#escape from pelican rock

[umbrehopefulfox]

The winds of Bay city ruffled through Calm Ghosts feathers, she had just finished escaping the dreaded Pelican Rock Prison after being framed for being the Booted Bandit, a thief that has been tormenting the town. As much as she had bonded with the prisoners, this wasn't a place she desired to live if she hadn't done anything to deserve it. So. She broke out with determination to prove her innocence.

The light of dawn revealed her escape and the police didn't take long to flock near the tower, alert to catch her at the scene again. Having to climb to the top undetected, Calm Ghost now stood crouched by the tower walls. Thanks to Van Nostrand's painting, she realized that the wall had been filled in. Pealing away the plaster covered hole slowly revealed a safe hidden by Florian.

Yes! This could help prove her innocene, she could finally return back to her normal life! She could stop being labeled a thief! She could-

"Thanks for doing the grunt work. I'll Take it from here..."

Calm Ghost flinched, a familiar, chilling voice reaching her Avian ears, slowly turning her head, she saw the real Booted Bandit standing on the tower. If she hadn't known she was her own self, even she would have thought she was seeing double, if only for the fact that the Booted Bandit was missing the goggles Amelia gave her.

"You!" Calm Ghost said in alarm, fear was bubbling inside her "Because of you, I had to break out of Prison to find this safe!"

Her doppelganger seemed to shrug at her, almost mocking her reply and picking up the hints of fear in her voice. "Thats how the cookie crumbles."

Calm Ghost started to shake, the memories of chasing the thief flashing back, the money pile they left behind, and then...darkness. "You tricked me!" she said, pointing a finger at the bandit.

The Booted Bandit crossed her arms, amused. "Tricked you?" she echoed before replying. "No...I saved you."

Calm Ghost's legs seemed to give out, falling to her knees, the bandit continued, walking over to her. "You are a prisoner here. Just. like. me." She then crouched down in front of her and simply said. "Now if you'll excuse me, that treasure is mine."

-

This was originally posted on my Instagram February 27th

#Umbre's Art #poptropica #poptropica oc #escape from pelican rock #Calm Ghost #The booted bandit #poptropica art #The difference between Calm Ghost and the booted bandit #is literally that Calm Ghost cant fly while The Booted Bandit can #Also the Booted Bandit is lacking goggles

[thecrappyportalmaster]

I was today years old when I learned that the Escape From Pelican Rock island in poptropica was based on the VERY REAL 1962 ESCAPE ATTEMPT FROM ALCATRAZ

#like what?! #this is bizarre #poptropica #escape from pelican rock #alcatraz

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Amelia's collection of items from all around Poptropica

I actually don't know which island the skull tea is from. I forgot. Also this tea:

Could be this one:

#poptropica #poptropica screenshots #poptropica amelia #home island #mythology island #escape from pelican rock island #fairy tale island #astro knights island #crisis caverns island #wild west island #nabooti island #legendary swords #poptropica analysis

[pawptropica]

TRITON IF U HAVENT OR FLORIAN? :DD

Triton is a Nebelung!

Florian Fosbury is a Cashmere Bengal!

#kitty #cats #ask #toxicooz #Poptropica #mythology island #triton #Triton Poptropica #Florian Fosbury #Florian Fosbury Poptropica #Florian Poptropica #Escape from pelican rock island #nebelung cat #nebelung #bengal cat #bengal #cashmere bengal

[meowsydreams]

just some doodles

#art #ocs #fanart #poptropica #poptropica oc #oc: lucky ghost #thomas edison poptropica #dean paulus #flambé #van nostrand #mystery train island #escape from pelican rock island #doodle #artists on tumblr #travis draws #2022 #i can'tdraw men r.i.p

[bylerwillnotwriteitself]

why would they do that

#i decided to play poptropica after 3 years of not playing #they took away reality tv island #and escape from pelican rock is glitchy so i can't sharpen the spoon #they took away other cool islands too #i'm stuck playing poptropicon #which is still pretty cool #but i want to vote off that old guy

[robinwinged]

escapism in "the boy and the heron"

Interrupting my regularly scheduled programming of Good Omens brainrot for this attempt to process the wonderful, fantastical, and distinctly discombobulating experience of watching Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron.” 

Miyazaki’s films, at least to me, have never been straightforward to follow. Spirited Away, for example, is a beautiful masterpiece whose meaning is difficult to decipher on a first watch, and is only fully unveiled when you dive headfirst into research of Japan’s context and the movie’s many symbolic themes. The Boy and the Heron takes this typical Miyazaki complexity and ineffability and turns it up to eleven. There are so many elements that seem random, so many narrative arcs and characters all warring for attention (what is the tower? why are the parakeets so goddamn bloodthirsty? why is the blue heron such a creepy old man?), that combine to create a whimsical but overall also very strange landscape. 

I know that art in general does not have to have “meaning” or “a message” to be deserving of our love and attention. Art can be touching, affecting, disturbing, provoking - any number of things that would give it credit - and damn it if The Boy and the Heron isn’t all of these combined. But. 

But.

This is also a Miyazaki movie, and he has proven once and time again why he is the master of hidden meaning, and so here, in no particular order, are my half-formed rambles on what I have personally think each movie detail that I struggled to puzzle out initially is about. 

(spoilers below, so proceed with caution!)

The tower, time, and escapism 

The tower is the central mystery point of the movie - a literal mystical rock that crashed down from the heavens and later lured Mahito’s grand-grand uncle (let’s call him the Tower Master for convenience’s sake) into its depths. Within the tower is a mirage world filled with magic but no real living beings, controlled by the whims of the Tower Master and nothing else that remotely resembles logic or reality. The tower also contains a series of doors that seem to lead to different points in time, if the ending is to go by and how the 13 blocks are meant to be pieces of worlds the Tower Master has visited. So what is this strange and fantastic realm, and what role does it play in the overarching narrative? 

My hypothesis is that the Tower is a pocket free from the influence of time (think like the TVA in Loki) - a separate island running parallel to the fabric of the universe that contains portals to different points of past, present, and future. By itself, the pocket has no life or substance; it must be filled by the imagination - pure imagination, untethered to reality - of its main (human) inhabitant. This is why most of the ships are illusions rather than real objects, why the parakeets are so ridiculously odd and behave nothing like real

birds, why the fish is the size of Kiriko’s damn ship. Anything that is real, has to be brought in from the real world (see: the pelicans, Himi, and Kiriko). This is also why the parakeet king immediately topples the tower: yes, he is not the Tower Master’s descendant, but he is also not inherently a real sentient being, and an imaginary object cannot in itself sustain a further imagination. 

So why does the Tower Master choose to sequester himself in this alternate space, where he can only exist alone with his own mysterious creations? I think the Tower Master represents those of us who wish to escape from reality, to inhabit worlds which we can control, where pain doesn’t have to touch us if we don’t wish for it (whether I’m projecting reallyyyyy hard at this point does not matter ok). He is an insanely avid reader, with books literally piled in small mountains throughout his living quarters, and don’t we readers (i.e me, again) always wish for escapism? The Tower Master, then, is an example of those who would rather become entrapped in our own minds rather than deal with the world beyond us - maybe, even in a way, a little like Miyazaki himself, whose imagination is so powerful but is also extremely singular and all-consuming, anchoring him to his creative work without reprieve of retirement until his reserves run dry (not to imply that the man is a hermit or that I want him to retire, quite the opposite in fact, but parallels, no matter how shaky, can still be drawn). 

This, too, explains why the Tower Master needs Mahito to control the world for him. It is not because he’s grown old, since he cannot be affected by time in the Tower, but it is because his imagination is stagnating - he is no longer capable of finding new ways to balance the tower, he cannot sustain the fantasy any longer. In itself, this can already serve as a message from Miyazaki - we cannot hope to live only within the confines of our minds if we do not interact at all with the real world, because then at some point we will run out of material, of lived experiences to build on top of, and threaten to crumble the fragile imaginary world we have created. 

Himi and her fire powers

Himi is a strange hiccup in the system - a rare occurrence of a living person in this fantasy playland that wasn’t brought into it during Mahito’s own entrance, like Kiriko. This theory is a little bit out there, I can totally appreciate that myself, but remember that one year in which Mahiko disappeared from the real world and then came back completely unchanged? I think she chose to stay there for much longer than a year, knowing that time didn’t work the same in this pocket world and she always had the chance to return to her original timeline through the handy door-portals. I think Himi has stayed there essentially until she met Mahito - so long that she actually grew into a part of the fantasy, developing impossible pyrokinetic powers and becoming a set part of the landscape in exchange for extended youth. But this stay didn’t come without consequences. In the real world, Mahiko passes away in a fire, at a younger age than would be expected. Perhaps this, in itself, is a punishment for cheating time - the universe reclaiming the years that Himi spent in the Tower. It’s also definitely not a coincidence that Himi can control fire in the Tower, and dies by fire in the real world; a form of lethal poetic justice, if you will. Seeing Mahito was the trigger for Himi to leave, to embrace her own destiny, because she could now see and be proud of the outcomes of her life and not have regrets about missing out on the life passing her by. (This interpretation would then necessarily imply a deterministic version of life and time, so it’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but I think it makes sense in this version because you see doors way farther down than the present which Mahito steps into.) 

The starving pelicans 

The pelicans are another anomaly because they, too, are not figments of the Tower Master’s imagination, but instead have been brought into this fantasy world, for one reason or another, likely against their will. And this is where the Tower Master’s escape from reality cracks and burns at the foundation - he creates harm rather than good when he brings in the pelicans, because he does not account for the fact that they cannot exist without a source of food, and they then are forced to eat the Warawara to survive. The movie states that the Warawara are like baby souls, who ascend to become new lives, but I think it’s a little more metaphorical than literal rebirth. For me the Warawara are metaphorical ideas or seedlings of inspiration, the only parts of the Tower Master’s creations which aren’t fully formed, but allowed to grow by themselves and escape into the world - like passing the spark of creation to others outside the Tower. And the pelicans, involuntary prisoners of the Tower Master’s fantasy world, must prey on the Warawara before they have the chance to become real. This can be seen (if you squint real hard and do some violent spins so your vision is hella blurry) as the beginning of the end of the Tower Master’s reign - the forceful inclusion of other sentient beings inside his imagination doesn’t help him enrich his internal realm, but rather snuffs out the genuine inspiration that he could be passing onto others, creating pain where the Tower Master hoped to be spared from it. 

Mahito’s rejection of the Tower

So with this central “Tower as escapism” theory, what does Mahito’s rejection to take over for the Tower Master mean? There is a moment that was so subtly powerful in that final exchange between the two, when Mahito stops denying the truth by telling everyone that he got his scar from falling, and instead admits that self-harm was the actual cause. At the beginning of the movie, I viewed that moment of very painful self-harm as Mahito’s wish to withdraw from the challenges of life - to live in isolation away from the grief over losing his mother, the challenges of being the rich new kid in town, the overwhelming discomfort of seeing his father shack up with his aunt. His reality is agonizing for him, and the fantasy land is so beautiful in its strange way that it could become a safe haven away from his trauma. But when Mahito says “no”, he is choosing reality; he is choosing to do the hard work, to face all the hardships life can throw at him, because he feels finally strong enough to not need to use imagination as an escapist crutch. In those final moments, Mahito is choosing to live in a world that he cannot control, because no matter how tough things get, he doesn’t have to do it alone - and that’s what I think Miyazaki is telling us too. 

Of course, the movie also deals with themes of class conflict and war profiteering; grief and acceptance; continuing your ancestors’ legacies versus paving your own path, which many have already discussed and I don’t particularly have anything new to add to. Regardless, these themes are masterfully woven into the plot, as per usual, and serve to elevate the movie’s emotional impact into something heart-twisting and truly unforgettable. 

Alright, ramble over - back to fandom lurking! 

#the boy and the heron #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #the boy and the heron spoilers #robin rambles #the kind of movie that makes you think #or perhaps overthink?? #the boy and the heron meta

[three-penguins-in-a-trench-coat]

Lewis visits the Stardew Valley Farm every night. What kinda funky shit do you think he sees?

I mean, Lewis visits the farm every night to see if the Farmer wants to sell anything. Which is kinda weird, I mean, why do they have it set up like this? Why does the freakin mayor have to go to the farm and sell that shit? Who does he sell it to???

Anyways, imagine how much stuff he sees that just freaks him the fuck out.

He's grabbing Ancient Fruit Wine Bottle No. #12903 from the bottomless pit that is the shipping bin and the Farmer just teleports from out of nowhere, covered in blood, holding an equally bloody hammer that's glowing and a backpack full of rocks. Somehow I don't think Lewis would find that very live laugh love.

On another night, he gets drive-by cursed by a green lady on a fucking broomstick that makes his kneecaps backwards for 3 days. And then there was this one time where monsters rose out of the ground and started chasing him around the farm, until they finally crumbled to dust at around 2 in the morning. Lewis's sanity slowly crumbles day by day. He walks around the town like a war survivor, eyes staring off into the distance. Until, one day, he decides he's had enough.

Lewis starts to come prepared. He started working out with Alex, and following guides of old Kung Fu VHS tapes George gave him. He bought a sword from Clint (using the tax money, of course. They were purchases that would benefit of the whole town) and began bringing it with him to the farm. Stone golems? Lewis shat all over them. Escaped aliens? He mopped them up before breakfast time.

Nothing could flinch him. He would patrol around Pelican Town all day, sword strapped at the waist like a geriatric guardian. Nothing could faze him. Lewis didn't even bat an eye when the shadow people invaded Pelican Town. He just downed Gus's entire liquor supply and flogged their asses back to the mines. Within a few months, he was outlifting Alex, and looking good while at it. Marnie was quite happy with the new Lewis 2.0.

One time, a photography crew was sent out to do a photoshoot of him for their new 60+ Dating App Silver&Single. It was an instant success, but Lewis decided to turn down all other requests to become an elderly model. He couldn't bear the thought of anyone else running the gauntlet to the shipping bin. No, that was his duty. Lewis swore that until the day he died, he would protect the town from harm, no matter what the Farm threw at him. As mayor, he would defend their hidden home, day in, day out.

The Farmer thought it was quite amusing that Lewis decided to become swole enough to make Dwayne Johnson jealous, simply to sell some vegetables. They offered to deliver the goods straight into the town so Lewis didn't have to fight for his life every single night, but he turned down the offer. For the first time, he truly felt what it was like to be alive.

Actually, there was one moment where he did consider it. He was strolling past the fish pond the farmer built after destroying that night's batch of abominations, when a salmon popped it's head out of the water. "Hey, you! Got any gemstones? The boys are hungry and I aint got any left. Help a fellow daddy out?"

Lewis didn't drink any more after that night.

#lewis swole arc #lewis canonically would have to fight monsters every night on the wilderness farm #stardew valley #stardew #sdv #stardew lewis #sdv lewis #story idea

[thesumlax]

On Deviantart I titled this Dream Sketches page "A New Record" because 21 is the largest number of entries yet, and also because I spent the longest time procrastinating on posting them...

Also, I decided that the grid format with six drawings to a page makes them way too small for my liking. On the other hand, I tried a new method of cleaning them up, by meticulously painting the sketches with a selection brush so I can leave all of the dirt behind when I move them... and it does produce great result, but the time waste is crazy.

Anyway:

1) Something like a living cavern monster, with a rock shell and jelly-like flesh. It`s basically hollow inside, and its organs are semi-autonomous entities crawling among those giant papillae on the floor. The bubble-backed thing crawling out is a reproductive one, it produces some strange reproductive bodies that look like either fried eggs or sausages crossed with some unicellular organisms (2). They`re not sex cells, hovewer, but still multicellular structures more like gametophytes.

3) Giant sand-swimming dragon with a bunny face and some fucked-up sand-ship glued to its back.

4) Just a trio of little guys! May have been video game characters who have to escape some sort of bad place by using their abilities (umbrella, spinning hand, and a fucking gun) in combinations. They`re colored red, blue and green.

5) Some sort of sea creature calles something like "trychnotus" or "trychaetus".

6) Another sea monster that kinda looks like a rubber toy.

7) Ghostly transparent axolotl-creature.

8) An erect-limbed toad. For some reason it`s important to note that it is exactly 12 cm tall.

9) A gliding, stinger-tailed draconic creature.

10) A bear-like omnivorous therizinosaurid survivng to the modern day. Started as spec evo but suddenly tranformed into horror movie monster for some reason.

11) Tiny-headed deer-o-saurus.

12-13) Two weird pitch-black horses from two unrelated dreams. Number 13 had its eyes and those weird cracks glowing bright neon green.

14) Bizarre elephantoids. The pitcher-trunk is especially fun.

15) Allegedly some sort of early pterosaur.

16) Don`t really know what that is... Seems to be made of brown rock?

17) Now this was a dream about some superhero who could shrink down do bug size and interact with sapient bugs (of the freakishly human-faced cartoon variety). These bugs had cars, which were also bugs (pictured). Bizarrely, the bug civilization existed in the same exact spaces as human civilization despite the size difference, with human roads having lanes for bug-cars.

18) A giraffe-dragon of some kind?

19) Another thing I don`t even know the context of. The humanoid head does not have a mouth despite the teeth.

20) Something like a gorgon.

21) Pelican dragon. Apparently can spray toxic mist like a crop duster, presumably through pores in its pouch.

#my art #sketches #dreams #creature design

[w3bkinz-t0yb0x]

#poptropica #poptrolls #poptropolis games island #polls #2000s nostalgia #webcore #2000s internet #flash games #flash game #nostalgia core #2000s kids #90s kids

[lazyisnthere]

I DID IT THIS IS PINK MOON SHE IS FROM ESCAPE FROM PELICAN ROCK ISLAND AND SOMEHOW MANAGED TO RUN OFF WITH HADES CROWN

#poptropica oc #poptropica #poptropica fanart #pink moon #my oc art #gay ocs #krickets oc #my art lol #digital art #fan art #MY ART BITCH

[yumnasfunblog]

@thebutterflyoficeandwisteria

#poptropica

[bellygunnr]

Response to your tags - I'm not hurting Palmer! (More than what I already have planned)

She's fine. She's first gen 4, got those long lasting augs, they won't quit on her in the field. I'll kill her other ways and bring her back worse :o)

Hurt.

Daylight flickers over the ring in fitful bursts, sunlight struggling to break through the stringy clouds bunching over the horizon. Sarah looks away from it to scoop more water over her armor, but she's slow about it, mesmerized by how cleanly the muck and blood was wiped away from her hull. The only thing that pulls her out of her sluggishness is a soft ping from the speakers ringed around her neck, exposed and activated for the first time in days.

"Alert: make an appointment with Infinity Medical."

The cool synthesized voice of her Mjolnir Gen 2 armor seems to carry endlessly over the quiet clearing. She looks away from her companion, ignoring the pointed look the captain gives her. Sue her, she needed her armor to keep her on track, sometimes. But a lot had changed in two months.

Infinity Medical didn't exist anymore, let alone the Infinity.

"So… What's that for?" Thomas asks.

She finally looks at him, lips pressed to a thin line. He's shucked off his shirt, revealing the wear and tear of two months of ground-pounding, the jagged still-healing wound of a botched Pelican escape. She thinks about waving him off or ignoring him, but nothing about that sits right with her. It'd be a disservice.

"Funnily enough, I can't remember," Sarah says. "Definitely something Spartan related, though. An organ or computer needs replacing soon, I'm sure."

She sounds lighter than she feels. The realization feels like swallowing a jagged rock, catching in her throat and tearing the soft, soft insides.

Thomas, for his part, looks equally discombobulated. But he's always cared too much.

She needs to forget about this now.

Quickly, she stands up, shaking off the last of the water and leaving her armor half-dirty. Cleanliness was only important as far as function went-- the cameras were clean, the joints clear. Everything else would have to deal.

"Do you want to-- talk about it?" Thomas asks, standing up after her.

He clearly wasn't done here. She tuts, glaring down at him.

"Hurry up. We need to catch up with Golf and that cliff they built up."

Thomas doesn't look convinced. But he doesn't say anything, so Sarah considers that a win.

#gunny answers asks #gunny writes #commander sarah palmer #captain thomas lasky #halo #infinity command #halo infinite spoilers

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

For Black History Month, I draw one black Poptropica character a day.

Today is Pat McGonagle from Escape from Pelican Rock Island!

Pat (aka Patches) was arrested for grand theft equine and unlicensed phrenology. They have been in Pelican Rock prison for so long, they are actually the first prisoner there. They found a bird with a broken wing and nursed it back to health. 

#poptropica #poptropica fanart #pat mcgonagle #escape from pelican rock island #efpri #fanart #art #black history month #bhm

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Avengers #284: BATTLEGROUND: OLYMPUS

October, 1987

Assault on Olympus!

Is this an assault on Olympus? Olympus seemed more idyllic gardens and fancy halls and less craggy rock wasteland.

Maybe they found the back lot?

Anyway, Avengers. What’s going on with them?

Well, last times on this book, Baron Zemo Jr concocted this big plan to destroy the Avengers with a new, bigger and better version of the Masters of Evil.

The plan fell apart.

But his Masters did manage to trash the mansion and beat Hercules into a coma.

Which is causing problems for the Avengers.

Zeus is none to happy about his favorite son being in a coma and he’s decided that the Avengers are 110% at fault. He got his other children to capture the Avengers and had them thrown into Hades. He also had Wasp captured despite being on vacation. Is nothing sacred, Zeus?

The Avengers have broken out of Hades and made their way to Olympus where they’ve allied with Venus, Athena, Hephaestus, and Apollo. Y’know, the Zeus children who aren’t assholes.

The plan was to talk to Zeus with some divine advocates, maybe have Apollo and Dr Druid combine their powers and heal Hercules to help chill Zeus out. But Zeus found them and blew them the fuck up.

And now in this book, Wasp is having one of those orbiting head guilt hallucinations.

With the Avengers begging her to save their asses instead of enjoying her vacation.

Also with a smug Artemis cuing her to flashback to what happened to her off-panel.

So, she was on vacation on a deserted Caribbean island, enjoying some time off from being a superhero and a cool Avenger.

When she saw, of all things, a deer! Just a random deer on this island where the largest wildlife are pelicans!

It was weird enough that she shrank to flying size (which at this point is only a foot smaller than her usual size) and flew after the creature but it vanished into the jungle.

Then someone shot an arrow at her. Wasp managed to shrink down to dodge it but it swerves to try to hit her anyway. So she blows it up with her Sting. Only for the arrow to explode into a paralyzing cloud of dust that knocked her the hell out.

She dimly remembers the approach of another woman -- a powerful woman -- who took her... somewhere. And she recalls a huge bearded man shouting at her... but after that, her memories disintegrate into a jumble.

Okay. I know Artemis is the goddess of the hunt and all but. What use does she have for an arrow that explodes into sleep powder?

It reads like sandbox fight. “Ah ha, I dodge the arrow using shrinking!” “But but but my arrow tracks like a missile!” “Okay so I blow up the arrow with my bio-electric Wasp Sting!” “Yeah but the arrow explodes into chloroform so I win.”

Anyway, Wasp wakes up in a cage slash coffin that isn’t very secure. Wasp just shrinks down, uses her Sting to blow a very tiny hole in the glass, and flies out.

But while Wasp is flying around, trying to figure out where in the Caribbean one would find a bunch of Gercian architecture, Hera pops out from around the corner and asks to speak to Wasp.

Wasp realizes, oh, this is Olympus.

And that the shouty man was then Zeus.

Hera is, at least at this point, pretty chill.

Or maybe she’s just contrary because she still doesn’t like Hercules.

Either way, she’s not thrilled with Zeus throwing the Avengers into Hades or that he’s so mad that they escaped, he’d be willing to level Earth.

Meanwhile, the conscious, not horribly injured Avengers (Captain Marvel, Thor, Namor, She-Hulk) go to fight Zeus and his still loyal children (Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis).

Captain Marvel goes right for Zeus but... geez, the man can backhand her even when she’s in light form.

Geez.

Calling himself the Lord of Lightning just aggros Thor, who pops up to get into a lightning contest with Zeus.

Thor: “Mayhap you’ve more respect for the might of another thunder god, red-beard!”

Zeus: “I respect no god who allies himself with mine enemies, Thor!”

Thor: “‘Tis not the Avengers who are your enemies, Zeus... ‘tis your own madness!”

Zeus: “HOW DARE YOU SMITE THE PERSON OF ZEUS!!”

As Thor hammers Zeus into a building, ‘natch.

Captain Marvel nyooms in to back up Thor but Zeus tells Artemis (and Ares and Dionysus) that they deal with the mortals so he can focus on beating the crap out of Thor.

Artemis discovers though that without a sneak attack, the speed of light is much faster than the speed of arrow.

Between panels, Monica even manages to knock out Artemis, although she notes that it took enough voltage to kill several humans to do it.

Meanwhile, Namor fights Ares.

He’s beaten Ares before but that time they were under the sea. So Cap(tain America) tosses his shield to Namor to even the odds.

Captain America is too injured to join the fight anyway. Also, he vanishes as Ares fights Namor. As Doctor Druid vanished while Thor was fighting Zeus.

Better not be the Collector again!

Black Knight comes to his senses just in time to have to dodge Dionysus flying overhead after a She-Hulk punch.

Interestingly, Black Knight is in good shape after the big Zeus explosion and the reason why is that Captain America jumped in front of him to try to shield him.

So now Cap has both legs broken and Black Knight is gaping in confusion at everything happening.

By the way, Hercules (apparently his bed was untouched by the explosion) also vanishes.

And it transpires that Hermes has been super speed snatching people from the fight scene and bringing them to safety so Mysterious Guy (actually Prometheus!) can treat their wounds.

Hermes is actually freaking out at disobeying Zeus to help Prometheus but then Hera arrives with Wasp and tells Hermes that he’s doing what his queen says and she says they’ve got to end Zeus’ madness.

Meanwhile, Wasp sees how badly Captain America is hurt and worries over him but Cap has a good attitude.

Captain America: “They’ll heal, Jan. I’m glad to see you’re all right! Buck up -- we’ll see this through!”

Doctor Druid: “Captain, I’m in awe of your faith!”

Captain America: “We fought our way back from Hades, Druid. Anything is possible!”

Back at the god fight, Captain Marvel has shocked Artemis unconscious, as earlier discussed. She-Hulk has Dionysus in a full nelson. And while Namor is having trouble using Cap’s shield to its full effect, Captain Marvel zaps Ares’ footing, tumbling him into a pool. And Namor has no problem kicking his ass underwater.

Dionysus manages to slip from the full nelson and picks up a big column to whack She-Hulk with. He comments that even though his party lifestyle has softened his body, he’s still plenty strong.

Dionysus: “I may be the god of joy, She-Hulk -- but I can also cause much sorrow!”

Black Knight and Captain Marvel notices that Hephaestus, Venus, Apollo, and Athena are finally rousing. Way after the Avengers who got hit at the same time. Captain Marvel speculates that Zeus hit them harder than he did the mortals which doesn’t make sense but whatever.

Captain Marvel nyooms off to go look for the missing Avengers.

Over with the missing Avengers, Prometheus has decided to try a Dangerous Technique to try and revive Hercules.

He gets all the squishy mortals to move to one corner for safety and then borrows Hermes’ caduceus.

Prometheus: “Hear me, Gaea, mother of us all... grant me the power, the will, and the way to awaken this one’s mind from the sleep of sleeps! Let Hercules again be whole! Let Hercules live!”

Elsewhere on Olympus, Thor continues to fight Zeus, despite his whole ‘no healing, no dying’ curse causing him terrible pain.

Thor: “Though my body be wracked with pain beyond reckoning, I will not die! Will not? Nay, I cannot! Such is the curse of Hela, that no one can slay the son of Odin... not even a god gone mad!”

Zeus: “Mad?! ‘Tis you who must be mad! Why else would you ally yourself with the mortal curs who betrayed my son’s trust? You see in me but the righteous anger of a father wronged! If that be madness -- I WELCOME IT!”

Thor recognizes that Zeus is going into the warrior madness and unless he can be shocked from it, his anger is going to consume all. Which isn’t ideal.

Speaking of shocked, Zeus hits Thor with a massive lightning bolt.

When Thor gets back up anyway (because of Hela’s curse preventing him from dying), Zeus is aggravated. Thor tries to explain Hela’s curse and tries again to explain that Hercules got his own dumb self injured, Zeus just blasts Thor with more lightning.

Zeus: “You shall suffer for those lies! You shall suffer and you shall die!!”

Thor: ‘Dude, I just said I can’t do that.’

Zeus gives it the ol’ college try though, blasting Thor back and forth and complaining that Thor just won’t die.

Zeus: “Perfidious child! Your very existence sullies the memory of noble Odin! I see now the workings of destiny! I have a sacred duty to rip the life from your bones!”

But Captain Marvel rejoins the fight, letting Zeus have a taste of lightning for a change.

Captain Marvel: “Back off, Zeus -- or I’ll do a lot worse than cut your arm! In the name of the Avengers, I order you to surrender!”

Zeus: “You... order me?”

Man, gods hate being ordered.

Thor tells Monica that this is a god fight and no place for mortals. But she tells him tough. She gonna fight Zeus anyway.

Captain Marvel: “We stand or fall together!”

And, look, if there’s a non-god Avenger that can fight on a god fight level, its definitely Monica. Her power set is pretty bonkers.

Zeus tries to blast her (obviously not game for her demand he surrender) but she’s in hologram form and the lightning goes right through her.

He refuses to bother with her if she’s just going to ghost his attacks so she forces him to take her seriously.

BRAK-KA-TA-KROOM!

Man. Lightning explosions make the best noises in Marvel.

The lightning explosion is so massive that it casts hundreds of yards in blinding light.

Despite being blinded, Prometheus completes his healing of Hercules.

Unfortunately, the first thing the prince of power does after waking up is smack Prometheus away and start yelling “TREACHERY!! ENEMIES... EVERYWHERE!!”

So... maybe double check that his brain is working right.

Double unfortunately, Zeus comes out of the giant lightning explosion still standing.

Zeus: “None can defeat the Lord of Olympus! By mine own will, am I invincible!”

... Didn’t Typhon steal all your tendons once?

Monica used as much energy on that lightning explosion as she’d used to take down the shields of the Sanctuary II when the Avengers were fighting Nebula.

So, yeah, she’s tapped out.

Thor at least whispers to her that she surely hurt Zeus more than any mortal has done before. So that’s worth bragging rights at least.

Namor pops in to rejoin the fight, punching Zeus in the back of the head.

Namor: “As long as one Avenger yet stands, we will prevail!”

Good rejoinder, Zeus.

Zeus: “Mortals have grown stronger and more presumptuous of late! ‘Tis clear I must again make my presence felt upon the Earth... that mankind might learn anew the proper respect for... gods!”

She-Hulk, sneaking up behind for a surprise bear hug: “Is a hug respectful enough, Red?”

He blasts her off his back with electricity and she lands in a heap, smoking.

Oof.

Black Knight watched Namor and She-Hulk get brushed aside by Zeus with little effort and so hesitates to jump in himself. He’s just a dude in armor with an extremely cursed sword, after all.

He also wonders how things could possibly get worse. Because Dane is an idiot who loves to tempt fate.

In fairness though, the immediate response to that question is something that was already ongoing so he can’t really be blamed for it.

Healed from his coma, Hercules has apparently been driven into a berserker rage. Despite Captain America’s fears that Hercules isn’t in his right mind and doesn’t recognize the Avengers, Hercules claims he does know them... AS ENEMIES!

Dammit, Prometheus!

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