#bobbyposting

I believe that the mirror reaper being an amalgamation of multiple people is a direct mockery of the new peace. Hell sees people working together in unity and says ‘Oh you think you’re so wonderful? Here’s where working together is gonna get you’ and creates the reaper as a result.

Speaking of amalgams, I feel like the same logic applies to Geryon. Now I think Geryon deserves its own post, but I’ll do that later if I remember. Also this is going to assume that the Geryon being merciful thing is true because it’s never going to be brought up again and it makes Geryon a much more interesting character. Geryon is created out of multiple consciousnesses that have absolutely zero way of communicating with one another. This further subverts what Hell likely intended it for: a chaotic being that thrashed around killing everything mindlessly.

I think it’s also important to note all the hand imagery with Geryon. In Inferno, Geryon is mockery of the holy trinity. In other depictions of Geryon outside of Inferno where it’s a three headed giant, this depiction is also associated with heretical depictions of God. Looking closely at the Geryon, we can see that it’s made out of hands. In Ultrakill, God is represented by a singular hand, as can be seen in the limbo stained glass windows. This makes me think that Hell created Geryon as a mockery of god as well.

Now, why is Geryon merciful? It likely has capacity for higher thought, considering that it likely understands where it is, why the sinners are suffering, and that they do not revive upon death.

God in Ultrakill abandoned humanity. It only makes sense that Geryon, as twisted mirror of God, would instead embrace them. Geryon is all-loving because God is not.

Bobby Drake continues to be the only thing I can think about, so I'm going to make it everyone else's problem by posting random scans as I read through *checks notes* every single one of his appearances. Let's see how far I get before I get distracted and forget about this. I'm going to start off going year by year but that may change as the appearances rack up.

There were only two issues of X-Men in 1963 so you guys get off easy today:

X-Men #1. LOOK HOW LUMPY HE IS. Where is he coming from? Did he slide out of Warren's wing somehow? We just don't know. Anyway WOW Professor X is an asshole. I know that's not news.

HE GETS FIVE MINUTES OF FREE PLAY BECAUSE HE'S THE BABY. I'M CRYING.

"Hot diggity! A test for ME at last!" 😭😭😭

And then Jean shows up and we get what is accidentally the best Bobby panel in the whole comic:

God I wish Stan Lee was still alive so he could lie and say he did that on purpose.

YAYBO!! Charles please give this child some pants.

X-Men #2. LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE'S HUNGRY. If I ever got to write for Marvel, the first thing I would do would be to bring back the Merry Moppet ice cream brand.