#suicide squad leaks

[waynzel]

looking SO disrespectfully rn

[dat2ndaccount97]

Saw the leaks for that Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League Game, and man is it a rough time to be a DC Fan. It's honestly kinda depressing, the game just feels mean spirited for the sake of being mean spirited, also the plot sound real not good. On top of being a generic looking Live Service Looter Shooter.

Anyways here's a pic I took of Nightwing (my fave) in the Gotham Knights Photo Mode because this game is pretty good and has a great Photo mode:

[rosewood-multifandom-writer]

How to ruin Harley Quinn x Poison Ivy in one step: Age Regress Poison Ivy and have Harley look like a creep by trying to reminisce about her romance with the now middle school aged Poison Ivy in hopes that they rekindle their relationship.

Not the first time DC decided to do that to Harley, as they also had her violate Nightwing in one of the animated movies too.

Furthermore, I don’t find aging up characters or aging down characters that appealing unless it is relevant to the storyline and the character. Aging down Poison Ivy is just as weird as aging up Damien Wayne to me.

[mourninglamby]

I want to commit suicide but only if I can be reborn as a floridian rat so I can chew pipes with my squad and cause a carbon monoxide leak in the dteam house

[foli-vora]

Congratulations on your follower milestone! That is amazing! 💖

May I please request a Rick Flag fic with “The first time you smiled it felt like the universe aligned.” and I would love for you to rip my heart out (since that is an option 😊)

Thanks and I am so excited to read all of these upcoming fics!

My sweet angel, thank you for your never ending support and love, and thank you for the request! I'm sorry for the major delay getting this done, but I hope you enjoy me ripping your heart out and squishing it under my slipper 💖

hear me

rick flag x suicidesquadf!reader

word count: 1k warnings: ANGST SUPREME. sad ending. swearing, blood, bullet wounds, death, sad sad sad. rick is cheesy & sad. SAD. ANGST. genuinely teared up writing this bye.

They lied. Everyone who had toed that line between life and death, they fucking lied. There was no bittersweet flash of memories before your eyes. You didn’t have a lot, but shit—there’s gotta be something worth showing you, worth reliving, before you close your eyes forever.

The minutes pass, you feel the growing chill along your limbs from the steady flow of blood from the various bullet holes in your torso, and still—nothing. Not a goddamn thing. 

Just Rick.

Rick bolting across the sand with your name falling from his lips. You can’t hear it, there’s a distinct shrill ringing in your ears that seems to be drowning out the chaos around you, but you see the movement of his mouth, the strain of his throat as he yells.

He comes to land on his knees next to you, a shower of cool sandy grains flicking up and dusting your black tac shirt. It glistens under the light of explosions and gunfire, and you briefly wonder in morbid curiosity how much of your blood stains the beach beneath you.

“Jesus. Oh, oh darlin’—”

You hear him then, his broken and strained mutter cutting through the surrounding ambush.

“Hey Colonel,” you rasp with a barely there smile, a sticky hot trail of liquid leaking from the edge of your lips, “how’s it lookin’?”

Those pretty doe eyes dart over the destruction of your body, his hands ghosting over your wounds in what feels like hesitation, anxiety. Which ones can be smothered with a cheap and easy dressing? What one needs the most pressure applied?

Going by the rate your body seems to be numbing, cooling in the breezy night air, they’re all pretty shit. At least there's no pain. Shock, adrenaline - whatever the fuck it is, you're thankful for it.

“Fine,” he mutters, rough gloved hands instead coming to rest on your cheeks, thumbs brushing away the coarse sand and half dried blood splatters covering your skin, “you’re gonna be just fine.”

“Damn,” you breathe heavily, brows briefly coming together, “I never thought I’d hear you lie to me. None of that shit. No, no.... you gotta make it something good, Colonel.”

Confusion pinches his pretty face through the pain, and you give another strained smile.

“The last words I’ll ever hear—make ‘em… they gotta be good.”

“Don’t talk like that, you hear me? You’ll be fine. Backup’s comin’. They’re comin’, and we’ll get you patched up, and you’ll be right to back to bein’ a pain in my ass, okay?”

Oh, sweet soldier.

No.

It doesn't work like that.

They don’t send help for people like you. Suicide Squad, remember? It’s in the name. You knew what you were signing up for. He knew what you were signing up for. This is it. You’re just another classified file thrown through the shredder at the end of the day.

You blink tiredly up at him, “No one’s coming, Flag.”

He shakes his head in firm denial, strong jaw rolling in an effort to remain cool and collected.

“No, they... they have to.” 

“Somethin’ good, Flag,” you remind him quietly, a heaviness now seemingly coming to rest along your limbs.

Is this it? Can’t you just have one more minute? One more minute of him crowding your vision? You don’t need a last minute life montage, not when he’s here, not when he’s carefully dragging you further into his warm embrace.

Please, just a little longer in his arms.

“Okay… okay. The—the first time you smiled, it felt like the universe aligned.”

“Oh, fuck me,” you splutter with a sudden roll of remaining energy, chest heaving and lungs screaming as you choke on a weak chuckle, “that’s a… a new low, even for… f’your s-soft self.”

“Thought you’d like that,” he drawls quietly with a grin.

It’s brief, tainted with agony stricken tears, and falls from his face the second it stretches his lips. No, sweet soldier. Smile. It’s okay.

Maybe… maybe this is why your life isn’t flashing before your eyes. It’s because it’s here—he’s here. You didn’t really have anything before this, before the Squad, before Rick. You were merely a shell of a person in your cell, angry with the unfair world and the hand you’d been dealt from childhood, but when he came along?

He gave you a chance, saw something in you no one had before. He provided you with the Squad, with friends. He got you out of your cell and into the fresh air with a new outlook. He trained you, laughed with you, ate with you in the crappy mess hall despite the frowns from his co-workers.

He saw you.

He saw you for everything you were, not for what people thought you to be.

“Think you’re the… the closest thing I’ve e-ever felt to love, Colonel. Thank you.”

It’s a decent goodbye, you decide with the final beat of your heart, slackening in relief and embracing the call of the abyss with a leftover curl still tugging at your lips. Better than you’d been led to believe you deserved, better than what Waller threatened you with.

You got a good ending.

He feels the weight of you in his arms, sees how unnaturally still your chest has fallen and how your eyes seem to stare just past his shoulder. It shakes him to the core. His heart beats at the base of his throat and he can’t help but call out to you one more time, despite knowing you’d never answer.

“Darlin’?”

You can’t be gone—not yet.

You can’t be gone, because you didn’t get to hear him say it back. He needs to say it, he needs you to hear it. He murmurs those three little words over and over, breathing them into your skin wherever he can reach, willing you to stay just long enough to hear them, long enough to know you were loved.

You need to know you’re loved.

Bile builds in his throat at the thought, but he has to leave you behind; alone, broken and bled out on the sandy beach for a sweep team to deal with later. He wonders as he runs through the dense jungle, but he’ll never know if you did manage to hear his broken, tear filled I love you’s.

He hopes with everything in him that you did.

[arkham-prisoner]

Me: sees major plot from Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League leaked: “it can’t be THAT BAD.”

The truth:

[somelonelywriter]

Can I request a Leto!Joker where I have powers (telekinesis) and save J from someone who wants to hurt him but I over use them which causes me to pass out but he catches me in his arms and he carries me to our shared room and he starts to panic about what happened and he stays with me until I wake up (you can add the rest) (we are husband and wife) thank u :)

VOICES

Pairing: Husband!Jared!Joker x Wife!Fem!reader

(i used she/her pronouns since you said wife, but if you want me to change them tell me, also it's just a one shot I'm sorry, let me know if you wanted headcanons or something else).

Warnings: use of pet names, light swearing, fainting, mention of guns/weapons, mention of Batman, mention/description of blood, mention of death, mention being worried about someone well being (does that really need a warning(?)), Hurt/comfort, tiny bit of toxic relationship and as usual Joker is his own warning, let me know if I missed anything.

Summary: Batman almost catches your husband, almost is the key word.

A/n: I'm sorry this took me so long. AHHHH im SO excited! My first request!! I'll try my best, and i hope you don't mind the fact that i made it start in the car like the scene in 'Suicide Squad', feel free to critizice (obv in a constructive way). Let me know if there are any grammatical errors. Enjoy!

Not really proofreaded 😅

Faster.

That was the only thing in your mind as your husband drived the purple Lamborghini on the road.

You needed to get that stupid bat off of your car. "He's gonna ruin our date night!" You screamed, your anniversary night was gonna be ruined and it was all his fault! You pointed your gun at the ceilieng of the car and fired at it a couple of times, letting your anger out.

The joker near you laughed, a stressed laugh. You knew what that meant. Sooner or later something, or worst someone will blow up.

So you decided to take care of the situation in an even more aggressive way. It was risky to say the least, but extreme problems require extreme solutions, and oh if Batman was a fucking problem.

So you taked a deep breath and cleared your mind (as much as you could with the Clown losing the last bit of sanity he had in the driver seat) and visualized the annoying bat being throwed under your car.

Suddendly all the noises stopped, then a loud 'bang' could be heard and you saw Batman flying rigth on the car windscreen leaking blood over it.

You did it!!

Joker clapped his hands "My good Darling! He got what he deserved! Death to the bat! Death to the bat!" He singed sang, but it sounded muffled, oh so muffled...

The only thing on your mind was a drop. 'tic tic tic' (a/n: does this make sense?)

You looked down and saw your hands covered in blood, your nose was bleesdng... Your eyes felt heavy, the last thing you heard was your name, Joker was calling you. Then it all went black.

Joker on the other hand did not excpect you to faint. It was unplanned, and he even if he loved surprises he didn't love having you in this state.

If we're being honest, at first he was tempted to leave you there (a/n: for me the story finishes like this :) but a request is a request lol) but then a voice, one of the too many in his head, told him not to do it, that he needed you, even if he didn't really know for what... So he drived to his mansion, every now and then checking on you.

Once in your shared bedroom he layed you on the bed.

Joker started to genuinely feel concerned for you, almost an hour as passed and you still weren't awake.. His pretty toy can't die, not if he doesn't want she to do so at least.

He then decided to lay down near you, for the first time in his life he felt a little scared, the voices in his head getting loud, he could hear them scream, scream that you had to wake up, that you couldn't leave him, that he-

He suddendly turned his head to look at his pet, who had now opened her eyes.

you tried to talk but he stopped you, he just wanted to held you on his chest. You didn't dare to discontent him by moving. Not wanting to miss the chance to have some affection since he rarely initiated it, you ignored your headache and relaxed into his touch.

Ironically the place where you felt the most safe were the place where everyone else felt the most scared.

[princess-of-thebes-1995]

This is after your attempt of suicide...

You slowly opened your beautiful colored eyes by blinking a couple of times before fully opening them wide. The lights were too hard and bright.

Then you remembered slowly. You cut your wrists and fainted from blood loss.

Is this heaven? You believed to be a good person. You felt happy. A place of bliss. Sadly, you saw the Colonel sitting on a chair. His chest was heaving hard and his teeth looked clenched together.

Uh. Oh. He looked feral. Like a primal Navi. A true beast.

You began to shake. Who will protect you now? Your father was dead since you were a child. He was an Alpha man. He protected your mom, yourself and others. A true gentleman. And Grace, she would defend and your other science friends. Now, you were alone.

"Hello, Princess." He drawled. He slowly stood up to his height and began to walk to your hospital bed. "Did you dream of me? You were out cold for a long time."

You gulped. "I don't remember anything when I slept."

The Colonel was right besides you. He nodded. "You almost took your own life Infront of my twins. You left them vulnerable and they started to cry. If staff didn't heard them. You would have been dead by now." He hissed l.

He grabbed your neck and tilted your face up. "you are so rebellious. Always surprising me. Behind my back, you are always up to some stupid shit."

You grabbed his hand to lessen his hold.

"I thought you changed. You broke my heart many times. You made me into a fuckin' pussy. You disgraced me. Besides the women in my family, women are evil bitches."

You coughed and tears leaked out. Will you die?

The Colonel let go of you. He then slung you over his shoulder with ease and walked. He told almost all soldiers to report to the gym. He used his ear piece.

Lyle was the only survivor of the Recom squad after the final battle. Others died. Good

New soldiers as Navis were now with Quaritch. Human soldiers and recoms gathered in the gym looking confused.

The Colonel got a huge chair and placed it in the middle of the gym. He sat down then dropped you to the floor. You landed on your ass.

You were on your knees as you looked up at the Colonel.

He then pulled his Marine pants and boxers down. He was showing his penis. Erected and ready to explode.

Some soldiers cringed in disgust and looked away. Lyle blinked. The fuck will happen? Lyle's eyes widened in fear. The Colonel will not...

The Colonel clutched the back of your head and made your face close to his dick. It was oozing cum.

"since ass whippings and freedom loss won't tame that bitchy attitude, degradation will."

You began to shake your head. "Please no." You whispered.

"I won't make a woman make a fool out of me again. I am done being nice. Fuck this diplomacy shit. You will obey all my orders from now on. Your opinion will not be heard again. You brought this shit on yourself. Blame yourself and not me. I spoiled you."

His dick looked like a volcano with lava.

The Colonel smirked. "Impressive huh?" He bucked his hips up. "I purposely stopped masturbating to store all my seed so you can swallow."

You tried to get up to leave but the Colonel's clasp in your scalp tightened.

"Hurry. Give the others a show. Some don't have girlfriends."

You stopped sobbing and began to hiccup and cough. Slowly you grabbed his penis causing his breath to hitch. You slowly covered your whole mouth. But not his whole dick

The Colonel sighed in disappointment and shook his head. "come in, slut. I know you can do better than that."

So, you did it. You magically covered his whole dick in your mouth... and throat. You almost clocked. Your tears continued oozing out of your eyes like his semen kept oozing from his dick. You felt so humiliated. You could look to the side or anywhere out of shame.

Meanwhile, there was mix reaction to the soldiers. Some Navis who found you hot enjoyed and was turned on. The thought of a man being a man.

Others were disgusted. Not because they respected women. They were misogynist too. But they didn't want to see another guy's dick. But Lyle was different.

Lyle raped women as a human before. He looked down and shook his head. He raided cities and other places on earth. He did the same shit. Now, he hated himself.

He now regretted being evil by raping. He didn't regret killing Navis but after seeing your pain. He wished he never raped s woman.

He was jealous of his boss for having you. He wished he was like the Colonel. Now, Lyle somewhat hates him. He loved the Colonel as a friend in other areas. Not in this subject of women objectification.

....

The Colonel on the other hand felt so alive. He was mad he lost against Sully. Again. He also lost his first son Miles. Miles ran away from him to Sully.. Some squad friends. Only Lyle and his Ikran survived.

He was humiliated and stressed. You made it worse by trying to leave him. Again.

He finally cummed in your mouth. You then sat down on the floor with overflowing mouth of cum. Gasping for breath.

The Colonel smirked in satisfaction. He stood up and zipped up his pants. "Good girl." He picked you bridal style from the floor and left the gym without looking at anyone.

"dismissed."

[definitelynotthedarklord]

Why do they hate Batman Beyond all of a sudden?

So I was scrolling through social media the other day and I saw a video where they talked about a canceled sequel to Batman Arkham Knight, that, from the sound of it, would have been one of the greatest games any of us would ever play, essentially being a bigger, sweeter cherry on top of the other cherry that is Arkham Knight that was on top of the sunday that is the Arkham series.

The story was that 10 years after the end of Arkham Knight Bruce, who had been using fear toxin to better strike fear into the hearts of Gotham's criminals, retires and passes the mantle of Batman to his son, Damien Wayne, who then goes on to fight the Court of Owls.

And it would have had a Nemesis system kind of like the Shadow of War/Mordor games, where if you break a goons arm, the next time you see him his arm'll be in a cast or something.

And they scrapped it because of leaks, and instead gave us Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: KTJL!

And then I hear they also canceled a Batman Beyond movie made by the people behind Across The Spiderverse

Like what in the everloving fuck is wrong with these people? How can they look at these amazing ideas and say "Nah." Are they trying to not make money? Do they want a reputation of sucking?

[nemo20-myparfumsmelllikegarlic]

My headcanons that make Bernard actually an interesting character

My main Bernard headcanon is that he has a "conspiracy" blog. He actually posts vital information about superheros on his blog, and he is a bit anti the whole hero thing. He is not a detectiv in the traditional way. He befriends different people and buys information. He is more of an actor, creating characters and accents. Bernard makes fun of hero's and hopes people would know more about their work and how many victims their fights have. He started to cover up his blog as a conspiracy one after doing juvi at 13 for some suicide squad mission leaks. He thinks he is an actual jurnalist unlike others who publish only what the guvernamant wants them to.

He speaks multiple languages. That helps him blend better in the gotham underworld.

He is not actually American he just lives within his mother side of the family as his parents also have some legal problems. He wants to hide that they are not his parents as not to raise eyebrows about his and his parents' "criminal" history.

Bruce openly doesn't like him, like he doesn't most guys tim has thing for, and hopes he gets back together with steph. And when he finds out about his past posts on the batfam, he finally has something against Bernard. Dowd stopped updating any batfam news after he started dating tim.

[silk-and-web]

[Suicide Squad game spoilers]

The most underwhelming about thing about Kill The Justice League is that they commit to the bit without actually committing to the bit. What do you know, you actually do kill the Justice League... by shooting bullet sponges until they ragdoll onto the ground. There's no cleverness, no story, and not even a cutscene except for one. I was expecting King Shark to bite someone's head off at minimum.

Though this might be explained by leaks and datamining suggesting the JL gets resurrected or was never killed at all. So they didn't commit to the bit whatsoever.

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A "Brief" History of Shade, the Changing Man & Woman

In the beginning, ie 1978, there was Ditko, and he gave us Shade, the Changing Man, and it was good.

Rac Shade was a Bond-type agent of an advanced society on a world called Meta - not an alien planet, but the Earth-analog of another layer of reality, and journeying between them meant crossing "The Zero Zone" and trying not to run afoul of its Area of Madness.

Shade had been framed for treason and the crippling of his fellow agent and fiancé Mellu Loran's parents, high-ranking government officials. Escaping from prison and heading to Earth and making use of a bit of contraband experimental technology that was being held at his hideout for Earth operations prior to his frame-up, the "M-Vest", he tracks down escaped Metan criminals while also seeking to find the one who framed him, who has been hiding out on Earth by integrating into its mafia underworld.

The M-Vest allowed Shade a range of powers. With it he could manipulate gravity, employ enhanced strength, fire off energy blasts, and gave him an odd force-field that mitigated harm, but was also sensitive to the psyche of those around Shade, contorting to look like a weird image of their fears, as well as reflecting Shade's unconscious thoughts. He was a "changing man" as, to others, he was a constantly mutable and unnerving entity.

Across the 8 published issues (we got issue #9 later, and Ditko purportedly had up through issue #15 plotted out), Shade convinces his superiors of his innocence, returns to Meta, makes up with Mellu, and starts to make his way back to earth to deal with the criminal mastermind behind his framing infiltrating and taking over the Earth observation outpost that Shade's organization had been working out of.

And then the series was cancelled on short notice due to DC being in financially dire straits at the time.

A decade later, in 1988, Shade was rescued from the void of the Zero Zone by The Suicide Squad, joining their ranks in return for helping him liberate his org's outpost as if it were the next issue and he hadn't been absent from pages for a decade since we last visited that plotline. The mastermind is killed during the scuffle, and with him any chances of Shade being able to go home and formally clear his name. Waller and co offer to help him out while he figures out another way home in the meantime.

He ran with the Squad for a good twenty issues, taking part in the giant Janus Directive crossover, and even journeying to Apokolips and fighting the New Gods with them. During that arc, he is talked into making a bad call that betrays the team, though he helps them get out of the resulting mess. In the end, when everyone is zapped home by Darkseid's eyebeams, while the rest of the Squad is blipped to Earth, Shade is finally returned to Meta.

Six months later, mid 1990, Peter Milligan's first issue of the new Shade, the Changing Man hit news stands. And it was... different.

Milligan expanded on Shade's backstory, revealing that Shade had been an aspiring poet prior to being recruited into the agency that trained it out of him, and delving more into Metan culture, while also using Shade as a vehicle for exploring the weirdness of being in a familiar yet alien society he felt as a British man newly moved to America.

After returning to Meta and before he'd had time to reunite with Mellu, Shade's superiors had tasked him with going back to Earth to pick up an assignment that another agent had been on but failed at: figuring out where the Madness in America was stemming from, and stop it from leaking out into the Area of Madness and influencing Meta. Shade had to journey deep into the Area of Madness to get a bead on it, and ended up on Earth by possessing the body of a freshly executed serial killer, unknowingly leaving his original body an empty lifeless husk floating in the void.

He started travelling the States with Kathy George, whose parents were the serial killer's final victims, and the two eventually are joined by Lenny Shapiro, and sarcastic and witty woman in her own right. The three end up in what would today be called a polyamorous trouple, and eventually confront the living embodiment madness of America, which had infected the other agent, driven him insane, and transformed him into what manifested to others as the giant twisted skeleton of Uncle Sam known as The American Scream.

Shade's M-Vest has grown in power, and possibly is just a part of him now, vastly increasing his abilities to raw reality-warping levels. He can more or less just do whatever the story needs him to do now, basically.

Once the Scream had been dealt with, Shade died. Not that that really slowed him down at all. He wasn't even really aware that it had happened. His at this point powerful madness-riddled psyche was keeping him around as a ghost of sorts, and Kathy & Lenny found a recent corpse to posses, as someone had just driven their car into the lake near where they were staying.

They only discovered after the fact that it was a woman.

After a brief detour where Shade transitioned back into being a man (transmasc baybeeeee), he went back to Meta, finally reconnecting with Mellu after what was now some years, only to learn that the agency had told her that he was dead, and she'd met and wed someone else. She has a mental breakdown, asking in tears why he hadn't come home sooner. Taking this in, Shade returned to Kathy and Lenny, to let them know that he was dying again, said his goodbyes, and allowed himself to be killed by the same FBI/Meta duel operative who'd done him in before.

This is where the Vertigo imprint spun up. The next issue, under the Vertigo banner, picks up after a bit of a timeskip, where Kathy and Lenny are informed by the ghost of Kathy's dead ex that angels in heaven have plans for Shade, and they're sending him back, having prepared for him a body to use in the form of a adult man who's been basically braindead since birth and kept in a medical institution. But the angels have kept a bit of Shade's soul so they can exert some power over him, and it's made him a bit less hinged than he used to be.

Shade, Kathy, and Lenny, per the angels' direction, set up shop as managers of a hotel, helping the weird visitors who come to stay there. During their time there, Shade manages to get Kathy pregnant, and Lenny reunites with the daughter Lily that she had in her teens before running away from home.

But as Kathy comes to term and approaches the time to give birth, she is brutally assaulted. She dies, though they manage to save the baby. Shade, however, is not in his right mind, and rejects the child, walking out of the hospital to wander, while Lenny leaves with her daughter.

This, purportedly, was where Milligan intended to end the series. But for whatever reason it didn't, so it kept going, and the status quo was obviously massively different than what it used to be.

After another not-too-lengthy timeskip Shade decides to kill himself, not seeing the point in continuing, though the literal devil sends him back to posses yet another body. Shade, in an attempt to find meaning, sets up shop in a dimensionally transcendental crack in the pavement in NYC, spends some time existing as the floor in a dance studio, and finally goes to check up on his son, George. Who, it turns out, is aging extremely rapidly, due to not being fully human.

Reunitings with Lenny are had, George ages to death over the course of six months, his soul merges with Lenny's daughter Lily, Shade picks up a few more strays in the form of Angela and Sinita, the latter of which he starts a new relationship with, before everything goes tits up again and he decides the solution is to build a time machine so he can fix all of his (and his friends') problems. He prevents Kathy's parents from being murdered, prevents his younger self from joining the agency, helps Lenny out in her youth, etc.

The series ends with Shade and his now-daughter Lily visiting this new revised timeline's version of Kathy to see if they can strike up a relationship with her.

Things apparently didn't go well.

The next time we see Shade outside of cameos is a story arc in Milligan's run on John Constantine, Hellblazer, in 2010. Constantine summons Shade to help with some Madness-related issues he and his fiancé Epiphany are experiencing, and Shade, unable to get together with the new Kathy and Lily nowhere in sight, becomes obsessed with turning Constantine's bride-to-be into an idealized version of Kathy. It doesn't work, and Constantine is able to properly wed Epiphany, but Shade is shown to be crazy and depressed and have basically the powers of a god. In the middle of all of that we also met back up with Lenny, who has cleaned herself up and is now a school teacher, go figure.

The very next year, DC would cancel the Vertigo line, and everything else, and reboot their universe with the Flashpoint event. During it, in a miniseries from Milligan, Shade is forcibly taken back to Meta, where they reveal that A) the vest has grown to be a part of him, and can no longer be removed in a way that matters, and, B) because of this he is, to an extent, immune to all these reality rewrites. Or at least less affected by them. Shade is put in charge of a team, the Secret Seven, but the madness overtakes him (with a bit of help from some double agents for an enemy faction) and he winds up back in the Area of Madness

Afterwards, in the New 52, we see him trying to forcibly manifest a new Kathy with his godlike powers, but apparently not godlike enough, as she just melts when he's not around. He's interrupted by Madame Xanadu, putting together a team, the Justice League Dark, largely comprised of many of the members of the Secret Seven, and tasks Shade in a leading role to help her save the world from some threats she has foreseen.

Milligan wrote this series for the first 8 issues, and when he left, so did Shade (as well as Milligan's other OCs he'd brought to the table), but it served as a nice little coda to his era of The Changing Man that had begun some twenty odd years earlier.

It would then be another half-decade or so before we'd see hide or hair of Shade again. In late 2016, DC started up the Young Animal line, a young adult-aimed successor to the Vertigo imprint, with many of the same faces headlining its titles. And among them was Shade.

Sort of.

The new Shade, the Changing Girl, from writer Cecil Castellucci, starred young adult bird alien Loma Shade, who was raised on Meta and had adopted Rac's last name after becoming enamored with his poetry and counter-culture views while he was acting as a guest lecture at her university before disappearing form Metan society again.

Loma steals what is purportedly Rac's vest, which has been sitting in a museum, and uses it to transfer her consciousness to Earth, wanting to follow in Rac's footsteps, taking over the body of a comatose high school girl named Megan. And leaving her now empty bird alien body behind on Meta for her boyfriend to deal with, oops.

Living as "Megan", she learns about our culture, experiences dysphoria being in a body she doesn't identify with, and explores sexuality, hormones, and learns how to be a better person than she used to be (and than Megan used to be as well). Meanwhile back on Meta, we learn that Mellu, now getting up there in years, is the head of the agency that used to employ her and Shade, and becomes obsessed when learning that someone has stolen Rac's vest and managed to use it, thinking she'll finally be able to reunite with Shade again after all these years.

Eventually, Loma runs away from home, learns never to meet her heroes, has to deal with Megan wanting her body back, and Mellu wanting Rac's coat back. Her original body dies without her soul in it, and Megan's body dies in the process of Megan trying to get back in it. Shade ends up possessing the body of her favorite black & white sitcom star, Honey Rich, who happened to look a lot like Megan in her younger years, and returns it to youthfulness to attend Megan's funeral.

Mellu also gets the coat back and uses it to reunite with Shade, who had left behind the vest for Mellu and was waiting for her in the Area of Madness where time has no meaning.

It was at this point that Loma got caught up in a really bizarre crossover event that involved all the titles in the Young Animal line called Milk Wars, which was largely Doom Patrol focused, but saw Loma splitting in five, each color-coded and embodying one of her emotions Inside Out style, and serving as Wonder Woman's personal helpers in a world overtaken by a weird 1920s aesthetic organization called Retcon. It was very weird lol.

The series then returned with under the new branding Shade, the Changing Woman. We are subjected to a five year timeskip, during which Loma has grown and slipped into old habits, sleeping around with men and women, indulging in food, drugs, and other things to fill the void in her heart. Her friends have all graduated, gone on to higher education, and gotten jobs in their fields. And she still doesn't really know what her place in the world is. So she's been couch-surfing with Rac in the Area of Madness while she figures out what to do with her life.

And in the midst of all that, the giant interdimensional crayfish that destroyed her birth planet, causing her to be a refuge child on Meta in the first place, begin to attack the Earth.

By the end of the final issue in late 2018, Loma and Rac had become one person, Kathy, Lenny, and Lily had put in an appearance, Mellu got some closure, Megan had come back in a male body and tried to hijack Loma's again, Loma's old boyfriend had become a green lantern, and Loma ended up possessing the body of her dying black non-binary friend River.

And that's where the series ended.

And we haven't seen Shade, in any iteration, since then.

[hard-times-paramore]

Wtf Genshin leaks?!??!??!?

I redesigned Solomon! Gave his clothes some extra patterning. This is my Genshin Impact OC.

Name: Solomon

Vision: Geo

Weapon: Polearm

Region: Snezhnaya

Model: Tall Adult

Rarity: ☆☆☆☆☆

Backstory is under the cut! Content warning for: addiction, depression and suicide ideation.

Solomon was a Fatui field scout, captain of a small squad, and initially wielded a Geo Delusion instead of a Vision.

He was very depressed and suicidal. He actually hated his job and organisation - it wasn't as romantic as it was cut out to be when he entered, of course. It was very isolating, members were encouraged to turn on each other and to keep secrets, or to use and then abandon anyone when convenient. You know the Fatui. They're a mess.

Solomon wanted to leave the organization - but he knew way too many secrets. He knew the Fatui authorities would have to take him out once they realized he was no longer loyal.

On top of that, he developed an addiction to his Delusion, and the only reason he could keep it was for his job and missions. If he left - even if he were allowed to leave - he would have to hand it back (or else).

He didn't have the strenght to leave, and he felt trapped. Nowhere to go, no action he could take that would really free him.

In the middle of the Liyue quest, Childe asked the Traveler a favor to check on a Fatui team that had gone silent in Qingyun. That's how Aether met Solomon. He tracked him down, and when he got there, Solomon was contemplating jumping off the mountain.

And Aether for some reason talked him out of it, even if they were, technically, enemies. I mean. He's not just gonna let the man die.

Aether gave Solomon a shred of hope, and something he hadn't felt in a long time: Defiance, against the Fatui.

Solomon sees an opportunity in there and becomes an ally to Aether, in order to occasionally sneak Fatui secrets and intelligence to him. Like a double agent. It's rebellion, he wants Aether to be an obstacle, a pebble on the shoe of this organization that brought him so much contempt.

Solomon is still depressed, but after that, he starts working on a way to escape the Fatui without dying.

One day he finds the perfect opportunity and fakes his own death.

Except, of course, he takes his Delusion as he runs away.

It gets tracked, and he is found again by the Fatui, in the abandoned hilichurl camp he used as a hideout.

He is surrounded, there is a huge battle. And that's when he gets his Vision. His real Geo Vision. It severs his connection to the Delusion and grants him a gust of energy, enough that he can take down the soldiers surrounding him.

After that, well. The Fatui can get their Delusion back, and Solomon becomes a lesser problem. He is still wanted for the secrets he knows, but it buys him enough time to hide, and start the rest of his life.

And from then on, he has to discover what it's like - life - now that he's no longer tied to the Fatui. Now that he no longer wants to die.

There will be a road to recovery. Depression doesn't go away like it's magic, and neither does his addiction - he still has to live with the side effects of using a Delusion for so long. But now, he has something he didn't before. Now, he fights to live.

[spicymotte]

crazy funny that the dudebros on Twitter are sooo butthurt after the Suicide Squad Game leaks are making the rounds… like… it’s the name of the game. it’s named Kill The Justice League, why are you guys surprised that they kill the justice league

[moistmailman]

There are leaks of Kill the Justice League where they actually….well, kill the justice league members and this is actually pissing people off for some reason despite the name of the video game.

The game is probably going to be terrible, it’s probably going to treat the justice league like trash for the thought of the suicide squad being able to kill them, but were people out here expecting for them to not kill any of the members of the justice league members despite the title of the game telling you otherwise?

Really?

[zombflesh]

(spoilers for suicide squad kills the justice league)

I saw the leaks for the new Suicide Squad game and I'm gonna be so disappointed if they gave AK!Jason a offscreen death.