#a.r.g.u.s.

[metalotaku-da]

dc characters of interest that people might want to look into for cross overs

mr. e. <- looks like he inspired the giw is an anti supernatural zealot. wears all white.

dr. johnny perril works for argus. is a scientist whose focus is the supernatural and paranormal/ occult antiterrorism investigator

dr. october. a biologist with argus who is an expert in post-human bio engineering. worked with doom patrol and batman.

[deathstrokemypussy]

Will the problematic divorced dad of three please stand up?

[abs0luteb4stard]

🇺🇸 W A T C H I N G 🦅

[newearth2]

Breaking Down the Hall of Justice Mural in Superman, Part 15: The Second Half

In this look at the second part of the mural seen in Superman’s Hall of Justice recently shared by James Gunn. You can check out notes on the first half.

This section of the mural begins firmly in World War II. Liberty Belle stands before the source of her power — the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, PA. Next, Bulletman and Bulletgirl soar in front of a large WWII battleship. It appears similar to the USS Iowa or USS Missouri, though I couldn’t find a direct connection between them and U.S. battleships. However, Bulletman’s first appearance featured him blasting a hole through an enemy vessel, and a memorable story tying him to naval action appears in the 1990s Starman / The Power of Shazam! crossover involving the sinking of the French ocean liner, the Normandie. Beneath them is Max Mercury, previously seen in the mural in his Whip Whirlwind identity. His inclusion here may represent one of his many time jumps.

On the far right of this WWII grouping, TNT and Dyna-Mite stand in front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Given the late-war setting, this may reference America vs. the Justice Society, where the team is put on trial and, in the end, chooses to disband rather than appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which demanded they unmask. This could represent an early turning point in the DCU — the shift from independent vigilantes to government-supervised teams like A.R.G.U.S., Checkmate, and the Suicide Squad. Phantom Lady appears here as well, positioned in front of both the Capitol and the next panel, possibly symbolizing her postwar career as a spy alongside Hugo Danner’s son, Iron Munro.

The scene transitions into the Cold War era with the Atomic Knight, depicted against the backdrop of his post-apocalyptic virtual reality, overlapping with Phantom Lady’s panel. This likely represents the 1950s and ’60s, when Cold War anxieties heavily influenced superhero fiction. Atomic Knight’s background blends into the scene of Freedom Beast, who is shown beside a cheetah — perhaps a nod to his powers of animal communication — and near Wildcat. The cheetah could also be a subtle connection to Wildcat’s feline-themed costume and “nine lives” mythology.

Wildcat is pictured training with a punching bag in front of a boxing ring, highlighting both his championship boxing career and his role as a trainer of younger heroes. One of those trainees could be Vibe, who is shown breakdancing — likely representing the 1980s — in front of the same ring. The sequence moves into the 1990s with Gunfire, one of the decade’s most '90s heroes, standing against what appears to be Metropolis. Prominently in the city skyline is the LordTech building, with Maxwell Lord holding an atomic symbol in the foreground.

This mural culminating with Maxwell Lord holding an atomic symbol feels intentional — and perfect. It’s likely the piece was commissioned by Lord himself, especially given that it’s displayed in a building he owns. The composition suggests a timeline where everything leads to him: either he’s the point toward which all metahuman history converges, or he’s been orchestrating much of it from the shadows. I’m eager to see how this plays out. Hopefully, Peacemaker Season 2 will build on these ideas and reveal more about the events hinted at in this mural.

The second half of the mural character profiles are next up starting with: Part 16: Liberty Belle / Elizabeth "Libby" Lawrence-Chambers

[schrijverr]

Russia, Huh?

s02e06: Keep Your Enemies Closer. After rescuing Lyla from the Gulag, Diggle and Felicity learn that Diggle isn’t the only one who had a connection to Lyla, but that Oliver also knows her already. Combined with Anatoli being in the car as well, some Oliver lore gets dropped on them.

On AO3.

Ships: minor Diggle/Lyla

Warnings: none

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They’re all in the bought police car, driving away from where they have left Deadshot at the side of the road. Diggle’s head is still reeling from the information he’s been given about Andy, so he’s just sitting next to Lyla staring into space.

He gets pulled out of his thoughts when Oliver leans forward, brushing a few strands of Lyla’s hair out of her face to check her black eye. “You okay?”

Lyla smiles at him and for a second Diggle feels a stab of annoyance at the Queen charm that seems to work on everyone. Until Lyla answers: “You know me, Oliver. I’m always good.”

Oliver looks at her critically for a moment, then nods, before he smiles: “Russia, huh?”

That makes Lyla snort, much to Diggle’s dismayed confusion. She agrees: “Yup, Russia.”

“It’s good to see you again.” He puts his hand on her shoulder, turning a more genuine as she pats his hand for a second.

It hits Diggle then that it’s not the Queen charm at all, but that Lyla and Oliver know each other already. “Wait, you two’ve met?” he asks with a frown, unsure why neither of them have ever mentioned that before.

“Yes, we’ve worked together,” Lyla says, sounding as confused as Diggle feels that he doesn’t know that.

With that, Diggle turns his look on Oliver, who just looks at him innocently as if it is totally normal that he hasn’t mentioned he knows Diggle’s ex-wife. He shrugs: “She was my handler after my old one quit.”

“Handler?” Felicity speaks up. “As in being responsible for handling you on missions secret agent style handler?”

Oliver nods, confirming: “I worked for A.R.G.U.S. for a while.”

“When?” Diggle asks, able to make a guess to the period, but needing to know if Oliver worked with Lyla when they were still married. If she kept that from him.

He can understand why she would have, but after witnessing first hand the damage Oliver’s supposed death did to both him and his family these past two years, he can’t imagine her working on this and not showing a singular thing about it at home.

Oliver luckily disregards him of that notion: “It was 2010 that I met Lyla, but I started working with A.R.G.U.S. in 2009. She took over supervising a low contact mission and oversaw my release from service.”

“How did you end up working for A.R.G.U.S. for three years?” Felicity asks. “Aren’t they government? Why didn’t you go home?”

“I only worked for them for two years,” Oliver says.

Diggle can do the math, that means Oliver’s service ended a year before he returned home. He was found on Lian Yu. How did he get there? Did A.R.G.U.S. leave him there? Did Lyla? Did he get into another shipwreck and end up there only that last year?

“Two years?” Felicity is the one that asks the question.

“Da,” Anatoli suddenly mixes himself up in the conversation. “Was in Russia last year. Dropped him back on Lian Yu myself and bribed fishermen.”

“I always wondered how you ended back on Lian Yu after we extracted you from there and why you wanted to go to Russia,” Lyla says. “Can’t say I imagined…” she pauses for a second, looking at Anatoli “…this.”

“It wasn’t the plan, it happened,” Oliver shrugs, giving them as little as possible. Diggle recognizes the attitude from all the other times he was forced to share something from his time away. Sharing is not something that comes easily to Oliver Queen.

Though, it appears that Anatoli has no such inhibitions, happily sharing: “His plan involved ending up tied to chair with bullet nearly in brain.”

“And I am glad you saved me from that,” Oliver sighs fondly. It’s strange to see him interact with Anatoli. There is a camaraderie there that he doesn’t have with Lyla and that he is only just starting to form with Diggle himself. It makes him curious about Oliver’s time in Russia.

Since Anatoli seems to be in the sharing mood, Diggle asks: “Yeah, how’d he end up in that situation?”

“Ah, ah, brothers do not talk,” Anatoli says jovially. “Even to second favorite American.”

“Thank you, Anatoli,” Oliver says with a small grin, obviously feeling comfortable around the man. Then he turns to Diggle and says: “It’s a long story that I might tell… one day.”

“Even if we instate what happens in Russia, stays in Russia?” Felicity asks in a tone that makes Diggle think he missed a conversation.

Anatoli lets out a loud laugh: “Ha! What happens in Russia, stays in Russia. I will remember that.”

Oliver seems less amused by the comment, tersely saying: “No, Felicity, even if we reinstate that, I am keeping it to myself for now.”

“But Lyla mentioned extracting you from Lian Yu, but you were working with A.R.G.U.S. before that, but you’ve mentioned first getting to Lian Yu before, so you must have been there. So, did you complete missions for them there? Or did you get shipwrecked there twice? You know I can’t do mysteries,” Felicity says.

Diggle watches as Oliver sighs, before giving in, because he has never been able to say no to Felicity. Sometimes it is really frustrating to be their friend, but Diggle is too tired to make a comment right now. Oliver says: “They got me off Lian Yu to do a mission, then dropped me back on Lian Yu to do the last mission.”

“Very rudely I might add,” Anatoli says.

Next to Diggle, Lyla cringes and agrees: “Not our finest moment.”

“Okay, kind of worried if the Russian mob boss and the American secret agent are agreeing,” Felicity voices an opinion Diggle shares.

Both Anatoli and Lyla turn to Oliver, neither want to say something without his approval. It is strange to see Oliver interact with those he’s worked with before. Diggle is used to him and Felicity being the two in a room who know the most about Oliver, the ones that are closest to him. It’s a strange thought that Oliver is capable of working together with people other than them.

With everyone’s eyes on him, it seems that even Oliver isn’t entirely immune to peer pressure (or he knows Felicity is going to bug him and he will crack so he’s saving himself the embarrassment), because he says: “Waller cornered me in a bar, spiked my drink and I woke up on a plane over Lian Yu where they forced me to jump out at gun point.”

“What?” Diggle chokes out in shock. He knows best of all what that island has done to Oliver and he can’t imagine A.R.G.U.S. not knowing after a year of employing him, the fact that they drugged and threatened him to force him back there is proof of that.

Instinctively his eyes go to Lyla, again questioning if she was involved in that and where her morals lie. He’s so relieved to see her alive, wanting to keep her close and ensure himself she is okay, but these moments remind him of why they divorced.

“Lyla got involved later on,” Oliver says, as if he can read Diggle’s mind and wants to assure him – a kind of emotional awareness Diggle didn’t realize he was capable off. “She was the one who debriefed me and got me out of there. It was appreciated.”

“I’m glad,” she smiles at him, seeming relieved that he said it.

Diggle immediately feels guilty for doubting her. She’s just been through hell and is now stuck in this car getting judged by him. He pulls her to his side, insides fluttering in a familiar way when she snuggles in closer.

The conversation has come to an end by now. Oliver has already answered more questions than he ever has before – no matter how many new ones have arisen – and neither Anatoli nor Lyla comment more. So Diggle and Felicity drop it as they say their goodbyes to Anatoli and spend their last night in Moscow before flying back, Lyla hiding out so Isabel won’t spot her.

In fact, it doesn’t come up until after their first night back on American soil. The fear of nearly losing the other and being back in fighting conditions, not to mention what led to Lyla being in Russia in the first place, all boiling over together into them falling into bed together.

As they’re lying in the afterglow, Diggle suddenly asks: “Would you’ve ever told me about working with Oliver if he hadn’t acknowledged it first?”

Lyla thinks about it for a second, then apologetically shakes her head. “You know us A.R.G.U.S. agents, we close ranks around our own. And Amanda can be particular about what secrets she wants to be kept. I don’t know what kind of brief Oliver got from her about it. We try not to jeopardize someone’s mission or orders.”

Now it’s Diggle’s turn to consider her words. In a way he can see and understand why she’d do that, has even seen it mirrored in Oliver with how he keeps his secrets.

He now wonders if Oliver wanted to come and help rescue Lyla because A.R.G.U.S. closes ranks around their own, or because he wanted to help Diggle. Then he decides it doesn’t matter. Oliver showed up when he didn’t have to and he opened up about his history with Lyla, when he knew that keeping it to himself was an option with the way A.R.G.U.S. operates.

So, he just tugs Lyla close again and says: “I get that,” reveling in the way she smiles back at him.

~~

A/N:

This started as wouldn’t it be funny if Lyla and Oliver already knew each other and Diggle is going ?? bc neither of them ever mentioned it and then I realized Anatoli is also in the episode where they officially met and it spiraled into Oliver dropping Lian Yu lore, bc I live for that.

[super-madi16]

What could happen in Titans season 4:

So it would make sense for it to be centered around A.R.G.U.S. because of the set up….

- We meet Roy Harper and A.R.G.U.S.

I mean like come on we have to meet him soon! They name dropped him in at least two episodes this season alone, plus with Donna now given the opportunity to at least check it out. It is the perfect set up!!

I think Roy could have a similar start like he does in the comics where he use to be a drug addict but has gone clean. We meet him either when he has a happy life with Jade and Tian or we see him before that point but not on drugs because he runs ARGUS so he most likely clean.

Less likely option but would be fun to see:

- We meet the whole fucking Arrow squad. We got Oliver and Dinah… plus any others they want to throw in there.

- Vee brings Barbara in with A.R.G.US. (Whether this be in a similar storyline like Arrow where ARGUS has a bad side and she comes in after it gets fixed or Vee brings her in from the early part of season 4).

[theblanddcu2021]

As an agent of A.R.G.U.S., Steve Trevor's codename is "Patriot". He thinks it's embarrassing because Waller got the idea from his "all-American boy" looks.

[girlsofcomics]

Katana

-Real name: Tatsu Yamashiro

-A.k.a.: Bladerunner, The Queen of Blades

-Publisher: DC Comics

-Type: Human

-Afilliations: A.R.G.U.S., All-Star Squadron, Batman Inc, Birds of Prey, Dagger Clan, Justice League of America, Justice League United, Outsiders, Suicide Squad, Team Arrow, The Network.

-Powers: Soul taker sword, agility, marksmanship, necromancy, stealth, swordsmanship, tracking, unarmed combat