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Rachel Leighton was born in Austin, Texas. She was once a part-time sales clerk at a boutique, but later became a mercenary. In Captain America vol. 1 #319, she reveals to Captain America that she has a brother and that when she was younger was introduced by him to the super-criminal known as the Trapster. In exchange for weaponry that the Trapster provides her with, Leighton suggests that in return she prostitutes herself to the criminal. One of the members of the original Serpent Society,[1] Diamondback was a seductively sly woman with expertise in hand-to-hand combat, being trained by Anaconda at Taskmaster's academy. Her gimmick was that she threw acid-laced or poison-tipped diamonds at her enemies. After her first confrontation with Captain America while on assignment to find MODOK,[2] she was instantly smitten. Diamondback was assigned to take Captain America into custody from the Porcupine, but was reluctant to attack, concentrating her efforts on Porcupine instead.[3] She later attempted to form a partnership with Captain America to locate the Scourge of the Underworld.[4]

Viper staged a coup of the Serpent Society, causing several of her underlings to infiltrate as new members and setting Viper up to take over by force. Diamondback and their current leader Sidewinder escaped, recruiting Captain America's allies to rescue the Serpents who were still loyal to Sidewinder.[5] After a fierce battle, in which Viper was defeated, Sidewinder abandoned the Serpent Society. Diamondback stayed on for a while under the new leader, Cobra.

Rachel was later revealed to have resigned from the Serpent Society, and somehow temporarily switched bodies with the X-Man Dazzler. This led, in part, to a confrontation between the Serpent Society and the X-Men.[6] Diamondback later alerted Captain America to the Bloodstone Hunt.[7] She aided Captain America in combat with Batroc, Machete, Zaran, and Baron Helmut Zemo.[8] She also encountered Crossbones for the first time.[9] Diamondback later accompanied Captain America to the Red Skull's Skullhouse.[10]

Diamondback and Captain America eventually went on their first date, aided by Rachel's friends in the Serpent Society, Asp, Black Mamba, and Anaconda.[11] She then battled the Black Widow, and acquired a new costume.[12] Diamondback was eventually put on trial by the Serpent Society for her consorting with the enemy (most of the Society assuming, incorrectly, that Diamondback had betrayed their secrets to Captain America) and found guilty for her actions, and almost executed.[13] She escaped with Captain America and Paladin's help, and later hired Paladin to help get revenge on the Serpent Society.[14] Along with her best friends Black Mamba and Asp, she formed "BAD Girls, Inc."[15] After a failed kidnapping attempt from Anaconda, Diamondback was taken aboard Superia's ship, and joined her Femizons under duress.[volume & issue needed] While aboard Superia's ship, she was attacked by the Femizon Snapdragon, of whom Diamondback developed a phobia.[volume & issue needed] After being rescued and then being used as a test subject by the Red Skull to see if the blood packets that Crossbones brought was really Captain America's blood, the super-soldier serum enhanced Diamondback tracked down and confronted Snapdragon, who died in the fight.[volume & issue needed]

Later, there was a glitch discovered in the super-soldier serum that Cap was suffering from and Diamondback went to Superia in hopes for a cure. Using her as a test subject, there was a 50/50 chance that the cure would either work or kill Diamondback. As an added stipulation, if the test was successful, Diamondback had to serve Superia as the second Snapdragon. The experiment was a success, but she later got out of this deal when Superia was killed.[volume & issue needed]

BAD Girls disbanded after that. Some time later, Diamondback was infected with "mind-control nanoprobes" by Baron Zemo. Diamondback suffered extensive neurological damage from the experience and spent an extended period of time recovering in S.H.I.E.L.D. care.[volume & issue needed]

BAD Girls, Inc. reappeared in Cable & Deadpool, with the original lineup intact.[16]

Rachel's brother Danny is also known as Cutthroat. It was Danny and another of her brothers, Ricky, who originally fell in with a gang led by a man known as "Bing." Yearning to be included, she approached Bing alone. Upon claiming she would do anything to join the gang, Rachel was beaten and possibly raped by Bing, who years later became Crossbones, kidnapped her, starved her and abused her until she agreed, with ulterior motive, to steal packages of Captain America's blood from Avengers Mansion. Bing/Crossbones murdered Danny/Cutthroat, who was attempting to replace him as aid to the Red Skull, and also killed Rachel's third brother, Willy, when, despite being crippled in the military, he sought revenge by rifle for the brutality inflicted on his sister soon after she was originally mistreated.[volume & issue needed]

Diamondback later turned up along with Asp and Black Mamba during the "Civil War" as a member of the Secret Avengers.[17] She took part in the final battle of the "war", but did not accept the offer of amnesty that came with Captain America's surrender. Later Diamondback and the other BAD Girls were captured by the Mighty Avengers in a New York City street mall.

Diamondback appears in Camp Hammond, as an official recruit for the Initiative, along with Ant-Man, Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Geiger, and Red Nine. All of them were defeated by K.I.A., a rogue clone of Michael Van Patrick.[18] She later joined other members of the Inititative in battling the Skrulls in New York during the Secret Invasion storyline.[volume & issue needed]

When Norman Osborn assumes control of the Initiative during the "Dark Reign" storyline, Diamondback agrees to work for him.[19] Diamondback is revealed as a member of the Initiative's new team for the state of Delaware, the Women Warriors.[20] After the Constrictor saves her life from a crashing plane, the two begin a sexual relationship.[21] However, Constrictor discovers that she is secretly working for Gauntlet's "Avengers Resistance".[22] Constrictor decides not to say anything but worries about what would happen if she were found out. Both Diamondback and Constrictor are part of the invasion of Asgard. Diamondback tries to contact the Resistance but cannot get through. She debates whether or not to help Thor when Osborn and several others gang up on him. When Maria Hill comes to Thor's defense by firing a rocket launcher at Osborn's men, Diamondback adds to the explosion by dropping some explosive diamonds. Constrictor saves her and the two argue about her reckless behavior. They witness Sentry killing Ares and Diamondback sees Steve Rogers entering the battlefield.[23] As the Avengers begin to turn the tide in the battle, Diamondback tries to get Steve Rogers's attention and make sure he knows she and Constrictor are on his side. Constrictor misinterprets her actions and think she's abandoning him. She turns to find him but at the same time Sentry attacks Asgard's foundations on Osborn's orders. As Rachel and Constrictor reach out to each other, Asgard falls to the ground.[24] Rachel is dug out by Steve Rogers. Constrictor sees this and thinking Rachel does not love him, flees the scene with Taskmaster. After Osborn's defeat, Rachel attends a party at Avengers Tower where Rogers asks her to coordinate the remaining Fifty State teams. She tells him she will consider it.[25]

Later, Rachel is shown working as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and sporting a new costume.[26]

As part of the 2015-2017 All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, Captain America learns of Viper's plans with the Serpent Society, who are now operating under the new name of Serpent Solutions. He visits the retired mercenary Diamondback for information on the group. Their meeting is interrupted by Cottonmouth, Black Racer, and Copperhead. During the ensuing battle, Black Racer stabs Diamondback in the gut. After Captain America defeats the three villains, he rushed to Diamondback's aid. Diamondback immediately betrays Captain America, revealing herself to be a member of the Serpent Society once again, and Captain America is taken prisoner and brought to the Serpent Society's lair.[27] This leads to a confrontation between the Society and Captain America, Joaquin Torres, Misty Knight, and Demolition Man, during which Diamondback turns against Viper and helps the heroes defeat the Society.[28]

Diamondback is next seen working with her close friends Domino and Outlaw as mercenaries

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Friday Releases for April 30

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for April 30 include Limbo, Yasuke, New Pokémon Snap, and more.

Limbo

Limbo, the new movie from Ben Sharrock, is out today.

Limbo is a wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the results of their asylum claims. It centers on Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician who is burdened by his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.

Without Remorse

Without Remorse, the new movie from Stefano Sollima, is out today.

In a war-torn region of Syria, an elite team of Navy SEALs led by Sr. Chief John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan) rescues a CIA operative taken hostage by ex-Russian military forces. Three months later, in apparent retaliation for his role in the mission, Kelly’s pregnant wife Pam (Lauren London) is murdered in the U.S. by a squad of masked Russian assassins. Despite being shot multiple times himself, Kelly manages to kill all but one of the attackers before being rushed to the hospital.

Meanwhile in Washington D.C., Kelly’s friend and former SEAL team member Lt. Commander Karen Greer (Jodie Turner-Smith) meets with CIA agent Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell) and Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay (Guy Pearce) to discuss their response options. Leaked news of Russia’s unprecedented attack on American soil has caused the already-strained relations between the two nations to sour further. If something isn’t done soon the result could be a full-scale war.

Healed from his injuries, a rogue Kelly tracks down the corrupt Russian diplomat who issued the passports to his wife’s murderers, and forces him at gunpoint to give up the name of the surviving assassin. Sent to prison for the crime, Kelly bargains his way out by revealing the escaped operative is one Victor Rykov (Brett Gelman), an ex-Special Forces officer currently hiding in Murmansk, Russia.

With Secretary Clay’s reluctant approval, Kelly joins Greer and Ritter on a top-secret mission to capture Rykov and bring him back to the U.S. to face justice. But en route to Murmansk, their plane is shot down by the Russian Air Force and plummets into the Bering Sea. Using their SEAL skills to survive the crash, they eventually make their way to Rykov’s location, only to discover that the murder of Kelly’s family was part of a vast international conspiracy orchestrated by powerful political figures. Torn between personal honor and loyalty to his country, and with the fate of nations hanging in the balance, Kelly has no choice but to expose the truth, no matter the cost.

About Endlessness

About Endlessness, the new movie from Roy Andersson, is out today.

ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

The Outside Story

The Outside Story, the new movie from Casimir Nozkowski, is out today.

While on a tight deadline, an introverted editor (Brian Tyree Henry) is locked out of his apartment. In order to find his way back inside, he’s forced to interact with… his neighbors.

Four Good Days

Four Good Days, the new movie from Rodrigo García, is out today.

A long-estranged mother and daughter navigate the most difficult four days of their lives together in a heartbreaking and hopeful story based on real-life events.

The Mitchells vs. The Machines

The Mitchells vs. The Machines, the new movie from Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe, is out today.

The Mitchells vs. The Machines is an original animated comedy about an everyday family’s struggle to relate while technology rises up around the world! When Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet “her people” at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond as a family one last time.

The Virtuoso

The Virtuoso, the new movie from Nick Stagliano, is out today.

Danger, deception, and murder descend upon a sleepy country town when a professional assassin (Anson Mount) accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic mentor and boss (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins). Given only where and when along with a cryptic clue, the methodical hit man must identify his mysterious mark from among several possible targets, including a local sheriff (David Morse). Meanwhile, a chance encounter with an alluring woman (Abbie Cornish) at the town’s rustic diner threatens to derail his mission in this noir-style cloak-and-dagger thriller.

The Disciple

The Disciple, the new movie from Chaitanya Tamhane, is out today.

A musician’s unadulterated devotion, a mirage-like quest for divinity, and the courage to fight your own mediocrity. The Disciple is the tale of an Indian classical vocalist, Sharad Nerulkar, searching for the traditional absolute in a contemporary city that never stops hustling.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz, the new movie from Burhan Qurbani, is out today.

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in writer-director Burhan Qurbani’s audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel. After surviving his perilous journey, Francis vows to be a good man, but he soon realizes how difficult it is to be righteous while undocumented in Germany– without papers, without a nationality, and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer for easy money from the psychopathic gangster Reinhold, Francis initially resists temptation, but eventually he is sucked into Berlin’s underworld and his life spirals out of control.

Eat Wheaties!

Eat Wheaties!, the new movie from Scott Abramovitch, is out today.

Sid Straw (Tony Hale) leads a dull life until he accidentally stalks famous college friend, Elizabeth Banks, on social media. With each failed attempt to prove he knows her, he rediscovers more of himself and the true meaning of friendship.

The Innocent

The Innocent, the new TV series from Oriol Paulo, is out today.

An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast, the new TV series from Neil Cross and Tom Bissell, is out today.

A brilliant rebel (Justin Theroux) and his wife (Melissa George) take their family on the run to protect them, but end up exposing them to more danger than ever. At every turn of their adventure, they encounter increasing threats and intensifying moral choices from which there’s no turning back.

Yasuke

Yasuke, the new TV series from LeSean Thomas, is out today.

In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring daimyo, Yasuke must take up his sword and transport a mysterious child who is the target of dark forces and bloodthirsty warlords.

Returnal

Returnal, the new game from Housemarque and Sony Interactive Entertainment, is out today.

After crash-landing on this shape-shifting world, Selene must search through the barren landscape of an ancient civilization for her escape. Isolated and alone, she finds herself fighting tooth and nail for survival. Again and again, she’s defeated – forced to restart her journey every time she dies.

New Pokémon Snap

New Pokémon Snap, the new game from Nintendo, is out today.

Welcome to the Lental region, whose islands hold everything from dense jungles to vast deserts! New Pokémon Snap is an all-new game inspired by the 1999 Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap. This Nintendo Switch adventure will take you from island to island on an ecological survey, photographing Pokémon and building your own Pokémon Photodex!

Parallel World

Parallel World, the new album from Cadence Weapon, is out today.

#Games #Movies #TV #Music #News

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When Spider-Man Becomes Venom

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If being Venom was like being in the Beatles, then Peter Parker would be Pete Best. His stretch of time in the late-80s wearing his living, black costume is a staple of his history. Before it turned Eddie Brock into a box office giant, the symbiote made for a badass variant look for Spider-Man that still holds up to this day. It’s the ultimate story of how we can lose ourselves to power, even if a loved one beat you over the head with lessons about responsibility.

Over the years, Spider-Man did rejoin with the symbiote a few times, usually in the name of heroism. In Venomized, a Venom symbiote from another reality bonded to him for a little while. At the end of Dan Slott’s lengthy Amazing Spider-Man run, Eddie Brock let Spidey borrow the symbiote so he could fight the Red Goblin (Norman Osborn as Carnage). These days, Parker and his former tights at least have an understanding.

This April, the team of Chip Zdarsky and Pasqual Ferry will be doing a four-issue take on Marvel’s What If? by giving us Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow. The idea? Spider-Man not only never gets rid of his hungry ooze pants, but he embraces his hungry ooze pants!

Yes, we see Peter Parker intentionally bond with what would have been known as the Venom symbiote and keep on keeping on with the crime-fighting. What happens when such a pure-hearted hero goes all-in on wearing clothes that constantly tell him to bite people’s faces off? Guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Then again, Peter holding onto the symbiote is an idea that’s been visited time and time again. Not only has it popped up in issues of What If?, but also in other forms of Marvel media.

WHAT IF THE ALIEN COSTUME HAD POSSESSED SPIDER-MAN?

In the fourth issue of What If?’s second volume, Danny Fingeroth and Mark Bagley jumped onto the then-recent introduction of Venom by doing an issue about what would have happened had Peter Parker taken too long to figure out what the deal was with his black costume. He couldn’t get in touch with the Fantastic Four, so he instead met up with Dr. Connors, which was a fruitless venture. By the time Reed Richards was able to investigate, the symbiote was already bonded to Spider-Man and wouldn’t be removed so easily.

Puppeting Parker’s body, the symbiote escaped captivity and hid in the city for several days. Spider-Man eventually came across a rampaging Hulk, which convinced the symbiote to leave Spider-Man for this upgrade of a host. Abandoned, Peter Parker appeared as an old man due to how much the creature sucked him dry. Using his final hours to design a sonic gun that could destroy the symbiote, Peter’s body finally gave out.

The symbiote eventually left Hulk for Thor. Interestingly enough, Banner was left cured of being the Hulk while the symbiote claimed what happened to Parker was a mistake. Whether it was telling the truth or not, it still took over Thor’s body and tried to hide out in Mount Rushmore. Luckily, Reed Richards had Black Bolt’s epic voice on speed dial and that took care of that.

Well, except for Black Cat getting the kill shot thanks to that aforementioned sonic gun.

SECRET WARS: 25 YEARS LATER

The final issue of the second volume of What If? took a look back at the original Secret Wars event and wondered what would happen had the heroes and villains been stuck on Battleworld for a generation. This Jay Faerber/Gregg Schigiel collaboration had Galactus and the Beyonder kill each other, meaning that all the survivors were stranded. Much had happened in those 25 years, but for the most part, the heroes and villains put their differences aside. Sure, there was something in there about Dr. Doom shacking up with the Enchantress, only for her to leave him for Thor and Doom killing her because of it, but otherwise you had the Wrecking Crew chilling out with Hawkeye and She-Hulk like old friends.

The stars of the one-shot were the offsprings, like the daughter of Captain America and Rogue or the son of Human Torch and Wasp. Spider-Man only had a couple moments, but they were incredibly interesting. He seemed colder to everyone and there was a curious debate over whether anyone had seen him eat anything.

During the climactic battle, Klaw blasted Spider-Man with some sonics. The symbiote pulled away to reveal nothing underneath but Peter Parker’s skeleton. This turned out to be far from a surprise to the heroes as Human Torch saved him and moved on without a second thought.

THE ANIMATED SERIES FINALE

Straying away from the Venom symbiote, there was a time in the comics where Ben Reilly – back when he took over being Spider-Man – was the host to the Carnage symbiote for a few hours. Nothing really happened with it, but he looked rad as hell and it made for a cool cover image.

The 90s Spider-Man cartoon ended the series by doing its own prototype version of Into the Spider-Verse. The final two-parter took place in “I Really, Really Hate Clones” and “Farewell, Spider-Man.”

In an alternate reality, a version of the Clone Saga storyline happened, only in this one, Peter was more of an asshole to Ben Reilly instead of treating him like a brother. When Peter found out that he was possibly the clone, he got extra pissed about it right around the time when the Carnage symbiote was nearby. He became Spider-Carnage and created a plan to destroy the multiverse.

A team of Spider-Men from different realities came together to stop him. After visiting a world where Spider-Man wore armor and was successful and happy in every way, the cartoon’s main Spider-Man realized that Uncle Ben was probably alive in that universe. That Uncle Ben confronted Spider-Carnage and got through to him. Although the man within wasn’t strong enough to expel the symbiote, he was able to sabotage his own multiverse-destroying plans via sacrificing his own life, all the while begging for forgiveness for all the horrors he committed.

WHAT IF? THE OTHER

Peter David and Khoi Pham did a one-shot where the Venom symbiote returned to Peter at the absolute worst time. The Other was as storyline where Spider-Man seemingly died, but survived in a cocooned form. After getting in touch with his inner spider, he was reborn with more primal abilities that unfortunately didn’t last too long. This alternate version had Spider-Man refuse the rebirth. Everyone already mourned him and he didn’t want to have that happen all over again. He remained in his cocoon, choosing to let nature take its course over time.

Comics

We Are Venom: The Many Characters Who Wore the Symbiote

By Gavin Jasper

Comics

Venom: Riot and the Life Foundation Symbiotes Explained

By Gavin Jasper

At that time, Mac Gargan was Venom’s host and the symbiote could sense Spider-Man’s situation. Knowing Peter was ripe for the picking, the symbiote left Gargan and consumed the husk of Peter Parker. With the symbiote in full control, he was neither Spider-Man nor Venom. He was Poison.

Poison confronted Mary Jane and Aunt May, but realized they wanted nothing to do with him. Poison instead left and spawned a new symbiote child in order to bond with and reanimate the corpse of Gwen Stacy.

Yeah, lot of laughs going on in that story. Sheesh.

WHAT IF? AGE OF APOCALYPSE

Age of Apocalypse was already a bizarre alternate universe. Rick Remender and Dave Wilkins made it even more batshit insane by having Legion accidentally kill both Xavier and Magneto. In this reality, Nate Summers joined with a superhero resistance team to take out Apocalypse and there’s all sorts of crazy stuff going on.

At one point, the team came across a nest of Peter Parker clones engulfed in a giant black web of symbiote. A horrified Captain America (wielding Mjolnir) had them destroy all the brainless Spider-Man clones before moving on to the next big challenge.

WEB OF SHADOWS

Back in 2008, Activision decided to go all in on the whole symbiote thing by making a Spider-Man video game based entirely around a symbiote invasion and symbiote-possessed versions of different heroes and villains. A fight with Venom led to Spider-Man getting some of the goop onto himself, allowing him the option to become Symbiote Spider-Man. Venom’s symbiote started expanding and latching onto hundreds of other New Yorkers, overwhelming the city with chaos.

After teaming up with and/or fighting lots of Marvel characters, Spider-Man took on a kaiju version of Venom and convinced Eddie Brock to fights its influence. Depending on factors, Venom would either die from heroic sacrifice or Spider-Man’s hands.

There are various endings based both on how much time you’ve used the symbiote and how much of an overall dick you’ve been. Too much of the black costume could at best cause Mary Jane to break up with you. At worst, it could cause you to conquer New York as leader of the symbiotes.

VENOMVERSE

Since Marvel did the Spider-Verse comic event, Cullen Bunn and Iban Coello did a natural knockoff of sorts called Venomverse. While it had no real connection to the Spider-Man story, the gist was similar: various Venom hosts from the multiverse had to team up to face a threat that was hunting them down.

The mainstream Venom was the only Eddie Brock host involved as the rest of the crew included the likes of Mary Jane, Captain America, Dr. Strange, Rocket Raccoon, Deadpool, Gwenpool, and so on. There was also a Spider-Man in there and while they didn’t go too far into his background, he was the only one who seemed to recognize Eddie and harbored unexplained resentment.

The threat came in the form of Poisons. These tiny, white creatures on their own didn’t seem to be much of a threat, but when one would make physical contact with a symbiote and its host, it would engulf them and completely take over. The Poison, the symbiote, and the host would turn into some kind of white, armored creature permanently.

Spider-Man was one of those to fall victim to the Poisons. This led to a rather cathartic fight to the death between Venom and Poison Spider-Man that Venom won.

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Now, you might be saying, “Didn’t you JUST talk about a story where Spider-Man was a symbiote monster called Poison already? Isn’t this confusing?” Yes. Yes it is. So confusing that when they released a Marvel Legends figure for Poison Spider-Man from Venomverse, the profile information on the back of the box described the story from What If? The Other instead. Whoops!

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Working on a FNAF Game Grumps AU, finally! (After repeatedly listening to Join Us For a Bite to boot…)

I’m planning on mixing the lore of the main games with the lore of the books as it suits me, so here’s what I’ve got so far:

Leigh “Danny” Avidan was killed many years ago in a pizzeria.

His dead body was “found” by a free-roaming animatronic squirrel named Sammy Sweetnuts, and his spirit latched onto the character, possessing the animatronic. (He had always liked Sammy Sweetnuts the best, anyway.) Afterwards, patrons began to notice a change in Sammy’s supposedly pre-recorded audio, including unheard lines, and maintenance crew began to notice that the animatronic would move and speak on its own, without prompting. This led the owner of the pizzeria to retire Sammy Sweetnuts for good, relocating the animatronic to an underground bunker deep below ground.

Danny hated it in the bunker. He only had broken robot parts for company, and as the bunker became slowly forgotten, rust began to settle in the suit’s joints, and he soon became unable to move, trapped and alone in the darkness.

Five years later, Arin Hanson returns home after graduating college with a degree in robotics when he hears news of his father’s suicide. He discovers that Lloyd Hanson left his son detailed directions to a secret underground bunker that had been abandoned for a long time. Since his father had always loved working with animatronics, and Arin himself was quite skilled with robotics, he decided to find the hidden bunker and see what was down there, briefly entertaining the thought of building an animatronic of his own.

Upon entering the bunker, he finds mostly junk, but one working animatronic, listed as “Sammy Sweetnuts.” Arin begins to clean up the bunker and get the systems down there back online. As the dust and damp is cleared, though, he soon realizes that the old animatronic has a mind of its own.

Danny, lonely and eager for company, watches Arin repairing the robots. When his free-roam switch is left on, he moves around, following Arin around, though never too closely, so as not to frighten him. He’s been so lonely…it’s nice to have a friend again.

Arin is weirded out by Sammy’s autonomous movement, so he eventually shuts off the robot’s free-roaming switch…not without a little hesitancy, considering he’s seen the…unsavory abilities of some animatronics. But as he turns to leave for the evening, he hears a plaintive cry from Sammy Sweetnuts, begging him not to go. When he asks if it’s Sammy talking, he receives the response: “Danny.”

Despite the bunker being cold and dark, Arin brings a sleeping bag and clothes down to the bunker, and he begins to talk to his new friend. Danny explains the faint memory he has of being in pain…and then being embraced by the cold metal of Sammy Sweetnuts. Arin mistakenly thinks Sammy is a so-called “Funtime” animatronic, a larger and far more deadly type of animatronic not designed by his father, but upon opening Sammy’s chest cavity, finds ordinary robotic innards. Danny clarifies that he was lured with the promise of a really cool secret by an excited yellow bunny animatronic, only to feel pain and see darkness, causing him to possess the nearest animatronic suit.

Arin then researches his father’s old businesses, finding the date of Danny’s murder, along with a string of other murders across several franchises. Arin explains that, as a kid, he hated the animatronics his father worked with, constantly plagued by nightmares of them coming after him, only to have it come true when a rogue animatronic went haywire, scratching at his chest and nearly biting him with its steel teeth. Danny protests that “they can’t be all bad!” and the two decide together that they must stop other children from being hurt.

Arin hunts down and buys animatronics made by his father, leaving them alone with Danny/Sammy so that the robots can talk, animatronic to animatronic, spirit to spirit. As Danny guessed, most of the “violent” or “malfunctioning” animatronics are possessed by the spirits of dead children, scared and confused and angry, their new bodies lending them strength to enact revenge.

They will eventually hunt down Brent-trap, but idk how yet. That’s still in development. But I do know that one of the other spirits is Brian, who is much older, and was killed opportunistically instead of being lured. (He was 13 when he died; Danny was about 7 or 8.)

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Follows Danny’s childhood and London Spy canon.

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After the events of London Spy, Danny has inherited Scotty’s estate in full, which includes his retirement pension, house, and Cambridge Legacy eligibility. The pension is not enough to cover the remaining 12 years worth of mortgage, so he seeks help from Frances Turner to cover the mortgage on the condition that he obtain a proper education and seek a career. He attends Cambridge to seek a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences with specialisation in technical engineering and security systems.

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While studying at Cambridge Danny eventually manages to overhear a conversation which began with Have you ever thought of working for your country? He had thought himself free of the influence of MI-6, but there they were - watching, though not just him. His grades and studies were likely to be noticed, as would the name Daniel Holt in general so he takes a gamble. He submits an application directly with his resume, transcript and a cover letter detailing that he intended to remain at peace with his past and move forward with a potential career. To Danny’s honest surprise his unconventional approach and application were accepted.

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The events of Quantum of Solace resulted in a necessary purge of Q-Branch as well as quite a bit of paperwork to be handled in the wake of Agent 007′s gone rogue - paperwork which Danny managed to handle with efficiency and skill. His hard work and dedication did not go unnoticed and his internship was upgraded to a full career as one of a very small number of remaining members of Q-Branch.

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Barely a few weeks before the events of Skyfall, Danny has worked his way into several raised brows. He has proven himself incredibly adept at the technical side of working with computers, numbers, paperwork and engineering devices and vehicles that aid MI-6 agents. He is moved into a special position of Q-Branch where he is now the Quartermaster responsible for technical security and outfitting the agents in the Double-Oh program with their gear, weapons, vehicles and final debriefing before being sent into the field. His worth has been proven and he is, to most, a trusted member of MI-6. His past as Daniel Holt is kept largely under wraps and his civilian identity is known only to those of the highest rank - or the very few who were aware of the actual events surrounding the “ Attic Spy Sex Scandal. ”

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An exclusive verse shared with @shrxwdroyalty‘s James Moriarty. NHS budget cuts hit hard and eventually the health insurance coverage Q once enjoyed is on the blink. He began struggling to afford his medical treatment and thus Jim saw and took his chance to have a proper piece in his gameplan. Vaguely, uneasily friends to begin with, Jim offered to cover Q’s medical expenses, all part of a plan to begin turning the Quartermaster of MI-6 against his own - neither really planned on falling for each other, but aware that Q was very sensitive to spotting manipulation Jim playacted a soft, concerned figure worried for his friend’s health. At some point play became reality.

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A limited verse in which Danny is the bastard son of @governmentofficial‘s Mycroft Holmes - a “ drunken mistake ” wherein Mycroft was experimenting with his ability to potentially hold a family in order to please his father. Danny’s mother became pregnant as a result, but the experiment was a failure. Mycroft had no idea of Danny’s existence until eight years later when the woman arrived on Mycroft’s doorstep and custody of the child was handed over. Danny’s name is changed to Daniel Siger Mycroft Holmes and he is tutored, later enrolled in Eton College, and eventually attends Cambridge.

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pastelbrachypelma · 6 years

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Working on a FNAF Game Grumps AU, finally! (After repeatedly listening to Join Us For a Bite to boot...)

I’m planning on mixing the lore of the main games with the lore of the books as it suits me, so here’s what I’ve got so far:

Leigh “Danny” Avidan was killed many years ago in a pizzeria.

Arin is weirded out by Sammy’s autonomous movement, so he eventually shuts off the robot’s free-roaming switch...not without a little hesitancy, considering he’s seen the...unsavory abilities of some animatronics. But as he turns to leave for the evening, he hears a plaintive cry from Sammy Sweetnuts, begging him not to go. When he asks if it’s Sammy talking, he receives the response: “Danny.”

Despite the bunker being cold and dark, Arin brings a sleeping bag and clothes down to the bunker, and he begins to talk to his new friend. Danny explains the faint memory he has of being in pain...and then being embraced by the cold metal of Sammy Sweetnuts. Arin mistakenly thinks Sammy is a so-called “Funtime” animatronic, a larger and far more deadly type of animatronic not designed by his father, but upon opening Sammy’s chest cavity, finds ordinary robotic innards. Danny clarifies that he was lured with the promise of a really cool secret by an excited yellow bunny animatronic, only to feel pain and see darkness, causing him to possess the nearest animatronic suit.

#personal #five nights at freddy's #five nights at grumps #sammy sweetnuts #game grumps

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clubofinfo · 7 years

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Expert: The Uppity Negro On April 4th, 1968, a single bullet forever silenced the man J. Edgar Hoover called “the most dangerous Negro in America”. A patsy named James Earl Ray would die in prison for the dirty deed, only to be exonerated after his death. Martin Luther King’s family, disbelieving the official U.S. Government song and dance, hired a friend and attorney named Bill Pepper to investigate and confirm their doubts. More than two decades of research and questioning, begun in 1977, culminated in a 1999 verdict from a Memphis jury. After listening to 70 witnesses testify under oath, the jury deliberated less than an one hour, finding that a man named Loyd Jowers conspired with elements of the FBI, CIA, US Military, Memphis Police, and organized crime in the execution and elimination of Reverend King. Mainstream U.S. media, as per official instructions, would downplay, denigrate, or ignore the verdict. The general public would have no idea that the trial had even taken place. Six months later, the U.S. Justice Department would conclude that “the trial’s evidence fails to establish the existence of any conspiracy to kill Dr. King.” If there was a shred of justice in the USA, the verdict of that Memphis jury on December 8, 1999 would have opened an investigation into the murderous antics of the FBI, CIA, US Military, Memphis Police and elements connected to the Mafia, for their part in the slaying of Dr. King. However, any hope of such an investigation was effectively squelched by the U.S. Justice Department’s conclusion that the jury’s verdict was false, inaccurate, and misguided. Dr. Martin Luther King was what average middle-class White folks in 1968 liked to call an “uppity Negro” …or some variation upon that theme. He was a rogue from the former Slave Class who’d ventured far beyond common decency or proper decorum. MLK had become a serious threat to Middle Amerika’s status quo. It wasn’t enough that he’d loudly and effectively questioned White Supremacy, he was now in the process of dismantiling the Amerikan War Machine by criticizing the motives behind The Vietnam War. He even encouraged young Black men to claim Conscientious Objector Status, thereby undermining the Selective Service System, which greased the wheels of The Vietnam War. King’s shift from Civil Rights organizer to becoming highly vocal and effective in the anti-war movement sealed his fate. On April 4th, 1967, in an inspiring speech delivered to a packed house at New York’s Riverside Church, Dr. King laid it on the line. “Beyond Vietnam” would become the best speech Amerika never heard, for in it he lovingly beat the Military-Industrial Complex to a bloody pulp. He spoke of “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism”. He spoke of “the greatest purveyor of violence in history: my own government”. The FBI had been conspiring for five years to neutralize his powerful influence, and exactly a year later King lay dead in Memphis. Martin Luther King knew that Amerika had a steep mountain to climb, and that he’d never see the summit. He’d seen what his country had done to Medgar Evers and Malcom X, and understood well that, in the eyes of White Amerika, he was nothing but an uppity Negro. A runaway slave. A commodity that had long ago lost its utility. Since whips and chains were no longer acceptable, execution was the only viable option available to those who thrive upon the violence inherent in American-style capitalism. In the wake of his death, the US Military would be allowed to continue its policy of bombing for dollars, US Intelligence agencies and municipal police departments would continue protecting the interests of the Military-Industrial Complex, and organized crime would continue its feeding frenzy at the decaying perimeter edges of Empire. King might as well have pulled the trigger himself. The Renegade Indian Word of the New World spread like wildfire. From Spain, Portugal, England, and France they came in their wooden ships. They found an advanced culture of nation states, connected by well-established trade routes. They found a people in tune with Mother Earth, concerned with health, nutrition, and sustainability. They found a society in which wars were rare and disease nearly unknown. They found pyramids dwarfing those of Egypt and mathematicians with knowledge exceeding anything yet discovered in Europe or Asia. They found rich farmland, orchards, irrigated fields, and vast herds of buffalo. They found silver and gold. What they found, they coveted. They were given rightful title to the New World by the pope, the monarchies of Europe, and by God Himself. The original inhabitants were to be considered as vermin. And so began the extermination. Nearly 500 years later, the original hundred million Native Americans had been reduced by roughly 90%. They’d been outgunned from the beginning, and when the European invaders had swept across the Americas from Atlantic to Pacific, killing the vast majority and shuffling the rest into open-air prisons called reservations, they still wanted more. The military, police forces, and intelligence agencies of the United States had grown to gargantuan proportions, largely thanks to the never-ending war against Native Americans. And when the land-grab, murder, and mayhem spread across the Pacific into Asia, down into Central and South America, and into four corners of the planet, the US Military would refer to any and all hostile territory as “Indian Country”. Native Americans were never intended to survive the European invasion. They had no economic value, had been nearly useless as slaves, had an irritating gene for survival, and were only an impediment to the capitalist agenda. So several years after the execution of Martin Luther King, when the American Indian Movement (AIM) marched on Washington, D.C. with a list of 20 grievances to present to the U.S. President, the FBI and other intelligence agencies took notice. The Trail of Broken Treaties would not be tolerated. The US Military had not completed its extermination. The strongest had survived. A predictable plan was hatched. The FBI would target the leaders. They would show no mercy. The name Leonard Peltier was near the top of the list. On June 26th, 1975, two FBI agents entered the Jumping Bull Ranch on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where members of AIM were camped. They offered no identification, and claimed to be on a mission to arrest one Jimmy Eagle for the theft of a pair of boots. Shots rang out, a shootout ensued, and when the dust settled a young Native American man and the two FBI agents lay dead. Immediately and like magic, 150 FBI agents, BIA officials, and local vigilantes appeared on the scene. The incident quickly turned into a court case, and a race to indict Leonard Peltier and two other high level AIM members. After considerable media manipulation, evidence-tampering, and gathering of forced-confessions, a massive manhunt was launched for Peltier. There is not a shadow of a doubt that Leonard Peltier was set up to be a warning to young Native Americans who might follow his example. At his trial, ballistics tests were withheld, coerced statements entered as evidence, and Amerikan blind justice imprisoned an innocent man for two life sentences. Amnesty International considers Peltier a political prisoner. Clemency for Mr. Peltier is supported uniformly across the globe, with the obvious exception of the FBI, which has thus far blocked that possibility. Leonard Peltier has been honored and recognized for his humanitarian work, performed, for the last forty years, from his prison cell, more times than I’d care to recount here. He’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize seven times, most recently in 2016. The list of organizations and supporters, both live and deceased, who’ve petitioned on his behalf include: Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Ramsey Clark, The National Lawyers’ Guild, The European Parliament, Harry Belafonte, Jackson Browne, Danny Glover, Robert Redford…and many hundreds more. But as long as soulless entities like the FBI enforce the existing national agenda, brave and honest men like Leonard Peltier of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations, will continue to pay the price. Renegade Indians must be dealt with in a time-tested manner. And so the extermination continues. The Unruly White Boy The boy grew up in the burgeoning Sonoran Desert city of Phoenix, Arizona. He was a child of privilege, whose ancestry could be traced back to the European conquerors of the New World. His neighborhood of ticky-tacky tract houses was populated by an unwavering sea of White faces. No person of African or Native American genealogy was welcome there. Communities of Negroes lived several miles to the South, and the Native Americans were tucked safely out of sight on a number of nearby reservations. The boy would shop at White stores, attend a White school, have White friends, become a Cub Scout in a White Pack, eventually grow up and marry a White woman, and father a White daughter. He would reach young manhood without ever having a friend whose skin didn’t match his. About the time US Intelligence agencies were locking, loading, and placing Martin Luther King in their crosshairs, the boy was becoming a man. A steady diet of marijuana and LSD had begun to alter his thought processes. He began paying attention to the growing anti-war movement, he discontinued haircuts, began wearing bellbottom jeans and love beads, and dropped out of classes at Arizona State University because of mandatory ROTC. Since he was no longer a student, the young man lost his 2-S deferment, exempting him from the US Military Draft, and made application to his local board for Conscientious Objector (1-O) status. Lacking any formal religious training, the young man was told that he couldn’t possibly have a conscience nor any qualms about killing strangers. The application was denied, and he was declared fit for service to his country. The dreaded 1-A classification. The young man was determined not to join the US Military, and had now officially become a member of Amerika’s Counterculture. He began participating in every anti-war march in the general area. When National Guard Troops murdered 4 students at Kent State University, he joined thousands of protesters in Tempe, Arizona. A.S.U. campus windows were broken and Old Glory was ripped down from the flagpole on the lawn of the Tempe Police Station. The flag was torched and the young man (although he claimed no responsibility) was in possession of matches. A few months later he participated in the Yippie Powwow at Disneyland in Anaheim. The event commemorated the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Along with a few hundred of his cadres, he captured, occupied, and raised the Viet Cong Flag over Tom Sawyer’s Island. A smoke-in ensued. L.A. Riot Squad Police busted a few heads and made some arrests on Main Street of Amerika’s Happiest Place, before management made the decision to close the place down. The young man was unceremoniously evicted, along with everyone else on the premises. The young man drew a low number in the Draft Lottery, and soon his notice arrived, ordering him to report for induction. He neglected all personal hygiene for a solid week before the physical. He did his best to flunk the vision and hearing tests, but in the end he was found fit for service. When the time came for the ceremonial step forward, and swearing in of the new cannon-fodder, the young man stood his ground, middle finger held high. The deed would potentially put him in prison for five years and cost him a fine of $10,000. He waited for the arrest. Several months later, a mousy FBI Agent showed up at his door, offering him a second chance to become part of Amerika’s fighting force. The young man told him to fuck off, and he did. A second Draft Notice arrived six months later, and the process was repeated. Afterward the young man was ordered to report to the Phoenix Federal Building for fingerprints and mug shots. The case went to trial, and he was sentenced to 9 months at Lompoc Federal Prison. His lawyer told him not to worry. He said that the U.S. Government had no real interest in imprisoning young White men. The sentence was appealed, and the young man was ordered to work in a community service job for two years. With pay. A further perk made the sentence completely palatable: The case would be covered under a Youth Corrections Act, which would erase the Federal Felony from his record completely. Like it never happened. Disclosure I am the unruly White boy, turned unruly old White man. In no way do I consider myself to be of the stature of either Martin or Leonard. What we have in common is the fact that all three of us spent our lives as dissidents. Amerikan justice is a tiered system. I’ve had several advantages over King and Peltier. I’m White, and I was never an effective leader of men. I was never enough of a threat to qualify for execution or a lifetime in prison. While Martin has been nearly a half century in his grave, I’ve been able to participate in Occupy Wall Street, have marched against the racist SB1070 legislation in Arizona, and demonstrated against the crimes of Monsanto in Maui. While Leonard has wasted away for forty years in prison, I’ve protested the Iraq War, have let my voice be heard about the injustice at Standing Rock, and have walked the streets of Amerika a free man. The best we can hope for is that Martin Luther King was correct when he said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Free Leonard Peltier! http://clubof.info/

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