#superheros dont kill

[zlobonessa]

what i do lack honestly is re zero university au. maybe even with all the magic stuff kept there. like. most of the characters are just old enough for that. subaru is at the perfect age to go to university in another city where depression hits him like an isekai truck. his ability could be Return After Failing An Exam And Thinking You Are Gonna Die In The Ditch. reinhard and julius' shenaningans in the cruel and unforgiving academic setting could be just as gay and insane. royal election could be transformed into some stupid academic rivalry now much more full of desire to tear each other troats. in between all the witchculting archbishops could've had just as evil alter egos as the worst uni professors known to humankind who pick on the every little error and do speeches about the failng morals of the youth in the middle of the lecture and do not know how to switch to the next slide in powerpoint because they're hundreds years old. do you get my vision.

#re zero #i kinda did write about some of these stuff but only briefly and only some #and i have a shitton of fic drafts now so i can only wish to see the day when i can full commit to the idea #but like. i extremely need this actually. #i dont want to play with hs aus anymore i dont want be reminded of these horrid horrid days i need to see my current suffering represented #in my mind it's a kind of a comedy horror #your professor is evil and kills people. if you gonna kill him now how are you planning to pass the exam young man #yknow all these superhero secret identity tropes but there is no secret #just subaru and petelgeuse staring at each with pure hatred during the physics lecture #nobody notices that something is off because that's just how higher education sometimes is

[bericas]

scott appreciation week (day 4) → i think it’s my fault

― Andrei Tarkovsky, Journal 1970-1986

#twedit #scottmccalledit #scottmccallweek #dont talk to me about the last gif i dont want to hear it #ive taken one art history class and the only redeeming thing about the last gif is that it kind of looks like a painting almost #with like the faded gauziness and how the tarp almost looks like brushstrokes #I TOOK ONE ART HISTORY CLASS PLEASE DONT BULLY ME ABOUT THIS #and i do think it adds to the effect. like its over. theres no fighting it. hes a saint. #the rest are in focus and vibrant and the last one is kind of blurred out. okay maybe i like it now. #anyway its really about how scott doesnt get to be a kid and so rarely are the adults in his life adults #and its not necessarily their faults. like. very many of them are also human. #deaton steps up for him a lot and melissa does her best and imo only ever really fails bc of poor writing choices #and by s6 when chris is trying to be his stepdad i think he's stepped up in a big way too #but. like. melissa raised a good kid. and shes a good mom. but life still happens and no one really talks abt how scott was parentified too #like. you gave a kid with a fixer complex supwerpowers. he is obviously going to feel the need to be a superhero #he barely got to be a kid before that and he certainly doesn't get to now which we see as early as season 1 #when he leaves his friends and girflriend in a room to hide in a room to go fight a monster #he doesnt get to hide. he doesnt get to not fight. by formality he's saying that he has to protect everyone #in fury matt shoots him in front of his mom and makes him leave her and threatens to kill her and he still cant help but show him sympathy #during his Tragic Backstory. like. scott wouldve saved matt if he couldve. i bet he thinks about matt honestly. #WAIT FUCK #FLASHING GIF TW #for the fourth andddddd seventh one #maybe the third one? im not sure but its him breaking thru the mountain ash its all glowy #anyway #scott doesnt get to be a kid and by s5 they forget that he's even a person #and by s6 they try to assert that as a positive #every villain makes him kinder but only because he doesn't have an alternative. it changes him. it can't not change him. #he can't be the same after. so it's kinder or crueler but crueler was never an option. #theyve made him into a saint by robbing him of his personhood

[cowboycomics]

what is he cooking (superhero costume designs 4 kaz + oliver. for funsies)

#i dont like kazes. but i will post them #disclaimer i havent seen elite force. i just think the mission suits are ugly. and boring. #based these off various marvel/dc heroes bc i wanted them to be that same brand of mighty med stereotypical superhero that they have #i love mighty med so much because it breaks superheroes down to their most basic formulas and its really cheesy in the way superheroes #inherently are #genderfluid kaz is real to me i really wanted to just give him a jean grey outfit but i didnt #he should have a phoenix moment though i think it would be really fun #“fun if he killed a bunch of people and got possessed?” YEAH!! #sorry #i drew them as starlord and nova too because im insane but i think that might just be self indulgent. oliver is so richard rider though tbh #these tags are long i will be quiet #mighty med #kaz mm #oliver mm #lref #elite force #my art

[morninkim]

Rise of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Count Dregon and his Generals

A prince from a peaceful planet. Twin nobles from a desert world. All three exiled from their homes, all three bent on revenge on those that wronged them. Meet Count Dregon, Nefaria and Scorpina!

Background and story stuff under the cut!

Dregon, formerly Prince Rex of Edenoi, believes in Edenoi's old ways of warfare and conquest. He was banished from the planet years ago for instigating an uprising against his peaceful father, King Lexian, that left his face scarred. Now clad in a golden mask and armor, he has conquered Edenoi after decades away and now sets his sights on Earth to follow his nephew Dex, the newest Masked Rider and sole survivor of the royal family. Dregon's ultimate goal is to claim the Masked Rider powers for himself, his birthright.

Nefaria and Scorpina were formerly members of one of the desert planet Lamari's noble houses. The two were mischievous and cunning, committing petty theft and assault often to test the limits of what they could get away with. That is until Scorpina stole three golden bands from a wealthy crime boss, the enchantment on them cursing her left arm with a disfigurement that would be hard to cover up. Instead of covering for them this time, their family heads cast them out to salvage what little reputation they could.

Years later, the two encountered Dregon in a shady saloon, telling him of their story - with some embellishments to guarantee his pity and net them some credits for the week. Dregon did take pity, but instead of simply giving them a few credits and sending them on their way, he allowed them to stay on his ship. The only condition being they must lend their skills to his growing army of Insectivores.

The twins accepted, with Dregon's army growing in number and power over time, eventually strong enough to invade Lamari. And invade they did, conquering the planet with little resistance. Dregon allowed Nefaria and Scorpina the opportunity to personally execute the families that wronged them, save for the crime boss. The one who had owned Scorpina's cursed bands had already fled far, far away, deep into space prior to the invasion.

The twins declared themselves the Queens of Lamari, appointing Dregon the title of Count. The trio then continued their conquest across the galaxy, crushing all who would defy them.

#rotmmpr #mmpr #power rangers #masked rider #count dregon #nefaria #scorpina #got all the way through plotting out the rise seasons and then realised ''wait. wheres scorpina.'' #SO creative solution: bring her in as part of dregon's entourage and have her carry over to zedd's antagonistship #essentially dex and the rangers beat dregon while kim and trini kill nefaria (they've been fighting monsters up to this point - not people) #dex takes dregon into custody to stand trial bc that's how they do things on edenoi - while scorpina flees and swears revenge for her siste #and joins up with zedd when rito captures her and brings her in to the big man when he asks for him to find warriors to destroy the rangers #eventually scorpina's curse mutates her into her monster form and the rangers gotta fight her w the megazord and stuff #idk if there would be much morality stuff surrounding killing villains who aren't constructed monsters - but i think it could be neat #i just dont wanna go too deep and get into ''the rangers are essentially child soldiers'' kinda stuff bc like. they're superheroes. #this is a cartoon superhero universe. not power/rangers #there would be like. an episode early season 2 after the rangers meet zordon where he kind of goes ''i cant in good conscience ask you kids #to risk their lives for this'' but ends up letting them choose for themselves to tie into his free will theming #with his hangups mostly being that his original rangers were trained warriors and these guys are barely trained #but they prove themselves and he's able to resolve himself to train them and prepare them for eventually facing zedd

[on-leatheredwings]

yeah i have to stop reading the comics

aw man

#i have a big bone to pick with american comics as a concept i fear #its so neverending and reboot after reboot and i have reader fatigue #and frankly think batman (the series) has lost a lot of its intial appeal #or at least the appeal it had after its first issues ever #a youtuber put it succintly how batman was kind of the 'anti-superhero' superhero #batman is about stealth detective work and combating the seedy underbelly of gotham #and while i dont hate how batman is more tied to the general dc mythos (i love that !!! i love young justice and JLU) #it makes it hard for batman (the franchise) to exist in the dark shadowy bubble that is gotham #a lot of batman plots be so wacky nowadays kghskfh and hey they kind of always were!! poison ivy was a crazy plant lady #jokers a clown #but idk once we start getting into demons and magic and shit it starts feelin :( eh! #what do you mean damian has a secret brother HOW MANY SECRET KIDS CAN WE BE HAVING-- wait no talia just killed him OFASIhdsfdisghfisgdfa

[lorillee]

is it just me or does it bug anybody else when people girlbossify characters like stay at home moms or whatever to make them "more interesting"

#like. i dunno how to put it into words #like does she *really* need to be an ex-super secret spy. does she really #is her value as a character purely defined by how kick-butt and superhero she can be? #like. idk. something really rubs me wrong about it. #the idea that everybody (particularly if they're a girl) needs to justify their existence by doing '''manly''' things #and be epic in a stereotypically masculine way #or else they're being ''pathetic boring *girls* (derogatory)'' #like dont get me wrong i love it when female characters get to bite and kill and tear people to shreds #but also.... does that really need to be *all* of our female characters?

[misspickman]

cassierose for the ship ask game !!

Ship It

What made you ship it? i liked them in tt03, which you know, is truly a feat considering how terribly that comic treats both of them. but their dynamic (angry homoeroticism) managed to be compelling still

What are your favorite things about the ship? i enjoy girl antagonism from time to time. i know were all sick of the trope that teen girls all hate each others guts but considering cassie has a pretty good relationship with all the other girls on her team(s) its fun to see her just go ugh i hate this one. this one can go. theyre just fun and bitchy and i think they should hatefuck about it. but beside that theres also so much potential there ! i think you know, if anyone writing that comic actually cared about cassie or rose or about their character development, it would have been interesting to see their relationship change over time instead of getting one issue where cassie implicitly calls rose family while protecting her, and then the next one she immediately she calls her a manipulative psychopath for no good reason bc they cant figure out how to make the team interesting without having some wildly antagonistic relationship that doesnt make sense if u think about it for a few seconds. theyre never going to be besties but it would have been nice to see them go from blind hate to an uneasy truce; they dont like each other but they do, unfortunately, care about each other, and lets see where we go from that. + itd be interesting to dig into cassies hypocrisy when it comes to hating rose

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? i guess its that i would like them to grow past mindlessly despising each other ? this is not me criticizing anyone but i feel like a lot of takes on cassierose ive seen are that they should stay in the hatefucking no mushy business❌❌❌phase which is definitely fair and true to how they are in tt03. but i do have some issues with the way they were written in tt03 (particularly cassie) and would like to see their dynamic progress from that (see rant above)

#i guess the reason im personally more interested in them sort of working through it is bc cassie doesnt have. a good reason for hating rose #i dont think its ooc but a lot of it Is supposed to be bc shes either jealous of her bc of tim (??)or thinks rose sucks bc she killed peopl #which is. she was drugged and manipulated and i think most teen titans in the superhero business should be able to handle #that sort of a not black and white situation #and idk. be more understanding. i know rose isnt super nice but maybe calling her a manipulative bitch constantly isnt the way to go #theres fun antagonism and theres cassie being just needlessly awful to her (that convo she and tim have about rose) #and i do think theyll always be bitchy to each other but i would like to imagine cassie is more considerate than this #and would eventually recognize she was occasionally just being shitty ! it would make for an interesting story ! alas #i think cassierose going from hating each others guts as teens to adult coworkers who dont really hate each other anymore #bc theyve been through so much shit together #but need to keep up the appearances of hating each other bc god forbid they admit to being kind of friends. that would be fun. to me<3 #ask #thank you. so sorry this got so long #youve given me an excuse to rant about cassierose so this is what u get<3 #sorry that the question was what i like about the ship and i just bitched about how it could be better #i guess the answer is im intrigued by the potential. also i love lesbians

[gecemi09]

"You were born to lead this team, maybe not now but soon."

How about no.

#watching yj for the 1st time!!! #on ep 11 atm but i know most things that are gonna happen #its still so fun tho #anyway why do you have to shoehorn dick as the leader rn #kaldur is a good leader imo #just bc the team has a robin doesn't mean robin has to lead it #and i know mainstream dick is a great leader but like #yj dick has like #0 communication w the team most of the time #how exactly did kaldur come to the conclusion that he was “meant to lead the team” 💀 #i mean if my leader constantly disappeared during missions without telling me anything #id be pretty pissed #well id be pissed even if it was a teammate #off topic but i dont like most bats in teams bc of this #sure the things they do help you defeat the villain and is beneficial in short term #but in the long run they are destroying the trust between teammates #and being on a superhero team where you dont trust people? #thats the shit thats gonna get someone killed eventually #yj tv #yj show #young justice tv #earth 16 #kaldur'ahm

[bugbuoyx]

c/mic book mission: define women outside of their relationship with men mission immediately failed

#this shit is why i dont read c/mics #writing c/mic that way for a reason btw its rude to put hate in tags since those are for interests #anyways im reading the inv/ncible c/mic bc i just finished the show and im so fucking annoyed #the ONE woman who wasnt defined by her relationship with men was immediately killed off #i cant name a single prominent woman who isnt focused or defined on/by men #INCLUDING E/VE SHES THE WORST IN THE C/MICS #no wait k/ate is actually worse but e/ves writing is pretty bad #my advice: just watch the show the c/mic is interesting but fucking annoying #i forgot how much they reeked of misogyny #i will say atleast they included black characters though wheres all the black women superheros?? im tryna think of one and failing booooo

[brothfan1997]

sorry i havent been posting at all lately i have been on vacation and then completely consumed by my current intense chainsaw man hyperfixation

#NOT really sure where its coming from i dont usually love the usual demon hunting superhero animes #but i just find the characters so charming. something about the microexpressions and dialogue it has such a fun sense of humor #himeno fans dni #i think it also boils down to. i love morally neutral feral child protagonists #and i like uhhh whats her names evil princess bubblegum energy #makima. right #and i think its safe to assume its intentional since denji and pochita are explicitly based off of finn and jake #if they. u kno. worked for the mafia killing things

[pa-pa-plasma]

just watched Across the Spiderverse. literally cant stop thinking about Pavitr

#i know people love Hobie (& i do too) & Miguel (dont like that guy) but man is Spider-man India cool as fuck like hello?? #like they made the perfect man is what they did. they took a perfectly fine superhero & made him even more perfect #also why didnt anyone tell me it ends on a fucking cliffhanger to be continued. why would you do this to me #im over here hyperfixating on Spider-man for the first time since like 2017 & the movie ends on a cliffhanger tbc #you're killing me. i have adhd & you are killing me #anyway after saying all that i still want the next movie to come out in a long time from now when the ppl working on it are getting paid #i may have adhd & it may be killing me but by god if i have to keep rewatching the same shit over & over again then so be it #Andrew Garfield save me #im finishing the game. i wanna play the Miles Morales game so bad man #id get into the comics but. idk. seems to complicated. also cant stand the 'woman wearing body paint as clothes' ''artstyle'' #that like half of comic artists use for some fucking reason #if there's actually some good comics anyone recommends feel free to tell me. i'll be playing games & rewatching movies & tv in the meantime

[mindonmymoneyandmoneyonmymind]

im watching crisis on two earths and I think it's funny that in an alternate universe for some reason superman/ultaman has a weird jersey accent

why is a jersey accent always evil 😭

also slade being the president...why he kinda yah know

#lol #crisis on two earths #why didnt they just kill them #i know thye dont kill but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they dont live there #so just turn the blind eye hehe #i know that's wrong tho #that why i could not be a superhero I would get soo tired of fighting like bitch just die already #justice league crisis on two earths

[a-love-poet-at-heart]

I love getting into comics and reading the famous big events ones like crisis on infinite earths and infinite crisis and stopping every 20 pages to whisper shout i dont know enough about the lore!!! then have to google something

#crisis on infinite earths was so fun i kept saying Who the Fuck are You like every page just to see them die by the end of it :) #except psycho pirate that bitch lived #im on infinite crisis and when the fuck did super girl come back? #wonder woman killed a dude? #wtf is the speed force??? #i dont read any of the flashs comics #dont get me wrong i love comics #there should be annotated versions of the big events giving a sentence explanation for minor characters #also turns out uncle sam is a superhero and thats fucking hilarious to me #anyway i still think it was stupid for them to kill off supergirl i just read supergirl woman of tomorrow and i loved it so i have opinions

[regicidal-defenestration]

For something that had such a fun first series, the mid-series episodes of Fall of the House of Sunshine were so aggresively. mediocre

#like shout out to that one guy and his gay dinosaur lover #but the rest of them were so mid I'm Sorry #never have i been so pleased to hear the opening music to a song about the off-brand superheros the Y-Team (TM) (c) (patented) (all rights #reserved) #does tumblr still do that thing where you need 5 tags before a given tag won't show up in search results #because i like organisation #but because the listenership of this podcast is i think 3 people and felt puppet #i dont want to be That Guy in the maintag yknow #anyway i dont Think they have any impact on the plot so i will learn from this experience #and stick to the main story #the way the narrator guy said 'faster dankent! kill! kill!' has taken up permenant residence in my brain #is this enough rambles am i safe #oh apparently I am not!

[the-l-spacer]

chip zdarsky get better at writing characters challenge

Seriously tho the way his daredevil run likes introducing cool story ideas that have the potential for really fun character dynamics and then just. not pay that off. and just in general pretend characters have Deep and Meaningful relationships when said relationships were completely unexplored in his writing

#case in point matt being super mad that kingpin killed his bro #when every single interaction theyd had prior was hostile on matts ends #and not even a single thought/line of dialgoue suggesting he cared for his brother #also remember when foggy/kirsten/mike were gonna defend matt in court and i got so hyped for some fun interactions? #and then nothing came from it? #or when matt brought foggy along his lame trip to take down the hand and just barely acknowledged him in the next chapter? #AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON MATT AND ELEKTRAS RELATIONSHIP #even tho they’re married now it feels like they have no chemistry #the only part of the current run that i remember being like. good in terms of character #was when all his superhero friends staged an intervention after he accidentally killed someone #or the mike murdock daredevil annual #wheres that energy. the comics are so boring rn #damn I’m really just being a negative namcy this weekend what’s going on #amy reads daredevil

[velociraptorsaurusrex]

the tragedy inherent to the superhero genre is extremely compelling it’s just that comic/film/tv creators these days fundamentally misunderstand what that inherent tragedy IS… where it comes from, why it’s interesting, what to do with it… they don’t get it & ultimately ofc most of them don’t really care.

#i am ofc thinking abt bruce 1st n foremost AS USUAL. #and bruce & jason obviously… #tragedy is so good so applicable to the superhero genre but no1 wants to do it the way it ought to be done….. #Batman is a tragic figure his whole life is a tragedy. #he’s out there fighting anyway though bc despite it all he believes in goodness & in a better future #EVEN THOUGH it will not only ultimately result in his demise/general downward spiral but is ALREADY actively causing problems #his relationships with his kids... bruce & dick are tragedy bruce & jason are especially tragedy bruce & tim are tragedy. etc #in general bruce as a dad is tragedy. #it’s about. fighting to make a better world. or fighting to be a parent. and believing in goodness & being kind and continuing on #when it has and does and will continue to result in more trauma and failure #but putting in the work anyway. #loving someone so much but not being able to fix/support a ‘real’ or healthy relationship bc of your circumstances. #which in many ways cannot be changed objectively but in just as many ways cannot be changed out of one’s own choices #doomed as a hero because the very fight you choose & believe in is what will kill/otherwise destroy you/your quality of life/relationships. #things which you could never have in the first place bc you were always going to end up in the fight/traumatized anyway. #relationships which are doomed only because of how deep the love runs. #this is not like super coherent. but do you get me here. do you understand. #HAL AND PARALLAX AND SPECTRE ALSO DONT THINK I FORGOT ABOUT THAT #AND CAROL. #it’s 1:30 am #dc