Instead of a stoic hero and a chatty villain or a chatty hero and a stoic villian imagine if they’re both chatty. Just, the villian trying their best to kill the hero while the two of them have a in-depth discussion about their opinion of pumpkin spice
or you live long enough to see yourself become the villian
I’ve just decided that I want a superhero story where the superhero is young (and still lives with their family, so like 17-19) and they come from a really poor/broken family. The superhero gets their powers in a horrible accident where a lot of people died. The superhero decides that because they come from a poor family, that it’s best that they let their family believe them dead (so they don’t have to worry about food/housing/etc) but they always watch over them and they steal/make/etc. money for them so that there’s always food on the table
People always romanticize the idea of superhero AUs
Like, it would be a fucking dystopian horror
The world would look a lot more like X-Men than it would the Avengers
There would most definitely be the systematic murder of supers that the government deemed “too powerful”
And if there were a way to “test” for superhero abilities, there would be the systematic murder of children by the government. Racism would play a massive part in it as well, most supers being killed would most likely be people of color because the government would deem these people as “more dangerous” like they fucking do now.
It would be this
macabre mix of 1984 and X-Men if you ask me, it’d be fucking horrifying.
tumblr: we need superhero movies with poc leads!!! we need more women in superhero movies!!!
suicide squad: several poc leads including a japanese actress, native-american actor and latino actor. four women in lead roles, plenty of women in supporting roles.
tumblr: ew suicide squad is going to SUCK it’s trying way too hard OMG IMAGINE IF SCENE KIDS COME BACK BECAUSE OF THIS MOVIE harley quinn is blah blah blah joker pretentious asshole NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANYONE IN THIS MOVIE ROFL give me Attention™
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Me and a large number of other disabled tumblr users, cringing at this whole fucking mess: Harley Quinn isn’t even psychotic ie there’s no reason for her to be hearing voices, and it just puts a larger stigma of violence against those of us with psychotic disorders so fuck this movie and everyone involved
Geek bros: “tumblr just eats up any old thing with representation! They don’t even care if it’s good! Anyone can throw some minorities into something for a cheap sell!!!!“
Tumblr: *constantly demonstrates this isn’t true by subjecting all works to equal scrutiny and critique even if they do have a diverse cast*
Geek bros: *complain about that too because they clearly don’t actually care and just want to shit on people with a differing world view either way*
anyways can we have the opposite of whatever daredevils weird guilt trope is.
like matt murdocks character and basically every other white boy superhero is constantly on the brink of abandoning their friends in the rudest way possible bc it’s “for the best” and they “need to focus” or whatever the shit
i want more plots that are like. superhero will literally give up vigilante-ing at the drop of a hat when their friends need them but their friends are always like “what no u gotta go save the fucking city why are u here eating ice cream at my apartment when lives are at stake w tf” and they think the superhero is cool af for saving people? idk im into that. also the superhero could be gay
“average superhero gets 3 films a day” factoid actualy just statistical error. average superhero gets 0 films per year. Spiderman Georg, who lives in a cave & gets over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
so apparently my city has a superhero. and a supervillain. who like, do activism. and. my mom. is dating the supervillain.
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i live in norfolk virginia, and there’s this guy called the black widow who lives here
he does operate kind of like a real superhero, and he stops car break-ins and stuff like that! apparently he even stopped a case of domestic violence once. i don’t know if a lot of people know he exists, but he definitely seems like a nice dude, and he has a lot of articles centered around him
but. there’s also a supervillain?
this is Man Man, founder of “AdaManMantium inc.” He is both legally and occupationally a supervillain. that’s not even a joke he has actual paperwork designating himself as a supervillain. he even has a business card
Man Man is pretty obsessed with “testing” the black widow in a lot of different ways. like. man man threatened to give his (man man’s) cat to a kill shelter if the black widow didn’t solve a riddle he gave him (whether he actually did it or not i have no idea)
and he also got 35 people to donate blood once the black widow solved ANOTHER riddle which was cool, and there was also this time where he went to a gay bar and told people that if they bought drinks he’d send the equivalent of the money they spent to the westboro baptist church (but since they refused he sent them to a charity)
one of his more recent schemes included… going to the mayor of the city and trying to get him to outlaw masks.
the reason im telling this to you. is because
my mom is dating man man?
blocked out the private stuff but you can definitely see that its the same guy (and also him cosplaying as. Him.)
my mom has always had questionable taste in men (she had a crush on onision a while ago) but like. she’s dating an actual supervillain now which i think is fucking hysterical
so basically. tl;dr. my town has superheroes and supervillains in it and my mom has decided to date a supervillain
