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AghorSaintSoundsCoolToMe
Maybe he'll be good friends with Deadpool being yet another trainee in xmen
NonDenominationalSpaceLaser
That is beautiful, thank you for sharing it.
Zilc
I would watch the hell of this
SkyreachX
Is this the origin story to Fix-It Felix?
scryguy6
Thought the same
backrideup9
This is what Toph was doing after ATLA, but before she went into hiding.
Bastetsmorlock
FractalB
Really cool idea. I wonder what the plan for electricity, plumbing and maintenance was. You can't just add a couple dozen buildings to ...
FractalB
... the grid without risking breaking it (especially in the US, see Texas).
FatherAlexanderAnderson
Sign me up
aroundtheworldin80years
This qualifies as Worm fanfic. Well not fanfic... umm... omakase?
CPTBRUMBL3Z
Seems like a perfect Love Death Robots short.
SteamChameleon
Should have been. After that lack luster season 2... ugh
MoonMoon89
TacoPuncher
Spoilers for the non manga readers......................are they still active? I know a large number of heroes quit after afo were they one?
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
Mt first thought as well.
Atnosh
Mt lady
killerfirefly
Cementoss me!
Anonanimal3000
You toss what now?
boevis
Cement-oss. Like Than-os
Snausagebort
Ma, they’re pronouncing things again!
ObsessiveJailbird
I don't know why that made me laugh so much.
Wookieoo7
WHAT DID SANDY SAY?!
kaliedoscopicfrenzy
GondwanaCraton
The hate would have started much earlier, with protests from construction worker unions of the people who would have been paid to rebuild.
IDoSound
Really ace story. Makes me of The Reckoners by Brandon Sanderson
Ialwayslookhungover
And where can i find chapter 2?
ThanksIHateThis
His handle is Fakecrfan on Tumblr. Should be an easy Google search. I tried unsuccessfully to post a link.
TinyLiehon
Did you find it?
TheGalacticLeprechaunwithtinynipples
somebody post the comic where the harness peak superman power to provide free, nearly endless energy and solve all our worlds problems
Imalwaysready
This is a better deconstruction of the superhero narrative than most of the others out there right now. We need a show about a legitimate >
Imalwaysready
hero that did not themselves "turn" into a villain, but that society redefined and decided their once lauded actions were now villainous.
NonstopRampage
Personally I've been hoping for some kind of series like "Dr.Doom Takes Over The World"- where a villain wont LET the world be destroyed.
dragonsluvtacos
lawrabbit
Comrade constructor
LordSithis
Reminds me of the middle arcs of the Invincible comic series.
tyrsfavoritesword
... I made it to the second episode... does it stay that violent?
CedricDur
The artist specializes in gore, so, yes, at some point Invincivle gets his guts ripped out and his family has to stuff them back in with their hands. There are lots other such examples.
LordSithis
It fluctuates, but the violence and whatnot serves for the other half of the message throughout: no one is immune from pain.
tyrsfavoritesword
For some reason it's more raw/gut retching than most war scenes to me...felt sadisticly cruel. It does its job. May I never be numb.
TheSecondPiewackit
Holy unrelenting fuck, does it. If you notice, the title screen gradually gets more covered in blood. The Train scene... you'll know it.
tyrsfavoritesword
... no thanks. Sweet fuck what did the author see that inspired this?
Imalwaysready
It is very violent, but the point is that it is not glorifying the violence. You're SUPPOSED to be horrified by it--about how someone with>
Imalwaysready
too much power and too many supports in place in society start to view the "lesser" beings around them as meaningless and expendable.
TheSecondPiewackit
It's actually ultimately really good. Collateral damage becomes a major issue. And I read the synopsis of the comics, and it takes a ...1
TheSecondPiewackit
... completely different approach to being a hero. Eventually he just starts helping out the villains, but in a meaningful way. He talks..2
Evillairforrent
I'd love a videogame in this style.
NonstopRampage
There's always Prototype if you need to scratch that itch.
Evillairforrent
Yeah...i played both, while fun, it didn't really do anything. For once i want to start a good guy getting worn down by the system.
Evillairforrent
Start out a good guy, doin' good where he can....but being worked against by red tape where ever possible....that one senator he rescues? -
Evillairforrent
Big crime lord in the making and as soon you take him down learn that he used all his illegal funding to try and better the world like i was
Evillairforrent
By playing hero.
Gonnaderpya
Ehhhh had me until they released the villains. Like they cared bout people so much and then released super villains that hurt people?
422000
I felt like it was do what I say or I will make and put you in a prison you can't even fathom escaping from.
GettingPaidToPoop
How much this story went over your head is why.
asm80dfa8sdfj
Watch out guys, we have a genius over here. Someone call Mensa.
Taazar
They should add a line before the escape saying "So I read up on all the supposed villains, and some of their stories began to stand out."
mintykiwi
yeah being a supervillain is based
Goblinshopkeeper
Given the protagonist is called a villain by the end, its unclear how many of the other villains actually are evil but yeah it could be bad.
notme222
Great idea. Writing's a little heavy-handed, but then again that rarely stops Hollywood anyway.
NonstopRampage
It's allegory. A lot of apparently 'bad' people have been there. The types who saw violence and grew up. Who were hurt and had to get out./1
asm80dfa8sdfj
For me it's the writing itself, not the story. I don't like this way of telling a story.
NonstopRampage
It's an all-too-common thing. People who've been through 'too much' of something gone 'too far', know how important it is to do something /2
NonstopRampage
about it- they know EXACTLY what the consequences are. They look at a problem and see 'HUNDREDS will die', and that it needs fixing NOW. /3
NonstopRampage
And when they stress that fact, that its literally "do or die", they get flak for being a 'brute' or a 'monster'. Like they're evil. /4
NonstopRampage
Meanwhile, those same, more sensitive people that decried them, do nothing. In effect, their negligence just allows these things to happen/5
Alfadorfox
As if they wouldn't lock him up in a material his power couldn't affect, like Magneto's plastic cell.
CraftyCyborg
Glass was the first thing that came to my mind, but I’m sure there’s a chemistry reason it’s fail to work.
martineb72
But sometimes there are no limits. He remade cities. I doubt there is anything he can't effect.
TinyLiehon
Which begs the question why he didn't build his own island to house people on
FluffySquirrell
Yeah, he could affect any cell they made, maybe if they went to extremes and somehow made it out of superpower forcefields or something
GondwanaCraton
You build his cell in a hyperbaric chamber. He breaks out, he dies of the bends. You tell him this, so it's his choice to remain imprisoned.
TheSecondPiewackit
Reminds me of my biggest issue with Magneto. He can move "metal". Well... technically most of the periodic table is "metals".
EvilEkips
In one of the movies they fed one of the guards visiting him very trace amounts of metals. He sensed it and it was more than enough used...
ThriceGreat
It also depends on who writes him and their understanding of physics re: electromagnetism
TheSecondPiewackit
Yeah. Like the difference between diamagnetic and paramagnetic, and how magnetism works in general.
ThriceGreat
I mean, I'm pretty sure Magneto can microwave people and cause grand mal seizures.
TheSecondPiewackit
He should be able to disintegrate any given human. Between blood iron, and calcium bones, there's enough "metal" to do whatever he wants.
vindik8or
According to astronomers every element that isn't H or He is a metal.
EvilEkips
I'd debate that for gasses like O, H and even more the noble ones, but yeah a lot of stuff is "metal".
vindik8or
There's no point debating it, I'm not an astronomer and they use the term differently to everyone else for specific reasons.
vindik8or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
CedricDur
Magneto stopping bullets. Me, as a kid but already aware that lead and aluminium were not affected by magnets: ...
CapnAndy
I feel like a better solution would have been find some land in bumfuck nowhere, buy it, and manifest your perfect city there
TinyLiehon
Raise the sea floor in international water. Make your own country
CapnAndy
Hold it up to the rest of the world as a rebuke as the population slowly swells and it outshines every other city in beauty and prosperity
NonstopRampage
I mean, that's been my plan for years. Hypothetically, you could pay off the right officials in SA, buy border properties, all butted up /1
NonstopRampage
against eachother, in 3-4 of those countries- pay a little more, have em declared sovereign soil. Now, you own the region, Disney style. /2
NonstopRampage
There's no fixing america without ugliness. Without an overturning of power. Without the guards arresting the king for going mad. /3
NonstopRampage
So fuck em. I'd rather restart somewhere else, create a new culture- devoid of all this... rank idiocy. (also the conservative terrorism)
CapnAndy
SA, nothin'. You can buy enough acres to put a city on in Montana or some other bumblefuck empty state for cheap, /1
CapnAndy
pull a Disney and become the government up to the county level, and run this thing right in the USA. Which you want to do, because /2
CapnAndy
you want the contrast, and more than that, you want people to move in. "Move a few states" is a much easier ask.
FreezoQ
Why would they out someone who can shape earth, stone and metal in a normal cell? Why not a plastic cube or something?
Boris23
Proper building construction requires working with almost every class of materials - wood, concrete, plastic, metals, etc.
Boris23
If they can rebuild things completely based on blueprints, I don't think there is a good material to use to imprison them to begin with.
chaylar
pretty sure a steel spike can poke a hole on a plastic cube.
FreezoQ
Where would the spike come from? Why would they be so stupid they would leave anything usable around. I'm sure they would be able to 1/
FreezoQ
figure out the range for the powers by reviewing all the data provided from the projects before.
TheSecondPiewackit
What's it going to be sitting on? You'd need a plastic cube suspended in air. And even then... he can clearly levitate materials.
VileEverett
Wow. I would love to see this movie
PotatOSLament
I could see this being a five-minute short. Just a series of vignettes.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Probably too long for a movie. More like miniseries material. Other than that I agree.
truemetalman
Ooh a miniseries would be perfect for this.
Kittynomnoms
Give me like, six 1-hour episodes with miniature time skips between them.
Myheartisafish
If you want a book that's kind of similar, check out Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots: https://g.co/kgs/SrX1C7
Waterman1
Paper Heroes by Steven Heumann is somewhat similar too.
DaBe1812
F**k the movie. Make it a comic and I'm so into it.
VileEverett
JesusCrossProduct
"Bob the Builder : Building a bad reputation"
vkmi
Good luck finding a company willing to finance this message.
nova1124
I move this. "Villain. Good and evil are all about perspective.
AllergicToEverything
From my perspective the jedi are evil
Lynkfox
The very best villains are always the heroes of their own story.
Pherlin
Dr. Doom, Magneto, Dr. Freeze etc.
ameranthe
Poison Ivy was only trying to protect and save the plants from human destruction.
Pherlin
Yup
nova1124
*love
blaghart
It's already a character in a comic series. "Empowered". The Superhero Syndablokk.
jimbotherisenclown
He has some of the powers, but that's about it - unless he drastically changes later on. I'm only on Vol. 4 at the moment.
blaghart
The supplementary stuff details it more but he has literally all of these powers. He's the one who puts cities and the Superhomies HQ back
blaghart
together after all their local city destroying fights.
jimbotherisenclown
Oh, cool! At the point I'm at, I mostly just remember him for being the cool homey who helped Emp take on Jerome. He mentioned 1/2
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Heroes and organization that perform this role or have similar powers are hardly new. The character arc is what's interesting and unique.
AlexanderA
Watch it as they butcher it, create unnecessary romance drama and add marketable stuff, diluting the message in the end
Kittynomnoms
You mean adding in a bit about how homeless people are actually mega-evil, thus justifying the heroes fighting this new villain?
Badgerpie
I hate how right you probably are. I did enjoy Joker though, for keeping it grim and critical
AlexanderA
The best thing about joker, was seeing how the "press" loose their collective minds, because reasons.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Oh they'd have to dilute the message. Message is anti-establishment power as shit. That sort of thing only flies in a smooth and shiny way.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
They'd probably have to stick some 'tony stark' figure in there. The Good Billionaire. Have the opposition just be Bad People, instead of -
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
- the way this country works. Message'd become PEOPLE BAD, but the SYSTEM IS GREAT DON'T CHANGE A THING.
DrewK98
Someone call Netflix.
sec1237clip
They'd make one cool season, and then cancel it.. maybe
RileaSW
Absolutely do NOT call Netflix for this, they'd fuck it all up
DrewK98
Ya know, this does have more of a "The Boys" vibe. So Amazon.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Ah but this is a critique of the sort of society and systems that Amazon is pretty big on. It'd never fly without totally ruining it.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Like I def agree this is the sort of thing I'd want done by the folks that did 'Invincible'. But under any corps thumb? why even bother.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Doubt that movie'd make enough money to get made by any mainstream company. Would like to see it comic or novel form though.
EvilEkips
Well you'd have to be able to relate. In developed countries it's still an issue, but not a massive one anymore. We have tons of shelters.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
It'd go fine in the U.S. Lotta homeless. And even if you ain't the threat is there for a lotta folks. Plus the rich homeless abuse crap -
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
- happens a lot in the U.S. So it'd work quite nicely.
EvilEkips
Well maybe in the US and South America and stuff but not in developed countries, at least not as much anymore.
shakedownblues
Netflix series?
Dechelonidaemobilis
Crowdfund it? Or get someone like N. Gaiman to write the script?
TechnicallyRight
Is it because of the implication?
CraftyCyborg
I saw a movie about the downfall of the guy who invented intermittent wiper blades. From a mainstream company in a theater. So there’s hope.
texasdean
Sounds similar to supervillany and other poor career choices on reddit hfy.
ruferto
it would have to be a series. the slow burn and the transition to villain by the end of season 2
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Only way it'd get approved is if they made 'ole homeless houser an actual villain instead of just anti-hero that fights the 'proper' heroes.
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
This sort of plotline is very anti neo-liberalism. I'd kinda want the people behind invincible to do it, but Amazon wouldn't truck that shit
transientmind
Get people invested and by the time they realise, it’s too late. Oh no. :)
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
An independent production of some sort.
DigiT00l
Unfortunately it wouldn't be as good
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
On one hand yes, on the other hand, bet any corporation would water down the message and shift blame about. What would even be the point?
ClericOfTheProsperityGospel
Plenty of independently made comics on the other hand, are as good or better than big name ones.
ensensu
Indie project made with pixel art perhaps?
Govote
Hi I do pixel art
MrSaturday
Do you take comissions? We got a show series here and a buttload of fake internet points, how about it?
Govote
I'm currently gearing up to go back into education work! But fuck dude if you know a writer have them script it and I'll story board!
newworldtraveller
Yeah, sounds like an 'Idiocracy' situation all over again where the studio sabotaged it purposely
sreav
I would like to know more about this. Do tell?
newworldtraveller
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-ca-secondlook7-story.html *archived article from the LA Times, shouldn't be paywalled ?
Einstein9073
Mike Judge made a movie that was critical of capitalism. Movie studios struck back by deliberately not marketing the movie
TechnicallyRight
As good of a concept as the movie was.... the language used in it, aged extremely poorly. Lots of... british cigarettes & flameproof folks
Einstein9073
I'm not trying to be a dick or nothing, but it says here on your chart that you talk like a something and your shits all messed up