#Last Son of Alcatraz

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THE HORNED SERPENT LIVES.

I wondered where the Knight got the serpent's skull from, and then that line of questioning spawned this idea. Like a terrible revision of the Superman origin story, where instead the Last Son of Alcatraz and the D Day Knight came as infants into the Nixonverse, housed in the corpse of the Horned Serpent.

[phantom-the-spookyboi]

NIXONVERSE TRINITY

[sheze]

[sally-jeanie]

[eldritchwhispersofficial]

I'm currently drawing Liu Woods as the Last Son/Crescent King AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME.

[autisticsupervillain]

To show you guys how wack the vs community is, Dr. Manhattan's most popular matchup is Richard Nixon. Like, the President.

Granted, it's Richard Nixon from the Monument Mythos, who's a reality warping God, but still.

The best part is, they're right. Thematically, this matchup fucks.

[callmepip]

FUCK "evil" superman. Idealistic and good superman that is let down by the world and/or turned into a weapon by it is INFINITELY better!

[tempoaryblogformightyjensblog]

I imagine in any death battle with Richard Nixon, he would not fight the opponent directly, instead he would call out the Knight, Queen or Last Son like Pokemon

[khancrackers]

JESUS IN VIETNAM

[divinedeathbed]

~Didn't I do it for you~

I love the nixonverse everyone should watch it

[sternevogn]

MYTHOSTOBER DAY ONE- TRINITY

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"Can we keep him, Frank?"

[retro-robin]

"evil superman" and the nixonverse

i've been seeing a lot of discourse recently about the evil superman trope and i just want to say that the last son of alcatraz and the d-day knight are really good subversions of this trope (and the son is probably the most realistic depiction of how a "superman" like figure would be treated in the real world) unlike a lot of other "evil" superman figures like homelander or omni-man, the last son is pretty unorthodox here. he's not evil, he actively helps other indiscriminately and is actually quite a good person! such a good person in fact that he gets in the crosshairs of immoral and arguably "evil" institutions (cough cough the united states cough cough). he doesn't want to be evil, he's forced to. he was so good that no one could understand it and saw it as a threat to national security. that's what sets him apart from all the other "evil supermen". he's thrusted into the role of evil, and it tears him to shreds by the end of the series. the idea of being good is so unorthodox and dangerous to the americans that the one person who had goodness the most is punished and tortured into artificially losing that virtue. the last son is technically an evil superman yes, but not because he willingly makes that choice. america and the powers that be make that choice for him. with the knight it's a little bit different, mostly because he's very clear that siding with america is a choice that he willingly made rather than something he was coerced into doing. he's initially very proud to be serving his country, and he doesn't change until he personally witnesses the toll that america took on the last son both physically and mentally. a lot of people in the mythos/nixonverse community are very quick to compare the knight to homelander from the boys as they seem to be extremely similar at a surface level-- but the knight still has humanity and is very obviously distraught at his experiences with war and how america took the only person he truly cared for away from him. he cracks from the pressure and falls apart from his anguish, which ultimately proves that he's not an "evil" superman at heart, just a troubled morally grey one. (i could actually talk a lot about the knight and what he means as an allegory for american imperialism and colonialism, so if anyone would want me to yap about that lmk in my asks or something lol)

overall, i think the son and the knight are both really really interesting takes on the evil superman trope. they're both different outcomes of what a "real" superman-like figure could end up as, either taken advantage of and shattered or morally grey and battle-hardened from seeing so much suffering. nixonverse is a very unique series and i think in a time where superhero media is so oversaturated with "evil supermen" this is really a nice breath of fresh air i love it so much

[phantom-the-spookyboi]

My many Monument Mythos and Nixonverse fanarts. I fucking love this series so much you have no idea.

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RULE WITH OUR KING

[octorocks-and-dodongos]

my service to the elikirk nation