Fiction Turf

Phew.. Been a while y'all 😊 2019 is rolling by as expected but there are still more things to look forward to from Marvel and DC for the remainder of the year, which is what this piece is about. I'll be compiling a list of everything from live action movies and series to animated movies and series that have been scheduled between September to December for fans to see and enjoy. SEPTEMBER Titans S2 Premiere Date: September 6, 2019 First on the list from DC Universe is Titans. Now in its second season, the show is focused on a group of young heroes with different abilities. This season has an ensemble list of characters from DC which is something that fans are really looking forward to given the solid foundation the show established in its first season. Season One introduced the likes of Dick Grayson (Robin - Batman's first mentee), Rachel Roth (Raven), Kory Anders (Starfire), Garfield Logan (Beast Boy), Jason Todd (Robin - Successor to Dick Grayson), Donna Tro...

Well, it happened.. An adaptation of one of Batman's interesting stories. And it really delivered right from the entire storyline with some changes to that of the comic to the voice cast's perfection. Now I knew they were not going to give us the exact thing page by page from the comic into scene by scene in the movie due to the differences in the universe the story is based on and the events that have happened before it. But the writers introduced a really nice alteration to the end of the movie, something we didn't get from the comic. A few hours before I saw the movie, I thought of something 🤔.. When I checked the Wikipedia page for the animated movie, I noticed that they revealed Thomas Elliot as Hush which is like a secret in the storyline. I kept wondering why they would spill such a secret but then again, it had already been spilled in the comic. Plus anyone can always get that information with a few surfing on the Internet. But I was thinking based on people ...

Wanted to write this ever since I read the comic book, then I'm online one day and I see the headline "Batman: Hush is getting an animated adaptation" , I was so ecstatic. Not just because I like Batman but because of the uniqueness of this story written by Jeph Loeb, penciled by Jim Lee, inked by Scott Williams and colored by Alex Sinclair from 2002 to 2003. I'm particularly fond of Jim Lee's art.. 😊😊 The comic book features an ensemble list of characters such as Batman, Catwoman, Alfred, James Gordon, Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Superman, Lois Lane, Nightwing, Robin, Huntress, Lex Luthor, Amanda Waller, Hush, Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Ra's al ghul, Talia al ghul, Lady Shiva, Killer Croc, Riddler and lots more. If you know DC to an extent, you'll know these are wonderful characters all pulled into one story. So how does all of this play out? Well, here's the link for the comic.. Hush is portrayed as a mysterious stalker who knows Batman...

Marvel's Luke Cage is such a compelling, deep and interesting story.. Something my brother watched recently that inspired this piece. One thing that won the hearts of several people including mine is the portrayal of the bad guys. Show's focus was on crime drama and it was greatly explored. I'm just going to give a kinda recap on the main characters and other root elements of the show. Luke Cage The protagonist , formerly known as Carl Lucas, son of a preacher .. Framed for a crime he didn't commit by his stepbrother (someone he considered as his best friend). Went to prison and was blackmailed into an illegal fight ring as a test for an experiment to create some sorta super soldier. It was an ongoing test for all inmates in which none passed, at least enough to go through the experiment. Luke had to be subjected to the experiment after he was severely beaten by two criminals as an attempt to stop him from exposing the illegal operations in the prison, thou...

Lol.. Am I on the side of the villains now? Well, it's all fiction for a reason.. Okay, on to the content of the above topic. Have you ever wondered how your favorite superhero movie would be if the villain was all dry, soft and boring? You will certainly not call it your "favorite" right? Now this isn't meant to disregard the good guys.. We have and will always love them for their actions and perspectives. But really, you just gotta appreciate the bad guys' performance even if the character is portrayed as the ultimate bad guy or a lackey or a sidekick or a minion or whatever he or she or it is called.. 😆 I'm going to make this very simply by comparing two superhero movies.. One from MCU and the other from DCEU : Avengers: Age of Ultron and Justice League . Now this is just my opinion about the villains in the story. The presence of Ultron , a peacekeeping intelligent system built by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner which turned out to be the opposi...

The legends did what they do best again in the Season 4 finale - "being the chainsaw" according to Rip Hunter. Stopped Ne-Ray (Neron in Ray's body) and Tabitha in style and even teased more fun for the next season ( Vandal Savage might be back.. 👀) After discovering that Ne-Ray (Neron in Ray's body) and Tabitha planned to use fear as a source of energy to open the gateway to hell where the people who have downloaded his weird app will be sent there and his goons from over there will come over. The legends planned to fight fear in the most hilarious of ways using a magical book that lets whatever a user draws in it to come to life; Nate whipped up HeyWorld! (a fantasy theme park that his Dad wanted to create for him). The plan was for humans to come to the park to understand that magical creatures shouldn't be feared. Using the reputation of what was called the trinity (Supergirl, Green Arrow and Flash), they managed to invite lots of people to come to the ...

Well.. An end has come to the whole paradox with Team Flash, the Cicadas and Eobard Thawne. One thing the show maintained throughout this season was its references to Season 1 in terms of words and action. Like Thawne deceiving Nora and training her just as he did for Barry.. Finally, Team Flash got Thawne's plan thanks to Ralph who had to take a hit from the "dagger-destroying gun" and Sherloque who did the explanation leaving the team with two choices: stopping Cicada or stopping Thawne. But as time will have it, Thawne's plan was somewhat inevitable and the dagger still had to be destroyed. I really liked Cicada's idea of going to the night of the particular accelerator explosion to kill all the meta humans before they got their powers, but that didn't happen 😏.. That could have been incorporated in one of the previous episodes though, if only 🚶🏽‍.. Time travel has been one of the major elements of the show from the first season and seeing it being ex...

Another hilarious episode from the Legends setting up the season finale in dramatic fashion. Neron still remains the villain for this fourth season, a demon currently in Ray Palmer and he displayed more intellect in this episode. By using Ray Palmer's reputation and resources, he claims to have figured a way to stop magical creatures from hurting people and invites them to a tech event called PalmerX with the tagline "the power is in the palm(er) of your hands".. 😂 Part of the episode focuses on an underrated character ( Gary Green ) that was introduced in Season 3. After he helped Neron take over the time bureau , he became a host for the fairy godmother , making wishes that she will fulfill. As the legends plan an assault at the bureau, Gary makes a wish for Sara, Ava and Mona to be in book club which his own way of protecting the legends from the wrath of the fairy godmother. She had been trying to manipulate him into making a wish that will lead to bad stuff for ...

CW's Arrow is slowly fading away and that was pretty much sealed in the seventh season's finale. It was a great episode with action and emotion setting up the flash-forwards we've been seeing in style. It started with Team Arrow having the deja vu experience of being "public enemy number one" and running away from the cops as they once did in Season 3. This episode marked the return of some certain individuals adding more loveliness to the season finale -  Curtis Holt (Mr Terrific) ,  Ben Turner (Bronze Tiger)  and  Laurel-2 . The team focused on evacuating people from a public location in the city where the bio-weapon Emiko stole was to be used. This is where Ben Turner came in, bro had to punch a civilian who was being stubborn at Oliver and also said "he's trying to save you dumbass"   😆 The weapon was dispersed and although Oliver stopped the drones as fast as he could with his arrows, there were some casualties. Felicity and Curtis located t...

In the world of Marvel and DC, there are so many things that could be classified as trivia. This is just a compilation of some of them that we might know or not.. Feel free to add yours or send a comment about anyone. Aiit.. Enough intro. Here we go 😎 Did you know that Spider-Man has teamed up with every other superhero in Marvel at one point in time? Did you know that Magneto is capable of removing all the metal inside Wolverine's claws? Did you know that Iron Fist once took on the identity of Daredevil? Did you know that any speedster is capable of running on the clouds in the atmosphere just like they can run on water? Did you know that Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother? Did you know Spider-Man had a costume that was white when he joined the Fantastic Four? Did you know Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel are two different people? Did you know Wolverine is older than Professor X? Did you know Hulk has gotten married before? Did you know that there's a Nigerian mutan...

Honestly, this was another 'mixed reaction' episode setting up a finale to look up to. Major events comes down to  Cicada II (Grace Gibbons) assembling some devices along with her infamous dagger to kill all the meta-humans in the city, and even the world at large. 😏 Team Flash tries to stop her from getting all these devices but they are unable to as she's a step ahead of them.  Barry and  Iris are forced to make a decision they don't like with their daughter ( Nora ) by allowing her to use her mind connection with Grace to get her current location. That was like their only option though because Grace had everything she needed to kill all the meta-humans. There was a little bit of a reference to the first incarnation of the Justice League animation where Wally West had to run a bomb the Joker planted in Gotham out of the city in less than a second - this time, Barry had to run out of a building that was about to explode in less than a second.. 😐 There's ano...

Legends of Tomorrow has never been a TV show devoid of the action, comedy, really weird stuff and lots more. And their latest episode wasn't an exception..  Brandon Routh  delivered a wonderful acting performance as the demon (Neron) in Ray Palmer. I was so used to Ray being the funny and cool genius that seeing him all dark and evil was kinda surprising 😂 Neron also seems to have the ability to utilize his host's intelligence as he did with Ray in this episode. First, he takes John Constantine  to the ice age as bait for the legends to be trapped there. Then he sends Gary to the time bureau to distract them by nip-notizing them 😂 "Nip-notizing" - Gary had lost his nipple in the first episode when John Constantine sent the first magical creature (a unicorn) the legends encountered to hell. Neron restored this nipple which now has magical properties of hypnotism. So Gary used this to influence all the members of the time bureau to keep them distracted from Nero...

A really good episode culminating in the showdown between Oliver Queen and his half sister, Emiko Queen. Spoilers ahead for Arrow S07E21... This episode continued from where the previous one stopped where Oliver and his team are trapped in the remains/rubble of a building rigged to explode by Emiko who is driven by hatred of the Queen family as she was abandoned by her father (Robert Queen). Major focus of this episode at least in the present day is Oliver's approach to Emiko. Is she still his half sister or a villain? This is explored as an hallucination that Oliver has about his best friend, Tommy Merlyn who was fun to watch. He gave us a reference to how he died in the first season which is similar to Oliver's current situation (trapped under rubble). He also joked about both of them having half sisters and that he was dead before his sister could try to kill him unlike Oliver.. Lol First, he helps Oliver out of the rubble and jokes about his broken bow which Olive...