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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Honestly, there are lots of good ways to depict the Red Skull — as a chump bullied all his life who becomes a Nazi just to strike back against the world, as a vicious bully who becomes a Nazi because of the power it gives him over other people, as a foaming bigot who becomes a Nazi because he fervently believes in their cause, etc.
But in none of these depictions is Red Skull portrayed as sympathetic in any way, shape or form. The Red Skull has always been portrayed as a repellent bastard. And that's not a bad thing, either — a villain doesn't have to be sympathetic to be compelling.
Trope Editor (he/him)Red skull is kinda like joker were his charms come from how much of a bastard he is instead of any deepness, they are villians like that, more style thant subtance.
"Seriously? Who comes up with ideas like this? "
I remenber reading that they were some jews in nazi army for a lot of weird reasons to bring up here, history can be pretty fucking weird here.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"ICYMI: WandaVision is coming in two weeks!
Are your hearts prepared?
Even more tantalizing, someone on Twitter has been doing some picture combining
and what we have here is our best look at Wanda's Scarlet Witch costume! There's a lot of design cues based on Vision's costume. Fascinating.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jan 1st 2021 at 9:47:01 AM
WandaVision is probably one of the few things I'm actually excited for this year so far.
Edited by deuteragonist on Jan 3rd 2021 at 11:51:06 AM
Count me as also excited. I've been waiting for some sweet focus on the two of them for a while
Forever liveblogging the AvengersRumor of the day
: an actor named Elijah Richardson has reportedly been cast in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Eli Bradley, a.k.a. Patriot.
(x3)I don’t know if it’s true but it would be a surprise to see both him and Mac Chavez in the Young Avengers considering she was put in the team specifically because Eli couldn’t be used at the time due to copyright issues.
And because this show was likely in the works for years I wonder how recently the creatives on it would’ve gotten the call saying they’re allowing to use Eli again.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jan 3rd 2021 at 4:25:46 AM
He might have been a lot more reckless until someone either got him under control, or pushed him out of the way to keep him from fucking things up or letting personal beefs cloud his judgement, but on the other hand, it was finding out she was dead in the way he did, and at such a crucial moment that led to his breakdown in the first place, so if he already knew, he would have slightly less reason to flip out right then and there, because he'd have already done it.
One Strip! One Strip!Neat, still not very interested in the lead characters so I'm probably not watching it unless it's super groundbreaking or something.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my TumblrSpeaking of Wanda Vision, is there a separate thread for that? We probably want to have one to contain spoiler-y discussions if there isn't one already.
Edited by Aleistar on Jan 4th 2021 at 3:17:35 PM

Isn't that basically Magneto in his worst days anyway?
Edit: Ok wow, what a pagetopper. Adding context.
Edited by eligram on Dec 31st 2020 at 10:50:04 AM