#mr. enigma

[comicwaren]

From Doom’s Division #001

Art by Minkyu Jung and Mattia Iacono

Written by Yoon Ha Lee

[momgana]

[ Jekyll and Hyde au ]

I feel like ur supposed to do ref images first but IDGAF!!!

[why-i-love-comics]

Doom's Division #1 (2025)

written by Yoon Ha Lee art by Minkyu Jung & Mattia Iacono

[eyedrateanatomy]

if i made spooky month these are the genders i wouldve given everyone and im so serious. to clarify on some of them, Frank is a transman and Streber is a transwoman. not explaining anyone else figure it out

[sinistermusings]

X-men: Forever 1 (2024) by Kieron Gillen and Luca Maresca

Cover: Mark Brooks

[questions-within-questions]

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but it's in the Mr Men setting.

Just goofy shapes in the side of a mountain, but all the same the villagers reacting with "this hole was made for me!" and climbing into perfectly generic circle and triangle holes.

It looks like this;

Anyway they all emerge on the other side of the fault as Mr Tickle.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Phoenix Jean Grey rises to fight Dominion (a.k.a Enigma or AI Sinister) in the dimension and save the future of mutantkind.

Rise of the Powers of X #5, 2024

[rei-ismyname]

WHERE'S RASPUTIN IV?

Been wondering where the heck Rasputin IV got to after the battle vs ORCHIS/ENIGMA? Me too. For those that haven't....

Who is Rasputin IV?

Rasputin is a *chimera* - a concept first shown in Powers of X #1. Mutant technology, Sinister style - completely devoid of ethics. Chimera are genetically engineered beings made from two or more mutant gifts in the same body, sometimes with elements of the original's personality or traits. Many timelines and Krakoas have produced them but it's always one man behind it - Mr Sinister. Technically he is the first chimera (according to Moira) due to his habit of wearing other mutant's gifts like hats. We know he has John Proudstar/Thunderbird's gifts (somehow. No, seriously, how tf did he get that?) as well as at least one psychic and metamorph.

Not Rasputin IV, but it was our first look at a Rasputin chimera.

Spoilers for Sins of Sinister and Fall of X. Reader beware!

Other chimera are made from scratch, like Cardinal or Rasputin. Most are fusion dance mashups of two mutants but they're all the same concept. Sadly they are among the last mutants in a hellish dystopia that Moira's 6th life has become, and they all die pretty quickly in an act of heroism. Speculation was rife at the time, with many hoping we'd see her again. Fortunately, my pick for the best writer in comics atm decided to use her.

Sins of Sinister/Immoral X-Men

The Rasputin that ended up in the present came from the Sins of Sinister/Red Diamond timeline. After Sinister corrupted the Quiet Council they turned on him and he was kept alive for as long as he was useful. He was pretty damn useful, creating mindless abominations to destroy Arakko, achieve FTL travel, wipe out ORCHIS/The Avengers/ The FF, take over the world, turn the universe into a horror, and wiped out countless civilizations leaving only Sinisterised mutants left. Under threat of death he blurted that he could pull off a stable chimera with 5 mutant gifts, earning a stay of execution. He definitely delivered on that promise.

Drumroll please... RASPUTIN IV

Her genetic payload is

- Telepathy from Quentin Quire.

- Healing and 'aggression' from Laura Kinney/Wolverine.

- Intangibility from Kitty Pryde.

- Organic metal skin and strength from Colossus.

- Forcefields from Unus the Untouchable.

- plus a Soulsword a la Magik (no idea how he made this happen. He's the worst, but he does amazing work.)

She's beast mode incarnate. Look at that design! Sinister, bastard that he is, took advantage of her nature as a true believer and naiveté so she'd lead the search for his missing lab to reset the universe. Importantly, he removed the brainwashing and gave her free will - sold her a heroic lie. They also had to leave Earth immediately as Sinister definitely outlived his usefulness and the QC were trying to kill him, though once they escaped they shrugged and forgot about him. For 900 years they traversed a universe of peril and perversion until she found what was needed. 900 years! Then she found out the whole thing was a lie and that Sinister is an utter bastard.

She was... not happy about that and from this point viewed Sinister as the 'Great Deceiver', 'He Who Burned Paradise.' In a great villain speech he admits he can't defeat her in a fight, but he never gave her the power of flight and he ejects her into SPAAACE. Doomed to die in the void, Mother Righteous made an offer. Rasputin IV would get her chance at revenge/justice, though she unwittingly gave MR power over her.

After the reset, many things made their way back to the present, to 616. A whole lot of information and one genetically engineered superhero bad bitch. Great choice IMO. Her self appointed mission was to ensure Sinister faces justice for his crimes. Essex was not expecting the gal he left to die to pop out of his cloning machine. In fact, it's not even the same Sinister. Fortunately he has many crimes to be tried for.

Which she did! She walloped him and delivered him to the quiet council in a force field. She was also just a little bit giddy at getting to visit what was ancient history or legend for her. More than giddy, actually. Part of the dichotomy of Rasputin IV is that she's a genetically engineered superhero bad bitch, and she's an idealist - a true believer in Krakoa. A Krakoa that only existed in stories in her time. A believer in a better future and in doing things the right way. (You'll note Kitty Pryde finds herself attracted to Rasputin - the Colossus/Magik combo with a splash of herself. I love it.) The shiniest girl acted as security for the quiet council during the aftermath of the Sinister crisis, but her character doesn't progress much until the Hellfire Gala.

She gets to be a normal gal, wearing a lovely gown, almost certainly for the first time, and squeeing over Ms Marvel (which she totally deserves after 900 years of war, black ops, horror and Sinister.) She's so damn cute, look at her! She knows Kamala's story well, better than Kamala herself thanks to future knowledge. It's super cool to see the Fan girl ascended get a taste of hero worship. Tumblr's image limit has never felt more oppressive because her every appearance is glorious and I want to add them all. Expect more posts with Rasputin IV highlights.

Sadly, ORCHIS (Booooooooo!) crashed the party and started killing everyone. After Jean Grey fell all the mutants fought back with righteous fury. Rasputin and Ms Marvel teamed up to trash Stark Sentinels. They probably would have won a complicated victory, but Xavier made a deal with ORCHIS forcing all mutants off planet. Those who weren't able to resist his psychic hijacking anyway. Rasputin IV was one who could, joining the resistance while working with Xavier on combatting a Dominion - an AI god, more or less.

Mein Gott that art is beautiful.

Surprise surprise! She's crucial. Everyone would have died multiple times without her... and the mutants won, saving Earth, the universe, and every living thing in it! Crushing ORCHIS into bigot paste and earning a future for everyone, but better than the one she came from. As for the AI God - long story short Hope, Legion, Prodigy, Askani, and Jean Grey kill then resurrect Jeanix - Jean who's the Phoenix, now and forever. She calls on the spirits of every mutant, everywhere and everywhen to bust him up and leave his corpse fragments around the Earth as warning to any other cosmic predators.

But Rasputin IV hasn't forgotten the asshole that got them into this situation - Mr Sinister. As soon as everyone is safe she and Exodus are like 'let's kill his ass.' Destiny says some enigmatic stuff and then Rasputin disappears from the story. Seriously, she's just gone after this page. That huge splash page in Uncanny X-Men #700 where Krakoa is leaving and everyone is weeping? OMEGA SENTINEL is there but no Rasputin. She definitely hasn't shown up in From The Ashes and I doubt she will, despite being a powerhouse and a true believer. So, where's my favourite shiny girl?

Let's be honest - when the toys were being put back in the toy box she wasn't killed off or sent back to her timeline (cos it doesn't exist.) After the fight was won she stood with Exodus and wanted to kill Sinister. He escaped and instead of closure the story marched towards a status quo where Krakoa happened but it's definitely past tense and was a bad idea (sez them.) Able to be plucked off the shelf should a future writer use her, but in de facto stasis. She is very powerful and difficult to write, after all. That's a boring Doylist explanation and frankly a waste of an amazing character. If they can have idiots like Raze stick around, they can at least tell us what happened to her. So, some possible Watsonian explanations..

- Maybe she chose to join the mutants with Krakoa in the White Hot Room. The promised land, as Exodus might call it. Krakoa *is* what she's been fighting for for 900 years, and she does deserve rest as much as anyone. A weapon, bioengineered for war and bound by lies choosing peace and building the safe place does have a certain poetry to it - but if Exodus didn't I don't think she would either. They are two different brands of true believer, but there's at least two tasks remaining they're both invested in. Killing Sinister and fighting for mutant safety/freedom. Then again, 900 years of battle and misery. If anyone deserves heaven, it's her.

- Maybe she left with Exodus to wherever he goes when the plot doesn't need him. He's grown though, not the Magneto worshipper he was. His position seems to be pro-Hope anti-Sinister. After observing Rasputin with Kamala though, she seems to have a healthier on/off button for Krakoa-ism. Considering Exodus showed up to do jack shit in Heir of Apocalypse, and barely reacted to Sinister... I doubt it. Though a new 'brotherhood' of sorts with those two would be great. I'd read it. Hell, I'd write it.

- Maybe she moved to Arakko? She doesn't know anyone there and has no ties, though she would fit right in. The Broken Land, a mutant homeland where pain is spoken aloud, heard, and community built. It'd be great, though From The Ashes doesn't seem to have much interest in Arakko.

- Maybe she went back to the future... NOPE! It doesn't exist anymore for one, and it's also a hellscape to put it lightly. Scratch that.

- Retired quietly by herself? Nobody can argue she deserves it, but she's a hero - hardcoded in her DNA. Mutants are in deep shit and I don't believe she'd stay out of that fight.

My speculation has become rambling. The simple fact is that we don't know. I believe we deserve to, or at least I very much want to. Where's RASPUTIN IV?

[akasen-littera]

Some Mr. Verity backstory headcanons

Honestly, we know pretty much next to nothing outside of his life as the Mr. Verity and I believe this is rather on purpose: all there is to him is his endless dedication for the hunt to the paranormal for that all his life has been and probably will ever be, or so he believes, so I kind of thought about some hcs about his backstory:

His name is Abraham. I kind of hc'ed his name before as Theodore but when I saw someone pointing out that he is a foil to Abraham Strach, I believe Cellbit subtly pointed that his name is Abraham as well, since we know that in his driver's license is registered as "A. Verity".

There simply isn't a period in his life prior to the paranormal: His oldest memory is him, knife in hand and backed against a wall as he pants, staring at the blood zombie he just killed. He doesn't remember anything prior, if he had parents, family, nothing. A boy who came out of nothing and with nowhere to go.

The agents that found him reach the conclusion that he's an orphan or maybe the cult they killed claimed the lives of his parents too, it's impossible to know. As the order valued secrecy above all in his period, they just send him to an orphanage and hope that the kid somehow forgets it all and lives a normal life.

However, he knows about the supernatural, he could never forget it even if he tried, so he does a bit of detective work on his own and it takes years to finally find them again, but he does so anyway.

To say the least, the Ordo is in equal parts ashamed and astonished to have been discovered by a teenager, who all but pleads to let him enter, they refuse at first, after all, he's just a child, but after Verity gives them some strategic pointers on what to do on a mission, which ends up saving the lives of a whole squad of agents, they relent and let him enter as kind of an assistant.

Verity spends little time doing stuff that isn't related to the paranormal: he's either training his body or his mind and when the question of who's the most promissing sharpshooter, fighter or investigator of the Order pops up, the answer to that question is always Verity.

The previous leader of the then Ordo Veritatis was a man much like our Verity, being the one who personally trained him and was as methodical and focused as Veri. Still, in that period of time, knowing other agents identities was prohibited because of security and perhaps even self-preservation reasons, rule that the then leader of the Ordo Veritatis upholded.

As such, he was a kind of father figure to Veri, however, he was a bit emotionally distant but quite similar to his pupil in many ways.

Verity dedicates himself wholly to the fight against the paranormal because that is all that his life is and will ever be: He doesn't believe that he has a "future", he doesn't believe he could learn a trade and have a normal job, he knows that all there is to him is his talent (or perhaps talent is the wrong word, talent implies a natural predisposition, and Verity knows he worked to turn himself into whatever he is now, he chose this).

His first mission is uneventful, his group quickly annihilating the creatures that plagued a certain place, and seeing the sheer power of the group, they get drafted in more and more missions together. Verity knows he shouldn't, but... he grows curious about his teammates. One evening, in a moment of respite while in a mission, the topic of the masks is brought up and one of the rowdier and louder ones of his team thinks they're a fucking terrible idea that they honestly get on the way of his breathing and before any of them can protest, he yanks the mask off. There's silence at first, before another other removes the mask and Verity is stunned with the most gorgeous man he'd ever seen in his life saying that he agrees that the masks are dumb. He looks at the others, waiting for fellow disapproval only to see others taking them off. He's the last one to take it off and it's the actual first day he actually meets his teammates, the ones who he had been investigating and risking their lives together for months now.

Christopher Cohen, Aaron, Chizue Akechi, Francisca Parker and Arnaldo Fritz quickly become the most important people in his life. He knew it was arrogance and it could get you killed in the battlefield but he felt invincible with them, all of them working like the most powerful and well-oiled machine he ever had the pleasure of being part of. The life expectancy of an agent is... not great, but they were the legendary agents that won against any creature or cult no matter how strong. Verity sometimes even wanted for his next mission to be with them because he knew everything was going to be alright as long as they fought together.

However, the Annihilators, as they dubbed themselves, wasn't the only team he participated on and in many of those teams, despite the best of his talent and skill, it was not enough, people still died, he still had to report their deaths, give news of their ends to families who had no idea how their beloved ones simply... died. Verity asked himself all the time if there was more he could do to become smarter, sharper, strong enough to protect all of them and make the fight against the supernatural a little less frightening. The answer he often gives himself is "I don't know."

He tries to live on because of others, because of the image of the all-seeing strategist and leader of the Ordo, he tries to incorporate those lost lives in his mania to fight. If they can no longer breathe and taste and dance, he will take all those blows and pain that will never be onto himself. If they become a memory, he carries their memories like ghosts in his mind. It's all he can do: fight and remember them.

He feels guilty for surviving at times. Logically, he knows that those things are bound to happen in the battlefield, but he often feels that it should be him, the barely-a-person to die in the jaws of a monstrosity from the Other Side than... actual people with lives and future.

Arnaldo once told him that, despite his claims, Verity is someone who loves all of the agents of the order, and deeply, but he struggles to see that

Verity has a severe case of workaholism and survivor's syndrome. To work and investigate is both a way of deepening his perception that he needs to be punished for surviving and of dissuading his anxieties.

It's doesn't surprise anyone that he's appointed to be the next Mr. Verity, like it's a throne that he has earned ages ago, and yet, the news doesn't exactly fill him with joy, only responsability, his burden solidified. He accepts it in the name of all those who died before him, of all those who he remembers

That man needs to retire RIGHT NOW and spend time with his daughter istg

[enigmaticvariation]

not to be a petty vindictive little bitch but I'm so happy that the wuthering heights casting is making people mad and causing them to realize that emerald fennel is not all that. I have been in the anti emerald fennel trenches since day one but all the "let people enjoy things" saltburn lovers kept trying to silence me. She's a shitty writer with unoriginal ideas, too rich and out of touch to create anything with interesting social commentary and as we are now seeing had little respect for the source material she's choosing to adapt. If emerald fennel has no haters I am no longer on this earth.

[comicwaren]

“I’m glad Doom’s new open-borders policy brought you here!” – Taegukgi

Cover art for Doom’s Division #001

Art by Creees Lee and Sonia Oback

[daddys-little-conundrum]

@kingofpuzzles is he ur dad or what

❔:: WAIT WHAT?! No.. He looks similar with dad, but isn't him! Dad is a redhead and he has different suit. Okay, you can change the suit, but he does not have freckles as me and MY dad! It's.. I dunno who it is. Parallel universe Riddler?

[nahisummerhold]

What is the most romantic gift she's ever received?

I would have to say it was the jewelry that Jes’champe gave her the week they met. It wasn’t the jewelry really though, it was the puzzle, the boxes that would magically appear that she couldn’t open. As with many things that hold her interest, she is drawn to the enigma. She doesn’t always want to solve them as the attraction is to the mystery and if it is gone, would the allure be? Luckily, in that instance, he remains a mystery to her. (Series of stories relating to this can be found Here )

Thank you for the question @theconstructsworld Mention @cityofdusk

[merakiui]

🧠 for Crowley?

I remember a post a little while back saying you had an interest in his character. Tbh I am too

Also want to say I love your writing, like I have cried over it and it takes a lot to make me cry

Your writing

(ask game)

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

I like applying the concept of crows mating for life to Crowley, so it's fun to headcanon that once the two of you have sex or get married you're essentially stuck with him forever. T_T the most cringefail of a man for a husband is all yours and you're bound to him with nowhere to go but into his arms.

Crowley's character interests me a lot! He's so mysterious and yet so goofy. There has to be more beneath his silly exterior. I'm watching you closely, Crowley... (≖_≖ )

And thank you so much for liking my writing omg!!!! <3 I'm flattered to know it's good enough to evoke tears. :0

[sinistermusings]

Rise of the Powers of X 5 (2024) by Kieron Gillen & Luciano Vecchio

[teeth--king]

I sometimes wonder what is going on in that head of his.