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Marvel's 31 Best Monsters

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Marvel is more than just superheroes, they've done their fare share of horror characters, too.

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Halloween isn't just for monsters anymore. For every Frankenstein Monster that comes to your door, there are probably sixteen Iron Men and a few Rocket Raccoons. It seems that Marvel (and DC) heroes have infringed on the monstrous monopoly of Halloween, but that’s OK, because to even things out, the Marvel Universe has its fair share of monsters dwelling under beds, behind walls, and in gothic mansions (mansions usually expertly drawn by Mike Ploog) to even things out.

Starting in the late Silver Age, the Comics Code became less restrictive (because Frederic Wertham was killed by a mummy...actually, no he wasn’t), and Marvel was able to bring in all sorts of boogeymen to share page time with the likes of Thor, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. These new, Universal-inspired monsters joined the Kirby Kreatures like Fin Fang Foom and Googam as the Marvel Universe became a world where things that go bump in the night became as commonplace as superheroes.

Join us as we journey into the darkest realms of the Marvel Universe and celebrate the greatest monstrous creations that ever sprang from the nightmares of the House of Ideas.

31. The Glob

Listen, I’m not going to exclude a character named the Glob from this list, am I? The Glob was once Joe Timms, a petty criminal, who like every other comic book swamp character ever, was transformed into a muck encrusted monstrosity by a mysterious bog. Glob fought the Hulk a few times before Timms was recreated into the being known as the Golden Brain and used as a weapon by the villain Yagzan and the crazed Cult of Entropists (and holy shit, did I just get an almost sexual rush from typing that sentence).

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As the Golden Brain, Glob was defeated by Man-Thing because of course he was.

The strange bit of business is that there were three other Globs in Marvel history. There was the monstrous Glob from Strange Tales, a creature that was originally known as the Glop from Journey into Mystery, and the young X-Man known as Glob Herman.

30. Scarecrow

There have been many comic book characters that have used the Scarecrow moniker, but this obscure Bronze Age Marvel creation might be the most twisted. This isn’t the iconic Jonathan Crane of DC lore or the lesser known Marvel villain that fought Iron Man and Ghost Rider many times. No, this Scarecrow is a demonic figure that dwells within a painting and, at times, walks the world of man.

Sometimes known as the Straw Man to avoid confusion with the Iron Man rogue, this Scarecrow only had three Bronze Age appearance but he was bursting at the seams with potential (and with hellspun demonic straw). The Scarecrow first appeared in Dead of Night, where the hapless Jess Duncan purchased the painting and began a story of Lovecraftian cults and cackling madness. But it was a story that was never quite finished as the tale of the Scarecrow has been relegated to the dusty bargain bin memories of the '70s.

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But check out that Dead of Night cover, masterfully crafted by Gil Kane and Berni Wrightson and tell me that this Marvel monster couldn’t have been one of the greats. With his cackling laughter, his smile that reeks of insanity, and his gangly body, this Scarecrow was almost part of Marvel’s monstrous greats. And that’s no straw man argument.

29. Swarm

Swarm is a very obscure villain who made his debut in the pages of The Champions of all places. So why is he on our list? Because he's a freakin' Nazi Scientist MADE OF EVIL BEES! That's absolutely terrifying!

Fritz von Meyer was once one of Hitler's leading scientists who escaped to South America after the War and grew fascinated with the idea of hive intelligence. He tried to enslave a queen bee or something nutty and was devoured by her swarm. He was such an evil piece of schnitzel that his consciousness dominated the bees and he became Swarm.

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Swarm's most notable moment was on the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon of the 1980s. The cartoon changed Swarm into an alien because I guess Nazi bees wouldn't go over well on Saturday morning after Foofur.

So yeah, genocidal Nazi bee man=monster.

28. Manphibian

In the '70s, Marvel had great success with its Universal Monsters parallels. Dracula was one of its top sellers and gained a large cult following, while Frankenstein’s Monster and Werewolf by Night each gained a level of success. Marvel had a Living Mummy so why not a Creature From the Black Lagoon knockoff?

Enter the Manphibian. Gosh, is that fun to say. Manphibian, Manphibian, Manphibian!

Anyway, old Gill Face here was kind of a tragic character. In his one and only Bronze Age tale, it was revealed that Manphibian was an alien creature that pursued a member of its own race across the galaxy after the rival creature murdered the Manphibian’s mate. The murderous swamp beast goes on a rampage until the heroic Manphibian stops it, but of course, the rest of the world now views the Manphibian as a soggy threat. Thus Manphibian was set up as Marvel’s leading Creature knockoff but it was not to be as Manny never popped up again.

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Until recently that is, because modern day Marvel creators know that it is beyond awesome that something called a Manphibian shares the same world as Spider-Man and Wolverine. Manphibian has popped up recently in the pages of Ghost Rider, Punisher, and Daredevil and even played a major role in Marvel's recent Howling Commandos title thus proving that you just can’t keep a good alien version of a Creature From the Black Lagoon rip off down. MANPHIBIAN!

27. It, the Living Colossus

Marvel has a character named Colossus, Stephen King created a character named It, put them together and you get a child eating Russian clown with steel hard skin! Sadly, that’s not the It, the Living Colossus we are talking about although this It is still kind of cool.

It, the Living Colossus was created by Jack Kirby right before the dawning of the heroic Marvel age in pages of Tales of Suspense and was revived by Tony Isabella and artist Dick Ayers in the pages of Astonishing Tales #21 (1973).

In the Kirby tales, It was one of those rare Kirby Kreatures that appeared twice in the pre-Marvel Age monster mags. This It was a 100 foot tale Golem like stature crafted as part of an anti-Communist protest. As these things go, the stature was animated by an alien intelligence and trashed Moscow.

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Later, somehow, the statue found itself in the U.S. and once again was possessed and went on a rampage until a Hollywood effects genius named Bob O'Bryan. O’Bryan was the protagonist of the Isabella/Ayers Bronze Age tales. This time, it was revealed O’Bryan lost the use of is legs but was able to animate the lumbering piece of anti-socialist propaganda. By the way, the original It stories were inked by Ayers who got to revisit his co-creation over a decade later, how cool is that?

It has made recent appearances in the pages of Deadpool Team-Up and remains one of the most famed pronouns in Marvel monster lore.

26. Golem

While we’re on the subject of giant, lumbering stone colossuses, colossi? colossusseses? We have Marvel’s very own Golem.

There have actually been a number of Golems in the Marvel Universe but our stone monstrosity in question first appeared in Strange Tales and was created by two absolute legends, Len Wein and John Buscema. So this Golem of ours may not have had a huge historical impact on the MU but it was created by the same bard that created Wolverine, so it has that going for it. Actually, this Golem was infused with compelling Jewish lore and really captured the ancient feel of the Hebrew legend.

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The Golem is pretty much the exact character you expect it to be with killer Buscema artwork. It didn’t have many appearances but the Golem did pop up in Marvel Two in One because if a Bronze Age monster was worth anything, it probably showed up in Marvel Two in One at some point.

25. Hannibal King

Long before Angel opened his detective agency in the Whedonverse, Hannibal King was on the case. Hannibal King was a supporting character in Marvel's immortal Tomb of Dracula series. He was a skilled private detective and also happened to be cursed with vampirism. It can be argued that King was Marvel's first vampire hero and used his undead gifts in an attempt to take down Dracula himself.

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Later, when Doctor Strange rid the world of vampirism by destroying all bloodsuckers (they got better), Hannibal King was spared. Even later, the dark curse returned and King joined the Nightstalkers, a team of monster hunters that also included Blade. Film wise, Hannibal King is notable for being played by Ryan Reynolds, before he found his one true calling as Wade Wilson in Deadpool.

24. Lilith, Dracula’s Daughter

Universal introduced the concept of a female scion of Dracula with the wonderfully atmospheric and surprisingly LGBT friendly 1936 monsterfest Dracula’s Daughter. Never one to let a monstrously good idea pass it by, Marvel introduced its own version of Drac’s little girl in the pages of the ponderously named Giant-Size Chillers #1.

Lilith was Dracula’s first child, the product of an arranged marriage between Dracula and his first wife Zofia. After the death of Dracula’s father, the future Lord of the Undead cast his infant daughter and Zofia from their homeland. Zofia was raised by gypsies because of course she was.

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One night, Dracula, now undead and thirsty, attacked the gypsies, murdering Zofia’s son. Swearing revenge, Zofia transformed Lilith into a very different kind of vampire, one not weakened by holy symbols. Marvel even tried to put a modern day twist by having the spirit of Lilith possess a woman in the contemporary age, but sadly, Lilith never quite caught on in a solo feature. Lilith still makes scantily clad appearances at times in the modern Marvel Universe and if Marvel ever decides to put a horror anthology series on TV, here’s your Elvira-like host. A fan can dream, no?

23. Godzilla, King of Monsters

Yeah, it does too count! I’ll slap you.

Godzilla was once a legit part of the Marvel Universe. Godzilla starred in his own comic for about two years. During the run of the title, written by the all-star team of Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe, the King of the Monsters met and fought SHIELD, the Avengers, the Champions, Fantastic Four, and even fought Devil Dinosaur. It was as awesome as it sounds.

On any other monster list, Godzilla would be towards the top, but at Marvel, Godzilla only sparked very briefly. But listen, there was an arc where Godzilla was shrunken down by Pym Particles and fought a sewer rat. So there.

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Actually, some characters introduced in the pages of Godzilla went on to become (not big at all) parts of the Marvel Universe. Such as the only remembered by Roy Thomas Doctor Demonicus. Anyway, Godzilla stomped around the Marvel Universe for a few years and it was awesome.

22. Frankencastle

Remember that time the Punisher died and was resurrected as the Mary Shelley inspired Frankencastle? Yeah, that was a thing and it was written by Rick Remender and it was way cooler than it had any right to be. It was hard hittin’, blood lettin’, limb flyin’, ass-kickin’ monster fun and if you don’t take it too seriously, it was one of the most daringly different Marvel stories ever.

It also pissed off hardcore Punisher fans which is probably not the best group to anger.

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The Frankencastle arc also featured just about every great Marvel monster on this list, so if these buggers are giving you a hankerin’ for some true monster madness, give Frankencastle a whirl. I was hoping that it would start a whole plethora of Punisher/monster amalgamations. DracuCastle, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Pun, the Punisher from the Black Lagoon…

21. Man-Wolf

Any fictional universe that has not one, but two great werewolves is okay in our book. Man-Wolf was once John Jameson, son of J. Jonah Jameson, cranky publisher extraordinaire.

John Jameson isn’t just your everyday werewolf, he’s a cosmic werewolf! Marvel actually pulled off some batshit insane sci-fi adventures with Man-Wolf in the pages of Creatures on the Loose. In addition, Man-Wolf was also right at home in straight up superhero tales as he took on Spider-Man and or in gothic driven Bronze Age awesomeness in the pages of one of the million Marvel creature features.

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As one does, Jameson was turned into Man-Wolf after he got a lunar gem lodged into his throat. He still pops up every now and then because space werewolves are never not cool.

20. Satana

The devil's daughter herself, Satana, burst open the Marvel black and white scene in the early seventies and was a nice tribute to cleavage laden, Technicolor Hammer Horror of the era. Satana is a succubus who seduced sinners and reduced their souls into butterflies, which she then kept in a little box and at times devours.

Some of the finest artists of the Bronze Age worked on Satana's early adventures starting with Roy Thomas and John Romita Sr. and moving on to Chris Claremont and Estaban Moroto. Her adventures were clearly cut for the same cloth as the Vampirella/Harris Comics stable of fright characters but they were also adult oriented, sexy, and atmospheric.

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Recently, Satana played a role as a member of the Thunderbolts in one of the coolest runs of that always underrated Marvel book. So here's to Satana, the daughter of Satan, one of Marvel's most underused and frightful bad girls and possibly the most unlikely character that Disney ever owned.

19. Simon Garth, The Zombie

The first Marvel Zombie, Simon Garth, proved his immortality by surviving the pre-Marvel Age. Garth first appeared in the horror title Menace in 1953 but was shunted into the Marvel Universe proper with Tales of the Zombie #1 in 1973 (an awesome black and white mag that I have a complete collection of. Ladies, the line forms to the right).

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Garth isn't your typical zombie. He retains a vestige of intelligence and morality which is somehow intensely disturbing. Imagine, rotting from within, but being completely aware of your desiccated state. Garth is one of those old school voodoo zombies and usually tried to do the right thing despite the thing that he is a walking maggot farm spit up from the pits of Hell.

18. The Living Mummy

As we said, Marvel had great success riffing on the classic Universal Monsters pantheon, so of course the House of Ideas had its own mummy! Marvel went a little left of center with its Mummy as it didn’t look to ancient Egypt for its shambling mound of bandages, it looked to ancient Africa and introduced N’Kantu, chief of the Northern African tribe the Swarili.

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In fact, none other than one of Marvel greatest monster hunters Moon Knight first appeared in the pages of Werewolf by Night as Russell’s title was once an essential part of the MU. At times, Russell is cut from the classic Lon Chaney mode of lycanthrope but at others, the kind and moral Russell is fully in control of his inner beast and operates as a classic super hero (albeit a hairy one). One can usually find issues of Werewolf by Night in dollar bins and that is one hell of a bargain because Werewolf by Night was one of the strangest, most surreal titles of the '70s.

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5. Ghost Rider

What more can be said about Johnny Blaze or any of the other demonic bikers who have called themselves Ghost Riders?

The legacy of the Ghost Rider began in the pre-Marvel Age with a ghostly Western character who haunted the prairie of the American frontier. In the modern era, stunt biker Johnny Blaze was possessed by the demon Zarathos and became the flame headed spirit of vengeance of legend.

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At times, Ghost Rider has been a threat to the Marvel Universe and at others, he has been a stalwart hero, but the fact that Blaze has the power to burn the souls of evildoers makes him a featured part of this Halloween list. Arguably Mike Ploog’s greatest character design, Ghost Rider has gone through many incarnations over the years but somehow, the curse always comes back to Blaze, a man who treated with the devil and no rides the highway to Hell as the legendary Ghost Rider.

4. Blade

By all appearances, Blade isn't really a monster. In fact, he might be the greatest monster hunter in comics (sorry Buffy). But consider the fact that Blade is part vampire, and you have a heroic bloodsucker worthy of making our top 5.

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Blade's mother was turned into a vampire as she was giving birth to the future vampire hunter, making Blade a Daywalker, a man who is half mortal, half monster. Blade not only starred in many Bronze Age adventures in the pages of Marvel's black and white mags of the '70s, he was also a major player in Marvel's classic Tomb of Dracula, a part of the '90s Midnight Sons line of books, but he is also the reason we are living in the Golden Age of super hero cinema. Without Blade's cinematic success, a relatively obscure Marvel character before the films despite his monster hunting awesomeness, there would be no Hugh Jackman and the X-Men or Marvel Studios Avengers movies.

Speaking of which, Blade will finally join the MCU as played by Mahershala Ali.

3. Dracula

The granddaddy of them all, Dracula, is not only a cinema legend, he is not only a legend of literature and television, he is a comic book legend as well thanks to the premiere scare comic of the '70s, Tomb of Dracula. After writer Gerry Conway kicked off the title in grand fashion, the immortal creative team of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan crafted arguably the greatest monster comic of all time.

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Somehow, Marvel made Dracula into a classic anti-hero that captured the atmosphere and pathos of Bram Stokers’ novel and the Universal Horror classic. Somehow, Marvel also managed to weave in some super hero craziness as well with Dracula serving as the sometime hero in a book that featured one of the richest supporting casts of any comic of the 1970s. So many characters on our list, Lilith, Blade, and Hannibal King to name but a few, got their starts in Tomb of Dracula. But it was Vlad the Impaler himself that outshined them all with his evil brand of nobility. Dracula went on to star in major arcs in books like the X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, and even Howard the Duck.

Dracula, in his modern incarnation, still stalks the Marvel Universe and remains Marvel's greatest classic monster.

. 2. The Thing

I almost feel bad calling Ben Grimm a monster; after all, he has saved the world with his pals the Fantastic Four countless times, but those early issues of Fantastic Four were filled with classic horror nods especially when it came to the Thing. Remember when Jack Kirby would draw Grimm in an oversized coat, with a classic fedora pulled down over his eyes? More often than not, Ben would go on angry rampages, lashing out at the world after his transformation into a hideous rock beast.

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The early days of the Thing and the Fantastic Four borrow as much from the Phantom of Opera and the classic Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde as it did from Superman. So Aunt Petunia's favorite nephew makes our list. The horror tropes surrounding the Thing really didn't last too long, but seriously, read those early FFs, you can almost hear the classic eerie organ music when Ben steps onto the page - classic horror goodness.

1. Hulk

Like the Thing, the Hulk is way more superhero than horror icon, but in the character's year history, there were plenty of times that this titanic creature was cast in the role of classic monster. Again, particularly during the early days of the character, the Hulk had much in common with the classic monsters of old. The Hulk had an obvious connection to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in fact, Bruce Banner has been called the Atomic Age Dr. Jekyll many times. The Jade Giant had a great deal in common with Frankenstein's monster and even had some parallels to the classic Wolf Man.

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If you'll remember, in the original Hulk series, when the Hulk was still a malevolently intelligent grey brute, the Hulk did not transform when he got angry, instead it was at nightfall, and if that ain't classic monster goodness we don't know what is. So even though Hulk has thrown down with some of Marvel's greatest heroes and villains, underneath the skin of this Avenger beats the heart of a classic lonely and misunderstood monster that would have been right at home in a Universal classic.

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“A Very Cannimal Halloween”

I'm borrowing @byk23's Cannimal characters, where Will is a grumpy mongoose and Hannibal is a pudgy little fancy penguin. This is my offering for today's Hannictober prompt, "Costume Party."

Will Mongoose was minding his own business, making a new fishing lure, when his cell phone suddenly came to life with an ungodly warning noise. He nearly jumped out of his fur in surprise. He fumbled for the phone and glared at the screen.

So Jack was using the Sanctuary's alert system to send out party invitations now?? What a trifling use of resources. And attendance was "mandatory"? Ha! Hannibal Penguin would probably find such a demand so rude that Will would have to bodily hold him back from cooking Jack on the spot.

Maybe just this once he wouldn't try to hold him back. Maybe he'd help.

A few moments later, there was a furious paddling of little webbed feet coming up the sidewalk to their home. Will prepared himself to savor to Hannibal's tirade.

The front door slammed open.

"Will! My darling mongoose!" panted Hannibal, out of breath from running on his stubby legs so vigorously. He held up his phone, the screen still showing the alert. "Have you seen this?!"

"Yes, and I'm glad you're home," Will said. He rubbed his paws together, anticipating Hannibal's delicious fury.

"I raced here with the grace, power and speed of a sea lion in open water," Hannibal said. "We have plans to make at once."

Oh, this was gonna be good. "I'm with you, babe. We're a team."

Hannibal tittered with excitement. "I'm so glad to hear that, my darling, because I've already come up with no fewer than seven couples' costumes!"

Will dropped the lure he'd been working on. "Wh-what?"

Hannibal gasped as he watched the lure fall to the ground. "Make that eight! I just came up with another. Oh, I hope there's an award for best costume!"

***

TWO DAYS LATER

There was, in fact, going to be an award for the best costume. Will groused as the break room at Sanctuary headquarters filled up with partygoers.

Alana had painted over her zebra stripes so she looked like a regular horse, while Margot had added stripes to her own coat so she looked like a zebra. Bedelia was wearing a long cape and pointy witch's hat, and was drinking out of a cauldron hanging from her tail. Franklyn was also wearing a cape, but he'd costumed himself as a vampire, adding fake blood to the tips of his tusks.

Everyone looked to be having a good time, but every once in a while someone would sniff the air and wonder aloud, "What stinks in here?" or, "Does anyone else smell that stench?"

Will tried to keep himself and Hannibal in the corner, as far away from anyone else as he could. He self-consciously scratched at the real fish scales Hannibal had affixed to much of his fur. The glue was making him itchy.

"I'm giving it five more minutes," Will said under his breath. "Then we can say we came, and make our exit."

Hannibal mumbled at his rear, his beak too full to speak properly. Will, knowing him well, interpreted it to mean, "Not until somebody figures out our costume!"

Chiyoh flitted by in her bee costume. "Are you supposed to be a mermaid? Wait--" She sniffed. "A dead mermaid. A zombie mermaid?"

Will sighed and glanced back at Hannibal. "Is that close enough?"

"Nuh-uh," Hannibal mumbled.

A little while later, Beverly wobbled over. She was much taller than usual.

"Are you wearing stilts?" Will asked.

She opened her lab coat to reveal she was standing on Jimmy's shoulders, and Jimmy was standing on Brian's. "We're three mice stacked on top of each other," she explained. "How about you? Are you that fish guy everyone wants to bang?"

"Not everyone," Brian corrected her.

"Oh, don't lie," Jimmy said. "We share a Netflix account, so I know exactly what scene you always leave on!"

"I'm not the fish guy," Will said.

Jack, who had made himself up to look like a panda, trundled over and looked at him very carefully. He pointed with a stick of bamboo. "Wait! I know what you are! You're whale vomit! Is that why you're dangling a lure from your forehead? The whale swallowed it and vomited?"

Will let out a mighty mongoose shriek of utter frustration. He grabbed Bedelia's cauldron and Jack's bamboo stick, and banged them together to get everyone's attention.

"I want you all to know I am not a rotting mermaid!" he shouted. Blinks of confusion looked back at him. "I am not the contents of a whale's stomach! Nor am I some aquatic cryptid from your erotic fish fantasies!"

Bedelia took back her cauldron of booze.

"I am a deep-sea anglerfish!" Will went on shouting. "Or, rather, we are a mated pair of the deep-sea anglerfish known as Ceratias holboelli!"

He swiveled around to reveal Hannibal, who was biting into the meatiest part of his mongoose tail. Most of his beak and face were covered with fish scales and glue.

Will held up his tail while Hannibal dangled from it. "This too-smart-for-his-own-good penguin picked out our costume." Hannibal waved at the room with his tiny wing. "You see, the female deep-sea anglerfish is huge compared to her mate, who bites into her flesh like a freaky little cannibal, and holds on until her skin actually grows over his entire freaky little face!"

"Mm mmph phft-pht awnf!" Hannibal mumbled.

"And they become one," Will translated for everyone. "Her veins grow into his body, which wastes away until almost all that's left are the gonads, which she uses to fertilize her eggs. He doesn't even get to eat on his own anymore."

"Mmph?" asked Hannibal, his muffle sounding unsure.

"Yeah, he literally never gets to eat again," Will said to him. "Never, ever, ever again."

Hannibal pawed the scales and glue away from his face and released his beak's grip on Will's tail. "That's horrific!" he gasped.

"You didn't get that far down the Wikipedia page, did ya?" Will asked.

Hannibal blushed, or so Will assumed, not being able to see beneath his feathers. "I stopped reading after the part where they become one."

Damn it! Will couldn't stay mad at that sentimental, romance-obsessed little penguin, no matter how hard he might try, and boy had he tried over the years.

The room broke out in applause, with various sounds of awwing and sniffling, and calls to give them the Best Costume award. but Hannibal looked heartbroken.

Will sighed and pushed his glasses up his muzzle. "If we were actual deep-sea anglerfish," he said, "I would make sure to eat only very delicious people so you could enjoy them through me."

Hannibal gasped and his avian eyes sparkled. "Will."

"Come on," Will said, holding his tail out to Hannibal. "Let's get outta here before these scales start stinking even worse than they already are."

Hannibal bit onto his tail and Will carried them both toward the break room door.

Jack called after them. "Don't you guys want your reward?"

"No," Hannibal said, momentarily releasing his beak's grip on Will's tail. "We're already each other's reward."

Will rolled his eyes, but grumbled, "Yeah, yeah. What the penguin said."

-the end-

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idk her yet but what would alana think of some of dennys key players, what kind of stuff would she do / dynamics you want and so on

okay well along with being a psychiatrist, alana is a brilliant criminal profiler so i was thinking of throwing her at the mld in that role! given where she'd... be emotionally, she'd probably be more interested in that than psychiatric work at least initially. and i just think this is an especially interesting time to have characters throwing in with the mld since. felix eventually taking over means they're going to try to adopt a new public image. so first i'll talk about what she'd think of him!

while alana would probably be pretty interested in his... supposed new vision for the mld, she's also very good at reading people and highkey way more suspicious than she ever was before, so she'd probably bristle the minute she suspected felix had any shadier or more selfish motives. honestly that might cement a more... cynical mentality for her coming onto denny. she's been plagued by severe trust issues, trauma, and a very serious recent betrayal (or two) so her just ending up working for a new boss who she has reasons not to trust would really just be the icing on that particular cake! it depends on how their dynamic develops but that kind of like. internal conflict as the mld struggles to reestablish itself could be really interesting too

and then if/when fate apps carmelita fox, she's gonna be joining the mld too, and i'm interested in that dynamic too because i think alana would find carm's more black and white mentality... more reliable. honestly they could probably be kickass friends if given enough time; alana's bound to put a lot of walls up at first, but

i also like felix/alana/carmelita working together as a hypothetical trio with like felix being the leader, alana being the planner/the one coming at it from a psychological standpoint and carmelita being The Hand Of The Law. plus anyone else who eventually joins up but just that initial dynamic is a cool idea!!

being involved in the law to that capacity, i could also see alana working with phoenix, probably, at some point?? phoenix is a defense attorney so they might kind of have a rival-ish dynamic depending on who he defends, but i think alana would also recognize that he means well and is a kind person, so idk! just that kind of professional dynamic could be fun to play with. maybe like a plot where someone is wrongfully accused and phoenix and alana work together to find the Actual killer?

she’s also. bound not to be very found of denny’s more villainous characters, but in a weirdly kind of self-deprecating, projecting way. after she figures out what’s going on with hannibal, alana kind of. blames herself a lot for not having figured it out sooner, and i think on denny she’d probably displace her guilt by being extra intense about stopping other murderers, all while being self-aware enough to know that doesn’t really fix her problem...

uhhh let’s see, who else... oh fate and i have already talked about throwing her and venom together!! because y’know venom is. kind of cannibalistic,

jokes aside i don’t think alana would think venom is like. The Same as hannibal, but obviously it’s kind of a sensitive issue and easily enough to make him distrust him initially (she also isn’t the biggest fan of reporters, FREDDIE, but idk eddie at least could probably charm her if he worked at it. wait. freddie. eddie. i don’t like this.) anyway. actually idk what alana would think of like, denny’s vigilantes in general. it probably depends on individual interactions but frankly she’s so sick of like... secrets and lies and twisty complicated morals that she probably wouldn’t want to get involved in any of that unless she had to be

(though since i’m probably taking her from before her whole season 3 arc - aka her teaming up with a Very Bad Person in order to catch hannibal, but also kind of planning to betray that Very Bad Person because she’s falling for his sister and also because she’s still alana - it’d be interesting on denny to see her get into a similarly complicated situation that tests how far she’s willing to go with her new... worldview)

and then... i’m probably throwing her at beacon heights ‘cause i don’t have as many characters now! so it’d be cool to see her interact with some of the characters there. her and shiro would probably get along okay, except that alana is so perceptive she’d probably be very analytical about him and his issues which... may or may not help things. lin hu would probably actually remind her of jack crawford a bit, and thus she’d be weirdly a little endeared to him. and cloud... well, idk, she might not be so crazy about living in proximity to a vampire actually,

but i do wanna get her settled with a couple of roommates too. i’m not sure who would be interesting / who is looking to settle there anytime soon but... basically anyone who will be nice to her dog is fair game,

uhhh i think that about covers people she might particularly react to... i’m trying to think of plots or other dynamics i’d be especially interested in right off the bat that i haven’t mentioned yet

well, eventually, she might start doing some psychiatric work again, in which case i wouldn’t mind doing a couple of plots related to that if other characters. you know, have some stuff they need to talk through.

and i’m like... idk i’m really attached to margot/alana as a ship and alana is a bit hard to ship with people to begin with because she distanced herself a lot from that even before all her trauma. and she’s smart as a whip and usually quite self-aware so it’s hard to get her into a situation where feelings would sneak up on her or anything like that. but maybe i wouldn’t mind having like a more casual relationship for her on denny, like a friends with benefits kind of thing that could go a number of ways or. idk. WE’LL SEE

apart from all this stuff, mmm... alana is kind of one of those characters where her arc really depends on who all she clicks with and what else she gets involved in. if some of the stuff above hasn’t already made it clear she’s... really not going to be in a good place when she gets to denny, and having her be so self-isolating and distrustful might mean it’s hard for her to bond with people right off the bat, but i’m really interested to see what kind of dynamics she might have this time around!! she’s my favorite combination of angry, self-loathing, and Determined To Do The Right Thing and i love her a lot

#thanks tony!!#cuts dennys lvad wire #fizzlep0p

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Let’s Review: 14x02

This felt more like a season opener than the season opener did. Much to my surprise, I didn’t hate it. Kind of hated the ending, but that’s about it. This was a good middle of the line, turn your brain off and enjoy episode.

I’m going with directing and acting saved this episode since the writing was okay at best. Bucklemming still doesn’t know how to show an audience something instead of telling us about it. The opening Bunker scene was a good example of this. We don’t need you to tell us that Cas’s angelic presence would alert Michael. We can infer it because we’ve been watching this show for 14 years now. Even when Bucklemming does show us something, they still have to tell us about it for some strange reason. The opening scene where Michael was experimenting with vampires was a really good way of showing the audience what Michael was doing. But then the vampire (Lydia, I think?) went and exposited everything we already saw. I understand that Sam, Mary, and Bobby have to learn the information somehow, but we as the audience don’t need to hear it again. Same thing goes with Nick’s backstory. I understand refreshing the audience’s memories since this is season 14 and the last time we saw Nick was season 5, but you can show us Nick’s flashbacks without having Castiel turning into an exposition machine. Speaking of which, how does Cas know Nick’s backstory??

Speaking of Nick, it looks like they’re trying to set up some sort of “archangels leave imprints of themselves on their vessels’ psyches” type deal and I don’t know how I feel about that. Maybe it could work, but you’d think we would have seen something with either Sam or Cas after their respective Lucifer possessions. Fortunately, the psyche imprint thing means no Nick redemption arc, so thank god for that. Well, that and the whole murder thing. And this is just a nitpick, but it’s a major pet peeve of mine with all media regardless of how well it’s written. They used to do this ALL THE TIME on Hannibal and it drove me nuts. How did Nick get to Delaware so fast?? Delaware is my state. I live maybe 10 minutes from Pike Creek (btw the houses aren’t as nice as the show implies I’m just saying). It’s a 20 hour drive from The Bunker to here. What the hell?

As much as I don’t like Mark Pellegrino as a person, he’s a damn good actor. Lucifer was written so badly these past few seasons that I honestly forgot how good MP is as an actor.

I thought Jack was really well written in this episode as I was watching it. The scene with his grandparents was touching and emotional and it was written like how humans would actually interact with one another instead of just dumping exposition all over the place. Although I do wonder how he got there since he supposedly doesn’t have his powers and I’m pretty sure he can’t drive. His scenes with Cas were so good. I love how father-son Alex and Misha’s chemistry is even though they haven’t spent a ton of time on screen together. Part of me kind of wishes we had a scene between Jack and Nick just to see how they react to one another, but I’m okay with leaving that to more competent writers. And then he said the thing. “Dean doesn’t matter.” Logically, he’s right. If it comes down to Dean or the entire planet, Dean would need to be sacrificed (can’t wait to see the anon hate I get for that). HOWEVER, it feels very inconsistent with his character and upbringing up until this point. To the point where I briefly wondered if I had missed an episode that was crucial to this development. Last season, he was willing to do anything to save Mary and get back home. That grew to saving the other people he was camped with from the apocalypse world. But we never saw him have to suss out, essentially, a trolley problem. We never saw him have to deal with a “one versus the many” situation, and since Team Free Will were the ones who raised him and instilled certain values in him, I think it’s safe to assume as an audience member that Jack would share those values. What I’m getting at is Jack willing to sacrifice Dean to save the world is coming out of left field for me.

I’m surprised Bucklemming only broke one hard and fast lore rule this episode. Dean telling Michael to gtfo really should have expelled him then and there and it bothers me so much that they didn’t following that hard and fast rule.

I did like Michael much better in this episode, though. He was charismatic, he knew what he wanted, and he was going after it with both hands. So much better than last episode where asking other people what they wanted made him seem like he didn’t know what he wanted. I liked having him around, and then poof! Gone! I’ve seen people speculate that Michael isn’t really gone and he’s somehow going to be able to hide himself from Cas, but I think that might be a bit of a stretch tbh. Just based off of how long the writers tend to keep the boys not themselves.

I’m really disappointed with how Michael’s arc ended. Anticlimactic doesn’t even begin to describe it. It feels like the writers knew we were expecting one thing and they went out of their way to avoid writing it just for the sake of avoiding it. To me, it feels like how Star Wars: The Last Jedi went out of its way to subvert expectations just for the sake of subverting expectations. That can work with certain things, but when you spend all summer hyping up a certain character, you need to deliver on that hype. Otherwise it’s just sloppy and disappointing. If anyone is looking for a better, more well-flushed out Michael!Dean arc, I highly recommend checking out bisexualmichaeldean.

The highlight of this episode was definitely Misha’s acting. This is where my brain devolves into fan girl babbling, so I’m just gonna go ahead and… CAS HEART TO HEARTING WITH JACK!! CAS HAVING SO MUCH REGRET OVER WHAT HAPPENED TO JIMMY AND CLAIRE AND AMELIA!! CAS TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE AND BEING NURTURING!! CAS SCOLDING JACK FOR SNEAKING OUT OF THE HOUSE LIKE A FATHER DOES TO THEIR CHILD!! CAS WORRYING ABOUT DEAN AND WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE FATE OF THE WORLD FOR HIM!! I HAVE ALL THESE CASTIEL FEELS HELP!! Also, high-key, that angry snarl that slipped out when he was scolding Jack was massively sexy and I need a new pair of panties now.

So yeah. Disappointing ending, clunky beginning, but not a bad episode. Good directing (Rich Speight always delivers and I love him so much for it), good acting (as per usual), and average writing (better than expected tbh). The best way to enjoy this episode is to turn your brain off and not think too hard about the established canon or what’s to come. I just hope what’s to come is much more satisfying than that disappointing ending.

#SPN #Supernatural #Gods and Monsters #14.02 #14x02 #review #let's review #I didn't hate it #I didn't love it but I didn't hate it #op #Bucklemming #I just wish they would stop bending the lore #someone please relegate them to filler episodes #I get nervous when they're around the lore #and the plot

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