#Thanos killed me

[edithdraws]

Listen they barely interact face to face but Adam Warlock and Mistress Death have the funniest dynamic of all time actually.

#they hate each other they're best friends they're rivals they're lovers they're insignificant to one another. and also Thanos is there. #adam warlock #mistress death #thanos #adam magus #the magus #the goddess #and a surprise cameo from Norrin but I'm not tagging him. #thadam #cosmic marvel #art #this is old art but I was gonna draw more then just forgot this in my drafts for a year or two 😐 Being so brave and posting anyways #idk if these are even comprehensible to ppl who aren't super well versed in Starlin's comics but enjoy my sillies. #special shoutout to that time Death asked Thanos to kill Adam and he said no. :) #the way Adam just inserts himself into their relationship makes me scream this throuple is crazy

[damnation-if]

on today's episode of Hashing Out Concepts Theatre, i spent a while today while waiting for my new fridge/freezer to be installed after my previous one died and i lost all my food hashing out a bunch of concepts for another game idea i have. (rest assured i'm not actually working on it as a game yet i just like to bash out a framework for things every now and then to make my brain do happy chemicals lmao)

putting all of this stuff under a cut since it's a bunch of images and also in case people aren't interested XD

i am regrettably a huge fan of comic books (mostly DC) and i've seen a couple of comic book inspired IFs popping up lately, though when it comes to my own interest, i'm definitely more into a straight interpretation of a comic book universe than a more. the boys-style universe - i'm into the camp lol, not so much the grim and gritty stuff. (though that's just my own personal preference)

anyway the idea behind That's Just Super is something that i really like about certain comics - giving the villains more of a purpose and rounded existence than just existing to be in somebody's rogue's gallery. the joker's angry defence of the batfamily from various other DC evil forces, lex luthor's furious resistance against brainiac alongside superman because it's His planet, damn it, DOOM throwing in with the heroes in every second marvel event comic... i really like stories where villains and evil characters don't always make the Most Evil choice just Because, but have clear and explainable motivations that sometimes bring them into what we'd consider a 'good' alignment because unlike in d&d, there's no real such thing as a concrete moral alignment.

(this is my banner design for it)

the basic idea is that an inexplicable cosmic event removes all of the superheroes from the planet, leaving it vulnerable to attack by evil mindflayer style aliens - unless the supervillains who remain are able to band together despite their more unpredictable, less cooperative natures and save the planet in the heroes' absence. after all... if aliens take over the earth, the villains can't take it over themselves.

here's my fun little UI design idea lmao...

the other major thing about That's Just Super that i've been hashing out is the pc. the basic idea is that you pick your villain identity from a list but you get to customise their like. birth name and secret identity, while the villain identity comes with its own name, costume, and set history (including occasionally past romantic encounters). i like playing around with the way that IF works with the idea of mcs and customisable mcs so i just thought it'd be a fun twist... it also allows me to create nice drama by having set occurrences in the past lol.

so i did some profiles for the nine villain options - three each of the DC triad of tech/metahuman/magic origin. they're all based on a specific kind of villain archetype, and i really tried to limit myself to ones where i could definitely pin down more than one specific influence so it didn't end up like me just making too many analogues haha... even if some of the influences are probably pretty obvious.

weirdly i haven't even Thought about ROs yet since i've been so focussed on the pc... maybe i'll play around with the partially set background idea even more and only have 1 possible RO for each villain choice or something. maybe a couple that you can romance as anybody... not sure. (talionis could definitely have a messy broken romance with his superhero for example)

apologies that readability isn't great but these are mostly just made for me lmao

#posts from the mortal world #dc give me a job writing for you please... jk i'm not moving to the us (not that they'd have me anyway) #long post. #i think i'm so funny for that joke of labelling the reset button a joke about time manipulation lmfao #but isn't that perfectly on the nose for a comic book themed IF?? that's what i tell myself anyway #absolutely Could Not Stand the infinity saga honestly. for Many reasons. #but in regards to this stuff in particular. every villain just threw in with thanos or immediately got killed off... boring!!!! #the only person who is allowed to be Interesting is loki apparently #and the fact that they cut. Doom holding the gauntlet with all the fucking gems on it for as long as he did from the story??? Crime #All of the crimes. go to Story Jail marvel. doom will get his just rewards for you screwing him over like that some day!!!! doom is!!!!!!!! #man also just yesterday i was thinking to myself that i Need to reread in blackest night and i So do. i'm such a lantern girlie... #that's right i like d&d i like m:tg and i like comic books. bow before my supreme embarrassing taste #it has been a Chaotic couple of days if you can't tell. i haven't slept nearly enough and i. Cried when all my food got spoiled #at least the new fridge works fine so far though...

[worstloki]

thinking about how if all of Loki and Natasha's conversation in Avengers 1 was projection instead of just most of it it implies so much about what was used against him by Thanos.

Yes, the idea of sending someone with a way out "as a balm" after trying torture to make him cooperate.

"I'd say I've expanded his mind" as if Loki asked what the scepter did, what it was doing.

"Is this love, Agent Romanoff?" when she wants to know if Clint will be intact after it's over, a refusal to answer when Thor may wonder the same of him and not like the answer.

"And what will you do if I vow to spare him?" we already know Thanos would use Thor's life against Loki. We already know Loki's bargain included sparing Midgard from Thanos, but not Asgard.

LOKI: Your world in the balance, and you bargain for one man? NATASHA: Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that LOKI: What is it you want?

Could Loki have faced a choice for Asgard and chosen only Thor? A direct parallel, including however Loki does/doesn't identify as Asgardian, and his mindset in conquering. He's not got conviction and she mirrors that nonchalance here.

Loki asking "Can you? Can you wipe out that much red?" and listing her crimes is another line usually understood as projection. Loki has his list too, and doesn't think great of it. "Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer. Pathetic!"

"You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers." is a pretty apt description of Asgard. But could it describe Sanctuary too? What did Loki have to do to prove his loyalty to Thanos before being judged worthy of the scepter, of a bargain at all, and to retrieve a whole infinity stone for him at the cost of one?

"You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!" This is generally understood as blanket guilt/regret but he says it so angrily it's often dismissed in favour of just snitching on HYDRA within SHIELD. Re: What did Loki have to DO while under Thanos?

LOKI: I won't touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you! Slowly. Intimately. In every way he knows you fear! And when he'll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

Assuming Thor is the one Loki would bargain to save, is this a threat that has been made to Loki before? Is it what Loki knows would come of a successful bargain with Thanos? Being hurt by Thor is what he's feared before, but does it hold true even after the events of Thor 1? The idea of Thor being used against Loki being an intimate way to kill, while also acknowledging that Thor might not want to do it and might realize what he's done and hate it?

#''No. You brought the monster." is interesting because it happens right after Natasha refers to Loki as a monster #it helps support that Loki was projecting but the idea that the monster was brought #rather than already there #so could also be read as a reminder that Loki has enough awareness to define a monster for actions committed #rather than just his race in Thor 1 #Loki refers to Hulk as a 'mindless beast making play he's still a man' but like Hulk is known for destruction at that point #and there's nothing saying he knows Banner to be the other form iirc #idk I've just been thinking about the ''Not until I make him kill you! Slowly. Intimately. In every way he knows you fear!'' line #like bruh that's so SPECIFIC #what did Thanos DO #what was Loki THINKING during Thor 1 #*shakes bars* TELL ME #headcanons galore i reckon #too bad the MCU didn't try to cash in on ANYTHING

[oohimsospooky]

I just fucking realized kale legitimately made a whole ass mind control machine and was literally only going to use it to make people buy his products a little bit more

#hi fi rush #hi fi rush spoilers #kale vandelay #this is like if thanos got the infinity stones solely to sell his new cereal brand #spoilers #also chai canonically has a fucking kill count that just set in with me #also kale wasn't even going to force them to buy his shit he was going to subconsciously make them want to buy his shit

[hannah-the-red-head]

Fly Me to the Moon Memes Pt. 1

Yor!Reader: I think, that if you or your comrades so much as touch a single hair on his head, I’m going to wear your guts like my mother’s pashmina. Harrow: E-excuse me? Yor!Reader: Oh I’m sorry, did I stutter? I said if you hurt Steven, you are going to experience pain and torment beyond anything you or your goddess can possibly imagine! Yor!Reader: Your body is going to be torn piece by piece as you beg for a mercy that didn’t even come for Thanos! Yor!Reader: I will add your SCREAMS to my Spotify and I WILL SEE ALL YOUR HEADS MOUNTED ON A [BEEP]ING PIKE!! Khonshu in the Background: *genuinely terrified* By the gods…

#incorrect quotes #moon knight #incorrect marvel quotes #incorrect moon knight #Yor!Reader #Yor!Reader was the one to kill Thanos #all the avengers felt a disturbance in the force that day #source: Sao abridged #moon knight x reader #jake lockley: marry me #@hannah-the-red-head #fly me to the moon fanfiction #memes

[s0fter-sin]

i hate the commercialisation of the avengers inside the mcu both bc i find it cringy and meta but also bc it narratively doesn’t make sense.

we spent ten years establishing that the avengers are a contentious presence, civil war was literally about people not trusting them bc of what/who they are and now it’s almost completely erased and everyone loves them now? and don’t even get me started on rogers the musical

the way clint reacts makes it seem like the writers are trying to say it’s in poor taste but it’s less bc it trivialises a literal alien invasion but bc clint misses natasha and it hurts him to see an interpretation of her. not bc people are singing and dancing about an event that got hundreds if not thousands of people killed. the closest american equivalent i can think of is 9/11. people can’t even joke about it without being torn apart and it happened over 20 years ago. the battle of new york happened 10 years ago in the current mcu, the snap happened maybe a year ago, you’re telling me everyone’s chill with a musical about one of the worst days of their lives?

“i can do this all day” being their tagline encapsulates everything i dislike about it. the only people steve said that to were nazis that were immediately killed, tony who would never talk about what happened in siberia and the 2012 version of steve says it to him. no one else would know that phrase and acting like it’s something he crowed from the rooftops is at best a plot hole and at worse, an indictment of how little care the writers are having for the new era of the mcu

#other than the odd thanos was right graffiti the public loves the avengers now #and that spits in the face of over 10 years of established development and world building #even scott writing a book and becoming a celebrity doesnt make sense with his character considering all he wanted was to be a good father #now he wants to be famous and get attention? #to the point of disregarding his daughter? the entire point of his character? #and tony and hulk and presumably the rest of them getting ice cream named after them after civil war? everyone hated you three minutes ago #i already hated professor hulk for killing the hulk then acting like they didnt but him signing things and dabbing during the blip? #why was he being treated like a celebrity? #he and the avengers failed and half the universe died as a result why would people like him after that? #the avengers bringing everyone back shouldve created an ‘it was the least you could do considering you failed the first time’ energy #it should be grudging gratitude not this worship thats happening #which makes the flag smashers even weaker when theyre the only ones not sucking up the avengers ass #of course they hate the new world order theyre villains not getting what they want duh #instead of it being a valid expression #everyone in the world is way too happy and chill with everything when Half Of Everything Was Dead a year ago #it just doesnt follow the careful realistic world building set up over the entire mcu #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #marvelous #talk meta to me #marvel #the avengers #the snap #meta #captain america #rogers the musical #endgame #mcu #phase 4 #phase four

[pumpkin-toast]

playing persona 5 with my boyfriend

#ramagersart #he has not picked up on the black mask twist yet i am so excited #him: (looking at legion) thanos ball #me: (jokingly) it could kill loki haha (realization) you should. keep that one around itll be really funny #oughg im lub him

[cheese-induced-madness]

You guys ever think the reason wordgirl took off so hard this year after staying dormant for so long is because we're all fucking sick of what marvel did to superhero media and we want superhero media that's actually funny about razzing the genre?

#i know that's what it is for me #wordgirl has what marvel wishes it did #not headcanons #but seriously miss power's kill count was zero and she was more threatening a villain to me than thanos ever was #marvel movies feel like a big lightshow with zero substance. i watch them and i feel nothing. #wordgirl is like 90% substance because you love the characters enough to get hype when they do literally anything

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Any trope that you think isn't used enough?

Villain goes on speech about evolution or overpopulation or some other social darwinist bullshit and scientist hero is just like "yeah, you're a total fucking idiot and here's why".

#and by isn't used enough i mean DEAR GOD WILL SOMEONE FIND THIS FOR ME I'M SO SICK OF SOCIAL DARWINIST VILLAINS #WHO GO UNCHALLENGED BY THE NARRATIVE BESIDES 'BUT KILLING PEOPLE IS BAD' #seriously all these 'super smart scientists' and not a one of them eviscerated thanos for his dumbass plan #seriously i could have done that. i'd get immediately killed but i would go out smiling if i got to tell this asshole how stupid he is

[miraculousbohemian]

"Until next time, Xena"

"Oh, you think there's gonna be one?" -Ares and Xena, S6EP20

vs

"You were lucky. Next time-"

"There won't be a next time, Xena." -Tony and Gamora, S2EP4

#I'M SORRY BUT I WAS REWATCHING SOUL POSSESSIONS BECAUSE I WAS TRYNA SEE IF RICK CAME UP WITH HIS ARES #BC OF OUR ARES. ig he did idk. AND I SAW THAT LINE. #AND I WAS LIKE “where have i heard that before.” #turns out i obsessed over that line a few weeks ago in what if so hahahahah kill me. #oh yeah it's all coming together #xena warrior princess #mb rant :) #mcu #marvel #xwp #can be proud to put Top 3 fandoms on this post rn #percy jackon and the olympians #gamora #tony stark #iron man #thanos #xena #Xena you little shit ilysm #ALSO NOW IT HAS SUBTITLES AND IT FEELS REALLY WEIRD TO LOOK UP FROM YOUR PHONE ONTO THE PAUSED SCREEN AND SEE XENA BUT ALSO TONY #like. wow. #and korg. forgot my man korg.

[skullfragments]

i keep forgetting that what if…? season 2 is being released but then i’ll see a post about what’s happening in there and i think maybe it’s better that i don’t watch it

#marvel #oh the mcu is still forcing st*ggy into the narrative #by reusing stucky scenes? #oh bucky barnes is still being done dirty? #oh sam wilson is still being sidelined? #oh they accidentally reinforced the idea that peggy and howard knew abt the winter soldier? #what a surprise #oh gamora kills thanos like she should have in canon? #that one’s technically a good thing except that it shouldve happened in canon #what if season 2 #i’ll watch it eventually #it’ll make me angry tho lol

[aingeal98]

Decided to read Guardians of the Galaxy since I enjoyed the third movie and now I’ve found another lesbian to get attached to even though I know she won’t get the justice and good storylines she deserves. I’ve only had Phyla-Vell for a day and a half and I already want to banish every character who’s ever hurt her into comic irrelevancy for at least two decades.

#phyla-vell #marvel #gotg #I think she deserves to kill Thanos as a treat #the 616 version of her just appears out of nowhere and kills him the next time there's a big event #call it a glitch in the fabric of the universe or whatever idc just give 616 phyla back to me #marvel rambles

[thatnerdydino]

finished watching desconjuração

#SPOILERS AHEAD #i cried for the entirety of the last 30min #i know gal's one of the bad guys #but during the battle with him i couldnt help but root for him a bit. he has an Aura that's for sure #also bc i accidentally glanced at some screenshots from the next season and knew which characters were gonna make it #so i wasnt that worried #though i did have a mini heart attack when gal almost killed arthur #bro i fucking JUMPED out of my bed when veríssimo blocked that shit. WITH ARNALDO FRITZ'S FUCKIN SWORD. LIKE BRO #also the SHOCK when cellbit did the grand reveal abt who kian really was #my jaw was left hanging open #erin's death had me feeling equal parts sad and happy #sad that she got turned into a human shishkebab by gal but happy that she went out in her own terms. in a way #plus the damage her grenades did was nothing to scoff at #i didnt even have time to process fe getting fucking thanos-snapped out of existence #then the masked guys came #and thats when everything started going downhill (emotionally) #I FUCKING KNEW from the moment cellbit mentioned the fog dissipating and kaiser was standing in front of kian. i knew what he was gonna do #and yet i broke down completely when he spoke his final words #from that point onward it was nonstop crying til the end of the episode man #'always the three of us' my ass THEY TOOK MY BOY'S HOMIES. BOTH OF THEM #and then the post credits scene #i had to muffle my fucking sobbing cause 1) my roommate was studying for an exam they had in the morning #and 2) it was 1 in the fucking morning and my neighbour's bedroom is on the other side of the wall #holy fuckign shit cellbit what the fuck man #i shouldve known better after witnessing the finale of osnf. but you know how it is with hope #its gonna be another sleepless night after taking all that in #the feeling of loss and mourning is unreal #no tv series or movies have ever made me cheer or sob or feel like these made-on-the-fly stories have. not one #i hope that one day I'll be fluent enough in portuguese so i can rewatch and understand these series in their entirety #its 3:51am. goodnight

[tyrannuspitch]

can't believe i went on that whole spiral in may 2022 trying to prove the neck touch thing Deeply Sinister (and many people to this day don't see it that way!!!) when it's literally right there in infinity war. that's where it leads. loki's love for his family + a possessive hand on his neck = loki being sacrificed. as many times as it takes for him to stay dead.

#space viking tag #meant to make a compilation ages ago and didnt bc iw is hard to track down. and hard to look at #but u could bookend the entirety of thor's sinister-affectionate neck touch motif with #a) odin holding baby loki #and b) thanos killing loki #hmm maybe also jotun soldier grabbing loki -> blue hand but it's not as fundamental #also you know in an earlier version of thor 1 laufey picked up loki by his throat when he recognised him as his son....... #god. it's so fucked up. #also this is a dog motif. to me #(or other animal it doesn't rlly matter) #also the collar in tdw. the fucking collar. g o d #odin i am killing u with hammers. #meta #ch: loki #s: a3 #th: neck touch #th: suicide + sacrifice #th: love as horror #th: abuse + empire

[kittygirlinlovewithhumanity]

#I SAID IT DIDN'T I #I TOLD YOU I WAS FICKLE #please somebody #slay me #i snickered so hard #and would have laughed if it weren't so late #roy mustang #I'M LAUGHING EVEN HARDER NOW #because i made that stupid joke #in that text post the other day #the thanos snap joke #and now here it is #come full circle to bite me in the ass #flameleads #please someone laugh with me #or kill me #either way

[kynimdraws]

Stop laughing, Sreng apologists should have frankly killed themselves instead of ruining everything. The fact Bowlcut man gets the chance to have gay sex with Claude is intolerable. What next Cyril will get rid of Faerghus too?

....YOU'RE SO RIGHT! Cyril SHOULD do that!!!

Thanks for the suggestion anon :D

#ask #anonymous #this is why i never turn off anon this is amazing #that cyril au out of nowhere is killing me rn #Au where cyril accidentally thanos snaps faerghus and rhea.... #THE FALLOUT WOULD BE HILARIOUSLY LEGENDARY #also thanks anon for that death threat too (sarcastic) #not the worst one I've gotten but whatever