Author: stevenattewell

Is That You, Nick Spencer?

There’s no time machine involved dumbass.

Yeah, the term comes from the supervillain group called the Secret Empire, you stupid idiot.

The one problem with your scenario is the fact that that Kobik changed history and Steve was with HYDRA since he was a child. You also seem unaware that in the comics, Bucky only met Steve when Steve was already Cap, he never met pre serum Steve.

Wow, someone really didn’t like my idea for how to redeem Steve Rogers. If this was twitter, I’d be absolutely sure this was Nick Spencer, but I’ll have to remain in a state of wonder, you incredibly polite anon.

  1. I know there’s no time machine involved in the Red Skull’s plot. But there’s plenty of time machines in the Marvel Universe that could be used to bring back the real Steve Rogers – I just used Beast’s because of the link to All-New X-Men, and because the FF are busy rebuilding the multiverse.  
  2. I’ve written about the Secret Empire, I know who they are. But if you  don’t understand who Jack Kirby was referring to when he created an evil organization of people who all wear hoods and robes and want to overthrow the U.S government, and why Englehart making Richard Nixon their leader was a big deal, you need to do some reading up on the Klan. 
  3. Leaving aside the way that Nick Spencer has played fast-and-loose with whether it’s history or his memories that have been changed, so what? Cap’s still been pretending not to be a Nazi, so that’s the Cap Bucky knows and loves. Or hell, it can be a Bucky from an alternate universe – this is comics, there’s always a way to write around. 

Why didn’t Daeron I replace the native Dornish nobility with his own supporters? It would have increased his popularity and helped hold down the conquest, with no Dornish nobility to support rebellions.

I’m pretty sure he did to some extent, what with making Lord Tyrell the Governor of Dorne. But the rebellion wasn’t started and carried out by the nobility, it was done by the smallfolk in defiance of their own nobility. 

What is a ‘capon’?

A capon is a rooster that’s been castrated – which causes them to get very big, and according to gourmands, makes their meat more tender, flavorful, and fatty because of the hormonal shift. 

In Ancient Rome and Medieval Europe, capons were a favorite treat of the upper classes, whereas your regular chicken was more peasant food. 

How would you go about creating a unique rogue’s gallery for a legacy character like X-23 or Kamala Khan? As much as I love them, they lack memorable archenemies or in Laura’s case, they just recycle the trigger scent.

I mean, I think the cockatoo is pretty memorable…

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It’s the same for creating them for any other hero: 

  1. You need a good, memorable concept. Don’t just pick random objects, add the word -Man onto it and call it a day. People make fun of Stilt-Man for a reason.
  2. That concept needs to work with that specific hero. The purpose of the villain is to be an antagonist for that particular hero/protagonist, so the villain should at the bare minimum make sense in terms of power levels, location, and so forth. Beyond the bare minimum, you’re looking for thematic resonance – while “dark mirror” villains are popular, you don’t necessarily need one, you just need the villain to do stuff that would grind that hero’s gears in particular. 
  3. Don’t one-and-done the villain. One of the things that make villains “classic” or “memorable” is that they have a long history with the hero, which builds up tension between the two of them and really gives them a reason to go at each other.  

TBC…

If lysa sends the vale knights when he receive robb’s missive, can they reach harrenhal before tywin ?

opinions-about-tiaras:

You know… someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but in hindsight wasn’t Tywin taking a hell of a risk crossing the Ruby Ford and advancing north along the Kingsroad towards the Twins?

He’s got no idea that Littlefinger is keeping Lysa Arryn out of the war, and in fact he’s got to be wondering where the Vale levies are and what the situation there is. If she hadn’t already decided to hang her family out to dry and were simply biding her time or waiting until she had a full muster, she could REALLY have fucked him up; he’s got only part of his army, deep in enemy territory, with his right flank exposed. The Knights of the Vale could have smashed into him like a hammer, or even worse, seized the Ruby Ford behind him, trapping him in a box formed by the Mountains of the Moon, the Ruby Ford, the Green Fork, and Moat Cailin.

Advancing past the Ruby Ford seems dangerous unless you’re SURE the Vale will not bestir itself. I would go so far as to say foolhardy. And we know he doesn’t have scouts out, because Bolton steals a march on him and gets within a mile without the alarm being raised.

Although from a Doylist perspective, clearly the reason Tywin advanced to the north is because his army needed to be there for Tyrion to meet.

He is taking a risk, but you see Tywin as quite conscious of those risks in Tyrion VII – he stops at the Crossroads at a point where the road and the river means he can’t be flanked easily but can move his own men around quickly, and then creates some impressive defenses:

racefortheironthrone:

Well, there are earlier missives than Robb’s: Edmure sends a letter asking for help in Catelyn VII of AGOT, before the Lannister invasion of the Riverlands. Lysa’s refusal to help her brother, let alone Robb, is what gets Brynden Tully to quit as the Knight of the Bloody Gate.

So yeah, it’s possible. 

Half a league from the crossroads, a barricade of sharpened stakes had been erected, manned by pikemen and archers. Behind the line, the camp spread out to the far distance. Thin fingers of smoke rose from hundreds of cookfires, mailed men sat under trees and honed their blades, and familiar banners fluttered from staffs thrust into the muddy ground.

…Three rows of stakes were pulled from the ground to make a hole in the line. Tyrion led his party through.

And then Tywin waits to see what will happen (and hopefully for Jaime to take Riverrun already and move up to support him), using Addam Marbrand as his eyes and ears. I at least got the sense that “unless the Starks and the Arryns come forth to oppose us” suggests that he was at least seeing the Arryns intervening as a possibility and had chosen that spot to counter-act that as best he could. 

He only moves North when Robb Stark moves south, banking on his ability to beat Robb in the field before the Arryns can move, allowing him to refocus on Stannis.