#supervillains with a code

[bronzemettle]

Are the events of "Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" canon in the Bronze Realms?

At the very least not as-presented. I won't say that Doctor Horrible definitely exists in the BronzeRealms by default, but, I will say that, if he does, if that's a DLC module you decide to slot into the mainstream continuity, I know exactly where and how he fits into it. And it's not in 2008. Despite breaking the title and the framing device, it's in 1983. "Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Home Videos", if you will.

The reason for this change is a little idea I'm shamelessly stealing from my headmate Alex called "Megamind Vs Doctor Horrible". Megamind is mainstream BronzeRealms, and if Doctor Horrible exists, it's as his foil.

The rest of this post will contain full spoilers for both Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and more importantly, Megamind. For real, person who I know is still reading this post and hasn't watched Megamind yet, yes you, DO NOT click further into this post, or read the comments, tags, or reblogs. I know it's an old movie, but if you can, Megamind is worth watching fresh.

...Are they gone? We've all seen the movie now, right? Right?

Okay. Let's start by saying that anything written in orange is optional to the Doctor Horrible Expansion Content. Make sense? (Might need a better rule if this kind of distinction comes up more often in future posts...)

The Evil League of Evil doesn't exist, but the Injustice Society does. Bad Horse, even from the young adulthood (for a horse) of 6 years, quickly becomes a powerful and leading figure in the Injustice Society alongside Icicle Senior in the 1950s. Bad Horse takes the reigns on their recruitment outreach programs, researching and evaluating lesser supervillains to see who has the potential to step up with a little boost of resources.

In 1983, Doctor Horrible earns his place in the Injustice Society when he murders a local environmental protester, depowers the beloved hero Captain Hammer, and conquers about one fifth of LA to rule according to his bidding.

Now, over in Metro City, "superhero" and "supervillain" don't mean the same thing that they do in any other city. Local culture dictates that a "supervillain" (as opposed to just a villain) is a registered member of the Doom Syndicate. This isn't a team, at least not usually. It's a loose coalition of "supervillains" who have agreed to a series of restrictions and terms regarding what kinds of crimes they can commit, what collateral damage is acceptable, standards of behavior, family-friendly language, what kinds of insults are off the table, what ideologies or political stances they can't express openly... They've agreed to keep their own schemes eminently low-stakes, no matter how spectacular they might become to witness. Even if a Doom Syndicate member conquers the city, they've agreed to a certain standard of fair treatment for their subjects and a charter for how they are and aren't allowed to respond or interfere when the citizens rise up against them. And once their schemes are foiled, they have to help clean up the mess and repair the city too.

In exchange, Doom Syndicate supervillains get reduced sentencing, nicer prison cells while they're in them (The "special containment unit" serves waffles on Wednesday), won't get shot at by the police when they're not in obviously bulletproof armor or vehicles, and Metro City will not contact outside authorities or accept help from outside superheroes in stopping them.

In essence, superhero fights in Metro City are for show. It's less scripted than Pro Wrestling, but otherwise very similar. Everyone is playing to the audience and tv cameras. Everyone wants to win, sure, but they're also willing to take a dive if it'll be cool or narratively dramatic. Sure, your school or workplace might get smashed to dust sometimes, but it'll be back up in a few days, thanks to Doom Syndicate. Maybe you'll even get to throw a dislodged pipe at someone's helmet to distract them while the hero sneaks up. That sounds fun. It's all in good faith. Long story short, no-one has ever died, not even once, during an official Doom Syndicate-sanctioned supervillain scheme or the superhero fights that result from them.

That is, before 1985, when Doom Syndicate co-founder Megamind was seen apparently having murdered the superhero Metro Man.

Besides taking place in the 80s the rest of the movie plays out basically the same, with an added sprinkle of... well... Tighten isn't playing by the rules, and Megamind isn't used to real lives being on the line. But despite seeing himself primarily as a performer, Megamind steps up and saves his city, for real. So despite going back to the performance fights after that, for the first time Metro City also knows that they have a true hero who will protect them when it's seriously needed.

In 1990, the genetic Augment tyrant Anton York is elected President of the United States in a Leap Term election (a concept I know I will have to actually define eventually but not right now). The Eugenics War comes to America, and superheroes and supervillains alike, everywhere, are disappearing or being forced to retire under suspicious circumstances.

Doctor Horrible passes himself off as an Augment and betrays the Injustice Society for a position in the new rising power structure of the world, sending the other villains scattering. He catches and executes the aging Bad Horse himself to secure the trust of the Augments. He is given a regional oversight position over all of Southern California, including Metro City.

When new legislation passes that forces the Mayor's office to officially disband the Doom Syndicate, nothing really changes. People just keep playing by the rules, same as they always have, and the local authorities who are used to it just play along too and take it easy. Metro City has its own thing going on and they like it. Then Doctor Horrible comes to enforce the new order of things.

With a need for the city to perform for outsider eyes, Megamind pretends to flip again and cave to the Augment regime, and volunteers to rule the city on Doctor Horrible's behalf. This buys them time, just a year or two until Doctor Horrible notices something's wrong (or right) and comes back. But it's long enough to start preparations for Megamind's greatest scheme yet.

Megamind's plan is to surround Metro City in a giant force field, and launch it into space. Metro City will be safe from the Eugenics War. While he and Minion are keeping up appearances as the city dictators and getting the force field all set up and triple-tested to make sure it won't fail and suffocate everyone, Roxanne Ritchi is hush-hush organizing an underground to make sure that everyone is on the right side of that barrier when it goes up, giving anyone who doesn't want to be stuck in the city a chance to get out, and helping people smuggle their loved ones from different parts of the country in to be safe with them.

But both Megamind and Roxanne have a secondary scheme. Both of them are secretly planning to be on the outside of the force field when it goes up, so that they can move on to other cities and keep fighting the good fight.

They both tell Minion to stay behind and protect the other, and the city. Instead of telling the two of them that they're both planning the same protection-doublecross, Minion just does the same thing. He goes to find Music Man, and tells him that all three of them are going to be gone while the city is in space, and if anything threatens the city, it will be up to Music Man to step up and stop it, even if he only sees himself as a performer, just like Megamind once had.

So when Doctor Horrible does return and force their hand, and the force field goes up, trapping Doctor Horrible and the regime he works for out, and the city goes up, free and secure, Minion finds Megamind and Roxanne and reveals that none of them went up with it, because the three of them are a team.

Thankfully for Music Man being able to avoid a massive nervous breakdown for actually having life-and-death stakes on his shoulders for the first time, the one time someone tries to sabotage the force field, Megamind's fellow Doom Syndicate supervillains come together with some of the other lesser-known local performer-superheroes to stop it.

Meanwhile, on the outside, Megamind, Roxanne, and Minion are taking the fight elsewhere. To Doctor Horrible, to LA.

When they sneak into his lab, they're horrified to discover the corpse of a woman being preserved in a glass case hooked up to some contraption. Someone named Penny. Megamind figures out the machine is meant to resurrect her, reversing the specific radiological effects of Doctor Horrible's Death Ray (the physical injuries having been surgically repaired by LA's best doctors years ago)... but it won't work.

Megamind is hella autistic and ditzy, and fixes an equation on the whiteboard before they leave without thinking about it. So when Doctor Horrible returns to his lab, he's able to activate the machine. He resurrects Penny. At first she's thankful, and when Roxanne approaches her and offers to sneak her out, she turns it down.

But this time he has the confidence to actually talk to her. She sees his LA. She hears about what he did to Captain Hammer, to the Injustice Society, to Bad Horse, what he's done for Anton York, and what he plans to do once he can get the upper hand on these superiors too.

She murders him. Stabs him, with a fork, and doesn't stop.

Megamind, Roxanne, Minion, and Penny, who they help to escape and take on a new identity, all survive the Eugenics War, to the end. There's another whole story about how after the war ended in 1998 they got Metro City back down to earth, but for now I'll leave it said that they did, all safe and sound, and Megamind happily returned to his performances, his city, his people. And most villains, the ones who don't play by the rules, still know better now than to come to Metro City. It might be all fun and games when you leave them alone, but that doesn't make it easy pickings. After all, no-one ever figured out what happened to Doctor Horrible...

[thescribblednovel]

Overstimulated Villain

Please give me credit if reposted! Thanks! 🙂

Villain’s POV

Everything was too much. Their heart pounded in their chest as a panicky feeling washed over them. Dodging the Hero’s fists swinging at them they made quick work and hit the Hero in the stomach. The Hero wheezed doubling over from the impact.

Their henchmen approached them from the sidelines “Sir, are you alright? Do you need to take a break? I have extra clothes if your uniform is too uncomfortable. I have your headphones. Do you need anything?”Henchmen was always looking out for Villain and they appreciated that, but sometimes henchmen gave Villain too many options and asked too many questions. “No! I’m fine! Leave me alone!” Villain snapped and turned their attention back towards Hero, who had pulled themself together and was looking at Villain like they were a puzzle. Villain didn’t know what to make of the look Hero was giving them, so they ignored it.

“Are we fighting or what Hero? Let's get this over with!” Their voice sounded sharp like the knives they used to take care of the people who were not to their liking.

Hero responded by shoving them into the brick wall of a building. The Hero held them there with their hands on the Villain’s shoulders, eyes studying them carefully. “Is something bothering you?” The Hero asked gently “I'm fine,” Villian whispered avoiding Hero’s eyes as they blinked back tears. Hero asked again “Is there something bothering you?” Hero took a minute and let Villan think about the question something they wished henchmen would do. “I can tell when you're lying.” Hero added, “Everything is too much.” They answered not enjoying how much emotion was in their voice. On the outside, they always made sure to seem controlled, but it was exhausting, and embarrassingly their mask always slipped.

“It's okay Villain you're overstimulated.” Hero soothed “The fight is over it's a tie!” Hero announced “What? Boss they are right there arrest them!” Sidekick argued, “I got this sidekick. Take the rest of the day off.” Hero said quickly dismissing Sidekick. “Can I have that supply bag henchman?” Hero asked their henchmen. Henchmen, the obedient little thing, did as they were asked. “Thanks, can henchmen be dismissed, Villain?” “Yes,” Villain said unsure. Henchmen scurried off and Hero began digging through Villain’s supply bag. Villain stared at Hero as they searched through the bag and retrieved their noise-canceling headphones. “Would these help?” Villain nodded in response. “Would you like to come to my place and cuddle like you did with me when I was overwhelmed?” The suggestion calmed the Villain slightly knowing how much they enjoyed cuddling Hero. “Yes, I want to cuddle,” Villain stated as Hero gave them their headphones with a grin.

Would you like Hero’s POV also? Should I do a part 2 of them cuddling? Or of the Villain helping Hero while they are overstimulated? Let me know! Thanks, for reading! 🙂

[transgwender616]

Villains in superhero comics be like

Tele-Horse (Philip Colt) first appeared in "Tales to Mildly Interest" #37. In his debut he teleported every horse in New York to his lair where he felt they would like it better.

While treated as a legit threat for awhile, writers eventually felt his gimmick was too silly. In "Unnecessary New Young Do Gooders West" #7634 Tele-Horse was defeated by a newborn baby.

Then in "Brand Spanking New Mister Integrity" #12, the writer remembered that Tele-Horse was originally a threat. No longer having to worry about the Comics Code Authority, Tele-Horse killed Mister Integrity (John Johnington) by teleporting 30 horses inside his lungs

[ultraericthered]

Lelouch Vi Britannia Appreciation Post

One of anime's most famed and iconic bad boys for a good reason.

[velvetwyrme]

its 2am once again and i was thinking about how as a kid my favorite character from transformers (animated) was starscream, and i was like. "wow! its so interesting how peoples tastes change over time!"

and then i looked down at what i was drawing and just went "FUCK" because i was drawing uf pap ehcjcjjfkdngks

loud, dramatic, egocentric, villainous character ... MY TASTES HAVENT CHANGED AT ALL ACTUALLY.

[vertigoartgore]

A badass Doctor Doom (with a freakin' flaming sword) by artist Steve Rude.

[traaanskimkitsuragi]

who is out here claiming that shathann isnt abusive 😭

[d-adpool]

what have you and wolvie been up to since saving the multiverse

it's almost like you people don't want to scroll back through the hundreds of posts i've made in the past ten days, some of which are already declared non-canonical to the blog's throughline

[smittyw]

Have you ever made a human version of kita?

yes!! lately since ive been thinking about her a lot, i came to the realization that in current canon her AI would only be somewhere in the range of 5-10 yrs old at most. im not a tech person so i tend to fudge details, but i think of her initial application being akin to those early chatbots that could barely hold a coherent conversation, and by the time she got advanced enough to learn much more rapidly she also started clinging to bits n pieces of self identification. she used to live in da computer & then noemi would let her bonk around in different little robots until relatively recently when the new body got finished.

all that to say, i imagine shes still very teenish in her behaviors despite having endless trivial knowledge (and misinfo) flooding into her head all the time. part of that is bc she was around noemi all the time when she was also just a teen, partly also bc she hasnt had much experience being 'alive' in the world at large. so i tried to make her seem more teenish here

(the design is not new but just edited- i drew her as a human 2 years ago to jumpstart a more original looking redesign, so it actually slightly predates her robot look)

[thegreatyin]

realized with utter horror that the closest thing the bandaged scoundrel has had to a voiceclaim so far is starscream transformers prime. so like. you can just let that settle in ur mind from now on whenever they say literally anything. let that haunt you. forever. indefinitely. that's what they sound like. ur welcome.

[duckapus]

Game Night Ban List

[Written by SMG4. Occasional comments by the rest of the Crew]

Monopoly -Obviously

Anything Jumanji Related -We keep ending up with the real deal Because Memes

Mousetrap -Elanore keeps making "improvements" Elanore: Real judgmental with the quotes there uncle 4

Poker -SMG3 cheats, Lily's ruthless, and we don't want to feed Bob's gambling addiction Lily: COWARDS!

Mario Party 7 -Mario's never explained why he refuses to play this one specifically Mario: And I never will

Charades -Lil Coding and Saiko are really bad at reading body language

Scrabble -Most of us don't know how to spell

Among Us -We know, Mario Lil Coding: It's not even a party game! Mario: I'm not taking any chances

Any version of Bop-It! -We are all incredibly violent

Skip-Bo SMG3: The Poor Man's Uno don't @ me

Puyo Puyo -Lily and Tari are still on that government issued "No Popping Puyos" mandate they got slapped with after That Incident for a few more months

Go Fish -Apparently Lily, Meggy and Boopkins find it offensive

Wii Bowling -Someone always does the Ball Goes Backwards thing and we all act like it's the first time we've ever seen it and never actually finish the round because we just throw the ball back for two hours

Chess Mario: *flashbacks intensify*

Risk -I know for a fact that Marcy is cheating somehow, I just can't prove it! Marcy: lol get rect by my superior strategic might scrub

Tableturf -I know we haven't actually played it on game night before, but considering Meggy nearly caused an international incident the first time she played I think a preemptive ban is justified Meggy: ...Yeah, that's fair I guess.

Weegee Board -I can't believe I have to say this but SUMMONING A GIANT EVIL DEMONIC VERSION OF LUIGI IS NOT A PARTY GAME!!!!

[thescribblednovel]

Neurodivergent Hero And Villain

Let me know if this is cute and if I should write this! Let me know if you write something similar!

Ok so neurodivergent hero and villain!

When the hero is overstimulated by sensory stuff (lights,noise,it’s too hot outside, their uniform is itchy etc.) in a fight and the Villain notices and that leads to some fluff.

The hero tends to shutdown when overstimulated. While villain gets annoyed easily and snaps at people.

Villain gets really upset about people using ableist terms especially if someone is referring to hero and “takes care” of those people.

Hero also gets very upset at people using ableist terms, but doesn’t resort to violence like villain. Hero instead sets people straight by educating them or ignoring them.

Villain is very high masking and has lower support needs than hero.

One time villain missed a fight because the were too focused on their special interest.

They schedule all of their flights because they need order.

Sidekick and henchmen always have sensory aids and things like that on hand.

Maybe one of them join the other’s side because their agency isn’t accommodating.

Ahhhhh ok I’m definitely making this a story if you like these ideas let me know and I will post the story once I write it!!!!!

[machinavocis]

a tragedy in 2 acts.

[yourlocalautisticmimikyu]

Thinking about the final villain of the book that i'm writing and his lore i have come to a realisation.

I hate them, but not in the way of "i don't want to write about this character" but in the way of "I love this guy as a villain and want to write more about him", does that make sense?

Like, this character does and did so many terrible things, he can manipulate minds, he is the god and the leader of (what basicaly is) a doomsday cult, he can cause people to have panic attacks (wich he as done too many times), he manipulates people in vulnerable positions or in a vulnerable state of mind so they can join his cult, he as tried to commit genocide multiple times, he is an extremely cocky bastard, he wants to overtrow his father (even tho his father is a wholesome bean that must be protected at all costs even tho they can protect themselves without problem), he has many children that where very pure hearted that he manipulated so that they would be evil and have their own cults, and many other things that i don't remember right now.

But one thing about him is that he can't destinguish between a secret code and gibberish.

Like, if you would have shown this to him: Jflssvu pz h ipajo a > h b > i c > j etc...

He wouldn't even know that you where possibly insulting him and he would just say something like: "ah yes, a random assortment of letters to freak out your target, clever tactics"

[youngerfrankenstein]

Doofenshmirtz is kind of proof that you can, in fact, make one of the funniest characters out there by throwing shit at the wall.

He’s a supervillain, he’s amicably divorced, he was raised by ocelots, his evil ambitions only stretch as far as taking over the tri-state area, he’s in a romantically-coded/joked about rivalry with a sentient platypus, he’s a good dad, he once lost a fight with a potted plant, he was forced to be a lawn gnome. But most importantly, he never gives up.

[mp3minded]

"MY LIFE IS A HIGHWAY" ass result 💀

i'll tag @codename-mango @cryingstars13 @hyperspacial @practicemyfall @quokkabite @richdesire and @yuyinator if y'all wanna give it a go 🥺👉🏽👈🏽

found a fun little personality test!

i am open tagging as always bc i wanna see everyone’s results!!!!!!