#real life superheroes

[venusdeservedbetter]

Something I saw on Twitter the other day really bugged me, and it took until today for me to fully understand why.

So, there was this tweet that basically boiled down to "if you woke up tomorrow with superpowers, would you actually use them responsibly to help people?", with the implication being that if a real person actually had superpowers, they'd either be a villain, or would use violent means to force societal change.

And while that's a loaded hypothetical, the point that bothered me is that there are real life superheroes, people who dress up in costumes to fight bad guys, or encourage their community to be better. And ideas like that completely spits in the face of those people who help people for no other reason than because it's the right thing to do.

#the boys #it's a very view to have on people #superheroes #real life superheroes #twitter nonsense

[loiterer87]

Been attempting Full-Colour comics again! Behold! Loiterers, Issue 2! The Good Knight Rises! This took ages, mostly because I was working on it between other things and trying to get to grips with my graphics tablet. Seriously, look at the difference between the colours on the first page of the story and the last...

Anyway! Check it out and let me know how many locations I got wrong around Leeds! Everything is accurate to where it is when I wrote and drew the thing...

#comics #drawing #webcomics #Loiterers #making comics #real life superhero #real life superheroes #leeds #independent comics #small press comics #small press

[jhsharman]

wonder dude

It might seem as they colored in Betty's midriff, but the other panels maintain her belly. So. Uneven editing. Continuity error created.

I do not know if "real life superheroes" was a subculture at the time (hard not to have issues with this vigilante-light role play fantasy hobby, even if it mostly devolves into showing off your costume on YouTube and knowing that you can't really do anything when you wander around at night -- except have a few more mock-worthy YouTube of you not really doing anything), and I guess it had been done by Archie anyway. I remember seeing a local comic book store having Josie # 22 marked up from the other issues with a notation that this was the "first appearance of Mighty Man" -- I am sure a big selling point for the collectors' market.

#Archie Comics #Archie Andrews #Moose Mason #Chuck Clayton #Betty Cooper #Veronica Lodge #Sewing #Midriff #Bill Golliher #1994 #Continuity error #Gender role dynamic -- the girls are sewing the costumes for the boys #Real Life Superheroes #Term “Superhero” jointly copyright Disney and Time-Warner

[thewolfparadox-things]

RLSH prayer to Hircine for protection on community patrols:

RLSH prayer to Hircine for protection on community patrols:

Hircine, Lord of the Hunt,

I come to you today seeking your protection as I patrol my community. I ask that you grant me your strength and speed, that I may be able to keep my fellow citizens safe from harm.

I know that you are a god of the wild, and that you are often associated with danger. But I also know that you are a god of protection, and that you care for those who are in need.

Please watch over me as I patrol, and help me to keep my community safe. I ask that you give me the wisdom to know when to fight, and the courage to do what is right.

I thank you for your protection, Hircine.

#hircine worship #daedra worship #skyrim paganism #real life superheroes #lord hircine #werewolves

[marciaillust]

Asterism book cover

#marcia #IT IS DONE!!!! #ASTERISM BOOK COVER REAL!!! #THANK YOU BEST FRIEND FOR WRITING A BOOK FOR ME WITH MY BELOVED OCS FROM MY WEBCOMIC IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME TALK ABOUT THEM!!!!!!!!!! #THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING THE NUANCES OF THEIR STORIES PERHAPS BETTER THAN I DO!!!!!!!!! #I LOVE THIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #the clockmaster #tcm #orion lavont #garret #rosie lavont #heriot nysa #morgana jackson #superhero au #asterism #illustration #digital art #original art #artists on tumblr #character art #marciaillust

[thraxusrelaxus]

my family groupchat duscusses the nuclear fusion breakthrough

#nuclear fusion #fusion energy #science #texts #family groupchat #real life superheroes

[echerocast]

#Captain America #First Avenger #the avengers #Avengers #steve rodgers #Chris Evans #red skull #Hail Hydra #MCU #Marvel #Disney #Podcast #Superhero #real life superheroes

[illyaking]

Western Zetaman, by Jack Brinatte

Mr. Brinatte illustrated this wonderful version of Zetaman as an Old Western Cowboy.

Mr. Brinatte illustrated this wonderful version of Zetaman as an Old Western Cowboy. Check out more of his work at https://metropolisgraphicd.wixsite.com/metropolisgraffix. Mr. Brinatte also shares his work at https://www.instagram.com/action_jason_cp/. By Jack Brinatte

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#Comics #Indie Comics #Jack Brinatte #Real Life Superheroes #RLSH #Zetaman

[estebunny]

one hungarian fan sharing a story about esteban ocon helping someone through a panic attack

#nice and sweet as he always is #also heroic act in real life for a big superhero fan😉 #esteban ocon #hongarian 2023 #f1

[dead-finches]

pavitr rly changed the spidersona designing scene huh

#my art #spiderman #spiderverse oc #spidersona #spider man: across the spider verse #marvel #beyond the spiderverse #spiderverse fanart #she is FILIPINO AND SHES STRANDED IN NEW YORK #she made a deal with dr strange to have everyone in her life forget her real identity as soon as she got mantled by a spider demon #this way her family and friends are safe even if she DOES get unmasked #unfortunately that means shes stuck superheroing in new york 😭

[lumikinetic]

I like how it's painfully, glaringly obvious which parts of Gotham War were written by Tini Howard and which ones were written by Chip Zdarsky.

A twitter friend said this is the lowest point for Zdarsky Batman but an average day for Howard Catwoman and he was so right for that honestly. Jesus christ man.

#batman's conflict is he's a rich superhero but in real life rich people are the bad guys therefore batman is a bad guy #daring today aren't we #batman #catwoman #bruce wayne #selina kyle #gotham war

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

#young justice #young justice cartoon #batfam #batman #dick grayson #thoughts and headcanons #the heart wrenching inability to cope with the fact that you've lived a fully realized life #you've loved and lost and loved again in the face of every unending tragedy #until you've forcefully carved out this one little safe haven for yourself #only to be thrust back to the beginning of one of your greatest traumas - esp one you're partly responsible for! #gotta love it #anyway i am and always have been obsessed with dick grayson and no one can stop me #the simulation was fake but some psychic bs means real world elements filtered in #cue several children with weird dream-memories of half-lived experiences and a massive sense of deja-vu #when they wade into the superhero world #all i can picture is the spiderman pointing meme but it's the batkids at dick lol #my favorite idea is that once Dick gets his grubby hands on Jason and Tim it's all over from there #he's pulling late nights and researching and scouring facial recognition databases until he finds his kids #(he blurs the lines a lot when it comes to considering them his siblings vs kids #on the one hand they're not super far apart in age bar Damian #on the other he hasn't been a kid in any meaningful way since he was 14 and he very nearly raised half of them in some way #(plus side to an au is that i can space the ages out more as needed compared to the show haha) #jason and cass are firmly siblings close as they are to his age #steph tim and duke fluctuate depending on how in trouble or injured they are #i will die by dick being damian's dad tho lmao #babs is more platonic life partner than sibling but very firmly family regardless #this is the dick grabs on to any shred of family he can with both hands and drags them in kicking and screaming if he has to au

[tchaikovskaya]

those "xyz profession reacts to movies" videos and its just like a doctor watching a marvel movie where someone gets their legs ripped off in a big CGI explosion and theyre still standing and not dying of hypotensive shock or whatever and the doctor is like *looks in the camera* that was not accurate or realistic

#yall piss me off so bad why do u think we cant understand fiction #its a superhero movie (or in some cases cartoon) nobody thought it was real life dumbass

[drainbangle]

hit your faves with the spidey AU beam for fun and enrichment

AU doodles that spoil the new spidey game under the cut — warning for body horror.

anyone else scared

#octopath #octopath traveler 2 #sketch #8path tag #NOTE: NOT A 1:1 ADAPTATION we have fun here. #temenos is a defense attorney helping the spideys gather info + helps them balance their real life stuff #ochette is in college. crick finished his degree but it's hard holding down a career as a superhero #ochette is objectively the cooler spidey w/ all the extra powers. also her alias is wolf spider need i say more #temenos mistral #crick wellsley #ochette

[mostsanescarletspiderfan]

Being a Spider-Man fan is so embarrassing because every other hero has an unique civilian life while Peter is literally just some dude in his 20s trying to pay rent.

#at least i have Ben and Kaine #even if they weren't superheroes they would have something cool going on #ben “I don't know if I'm real or not but I won't let old monsters define who I am and destroy my new life” Reilly #vs #peter “ boy i sure hope i can pay rent this month hey where did i put the tv remote?” Parker #comic books #marvel #peter parker #spider man #ben reilly #kaine parker #scarlet spider

[thebittervampire]

Batman: The Animated Series 🦇 Fear of Victory [22/109]

#DCedit #Batmanedit #BTAS #BTASedit #Bruce Wayne #Batman #Jonathan Crane #Scarecrow #Scarecrowedit #JonathanCraneedit #BTASepiedit #own creations #Superhero #Batman Universe #oh look! The episode I've watched right before meeting the real life Jonathan Crane at a gamers pub! #we saw each others yesterday and I think we're going to play again at the same gamers pub tomorrow