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racefortheironthrone · 10 months

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MAWS Episode 4!

It’s fair to say that My Adventures With Superman started on a high note and has been getting better with each episode, but this episode took things up to a new level:win

I love that the beginnings of Clark and Lois’ relationship is ultimately founded on their shared commitment to hard-hitting journalism over celebrity infotainment, even if they’re still very much learning the ropes and struggling to overcome setbacks.

Turning Dr. Ivo/Amazo/Parasite (interesting that they’re mashing these villains together into one dude) into a vile techbro who gentrifies working-class communities and uses crime to further his empire, and who becomes a supervillain because Superman’s fundamental altruism completely revolts his Randian belief in self-interest and personal gain - which fits perfectly into the whole idea of Parasite as a villain who steals from others to benefit himself - is a really smart idea.

I like that Jimmy’s alien obsession becomes plot-relevant and he even gets the glimmerings of a character arc when we see the conflict between “three best friends” and a new couple with a third wheel.

Most important point below the cut, b/c it’s real spoilery:

Lois using her journalistic skills (and red-string conspiracy board) to figure out that Clark Kent is Superman is a great move this early in the game. It demonstrates her chops as a reporter (which get undermined if the deception goes on too long), it complicates the non-love triangle (Lois is suspicious of Superman but is romantically interested in Clark, but gets the vital clue because Clark gave her his jacket which was symbolic of their shared moment on the stairs and after, but it reveals that Clark has been lying to her which is a big issue for her), and it advances her own character arc around wanting to prove herself against her father by succeeding as a reporting by putting her to the test of what she’s going to do with this knowledge.

#maws #my adventures with superman #spoilers #maws spoilers

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youngmasterwisdomperson · 9 months

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I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes for a legitimately helpful superhero who isn’t just a cop with superpowers and even less accountability for their violent actions, and I think it largely comes down to whether I would consider their approach to hero work as more like that of a firefighter or, well, a cop. Because the stereotypical thing for a superhero to do is like, fight criminals, stop muggers, foil bank robberies, that sort of thing, but not a lot of superhero media acknowledges that crimes are largely just symptoms of large-scale socioeconomic and political issues.

I mean, sure, if you’re bullet proof or whatever and there’s someone who’s about to get shot, then by all means stop the guy with the gun. But crime fighting in my opinion shouldn’t be the main focus of any superhero. A great superhero only fights crime in the sense that a fireman might “fight” things like arson and building code violations. The primary goal of a superhero should always be to protect people from danger and take steps to ensure any given disaster doesn’t happen again, or if it does happen again, to ensure that they’ll be more prepared for it the next time around. A great superhero should be fighting to create a world that doesn’t need them anymore.

Well-written interpretations of Superman are especially good at this actually, with a very recent example in the form of the show My Adventures With Superman. This Superman’s goal is never once to fight the bad guys just for the sake of it or because they’re committing crimes and he thinks they ought to be put in jail or anything. In fact, I’m struggling to think of any example in that show where Clark’s motivation in a fight against the villain of the week was anything other than to get civilians out of harm’s way and then save the human bad guys from themselves. This Clark doesn’t want to hurt or imprison anyone! He’s extremely aware of his overwhelming strength and power and capacity to break things by accident, having grown up in a world that may as well have been made of cardboard, and when we see Supes out and about doing casual Superman things, the help he provides is almost never about catching criminals. Most of the time, he’s rescuing cats from trees, helping lost children find their parents, saving people from getting hit by cars, stopping bridges from collapsing, catching people who fall from high places, rescuing people from burning buildings, that sort of thing. This superman is a firefighter type to his very core.

Even when he defeats Dr. Ivo, a man who Clark has been shown to despise for the ways he’s been using his wealth to uproot people from their homes (and for the way he treats women), he doesn’t turn him in to the police. Instead, he notes his state of critical health as a result of the side affects of the Parasite suit, and brings him to the nearest ambulance. Even objectively horrible people who have done terrible things aren’t exempt from Clark’s desire to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Fighting supervillains was never about fighting evil for him. The goal was always to bring people to safety first and foremost, then to de-escalate the situation, neutralizing the source of the threat without causing anyone unnecessary harm. That is what Superman is all about.

Moving away from MAwS for the moment and into the characterization of Superman as a whole, I think that all too often Superman writers who don’t understand the point of the character undersell the importance of Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter in the ways Supes goes about helping make the world a better place. Far too often in media, superheroes serve only as defenders of an imperfect status quo. They prevent the villains from bringing about whatever change they have in mind that would make the world worse, but more and more often as of late supervillains have been written with pseudo-sympathetic goals and motivations. They’ll pay lip-service to real-world systematic problems and social issues, then proceed to immediately undermine the validity of their stated mission by attempting to fulfill their alleged motives through needlessly ruthless, violent and authoritarian means, which only serves to imply to the audience that any sort of societal change will only make things worse, and that the status quo is the best we can possibly hope for. A bad superman writer will have Superman help the world by punching bad guys really hard. A good superman writer will have him focus on protecting people and saving those in peril instead. But a great superman writer knows that Superman alone is not enough.

Saving people, while noble and righteous and something Supes alone could do to such an effective degree, is ultimately just a patch job. A great Superman fights for a world that no longer needs his help, and Clark Kent is a big part about how he does that. Systematic problems can’t be punched, and bulletproof skin can’t save people from it. Superman can’t encase police brutality in a block of ice, or cut systemic racism to bits with his laser eyes. The tools Superman uses to protect people in a direct, physical sense are therefore not the powers he needs to create real positive change. No, the only thing that can overcome that sort of monster is the spread of information. More specifically, the truth. That’s why out of all of Superman’s abilities, it’s his super hearing and X-Ray vision that offer him the greatest amount of power to enact positive change, because while both of those have their uses as the Man of Steel, they’re actually infinitely more useful to mild-mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent.

Superman can take on pretty much any physical threat, which is why his greatest foes are always those who threaten the world with problems he can’t punch. Picture in your mind, if you will, Superman’s arch-nemesis. I don’t even have to say his name, do I? Sure, you might debate for a split second the importance of the more direct threats like Braniac, Doomsday, and Zod, but everyone knows who Superman’s true nemesis is, and it isn’t any of them. It isn’t anyone with special powers or the innate capacity to level entire cities, but instead Lex. Fucking. Luther. A human man. A rich CEO, a politician. The living personification of the problems Superman can’t punch. That’s why Clark Kent is so important. Because he’s a reporter for the daily planet. It’s his job to chase leads, seek out the truth and expose it to the world. And Clark hears everything. He knows how severely corrupt the police are, because he can hear them from his office. He knows how awful the prison system is, because he can see what goes on in there through multiple layers of concrete walls.

True, he has to hide his identity as Superman and thus can’t just tell his coworkers everything he sees and hears. And even if he could tell them, it would all amount to little more than hearsay. But Clark Kent can also just follow up on “anonymous tips,” or leave hints of a big story for his coworkers to find and sniff out for themselves. Honestly, being Clark Kent must take infinitely more restraint for Supes than being the Man of Steel, because if he follows up on too many tips or knows too well where to look for leads on too many scandals, he’ll draw too much attention to himself and lose his edge against the bad guys. Hell, even with ample amount of subtlety and restraint I wouldn’t be surprised if Clark came to earn something of a reputation around the office as the “spiders georg” of police corruption and political scandals. And all that on top of that one really good tumblr post about Clark cracking down on lead pipes in Metropolis. Like this man must be a journalism machine, the whistleblower to end all whistleblowers! Superman may be able to save the world, but Clark Kent is the one who can actually change it for the better.

Not to say Superman wouldn’t publicly speak out about these things as well of course. Save enough families from burning buildings and people are bound to start caring about what you have to say sooner or later. And what are the police going to do about it if fucking Superman calls them out? Shoot the man of steel? Arrest a guy who can melt through concrete just by looking at it? Call the fucking military to deal with a man who spends his time rescuing cats from trees and helping old ladies across the street? Superman represents everything that cops want us to think they are, and logically speaking he would fucking despise them. Because Superman stands for Truth and Justice. And all cops are bastards. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

#superman #my adventures with superman #my writing #superheroes #acab

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butch-livewire · 9 months

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#maws #my adventures with superman #im curious now that we're most of the way thru the season #no other/in the tags option sorry you have to make choices here #alex and vicky vale were left out on purpose btw #because vicky isnt evil and alex isnt evil yet

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deadmandairyland · 10 months

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There’s another MAWS post I’ve been wanting to make but I keep forgetting to.

So I’m not super (no pun intended) familiar with Superman’s rogues gallery, or the rogues gallery of DC in general that aren’t largely Batman/Titans-centered or like the really out there villains like Codpiece and Snowflame, so I didn’t know who Dr. Ivo was before I saw last week’s episode, so every time I heard “Dr. Ivo” my brain would just immediately go “RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROBOTNIK”

#my adventures with superman #dr. ivo #sonic the hedgehog #eggman

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luthwhore · 10 months

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not watching maws tonight bc i'm waiting for it to go up on streaming tomorrow but given that they're using dr ivo for a lot of the things they would usually reserve for lex in this show, I'm really curious what they do plan on doing with lex when they introduce him.

#briar.txt #i think it would be funny if upon him being introduced it's established that they already know each other from smallville

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ntshastark · 8 months

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MAWS liveblog: part 2 (1x03-1x04)

Episode 3

i love him so much it's unhealthy

OH THERE'S AN OPENING SEQUENCE NOW

tiddies

whipped

the humour in this episode is just Not Working for me, idk

why is lois mimicking cat's personality when the warden is much more likely to realise they're not the same person via, y'know, the photo on her badge??

now that was a quintessential clois moment

this poor man

clark's voice as superman is way too similar to his regular voice tbh, his tone when he was pretending to be interviewed by lois is way closer to what i'd expect

[paris hilton voice] that's hot

[agrees to give an interview]

[can't answer a single question]

[flies away]

nailed it

i love him

i mean, you're not wrong

Episode 4

that's my future pulitizer prize winner! 😭

OH HELL YEAH CLARK IS A CRYPTID!!!!!!

bums me out that i can't get into this series' version of clois, but they're just so mushy (and, don't get me wrong, i love mushy established clois, but they've just met!! lois should be a mean hbic and clark should be- well, he should be a whipped blushing mess, which is exactly what he is here. guess the problem is just lois :/ i could blame it on the decision to make them both interns, but smallville!lois is a teenager and still manages to be perfect)

and the thing is!! the rest of her characterisation is so good!! she's a career-driven law-breaking menace and i love her!!! literally the only thing that bothers me is how they've made her immediately into clark - which i guess makes sense, if she mostly ignored him then the entire premise of the cartoon doesn't really work*, but it still leaves me with a version of early!clois stripped from basically everything that makes their dynamic interesting (To Me)

*= there's plenty of ways to make them work together while having lois' feelings towards clark be equal part disinterest and fuming one-sided beef (i'd know! i've read the fics!), but i guess it wouldn't fit the quirky fun protagonist trio this series is aiming for, which is ok! it's a cartoon for kids! i'm the weird one here!

man i miss the world cup

oh my god he's so precious

.............................that's a voltron character

why does this dr ivo guy feel like a mcu!tony stark parody (disclaimer: i don't think i've heard of him before and i don't wanna google if he's a comics character to avoid possible spoilers)

OH MY GOD HIS NAME IS EVEN ANTHONY

[paris hilton voice] that's hot

dont know why the screen suddenly looks like i need to clean my glasses but [insert 'í love arm' tweet]

WHY IS THE SCREEN SO BLURRY (is this bc i'm pirating??)

oh my god

ok, if he's not a comic character then he was definitely based on tony (stark, i mean. as this guy is also named tony.)

ok, did anyone involved in this series also work on voltron, serious question

i'm in love with her

1. i think i'm gonna enjoy them a lot more once they're actually dating bc this was very domestic!clois and, to quote clark, :3

2. holy fuck his head is so much larger than hers

he's so lucky no one follows him on that thing bc he's literally uploading footage he was paid to take by someone else, once perry finds out he's toast

???? he was playing cupid two episodes ago

OH SHIT I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING 10/10 PLOT TWIST

i usually enjoy the identity porn going on for way longer, but i wasn't happy with how they were handling it, so maybe this will shake up things into something that i like more 👀

#if i ignore work due to it being Too Hot To Function i can maybe watch two of these today 👀#edit (next day): i didn't but i'm putting them in the same post anyway lol #f: dc #g: dc animations #s: maws #mari liveblogs

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sonic-mecha-au · 4 years

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Egg Empire

The Egg Empire’s forces are a combination of Eggman’s forces before and after the Genesis wave. Some forces are designated to various continents while others are utilized for certain operations or more specific targets, unless mentioned the more or less serve the same purpose as they did in the comics

The leader of the Egg Empire is a large computer orbiting space. Many assume it to be an alien intelligence, in reality it is the digitized mind of Dr. Ivo Kintober now know as Robotnik. Many of Eggman’s more talkative henchmen man the space station while commanders are contacted through terminals on the surface or other Orbital stations. He is the creator of many of the Mecha’s used by the Egg Empire, many of which are based on various robots from the franchise. Many of the faction act independently and see the Empire as more of an Alliance than a chain of command Including the Battle Birds, Conquering Storm, and Dark Legion

Their Initial assault on the planet was to roboticize many of the citizens and use them as the cores for various larger robot drones called Robians, however the Bem appeared and neutralized the process to prevent it from spreading to other worlds. The After effects play out the same as in the comics, with many former commanding robots taking to joining the empire solely to protect the former Robians and undergo the cyberzation process. Those who underwent the process are noted for having greater piloting performance than normal humans, Mobian Races are used by the Egg Empire to propagandize the procedure

Groups by Continent

Mobia (the continent containing the home of team sonic) - Snively Robotnik

Northamer - Clove the Pronghorn

Dragon Kingdom and Yurashia- Unnamed Egg Clan Boss before the events of the Iron Queen Arc afterwards it is controlled by Conquering Storm

Great Dessert - Beauregard Rabbot direct ally to Nephthys due to their shared intentions

Soumerica - Drago Wolf and Razor claw

Northern Oceans - Akhlut the Orca

Artika - Tundra the Walrus

Efrika - Main Commander - Axel ;Vice Commander - Deisal; Axel is designated overseer of the Gaia Project and leaves Diesel in charge during the event

Mercia - Mordred Hood who has convinced himself he is a descendent of King Arthur unaware that the figure was nothing but an illusion

Downhunda/Tralius - Maw the Thylacian, has a long standing distrust of the Dark Legion due to the conection between Downhunda. keeps the Platypus Army around so he can continue his work as one of Eggman’s top enforcers

Sol Archipelago - Abyss the Squid replaces Whiskers who becomes the body controlled by Eggman when the Archipelago becomes a major focusing point

Midesta - Nephthys the Vulture; Direct Ally to Beauregard due to their shared intentions

Empire Factions with Specialized purposes

Lien-Da - The Dark Legion had been working for the Egg Empire as the main technologies development team

ThuderBolt the Chinchilla - her faction is put in charge of testing experimental weapons, she often lords over Drago Wolf and Razor Claw since she technically has a higher ranking than them despite being bullied by them constantly while she was still part of Soumerica faction

Battle Bird Armada - Lord Kukku XV

Iron Queen - she has the same emergence as

The Foreman and Nerbs

Mobian Race Teams backed by the Egg Empire

Hooligans

Babylon Rogues

Midesta Freedom Fighter Team (in secret by Nephthys)

Great Dessert Team

Setting Dawn Pirates Team

Platypus Army Team

Witchcarters later backedby Ixis after his return

Team Proghorn

#Lien-Da #battle bird armada #Bride of the conquering storm #Beauregard Rabbot #Drago Wolf #Razor claw #Mordred Hood #Clove the Pronghorn #Akhlut the Orca #Nephthys the Vulture #egg bosses #Mecha AU Lore #Sonic Mecha AU

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