Normal One, has finally snapped! She’s watched her baby brother she practically raised throw himself into danger over and over and could do nothing, and now that she’s exposed to this whole network of superheroes outside of small town Amnity, some of those uglier emotions are coming out. And boy is she pissed! And can’t afford to show it much while filing the paperwork to have Arkham legally razed to the ground!

See I love this idea of like, niches in superhero society. A villain the heroes know they can plop their kiddo down with for an exciting afternoon brawl while they take care of a particularly grisly case and come back to a few hours later ranting about some new life lesson and a new move they really want to try. A villain who has a functioning moral compass despite their somewhat batshit long term goal and you can contact to fuck with another villains’s plan so they can laugh at them and you can have an easy afternoon. One who pries up hostile architecture and fills in pot holes, idk man. Get creative here, there’s such potential!

So Jazz becomes a Training villain- someone the heroes know their sidekicks will walk away from in a fight 100% of the time, usually with some new lesson to ponder and only a couple of bruises. Sometimes even snacks!

She also absolutely ambushes mentors to check that they’re worth the kiddo, which they appreciate once they get over being jumped in a dark alley by a 7 foot Amazon trained force of nature. They are not used to being on that side of the jumping, it’s a little unnerving.

(Yes, she low key adopts Shazam upon checking in with him on cursory ‘is the main hero of this city and asshole’ checkin. Yes, the super clones get yoinked out from under Superman’s negligent thumb to go have a blast with Ellie. What about it?)

This however only encourages more assorted weirdos to crawl out of the woodwork. It’s not often one of their own forfeits their potential spot for the running of the coveted Most Normal I Swear prize, but when they do it’s bound to be good! But jazz is off hounding various heroes and punching the faces in of pedophiles and shit whenever there’s no cape within easy reach, and so is a mite bit harder to contact than Danny, who has innocently gotten an apprenticeship under a clockworker for access to their workshop and is gleefully going about doing nerdy shit with great abandon.

Plus this is Gotham. No one gives a shit if someone in the Mad Alchemist uniform and still smoking from their latest experiment pokes their head in a window to bother the local shrimp teen- none of the usual social rules apply, everyone’s crazy here! So everyone drops any and all attempts at masking and just acts their genuine unhinged selves, much to the alarm of the Bats and frustration of Danny.

Bc he cannot get these mfers to go. Away. Even liberal use of the creep stick has little effect when the interloper is calibrated for an opponent with super speed or laser vision or whatever, and he’s trying to maintain his guise as a Normal College Student Do No Investigate.

So he calls in the big guns. He’s not super active in the supervillain kids group chat ever since things in amnity calmed the fuck down post becoming King and then immediately using a loophole that says he will not take the throne until he is grown, as defined by finishing learning his trade a la the medieval standards Pariah set up. So he can just take his sweet ass time with his graduate degree and out of inter dimensional bull shit that much longer! Point is, he hasn’t taken the chance to rant over there in a while, so his Crazy friends are getting a lil worried.

The change to come over and shout at their batshit crazy but (mostly) well meaning parent AND see Danny? Score!

The bats, however, are getting awfully suspicious about this one kid that villains from all over the country are flocking to, especially young and upcoming ones as of recently! And he’s acting his engineering course- all the worst rogues are known to have flown through their PhD studies prior to Cracking. They seem to have a real problem on their hands with this Fenton guy.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #mad science #supervillain community #bonus points if you can pull out some super niche comic villain #justice for kite man #local child of a crazy chemist: so you know that trick you showed me with the soda and the reaction that could turn into just like all foam #Danny: yeah and also back the fuck up #lcoacc: so it’s been like my comfort food right but like I started wondering what you could do #danny: oh no (he says while making what amounts of an overachieving smoke bomb)#lcoacc: so I was like what if I add more of a base to it so it could be solid and then maybe just like a LIL acid to see what happens #Danny: oh ancients #lcoacc: but then the killjoy supes came in a ruined everything from where I was ruining lex Luther’s day #Danny:… did you get in on camera #lcoacc: OF COURSE. oh also like everyone ever if coming over for a sleepover lol #Danny: WHAT I CANT FEED YOU MONSTERS #lcoacc: no worrries we’ll rob a bulk store or something lol #Danny: nO

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winter-came · 2 years

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[altered version of:] "mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be." -by honeytuesday

#one of these days me and/or agentbluefox are gonna unleash a hell upon you #the unholy rant about how reggie and five are actually a little too similar #just think about it #maybe that's also one of the reasons his siblings have a beef with him all the time #somewhere deep down they KNOW he is like reggie #who got closest to five?#luther and klaus #who also made their way to be close with reggie one way or another?#five founded a commission which is basically just a group of well trained soldiers to do as he says #what was the umbrella academy for reggie?#THE VERY SAME THING #both ruthless effecient doing it all for love #yes actually reginald did it all for his abigail #rings a bell???#just...THINK ABOUT IT #umbrella academy edit #number five #umbrella academy #tua #the umbrella academy #tua edit #five hargreeves #tua sad #the boy #five hargreeves sad hours #five hargreeves sad #reginald hargreeves #number five edit #number five sad #number five sad hours

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starfilledsea · 2 years

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i’m a fan of the thcu (tom hopper cinematic universe)

#i think its so funny he's been in so many shows i like even though i could care less about the man #like not only black sails (my favorite show of all time) but merlin??? the umbrella academy??? DOCTOR WHO (which i only realized from his w #wiki)????#insane #mr hopper how do you do it #every time i turn on a show he's just there #the umbrella academy #luther hargreeves #black sails #billy bones #doctor who #tua #dw #idk what his character was on dw it was a small role lmao #bbc merlin #merlin #percival #percival merlin

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evie-writes-sometimes · 5 months

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You've heard of 'people can't handle liking flawed characters and so they woobify them'. Now get ready for 'people try so hard not to be in the first category that they vilify them/make characters worse than they actually are in the name of nuance'.

#this is about many characters but rn it's mainly about five hargreeves #babygirl I've stanned more problematic characters than you can comprehend #and five has a shitton of flaws and has done loads of bad stuff #he's an asshole #but he's also not nearly as much of an asshole as a lot of you make him out to be???#he can be insensitive but no more than any other character #and usually in dire situations (like he was an asshole to viktor about leaving sissy but they were on a time limit??? and he was-#-actually pretty understanding after their argument??)#he comforts allison in s1? he's understanding to luther? he berates lila about diego? he immediately goes with klaus on the road trip?#he doesn't tell viktor that he caused the apocalypse #a bunch of other stuff I can't remember rn #other characters this is about include utena tenjou #love love love anthy but some people try to put the blame on utena for forcing her perceptions on anthy #and put it on the same level as anthy manipulating lying betraying stabbing etc utena #will byers is a much lesser degree but yeah people try to make him. more flawed in everything that happened (the rain fight and rinkomania #fight mostly)#that boy didn't do anything wrong in either and that's okay #kaeya in that genshin rain fight also counts #unless he was actually goading/intending to make diluc angry and upset what did that boy do wrong??? bad timing to confide your secrets #but so what if he did???#since a bunch of stuff is still pretty ambiguous i won't talk to much about #mostly talking about the fanon perception of the fight #but yeah #sometimes characters are just assholes and sometimes they're not assholes and it's okay either way

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taiturner · 2 years

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So... if you're bullshitting me, I don't care. If you're hiding out here and don't want to be found, I understand. I just came here to tell you that I'm sorry for my part in what happened.

The Umbrella Academy 2x02 | The Frankel Footage

#luther hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #tuaedit #the umbrella academy #tua #theumbrellacademyedit #dailynetflix #*#tuas2 #tua202 #tom hopper really gave his all in this scene. the jaw trembling. the mannerisms. the eyes. the voice #viktor really blew up his favorite place almost killed him destroyed the world and luther's like no that's my bad <3 #like he is (rightfully) still fearful of his powers but working solely out of fear did not help anyone last time #viktor could hurt him now and he does not care bc he just needs him to hear this #anyway people will say he didn't have development in s2 but apparently missed this scene bc him going from #'this is what i have to do i'm in charge it's my call' to 'no i thought i knew what i was doing but i was wrong and i let you down' whew #and then he spent the entire season just trying to advocate for viktor which was especially good food for me

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your-favorite-bean · 1 year

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Whenever aliens are introduced into a show, my imagination takes it and runs with it into an entirely different direction

Take umbrella academy into consideration. For the last two seasons, there’s been hints about Reginald being an alien, and that’s also the origin of the siblings powers. Then in season three they sort of revealed more about it. But I want more!!! I want this crazy, eldritch being that uses not just the siblings, but an entire planet as a pawn. Dunno if it’s just me, but I was kind of let down that Reginald has like spiky tentacle arms (kind of crablike???) and that’s all we really see. I mean oblivion being a machine that can reset the universe to your own making is sooooooooo cool I wish that they kind of made everything a bit more…. cosmic sort of.

Honestly, I’m totally okay that they’re not doing it, and it might be a little to bit extra. In fact kind of I like how aliens are in the show, but the plot isn’t centered on the face that there is proven life outside of earth. They’ve got other problems. But it’s because tua is already such a wacky, crazy show, it doesn’t have to be too far of a stretch. A savvy business man that’s actually just a talking goldfish. Sure. A destructive force that obliterates the world because of a few people fucking up the timeline. Why not? A hotel that is actually an Alice in wonderland looking glass kind of thing that is a copy of a hotel which is actually just a cover for a universe altering machine? Loving it!! To quote something that I’ve heard, or maybe it’s just me pretending ive heard of it before, EMBRACE THE WEIRD.

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apinchofsanity · 2 years

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Morons incapable of critical thinking: EvErY OnE hAtInG oN aLLiSoN tHiS sEaSoN iS rAcISt!! 😠😠 YoU lEt tHe WhItE cHaRaCtErS gO FeRaL cAuSe oF tRaUmA aLl tHe TiMe!!! DoUbLe sTaNdArDs!!!

Me: ah... I guess we are just going to ignore the sexual assault then 😬

#umbrella academy #TUA #Allison Hargreaves #shes allowed to be in pain and to be angry at the world yes #but doing that to Luther cause she didn't like not being his number one priority anymore??#fuck no #sorry #call me what you want but that scene was disgusting #the umbrella academy season 3 #TUA season 3 spoilers

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swampxwitchxhattie · 2 years

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Do you have the keys to the hotel? Cus I’m gunna string this motherfucker on fire 🔥

#umbrella acedmy #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #number five #ben hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #my chemical romance #mcr #you know what they do to guys like us in prison

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sad-space-monkey-boi · 2 years

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You know what? Luther’s “I don’t really have friends. Or romances. I just have my family, and I’d do anything to protect them” line WOULD go in my Aro/Ace evidence folder, if he wasn’t saying to the woman he literally marries this season

#you know what??#he’s still aro ace in my book #it’s going in the folder #he’s likely not sex repulsed #but literally just not thinking about sex at all for like #29 years of your life???#mood #no romance #just missions #the only relationships he’s ever had have been with Allison (which is likely because their trauma pushed them towards eachother)#and Sloane (who he knew for like a week and married because the world was ending and he wanted a reason to celebrate all together)#and Sloane showed him a lot of positive attention and support and that perfectly fits the criteria for #‘’do I have a crush on you or are you just nice to me’’#so Aro/Ace Luther ftw #luther hargreeves #the umbrella academy #asexual Luther hargreeves #aromantic Luther hargreeves

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fowlblue · 1 year

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I have been working on this for forever, I’m so glad it’s done- here’s Fission (both forms)! Big bad businesskitty.

She’s another sona of mine and one that is rather important to me, I love her dearly.

#my art #fission #for those new to her yes she’s based on my design of Jon Spiro (alongside a few other characters such as Lex Luther and- obviously-#Handsome Jack)! really just the concept of ‘big bad businessman’ in general #she reflects both a lot of my favorite tropes and a bit of my more abrasive and brash side- alongside my questions about myself regarding #gender and presentation and the like. needless to say I do love her a lot even if she isn’t the nicest of my sonas.#you will see me predominately refer to her as ‘she’ though simply because that’s what I go by most often

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bardicious · 2 years

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I don't know how else to say this, but people need to calm down about the show "ruining" Allison. Like, chiiill. Yeah, she did tons of fucked up things this season, so did lots of the other family members in other seasons (And have you seen the Sparrows???).

This isn't me defending her actions, I'm just saying it's not bad writing for her to have gone down this road???? It's interesting to explore her anger and to see in which ways her powers enable her to take people's rights away. And how much of her is ultimately willing to do it when push comes to shove.

Allison is one of the main story lines of this season and it's well written (As long as it's addressed in later seasons, like Viktor was in Season 2)

And I feel like lots of people are missing out on the part where she was thrust from a very privileged position in the first timeline, where literally no one could say no to her (who knows how she limited her powers before - there's a reason she stopped using it) and went into a time where she was hated for existing and was placed under horrible prejudice and violence while incapable of using her powers. Like???

This characterization is totally legit. The question is, will she redeem herself, or will they let this plotline lie? If they leave it alone, it's bad writing, if they don't, she'll have more transformation and possibly find real ways to cope with her losses and helplessness or become a villain (which I doubt, likely Reggie is our villain next).

Just, like, chill out.

#Bardicious #The Boy Who Survived the Apocalypse #Umbrella Academy #Umbrella Academy Spoilers #Allison Hargreeves #I swear to god if any of yall start with the racism imma smack some bitches #on any point here - because this show seems pretty freaking progressive? like THIS is the show you're claiming is anti black??? ok #psycho take but whatever #and then the racists out for allison - like bitches get out - why cant we have complex characters???#they're all murderers you know??? They only say so like every five fucking minutes #and dont you tell me you think five and the others wouldnt torture anyone #allison stopped herself from doing that to luther - the fact that she tried is so fucked up but she knew in the end that #what she was doing was going too far #that said she still makes me mad - hope she makes up for it in the next season #ua season 3

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five-moreminutes-pls · 2 years

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I cant believe that one of my drafts was me ranking how each hargreeves would be at doing the dougie I am mentally spiraling

Anyway Allison and Diego and the sparrows would do okay at least (maybe except for their Ben) while the rest of the umbrellas are terrible at dancing yes I’m implying that Christopher can do the dougie

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lab-gr0wn-lambs · 2 years

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Luther sure loves walking the extremely-almost-incest tightrope

#I'm sorry but his thing with Sloan makes me uncomfortable too #them making out on the floor while talking about THEIR SHARED FATHER #I do not enjoy that #the umbrella academy #the umbrella academy spoilers #the umbrella academy season 3 #the umbrella academy season 3 spoilers #and I care for Alison I really do but GIRL WHAT #you know the scene I'm talking about #I can understand and forgive most of the things she did this season #I found her antagonistic arc really powerful #HOWEVER #anyways if theres a season 4 I would like Luther to go on a date with a non-hargreeves please

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ziracona · 1 year

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“How could you do this to me?”

“Me? You did this to yourself.”

“It was just business!”

“Wow. You call sleeping with me ‘business’? …I hate to think what that makes you.”

*8,000 airhorns*

#absolute banger day/episode for Lex Luther comebacks #smallville #like what can you even say to that?? literally nothing. also GIRL??? ‘how cna you do this to me!!’ he laid down an UNO. REVERSE. it only did #anything at all bc you used dating him for months as a way to ruin his business?? if you had not betrayed he wouldn’t have flipped right bac #u absolute madwoman

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capsizedskeleton · 2 years

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eyo that clip of sparrow ben holding jayme back in the flashback tho

#i will not elaborate thank you very much #i know the new season came out very recently but i will say smth about this #this is not in a i ship them kind of way this is in an individual action kind of way #which by the way what the fuck was up with allison and luther this season. girl do not disgrace a pool table like that #tua #tua s3 #ben hargreeves #sparrow!ben #the sparrow academy #rambles

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ambersky0319 · 2 years

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HEY ALLISON HONEY NO THAT IS NOT COOL LIKE. AT ALL. LIKE I GET THAT YOURE HURTING AND YOUVE LOST SO MUCH AND WHILE I DO NOT LIKE LUTHER THAT IS DISGUSTING AND IM PRETTY SURE SEXUAL ASSAULT-

#i FIGURED something like this would happen based on the spoilers i saw #but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #writers WTF ARE YOU DOING TO ALLISON'S CHARACTER #YOU COULD HAVE HAD HER BE HURT AND YKNOW GRIEVING /WITHOUT/ HAVING HER ASSAULT LUTHER #im at the point where she had him stop but STILL #anyways #does this make sense?#who knows!#definitely not me!#amber's shit you can ignore #tua s3 spoilers #tua s3 #tua spoilers

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