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Okay so I just rent on a rant to my sister about Teen Titans Go and I figured I’d post it here cause yeah um.

ALSO IF YOUR A FAN OF THE SHOW THATS TOTALLY OKAY BUT IM NOT GONNA BE TALKING POSITIVELY ABOUT IT SO JUST A HEADS UP!!!!!

Okay so basically I really, REALLY hate it. Like I’ll be honest I’ve seen some really funny shit from it that has made me laugh out loud but that doesn’t excuse everything else. The entirety of the show just feels like one big mockery of the original and they degrade and scrape every character into a joke and it’s so fucking humiliating.

Like I’ll be honest the original was better, and I know I sound like one of those people who can’t appreciate new things but I do feel like we can make a new generation of Teen Titans without it being just pure brain rot. Like we don’t need it to be brain rot at all. And I get that the show also talks about real world stuff and important things in real life like taxes and such but that doesn’t make up for all the fart jokes (everything in this show is just a punchline at some point I’m sorry).

And I HATEEE how they did the characters it’s just so UGH. Its just really sad. I really hate how they did Cyborgs character the most because he was so cool and the mature but fun who was actually really smart and strong (they also could’ve given him more screen time and love in the original). The show also weirdly sexualize Starfire and Raven and it’s like whyyyy why would you do that.

And I’m not saying the original show was perfect, because nothing is perfect. The OG had plenty of flaws but it was still really cool and it was dark and edgy but made for older kids and was just entertaining in general.

ALSO THE STUPID GRRR the designs in the DC Superhero Girls is just. What. They somehow manage to make a bigger mockery of these character and it’s like, they use to be so cool and fun. Im sorry, I don’t want to be to hateful.

So final thought, I think DC is just kinda going downhill, especially with the new fart fetish comic they’re releasing. The same thing goes with Marvel as well. Both companies ran out of ideas for they’re stories so they either reuse content or turn it into fast brain rot and they keep pumping these movies and episodes out by the minute without any love or care because it gets them money faster. And I’m so sad to see both of my favorites superhero franchises turn more and more into heartless, soulless, greedy businesses. I know I sound like a hippy but I grew up with this kind of stuff and I love love love superhero’s so much, I just hope it gets better.

Sorry if this was super long uh yeah thanks for reading :D

Let's say you had a chance to play any hero and any villain you wanted, what two characters would you pick?

Personally I'd pick Deadpool and Carnage

You, a supervillain, answer a knock at your door, only to find your superhero nemesis shivering, bleeding, scared, and slightly dazed (as if drugged). They appear to have been assaulted. The hero mumbles “…didn’t know where else to go…” before collapsing into your arms.

Superpower Ramblings: The Muscle 

Back aging with my BS, this time breaking down & trying to innovate on 'The Mussel'/ Explanatory, the Mussel is what it says on the tin, the Guy or Gal that's the strongest in the group, physically largest or not they will fall under several other categories such as "The Flying Brick" or "Combat Master" not "The Big Guy". These are not what I will be talking about today (Mostly), Im talking about the pure Mussel.  

Characters such as The Hulk, Luke Cage, etc. That have no or minimal training, they punch & punch and don't have a whole lot else going for them. Occasionally you get Mussel backed by Brains /Genius Bruiser such as DC's Hourman (Depending on the version), and Marvels Hank McCoy/'The Beast'. However they have something else going for them, I'm talking about pure strength builds with nothing else, so smarts, no secondary powers going for them, nothing. Characters like these usually fall into the "Dumb Muscle" camp, being all muscle, which is a disservice to their character as it degrades their role in the story, or the villainous version being 'The Brute' who are usually a throwaway character. 

The most common option is making them a "Combat Master" such as Wonder Woman or even the villainous version of the Hulk from the current 'Ultimate Marvel Universe', and while this what I think it should be I think it oversteps its bounds and they become another architype. Most "Combat Masters" have had decades if not centuries of implied experience honing their craft, and due to the Status Quo characters cannot evolve past a run to retain skills. At the best of times, you will have characters pull out stunts they learned 'in-between' runs/volumes without seeing any implied training. And that takes into account that you have descent control over your strength & won't just destroy the city because you know how to punch properly. 

SO now lets go to our character creation scenario, you as the average civilian are endowed with power beyond power, and you can't open your door or get physical with people without accidently destroying with them. You have the average experience, average money, and no connections, what would you do? Can you afford in time or money to take that expensive kung-fu/karate/ti-chi class every week? probably not, but you still want to go out there and do your best without causing massive damage & lawsuits for all the destroyed property, what can you do? Its simple, Hug them. 

No, I'm serous, when most people want to do no damage but still restrain people the best option is to go in for a bear hug, as Super Strength usually also comes with Super Durability and Stamina. Of course, you will be used as a "Warf Effect" constantly to show how powerful the villain is, and is what should spurs on an evolution, in this case taking the simple bear hug and turning it into Greco-Roman wrestling/Sumo. Yes, I am serous. Because unless you're team already has a 'Combat Master' on it you don't have the time or connection to get anywhere near the level that you need to control you strength enough to use it without 'Super Power Proof' items/housing. 

More ramblings of a madman, see you next time. 

Superpower Ramblings: Speedsters 

 Just some ramblings and Ideas of a madman, this time Speedsters. 

Speedsters, known for their ludicrous running speed, quick thinking, and occasional enormous appetites, are a classic stable in any Setting. Usually, the jokesters of the group they, while having many badass and emotional moments, are often seen as the least of the group. I think that is mostly to how they are portrayed, usably as the least powerful of the groups they are a part of.  

Think about it. 

Usually in the group you have the 'Heroic leader' they may or may not be the 'Flying Brick' someone who is seemingly near invincible and willing to jump in front of nearly every attack for their teammates, who while not as fast as the speedster can both take and deal out more damage than the speedster. 

Then there’s your second in command/'lancer', usually the brains of the group, their skill set is tactical, be that regular smart or cybernetically enhanced. They are usually a "Normal Badass" as all their skills are enhanced from gadgets they have made, which usually elevates them above their powered teammates. 

The rest are an assortment of "Muscle", "Trained Fighter", and "Spellcaster" and/or "Psychic". Speedsters are a niece category and too numerus to count, and while some are more creative than others, they are really dumb. I mean that they, like most others, have not thought threw their power sets to the outer most limits. 

There are plenty of creative usages I have seen, such as thinking in superspeed to outwit Psychics, or having "Bullet Time" to investigate an area in the matter of moments, heck the flashes tornados are a particularly good example. 

I guess my gripe is that they are normal humans, with normal ways of thinking, that usually unless you are a "Normal Badass" you don't do any training. Think of it, all speedsters fight the same way, with superspeed 'Hit and Run' tack ticks, and with Supervillains that know how to fight (Usually the fastest Speedster among the pantheon) why have tactics not evolved?  

I want to blame lazy Wrighters and the status quo of this, which while true is not the entire point. People don't think outside of the Box. Just Imagen that you are a random civilian that has lived in a world with decades of Heroes & Villans, now you have superpowers and decide to join the game, what do you do differently? Absolutely nothing, oh sure you may have a gimmick tied directly to your powers, but that is it, you may have a 'Power Evolution' at some point, but you don’t actively go out of your way to change, and you wonder why you have such a hard time fighting. 

Now dear reader, if you had superspeed what would you do? Get dishes done in an instant, Clean all your rooms in record time? Well sure, but you usually have a dishwasher that automatically does that for over an hour or more, and how often do you actually clean your room? Well, what about practicing? Yes I know, people don’t want to, hell I very much don't want to, and without some music or something it can become tedious. But think of it, reps done in a secant, stretching exercises done in the mater of moments, that stupid jazzercise fitness routine done in a minute instead of an hour. Now lets push that forward to its most extreme, practicing a fighting style in the matter of weeks or months instead of decades, sure you need an expert to point out your flawed form when you begin, but as soon as you got it you can do a thousand punches, kicks, or whatever move in the matter of moments. 

Why shouldn't there be a Speedster that stands still in the middle of the street weighting for you to attack, and when you do that can Kickbox your ass at supersonic speed, that when you shoot at them with anti-speedster weapons they ‘Dempsey roll’ there way through laser weaponry? 

Yes this whole ramble is a plea for more "Boxing Lessens for Superman", so will the rest of my "Superpowers should be more Interesting" ramblings. 

WATCH THE SPEED PAINT I DID OVER ON MY YOUTUBE!!!

this is yet again another character in this "inscyption super hero AU" the photographer! or Phil. or Ph010. (more context coming to that later) Phil's power is literal photographic memory and the ability to use his eyes like cameras. the cords in his head grow like hair or fingernails and allow him to transfer his images to other machinery (like his laptop) or see images that are on the machines without looking at them. instead of his "camera friend" in the game- his "friend" is his laptop that he always carries around that allows him to tap into nearly any security cameras and store his images more efficiently. phil's personality is very anti-social. he does not enjoy being in conversations but he does enjoy watching them. he knows what everyone in the factory is talking about or doing. very much like "the FBI man on your phone" he will often get anxious and overwhelmed if forced to be in an overly social setting and not given any camera footage to watch. he also gets anxious with prolonged eye contact. he does not use his powers to fight crime. he is more of a glorified security guard. sitting in his office (more like a glorified janitor's closet covered wall to wall in monitors) watching the security cameras. occasionally getting a request from p03 (who will just treat the cameras like talking to Phil).

check out the [master post] to see more designs for this world!!!

this is character art of P03 for a hypothetical world if the scrybes were superheroes (heavily based off of My Hero's world) each scrybe having their own powers and quirks but all have 1 power in common. "the power of the scrybe"- the ability to make cards and summon what is in the card during battle. being able to give beings in the card their own quirks. there is WAY more to this AU in my head. but I'm just going to explain the art and not the whole world (yet.) so you might be wondering "why is P03 biting the battery in the top picture." his "quirk" or power is the ability to be pretty much a battery. the ability to charge a battery with a more efficient blue energy. just 6 of his batteries is the equivalent of 1-2 car batteries. if his body completes a circuit with metal he will start producing energy. and he uses this energy to summon his cards in battle

A Stucky comic enjoy. I made it on paint with no bases.

I'm working on my DC ocs right now, and it's so much fun!!! This is Alexis Blake (aka Thorn) and Iona Wood/Mercy Daniels (aka Argus).

Mercy's lore is very complicated, and Alexis is still a work in progress so It's gonna be a while before I post more of them lols. But I love them both very much.

The only thing they have in common is both being a DC oc, they don't know eachother at all and probably never will. But they exist at the same time so there's that!!!

Anyway, hope u enjoy