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If you're going to make me wait until next year you at least have to do something involving the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Hopefully by then Guardians 2 will be out and I can work it into that.
Is this mocking Hydra scene an expansion on the conversation Paul has with Skye back on Spacebattles about Hydra having 3 railgun helicarriers and the two of them having a fleet with energy weapons to call upon?
Yes.
 
Funny thing is, Misa is asking for help killing someone from a grey skinned creature from another dimension. And she's trying to seduce a member of the Light.

Also, the live action Death Note films were made by Warner Bros., who of course also made Young Justice. So if we assume this is a WB alt universe, instead of a DC alt universe, this partial crossover is completely reasonable to include. Are Harry Potter expies incoming when you go looking for Raven & Tim Hunter?
 
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Oh, I doubt it's funny. Assuming that we go by Teen Titans and they need to be feeling joy in order to fly, those babies are at constant risk of injury until they learn how to channel it. Feel joy for a few seconds, fly up, get crotchety and bang.

Eh. They're super strong and pretty durable. They can probably take getting dropped on their heads a couple of times.
 
Yes, Tamaraneans have powers from exposure to sunlight - thus the skimpy outfits. Blackfire and Starfire were experimented on and gained extra powers. If you push it far enough they ascend to a really angry godhood, which is the origin of the Goddess X'hal they often exclaim by.
In the comics, in the cartoon it was implied that all Tamaraneans had the same powers that Starfire and Blackfire had. Cartoon Tamaraneans won the same solar powered super power lottery that the Kryptonians did, to the point that the only thing that really keeps them from carving out their own interstellar empire and getting revenge on all the assholes around them is that they actually do live in a bad enough neighborhood that that their neighbors either have super powers of their own, highly advanced supertech that lets them match Tamaraneans(at least when they have numbers on their side) or even both.
 
Eh. They're super strong and pretty durable. They can probably take getting dropped on their heads a couple of times.
Actually, it sounds like Starfire had a childhood with room for happiness, while Blackfire... hadn't had such a childhood. As such, Starfire would've been dropped on her head "a couple of times" while Blackfire wouldn't. Now, take a look at how the characters compare mentally.
 
I'll note that in the pre-New 52 DCU, the root of Komand'r's jealousy and resentment of her sister is simple: Komand'r was the first-born child of the king and queen of Tamaran, but due to a horrifying birth defect, it was felt that she could never be allowed to take the throne and become the public face of Tamaran, and thus her birthright was instead bestowed on Koriand'r.

The horrifying birth defect that left her unfit to rule? Being unable to fly. Might not seem like a big deal to us, but in Tamaranean society, that's thought of as a crippling disability; being born that way is a birth defect roughly equivalent to the Thalidomide babies for humans. So yeah, growing up knowing that she should be first in line for the throne, but will never be allowed to take it because of a genetic defect that was completely beyond anyone's control? Understandable that she'd end up being jealous and resentful of her Sweet Little Sister who gets everything handed to her because she's the Crown Princess...

(Ironically, in the mid-80s, there was a story arc in New Teen Titans where Komand'r staged a bloodless palace coup while Koriand'r was busy on Earth, ousting her parents and forcibly taking the throne for herself. When Kory heard about it, she raced back to Tamaran with the Titans in tow to restore the rightful King and Queen to their throne... only to find that her effort to do so had no backing among either the government or the public, as King Myand'r had been a rather weak and ineffectual leader, and, while ruthless and abrasive, Komand'r had proven, in the time it took for Kory to get there, to be a capable, wise, and benevolent leader who had managed to improve the standard of living throughout Tamaran...)
 
Actually, it sounds like Starfire had a childhood with room for happiness, while Blackfire... hadn't had such a childhood. As such, Starfire would've been dropped on her head "a couple of times" while Blackfire wouldn't. Now, take a look at how the characters compare mentally.
More like Starfire got the Nice Nanny , while Darkfire got the Bitch from Hell. It Starfires Nanny that greets them when they go to her homeworld in Teen Titans cartoon.
 
I'll note that in the pre-New 52 DCU, the root of Komand'r's jealousy and resentment of her sister is simple: Komand'r was the first-born child of the king and queen of Tamaran, but due to a horrifying birth defect, it was felt that she could never be allowed to take the throne and become the public face of Tamaran, and thus her birthright was instead bestowed on Koriand'r.

The horrifying birth defect that left her unfit to rule? Being unable to fly. Might not seem like a big deal to us, but in Tamaranean society, that's thought of as a crippling disability; being born that way is a birth defect roughly equivalent to the Thalidomide babies for humans. So yeah, growing up knowing that she should be first in line for the throne, but will never be allowed to take it because of a genetic defect that was completely beyond anyone's control? Understandable that she'd end up being jealous and resentful of her Sweet Little Sister who gets everything handed to her because she's the Crown Princess...

(Ironically, in the mid-80s, there was a story arc in New Teen Titans where Komand'r staged a bloodless palace coup while Koriand'r was busy on Earth, ousting her parents and forcibly taking the throne for herself. When Kory heard about it, she raced back to Tamaran with the Titans in tow to restore the rightful King and Queen to their throne... only to find that her effort to do so had no backing among either the government or the public, as King Myand'r had been a rather weak and ineffectual leader, and, while ruthless and abrasive, Komand'r had proven, in the time it took for Kory to get there, to be a capable, wise, and benevolent leader who had managed to improve the standard of living throughout Tamaran...)
From what I've read online about the Teen Titans tie in comics, neither Blackfire or Starfire were actually next in line to rule. That would be their little brother Wildfire who was sent into hiding as a means of preserving the royal line when the Gordanian's launched their invasion of Tamaran five years before the formation of the Titans. Though Blackfire still has her jealousy issues about Starfire because while Blackfire was more talented and experienced, Star was very much the favored child of their parents(apparently because of her innate kindness and compassion), something Blackfire heavily resented. It was also be hinted, however, that her general appearance was another factor: her purple eyes and black hair made her different in comparison to the dominant green eyes and red and brown hair of other Tamaraneans, and thus deemed "impure and unworthy" for the Tamaranean throne, which further surfaced her inner fury and thirst for vengeance on her people.
 
Atrocitus wants revenge on the Guardians for the mass murder their agents committed against his people. He considers the Guardians and anyone who allies with them to be legitimate targets. Wider concerns don't really enter into it.
So why didn't he just point out that it was one specific Guardian who reprogrammed the Manhunters and caused the massacre?
 
So why didn't he just point out that it was one specific Guardian who reprogrammed the Manhunters and caused the massacre?
Because he has no idea it was just one Guardian. And even if a) that was true in his setting and b) he knew that, it was still an epic failure of oversight on their part. And it's pretty unlikely that the souls of the Empire's dead care all that much anyway.

If it actually was all Krona's fault, and immediately afterwards the Guardians had taken Krona into Sector 666 and handed him over, that might have been enough. If the rest were actually contrite, forswore any involvement in interstellar politics or policing for millennia and assist him in reestablishing the Empire of Tears. Maybe.
 
Because he has no idea it was just one Guardian. And even if a) that was true in his setting and b) he knew that, it was still an epic failure of oversight on their part. And it's pretty unlikely that the souls of the Empire's dead care all that much anyway.

If it actually was all Krona's fault, and immediately afterwards the Guardians had taken Krona into Sector 666 and handed him over, that might have been enough. If the rest were actually contrite, forswore any involvement in interstellar politics or policing for millennia and assist him in reestablishing the Empire of Tears. Maybe.
Raul didn't read that comic? Or just didn't tell Arty?

And what if the Guardians never discovered that it was Krona's fault though?

On top of which why is he even blaming the Guardians for the Manhunters actions when at least in most settings the Manhunters are sentient beings in their own right?

The one thing the Guardians would actually be guilty of is covering up the massacre. But vengeance for that would easy to get by just going around telling everyone about what really happened since doing so would bring the Guardian's coverup to light and make the galaxy/universe lose faith in them.
 
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