Stories by @mr95

Aquaman

In Maine 1985, a lighthouse keeper named Thomas Curry rescued a woman named Atlanna, the queen of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and took her in. The two fell in love and raised a child named Arthur, who would be the first child raised half a man from the land and sea. One day sea soldiers came to retrieve Atlanta after escaping Atlantis and her arranged marriage with Orvax Marius. She attacks the soldiers before leaving Thomas and Young Arthur as she returns to Atlantis to face the consequences along with protecting her son and husband. Later on in life Arthur would grow up and one day be trained by Atlanna’s advisor and mentor Nuidis Vulko. When he was ready, Vulko revealed to Arthur that Atlanna was executed for having a relationship with a human and raising a half-breed child. Once discovering the truth, Arthur rejects the city of Atlantis and chooses to work with father at the lighthouse.

The Flash

Barry Allen is a forensic scientist living in Central City, looking to hopefully one day use his work to make a difference in the world. Barry has always had a reputation of being slow, unreliable and constantly late. This has always frustrated Barry’s girlfriend Iris West and things get messy between them after Barry was late to her birthday party. That same night Barry was up late working on a new case, a lighting bolt struck Barry causing him to collapse on cases of unspecified chemicals and substances. Barry wakes up from in a hospital with Iris and her brother Wally. Days go by after his recovery where he begins to notice some changes, which includes being able to move at extraordinary speeds and possesses enchanted reflexes, senses and healing. Wally discovers Barry’s new abilities after he saved Wally from a car crash. Wally completely amazed by his abilities encourages Barry to become a superhero like Superman. They go to Ira West (Iris and Wally’s father) for assistance and Ira is able to design a suit for Barry to wear along with a ring which will store the costume inside. Barry adds the finishing touches with a golden lightning bolt in the middle which is a tribute to his favourite superhero Jay Garrick, and dubs the name Flash.

Wonder Woman: Princess of Themyscira

Diana Prince is a young woman apart of a tribe of woman known as the Amazons on the mysterious island of Themyscira. Diana has trained her whole life to become a warrior like her mother Hippolyta and is highly known as one of the island’s most skilled and trained young woman. All of a sudden one day a flying aircraft crashes onto the island, their first visitor in centuries. Diana saves the unconscious but still alive man from the burnt up aircraft. The man wakes up scared and confused, but after calming down the man reveals that his name is Captain Steve Trevor and that he is an intelligence operative and officer for the US Army Air Corps. He said he must return to ‘Man’s World’ to fight and win World War II. Hippolyta incredibly moved by Steve’s determination to fight for his people and win the war gives her the idea to hold a contest and see which Amazonian is the most worthy of all the women to return Steve Trevor to Man’s Island and help him fight the war. Diana Prince ultimately wins the contest and she is honoured with her mother’s old armor and uniform. Her mother was known as ‘the Wonder Woman’ and that name will be past on to her daughter. Diana gives her farewells and heads off on a boat to Man’s Island with Steve.

Superman & Batman: World's Finest

It’s been one year since the attack on Earth by Brainiac, the city of Metropolis has just been rebuilt thanks to the funding by LexCorp Industries. Their CEO Lex Luthor holds a press conference to announce the completion of the city’s construction. Many news outlets in Metropolis including the Daily Planet begin speculation on whether Lex Luthor should run for Mayor of Metropolis. Many of the Planet’s reporters including Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White have their different opinions. Meanwhile Lois hands in her report to Perry on Gotham City’s completed reconstruction funded by Wayne Enterprises, with her one-on-one interview with Bruce Wayne.

Batman: The Rise of Vengeance

It has been 8 years since billionaire, playboy, philanthropist Bruce Wayne gave up crime fighting as the hero known as Batman. Ever since the death of his sidekick Jason Todd, Bruce felt the guilt of losing the young boy the same way he felt he lost his parents when he was young. Fully given up and helpless, Bruce stayed in his mansion mourning as his butler Alfred Pennyworth serves him his meals and antidepressants every day. Ever since the Batman mysteriously disappeared, Gotham City has become somewhat of a ghost town, with the crime rate higher then they ever were before

Superman: A Symbol of Hope

On the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El fails to convince the council that the planet is reaching its last days before it is destroyed. Despite his efforts to convince the council, Jor-El moves forward with his escape plan, not for him, not his wife Lara, but their son Kal-El. Jor-El sends his son away from to save him from Krypton’s end. The two parents bid their son farewell and safe travels as their planet begins to implode. Kal-El aircraft leaves Krypton’s atmosphere before eventually exploding. The aircraft eventually lands safety on planet Earth, in a small city of Smallville where the aircraft lands in the farm of Jonathan and Martha Kent where the couple takes the little baby in.

Redemption in the Wild West: The Arthur Morgan Chronicles

After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. Set in the American frontier in 1899, Red Dead Redemption 2 follows the story of Arthur Morgan, a member of Dutch van der Linde's outlaw gang.

American Royals

When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either . . . except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince . . . but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart.

Game of Thrones: Season 1

The action begins in the unified Seven Kingdoms of Westeros as the long summer ends and winter draws near. Lord Eddard Stark is asked by his old friend, King Robert Baratheon, to serve as the Hand of the King following the death of the previous incumbent, Eddard's mentor Jon Arryn. Eddard is reluctant but receives intelligence suggesting that Jon was murdered. Eddard accepts Robert's offer, planning to use his position and authority to investigate the alleged murder. Meanwhile, on the eastern continent of Essos, the exiled children of House Targaryen, which Robert destroyed to claim the throne, are plotting to return to Westeros and unseat the 'usurper'. To this end, Viserys Targaryen arranges the marriage of his sister Daenerys to Khal Drogo, the leader of 40,000 Dothraki warriors, in return for the use of his warriors in invading Westeros. For her part, Daenerys just wants to find a safe refuge far away from King Robert's assassins and her brother's scheming ambition. Finally, on the northern-most border of the Seven Kingdoms the sworn brothers of the Night's Watch guard the Wall, a 300-mile-long colossal fortification of ice which has stood for thousands of years. The Watch defends the Wall against the depredations of the lawless wildlings who live beyond, but rumor speaks of a new threat arising in the lands of perpetual winter.

Charmed

The story of Charmed begins with the three Halliwell sisters — Prue, Piper and Phoebe — that come together six months after the death of their maternal grandmother. After thinking about it, the three girls decide to move back into their family Manor in San Francisco. While snooping around, the youngest sister, Phoebe, discovered an old book — the Book of Shadows — in the attic. Reading an incantation from it, she unwittingly set in motion events that fulfilled an ancient prophecy. Strange and harrowing occurrences began which eventually led the sisters to realize that they are witches.

JLA/Avengers

JLA/Avengers

Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

19 years after the formation of the Galactic Empire and the events of Revenge of the Sith, the galaxy is in a state of civil war. The Rebel Alliance has won their first major victory by stealing plans to the Galactic Empire's secret weapon, the Death Star. Hoping that the stolen plans can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy, Princess Leia Organa, who is in custody of the plans, attempts to race home aboard the Tantive IV. However, her ship is intercepted by the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Devastator over the desert planet of Tatooine.

World of Corruption

The immensity of the desert. The dunes swept by the wind that rustle like the incessant murmur of a melody. A melody that promises you wonders. The sand vibrating under your steps, the heat of the sun that caresses the skin of your body. The desert is an immensity so dangerous, deep and threatening. It is only illusion in front of the paradisiacal beauty that it offers you. Beware. It is indeed a vast desert nothingness.

Heroes of Tomorrow

An island of exotic radiance is hidden from the inquisitive human eye. Thousands of miles away, children are dressed in red and blue, playing the good and the bad, while others watch over the roofs, impatient, until the familiar silhouette of the bat is sketched through the clouds. But further down, where the innocent ear of children no longer listens, where the light no longer has its place, there men machinent, bet on the life of the next unconscious who will venture on their territories. Between evil and good, no one knows which one came first. One does not live without the other, just as the hero does not exist without his antipode. It is up to the man to decide on which side of the edge he will set foot. Will you choose vice to hope? Darkness to light?

Martian Manhunter

In 1997, Martian Manhunter meets a young Protex and consoles her while giving a speech to the alien immigrants of Earth, promising to find them a new home as he did. In the present day, Adam Strange pursues King Faraday for killing a CIA agent, who theorized White Martians are plotting to incite war between Russia and the United States. Miss Martian arrives to assist King, but discovers he is a White Martian and calls J'onn. Returning to Earth to meet with Adam, J'onn learns that White Martian Protex has taken a leadership position among the White Martians. J'onn is kidnapped by MI6 agents and taken to meet old acquaintance, Cameron Chase. He proposes an alliance to stop Protex, but she refuses. Using a bug to eavesdrop on her, J'onn and Adam locate another White Martian but J'onn kills him after failing to interrogate him.

Othello

Othello, a charismatic and respected military general, finds himself torn apart by his own insecurities and the machinations of his trusted advisor, Iago. Consumed by jealousy, Iago manipulates those around him, planting seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about the faithfulness of his beloved wife, Desdemona. Luhrmann's bold visual style transports the audience into a world of sleek corporate offices, luxurious penthouses, and pulsating high society parties. The contrasting settings between the opulent upper echelons of society and the gritty underbelly of the city amplify the tension and the class divide that underlies the story. As Othello becomes increasingly consumed by his suspicions, the film delves into his internal struggle with identity, racism, and the fear of losing everything he holds dear. The Shakespearean language intertwines with modern dialogue, highlighting the timeless relevance of the play's themes. Desdemona, portrayed as an intelligent and independent woman, fights against the constraints of both her gender and her husband's doubts. Her unwavering love for Othello becomes a beacon of hope in a world clouded by deception and manipulation.

Macbeth

Macbeth, a disillusioned war veteran, receives a cryptic prophecy from a trio of mysterious witches that he will one day become the prime minister. Encouraged by his ambitious and manipulative wife, Mrs. Macbeth, Macbeth succumbs to his darkest urges and embarks on a bloody quest for power. Using a blend of contemporary and medieval aesthetics, Luhrmann masterfully creates a world filled with towering skyscrapers, neon-lit streets, and gritty urban decay. The setting emphasizes the stark contrast between the opulence of the ruling class and the desperation of those clamoring for power. As Macbeth ascends the corporate ladder, he becomes increasingly consumed by his thirst for power, his mind tormented by haunting visions and guilt. The film explores the psychological descent of the protagonist, portraying his inner struggle as a visceral and visually striking battle between light and darkness. Mrs. Macbeth, portrayed as a cunning and seductive femme fatale, pushes Macbeth to commit heinous acts to secure their place at the top. The couple's relationship evolves into a twisted dance of manipulation and deceit, with Mrs. Macbeth slowly succumbing to her own demons.

Hamlet

Hamlet, a brooding and introspective young man, returns home to the city after the sudden death of his father, who was the powerful CEO of a multinational corporation. He is haunted by grief, anger, and a deep sense of betrayal when he discovers that his mother, Gertrude, has hastily married his uncle, Claudius, who now assumes control of the corporation and the family's fortune. Fueled by a burning desire for justice and the guidance of his father's ghost, Hamlet becomes determined to uncover the truth behind his father's death. As he unravels a web of deception, he risks losing not only his sanity but also the love of Ophelia, the fragile and innocent daughter of a prominent political figure named Polonius. In this hyperkinetic world of wealth, power, and corporate greed, Luhrmann intertwines the classic themes of love, loyalty, betrayal, and revenge. The film showcases extravagant parties, surreal imagery, and visually stunning cinematography, creating a mesmerizing backdrop for the characters' intense emotions and conflicts. As tensions rise and the city becomes consumed by corruption and political unrest, Hamlet must navigate treacherous alliances, confront his own inner demons, and make impossible decisions. Along the way, he crosses paths with unique and memorable characters like the quick-witted Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the flamboyant and charismatic Fortinbras, and the enigmatic and philosophizing gravedigger.

Young Injustice: The Final Season

SERIES FINALE: Smile The power faded from Mara's veins as the shard of Golden Kryptonite took effect. Everyone on both sides froze as they watched April stab her own girlfriend in the back and the Kryptonian powers extinguish within the once Superior Girl. April watched as Mara's feet came back down to Earth; she hoped that with Mara's power vanished, her corruption would similarily disappear. April tried to persuade Mara into giving up her cruel crusade of justice and instead live a normal life together. April held Mara in her arms, hoping her love would warm her to accept her newfound humanity. As April held Mara, she felt a hand grab her pistol; Mara pulled out her girlfriend's gun and aimed it towards April's head. Mara's rage towards April's betrayal corrupted her heart and mind; nothing could bring her back. The woman April loved cared more for her power than her.

Young Injustice: The Final Season

Episode 9: Good vs Evil