Junglehero

A guy who loves Animation, Superheroes and Video Games among other things. Let the fun begin!

[junglehero227]

I think one of the underappreciated aspects of the MCU that may have subtly helped it get so big that it takes Superhero cliches that have been done to death to point of annoyance and simply... doesn’t do them. Like the first Iron Man perfectly sets up a comic accurate secret identity plan but then Tony just tells the world the truth. And after him no other movie hero even considers a secret identity except for Peter, but he’s comically bad at keeping that secret and doesn’t have nearly as much angst over it.

Same thing with the “No Kill Rule.” The only person who makes a big deal about it is Dr. Strange, which makes sense since he’s a doctor, but everyone else is just fine blowing bad guys up and we never get a stupid “Killing a mass-murderer makes you just as bad as them” speech. Even Peter in Endgame didn’t have any problems stabbing the army of mindless monsters Thanos had at his disposal.

I get all of this has been done before in the comics, but think about it from the perspective of an average person, who before 2008 didn’t know much about any Superhero other then Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and many a few others. This all must have been really low-key refreshing.

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On the subject of female superhero costumes

(Also helpful for cosplayers)

Many Female superheroes are basically wearing a Leotard, which is a dance uniforms that allow ease of movements (freeing up the legs and arms particularly) which actually explains a lot.

Another fun fact: LEOTARDS AND UNITARDS ARE (usually) CHEAPER THAN CATSUITS AND SUPERHERO COSTUMES (hint hint, cosplayers) and definitely cheaper than buying some SWAT armor or motorcycle wear (see bottom of post for price examples)

But this also in-universe explains why so many female superheroes would wear them:

They’re fairly cheap, so not only can you get your costume for cheap, but you can replace a damaged costume for cheap, or have multiple costumes (most superheroes don’t get Batman’s budget, ya’ll)

No one’s going to question you at the store, since they’ll just assume you’re a dancer or a gymnast

They’re simple enough to be customized and/or accessorized. EX: Black Canary wears a Leotard with nettings, a utility belt, and a jacket, easy peasy costume. Zatanna wears a blouse and tuxedo jacket over hers. Powergirl just adds gloves and boots, and that cut-open area, though she could have gotten it like that

They’re built for mobility

There usually aren’t any SWAT armor shops to work with, and shopping there would raise suspicions and risk you exposing your secret identity before you even start

Some characters like Zatanna already are performers (she wears one under a blouse and jacket), so they would have already thought of this

They come in a variety of fabrics

Leotard prices

Bonus: Unitards for more skin coverage (if preferred)

Compared to more protective motorcycle suits:

[junglehero227]

This reminds me of the scene in Amazing Spider-Man where Peter is designing his costume and he realizes that so many Olympic athletes wear spandex to increase mobility, which inspires him to do the same. Turns out Superhero costumes aren’t just awesome, they’re also surprisingly practical.

[sweetpoole]

The GwenPool Sketchbook (GPS) by @gurihiru

[inthetags]

reblog and put the most cherished videogame from your childhood in the tags

[retrogamingblog2]

Miniature Nintendo Switch Game Cases made by MisfitToysStore

[bisexualdemondean]

dude 2020 fukin SUCKS. ontop of all this death & disease, thEY TOOK NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP OFF YOUTUBE

Alright. 

well done 

[bisexualdemondean]

[terror-billie]

This is the kind of high-quality prank I want to see on April 1st

[lhazaar]

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

[darkandstormyslash]

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

[yayfeminism]

👏🏻

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ NOTHING BUT TRUTH HERE

[theroguefeminist]

I think about this all the time when I contemplate how terrible and self-centered nerd culture can be yet how much of their media furthers messages of self-sacrifice, cooperation and inclusion

[whistlingwombat]

Great art has always been about this. 

[emeraldmercury]

Ding dong you are wrong AGAIN. When people say they don’t want SJW politics in works, they mean they don’t want blatant tokens. They don’t want dated Trump references that will go over the heads of future generations. They want minority characters to be CHARACTERS and not walking stereotypes or mouthpieces for the author’s views.

We want movies like Legally Blonde, that teach that a woman can be smart and beautiful at the same time, that we should never dismiss people because we don’t know what they’re capable of, that give ACTUALLY empowering messages to women. With characters like Elle who have depth and motivations - women who are HUMANS.

Games like Fire Emblem Three Houses that show different politics without blatantly shoehorning current references, that show no side as purely right or wrong. With complex characters like Edelgard whose bisexuality isn’t portrayed as a walking stereotype and treated just as heterosexuality is.

Movies like Zootopia that portray racism as a both sides affair and that we shouldn’t let the people in power create division between us. We should all stand together regardless of community.

Books like The Lorax that show environmentalism while ALSO showing Onceler as human and wanting to give jobs to his workers - something that almost all current adaptations REMOVE because of people like you.

We don’t want movies like Ghostbusters 2016, or Captain Marvel, or series like Brooklyn 99 and Veep. We don’t want media that claims it empowers women and minorities but treats them with kid gloves at best and demeans them at worst. We don’t want media that is trying to push a narrative and show one side as good and the other as evil. We don’t want people who make stories purely for clout.

WE WANT ACTUALLY NUANCED MESSAGES.

[takashi0]

[test-this-conjecture]

It’s so fuckin’ arrogant to just state that all works of fiction have all necessarily been political pushes, and that YOU know the Proper™ lesson to be had. I suppose I was just too stupid as a kid to have picked up on Scar being the embodiment of rapacious capitalism or some other bullshit. What prevents me from having a different subjective interpretation from the stories he lists? I saw Superman with the notion that, sure, you can disguise yourself in order to seamlessly fit it, but there’s something of worth in assuming the uniqueness that is yourself. Guess my opinion is wrong because Tim Douchebag Doyle can simply assert this to be about immigration; if you haven’t understood the same principles to have been embedded in the story, well that’s because you’re deficient since the Leftist can never be wrong. So if they can relate any narrative to that of their ideology, it is de facto the correct takeaway. 

[cookingwithroxy]

Hell, this reminds me. You know what Superman also could be used as a metaphor for?

The benefits of colonialism.

Superman is a stranger from a distant society, who’s come to our shores. And because he comes from a better, more advanced society, he’s better and more advanced than anyone else. And we should all be happy to have him force his morality over everyone he sees, because after all he’s super!

I mean, as long as we’re already ignoring the whole fact that he was raised a poor Kansas Farm boy, why not?

[junglehero227]

Uh, I get the point you’re trying to make, but I don’t think that point works for the whole “See, I can overthink Superheroes too!” thing because there have been countless Superman stories that actually discuss this directly, and the message of each being that Superman shouldn’t force his will on the world. (What’s so Funny...?, Red Son, Injustice, Kingdom Come, etc.)

[writing-prompt-s]

Everyone knows that superheroes are needed to fight the big battles, but just because the villain of the week is threatening world domination doesn’t mean there aren’t still “lesser” crimes that still need stopping.

You are one of the heroes that deals with all the other villains, threats, and so on while the big name heroes are off “saving the world” and getting all the media attention. One day, some amateur reporter asks to interview you, and put a spotlight on the heroes they say are “holding everything together offscreen”.

[zeddpool]

[sindri42]

So it’s Mumen Rider then?

[cookingwithroxy]

And the Defenders. Spider man, most of the time. Green Arrow for most of his series. Batman. It’s really a common theme in hero comics, at least until the 90′s.

[junglehero227]

In a lot superhero stuff I know of, heroes are split more by location then power level. Yeah, in the event of wide scale catastrophe certain heroes are going to be more valuable then others, but on regular days heroes just generally clean up all levels of crime within their respective cities. Superman deals with both bank robbers and super-villains when he’s protecting Metropolis for example.

[owlmylove]

suf really said confront your traumatic responses to cycles of abuse or be doomed to repeat them huh

[northiesblog]

As someone with a mental illness I want to say this Steven universe fandom

Your mental illness is not a pass that allows you to be abuse.

Steven is being abusive right now and him having trauma doesn’t make that okay. It explained and is showing what it does but that doesn’t excuse it.

[junglehero227]

It's basically Spinel all over again.

Now that I think about it, since Stevens going to Homeworld in the finale I wonder if this comparison will be brought up within the show.

[junglehero227]

Also, while Greg did screw up by saying Steven had it better then him, Steven also refused to see things from his perspective and completely dismisses all the shitty things that happened to Greg. I honestly just hope the both come to understand each other and that the ultimate lesson we're supposed to take away from this subplot isn't "Greg's feelings on his childhood are invalid and he should have just been grateful for what he had."

[junglehero227]

While Steven is obviously owed a lot of apologies and I hope the finale delivers on them, I also hope he isn't let completely off the hook for the things he's done either. While obviously his guardians flawed parenting drove him to this state and they should absolutely be held accountable for it, Steven is also responsible for his own actions and his refusal to talk about his problems to anyone except when he's overflowing with rage nearly hurt a lot of people. Hell, it straight up killed Jasper. He should have realized this was a problem and sought out help for it the moment he nearly killed the Pearls, but he continued to bottle things up anyway. Not saying this is out of character or bad writing, I'm just saying Steven isn't innocent in all this either and if this season is all about people being held accountable for their actions, he should also be on that list, even if it's in a smaller way then the other characters.

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[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

Everything is cool when you've been quarantined.

[polysixxxx]

Everything is cancelled

Due to COVID-19!!!!

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[junglehero227]

I’m at the point now where I no longer consider calling something cliche to be valid criticism on its own. Without any further explanation on why the tropes used hurt the story, cliched is just a buzzword. Just because something has been done before doesn’t mean it’s automatically bad.

[askpredetor]

AH, STEVEN UNIVERSE. THE GEM’S RIGHTEOUS MAN, PRETENDING HE CAN LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT NOTHING TO WORK OUT. WHY DON’T YOU PUT THE WORLD IN A ZOO LIKE YOUR MOTHER DID?

[junglehero227]