Plasmus and Defender

You know comics have had the lion’s share of heroes and villains and I think that is not right. After all, sometimes there is a depth lost in comic books that is often replaced by a number of pages or the number of books to help make that up. It has been a focus of some of my writings and yes I am still writing and yes I need to eventually just put it out there but I am nervous.

Not an excuse just a reason for stupidity, but here is a couple I am writing about right now.

Julius, a past villain once known as Plasmus the Iron Tower. A man who had been wanted by the city and managed to get out by his wit and creations. When the side of good fights dirty though he is suddenly stripped of everything he had made to that point. Left not being caught but embarrassed to the point where his family had left him he had to start over alone working in a comic and manga shop. When people decided to rob the store he laid low, he pulled the last thing he kept on him from these villainous times, and saving those in the store using the old tech had gotten him found out by one of the pair of heroes of the city. Saving the people he could in another attack the hero that talked to him was enough to crack the cold case and look at how the good and the bad both handle their business. In the process bringing down others who would have secrets tied to his own injustice brings more strife.

Defender is a genetic experiment that escaped and became a new man after hiding his powers after the experiments failed. When his powers manifested he had been someone who had been able to leave. In a new life, he became Defender, the city’s best hero and one of the best the world would see, keeping his nose clean and out of trouble the only hobbies he had was too his job and the odd stuffed animal. Outside of work, he stays to his studies, trying to be a better hero including the heroes of the past. Gregory outlived his parents and is alone, but is trying to make the most of the opportunity. Despite how well he tries there are those in the heroes and the police of the city that have tried to twist his work for their own nefarious gains.

The problem is not in the present but in the past, as Defender has tried to bury some problems only for them to be brought to light, and with Defender pulling in the chain he finds a lot more is buried than he thinks and maybe there was something to the mistakes he had made not believing the claims of the villain.

Stay Strong and Enjoy The Story

Villain Life

I love villains. Call it for what it is but in my life a lot of people who wore good titles like heroes and mentors supposedly were in it for their own needs and it seemed time and again that people who wore the good really were more rotten then those known to be bad. Hell, we can see that today. Every politician who says they care, every teacher who wants yo to do well only to make themselves look good or push you somewhere if they do not believe in you so their numbers do not fall. Parents who would supposed to help their kids only to beat and cripple them for months or years at a time

Then people would look at that and would ask me to be a good guy and time after time in my life when people and while I wanted to do good things. I could not say in confidence I was a good guy and it made me doubtful of myself and over time a lot of things had come to light but one of them was this. If I told you I worked from the bottom up and pushed myself despite disability and tried to volunteer and help others some may call that good, but I wouldn’t because I do not want to feel so sure that I would disappoint those who would think me to be a hero or even good.

Ever since then the self introduction has been a villain.”My name is X and I am a villain trying to take over the world in my spare time.” From that intro I have figured a lot out.

One, it throws all the stereotypes off because if you can say that seriously and defend it people are not used to it and hence have to work with what they see and what they know from you. In social circles it is a blanks slate powered from a bad title and backed by years of blurring lines from media. From that it has made me take a more accurate self cataloging of skills and abilities to the point if I know the personality test and my mood I know my results down to three points from disc testing to Myers Briggs.

Two, there is so much evil in the world and the majority of it is built on a lie. People think those that can be trusted can be trusted because they are the good guys and when someone claims to wear the black hat and does good deeds there is that little bit of mixed signals causing them to not believe everything to always have doubt. In this case that is a good thing because with doubt they may be able to see things that I cannot because of ego or other factors. To be a villain in public is simply to let your actions define you because no one has anything else to work from. Even if they try to tie your handle to villains there are so many that like a hero they would need to figure it out and that would after trying to find fault in your actions realize they are in the exact same position as they would be with a hero the only difference being nowadays one has used the title to lie and get more out of people and the other does the opposite.

Evil and villainy is different in my eyes and with so many words getting broader in meaning. This one though works off of a simple mechanic. It deals with the old adage “everyone is the hero of their own story” Well, below is the definition of a villain.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villain

When the heroes do wrong it is time for a villain to stand up. One can be a villain and still do good because it all depends on the hero on is opposing. There a lot of heroes who are not worthy of the title and now I think it is time for some villains to come and show how things can be done.

So if you feel the world is not respecting what a hero is and people are tarnishing the title turn to something that would be once forgotten. Let your actions define you and be a villain.

Stay strong.