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crimsonlyinglilly · 1 month ago

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May 19. "I swear it wasn't me."

Still on catch and once again i fail to get thought a month without starting something new.

Mistranslation- a de-aged Mikaelson fic, Davina's attempts to bring Kol back with the help of Elijah ends in a way none of them expected.

Latin taken from google and I'm making spellcraft up as i go

also mostly thanks to @readingrebloggingreliving for letting me ramble about this and its sister fic.(who may be next month who knows)

Day 19 for @may-lancholy 2025.

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It had taken her days after she discovered a spell she could use to gather the courage and the words needed.

It would have been easier if Rebekah hadn’t left and taken her body with her but it wasn’t like Kol didn’t have another full sibling in the city.

The fact Elijah wasn’t living in the compound spared her the annoyance of seeing Klaus even if Elijah’s face still filled her with rage at the reminder he had stolen her first chance to get Kol back.

Although Marcel wasn’t exactly happy to tell her where he lived she managed to convince him and arrived at Elijah’s door, barely giving him the chance to question her before pushing past him into the apartment and sharing her plan.

Elijah blinked at her as she finished her explanation, and she kept her eyes on him and didn’t give into the desire to look around the loft.

His expression was irritatingly blank.

“I will assist you in this, on the-” he started.

“I’m bringing your little brother back,” she interrupted him “You should want to help me, if family matters to you as much as you claim.” she snapped.

He sighed, and she glared.

“You’re the reason he’s not already back” she reminded him harshly “and that i even need to use this spell.”

“Niklaus is the reason neither of us are happy currently.” he replied sharply, before visibly swallowing more words, “I want to look at the spell first-”

“No, you think I'll trust you with that, after the last time?” she asked, watching as he froze for a moment before a noise from his phone reanimated him. He glanced at it the carefully designed blank expression vanishing for a moment as a deep frown replaced.

“Fine,” he sighed heavily, “you can use my blood and my person for this spell, as long,” he paused and she readied a refusal, “as you assist me in breaking the Crescent curse, I’m sure you agree Hope should have her other parent.” he finished.

She bit her cheek to prevent a long rant of how Hope would be better never seeing Klaus again and realised from the way Elijah was standing stiffly looking away from her and out the window, he’d likely agree with her.

Dead girlfriend, cursed love, maybe Elijah did understand her, but that didn’t mean would forgive him or could even trust him, who knew when his backbone would fail and he’d forgive Klaus, he had done it before.

“Deal.” she held out her hand, “I have the spell’s ingredients already set up.” she told him

He arched an eyebrow at her.

“I suppose I'm your final ingredient?” he asked as he took her hand to shake and seal their deal, she nodded. “Excellent,” “the sooner this is dealt with, the sooner you and him can free Hayley and her pack.”

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It wasn’t that easy she thought just a handful of hours as she finishes the incantation and realises something is off, Elijah choking on a silent scream, before she can make any attempt to fix it he drops to the floor and she’s forced to close her eyes against a burning light.

When she reopened them it took her far too long to make sense of what she saw in the place Elijah had been just moments before.

The ones she was looking at reacted first, eyes going from confused to scared when he saw her before he moved.

“You can't have them!” Shouted a boy, maybe twelve, she had time to see an even younger boy behind him holding a bundle before she was forced to duck as a pot flew at her head.

The shout and breaking of the pot startled the bundle making Davina aware it was a third person as the noises startle it into fussing and the middle child tried to calm it using a now that stopped Davina’s heart.

“Shh, shh, Henrik, I’m here, Kol stay behind me” a soft and far too young voice whispered “and big brother’s going to protect us.”

The words worked as the cries quieted down quickly.

“We need to get out of here.” the older boy said clearly speaking to the other and not Davina

“Wait, I can explain.” She called, aware that she couldn't let them leave even if the growing idea of what had happened and where Elijah had vanished to, still seemed impossible . “It's a mistake.”

She heard the sound of something shift in the room, more pottery perhaps, so she stayed down, she could overpower the boy but wasn’t going to attack a child, especially not one that was clearly scared.

“Finn” the boy called, and Davina had to bite back a gasp, telling herself it’s just a coincidence “Wait, I think we should listen to her.”

“Elijah” the older boy started with annoyance, and Davina crushed the reaction as she remembered the older Elijah using the same tone with Klaus’ name.

“I don’t recognise anything. Do you?” the younger voice questioned, and by the sigh she assumed the older boy accepted the argument.

Davina decided to risk the dangers of flying pottery and straighten up to take in a full look at them.

There were four of them.

Old fashioned, medieval clothes, hair a little too long for current style and both having a few braids in it to manage it. The oldest boy's hair was a mix of a brown and dirty blonde, while the other one, the even smaller boy behind him she had missed and the bundle now she could see it-them-him all had matching dark brown hair.

It was the younger boy who met her eyes and while his attempt to get closer to her with a hand out was stopped by the other one, he still introduced himself nervously.

Ending all Davina’s doubts and Denial.

“Elijah, son of Mikael.” he offered her a weak smile, “these are my brothers Finn,” he gestured to the other boy, “Kol” he shifted to show her the little boy clinging to his side and Davina’s heart hurt at the curious look she got from the toddler “and Henrik.” he finished bouncing the bundle with more ease and experience she though a child should have.

“Davina Claire.” she found herself replying in the silence that followed, as her mind raced to work to both how this happened and what she needed to do. Her reply got her a bright smile back and Davina’s mind was derailed from all her plans as she realised Elijah was missing a tooth.

Because that’s who the small child was, Elijah Mikaelson.

The same man she had stood across hours ago glaring at his blank expression, eyes managing to hide all his emotions, was now looking up at her with every signal one of them visible on his face.

Davia reached for her phone, very aware she was not equipped to handle any of this.

—

“I swear it wasn't me.” Davina said as Marcel and Vincent stared at the glaring boy, Finn, her mind reminded her, Elijah and Kol hiding behind him and Henrik still in his arms.

She got him back but this wasn't even in the realm of what she wanted.

What confidence little Elijah had managed to grow after their introduction had fled at the appearance of Vincent and Marcel, and any trust or calm she had gotten with Finn had vanished as well.

“They de-aged and resurrected on their own, did they?” Vincent asked dryly, looking at Finn as if he'd bite him, which she wouldn't put past him.

It had taken far more than she thought it would to calm him down and stay after he stopped throwing things at her with magic, it would seem to him she looked like his evil aunt.

She'd be insulted but she was reminding herself this was an innocent kid who to him had just been pulled into a strange world with his vulnerable younger brothers and not the monster that hexed his little brother to die.

The way he was trying to keep himself between them and his little brothers was helping with that.

Marcel kept staring at them.

“This wasn't my intention.” She bit out, “I don't know what happened.”

“What kind of spell did you use?” Vincent asked, making his way to her setup while avoiding getting any closer to the children.

“Mostly Latin,” she told him, she had found the spell in one of Kol’s many notebooks, she was fluent in it but had been able to read enough to understand the basics of it. “It was to grant someone another life.”

“Are you fluent in latin?” Vincent asked as he traced the page frown growing.

“Enough.” she admitting getting a sudden look of judgement.

“You cast a spell you didn’t have a full understanding of?” he questioned sharply, and Davina refused to flinch, before she could defend herself as the only danger of lashback would have been to Elijah, who would have been fine as an Original and deserved it in her view, Marcel cut in

“Did Elijah notice anything concerning the spell?” Marcel asked, speaking for the first time, an odd tone in his voice, but he was finally able to pull his eyes from the children and move to join Vincent at the book, Davina followed.

“I didn't let him see it.” she admitted, cursing hindsight but how was she meant to know this could have been a possibility.

“One of Kols?” Marcel asked as soon as he saw the writing, reminding Davina Marcel likely grew up at least a little with him, she wasn’t going to ask questions about the fact that it was easier not to think about her boyfriend being her guardian’s sort of uncle.

“You recognise it?” she asked instead, Marcel shook his head

“Elijah and Kol both mix dead languages when they're writing something they want to keep to themselves, it was something between them.”

“You know Latin?” Vincent said sceptically.

“Elijah started teaching me, when I was a kid.” Marcel told them thoughtlessly as he read the pages, “Rebekah and Klaus ensured I finished with basic understanding but they preferred ancient greek and arabic.”

“Alia Vita, Another Life, right?” she pointed at the words, “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“No.” Marcel nodded, swallowing , looking back to the huddle of children , Finn still standing in front of the others, although Davina noticed they were all shifting more than they had been in the beginning and Elijah was working harder to keep Kol and Henrik quiet and distracted.

“Alia vita iuvenu, another life of youth,” Marcel translated before pointing to another set of words, “alius iuvenis vita, another young life,”and another “alius pueritia, another childhood.” Davina felt the ground down out below her and she realised what that and her additions to the spell likely led to.

The Spell had done just what it meant to, brought back all the deceased Mikaelsons using Elijah’s blood while returning them to a younger age.

“It’s temporary, at least.” Marcel finished relaxing slightly.

“Maybe” she choked, swallowing around the lump in her throat.

“Maybe?” two voices demanded of her sharply.

“I didn’t want it temporarily, I wanted Kol back permanently as a witch.” she explained.

“This could be permanent?” Marcel choked on the words, and Davina winced when she finally realised the odd tone in his voice, Grief.

Marcel was concerned about Elijah and Davina tried not to think of the possibility that she may have found a way to kill an original by wiping Elijah of who he was, of doing the same to Kol.

She just wanted him back.

“It shouldn’t be.” Vincent cut through the horror by pointing at her notes. “They connected the spells, not merged them. Their return should be permanent but this ‘second childhood’ should be able to be undone. ”

She took a breath, relief that she hadn’t know she needed flooding her, Marcel relaxed alongside her.

“Excuse me.” a quiet voice called making all of them jump.

Elijah smiled at them clearly nervous but ignoring Finn’s hisses.

“Do you have any milk?” the small former original vampire asked, “Henrik and Kol are hungry.” he explained.

“Berries!” Kol chirped up, stepping away for a moment before Finn moved to stop him getting to far from Elijah. Kol pouted up at Finn before Kol threw himself at him and wrapped his arms around his brother's leg after a moment of whining “Hunger Finn.”

Davia almost choked when Finn moved a hand to his hair.

They looked like a normal pair of brothers besides the clothes and she couldn’t process it, this was the one who hexed Kol to die slowly and painfully.

What happened to them? She wondered before she remembered Mikael and his harshness and Esther, her own mother had stood by and let her die, thiers had a hand in it.

“We should take them to the compound.” Marcel offered and both she and Vincent stiffened at the idea.

While Davina sort of understood it, with Hope there they definitely needed to care for a baby, but Niklaus was also there and Davina didn’t trust him with any of them, not even little Elijah given how clearly pissed the other man had been at the hybrid before the spell.

“You want to hand over small children to that man?” Vincent snapped suddenly, “it's bad enough we’re leaving that little girl with him. I understand Freya-” but before he could continue the rant he was cut off

“Freya!” Finn cut in, stepping closer to them for the first time, bringing the clinging Kol with them and leading to Elijah following after “You know where Freya is? Does she need help?” he demanded.

“No.” Marcel answered when it was clear neither she or Vincent would “Your sister’s fine, she's just a bit older than you expect.”

“I want Freya.” Finn snapped, stamping his foot and tiny Kol copied him with a little laugh making it clear he wasn’t fully aware of the seriousness of the situation, Elijah sighed but Davina noticed he was clearly getting tired of holding a baby without any relief.

“That answers that.” Vincent sighed, “we’re off to the Mikaelson compound.”

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lonelywretchjervistetch · 6 months ago

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My DC Cinematic Universe - Creature Commandos: Part II

Chapter Two: Weird War Tales

To start talking about the Creature Commandos, both the television show and the original comics, we should establish a bit of background. And that's more complicated than you may know. The Creature Commandos are one of those classic weird comic book ideas that turned into a cult classic, adapted more than you'd expect, and brought back in comics time and time again. As of me writing this essay, there have been four major incarnations of the Commandos in the comics, often composed of the same members, but switching it up every once in a while.

Before I launch into the comic book history, Id like to make something known: I am not a purist when it comes to adaptations. I see a HELL of a lot of merit in adaptations, and care more about faithfulness and informed decisions and adjustments. If the change makes sense, great. If it's a change that improves things, even better. If it's a change that actively detracts from the character or story, and betrays the original character concept...yeah, not ideal. I just need to say that because, with all of the shit I'm about to throw your direction, dear Reader, I want you to know that I KNOW it's crazy, and I understand that it couldn't really be kept as written.

Second thing I want to say here is that I'll be approaching this as I did my world-famous Superman essay series, which is to say that I'll be talking about characters from the comics, how they've been adapted, and how I would adapt them personally. It's also to say that I'll be thinking of my iteration of the Creature Commandos as a part of my personal DC Cinematic Universe, so this will share a continuity with my version of Superman. I'll also treat this as if I'm making an animated series based on the Creature Commandos of my very own, because I do think that's a good idea!

Last thing I'll say is this: I'll be giving two pitches and approaches for this hypothetical series: purist and adapted. Yeah, that "wolf" analogy was foreshadowing for this point. As I said, some material needs to be adapted. So, as I go along, I'll address whether or not a character should be adapted in a straight fashion or not, as well as applying that to this hypothetical series as a whole. So, yeah, that's what you're in for. Up ahead, I'll start just by talking about the original Creature Commandos. And to do that, we'll have to talk about something else: World War II.

I will, Tom Hanks, sir. I will. The Creature Commandos were introduced to the DC Comics universe in 1980, well after World War II, when comic books were at peak popularity. However, they were introduced in the classic comic book series Weird War Tales, written at the time by legendary comic book writer J. M. DeMatteis, who was inspired by the very concept of a book called "Weird War Tales." Lemme describe this series before anything else, because it's one in a long tradition of anthology series in DC Comics.

Originally launched in 1971, Weird War Tales told war stories from across history, incorporating horror story beats whenever possible. Understand, this was during the time of the tyrannical Comics Code Authority, which was meant to establish a conservative censorship in comics in response to backlash during the 1950s, thanks to a moral panic taking place at the time. Before then, comics were allowed to incorporate horror, unfettered violence, a little bit of sexuality, and all the stuff that makes stories fun to read. In other words, it created the Silver Age of Comic Books, forcing DC into the wacky, weird, and nonsensical. I mean, hell, it was so restrictive that author Marv Wolfman almost had to change his name because it was too scawy. Ridiculous.

However, when the '70s rolled around, the moral panic was coming to an end in the USA (to a certain degree), and changes to the code where made in 1971. In fact, comics were now being seen as a way to connect with the youth of America, leading to a number of stories about drugs and violence, meant to act as warnings and cautionary tales. This led to legendary stories in Marvel and DC, but also incidentally led to new opportunities for stories, including the return of horror comics. DC, formerly one of the kings of the genre (second, arguably, to the now dead EC Comics that created Tales from the Crypt), brought back multiple titles, like House of Mystery. In the process, they also created a new title: Weird War Tales.

The way these books worked, by the way, was that you would have a narrator introduce the book, maybe going through their own side story or drama at the moment, then would launch into a few stories, sometimes with a theme, and sometimes without. Said narrator was usually a creepy keeper of tales. The original Tales from the Crypt, of course, had the legendary Cryptkeeper. House of Mystery had Cain, who would be used to great acclaim and legacy by...an author who used to be prevalent on this platform, but has since been disgraced by certain allegations...and Weird War Tales, soon after it launched...had Death. And, no, not the one from that author's famous comic book series, I mean stereotypical Death.

Spoopy.

The above iteration of Death, who changes appearance issue-to-issue, is seen in Issue #93 of Weird War Tales, in which he introduces "the weirdest warriors of all": the Creature Commandos! Yup, the titular characters finally make their appearance in this post. So, let's talk about them. If you're reading this essay, you've likely seen, or at least heard of the recent animated series and its now-beloved characters, so I don't really need to introduce them. But, hey, I'm a talker, so I will anyway:

Lt. Matthew Shrieve: an intelligence agent for the U.S. Army, Shrieve is the fully-human, unaltered member of the group, acting as their liaison with the government, and commanding them on the European front of World War II. However, he's the face of the operation. The person creating these monsters is...

Dr. Mazursky (never given a first name): The brilliant biochemist who developed various methods to turn men into monsters, in order to take advantage of the archetypes within the collective unconscious to frighten the enemy off the battlefield with real monsters! Kind of. With Shireve, he leads Project M...for Monster!

Private Warren Griffith AKA Wolfpack: A kid from Oklahoma who was denied from the military, due to his psychological disorder that makes him think he's a werewolf. However, Project M offered him the ability to serve his country, and actually turn into a werewolf! Kind of! Elective surgeries and chemical treatments grant him the ability to turn into a werewolf, independent of the lunar cycle, but still uncontrolled. Hence, he takes the codename Wolfpack!

Sergeant Vincent Velcoro (or Velcro, depending on the run): A suspected spy and information leak, Velcoro is given a choice: go to prison for 30 years, or get turned into an artificial vampire. He chooses the Morbius route, and becomes...Vincent Velcoro! He never gets an actual alias in the comics.

Private Elliot "Lucky"Taylor AKA Patchwork: A Marine private in the Pacific campaign of World War II, who accidentally steps on a land mine and gets blown to bits. Doctors go Frankenstein on him for weeks, putting him back together (without vocal cords) as the monstrous-but-mute Patchwork, a real Frankenstein's monster!

Dr. Myrra Rhodes, AKA Medusa: A later addition to the group, this plastic surgeon was transformed by mistake (and a mixture of spilled mysterious chemicals - remember OSHA guidelines for a safe disposal area, kids), with her hair transforming into snakes...and that's it. Um. Yeah. Medusa? Look, even the nostalgia can't save this one, this was a dumb one, not gonna lie. A group of chemicals, random-ass, medical-grade chemicals, turned her hair into snakes? No wonder Gunn didn't use this one.

...Oh, right! I assume the joke is through at this point, and we can acknowledge that NONE of these characters make an appearance in Gunn's Creature Commandos, except kind of one in the form of Mazursky, and even then...not really. But there is one more character, which we'll get to a bit later.

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But yeah, obviously, this group is completely ignored by Gunn's iteration of the team. And this isn't without precedence, because this is just the FIRST version of these characters in the comics. If you would like to see this version in other media, though, feel free to check out either the two DC Nation shorts I've posted just above (which are kid-friendly translations of the characters), or the episode "Four-Star Spectacular" from Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which features the original team in one segment. There's also a DC Showcase with the team, Sgt. Rock, but I can't find that thing ANYWHERE. So, good luck looking for that one.

Either way, adapting the original Creature Commandos wouldn't be impossible, but would be tough. To be uber-faithful, you'd have to make it a period piece, set during World War II. Which, honestly, could be very cool! At the very least, I like the idea of the Creature Commandos and Project M existing in the DC Universe during World War II, and acting as inspiration for the modern group.

Speaking of, let's talk about the modernization really quick. The original team was rebooted after Crisis on Infinite Earths, in the year 2000. This iteration of the group added three members: Aten, the mummy with healing powers; Bogman, a...kind of generic version of the Creature of the Black Lagoon, honestly; and Gunner McKay, a World War II soldier resurrected by Mazursky (who's STILL ALIVE) as a cyborg. Now led in the field by Captain Lucius Hunter, the grandson of famous Korean and Vietnam War heroes, the team operates in the modern day (2000) for Project M, fighting against supernatural threats like Tazzala and Lord Saturna and Simon Magus and what's that?

Sorry? Nobody cares, you say? Only 7 issues, you say? Almost completely forgotten, you say? So completely forgotten that DC's officially placed it in a separate part of the multiverse meant specifically for failed reboots of Pre-Crisis characters, and still, nobody cares at all, even DC, because they forgot they did that and still brought the characters back for a cameo 10 years later?

Hopefully now, you can see why Gunn opted not to use these characters for his Creature Commandos. However, that still doesn't address where each of those characters he chose DO come from. I won't go into that yet, but three major characters from the show's iteration come from the third attempt to reboot the Creature Commandos, as a part of the New 52. For those in the know, your mental "yikes" is understood. To be fair, the characters associated with the team both predate the reboot, and are also a direct product of it. And I'll make that make sense in a moment.

The way that the DC Universe was rebooted was, notoriously, Flashpoint. Flash fans and comic book fans alike know this as the tine Barry Allen travelled back in time to save his mom, only for Eobard Thawne to fuck with everything, and make the timeline reboot into a nightmare reality where Batman's dad lived and kills people, Superman landed in government custody and has never seen the sun, and a war between Themyscira and Atlantis has enveloped the entire world. Oh, and Barry's mom is alive. Yaaaaaaaaaaay.

In this new timeline, Frankenstein's Monster (yes, like the one from the novel) is revived in 1942, and works together with Myron Mazursky's Project M. He works together with Matthew Shrieve, Vincent Velcoro, Warren "Wolfpack" Griffith...and Mazursky's adopted daughter, Nina "Mermaid" Mazursky. Yeah, Nina comes from Flashpoint originally. The team, known as the Creature Commandos, fights against Nazi Germany, with the sword-wielding Frankenstein stabbing Hitler through the chest in his bunker! Oh, don't worry, I will get to the incredible character that is Frankenstein, and the ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT THAT GUNN DID TO HIM. It's honestly one of the greatest sins of this show.

Anyway, the Creature Commandos is disbanded in 1945, by which I mean they're tricked into going into a stasis chamber, and trapped there for 65 years. In the modern day, they find the remnants of Myron Mazursky's work, and find out that Matthew Shrieve tried to replace them in the modern day with Solomon Grundy, Man-Bat, and...Doctor Phosphorus. Starting to see what's happening now? Well, we aren't done yet. After the group revives, they're chased by Shrieve's granddaughter, Miranda Shrieve, who hates monsters because the new group killed her grandfather. However, they're saved by the new government organization, S.H.A.D.E., and one of their top agents: the Bride of Frankenstein.

S.H.A.D.E., headed by a body-changing mystery-man named Father Time, sends its agents and scientific freaks against metahuman threats and supernatural disasters. She tells Miranda that her grandfather was actually killed by General Sam Lane (yes, Lois Lane's dad; Flashpoint be crazy), and she joins them to fight against Lane and his new agent: G.I. Robot. After G.I. Robot is destroyed, they find out that somehow, FUCKING SOMEHOW, Myron Mazursky is still alive after 65 YEARS, and they defeat Lane and his forces, while reuniting Nina with her father. Which, after watching Gunn's series, feels...bad. It feels bad. After all of that, the Creature Commandos disbands, and we go back to the story of Flashpoint.

And THEN...we get to the New 52.

Written by Jeff Lemire (yes, THAT Jeff Lemire), this series follows Frankenstein and his wife a agents of S.H.A.D.E. in the rebooted DC Universe, with a squad consisting of, yes, Wolfpack, Velcoro, Khalis (new version of Aten the Mummy), and Nina Mazursky. And yes, in case you didn't know, the Bride DOES have four arms in the comics, and it IS cool as shit, and I'm not completely goddamn crushed that that was apparently TOO HARD TO ANIMATE. Anyway, this group lasted for 16 issues, and then just...vanished. Like many of the first 52 titles of the New 52, this was a failed series financially, and ended suddenly. DC wasn't done with Frankenstein, 'cause he's rad as shit, but they were done with the Creature Commandos.

Well...these ones, anyway. Because hey, hey, they're back! Yeah, out of NOWHERE, and seemingly completely ignoring the iteration that already existed in a New 52 world, there is now a Rebirth iteration of the team as of this year. Written by David Dastmalchian (yes, Polka Dot Man himself), the team features Vincent Velcoro, Wanda "Wolfpack" Griffith, the return of Mina "Medusa" Rhodes and Elliot "Patchwork" Taylor, led by Dr. Barbara West (new character, got something mysterious going on) and Matthew Shrieve, just as much of an asshole as he usually is in the comics, and commissioned by General Wade Eiling (notorious Justice League opponent known as the General), who's working for...Brainiac? Yeah, this series is a mystery, but we're only 4 issues in, so we'll wee how it goes!

The Creature Commandos, true to form, have never died in concept, and the characters from the original team keep getting resurrected. Which is why it's absolutely insane that Gunn's lineup comes almost entirely from an alternate universe version of the team. Take a look again, and you'll see that I'm right. The only character not introduced as a part of that group is Weasel, and he's only in Gunn's Commandos because he loves the character so much from The Suicide Squad (and to take the place as the werewolf of the group). It's just such an odd choice for this iconic team to feature...none of them. Why not apply that Gunn philosophy of changing characters and improving blank slates onto these guys? And hell, as much as most of us would hate it...you could easily kill some of them and replace them with other characters. I dunno, this seems like completely ignored potential to me. And I'll keep it in mind for my own version of the group.

Oh, almost forgot to mention this. G.I. Robot was invented in the 1950s, LONG before the Creature Commandos was even conceptualized. However, when Weird War Tales was getting written with the Commandos, who else would get pulled into that but one of the weirder characters of World War II comics, G.I. Robot? So, yes, G.I. Robot has long been considered a Creature Commando, making him a great candidate for this series. No complaints, and he was one of my favorite characters. Cheers for the Tin Man, baby.

So, now what? We've seen the history of the group, but where do we go from here? Well, obviously, Gunn put together his group, then threw them into a story. Cool, I'll do the same. The major question here is, who are my Creature Commandos? Well, as said, I have two approaches to consider: purist and creative. I can either go by the comic book team, as written with few changes to the roster, or I can come up with a new team that's inspired by the comics and the original, but with a priority being in telling a good story. Now, that said, this post is getting...long. And, to be honest, I'm still nailing down by favorite choices for the Creature Commandos. So, methinks this is a good place to pause until the next essay.

Next time, we'll look at the first episode of the series, and consider what makes a good set-up for the Creature Commandos and Project M. We'll also answer the most important question: do we really need to put Amanda Waller in here, especially because she's just straight-up not good at her job? At all? Like, a literal zero success rate, let's be honest here?

See you next time (maybe, no pressure)!

Part One: Introduction and Adaptation Part Two: The Original Creature Commandos Part Three: Amanda Waller and Rick Flag, Sr. Part Four: The Frankensteins Part Five: G.I. RobotPart Six: Weasel Part Seven: Doctor Phosphorus Part Eight: Mermaid Part Nine: Circe Part Ten: The Princess and the Monster (soon)

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