#merman thor

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MerLoki x Thor AU uwu 🐟🐍⚡️

[the-iceni-bitch]

𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝕲𝖔 𝖀𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘, 𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆𝖒 𝕴 𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝕾𝖆𝖞?

𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚛 𝙾𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝚂𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛.

𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊 ~ 𝙰 𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛

Relationship: merman (havmand) Thor Odinson c princess!reader

Words: ~2.2k

Warnings: explicit language, explicit sexual content (unprotected vaginal and anal sex, size difference, multiple orgasms, double penetration), pet names, dub-con, SMUT!! 18+ ONLY!!!

A/N: I know it’s not October or 2023 anymore, but let’s not all about that. Let’s just talk about the fact that Thor is big and beefy and has two dicks.

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You felt as though you didn’t have any tears left to cry while you stayed curled up in your bed. You could still hear your mother shouting at you through your door, though it did seem as though she was finally walking away as her voice was getting quieter. Perhaps she was finally going to leave you alone.

The thought of having to leave your home made you sob again in spite of your lack of tears. Leaving the sea and the cliffs you were used to and having to be surrounded by mountains sounded like torture. You needed the sound of the waves crashing against the towering rocks and the smell of the salt air as the wind carried its spray against your face. What were you supposed to do with the scent of snow and pine?

At some point your eyes drifted closed, and when you opened them again it was the middle of the night. The moon was reflecting off the sea below your window. You rubbed your eyes as you rose to your feet to open it, sighing at the scent of brine and frozen air made goosebumps rise on your skin. Another hour passed with you just staring at the ocean, the movement of the waves and the silvery light of the moon stirring something deep inside you. That was when you made your decision. You couldn’t be the wife to some king in a frozen, rocky wasteland. The sea was your life, it meant everything to you.

Your dressing gown slid to the floor so you were standing in nothing but your shift. A few steadying breaths were all you needed before you climbed out of your window and found purchase on the notches in the stone wall of your tower that you had scrambled down so many times before. Even though it was slick from the spray and starting to get icy, you still made it down in one piece. It was freezing, but it made you feel alive.

As soon as you reached solid ground you didn’t hesitate, running the few meters to the cliff’s edge and diving off into the empty air. Wind whipped around you for the perhaps three seconds before you entered the water and the shock of cold forced all of the breath from your lungs. There was no time to adjust, though, you had to start swimming. You breathed deeply when you resurfaced, your limbs fighting against the brutal push and pull of the waves as you made your way to deeper waters.

Every time your body was rocked by the waves your breath caught in your throat. It was like the sea was calling your name, desperately trying to pull you under and make you one with its murky depths. If you didn’t have a goal in mind you may have let it, but your eyes were fixed on the massive rock that rose from the waves a few miles from the coast, the one that was almost an island unto itself. His rock.

You were almost there when something wrapped around your waist and pulled you under the waves, making you scream as seawater burned your throat.

“Do not scream, kjæreste,” the sound of his voice immediately soothed you, your face tucking perfectly into Thor’s neck when he rolled onto his back and carried you towards the rock that was his home above the sea, “swimming in the middle of the night, there are far more dangerous things then I that rise from the depths at this hour, little princess.”

“I don’t care,” even in the freezing cold water he was warm, as was his smile when you peeked up at him through your lashes. “It would be better than what my mother has planned for me.”

“She still intends to marry you to the inland princeling, then?” Thor lifted you onto the slick black stone and climbed up after you, hushing you when you immediately crawled into his arms and buried your face in his chest. “My sweet little princess, you haven’t even met the man, you may like him.”

“No I won’t,” you gave him a stubborn pout. “I need the sea, I need you. I love you, Thor.”

“Little one…” Thor kissed the top of your head when you pressed your body even closer to his. “You may or you may not, kjæreste. Give it time. When you have been married to your princeling for a few years it will pass.”

“Don’t say that!” Your wail was truly miserable, your tears falling freely as you looked up at Thor with a wretched expression. “I don’t want to marry him! I want to be with you! Don’t make me go back, please.”

“You do not realize what you are asking, princess.” Thor stroked your hair and let out a deep sigh. “You would never be able to go home. You would never see another human being for the rest of your life.”

“I don’t want anything except you.” You clambered so you were straddling his tail, running your fingers through his golden hair and grinding against his sheath. “Only you, Thor. You’re all I need.”

“You are such a tenacious little thing, I do not believe I could ever say no to you.” Thor pulled you close and kissed you deeply, groaning into your mouth as he felt his cocks sliding from their sheath and growing hard under your ass. “You must be sure though, little one. You must tell me now that you can give up your family, the land of your birth, and all of your friends to be mine. That you will stay true even when I must stay beneath the sea for weeks at a time. Can you promise me, kjæreste?”

You felt your lower lip starting to quiver as you gazed at him. Of course you would miss your family and your friends, and the thought of not seeing them ever again gave you pause. But you really did love Thor. He was like the sea brought to life, and you could no sooner live without him than you could the sea itself.

“I promise, Thor.” You moaned into his mouth and fluttered your eyes when he kissed you deeply, one of his large hands gripping the edge of your shift and dragging it up your hips. The fingers of his other hand were suddenly filling your mouth and you sucked on them greedily, making sure to soak them with your spit as they muffled the sound of your voice. “I love you.”

“And I love you, little princess.” Thor smiled warmly as he dragged his fingers out of your mouth and kissed you again, his tongue tracing the curves of your lips as he slipped his spit-soaked fingers between the cheeks of your ass and teased them over the satiny skin of your asshole. “Just remember to keep breathing for me.”

Even though you nodded you couldn’t help but choke on your tongue when suddenly both of the trembling holes between your legs were full of him; your pussy with one of his thick cocks and your ass with two of his fingers as he stretched you in preparation. He swallowed each pathetic, desperate noise that fell from your lips when he started to move, cooing softly when your cunt fluttered around him and your fingers gripped his hair at the base of his neck. It was exceptionally adorable how quickly you turned into a whimpering mess once he started to fuck you, but he found it endearing.

You were very quickly starting to fall under the same spell you always fell under once he was inside you, murmuring nonsense words in between your whimpers while you struggled to move your body on top of his. He was so big, he always made you feel so tiny but never more so than when the two of you were locked together like this. The way he stretched you open to take him was almost painful from the strain but you secretly loved it, and when he removed his fingers from your ass and replaced them with his second cock you couldn’t do more than let out a garbled scream of pleasure as an orgasm raged through your body.

Thor took control when your body succumbed to the unimaginable bliss he always inflicted on you, kissing you gently in a way that contrasted beautifully with the sudden sharp and brutal movements of his hips. You were lost in a warm, gray haze when he rolled the two of you so he was on top, mumbling when you felt the sharp scrape of his teeth along your jaw as he fucked into you with abandon. Even in your incoherent state you still rolled your body to meet his, your breasts pressed against the smooth plane of his chest and your fingers clawing across his back as they struggled to find purchase on his slick skin.

Even though he made his home in the arctic waters of your country, Thor was so warm. Slippery and warm and large all over. It was addictive, like bathing in the volcanic pools and hot springs you had enjoyed in your youth. But in truth they were nothing like having Thor fuck you. Both of his cocks seemed to fit inside you perfectly, drawing orgasm after orgasm out of your body until your own body was almost as slick as his. His hands seemed to be everywhere at once; cupping your breasts and squeezing your ass, gripping your hips and massaging your thighs. Then suddenly they were holding your face tenderly as he kissed all the breath from your body and fucked you so deep you could feel him in your throat.

When he ground against your clit you sobbed, your pussy fluttering wildly and your asshole clenching around each of his cocks as he kept moving faster and deeper. Your eyes stayed fixed on his even as they grew glassy and unfocused, your lips moving as though in a silent prayer as he growled into your mouth and began to thrust even more wildly. Thor’s lips trailed down your throat as you squirted and writhed against him, the low timbre of his voice vibrating your whole body and making everything even more intense.

You let him move your body however he pleased, putting up no resistance when he grabbed your wrists and pinned them above your head. When he bit your shoulder you just whined, shaking when the sudden sharp pain drew another climax from your exhausted body. It had never been like this before. It had always been intense and passionate but not like this. It was as though he was doing everything in his power to make his mark on you, and you were accepting it without protest.

All of your focus suddenly snapped to the sensations between your legs, one final, practically painful orgasm ripping through your body and making you scream so loudly the rock shook from the sound. And then his cocks were swelling and stretching you even wider and you could feel yourself about to pass out, the sudden warm rush of his cum into the deepest parts of you finally pushing over the edge into pitch black emptiness. Thor sighed as he watched your body sag and your eyes roll back in your head, smiling at you and gently cupping your cheek as you slid into unconsciousness. He took a few minutes to enjoy the sight of your sleeping form before carefully pulling out of you, chuckling when your pussy and asshole clenched around the emptiness and his seed dripped from your wide-stretched holes.

He pushed you into a corner near one of the steam vents to keep you warm while you slept, kissing your forehead before sliding back towards the sea and silently slipping into the water. It didn’t take him long at all to reach the murky depths, swimming through the algae as he sought the underwater cave he needed. Brunnhilde was there waiting for him, grinning wickedly as she flexed her tentacles around the stone she was reclining on and toyed with a brightly colored anemone. It was rare that she traveled this far north, but they’re kingdoms were friendly, and the sea witch would always be there for her friend and whatever assistance she could lend to his sinister ambitions.

“I take it your little princess gave her consent?” She chuckled darkly when he nodded, swirling her fingers through the cold water and sighing when it glowed with her magic. “How many have you collected now, seventeen?”

“Nineteen.” Thor found his own rock to rest against, burrowing his tail in the volcanic sand and beaming at his friend. “One for each of the rocks in the bay. Though I do find myself growing incredibly fond of this one.” A seahorse made the mistake of swimming too close to the havmand and he snarled as he snatched it from the water and ripped it in half with his teeth before chewing and swallowing. “If I sacrifice the others do you think you could work up a spell that might allow me to keep her?”

[thechromebucket]

Marvelous Mermay: Nordic Sea

I saved Thor for a literal rainy day. But by a majestic coincidence, today is also apparently the National Day of Prayer. 

[absolutebl]

Because your opinion means a lot: Any chance you feel like sharing 5 upcoming BLs you're most excited about and why? And maybe as a bonus, something you think many BL watchers will love but that you will hate?

Ooooo, how exciting what a fun one. You sure you want this from me? I have very odd taste.

The 5 Upcoming BLs I'm Most Excited About

(this forced me to put together the 2024 Announced BLs list which is coming soon)

1 Spare Me Your Mercy

Increased rates of deaths in terminal patients has a police captain investigating the palliative care doctor with whom he's fallen in love. Their relationship deepens but the mystery persists, driven by mistrust.

Why? It's adapted from the novel Euthanasia by Sammon (Triage, Manner of Death) but more important, it stars some old guard BL actors: Tor Thanapob from Hormones as the doctor and (fuck me YES) Jaylerr from Great Men Academy and goddamn Grean Fictions as the captain!

2 Wandee Godday

GMMTV and AllThis Entertainment producing a very pulp offering with new pair, GreatInn doing high heat, boxer meets surgeon. It features a one night stand, fake relationship, and all the cheesiest of tropes. Also features Drake, Podd, and Thor+ pretty boy (be still my heart).

Why? This is totally my kind of BL even if it isn't GMMTV's style of BL, and it's GREAT, so I'm in.

3 The Next Prince (ZeeNew)

Domundi brings us more ZeeNew in a fantasy/historical set in a palace where Zee plays a knight and Nu a prince - YES PLEASE.

Why? I did not expect this pair to stick so I really hope this happens. Give us the Little Pink Riding Milk BL we deserve!

4 Lover Merman

Fantasy BL about a man who falls in love with a merman.

Why? I don't think it will be good but I LOVE merfolk.

5 Me and Who

Domundi for WeTV brings this adaptation of Wickedwish’s novel of the same name. It depicts a young man who dies and is reborn into the body of a billionaire heir. The heir happens to be engaged to a handsome man.

Why? I flipping LOVE this trope but I never expected to see it drive a BL.

10 I am cautious of but VERY intrigued

JAPAN'S Although I Love You and You AKA Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka

From YTV releasing 1/11 about Soga, who, after a divorce and relocation to Osaka, seeks solace in dining at 26-year-old Sakae's restaurant. Unbeknownst to Soga, Sakae sees him as more than just a regular customer.

TAIWAN's Love For Love's Sake

Based on the Manhwa Love Supremacy Zone by Hwacha, this will star actors Lee Tae Vin, Cha Jun Wan, Oh Min Su and Cha Woon Ki. The plot of the drama is based on Tae Myung Ha, a young man who is dropped into a game based off of a novel that he knows. His mission is to make another player, Cha Yeo Woon happy. Cha Yeo Woon is Myung-Has favourite character in the novel. But then the game starts going completely different from the novel.

City of Stars AKA Fueangnakorn

Star Hunter started filming this 12/23 about an actor falls in love with a programmer and the narrative intends to “explore the ramifications of being public figure in the social network era who must endure critics, bullying, and defamation.” Looks like another Lovely Writer, Call It What You Want sort of thing.

My Stand-In AKA My Stand In

Chinese IP ALERT! Adapted from the novel Professional Body Double (职业替身) by Shui Qiang Cheng (水千丞) stars Up (Lovely Writer) and Poom (Bake Me Please).

OMG Vampire AKA OMG! Vampire (LeeFrank)

Frank and Lee Long Shi are back only vampires now. So many vampires.

The Rebound (MeenPing)

VIU Basketball based romance staring Meen (a national basketball player, so yay for that).

We Are (PondPhuwin)

GMMTV's university friendship Bl featuring PondPhuwin, WinnySatang, AouBoom, MarcPawin - basically ALL in the good kind of messy friendship group (so more My Engineer and less Only Friends). Looks a bit like the Kiss series but everyone is gay. I'm IN! Trailer here.

Love Upon a Time (NetJames)

Domundi announced for 6/7/2023 then delayed to 2024. NetJames in a historical BL! Also feat Tonnam (Dr Sing from Triage).

Jack & Joker (YinWar)

DeHup brings us be gay, do crimes. Yin, War, Mark and a few other familiar faces doing Leverage but gayer. Yes, thank you, I will have that.

My Love Mix-Up Thai Remake (GemniForth)

GMMTV. Hum, well I do love this pair and I did like the original and maybe this time these characters will actually kiss? I'm actually fine with this pick-up. I kind of enjoy seeing different countries remake the same IP. Especially if it's IP I'm mostly unfazed by.

[jadevine]

Inching closer to the modern-day side of my Marvel fanfic's plot

So being a person who wears glasses all the time and has to deal with regular people's often-weird ideas about "not being able to see well," I've got three low-vision/glasses-wearing characters in my Marvel fanfic "The Lightning-Axe," and their powers will never really compensate for their physical eyesight.

Ulupong: Has glasses. A pagan Filipino merfolk prince who also shapeshifts into a cobra (hence his very appropriate name). Besides being a merman who can live and breathe underwater, his only INDIVIDUAL powers are "shapeshifting into a spitting cobra, with the subsequent abilities of 'being the second-most notorious snake in the Philippines'" and "being immune to a LOT of, if not all, poisons." Tends to be a melee fighter because THE BRO CANNOT SEE PAST TEN FEET, do you expect him to be an archer??? It also seems that cobras don't have heat/infrared vision, so this worked out especially great for me!

Sootz': Normal Mayan guy, was born premature and now needs glasses. His powers are "being nice to bats and trying to remove the stigma around them," which helps a LOT in the Otherworld when they end up fighting the Filipino sun-spirit called Araw and Camazotz the bat-god has to end the daytime so their ship can get the fuck away from him.

Araw: The one-eyed primordial Sun of the Tagalogs, implied to be a God-Tier mutant like Kukulkan / Namor. He has fuck-all to do with the Filipino flag as a colonial invention, and he would burn it to ash if he saw one. He lost one eye in a duel with Bathala, and in the story, ancient Tagalogs used to view the mortal world's sun as his other eye and he can't go back to the mortal world proper, or else he'll return to full strength and burn the world just by existing. His powers: Turning into a giant flaming eagle, being immune to most cold temperatures, being immune to most hot temperatures, healing most burn-wounds (but only those caused by FIRE, so ice burns and magical "burns" like the Infinity Gauntlet are out of his jurisdiction) metaphorically "seeing" the multiverse and knowing how a lot of things turned or will-turn out, and not giving a fuck what anyone says about him.

WHO can beat the Tagalog Sun, though? Usually proper deities and very powerful superheroes. The key thing is that he loses his fire-powers at night, so then he "just" becomes a hot immortal Pinoy seer. If you want to beat Araw with water, you need to basically flood the place, or trap him underwater at sunset with some gangster-style cement shoes. (Obviously, he won't drown--but it's gonna take him the night to regain his fire-powers, and by then you've had at least several hours to Run The Fuck Away From Him! He'll still have to LOOK FOR YOU!)

Once the group manages to beat him and he feels extreme remorse over attempting to kidnap Ulupong's girlfriend Lawin and trying to burn off Ulupong's leg, they find out the Sun is a very good ally and he happens to have a history with the Norse gods (in that he got banned from Asgard when Loki and Thor were about three years old).

Unfortunately I made a stupid decision by deciding to worldbuild Talokan's origins, so I've still got about five hundred years of colonization to slog through before we actually MEET these guys!

If anyone wants to check this out alongside my logistics-nerd and grown-up-horse-girl ramblings, please do!

[thorarms]

Concept: merman thor with a shit ton of ampullae of lorenzini in the pores of his skin so he can detect electrical fields

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: Atlantis Attacks Part 1

1989

Ah, geez, here we go again.

Another event made out of linked annuals. Several different writers trying to stay on the same vague page.

Silver Surfer, Iron Man, X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Punisher, Spectacular Spider-Man, Daredevil, Avengers, New Mutants, X-Factor, Web of Spider-Man, West Coast Avengers, Thor, and Fantastic Four.

Spider-Man still being greedy and dipping into the event three times.

Like Evolutionary War, I'll try to cover the whole event. I'll cover the non-Avengers material in a pretty cursory manner and the two Avengers annuals in more depth.

I'm here to Avenger, not look at Spider-Man hogging all the screentime.

But while working on this post I've discovered that fourteen annuals is just too many pictures to fit in one post so I'm breaking it up into two.

Silver Surfer through Avengers, New Mutants through Fantastic Four. So each post has an Avengers annual.

Let's see if Atlantis Attacks manages to string a bunch of annuals together into a half-decent story or at least manages it better than Evolutionary War.

I have zero knowledge of this event but I'm pretty sure this Atlantis Attack... isn't Namor's fault.

Scary to consider but that's the truth.

how SHARPER than a SERPENT'S TOOTH

We weirdly kick off the event with the character who least wants to be involved.

You'd think that Punisher would least want to be involved because he hates it when superhero stuff interrupts him shooting people but no. Somehow Silver Surfer wanted to be involved less.

Several galaxies away from Earth, Silver Surfer is doing what he do, surfing through space, when he loses control of his board.

It keeps trying to fly a certain direction and he finds green crap coating the bottom of the board that he can't remove.

He eventually just lets the board fly where it likes so he can figure out what the hell is going on.

The board takes him to a green dust cloud so Silver Surfer uses his power cosmic to reincorporate the cloud.

It turns out that its GHAUR GODLORD OF DEVIANT LEMURIA.

Since Silver Surfer doesn't know who that is and since Ghaur is a villain, he gladly exposits his backstory.

He was a priest of Deviant Lemura (from the Eternals book!) and when the Deviant leader Brother Toad led the Deviants into a disastrous defeat against the Eternals, Ghaur decided something drastic had to be done to give the Deviants hope again.

But the Deviants were portrayed as being always chaotic evil at this point so the thing he did to bring hope to his people was stealing power from the Dreaming Celestial and growing kaiju sized.

The Dreaming Celestial wound up taking over his brain and forced him into trying to dig it up. So the Eternals made a Uni-Mind, ripped out Ghaur's soul, and blasted it into space.

The Silver Surfer happened to fly through the soul cloud and here we are.

Silver Surfer decides Ghaur is bad news and kicks his ass.

I mean, it's actually a big action scene that goes back and forth but Silver Surfer kicks his ass. Ghaur realizes that he's getting his ass kicked in a pointless battle that has nothing to do with his sinister plan and fucks off.

Silver Surfer watches him go and decides, eh. He doesn't want to get drawn into Earth stuff. He uses his powers to send a warning to whoever manages to hear it (Dr Strange and Talisman) but he has his own business to take care of and Earth has plenty of people who can clean up the mess Silver Surfer accidentally dumped on their doorstep.

Man, you are a jerk sometimes, Norrin Radd!

But that's the story of how Silver Surfer wanted to be in this event so little that he bowed out of the story halfway through his own annual.

Meanwhile, Ghaur goes to Earth and pays a visit to Lemuria.

Not Deviant Lemuria. There's a reason why I keep calling it Deviant Lemuria and its because there's another Lemuria that's populated by mermen.

Merman Lemuria was actually introduced before Deviant Lemuria, for the record.

Ghaur finds Llyra, a teal lady and old Namor foe.

He proposes that they team-up because the Serpent Crown whispered to him when he was a space cloud and Llyra has been the prime agent of the crown here on Earth 616.

So, the Serpent Crown.

It is a hat that looks like snakes that has great power because the evil Elder God Set used it as a vessel for his power when he had to flee Earth to avoid a shitstorm he started by eating a centaur and doing the first murder.

It was introduced in a Namor story so has a lot of ties to his lore and also as a general evil artifact that bounces around the Marvel universe. It's even been in Avengers!

Because Ghaur is a villain, he exposits the history of the Serpent Crown to Llyra, who probably knows most of it already.

When Set created the Serpent Crown, he somehow created it throughout the multiverse. People that found and wore it because rulers of their world.

The Avengers had one of their punch-ups with the Squadron Supreme when two Crown wearers collaborated - Earth-616 Roxxon President Hugh Jones and Earth-712 US President Rockefeller.

If you're curious, that took place in Avengers #144, 147, 148, and 149.

It was pretty good. Patsy Walker became Hellcat during that story.

Hugh Jones got both crowns when the Avengers brought one back from Earth-712 but the Thing thwarted him and took the crown to be safely stored at Project Pegasus.

Where the crown corrupted the scientists to using dimensional cannons to summon Serpent Crowns from across the multiverse to join together into a giant Serpent Crown which threatened to resurrect Set.

But Spider-Man with a cosmic cube, Dr Strange, Scarlet Witch, and the Thing destroyed the Giant Serpent Crown, preventing Set from returning to the physical plane.

Woo.

But now Ghaur has a plan to bring about the triumph of the Serpent Crown and resurrection of Set.

But he's not going to tell us the plan yet. We have to wait.

(I'm getting deja vu of Evolutionary War.)

TWO IF BY SEA

The Atlantean attack on the surface world beings -- and an Avenger must DIE to stop them!

So, it's going to be Namor, right? Iron Man isn't currently an Avenger. I mean, every Avenger is an Avenger but he's currently trying to get the West Coast team to hire him back on.

In event plot land, Ghaur and Llyra bring their plan to Attuma, who currently rules Atlantis.

Ghaur actually goes over his plan! Which makes Atlantis Attacks already more forthcoming about its plot than Evolutionary War was!

Ghaur and Llyra are going to re-assemble the Serpent Crown and help Set manifest on Earth. When Set takes over the world, he'll definitely give it to his most loyal servants and Ghaur is offering Attuma a chance to get in on the ground floor.

All he needs is Attuma to use his armies alongside Llyra's Lemurian rebels to weaken the surface world. Especially the United States.

Attuma agrees, as long as Llyra's forces are put under his command, which she agrees to.

Meanwhile, our title boy Iron Man is shadowing some Maggia (a legally distinct Mafia) mini-subs, trying to find out why Maggia activity has been spiking lately.

The mini-subs are following a Completely Normal ship.

Flying above the ocean, Namor is trying to find the monster babies his monster wife had. Remember those? When Marrina turned into a giant sea monster and then died? And Captain Marvel lost her powers? Anyway, Namor is still looking for the babies.

He stops by the Completely Normal ship and asks if they've seen any sea monsters but the Completely Normal ship is Actually Hydra and they assume he's onto them.

They launch an attack on Namor and then blow up the ship when the Coast Guard shows up.

Iron Man joined in to help Namor when the Maggia subs fled due to the commotion.

So now Namor and Iron Man decide to work together to figure out what Hydra is up to and go to visit Tony Stark.

This lets me find out why Tony was acting weird in Avengers West Coast.

In Iron Man #242, Tony was shot and paralyzed by a stalker.

Tony Stark: "I got involved with the wrong lady. She was a bad sport. But a good shot!"

Out of his armor, he's confined to a wheelchair. So he's been spending more and more time in the armor and less and less time as Tony Stark. Which worries Rhodey.

Anyway, Tony decides to go with Namor to Panama because that Hydra ship was registered down there.

(Coincidentally, that's also where the Atlantis Attack plot is today, womp womp)

Namor spots signs of underwater military movement on the sea floor and goes to investigate that while Tony finds the building the Hydra ship was affiliated with.

Iron Man smashes his way through the building and learns from the Hydra boss that they've created a new designer drug that they're going to give away for free to make everyone in America addicted so Hydra can take over.

So Tony kills the guy, I think?? Geez, Tony.

Iron Man: "Probably shouldn't have done that. But I guess everyone gets a little self-indulgent now and then."

Geez.

Iron Man sets the warehouse on fire to destroy the drugs, which should set back Hydra's plans.

He goes looking for the other Hydra ship, full of drug cargo, when Namor reunites with him.

Namor exposes the Atlantean troops as they were trying to move in secret through the Panama canal by hiding under ships.

It is so funny to me that Atlantis Attacks is just another thing happening while Iron Man is trying to deal with the Hydra drug plot which is something that interrupted him trying to figure out what the Maggia is up to! Stuff keeps interrupting the last thing he was doing!

The Hydra ship tries fleeing so Iron Man asks Namor to go after them while he keep fighting the Atlanteans. WITH MICROWAVES. TO BOIL THE WATER INSIDE THEIR HELMETS.

Attuma orders the Omega rocket be fired at Iron Man or at whatever. It actually flies towards a tanker ship so Iron Man blocks the rocket with his body to save the crew.

The Atlanteans try to shoot Iron Man while he's down but fighter jets from Albrook Air Base come in and start shooting them mermen.

Iron Man thanks them and flies off to go help Namor but Hydra blows up their ship again, seemingly blowing up Namor.

Iron Man: "I'm going to do everything I can to uncover what's goin on between Hydra and the Maggia! I swear, Namor -- your death will not have been in vain!"

This early on in the plot, I like that the heroes still don't know what's going on. They've stumbled into the early stages of Atlantis Attacks and Iron Man gives no further thought to it compared to what he already had on his plate.

MOVING ON!

DOUBLE X CROSS

Mr. Jip? That sounds like a slur. It's not, as far as I can find out. But I don't like it.

Anyway, lets get right into the plot and then into the macguffin hunt.

The Serpent Society was hired by Ghaur and Llyra to collect four mystical artifacts. One of the items, a jeweled Cro-Magnon skull was held by a scholar of black arts called Mr. Jip.

That's him on the cover.

He doesn't appreciate being robbed so he bodyswaps Diamondback and Dazzler, for some reason.

And he doesn't like what Ghaur and Llyra are up to. So if the X-Men gather the artifacts for him, instead, he'll put Diamondback and Dazzler back in the right bodies.

Like a lot of bodyswap stories, this sucks.

Diamondback almost immediately tries to sleep with Wolverine with Dazzler's body. And spends most of the rest of the time trying to eat or smoke things Dazzler doesn't want in her body.

Anyway, the X-Men don't want to go on a macguffin hunt and since they're in the Outback era, they have a magical man who can send them wherever they want to go.

But when they try to get Gateway to send them to Mr. Jip, they instead wind up split into different teams, sent to beat the Serpent Society to the artifacts.

Dazzler-in-Diamondback and Wolverine end up in the Savage Land, where Dazzler is catty because she thinks Wolverine was going to sleep with Diamondback-in-Dazzler because the DinD snuck into Logan's room.

She runs off on her own and gets captured and is a huge burden.

Thanks, the X-Men Annual. Thanks for that.

Wolverine winds up rescuing her and fighting Puff Adder, Asp, and Boomslang almost all by himself.

Dazzler does use Diamondback's marksmanship to conk Puff Adder in the noggin when Puff Adder has Wolverine in a bear hug.

And they find the little stone race idol that they're looking for and get teleported away.

Colossus, Rogue, and Havok wind up teleported to an abandoned shopping center in Lima, Ohio and fight Anaconda, Black Mamba, and Coachwhip.

Once Havok breaks out of Black Mamba's illusion, he explodes all the potato chips at her with his plasma powers. That's pretty funny.

Once all the fights are done, they find Rock Python having just found the artifact.

But he surrenders it to them when he sees he's surrounded and has no backup.

This group of X-Men also get teleported as soon as they touch the thing.

Longshot, Diamondback-in-Dazzler, Psylocke, and Storm get teleported to Iceland to find a specific rock on a beach full of rocks.

Cottonmouth, Black Racer, Rattler, and Bushmaster also show up to look for a rock and everyone gets into a fight.

Longshot finds the specific rock, because lock powers. But Rattler causes a rockslide trying to get the rock and accidentally buries himself and Longshot.

Diamondback doesn't give a shit about Longshot and grabs the rock, getting the X-Men and her teleported to Mr. Jip's lair.

He swaps Dazzler and Diamonback back to their own bodies and the X-Men begrudingly turn over the three artifacts.

Wolverine threatens Mr. Jip when the guy dismisses their worry over Longshot, so the magic man magics Longshot to them. He had luckily fallen into a hole and wasn't crushed.

Then Sidewinder, former leader of the Serpent Society, teleports in, and he and Diamondback snatch the artifacts.

TWAS A RUSE.

Diamondback was working for Sidewinder all along and manipulating the Serpent Society for him.

(Sidewinder gives the Serpent Society 10% of the profit. Considering they failed to secure any of the artifacts and they ousted Sidewinder from the team he formed, that's not bad.)

They teleport off to sell the artifacts to Ghaur and Llyra. Mr. Jip gets annoyed at how pointless this entire adventure was and teleports the X-Men back home.

Once they're gone, he bemoans not being able to prevent Ghaur's plan, since it is going to make Dagger (of Cloak and) a target. And perhaps... Storm too.

Which is echoed when Diamondback and Sidewinder sell the artifacts to Ghaur for one chest of sunken treasure. Once the two snake-themed villains are gone, Ghaur implies that they have plans for Storm.

And the magical artifacts? Lemurian alchemists being using them to recreate the Serpent Crown!

I'm impressed that each annual so far has progressed the story in a unique way.

ABOMINATIONS!

Uh oh, Liefeld drew this annual. I flip to the first page and Ghaur is way off-model.

Ah well.

So with the artifacts the Serpent Society found last time, Ghaur has begun reconstructing a giant Serpent Crown.

But he's got other shit going on too.

His Lemurian ally Llyra has gone on a mission to free the Abomination from a Colorado jail.

(Huh. Why is this called Atlantis Attacks when its more Lemurians who are attacking? The Atlantean troops that were caught sneaking through the Panama Canal even get called a Lemurian attack force when the events get referenced. EXPLAIN THE TITLE, please.)

Llyra brought Abomination to New York and meets with Ghaur.

Abomination is still being controlled by Tyrannus, aka the lastest Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus, and he wants out.

With Lemurian technology and the high voltage lines that ran to where Avengers Mansion used to be, Tyrannus is freed from Abomination by shuffling him into Emil Blonsky and Emil back into Abomination.

This wins Team Set an alliance with Tyrannus. Who I guess has stuff to offer? And also an Abomination, since he'll obey them since they can get him out of the gamma body.

Except the strain of the transfer messed up Emil's mind and now Abomination is rampaging mindlessly.

Also, the massive energy surge alerted both Spider-Man and She-Hulk who were nearby.

(In She-Hulk's case, because she was yelling at J Jonah Jameson for his shitty views on the homeless. Eesh.)

The two heroes fight Abomination but have some trouble. He's Hulk level and they're pulling their punches to avoid endangering any bystanders.

At some point, She-Hulk gets knocked unconscious briefly. Ghaur, who stuck around to watch how things played out, has identified She-Hulk as a strong lady who could be useful as "an excellent bride -- for the great god Set!"

And the creeper burns a snake mark onto She-Hulk's neck while she's briefly knocked out from Abomination punches.

She-Hulk wakes up, gets back in the fight, and throws a gasoline tanker at Abomination, which causes him to stumble off a bridge and fall onto a boat.

The two heroes decide they'd really rather not go chasing him. So they don't.

Very heroic, you two.

Two days later, a disguised Tyrannus visits a federal prison outside Washington DC to propose a deal to an imprisoned Viper.

The bad guys are still networking and the good guys still don't know what's going on.

Plus, the implied role that Storm and Dagger (and now She-Hulk) have in Ghaur's plan is as "brides of Set."

The plot thickens and by thickening, exists.

KNIGHT FIGHT

Despite the cover and the title, Moon Knight don't really fight in this. In fact, they seem pretty enthusiastic to work together. Marc even takes Frank home to see his mansion.

What they do fight is snake people, or sneople.

Moon Knight sees a man eat a gerbil in a pet shop. For some reason, this makes him suspicious and he decides to look into it. Marc follows the guy to an estate run by Save Our Society, a non-profit dedicated to curing drug addicts.

At the same time, Punisher is on the trial of a drug addict named Ralph Newton who killed a woman for her social security check. But when he checks Ralph's usual drug den, the guy isn't there. In fact, Ralph told his drug buddies that he was going to go straight and get the drug addiction cure from the Save Our Society clinic.

The two heroes run into each other when staking out the clinic and decide to team up.

Very alarmingly, they find everyone in the clinic are snake people and comic book fight scene ensues. The heroes easily having the advantage because the cold weather is making the sneople sluggish.

The two go back to Moon Knight's mansion to research and plan.

They learn that former Hydra leader Viper was released from a federal prison last month by a Dr Tyrone.

Wait, that happened a month ago? So, the Amazing Spider-Man annual was a month ago??

Anyway, the two storm the SOS estate Moon Knight scouted earlier.

Fighting the sneople is harder because they're wearing thermal packs that keep them warmed up. But harder is relative.

Viper surprise injects Punisher with drugs and then flees in a rocket when Frank goes totally nuts.

Moon Knight calms down the drugged out Punisher by showing him his shiny moonerangs and then takes him back to Spector Manor to detox.

These two are such good murder friends to each other.

They go their separate ways at the end to deal with separate business but mention they should team up again sometime.

So I'm not sure what this adds to the story. Definitely something.

Viper is making snake people, presumably for Ghaur. She escapes from Punisher and Moon Knight with plans to improve her process.

Some backup stories in the annuals have been recapping the entire history of Set and the Serpent Crown. Set did have snake people serving him in earlier times so maybe Ghaur is setting the stage for Set's return in that way too.

And now we return to Spider-Man taking more than his share of this event.

The SERPENT in the SHADOW

I wonder if team-ups are the theme of this annuals event. Minus Silver Surfer the broody loner.

Namor teamed up with Iron Man in his annual. X-Men teamed up with Diamondback. Spider-Man teamed up with She-Hulk. Punisher teamed up with Moon Knight. Now Spider-Man is teaming up with Cloak and Dagger. And looking ahead, I see that Spider-Man will also be teaming up with Daredevil.

The man is truly hogging more than his share of this event. Three annuals and also appearing in Daredevil's annual? Save some for the rest of us, Parker.

Anyway, this annual also clears up the timeline. Maybe.

Spider-Man mentions that the fight he had against Abomination was a week ago. The Atlantian/Lemurian attacks on the surface are apparently still ongoing. So either Viper's operation in the Punisher annual was in the future or Moon Knight misspoke.

Anyway, plot.

Spider-Man is looking into a Save Our Society non-profit event. Initially to take pictures to try to sell but later when he examines one of the photos, he recognizes a Sons of the Serpent tattoo on one of the SOS staff. Since the Sons of the Serpent are basically the Marvel version of the KKK, Spider-Man is very curious to see what connection they might have to the similar sounding Save Our Society.

I mean, it could just be that this dude is a reformed ex-Son of the Serpent who can't afford to have the tattoo lasered off. But, no, that's not the case.

Cloak is also looking into the Save Our Society event but because he's wondering if the SOS miracle cure to drug addiction can cure his addiction to siphoning life energy from Dagger. Which he both wants and doesn't want because he's afraid that if their powers didn't require them to hang out, she'd have no reason to be with him.

Aw, buddy, she likes you for you, most of the time I've read you two!

Cloak gets defensive when Spider-Man gets in his business and also near Dagger (because she's blind right now, she threw some light daggers at Spider-Man because it sounded like he was hurting Cloak). But the misunderstanding fight is just so they can team-up later.

Ghaur identifies Dagger as another potential bride of Set and orders Tyrannus to put the Mark of Set upon her.

Tyrannus is happy to do so because he has his own plans that plays into.

Apparently, when he's not in Abomination's body, Tyrannus has SUPER CHARISMA MIND CONTROL. He's able to easily lead Dagger away and also control Cloak when he comes looking for her.

He sends Cloak to steal the ancient Book of Kell from a museum. The book is an ancient text of the Sons of the Serpent cult and contains secrets that will make Tyrannus mightier than Ghaur.

Since he now has what he needs from Cloak, Tyrannus sends a huge number of more transformed snake people to kill Cloak.

Cloak nearly gets overwhelmed but gets saved by a mystery figure.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man investigates the lower levels of the Save Our Society building and finds a "cured" drug addict turning into a snake person.

We learn here and from Tyrannus' conversation with Cloak elsewhere in the issue that the addiction cure is a serpent serum Viper created. It does cure chemical addiction in its early stages but then it turns you into a snake people.

And from Ghaur's exposition when he decides that Dagger is one of the Set Brides, we learn that "serpent worshipers" are required for Set's resurrection.

So that's why they're making sneople.

Tyrannus surprises Spider-Man and SUPER CHARISMAS him into compliance.

Tyrannus: "You're like everyone else in the world, addict and non-addict alike. You want easy answers. You want simple solutions. You want someone to tell you what to do. And that someone, my pet... for now and ever more... is me."

This took a turn.

"A Friend in Need..."

So quick bit about Daredevil's status quo at the mo.

He's having a rough time.

Post Born Again, he had started to put his life back together when Kingpin knocked his legs out from under him again by sending Typhoid Mary into his life. Daredevil was beaten nearly to death and THEN went through Inferno where a vacuum and a dentistcoptruck demon tried to kill him. Having lost all his friends and his law clinic so decided to leave New York and travel around for a while. I think he also french kissed Mephisto somewhere in there.

So Daredevil is traveling around Monroe Falls, New York when he encounters some snake people attacking a guy who won't stop prying into what happened to his friend Wally, who joined Save Our Society.

Daredevil saves the guy but refuses to help him break into the treatment center.

At least until Dr Strange (who had been faking his death, for Dr Strange reasons) comes and asks him to help do something about a growing evil he's sensed in... whaddayaknow... the Save Our Society treatment center.

Also happening in world's colliding, Viper comes to the Monroe Falls SOS center to re-group after Punisher and Moon Knight busted up her last base.

Tyrannus (Dr Tyrone) says she's welcome to use this center until she can get back on her feet but then he pulls a double cross on her. And on Ghaur.

With the book he had Cloak steal and with Viper as a sacrifice, he's going to summon Set early and get all the good servant brownie points before Ghaur can.

When Daredevil (following Strange's request) breaks into the center to create a distraction, Tyrannus sends his hypnotized "pet" Spider-Man to stop the intruder.

He seriously has a collar and leash on Spider-Man and calls him a pet. When I said this took a turn, I meant it.

Even though acting under mind control makes Spider-Man fight at less than peak performance, he's still bouncing Daredevil off the scenery and drowning him until Matt decides he wants to live and knocks the wall-crawler out.

The Book of Kell Tyrannus is using doesn't summon Set but instead a snake demon servant of Dormammu.

Tyrannus figures a snake demon is a snake demon and turns the full force of his CHARISMA to control it but this frees Viper and she shoves Tyrannus into the pentagram to get om nom nom'd by the demon.

Dr Strange banishes the demon. Then for good measure, magically cures everyone of the snake serum, turning them back to normal and inadvertantly depriving Ghaur of all those sneople he needed.

We don't really learn more about Ghaur's big plan except that it will require a sacrifice. But this completes the subplot of Tyrannus planning his own thing within the bigger scheme. And follows up on Viper.

Eh. I really hope we get some more Atlantis in Atlantis Attacks soon, though. Like Evolutionary War, there's been a lot of drugs and not a lot of the thing promised in the title.

And that brings us back to Avengers!

AVENGERS ASSEMBLED

Which means we'll be slowing the pace down a little since Avengers is what this liveblog is actually about.

Sorry every other book I skimmed through on my way here.

(This is also the point where the cast balloons so large that I literally can't tag everyone. Just this Avengers Annual has over twenty characters...)

After working on it since the end of the X-Men Annual, Lord Ghaur and Llyra have completed their giant Serpent Crown.

In fact, it's the best Serpent Crown. Bigger and stronger and more indestructible than that other one that broke.

With the crown complete, it begins to emanate power. Which is felt by any who have worn the crown previously. We see Viper, the Thing, Scarlet Witch, mysterious armored figure from the Spectacular Spider-Man issue, and Quasar reacting to the crown.

Ghaur and Llyra call Attuma to tell him to get on that Atlantis Attacks thing already.

The attack on the surface world to keep the surface militaries and heroes distracted.

Attuma acts all gung ho about it when on the video phone with Lord Ghaur but has privately started to doubt his role in this plan. He's the big conqueror of Atlantis and all so why does he feel like a subordinate in this partnership?

He decides to take a back seat and let his lieutenants Tyrak, U-Man, Lord Arno, and Krang carry out the attacks.

So the Atlantean fleet launches and splits to attack four targets. Cape Canaveral in Forida, Fort Hamilton army base in New York, Langley Air Force base in Virginia, and the Shoreham Nuclear Plant on Long Island.

So basically just the East Coast. Well, this is the Avengers East Coast book. Although the cast list has the Avengers West Coast cast too.

The Avengers (Captain America, Sersi, She-Hulk, Quasar, Thor, and robot Human Torch Jim Hammond is here for some reason) get the reports of the attacks.

They wonder if just the six of them can handle four Atlantean armies. But luckily, this is the Every Avenger is an Avenger era and if there's any situation that calls for a mass muster, it may well be this.

And for some reason, Wasp, Dr Pym, Tigra, and Mockingbird arrive in a tiny panel on the next page.

What, they didn't fit in the big, two-page spread?

Well... Tigra doesn't?

She's still feral and locked in a cat carrier according to John Byrne so he later declares her presence in this annual didn't happen.

She's definitely in this issue and she does stuff but try to remember that you're just imagining it.

This is a pretty big crowd but we immediately cut it down a little. Quasar and the Thing are feeling under the weather (unbeknowst to them, because of the influence of the mega crown) so they're told to sit this one out.

The remainder break into four teams to tackle the four problem areas.

Black Panther, Invisible Woman, She-Hulk, and Mr Fantastic will go to Shoreham.

Robot Human Torch, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, the Hulk, and Sersi will go to Langley.

Dr Pym, Tigra (except she's not here, stop making things up), Hawkeye, Thor, Black Widow, and the Wasp go to Fort Hamilton.

And the Vision, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Mockingbird, and Iron Man go to Cape Canaveral.

I guess Hawkeye decided to leave the Great Lakes Avengers at home. I'm sad but also glad because I don't have to tag them.

And I also guess that Monica Rambeau got her powers back? Apparently in a Giant-Size Special one-shot Captain Marvel book? Nice. Now put her back in charge of the Avengers. She was cheated.

Team This Is Just A Fantastic Four of Invisible Woman, Black Panther, Mr Fantastic, and She-Hulk invisibly land the Fantasticar at the nuclear power plant and take the guards by surprise.

Silly hat wearer Lord Arno blind fires and manages to hit She-Hulk, despite telegraphing it so far as to yell that he's about to fire.

She-Hulk has been remarked to be acting subdued in this issue, presumably because of the Mark of Set that was secretly put on her during the Amazing Spider-Man issue.

Either way, she gets zapped and bonks into Invisible Woman, who is jarred into dropping the invisibility so an open battle it'll have to be.

Lord Arno identifies the group as the Fantastic Four ('cause it's the most Fantastic Four possible grouping you can make out of All The Avengers give or take a Ben Grimm who is out sick). And Lord Arno doesn't take the Fantastic Four lightly and immediately summons in his biggest gun.

Hey!

It's Orka, the giant Atlantean with the bad outfit. I forgot how stupid those 'teeth' around his face looked.

But it's fitting that he's involved. He was in that other Avengers Serpent Crown story, on loan to Roxxon. He beat up the entire Avengers team until Moondragon annoyed Thor into releasing even more true power. Because Thor unconsciously holds back a lot on Earth so he can hang with the Avengers?

So this guy is a tough guy and this group doesn't have a Thor.

But he's knocked on his ass two pages later with the combined efforts of She-Hulk and Black Panther picking up a random Atlantean gun.

Seeing Orka go down so quickly, Lord Arno panics and orders RETREEEEAT.

Meanwhile, a Quinjet arrives at Langley Air Force base. Wonder Man, Robot Human Torch, Hulk, and Sersi jump out and leap right into action, leaving Scarlet Witch to park the damn thing.

Wonder Man flies through the Atlantean anti-aircraft guns. Because an underwater people would definitely have anti-air.

Hulk jumps out of the Quinjet with Sersi clinging to his back and crashes through the Atlantean airships on the way down.

And I think Sersi turns herself into a rock to crash into the ground?

Scarlet Witch (after parking the Quinjet) uses her hex powers to alter the probability of two airships crashing into each other as yes.

Wonder Man tells her to take it easy because she's been out of sorts today and she tells him off for trying to mother her. Even tells him that "they're not giving out Quicksilver Awards" which manages to zing Pietro and he's not even here.

I guess giant dudes are a necessity because Tyrak (Attuma's chief spy who has a lot of abilities not related to spying like being super buff) grows giant to fight the Avengers.

Hulk and Wonder Man go to fight him as the two punchiest dudes there. But it is Robot Human Torch who strikes the biggest blow, by melting the device Tyrak was using as a power source, making him bwee-bwee-bwee shrink down so Wonder Man can knock him out.

Meanwhile, Scarlet Witch passes out from over-exerting herself. She falls right into Lord Ghaur's clutches.

He declares her another bride of Set and puts the Mark of Set on her.

What is that now...? She-Hulk, Dagger, and Scarlet Witch? With Storm suggested as another target?

Anyway.

Sersi uses her power of transmutation to turn half the Atlantean soldiers into human soldiers? Or just transmutes their outfits and skin so they look like human soldiers?? Anyway, it gets them shooting each other.

Then Moondragon and Rick Jones show up in a very baffling cameo.

I know this is one of those every Avenger ever situations but Rick Jones isn't an Avenger and isn't even an active part of this story!

Seriously. Moondragon is basically using him as a gun. She's used her mind powers to tap into Rick Jones' latent destiny force power. Remember that stuff that ended the Kree/Skrull War at least for a bit? That stuff. Moondragon uses it to knock some dudes down.

Kinda not even worth showing up for two panels, you two.

Hulk even scolds Moondragon for ruining the good time he was having and tells her to go home.

So that brings us to group 3, headed to Fort Hamilton.

Dr Pym and Tigra in Rover, the ant-head shaped airship that thinks Hank is neat, Thor and Wasp flying under their own power, and Hawkeye and Black Widow on Hawkeye's Sky-Cycle.

I love Rover. It's a shame that more hasn't been done with him up until this point.

The Atlanteans fire at the Avengers as they arrive over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

Thor lands and starts whirling his hammer to blow Atlantean soldiers around. But then they shoot him with an off-panel weapon.

Which wouldn't be a big deal except for Wasp pointing off-panel and going "what's that pointed at Thor?!"

C'mon.

U-Man (or Unter-Wasser Mann, apparently) leads a group of soldiers to charge on the Avengers.

But Hank just. Uses Pym Particles to shrink the entire army.

Okay, so Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Wasp help. And Tigra scoops them up.

Apparently Hank whipped up Pym Particles for everyone.

THIS WOULD INVALIDATE SO MANY TOUGH FIGHTS.

HANK, WHAT THE HELL??

Also, Thor notes that despite leading the charge, U-Man somehow vanished without a trace.

Also also, what? No giant guy this time?

And time for group 4, the final group. Captain Marvel, Captain America, the Vision, Mockingbird, and Iron Man.

Vision fists people, as he is known to do. Captain America throws his mighty shield and all who oppose his shield must yield. Mockingbird bonks people with her battle staves. Iron Man does flying hip thrusts to knock Atlanteans down. And Captain Marvel uses her energy trail to bowl them over.

NOTABLY. Captain America muses that the Vision he's fighting alongside is not like the robot-man he came to know. And that "it could chill a man to the very bone!"

I'm glad someone seems to care. WEST COAST AVENGERS.

Captain America gets the idea to start breaking the Atlanteans' helmets when he throws his mighty shield. Mockingbird follows suit and the Atlanteans deprived of their helmet water run back to the ocean.

Breaking all the helmets individually would take a while so Vision and Iron Man combine forces to blast the whole army with thermal energy.

Captain Marvel could easily have been added to this effort. Just saying.

The whole army flees into the ocean and then... they all get eaten by a sea monster?

????

Captain America: "In some bizarre, inexplicable way... it looks like the ocean has claimed its own!"

Be more alarmed by this!

A maybe explanation for this is the mysterious armored figure that shows up and decks Krang, the leader of this particular army. Then he beats the shit out of him.

I wonder who this mysterious guy is who has past history with Krang.

Maybe it's Raphael of the Ninja Turtles. He is red and angry.

Over in Atlantis, a messenger reports the defeat of all four of the armies to Attuma.

Attuma shouts that he knew this whole plan was folly and made no sense!

(Then why did you sign on?)

But having decided this Atlantis Attacks idea was flawed from the start, Attuma starts to wonder why Lord Ghaur and Llyra insisted on it. What are they really planning? And is there anything Attuma can do to screw them over??

Back at Avengers Island, several of the Avengers assemble to discuss what's been happening.

Wonder Man worries that although Scarlet Witch seems recovered from whatever was making her ill, she's still not acting like herself.

Captain America says that whatever is going on, there's nothing the Avengers can do except be ready for whatever the next move is going to be.

And since they totally have downtime right now, they should look into some of the strange occurrences of the recent past.

Presumably the other annuals.

But unbeknowst to them, the missing U-Man swims towards Avenger Island with more Atlantean troops.

Dun dun dun, continued in next week's post!

Follow at @essential-avengers and maybe like and reblog. I read through fourteen annuals in one week before discovering they couldn't all fit in one post. I'm exhausted.

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People be shipping Shuri with Namor. Like I get she’s like 22 and he’s 500 years old. Like she is literally a very young adult. A woman at 22 is different than a woman at 30 or more. They are saying it’s like Thor and Jane. But Jane is an older woman and one who is more mature. Maybe I seen too many crime shows idk Shuri and Namor rubs the wrong way. Not because Namor a bad boy or anything he has his reasons for him being upset.

I knew people were going to ship them some people already did before this movie came out. In the comics they don't have any kind of relationship like that, they barely interact and Shuri loathes Namor. continued~

I don't care so much about the 500 year old age gap because, like I get it, it's fiction, its like Vampires and all that immortal romance stuff (look I'm not talking Twilight here, I need people to know I literally hate Twilight but every assumes I talk about them when I bring up vampire romance stuff, but I really can't stand reading high school romances/aus or whatever). It's not like a real 500 year old dude is gonna turn up that women need to worry about vs real life situations with actual abuse and power dynamics.

Like I hope people realize it's all fiction but also apply their common sense/critical thinking skills that what happens in fiction is not an excuse for abuse/power imbalance in real life and that they shouldn't let the fantasy be held up as "it happened here so that must mean it's romantic", but also I side eye those mass produced books/movies about older/younger dynamics they try to portray it as a good thing to have your personal space/rights stripped away for the Romance. It's really based on what the couple is vs the plot imo. Like people are ok with Thor/Jane because Jane is older but she is never going to be as old as Thor, but they were framed in a really cute way so people don't care about the thousand year age gap vs Shuri being younger but still an adult however she went through alot of trauma and is more vulnerable when she first meets Namor vs Jane being pretty much ok when she met Thor.

With immortal romances I don't really care so much of the age it's about how the characters act, like Namor wasn't aggressively coming on to her, he wasn't coming on to her at all. He treated her with respect befitting a Princess, he upheld customs of his people for properly greeting royalty of another Nation. He was charming and open and honest with Shuri and people were going to respond to that scene between them. I personally don't ship it because of what happens with [REDACTED] in the movie and I personally think that Shuri would never get over that so anything set after that event wouldn't make sense to me. Then again I never shipped them before the movie tbh. I don't want to tell people what to ship, that's not my business and some fans might enjoy seeing Shuri, a WoC, in a romance with a handsome Merman because there is a imbalance in fiction in regards to WoC having fantasy romances vs white leading ladies.

I have more thoughts about their relationship in my long post that I will have up soon.

[ao3feed-lokitony]

Come here, you fucking idiot {affectionate}

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

by Loni4ever

Bored on a vacation he got forced into by Pepper, Tony meets a merman. Or, more accurately, the dude swims up to his private jetty, gives him a scare, then starts making small talk like it's something people - merpeople - do.

Curious and welcoming the opportunity for some distraction, Tony hangs out with him, and finds he's actually having fun. That is, until he becomes aware he's crushing on the guy, which not long after (d)evolves into miserable pining.

Just, fuck.

Words: 8947, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Loki (Marvel)

Relationships: Loki/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Tony POV, Alternate Universe, Merman Loki, MerMay, Swearing, Warning: Loki, Loki does what Loki wants, Loki & Tony Stark Friendship, Fluff and Humor, Name-Calling, as in affectionate name calling, Developing Relationship, Affection, Pining, Pepper Potts & Tony Stark Friendship, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Fluff and Angst, Insecure Tony Stark, Kissing, Tony's and Loki's A+ communication skills, Insecure Loki, Happy Ending, Tony Stark Has A Heart, And it's beating for Loki

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

[ao3feed-thundershield]

Drain My World Away

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/MAaOi5Q

by TheUltimateUndesirable

For months now Steve has been battling his instincts to follow his newfound friend into his so-called world but considering that’s the ocean he doesn’t understand how to do that. Everything in his gut tells him to trust Thor though, even if he doesn’t know why. Maybe it’s the stubbornness that prevents it or the underlying layer of fear he tries to ignore. Either way it becomes a personal challenge as he’s pulled towards the merman day after day, until he finally jumps and the world he knows drains away.

Words: 5146, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, Thor (Marvel)

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Thor

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Merpeople, Alternate Timelines, Alternate Universe - 1940s, POV Steve Rogers, POV First Person, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Artist Steve Rogers, Merman thor, Steve Rogers Feels, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Protective Thor (Marvel), Stubborn Steve Rogers, Emotions, Gay Steve Rogers, Period Typical Attitudes, Confused Steve Rogers, Falling In Love, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Accidental Plot, sorry - Freeform, Feelings Realization, Questioning, Alternate Universe - Normal Life, Not All That Normal Actually, Cute Ending, One Shot, Author Is Sleep Deprived, Marvel Rare Pair Bingo 2022, ThunderShield Bingo 2022

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[teddiesbestestpal]

In the catacombs of Futaba’s Egyptian Palace Morgana stood proudly wielding his sword, summoning Zorro, the fencer defeating the shadows with his rapier as Morgana turnt around.

“ Tief! you can come out now!” Morgana stated as he hears a sigh.

An creature as short as the cat, with creamy light yellow skin long saturated brownish tentacle hair pointy elf-like ears piercing reddish pink eyes wearing an golden trident shaped masquerade mask the creature’s eyeliner being apparent, he is wearing a grey trenchcoat with long sleeves and gold colored buttons on them with gold colored shoulder Epaulettes on his shoulders along with an white vest underneath with an light reddish pink tie attached to it the same color as his gloves, he’s also wearing black boots with white stripes and three golden buttons on the side of the boots.

The creature’s tentacle hair moves on its own and punches the shadows in the face as they fade away.

“ Mona my codename is Squire not Tief…” Tiefsee says annoyed.

“ I’m sorry but Tief is such a good nickname for you! lady Ann would approve!” Morgana says as Tiefsee turns to look at Morgana.

“ Your always talking about Lady Ann.. how about you call me Sir Squire?~” Tiefsee grinned transgressively at the black cat as Morgana blushed lightly.

“ Okay.. sir Squire what do you-“ Morgana says as he sees Tiefsee processing reddish pink code in his right eye but surely Morgana must be seeing things.. right?

“ Sir Squire all you okay? did your experience at Kaneshiro’s palace traumatize you? if so I completely understand and-“ suddenly an Thor shadow appeared as Tiefsee pushed Morgana out of the way Morgana falling on his face as his butt lands on the ground.

“ Blackbeard!” Tiefsee said as blue flames erupted as his persona an beautiful male merman with saturated teal blue skin with some scars long pastel teal hair fins, A mermaid tail with some scars on it his back slightly has some of his spine bone sticking out his eyes are closed as he comes out an giant clam as three fish bone themed darts float around him.

Blackbeard casts Malaquadyne onto the shadow weakening it.

“ Squire that was amazing!” Morgana says in awe of what Tiefsee just did.

“ Thanks… wait… he’s still not dead?” Tiefsee looks at the Thor shadow and materializes his canon as he fires a round shot at the shadow as it is still not dead as Tiefsee sees Morgana going ahead.

“ This pest is persistent!” Tiefsee says materializing his golden bladed anchor as he holds the golden anchor chain as he swings the bladed anchor at the shadow like a pendulum splitting them in half.

“ Good… good…. everything is according to plan., Lord Yaldabaoth are you listening.. I’m sure I will make you proud..” Tiefsee said to himself processing more code to adjust his algorithm before walking off after Morgana.

“ Wait! Mona! wait for me you insolent cat!” Tiefsee stated running after Morgana.

[the-iceni-bitch]

𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝕲𝖔 𝖀𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘, 𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆𝖒 𝕴 𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝕾𝖆𝖞?

𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟽 - 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚛 𝙾𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝚂𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛.

𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊 ~ 𝙰 𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛

[ao3feed-thor]

Come here, you fucking idiot {affectionate}

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/rL8weEl

by Loni4ever

Bored on a vacation he got forced into by Pepper, Tony meets a merman. Or, more accurately, the dude swims up to his private jetty, gives him a scare, then starts making small talk like it's something people - merpeople - do.

Curious and welcoming the opportunity for some distraction, Tony hangs out with him, and finds he's actually having fun. That is, until he becomes aware he's crushing on the guy, which not long after (d)evolves into miserable pining.

Just, fuck.

Words: 8947, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Loki (Marvel)

Relationships: Loki/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Tony POV, Alternate Universe, Merman Loki, MerMay, Swearing, Warning: Loki, Loki does what Loki wants, Loki & Tony Stark Friendship, Fluff and Humor, Name-Calling, as in affectionate name calling, Developing Relationship, Affection, Pining, Pepper Potts & Tony Stark Friendship, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Fluff and Angst, Insecure Tony Stark, Kissing, Tony's and Loki's A+ communication skills, Insecure Loki, Happy Ending, Tony Stark Has A Heart, And it's beating for Loki

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/rL8weEl

[hjbender]

I'm pretty in love with your Merthorki fic, so is it possible to get an update on the Mer-Thorki family? How is the runt doing? Did Thor's parents ever find out? How's Mama Loki dealing with caring for all those babies?

Ah thank you, anon, I’m so glad to hear you like that AU! I don’t have anything new to report just yet, but I’m hoping to update the adventures of sea snake sorcerer Loki and merman Thor and their seven little merbeebs this coming mermay!

[mixflori]

He thinks it's just a normal men...

[lokijiro]

Loki loves to turn into a merman.

Thor wants to be a merman too, so Loki tries to shapeshift him. . .

Unfortunately, this results in Thor’s head being turned into a fish.