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dragonflyace · 4 years ago

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Fictional Characters that have ADHD, Autism, or both because I, a person with both, say so (and I won’t take criticism)

These are just opinions please don't attack me. I'll gladly explain some of them, but others are hard to explain past "I just have a feeling". Since there are so many, I won't be able to do any explanations. I might do separate posts on some, but I won't be able to do all of them. These are just based on things I've seen.

Post will start below the cut

(Also I am definitely going to forget a lot, but if you have any that you want to add reply or reblog with some!!)

Henry Hart, Charlotte Page, Jasper Dunlop, and Captain Man from Henry Danger

Adrien Agreste, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, and Kagami Tsurugi from Miraculous Ladybug

Billy and Tommy Maximoff in Wandavision

Yelena Belova from Black Widow

Reggie Peters, Luke Patterson, Alex Mercer, Julie Molina, Willie, and Nick from Julie and the Phantoms

Big Red, Ashlyn Caswell, Ricky Bowen, and Seb Matthew-Smith from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Newt Scamander and Jacob Kowalski from Fantastic Beasts

Every Weasley child (this one I'm standing hard behind), Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Remus Lupin, and Tonks from Harry Potter

Every kid in Percy Jackson canonically has ADHD, but some characters feel autistic.

All 3 Baudelaire and Quagmire siblings from A Series of Unfortunate Events

Hiro Hamada, Honey Lemon, Fred, and Wasabi from Big Hero 6

Star Lord, Bruce Banner, Carol Danvers, and Steve Rogers from Avengers Franchise

Shang-Chi and Katy from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Mabel, Dipper, and Stan Pines, Soos, and Wendy from Gravity Falls

Rapunzel from Tangled

Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds

Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago from Brooklyn 99

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables/Anne With An E

Hiccup Haddock, Astrid Hofferson, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Fishlegs from How to Train Your Dragon

Peter Parker, Ned, and MJ from MCU’s Spider-Man Franchise

Milo Thatch from Atlantis

Luca Paguro, Giulia Marcovaldo, and Alberto Scorfano from Luca

Dustin Henderson, Will Byers, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Max Mayfield, Jonathan Byers, and Robin Buckley from Stranger Things

Ben, Klaus, Vanya, Five, and Diego from The Umbrella Academy

Fox Mulder from The X-Files

Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked

Jack Kelly, Crutchie, Racetrack Higgins, Davey Jacobs, Elmer, Albert, and literally every newsie from Newsies

Winnie Foster and Jessie Tuck from Tuck Everlasting

Barry Allen, Cisco Ramone, and Caitlin Snow from The Flash

Eleanor Shellstrop and Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place

Stiles Stilinski from Teen Wolf

Lilo from Lilo and Stitch

Lucy and Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia

Bill Denbrough, Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom, Stanley Uris, and Mike Hanlon from IT

Luke Skywalker, Finn, and Poe Damron, from Star Wars

Evan Buckley from 9-1-1

Lex and Hannah Foster, Ethan Green, Tom Houston, and Paul Matthews from Black Friday

Josh (I'll do a full post about this one), Simon, and Ziggy from Fear Street Franchise

Kai from The Hollow

Stanley and Sydney from I Am Not Okay With This

D.J., Chowder, and Jenny from Monster House

I think that's all I can think of. Also, this post was made over the course of a few days because I needed to add as many as I could think of.

Please don't be rude if you disagree.

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oneboxofmatches · 4 years ago

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All You Need to Know About Matchups!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WAITLIST

Hi y'all!

This account is solely for matchups for several different fandoms. That means requests for imagines, oneshots, headcanons, etc. will NOT be taken.

Here are some basic things to know about requesting a matchup!

Unless otherwise specified for a certain fandom, a request yields one romantic pairing AND one friendship pairing as well as information on why I think you work well with the individuals I choose. Of course, if you only wish to receive either just the romantic matchup or just the friendship matchup, just let me know!

You can request matchups for several different fandoms at once! For each fandom you request, I will match you up with one romantic partner and one friend unless you request differently.

You can ask to exclude any character(s)!

Where can I request a matchup?

Requests can be made in the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab.

What do I need to include in my request?

Required

Fandom(s)

Your gender and/or pronouns

Your sexual orientation and/or preferences

Description of personality

Optional (but definitely helps me out!)

Description of appearance

Hobbies

Personality alignment (Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Hogwarts House, etc.)

What you would look for in a partner and/or friend

Any other information you think would be helpful – the more you provide, the more I can work with!

Now with that out of the way, onto the fandoms!

Listed directly below is a shortlist of all the fandoms I take requests for as well as some extra information as needed.

Disclaimers

If a title is in italics, it means that while I feel comfortable providing matchups for this show, I have not watched every season. If a character drastically changes after a certain point, I may not be aware. The last season I watched of these shows will be included in parentheses.

All movies/shows based on novels will most likely focus on the on-screen adaptations of characters.

SHOWS

The 100 (6)

Good Omens

The Good Place (3)

Lucifer (4)

On My Block

Parks and Recreation (4)

Prodigal Son (1)

Sherlock

Space Force

Supernatural (14)

The Walking Dead (8)

MOVIES

Clueless

The Greatest Showman

Harry Potter -- Unless specified in request, will entail 2 sets of matchups as a student (Golden Trio and Marauders eras respectively)

The Hunger Games

Marvel Cinematic Universe -- Unless age is specified, underage characters will NOT be available for romantic matchups

BROADWAY

Anastasia

Beetlejuice

Carrie (2012 Off-Broadway)

Hadestown

Hamilton

Les Misérables

The Phantom of the Opera

Six

VIDEO GAMES

Detroit: Become Human

Red Dead Redemption 2

What’s below the cut?

A masterlist of characters in each fandom that will be considered for each request (unless marked with an asterisk (*), all characters are assumed to be available for both romantic AND friendly matchups while names marked with an asterisk are only available for friendly matchups). Listed alphabetically by first name.

Don’t be afraid to tell me about a typo!

Any questions? Just want to talk? You can also use the MATCHUP REQUESTS/ASK ME ANYTHING tab to get ahold of me!

SHOWS

Bellamy Blake

Clarke Griffin

Echo

Finn Collins

Harper McIntyre

Jasper Jordan

Johnathan “John” Murphy

Jordan Green

Lexa

Lincoln

Marcus Kane

Monty Green

Octavia Blake

Raven Reyes

Roan

Wells Jaha

Aziraphale

Anathema Device

Crowley

Newton Pulsifer

Mme. Tracy*

Witchfinder Sgt. Shadwell*

Chidi Anagonye

Eleanor Shellstrop

Jason Mendoza

Michael*

Tahani Al-Jamil

Amenadiel

Det. Chloe Decker

Det. Daniel “Dan” Espinoza

Ella Lopez

Eve

Dr. Linda Martin*

Lucifer Morningstar

Mazikeen “Maze”

Cesar Diaz

Jamal Turner

Jasmine Flores

Monsé Finnie

Oscar “Spooky” Diaz

Ruben “Ruby” Martinez Jr.

Andrew “Andy” Dwyer

Ann Perkins

April Ludgate

Benjamin “Ben” Wyatt

Christopher “Chris” Traeger

Donna Meagle*

Gerald “Jerry” Gergich*

Jean-Ralphio Saperstein*

Leslie Knope

Ronald “Ron” Swanson*

Ainsley Whitly

Det. Dani Powell

Edrisa Tanaka

Lt. Gil Arroyo

Det. James “JT” Tarmel

Jessica Whitly

Malcolm Bright

DI Greg Lestrade

Mrs. Hudson*

James “Jim” Moriarty

Dr. John Watson

Mary Morstan*

Molly Hooper

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Adrian Mallory*

Capt. Angela Ali

Brig. Gen. Bradley Gregory*

Dr. Chan Kaifang

Duncan Tabner

Erin Naird

F. Tony Scarapiducci

Kelly King

Maggie Naird*

Gen. Mark Naird*

Abbie “Bela” Talbot*

Adam Milligan

Alex Jones

Balthazar

Benjamin “Benny” Lafitte

Castiel

Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury

Claire Novak

Crowley

Dean Winchester

Sheriff Donna Hanscum

Eileen Leahy

Ellen Harvelle*

Gabriel

Garth Fitzgerald IV

Jack Kline

Jessica “Jess” Moore*

Joanna “Jo” Harvelle

Sheriff Jody Mills*

John Winchester

Kaia Nieves

Kevin Tran

Lucifer

Meg Masters

Michael “Mick” Davies

Patience Turner

Robert “Bobby” Singer*

Rowena MacLeod

Rufus Turner*

Samuel “Sam” Winchester

Aaron

Abraham Ford

Andrea*

Beth Greene

Carl Grimes*

Carol Peletier*

Dale Horvath*

Daryl Dixon

Dwight

Enid*

Eugene Porter*

King Ezekiel*

Father Gabriel Stokes

Glenn Rhee

Hershel Greene*

Maggie Greene

Michonne

Morgan Jones*

Negan Smith

Paul “Jesus” Rovia

Rick Grimes

Rosita Espinosa

Sasha Williams

Tara Chambler

Tyreese Williams

MOVIES

Cher Horowitz

Dionne Davenport

Josh Lucas

Tai Frasier

Travis Birkenstock

Anne Wheeler

Charity Barnum

Jenny Lind

Lettie Lutz*

Phillip Carlyle

Phineas “P.T.” Barnum

W.D. Wheeler

Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody*

Albus Dumbledore*

Arthur Weasley*

Cedric Diggory

Cho Chang

Draco Malfoy

Fleur Delacour

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ginevra “Ginny” Weasley

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

James Potter

Lily Evans

Luna Lovegood

Minerva McGonagall*

Molly Weasley*

Neville Longbottom

Nymphadora Tonks*

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin

Ronald “Ron” Weasley

Rubeus Hagrid*

Severus Snape

Sirius Black

Viktor Krum

Cinna

Effie Trinket*

Finnick Odair

Gale Hawthorne

Haymitch Abernathy*

Johanna Mason

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Anthony “Tony” Stark -- Iron Man

Dr. Bruce Banner -- Hulk

Carol Danvers -- Captain Marvel

Dr. Christine Palmer*

Clint Barton -- Hawkeye

Drax the Destroyer*

Edward “Ned” Leeds

Gamora

Groot*

Harold “Happy” Hogan*

Dr. Henry “Hank” Pym*\

Hope van Dyne -- Wasp

Sgt. James “Bucky” Barnes -- Winter Soldier

Col. James “Rhodey” Rhodes -- War Machine

Loki Laufeyson

Luis*

Mantis*

Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Carter*

Cdr. Maria Hill*

May Parker*

Lord M’Baku

Michelle “MJ” Jones

Nakia

Natasha Romanoff -- Black Widow

Nebula*

Col. Nicholas “Nick” Fury*

Okoye

Peter Parker -- Spider-Man

Peter Quill -- Star-Lord

Agt. Phillip “Phil” Coulson*

Pietro Maximoff -- Quicksilver

Rocket*

Samuel “Sam” Wilson -- Falcon

Scott Lang -- Ant-Man

Shuri

Dr. Stephen Strange

Steven “Steve” Rogers -- Captain America

King T’Challa -- Black Panther

Thor Odinson

Valkyrie

Virginia “Pepper” Potts

Vision

Wanda Maximoff -- Scarlet Witch

W’Kabi

Wong*

Yelena Belova

Yondu Udonta*

BROADWAY

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov

Dimitri Sudayev

Gleb Vaganov

Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch*

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna*

Vladimir “Vlad” Popov*

Adam Maitland

Barbara Maitland

Beetlejuice*

Delia Schlimmer

Lydia Deetz*

Carrie White

Christine “Chris” Hargensen

Susan “Sue” Snell

Thomas “Tommy” Ross

Eurydice

Hades

Hermes*

Orpheus

Persephone

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Angelica Schuyler

Elizabeth “Eliza” Schuyler

George Washington

Hercules Mulligan

James Madison

John Laurens

Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler

Maria Reynolds

Marquis de Lafayette

Philip Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Cosette

Enjolras

Éponine Thénardier

Fantine

Insp. Javert

Jean Valjean

Marius Pontmercy

Carlotta Giudicelli*

Christine Daaé

Erik “The Phantom”

Mme. Giry*

Meg Giry

Raoul de Chagny

Anna of Cleves

Anne Boleyn

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine Parr

Jane Seymour

Katherine Howard

VIDEO GAMES

Carl Manfred*

Chloe

Det. Chris Miller*

Connor

Elijah Kamski

Lt. Hank Anderson*

Capt. Jeffrey Fowler*

Josh

Kara

Leo Manfred

Lucy*

Luther

Markus

North

Rose Chapman*

Simon

Abigail Roberts

Arthur Morgan

Beau Gray*

Charles Smith

Daniël “Dutch” Van der Linde

Eagle Flies

Hosea Matthews*

Javier Escuella

Johnathan “John” Marston Sr.

Josiah Trelawny

Karen Jones

Kieran Duffy

Leonard “Lenny” Summers

Marion “Bill” Williamson

Mary-Beth Gaskill

Micah Bell

Molly O’Shea

Penelope Braithwaite*

Rev. Orville Swanson*

Sadie Adler

Sean MacGuire

Simon Pearson*

Tilly Jackson

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anomalytm-archive · 4 years ago

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INSIDE THE QUINJET, ON THEIR WAY TO THE HELICARRIER

to her and steve, the last time they were in the air like this was just before they’d crashed into the ocean. thankfully, for her, there were enough differences that she could easily separate the experiences from one another, allowing her to focus on the present instead of the past. or at least, the more recent past, she presumed, watching a datapad show video footage of the hulk.

❛ so, this doctor banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me? ❜

❛ a lot of people were. you were the worlds first superhero. banner thought gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking erskine’s original formula. ❜

jenny winced, as the hulk tore a jeep apart on screen. for a moment she had to wonder how painful the transition was, from man to ― angry and green. ❛ unfortunately it seems he didn't quite get the results he was looking for. ❜

❛ not so much. when he's not that thing though, guy's like a stephen hawking. ❜ she and steve shared a look of confusion, and she was about to speak up when coulson realized they had no idea who he was talking about. ❛ he's like a smart person. i gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially. i sort of met you, i mean, i watched you while you were sleeping. ❜

a small chuckle escapes her, even as steve stands up and moves to the side of the aircraft. she'd never had any . . . envy of the captain for his fame after he went in the ice. even learning most didn't remember her, except for those she had worked with closely. and while she hadn't visited the exhibit for the howling commandos yet, she had been informed that she had been included in it.

❛ i mean, i was . . . i was present while you were unconscious from the ice. you know, it's really, it's just a huge honor to have you on board. ❜

❛ well, i hope we're the one for the job. ❜

❛ oh, you are. absolutely. uh . . . we've made some modifications to the uniform. i had a little design input. ❜

❛ oh so we're going old school? back to the stars and stripes? please tell me it's just for him, i know i wore the chorus girl outfit on one mission, but i'd much rather something a bit more protective this time. ❜

❛ aren't the stars and stripes a little . . . old fashioned? ❜

❛ with everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old fashioned. ❜

steve seemed to think on this, and jenny shrugged. ❛ makes them feel secure. gives them something that hasn't changed that they can trust and rely on when everything goes to shit around them. ❜ she can feel steve and coulson looking at her, and so she looks up from the screen she had still been watching. ❛ it's basic psychology. ❜

the quinjet lands down a massive battleship known as the helicarrier. it has two runways. one with direct access to a hanger at the rear, which is aligned along the spine of the vessel. agent coulson, steve, and jenny walk down the ramp, meeting up with natasha.

❛ agent romanoff. captain rogers, and ms. smith. ❜

❛ oh, please no. just call me jenny. ❜

❛ ma'am? ❜

❛ hi. ❜ she looks over at coulson. ❛ they need you on the bridge. they're starting the face trace. ❜

❛ see you there. ❜ coulson walks away, and the trio walk towards the railing of the helicarrier.

❛ it was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice. finding the two of you, even. i thought coulson was gonna swoon. did he ask you to sign his captain america trading cards yet? ❜

❛ trading cards? ❜

❛ huh, he has trading cards now. neat. ❜

❛ they're vintage. he's very proud. ❜

she nods, glancing around the craft only to see dr bruce banner walking around, trying to stay out of the way. steve walks up to him and they shake hands, jenny not far behind.

❛ dr. banner. ❜

❛ oh, yeah. hi. they told me you'd both be coming. ❜ banner replies, and jenny has to force herself to wait just a little bit before interrupting.

❛ word is you can find the cube. ❜

❛ is that the only word on me? ❜

❛ only word i care about. ❜

❛ well it's not the only word i care about. you have, what is it, seven phds? i read all of your thesis papers last night, your work in gamma radiation and anti electron collisions is . . . for this time period, it's genius. ❜

❛ for this time ― wait, you read them all last night? ❜

❛ i'm sort of what you'd call a fast reader. ❜

❛ it must be strange for you. all of this. ❜

steve looks of to where a group of men in training are running. ❛ well, this is actually kind of familiar. ❜

❛ i've seen stranger. ❜

natasha interrupts their conversation, gesturing to the ship around them. ❛ we might want to step inside in a minute. it's gonna get a little hard to breath. ❜

❛ is this a submarine? '

❛ really? they want me in a submerged, pressurized metal container? ❜

❛ submarine doesn't make sense though, not with them just strapping down the quinjets . . . ❜ she trails off, as they all move closer to the edge of the ship. that is when the engines lift into place, and jenny quietly grins at the sight. ❛ this is bloody brilliant. ❜

❛ oh, no. this is so much worse. ❜

they quickly follow natasha into the ship ( although jenny is rather tempted for a moment to stay outside, just to see how it feels. ), and she raises an eyebrow at the bridge. nice. after a moment however, she can see steve pulling his wallet out, and the time lady walks behind him, plucking the ten dollar bill that he was about to hand fury out of his hands. ❛ he owes this to me. i'm not surprised. interested yes, maybe even a little impressed, but it's going to take a lot more to surprise me. ❜

and with that she moves to lean against a wall, out of peoples way but able to observe them as they work. dr banner is escorted to his lab, and for now all there is to do is wait.

#just like before indented stuff isn't jenny #i should have done this and the next one before the last one i wrote but i got excited s o #eventually i'll just make a list of these in order #percy retcons jenny into marvel.#long post for ts #do not reblog.#wιтн greaт power coмeѕ... a тon oғ weιrd crap yoυ are noт prepared тo deal wιтн. 〈 avengers verse 〉#ѕoмeтιмeѕ we don'т geт ѕecond cнanceѕ. ѕoмeтιмeѕ тнιngѕ jυѕт end. 〈 drabble 〉

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hqassemble · 6 years ago

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mw canon, oc powers and fcs?

canons : bruce banner, clint barton ( from the multiverse ), james rhodes, pepper potts, emma frost, stephen strange, t’challa, shuri, m’baku, okoye, gamora, rocket racoon, groot, drax, mantis, scott lang, ned, moira mctaggert, hank mccoy, elektra, miles morales, luke cage, jessica jones, may parker, the rest of the fantastic four, more agents of shield & more mutants would be amazing !

oc powers : i’d love to see oc’s with healing powers, adaptation, density control, force field generation, weapon summoning, probability alteration, reality alteration, touch empathy !

some fcs : cindy kimberly, katrina kaif, matt daddario, aj saudin, audreyana michelle, mishtie rahman, alisha boe, brandon flynn, ross butler, park chaeyoung, lalisa manoban, kim seok-jin, avan jogia, normani, lauren jauregui, lyndsy fonseca, lindsey morgan, keith powers, keiynan lonsdale, zayn malik, harry styles, cindy mello, laura harrier, zendaya, momo, jaxon rose, neels visser, froy gutierrez, herman tommeraas, joe keery, halsey, sabrina carpenter, camila mendes, madelaine petsch, vanessa morgan, kathryn newton, phoebe tonkin, genevieve & jared padalecki, peyton alex smith, danielle rose russell & jenny boyd to name a few !

#appless rp #mcu rp #marvel rp #TWITTER RP #mw

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ao3feed-lokiangst · 7 years ago

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Osiria's hybrid boy

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QiEQeW

by chumpi

People are born with flowers, stretching across their bodies and winding around their ankles, entwining with each other and blooming in the spring. Your soulmate is said to have the same.

But when Peter Parker is born with none to show, he becomes known as Gallifrey’s mystery boy.

At first, not even his fellow Time Lords can explain the lack of flowers, but then one day, during a body scan on the planet Judoonia, they find an Osiria Rose etched into the boy’s heart.

Determined to find his one and only, Peter steals a TARDIS and runs away to become known as ‘the Doctor’ or ‘A madman with a blue box��, traveling throughout time and space with different companions, hell-bent on finding the one.

And then he finds Bucky Barnes.

Words: 3944, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Characters: Peter Parker, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Shuri (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Vision (Marvel), Gallifreyan(s) (Doctor Who), High Council of Time Lords (Doctor Who), High President of Gallifrey, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Jenny (Doctor Who), Strax (Doctor Who), Missy (Doctor Who), The Master (Doctor Who), Clara Oswin Oswald, Echo Clara Oswin Oswald, Rory Williams, River Song, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Sarah Jane Smith, The Judoon Platoon Upon the Moon

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Peter Parker, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Original Male Character(s), Peter Parker & Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Precious Peter Parker, Kid Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Teen Peter Parker, BAMF Peter Parker, Bottom Peter Parker, Peter Parker is a Little Shit, Peter Parker Feels, Peter Parker isn't Spider-Man, Peter Parker is the doctor, Peter Parker is a time lord, Peter Parker flies the tardis because y not, Tony Stark Feels, Tony Stark Has A Heart, Bucky Barnes Feels, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Protective Bucky Barnes, Bisexual Bucky Barnes, Top Bucky Barnes, Soulmates, Flowers, Soulmate Flower tattoos, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Peter Parker & Bucky Barnes Are Soulmates, Doctor Who References, Multiple Doctors (Doctor Who), Echoes of Clara Oswin Oswald, Poems

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QiEQeW

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #loki #loki fanfic #loki fanfiction #marvel cinematic universe #angst

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ao3feed-steverogers · 7 years ago

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Osiria's hybrid boy

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QiEQeW

by chumpi

People are born with flowers, stretching across their bodies and winding around their ankles, entwining with each other and blooming in the spring. Your soulmate is said to have the same.

But when Peter Parker is born with none to show, he becomes known as Gallifrey’s mystery boy.

At first, not even his fellow Time Lords can explain the lack of flowers, but then one day, during a body scan on the planet Judoonia, they find an Osiria Rose etched into the boy’s heart.

Determined to find his one and only, Peter steals a TARDIS and runs away to become known as ‘the Doctor’ or ‘A madman with a blue box’, traveling throughout time and space with different companions, hell-bent on finding the one.

And then he finds Bucky Barnes.

Words: 3944, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Peter Parker, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Original Male Character(s), Peter Parker & Tony Stark

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QiEQeW

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Steve Rogers

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jennaschererwrites · 8 years ago

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2017: The Year of the Pop-Culture Female Gaze - Rolling Stone

For most of the history of cinema and television, women's place in the canon – as creators, as directors, as subjects, as viewers, as ratings and box office draws – was defined by its rarity. Men were the default: the default audience, the default protagonists, the default creative leaders.

But 2017 – in many ways a hellish year, in other ways a hell of a year, for women – has witnessed a sea change in the assumed standard point of view. This is the year that stories for, by and about women have begun to achieve a critical mass on TV, with established series continuing to thrive and a bumper crop of new shows filling the airwaves both on streaming services and traditional TV. Meanwhile, at the movies, women-helmed and -centric films from Wonder Woman to Lady Bird to Girls Trip have smashed critical and popular expectations.

It doesn't seem like a coincidence that the year of the Women's March, the year of the #MeToo movement, the year that those in charge of our government have made no bones about their dedication to eroding women's rights, is also the year that the female point of view has been reflected in a growing number of shows and movies. The patriarchy may still hold all the cards, but the stories we're telling ourselves as a society are beginning to shift away from that myopic, male-dominated viewpoint, reflecting and magnifying a moment when the culture is becoming ever more aware of its own biases.

Though of course, we've still got a long way to go. As Salma Hayek pointed out in a recent New York Times piece that detailed her own painful encounters with Harvey Weinstein and other male Hollywood moguls, only 4 percent of movie directors were female between 2007 and 2016. And late last year, Amazon unceremoniously canceled Dana Calvo's feminist period drama, Good Girls Revolt, after one season. But in the wake of Amazon Studio head Roy Price's resignation amid allegations of sexual harassment (which one of the show's actors called "horribly meta"), there have been calls to bring the show back from its early demise.

Back in 1975, feminist film critic Laura Mulvey coined the term "male gaze" to describe the heterosexual male point of view that was the default in most pop culture of the time (and – let's face it – most of today's, too). Mulvey used the phrase to draw attention to the idea that most mainstream movies – produced, written and directed by men, with male heroes – implicitly adopt that point of view too, regardless of who's actually doing the watching. Female characters, by extension, are engaged with insofar as they relate to men, which usually means they're either eroticized or shunted to the sidelines.

And now, it seems like we're finally witnessing the ascendance of the female gaze, a hard-to-pin-down term that has come to encompass much more than its opposite suggests. Whereas Mulvey stuck a pin in the male gaze to draw attention to a viewpoint that was presumed to be universal but was anything but, the term "female gaze" attempts to throw a lasso around a burgeoning and multifaceted aesthetic, and it's as different as the multitude of women's viewpoints that are coming to be shared.

Obviously the female gaze has been around long before this year, in the films of influential directors like Catherine Breillat, Jane Campion, Sally Potter, Ava Duvernay and Kathryn Bigelow, to name just a few. On the small screen, creators like Issa Rae (Insecure), Jenji Kohan (Weeds, Orange Is the New Black), Lena Dunham (Girls), Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin) have been carving out a voice for women's stories — not to mention Shonda Rhimes's veritable empire on ABC (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder). But it was 2017 when films and TV shows with women viewers in mind have finally, so late in history, become the rule rather than the exception to it.

The female gaze in 2017 is less about female desire, though that is one part of it. It's about spaces that belong to women, whether real or interior. It's about the angle of both the camera and the storytelling. It's about creating an aesthetic not so much in opposition to the male gaze, but rather unburdened by it. It's about – to borrow a phrase from 2017 political icon Maxine Waters – women reclaiming their time. Here's a rundown of just some of the bumper crop of women-centric movies and television shows that debuted in the past year.

Wonder Woman A Wonder Woman movie spent decades languishing in development hell before it finally landed in the hands of Monster director Patty Jenkins – and she turned out to be just the filmmaker for the job. In stark contrast to Zack Snyder's brooding, testosterone-jacked Superman movies, Jenkins and screenwriter Allan Heinberg brought a light and earnest touch to her take on the DC Comics' top Amazon, all while sacrificing none of the character's heroic gravitas. In a genre where female characters are frequently filmed in a way that emphasizes their sexuality rather than their ass-kicking abilities, Wonder Woman's action scenes are remarkable. Witness the way Jenkins films the Amazons' training sequence on Themyscira: a sea of powerful women battling in a way that emphasizes their skill and power, not shying away from showing the ripple of muscles or the wrinkle of age lines. Or the film's most iconic sequence, in which Gal Gadot's Diana Prince strides across a World War I battlefield, framed powerfully in the center of the shot as she deflects a hail of bullets. Female moviegoers turned out to see Wonder Woman in droves, and it's easy to see why: The film gave us a heroine who's strong, witty and gives no fucks about what the dudes around her think. As she famously declares when her sidekick/love interest Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) tries to stop her from putting herself in danger: "What I do is not up to you."

Lady Bird Coming-of-age movies seem to be a rite of passage for first-time filmmakers, but one a great one comes along, it can reach down into our emotional core like nothing else. Such is the case with Greta Gerwig's remarkable directorial debut, about a Sacramento teen's senior year of high school circa 2002. Lady Bird feels deeply personal and specific, while at the same time capturing something universal about the precipitous tipping point between girlhood and womanhood. As she explained to Rolling Stone: "I just don't feel like I’ve seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?'" Gerwig says. "The question should be: 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people." And that's precisely what the film does, giving generous amounts of space and air to exploring the shifting gradations in how Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) views herself in relation to those around her – particularly in her thorny but loving relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf).

Girls Trip Anyone who's still operating under the delusion that female-driven comedies don't sell need look no further than the box office numbers for Girls Trip, which had the highest gross of any comedy in 2017. Co-written by Tracy Oliver and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Girls Trip is a raunchy buddy-vacation comedy in the vein of The Hangover, except so much better than The Hangover. Featuring a powerhouse cast of African-American actors (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish), it's a breezy frozen cocktail of a movie that balances an empowering message with unapologetically raunchy humor. As a self-help guru's book is titled in the movie, You Can Have It All – and in this case, "it all" includes both a rousing speech about black feminism and a scene in which Haddish's character gleefully demonstrates a bizarre sex act with a grapefruit and a banana. Something that Hollywood is only just starting to realize: Women like dirty jokes too – and we pretty much always have.

The Handmaid's Tale As dystopias go, few feel like they're breathing more intensely down our necks than Margaret Atwood's Gilead, a near-future American theocracy in which women have been stripped of all their rights and some forced into sexual slavery. Bruce Miller's adaptation of the seminal (or ovulary?) 1985 novel couldn't have come at a more apropos time in our nation's history. Eight out of The Handmaid's Tale's 10 episodes were directed by women – and it shows in the series' patient, intimate, unsettling aesthetic. Handmaid Offred's (Elisabeth Moss, in a devastating performance) life is charted in a series of elegant, painterly shots that range from her enduring both the boredom and the horror of her cloistered, degrading existence – the world as viewed by a woman literally blindered by the bonnet she's forced to wear.

Harlots "Money is a woman's only power in this world," brothel owner Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton) counsels her daughters in the first episode of this period piece, about prostitutes and madams surviving – and sometimes thriving – in the underworld of 18th-century London. Alison Newman and Moira Buffini's ITV/Hulu series is remarkable in that it's made by a large, entirely female creative team – a conscious choice by the showrunners, who aimed to present "a whore's-eye view" of sex and power. The result is a stylish drama that's by turns witty, salacious and devastating, in which women are heroes, villains and everything in between — and manipulating the men who believe they themselves hold the power is the means by which they climb. There's plenty of sex here, in many shades of gray; but unlike so many prostitution stories, the women who sell their bodies are the subjects rather than objects.

Alias Grace It's been a banner year for Margaret Atwood adaptations. And though it's gotten less buzz than The Handmaid's Tale, the CBC/Netflix miniseries based on Atwood's 1996 historical novel – based on the true story of a 19th-century servant accused of a double homicide – is its own kind of earth-shattering. Written by Sarah Polley and directed by Mary Harron (American Psycho), Alias Grace follows a series of interviews between Dr. Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft) and the incarcerated Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) as he tries to determine whether she's innocent or guilty. As Grace walks him through her life story – one filled with men trying to exert their power over her – she hides as much as she reveals, observing the ways in which Dr. Jordan observes her. "Just because you pestered me to know everything is no reason for me to tell you," she reflects privately. Harron reveals Grace's past in impressionistic jolts of memory, in which both the beauty and the violence of life for a lower-class woman in the 1800s is revealed in tiny details and moments.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's long-anticipated return to TV (we're not counting the iffy GG revival, sorry) has come in the form this buoyant, razor-sharp Amazon comedy set in midcentury Manhattan. It follows the rise, fall and rise again of Miriam Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), an affluent Jewish housewife who stumbles into the boys' club of stand-up comedy with help from her unflappable agent, Susie (Alex Borstein). With Palladino's signature rapid-fire dialogue, Mrs. Maisel paints a compelling portrait of a woman giving 200-percent in both of her worlds, gradually awakening to the absurdity of the narrow boxes 1950s women were shoved into. "Men don't want to laugh at you; they want to fuck you," another woman comedian advises her, mirroring a reality that's sadly all too real for ladies in stand-up today.

I Love Dick Perhaps no show before or since has so self-consciously been about the female gaze as I Love Dick, Sarah Gubbins and Jill Soloway's (Transparent) highly stylized exploration of women's erotic eye. Based on Chris Kraus's 1997 novel, I Love Dick charts filmmaker Chris's (Kathryn Hahn) obsession with Dick (Kevin Bacon, perfectly cast), an alpha-male cowboy artist who turns her on even as she as repelled by him. The series' all-female directing team render Dick as an intricate lust object, becoming Chris's muse even as she relentlessly questions what it means to be a female artist in a male-dominated world. I Love Dick is also deliciously and unflinchingly twisted, transforming abstraction and theory into bizarre, memorable imagery.

GLOW Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch created the purgative feminist binge-comedy of 2017 with this throwback exploration of the world of women's wrestling circa 1985. It offers the pleasures of any great underdog making-the-band story, as a motley group of struggling actors and athletes come together to create a female wrestling show out of whole cloth (really shiny spandex cloth, in fact). Starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron and a large, diverse ensemble, GLOW is about women taking a form of entertainment meant to exploit women's bodies and transforming it into something empowering. The lady wrestlers of GLOW are on display in the ring, but they're also at the height of their power.

The Bold Type "Cool twentysomething lady who works at a magazine" is a tried-and-true rom-com trope, but showrunner Sarah Watson effectively blows the dust off it in this Freeform series inspired by the life of former Cosmo editor Joanna Coles. The Bold Type follows three up-and-comers (Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee and Meghann Fahy) at a magazine called Scarlet, but turns the usual stories about female journalists on their head. For one, their boss (Melora Hardin) is a supportive role model rather than a The Devil Wears Prada-style uberbitch. For another, the women are just as interested in their careers and their friendships as they are in the love interests that pass through their lives.

The Deuce The latest deep-dive ensemble series from The Wire's David Simon and George Pelecanos is a 360-degree take on the world of prostitution and porn in 1970s New York City. And in the hands of directors like Michelle MacLaren and Uta Briesewitz, it turns what could easily have been exploitative into an empathetic, unflinching probe into the lives of the women caught in the gears of the sex industry as well as the pimps and johns that keep them spinning. Key to this is Maggie Gyllenhaal's (who's also a producer) turn as Candy, a sex worker making her own way in the system who's also trying to juggle a life outside of it. The types of sex that's shown in The Deuce varies vastly, but more often than not it's the men who fade into the background. In one memorable scene, Candy rolls away from her lover to give herself the orgasm that he couldn't. "That was different," he remarks. "For you, maybe," she answers.

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by Kip_The_Dragon After Ultron the Avengers are ready to retire, but they can’t very well leave the world unprotected. But how to choose successors? Luckily for them when students begin using the tower as a free wi-fi space they each are able to find and mentor who they think will be best to help and become the next generation of Avengers. or The Avengers choose successors because they are Tired and Done With Life™️ Words: 1129, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Gen Characters: James Buchanan Barnes, Peter Parker, Harley Keener, Tony Stark, Sadie James (OC), Sabrina Smith (OC), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Antonio Montro (OC), Sam Wilson, Shuri, T’Challa, Yelena Belova, Bailey Laurens (OC), Carrol Danvers, Masie Roland (OC), Bruce Banner, Jenny Reese (OC), Clint Barton, Benjy Collins (OC), Stephen Strange, Charlie Emery (OC), Steve Rogers, Trystan Harrison (OC), Loki Laufeyson, Christina Harrison (OC), Thor Odinson, Ellie Owens (OC), Wanda Maximoff, Pansy Richardson (OC), Scott Lang, Pepper Potts, Genevieve Swannson (OC), James Rhodes, Daisy Corner (OC), Vision, MJ, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters, Flash Thompson Additional Tags: No Thanos Au, Avengers stay together AU, Avengers are a family, Deaf!Hawkeye, Harley Keener lives with the avengers, Peter is besties with everyone, Bucky is not wanted by the government, Shuri visits america, Basically everyone is an Avenger now, Avengers Are retiring, New Avengers, All New! Fun Sized, Child Abuse, mentions of child abuse, Deaf Character, children with bad lifestyles, Shitty Stuff, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Hurt, Comfort, Angst, Fluff, But also the kids are nice and mostly its happy, The OCs are just cumberbatched names of the actors lol, Yelena is a wine aunt, The mentees are between 17-20, kinda based of a tumblr post, I found on Pinterest, No series canon, no comic canon, Barely movie canon, aged up Peter & Freinds & Flash via https://ift.tt/u7Cb5rV

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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/L7gsH4p by Kip_The_Dragon After Ultron the Avengers are ready to retire, but they can’t very well leave the world unprotected. But how to choose successors? Luckily for them when students begin using the tower as a free wi-fi space they each are able to find and mentor who they think will be best to help and become the next generation of Avengers. or The Avengers choose successors because they are Tired and Done With Life™️ Words: 1129, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Gen Characters: James Buchanan Barnes, Peter Parker, Harley Keener, Tony Stark, Sadie James (OC), Sabrina Smith (OC), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Antonio Montro (OC), Sam Wilson, Shuri, T’Challa, Yelena Belova, Bailey Laurens (OC), Carrol Danvers, Masie Roland (OC), Bruce Banner, Jenny Reese (OC), Clint Barton, Benjy Collins (OC), Stephen Strange, Charlie Emery (OC), Steve Rogers, Trystan Harrison (OC), Loki Laufeyson, Christina Harrison (OC), Thor Odinson, Ellie Owens (OC), Wanda Maximoff, Pansy Richardson (OC), Scott Lang, Pepper Potts, Genevieve Swannson (OC), James Rhodes, Daisy Corner (OC), Vision, MJ, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Ned Leeds, Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters, Flash Thompson Additional Tags: No Thanos Au, Avengers stay together AU, Avengers are a family, Deaf!Hawkeye, Harley Keener lives with the avengers, Peter is besties with everyone, Bucky is not wanted by the government, Shuri visits america, Basically everyone is an Avenger now, Avengers Are retiring, New Avengers, All New! Fun Sized, Child Abuse, mentions of child abuse, Deaf Character, children with bad lifestyles, Shitty Stuff, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Hurt, Comfort, Angst, Fluff, But also the kids are nice and mostly its happy, The OCs are just cumberbatched names of the actors lol, Yelena is a wine aunt, The mentees are between 17-20, kinda based of a tumblr post, I found on Pinterest, No series canon, no comic canon, Barely movie canon, aged up Peter & Freinds & Flash read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/L7gsH4p

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It is two and a half minutes to midnight, and the lines between fact and fiction are growing increasingly irrelevant. As the “real news” reports the latest in “alternative facts” our country is overwhelmed with an odd sense of déjà vu, like we’ve been here before but forgot to take notes. All those years preaching those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it and look where it has gotten us:

Following the virally infamous Kellyanne Conway interview on January 22nd, our country appears condemned to repeat High School English while we’re at it. Sales of George Orwell’s iconic novel “1984” skyrocketed to the top of the charts, with hopes that “It Can’t Happen Here” putting Sinclair Lewis’ satirical tale closely in the running, and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” coming up fast.

https://twitter.com/rememberedtales/status/822469791260807168

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian moral “better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some” makes her novel “A Handmaid’s Tale” a favorite of recent protests, particularly the January 21st Women’s March, as the near future of 1985 approaches once more.

Save us Supergirl!

As citizens across the country discover the lessons of classic literature that they were too wrapped up in teenage angst to appreciate before it was too late, others…

tick-tock. tick. tock. tick…

Written by Alan Moore Illustrated by Dave Gibbons colored by John Higgins

You won’t be seeing “Watchmen” on any school reading or viewing lists, but as three stuffy old men from the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences advance a very real doomsday clock, this motif draws chilling parallels.

“Watchmen” is a graphic novel in twelve parts, one for each hour on the clock, ticking one minute closer to midnight with each issue, counting down to global catastrophe in the final chapter.

“Who Watches the Watchmen?” Not Alan Moore. To him, I do apologize, for I must talk about the film. The graphic novel writer’s name was stricken from the movie credits, and at his own request, his share of the profits went to illustrator Dave Gibbons, who worked closely with the production of the adaptation.

As the character Dr. Manhattan crafts his clockwork-world on the sands of Mars pondering the nature of reality and the importance of this clock motif… the world of “Watchmen” was made by Alan Moore. A purist with a deep respect for the medium, he scripted his stories to showcase the full range of what comics could do–

if we only see comics in relation to movies then the best that they will ever be is films that do not move

“Watchmen” is told as a collection of character accounts deconstructing the super hero, and similarly, deconstructing the super hero comic. While remarkably true to the source for material considered for many years to be unfilmable… “Watchmen” is a comic about comics as much if not more than it is a comic about super heroes, and a film about comics just doesn’t capture the same effect on that front.

The graphic novels open with full page prose excerpts from Hollis Mason’s autobiography “Under the Hood” detailing his masked adventures as Night Owl, and the events surrounding the formation of the Minutemen. Under the Hood was adapted as a special feature for the Ultimate Cut of the film, directed by Eric Matthies with a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff

“Tales of the Black Freighter” is a comic within the Watchmen comic universe named in homage to the song “Seeräuber Jenny” from Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” which tells of a ship by that name. Read by a teenage boy at a news-stand, the pirates tale Marooned parallels elements of the “Watchmen” story, serving as foil to the main plot, and to the structural commentary.

Directed by Daniel Delpurgatorio and Mike Smith, with a screenplay by Alex Tse and Zack Snyder, Tales of the Black Freighter was adapted as animated segues to preserve the meta-context. These shorts did not make the theatrical cut of the film, but edited in to the Ultimate Cut, their presence ties together a collection of stories, transitioning between the elements with a smooth sailing grace that now feels oddly disjointed in their absence.

One element of frame narrative did remain prominently featured in all versions of the adaptation– Rorschach’s entries to his journal served as voice-over narrations throughout the plot of the film, culminating in the public release of this information when this journal is sent to the press, establishing the journal as a sort of self-insert for the screenplay.

Added material completes the “Ultimate Watchmen” package with a run-time of 215 minutes. Clocking in at 7 minutes longer than Peter Jackson’s Extended Cut for “The Fellowship of the Ring” many viewers argue that vaguely metaphorical cartoon tangents interjected between key plot points pulls them out of a monotony already droning on for far too long…

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

– Alan Moore on suspension of disbelief within comic context

Others counter that these seemingly extraneous details serve as easter-eggs for dedicated fans to decipher and discuss, offering a profound respect for the source material, which is essential in maintaining a pre-existing fandom. Use of motion comic animation went one step further in preserving the source medium, but even still, this is child’s play compared to Alan Moore’s mastery of comic form.

Chapter V: Fearful Symmetry

The reasons for these eccentricities are obscure, complex, and probably not terribly interesting to anyone not utterly infatuated with comics as a medium

– from the Introduction to the Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

Your average super hero, the run of the mill picture of perfection fighting for truth, justice and the American way, often comes packaged in a stylish and remarkably durable spandex super jumpsuit. The Klark Kents and Peter Parkers of the comic world may pass as any other mundane photojournalist, but their super-powered alter egos are instantly recognizable by their bright, primary color schemes. DC comic’s iconic Superman sports a blue suit with red cape and gold accents. Marvel comic’s rendition of the demi-god Thor is similarly decked in blue tinted armor, a billowy red cape, and gold blingage.

Villains, on the other hand, are generally associated with secondary colors, green being the most common as we are familiar with classic horror tropes like witches and Frankenstein’s monster. For characters like Spiderman’s notorious villain Green Goblin, this color runs skin deep, and the purple accessories simply make for a complimentary aesthetic. Others, like Batman’s nemesis The Joker, choose their colors for themselves in snazzy purple suit jackets and OG neon green hair gel.

An exception to the standard, super scientist Bruce Banner is heralded as an iconic Marvel hero, but turns a smashing shade of radioactive green when his alter ego the Incredible Hulk takes control. The Hulk’s rapidly expanding size shreds his human-sized clothing with every fit of rage, but his conveniently purple pants never fail, leaving this color association as a manifestation of the Hulk’s destructive nature.

Featuring bold yellow and black titling on its cover, “Watchmen” blends right in with this pattern. In typical Hollywood fashion, the yellow smiley face accented with a splash of blood red, often spotted throughout the comics subtly discarded amidst carefully scripted details… became a merchandising goldmine, featured on movie posters, DVD jackets, and Hot Topic fitted t-shirts. Yellow and black, accented in red, became the primary color scheme of the film.

John Higgins colorized “Watchmen” mainly in secondary colors green, purple, orange, reserving primary colors to highlight key elements.

John leaned very heavily toward, as you say, the secondary palette… it was the same range of colors you’d always been able to use in American comics, but it was colors that hadn’t been widely used before. I think it added a lot to the atmosphere of the comic book…it reads less obviously as superheroes

– Dave Gibbons

These off the beaten scheme colors created a sense of ambiguity in the twisted morality of this dark and gritty take on real world super heroes. Dr. Manhatten floating naked and blue is a poignant contrast to the barren pink surface of Mars, and to the secondary palette back on his Earth, where this dissonance serves to inspire fear in the inferior human race.

In an effort to bring a sense of realism to comic adaptations, Hollywood has a tendency toward muting the colors when adapting iconic costumed heroes for screen. An all powerful naked blue man is believable enough, but apparently, the colorfully costumed Crimebusters was taking it too far.

Ozymandias, named for the King of Kings from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous poem, decks himself out in gold plate draped in purple robes with matching cape and boots. Often associated with regality, Adrian Veidt’s purple and gold wardrobe is befitting for the stature of his namesake, his wealth, and his power. Fated by the poem, and parallels to a plethora of purple-clad comic villains, Ozymandias serves as example of the inevitable futility of empire. Modeled as a parody of the 1997 Batsuit, the film’s rubbery black body armor, is super generic, and offers little insight to the character behind the mask, though it does sculpt some godly ab and thigh muscles.

Night Owl trades in a red hood, matching undies, and gold utility belt, for a form-fitted brown leather body suit. Rorschach sports the same black and white mask with a brown trench coat, but his purple scarf and pants are muted beyond recognition. While toning down their color, the film amped up the violence, adding back alley showdowns with gratuitous thugs, and gory bloodbath hatchet jobs. Its dark and gritty, we get it, but when the countdown to catastrophe finally strikes midnight, we’re almost entirely desensitized to the horrors of the disaster that ensues, while the comics remain remarkably void of violence to accentuate its prevalence in the final chapter.

The Comedian keeps his blue starred red and white striped shoulder pads, but most prominently of all, Silk Spectre stands out in skimpy black and yellow, and Dr Manhattan shines a nearly blinding blue. These primary colors shine bright and bold in the feature film, but the secondary colors remain only as a muted memory of super heroes past. When flashbacks of the Minutemen weren’t seen in black and white or sepia tone, they did provide a glimpse at some of the classic costumes, colors and all.

There is nothing wrong with your television set—

This scene towards the end of the film references a reference to the in-universe source of the villainous scheme and twist ending, but while the comics openly pay homage to the 1963 episode “The Architects of Fear” with direct mention of the title, The Outer Limits opening sequence would suffice for the film, similarly overheard playing on Ms. Jupiter’s television.

https://dailymotion.com/video/x4dpm4i

Around issue 10, I came across a guide to cult television. There was an Outer Limits episode called ”The Architects of Fear.” I thought: ”Wow. That’s a bit close to our story.’ In the last issue, we have a TV promoting that Outer Limits episode — a belated nod.

—Alan Moore (Entertainment Weekly, 2009)

I kept telling him, ‘Be more original, Alan, you’ve got the capability, do something different, not something that’s already been done!’ And he didn’t seem to care enough to do that.

—Len Wein (Wizard, 2004)

Published in 1959, Tales of Suspense #2 leads with an uncredited story “Invasion From Outer Space” that ends with a similarly familiar reveal. Generally attributed to Jack Kirby, as evidenced by his signature usage of ellipses… its hard to say exactly where Alan Moore first conceptualized the idea, but this dispute would be the straw that breaks the editors back for Len Wein, who left the project due to irreconcilable creative differences.

Doomsday Clock It is two and a half minutes to midnight, and the lines between fact and fiction are growing increasingly irrelevant.

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