#titan striker

[mist-cat]

Ref for my titan bc I love him dearly.

He's just a quiet guy who likes people watching.

[pocoslip]

Starscream: TUNDACRACKA, WHAT ARE YOU BRINGING?!?!

Thundercracker: Energon Smoothie, Why?

(i want more thunderbee fan arts)

[genderfluid-insomniac]

One bed trope with Striker, Hange, and Itto x reader

Striker

You had begrudgingly been partnered up with Striker on a mission to kill a pair of royals and the sun had gone down before you two could reach the sloth ring, leading you both to stay at a run-down motel to keep a low profile. After asking for two rooms, you learned via the front desk worker that there was only one room left and you said you’d take it much to Striker’s dismay.

“What the fuck! I’m not sleeping in the same fucking bed as you!” He yelled at you outside the door as you were going to open the door and made a scene in the parking lot despite his low-key personality. You were going to ignore him until he grabbed your coat and yanked you toward him which was the last straw for you. “There’s nowhere else we can stay and I’m not losing this job because you were picky about where to sleep.” You said and yanked his hand off of yours.

Luckily for you, you’d changed before he got in since the bathroom looked like someone had been murdered in there (someone probably had) and sat on the bed, making sure your bag was locked properly. You turned the other way when the murderous imp undressed without a care in the world in front of you and got into bed with only boxers on, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Unfortunately for you, your cheeks blushed even when you willed them not to, and felt your heart speed up despite the many times you tried to deny it. You both went to sleep facing away from each other and woke up with his tail wrapped around your waist as he slept.

Itto

This is not the first time it’s happened and it certainly won’t be the last. He fully offers you the bed every time this happens and assures you that he’s fine sleeping on the floor with a pillow. He’s not. Please tell him to just share the bed. He’s going to have massive back issues for the rest of his life.

“No! No. no no no no no no! It’s totally fine compadre. It’s only for a night and besides I’m more than happy to give you the bed.” The Oni holds his hand up and assures you time and time again, gently pushing you toward the bed and sitting you down. You leaned back slightly against the bed and raised an eyebrow at him. “Itto you’d said that the past 15 times. You have bruises all over your back!” You scold him.

He straightens up completely caught in the act and covers his back with his hands, looking away from you. “No! psh! You’re totally wrong- okay fine you got me.” He sighed and gave up, smiling at your smile and taking off his extra gear when you turned away. You carefully managed to get comfortable in the bed compared to Itto’s big stature and it was close but there wasn’t any awkwardness to it.

To both of your joy, you woke up cuddled together with Itto’s head on top of yours and him holding you protectively. You no longer had the question of how his strong muscles felt since you were pressed up against them and felt like you were bright red.

Hange

You both were probably out on a research mission with them to gather information about titans when you stopped to find an inn and asked for two rooms. Soon enough you were shown to your rooms or rather room* since some kind of error must have happened or they heard you wrong.

However, there wasn’t any time to talk to Hange about inquiring about switching since they immediately started to unpack and chat with you about how it’s no problem since you both would just share the bed. Mentioning how it’s better than being outside and they had a bit of a point. So you nervously joined them, getting ready for bed and turning around when the other changed.

To say you were flustered was an understatement since normally you were already flustered due to the squad leader’s bold blunt nature and now being alone with the person who gave you butterflies in your stomach made many daydreams fill your mind. “Hey! Hey!” Hange waved a hand in front of your face with a confused expression and gestured to the bed.

“Are you planning on sleeping standing up because it’s not the most comfortable thing? Believe me, I would know!” They asked and ended up laughing towards the end of their sentence. You snapped back into reality and nodded, getting into bed beside them and awkwardly adjusting while you blushed madly.

Needless to say, both of you woke up the next morning with Hange cuddling you in an iron grip and holding you closer whenever you tried to escape. You were both very happy and shocked about the situation.

[longwuzhere]

Here are some cool Easter eggs that I found the newest My Adventures with Superman episode, "My Interview with Superman" Links to my first two easter egg posts for episode 1 and 2 are here and here.

Link to my episode 4 easter egg post is here

Link to my episode 5 easter eggs post is here

Link to my episode 6 easter eggs post is here

Link to my episode 7 easter eggs post is here and here

Link to my episode 8 easter eggs post is here

Link to my episode 9 easter eggs post is here

Link to my episode 10 easter eggs post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

SPOILERS if you have not seen the episode of course:

We start off the episode with an Amazo Tech blimp crashing into a building in Metropolis

You don't see a lot of blimps in Metropolis. Gotham is usually the one with a lot of blimps flying around. If you saw the episode on Adult Swim when it premiered on air you'll know that the next episode involved Professor Anthony Ivo and Amazo Tech. Throughout the previous episodes and this one, the Amazo Tech brand is shown to set up next week's episode. After the scene we go to a break in at Stryker's Island (more on that location later) as we see one of the villains for the episode Mist...

and one of his partners...

Rough House who are trying to break out...

Siobhan McDougal. If you know your Superman comics, you'll also know here as Silver Banshee.

Kyle/Mist is a VERY old DC supervillain from the 1940s who first appeared in Adventure Comics #47 (1941) as the arch villain to Starman. Mist's design in the comics is RADICALLY different from the show.

MAwS modernized Mist's design compared to here in these comics panels (W: Alfred Bester, P&I: Jack Burnley, C: Raymond Perry, L: Betty Bentley). In the comic Mist's power allows him to turn his body into a gaseous form thus the name. MAwS uses Mist as someone who can turn himself and objects invisible (lowkey when Mist showed up I was like "is that Luminus from Superman the Animated Series?") Fun fact in the comic, we don't know what Mist's last name is. All we know is that his name is Kyle and in the show that is what Rough House calls him on accident but at least he has a last name, McDougal in MAwS.

Rough House makes his first appearance in Adventures of Superman #544 (1997) (W: Karl Kesel, P: Stuart Immonen, I: José Marzán Jr., C: Glenn Whitmore & Digital Chameleon, L: Albert DeGuzman) where we see him rip open a door with his bear hands as a member of Intergang (more on them later).

Siobhan McDougal aka Silver Banshee makes her first appearance here in Action Comics 595 (cover by John Byrne). In the comics Silver Banshee's powers are a lot different than how MAwS does it. Comics Silver Banshee has the Banshee Curse giving her powers like flight, super strength, a death stare, and of course her signature thing, the Death Wail, a sonic scream that can knock someone into a coma or it outright kills them. The version in the show gives Silver Banshee her signature sound manipulation powers through a mask...

which kind of invokes her comic counterpart's skull face design.

Mist and Rough House break into Stryker's Island to free Mist's sister Silver Banshee (in the comics Mist and Silver Banshee have no familial connection). Stryker's Island makes its first appearance in Superman #9 (1987) (W&P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tom Ziuko, L: John Costanza) where Joker arrives in Metropolis to challenge Superman. Stryker's Island is supposed to be a stand in for Riker's Island in New York even though there is a Riker's Island in the DC Universe because Metropolis is often a reflection of New York City.

The next Easter egg is the scene after where Lois name drops Waid's Cafe as a reference to...

Mark Waid, one the best writers in the comic book industry. In terms of DC work, you might recognize his writing credit on Flash with artist, Brian Augustyn (we miss you Brian), Kingdom Come with painter, Alex Ross, and Superman Birthright with artist, Leinil Yu (highly recommend checking out all three titles). He's also currently writing for Batman/Superman: Worlds Finest with artist Dan Mora, which I also HIGHLY recommend reading. Fantastic writer, super nice person if you ever meet him at a convention.

Later, Jimmy is heard screaming "back you monsters" and we see some more of the Daily Planet staff...

From left to right its Cat Grant (doing the anime high society lady laugh), who runs the celebrity and gossip side of the paper, Steve Lombard, who reports on sports, and Ronnie Troupe, the investigative journalist on the team. Their names were mentioned in the previous episode after taking Lois, Jimmy, and Clark's credit for the Superman piece.

Cat Grant make her first appearance here in the Adventures of Superman #424 (1987) (W: Marv Wolfman, P: Jerry Ordway, I: Mike Machlan, C: Tom Ziuko, L: John Costanza) as a potential love interest to Clark to shake up the Clark-Lois-Superman dynamic. You might've seen her in the live action CW Supergirl show. Like in MAwS, in the comics Cat does the gossip columns writing for the Daily Planet.

Steve Lombard makes his first appearance in Superman #264 (1973) (W: Cary Bates, P: Curt Swan, I: Murphy Anderson) as a foil to Clark Kent. Steve acts very brash and rude to contrast Clark's mild manner and friendly demeanor. Later iterations of Steve give him the mustache that becomes part of his signature design.

In MAwS, Ronnie Troupe is a gender swap of Ron Troupe in the comics who makes his first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #480 (1991) (this page specifically, W: Jerry Ordway, P: Tom Grummett, I: Denis Rodier, C: Glenn Whitmore, L: Albert DeGuzman). Like his MAwS counterpart, Ron is an investigative journalist and very level headed. He was the first to break the story about Cyborg Superman meeting the then PoTUS, Bill Clinton.

A news report on TV in the Daily Planet shows Bethany Snow of Channel 52 News reporting about the break out in Stryker's Island. The logo for Channel 52 News reminds me very much DC's 2005 logo.

As for Bethany Snow and Channel 52 News, Bethany made her first appearance in the New Teen Titans #22 (1982) (W: Marv Wolfman, P: George Perez, I: Romeo Tanghal, C: Adrienne Roy, L: Ben Oda) as a news reporter and follower of the Brother Blood cult.

Later iterations and retcons had Bethany Snow as just a reporter where she does the Channel 52 news in the back end of DC comic titles in 2013.

Freddie E. Williams II is the artist for these as Channel 52 was way to let readers know what is happening in other DC titles that they might want to check out with other DC characters reporters accompanying Bethany as seen in the promotional art with Vartox, Ambush Bug, and Calendar Man. Obviously MAwS redesigned Bethany Snow but they at least kept her occupation.

A quick one but we see Lois call Clark "Smallville" a nickname that has been used in various media involving Clark and Lois.

After news report on TV, we cut to Siobhan, Kyle, and Rough House in their hide out where they name drop their group name, Intergang.

In the comics and other media, Intergang is a world wide crime syndicate who is supplied with powerful high tech weaponry from the evil New Gods of Apocalypse, if you know your DC universe, that is everyone is Darkseid's circle. Intergang first appeared in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133 (1970) created by LEGENDARY artist Jack Kirby.

Here in Forever People #1 (1971) (W&P: Jack Kirby, I: Vince Coletta, L: John Costanza), you can see they have direct contact with Darkseid. Originally led by Morgan Edge, later versions of Intergang had leadership change from Joe Danton to Max Danner. Post-crisis, Intergang is led by Bruno Mannheim (the Intergang boss that I am familiar with), his father Moxie Mannheim would later lead Intergang. Current continuity in DC has Bruno still be the leader of Intergang.

In the episode we learn that MAwS version of Intergang is very small time. Siobhan, Kyle, and Rough House rob convenience stores and make smash and grab runs. But maybe MAwS will move Intergang in the criminal syndicate direction in the future who knows.

After the Intergang scene we cut to Lois, Jimmy and Clark walking up to the front of Stryker's and Jimmy mentions something interesting about convincing the warden to spill on the government's... (read Jimmys quote in the screenshot to complete the sentence)

The term meta-human has its roots in the DC Universe if you did not know! The term was first used here in Invasion #1 (1988) (W: Keith Giffen and Bill Mantlo, P: Todd McFarlane, I: P. Craig Russell, C: Carl Gafford, L: Gaspar Saladino)

In the comic, the Dominators discover that certain humans have what is known as the meta-gene which grants them powers when under a lot of duress and so to test this they rounded up a group of humans and experimented on them with only 6 surviving who gained powers. The Dominators conclude that the human population must be eliminated or there will be a rise in meta-humans on Earth.

How does the government, according to Jimmy, connect to all this. is a possible nod to one of the plot points in Doomsday Clock where the idea that 90% of DC's meta-humans are from the US and they have been engineered by the government. This conspiracy, in the comic is known as the Superman Theory.

This here is one part of the back matter you can read at the end of Doomsday Clock # 5 (2018) (W: Geoff Johns, P&I: Gary Frank, C: Brad Anderson, Back Matter Design: Amie Brockway-Metcalf). Later the trio, specifically Lois, steals the warden's ID badge and were able to access where Siobhan was kept. On the ID the warden's name is Agatha Zorbatos, who's first appearance in the comics was in Batman #23.4 (2013), as the warden of Blackgate Penitentiary in Gotham

Obviously her design in the comic is drastically different from how she looks in the show. The one on your right is from Batman Eternal #4 (2014) (Story: Scott Snyder & James Tynion IV, Script: John Layman, Consulting Writers: Tim Seeley & Ray Fawkes, P: Dustin Nguyen (my favorite comic book artist of all time), I: Derek Fridolfs, C: John Kalisz, L: Rob Leigh).

At the climax of the episode we see more of the alien crystal that Superman encountered last episode from the tech that MAwS Intergang used and it strangely looked familiar. I wouldn't be surprised if the animation team were fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion especially with the way the robots were designed in the first part of episode one and here how the crystal reshapes itself like the angel Ramiel. Also since I'm at my 30 image limit here and I can't post anymore, I also want to point out that the poster that Siobhan has in her cell was a cat with the words "Believe it" over its head I like to believe that is a Naruto reference because the dub has Naruto say "believe it" all the time. I guess I'm gonna be doing the Easter Eggs and references for each episode so expect this to be a weekly thing. I hope you all enjoy my doing this If you made it down here and want to see my first two easter eggs and reference posts for episodes one and two are here and here.

My post of episode three's easter eggs is here

My post of episode five's easter eggs is here

My post of episode six's easter eggs is here

My post of episode seven's easter eggs is here and here

My post of episode eight's easter eggs is here

My post of episode nine's easter eggs is here

My post of episode ten's easter eggs is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[itsapmseymour]

It certainly has been the year of all time

[black-hole-daycare-attendant]

What Villain Are You?

[ozotojc]

I finished the Striker Titan super!

[gundamfight]

[customdestiny]

Wanted to flesh out the other Arc and Void subclasses that aren't getting new supers and aspects in final shape. Also buffing/reworking some of the more under preforming exotics that work with those elements.

[voidwa1ker]

Titan - Awoken - Striker (lesbian specific) - requested by Anon

[mist-cat]

my titan has been going through some rough times and he's being SO BRAVE about it

[pocoslip]

How Many Rivals does Bumblebee really Need????

(I will get Studio Series 86 Bumblebee someday But I'm Not Interested in Gamer Edition Barricade anymore after I saw the War for Cybertron Decepticon Trooper Figure)

[malomaximus]

I’ve been playing around with my titan’s armor and I’m actually pretty happy with how he’s turning out. Still don’t have a name for him, but that’ll come later... eventually...

Celestial Helm - Pole Position Photosuede Gauntlets - Pole Position Iron Companion Plate - Crucible Prestige Dunemarchers (Meyrin’s Odyssey) - Pole Position Mark of the Renegade - Crucible Vermilion

[farmergilesofham]

Have you ever heard the tragedy of the Lightfall Titan Super?

No, I thought not - it's not a story the Bungie Stans would tell you.

It's a player grievance.

With the Lightfall expansion, Bungie had an unprecedented opportunity to make a genuinely unique, new Titan super. They had such power over the new element, Strand, that they could have even given Titans a green-lantern-style 'flamethrower'. Strand could have been a pathway to powers some consider... incredibly awesome. Through a lack of time or a lack of money, Bungo threatened to lose that selfsame opportunity, which eventually, of course, they did. Unfortunately, they gave the coolest Super to the Hunters, who now have a rope-knife and a spiderman movement ability that got generalised to all the other classes because it was just too sweet of an option.

Ironic. They said Strand would be the most dynamic element, yet all we get is another Arc Striker clone.

[knightposting]

I find myself torn between hating the "hehe titan go punch" mindset that both fans and bungie pigeonholed the class into (granted, they've taken pretty good steps to add more variety both this year and the last) and wondering why striker's best pve niche seems to be "throws pretty neat grenades"