#superheroes

[sexyheroes]

More velma!!

[animentality]

why would I watch the boys or invincible or even watchmen

the Incredibles was a far more intelligent deconstruction of the super hero genre, and it's honestly not been topped yet, plus I don't even like superhero movies enough to care about deconstructing them anyway.

[wanderingmind867]

My post about Marvel having less teen sidekicks then DC was today followed up by me googling Dick Grayson and Bucky Barnes on wikipedia, and comparing ages. Dick Grayson was 8! Bucky Barnes was 16! Maybe I'm just dumb, but isn't one of those ages far worse!? Again, it's a miracle nobody ever child protective services on batman for having an 8 year old bot fight killers with guns and knives and more.

At least Bucky was 16, so he counts as an older teen. Was Robin even a teen, if he wasn't ten!? I.. I'm just going to quietly ignore this now that I know it. Because that's messed up. Add that to the list of reasons not to like batman, I guess.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

HOW X-MEN: EVOLUTION GAVE ME MY FAVORITE PORTRAYAL OF CAPTAIN AMERICA

@thealmightyemprex @professorlehnsherr-almashy @themousefromfantasyland @piterelizabethdevries @the-blue-fairie

So, when I was a kid in the early 2000s, the predominant superhero shows were based on DC Comics Characters (Static Shock, Teen Titans, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited) but there were two Marvel Comics animated adaptations that I followed: one was Spider Man: the New Animated Series, and the other, most important one, was X-Men Evolution.

That ladder focused mainly on that specific team's characters, but there were some characters from other Marvel teams that were inserted in important roles, without needing to be big crossover events.

One that stuck with me was the episode Operation: Rebirth.

In this episode Logan is being chased through the woods on his motorcycle by a military-like group. He ends up cornered on a cliff. (White) Nick Fury shows up in a helicopter and calls Logan Weapon X. Wolverine tells him Goodbye and that he doesn't work for S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore. Fury won't let him leave and Logan gets mad. He asks Fury what he wants. Fury tells him that "Rebirth" has been stolen.

Logan tells him that it's impossible, that Rebirth was destroyed. Fury tells him that there was a second one, a backup. SHIELD is unsure who took it, but there were magnetic pulses that bent metal. Of course, Logan knows it's Magneto right away.

At the Institute, Logan tells Xavier about Rebirth. A machine created to "enhance" humans and create super soldiers during World War II. It was only used on one man, Steve Rogers. A flashback shows Rogers during the Rebirth experiment and then later as Captain America fighting in the war. A younger Logan meets Captain America for the first time. Xavier interrupts to say that he didn't realize that Logan was that old. Logan goes on to tell him that Rebirth ended up destroying Rogers and now he believes that Magneto has it.

Xavier tries to find Magneto using Cerebro, but fails. Tons of other mutant signatures turn up though and the he, and Logan talk about a massive mutant population boom. Kurt and Rogue are eavesdropping and get caught. Rogue tells them that she remembers some info that she drained from Magneto in New York and she thinks that he's hiding out at a base in the Sahara Desert. So Logan, Kurt and Rogue head out to the Desert.

On route, Logan has another flashback to WWII. He's teamed up with Cap. America on a mission to free some POW's in Poland. The mission is successful and the boy that Cap carries out of the camp uses his mutant powers to deflect some bombs that come hurling towards them.

Wolverine asks the boy what his name is and he tells him that it's Erik Lehnsherr.

Back in the present, Kurt asks Wolverine why there was only one super soldier created using Rebirth and Logan tells him that the process actually caused a "cellular breakdown" that was killing Captain America. In another flashback Wolverine and Captain America destroy Rebirth to keep anyone else from suffering.

"There was a price to pay. Captain America was dying."

The team gets to Magneto's base and find someone inside the second Rebirth machine. Sabretooth attacks Wolverine and Kurt and Rogue try to get to the machine to destroy it. Both of them are trapped by steel beams while Sabretooth and Wolverine continue to do major property damage going at each other. Kurt teleports to Rebirth and is about to set the bomb when Magneto calls out to him from the chamber.

Magneto tells Kurt that he's using Rebirth to replenish himself, that without it he's going to die and if Kurt blows up the controls he will be killing Magneto. He asks Kurt if he's that much like his mother. Kurt is unable to blow up the machine and Magneto turns young again as Rebirth rebuilds his cells. Turns out Rebirth doesn't harm mutants the way it does humans.

Wolverine is finally able to defeat Sabretooth and pulls Magneto from Rebirth. He arms the detonator and Rebirth explodes. Magneto is furious and creates a huge metal monster that attacks the X-men. He decides in the end to release them though, because Kurt spared his life.

"However you spared my life, I will spare yours. There's a small boy from Poland that owns you that much."

Later Logan visits Captain America alone: he is encased in a cryogenic chamber, waiting for them to find a cure to the damage done by Rebirth. Fury comes in and tells him it's time to go and to remember that he was never there.

"Remember you were never here.

Yeah, I know the routine."

What makes this episode fascinating to me, specially in how it portrays Captain America, is that it took the risk of grounding him in the historical period when he was created, World War II and the Holocaust:

Is more safe for a blockbuster movie made to entertain mass audiences to show Captain America fighting the fictional Red Skull and Hydra, fictional villains that you can easily market in toylines and merchandise.

But to have him actually fighting the Nazis, and rescuing people from the Nazi Concentration Camps, you remember that this character was created to encourage readers against the Nazis, at a time when the United States acted neutral on the face of this real, absolute evil.

And this episode inserts interesting ideas that could be incorporated in future movies and comics, like Logan meeting and helping to rescue Magneto was he was still a vulnerable boy, and rather than having Captain America be frozen in an Iceberg in a plane accident and waking up alive and well in modern times, ironically becoming terminally ill due to the same serum and machine that gave him his powers, and choosing to be frozen in a chriogenic chamber, sleeping, like the King Under the Mountain, waiting for a cure to his illness, after making sure that no other person would go through his tragic fate.

He is presented as an every man from the 40s who went to sleep as an heroic simbol of hope for future generations to become heros and fight for the opressed in their own unique ways.

He passes his legacy, but not necessarily his mantle: anyone can be a hero, but only he could carry the weight of being Captain America.

And this is bittersweet, tragic mix of vulnerable mortal and mythological symbol what makes this portrayal by X-Men Evolution my favorite version of Captain America.

[immortalnetizen]

Classic Kamen Rider fan art I drew shortly after intermediate school (6th grade)

[spongebobssquarepants]

[prokopetz]

Say what you will about the performative edginess of 1990s superhero comics, but there was a span in there where an artist could get away with depicting a popular superhero sporting a dick bulge the size of a grapefruit, and their editor would let them, and I don't think we fully appreciated that while we had it.

[canyourfavesurvivecastledracula]

Could Clark Kent survive Castle Dracula? (My instinctive answer: He could not avoid getting bitten, but him getting bitten would merely result in Dracula breaking a tooth)

Oh my God that's too funny...

He... he needs a mirror to shave! He has to bounce his laser vision off the mirror! Razor blades don't work on him! Imagine Dracula sneaking up behind him and being just like "...what the fuck."

How heavy is he? Dracula tries to carry him back to his room post Girlies and is like "God what are they eating in Kansas???"

And Clark... well of course he keeps up the façade. He's very good at that and it makes Dracula so mad.

There's no way he lets a kid get eaten. While Dracula is fighting with the girlies he really quickly takes the baby back home and then comes back to continue being passed out on the couch. They're like "so shall we have nothing?" and Dracula gives them the bag and they're like "wow this empty." And Dracula has to fake it and be like "yeah cuz that's what you deserve" when he's actually like "........wtf I know I had a kid in that sack Where Did It Go"

Dracula thinks he's going insane. If he had a shadow he'd be jumping at it. And Clark, massive troll, is just like mmm yes do tell me more about Transylvanian history the article is coming along really nicely.

Now it is entirely possible the trance does work on him. But it doesn't matter because, as you say, Dracula breaks his teeth on his neck. At which point he's just like "screw this I'm moving to England" and nopes on outta there.

Like Superman can fly. He can literally just leave whenever. He only stays the full two months to troll Dracula and it works.

So yeah. Clark Kent can survive Castle Dracula

[satoshy12]

My hero actually DID his job!

It had been a political meeting with the big media, as Vlad had to listen to other citizens talk about their heroes and complain about how they have more supervillains and damage. As a reporter, asked Vlad, the mayor of Amity Park, what he thought about it. He himself didn't talk about villain attacks or similar.

Vlad:" It's not my fault that your heroes are failures."

Yeah Vlad insulted every hero and city just with 1 sentence.

Politician angry from Metropolis:" What the hell are you talking about?"

Vlad:" How many years did your heroes fight their villains in your cities with collateral damage?"

Someone from Gotham said, " Maybe now 20 years maybe more."

Vlad:" The hero in Amity Park only took 1 year to show all his villains the right path, that they dropped being evil, and only once in a while visit to fight the hero without any damage to the city other than that place where they fight."

Vlad had built an Arena for it; it helped both Ghost and Danny fight and train.

Many of them are silent, as if they couldn't believe 1 word to say, " Impossible. Our heroes tried it for so many years."

Vlad:" If your failures did their job, you wouldn't have any villains years ago. So, yes, I don't think your heroes do their jobs."

Vlad then didn't talk anymore about this theme; he got bored of it.

And for the media and politicians, 1 online search and they saw Vlad told the truth... And they were kind of angry and confused. How comes that boy in 1 year fixed all his villain but someone like Superman or Batman wasn't able to do it for years!

[carols-art-gallery]

HOTGUY AND CUTEGUY

from the ddvau by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11

...might do a comic cover style of these too like I did for binsung back in the spiderverse days 👀

[sexyheroes]

Rainbow Mika by Lejean

[stjernfelt]

Bruce googling “Top Ten Clues Your Teammates Know Your Secret Identity” There was that post going around about members of the justice league playing “fuck, marry, kill” with Bruce Wayne in the mix, and, well.

[im-fostering-it292]

REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.

[pinkiemachine]

*snort*

[dailyflicks]

Black Widow (2021) dir. Cate Shortland