Tag: comic book characters
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A CORNERED PUTIN IS A DANGEROUS PUTIN – IT’S IMPORTANT TO GIVE HIM A WAY TO SAVE FACE (+PARALLELS TO CANTWELLS’ “DOCTOR DOOM” (2019))
Every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain.Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree;Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree;All several sins, all used in each degree,Throng to the bar, crying all, “Guilty! guilty!”I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,And if I die no soul will pity me.…
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DR DOOM – HIS MOST IRRATIONAL DECISION? (“BOOKS OF DOOM”)
Many Doom fanboys usually highlight Dr Doom’s cold logic, his well-crafted and well-executed plans as some of the reasons they like him, but I, even though I still like Doom as a character, feel an urge to put at the forefront one of his most irrational decisions, featured in Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005).…
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DR DOOM’S WAR FOR ADMIRATION AND SADISTIC PLEASURE – HIS VILEST DEED? + SOME PARALLELS TO PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE (BOOKS OF DOOM)
Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005) is an absolute origin-story masterpiece for the famous Marvel villain, and you will probably read about me analyzing different aspects of it through several posts. However, today I feel compelled to highlight Dr Doom’s perhaps vilest deed in a run that didn’t have a shortage of them. I haven’t…
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DARKSEID – WHY HIS FAMOUS POSE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU THINK (THE CHIEFTAIN TOTALITARIAN LEADER (JUNGIAN TYPES OF DICTATORS))
“Here is your saviour, bound and broken… I have crushed him as easily as I have crushed anyone who dared to oppose me, throughout the cosmos.” Superman: The Animated Series (1996) “Mussolini is the man of physical strength. When you see him you are aware of it at once. His body suggests good muscles. He…
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WHY GALACTUS IS THE MOST EVIL BEING IN THE (MARVEL) UNIVERSE: DEATH DENIAL
Don’t worry, I’ll bring doom to everyone… The same I had to face, and, unfortunately, will again have to face… I love origin stories. They can tell you much, sometimes even everything about the character. This seems especially true for comic book characters whose usually serialized nature makes it possible to recognize how their behaviour…
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THE BIRTH OF A DEMON, STARRING RA’S AL GHUL (OR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T LEAVE A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT IN TIME)
Ra’s himself tells us that the Lazarus pit has power because of the earth in which one digs it, or in other words, because of where it is, because of its environment. The pit has its power because of the environment the enablers create for their narcissist. In a less toxic soil, the narcissist just…