08 November 2019

Dementia 6

FADE IN

On Adolf Hyla's painting, The Divine Mercy.

GHOST OF ROD SERLING: (V.O.) In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, all things were made through him, and without him was not everything made that was made.

The Divine Mercy is suddenly replaced with William Blake's etching, The Ancient of Days.

GHOST OF ROD SERLING: (V.O.; cont'd) But we aren't going to talk about that God today, for this tale is set in a universe created by an altogether different god.

A montage of paintings depicting the six Biblical days of creation plays out across the screen.

GHOST OF ROD SERLING: (V.O.): In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

CUT TO

An image of Linda Blair's face from The Exorcist exploding.

TITLE CARD: DEMENTIA 6

INT. NAIAD & RAZE'S HOME/LIVING ROOM — NIGHT

On the interior of a living room. The living room — painted in various shades of brown — is very spartan, adorned only with a few bits of furniture, a single tall lamp, and a sepia-toned photograph of Vincent Price hung upon the wall.

In an uncomfortable-looking metal chair sits NAIAD, a pretty twenty-something redhead. She keeps her hands folded in her lap with her legs closed tightly together. Wearing a blue-&-white polka dot dress, white apron with lacy pink trim, and large unwholesome smile, Naiad is the picture of the typical '50s proletarian housewife.

NAIAD: (singing) Lollipop, lollipop. O lolli, lolli, lolli, lollipop!

Parting her legs, Naiad reaches under her dress, withdraws a purple popsicle, and proceeds to suck it.

RAZE'S VOICE: (O.C.) I hope you brought enough to share with the rest of the class, young lady!

PAN RIGHT

To RAZE, Naiad's husband, who stands in the living room's open doorway. Wearing black suspenders, red flannel work shirt, brown bowler cap, and large unwholesome smile, Raze is the picture of the typical '50s proletarian drunkard.

NAIAD: (stuffs popsicle back under dress; jumps to feet) Ooh, Raze! My darling, darling, darling, darling husband!

RAZE: (takes off & tosses aside bowler; embraces Naiad) Naiad! My lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely bride! You're looking swell!

Naiad & Raze begin jitterbugging around the living room floor.

NAIAD: Did you pick up your cheque?

RAZE: No! That goof boss of mine didn't give it to me! He says I've been jacking off on the job!

NAIAD: But everyone jacks off on the job! It relieves tension!

RAZE: Yeah, but he's a real Kellogg.

NAIAD: Well, I don't care so long as you still love me.

BACKSTREET BOYS: (O.C.) As long as you love me....

RAZE: (annoyed) What's this beatnik noise I'm hearing‽

NAIAD: It's not beatnik noise, dear. It's from the '90s. There are no beatniks in the '90s.

RAZE: I don't care! It's horrid! Turn it off!

Crestfallen, Naiad stops jiggerbugging and crosses over to the Victrola. Taking the record off the turntable, she throws it against the wall, shattering it.

Suddenly, a villainous-looking black man in a white suit, white cape, white mustache, white monocle, and white top hat crashes through a wall. This is LORD FAWDOR, Naiad & Raze's landlord.

LORD FAWDOR: Rent! Rent! Non-circulating pennies, nickels, dimes — four loonies and a toonie!

RAZE: No rent.

NAIAD: No rent.

LORD FAWDOR: I'm the rent.

Fawdor collapses to his knees.

LORD FAWDOR: NOOOO!!!

INT. LORD FAWDOR'S PORN STUDIO/SET — TWILIGHT

Fawdor sits in his director's chair, a cameraman beside him. Naiad & Raze are on the set, the REANIMATED CORPSES of JOHN HOLMES & SHYLA STYLEZ performing with them. Naiad is tied down to a mechanical bull, helpless as John force-feeds her blood sausage after blood sausage. Raze, chained to a pillar, is forced to watch while Shyla, crouched down between his spread legs, chugs down a 1-litre bottle of cream soda. Taking in more than she can swallow, she reels around and spews cream soda all over John and Naiad.

Fawdor grins with malevolent malice.

EXT. BUS STOP — DAY

Naiad & Raze stand at the bus stop alone, clothes tattered and sticky with dried cream soda, eyes dark, haunted.

RAZE: Hon?

NAIAD: Yes, hon?

RAZE: How come you never drink my cream soda?

NAIAD: I'm allergic. Allergic to cream soda.

IRIS OUT

End titles

INT. LORD FAWDOR'S PORN STUDIO/CUTTING ROOM — SUNSET

SUPERIMPOSE: POST-CREDITS SCENE!

Fawdor is busy splitting and splicing reels of film when he hears a knock at the door. Leaving his equipment, he goes to answer it. On the other side stands NICOLAS CAGE in a black Superman costume.

SUPERCAGE: Up, up, and away!

Supercage sends a right hook into Fawdor's chin. Fawdor's head is punched clean off, sent crashing through the ceiling, leaving the raw neck stump to gush bright red blood.

EXT. SPACE

Fawdor's head achieves escape velocity.

LORD FAWDOR: My God! It's full of stars!

Fawdor's head jumps to hyperspace.

06 November 2019

Star Wars: Episode ΑΩ – A Certain Point of View (A Fragment)

So here I am again, submitting another Star Wars-related post.

I've tried my damnedest this past year to renounce Star Wars, sever all ties to the series, and move on. I gave away every SW-related item I owned — all novels, comics, and movies (even the the GOUT copy of TESB I spent $47 on). Yet even after all that, in spite of the pervading, persisting loathing I hold towards the vast majority of the franchise, I still love Star Wars. I still love the aesthetics; I love the music; I love Luke, Leia, Han, et al.; I love what Star Wars was; I love what Star Wars could've been. Despite all my efforts to kill it, Star Wars lives still inside me. (The deletion of most of my SW content looks even more foolhardy and regrettable now.)

But I can't love Star Wars as it is, and I can't be the Star Wars fan I used to be. Evolution is a fact of life; that which can't adapt dies. For this Star Wars fan and his version of Star Wars to survive, they must evolve in parallel.

Last month, I started working on a condensed, streamlined, nonlinear, 9-in-1 retelling of the ST/OT/PT told solely from the POV of Rey/Luke/Anakin. I first considered doing it in the form of a collage novel — editing excerpts from the film novelizations into a new whole, complete with isolated, altered panels taken from the comic adaptations. Since I no longer own any novelizations/comics and wasn't able to acquire digital copies of all of them, I resorted to the tried-and-true method of screenwriting, which is less ambitious but less difficult. In the end, my interest in the concept fizzled out and I put it to bed.

I've since decided I'm going to try again at an OT rewrite. Though it isn't going to be as radical as my original concept, it'll still be significantly different from Lucas' OT. Work on it is presently underway, though I'm taking my time with it and it'll be a while before I'm confident enough in what I've written to present any excerpts. 'Til that time arrives, here is Star Wars: Episode ΑΩ – A Certain Point of View in all its truncated glory.

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EXT. SPACE

TITLE CARD: The Milky Way Galaxy, a long time from now….

A vast sea of stars serves as the main backdrop for the main title, followed by a quote.

STAR WARS

EPISODE ΑΩ

A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW

"What is, is without."

— The Corbet Dictum

PAN LEFT

To Jakku, a dingy rust-coloured planet wreathed in black smog.

Two small white starcraft — a pair of hammer-shaped Corellian corvettes — race through space towards the planet. In their wake follows a titanic wedge-shaped battlecruiser, a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer. As the three vessels emerge into full view, we see the Star Destroyer is a decommissioned wreck, scarred with grievous damage, carried in tow behind the corvettes by way of tractor beam.

As they near Jakku, the corvettes disengage their tractor beams and veer off, allowing the Star Destroyer to continue forward on its own momentum. As the corvettes slip away together into hyperspace, the Star Destroyer pierces the planet's atmosphere.

EXT. JAKKU — TRASHSCAPE — DAY

Tinted dark red behind the black pollution which keeps the planet in perpetual dusk, the sun of Jakku casts its maroon light upon the landscape. There are no natural landmarks in sight. From horizon to horizon, there are only hills and valleys of trash, streams and ponds of lubricants and coolants — the detritus of a dozen worlds and uncounted centuries. Despite this, life exists on this marginally habitable planet. Sparse pockets of hardy vegetation have sprung up amidst the debris; vermin call the innumerable crevices and hollows home; there are even people present — criminals, their offspring, their descendants — victims of a disproportionate justice which does not recognize acquittal or parole.

The Star Destroyer passes down through the sky. Red-hot from the uncontrolled entry, the pollution surrounding it has ignited, leaving a fiery trail in the sky which burns brighter than the shrouded sun. Those persons outside to witness this event shield their gaze, eyes unaccustomed to such brilliance. It is the last thing they will ever do in their benighted lives.

The Star Destroyer strikes the ground with the force of a nuclear weapon. With a white-hot flash, everything inside hundreds of kilometres is annihilated.

INT. JUNKED VESSEL/CORRIDOR — DAY

A metal sheet is pulled open to reveal the concealed face of a SCAVENGER.

In an upside-down, canted corridor, the scavenger is busy. Clad in a patched-together protective suit and opague filtration mask, a large pack and metal staff strapped to their back, a dim headlamp providing them the only illumination in this dark space, the scavenger is consumed with the task of removing mechanical components from inside a wall.

Finding a potentially valuable piece, the scavenger drops it in a satchel at hand. Slinging the bag over their shoulder, they shimmy down a cable, between treacherous walls of corroded machinery.

INT. JUNKED VESSEL/LARGER SPACE — DAY

Alone and tiny in this massive, sideways wreck, the scavenger descends, climbing down a long cable. They land hard onto rusty metal.

INT. JUNKED VESSEL/ENGINES — DAY

Booty in tow, the scavenger climbs over enormous pipes in the vast space, heading through the dust toward a distant slit of lesser darkness.

EXT. JUNKED VESSEL — DAY

The scavenger emerges. Sucking water from a feeding tube, they find their reservoir drained. Coaxing the final drops of moisture from the tube into their mouth, the scavenger looks to the horizon. Several kilometres into the distance but moving fast is a tremendous wall of wind-churned grit. It would not do to be caught in the open when that storm hits.

Leaving the wreck, the scavenger descends a slope of debris, taking care to maintain balance as loose bits shift under their weight. Reaching the bottom, the scavenger jogs over to their rusted ATV. Jumping atop, they fire the sputtery engine and head off.

EXT. STARSHIP GRAVEYARD — DAY

The scavenger speeds along the trash floor, through a graveyard of discarded starships.

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST — DAY

The scavenger's ATV passes us, heading for a grimy shanty town. Originally a series of connected prefab shelters, expanded with the addition of jury-rigged spacecraft sections, the hermetically sealed outpost serves as a place for refuelling and small trade.

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST — COURTYARD — DAY

ATV parked, the scavenger unfastens the large sack of heavy found objects from the back. With the vigor of a tough seaman, the scavenger hauls the sack from their ATV to the front gate.

INT. NIIMA OUTPOST/ENTRANCE HALL — DAY

The inner airlock door slides open, admitting the scavenger inside. Sheltered from the toxic and caustic chemicals in the air outside, the scavenger pulls off the filtration mask, revealing the grimy, gaunt face of an otherwise beautiful young brunette. This is nineteen-year-old REY.

INT. NIIMA OUTPOST/CLEANING AREA — DAY

At one of the many cleaning tables, Rey scrubs clean her day's salvage. Glancing up, she looks at an old woman, also cleaning salvage. Rey watches her, and for a moment is lost in pensive thought. A passing dwarf underling barks something to her. She returns to work.

INT. NIIMA OUTPOST/TRADING STRUCTURE — DAY

Rey looks up to a service window. Two feet above her, behind a protective screen, is her boss, UNKAR PLUTT. Hideously bloated and disfigured by severe allergic reactions and infections, he's barely recognizable as human. He examines her pieces.

UNKAR PLUTT: What you've brought me today is worth ... hmmm ... one quarter portion.

Though disappointed, Rey barely shows it. She nods thanks. Plutt pushes through his transfer drawer a sealed packet: dried green meat in one section, beige powder in another. Swallowing her resentment, she takes it and heads off.

INT. NIIMA OUTPOST/BARRACKS/REY'S DWELLING — NIGHT

Rey's one-room domicile, "generously" provided her on-site by her boss. Everything she owns is reclaimed. She cooks for one. Does everything for one.

She opens the powder and moves to the makeshift wok where the green meat sizzles. She pours the powder into milky water in a tin and stirs it; it grows into a loaf as she puts the meat on an old plate. She grabs the loaf.

CUT TO

Rey eating voraciously.

Every last drop consumed, the metal plate licked clean, Rey wipes her mouth. Reclining atop her cot, she gazes upon the opposing wall. Applied directly to the surface is a painting of her own creation. It is rough, limited to a palette of browns and yellows, yet surprisingly craftsmanlike. It depicts a desert vista from a planet Rey has never seen, the butterscotch sky supporting a pair of suns brighter in colour than the dull disc she has only known.

18 October 2019

Bartman vs. The Destroyer

What follows is the earliest surviving piece of fanfiction that I still have with me. I wrote it in the 5th Grade for a class assignment.  It originally came with a prologue explaining the origin of the story's antagonist, but the teacher made me discard it for some reason. 😕

The spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and batshittery are strong with this one. For those reasons, I'm sharing its beauty with the world. 😽

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Bart simpson was at home lisenting to the radio he was lisenting to the rocking rock then a newsflash came.

we interupt this program for a newsflash wow said bart.

I heard on the radio a monster was on the loose then i heard a crunch and a scream and i turned into bartman.

And he flew to the rescuse springfield look more like hell every building was crused there was seven dead people 172 injured and a giant

Who are you?!

i am the destroyer then bartman shoot a tranguilizer dart it broke to 500 pieces

and then he got his turbo laser cannon and shot the destroyer in the head. Then the destroyer shoot acid out of his mouth and burned his costume then bartman flew to the place where he was hit by the comet. And grabbed a peace flew back. And threw it at the destroyer and the street blew up up. And he was back to normal. But then something moved through the trees first no one saw then the edge came out then the spaceship landed an alien came out and said hes wanted in the galaxy

meanwhile in a galaxy far far far away a living bubblee named bubble head was wathing and he said.

What next darth vader giveing you a kiss good night in realty porky pig or garfield but not today so t.thats all folks.

22 September 2019

If I Rebooted It (A Final Outline from an Ex-"Star Wars" Fan)

I wrestled with whether or not it was appropriate to post this, seeing as I've deleted almost all posts pertaining to Star Wars (an action I've since come to regret to an extent). In the end, I felt it would serve as a fair coda to my time as a Star Wars fanfic writer.

Right as my status as a SW fan was receiving last rites, I toyed with the idea of writing an entire Original Trilogy rewrite; I even typed out a few pages before my soured feelings put a kibosh on the whole deal. I no longer have those pages, having deleted them, but I did preserve the outline of ideas I had conceived in preparation.

So, with no further ado, my final dip into the SW sandbox, my vision for a SW OT reboot:

GENERAL CHANGES

  • My OT would be semi-hard science fiction, with a few fantastical elements, rather than outright science fantasy. Things like 3D space travel would be featured, but people walking around inside giant space slugs without spacesuits in Earth-normal gravity would be out of the question.
  • My OT would take place in the Milky Way Galaxy, in “the 33rd century A.E.”, hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Humans and near-humans would be the only sapient life inhabiting the galaxy; there’d be no genuine aliens.
  • Projectile weapons such as coilguns and smart missiles would be featured, with energy weapons taking lesser precedence.
  • The lightsaber would be somewhat different. It’d be a weapon only trained Force-users can activate and wield. It’d possess a monomolecular blade of “energized particles” which can cut through most anything but doesn’t generate any actual heat. Jedi lightsabers would be red while Sith lightsabers blue.
  • No manned fighters. All fighters would either be outfitted with AIs (Empire) or remote controlled (Rebel).
  • There’d be no light/dark dichotomy to the Force.
  • No Force ghosts.

STAR WARS

  • Luke would be changed into a female character named “Leia Skywalker”.
  • Leia would become Princess Zara Antilles.
  • The Death Star would not make a physical appearance. Zara would be imprisoned on Vader’s Star Destroyer and all scenes pertaining to her rescue would take place there.
  • Ben would survive his duel with Vader.
  • The film would end with our heroes escaping for Hoth.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

  • My version of TESB would open a couple weeks after the events of SW. The damages to the Falcon would’ve been those sustained during our heroes’ escape from Vader’s ship; Leia would be furthering her training under Ben; etc.
  • Dodonna would take Rieekan’s place.
  • The Leia/Han/Zara love triangle would be a bisexual one.
  • The walkers would be replaced with tanks.
  • Ben would be slain by Vader while helping our heroes escape Hoth.
  • In contrast to Ben, Yoda would be quite the PT-era Jedi. He would teach Leia that Jedi are forbidden from forming attachments, including romantic ones.
  • Bespin wouldn’t have a breathable atmosphere.
  • Six months would explicitly pass between the Battle of Hoth and the duel on Cloud City.
  • I’m on the fence as to whether Vader would be Leia’s father or not.
  • Leia would join Vader.

REVENGE OF THE JEDI

  • Three years would’ve passed since TESB. Leia would’ve spent that time receiving Sith training from Vader.
  • The one and only Death Star would finally make its debut.
  • Motti would take Jerjerrod’s place.
  • Emperor Palpatine would be reimagined as Espaa Valorum, the beautiful, androgynous, ageless Dark Lord of the Sith.
  • Under his helmet, Vader would be revealed as a handsome middle-aged man without any injuries or disfigurements.
  • No Ewoks, no Endor. The Rebel fleet would attack the Death Star above Had Abbadon, and we’d get a trench run much like the one from A New Hope. No muss, no fuss.
  • Valorum would zap Leia with his lightning; Vader would skewer him on his lightsaber; then Leia and Vader would have their climactic duel.
  • Leia would slay Vader à la Dooku. Vader would die in his sins, unredeemed.
  • The film would end on a bittersweet note, with the Death Star destroyed, Han and Zara together, and Leia assuming command of the Executor and going off on her own, intent on building a First Order free of Jedi/Sith dogma.

13 September 2019

Kal-El's Abilities

50 light-years from Earth there once existed a planet known as Krypton. There civilization was far advanced and had brought forth a race of supermen whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfect. Krypton's sole survivor Kal-El, raised on Earth as Clark Kent, uses the amazing powers bequeathed to him in his neverending battle for truth and justice as the costumed superhero Superman.

Due to various extenuating factors (mutation, age, etc.), Kal's abilities have fluctuated wildly over the decades.

(1938-1958)

An infant when he arrived on Earth, it took 22 years for Kal's natural abilities to emerge and mature, reaching their peak once he learned to fly in 1938. His powerset from then to 1958 was the baseline Kryptonian powerset.

PRIMARY ABILITIES

Abilities Kal can voluntarily control.

FLIGHT

  • Can be expanded to objects of lesser/equal mass he is in physical contact with.
  • Electromagnetic in nature, this ability can be impaired by strong electric/magnetic fields.

INVULNERABILITY

  • Capable of withstanding up to 2092 megajoules.
  • Can be expanded/transferred to objects of lesser/equal mass he is in physical contact with.
  • Can be contracted to facilitate shaving, haircuts, etc.
  • Electromagnetic in nature, this ability can be impaired by strong electric/magnetic fields.

MICROSCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on molecules with a bond length of 0.74 Å.

SUPER HEARING

  • Capable of perceiving sounds in the infrasonic to ultrasonic ranges within a 5 km radius.

SUPER SPEED

  • Capable of attaining a maximum speed of 4939 km/h (on ground) 1975 km/h (in flight).

SUPER STRENGTH

  • Capable of lifting a maximum of 90 metric tons.

TELESCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on objects with a 68 cm circumference/21 cm diameter from a distance of 5 km.

X-RAY VISION

SECONDARY ABILITIES

Abilities Kal cannot voluntarily control.

ACCELERATED HEALING

  • Capable of fully recovering from injuries as severe as 4th-degree burns to 60% of his body within a year (with medical assistance).

GENIUS-LEVEL INTELLECT

IMMUNITY

  • Immune to all naturally occurring terrestrial infections/poisons.

LONGEVITY

  • Has a 1000-year lifespan.

EIDETIC MEMORY

RADIATION ABSORPTION

  • Capable of absorbing, storing, and metabolizing ambient radiation, enabling his other abilities.
  • The number of abilities he can possess, and the intensity at which he can possess them, increases/decreases in exact proportion to the amount of ambient radiation he can absorb/retain.
  • Incapable of safely processing high doses of ionizing radiation. Exposure turns his skin translucent, force-feeding his cells energy to the point of incapacitation, eventually leading to apoptosis.
SUPER STAMINA

  • Capable of going without oxygen up to 90 minutes, water up to 2 weeks, sleep over 5 weeks, and food up to 7 weeks.

SUPER VISION

  • 8 times stronger than average human vision.
  • Capable of perceiving colours in the near-infrared to near-ultraviolet ranges.

(1958-1985)

In 1947, Kal was exposed to black kryptonite, splitting him into two separate individuals — an amoral Superman and a cowardly Clark Kent. Eleven years following this separation, Superman travelled to Universe 29, where in his fateful encounter with his twisted Bizarro counterpart he was first exposed to blue kryptonite. Exposure to this alien kryptonite increased his powers tenfold, giving him the strength needed to beat his opponent. Upon returning to Universe 1, he had a large crystal of blue K synthesized, whereupon he began habitually bathing himself in its radiations, further augmenting his powers. By the turn of the decade, Superman was in possession of a vast repertoire of godlike powers which no other Kryptonian possessed.

PRIMARY ABILITIES

FLIGHT

  • Can be expanded to objects within a 40,075 km radius.

FREEZE BREATH

  • Capable of lowering temperatures to -272 °C.

HEAT VISION

  • Capable of raising temperatures to 6000 °C.

INTANGIBILITY

INVULNERABILITY

  • Capable of withstanding up to 1.3 x 10^44 joules.
  • Can be expanded to objects within a 40,075 km radius.

MICROSCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on quarks.

REPLICATION

  • Capable of dividing into two Supermen with halved powers.

SHAPESHIFTING

SUPER FLARE

  • Capable of releasing all the stored energy in his cells as a destructive nova blast.

SUPER HEARING

  • Capable of perceiving sounds in the infrasonic to ultrasonic ranges within a 7.5 billion km radius.

SUPER HYPNOTISM

SUPER SPEED

  • Capable of attaining a maximum speed of 300,000 km/s.

SUPER STRENGTH

  • Capable of lifting a maximum of 1.30900 × 10^22 kg.

SUPER VENTRILOQUISM

SUPER VISION

  • Capable of perceiving every wavelength across the electromagnetic spectrum.

TELEKINESIS

TELESCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on objects with a 21 km diameter from a distance of 7.5 billion km.

WORMHOLE GENERATION

X-RAY VISION

SECONDARY ABILITIES

GENIUS-LEVEL INTELLECT

IMMUNITY

LONGEVITY

  • Has a 100,000-year lifespan.

EIDETIC MEMORY

REGENERATION

  • Capable of fully recovering from injuries as severe as 4th-degree burns to 90% of his body instantaneously.

RADIATION ABSORPTION

SUPER STAMINA

  • Capable of going without oxygen, water, sleep, and food indefinitely.

(1985-1993)

In 1985, Superman and Clark were finally merged back into a single individual. While the superpowered Superman hadn't aged a year in the decades they were separated, the non-powered Clark had. This had a noticeable effect on the reconstituted Kal-El, as not only did he possess a middle-aged Kryptonian form, but his powers had been significantly decreased, though not to their original pre-blue K levels.

PRIMARY ABILITIES

FLIGHT

  • Can be expanded to objects within a 202 metre radius.
  • Electromagnetic in nature, this ability can be impaired by strong electric/magnetic fields.

FREEZE BREATH

  • Capable of lowering temperatures to -63 °C.

HEAT VISION

  • Capable of raising temperatures to 3,300 °C.

INVULNERABILITY

  • Capable of withstanding 6.2e+7 megajoules.
  • Can be expanded to objects within a 202 metre radius.
  • Can be contracted to facilitate shaving, haircuts, etc.
  • Electromagnetic in nature, this ability can be impaired by strong electric/magnetic fields.

MICROSCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on atoms.

SUPER HEARING

  • Capable of perceiving sounds in the infrasonic to ultrasonic ranges within a 33 km radius.

SUPER SPEED

  • Capable of attaining a maximum speed of 692,000 km/h.

SUPER STRENGTH

  • Capable of lifting a maximum of 5,216,308 metric tons.

TELESCOPIC VISION

  • Capable of focusing in on objects with a 44 cm circumference/4 cm diameter from a distance of 33 km.

X-RAY VISION

SECONDARY ABILITIES

GENIUS-LEVEL INTELLECT

IMMUNITY

LONGEVITY

  • Has a 10,000-year lifespan.

EIDETIC MEMORY

REGENERATION

  • Capable of fully recovering from injuries as severe as 4th-degree burns to 70% of his body within 5 hours.

RADIATION ABSORPTION

SUPER STAMINA

SUPER VISION

  • 16 times stronger than average human vision.
  • Capable of perceiving colours in the near-infrared to near-ultraviolet ranges.

06 September 2019

The Great "Star Wars" Purge

I've gone and deleted almost every Star Wars-related post I ever put on this blog. The scripts and short stories I wrote remain available to read, but everything else is dust in the wind. Why? Because Star Wars is an absurd farce. Original, prequel, or sequel trilogies, it doesn't matter — it's all one great heap of consumerist trash undeserving of reverence, worthy only of mockery, and I don't want to be reminded of its existence any longer.


R. I. P.

My Love of Star Wars

1996 — 2019

29 June 2019

The Amalgam Multiverse

The Amalgam Multiverse is a combined DC/Marvel/etc. Multiverse wherein all my superhero stories are set.

The Amalgam Multiverse consists of 1,000,001 universes. The universes exist within the Phantom Zone AKA the Bleed, a seemingly timeless meta-universe connecting/protecting the universes. Each of the individual universes of the multiverse is a growing block universe with an objective movable present. As the multiversal hub, should Universe 0 ever be destroyed, the whole multiverse would cease to exist.

LIST OF AMALGAM MULTIVERSE WORLDS

UNIVERSE 0


Similar to Marvel's Earth-1218.

UNIVERSE 1


Charlton, Fawcett, and Quality characters do not exist here.

UNIVERSE 2

Similar to Marvel's Earth-98Earth-928Earth-982Earth-1610, & Earth-9500.

The X-Men and associated characters exist on this universe's Counter-Earth.

UNIVERSE 3


UNIVERSE 4


Similar to DC's Earth-Four.

UNIVERSE 5

Similar to DC's Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-Sigma (Earth-0), The World of the Knight, & the Batman: Year 100 universe.

UNIVERSE 6


Similar to DC's Earth-Six (Earth 48).

UNIVERSE 8


Similar to "The K-Metal from Krypton" universe.

UNIVERSE 9


Similar to DC's Earth-I & Marvel's Earth-9.

UNIVERSE 10



UNIVERSE 11


Similar to DC's Earth-Eleven.

UNIVERSE 12


Similar to My Adventures with Superman's Earth-12.

UNIVERSE 14


Similar to DC's Fourth WorldSkyland, and Underworld.

UNIVERSE 15


Similar to DC's Earth-Fifteen.

UNIVERSE 16


Similar to DC's Earth-16.

UNIVERSE 17


Similar to DC's Earth-Seventeen.

UNIVERSE 18


Similar to Marvel's Earth-18.

UNIVERSE 19


Similar to DC's Earth-S (Earth-5/Earth 5).

UNIVERSE 21


Similar to DC's Earth-260 (Earth-21/Earth 21).

UNIVERSE 22


Similar to DC's Earth-96 (Earth-22/Earth 22).

UNIVERSE 23


Similar to DC's Earth-Twenty-Three.

UNIVERSE 24


Similar to DC's Earth 24.

UNIVERSE 25


Similar to DC's Earth-C-PlusEarth-C-Minus, Marvel's Earth-25Earth-8311Earth-93726, & Earth-94024.

UNIVERSE 26


Similar to DC's Earth-C (Earth-26/Earth 26).

UNIVERSE 27

Similar to DC's Earth-23/Earth 23 & Earth-D.

UNIVERSE 29

Similar to DC's Earth-Zero (Earth 29).

UNIVERSE 30


Similar to DC's Earth-1598 (Earth-30/Earth 30).

UNIVERSE 31


Similar to DC's Earth-686 (Earth-31).

UNIVERSE 33


Similar to DC's Earth-Prime (Earth 33), Marvel's Earth-33, & the Superman: Secret Identity universe.

UNIVERSE 35


Similar to DC's Earth-ABC (Earth 25) & Marvel's Earth-10.

UNIVERSE 36


Similar to Marvel's Earth-36.

UNIVERSE 37


Similar to Big Bang Comics' Earth A.

UNIVERSE 38


Similar to Big Bang Comics' Earth B.

UNIVERSE 40


Similar to DC's Earth-40.

UNIVERSE 42


Similar to DC's Earth-15/Earth 15, Marvel's Earth-12, & Earth-15.

UNIVERSE 43


Similar to DC's Earth-43.

UNIVERSE 46


Similar to DC's Earth-Two, Earth-Two-A, & the Arrowverse's Earth-F.

UNIVERSE 47


Similar to DC's Earth-Forty-Seven.

UNIVERSE 48


Similar to DC's Earth 47.

UNIVERSE 50


Similar to DC's Earth 50.

UNIVERSE 51


Similar to Chris Tolworthy's Kirbyverse.

UNIVERSE 52


Similar to DC's Prime Earth (pre-Rebirth).

UNIVERSE 53


Similar to DC's Earth-1/Earth 1 & Earth 2.

UNIVERSE 57


Similar to DC's New Earth & Prime Earth (post-Rebirth).

UNIVERSE 59


Similar to DC's Earth-59.

UNIVERSE 61


Similar to DC's Earth-61 (Earth-37/Earth 37).

UNIVERSE 66


Similar to the Arrowverse's Earth-66.

UNIVERSE 67


Similar to Marvel's Earth-67Earth-3015, & Earth-6799.

UNIVERSE 77


Similar to Marvel's Earth-96173Earth-730911Earth-400005, & Earth-600043.

UNIVERSE 78


Similar to DC's Donnerverse.

UNIVERSE 85


Similar to DC's Earth-85 & Earth-Sigma (Earth-0).

UNIVERSE 89


Similar to the Arrowverse's Earth-89.

UNIVERSE 95


Similar to the Arrowverse's Earth-97.

UNIVERSE 96


Similar to the Arrowverse's Earth-96.

UNIVERSE 97


Similar to DC's Earth-97 (Earth-9/Earth 9).

UNIVERSE 117


Similar to the Arrowverse's Earth-Prime.

UNIVERSE 125


Similar to the "Lois Lane's Super-Dream" universe.

UNIVERSE 133


Similar to "The Reign of the Superman" universe.

UNIVERSE 136


Similar to Wizard's Ultimate DCU.

UNIVERSE 149


Similar to DC's Earth-149.

UNIVERSE 159


Similar to DC's Earth-159.

UNIVERSE 163


Similar to DC's Earth-One (Silver Age) & Earth-162.

UNIVERSE 177


Similar to the Eastrail 177 Trilogy universe.

UNIVERSE 178


Similar to DC's Earth-178.

UNIVERSE 230


Similar to DC's Earth-230.

UNIVERSE 370


Similar to DC's Earth-154 & Earth-216.

UNIVERSE 395


Similar to DC's Earth-395.

UNIVERSE 404


Similar to DC's Earth-404.

UNIVERSE 417


Similar to DC's Earth-417.

UNIVERSE 424


Similar to DC's Earth-One (Bronze Age) & Earth-423.

UNIVERSE 483


Similar to Wildstorm's Earth 483 (Earth-50).

UNIVERSE 494


Similar to DC's Earth-494.

UNIVERSE 508


Similar to the DCAU (Earth-508).

UNIVERSE 513


Similar to the DCEU.

UNIVERSE 616


Similar to DC's Earth-154 + 462.

UNIVERSE 634


Similar to the Siegel & Keaton Superman universe.

UNIVERSE 677

Similar to DC's Earth-Twelve & Marvel's Earth-665.

UNIVERSE 678


Similar to the "Yesterdays Gone" & "Chronocide!" universes.

UNIVERSE 688


Similar to Marvel's Earth-688B.

UNIVERSE 702


Similar to DC's Earth-702.

UNIVERSE 712


Similar to Marvel's Earth-712.

UNIVERSE 772

Similar to Marvel's Earth-772.

UNIVERSE 776


Similar to The Eternals universe.

UNIVERSE 901


Similar to DC's Earth-901 (Earth 6).

UNIVERSE 958


Similar to Marvel's Earth-958.

UNIVERSE 992


Similar to The Batman Adventures universe.

UNIVERSE 1098


Similar to DC's Earth-1098.

UNIVERSE 1101


Similar to DC's Earth-1101.

UNIVERSE 1165


Similar to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents universe.

UNIVERSE 1168


Similar to Smallville's Earth-1001 & the Arrowverse's Earth-167.

UNIVERSE 1191


Similar to DC's Earth-1191.

UNIVERSE 1198


Similar to DC's Earth-1198.

UNIVERSE 1239


Similar to the Fletcher Hanks universe.

UNIVERSE 1519


Similar to ABC's Aztech Empire & Marvel's Earth-1519.

UNIVERSE 1602


Similar to Marvel's Earth-311 & Earth-460.

UNIVERSE 1863


Similar to DC's Earth-1863.

UNIVERSE 1876


Similar to DC's Earth-1876.

UNIVERSE 1889


Similar to DC's Earth-1889 (Earth-19/Earth 19).

UNIVERSE 1927


Similar to DC's Earth-1927.

UNIVERSE 1938


Similar to DC's Earth-1938.

UNIVERSE 1993


Similar to DC's Earth 1993.

UNIVERSE 1996


Similar to DC & Marvel's Earth 1996/Earth-9602Earth-12772, & Earth-97061.

UNIVERSE 2280


Similar to Valiant's VH0.

UNIVERSE 2281


Similar to Valiant's VH1.

UNIVERSE 2282


Similar to Valiant's VH2.

UNIVERSE 2447


Similar to Marvel's Earth-2447.

UNIVERSE 2811


Similar to Marvel's Earth-691 & Earth-2120.

UNIVERSE 3000


Similar to the Camelot 3000 universe.

UNIVERSE 3110


Similar to Marvel's Earth-11052.

UNIVERSE 3839


Similar to DC & Marvel's Earth-3839 (Earth 38).

UNIVERSE 4400


Similar to the universe of The 4400.

UNIVERSE 5311


Similar to Marvel's Earth-5311.

UNIVERSE 6111


Similar to Tony Lewis' Earth-6111.

UNIVERSE 6123


Similar to Valiant's VEI.

UNIVERSE 7642


Similar to DC & Marvel's Crossover Earth/Earth-7642.

UNIVERSE 7736

Similar to Marvel's Earth-7736.

UNIVERSE 9907


Similar to Marvel's Earth-9907.

UNIVERSE 10081


Similar to Marvel's Polemachus.

UNIVERSE 10090


Similar to Marvel's Earth-1983 & Earth-8107.

UNIVERSE 18264


Similar to DC & Marvel's Earth-18264.

UNIVERSE 20007


Similar to Marvel's Earth-20007.

UNIVERSE 23422


Similar to DC & Marvel's Earth-23422.

UNIVERSE 26496


Similar to Marvel's Earth-26496.

UNIVERSE 27320


Similar to Marvel's Earth-10005Earth-17315, & Earth-TRN414.

UNIVERSE 31198


Similar to Marvel's Earth-31198.

UNIVERSE 32518


Similar to Marvel's Mojoverse.

UNIVERSE 47920


Similar to Marvel's Earth-47920.

UNIVERSE 51778


Similar to Marvel's Earth-51778.

UNIVERSE 61211


Similar to Marvel's Earth-61211.

UNIVERSE 61610


Similar to Marvel's Earth-616 & Earth-1610.

UNIVERSE 70019


Similar to Marvel's Earth-70019.

UNIVERSE 78909


Similar to Marvel's Earth-78909.

UNIVERSE 83930


Similar to Marvel's Earth-83930.

UNIVERSE 89326


Similar to DC & Marvel's Earth-89326.

UNIVERSE 90214


Similar to Marvel's Earth-90214.

UNIVERSE 91101


Similar to Marvel's Earth-91101.

UNIVERSE 94000


Similar to Marvel's Earth-94000.

UNIVERSE 117192


Similar to Marvel's Earth-58460 & Earth-58732.

UNIVERSE 120703


Similar to Marvel's Earth-120703.

UNIVERSE 199999


Similar to Marvel's Earth-199999.

UNIVERSE 217630


Similar to Marvel's Earth-96283 & Earth-121347.

UNIVERSE 704509


Similar to Marvel's Earth-704509.

UNIVERSE 705753


Similar to Marvel's Earth-5724 & Earth-700029.

UNIVERSE 823004


Similar to Marvel's Earth-121698 & Earth-701306.

UNIVERSE 843394


Similar to Marvel's Earth-92131Earth-751263Earth-TRN566, & Earth-TRN583.

UNIVERSE 961116


Similar to Marvel's Earth-961116.

UNIVERSE 1000000


Similar to DC's Earth-Omega.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the 3 Dev Adam universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Adventures of Superman universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the All-Star Superman universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Astro City universe.

(UNKNOWN)



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Similar to the Batman/Dark Joker: The Wild universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Bat-Manga! universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Batman: Haunted Gotham universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Batman: I, Joker universe.

(UNKNOWN)



(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Batman: Two Faces/The Superman Monster universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Black Hammer universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to Black Zero's universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Blankman universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "Crucible of Freedom" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Doctor Mordrid universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to "The Feral Man of Steel" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "For the Man Who Has Everything" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Gold Key Universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Gotham universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Hancock universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Heroes universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "Home!" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the House of El universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to The Incredibles/Incredibles 2 universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Invincible universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to The Iron Giant universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Justice League: Gods and Monsters universe.

(UNKNOWN)



(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Krypton universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to "The Last Man" universe.

(UNKNOWN)




(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the M.A.N.T.I.S. universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Megamind universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to The Meteor Man universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Mignolaverse.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to DC's Murphyverse.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Mutant X casting breakdown universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Mystery Men universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the My Super Ex-Girlfriend universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to "The Narrow Path" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to DC's Nolanverse.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the No Ordinary Family universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the One-Punch Man universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Home to pulp heroes such as John Carter, Doc Savage, the Phantom, the Shadow, the Spider, Tarzan, & Zorro.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "Return to Krypton" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to The Rocketeer universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to James Cameron's Spider-Man universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Super/Brightburn universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Superman: American Alien universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Superman: Birthright universe.

(UNKNOWN)

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Superman Smashes the Klan universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Superman: Speeding Bullets universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Superman: Under a Yellow Sun universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "Super Seven" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the "Unforgiven" universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the V for Vendetta universe.

(UNKNOWN)


Similar to the Watchmen universe.