#the freedom fighters

[ouroboreas]

#zuko #jet avatar #the freedom fighters #avatar: the last airbender #a:tla #this guy is sus............ #digital art #ngl jet is one of my favorite characters he deserved better #ive always kind of liked jetko like what was going on there...

[theatricalfangirl]

Okay, episode 3 thoughts.

Sokka is precious, geeking out over the mechanist’s workshop. Teo is such a cute kid too, he so excited. I love that they’re giving him and Aang a little more time together, Teo clearly has some hero worship of Aang, not just because he’s the avatar but because he’s an Airbender. They’re so close in age, I think it’s good that Aang has made a friend who he can go flying with. It’s a way for him to remember and honor his history and friends.

I’m glad they don’t have them just needlessly destroying the old air temple, that always made me mad. I feel like, when the war is over Teo would definitely become an Air Acolyte like we see in Korra’s time. Live action Teo seems to have a level of respect for the air nomads history and culture that we didn’t see as much in the cartoon.

I like how they mixed Omashu, the mechanist, and Jet all in one episode, I feel like it’ll work well enough, telling the story and including elements from the original.

I think it’s interesting that Ozai had Azula infiltrate the group trying to assassinate him. She was clearly acting on his orders, but he could use this as a further method to keep her under his control if she ever started getting ideas. Conspiring to kill her father, the Firelord would definitely be treason and Ozai could easily bribe/threaten those guards to testify that Azula did it of her own free will, with intention to murder him.

I love Ty Lee’s actress (and not just because she’s friends with Walker Scobell). She’s played roles where her character feels outshone by her siblings so we already know she can do an amazing job with that aspect of her character. I really like how the fire nation uses fire phrases in everyday life. Azula says “they’re not the brightest of flames.”

I’m glad we’re starting to see Katara let her more negative emotions, yelling at Sokka, standing up to Jet, but I want to see her go further. She tries to reason with Jet first, then goes to Aang and Sokka for help, she could’ve taken him.

The lady hitting Zuko with a stick “How dare you hit that child!” I lost my mind, I love it. Seeing an adult who’s not just passively watching Aang (a literal child) have to fight someone a lot older than he is, stepping in trying to help? We only see a few characters like that in the cartoon, ones we know are already fighting the fire nation. This lady just saw a little kid getting picked on and jumped in to help.

Now, Zuko leaving his Uncle in Omashu when they’re discovered is rubbing me the wrong way. In the original we see Zuko going to great lengths to save his Uncle when he’s captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers. He even eventually tries to free him when Iroh is imprisoned by the Fire nation, Iroh just escapes first. I know he’ll be back, but I don’t know, it feels odd for Zuko to have basically run away to save himself.

#avatar the last airbender netflix #avatar the last airbender #avatar aang #atla sokka #atla katara #prince zuko #uncle iroh #omashu #the freedom fighters

[minie-mastermind]

From Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special #1 2018 and I would like to talk about the off color Uncle Sam. We know what this is a host dressed as the figure, but we can assume this is what the actual Uncle Sam would look like as well. The question raised is would Uncle Sam fight for America in this universe and lead the Freedom Fighters. Would he fight for the syndicate in some sort of Suppression Squadron ( I know it's from Sonic but it's the best thing I could think of ) after they've taken over the government. Would he be squashed out entirely due to the lack of Hope in this universe. If he's an embodiment the belief in America and all it stands for would he even be recognizable at all in such a Topsy Turvy World.

#comics #dc #dc comics #earth 3 #crime syndicate #uncle sam #the freedom fighters #owlman #superwoman #power ring #johnny quick

[kyshiwarrior]

jet introducing the freedom fighters but he does it in the same way steve irwin greeted poisonous snakes

#jet #jet atla #jet avatar the last airbender #the freedom fighters #avatar the last airbender

[waterbendergate]

spiritually the freedom fighters are a nightmarish queer housing group

#atla #avatar the last airbender #the freedom fighters

[strawbebehmod]

Honest headcanon: jet from atla had psychosis from his trauma and thats what lead him down the path to trying to wipe out an entire village. This isn't me trying to demonize psychosis just reason how jet could go from trying to flood a whole town, to mostly normal and functioning, to suspecting someone was a fire bender and justifying robbery, stalking, and assault as the straight and narrow logical path all because they had a hot cup of tea when they previously didn't (instead of other logical answers such as getting a cup from another vendor or asking for a new one). He was an orphan who raised himself and essentially took on a bunch of other younger kids with trauma under his wings. He tried to start a movement to stop the firenation putting him and those he cared for under further threat of harm which puts more stress on his mental state meanwhile the kids under him are following him unquestioningly and never saying no to him. Some may even be encouraging diluted and paranoid thoughts he may be having because they trusted that jet always had the best thoughts and ideas and were too young to recognize someone in a paranoid state.

Basically what im saying is jet isn't evil nor 100% hateful. He needs meds and therapy. I mean therapy was a given cause trauma, but he specifically needs help recognizing when hes in a diluted state. We see him trying to resolve the firebender issue legally at first and that hes clearly been working hard to deconstruct his behavior. We can see him acting normal after he realizes the lake laogai thing happened. Its only when hes being triggered or encouraged that shit gets out of hand. Jet isn't a monster. Hes done awful things but ultimately hes a homeless teen with severe trauma who thrust himself into violent activism and developed a paranoid and diluted mentality as a result. Hes not evil, but hes not right either. He was a kid thrust into a situation he never should have been in and followed his dilutions thinking it was logic.

#jet atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #iroh #the freedom fighters

[evilhorse]

It is not our world any longer…not really

#the last days of the justice society of america #justice society of america #jsa #earth two #crisis on infinite earths #younger heroes #justice league of america #the outsiders #the teen titans #the freedom fighters #Superman #Batman #robin #hawkwoman #hawkman #martian manhunter #firestorm #black canary #nightwing #sandman #captain marvel #blue beetle #roy thomas #David ross #mike gustovich #dc comics #comics #80s comics #carter hall #plastic man

[badlucksav]

the time of your life

Rating: G

Pairing: Gen

Chapters: 1/1

Summary: Jet, Smellerbee, and Longshot make memories at a Green Day concert and contemplate what it means to truly feel alive.

Written as a late submission for @atla-gen-week for day 6: free space

Green Day is not exactly his taste in music, but it’s Jet’s and Smellerbee’s. They eat, sleep, and breathe Green Day. Jet even gave himself a hand grenade tattoo on the underside of one of his biceps. Longshot’s taste is more to the tune of Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend. But Jet got an amazing deal on three tickets and Longshot couldn’t say no—he can never say no to Jet.

So now here they stand, the hot August sun baking on the blacktop they stand on. Longshot is wearing a borrowed band t-shirt with the album cover for Dookie on it. He looks plain compared to Jet and Smellerbee: band tees, ripped black skinny jeans, rubber band bracelets and studded leather straps adorning their arms, thick black eyeliner lining their eyes. Smellerbee is rocking a leather jacket with metal spikes on the shoulders, her chestnut hair teased into a frizzy cloud around her head, her dark bandana still in its usual place.

Jet wears the remnants of a Nimrod t-shirt that he says he got from the boy who introduced him to the band; it’s an original. The sleeves have been taken off, and it’s been cut into a cropped top, showing off his tanned stomach. He wears a long-sleeve cropped fishnet top under it. He’s got that rugged rebel charm, that charisma that drew the quiet Longshot and the wayward Smellerbee towards him in the first place. Longshot is here because of him, because of that energy, as much as he is for anything else.

Longshot has never really known a family, known what it meant to have someone you’d be willing to die for, but now he does. Looking at Jet and Smellerbee with their huge grins and wild eyes, he knows he’d do anything for them.

#atla gen week 2022 #the freedom fighters #freedom fighters #Longshot atla #Jet atla #Smellerbee atla

[popculturebuffet]

Sonic Month: Archie Sonic: The Original Freedom Fighters (Sonic 142-143 Main Stories) (Commissioned by Weirdkev27)

Hello all you happy hedgehogs and welcome back to Sonic Month, my monthlong look at the fastest thing alive. And we’re close to the finish line with just this and one more review before this celebration of hedgehogs and convluted continuties comes to an end. 

We return to my faviorite sonic continuity for this one. I Previously covered archie’s history more in depth last time when I covered the Tails Adventure. The short version, for a change: Archie got the liscene to make sonic comics and what started as basically adventures of sonic the hedgehog but with satam’s cast, evolved into it’s own unique creature seperate from both, with it’s own crisp mythology, memorable characters.. and also a pedophilic skunk who woudln’t go the fuck away. 

Eventaully though the creators were left to their own devices with archie not carring as long as it sold and sega not carring at all. While this SHOULD’VE been a godo thing, as editorial bs is the main cause of bad comics... the opposite happened. With no real rules the writers went fucking apeshit beserk, and the results were things got HEAVILY convoluted while both writers at the time fell to seperate vices; Main series writer karl bollers couldn’t write romance well even if he had a buzzbomber pointed at his head, while Ken Penders

Disappeared up his own ass with his echidna stuff, to the point that by this time in the series rather than write an actual story with knuckles.. he was writing his own future au fanfiction that boiled down to “SOMETHING IS GOING TO ERASE THE FUTURE!.. but let’s have tons of dances and parties” And I mean i’m all for teen hyjinks and romantic kerfuffles but priorites man. Which mercifully I will NOT be covering, along with the other backup I want to be a freedom fighter, which is decent, showing Amy being sworn in as a freedom fighter (a huge development as she was the first proper addition to the group since the comic started, about damn time honestly), it just dosen’t have much for me to cover. 

Point is the comic was a mess and over covering these stories i’ve realized i’ts a mess I will have to get into someday. The comic was at it’s lowest eb and it would be another 17 issues after this before Ian Flynn came in and got things back ont he right loop. But in the midst of the comic stewing in it’s own toilet dinner, we did have some standout stories. The most remembered one of course is Nicole’s debut in her new form,  but one that also stands out and is pretty good is this one. Kev isn’t really a sonic fan.. but did get the first issue of this as a kid and as such wanted me to cover it for nostalgia’s sake, smoething I can get behind so here we are. I can cover what else we need as we go so join me under the cut.. or other cut Tumblr’s been weird with cut lately as we gotta go fast into the past to uncover the ORIGINAL freedom fighters

So we open with a mysterious narrator talking about one of her students, Hope Kintobor, the kid seen on the cover. So for those of you going...

Hope was Robotnik’s niece and Snively’s sister. Yes robotnik had a full family on mobius before they exiled him for well.. being robotnik. He started working for the king and a few schemes later was in position to overthrow him. They eventually did come back, trusted robotnik out of racisim against the mobians due to a past war and everyone huffing some paint, and later settled in station square. In a recent backup though Hope had pettitoined to come stay in knothole to live among the people there and learn, which is where this story picks up. She’d later become part of team dark and those stories, but again, story for another time. 

So hope is trying to find a topic for her paper when she finds something intresting when looking things up on the computer: a previously unheard of group of Freedom Fighters, with no one we’ve seen before... which will be a bit of an issue but we’ll circle back to that. 

So she grabs what she can and heads outside and luckily bumps into sonic, who she asks about them.. and naturally he knows all about them and offers to tell her at the lake of rings.. alongside this guy

Whose this lake dog? Why is he guarding the lake of rings? will we ever see him again? The answers are

But he will always fascenate me. Just this random ass dog man we’ve never met what guards the lake of rings. So while Random Ass Lake Dog We Never Met Before What Guards the Lake of Rings prepares to fish a ring out with his big ole net, yes really he does so next issue, Sonic tells hope the story all bout how their lives got flip turned upside down. 

The story mostly focuses on Col. Stripe. As for the others two, Sir Peckers...

And Private Trey Scales WILL be massively important, the other two , Spot Long and MP Bull Bones are more there to look cool (Being a PURPLE GIRAFFE and a bulldog) and fill out the team, 

Col. Stripe was a decorated and retired war hero, who naturally snapped back into action when robotnik took over, organizing the evacuation.. including a 5 year old sonic who helped by getting to Rosie and Julaya, the latter being Sally’s nanny who passed early into the comic, so they could evacuate the kids. The Future First Freedom Fighters WANTED to stay and stop Robotnik from taking over and save the king... but couldn’t. Running away stung but it was either stay and fight a war they couldn’t win against an army of robots and robotcized civlians that vastly outnumbered them and woudl grow any time the enemy captured any of their army... or escape, and plan for the future. 

So they did and this is where one of my only issues with the story sets in: Sgt. Stripe is a decent sized addition to the lore.. and a bit too late into it. Now don’t get me wrong: Archie is gifted at adding in characters who havne’t been mentoined before, mostly the kids various parents or parental figures, which for most of them does make sense: I mean is Rotor just supposed to go up to sonci and say..

So I get it.. but here it dosen’t quite work: not only was Stripe a war hero who helped BUILD knothole.. but he also ended up in the zone of silence, we’ll get to that. So it feels weird they NEVER mount a rescue mission or anything and he only comes up NOW, especially since they directly went into the zone to pull out her dad and have visted there once or twice sense, and his eventual fate is something ian revealed happened off screen in word of god, more on that later.  It feels weird to give this guy such importance to knothole’s history.. then have him just neve rshow up again, and i’ts something for once I can’t blame ONLY on Penders.. but on Ian since he took over after and decided not to use him whlie the writer of this story, Romy Chacon, just sorta vanished after this for whatever reason. 

We then get the Freedom Fighters origin: once knothole was set up, with Stripes as it’s leader, he and the other future freedom fighters had to decide what to do: they coudlnt’ mount a full attack, not enough forces... but they coudln’t also do nothing as robotnik got only stronger and stronger... so Stripes decides both sides are right.. and he has the right solution for that..

And so the freedom fighters are born.. with the next generatoins leaders watching form the window as sonic and sally fistbump. 

So it went: like their succesors, the OG Freedom Fighters did commando raids, and daring due, with sonic witnessing them in action himself when he ende dup too far from home. Stripes also used peckers as good pr, having him go to other areas and tell them about them, leading to the other freedom fighter groups. That part I don’t mind as much as it explains why EVERY group has the name when most are contiennts away from our main group and robotnik likely woudln’t want word of sonic to spread. 

Sonic ends issue one by answering hope’s question of what happened to them: one of their own betrayed them

Before we get into the next issue though we have the cover... 

Yeahhh while the first cover REALLY integrated sonic well despite him only being the narrator this one.. feels like Chacon drew an actual cover, a good one at that.. and editorial insisted they slap some sort of sonic on there, so they used some stock art they had lying around. 

So after a quick recap we get more of the lake dog

I will say Romy Chacon, who drew this one does have decent art for most of it.. but for some reason for this panel hope looks like a precious moments figurine. That said given we’d also got THIS around the same time

Chacons is vastly preferibe, though this artist did improve.. I will never be able to avoid dunking on his art. 

So the story resumes with Sgt. Stripes having sally on his knee. One of the things I’ve noticed this second time reading the story (i’ve  every archie sonic issue other than the world unite stuff), is that Stripes is a fairly good character. He’s a kind, thoughtful leader, passionate about the fight but not afraid to do the hard things needed to keep going. He’s not AMAZING, but for what little time we get with him he’s decent. 

Anyways Sgt Peckers

Has urgent info: he’s found out the king’s been tossed into the zone of silence.. basically a creepy extradimensional void Robotnik threw him into in th ecartoon because you coudln’t kill on a 90′s children’s show and the comics naturally adopted that, though they got him out.... and given the rest of his time in the comic involved him being possed by Ixis, trying to force his daughter into an arranged marriage, decomissioning the freedom fighters, HEAVILY favoring Geoffery of all people, and not letting being heavily poisoned stop him from abusing his son.. yeah maybe you shoudl’ve left him in there guys. 

So they go to save him... and as you’d expect it goes sideways: there’s nothing in the room they were given intel on... and the traiotr turns out to be trey scales whose justification for selling them out?

Yeah this is another weakness of the story.. trey’s betryal is flimsy as well as stupid as not only do we never find out what he was supposed to get.. but robotnik throws him back in to be roboticized because.. he’s fucking robotnik.  If I had a nickle for every time someone trusted Robotnik’s word in these reviews this month.. i’d have 15 cents.. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened at all. 

Ian would naturally later TRY to justify this in the series guide book, the sonic encyclopedia, which fun fact is a white whale book collecting wise for me. Most copies I find are incredibly expensive, the ones I see on ebay now all in the hundreds at the least. So I’ll likely never get a copy but I ain’t gonna stop trying. 

Anyways,  the reason is that before the war with the humans that’s the backbone of this continuity for some reason, the southren baronies, the well.. south of the kingdom of acorn, tried rebelling and were taken down, with them later siding with the humans. Trey is part of that and thus wanted some revenge, so it at least makes SOME sense. Why Ian thought making an analogue to the confederate south was  good idea in the first place will remain a mystery. 

So their all robotciized and cast into the void, with everyon assuming them dead and only learnign the real story because chuck happened to be there and was able to tell them when he was freed.. 

LIke: “Why didn’t he tell them when they went into the void to get the king?” “why did he never tell them despite being freed before the rest of the robians?” “Fucking magnets how do they work?” 

So the rest is history: sonic mourned.. felt alone.. but would later go on to help found the group we know. Hope gives a report on how they shouldn’t be forgotten and her teacher, Stripes widdow, approves.

And just to rub salt in the wound as i’ve hinted at.. they were forgotten. Ian remembered them.. but never got around to using them, having said he had plans for stripes but ultimately decided not to and decalred the group was destroyed when the void became the special zone. If I had to guess, and this is just speculation, he might of intended for Stripe to fill the roll Harvey Who , the former director of mobian intellgence, did as spymaster for the secret freedom fighters, with harvey having been both retired and having advised the king not to trust kodos, or robotnik, or stabby steve the guy who stabbed him 82 times in the back and was rewarded iwth a relaxing vacatoin to mobodoon. LIkely he either decided against it due to how much explaning it’d take or havnig harvey, who was in his appearnce stated to be in intellegence, makem ore sense. Either way it’s a shame we never saw these guys again, but I get why ian didn’t throw them in there: the comic already had DOZENS of characters involved in the plot each with their own histories and baggage, so adding more that added even MORE lore to have to explain probably felt self indulgant. 

SO overall this is a decent story. Not the best, but certainly not a waste of my time and i’ts lack of impact isn’t really it’s own fault. As it’s stands i’ts a decent and intresting standalone, if nothing spectacular

Next Time: We finish this in an hour or two with the strangest sonic continuity at all!

#sonic the hedgehog #archie sonic #sgt stripes #hope kintobor #archie comics #sonic month #the freedom fighters

[ringthedamnbell]

Farewell Sting: From Flash to Icon and Everything in Between

Farewell Sting: From Flash to Icon and Everything in Between

Brian Damage Steve Borden has had one long and remarkable career filled with many ups and downs, title victories and devastating injuries to seeing his character morph and change throughout his nearly 40 year career. Sting made a name for himself mostly without the help of the WWE’s hype machine. While he did have a few moments with that company, Sting achieved so much before entering WWE and…

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#AEW #AEW Revolution #AEW Winter is Coming #Crow Sting #Flash and Rock #Joker Sting TNA #nWo Wolfpac #Rick Bassman Power Team USA #Sting #Sting retirement #The Blade Runners wrestling #The Four Horsemen #The Freedom Fighters #The Main Event Mafia #TNA Wrestling #Vigilante Sting #WCW #WWE

[fresh-snow]

Nelson Mandela was in USA's terror watchlist until *2008. The guy who fought against apartheid state of South Africa, won a Nobel peace prize, became a president, a beloved character across the globe was in the terror watchlist of USA. So I wouldn't actually take murica's opinion about labeling a person or group of people as terrorists. Chances are they're actually fighting for the freedom of their country.

That's why they call Hamas terrorists instead of freedom fighters. In their eyes The Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.

Anyways as Nelson Mandela said

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉

#🇵🇸🍉 #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #save palestine #israel is a terrorist state #genocide #keep talking about palestine #palestine resources #social justice #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #south africa #nelson mandela #freedom for palestine #freedom fighters #hamas #imperialism #colonialism #jerusalem #yemen #winter

[tamlinfairchild]

Saw this comment by @genquerdeer and went looking for the map. I think the map truly does speak for how "white" it is to call Hamas terrorists.

#free palestine #palestine #hamas freedom fighters

[nezreblogz]

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #jerusalem #yemen #lebanon #middle east #human rights #united nations #politics #ceasefire #hamas #freedom fighters #icj

[sonicfanj]

Would you like to see the Freedom Fighters come back

I'm not a fan of them, and I feel a lot of times their roles in the franchise would be wasted in any scenario where Sonic is handled like the ever-wandering vagabond he started as. That said, I do think they deserve a proper sendoff or at least some acknowledgement. Had I had my way, at the end of the Metal Virus Arc when it was time to move on to new adventures, I would have dropped the Restoration from the IDW comic except for as the occasional background note. At that point, instead of Amy handing the reigns off to Jewel and leashing the comic to the restoration, I would have had her hand the reigns off to the FFs. It would have been a nice way to give them a nice sendoff while highlighting that their strengths are in a different place than chasing Sonic all over the world to partake in his adventures. In light of how the new Diamond Cutters are being shaped into that role with the Restoration serving as the Acorn Kingdom (though with a far more respectable and less deranged leader), I wouldn't mind them being brought in just to free the IW cast from getting shoehorned into their roles. But that isn't really a respectful desire for their return, and they definitely deserve better. So ultimately, I would say for me it's conflicted matter. They represent a structure and storytelling approach to Sonic that is anything but what I come to Sonic for. In that regards I don't want to see them return and force Sonic back into that structure outside of the Japanese exclusive material. Conversely, IDW is already creating that scenario without being stopped and I'd rather see the actual Freedom Fighters than new characters forced to play their roles if that's how we're going to move forward. Neither option is good to me and it leaves me mostly wanting their influence gone from the IP. It would take a heck of a concept to convince me that there is any good they can bring to the stories I crave from Sonic (and so rarely see these days - still love Scrapnik for it.)

#asks #answered ask #not really #sonic the hedgehog #the freedom fighters

[eggman91]

Even more weird au ideas freedom fighters version

sally acorn-pdst take her medicine she remembers the old world as memories of people she never met for some reason she keeps having wet dreams about some blue hedgehog. Therapist says he not real.

Bunnie - she form texas extremely southern German Texan by God, and jesus she believes in the Weimar Republic

Antoine-he’s actually form Belgium that it

rotor-I don’t know anyone who has ideals who actually follow this account. Please message I don’t know what to do with him.

Nicole-ai still but she form 4chan so achtung

#sonic fandom #the freedom fighters #au idea #Yes Antoine is a reference to Hercules poirot #He has the little gray cells #Sally is mentally unstable every 24 hours #Bunnie get in argument with her uncle over the hre

[freewatermelon0]

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #gaza genocide #do not stop talking about palestine #don't stop talking about palestine #south africa #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #فلسطين #hamas are heroes #hamas are freedom fighters