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Essential Avengers: Avengers #275: Even a God Can Die!
January, 1987
The Absorbing Man has gone toe to toe with Thor! Titania has held her own against the She-Hulk! And now Ant-Man and the Wasp are going to stop them?!?
Aw man, I would be so buy this issue if I saw it at the newsstand.
The image of Ant-Man and Wasp being the last line against the Masters of Evil, every other Avenger fallen and captured. The cover copy stressing what a mismatch this is.
Good stuff!
Also, I think the title is a reference to the ‘even an android can cry’ thing. Weird!
Also also, this is the first Avengers of the year 1987! The year ended with Avengers Mansion being captured, the team almost all captured, and Hercules beaten to apparent death!
Imagine waiting a month to follow up on that. Imagine waiting two weeks. Isn’t one week a much better idea?
The pretty much covers the last time recap. The Masters of Evil have finally enacted Zemo’s fiendish plot and everything seems to be going great for them and terrible for the Avengers.
Ten blocks around Avengers Mansion has been placed under martial law and a detachment of Army Rangers has been dispatched to guard the area and evacuate civilians.
While an ambulance took Hercules to the hospital with Wasp towing along, one of the Masters of Evil has left the Mansion and escaped despite the Army Rangers.
The specific Master of Evil was Tiger Shark. Zemo sent him on his way because the Masters of Evil don’t need him anymore and also because a villain leaving the area kicks up useful confusion.
He’s going to wind up in California and deal with the West Coast Avengers. I peeked ahead. But I don’t know if he was on Masters of Evil business or his own business with that.
Seems from this issue, Zemo is just done with Tiger Shark.
Probably for the best (for Zemo) because he does not need another fighty boy stirring up shit.
Speaking of fighty boys, the Wrecking Crew is still, true to their name, tearing the Mansion apart. Specifically, they’re tearing into the walls of Tony Stark’s labs, believing that there could be treasure in the walls.
Weird but hey that's villain enrichment.
Meanwhile, at the hospital even a god can die.
Especially if his skin keeps being too tough to get needles into.
A hospital guy shuffles Wasp out of the operating room to ask her some information for hospital records. Stuff like full name and next-of-kin.
Wasp only knows him as Hercules because I guess he didn’t want to brag by revealing that he goes by Hercules Panhellenios.
(I’m only a filthy casual in regards to mythology but I think Panhellenios means Hercules was worshiped throughout all of Greece and not just in specific spots. It’s more a title than a name but he doesn’t have a patronym or family name so the closest he gets to a “full name” is “I am the Hercules of all of Greece”)
The next-of-kin thing Wasp does know because of all the family drama Hercules had during his first stint with the Avengers. But writing Zeus down as next-of-kin on a hospital form doesn’t help because as Ant-Man points out, Zeus doesn’t have a phone number to put down.
Also, Ant-Man is here now.
Just chilling out tiny size by Wasp’s foot.
He heard on the radio that some bonkers nuts stuff was going on and decided to swing by to lend a hand.
... I like Scott Lang. He’s a good egg.
Wasp... uh, reflexively doesn’t. As much as I do. Because she sees Scott Lang, Ant-Man in the Ant-Man outfit and it just reminds her of Hank.
She’s so discombobulated that she calls him Scott in public, which Scott asks her not to do because secret ID, come on. Luckily, hospital guy booked it once Ant-Man unshrunk so nobody heard.
Scott-Man asks how he can help but Wasp is feeling the despair of this darkest hour and tells him that the Avengers might be beyond any help!
Wasp: “Baron Zemo’s Masters of Evil have taken over Avengers Mansion. They’ve beaten Hercules nearly to death -- and they’ve done... something... to Captain Marvel. What, I don’t know, but there’s no trace of her. Captain America, the Black Knight, and our butler Jarvis have all been captured. God only knows what’s happening to them.”
Bummer.
Speaking of Baron Zemo, back at the Mansion, Baron Zemo continues to love to hear himself talk to captive audience.
Baron Zemo: “For too long, society has simple-mindedly embraced the words and deeds of an elite corps of so-called super heroes. I, Baron Helmut Zemo, today declare that era to be over! My allies and I -- branded evil by an unthinking world -- have brought the self-styled Avengers to their knees.”
Are you really going to do this ‘oh society called us evil’ thing? Your dad was a super nazi. And he called his group the Masters of Evil unironically!
You’re not going to get away with trying to pull a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and say that the evil in the name is some kind of political point.
Then again, Zemo is having Fixer film this so I shouldn’t bother cross-examining his stated motives when he is probably playing for the camera.
Anyway, Cap tells Zemo to let Black Knight and Jarvis go and get medical attention. After all, isn’t Cap the one Zemo really wants? Arch-nemesis privilege, right?
Zemo clarifies yes but no. Cap is the one Zemo wants. But hurting his friends hurts him so he’s going to make Cap watch them die.
Then he hauls off and slaps Jarvis to prove his point.
Cannot believe this Nazi or Nazi-adjacent guy is such a jerk.
Captain America: “You can’t beat the Avengers this way, Zemo. Despite all you’ve done, the Wasp is still alive and free. I know that woman... she’ll organize a whole new team of Avengers if she has to! You won’t be able to run far enough to escape her.”
Now there’s a What If? premise. What if the captured Avengers and whatnot all died and Wasp put together an Avenging Avengers roster.
Annoyed, Zemo tells Fixer to edit Cap(tain America)’s defiance out of the tape they’re going to send the media.
Cap then asks Zemo how the hell he’s alive, by the way.
Captain America: “I thought you’d been killed by the Red Skull’s daughter.”
Baron Zemo: “Obviously, I was not.”
Captain America: “Obviously. How’d you manage to survive?”
Baron Zemo: “That, you shall never know!”
Except Fixer immediately asks too and you get the sense Baron Zemo wants to tell someone because he hisses at Fixer to lower his voice, pulls him out of earshot of Cap and exposits his How He’s Alive story.
Short story: destiny.
Longer story: Apparently when Red Skull’s Daughter ‘killed’ Baron Zemo by using her PSYCHIC POWERS to give him a fatal cerebral hemorrhage, that didn’t actually happen.
His metal headband deflected some of the attack because that’s how psychic powers work. They’re deflected by metal, clearly. That’s why tinfoil hats are the best defense.
Has that ever come up in X-Men? I know Magneto’s helmet is specially made to be anti-psychic but could you get the same result from a tinfoil hat?
Y’know what, I really wish that were the case. Psychics have it too good.
Anyway, point being, Zemo survived and fled the scene before the Avengers showed up to save Captain America.
AND THIS ISN’T JUST STUFFING IN EXPOSITION WHERE IT CAN FIT! This is relevant!
Baron Zemo: “As I fled, I thought of how the Avengers had become like a family to Captain America. I remembered the countless defeats my late father had suffered at Captain America’s hand... and how those defeats drove him mad and tore our family apart. I knew then that I had to devise a way to destroy Captain America’s family... to destroy the Avengers!”
Which brings him to a change in strategy.
When Absorbing Man and Titania call in to report that Spider-Man prevented them from picking up a new recruit for the Masters of Evil (this late into their campaign? Wow) Zemo gives them another assignment instead of having them return to the Mansion.
Since Captain America has such faith that Wasp will pull through somehow, Zemo will just have to crush that hope.
He sends the supervillainy’s best couple to Newhope Memorial Hospital to make sure Wasp dies and might as well finish off Hercules while you’re there.
Meanwhile, hey I bet you’re wondering what’s become of Captain Marvel, right?
Me too. Good thing the scene change scene changes to her!
Weird scene though.
Captain Marvel: This... is just totally weird. I’ve been shanghaied across space to the Andromeda Galaxy, and stuck in Immortus’s realm of Limbo... but I’ve never experienced anything like this!”
After Blackout disappeared her to the cornfield, so to speak, she found herself in a realm of complete yet swirling darkness and numbing cold. Where the only light comes from Captain Marvel’s powers.
But then...
Captain Monica spots a light in the distance and any light that’s not her is notable and probably the way out!
She rushes to it (at light speed, mind you!) but just as she reaches it, it disappears.
Monica explodes in frustration and rage, blazing as bright as a star, but subsides after a moment still as trapped as she was.
I wonder if it was a mirage type thing. Like a rainbow.
Actually, what I really wonder is if its Dagger of Cloak and Dagger fame. The darkforce dimension is the source of Cloak’s powers too and he sometimes needs Dagger to shoot light at him to keep from going cray cray.
I don’t actually know if that’s how it works but Monica popping out of Cloak being how she escapes is an amazing visual. I hope they go with that.
Pander to me, comic that is decades already printed.
Back at the hospital, Wasp is having despair still.
Not helped that Newhope Memorial is where Wasp was taken when she almost died the first time the Avengers fought Count Nefaria.
Wasp: “That was the closest I’d ever come to dying, and it put a real scare into me. I even went so far as to suggest that the Avengers disband. Funny, isn’t it? After all this time, I’ve finally caused the end of the Avengers.”
Ant-Man: “Jan, don’t do this to yourself. No matter what’s happened, it can’t be over yet... And you’re not responsible...!”
Wasp: “Don’t hand me that! I’m Avengers chairwoman -- I know -- I’m responsible! When terrorists like Zemo can take over the Mansion, it’s because my security procedures weren’t good enough. When Avengers are hurt because I can’t get them to follow my orders, I’m at fault!”
"The buck stops here.”
I mean, that’s the responsibility of leadership. Although it’s not really productive a line of thought. It’s dwelling. But she’s been left a lot of time to dwell and not a lot that she can do to distract from dwelling. She’s got squatters rights in her own brain.
Also, this:
Aw.
Wasp tells Scott its all over for the Avengers. He tries to convince her that she can’t give up but... Before Cap got cap-tured, she and he tried to contact the reserve Avengers and no one answered.
Wasp is the Last Avenger.
So at this point, she’s done. She asks Scott to call the Fantastic Four because the Avengers are over.
(She’s going to be disappointed when she hears they’re way, way out of town.)
She asks the doctor if she can have some alone time with the very, really dead Hercules.
Wasp: Oh, Hercules... I knew you resented taking orders from me, but I never thought that would lead to this! If only Cap had been in command, maybe you’d have listened to him. Maybe you wouldn’t have gone charging into the Mansion. And maybe you’d still be alive. Why did have to end this way?
I really hope this is more darkest moment of despair dwelling and that the story doesn’t land on the moral that Wasp shouldn’t have been leader and she’s to blame for Hercules being sexist.
I’m fairly certain it won’t but I worry.
Oh, and Hercules isn’t dead.
While she’s regretting everything over his apparently not-corpse, the heartbeat machine goes BDEEP.
Wasp calls the doctors in and they do some further medical science and determine the Weird but True Olympian Science Fact that in his weakened state, Hercules’ heart is only beating once every ten minutes!
Divine anatomy is weeeird!
But the takeaway is that he’s not dead and the doctors think there’s a chance Hercules can be brought out of his coma.
And that hope is all that Wasp needs to bring her out of her funk.
When Scott-Man tells her that the Fantastic Four are too busy on a secret mission and can’t answer the phone, Wasp tells him it’s okay because HOPE.
Which is why Wasp names her eventual daughter- No, that’s just a wacky coincidence.
Anyway, there’s been a pending plot development waiting to spring and now that Wasp has her hope back is as good a time as any.
The hospital suddenly rocks, as if hit by an earthquake.
Absorbing Man and Titania have arrived to finish off Hercules and murder Wasp a little.
The police around the hospital try to stop them but c’mon, when have the police ever stopped a supervillain.
Doesn’t help that since Titania and Absorbing Man have been out of circulation for a while, the police don’t recognize them.
Shooting Absorbing Man with bullets from a gun just makes him stronger because instead of being shot and dying of it, he absorbs the properties of the bullet metal.
Wasp and Ant-Man peek around a corner as the supervillains enter the hospital and realize ‘oh shit’
Wasp: “That’s Titania! She’s nearly as strong as the She-Hulk!”
Ant-Man: “Then we’ve really got trouble! The Absorbing Man’s bounced Thor around! We have as much chance of stopping those two as Spielberg had of winning an Oscar!”
Wasp: “Scott, if not us, then who?”
That’s a fun timestamp of when this issue came out.
And maybe foreshadows the eventual hero victory when you know that Spielberg eventually did win an Academy Oscar for Schindler’s List. I don’t think Wasp and Ant-Man can wait until 1994 though.
They’ll just have to win anyway despite the improbability and not having the backing of a popular director.
Back at the Mansion, Zemo turns on the news to the attack on the hospital and gloats “Still think the Wasp will stop us, Captain?”
When Cap(tain America) holds onto hope, Zemo decides to try harder to break his spirit.
Since the hospital attack is still in progress, he’ll just have to try other things. Try breaking other things.
Zemo tries ripping up a picture of Bucky from Cap’s footlocker and having Hyde smoosh Cap’s original series but rather than his spirit breaking, Steve regards it with stone-faced stoicism.
Captain America: “I’ll remember this, Zemo.”
Baron Zemo: Will nothing break his spirit?
Zemo decides enough of stuff. Time to make Cap watch as Hyde tortures Jarvis in front of him.
Which Hyde has been waiting for.
Mister Hyde: “I have awaited this moment for a long time, Captain. Twice before, you thwarted my operations... but no more! Zemo has the right idea. I am going to slay you... But your friends shall die first!”
Mister Hyde: “Louder, old fool! I want the Captain to hear your pain!”
Hurting Jarvis? You fiend!
May a bad end come to you!
Dropped off the helicarrier by draculas is what I wish of you!
Black Knight finally regains consciousness. I guess his ass must have been whupped hard because the villains have been impatiently waiting for him to wake up while he’s just been snoozing away concussed.
Anyway, he awakens to Hyde beating the shit out of Jarvis. Obviously, he tries to summon his incredibly cursed Ebony Blade to bust out of his bonds and deal with that scoundrel Hyde!
But the Ebony Blade does not budge from where the Masters are holding it. Because the Fixer has it in an energy field to study it and Cap’s shield.
Man.
They introduce the concept that Dane can just summon his sword to his side and it’s come in handy all of one times. One time that it COULD have been useful, Dane just didn’t try. And now when he does try, it doesn’t work.
You’d think that a super cursed sword would be able to wiggle out of an energy field by teleporting but you’d think wrong.
But Dane’s failure is our scene transition.
Baron Zemo and Yellowjacket come to where the Fixer is studying the super cursed Ebony Blade and Cap’s mighty shield and tells him to do science on his own time.
Baron Zemo: “The Avengers’ main computer has resisted Yellowjacket’s best efforts to circumvent its security codes. That computer’s data is invaluable, but we have little time left to waste. It will take some effort to quash the forces which surround the Mansion. I’ll allow them time to muster additional troops. You will assist Yellowjacket in removing the computer’s memory circuits for later study.”
Yellowjacket II is less than pleased with this new partner.
This tension between her and the Fixer has come up before so I imagine it will be a Thing.
Uh, not the Ben Grimm the Thing. He’s out of town. I mean more like an important plot point. I expect at some point Yellowjacket 2.0′s dislike of the Fixer will be plot relevant.
Also, though. The computers. Good on the Avengers for having better data security than front door security.
But with the emphasis on how important the computers are, I’m starting to suspect that Zemo’s plans involve a little more than just wiping out the Avengers and whichever other superhero teams he thinks he can beat up.
This is cheating with future knowledge but when he was pretending to be the Thunderbolts later, he also really wanted computer access. But to the Fantastic Four’s computers.
He has a bigger game and even despite the Avengers losing their government privileges and such, their computers must hide the key to that bigger game.
... What is this, Mega Man Battle Network? World domination easter eggs hidden on random computers?
Anyway, wasn’t the main plot at a hospital why yes it was.
Absorbing Man and Titania are tearing their way through Newhope Memorial Hospital looking for the Avengers.
Rather than lie low, Wasp decides to just go right up to Absorbing Man. And blast him in the eyeballs.
And when Absorbing Man drops his maybe lead form, Ant-Man hits him with a growing uppercut.
I don’t know if that’s just a modern thing or not but according to shrink physics, a growing uppercut lets you get a lot more momentum into it.
Titania tries to tackle Ant-Man but he shrinks back down and she ends up smacking into the wall face first.
Which probably doesn’t hurt her that much except in the pride.
Absorbing Man rips some wires out of a junction box and becomes an electrical man.
Ant-Man and Wasp have to run from him because how do you punch electricity?
Titania punches through a wall (probably the same wall she just dented with her head) and finds the critical condition Hercules.
But before she can finish him off, Ant-Man enacts his ant-plan of covering her with ants.
Some people complain that this fight shouldn’t go the way its going and will go because Wasp and Ant-Man aren’t strong enough to fight heavy hitters like Absorbing Man and Wasp. But my rebuttal is ant-powers are really cool and I’m tired of people pretending they’re not. Also, Wasp is really cool.
Titania panics as she’s swarmed by ants and calls for Absorbing Man to help her.
I guess that makes sense. If you’re superstrong but not Hulk shockwave clap strong, then you’re no better equipped at dealing with ants than anyone else.
I don’t know if the ants can actually pierce her superstrong skin but lets say maybe. Possible. Ants know what they’re doing.
For all his other many faults, it can’t be said that Absorbing Man isn’t a caring partner. So he turns into some convenient nearby alcohol and washes the ants off of Titania.
Those brave ants are probably all dead. But Ant-Man media usually doesn’t like to talk about that.
Wasp notices that Absorbing Creel has trouble with a liquid form so she and Ant-Man blast him while he’s trying to turn back to a meat human.
Yeah, apparently Scott has a disruptor blast built into his Ant-Helmet now. Forehead laser.
An ant-free Titania is big mad about Wasp and guest star Ant-Man hurting her man and manages to snag Wasp right out of the air.
Since Ant-Man feels responsible for distracting Wasp with his cool new helmet laser, he moves to save her by smashing one of his gas canisters on Titania’s face.
I do not know when innate Pym Particles became The Thing (uh, still not the Ben Grimm the Thing) but Scott’s suit still has the shrinking gas. And he just broke a canister all over Titania who is suddenly more lilliputian than titanic.
Wasp takes advantage of Titania’s surprise at being even shorter than three apples tall to blast her through the wall.
Despite being blasted right when he stopped being alcohol, Absorbing Man is still up, but shaky. He tries to absorb Hercules, to gain the power of a Hercules, but Wasp suddenly drops on his shoulders and flies away with him.
I didn’t know she could do that.
While on his shoulders, she does a full-size sting to both sides of his head, this time not pulling her punch as much.
(Good thing he’s already in a hospital.)
Finally, Absorbing Man goes down.
I say finally but Wasp and Ant-Man only started fighting these two on page 19 out of 23. Those days of compressed storytelling. You really could get a decent fight out of not even half an issue, rather than bloating several issues with action pose action pose SPLASH PAGE.
It does its job well enough establishing that Absorbing Man and Titania punch much tougher jokers than Wasp and Ant-Man. On paper, they would win. But then on this comic book paper, Ant-Man and Wasp fight them anyway, relying instead on the trickier bits of their movesets.
Which is likely to be a big deciding factor in the bigger fight as well.
Zemo has his crew stuffed with big beefy guys and his opening shots hit hard and fast and nearly took down the Avengers before they really knew what was going on.
But like Captain America warned Zemo, underestimating Wasp because she’s not ‘powerful’ is a dumb stupid mistake for idiot babies.
Wasp has gone through the darkest hour of despair and found hope. She triumphed over what was intended to be the knockout blow.
And now it’s time for Wasp to make some moves.
I’m decently excited about this story arc.
There hasn’t been letters pages included on unlimited for a while but I’d like to think that the readers of the time were decently excited too.
Next time: more of this.
Follow @essential-avengers because I have been waiting to get to this story for so long. You don’t even know. Like and reblog maybe? Doctors say its better for the heart than getting beaten up by supervillains. That’s not a threat, just an observation that Hercules should avoid getting beaten up by supervillains for the sake of his health.
#avengers#essential avengers#Avengers Under Siege#Masters of Evil#Baron Zemo#Mister Hyde#the Wasp#Captain America#Black Knight#Edwin Jarvis#Hercules#but he's in a coma#special guest#Ant Man#Captain Marvel#Monica Rambeau#Yellowjacket II#the Fixer#essential marvel liveblogging
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Ellie is a Clone Misunderstanding
So, I' sure most of us have seen a story/prompt or two about Ellie being on the Teen Titans or Young Justice right? Here's my question, does she tell them about her being a Clone, or does she just omit that from her resume?
Imagine a scenario where Ellie is on a mission with her team (Let's say YJ for this). They are nearly done, when she gets hit by some type of Ecto-Weapon in the middle of the fight?
She is hurt, but shrugs it off and continues the battle. In the end, the team manages to come out on Top, and they return to Base.
The others are fretting over Ellie, asking how she is doing and if she needs ant help. She's never once been hit while in Battle, her Phasing Powers are stronger than even Miss Martian, so they are understandably concerned for her health.
She tells them that she's fine, and goes off to her room to rest, telling them to drop it.
Later that night, one of her teammates goes to her room to fetch her for Dinner. They knock on the door, but she doesn't respond. After a while, they decide to just open the door and find Ellie collapsed on the floor. She never made it to her bed.
They rush her to the Medical Station, and call in the League.
While there, they try to figure out what happened, but nothing comes up with the Weapon that hit her. (They took it after the battle for study)
Eventually, they get the results back from the Doctors. Her cells are dying at an alarming rate. Her energy levels are Unstable. Her DNA is deteriorating. She's Destabilizing.
She's a Clone.
All the evidence is there. Her DNA is deteriorating because she wasn't made complete, and her Cells can't keep up with the damage anymore because of that.
If this Ellie is a Clone, what happened to the Real Ellie? When was she kidnapped? How did they not notice their friend being replaced by a Clone?!
They need answers, and unfortunately Ellie isn't waking up any time soon.
#Dp x dc#Dpxdc#Dc x dp#Dcxdp#Danny phantom#Dc#Dcu#Danielle Phantom#Dani Phantom#Ellie Phantom#Young Justice#Ellie is a Clone Misunderstanding#Misunderstanding#They don't know what happened to the real Ellie#They are mad that they didn't notice#There was nothing too notice#Ellie is kind of in a coma#They try to find where she was made to find the “real ellie”#It leads them to Vlad#He is reformed by now but always takes the chance to mess with some heroes#Dan finds it hilarious#(Remember that he's vlads son now?)
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ok, i have finally gotten to season 5, and i have got to say one thing. this fanbase infantilizes martin to Hell and back and i do NOT understand how you can do it if you finished this damn podcast, i understand hes very sweet and he has a really cute voice but from 165 to 175 i think i have heard him pretty cheerfully ask jon to kill people about twice per episode on average,
#he craves violence. yes hes adorable but he wanted oliver dead because he Happened to be nearby when jon woke up from his coma#and he got jealous he woke up while Oliver was there and not Him 😭#this man is so fucking funny he is so much more than your sweet little cheesecake if you gave him a gun s5 length would be halved#tma#the magnus archives#tma spoilers#martin blackwood#martin k blackwood#jonmartin#jmart#I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THIS!
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The fact that the Eddie we saw this episode was seen almost entirely from bucks perspective and he had this heightened full of life joy about him - that that is how Buck sees Eddie. As this light in his life - full of joy energy and life - even when viewed through his jealous not fully understanding eyes.
#it’s why we couldnt see Eddie in bucks coma world- it would’ve revealed too much#I’m truly obessed with it#Eddie was always brightly lit with the light directed at him#Eddie is impeccably dressed an quoifed throughly the episode -even when sweaty#it’s what makes giving him season 2 Eddie hair such a loud and interesting choice as well - buck has never actually moved on from#when he first laid eyes on him#911 spoilers#eddie diaz#evan buckley
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oh my fucking god??
the things I would let this man do to me??
bye...
#he's so pretty in a girl way#prepare to unfollow me cause a hyperfixation is brewing and it's looking BAD#the fact that I'm already currently obsessed with Ian Malcolm and ticci toby as well...#I need to put in a medically induced coma#the creature#lisa frankenstein
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the archival assistants @ jon:
#including the publication date here because it matches the in-universe timeline for jon's coma (he woke up in february 2018)#which i think is a fun little detail#tma#the magnus archives#magnuspod#jonathan sims#tma s4#tma shitpost#saw this onion headline in an unrelated post and couldn't resist
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#ed is 100% choking the shit out of stede the minute he fully wakes up from that coma#ofmd#our flag meets death#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#our flag means death seasons 2#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#edward teach#stede bonnet#omfd blackbeard#blackbeard
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[ID: two digital greyscale drawings of Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives. Jon is depicted as a short, thin British-Pakistani man with many scars, and Martin is depicted as a tall, fat Vietnamese-Polish man with glasses.
Image 1 depicts Jon rescuing Martin from the Lonely in episode 159. Against a cloudy grey background, Martin, washed out, stands with his arms limp at his sides, looking vacantly aside. He is wearing a blazer. Jon wears an overlarge cardigan that fans out behind him as he reaches for Martin’s face with both hands. Many tendrils of negative space curl around Martin, and a few break over Jon’s legs and flow between his fingers.
Image 2 depicts the final moments of episode 200. Jon, unraveling into magnetic tape, floats in mid-air while Martin, standing on the ground, begins to drive a knife into Jon’s chest, cutting the tape. Blood rises from the wound, floating upward, the only color in the drawing. Jon gently touches Martin’s face and supports the arm holding the knife, while Martin sobs through gritted teeth and holds onto Jon’s wrist. The dark backdrop is lit by a beam of light behind Jon, which highlights the negative space between the ribbons of tape that compose Jon’s body. End ID.]
these drawings ended up being parallels of a sort so thought i would share them together for. maximum pain :,) if anyone’s wondering i’m still inconsolable about Them
#tma#the magnus archives#tma fanart#the magnus archives fanart#jonmartin#jmart#teaholding#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#martin k blackwood#tma spoilers#mag 200#tma finale#magnuspod#the mag pod#once again i ask why our fandom tags are so. numerous#also idk how Martin’s hair grew that much in 6 months. he’s doing whatever Jon does when ppl make his hair get long in the coma
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Evan— Buck. Buck���That is—that's what people who know me—that's what they call me.
#911edit#911 abc#911#evan buckley#maddie buckley#eddie diaz#911net#evanbuckleysource#evanbuckleyedit#userelio#alielook#uservito#usernik#tuserhidden#userjjessi#*cajedit#*gif#this is a 'never feeling like enough but being enough anyway and gradually learning that' gifset#the way eddie called him 'evan' was like he was calling to buck's childhood self and telling him that even then he was important#(which parallels the way tommy calls him evan so i included the second gif after he just came out to eddie and is loved anyway)#who he is and who he always has been and who he will be is worthy and enough#he is loved anyway and held up and supported by the people who matter most then and now.#'you never give up' and buck breaking the glass to wake up from his coma. choosing to go back for himself#'you were made to save someone' and he saves his sister he saves his chosen family over and over and over#and he also saves himself
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what if your best friend was annoying. what if he took every opportunity he had to make fun of you. what if he kept trying to pick off your scabs even when you pushed him away. what if you caught him looking at your bruises for too long. what if he hated your girlfriend. what if your best friend took you to a magical place and spoke to the forest. what if you recognized his messy handwriting scratched into a boulder. what if he drove you home. and again. and again.
what if he lingered in the driveway too long and watched your father’s fist land. what if in the time it took you to fall and smash your head on the railing he was there. what if it took three cops to pull him off of your father. what if he snarled like a dog and the look in his eyes was wild but he still managed to check if you were okay while they shoved him in the back of the cop car. what if you finally told them the truth about your father to keep your best friend out of jail.
what if your best friend could take things out of his head and make them real. what if he almost never slept because he was afraid of what he would wake up with. what if your best friend went to mass every sunday to apologize to god and he told you the nuns had an apartment they would rent to you for cheap. what if it was cold and cramped and bare but for the first time you slept somewhere without fear. what if your best friend knocked on your door most nights and slept on your floor. what if you thought it was because he knew you kept a gun somewhere and you didn’t want to think about what else it might mean.
what if your best friend started hanging out with someone awful. what if he stayed out all night racing and drinking and doing god knows what with this guy. what if you wanted him dead. what if you had a hand in his death. what if you couldn’t bring yourself to feel bad about it because your best friend was safe sleeping on your floor again. what if your best friend asked you for help. what if he took you back to the church and you could just imagine him in there with his family before it broke. what if he closed his eyes and turned ideas tangible in one of the pews and you thought maybe there were two gods in this church. what if he looked at you like he thought there were three. what if the nightmares got him. what if your best friend bled out on the floor while you held him and panicked. what if you watched him take his last breath. what if you looked up and he was watching you cradle his head from where he sat on the altar. what if the scope of his power hit you just then. what if he told you to leave and you did. what if you let him dispose of his own corpse alone. what if you sat on your bed unable to stop thinking about the blood dripping from his mouth.
what if once you started noticing the curve of his lips and the cut of his cheekbones you couldn’t stop. what if you’d never truly felt safe in your life except when he was with you. what if your best friend was tall and strong and sharp and cruel and he made you smile like nobody else could. what if you were quiet and calculating but he made you loud and reckless. what if he radiated danger but you trusted no one else to walk behind you. what if everyone else kept forgetting which ear your father deafened you in but your best friend always remembered.
what if you went up to his childhood bedroom at the house where his father died and looked at all of his old things. what if you sat on his bed and thought about all the times he must have woken up staring death in the face. what if you looked up and he was standing in the doorway. what if he came over and sat beside you. what if there were bad memories here but also good ones. what if when he finally kissed you he did it slowly and carefully like he knew he was devilishly handsome at best and terrifying at worst. what if his big strong hands held you like he thought you might fall apart and you couldn’t remember the last time someone had touched you so softly. what if he left after that because he knew you would have a lot to think about. what if you went back to him that night and kissed him like you were starving for it. what if the second room you slept in without fear was also the second room your best friend had given you.
what if something demonic invaded your body. what if it used your eyes to spy and your hands to manipulate. what if the most important thing in the world was your autonomy. what if the demon knew it and made you sit helplessly as it stole it from you. what if it let you see just enough. what if your hands closed around your best friend’s throat and there was nothing you could do to stop them. what if you begged him to fight back. what if he just kept looking at you even as his lips turned blue. what if his hands still held you with love even while he was dying in yours.
what if the demon released you. what if you couldn’t stand by yourself. what if your best friend kept you up. what if you fell back against his chest and his arms kept you from falling and he whispered in your good ear something meant only for you and you gave in and began to cry. what if the bruises circled his neck for weeks. what if you could see the shape of your thumbs on his throat and couldn’t bear to look at it. what if you wouldn’t blame him if he never wanted you near him again. what if he kissed your fingers instead.
what if you thought you never wanted love or a home or a family. what if your best friend gave you all three. what if you woke up with his arms around you in the house where his father died and he made you breakfast and you laughed over coffee and his little girl gave you sticks and leaves and his bird gave you bottle caps. what if you wanted to go to college but you didn’t want to leave and he wanted you to go but he wanted you to stay. what if nobody had ever wanted you to stay before. what if you never thought you’d have anything worth coming home to. what if you never thought you’d call anywhere home. what if your best friend gave you an apartment. what if he gave you his home. what if he gave you his heart.
#and then what if u broke up with him while he was in a coma#oops!! still bitter about td3 pynch#the raven cycle#trc#pynch#adam parrish#ronan lynch#helenaposting#barbi.trc#barbi.doc
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an uncomfortable truth is that if batman and all the batkids were kidnapped and it was up to alfred to save only one while all the others would perish, alfred would push the button to save bruce with no hesitation before the villain was even done talking
and even more uncomfortable truth is that bruce would eventually forgive him this
#listen i *like* this about him#u cannot talk about bruce and dick's or bruce and tim's fucked up relationship#without first acknowledging the OG first and foremost fucked up relationship that is bruce and alfred#it oroginates there bless#listen alfred lived with dick for a solid like 6-10 years depending on what age u wanna go with for dick#and dearly loves him and would give him the world. however. if it were dick or bruce he'd sell out dick in a heartbeat#and alfred was a key figure in tim's training and spent many weekends one on one. drove him back and forth to school#was his vigilante chauffer constantly before tim got the redbird and while tim lost access to the redbird#lived with tim for 6 months while tim's dad was in a coma. recommended tim move next door so tim could keep being robin#lived with tim 6 months during NML. lived with tim 6 months to a year as tim's personal valet during brentwood#+ many others and he would still sell out tim in a heartbeat for bruce
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Characters who are so silly but so intense at the same time
#shinichi becomes the mayor of yappertown when hes comfortable with someone#and kaito is surprisingly a good listener#looking at dcmk fanartist got my colourin skills goin crazy#i never bothered colourin until i decided to make fanart of these two specifically whats up wit that guys#fanart#karas art#shinichi kudo#kaito kuroba#kaishin#magic kaito#detective conan#dcmk#uhhhh i always forget how to tag shit#anyway how is everyone#i just woke up from a 20 hour coma and immediately startind drawin these mfs#😼#also kaito stims#they both do idc idc
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"dante doesn't ever shower", "dante smells like a grease pit lol"
my dude has a completely new outfit and hairstyle every game. he's worn 8000$ coats for more than half of his life. i am 100% betting he takes forever in the god damn shower and has rose shampoo. dante is vain as shit about his appearance
#he was in a coma for a month leave him alone im so tired of trash goblin dante#i dont think vergils showered in literal YEARS#dmc dante#dmc
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#honkai star rail#hsr dr ratio#hsr aventurine#ratiorine#aventio#whatever other ship name they have. i saw like 4 THATS ENOUGH! /j#making horrible memes to speed up the time (aventurine banner please hurry)#Its not working. I cry every day i wake up hes still not here#Why do i always talk about him like im mourning him .#sorry im ramblinf Anyways . Here#★ my art#art#★ animations#my sona (a sliver) (aventurine sniped them with the water bottle if u didnt see that)#do i reblog too much?am i annoying yall? sorrryyyy……..#i reblog like everysingle aventurine related thing ever i feel like itd put 1 of my followers into a coma
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Even before the episode, while rewatching old seasons, I was just struck by how big an impact Buck’s had on Eddie’s life.
Like, please, picture this:
You are Eddie Diaz, ok? An army vet who quite literally just went through an extremely traumatic experience, immediately got left by your wife and in a desperate move to find happiness for you and your son you move across the country to start a new life.
You are the new guy at work and this man about your age really has it out for you. That’s fine by you. You’ve put up with enough bullshit in the army, you are just here to do your work, it’s harder than that to get under your skin. Plus, this guy seems okay, aside from all the dick measuring, and you’re sure he’ll tire himself out if you just don’t play along. Then, oh surprise, after a single shift you give the guy one compliment and he folds completely, before you know it he’s decided you two are friends. Fine, good. You miss the army’s camaraderie. This will probably be just like that.
Few weeks in, Christopher comes up. You hesitate because you don’t like talking about your kid with strangers, but you are worried about him being out there alone during the earthquake and there’s really no way to avoid the subject forever. You’re already dreading the pity looks from people who don’t understand this kid is the best thing that’s ever happened to you. Instead, you get a wide smile, “he’s super adorable, I love kids”. In retrospect, you should’ve expected it. What you don’t expect is the way Buck spends the entirety of the shift reassuring you that Chris is alright, even when you’re pretty sure you’ve done nothing to betray your worry (you know better than to panic, it does nothing to help), but Buck seems to notice anyway and keeps sprouting curiosities to reassure you. He even drives you across the torn up town at a reckless speed to make sure you can reach your son as soon as possible.
Few weeks later, abuela has an accident. Buck drives you to the hospital, even though you could’ve taken a cab to the firehouse to pick up your truck, and goes all the way in with you. He’s a good friend like that. Turns out, he’s a very good friend, because he catches you by surprise calling ahead to let the Cap know you need help with Chris and arranges a whole day of him hanging out with the 118. You didn’t ask for it, and he doesn’t expect so much as a ‘thank you’.
Next night, he makes a big deal of introducing you to a woman and you are already dreading, once again, the reveal moment when you have to explain that thank you very much but you are still married and really your only priority right now is your son and- wait, that woman is the perfect caretaker that might or might not be the solution you’ve been desperately searching for to get your and your son’s life together.
This guy you just met a few weeks ago has given you friendship, reassurance, company, thoughtful help without you ever asking (you’ve never been good at asking for it) and he’s just sitting there smiling proudly while he helps you possibly assure your kids future.
All of this... it happens in the first FOUR episodes of s2 after Eddie is introduced. No wonder he’s in love ride or die for Buck. Who wouldn’t be?
In a year, they are inseparable. In two years, Eddie makes him Christopher’s legal guardian in case he dies. In three, Buck saves his life. In four they are basically a family and the person Christopher goes to in a panic. Five years in, Buck is in a coma and Eddie Diaz cannot even look at him, cannot picture a world where he’s dead, cannot envision his life without him.
#eddie diaz#evan buck buckley#buddie#911 fox#911 spoilers#the way those first four episodes dramatically altered the trajectory of Eddie Diaz's life#no wonder he wasn't at all in the coma dream he was in another entire plane emotionally without Buck#anyway really hope they get a conversation next week where some of this is touched upon
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#tma#my art#the magnus archives#tma art#tma fanart#the magnus archives art#the magnus archives fanart#oliver banks#mike crew#its not ship technically but this is love to me#oliver rehearsed while he was digginh his body out too#mag 91 spoilers#terminal velocity#<- my demons#u know how jon could hear oliver in his coma
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