#amahl farouk

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#legion fx #my screencaps #my screenshots #david haller #noah hawley #aubrey plaza #dan stevens #rachel keller #lenny busker #melanie bird #Amahl Farouk #Shadow King #Devil with the Yellow Eyes

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Legion - Amahl Farouk

#huevember #legion #amahl farouk

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Resurrection Of Magneto #3 - A Perfect Comic

Finally, FINALLY, someone has the balls and brains to pick up on Chris Claremont's actual portrayal of Shadow King as a multiversal, primordial force with infinite hosts and aspects. God bless you Al Ewing. For all my bitter, hateful disappointment at how badly the Krakoa era failed, it is genuinely all worth it for this.

My biggest comics obsession I have is the Shadow King and Claremont's abandoned plans for him to be secretly the X-Men's greatest nemesis and partly behind nearly every single villain or plot during his long original run on the X-Books. I'm so into it I literally disassociate from our reality and slip into some other where he got to stay on the books and finish this saga and confirm these things further. Half the time I have to stop and say to myself - "that never got published, he only ever hinted at it or talked about it later".

So to see a talented writer like Ewing treat Shadow King with that same reverence and continuity and finally confirm Shadow King is The Adversary/Naze as Claremont hinted in Uncanny X-Men #273(Top right corner, first panel)...

....as well as all of the other villains there, Bete Noir, Annihilation, The First Fallen, and the Goblin Force as yet more in "An infinity of aspects - but always the Shadow King." is nothing short of genius and an absolute prayer answered for me.

Bravo Ewing, you've given me the thing I have wanted most in the X-Books. The only writer to ever successfully give the Shadow King his true due, and in such a way it fits into the larger narrative and continuity as full on confirmation and open to interpretation for the lesser minds and creators out there should they stupidly not use this.

#shadow king #amahl farouk #the adversary #resurrection of magneto #magneto #storm #x-men #al ewing #comics #me #my writing #comics writing #MY SHIT! #THANK YOU AL EWING! #mutants

[sweetaprilbutterfly]

Legion (2017 – 2019)

#Legion #legion fx #legionedit #x men legion #marvel legion #xmenedit #marveledit #my edits #Dan Stevens #David Haller #Rachel Keller #Sydney Barrett #Aubrey Plaza #Lenore Busker #Amahl Farouk #Bill Irwin #Cary Loudermilk #Amber Midthunder #Kerry Loudermilk #Jeremie Harris #Ptonomy Wallace #Jean Smart #Melanie Bird #Jemaine Clement #Oliver Bird #Hamish Linklater #Clark Debussy #Navid Negahban #Shadow King #Lauren Tsai

[goodsirs]

Because you and I, we are not human. We are like the lion. Does a lion ask the morality of killing a deer, or a mantis of killing a hummingbird? Homo superior-- that’s us. So, you see, the morality is not the problem.

#legion #legion fx #oliver bird #amahl farouk #jemaine clement #navid negahban #legionedit #marveledit #tvedit #*

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Legion // 616

#legion #charles xavier #david haller #marvel #Professor x #x-men #shadow king #amahl farouk

[uncannybroker]

The Sun

#fargo #fargo s5 #fargo fx #fargo season 5 #fargo spoilers #noah hawley #ole munch #dot lyon #roy tillman #dorothy lyon #legion fx #amahl farouk #wayne lyon

[comicwaren]

From Iron Man Annual Vol. 4 #001, “Contest of Chaos: Part Two”

Art by David Cutler and Bryan Valenza

Written by Jason Loo

#iron man annual #storm #ororo munroe #iron man #tony stark #ho yinsen #shadow king #amahl farouk #marvel #comics #marvel comics

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The Hole

Contestants Index

#tournament of x #the hole bracket #round 1 #half 2 #rain boy #carl aalston #shadow king #amahl farouk #x men #marvel comics #krakoa #x men comics #xmen #tournament #poll tournament #tournament poll #bracket #tumblr tournament #character tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr polls #poll

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Shadow king after a week on krakoa

#I've been sitting on this joke forever #shadow king #amahl farouk #xmen #x men #marvel comics #comics #charles xavier #legion #krakoa #file under: memes

[metaforadohomeminvisivel]

"Chapter 23" Legion S03 E04

#legion fx #david haller #my screencaps #my screenshots #dan stevens #noah hawley #rachel keller #aubrey plaza #lenny busker #bill irwin #amber midthunder #amahl farouk #x men

[the-technicolor-yawn]

the shadow king @ charles xavier

#x men #x men comics #marvel comics #legion fx #the shadow king #charles xavier #amahl farouk #professor x #professional hater #marvel

[winter2468]

David Haller: The Shadow King trying to take over my body like "you're mine" David: First of all, I'm institutionalised. David: "I" belong to the Muir Island Clinic.

#this is not an x men quote #david haller #x-men #legion #shadow king #amahl farouk

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Empyre: X-Men (2020) #2

#amahl farouk #bennet du paris #celeste cuckoo #jason wyngarde #mindee cuckoo #nathaniel essex #phoebe cuckoo #quentin quire #regan wyngarde #selene gallio #empyre: x-men (2020)

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So, I already edited and added to this one before and it took two hours and then tumblr glitched and saved none that and instead posted my original messy draft and I didn't realise for several hours and was very annoyed which is why this is coming now rather than sooner.

I've decided to save my full David and Syd analysis until after watching season three, so this is just my stray observations post while watching the last three episodes of season 2.

- If David hadn't been off fucking Future Syd maybe he could have prevented the delusion spreading through Division 3 and maybe Ptonomy could have survived. Also, I know they were limited timewise, and I know they haven't really known what to do with Ptonomy since season 1, but couldn't we get at least one shot of his friends mourning him?! If not David and Syd, at least Melanie? Wasn't it implied they worked together a significant amount of time at Summerland? I know his consciousness is being kept alive in a computer or whatever, but they didn't know that at the time!

- I want to know how Clark and Syd's 'girl talk' moment came to be. Do they meet for tea regularly? Talk about their love lives and exes? I'm not sure how I feel about Clark's story about the boy in the army he loved who kept jumping out of planes to get away from him. I feel like it might have been better to get something more real in that moment than bizarre (especially when we know he had a husband and son that he lost due to his obsession with David). I read a review that treated the army boy story as serious and emotional but like... he parachuted away from him, and then one day his parachute didn't open?! It's just occurred to me thst I might be taking this too literally like the autistic stereotype I am but honestly in a show like Legion that's the sort of thing that would be intended to be taken literally and not as a metaphor so I don't even know anymore...

- Literal or not I did not miss the parallel of Syd jumping out of a plane and parachuting down to get to David. Honestly, parachuting into the desert and immediately kicking your boyfriend in the shins is such a power move.

- In general it feels like the show doesn't know what to do with Clark, and I worry that he'll meet a similar fate to Ptonomy as a result. Hopefully not!

- Admiral Fukuyama was created to keep the secrets safe from the telepaths...now he works with them? I liked seeing some of how he came to be, but it honestly it left me more confused. Also, if all he has is the metalwork around his head, I don't really get why he wears a basket...its probably just a meaningless visual I'm reading too much into... I love the visuals of Legion a lot, but I do feel like sometimes 'this would look cool/weird/strange' is the only reasoning behind things and it doesn't always land with me.

- So this absolutely should have gone in my TUA comparison post, but I remembered writing it, got confused, and thought I'd already posted it rather than stuck it in a stray observations draft...whoops. David choosing to not tell anyone his plan as Farouk would read their mind and instead manipulating them all as an alternative - it's the first time David, as David has acted based on his own thoughts and feelings and I'm questioning if he's doing the right thing. I couldn't help but think of Five Hargreeves line to Viktor in The Umbrella Academy, 'You know what they call a superhero who acts alone and doesn't listen to anybody? A villain.' (Having now reached the end of the season I wasn't wrong)

- Farouk previously talked about David's white father taking over and telling his people what to do (sidenote: who are Farouk's people? I thought he might mean mutants, but the white part of the line then doesn't make sense. It's unclear if Farouk is Moroccan like the comics or Iranian, since he speaks Farsi, but in this universe, did Professor X colonise Morocco/Iran?!?) He also talks about white people being cast as the heroes when speaking with Future Syd, and he's got a point, but the show needs to commit if it truly wants to address this. Yes exoticism has been used as short hand for villainous in the past, yes the writers of Legion didn't create or name Amahl Farouk, they're just (loosely) adapting the comics, and yes David does reveal himself to be a villain rather than a hero. But like...Farouk is still also a villain? So yeah, your blonde blue-eyed white man might be a monster, but that doesn't erase all the things Farouk has done (including helping turn David into a monster). Also, him being free at the end is down to his manipulations and control of others, right? Because the whole of Division 3 isn't so stupid as to let him walk free, right?!?

- 'You're the song they play outside a hostage crisis to keep criminals from thinking clearly.' This is just a great line I wanted to highlight. Syd could have just called Lenny a distraction but went with this beauty instead.

-The show that talked about delusion and moral panic then tries to blame technology for helping create narcissists and not seeing others as real people. It feels like that stupid 2014 video that claimed using our phones meant we'd miss out on meeting the love of our life because we won't ask her for directions. It's such nonsense. I've seen people who watched it when it aired say that technology is just a framing device for discussing narcissism and not meant to be seen as the blame, but if that's the case, sorry, they did a shit job because it absolutely feels like its proselytising about the evils of tech. It feels so incredibly out touch and tactless, and I wish they cut it, especially as the John Hamm narrative segments had reached a natural conclusion just the episode before. Having enjoyed the segments until now, it's disappointing that this is what they were building to.

-I think they were aiming for 'the desolate' or 'desolation' but 'Le désolé' just means 'the sorry' I checked with a French friend to make sure, and they confirmed it. You can use désolé to mean desolate, but only if there's a noun in front of it so this doesn't work.

- I'm not sure if the two David in David's mind are meant to be alters or like a devil and angel on his shoulder (really hope it's the latter because DID has been demonised enough and I don't trust the show to not be another Split honestly) but as someone who watches with subtitles I got the fun insight that their names are apparently Divad and Dvd.

- I've seen some people say Legion is set in the '60s/70s but we're never given a year, right? Considering it's a parallel universe I thought it was just another present day low/no tech AU like The Umbrella Academy or Manic. Especially as a lot if the tech we see feels more steampunk than 1960s . I get why a reviewer called the depiction of an MRI scan in season 1 anachronistic now, since MRI was only invented in 1977 (sidenote: as a student radiographer I will still never get over that scene. I was so ready to just accept it as a made up experimental scan and then they said the words MRI and I had to pause it, I was laughing so hard because it's sooo bad)

- I watched two whole seasons of this show and thought Melanie was played by Kim Cattral, but she isn't, she's played by Jean Smart! TWO SEASONS. I hadn't heard of Jean Smart before now, but honestly her and Kim Cattral are twins.

#legion #legion season 2 #david haller #amahl farouk #stray observations #the umbrella academy #but only a brief mention #can someone get me a gif of Syd parchuting out of the sky to kick David in the shins please?

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I had a thought today.

#they're so... #the corinthian #doctor octopus #seishiro sakurazuka #amahl farouk #sheriff cooley