wow, delish quinoa, susan!

75th Anniversary of SHAZAM!

This is a bigger deal than some of you might think, because Superman is one of the heroes in the DC Universe who keeps his secret identity pretty damn secret, because as probably the most powerful and influential person on earth, a lot of people do not wish him well - and would jump at the chance to hold people dear to him as leverage.

Yet, he trusts this poor, scared little kid. To comfort him, and entrust him with his biggest secret - just as Billy did for him.

Tony Stark + Nicknames

Bonus:

young justice season 1 / robin, aqualad, kid flash, megan, conner, artemis, zatanna

“I am Thor, son of Odin.”

“Really?  You don’t look like him.” It’s true, he doesn’t look that much like Odin, but it puts in mind the theme of family resemblance and, hey, look who does look like a family member:

But Loki and Hela aren’t related by blood, yet they look like.  Sure, sure, comic designs are being ported over to the MCU etc.  But you know what’s confirmed by this movie: Shapeshifter Loki. Odin, having had to seal Hela away before she caused too much damage, still thinking of her and the loss of her, his firstborn, and not too much later, this happens:

I’ve always been curious, just how many people did the pilots kill during the series? So I decided to rewatch and count.

The kills are in two categories: confirmed kills (’x’ pilot definitely killed that person) and estimated kills (’x’ pilot blew up a factory/ship/plane/ect. and probably killed ‘x’ number of people) Estimated kills were rounded down, so that number could probably be doubled and still be accurate.

The results:

Heero: confirmed: 90  estimated: 315    total: 405*

Duo: confirmed: 61  estimated: 160    total: 221

Trowa: confirmed: 115   estimated: 170    total: 285

Quatre: confirmed: 61   estimated: 125     total: 186

Wufei: confirmed: 41   estimated:195      total: 236

So here are some charts that break down kills per episode (open in a new tab to see it bigger) (also, sorry for any spelling mistakes)

You will noticed that after episode 17 there is a drop in kills. Episode 17 is when Colonal Une threatens to destroy the colonies and then Heero self detonates, so all the pilots take a few episodes to figure out what they are going to do. After they go to space the kills go back up.

Also keep in mind that after they go back to space they are mostly fighting mobile dolls, so there are lots of battles but they don’t really kill that many people. Btw, EW = Endless Waltz

Heero didn’t do a lot of on screen killing in the beginning. In fact for a while he was in last place, but to be fair he was in coma and then recovering from said coma for several episodes. It was the battle at the Sanc Kingdom that pushed his numbers up. And he definitely did the most killing during Endless Waltz. His attack on Mariemaia’s bunker killed quite a few people.

*the reason this number is so high is because I counted 40 estimated kills during Heero’s flashback to when he killed the little girl. If you take away that number, his total is 365. I decided to count them because the event was a pivotal moment in Heero’s life.

Duo killed a lot during the beginning of the series; mostly by blowing stuff up. After he ended up back in space, he spent most of his time sneaking around or captured so he didn’t have many kills. Interesting note:He and Heero are the only two pilots that have on screen kills during Endless Waltz.

For the longest time Trowa was in first place. He loses his memory in episode 25 and doesn’t return to the battlefield until episode 39. So there is a big gap in his kills. In episode 39 he is protecting Quatre and Noin. In episode 43 he borrows Wing Zero to go save Cathy and in episode 48 he’s on Libra destroying stuff/looking for Quatre.

Quatre came in last, which wasn’t that big of a surprise as he is the most peaceful of the boys, plus he had the Maganac Corps with him so they did a lot of killing for him. Most of Quatre kills came right after his father dies and he goes crazy for a bit. He does blow up a colony but it was evacuated at the time, so at most he kills a few soldiers. His last on screen kill was episode 39, were he kills a solider to stop Trowa from damaging a colony and helps to break him out of Zero’s control.

Most of Wufei’s kills came from blowing up bases/ships or large battles. He didn’t have many up close kills, so most of his kills are in the ‘estimated’ category. He probably killed more people than I have here, but it was hard to tell sometimes.

*in episode 48 Wufei kills Trieze. This is a big deal but it still only counts as one.

Pilot kills from most to least are Heero, Trowa, Wufei, Duo, and Quatre.

This was really fun project. There were a few surprises, like how little Heero killed in the beginning but he made up for it in the end. And how few people Duo killed over all; for the ‘God of Death’ he sure didn’t kill a lot of people. He was in last place for quite a while. Over all the numbers ended up being lower than I thought they would be.

When I do my next rewatch I’ll have to count something else. Maybe how much screen time characters spend together. I was noticing that Heero and Trowa are together a lot more than I thought and Wufei spends most of his time alone.

Feel free to comment, ask questions or add your own Gundam Wing statistics

Okay so I finally finished the most recent of the Timely Tales of the Posterchildren, “Target Practice,” and I am here to tell you why this is such an important story.

So first: I read Sully as 100% autistic. No doubt about it. I don’t think it’s canon (?) but it definitely could be and that’s a key part of why the story was so compelling to me.

Also ADHD!Maks isn’t super important to this but it is Very Good. I was going to include it in this post but it’s kind of a tangential point so my arguments in favor can be found here.

(the main importance it has is a little bit of the strife in Maks and Sully’s relationship is because he’s super fidgety and she can’t handle excessive motion, which i liked as a “nd kids’ neurodivergences clashing” bit bc hoo boy is that a thing)

(but i realized writing this that more of the clash from maks’s end is anxiety related so the adhd is more of a footnote)

(but still important)

(anyways let’s get to it)

tl;dr: autistic!Sully is my favorite thing and you should all read The Posterchildren by Kitty Burroughs (@quipquipquip) it’s about queer teenagers with superpowers and it’s really good

~spoilers ahead~